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Recommended GPU Repairshop in Europe (Germany)

×0.39 73 | 36 points by DogRunner 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Are cloud coding agents useful in real workflows yet?

×0.13 67 | 3 points by Rperry2174 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How do you overcome the "build it and they will come" trap?

×0.37 56 | 4 points by entreel 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How to solve the cold start problem for a two-sided marketplace?

×0.87 75 | 143 points by alegd 2 days ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?

×1.82 80 | 295 points by modelcroissant 3 days ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenClaw stats don't add up

×0.52 71 | 9 points by iliaov 12 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What Would Make Stack Overflow Great Again?

×0.69 77 | 9 points by nnurmanov 13 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What skills are future proof in an AI driven job market?

×0.74 96 | 28 points by sunny678 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: My open-source project hit 5k registered users

×0.72 88 | 12 points by darkhorse13 19 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anthropic bans orgs without warning

×2.71 74 | 27 points by alpinisme 21 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Are there any engineering orgs that use incentives?

×0.15 | 2 points by jppope 17 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GPT 5.5 Released in Codex

×2.23 72 | 10 points by zuzululu 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask Anthropic: Requesting clarity on Claude -p situation

×1.17 115 | 5 points by andai 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Building a solo business is impossible?

×0.79 137 | 73 points by fnoef 5 days ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
My file access workaround for cron in Tahoe

×0.19 136 | 4 points by noduerme 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Opus 4.7 vs. 4.6 after 3 days of real coding side by side from my actual session

×0.38 141 | 14 points by agentseal 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything

×7.04 48 | 292 points by jonthepirate 15 hours ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Getting back into photography, ditching the phone camera in 2026?

×0.43 138 | 7 points by eigenhombre 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Is GitHub's #1 repo fake? build-your-own-x 491K stars

×0.50 129 | 11 points by throwawaysoso 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude Code is no longer a part of the Pro plan

×3.09 76 | 16 points by csoham 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Warning: If you search "Claude Desktop" on Google, the 2nd ad result is a scam

×0.31 143 | 7 points by diogenescynic 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What makes a good Product Manager

×0.38 155 | 9 points by chairhairair 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: May be a basic question, but how can I use AI well?

×0.41 162 | 9 points by jdw64 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How did you get your first users with zero audience?

×0.95 173 | 19 points by arikusi 5 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why don't we just ask AI to write assembler?

×0.54 167 | 14 points by canterburry 4 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Anyone know of that "levels of AI programming" blog post?

×0.28 172 | 9 points by tuvix 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
XOR'ing a register with itself is the idiom for zeroing it out. Why not sub? (microsoft.com)

×1.68 21 #18 | 148 points by ingve 10 hours ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Prefill-as-a-Service:KVCache of Next-Generation Models Could Go Cross-Datacenter (arxiv.org)

×0.50 47 #27 | 36 points by matt_d 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: VidStudio, a browser based video editor that doesn't upload your files (vidstudio.app)

×1.41 7 #88 | 286 points by kolx 1 day ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I built a TLS grader that gives exact config fixes, not just a grade (mysslpro.com)

×0.80 | 1 points by AndreiSSL 4 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: ShellTalk brings deterministic text-to-bash (barrasso.me)

×1.08 | 2 points by podlp 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: GBrain, an AI tool for diagnosis and therapy for neurodivergents (neuroplusgbrain.net)

×0.89 110 | 3 points by FDX2018 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I built an AI that assigns YOU tasks (pause.build)

×0.90 146 | 4 points by chaidhat 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Laws of Software Engineering (lawsofsoftwareengineering.com)

×4.28 #41 | 1106 points by milanm081 1 day ago | 504 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Millions of renters hit by unlawful data collection (smh.com.au)

×1.36 26 #72 | 6 points by thedays 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Debian Project Leader election 2026 is over, Sruthi Chandran elected (debian.org)

×0.50 | 1 points by kamaraju 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How to make a fast dynamic language interpreter (zef-lang.dev)

×1.44 38 | 245 points by pizlonator 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Alberta Startup Sells No-Tech Tractors for Half Price (wheelfront.com)

×4.37 #1 | 97 points by Kaibeezy 31 minutes ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Joy of Folding Bikes (korny.info)

×1.40 | 2 points by pavel_lishin 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
SuperMCP: Reddit, Twitter, Trends for AI Tools. Zero API Keys, Just Chrome (webmatrices.com)

×0.51 | 1 points by bishwasbh 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed (bbc.co.uk)

×4.02 27 | 167 points by AndrewDucker 1 day ago | 385 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Almanac MCP, turn Claude Code into a Deep Research agent (openalmanac.org)

×0.64 87 | 11 points by rohans0509 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Agent Brain Trust, customisable expert panels for AI agents (github.com/bahulneel)

×1.38 104 | 5 points by bahulneel 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Einlang, a math-intuitive language with lots of good stuff (github.com/einlang)

×1.10 159 | 4 points by amazing42 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Diverse organic molecules on Mars revealed by the first SAM TMAH experiment (courthousenews.com)

×0.75 49 #35 | 94 points by geox 14 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Random Machines: Why the Optimizer Is the Least Important Part of Deep Learning (sotaverified.org)

×0.82 | 1 points by uberdavid 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Perry compiles TypeScript to native GUI and CLI apps on 10 platforms (perryts.com)

