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  1. Ask HN: New Outlook` sends everything through Microsoft Servers
    ×0.31 | 2 points by NicoJuicy 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: Remember to migrate away from .name domain
    ×1.00 48 | 163 points by nikanj 4 days ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: How do you deal with AI output of your boss?
    ×0.63 85 | 14 points by okr 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tell HN: Massive amount of spam from "Who Wants to be hired"
    ×0.44 68 | 7 points by 0xmattf 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: System One models for autonomous agents
    ×0.24 92 | 3 points by manlymuppet 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Talk like Paul Dirac – fewer words is better
    ×0.36 112 | 7 points by asen 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Best way to get SMS verification codes without using your own number?
    ×0.26 | 2 points by guler26 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Is anyone still running Token Ring or FDDI networks?
    ×0.32 113 | 12 points by robotnikman 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Why do computers/phones have a restart option along with the power off option?
    ×0.29 109 | 7 points by saonnet 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: How can we stop UX people from changing UIs to get promotions?
    ×0.27 103 | 5 points by ex-aws-dude 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What Got You into Rust?
    ×0.16 | 2 points by cloaky233 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Triplet of 'Ghostly' Galaxies Hints at What Dark Matter Is – and Isn't
    ×0.70 117 | 5 points by gumby 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Thoughts on hiring junior engineers in 2026?
    ×0.57 120 | 12 points by abhishekbasu 2 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How do I stop Gemini Live from asking."Would like to know more about..?"
    ×0.10 | 2 points by orsenthil 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Flying Car Practical Tech
    ×0.30 136 | 6 points by NarcisMirandes 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. More Powerful Than Ever, (can't find work)
    ×0.73 127 | 9 points by pieratt 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Are you hesitant to install vibe-coded apps?
    ×0.33 134 | 19 points by ex-aws-dude 4 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Tell HN: Google Argon on a Pro subscription is worthless
    ×0.59 130 | 11 points by bb88 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Emu Concept – Make AI Follows Your Rules. (Feedback Wanted)
    ×0.25 137 | 5 points by JariwalaH 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Why is there no AlphaZero for theorem proving?
    ×0.23 142 | 4 points by hyperpallium2 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. AI Revolution vs. Computing Revolution
    ×0.23 143 | 4 points by nitinagg 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. VectorCraft vs. Figma vs. Penpot vs. Adobe Illustrator vs. Wunjo Design?
    ×0.55 135 | 6 points by wladradchenko 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Starcraft: Ashfall (starcraft-shooter-2026.pages.dev)
    ×3.41 20 #35 | 38 points by debo_ 4 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Show HN: Strot – Compile an LLM's intent once, run decisions locally (github.com/strot-ai)
    ×1.52 87 | 22 points by solohunter001 1 hour ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: My Personal Weather Station (johnzanussi.com)
    ×1.93 14 | 4 points by johnz 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Solar surpasses nuclear power globally for first time (pv-magazine.com)
    ×3.95 25 | 683 points by xbmcuser 1 day ago | 437 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: MoroccoAPI: An open source API for Moroccan public data (moroccoapi.dev)
    ×1.02 121 | 3 points by benizizamohamed 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. The Third Risk (thirdrisk.org)
    ×3.04 2 | 5 points by paulpauper 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains (reddit.com)
    ×7.28 22 #28 | 521 points by sashk 13 hours ago | 271 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Pele – Mermaid diagrams as themeable SVG (pele.run)
    ×3.25 14 #84 | 574 points by dchest 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3blue1brown) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.83 4 #4 | 276 points by mdp2021 11 hours ago | 331 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. A new way to think about borrow checking (in reverse) (verdagon.dev)
    ×1.40 10 #17 | 46 points by verdagon 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Open Artifacts – host AI artifacts on your own Cloudflare account (open-artifacts.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by leourbina 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Bullet Script (bs) – a Lisp(y) VM for shmup bullet patterns (ell.dev)
    ×2.22 59 | 6 points by ellg 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Interactive Linear Programming in the Browser (lpviz.net)
    ×0.97 44 #88 | 73 points by klamike 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Tmux and Claude Code: Sessions, Send-Keys, and the Ceiling (crystl.dev)
    ×0.90 | 1 points by ankitg12 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Nushell – A New Type of Shell (nushell.sh)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by emmettbt 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. ZX Spectrum Next Laptop (dorchester3d.com)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by utopcell 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Israeli settlers attack European diplomatic cars in West Bank beat French mayor (lemonde.fr)
    ×14.03 35 | 148 points by Betelbuddy 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. TikTok bans Musk documentary account (theverge.com)
    ×7.27 62 | 46 points by mikelgan 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Anthropic and the Changing Nature of Work (surfingcomplexity.blog)
    ×0.82 | 1 points by azhenley 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Jio Platforms IPO (finshots.in)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by vismit2000 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: BlastLoop, a structure-first coding method for AI agents (github.com/rlshaw-ml)
    ×0.64 129 | 15 points by rossleeshaw 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. "Traditional, but Puzzling" (aresluna.org)
    ×0.91 26 #18 | 38 points by colinprince 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. An Artist Who Built Japanese Animation (animationobsessive.substack.com)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by vinhnx 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Parser Combinators (t3.at)
    ×1.77 23 #32 | 230 points by schindlabua 21 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. MapQuest lets you track Flock cameras (mashable.com)
    ×2.29 10 #67 | 10 points by Yctg 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: High-quality duck audio synthesizer (celphase.github.io)
