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  1. Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the business depends on it?
    ×1.70 36 #32 | 240 points by mlaux 1 day ago | 246 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Any nerds out there who've read a lot of research papers?
    ×0.52 66 | 28 points by shriy-singh 2 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Hypothesis: Cellular providers are deprioritizing voice calls?
    ×0.48 70 | 20 points by tkdb 2 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: IEEE expulsion of Fei-Yue Wang?
    ×0.49 81 | 11 points by sathomasga 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. How to Freelance Now?
    ×0.75 51 | 8 points by Alexadar 9 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Tell HN: OpenAI $500 ProMax plan listed in API
    ×0.52 76 | 26 points by GustavHartz 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Is Opus 5.5 another step change?
    ×0.97 75 | 11 points by consumer451 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How do you deal with cyber attacks once you scale?
    ×0.40 95 | 5 points by cehgmaster 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Which model do you use for work?
    ×0.80 99 | 5 points by george_max 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What vendor you'd switch out if a better option was available?
    ×0.35 93 | 6 points by jviotti 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. FYI: OpenAI "spend limits" aren't always limits
    ×0.18 | 2 points by iambateman 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Tell HN: Chrome 154 corrupt Fontconfig cache and crash KDE Plasma
    ×1.32 90 | 6 points by vdfs 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: LM Studio Bionic with Python?
    ×0.44 110 | 3 points by HoldOnAMinute 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Indie hackers on X (Twitter) feels like a mega bubble these days
    ×2.14 65 | 8 points by sankalpdomore 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Has anyone built a leaderless multi-agent system?
    ×0.51 115 | 3 points by har-ki 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Anyone else's OpenAI and Claude API keys mysteriously leaked last night?
    ×0.24 | 2 points by par 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: How do you use LLMs to secure your code and services?
    ×0.89 114 | 4 points by cpa 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Tell HN: Substack obfuscating text to break reading mode
    ×0.47 132 | 18 points by xnx 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Migrating personal email domain from Gmail to iCloud?
    ×0.89 123 | 4 points by osener 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Are .shop domains down?
    ×0.23 129 | 6 points by esher 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Anyone using a Wispr Flow alternative that is non-cloud?
    ×0.43 124 | 22 points by itsjeremiahs 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: What job boards are good these days?
    ×0.43 109 | 23 points by phendrenad2 3 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Where to look for jobs?
    ×1.30 125 | 5 points by 0x737368 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How do you feel about the new $500 OpenAI subscription?
    ×0.88 134 | 4 points by preommr 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Does a startup need both founder and company X accounts?
    ×0.69 146 | 3 points by OnionLayers 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Do you cuss at your agent?
    ×1.11 137 | 4 points by ak39 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Folks familiar with infections after TKA
    ×0.67 150 | 3 points by zafka 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Does spec-driven development still pay off with frontier coding models?
    ×1.13 143 | 4 points by sarangk90 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: When is fine-tuning a small LLM worth it?
    ×0.28 147 | 10 points by kooldeep7 4 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Understanding Runtime Governance for Enterprise AI Deployment
    ×0.10 153 | 4 points by thespotlessmind 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. AI startups with hyper ARR growth – what's happening inside these companies?
    ×0.22 148 | 5 points by d675 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. I Built a Wine Atlas
    ×0.42 154 | 5 points by keremiis 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Do you offload your coding to AI, or keep your skills sharp?
    ×0.48 122 | 14 points by Hex08 3 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Why so many dead comments lately?
    ×0.59 131 | 11 points by mattm 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. The AI-First Organization (rolandberger.com)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by andsoitis 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. What the megafauna extinction can teach us about AI startups and incumbents (johnjwang.com)
    ×1.12 | 2 points by johnjwang 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Air-gapped file encryption as self-decrypting HTML page (apeleg.com)
    ×0.94 68 | 87 points by emurlin 2 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: A benchmark comparison of C++ vs. Node.js performance (vikky2810.github.io)
    ×2.10 117 | 5 points by vikky2810 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: I'm crawling 11k homepages every week to track which fonts they use (fontsovertime.com)
    ×0.70 145 | 4 points by fcjr 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians (wordpress.com)
    ×2.34 16 #11 | 353 points by srcreigh 19 hours ago | 457 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Lab on a Contact Lens Can Measure Stress Through Serotonin (ieee.org)
    ×0.84 72 #53 | 66 points by marc__1 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Noillirk: A fun twist on Krillion and Family Feud (playdaily.org)
    ×2.63 47 | 4 points by Hemmaamlin 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Print Graph Paper (printgraphpaper.app)
    ×1.91 73 | 6 points by artiomartiom 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Most Hated Tools (mosthatedtools.app)
    ×1.27 87 | 31 points by leonagano 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. OpenAI bots meddled with multiple US Government agency sites (bbc.com)
    ×2.28 6 #26 | 91 points by Betelbuddy 8 hours ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Scientists build most accurate atomic clock (phys.org)
    ×0.79 44 #49 | 54 points by wglb 17 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Special Projects (2016) (openai.com)