×1.20 | 2 points by vyrotek 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Open Chronicle – Local Screen Memory for Claude Code and Codex CLI (github.com/Screenata)

×1.49 97 | 5 points by taoh 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Dewobble – Filter out phantom clicks and mouse jitter (github.com/skorotkiewicz)

×1.20 169 | 5 points by modinfo 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How does GPS work? (perthirtysix.com)

×1.43 8 #12 | 161 points by alfanick 7 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
It's not a crime if we do it (to nurses) with an app (pluralistic.net)

×1.76 | 2 points by hn_acker 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Backlit Keyboard API for Python (github.com/itsmeadarsh2008)

×0.34 70 | 25 points by itsmeadarsh 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Mediator.ai – Using Nash bargaining and LLMs to systematize fairness (mediator.ai)

×1.01 48 | 153 points by sanity 2 days ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Medievalizer, an extension that rewrites pages into Old English scripts (github.com/theletterf)

×1.63 113 | 6 points by theletterf 23 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
CrabTrap: An LLM-as-a-judge HTTP proxy to secure agents in production (brex.com)

×0.82 53 #43 | 120 points by pedrofranceschi 19 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
F-35 is built for the wrong war (warontherocks.com)

×2.49 40 | 295 points by anjel 1 day ago | 675 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Running a Minecraft Server and more on a 1960s UNIVAC Computer (farlow.dev)

×1.33 24 #82 | 234 points by brilee 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Humble Raised $24M for a Cabless Truck (siliconsnark.com)

×1.75 25 | 3 points by SaaSasaurus 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI is accidentally making documentation more accessible (gerireid.com)

×0.49 | 1 points by theletterf 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Garbage Collection Without Unsafe Code (fitzgen.com)

×0.88 40 #25 | 96 points by foota 12 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A printing press for biological data (owlposting.com)

×0.61 71 #40 | 49 points by crescit_eundo 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I built a CDC that can be 240x faster than Debezium (olucasandrade.com)

×1.21 | 2 points by olucasandrade 59 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Personal AI Metrics Dashboard (wakatime.com)

×0.52 | 1 points by welder 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Git Push No-Mistakes (github.com/kunchenguid)

×1.27 118 | 17 points by akane8 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training (reuters.com)

×4.61 15 #53 | 747 points by dlx 23 hours ago | 493 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
China's nuclear power sector now able to build 50 reactors at a time (scmp.com)

×2.70 28 | 4 points by mpweiher 55 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Ctx – a /resume that works across Claude Code and Codex (github.com/dchu917)

×0.77 60 #80 | 69 points by dchu17 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The PowerShell-Haters Handbook (telcontar.net)

×1.71 75 #84 | 8 points by Mr_Minderbinder 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux (codeberg.org)

×1.28 54 | 8 points by luu 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Tmux-bar – One-tap switching between windows in current tmux session (github.com/daxliar)

×0.89 170 | 3 points by zonovar 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Treetops glowing during storms captured on film for first time (psu.edu)

×1.71 5 #6 | 111 points by t-3 3 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Drunk post: Things I've learned as a senior engineer (2021) (luminousmen.substack.com)

×2.11 32 #22 | 260 points by zdw 17 hours ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A Browser Extension for Testing Content Security Policy (csptool.net)

×1.03 132 | 3 points by bootbloopers 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A working reference implementation of context engineering (github.com/outcomeops)

×0.78 114 | 46 points by linsys 4 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Salmon exposed to cocaine and its main byproduct roam more widely (science.org)

×1.00 80 #61 | 141 points by 1659447091 1 day ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Kasane: New drop-in Kakoune front end with GPU rendering and WASM Plugins (github.com/Yus314)

×0.47 63 #89 | 51 points by nsagent 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines (github.com/smol-machines)

×2.78 90 | 494 points by binsquare 4 days ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A fake small claims court for petty complaints (benlirio.com)

×1.64 133 | 6 points by blirio 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Framework Laptop 13 Pro (frame.work)

×7.61 49 #67 | 1398 points by Trollmann 22 hours ago | 714 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anduril, Palantir and SpaceX are changing how America wages war (economist.com)

×3.08 86 | 73 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
QEMU 11.0 Released with CET Virtualization Support, Native Nitro Enclaves (phoronix.com)

×0.54 | 1 points by Brajeshwar 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What's the Secret to Successful Cofounders?

×0.52 | 1 points by richtersand 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude Code Removed from $20-a-Month "Pro" Subscription for New Users (wheresyoured.at)

×3.20 22 | 75 points by Xiol 18 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
WebUSB Extension for Firefox (github.com/ArcaneNibble)

×1.43 63 #87 | 265 points by tuananh 2 days ago | 244 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI Gives Better Answers Than Google (thefinancebuff.com)

×0.51 | 1 points by kamaraju 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Run TRELLIS.2 Image-to-3D generation natively on Apple Silicon (github.com/shivampkumar)

×1.37 78 | 200 points by shivampkumar 2 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Spectrum – Deploy AI Agents to iMessage, WhatsApp, Telegram, and More (photon.codes)

×1.32 102 | 8 points by danielsdk 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Four years of my CS degree, typeset in LaTeX (850 pages) (starikov.co)

×2.53 112 | 7 points by iusevim 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
3.4M Solar Panels (marksblogg.com)

×1.69 4 #5 | 210 points by marklit 4 hours ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Air is full of DNA (nature.com)

×1.47 67 #78 | 182 points by howrude 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???