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  1. $100 to a Debian Developer who can get Fresh Editor into Trixie
    ×0.89 13 #68 | 17 points by jph 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Recruiters, How do you vet resume in 2026?
    ×1.08 24 | 8 points by CoffeeSky 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Donating AI credits to open source projects
    ×0.39 62 | 5 points by happyPersonR 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What Is the State of App Development in 2026?
    ×1.04 56 | 90 points by karakoram 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Corporate Disconnect Between "Tokenmaxxing" and Token Optimization
    ×0.40 79 | 4 points by mc-0 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What are your worst war stories bringing agentic applications into prod
    ×0.47 94 | 8 points by yaoke259 18 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How you pass legacy to others?
    ×0.41 101 | 5 points by jojwong 15 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. I made an free unlimited captcha alternative
    ×0.83 96 | 6 points by david3289 15 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Any advice on how to learn good software architecture practices?
    ×0.24 118 | 15 points by jimsojim 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Students, What Impact Is AI Having on Your Education?
    ×0.93 102 | 8 points by ciwolex 22 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What Is an "AI Engineer"?
    ×0.27 130 | 18 points by seattle_spring 3 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: If I cancel Codex today whats the next best local inference agent?
    ×0.27 127 | 10 points by Bulbasaur2015 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Does Claude Code remove the need for so many front-end frameworks?
    ×0.30 140 | 10 points by ex-aws-dude 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro?
    ×1.13 113 | 153 points by widenrun 5 days ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How is your org managing PR review load as AI multiplies code output?
    ×0.34 123 | 10 points by meteor333 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How do you feel about posts about GenAI taking over the HN front page?
    ×0.34 139 | 13 points by blenderob 3 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. FYI: Dreamina is shady; do not use
    ×0.23 143 | 5 points by ronyeh 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HK: How are you building AI apps today?
    ×0.25 132 | 7 points by Mnexium 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: I found out that I'm about to be laid off. How do people find jobs?
    ×0.95 124 | 25 points by wwwthrowaway256 3 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Garnix, the Nix CI, is shutting down
    ×0.33 141 | 12 points by cinericius 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Macsurf, "modern" web browser for macOS 9 (github.com/mplsllc)
    ×1.45 64 | 126 points by gattilorenz 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. C is older than my mom
    ×0.74 | 2 points by alonsovm44 19 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Does your website show up when ChatGPT recommends tools in your field?
    ×2.52 42 | 4 points by rishikoneru 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Why Julia's GPU Accelerated Ode Solvers Are 20x-100x Faster Than Jax and PyTorch (stochasticlifestyle.com)
    ×1.85 19 | 3 points by leephillips 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. A pictorial introduction to differential geometry (2017) (arxiv.org)
    ×1.27 39 #34 | 113 points by ricudis 15 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Racket v9.2 (racket-lang.org)
    ×1.88 33 #35 | 222 points by spdegabrielle 20 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. IXI's autofocusing lenses are almost ready to replace multifocal glasses (engadget.com)
    ×1.49 71 #65 | 198 points by amichail 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Markdown Tables Generator – Tablesgenerator.com (tablesgenerator.com)
    ×0.90 | 1 points by wingmanjd 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Canada in Technical Recession (cbc.ca)
    ×2.91 92 | 68 points by efavdb 2 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: FuguUX – science-backed, AI user testing to identify key web UX issues (fuguux.com)
    ×1.38 83 | 3 points by sdas7 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: CPU-only fast OCR for screenshots, images, PDFs, webpages (github.com/kouhxp)
    ×2.23 89 | 6 points by mrkn1 12 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: UN Condemnation Statistics (boxed.github.io)
    ×1.08 122 | 4 points by boxed 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. With Claude: Less Coding, More Testing (henrikwarne.com)
    ×0.83 86 #53 | 12 points by ingve 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: 500 years of Joseon court omens as an observability dashboard (ajin.im)
    ×1.05 60 #56 | 130 points by poppypetalmask 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ruby Client for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) (github.com/zarpay)
    ×0.88 | 1 points by mooreds 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. The Pewdiepie Agent Framework (pewdiepie-archdaemon.github.io)
    ×1.40 | 2 points by christkv 30 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.71 71 | 43 points by tambourine_man 3 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: I brought back Airbnb categories (vibebnb.fyi)
    ×1.78 131 | 6 points by giulioco 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Are 'mind children' the future of reproduction? (theguardian.com)
    ×2.02 5 #86 | 4 points by mitchbob 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Monal IM 6.4.21 released – open-source Jabber/XMPP client for macOS and iOS (monal-im.org)
    ×1.30 | 2 points by neustradamus 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Tolkien explains why the Fellowship didn't fly the Eagles to Mordor [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by ViktorRay 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. The California state assembly has passed the 'Protect Our Games Act' (invenglobal.com)
    ×2.24 61 | 256 points by TechTechTech 2 days ago | 270 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. In northern Ukraine, it was boy vs. Russian drone. The boy won (washingtonpost.com)
    ×3.88 59 | 4 points by rmason 14 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Bootstrap a team of coding agents from a template, OSS (github.com/awebai)
    ×0.24 172 | 3 points by juanre 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Volt – front end tooling for Phoenix that runs inside the BEAM (github.com/elixir-volt)
    ×1.31 159 | 25 points by dannote 6 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Netflix Wiz creates app to slash AI bills, then open sources it (theregister.com)
    ×2.44 36 #73 | 9 points by joebuckwilliams 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Renewable energy is overtaking traditional power projects across Africa (apnews.com)
