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  1. Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?
    ×2.86 40 #26 | 630 points by andrehacker 1 day ago | 1016 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?
    ×3.36 4 #67 | 416 points by Ekami 1 day ago | 684 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Learn from my lesson, don't take your pre seed through stripe = Account Closure
    ×2.26 53 | 22 points by pureyang 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: So what happened to Facebook "localhost" tracking?
    ×0.74 87 | 103 points by juliusceasar 2 days ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow?
    ×1.91 46 | 152 points by dv35z 1 day ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. New Biochemistry-Based Metabolic Protocol Seeking Alpha Concierge Members
    ×0.35 | 2 points by joshwprinceton 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How to get my contact info off US political party's list
    ×1.07 75 | 6 points by kaycebasques 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Where do you get the latest updates about AI?
    ×1.00 70 | 4 points by d0able 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How do you find deep technical content?
    ×1.05 110 | 37 points by f311a 2 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Does anyone know since when we are close to building in space?
    ×0.61 93 | 5 points by kingleopold 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Gin rummy strategies
    ×0.55 114 | 24 points by bix6 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Bad MCP design costs your agent 5x more tokens
    ×0.81 103 | 14 points by JohnnyZhang483 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Is the web for machines (/llm.txt) the one we wished we had as humans?
    ×0.89 92 | 36 points by sunshine-o 2 days ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: My competitors have flawed products but I can't get traction
    ×0.52 113 | 10 points by saveitincork 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Does robotics capabilities research accelerate AGI timelines?
    ×0.63 102 | 8 points by themasterchief 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Were CS profs right to look down on programming in light of modern AI?
    ×0.51 107 | 4 points by amichail 20 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: How did you discover Hacker News?
    ×0.97 100 | 10 points by chistev 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: What would you name your own LLM?
    ×0.71 126 | 4 points by akashwadhwani35 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Life saving / first aid posters
    ×0.45 116 | 37 points by cpu_ 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Is Azure capacity this constraind or am I doing it wrong?
    ×0.72 123 | 11 points by lanycrost 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Is Everyone an Engineer Now?
    ×1.73 148 | 7 points by piratesAndSons 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. I'm tired of LLM skill slop, so I built mine with regression tests
    ×0.47 155 | 6 points by iliaov 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: What was your best experience with a VC?
    ×0.84 104 | 3 points by krrishd 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Why isn't AI image generation closely linked with graphics code gen?
    ×0.13 | 2 points by amichail 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: How do you stay up to date without information overload?
    ×0.54 146 | 4 points by bohdanstefaniuk 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Google killed my $1M ARR startup overnight
    ×3.91 132 | 20 points by vadumo 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Being privacy-conscious comes with some downsides
    ×1.08 145 | 8 points by wqtz 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Supply chain attack alert: .github/setup.js
    ×4.38 101 | 22 points by antihero 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: A Brief History of LLMs
    ×0.43 172 | 9 points by menomatter 4 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. I underestimated how hard audio waveforms are in the browser
    ×0.78 159 | 5 points by syncara 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Hey, you, tech worker–how are you feeling?
    ×0.52 160 | 5 points by arm32 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: For non-hackers/nerds, why do you read HN?
    ×1.45 115 | 5 points by throwaway2037 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Good books/resources for learning SQL?
    ×0.61 163 | 5 points by CobaltFire 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Astronauts told to return to ISS after sheltering over air leak repairs (bbc.com)
    ×1.62 3 #83 | 417 points by janpot 1 day ago | 262 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Launch HN: General Instinct (YC P26) – Frontier models on edge devices
    ×0.52 75 #89 | 60 points by guanming0717 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Boxes.dev: ditch localhost; run Claude Code and Codex in the cloud (boxes.dev)
    ×2.11 85 | 103 points by nab 2 days ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Home alone: Remote work, isolation, and mental health (science.org)
    ×2.31 9 #40 | 172 points by speckx 14 hours ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Edsger – A handwritten Clojure REPL for the reMarkable 2 (danieljanus.pl)
    ×1.34 82 | 259 points by nathell 4 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Altersend – File sharing without cloud (github.com/denislupookov)
    ×1.47 121 | 14 points by denisdev1 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Lessons learned from running Claude Code swarms at scale
    ×3.45 134 | 10 points by sermakarevich 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. The back cover of C++: The Language raises questions not answered by front cover (microsoft.com)
    ×1.27 43 #66 | 148 points by paulmooreparks 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Cooldown Support for Ruby Bundler (rubygems.org)
    ×1.00 71 #68 | 165 points by calyhre 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Thoughts on starting new projects with LLM agents (thegreenplace.net)
    ×0.47 | 2 points by wrxd 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Police Tussle with Diabetes Experts at Ada Meeting (medpagetoday.com)
    ×1.06 | 2 points by pigeons 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. How to Become a Centaur (2018) (mit.edu)
    ×1.15 | 2 points by downbad_ 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. The Russian who invented semiconductors 25 years before the USA (semidoped.com)
    ×3.10 35 #70 | 43 points by johncole 7 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. CaaStle CEO Confessed to Fraud. The Board Let Her Stay (nytimes.com)
    ×1.35 | 2 points by sbulaev 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: AI pre-screening CIS counterparties before onboarding (agenstry.com)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by vassilbek 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: RePlaya – self-hosted browser session replay with live tailing (github.com/s2-streamstore)
    ×0.67 133 | 50 points by shikhar 4 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Ask HN: What do you currently use for AI coding (personal or professional)?
