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  1. Which hobby do you think is most diverting and pleasurable?
    ×0.99 10 #36 | 8 points by ikelos 1 hour ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: Scribd Breached
    ×2.01 4 #44 | 329 points by x______________ 17 hours ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: I'd like to request Microsoft open source Windows XP
    ×1.07 25 | 4 points by fosco 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not
    ×1.12 67 | 37 points by stillatit 19 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What's it like working at Google nowadays? Core teams like Search, Ads?
    ×0.84 84 | 43 points by karakoram 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Are you using AI to do election choices like Mayor, Special Measures
    ×1.50 33 | 6 points by andsoitis 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Will apps be going away in favor of personal assistants?
    ×0.90 59 | 4 points by talmr 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Is applying to Y Combinator worth it if you aren't an insider?
    ×0.84 99 | 18 points by all2 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Is the Microsoft buyout just a long overdue correction?
    ×0.72 98 | 6 points by sky2224 13 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Are most of you using HN Replies? Or what else do you use?
    ×0.73 105 | 7 points by Gooblebrai 20 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Opus 5.5 suddenly dumb as rocks?
    ×0.46 107 | 31 points by jahala 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Do you have side-projects that generate >$500 revenue/month?
    ×0.87 106 | 37 points by learner_yearner 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. "Wrong" Email
    ×1.00 94 | 25 points by rbmm 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Hack
    ×0.30 110 | 10 points by throwaway3309 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. GEMM Tutorial and UlmBLAS
    ×0.64 117 | 4 points by michael-lehn 22 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Are you using a custom harness?
    ×0.46 113 | 11 points by japhyr 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Are you putting off hardware upgrades because of AI coding tools?
    ×0.44 120 | 5 points by winrid 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Tell HN: Claude Code adds your email to the prompt, the LLM sends it to websites
    ×0.75 114 | 32 points by TekMol 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Are Knuth's Stanford Pages Down?
    ×0.17 137 | 8 points by weinzierl 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Is your leadership pushing you to skip dev review?
    ×0.53 136 | 10 points by arm32 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Antrophic tightened usage limits?
    ×0.42 143 | 5 points by lukan 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: How are you using AI in your personal life?
    ×0.14 166 | 3 points by whall6 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Sitting on unused OpenAI / Anthropic / AWS credits that will expire?
    ×0.11 167 | 3 points by xiaomaijj 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Should I be polite to my agent or should I treat it like shit?
    ×0.35 149 | 5 points by d--b 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Why are there not more terminal apps?
    ×0.20 144 | 6 points by lucasov 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: What's your iPhone Duo experience so far?
    ×0.37 161 | 4 points by dgellow 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Anthropic to receive high 'junk' rating from credit agencies following IPO (techcrunch.com)
    ×6.97 32 | 98 points by jnord 21 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Lasm – Write formally verified webapps in Lean for Node/serverless/edge (github.com/Millillion)
    ×0.66 102 | 36 points by lastmjs 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Arken – Passwordless auth middleware using secp256k1 keys (github.com/zacharybenson)
    ×0.93 119 | 12 points by zachbenson817 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Jepsen: ParticleDB 1.1.4 (jepsen.io)
    ×2.08 2 #8 | 112 points by aphyr 5 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Read your Character.AI data export in the browser, nothing uploaded (github.com/anima-universe)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by Amavie 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Writing Windows Applications in x64 Assembly in 2026 (medium.com)
    ×1.14 | 2 points by hofmann-dev 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. El Niño is flooding California's coasts with the highest tides to come (gizmodo.com)
    ×1.69 81 | 142 points by gumby 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Fishoid: an ambient fish tank for your screen (fishoid.net)
    ×2.85 112 | 7 points by koskokos 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Capo-S3 – a typed, async-first S3 client for Python (pypi.org)
    ×4.33 118 | 17 points by karpetrosyan 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: OpenTaxRate – open-source US sales tax rates by street address (github.com/equated-org)
    ×1.48 160 | 7 points by winxton 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. The Smartest People in AI Believe This Is the World's Most Important Chart (wsj.com)
    ×2.98 34 | 5 points by bookofjoe 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: A proof-of-concept formalization of the IRS federal tax forms (github.com/emmilco)
    ×0.80 96 | 81 points by RGS1811 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Nasscad – local-first 3D CAD for browser and Windows (nasscad.com)
    ×0.42 134 | 26 points by Nasser-13 3 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Through Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Patrick Stewart taught us the measure of a man (bostonglobe.com)
    ×3.67 11 #71 | 365 points by apress 23 hours ago | 220 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: InterviewLint – Practice explaining code, not just writing it (interviewlint.com)
    ×1.01 | 2 points by aburayhanalif 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. AI startup hacks Anthropic, gains access to employee details, internal messages (indiatoday.in)
    ×4.09 63 | 74 points by healsdata 6 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. I post trained a model on Demoscenes (datavorous.com)
    ×1.40 1 #13 | 30 points by datavorous_ 2 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Prospero: A new coding harness for a more civilized age (nullprogram.com)
    ×2.19 12 #32 | 168 points by fovc 8 hours ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Northflank Breached (northflank.com)
    ×1.90 37 #34 | 471 points by js4ever 1 day ago | 349 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. I'm a Proton employee and I'm breaking my silence (reddit.com)
    ×5.45 20 #54 | 19 points by LLcolD 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Spinf-serve – inference server for bulk scoring and decisions (github.com/spinfinc)
