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Will AI take your job? You have more agency than you think (vox.com)

×0.92 | 1 points by Anon84 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
clc-wiki (clc-wiki.net)

×2.01 | 2 points by turtleyacht 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anthropic takes steps to block Claude from reverse-engineering video games (mashable.com)

×5.80 76 | 6 points by firesteelrain 7 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Alternativ to Miro Board (wytboard.com)

×1.65 | 2 points by herrlen 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Terence Tao: Algebra helps us navigate hard realities by making them abstract (sciencefriday.com)

×1.57 | 2 points by digital55 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
One Durable Object per room, and a rule that stranded a lecture hall (davidmashiah.com)

×0.59 | 1 points by davidmashiah 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Benchma(R)king: Making Chairs with LLMs (emergencemagazine.org)

×0.60 | 1 points by CharlesW 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Recycling ANSI Art: Tracing the Origins of BBS Logon Screens (slashdot.org)

×1.48 | 2 points by MilnerRoute 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Ludwig Wittgenstein Project (wittgensteinproject.org)

×1.53 | 2 points by gone35 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Distributed Proofreaders (pgdp.net)

×0.97 18 #15 | 4 points by gone35 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Point-Contact Transistor (wikipedia.org)

×1.43 | 2 points by thunderbong 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Loudest Stories Were Missing from the Map: Learning Topics on Hacker News (medium.com)

×0.60 | 1 points by splimeproject 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Where do you see software engineering careers heading?

×0.62 | 1 points by grandimam 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
'What Were You Thinking?' – Scott McNeely, Founder of Sun Microsystems (hedgeye.com)

×0.64 | 1 points by extraextra 21 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OqtaNet – Sinclair Network over the Internet (codeberg.org)

×0.60 | 1 points by Bluestein 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Gitmsg – A messenger where every message is a Git commit (gitmsg.fun)

×0.55 | 1 points by eugenepavlov 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
From $2.30 to $230: A Lifetime of Broadway Musicals and Their Movies (conradkottak.substack.com)

×0.54 | 1 points by cpkottak 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
With 86% of the words, you might understand only 38% of an anime's lines (learnfromx.com)

×1.82 23 #6 | 5 points by lakesare 26 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Common Desktop Environment available now as open-source (sourceforge.net)

×1.66 82 | 16 points by torcete 29 minutes ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
People are the hard part of AI (keithbrown.com)

×0.48 | 1 points by drewlem 36 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Free AI (cloudy.chat)

×0.50 | 1 points by Armsn 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Haskell processor running on an FPGA (bathtub-01.github.io)

×1.73 24 | 3 points by AriFordsham 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Chemical Hunger (2021) (slimemoldtimemold.com)

×1.74 23 | 3 points by bilsbie 43 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GPT-6.1 Terra (simonwillison.net)

×2.21 72 | 9 points by hnisjafx40 43 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Reddit shares plunge as Google's AI search squeezes traffic (reuters.com)

×2.49 53 | 5 points by randycupertino 44 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
NASA's Voyager 1 Conserves Power, Resolves Brief Communications Pause (nasa.gov)

×1.57 9 #39 | 6 points by Stratoscope 43 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
macOS 27 Golden Gate does not support CoreStorage or HFS+ volumes (wadetregaskis.com)

×1.70 19 | 3 points by chmaynard 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Report from the Vatican (garymarcus.substack.com)

×1.27 7 #48 | 4 points by chmaynard 51 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Othismo, a Runtime for Sandboxed Objects (othismo.com)

×0.47 | 1 points by mamidon 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bidirectional Charging During Grid Outages (jefftk.com)

×0.47 | 1 points by luu 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I miss the old ways, so I am trying to find a middleground (github.com/TheMissenoOne)

×0.48 | 1 points by themissenoone 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What Anthropic’s IPO Filing Actually Says (youtube.com)

×3.02 47 | 5 points by Betelbuddy 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
NPM, "estee" is not a typo of "testem" (smoores.dev)

×1.11 | 2 points by birdculture 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
IdentityHub – Add Google, Dropbox, and email login to your SaaS in 5 minutes (identityhub.tech)

×0.47 | 1 points by wildreallywon 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The New Food Movement (theatlantic.com)

×0.47 | 1 points by bilsbie 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The lithium hypothesis of obesity [video] (youtube.com)

×1.39 13 | 3 points by dakila5 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Golden Age (ronacher.eu)

×1.12 | 2 points by droidjj 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Surviving "The Graduate" (newyorker.com)

×0.94 65 #19 | 3 points by samizdis 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN (bearblog.dev)

×4.00 #1 | 147 points by karpathy 1 hour ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Toit. Language for ESP32 (toit.io)

×0.96 | 2 points by wiradikusuma 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
LocalASO – App Store keyword research in 52 countries, on your Mac (localaso.com)

×0.42 | 1 points by gianmaurice 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Linux Command Line (linuxcommand.org)

×1.03 | 2 points by kristianp 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Read your Character.AI data export in the browser, nothing uploaded (github.com/anima-universe)

×0.44 | 1 points by Amavie 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Surveilled Country Is Not a Free Country (brownstone.org)

×1.55 1 | 3 points by CGMthrowaway 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bub 0.6.0 (github.com/bubbuild)

×0.98 | 2 points by chojanshang 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Evolving Agent Teams (arxiv.org)

×0.43 | 1 points by anigbrowl 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Automate the setup and configuration of your Windows development environment (github.com/microsoft)

