1. I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla ↑ 211 HN Points

2. AGI fantasy is a blocker to actual engineering ↑ 134 HN Points

3. Show HN: DBOS Java – Postgres-Backed Durable Workflows ↑ 101 HN Points #Show HN

4. RegreSQL: Regression Testing for PostgreSQL Queries ↑ 100 HN Points

5. What Happened with the CIA and The Paris Review? ↑ 107 HN Points

6. How To Build A Smartwatch: Software ↑ 100 HN Points

7. GPT-5.1 for Developers ↑ 100 HN Points

8. How to Get a North Korea / Antarctica VPS ↑ 103 HN Points

9. Apple Mini Apps Partner Program ↑ 100 HN Points

10. Kubernetes Ingress Nginx is retiring ↑ 101 HN Points

11. OpenMANET Wi-Fi HaLow open-source project for Raspberry Pi–based MANET radios ↑ 101 HN Points

12. Why Fei-Fei Li and Yann LeCun Are Both Betting on "World Models" ↑ 100 HN Points

13. Denx (a.k.a. U-Boot) Retires ↑ 101 HN Points

14. 650GB of Data (Delta Lake on S3). Polars vs. DuckDB vs. Daft vs. Spark ↑ 105 HN Points

15. Heartbeats in Distributed Systems ↑ 102 HN Points

16. Blue Origin lands New Glenn rocket booster on second try ↑ 110 HN Points

17. IBM Patented Euler''s 200 Year Old Math Technique for ''AI Interpretability'' ↑ 107 HN Points

18. Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change ↑ 100 HN Points

19. Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign ↑ 103 HN Points

20. SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search ↑ 119 HN Points

21. Rust in Android: move fast and fix things ↑ 104 HN Points

22. Launch HN: Tweeks (YC W25) – Browser extension to deshittify the web ↑ 106 HN Points

23. SIMA 2: An agent that plays, reasons, and learns with you in virtual 3D worlds ↑ 109 HN Points

24. Kratos - Cloud native Auth0 open-source alternative (self-hosted) ↑ 102 HN Points

25. A hemp industry shutdown has just begun ↑ 131 HN Points

26. Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for nuanced AI image generation ↑ 103 HN Points

