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  1. Ask HN: What would it look like if AI agents "took over the internet"?
    ×0.32 2 | 3 points by scripper1 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Why haven't people vibe coded popular 80s word processors as TUI apps?
    ×0.52 25 | 5 points by amichail 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Career paths to consider if I am better at supporting than creating?
    ×0.94 14 | 25 points by _override 7 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Should we start airgapping our personal devices?
    ×0.19 89 | 3 points by emerongi 11 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What default model do you use and why?
    ×0.94 58 | 58 points by stikit 1 day ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What is Y Combinator's position on Flock's standing today?
    ×1.30 41 | 16 points by chirau 4 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Did Google kill its enterprise workhorse model?
    ×0.59 90 | 26 points by waldrews 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
    ×2.31 76 | 26 points by david927 2 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Reddit Now Blocking Firefox for Android with uBlock Origin?
    ×1.19 80 | 25 points by chucksmash 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?
    ×8.23 1 | 841 points by cromka 2 days ago | 388 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting
    ×3.53 61 | 482 points by jacquesm 3 days ago | 187 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What's a good "semi-dumb" phone/watch for kids?
    ×0.43 120 | 7 points by funkaster 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Tell HN: Claude Code appends new commit signature even if older settings is off
    ×0.64 106 | 6 points by ctxc 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: For Enterprise coding agents, what's your company doing to control cost?
    ×0.40 113 | 5 points by m0rde 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Novgraph: Persistent Knowledge Graph for Codebases
    ×0.19 130 | 3 points by Shourya_55 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. OpenAI changed Navier-Stokes press release and Lean4 code on GH
    ×0.37 131 | 7 points by rawland 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Google to discontinue allowing send as an external account in Jan. 2027
    ×0.58 127 | 21 points by AuthorizedCust 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. GoatCode – open-source terminal AI agent with provider failover
    ×0.24 139 | 3 points by Arhan-w 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How are much smarter AI models made?
    ×0.70 122 | 11 points by superasn 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Dreamcast Web Development Links
    ×0.21 142 | 4 points by hefner1456 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Namecheap Hosting Is Down
    ×1.24 103 | 5 points by wolfgangbabad 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Software Licenses that prevent LLMs from training on open source?
    ×0.35 158 | 10 points by mattm 4 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Where are the innovations happening today?
    ×0.25 135 | 6 points by cauliflower99 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Stardust Store – An independent Android app marketplace
    ×0.27 145 | 7 points by zishutron 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Is GPT-6 Astra worth the 2.5x cost increase over GPT-5.6 Sol?
    ×0.49 132 | 7 points by minimaxir 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: AI and Math
    ×0.05 | 2 points by ekm2 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. The Case of Yemen's .YE Country-Code Domain (freethedotye.org)
    ×1.53 | 2 points by FreeTheDotYE 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Deeplearning from Scratch in 1400 Lines In my own Programming Language (github.com/NoSavedDATA)
    ×0.97 31 | 5 points by nosaveddata 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Geiger – See every AI agent on your machine and what it can touch (github.com/Atomburstofficial)
    ×0.58 121 | 49 points by atomburst 4 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Durable subagents for Codex and Claude users (github.com/ringlochid)
    ×0.43 161 | 3 points by ringlochid 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Designing for Dual Screen and Foldable Devices with CSS (2023) (stephaniestimac.com)
    ×0.56 78 #88 | 62 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. US diplomat secretly flown home ‘had child abuse images at flat’ (thetimes.com)
    ×1.88 56 | 4 points by Betelbuddy 26 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Godot and Rust based multiplexer (terminal panes and more) (github.com/godot-pty)
    ×0.61 78 | 94 points by 1nv1n 2 days ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Reverse-Engineering Claude Web's MicroVM: Uncovering Anthropic's Hidden Antspace (aprilnea.me)
    ×1.00 22 #12 | 13 points by rzk 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Beautiful Markdown rendering in your terminal (github.com/spencerldixon)
    ×1.33 141 | 7 points by spencerldixon 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Everything a web page can learn about you, in plain English (sessioncontext.org)
    ×3.48 85 | 12 points by oddurs 20 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: We served 5k dynamic websites from a 2-vCPU, 4 GB VPS (github.com/Kooboo)
    ×0.66 144 | 9 points by zguoqi 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots (dayzlegame.com)
    ×3.48 23 #64 | 747 points by nickabe 2 days ago | 423 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: One month, zero paying customers – keep it or kill it?
