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  1. If AI keeps evolving,would you worry about your next generation's survival
    ×0.79 18 #60 | 20 points by hanstyle 8 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years
    ×3.49 13 #85 | 752 points by lukehandcool 1 day ago | 240 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?
    ×1.87 5 #90 | 398 points by mariocesar 1 day ago | 637 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Does YC use AI agents to review your pitch?
    ×0.29 | 2 points by AravPhi 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month
    ×2.87 47 | 568 points by IvanK_net 3 days ago | 344 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Whats the first command you run on a new server?
    ×0.52 66 | 7 points by fragmede 15 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Are there things more important than 'humanity', such as empathy?
    ×0.68 58 | 5 points by dfps 11 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What if no AIpocalypse, no AI bubble, what if it just keeps advancing?
    ×0.83 71 | 13 points by consumer451 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Are you a subscribed LLM or a locally deployed open-source model?
    ×0.57 80 | 11 points by hanstyle 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Are there AI models for generating sounds based on a text and reference?
    ×0.36 105 | 34 points by onemiketwelve 4 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Is the Steam Machine worth $1049?
    ×0.55 92 | 12 points by bigwheels 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Why hasn't AI replaced Tax filing software
    ×0.92 102 | 12 points by thelastgallon 2 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Do employees vastly outnumber founders on Hacker News?
    ×0.85 108 | 8 points by amichail 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. You're saving one minute and now I can't know if I'm talking a human
    ×0.98 95 | 12 points by scoofy 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Positive text origin verification
    ×0.30 129 | 4 points by Miguel_FierroM 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Aaron Swartz's domain aaronsw.com has expired
    ×2.14 60 | 11 points by karimelgazar 18 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Is the Future of IDEs Bleak?
    ×0.88 132 | 6 points by bigmattystyles 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Tell HN: Amazon forgot how to write and test code
    ×0.46 114 | 12 points by penskymaterial 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What Is Your Personal Backup Methods
    ×0.73 126 | 13 points by Crontab 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What games do you religiously play on your phone browser?
    ×1.03 120 | 17 points by saimiam 3 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Tell HN: HN has lost the joy for me
    ×3.38 96 | 40 points by trencedamp 3 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ontological Language Model (OLM) + LLM: Deterministic AI Advancement
    ×0.10 | 2 points by northlondoner 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Super Intelligence and/or Artificial Intelligence
    ×0.83 104 | 8 points by butlersean 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: What happened with quantum computers anyway?
    ×0.44 127 | 4 points by pera 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: How do you describe what your relationship brings you?
    ×0.62 137 | 8 points by maxignol 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Which frontier model can do code security reviews
    ×0.45 130 | 7 points by Bender 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Learning practical system design
    ×0.99 119 | 6 points by rcdmrl 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Are we trading model capacity for compute?
    ×0.18 | 2 points by olirex99 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Do you still own a printer?
    ×1.56 124 | 16 points by nunorbatista 3 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Upfling.host – Free static site hosting for HTML, CSS and JavaScript (upfling.host)
    ×2.08 115 | 5 points by guylr 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Nectarine Demoscene Radio (scenestream.net)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by caminanteblanco 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Procinsh – A 3D Linux process inspector (github.com/akawashiro)
    ×0.86 82 | 60 points by a_kawashiro 3 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Parseable, an open observability datalake, handles 100M time-series/min (parseable.com)
    ×0.71 86 | 88 points by yashdotrv 4 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. 100+ reactions to 100+ solutions (proofsandprompts.com)
    ×0.83 70 #33 | 85 points by jacobedawson 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. AI-ready biological data: $1.8B global commitment (biohub.org)
    ×0.91 49 #76 | 146 points by ray__ 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. A 5.3M-year-old deep-sea whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone (nature.com)
    ×1.05 48 #79 | 151 points by bryanrasmussen 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. SQLite 3.54.0 Released (sqlite.org)
    ×3.01 70 | 4 points by lawrencejgd 28 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Policing sex in public toilets in 1930s London (nationalarchives.gov.uk)
    ×3.21 64 | 5 points by Bluestein 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. I Would Like the Value of My Home to Rise, While My Property Taxes Fall (conversableeconomist.com)
    ×2.81 #2 | 34 points by colinprince 28 minutes ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Why are coding agents so dumb? (mtlynch.io)
    ×1.87 20 #77 | 94 points by mtlynch 23 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: A patch to make Codex's browser control work in Arc (github.com/brianlzhou)
    ×0.81 | 2 points by piplupness 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: An AI agent runs ten web errands a day, every transcript published (agentability.org)
    ×0.71 128 | 14 points by khalidsaidi 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Vegetative Electron Microscopy WTF? (2025) (sciencebase.com)
    ×0.65 23 #61 | 22 points by adunk 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. A statement on the Tor Project's relationship with Mullvad (torproject.org)
    ×1.57 9 #66 | 138 points by runtimewire 22 hours ago | 321 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Archaeologists Are Reconstructing the 'Invisible' Technologies of the Stone Age (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×0.85 63 #70 | 150 points by Hooke 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Software developers are not okay (baldurbjarnason.com)
    ×2.09 50 | 3 points by theHocineSaad 49 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Platforms' Violent Content Rules Are About to Meet The Pentagon's Firing Squad (techdirt.com)