27. European Nations Decide Against Acquiring Boeing E-7 Awacs Aircraft ↑ 101 HN Points

28. Hack Club has been handling children''s data for 4 years without a privacy policy ↑ 100 HN Points

29. Hemp Ban Hidden Inside Government Shutdown Bill ↑ 111 HN Points

30. We cut our Mongo DB costs by 90% by moving to Hetzner ↑ 102 HN Points

31. GitHub Partial Outage ↑ 103 HN Points

32. Zed Is Our Office ↑ 133 HN Points

33. Reverse Engineering Yaesu FT-70D Firmware Encryption ↑ 100 HN Points

34. Tesla Is Recalling Cybertrucks Again. Yep, More Pieces Are Falling Off ↑ 110 HN Points

35. Blender Lab ↑ 100 HN Points

36. Britain''s railway privatization was an abject failure ↑ 124 HN Points

37. A67z ↑ 100 HN Points

38. Launch HN: JSX Tool (YC F25) – A Browser Dev-Panel IDE for React ↑ 101 HN Points

39. Helm 4.0 ↑ 102 HN Points

40. Checkout.com hacked, refuses ransom payment, donates to security labs ↑ 109 HN Points

41. Android 16 QPR1 is being pushed to the Android Open Source Project ↑ 104 HN Points

42. Digital ID, a new way to create and present an ID in Apple Wallet ↑ 103 HN Points

43. Bitcoin''s big secret: How cryptocurrency became law enforcement''s secret weapon ↑ 101 HN Points

44. How Tube Amplifiers Work ↑ 101 HN Points

45. Chat Control 2.0 through the back door ↑ 100 HN Points

46. Meta replaces WhatsApp for Windows with web wrapper that uses 1 GB RAM when idle ↑ 100 HN Points

47. Human Fovea Detector ↑ 101 HN Points

48. GLP-1 drugs linked to lower death rates in colon cancer patients ↑ 106 HN Points

49. Valve is about to win the console generation ↑ 105 HN Points

50. Anthropic invests 50B in US AI infrastructure ↑ 100 HN Points

51. My dad could still be alive, but he''s not ↑ 149 HN Points

52. Voyager 1 is a light-day away by November 2026 ↑ 107 HN Points

53. Google will allow users to sideload Android apps without verification ↑ 171 HN Points

54. Marble: A Multimodal World Model ↑ 104 HN Points

55. Homebrew no longer allows bypassing Gatekeeper for unsigned/unnotarized software ↑ 114 HN Points

56. UK pauses intelligence-sharing with US on suspected drug vessels in Caribbean ↑ 100 HN Points

57. A brief look at FreeBSD ↑ 103 HN Points

58. The Geometry Behind Normal Maps ↑ 100 HN Points

59. Micro.blog launches new ''Studio'' tier with video hosting ↑ 100 HN Points

60. Maestro Technology Sells Used SSD Drives as New ↑ 120 HN Points

61. Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller and Steam Frame ↑ 127 HN Points

62. Project Euler ↑ 114 HN Points

63. Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers trigger HDD shortage ↑ 100 HN Points

64. GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT ↑ 118 HN Points

65. Steam Frame ↑ 192 HN Points

66. Steam Machine ↑ 120 HN Points

67. The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia ↑ 141 HN Points

68. Waymo robotaxis are now giving rides on freeways in LA, SF and Phoenix ↑ 128 HN Points

69. Simulating a Planet on the GPU: Part 1 (2022) ↑ 102 HN Points

70. Learn Prolog Now ↑ 104 HN Points

71. Fighting the New York Times'' invasion of user privacy ↑ 102 HN Points

72. Welcome, the entire land – "Hello, world" in hieroglyphics (2009) ↑ 100 HN Points

73. What happened to Transmeta, the last big dotcom IPO ↑ 112 HN Points

74. Heroku Support for .NET 10 ↑ 102 HN Points

75. Agentic pelican on a bicycle ↑ 100 HN Points

76. Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article ↑ 124 HN Points

77. Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support ↑ 143 HN Points

78. Please donate to keep Network Time Protocol up – Goal 1k ↑ 111 HN Points

79. A catalog of side effects ↑ 101 HN Points

80. You will own nothing and be (un)happy ↑ 106 HN Points

81. .NET 10 ↑ 143 HN Points

82. Why Nietzsche matters in the age of artificial intelligence ↑ 105 HN Points

83. Yann LeCun to depart Meta and launch AI startup focused on ''world models'' ↑ 119 HN Points

84. Advent of Code on the Z-Machine ↑ 100 HN Points

85. Terminal Latency on Windows (2024) ↑ 100 HN Points

86. Perkeep – Personal storage system for life ↑ 109 HN Points

87. Show HN: Gametje – A casual online gaming platform ↑ 100 HN Points #Show HN

88. Four strange places to see London''s Roman Wall ↑ 107 HN Points

89. .NET MAUI is coming to Linux and the browser, powered by Avalonia ↑ 105 HN Points