    ×0.32 97 | 22 points by giarec 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Anthropic orders AI tool Claude to stop remaking video games (gamedeveloper.com)
    ×3.34 6 #86 | 17 points by llm_nerd 5 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. A Pig, the State, and War: Porco Rosso (Kurenai No Buta) (2014) (animationstudies.org)
    ×0.99 80 | 142 points by simonebrunozzi 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Geist Serif (vercel.com)
    ×1.43 71 | 78 points by Zm44 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: DissPair APK– Portable BLE and Bluetooth Classic Security Testing (github.com/threadpoolx)
    ×0.62 | 2 points by threadpoolx 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. It's the Memory Latency, Stupid (pivotlake.io)
    ×1.27 5 #4 | 27 points by ntur1337 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Noctua Fan Swap on a Calnex Rb/GPS Frequency Reference (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×0.73 27 #14 | 18 points by aray07 3 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Useful Custom-Media Presets (master.dev)
    ×1.09 86 #51 | 4 points by eustoria 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Evolving Agent Teams (arxiv.org)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by anigbrowl 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. CVE-2026-98432: Linux TCP Use-After-Free Risk and Patch Validation (penligent.ai)
    ×1.50 93 | 63 points by cobychapple 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Brief History of PDP Computers (entropicthoughts.com)
    ×0.83 50 #83 | 44 points by ibobev 16 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Surviving "The Graduate" (newyorker.com)
    ×1.41 | 2 points by samizdis 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. SAT Lowered Expectations (nationalreview.com)
    ×1.77 22 | 3 points by bilsbie 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Sam Altman Thinks You're Wasting DRAM (frvr.com)
    ×4.48 61 | 99 points by dutchbrit 1 day ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. GPT-5.6 Sol can beat Factorio on peaceful mode (ryanmadden.net)
    ×2.01 1 #1 | 75 points by ryanmadden 1 hour ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. NASA's Voyager 1 mysteriously lost touch with Earth (mashable.com)
    ×2.01 3 #90 | 25 points by entryleveljobsc 8 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. UK Green party drops longstanding opposition to nuclear power (theguardian.com)
    ×5.93 45 #46 | 174 points by mpweiher 2 hours ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Police secure Poland's Constitutional Tribunal as protests erupt (apnews.com)
    ×1.96 10 | 3 points by aliasxneo 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Auto Dismiss Mac OS "Allow <app> to find devices on local networks?" (github.com/johncassil)
    ×0.89 83 | 153 points by johncassil 2 days ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Hackers hijack Egypt highway billboard and Malaysian screens to show porn (cairoreport.org)
    ×2.08 11 #6 | 33 points by entryleveljobsc 2 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace (phorion.io)
    ×3.83 16 #42 | 961 points by _chall 1 day ago | 545 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. US tech stocks see sharp falls over AI cost fears (bbc.co.uk)
    ×5.24 8 | 263 points by mindracer 1 day ago | 293 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. The Duty of a Scholar (daemonology.net)
    ×1.06 3 #3 | 35 points by gslin 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. We ran AI agent swarms in Minecraft and Mindustry (ycombinator.com)
    ×1.89 57 #73 | 411 points by sandslash 1 day ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN (bearblog.dev)
    ×2.11 39 | 3 points by karpathy 21 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. A Pickpocket's Guide to New York (newyorker.com)
    ×1.10 56 | 80 points by prismatic 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: UPC Label Maker – 1:1 PostScript point barcode imposition for Avery/FBA (upclabelmaker.com)
    ×0.67 | 2 points by dirtyfancy 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Hob - Open-source, on device alternative to Claude Cowork and ChatGPT (github.com/FrigadeHQ)
    ×1.56 111 | 177 points by pancomplex 5 days ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Switch Lowering in GCC (xoranth.net)
    ×1.24 17 #19 | 177 points by signa11 12 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Shiny Object Syndrome (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.81 25 #80 | 62 points by janisz 9 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Polymarket 1h halt after vendor compromise; affected users will be 'made whole' (nbcnews.com)
    ×1.58 49 | 118 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. French digital tax may kill VideoLan non-profit (twitter.com/videolan)
    ×5.01 44 | 107 points by miohtama 1 day ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Why Did Meta Suspend a US Senate Candidate's Instagram in the Middle of a Rally? (newrepublic.com)
    ×5.28 56 | 69 points by ck2 7 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Malware uses LLMs to rank victims by how much they're worth (talosintelligence.com)
    ×2.18 15 #23 | 205 points by khalidkhair 5 hours ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Create an Account [Satire/Game] (maurycyz.com)
    ×1.15 | 2 points by Curiositry 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Backdoors in official Claude Code extensions (cyberplace.social)
    ×6.21 24 | 655 points by dsr_ 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. A tiny world model running games on a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W (github.com/SheepSeb)
    ×1.40 63 | 270 points by airinei 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Marelleo, an open-source story box I built for my kids using ESP32 (zebra.rodeo)
    ×1.46 17 #28 | 172 points by foOg 13 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. The Weird Little Guys of FOSS (drewdevault.com)
    ×4.09 44 | 7 points by cowlevel 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Hunting 'Zombie Accounts' in Active Directory (fabian.fyi)
    ×0.56 47 #31 | 29 points by optimiz 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Ask HN: Has Google started cleaning their search results from AI slop?
    ×1.93 9 | 3 points by gosen 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: I Turned DOOM into a Transformer (github.com/mottopanikeiku)
    ×0.83 82 | 129 points by falperc 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Intel plunges 25%, triggers global chip rout on bleak outlook (reuters.com)
    ×5.73 72 | 85 points by tartoran 1 day ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Nonna – TypeScript Dependency injection without the reflection tax (nodeboot.io)
    ×1.23 86 #52 | 4 points by santoman 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???