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| 1. | Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations (github.com) | |
| 2391 points | 2026 | author arnemunthekaas showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+5 more) | thread
“A mic listens to the sounds in my garden, BirdNET-Go (an open-source BirdNET classifier) detects birds by sound, and the e-ink frame draws a real 1800s natural-history…” | ||
| 2. | AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible (john.hartnup.uk) | |
| 1902 points | 2026 | author ereiamjh showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Well of course Spring + Japan = Sakura. In a way the model would be faulty if it didn't reach for that cliché. That's what it's meant to do. If you want originality, you…” | ||
| 3. | Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock (colo.to) | |
| 1092 points | 2026 | author Eric_Gullichsen showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Thanks for all the comments, I've been hesitant to post this to the court of public opinion, yet curiosity about what the HN community would think caused me to push the…” | ||
| 4. | OpenCode Hacked: User credentials leaked (twitter.com) | |
| 977 points | 2026 | author pranshuchittora showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Looks like OpenCode fans / team is not happy with this post coming on the first page of HN. It has already been flagged by many. I never ask for upvotes, but would be…” | ||
| 5. | Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet? (github.com) | |
| 926 points | 2026 | author ninjahawk1 showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“The Opus 5 substitution was a validation test, not the primary measurement. At that sample size the accuracy difference was -3.8 ± 6.3 points, so it did not clear the…” | ||
| 6. | Every Mac comes with an (undocumented) family member classifier (8rank.ai) | |
| 865 points | 2026 | author infwhispers showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Please, feel free to ask me anything. Also, check out the followup research:” | ||
| 7. | Fastpotify (fastpotify.rocks) | |
| 855 points | 2026 | author earcar showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“Happy to answer any questions!” | ||
| 8. | Yes, and (htmx.org) | |
| 799 points | 2026 | author recursivedoubts showed up | their comment | thread
“Hello all, I wrote this article to help students considering CS as a major. My own son has just started university studying CS, so I have skin in this game. I continue…” | ||
| 9. | Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables (blog.jim-nielsen.com) | |
| 784 points | 2026 | author jimniels showed up | their comment | thread
“I didn’t get into my organizational techniques, but agree with your take! Ziploc bags + a sharpie is exactly how I do it.” | ||
| 10. | How to Write with an LLM (sockpuppet.org) | |
| 769 points | 2026 | author tptacek showed up | their comment | thread
“I am not interested in "style suggestions" from the LLM; I'm interested in things I can verify for myself. Is this word or construction overused in the piece? Is there a…” | ||
| 11. | Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude (louisabraham.github.io) | |
| 710 points | 2026 | author Labo333 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Grateful for the kind words, human communities like HN really hit differently when you spend the whole day chatting with sycophantic and bullshitting agents (including…” | ||
| 12. | Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free (gultsch.de) | |
| 709 points | 2026 | author inputmice showed up | their comment | thread
“Indeed, 15% is fine. They do provide some services. They provide the CDN for downloading the APK. They handle sales taxes in the various countries, which would be a PITA…” | ||
| 13. | I spent $266 and four AI models to own my tablet. GLM-5.3 finished it in a day (ericpardee.github.io) | |
| 706 points | 2026 | author dr_pardee showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Quick context: the tablet is a 2021 Fire HD 10 that ran my Home Assistant dashboard and kept powering itself off: the logs showed Amazon's own software issuing the…” | ||
| 14. | Tailcat – Like netcat, but over Tailscale’s data plane (github.com) | |
| 687 points | 2026 | author bradfitz showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“There's no vendor lock-in here and no payment or account required. If Tailscale as a company fails, tailcat keeps working if you run your own DERP server. It's just open…” | ||
| 15. | I trained a small transformer in 1.5hrs and it beats many LLMs (mvakde.github.io) | |
| 671 points | 2026 | author evilmathkid showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! Author here. Surprised to see this on HN now. Happy to answer any questions! Some context about this: - This is NOT an LLM. its a small ar transformer trained from…” | ||