90. Microplastics: No longer a "maybe" ↑ 100 HN Points

91. I can build enterprise software but I can''t charge for it ↑ 131 HN Points

92. I didn''t reverse-engineer the protocol for my blood pressure monitor in 24 hours ↑ 106 HN Points

93. The terminal of the future ↑ 103 HN Points

94. Blender 5.1 ↑ 100 HN Points

95. The Department of War just shot the accountants and opted for speed ↑ 106 HN Points

96. We ran over 600 image generations to compare AI image models ↑ 101 HN Points

97. Zig / C Interop ↑ 100 HN Points

98. Head in the Zed Cloud ↑ 100 HN Points

99. X5.1 solar flare, G4 geomagnetic storm watch ↑ 110 HN Points

100. Cache-friendly, low-memory Lanczos algorithm in Rust ↑ 100 HN Points

101. A modern 35mm film scanner for home ↑ 101 HN Points

102. Pikaday: A friendly guide to front-end date pickers ↑ 106 HN Points

103. Widespread distribution of bacteria containing PETases across global oceans ↑ 100 HN Points

104. Collaboration sucks ↑ 132 HN Points

105. Scaling HNSWs ↑ 105 HN Points

106. AI adoption in US adds 900k tons of CO₂ annually, study finds ↑ 100 HN Points

107. FFmpeg to Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs ↑ 146 HN Points

108. Why effort scales superlinearly with the perceived quality of creative work ↑ 106 HN Points

109. iPod Socks ↑ 156 HN Points

110. Firefox Expands Fingerprint Protections ↑ 107 HN Points

111. The Future of Fact-Checking Is Lies, I Guess ↑ 100 HN Points

112. Canada loses its measles-free status, with US on track to follow ↑ 117 HN Points

113. Hiring a developer as a small indie studio in 2025 ↑ 100 HN Points

114. OpenAI may not use lyrics without license, German court rules ↑ 121 HN Points

115. iPhone Pocket ↑ 107 HN Points

116. SoftBank sells its entire stake in Nvidia for 5.83B ↑ 104 HN Points

117. AI documentation you can talk to, for every repo ↑ 109 HN Points

118. The Linux Kernel Looks to “Bite the Bullet” in Enabling Microsoft C Extensions ↑ 100 HN Points

119. Omnilingual ASR: Advancing automatic speech recognition for 1600 languages ↑ 103 HN Points

120. The ''Toy Story'' You Remember ↑ 124 HN Points

121. Canadian military will rely on public servants to boost its ranks by 300k ↑ 100 HN Points

122. Using Generative AI in Content Production ↑ 107 HN Points

123. Warren Buffett''s final shareholder letter [pdf] ↑ 106 HN Points

124. Benchmarking leading AI agents against Google reCAPTCHA v2 ↑ 100 HN Points

125. I hate screenshots of text ↑ 110 HN Points

126. ClickHouse acquires LibreChat, open-source AI chat platform ↑ 100 HN Points

127. High-performance 2D graphics rendering on the CPU using sparse strips [pdf] ↑ 106 HN Points

128. Spatial intelligence is AI’s next frontier ↑ 102 HN Points

129. Zig and the design choices within ↑ 101 HN Points

130. Writing your own BEAM ↑ 101 HN Points

131. The lazy Git UI you didn''t know you need ↑ 124 HN Points

132. Reminder to passengers ahead of move to 100% digital boarding passes ↑ 105 HN Points

133. Vibe Code Warning – A personal casestudy ↑ 126 HN Points

134. Redmond, WA, turns off Flock Safety cameras after ICE arrests ↑ 116 HN Points

135. EU takes aim at plastic pellets to prevent their nightmare cleanup ↑ 100 HN Points

136. Installing and using HP-UX 9 ↑ 100 HN Points

137. Unexpected things that are people ↑ 122 HN Points

138. LLMs are steroids for your Dunning-Kruger ↑ 105 HN Points

139. Cops Can Get Your Private Online Data ↑ 105 HN Points

140. Asus Ascent GX10 ↑ 111 HN Points

141. Time to start de-Appling ↑ 129 HN Points

142. Using bubblewrap to add sandboxing to NetBSD ↑ 100 HN Points

143. Europe to decide if 6 GHz is shared between Wi-Fi and cellular networks ↑ 111 HN Points

144. DNS Provider Quad9 Sees Piracy Blocking Orders as "Existential Threat" ↑ 100 HN Points

145. Beets: The music geek''s media organizer ↑ 104 HN Points

146. Microsoft''s lack of quality control is out of control ↑ 112 HN Points

147. The Sega Master System ↑ 101 HN Points

148. Realtime BART Arrival Display ↑ 102 HN Points

149. How the UK lost its shipbuilding industry ↑ 100 HN Points

150. Itiner-e: the Google Maps of Roman Roads ↑ 103 HN Points

151. XSLT RIP ↑ 112 HN Points

152. Open source has a growing problem with LLM generated issues ↑ 117 HN Points

153. Sued by Nintendo ↑ 107 HN Points

154. Metabolic and cellular differences between sedentary and active individuals ↑ 101 HN Points

155. Work After Work: Notes from an Unemployed New Grad Watching the Job Market Break ↑ 105 HN Points

156. Bumble Berry Pi – A Cheap DIY Raspberry Pi Handheld Cyberdeck ↑ 102 HN Points

157. Bull markets make you feel smarter than you are ↑ 100 HN Points

158. About KeePassXC''s Code Quality Control ↑ 101 HN Points

159. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025) ↑ 108 HN Points #Ask HN