×0.42 | 1 points by gjvc 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anthropic: Scaling Misuse Detection with Self-Assessment of Chats (twitter.com/AnthropicAI)

×3.60 43 | 7 points by cft 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anthropic blocks users for anything touching training larger models (twitter.com/jiahaoshao1)

×5.68 14 #22 | 36 points by pretext 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hackers broke into four of Canada's top law firms (theglobeandmail.com)

×2.68 28 | 5 points by Teever 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Expert Knowledge and the Conditions of Its Validity: The Limits of Judgment (medium.com)

×1.50 8 | 3 points by Aldus551 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Aruma – clean-room self-hosted backend for the official Firebase SDKs (github.com/arumadev)

×1.39 9 | 3 points by osama200 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Video on scroll: why scrubbing an MP4 stutters (and what to do instead) (scrollsequence.com)

×0.42 | 1 points by hellofromalki 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Retrospective: Running a Minimal Homelab Whilst Living with the In-Laws (dickingwithdocker.com)

×1.02 | 2 points by glitchcrab 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
UPlayer – MPEG-DASH playback using native AVPlayer (github.com/MaximKomlev)

×0.43 | 1 points by maxkomleu 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tangled, hire a front-end accessibility expert (dbushell.com)

×1.55 13 | 3 points by Destiner 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Castov – Open-source dev tools and AI secret shield with zero telemetry (castov.com)

×0.88 | 2 points by castov 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fifty Years of the Selfish Gene (theguardian.com)

×1.59 14 | 3 points by bloak 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenCiv3 Dutch 2 now available (civfanatics.com)

×0.42 | 1 points by Alpi 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cisco gives engineer unlimited AI tokens to rewrite company's legacy code (tomshardware.com)

×0.43 | 1 points by runwithdata 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How wise do our mentors need to be? (autodidacts.io)

×1.49 16 | 3 points by Curiositry 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Half-Life – Nintendo 64 Port [video] (youtube.com)

×0.42 | 1 points by usernameis42 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: BBRouter – Ben Eater's 8-bit computer, simulated on 3D breadboards (bbrouter.com)

×0.79 | 1 points by creack 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: NES Contra (1987) port (ASM –> C and then C –> WebAssembly) (epoyraz.github.io)

×0.86 13 #9 | 18 points by tevlon 1 hour ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: [Pulse] Thanks to C, I have a project with which I am happy

×0.99 | 2 points by xerrs 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Inference engine in game scripting language using macros (dasllama.io)

×1.02 | 2 points by BorisTheOptimiz 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
TCP Use-After-Free: CVE-2026-98432 / CVSS 9.8 (atlasum.net)

×3.32 #2 | 133 points by oger 1 hour ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Good and Bad Procrastination (2005) (paulgraham.com)

×1.02 | 2 points by 7777777phil 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Electrification Could Cut Global Energy Use in Half (fullycharged.show)

×2.18 1 | 4 points by toomuchtodo 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Create an Account [Satire/Game] (maurycyz.com)

×1.02 | 2 points by Curiositry 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Duty of a Scholar (daemonology.net)

×1.03 2 #4 | 54 points by gslin 2 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Control legacy Fender Mustang amps from the browser via WebHID (jorik.dev)

×0.44 | 1 points by jtangelder 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
2.5 hrs of makeup: Japan teen struggles with social media beauty standards (mainichi.jp)

×2.36 29 #83 | 8 points by giuliomagnifico 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Free Invoice Generator Online (gccinvoice.com)

×1.67 21 | 3 points by yourmahbub 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hurry Curry – FOSS multiplayer cooking simulation game (hurrycurry.org)

×0.47 | 1 points by basilikum 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Writing Windows Applications in x64 Assembly in 2026 (medium.com)

×1.03 | 2 points by hofmann-dev 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tld.wiki – The wiki for Top-level Domains (tld.wiki)

×1.06 26 | 3 points by slithering 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Midnight Washerwomen [pdf] (weebly.com)

×1.04 | 2 points by Eridanus2 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Limits of AI as an Economic Weapon (palladiummag.com)

×2.16 9 | 5 points by billybuckwheat 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Smartest People in AI Believe This Is the World's Most Important Chart (wsj.com)

×2.74 8 | 5 points by bookofjoe 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Action Potentials for October (neurobiology.substack.com)

×0.44 | 1 points by paulpauper 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The reason(s) nothing gets built in San Francisco (sfstandard.com)

×1.06 | 2 points by marojejian 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
HTTP/3 is faster with some work and help from Cloudflare (theregister.com)

×1.91 4 #45 | 10 points by saikatsg 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Trademarks and Symbols, Volume 2: Symbolical Designs (1973) (symbools.com)

×0.47 | 1 points by NaOH 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GPT-5.6 Sol can beat Factorio on peaceful mode (ryanmadden.net)

×2.02 2 #5 | 112 points by ryanmadden 2 hours ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Has Google started cleaning their search results from AI slop?

×1.78 30 | 3 points by gosen 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Police secure Poland's Constitutional Tribunal as protests erupt (apnews.com)

×1.81 31 | 3 points by aliasxneo 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ovio – The motion layer for developer websites (ovioui.vercel.app)

×0.50 | 1 points by Lwrless 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google's AI satellite sends a expensive haiku to Earth (theregister.com)

×0.50 | 1 points by saikatsg 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How the U.N. Legitimized Carbon Capture and Skewed Decades of Climate Policy (propublica.org)

×1.20 | 2 points by hn_acker 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???