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Ask HN: How do you input to LLMs? Typing, voice, or something else?

×0.86 | 1 points by wompapumpum 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Zef Programming Language (zef-lang.dev)

×2.00 70 | 3 points by MrBuddyCasino 3 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Protect Your Privacy with California's Drop Tool (eff.org)

×0.82 | 1 points by hn_acker 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Volkswagen blocks custom ROM users from VW app (heise.de)

×0.79 | 2 points by thunderbong 5 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude Is Not a Compiler (exe.dev)

×1.77 | 2 points by bryanmikaelian 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Xteink X4 Pro (xteink.com)

×1.81 | 2 points by ashenke 7 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: SquadAI is the Kubernetes-like control plane for Codex agents (github.com/mohit17mor)

×1.76 | 2 points by mohit17mor 8 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fast "What is my IP" without trackers (csq1.org)

×0.74 | 1 points by stallione 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The troubling Russian connections of a 'European' password manager (lemonde.fr)

×0.72 | 1 points by kspacewalk2 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Hale – A Concurrent Systems Language (hale-lang.org)

×0.71 | 1 points by rrook 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Inflexa – open-source Intelligence for Biology (github.com/inflexa-ai)

×0.71 | 1 points by tanasaradu 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A (nice) Java reverse engineering tool (github.com/firstfault)

×0.68 | 1 points by tr1plefault 12 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Who am AI – interrogate an AI playing a secret character, 10 questions (whoamai-theta.vercel.app)

×0.70 | 1 points by jabaho 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Antares: Open Weight AI Models for Vulnerability Localization (cisco.com)

×0.71 | 1 points by campuscodi 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Git hook to prevent committing directly to main (alexwlchan.net)

×1.67 | 2 points by surprisetalk 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ATProto in Practice #1: Identity (mackuba.eu)

×0.73 | 1 points by frizlab 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The OWASP Agentic AI Top: What Builders on AWS Need to Know (technodrone.cloud)

×0.73 | 1 points by maishsk 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sarah's Wager (colossus.com)

×0.68 | 1 points by flurly 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Dealing with Dickovers (pluralistic.net)

×0.63 | 1 points by hn_acker 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Words to Avoid (Or Use with Care) Because They Are Loaded or Confusing (gnu.org)

×0.66 | 1 points by vrganj 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microsoft to rent Mistral's GPUs for multibillion $ (microsoft.com)

×1.45 | 2 points by LucasLanglois 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Instancez – Open-Source Declarative Single-Binary Supabase Alternative (github.com/instancez)

×0.64 | 1 points by saedx1 21 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Ctoken – CLI util to count LLM tokens in files, dirs or input (github.com/RimantasZ)

×1.45 | 2 points by iezhy 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
When Less Is More: Evolutionary Dynamics of Deception in a Sender-Receiver Game (arxiv.org)

×1.49 56 | 3 points by abhas9 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Control-Theory Taxonomy of Physical AI (dreossi.github.io)

×0.65 | 1 points by maunic 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Apple Defeats Liability for Not Scanning iCloud for CSAM (ericgoldman.org)

×3.29 73 | 4 points by speckx 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tracking the Apple to OpenAI pipeline: 283 moves, 44% from hardware (inkling.co)

×1.41 | 2 points by johnm212 26 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
First pull request used to be a coin flip (dparkmit.substack.com)

×1.45 | 2 points by dparkmit 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Branching databases like code: a CI/CD pattern for Lakebase at Glaspoort (databricks.com)

×0.64 | 1 points by ryantsuji 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Where Your AI Lives Matters More Than How Smart It Is – Especially in the UAE (praveenvijayan.substack.com)

×1.47 | 2 points by praveenvijayan 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
LLM Margin Lab (github.com/telemetry-sh)

×1.48 | 2 points by flurly 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Can you see seven states from Lookout Mountain? We traced every sightline (uptowhere.com)

×1.51 | 2 points by tonvilro 27 minutes ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AWS Sagemaker discontinue support for model/data quality monitoring (amazon.com)

×1.54 | 2 points by jamesblonde 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Moiré Sea (dryad.technology)

×0.63 | 1 points by Gecko4072 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Visualizing medical code hierarchy with treemaps (johndcook.com)

×0.64 | 1 points by ibobev 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sum of Low Squares (johndcook.com)

×0.65 | 1 points by ibobev 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Are 128-bit symmetric keys secure against quantum computers? (kerkour.com)

×2.44 53 | 3 points by cold_pizz4 29 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI Is ThoughtWare, Not Software: The End of Thinking as We Know It (hexmos.com)

×0.68 | 1 points by atomicnature 29 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Making `wc` 20x faster with parallel state machines (aarol.dev)

×0.69 | 1 points by ibobev 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Are LLMs replacing open-source ecosystems for personal project codes?