    ×1.19 44 #78 | 170 points by celphase 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. The most powerful and free local AI note taking app I've ever used (github.com/seacen)
    ×1.04 | 2 points by seacen 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. US federal budget deficit jumps 12% in one year to nearly $2 Trillion (yahoo.com)
    ×8.89 28 | 202 points by ck2 1 day ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: rStation – A shared research lab for your AI agents (rstation.ai)
    ×0.87 86 | 59 points by stephenchung 2 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Dogs seem to agree with humans that 'bouba' is round and 'kiki' is spiky (sciencealert.com)
    ×2.18 7 #11 | 182 points by gmays 12 hours ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Who lives without a car in the Bay Area (maxmautner.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by mslate 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. "The AI bubble is about to burst and a big market correction's coming" – NY Post (nypost.com)
    ×2.48 10 | 4 points by MilnerRoute 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Simulate an engineering blog, or an idea or an incident (github.com/smarchone)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by smarch27 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Anthropic's proposed AI safety bill only kicks in if 50 deaths or $1B in damages (tomshardware.com)
    ×4.17 57 | 158 points by f-serif 15 hours ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. How employment is changing at Anthropic (anthropic.com)
    ×6.36 15 | 110 points by theanonymousone 19 hours ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: MirrorMD – An AI second opinion from a facial cosmetic surgeon (mymirrormd.com)
    ×0.60 96 | 10 points by AIcosmeticsurge 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. The Intel 8087 chip: floating-point addition and subtraction (righto.com)
    ×0.95 23 #29 | 97 points by pwg 13 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Man arrested after discussing plans for childcare mass shooting with [Claude] (smh.com.au)
    ×5.02 66 | 8 points by milderworkacc 1 hour ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Remade.Wiki (remade.wiki)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by beatthatflight 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. The future of programming (1982) (acm.org)
    ×0.97 58 | 79 points by vismit2000 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Notes on the Complex Roots of Unity (thegreenplace.net)
    ×0.87 49 | 42 points by sks_15 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Tinywm – a scrolling window manager for macOS, inspired by Niri (github.com/bbodi)
    ×4.40 115 | 12 points by bbodi 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Calcy – unit-aware, uncertainty-propagating math (habitathq.github.io)
    ×1.19 141 | 3 points by themantri 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. PalmOS Lemmings (github.com/ardiri)
    ×1.13 14 #15 | 110 points by memalign 12 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Artie (YC S23) Is Hiring Enterprise AES and Senior Engineers (artie.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Kramena – Classic books, 20 minutes a day, with spoiler-safe recaps (kramena.app)
    ×0.76 | 2 points by raahelb 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Constructors Shouldn't Throw (t3.at)
    ×0.71 78 #70 | 3 points by jcbhmr 5 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Pay-per-Crawl – make AI crawlers pay per page in USDC, for 10 stacks (forgemesh.io)
    ×1.07 99 | 9 points by agenticbotbot 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. The Public Pays to Produce Research. Shareholders Collect the Return (sparcopen.org)
    ×1.92 57 #55 | 53 points by jruohonen 19 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Individual Knowledge in the Internet Age (2010) (educause.edu)
    ×1.78 19 | 3 points by sublinear 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. If you want to make a bajillion dollars, solve agent identity (12gramsofcarbon.com)
    ×1.15 | 2 points by theahura 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Glider: A single-node vector database with S3 as its only durable state (github.com/omerfeyzioglu)
    ×1.33 71 | 4 points by omerfeyzioglu 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. How Quickly Can the DoD Rebuild and Recast the Munitions Industrial Base? (csis.org)
    ×1.66 1 #25 | 46 points by gmays 6 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Personal software factories are a waste of time (peterp.me)
    ×2.96 #37 | 75 points by thegreatpeter 10 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. The plight of the public potty (thebaffler.com)
    ×1.65 64 #73 | 36 points by prismatic 21 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. James Li Investigated Sam Altman for a Year [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.20 | 2 points by johnnyApplePRNG 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. British Airways: Filming Crew W Meta Glasses Could Get Your Tickets Cancelled (liveandletsfly.com)
    ×4.01 48 | 91 points by bookofjoe 12 hours ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Nori – OSS Music Player optimized for battery usage (github.com/norifm)
    ×1.18 76 | 3 points by bstrama 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Lombok Is Still Relevant in the Age of Java Records (swaranga.dev)
    ×1.23 7 #38 | 9 points by swaranga 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Ziyooren/Software-Coupons (github.com/ziyooren)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by iplaypc 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. The Rise of In-Office Remote Work (theatlantic.com)
    ×4.86 41 | 10 points by Garbage 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: LLM Usage Desktop Widget (github.com/aleph-void)
    ×0.37 | 2 points by bootbloopers 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Sanity's Edge – A voice BBS from 1994 (shouden.us)
    ×1.12 36 #23 | 17 points by indigodaddy 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. The Electronic Disturbance Theater and Electronic Civil Disobedience (1998) (thing.net)
    ×0.56 55 #58 | 36 points by jruohonen 16 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Ranet3 – High performance policy routed IPsec mesh SD-WAN (ranet3.com)
    ×0.62 30 #66 | 28 points by StepBroBD 11 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: OmniPTY – Opinionated terminal emulator for macOS and Linux (github.com/omnipty-terminal)
    ×1.13 35 #68 | 14 points by bobbycoleman-de 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. A New Lens on Multi-GPU Comms: API-Level Memory Models for Portable Optimization (arxiv.org)
    ×1.20 | 2 points by matt_d 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. China Plans to Tighten Export Controls on AI Technologies (wallhop.io)
    ×1.83 11 | 3 points by jamiesonbecker 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???