    ×1.13 | 2 points by joelthelion 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Build Your Own AI Agent CLI in 150 Lines (go-micro.dev)
    ×1.69 143 | 33 points by asim 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Valve says it's ready to launch the Steam Machine this summer (theverge.com)
    ×3.79 69 | 74 points by neilfrndes 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Let's celebrate work that is 100% human-made (human-made.work)
    ×3.44 67 | 71 points by supryan 1 day ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: OWASP VulnerableApp Modern Extensible and Scalable vulnerable app (github.com/SasanLabs)
    ×1.46 131 | 6 points by newaccount12344 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Wd-41, hot-reload webserver for static sites (github.com/baalimago)
    ×0.32 | 2 points by baalimago 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Rscrypto, pure-Rust crypto with industry leading public benches (github.com/loadingalias)
    ×0.59 130 | 33 points by LoadingALIAS 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. How LLMs work (0xkato.xyz)
    ×4.12 9 #38 | 888 points by 0xkato 1 day ago | 246 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Keybench – Scriptable, extensible performance tool for key value stores (github.com/guycipher)
    ×0.32 71 #63 | 12 points by alexpadula 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Grafana Cloud observability plugin for Hermes Agent (github.com/alexander-akhmetov)
    ×1.50 | 2 points by oboroten 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. H2JVM – A Haskell Library for Writing JVM Bytecode (haskell.org)
    ×1.43 | 2 points by rowbin 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. SourceHut Disrupted by LLM Crawlers (sr.ht)
    ×4.28 69 | 7 points by BrunoBernardino 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. The best/only way to get VCs to pay for a new systems programming language (ziggit.dev)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by burglins 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. I design with Claude more than Figma now (janestreet.com)
    ×2.35 10 #13 | 173 points by MrBuddyCasino 5 hours ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Nutrepedia – Nutrition info in 29 locales built with Clojure and Htmx (nutrepedia.com)
    ×1.34 94 | 135 points by llovan 3 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Omni – Local-first multimodal file search on macOS (hanxiao.io)
    ×0.65 125 | 6 points by artex_xh 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. The world of Japanese train melodies [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.12 | 2 points by vinhnx 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Floppy Disk patent was granted today in 1972 – when 80KB took up 8 inches (tomshardware.com)
    ×2.08 44 | 3 points by giuliomagnifico 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Commandments of Synchronization (2011) [pdf] (cornell.edu)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by signa11 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Writing your own print function in C without Libc (pckt.blog)
    ×1.04 | 2 points by ghodawalaaman 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Sub-Agent MCP: LLM delegation and sub-agent orchestration via MCP (github.com/stormaref)
    ×1.61 98 | 6 points by avestura 23 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Tired of duct-taping access control into agent prompts. Here's the fix (github.com/yaodub)
    ×0.54 140 | 22 points by zwigglers 3 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Science and Society need more interaction instead of mere communication (elephantinthelab.org)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by jruohonen 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Gemma 4 QAT models: Optimizing compression for mobile and laptop efficiency (blog.google)
    ×1.98 8 | 398 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Microsoft wants users to be addicted to Scout, their AI personal assistant (disassociated.com)
    ×2.16 58 | 69 points by berlianta 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Technical Interviews Reject the Wrong Engineers (fagnerbrack.com)
    ×2.27 80 | 57 points by fagnerbrack 1 day ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: I embedded 685M public texts in 32 minutes (on 8x A100, Rust, TensorRT) (github.com/Artain-AI)
    ×1.00 149 | 7 points by ddayanov 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: 100cc - Roll your own Claude in 100 lines (github.com/yujqiao)
    ×1.14 173 | 10 points by rapiz 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Harness engineering: Leveraging Codex in an agent-first world (openai.com)
    ×1.92 1 #12 | 204 points by pramodbiligiri 11 hours ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Accidentally deleted subscriptions for chat integrations (Slack and MS Teams) (githubstatus.com)
    ×1.87 45 | 125 points by SparkyDogs 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Lint Your Markdown with ESLint (github.com/lumirlumir)
    ×0.63 150 | 14 points by beenzinozino 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: ControllerTest-test gamepads,stick drift and polling rate by browser (controllertestonline.com)
    ×1.56 165 | 4 points by zylics 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Trees to Flows and Back: Unifying Decision Trees and Diffusion Models (arxiv.org)
    ×0.64 76 #50 | 46 points by rsn243 21 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic (arstechnica.com)
    ×8.34 57 #69 | 1411 points by maltalex 1 day ago | 483 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Redis 8.8: New array data structure, rate limiter, performance improvements (redis.io)
    ×1.38 48 #81 | 225 points by ksec 2 days ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Using the Screen Capture API to record a browser window (alexwlchan.net)
    ×1.85 8 | 3 points by Tomte 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. How LLMs Work: A Friendly Map for Humans (oreoro.github.io)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by alexander2002 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Adyen Selected as Payment Services Provider for GOV.UK Pay (adyen.com)
    ×1.34 81 | 50 points by ChrisArchitect 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Live breath detection and biofeedback from a phone microphone (github.com/shiihaa-app)
    ×0.78 120 | 67 points by shiihaa 4 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Law Professors Prefer AI over Peer Answers (stanford.edu)
    ×0.99 71 #74 | 17 points by davidbarker 16 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Static Web Server (static-web-server.net)
    ×1.80 2 | 3 points by igoose1 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???