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  1. Ask HN: What are you reading?
    ×2.30 11 #24 | 293 points by dan-bailey 19 hours ago | 581 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What are you reading to your kids?
    ×2.05 27 | 3 points by jopizio 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: How will the AI endgame play out?
    ×0.79 5 | 3 points by jackgavigan 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the business depends on it?
    ×1.31 65 | 292 points by mlaux 4 days ago | 299 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: OpenSEO inspiration for other tools, asking for opinion
    ×0.17 79 | 3 points by yash_salesup 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Google now ships "ads" with their Android system update?
    ×0.30 69 | 8 points by y42 21 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How do you get your first users for an MVP?
    ×0.24 85 | 10 points by amina124 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Any nerds out there who've read a lot of research papers?
    ×0.42 114 | 33 points by shriy-singh 5 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What are people doing with their OpenClaw set ups now?
    ×0.46 92 | 17 points by will10pa 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Management is forcing us to use AI
    ×0.70 84 | 20 points by aksjfveoq 2 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. macOS 27: ifconfig command no longer prints hardware MAC address
    ×0.25 130 | 6 points by luckman212 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: IEEE expulsion of Fei-Yue Wang?
    ×0.31 136 | 13 points by sathomasga 5 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Is there a lanscaping tool which can take photos of my garden and make 3D model?
    ×0.18 82 | 3 points by Fh_ 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: React Native or Flutter when the back end is Node?
    ×0.15 110 | 5 points by rearview 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: JEV for K1 Tax Forms
    ×0.13 123 | 4 points by GoRudy 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Tell HN: OpenAI $500 ProMax plan listed in API
    ×0.48 124 | 29 points by GustavHartz 5 days ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Is Opus 5.5 another step change?
    ×0.77 128 | 18 points by consumer451 4 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. I was impressed by Jev, please explain why I shouldn't be
    ×0.57 107 | 13 points by effisfor 2 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Allow agents access to cloud files with least privilege?
    ×0.19 131 | 6 points by beerglass 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: How are you getting inference for personal projects?
    ×0.14 137 | 3 points by variety8675 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. OpenAI halts release of Astra 6.1 over safety concerns (cbsnews.com)
    ×1.29 | 2 points by moinism 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. White House asks OpenAI, Anthropic hold new models from UK testers until review (politico.com)
    ×1.26 | 2 points by theanonymousone 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Joseph Szabo’s pictures of American adolescents (newyorker.com)
    ×0.72 50 | 84 points by prismatic 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Show HN: Kasora – Simulate your finances month by month, in-browser, no sign-up (kasora.app)
    ×1.06 32 | 3 points by mitenmit 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Flydubai B38M, first officer under investigation for suspected suicide attempt (avherald.com)
    ×1.68 2 #36 | 5 points by haunter 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: A working 3D model of an Enigma machine (enigma.design)
    ×1.03 19 #37 | 73 points by primitivesuave 13 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. 1 in 8 cancer cases worldwide are caused by infections, study finds (cbc.ca)
    ×2.46 5 #55 | 261 points by colinprince 22 hours ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. AI tools generated nearly $1B in extra costs, Blue Cross insurers say (reuters.com)
    ×1.48 5 #72 | 15 points by EA-3167 6 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Durable Actor Session Protocol (dasp-protocol.github.io)
    ×6.78 81 | 17 points by mikehostetler 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Language models for text classification: From bag-of-words to Jev (sebastianraschka.com)
    ×1.69 19 #21 | 133 points by Anon84 13 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. AI scientist autonomously generates and validates new biological discoveries (cision.com)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by giuliomagnifico 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Open-source agent runtime using your ChatGPT or Claude subscription (github.com/noclickapp)
    ×0.84 129 | 3 points by dhruvyads 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Agentic Engineered Social Connections and Travel App (viamour.app)
    ×1.74 104 | 6 points by jaidarukiya 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: AgentRun: DSL to turn agents into workflows (github.com/Parcha-ai)
    ×0.65 117 | 51 points by miguelrios 6 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. U.S. postal inspectors shut down website selling counterfeit postage labels (postalemployeenetwork.com)
    ×1.21 15 #9 | 235 points by ilamont 15 hours ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Inspect: An open-source framework for large language model evaluations (aisi.org.uk)
    ×0.36 73 #80 | 4 points by pkilgore 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. UK rail cops' £320K face-scanning spree nets zero matches (theregister.com)
    ×1.86 9 | 3 points by jjgreen 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS (tomshardware.com)
    ×5.58 52 | 379 points by mywacaday 23 hours ago | 379 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Who's Responsible for Irresponsible AI? (deeplearning.ai)
    ×1.36 | 2 points by svg7 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Layout – Order food anywhere with AI (layout.link)
    ×0.85 | 2 points by colemorell 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: I turned my team's coding-agent history into a knowledge graph (github.com/motif-Labs)
    ×2.66 119 | 5 points by merthdotxyz 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Experimental Distinguishability of Computed and Fundamental Physical Dynamics (omarali.me)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by omarali-me 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Engineering calculators for electronics, geometry and code (pockeng.com)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by levario 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Hijacking the PS5's RTMP stream (yashgarg.dev)
    ×1.42 13 | 289 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. What would a serious AI product look like? (glyph.im)
