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  1. Working on decentralized compute at io.net sharing what we're learning
    ×0.27 | 2 points by plutodev 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Is it time for HN to implement a form of captcha?
    ×1.13 29 | 86 points by Rooster61 1 day ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Tell HN: Get a dying iPhone 12 mini in 2026
    ×0.43 52 | 17 points by remywang 15 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Any Microsoft employees/devs here? What's happening to Microsoft?
    ×0.82 89 | 104 points by thehamkercat 3 days ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. I've maintained an open source task manager for 8 years
    ×0.52 80 | 4 points by johannesjo 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2026)
    ×0.83 122 | 170 points by whoishiring 1 week ago | 405 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How do you use 5–10 minute gaps productively?
    ×0.61 138 | 44 points by pea 4 days ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Feeling irrelevant in back end. How to pivot to automotive software?
    ×0.35 | 2 points by culopatin 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Implementing NaN Boxing in a Stack-Based VM
    ×0.13 148 | 4 points by tracyspacy 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026)
    ×1.39 104 | 355 points by whoishiring 1 week ago | 346 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How would you decouple from the US?
    ×2.96 84 | 30 points by yawa_me_worht 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. I built an AI agent that deploys a PR to production
    ×0.17 | 2 points by amouehsan 21 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: How do you do store-and-forward telemetry at the edge?
    ×0.20 149 | 4 points by Aydarbek 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Where is legacy codebase maintenance headed?
    ×0.44 110 | 5 points by AnnKey 23 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Is there a Zod validation library for Golang?
    ×0.50 85 | 3 points by danver0 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Funding Opportunities with Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC)
    ×0.15 | 2 points by ARDC_73 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. RevisionDojo, a YC startup, is running astroturfing campaigns targeting kids?
    ×2.73 66 | 451 points by red-polygon 4 days ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Developing a high level language over Zig
    ×0.07 | 2 points by ziyaadsaqlain 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What's a standard way for apps to request text completion as a service?
    ×0.22 150 | 5 points by nvader 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: We built an air-gapped document vault with encrypted print and export
    ×0.16 147 | 3 points by KevinG777 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Reading list for being a better engineer?
    ×1.20 143 | 47 points by drekipus 5 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Git analytics that works across GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket
    ×0.17 151 | 3 points by akhnid 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. I made a lofi page for late night work
    ×0.92 144 | 21 points by onmyway133 4 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Replit (YC W18) Is Hiring (ashbyhq.com)
    3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Systematically Improving Espresso: Mathematical Modeling and Experiment (2020) (cell.com)
    ×0.76 50 #52 | 71 points by austinallegro 20 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSS (twitter.com/OfficialLoganK)
    ×4.48 12 #54 | 741 points by qwertyforce 1 day ago | 281 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Passengers' brain signals may help self-driving cars make safer choices (techxplore.com)
    ×1.07 | 2 points by PaulHoule 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: I made a memory game to teach you to play piano by ear (specr.net)
    ×2.11 2 #1 | 302 points by vunderba 4 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. The unreasonable effectiveness of the Fourier transform (joshuawise.com)
    ×1.68 33 #44 | 297 points by voxadam 1 day ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: CLIs Are All You Need for Agents (github.com/caesarnine)
    ×0.42 | 2 points by binalpatel 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Looking for flagged discussions on HN? See what's active
    ×2.14 35 #11 | 4 points by onemoresoop 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Flock Hardcoded the Password for America's Surveillance Infrastructure 53 Times (nexanet.ai)
    ×3.36 31 #45 | 13 points by fuck_flock 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley (sfstandard.com)
    ×2.41 36 #46 | 286 points by newusertoday 1 day ago | 460 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Prompt Fiddling Considered Harmful (tomsilver.github.io)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by tomssilver 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. How Big Tech Killed Literary Culture (unherd.com)
    ×3.45 37 | 6 points by wigwamnh 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Pydantic-AI-stream – Structured event streaming for pydantic-AI agents (github.com/opale-ai)
    ×1.65 113 | 6 points by sbargaoui 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Similarity = cosine(your_GitHub_stars, Karpathy) Client-side (puzer.github.io)
    ×1.59 15 #12 | 88 points by puzer 6 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ubisoft Shuts Assassin's Creed Developer Studio Just Weeks After It Unionized (ign.com)
    ×4.95 48 | 59 points by acron0 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Remotedays – Cross-border remote work compliance for EU companies
