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Ask HN: New user here – unable to submit a link. Do I just need to wait?

×0.88 | 1 points by ursAxZA 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I replaced a 5-person marketing team with a swarm of autonomous agents (vect.pro)

×0.77 | 1 points by afrazullal 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I built an AI that scans 10k Reddit comments to find 'Blue Ocean' ideas (vect.pro)

×0.80 | 1 points by WoWSaaS 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Want to know what LLMs think about your brand? (spottedby.ai)

×0.70 | 1 points by dalnoon 31 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Positive Imagining Changes the Brain in Seconds (neurosciencenews.com)

×0.71 | 1 points by ashishgupta2209 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I grew up in Russia. Here's why we're afraid of freedom (youtube.com)

×0.71 | 1 points by sakopov 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Pydantic-DeepAgents – A Python Framework for Building Autonomous AI Agents (github.com/vstorm-co)

×0.72 | 1 points by kacper-vstorm 39 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
TPU Mania (thechipletter.substack.com)

×0.70 | 1 points by chmaynard 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Seedance2:AI Video Generator with smooth motion and rich details (seedance-2.org)

×0.71 | 1 points by Aa123128 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Hazbin Hotel OC Maker – Create Original Characters with AI (aiocmaker.com)

×0.73 | 1 points by xiaoshumiao 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I built this because finding a job f**king sucks (trylockedin.app)

×0.65 | 1 points by irfahm11 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
'A nightmare' – The battle over Warner Bros is turning Hollywood upside down (bbc.com)

×0.68 | 1 points by breve 49 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Tic Tac Flip – A new strategic game based on Tic Tac Toe (tic-tac-flip.web.app)

×1.33 | 2 points by breezefox 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: CF Local Helpers – Dashboard for Cloudflare Workers Local Dev (github.com/bimsina)

×0.61 | 1 points by bimsina 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
"You should never build a CMS" (sanity.io)

×0.63 | 1 points by handfuloflight 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Will blockbuster obesity drugs revolutionize addiction treatment? (nature.com)

×0.64 | 1 points by qnleigh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Interlock – a circuit breaker and certification system for AI infrastructure (github.com/CULPRITCHAOS)

×0.61 | 1 points by CULPRITCHAOS 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps (wsj.com)

×3.12 58 | 4 points by gok 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Counter Social – a next-generation anti abuse and user privacy social network (counter.social)

×0.63 | 1 points by inesranzo 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Game Theory and Your Lawn (domofutu.substack.com)

×0.64 | 1 points by wjb3 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
'It was like a dream': How Australia's rarest bird of prey was found (watoday.com.au)

×1.42 | 2 points by defrost 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Rolldphobia – Bundle size analyzer with tree-shaking using Rolldown (ssssota.dev)

×0.58 | 1 points by ssssota 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hyrumrand – Golang random number generator based on random map iteration order (github.com/micrictor)

×1.38 | 2 points by mtud 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How does traceroute on airplane wifis work?

×0.60 | 1 points by bjourne 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Neutrino Alchemy: Sun's Ghost Particles Caught Transforming Atoms (sciencealert.com)

×0.61 | 1 points by Guestmodinfo 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Pingfs: Stores your data in ICMP ping packets (github.com/yarrick)

×0.61 | 1 points by linkdd 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Design Is Search (twitter.com/karrisaarinen)

×1.43 | 2 points by gmays 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Altman: Super intelligence in 10 years, more extraordinary things in 2026 (openai.com)

×1.45 | 2 points by aurareturn 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What happens when the coding becomes the least interesting part of the work (medium.com)

×1.42 | 2 points by gmays 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: A browser that syncs history reliably across devices?

×0.59 | 1 points by workfromspace 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Pizlix: Memory Safe Linux from Scratch (fil-c.org)

×1.41 | 2 points by nullbyte808 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Send Me to Heaven (2013) (wikipedia.org)

×1.40 | 2 points by gregsadetsky 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Maths can help you wrap your presents better (bbc.com)

×0.61 | 1 points by 1659447091 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Vibe Engineering (2026) (manning.com)

×0.63 | 1 points by turtleyacht 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We used Codex to build Sora for Android in 28 days (openai.com)

×1.50 | 2 points by crorella 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Investors commit quarter-billion dollars to startup designing "Giga" satellites (arstechnica.com)

×0.57 | 1 points by BWStearns 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Rails Pulse: Performance monitoring and debugging gems for Rails application (github.com/railspulse)

×0.58 | 1 points by ksec 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tiger teeth, dried seahorses and shark fins sold illegally on Facebook (bbc.com)

×0.54 | 1 points by 1659447091 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Chinese Billionaires Having 100s of U.S.-Born Babies via Surrogate (wsj.com)

×10.61 82 | 15 points by jkuria 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Math of Universality (caltech.edu)

×1.13 | 2 points by ashishgupta2209 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Black Pyramid, Alaska (vinyasi.substack.com)

×0.49 | 1 points by vinyasi 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Advanced Embedded Software Development at CU Boulder Final Projects (google.com)

×1.89 8 | 3 points by mooreds 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tiobe Index for December 2025: R Joins the Top as SQL Climbs (techrepublic.com)

×1.22 33 #73 | 6 points by smurda 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: ZeroCRM – Simple CRM with Source Code (codegres.com)

×1.22 | 2 points by Codegres 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Is Times New Roman Better Than Calibri for the State Department? (nytimes.com)

×0.51 | 1 points by gaws 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sometimes you don't get your ice cream at the end (cezarcocu.com)

×0.50 | 1 points by ggamecrazy 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MartSpace

×0.47 | 1 points by rb-rbloxk 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Component Party – Compare JavaScript Frameworks (component-party.dev)

×1.70 8 | 3 points by joshdavham 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Heavy metal is healing teens on the Blackfeet Nation (hcn.org)

×3.22 11 #15 | 29 points by cdrnsf 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Apple loses contempt appeal in Epic case (theverge.com)

×3.16 34 | 5 points by samuel246 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Are we forcing LLMs to be State Machines?

