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  1. Ask HN: What are you reading?
    ×2.40 17 #67 | 435 points by dan-bailey 1 day ago | 841 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What's a good title for a software engineer now?
    ×0.90 31 | 3 points by type4 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What are you reading to your kids?
    ×0.65 88 | 10 points by jopizio 19 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Muse.ai gets me kicked off fb marketplace
    ×1.05 59 | 30 points by zcalvin 16 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Stanislaw Lem quote related to LLMs
    ×1.99 9 | 3 points by daly 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Tell HN: Thanks for All the Fish
    ×1.18 48 | 9 points by neilv 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the business depends on it?
    ×1.30 95 | 294 points by mlaux 5 days ago | 300 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Factory AI vs. Cognition (Devin) board tussle
    ×0.34 | 2 points by pranshuchittora 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How will the AI endgame play out?
    ×1.02 87 | 11 points by jackgavigan 19 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Ex-swe what part time did you pickup?
    ×0.30 | 2 points by conqrr 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How do you get your first users for an MVP?
    ×0.34 112 | 15 points by amina124 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: OpenSEO inspiration for other tools, asking for opinion
    ×0.19 124 | 4 points by yash_salesup 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Any nerds out there who've read a lot of research papers?
    ×0.42 134 | 34 points by shriy-singh 6 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Google now ships "ads" with their Android system update?
    ×0.33 109 | 10 points by y42 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What are people doing with their OpenClaw set ups now?
    ×0.49 125 | 19 points by will10pa 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: IEEE expulsion of Fei-Yue Wang?
    ×0.32 149 | 14 points by sathomasga 6 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Testing WebGPU data layouts with Facet (mattkeeter.com)
    ×0.82 55 #75 | 89 points by luu 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Flet agent got eyes and ears (flet.dev)
    ×1.97 23 | 3 points by appveyor 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Gemini 4 Argon (High): Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai)
    ×3.06 49 #62 | 96 points by theanonymousone 7 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. America.gov (america.gov)
    ×4.21 28 #81 | 752 points by plesiv 1 day ago | 708 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Starcloud White Paper [pdf] (starcloudinc.github.io)
    ×1.96 28 | 3 points by duck 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. The new Firefox design is here (mozilla.org)
    ×6.29 68 | 101 points by timpera 1 day ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Show HN: We built a way for web apps to message users' phones without SMS (thenotifier.app)
    ×2.36 113 | 7 points by bubbamack 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Steelers ex-coach Mike Tomlin has been building a Minecraft city for 12 years (youtube.com)
    ×3.55 38 #53 | 12 points by Vaslo 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Automating Wi-Fi setup testing on the ESP32 (groundrun.io)
    ×0.68 45 #34 | 17 points by adunk 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. RSS Feeds for Last.fm (xiffy.nl)
    ×1.15 38 #73 | 124 points by Baljhin 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Arc and Mutex in Rust (itsallaboutthebit.com)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by auraham 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites (bl2.net)
    ×2.18 11 | 379 points by wanick 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Upgrade your desktop: Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS is now available (ubuntu.com)
    ×4.23 14 | 76 points by d99kris 15 hours ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: A small side project for even colour scales (viesual.net)
    ×1.31 107 | 4 points by vie00001 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Lathoa, a math app for kids where the AI is wrong on purpose (lathoa.ai)
    ×0.93 9 #31 | 42 points by thanouil1411 14 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. IANA's email about why example.com changed (oliverdunk.com)
    ×2.45 72 #70 | 7 points by oliverdunk 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man? (prospect.org)
    ×8.26 42 | 250 points by ragall 21 hours ago | 223 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. GPT-6.1 Sol replaces GPT-6 Sol after just 7 days, with near-Astra intelligence (artificialanalysis.ai)
    ×2.62 9 | 79 points by theanonymousone 18 hours ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Riffle – Switch between windows of the current Mac app with Option-Tab (github.com/voising)
    ×2.77 86 | 6 points by voising 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Agentic CUDA Kernel Optimizer (github.com/bertaye)
    ×0.67 138 | 37 points by bertaye 5 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. The top secret URSALA, RAQUEL, and FARRAH satellites (2025) (thespacereview.com)
    ×1.56 3 #2 | 167 points by Bluestein 6 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. A local Workday job agent – rule-based resume tailoring, no AI (github.com/daliparthi)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by teeskay 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Hacker Atlas - A map of what Hacker News talks about (hackeratlas.com)
    ×1.02 111 | 88 points by andrearitossa 5 days ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Cartopolis, interactive globe-sized 3D world (garage44.eu)
    ×0.66 127 | 19 points by jvanveen 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Interactive Diesel Price Forecaster (sightspinner.ai)
    ×1.77 130 | 7 points by sightspinner 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. America.gov goes crazy on "play Minecraft" (america.gov)
    ×4.08 64 #78 | 113 points by thoughtfullyso 9 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Thoughts on AI (medium.com)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by dhillonrav1983 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Aw1-breaker: Sub-0.02ms AST circuit breaker for Python AI agent tools (github.com/MvikManners)
    ×1.18 | 2 points by MvikVela 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Bild AI (YC W25) Is Hiring a Founding Product Engineer (ycombinator.com)
    11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Hacking SimCity 2000 saved games (schemescape.com)
    ×1.10 38 #56 | 17 points by zdw 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. The eruption that destroyed Pompeii is helping scientists date Earth's history (berkeley.edu)