| 16. | You could have invented transformers from memory (alexwang.ai) | |
| 670 points | 2026 | author ketothekingdom showed up | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“I have a short summary here if people find it helpful:” | ||
| 17. | Smart home devices should work without the internet (docodethatmatters.com) | |
| 663 points | 2026 | author skittleson showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“This is ten years of home automation rules, led by one: nothing core should depend on a vendor's server. Setup core is Tasmota, MQTT and Node-RED on a Pi. I've given…” | ||
| 18. | Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone (cloudinabottle.org) | |
| 654 points | 2026 | author zplizzi showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I'm checking with my team to confirm these came from us, but if so I apologize for this - posts like these should come from a real account with proper disclosure, but…” | ||
| 19. | The Lightbulb Computer (lightbulbcomputer.com) | |
| 619 points | 2026 | author heliographe showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Author here; I was definitely inspired by my visits to Dynamicland many years ago, which Folk Computer is also inspired by. One big difference in direction is that…” | ||
| 20. | Bend – a language that blocks AI mistakes via proof and runs on GPUs (bend-lang.com) | |
| 616 points | 2026 | author LightMachine showed up | their comment | thread
“HN staff: someone posted before me. Could we change the title to "Bend - a language that blocks AI mistakes via proof and runs on GPUs"? Everyone: feel free to ask any…” | ||
| 21. | Plan mode is dead (aymannadeem.com) | |
| 593 points | 2026 | author aymandfire showed up | their comment | thread
“I think that’s basically the distinction I’m trying to make. Historically, plan mode served two different roles: 1. making the agent’s instructions precise enough to…” | ||
| 22. | How I find problems to solve as a staff engineer (lalitm.com) | |
| 591 points | 2026 | author lalitmaganti showed up | their comment | thread
“I really like your framing here! I think it captures the essence of my thinking in a really concise and coherent way.” | ||
| 23. | What Is a Harness? (earendil.com) | |
| 589 points | 2026 | author ni10c showed up | their comment | thread
“It’s ironic because this post was clearly geared towards non-hackers. But now that we’re here.. the other analogy I considered presenting was: harness = chassis, model =…” | ||
| 24. | Coding is not solved (blog.alexewerlof.com) | |
| 585 points | 2026 | author hanifbbz showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks whoever shared this here. I love the brutal criticism and critical thinking of this community. I'm also fully aware of the emotions this stirs. If it makes you…” | ||
| 25. | Outlook.com is rejecting email from domains without DMARC (mailroute.net) | |
| 544 points | 2026 | author mailroute showed up | their comment | thread
“Microsoft did announce sender rules last year, but those rules aren't what is bouncing mail now. The April 2025 announcement covers domains that send more than 5,000…” | ||
| 26. | Does Georgism work? Five years later (astralcodexten.com) | |
| 517 points | 2026 | author larsiusprime showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Another thing I've noticed is that you never know how or what will happen until you try. I was following legislation in one state and learned that literally dozens of…” | ||
| 27. | RAG Is Simpler Than You Think (lighthousenewsletter.com) | |
| 516 points | 2026 | author j0selit0 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“at most companies I've worked for recently (F500) RAG is still quite trendy. this was what frustrated me a bit and motivated to write this article - along with other…” | ||
| 28. | ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs (quantumi.sh) | |
| 497 points | 2026 | author quantumish showed up | their comment | thread
“Very surprised to see this here - my poor web server wasn't built for this! It's back up for now.” | ||
| 29. | E-means: Outperforming k-means in one-tenth the epochs (e-means.github.io) | |
| 493 points | 2026 | author swann_bessa showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“If you can send them, I would love to hear about the results you got !” | ||
| 30. | A thousand fewer paths to root (openai.com) | |
| 489 points | 2026 | author ky1ebot1337 showed up | their comment | thread
“just created an account to answer some questions :D) My goal is to work towards a vuln-free Internet. What I observed is that stronger models can find many more…” | ||
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