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  1. Ask HN: Is it worth learning Vim in 2026?
    ×3.87 85 | 14 points by zekejohn 45 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Thank HN: You helped save 33k lives
    ×4.53 13 | 1127 points by chaseadam17 2 days ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Googling on Brazil about "Gemini said" shows unrevised content from Gemini
    ×0.12 88 | 3 points by yrds96 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Are hackathons still worth doing?
    ×0.24 82 | 5 points by kwar13 14 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Can a license make large corporations give back?
    ×0.10 | 2 points by arboles 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Anyone else tired of working in tech?
    ×1.35 76 | 28 points by boredemployee 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: (Your) Request for Startups?
    ×0.53 75 | 8 points by dontoni 16 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: In Cursor/agents, do plugins hide MCP tools from the main agent?
    ×0.18 123 | 4 points by azebazenestor 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How do you motivate your humans to stop AI-washing their emails?
    ×0.48 103 | 27 points by causal 2 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Why are there no talks about Seedance 2.0 on Hacker News?
    ×0.39 110 | 8 points by ElectroNomad 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How do you overcome imposter syndrome?
    ×0.47 126 | 9 points by fdneng 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Watching an elderly relative trying to use the modern web
    ×0.89 99 | 48 points by ColinWright 3 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Top non-ad google result for "polymarket" in Australia is a crypto scam
    ×0.39 140 | 17 points by rtrgrd 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Tell HN: Attackers using Google parental controls to prevent account recovery
    ×1.13 104 | 18 points by TazeTSchnitzel 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. SEL Deploy – Cryptographically chained deployment timeline
    ×0.09 | 2 points by chokriabouzid 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Claude web blocked its assets visit via csp?
    ×0.32 134 | 6 points by xgstation 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Companies that advertise being a "best place to work", is it a red flag?
    ×0.30 138 | 12 points by jrs235 3 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Why don't entrepreneurs talk about starting businesses publicly anymore?
    ×1.00 94 | 8 points by silexia 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Picknar – Lightweight YouTube Thumbnail Extractor (No Login, No API Key)
    ×0.13 145 | 3 points by Picknar 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: How do you debug multi-step AI workflows when the output is wrong?
    ×0.31 144 | 3 points by terryjiang2020 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Grand Time: Time-Based Models in Decentralized Trust
    ×0.36 146 | 3 points by AGsist 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Any AI / Agent power users out there? Do you have any tips?
    ×0.50 127 | 7 points by uejfiweun 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: How do companies that use Cursor handle compliance?
    ×0.43 142 | 9 points by Poomba 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Ranking sliders on a personal blog?
    ×0.46 143 | 14 points by incognito124 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Why is YouTube's recommendation system so bad?
    ×0.79 131 | 15 points by mr-pink 3 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Do global AGENTS.md with coding principles make sense?
    ×0.22 147 | 4 points by endorphine 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: An e-ink air traffic monitor built with Cloudflare Workers (github.com/Jay9185)
    ×0.76 14 #82 | 4 points by jerr12939 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. How HTTP Requests Work (xeiaso.net)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by chromehearts 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue (github.com/zachlatta)
    ×1.61 71 | 275 points by zachlatta 3 days ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. European Tech Alternatives (eutechmap.com)
    ×4.30 25 | 251 points by puppion 1 day ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: A Unix environment in a single HTML file (420 KB) (shiro.computer)
    ×1.83 86 | 27 points by sagebird 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Microsoft's new 10k-year data storage medium: glass (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.99 30 #62 | 27 points by vinhnx 5 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. The #1 most downloaded skill on OpenClaw marketplace was malware (twitter.com/chiefofautism)
    ×3.72 12 #64 | 51 points by Umofomia 10 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. How AI is affecting productivity and jobs in Europe (cepr.org)
    ×2.08 19 #90 | 167 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. What Makes Online Content Viral? [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by microsoftedging 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Measuring Input-to-Photon Latency (Because 'Wayland Feels Off' Isn't a Metric) (davidjusto.com)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by rhim 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. NASA boss says Boeing Starliner failure one of worst in its history (bbc.com)
    ×1.69 | 2 points by mywacaday 26 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Large banner featuring Trump's face is displayed on Justice Department HQ (apnews.com)
    ×2.50 14 | 4 points by stopbulying 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. A Buried History – Wooden Water Mains [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by thunderbong 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Learn GPU programming with coding agents (vtemian.com)
    ×2.03 87 | 6 points by vtemian 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. US funding for global internet freedom 'effectively gutted' (theguardian.com)
    ×3.48 24 | 89 points by xyzal 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: AsteroidOS 2.0 – Nobody asked, we shipped anyway (asteroidos.org)
    ×2.03 31 | 465 points by moWerk 2 days ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Lessons from Building Claude Code: Prompt Caching Is Everything (twitter.com/trq212)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by tosh 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. The Perils of ISBN (rygoldstein.com)
    ×1.24 34 | 155 points by evakhoury 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Wildex – Pokémon Go for real wildlife (apple.com)
    ×0.96 89 | 105 points by AnujNayyar 3 days ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Growl Owl 2 RL Reasoner (github.com/Trivyn)
    ×1.46 141 | 3 points by jcadam 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Claude Sonnet 4.6 (anthropic.com)
    ×4.83 3 #73 | 1329 points by adocomplete 2 days ago | 1210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can't Trust His Testimony (techoversight.org)
