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  1. Agent Safehouse – macOS-native sandboxing for local agents (agent-safehouse.dev)
    ×2.98 #9 | 691 points by atombender 18 hours ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting
    ×5.79 35 #49 | 634 points by Oras 19 hours ago | 460 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: How to be alone?
    ×4.50 5 #29 | 571 points by sillysaurusx 1 day ago | 429 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Microscopes can see video on a laserdisc (youtube.com)
    ×2.80 6 #10 | 538 points by zdw 19 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. FrameBook (edoo.gg)
    ×2.14 11 #17 | 475 points by todsacerdoti 23 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. How to run Qwen 3.5 locally (unsloth.ai)
    ×3.84 2 #64 | 474 points by Curiositry 1 day ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Put the zip code first (zipcodefirst.com)
    ×5.66 16 | 392 points by dsalzman 1 day ago | 301 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. The changing goalposts of AGI and timelines (mlumiste.com)
    ×3.24 22 #51 | 385 points by skandium 21 hours ago | 343 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.57 5 #55 | 376 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 239 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025) (pv-magazine.com)
    ×4.80 1 #2 | 369 points by robin_reala 4 hours ago | 182 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. LibreOffice Writer now supports Markdown (documentfoundation.org)
    ×3.18 10 #42 | 364 points by todsacerdoti 21 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. A decade of Docker containers (acm.org)
    ×1.66 2 | 360 points by zacwest 1 day ago | 251 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. US Court of Appeals: TOS may be updated by email, use can imply consent [pdf] (uscourts.gov)
    ×2.07 #4 | 358 points by dryadin 8 hours ago | 276 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Effort to prevent government officials from engaging in prediction markets (senate.gov)
    ×3.78 8 | 349 points by stopbulying 1 day ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. LLM Writing Tropes.md (tropes.fyi)
    ×2.89 34 #48 | 345 points by walterbell 1 day ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. I ported Linux to the PS5 and turned it into a Steam Machine (xcancel.com)
    ×3.38 10 #57 | 344 points by doener 1 day ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Cloud VM benchmarks 2026 (ecuadors.net)
    ×1.74 9 #87 | 339 points by dkechag 1 day ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. CasNum (github.com/0x0mer)
    ×1.59 5 | 332 points by aebtebeten 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Warn about PyPy being unmaintained (github.com/astral-sh)
    ×2.16 35 #46 | 309 points by networked 1 day ago | 161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. How the Sriracha guys screwed over their supplier (reddit.com)
    ×4.80 21 #27 | 307 points by thunderbong 10 hours ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. LibreOffice: Request to the European Commission to adhere to its own guidances (documentfoundation.org)
    ×3.17 10 #58 | 299 points by maxloh 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. My Homelab Setup (bryananthonio.com)
    ×1.85 22 #19 | 289 points by photon_collider 21 hours ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Show HN: I built a real-time OSINT dashboard pulling 15 live global feeds (github.com/BigBodyCobain)
    ×2.03 #36 | 274 points by vancecookcobxin 19 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. We should revisit literate programming in the agent era (silly.business)
    ×1.63 7 #26 | 269 points by horseradish 18 hours ago | 193 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. War prediction markets are a national-security threat (theatlantic.com)
    ×4.86 7 | 253 points by fortran77 1 day ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep (sciencealert.com)
    ×3.03 17 | 229 points by bookofjoe 2 days ago | 247 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Living human brain cells play DOOM on a CL1 [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.51 29 #25 | 226 points by kevinak 23 hours ago | 219 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. FLASH radiotherapy's bold approach to cancer treatment (ieee.org)
    ×1.30 24 #82 | 226 points by marc__1 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. PCB devboard the size of a USB-C plug (github.com/Dieu-de-l-elec)
    ×1.49 14 #13 | 223 points by zachlatta 16 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Notes on writing Rust-based Wasm (brooklynzelenka.com)
    ×1.26 #73 | 222 points by vinhnx 1 day ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. I resigned from OpenAI (twitter.com/kalinowski007)
    ×9.16 6 | 222 points by mmaia 1 day ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)