    ×0.87 | 2 points by iGag 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. What Is to Be Done? (2023) (twitter.com/pmarca)
    ×0.38 | 1 points by tosh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Aqqai – Every answer, checked before you see it (aqqai.in)
    ×1.02 93 | 4 points by Vineetyadav2 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin (shopify.engineering)
    ×4.62 22 #84 | 1263 points by fnthawar2 3 days ago | 949 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Makefaster.dev (makefaster.dev)
    ×2.02 35 | 4 points by jjcm 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Tcpcat – Fast, lightweight network scanner written in Go (github.com/NycolazSec)
    ×1.67 2 | 3 points by tcpcat 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: See Sounds on Your Webcam (darebuild.com)
    ×0.42 69 | 22 points by jimhi 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. TailTalk: A modern async user space AppleTalk stack with Rust and Tokio (github.com/FeralFirmware)
    ×0.62 19 #20 | 56 points by zdw 7 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Libraries Run Rust Inside Python (With PyO3) (belderbos.dev)
    ×0.63 8 #23 | 37 points by lumpa 4 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Will there be a 7G? (arxiv.org)
    ×0.82 57 #51 | 120 points by Betelbuddy 1 day ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Pinocchio: Harness for Verifiable Work (goedelmachines.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by lazaruslong 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. GrapheneOS' rewritten Messages app is released (github.com/GrapheneOS)
    ×1.79 29 | 321 points by microtonal 2 days ago | 245 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Come prove the Berge Fulkerson conjecture with a swarm of agents (provetogether.ai)
    ×0.98 108 | 5 points by fcesco 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: hcode One-Person Engineering - SDLC Approach (hcode.works)
    ×0.73 164 | 4 points by phwbikm 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Ode to Metadata (autodidacts.io)
    ×0.34 43 #45 | 14 points by surprisetalk 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Real-SWE: Benchmarking AI models on private, real-world, enterprise codebases (withspecific.com)
    ×1.74 3 #59 | 264 points by theanonymousone 23 hours ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Rhizome ArtBase (rhizome.org)
    ×2.14 40 | 4 points by themaxdavitt 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Frontier Engineering (kiro.dev)
    ×0.99 | 2 points by dnw 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. You Have Two Cows (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.68 6 | 3 points by ColinWright 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Bernie's AI bill proposes to sentence AI developers to 20 years in prison (twitter.com/venturetwins)
    ×3.74 76 | 65 points by bilsbie 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Determinstic LLM inference for lowest price Gemma 4, with Windows XP (tokendelivery.ai)
    ×0.61 99 | 8 points by carsonpoole 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. I'm being cyberattacked by Tesla, Inc (dreamstation.systems)
    ×4.57 5 #6 | 267 points by robinpie 1 hour ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. A Brief Retrospective on the Sprite Network Operating System (github.com/OSPreservProject)
    ×0.43 37 #28 | 14 points by EvanAnderson 4 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update (autom.dev)
    ×3.43 14 #61 | 662 points by 1e1a 1 day ago | 526 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. CS 312: Deep Learning Alchemy (stanford.edu)
    ×1.03 | 2 points by ray__ 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. U.S. iPhone 18 Pro Max has Qualcomm modem, all rest use Apple's new C2 (macrumors.com)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by Terretta 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Google stole open source code without crediting the authors (Artemis/Minitap) (minitap.ai)
    ×5.41 50 | 136 points by MysteryPancake 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. A simple model of AI-aided economic growth (marginalrevolution.com)
    ×0.49 38 #76 | 3 points by paulpauper 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. How the Chorleywood Bread Process transformed British bread (edconway.substack.com)
    ×0.99 82 #86 | 131 points by baud147258 2 days ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Carney's Bid to Make Canada an 'Associate Member' of the EU (wsj.com)
    ×3.64 9 #90 | 73 points by JumpCrisscross 18 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. A nanolaser with extreme dielectric confinement (science.org)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by westurner 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. The worst spam emails: iLands AI agent hustle (tedium.co)
    ×0.98 52 #75 | 119 points by ColinWright 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Overshoot: The World Is Hitting Point of No Return on Climate (yale.edu)
    ×4.47 71 | 45 points by throw0101a 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Whetuu – An opinionated, zero-config status line and history picker (github.com/yamafaktory)
    ×0.57 151 | 13 points by yamafaktory 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Plainoldanalytics: Analytics Middlware for Go (github.com/poundifdef)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by memset 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: The Kinect is dead, so I rebuilt it in a browser tab for my kids (hoplagames.com)
    ×0.92 74 | 4 points by Gri22lyBear 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Self-hosted company OS, Claude Code and Codex agents in departments (github.com/OtoDock)
    ×0.56 117 | 50 points by dimitrismrtzs 4 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. We must pace the frontier (darioamodei.com)
    ×4.73 6 #48 | 725 points by apsec112 1 day ago | 999 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Liesegang Rings (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)
    ×0.41 70 #53 | 48 points by surprisetalk 20 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. The Seizure of Bab El-Mandeb: Why Tanker Rates Are Exploding [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.14 | 2 points by toomuchtodo 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. GCC 13.5 Released With 265 Bug Fixes (phoronix.com)
    ×9.41 82 | 15 points by fork-bomber 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Houthis used Anthropic to develop guided weapons (washingtonpost.com)
    ×2.89 84 | 59 points by Alien1Being 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Forgotten Woodlands (arcgis.com)
    ×0.63 72 | 45 points by NaOH 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Data collected by cars and sold to third parties (theverge.com)
    ×2.90 8 #3 | 149 points by bookofjoe 5 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Cpak – OCI application package format for Linux desktops, servers and devices (cpak.it)
    ×0.52 20 #17 | 28 points by xlmnxp 4 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. On Binary Translation and Its Consequences (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×0.51 49 #29 | 37 points by matt_d 9 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. A few geek quizzes for time to pass (textlog.cc)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by stagas 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: DOOM in the kernel, or fibers in eBPF (ayles.github.io)
    ×0.78 105 | 53 points by ayles 4 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: LLM Attention Visualization (ishamf.dev)
    ×1.06 100 | 175 points by ifz 5 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025 (lesswrong.com)
    ×1.89 4 #2 | 268 points by Levitating 5 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. One event, five status codes and a class (percentes.ai)
    ×1.54 17 | 3 points by itsveems 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Host Quartz Static Site on Bunny.net with Middleware Script (burgeonlab.com)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by speckx 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???