    ×6.81 5 | 538 points by speckx 1 day ago | 316 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Can random experimental choice lead to better theories? (sagepub.com)
    ×0.41 62 #61 | 37 points by paraschopra 18 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: AstroLens – AI that watches the sky and finds what nobody catalogued (github.com/deepfieldlabs)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by samantaba 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. China Is Killing the Fish (noahpinion.blog)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by atlasunshrugged 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Keystone – configure Dockerfiles and dev containers for any repo (github.com/imbue-ai)
    ×4.13 98 | 11 points by thad_imbue 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Step 3.5 Flash – Open-source foundation model, supports deep reasoning at speed (stepfun.com)
    ×1.65 13 #79 | 221 points by kristianp 1 day ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Chat with Llamma 8B at 16,000 TPS (chatjimmy.ai)
    ×1.92 7 | 3 points by nl 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Provisioner per-board sidecar for serial access, flashing, and bring-up
    ×0.17 72 | 8 points by acarminati 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: SkillForge – Turn screen recordings into agent skill files (skillforge.expert)
    ×1.33 133 | 3 points by YaraDori 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Codereport – track TODOs, refactors, and bugs in your repo with a CLI
    ×1.56 121 | 4 points by pulko 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: OtherFunc – Serverless functions in Brainfuck, Forth, BASIC, and more (otherfunc.com)
    ×1.88 129 | 4 points by mdeeds 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. The paradox of work – Tim Harford (timharford.com)
    ×2.58 55 | 3 points by swolpers 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. AI Supply Chain – Map of the supply chain behind a single ChatGPT query (aisupplychain.vercel.app)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by helloplanets 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Accenture links staff's AI use to promotion (thetimes.com)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by petethomas 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Jemini – Gemini for the Epstein Files (jmail.world)
    ×3.13 56 | 484 points by dvrp 4 days ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Rust Developer Ecosystem Survey 2025: Popularity, Trends, and Future (jetbrains.com)
    ×1.69 | 2 points by gudzpoz 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Ex-Google Engineers Charged with Stealing Trade Secrets for Iran (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.40 | 2 points by Rutledge 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: I created an app to remove Reels, now on iOS too (apple.com)
    ×1.53 95 | 4 points by adrianhacar 19 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Synter- Open source MCP server to manage ads across 7 platforms (github.com/jshorwitz)
    ×1.23 105 | 3 points by synterai 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Agent Paperclip: A Desktop "Clippy" That Monitors Claude Code/Codex (github.com/fredruss)
    ×0.98 | 2 points by fredrussias 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. MD5 Algorithm Explainer (md5algorithm.vercel.app)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by fanweixiao 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: AI agent audited its platform, got 80% wrong, rewrote its methodology (openseed.dev)
    ×2.09 93 | 4 points by rsdza 18 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Infrastructure decisions I endorse or regret after 4 years at a startup (2024) (cep.dev)
    ×4.24 2 #10 | 243 points by Meetvelde 10 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Paged Out Issue #8 [pdf] (pagedout.institute)
    ×2.07 9 #20 | 380 points by SteveHawk27 20 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Tech Is Taking over Olympic Curling (ieee.org)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by JeanKage 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Debian: The Impregnable Fortress of Community Governance (pbxscience.com)
    ×2.19 38 | 3 points by enz 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. AI Desktop Agent over VNC – your AI connects to your desktop like a remote user (github.com/AmrDab)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by AmrDabb 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Micron Is Spending $200B to Break the AI Memory Bottleneck (wsj.com)
    ×2.22 10 #71 | 12 points by walterbell 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Vibenchmarking different JSON schema validator CLI tools (github.com/whacked)
    ×0.84 | 1 points by whacked_new 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: 2D Coulomb Gas Simulator (simonhalvdansson.github.io)
    ×0.40 109 | 41 points by swesnow 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Microgpt is a GPT you can visualize in the browser (boratto.ca)
    ×1.74 83 | 280 points by b44 4 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Gatherly – E-signatures and doc collection for professional services (gatherly.shop)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by ivannovazzi 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Rebrain.gg – Doom learn, don't doom scroll
    ×1.05 44 | 108 points by FailMore 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Breadboard – A modern HyperCard for building web apps on the canvas (breadboards.io)
    ×0.95 73 | 90 points by simquat 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Elecxzy – A lightweight, Lisp-free Emacs-like editor in Electron (github.com/kurouna)
    ×0.96 | 2 points by kurouna 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Internationalise the Fediverse (shkspr.mobi)
    ×3.41 69 | 4 points by todsacerdoti 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Writing a C++20M:N Scheduler from Scratch (EBR, Work-Stealing) (github.com/lixiasky-back)
    ×0.98 111 | 18 points by lixiasky 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Wakapadi – Meet locals and travelers nearby and join free walking tours (wakapadi.io)
    ×1.00 | 2 points by CodePapi_ 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Formally verified FPGA watchdog for AM broadcast in unmanned tunnels (github.com/Park07)
    ×0.77 70 | 62 points by anonymoosestdnt 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Pi for Excel: AI sidebar add-in for Excel (github.com/tmustier)
    ×0.91 14 #7 | 65 points by rahimnathwani 6 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Lindenmayer.jl: Defining recursive patterns in Julia (cormullion.github.io)
    ×0.96 21 #23 | 50 points by WillMorr 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: A small, simple music theory library in C99 (github.com/thelowsunoverthemoon)
    ×0.79 33 #29 | 37 points by lowsun 10 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. The Mongol Khans of Medieval France (historytoday.com)
    ×0.97 48 #52 | 96 points by Thevet 22 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???