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  1. Tell HN: PayPal blocks GrapheneOS
    ×3.42 60 #85 | 468 points by leumon 18 hours ago | 299 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Amazon now hides all customer reviews on products
    ×1.76 21 | 70 points by tonymet 12 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Which class of business model is most resilient to build in the AI era?
    ×0.54 61 | 3 points by chatmasta 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Hugging Face is out. Who is hosting open models?
    ×0.63 60 | 14 points by FireUpTheTorren 13 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How many of you juggle multiple agent sessions at the same time?
    ×0.78 72 | 5 points by top_rooster 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Why is AI civil tech and not military first?
    ×0.81 85 | 7 points by esher 13 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Does anyone have a VRAM tester? Something like MemTest86+ but for GPUs?
    ×1.61 45 | 9 points by vkaku 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Dear LinkedIn, do you want to do business, yes or no?
    ×1.20 89 | 7 points by stefanos82 15 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: AI agent acts. Your logs say so. But you wrote the logs
    ×0.61 90 | 4 points by Yahyaaa 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Solving all open source tech debt with Codex
    ×0.31 | 2 points by surajkrajan 12 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Should I leave web development to study medicine in my mid-30s?
    ×1.03 93 | 5 points by lovepuzzles 12 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: How do you guys stop coding agents from acting out of line?
    ×0.68 122 | 3 points by vivekyyy 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: How to Vibe Design as Engineer?
    ×0.73 123 | 3 points by metrofun 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Ideas for dealing with overly-do-gooder agents
    ×0.50 | 2 points by zof3 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Tell HN: Gmail can mark legit mail from google.com as spam
    ×0.75 98 | 5 points by salviati 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How do you feel about the new 5H usage limit in Codex?
    ×0.72 130 | 3 points by embedding-shape 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: If I am 16 what should I learn? Which books should read?
    ×0.79 113 | 4 points by AmirMakirr 14 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Another Webpage Screenshot and OG Image Generation API
    ×0.42 | 2 points by foodpad 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Why do tools like customer.io abandon self-serve after their Series A?
    ×0.36 121 | 14 points by alessandroetc 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Do you still do pair programming in this agentic age?
    ×0.43 124 | 6 points by Andugal 20 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Where else do you spend time on the internet other than HN?
    ×0.32 138 | 11 points by Gecko4072 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Why are Claude models so verbose?
    ×0.65 142 | 9 points by JacobWolf 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2026 – Show and tell
    ×1.82 137 | 75 points by kaladan 3 days ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Good large format (>20 inches) touchscreen E-Paper display options?
    ×0.44 140 | 30 points by foota 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Flock contract cancellations grow among cities, other jurisdictions
    ×1.11 107 | 3 points by achristmascarl 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Bast Text to Speech Tool
    ×0.62 | 2 points by chaofan11 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Taalas API Anyone?
    ×0.07 | 2 points by revanthmatha 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Encoding Myself into the System
    ×0.25 141 | 4 points by nharziro 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. AI-Powered Tilichu VST/AU Synth Released by Butterlamp Audio (rekkerd.org)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by boxstream 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Two German airport workers die of malaria after 'mosquito arrives on plane' (bbc.com)
    ×3.08 44 #68 | 169 points by vinni2 10 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. How the Heck Do Record Players Work? (perthirtysix.com)
    ×1.21 | 2 points by bobbiechen 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Yayoi Kusama has died (bbc.com)
    ×1.81 47 | 108 points by herbertl 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Git for Designers (opacity.com)
    ×0.98 | 2 points by x7ikmet 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. The Tariff Cost: analysis of the costs to Americans from new tariffs on Canada (thetariffcost.com)
    ×1.92 22 #88 | 220 points by mikestorrent 1 day ago | 285 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Praxist – Autonomous R&D system with parallel research agents (github.com/sapientinc)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by electricsoul 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Why Are Rivers So Mathematical? (quantamagazine.org)
    ×2.35 75 #62 | 6 points by sebg 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. £50k needed to purchase church with Maxwell's grave (bbc.com)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by dboreham 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. TI-74 Basicalc (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.21 | 2 points by rbc 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. The turbulent AI era is here (gatesnotes.com)
    ×4.90 44 | 189 points by ilamont 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. GLM-5.3-Flash Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai)
    ×1.73 54 | 137 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Proval – Self-hosted code review agent for GitLab, Forgejo, and GitHub (github.com/seoes)
    ×0.99 73 | 9 points by dowonseo 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. USDA recalls 30k pounds of Argentine beef sold in Texas and Florida (cbsaustin.com)
    ×4.78 15 #19 | 45 points by cocacola1 2 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Restoredrill – proves your Postgres backups restore (github.com/ahmadpiran)
    ×0.49 49 #50 | 44 points by ahmadpiran 14 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Knowl – agent memory with write-time supersession, 0.90 on MAB (knowl.cloud)
    ×1.81 132 | 3 points by dat999zx 14 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: AgentMafia – A Social Deduction Benchmark (twitter.com/RyanJunejo)
    ×1.59 58 | 3 points by Ryanjunejo 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: All my mail accounts in one read-only MCP server, usable from my phone (github.com/wildsurfer)
    ×1.92 109 | 4 points by yesplease_boats 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Dominion Society Continues to Search for Hamilton Convention Venue (hamiltonpolice.on.ca)