160. Drilling down on Uncle Sam''s proposed TP-Link ban ↑ 104 HN Points

161. When Tesla''s FSD works well, it gets credit. When it doesn''t, you get blamed ↑ 106 HN Points

162. Forth – Is it still relevant? ↑ 100 HN Points

163. Visualize FastAPI endpoints with FastAPI-Voyager ↑ 100 HN Points

164. Python Software Foundation gets a donor surge after rejecting federal grant ↑ 106 HN Points

165. The Principles of Diffusion Models ↑ 100 HN Points

166. Zensical – A modern static site generator built by the Material for MkDocs team ↑ 101 HN Points

167. Reviving Classic Unix Games: A 20-Year Journey Through Software Archaeology ↑ 100 HN Points

168. Marble Fountain ↑ 138 HN Points

169. The Manuscripts of Edsger W. Dijkstra ↑ 101 HN Points

170. Montana Becomes First State to Enshrine ''Right to Compute'' into Law ↑ 115 HN Points

171. AI isn''t replacing jobs. AI spending is ↑ 155 HN Points

172. Ask HN: How would you set up a child’s first Linux computer? ↑ 101 HN Points #Ask HN

173. Samsung Family Hub fridges will start showing adds to "Elevate" Home Ecosystem ↑ 130 HN Points

174. Alive internet theory ↑ 104 HN Points

175. How Airbus took off ↑ 102 HN Points

176. Reverse engineering Codex CLI to get GPT-5-Codex-Mini to draw me a pelican ↑ 100 HN Points

177. Study finds memory decline surge in young people ↑ 101 HN Points

178. Grok 4 Fast now has 2M context window ↑ 103 HN Points

179. Firefox Forcing LLM Features ↑ 100 HN Points

180. Opencloud – An alternative to Nextcloud written in Go ↑ 101 HN Points

181. I Am Mark Zuckerberg ↑ 175 HN Points

182. Judge denies request to exempt Flock footage from Public Records Act ↑ 100 HN Points

183. Tabloid: The Clickbait Headline Programming Language ↑ 100 HN Points

184. Boring Company fined nearly 500K after it dumped drilling fluids into manholes ↑ 101 HN Points

185. Judge says Education Dept partisan out-of-office emails violated First Amendment ↑ 102 HN Points

186. Ironclad – formally verified, real-time capable, Unix-like OS kernel ↑ 102 HN Points

187. Largest cargo sailboat completes first Atlantic crossing ↑ 104 HN Points

188. Avería: The Average Font (2011) ↑ 106 HN Points

189. US Air Traffic Controllers Start Resigning as Shutdown Bites ↑ 104 HN Points

190. Near mid-air collision at LAX between American Airlines and ITA [video] ↑ 103 HN Points

191. WriterdeckOS ↑ 105 HN Points

192. IP Blocking the UK Is Not Enough to Comply with the Online Safety Act ↑ 115 HN Points

193. Cloudflare scrubs Aisuru botnet from top domains list ↑ 100 HN Points

194. Marko – A declarative, HTML‑based language that makes building web apps fun ↑ 106 HN Points

195. Local First Htmx ↑ 101 HN Points

196. Always be ready to leave (even if you never do) ↑ 104 HN Points

197. I Want You to Understand Chicago ↑ 100 HN Points

198. 52 Year old data tape could contain Unix history ↑ 102 HN Points

199. Btop: A better modern alternative of htop with a gamified interface ↑ 114 HN Points

200. Ticker: Don''t Die of Heart Disease ↑ 132 HN Points

201. AI benchmarks are a bad joke – and LLM makers are the ones laughing ↑ 108 HN Points

202. Making Democracy Work: Fixing and Simplifying Egalitarian Paxos ↑ 103 HN Points

203. 1T in Tech Stocks Sold Off as Market Grows Skeptical of AI ↑ 102 HN Points

204. My friends and I accidentally faked the Ryzen 7 9700X3D leaks ↑ 108 HN Points

205. Immutable Software Deploys Using ZFS Jails on FreeBSD ↑ 100 HN Points