    ×1.52 10 #15 | 221 points by david927 14 hours ago | 767 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Most of the US economy is in a recession (businessinsider.com)
    ×6.37 60 | 215 points by wslh 16 hours ago | 220 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Fontcrafter: Turn Your Handwriting into a Real Font (pirillo.com)
    ×1.79 2 #1 | 195 points by rendx 5 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. The death of social media is the renaissance of RSS (2025) (smartlab.at)
    ×2.68 18 #31 | 193 points by jruohonen 10 hours ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Autoresearch: Agents researching on single-GPU nanochat training automatically (github.com/karpathy)
    ×1.64 14 | 185 points by simonpure 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. PC processors entered the Gigahertz era today in the year 2000 with AMD's Athlon (tomshardware.com)
    ×1.71 30 | 182 points by LorenDB 2 days ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. The surprising whimsy of the Time Zone Database (jprs.me)
    ×1.73 18 | 179 points by jprs 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Oracle may slash up to 30k jobs to fund AI data-centers as US banks retreat (cio.com)
    ×5.50 30 | 175 points by ljoshua 23 hours ago | 219 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Claude struggles to cope with ChatGPT exodus (forbes.com)
    ×3.32 32 | 161 points by perakojotgenije 21 hours ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Training students to prove they're not robots is pushing them to use more AI (techdirt.com)
    ×4.07 25 | 159 points by PretzelFisch 1 day ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. How Big Diaper absorbs billions of extra dollars from American parents (thehustle.co)
    ×2.23 7 #72 | 145 points by Anon84 1 day ago | 275 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Artificial-life: A simple (300 lines of code) reproduction of Computational Life (github.com/Rabrg)
    ×1.12 30 #22 | 139 points by tosh 18 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Blacksky AppView (github.com/blacksky-algorithms)
    ×1.09 4 #47 | 136 points by Kye 17 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Lawmakers Want DoD Investigated for Biblical 'Armageddon' Claims (military.com)
    ×5.89 35 | 132 points by Jimmc414 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Google just gave Sundar Pichai a $692M pay package (techcrunch.com)
    ×4.89 29 | 130 points by Arcuru 20 hours ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Mcp2cli – One CLI for every API, 96-99% fewer tokens than native MCP (github.com/knowsuchagency)
    ×1.74 21 #38 | 125 points by knowsuchagency 9 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. WSL Manager (github.com/bostrot)
    ×0.89 41 #30 | 119 points by gballan 20 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. SWE-CI: Evaluating Agent Capabilities in Maintaining Codebases via CI (arxiv.org)
    ×0.68 56 #43 | 119 points by mpweiher 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Verification debt: the hidden cost of AI-generated code (medium.com)
    ×2.20 41 | 112 points by xfz 1 day ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Pushing and Pulling: Three reactivity algorithms (jonathan-frere.com)
    ×0.93 32 #37 | 110 points by frogulis 19 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. MonoGame: A .NET framework for making cross-platform games (github.com/MonoGame)
    ×1.19 49 #66 | 109 points by azhenley 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Swiss vote places right to use cash in country's constitution (politico.eu)
    ×3.98 4 #62 | 108 points by 627467 17 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. What if the Hormuz closure will not be brief? (lloydslist.com)
    ×3.74 44 #74 | 107 points by everybodyknows 1 day ago | 193 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Linux Internals: How /proc/self/mem writes to unwritable memory (2021) (offlinemark.com)
    ×0.99 33 #20 | 106 points by medbar 15 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. $3T flows through U.S. nonprofits every year (charitysense.com)
    ×2.91 37 | 105 points by mtweak 1 day ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. I made a programming language with M&Ms (mufeedvh.com)
    ×0.84 50 #24 | 102 points by tosh 20 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. I don't know if my job will still exist in ten years (seangoedecke.com)
    ×6.98 34 | 102 points by nomdep 1 day ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: ANSI-Saver – A macOS Screensaver (github.com/lardissone)
    ×0.77 49 | 102 points by lardissone 2 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Lil Finder Guy (basicappleguy.com)
    ×1.18 10 #53 | 101 points by frizlab 17 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Ask HN: Most beautiful personal blog UI you have ever seen?