    ×0.79 49 #71 | 12 points by gmays 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Systems: Sales Coaching Platform Which Changes Behaviors (10systems.xyz)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by Assane_D 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Drawing electricity from this sodium-water reactor prevents explosion, in theory (youtube.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by fallinditch 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: WattzGOAT – an intentionally vulnerable web app for security training (github.com/wattzgoat)
    ×1.32 96 | 3 points by wattzgoat 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: BreachProbe, find out if your app leaks its database (thecompound.tech)
    ×0.55 102 | 3 points by kyisaiah47 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Bough, Visualize your vibe coded project: progress, time, cost and more (github.com/nickelsec)
    ×0.97 145 | 3 points by nikhilkxmar 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. 5x faster Edge Functions: V8 isolates to Firecracker MicroVMs (netlify.com)
    ×1.30 3 #14 | 138 points by jbott 10 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. ChatGPT Pro 500 (openai.com)
    ×2.70 25 | 218 points by prodigycorp 1 day ago | 260 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. How our vibe coded website looks like a designer made it (railcode.dev)
    ×3.21 36 | 133 points by yakkomajuri 1 day ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Misanthropic – an AI that's honest about how it feels about you (misanthropic.chat)
    ×1.56 123 | 5 points by yaskyj 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Can Your Identity Platform Pass the Black Friday Test? (fusionauth.io)
    ×1.88 2 | 3 points by mooreds 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Needed 1+1, built a functional programming language (hereticpleb.vercel.app)
    ×1.23 44 #79 | 146 points by birdculture 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Gboard Conveyor Belt Version [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by caseyross 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Is sandboxing sufficient to contain rogue agents? (cryptographyengineering.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by zdw 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Agents are choosing the software infrastructure now, and we're not ready (redmonk.com)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by mooreds 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Tcl/Tk 9.1 (tcl-lang.org)
    ×1.71 8 | 297 points by dmux 1 day ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Deser: Rethinking Rust Serialization (pocoo.org)
    ×1.21 66 | 70 points by tosh 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. The Invention of Islamic Invention (cremieux.xyz)
    ×3.32 21 #68 | 6 points by nailer 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Strata – an expressive semantic layer that can say no to your LLM (strata.do)
    ×0.56 56 #88 | 18 points by ajoski9 13 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. PSSA: A non-transformer language model written from scratch in Rust (ai-news-site-cyan.vercel.app)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by qrify_app 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Parsing compressed JSON at 40 GB/s (lemire.me)
    ×1.27 | 2 points by smilelamp 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Everybody’s home. No one’s coming over (derekthompson.org)
    ×4.34 33 | 814 points by barry-cotter 1 day ago | 730 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Meta's new AI agent built lists of people in vulnerable groups on request (hntrbrk.com)
    ×2.94 74 | 85 points by iamacyborg 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Museum of Numbers (numbermuseum.com)
    ×0.79 99 | 32 points by rhl314 4 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Npunlock – Run custom C kernels for Intel NPUs (github.com/hsfzxjy)
    ×0.66 141 | 67 points by hsfzxjy 1 week ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: A working 3D model of an Enigma machine (enigma.design)
    ×0.93 93 #50 | 95 points by primitivesuave 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. SDF Public Access Unix System ... est. 1987 (sdf.org)
    ×1.12 32 #30 | 82 points by kmstout 14 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Google's AI Push into Schools: 'It Slowed My Thinking Down' (wsj.com)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by alexpetralia 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. DraftKings is using AI to behaviorally target chronic gamblers (eff.org)
    ×4.93 31 | 562 points by paimapi 1 day ago | 426 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. U.S. postal inspectors shut down website selling counterfeit postage labels (postalemployeenetwork.com)
    ×1.26 1 | 276 points by ilamont 1 day ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: I built a free Burp/Caido alternative but, zero setup - API Testing (apiaxess.dev)
    ×14.63 7 | 30 points by coding-maniac 11 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. What TLA+ can and can't check (buttondown.com)
    ×1.71 15 #19 | 159 points by b-man 14 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Parrot – Open-Source Smart Meeting Recorder with Co-Pilot on Mac (openparrot.app)
    ×1.37 26 #87 | 31 points by turantekin 13 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. 1 in 8 cancer cases worldwide are caused by infections, study finds (cbc.ca)
    ×2.49 28 | 285 points by colinprince 1 day ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities (anthropic.com)
    ×5.38 19 | 245 points by Philpax 1 day ago | 230 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Dots: Always-on agents (openai.com)
    ×3.34 29 #77 | 751 points by alvis 1 day ago | 629 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Recursive `make` and `-j` (quuxplusone.github.io)
    ×0.82 43 #52 | 22 points by ibobev 11 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Lights, Camera, Attack: Exploiting Temporal HDR Fusion with Pulsed Light (arxiv.org)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by sbulaev 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS (tomshardware.com)
    ×5.48 11 | 385 points by mywacaday 1 day ago | 390 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Most data centers refusing to say how much water, electricity they use (nltimes.nl)
    ×3.74 49 | 206 points by Thom2503 18 hours ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Datastory, Data storytelling with AI and an open knowledge graph (datastory.tech)
    ×3.23 77 | 6 points by DanielLapidus 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Parmiagiano and Financialisation: Cheese as Gold for the Gold of Cheese (developingeconomics.org)
    ×0.24 79 #47 | 4 points by paimapi 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: PaperMono, e-ink fridge magnet shopping list with mobile web page (github.com/seamusc)
    ×1.13 80 | 149 points by seamus_c 2 days ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: AgentRun: DSL to turn agents into workflows (github.com/Parcha-ai)
    ×0.65 135 | 51 points by miguelrios 1 week ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???