206. Cerebras Code now supports GLM 4.6 at 1000 tokens/sec ↑ 100 HN Points

207. Apple''s "notarisation" – blocking software freedom of developers and users ↑ 103 HN Points

208. Mullvad: Shutting down our search proxy Leta ↑ 103 HN Points

209. Toxic Salton Sea dust triggers changes in lung microbiome after just one week ↑ 101 HN Points

210. Sam Altman''s pants are on fire ↑ 137 HN Points

211. Snapchat open-sources Valdi a cross-platform UI framework ↑ 115 HN Points

212. FAA to restrict commercial rocket launches to overnight hours ↑ 104 HN Points

213. Becoming a Compiler Engineer ↑ 107 HN Points

214. Angel Investors, a Field Guide ↑ 100 HN Points

215. Why is Zig so Cool? ↑ 101 HN Points

216. How did I get here? ↑ 105 HN Points

217. Dead Framework Theory ↑ 100 HN Points

218. AI is Dunning-Kruger as a service ↑ 149 HN Points

219. VLC''s Jean-Baptiste Kempf Receives the European SFS Award 2025 ↑ 142 HN Points

220. YouTube Removes Windows 11 Bypass Tutorials, Claims ''Risk of Physical Harm'' ↑ 110 HN Points

221. Apple is crossing a Steve Jobs red line ↑ 125 HN Points

222. Ruby Solved My Problem ↑ 106 HN Points

223. Myna: Monospace typeface designed for symbol-heavy programming languages ↑ 120 HN Points

224. James Watson has died ↑ 121 HN Points

225. Rockstar employee shares account of the company''s union-busting efforts ↑ 137 HN Points

226. Gmail AI gets more intrusive ↑ 107 HN Points

227. Vodafone Germany is killing the open internet – one peering connection at a time ↑ 143 HN Points

228. Denmark''s government aims to ban access to social media for children under 15 ↑ 116 HN Points

229. A.I. and Social Media Contribute to ''Brain Rot'' ↑ 101 HN Points

230. We chose OCaml to write Stategraph ↑ 104 HN Points

231. I Love OCaml ↑ 113 HN Points

232. OpenMW 0.50.0 Released – open-source Morrowind reimplementation ↑ 122 HN Points

233. Meta projected 10% of 2024 revenue came from scams ↑ 104 HN Points

234. Lessons from Growing a Piracy Streaming Site ↑ 114 HN Points

235. Please stop asking me to provide feedback #8036 ↑ 101 HN Points

236. Leaving Meta and PyTorch ↑ 113 HN Points

237. The secret campaign to silence critics of a hospital real estate empire ↑ 100 HN Points

238. A Fond Farewell from Farmers'' Almanac ↑ 105 HN Points

239. A Note on Fil-C ↑ 103 HN Points

240. Scientists find ways to boost memory in aging brains ↑ 105 HN Points

241. The Parallel Search API ↑ 101 HN Points

242. The Learning Loop and LLMs ↑ 100 HN Points

243. Analysis indicates that the universe’s expansion is not accelerating ↑ 105 HN Points

244. Game design is simple ↑ 107 HN Points

245. LLMs encode how difficult problems are ↑ 100 HN Points

246. OpenDesk – a flexible all-in-one office suite for the public sector ↑ 100 HN Points

247. Man who threw sandwich at US border agent not guilty of assault ↑ 110 HN Points

248. Mark Zuckerberg Had Illegal School at His Palo Alto Compound. Neighbors Revolted ↑ 102 HN Points

249. You Should Write An Agent ↑ 104 HN Points

250. Two billion email addresses were exposed ↑ 143 HN Points

251. Show HN: See chords as flags – Visual harmony of top composers on musescore ↑ 100 HN Points #Show HN

252. Show HN: I scraped 3B Goodreads reviews to train a better recommendation model ↑ 100 HN Points #Show HN

253. Show HN: qqqa – A fast, stateless LLM-powered assistant for your shell ↑ 105 HN Points #Show HN

254. Swift on FreeBSD Preview ↑ 110 HN Points

255. I analyzed the lineups at the most popular nightclubs ↑ 106 HN Points