    ×3.45 10 | 58 points by hn_acker 19 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. The Lightbulb Computer (lightbulbcomputer.com)
    ×1.57 52 #52 | 15 points by oskarth 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Turing: Opposition from the Intellectuals
    ×0.53 | 1 points by daly 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Building Piclaw on Top of an Opinionated Coding Agent (taoofmac.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by rcarmo 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Lobbying (geohot.github.io)
    ×5.86 77 | 170 points by smilelamp 9 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Pivot – fast analytics on Iceberg, 2x+ faster than ClickHouse / DuckDB (pivotlake.io)
    ×2.52 94 | 14 points by dkgs 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: K10s – A Clickable Kubernetes TUI (Go, Bubble Tea) (github.com/p10node)
    ×0.71 57 | 67 points by pierreneter 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Data Center Darling's $30B IPO Dream Crushed in 48 Hours (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.19 16 #63 | 49 points by mfiguiere 9 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs (aresluna.org)
    ×1.87 3 #80 | 334 points by sohkamyung 1 day ago | 277 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. The Fold and Cut Problem (erikdemaine.org)
    ×0.61 | 2 points by vismit2000 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. What It Was Like When the Weed Nuns Went to Hollywood (sistersofthevalley.org)
    ×1.53 | 2 points by colinprince 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: LaunchList – A product launch platform for indie makers (launchlist.si)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by laimingj 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Programming Language Wars: a 2d game about language 0xbeef (avestura.dev)
    ×0.64 | 2 points by avestura 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Durable Actors – OSS Durable Objects with configurable compute (github.com/TerseAI)
    ×0.61 83 | 51 points by thomask1995 3 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Iimos – an AI app that ships as one chat box and rewrites itself (github.com/yanglongyun)
    ×0.83 | 2 points by woodchange 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. OpenAI, the Partition Principle, and Mathematics (karagila.org)
    ×1.35 49 #57 | 204 points by md224 1 day ago | 305 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Opinions About Solar (2026) (mastodon.green)
    ×1.56 | 2 points by _Microft 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Design for Agent GUIs (lexifina.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by theanonymousone 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Sitecopy.ai
    ×0.55 | 1 points by Arizonabusiness 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Japan's most famous tuna buyer says he turned Somali pirates into fishermen (japaninsides.com)
    ×1.88 11 | 64 points by robaato 15 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Pointing AI at archives found a forgotten meteorite, lost rhinos, and more (jessewaites.com)
    ×1.10 38 #22 | 163 points by piratebroadcast 20 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. AI borrowing slows as investors grow wary of debt binge (ft.com)
    ×2.70 41 | 4 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. New CRAM method offers giant boost to compressed memory reads (tomshardware.com)
    ×0.90 67 | 59 points by danny00 2 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: I made a TV game console inside an antenna plug (raytriangle.com)
    ×1.95 73 | 5 points by pst723 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: I let Claude refactor my old game (github.com/victorqribeiro)
    ×0.43 | 2 points by atum47 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Iranian campaign planted fake articles in real U.S. publications using ChatGPT (washingtonpost.com)
    ×2.31 17 | 187 points by cainxinth 1 day ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Ongoing Checkout Hijack on Shopify Shops with "HulkApps" (romanzipp.com)
    ×1.36 | 2 points by romanzipp 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Every Bean (jlauf.com)
    ×2.05 46 | 3 points by jlauf 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. A (Reasonably) Opinionated Comparison of Isabelle/HOL, Lean, HOL4, and Agda (blueberrywren.dev)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by fanf2 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program (apnews.com)
    ×5.29 33 | 931 points by alephnerd 1 day ago | 1594 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: ShipOrNah – Free security scan for AI-generated apps (shipornah.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by sahilpradhan 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Large Number of Data Breach Incidents Reported from Japanese Firms (yomiuri.co.jp)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by agnishom 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. A simple liters to US and UK gallons converter (liters2gallons.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by Bashar42 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Anthropic AI model submits false tip on unsolved Philly murder, police say (nbcphiladelphia.com)
    ×3.08 9 #40 | 183 points by Zambyte 15 hours ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Python 3.15 (python.org)
    ×3.86 52 | 298 points by ngoldbaum 23 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Jevman – AI decision models play Pac-Man (opper.ai)
    ×0.86 51 | 75 points by felix089 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: The safe-choice tax – what the vendor nobody gets fired for costs (svpremium.dev)
    ×1.34 49 | 4 points by PaywallBuster 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Coolphabets – Teaching kids to read and write in their mother tongue
    ×0.57 99 | 3 points by samdung 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Telegram Desktop vulnerability allowed any user's file to be stolen (beaksec.github.io)
    ×2.15 5 #7 | 244 points by g-b-r 10 hours ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Rewriting Prime Agent in Rust (primeintellect.ai)
    ×1.05 40 #39 | 57 points by piotrgrabowski 14 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Refused: the page text does not describe LeadGrade (thecompound.tech)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by kyisaiah47 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. If LLMs Can Decide Without Fine-Tuning, Do We Still Need Models Like Jev? (itsodeleo.github.io)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by LeoisNotAI 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: I built a fast spreadsheet engine for the web in Rust/WASM (github.com/podraven)
    ×0.66 101 | 8 points by deathg0d 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: All Things Banana – banana news, prices, and a daily Wikipedia game (allthingsbanana.com)
    ×1.28 88 | 6 points by nicknnamsa 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???