    ×2.51 3 | 4 points by benkan 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Linux 7.1-rc6 To Hide The Documentation On "clearcpuid" Feature (phoronix.com)
    ×1.11 | 2 points by Bender 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. KDE Linux Prunes Its Insecure and Unused Software (phoronix.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by Bender 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Rsync 3.4.3 has hundreds of Claude commits (gamedev.place)
    ×6.87 66 | 114 points by fooker 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. The AV2 Video Standard Has Released (Final v1.0 Specification) (aomedia.org)
    ×2.63 15 #45 | 332 points by ksec 22 hours ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. New solar desalination breakthrough makes fresh water without toxic brine (sciencedaily.com)
    ×0.87 | 1 points by rmason 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Find YC startups relevant to you (platoseed.com)
    ×1.81 2 | 3 points by nerdlogic 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Phrases that need to die before I do (jerodsanto.net)
    ×1.13 | 2 points by mooreds 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. The Authorization Paradox: Who Has the Keys to Your AI? [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by mooreds 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. OpenRouter raises $113M Series B (openrouter.ai)
    ×2.37 27 | 448 points by freeCandy 1 day ago | 237 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: AISlop, a CLI for catching AI generated code smells (github.com/scanaislop)
    ×1.13 93 | 72 points by Heavykenny 2 days ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. White House's Aliens.gov Site Brags That ICE Arrested More Than 700 US Citizens (wired.com)
    ×7.93 72 | 54 points by hydrolox 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: OWASP Agent Memory Guard – Stop AI Agent Memory Poisoning (github.com/OWASP)
    ×0.73 112 | 3 points by vgudur297 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Babo – A scripting natural language that works as intended (github.com/armbox)
    ×1.82 108 | 6 points by theqoo 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. A zot extension that makes answering your coding agent's questions painless (github.com/patriceckhart)
    ×1.49 52 #85 | 12 points by patriceckhart 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. California Academy of Sciences is a world class museum. Here’s how it dies (sfchronicle.com)
    ×2.41 40 | 3 points by thebigship 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Police in China Sure Love Smart Glasses (gizmodo.com)
    ×2.54 37 | 5 points by gnabgib 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup (qazinform.com)
    ×3.37 8 | 413 points by Bolat14 1 day ago | 465 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. China's Robotics Dream Began in 1972 (chinatalk.media)
    ×1.17 | 2 points by momentmaker 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Teleport-env – <500ms stateful rollbacks for AI agents via CRIU (github.com/JaiCode08)
    ×1.41 158 | 9 points by Jainish08 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. China's AI Heist (foreignaffairs.com)
    ×3.93 58 | 6 points by chvid 48 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Gather. an invite-only events board for close groups (zuccigather.com)
    ×1.10 | 2 points by zuccidevs 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Graph-Based Firebase Alternative with Real-Time Sync (linkedrecords.com)
    ×0.39 91 | 3 points by WolfOliver 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Hallucinate – Massively Multiplayer Online Rave (hallucinate.site)
    ×2.20 85 | 438 points by stagas 3 days ago | 197 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Dav2d (jbkempf.com)
    ×2.13 7 #3 | 356 points by captain_bender 9 hours ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. CT gov signs AI law to notify employees (bloomberglaw.com)
    ×1.27 20 #58 | 11 points by moneil971 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Remove all LLM generated commits before people get hurt by this nonsense (github.com/RsyncProject)
    ×2.23 67 #62 | 6 points by shantnutiwari 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Voxel Space (2017) (s-macke.github.io)
    ×1.47 7 #90 | 298 points by davikr 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. GLP-1 Weight Loss Drugs Could Stop Cancer Progressing, Says New Study (forbes.com)
    ×1.96 10 | 3 points by theanonymousone 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Compile-time model-id validation with declared capability (github.com/yujonglee)
    ×0.23 145 | 6 points by yujonglee 5 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Imagine Kickstarter, but doubters get paid if the project flops (trypieces.com)
    ×1.51 155 | 6 points by johndebord 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Restartable Sequences (justine.lol)
    ×1.65 5 #9 | 131 points by grappler 6 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Streambed – Stream Postgres to Iceberg on S3, Supports Postgres Wire (github.com/viggy28)
    ×0.98 7 #12 | 21 points by vira28 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Benchmarking TurboQuant with MLX on Apple Silicon (youtube.com)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by tcp_handshaker 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. The UI problem of AI coding agents (cero-ai.com)
    ×4.42 53 | 7 points by Imbiss 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Proposed new US funding rules: We can cancel any grant at any time (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.87 12 | 317 points by mhalle 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Open-source private home security camera system (end-to-end encryption) (github.com/secluso)
    ×1.23 80 | 124 points by arrdalan 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Use Chrome DevTools Protocol to Control WinForm/MFC Apps (github.com/AIGCEra)
    ×1.05 86 | 3 points by tangramdev 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Codex just found a "workaround" of not having sudo on my PC (twitter.com/i)
    ×5.31 5 #6 | 142 points by thunderbong 1 hour ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software (github.com/RsyncProject)
    ×10.24 42 #69 | 424 points by justdotJS 17 hours ago | 378 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Patching my guitar amp's firmware (mforney.org)
    ×1.47 | 2 points by birdculture 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Disrupting the Road Logistics Network of RU in the Occupied Territories of UA (tochnyi.info)
    ×3.39 49 | 5 points by Teever 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. The "Stars" of Titanic (2012) (loc.gov)
    ×0.21 82 #60 | 8 points by tosh 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. What Is a Dickover? (daringfireball.net)
    ×6.33 18 | 538 points by tambourine_man 1 day ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???