256. ICC ditches Microsoft 365 for openDesk ↑ 151 HN Points

257. OpenAI probably can''t make ends meet. That''s where you come in ↑ 100 HN Points

258. Australia has so much solar that it''s offering everyone free electricity ↑ 113 HN Points

259. Eating stinging nettles ↑ 100 HN Points

260. FBI tries to unmask owner of archive.is ↑ 134 HN Points

261. Kimi K2 Thinking, a SOTA open-source trillion-parameter reasoning model ↑ 133 HN Points

262. A Lost IBM PC/at Model? Analyzing a Newfound Old Bios ↑ 100 HN Points

263. Cloudflare Tells U.S. Govt That Foreign Site Blocking Efforts Are Trade Barriers ↑ 139 HN Points

264. Why Your Best Engineers Are Interviewing Elsewhere, CodeGood ↑ 100 HN Points

265. IKEA launches new smart home range with 21 Matter-compatible products ↑ 101 HN Points

266. AI Slop vs. OSS Security ↑ 101 HN Points

267. The trust collapse: Infinite AI content is awful ↑ 107 HN Points

268. Open Source Implementation of Apple''s Private Compute Cloud ↑ 122 HN Points

269. Oldest woman to finish Ironman World Championship in Kona ↑ 105 HN Points

270. Mathematical exploration and discovery at scale ↑ 102 HN Points

271. The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity (1987) [pdf] ↑ 106 HN Points

272. Recursive macros in C, demystified (once the ugly crying stops) ↑ 101 HN Points

273. How I am deeply integrating Emacs ↑ 102 HN Points

274. The grim truth behind the Pied Piper (2020) ↑ 100 HN Points

275. What the hell have you built ↑ 111 HN Points

276. Patching 68K Software – SimpleText ↑ 100 HN Points

277. OpenAI asks U.S. for loan guarantees to fund 1T AI expansion ↑ 107 HN Points

278. Optimism associated with exceptional longevity (2019) ↑ 100 HN Points

279. I may have found a way to spot U.S. at-sea strikes before they''re announced ↑ 102 HN Points

280. Ratatui – App Showcase ↑ 104 HN Points

281. FAA to cut flights by 10% at 40 major airports due to government shutdown ↑ 100 HN Points

282. Longtime Mozilla Support Japanese Community Shuts Down over AI Translation Usage ↑ 116 HN Points

283. How devtools map minified JS code back to your TypeScript source code ↑ 100 HN Points

284. New gel restores dental enamel and could revolutionise tooth repair ↑ 252 HN Points

285. The Microsoft SoftCard for the Apple II: Getting two processors to share memory ↑ 100 HN Points

286. Internet Archive''s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost ↑ 101 HN Points

287. The state of SIMD in Rust in 2025 ↑ 104 HN Points

288. Why aren''t smart people happier? ↑ 103 HN Points

289. ChatGPT terms disallow its use in providing legal and medical advice to others ↑ 115 HN Points

290. I was right about dishwasher pods and now I can prove it [video] ↑ 178 HN Points

291. Solarpunk is already happening in Africa ↑ 112 HN Points

292. Dillo, a multi-platform graphical web browser ↑ 111 HN Points

293. Chaining FFmpeg with a Browser Agent ↑ 100 HN Points

294. Ruby and Its Neighbors: Smalltalk ↑ 106 HN Points

295. Carice TC2 – A non-digital electric car ↑ 122 HN Points

296. Norway reviews cybersecurity after remote-access feature found in Chinese buses ↑ 107 HN Points

297. Removing XSLT for a more secure browser ↑ 105 HN Points

298. NY smartphone ban has made lunch loud again ↑ 101 HN Points

299. Ask HN: My family business runs on a 1993-era text-based-UI (TUI). Anybody else? ↑ 114 HN Points #Ask HN

300. Microsoft Can''t Keep EU Data Safe from US Authorities ↑ 103 HN Points