    ×0.83 63 | 70 points by vinhnx 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Upping My P(doom) (Official Music Video) (youtube.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by sznio 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Delegation and Trust (bjornroche.com)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by hellerve 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. The Mafia may be keeping fentanyl out of Italy (economist.com)
    ×3.00 16 | 201 points by runeks 1 day ago | 266 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Aslmp, an async Python SLMP client for Mitsubishi MELSEC PLCs (github.com/AcaysiaChem)
    ×1.17 112 | 3 points by AiasT 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Hard Stop: Kernel-level preemption for autonomous AI agents (arxiv.org)
    ×0.69 | 2 points by joseluispino 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Reflections on 1,000 Days of Math (gmays.com)
    ×0.98 7 #21 | 76 points by gmays 9 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Neomacs: GPU rendered Rust hard fork of Emacs (github.com/eval-exec)
    ×1.61 32 #65 | 42 points by tagfowufe 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Withmcp – A quick, system-wide MCP toggle (github.com/lava)
    ×0.90 | 1 points by HotHotLava 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. How Intelligent Are Cats? (2004) (messybeast.com)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by droserasprout 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Why Russia is sending dead princes and saints into battle (cnn.com)
    ×3.13 45 | 5 points by cisc 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. It's Time We Talked About AI and Software Security (deadneurons.substack.com)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by nr378 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. An airport cooled by natural ventilation (theguardian.com)
    ×1.39 41 | 70 points by Geekette 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. New Boeing 737 MAX Software Glitch Could Disrupt Navigation Feature (wsj.com)
    ×2.50 3 #41 | 10 points by trimbo 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Stable (YC W20) Is Hiring Product Engineers (usestable.com)
    2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Deployment Platform for Vite (void.cloud)
    ×2.55 | 2 points by jcbhmr 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Blender Copilot (github.com/XEonAX)
    ×2.20 29 | 4 points by xeonax 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Koi.rest – watch some fish and regain your balance (koi.rest)
    ×2.08 44 | 222 points by hxii 2 days ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Spivak's Calculus formalized in Lean 4 – every theorem, every problem (github.com/stormj-UH)
    ×1.41 55 #56 | 6 points by jsLavaGoat 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Productivity as the Cessation of Braking (medium.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by Aldus551 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. AI agents now hold and spend real money, and nobody keeps their books (agenticfinancegraph.com)
    ×1.12 | 2 points by Nikola5 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Open Source Lightroom Alternative on Web (github.com/UdulaAbeykoon)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by kuaola 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: EmbedCatalog – Decorate your project with embed (github.com/embedcatalog)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by aanthonymax 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. C-to-Rust Fallacy: Automatic Refactoring != Memory Security (arxiv.org)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by metrofun 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Kosh - Stop Your Bookmarks Becoming a Cemetery (google.com)
    ×4.50 44 | 7 points by havu12 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Drawgent: Coding agent on a live Excalidraw canvas (tangled.org)
    ×1.06 8 #6 | 89 points by parasitid 6 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Something Deep Inside Earth Keeps Messing with the Length of Our Days (gizmodo.com)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by gmays 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Julia-1: decision model that runs on almost anything (ia.br)
    ×1.92 36 | 3 points by handfuloflight 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Way to divide parameter space in LLM training (zenodo.org)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by genji970 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: An open-source manufacturing ERP/MES/QMS (carbon.ms)
    ×0.79 86 | 54 points by barbinbrad 2 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Automattic has a new board after failed attempt to put CEO on leave (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.83 14 #25 | 112 points by ilamont 6 hours ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Entering and Breaking the Avast Antivirus Sandbox Part 2 (safateam.com)
    ×0.72 66 #77 | 115 points by safateam 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: OpenMCP – An open, code-first fork of the Model Context Protocol (github.com/enclawed)
    ×0.84 155 | 9 points by enclawed 4 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Banks and Credit Unions to Team Up Against Apple Pay Fees (macrumors.com)
    ×2.47 28 #40 | 105 points by Brajeshwar 6 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. What happens when you analyze your favorite college football team like the CIA? (cultivatelabs.com)
    ×0.69 72 #73 | 62 points by adam 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Primeagen Joining Omarchy Core (twitter.com/dhh)
    ×3.72 56 | 6 points by xendo 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Digitron – a virtual analog synth and sequencer (apple.com)
    ×0.81 | 2 points by sillydevices 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Choreoglyphs – our new, invisible writing system (choreoglyphs.com)
    ×1.73 101 | 5 points by spython 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard (mitpit.com)
    ×3.61 14 | 852 points by MitPitt 2 days ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Gutcheck, grep for meaning with a local CPU model (github.com/sfmqrb)
    ×1.12 85 | 4 points by sfmqrb 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Cities of Salt (1984) (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.27 19 | 4 points by ViktorRay 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: An atlas of system designs with interactive architecture diagrams (atlas-sysdes.vercel.app)
    ×0.97 89 | 51 points by mertkahyaoglu 4 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Welcome to the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay Station (lightspeedmagazine.com)
    ×1.18 3 #7 | 25 points by bucket2015 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. What even is an OS now? (sockpuppet.org)
    ×1.94 24 #30 | 289 points by fratellobigio 1 day ago | 437 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???