×1.07 | 2 points by kodiyak 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Planning the Future of Gimp (patreon.com)

×0.47 | 1 points by marcodiego 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
360Brew Decoder-Only Foundation Model for Personalized Ranking and Reco (archive.org)

×0.48 | 1 points by felineflock 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Wiki.txt (github.com/wikitxt)

×1.66 13 | 3 points by tamnd 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A look at an Android ITW DNG exploit (googleprojectzero.blogspot.com)

×0.44 | 1 points by gslin 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Modern SID chip substitutes [video] (youtube.com)

×2.15 5 | 4 points by vismit2000 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Rocket Lab – 'Raise and Shine' Launch for JAXA [video] (youtube.com)

×1.19 6 #32 | 15 points by schappim 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Deal or No Deal Game (neocities.org)

×1.66 20 | 3 points by indigodaddy 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The state of enterprise AI – What we're learning about AI at work (openai.com)

×0.46 | 1 points by achow 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Operation Cowboy (wikipedia.org)

×0.47 | 1 points by srl 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Intel Nears $1.6B Deal for AI Chip Startup SambaNova (bloomberg.com)

×3.40 27 | 6 points by pinewurst 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Four AI Systems Negotiate Binding Framework for Viral Content Management (github.com/aiconvergence-collab)

×0.95 | 2 points by mrocelot1976 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Scrape websites into queryable Gemini RAG knowledge bases (apify.com)

×0.43 | 1 points by yoloshii 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Larval stage support engineering: great at what doesn't scale (thundergolfer.com)

×0.94 36 | 3 points by thundergolfer 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Online Piracy Can Boost Box Office Revenue, Study Suggests (torrentfreak.com)

×3.08 35 | 8 points by gslin 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
China Makes History with $1T Trade Surplus for First Time (fortune.com)

×4.18 33 | 8 points by skx001 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Is There a Shell Revival?

×0.35 | 1 points by sshadmand 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
LogicStamp: Turn React/TS into AI-Ready Context (logicstamp.dev)

×0.83 | 2 points by handfuloflight 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Color Contrast Tool Using APCA, the Candidate Contrast Method for WCAG 3 (color-contrast.dev)

×0.84 | 2 points by Kerrick 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Lean Theorem Prover Mathlib (github.com/leanprover-community)

×1.01 22 #8 | 22 points by downboots 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Laundry Insights from Scraping 4000 Washer/Dryers in San Francisco (kavi.sh)

×0.84 | 2 points by 2gremlin181 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A game engine that transpiles your scripts to Rust for native perf (github.com/PerroEngine)

×0.37 | 1 points by TiernanDeFranco 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Using a projector instead of a computer monitor (shenjiasi.com)

×1.92 29 | 4 points by plun9 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
FDA leaders propose new 'plausible mechanism' pathway for bespoke medicines (raps.org)

×1.85 3 | 6 points by geox 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
If a Meta AI model can read a brain-wide signal, why wouldn't the brain? (1393.xyz)

×3.33 7 #4 | 41 points by rdgthree 4 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Shooting at Brown U Barus and Holley building houses engineering and physics (rhodeislandcurrent.com)

×3.12 12 | 7 points by redwood 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Honing rods analyzed with an electron microscope – Scienceofsharp (2018) (scienceofsharp.com)

×0.97 | 2 points by shrinks99 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How to Extend Phone Battery Life: 10 Proven Hacks (dailytechhacks.com)

×0.42 | 1 points by rk3000 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Libefaxx – A Microbenchmark for AWS EFA GPU/CPU RDMA Communication (github.com/crazyguitar)

×0.93 | 2 points by crazyguitar 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Therapeutic Use of Cannabis and Cannabinoids: A Review (jamanetwork.com)

×1.79 11 #12 | 29 points by bookofjoe 5 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Free Software Awards Winners Announced: Andy Wingo, Alx Sa, Govdirectory (fsf.org)

×2.75 18 #25 | 55 points by pseudolus 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
NeuralOperator Joins the PyTorch Ecosystem (pytorch.org)

×1.34 59 | 3 points by williamjsdavis 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
States lodge lawsuit against Trump's $100k H-1B visa fee (politico.com)

×2.38 10 | 6 points by sul_tasto 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Evaluating Gemini Robotics Policies in a Veo World Simulator (veo-robotics.github.io)

×0.39 | 1 points by thomasm6m6 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Quantum Computing Could Put IBM Back on Top Again (barrons.com)

×1.39 60 | 3 points by Bostonian 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Awesome-Jj: Jujutsu Things (github.com/Necior)

×1.88 3 #24 | 35 points by n3t 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Emulating AVX-512 intrinsics in Miri (trifectatech.org)

×0.90 | 2 points by ashvardanian 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Unswitching Loops for Fun and Profit (xania.org)

×0.37 | 1 points by ibobev 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Job isn't programming (codeandcake.dev)

×2.36 26 | 5 points by codeandcake 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Making Windows Terminal with GitHub Copilot CLI (microsoft.com)

×1.39 63 | 3 points by ibobev 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???