    ×3.22 24 #79 | 98 points by ms7892 15 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. The stagnancy of publishing and the disappearance of the midlist (honest-broker.com)
    ×1.09 38 | 98 points by wallflower 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Neural Boids (campedersen.com)
    ×1.63 23 | 97 points by ecto 18 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Beagle, a source code management system that stores AST trees (github.com/gritzko)
    ×0.87 50 #41 | 96 points by strogonoff 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Will Claude Code ruin our team? (justinjackson.ca)
    ×3.79 40 #80 | 96 points by YounesDz 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Skir – like Protocol Buffer but better (skir.build)
    ×0.89 34 #33 | 95 points by gepheum 18 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. What if the Apple ][ had run on Field-Sequential? (nicole.express)
    ×0.70 49 #39 | 94 points by zdw 23 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Sem – Semantic version control. Entity-level diffs on top of Git (github.com/ataraxy-labs)
    ×1.18 48 #63 | 92 points by pabs3 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. The new Apple begins to emerge (parkerortolani.blog)
    ×2.21 28 #68 | 90 points by atombender 1 day ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. To the Polypropylene Makers (lesswrong.com)
    ×2.30 21 | 87 points by raldi 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Curiosity – DIY 6" Newtonian Reflector Telescope (curiosity-telescope.vercel.app)
    ×0.86 26 #88 | 80 points by big_Brain69 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Iranians describe scenes of catastrophe after Tehran's oil depots bombed (theguardian.com)
    ×9.32 73 | 77 points by Red_Tarsius 7 hours ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. We Stopped Using the Mathematics That Works (gfrm.in)
    ×2.78 79 | 74 points by slygent 5 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Eyot, A programming language where the GPU is just another thread (cowleyforniastudios.com)
    ×0.84 36 #71 | 73 points by steeleduncan 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Owner of ICE detention facility sees big opportunity in AI man camps (techcrunch.com)
    ×3.98 89 | 73 points by monkeydust 1 hour ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Why developers using AI are working longer hours (scientificamerican.com)
    ×3.82 45 | 73 points by birdculture 1 day ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Does Apple‘s M5 Max Really “Destroy” a 96-Core Threadripper? (slashdot.org)
    ×4.31 48 | 73 points by dkechag 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. CLI RSS/Atom feed reader inspired by Taskwarrior, synced using Git (github.com/kantord)
    ×0.69 41 #59 | 71 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. The Banality of Surveillance (benn.substack.com)
    ×2.33 54 | 71 points by limbicsystem 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. House Committee Passes Child "Safety" Bills That Push National Age Verification (reclaimthenet.org)
    ×3.56 14 | 68 points by iamnothere 17 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. FFmpeg at Meta: Media Processing at Scale (fb.com)
    ×3.16 21 #14 | 64 points by sudhakaran88 9 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Tech jobs are getting demolished in ways not seen since 2008 (businessinsider.com)
    ×4.44 58 | 64 points by elsewhen 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. LLM Doesn't Write Correct Code. It Writes Plausible Code (twitter.com/KatanaLarp)
    ×4.04 59 | 63 points by pretext 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Claude helped select targets for Iran strikes, possibly including school (twitter.com/robertwrighter)
    ×6.00 34 | 62 points by delichon 12 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. AI doesn't replace white collar work (marble.onl)
    ×2.35 1 | 62 points by amarble 19 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. If It Quacks Like a Package Manager (nesbitt.io)
    ×1.19 46 #67 | 60 points by jandeboevrie 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Grammarly is using our identities without permission (theverge.com)
    ×4.61 70 | 60 points by EvgeniyZh 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Lisp-style C++ template meta programming (github.com/mistivia)
    ×0.82 52 | 60 points by mistivia 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Science Fiction Is Dying. Long Live Post Sci-Fi? (typebarmagazine.com)
    ×2.61 50 | 59 points by KittenInABox 1 day ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Israel Strikes Oil Facilities in Iran (nytimes.com)
    ×5.74 47 | 58 points by toomuchtodo 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???