×0.69 | 1 points by malteg 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Rowset – An open-source back end for AI agents (github.com/LVTD-LLC)

×0.61 | 1 points by rasulkireev 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Consistent Multi-view 3D Head Reconstruction in 0.08 seconds (syntec-research.github.io)

×1.40 | 2 points by smusamashah 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: 3D map of every French building, colored by energy class (open data) (confinia.io)

×0.59 | 1 points by clement_igonet 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Study Claiming AI Helps Students Learn Retracted (plagiarismtoday.com)

×1.37 | 2 points by speckx 34 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Shared photo albums using a chat interface (picpocket.io)

×0.59 | 1 points by amr_shawky 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Gemini 3.6 Flash released on AIStudio (google.com)

×3.79 75 | 5 points by Topfi 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
TekmerDB – a database that flags contradicting facts instead of averaging them (github.com/raa82)

×0.59 | 1 points by falinapterus82 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GIFs Galore (mas.to)

×1.41 | 2 points by doener 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A Scrabble-like word game for learning Spanish vocabulary (tilebo.app)

×1.18 | 2 points by HikesALot 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Powerball ticket sales begin Tuesday in the United Kingdom (npr.org)

×1.37 | 2 points by geox 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Over 400 Linux CVEs published in the last 24 hours alone (kernel.org)

×4.87 5 #6 | 63 points by aghuang 39 minutes ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Keyvok – An offline Windows password manager using DPAPI (keyvok.com)

×0.60 | 1 points by sdicker 40 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
TSMC to raise chipmaking prices by up to 10% from 2027 (nikkei.com)

×1.44 | 2 points by baal80spam 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
My fitness tracker knew I was pregnant before I did (bbc.com)

×1.42 | 2 points by breitling 42 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Games of 2026 So Far (npr.org)

×1.38 44 | 3 points by andsoitis 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI Agents Should Propose Infrastructure, Not Mutate It (devgeist.com)

×0.60 | 1 points by VMyroslav 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: HappyHorse video generation on Molyin, free this week (molyin.com)

×0.60 | 1 points by weijunext 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What kind of iOS app do you wish existed?

×0.59 | 1 points by Andrew_Huynh 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Meta Garbage Collection: Using OCaml's GC to GC Rust (soteria-tools.com)

×0.58 | 1 points by birdculture 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop (404media.co)

×2.83 59 | 4 points by speckx 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Software Engineering Is a Shit-Eating Contest (erikmcclure.com)

×0.56 | 1 points by speckx 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Explore Trends in HN posts. ETL using Embeddings/KMeans/DuckDB (github.com/el10savio)

×0.57 | 1 points by ugabuga 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Better Than Free (kevinkelly.substack.com)

×0.58 | 1 points by Balgair 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The oldest domains on the internet, browsable year by year (dns.pizza)

×1.37 | 2 points by wmush 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I built a privacy-first DocuSign alternative, hosted on a PC at home (pixlpdf.com)

×0.59 | 1 points by hokage-at-leaf 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A concrete explanation of how a cache works (parksb.github.io)

×1.40 | 2 points by parksb 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cheating behaviour in frontier model evaluations (aisi.gov.uk)

×0.61 | 1 points by ai2027 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I paid €2k for an app; a colleague vibe-coded the same one for free (fablesofafailedfounder.substack.com)

×1.42 | 2 points by OroOmi 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Document Foundation: Microsoft's file formats keep users on a short leash (theregister.com)

×0.62 | 1 points by ent101 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Xteink X4 Pro E-Ink Reader is out It has front light [video] (youtube.com)

×0.63 | 1 points by abdullahalharir 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I Ran a 40-Person Commerce Team. This Platform Does It with Two (howtoinfluenceageneration.substack.com)

×0.60 | 1 points by djacob_1 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Danger of Bottom-Up Roadmaps (prodpad.com)

×0.59 | 2 points by adrianhoward 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Aeon.WorX – A generic object lifecycle management system (like PLM/PDM) (aeonax.com)

×0.39 | 2 points by xeonax 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Expensive Is Just a Brand Now (idiallo.com)

×0.61 | 1 points by speckx 55 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Revolut's Poland Expansion: 300 Jobs and a New Warsaw Office (veritahr.com)

×2.28 38 | 3 points by technewssss 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Single Answers Make You Stupid (homosabiens.substack.com)

×0.63 | 1 points by surprisetalk 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Back up Claude Code sessions from Codespaces to a private repo (github.com/markmatsu)

×1.49 | 2 points by markmatsushima 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How Not to Peak (ninjasandrobots.com)

×0.65 | 1 points by nate 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Another red alert for American science (science.org)

×2.25 35 | 3 points by Anon84 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Gumroad spent equal amounts on AI tokens and human payroll (twitter.com/shl)

×2.93 52 | 4 points by amrrs 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Loop the Loopies (arxiv.org)

×0.61 | 1 points by Anon84 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
SWE covers a dozen different jobs, I built a free tool to map which one fits you (swe-genie.com)

×0.62 | 1 points by MFinneran 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: LLM Context profiler for tracking context usage by tools, agents, MCPs (github.com/RimantasZ)

×1.30 | 2 points by iezhy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Our Interfaces Have Lost Their Senses (wattenberger.com)

×0.58 | 1 points by OG_BME 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Security versus Privacy (ldstephens.net)

×0.57 | 2 points by speckx 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
TSMC to raise chipmaking prices by up to 10% in 2027, Nikkei Asia reports (reuters.com)

×3.53 62 | 5 points by amelius 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
PCjs Machines (pcjs.org)

×1.68 2 #2 | 26 points by naves 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
l with Jacob Loveless [video] (youtube.com)

×1.37 | 2 points by tosh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why Are There No Empires in Age of Empires? (2019) (acoup.blog)

×3.82 60 | 5 points by jkly 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nesso-1: Accelerating Open-Source Binding Affinity Predictions [pdf] (valencelabs.com)

×1.40 | 2 points by smaddrellmander 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???