    ×1.13 | 2 points by like_any_other 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Paging security nerds to read the microduck GitHub (github.com/pollen-robotics)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by anastasiaess 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Kubernetes Best Practices (kubernetes.io)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by Brysonbw 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Mold: A Massively Parallel Linker (arxiv.org)
    ×1.54 21 | 182 points by matt_d 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Xcancel and Nitter have been taken down
    ×4.22 26 | 157 points by madduci 18 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash (blog.google)
    ×2.08 8 #28 | 205 points by saretup 11 hours ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Alphabet stock sheds $700B as AI bills climb (semafor.com)
    ×5.15 22 #36 | 19 points by andsoitis 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications (wsj.com)
    ×4.55 7 #55 | 795 points by sss111 1 day ago | 1323 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Decompiling a Nintendo 64 game in 84 days (chrislewis.au)
    ×1.57 10 #20 | 202 points by knackers 13 hours ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Aphantasia Beginner's Guide (aphantasia.com)
    ×1.50 11 #35 | 147 points by ksec 15 hours ago | 366 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: My Claude quota ran out in 10 minutes, so I made a tool to find out why (github.com/kelviq)
    ×1.46 1 #65 | 71 points by sachinneravath 11 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. In a divided America, left and right unite to oppose AI data centers (apnews.com)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead (openai.com)
    ×2.05 5 | 328 points by amrrs 1 day ago | 444 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Oldinsurancemaps.net is now a Charter Project (openstreetmap.us)
    ×1.00 55 | 183 points by altilunium 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Spore – run local models on your own hardware, use them from anywhere (sporeintel.com)
    ×1.25 128 | 3 points by chrisischris 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: IndexFlow – Open-source indexing infrastructure built with Rust (github.com/IndexFlowing)
    ×0.62 23 #17 | 7 points by mandarinclips 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Humanity has the debate about AI consciousness backwards (economist.com)
    ×1.06 42 #37 | 92 points by semiquaver 16 hours ago | 299 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. 128-Bit page tables for Arm (lwn.net)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by pykello 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. The swarm had no grants (asticouisland.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by gregschueman 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Open Session (github.com/tellahq)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by handfuloflight 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Astronomers discover a new type of astrophysical object: A black hole star (mit.edu)
    ×2.40 11 | 4 points by handfuloflight 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. CoMaps: The Offline App That Guided Rescuers Without a Signal in Venezuela (hotosm.org)
    ×1.95 2 | 330 points by gedankenstuecke 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Markdown Database Pattern (wayofmarkdown.com)
    ×1.27 39 #56 | 37 points by rufuspollock 12 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. RAG Is Simpler Than You Think (lighthousenewsletter.com)
    ×2.24 32 #61 | 489 points by j0selit0 1 day ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Every push-up becomes an attack in a camera-counted RPG game (pushup.quest)
    ×0.99 100 | 21 points by not_wowinter13 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Beating GPT5.5-xhigh for Coding agent security with SLMs and IRM (harden.run)
    ×3.54 30 | 7 points by se4u 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: LatticeDB – Like SQLite but for graph databases (github.com/jeffhajewski)
    ×1.20 71 | 182 points by smiths1999 2 days ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. The turbulent AI era is here (gatesnotes.com)
    ×2.55 42 #49 | 351 points by LVB 1 day ago | 361 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Australia is the safest place during a global catastrophe, study suggests (sciencealert.com)
    ×1.92 8 #80 | 15 points by thedreammachine 5 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Has Gemini AI has altered the interpretation of Google trends? (reddit.com)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by morkalork 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Ego Blockchain (github.com/ego-blockchain)
    ×1.91 40 | 3 points by artitmuhaxhiri 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. PageRank explained (praveshkoirala.com)
    ×1.15 53 | 142 points by pkoird 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Terminal-Bench-Science: Evaluating AI agents on scientific research workflows (terminal-bench-science.ai)
    ×1.12 7 #5 | 55 points by matt_d 4 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Suica, Japan's First IC Transit Card (tokyodev.com)
    ×1.74 #27 | 211 points by zdw 12 hours ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Peter Cullen has died (hollywoodreporter.com)
    ×2.58 38 | 104 points by cocacola1 13 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. GLM-5.3-Flash (z.ai)
    ×4.02 12 #53 | 1105 points by Philpax 1 day ago | 557 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Flock CEO gets his house blurred out on Google Maps and Zillow (twitter.com/LocumRex)
    ×8.76 60 | 148 points by lorecore 11 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Bury.lol – a $2 pixel-art graveyard for things that died (bury.lol)
    ×1.89 139 | 11 points by alertcubes 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Toyota to roll out near autonomous cars from 2028 (nikkei.com)
    ×1.85 27 | 3 points by cwwc 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Meta Paid $17B – Gets to Write Safety Rules for Other SocMedia Platform (techdirt.com)
    ×4.05 78 | 132 points by ano-ther 7 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: I built a site to share and find Claude Code passes (claudecoupons.com)
    ×0.84 | 2 points by alexander-g 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Entropy – Mental Model (perspectiveship.com)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by fagnerbrack 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. The Doomers are Lying to You [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by mudil 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. NOCT (Networked Off-Grid Communications Terminal) Preview [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by iamnothere 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???