    ×1.75 35 | 171 points by lumpa 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet? (github.com/ninjahawk)
    ×3.28 2 #2 | 653 points by bryan0 12 hours ago | 260 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Scientists solve 1840s space weather mystery (arstechnica.com)
    ×0.84 50 #71 | 125 points by gumby 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Stuck in the Suez Canal – the short version (2021) (cathsenker.co.uk)
    ×0.72 52 #38 | 55 points by joebig 15 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Event Sourcing and Actor model in Ruby [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by GenericCanadian 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Composites for Stage 2 (google.com)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by tosh 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. A calm, technical bedtime guide to Jev and Laya [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by modinfo 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline (theintercept.com)
    ×5.23 14 | 202 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Israel Keeps Expanding into Gaza Despite Cease-Fire, Satellite Images Show (nytimes.com)
    ×10.22 43 | 125 points by ceejayoz 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: TurboGPT: train 22KiB transformer in 13s (github.com/lostmsu)
    ×0.78 42 #50 | 49 points by lostmsu 15 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. 500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive (theguardian.com)
    ×4.02 54 #82 | 488 points by ilamont 23 hours ago | 295 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. 13 Months Sober (2025) (bobbytables.io)
    ×1.66 53 | 86 points by btables 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Social news aggregator, RSS feed tracker, and publishing platform (rsscal.com)
    ×0.78 | 2 points by Dotnaught 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Pac-Bench – How well can models one-shot a Pac-Man game? (jonclegg.github.io)
    ×1.00 33 | 78 points by thefourthchime 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: NetWasm – Independent .NET Compiler/Runtime (82.5 KB Hello World in C#) (netwasm.com)
    ×1.36 78 | 5 points by zionsati 21 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: A React data grid that sorts and filters in a Web Worker (kanunilabs.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by hizlikovboy27 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Claude partial outage (claude.com)
    ×2.07 28 | 171 points by sidcool 20 hours ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart (aviationweek.com)
    ×2.13 5 #11 | 181 points by ilamont 11 hours ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. PS5 Relapse Exploit (github.com/ntfargo)
    ×2.03 4 #27 | 314 points by therepanic 19 hours ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC (mills.io)
    ×1.41 15 | 324 points by davidcollantes 2 days ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Vanguard warns France is 'degrading credit' as borrowing costs surge (ft.com)
    ×1.57 | 2 points by rzk 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities (anthropic.com)
    ×5.25 55 | 227 points by Philpax 17 hours ago | 220 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Short film made using MiniMax H3 on my home PC (chrisbeach.co.uk)
    ×2.95 116 | 5 points by cbeach 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Kern Sandbox, run LLM-generated code locally, no cloud, no daemon (getkern.dev)
    ×0.96 133 | 3 points by realexweb 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Pi.dev: You Said No MCP (earendil.com)
    ×2.51 1 #1 | 62 points by yarapavan 56 minutes ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. PSSA: A non-transformer language model written from scratch in Rust (github.com/Sparticle62ops)
    ×1.12 18 #33 | 78 points by sparticle62 7 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Four CHI '26 papers I wish I wrote (countingfromzero.blog)
    ×0.49 65 #66 | 47 points by luu 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman (spritefusion.com)
    ×1.38 32 #86 | 171 points by HugoDz 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Firebase SDK is crashing all iOS apps since this morning (twitter.com/GergelyOrosz)
    ×3.86 5 | 132 points by pranshuchittora 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Solving Factorio Quality (exyr.org)
    ×1.51 2 #4 | 91 points by laurenth 5 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Needed 1+1, built a functional programming language (hereticpleb.vercel.app)
    ×1.42 17 #20 | 114 points by birdculture 12 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Tcl/Tk 9.1 (tcl-lang.org)
    ×1.72 7 #34 | 280 points by dmux 17 hours ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. What if Jev spoke Arrow? (columnar.tech)
    ×0.69 63 #48 | 39 points by ianmcook 18 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve Falls to Lowest Level Since 1982 (oilprice.com)
    ×4.69 8 | 180 points by thelastgallon 1 day ago | 225 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Ekselio – Loveable for finance workflows (local first) (gptbeyond.com)
    ×0.55 89 | 43 points by kdautaj 4 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Treepeat – Code similarity detection using Tree-sitter (github.com/dsummersl)
    ×0.98 102 | 74 points by 91awebsi 1 week ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Jevstiller – Distill Jev into a local model, with a disagreement bound (jevstiller.pages.dev)
    ×0.69 41 #69 | 63 points by tgluck 22 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Chinese spies used lies, love and betrayal to target the Federal Reserve (cnbc.com)
    ×1.58 | 2 points by cramer4next 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Notes on Working with Coding Agents (adri0.com)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by quite-sfwd 27 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah (twitter.com/AliAbunimah)
    ×7.68 32 | 906 points by slowin 1 day ago | 898 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Fusor – Like Vue, but the logic is Rust (fusor.build)
    ×1.96 111 | 10 points by andreespirela 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Booted up in 1993, this server still runs – but not for much longer (2017) (computerworld.com)
    ×1.32 37 #52 | 189 points by doener 1 day ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Its not just the f*cking sandbox (twitter.com/joedaroo)
    ×2.18 67 #85 | 32 points by jumploops 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. How to Mediate Reality (2022) (unl.pt)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by robtherobber 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Free alternative to graphics design giants (scissor.studio)
    ×1.40 46 | 139 points by sia_xi 2 days ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Stop Guessing Why Your AI Fails: Meet Tanvelo
    ×0.76 | 1 points by Tanvelo 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???