    ×1.80 114 | 5 points by alwinaugustin 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: An LLM-Powered PCB Schematic Checker (Major Update) (traceformer.io)
    ×0.71 131 | 54 points by wafflesfreak 4 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Supernova Remnant Video from NASA's Chandra Is Decades in Making (nasa.gov)
    ×1.40 44 | 62 points by dylan604 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: VaultSandbox – Test your real MailGun/SES/etc. integration (vaultsandbox.com)
    ×0.70 94 | 58 points by vaultsandbox 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Fzf-navigator, a terminal file system navigator (github.com/benward2301)
    ×0.45 | 2 points by benward2301 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Game Boy Release Timelines (gameboyessentials.com)
    ×2.26 142 | 6 points by philistine 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Amiga Desktops Worth Seeing (datagubbe.se)
    ×1.46 11 #59 | 8 points by naves 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Dell admits consumers don't care about AI PCs (pcgamer.com)
    ×3.68 38 #66 | 539 points by mossTechnician 2 days ago | 380 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: AI-powered AWS Cloud Practitioner exam prep tool (ai-test-aws-cloud-practitioner-cem1aruhh.vercel.app)
    ×0.82 | 1 points by baristaGeek 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: DoNotNotify – Log and intelligently block notifications on Android (donotnotify.com)
    ×1.52 75 | 345 points by awaaz 4 days ago | 165 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Open database of link metadata for large-scale analysis (github.com/rumca-js)
    ×0.32 98 | 15 points by renegat0x0 6 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: DDL to Data – Generate realistic test data from SQL schemas
    ×0.59 112 | 54 points by ddltodata 3 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Turn a single image into a navigable 3D Gaussian Splat with depth (revelium.studio)
    ×1.50 49 #7 | 12 points by ytpete 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: EuConform – Offline-first EU AI Act compliance tool (open source) (github.com/Hiepler)
    ×0.66 11 #10 | 32 points by hiepler 2 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. How to code Claude Code in 200 lines of code (mihaileric.com)
    ×2.82 17 #26 | 694 points by nutellalover 1 day ago | 215 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Learning to Play Tic-Tac-Toe with Jax (joe-antognini.github.io)
    ×0.46 49 #85 | 50 points by antognini 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Prompting 101: Show, don't tell (haskellforall.com)
    ×2.14 29 | 4 points by todsacerdoti 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. National Park Service will void passes with stickers over Trump's face (npr.org)
    ×4.33 46 | 7 points by mikhael 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. White House architect says West Wing additions considered for 'symmetry' (go.com)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by throw0101c 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Arthur C. Clarke: The Nine Billion Names of God (1953) (hex.ooo)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by sph 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. California's high-speed rail – $135B price tag, years of false starts (nypost.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by Alupis 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Turn your PRs into marketing updates (personabox.app)
    ×0.80 129 | 3 points by mpc75 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. When Kitty Litter Caused a Nuclear Catastrophe (practical.engineering)
    ×1.19 5 #30 | 114 points by tape_measure 4 days ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Lights and Shadows (2020) (ciechanow.ski)
    ×1.22 9 #90 | 239 points by kg 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Just Logo – Multi-source logo generator for side projects (just-logo.vercel.app)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by ahmedsemih 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Hover – IDE style hover documentation on any webpage (github.com/Sampsoon)
    ×0.62 130 | 57 points by sampsonj 5 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Libretto: A Blockchain-Hosted Fixed-Term ETH Deposit (github.com/francescocarlucci)
    ×0.86 | 1 points by frenxi 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. The virtual AmigaOS runtime (a.k.a. Wine for Amiga:) (github.com/cnvogelg)
    ×0.97 55 | 125 points by doener 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Star Trek: The Next Generation Episode Guessing Game (episodle.com)
    ×1.40 72 | 3 points by francisofascii 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: I built a "Conversion Killer Detector" to audit landing page copy (vect.pro)
    ×0.83 141 | 3 points by afrazullal 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Gmail is entering the Gemini Era (blog.google)
    ×4.09 54 | 63 points by xnx 1 day ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: KeelTest – AI-driven VS Code unit test generator with bug discovery (keelcode.dev)
    ×0.27 105 | 29 points by bulba4aur 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. The (likely?) cheapest home-made Michelson interferometer (guille.site)
    ×1.24 13 #6 | 45 points by LolWolf 3 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Larry Page leaves California to protect $12.5B from proposed wealth tax (neowin.net)
    ×2.88 2 #78 | 8 points by SunshineTheCat 3 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Tumblr removed from Apple App Store over abuse images (2018) (bbc.com)
    ×6.61 14 | 71 points by dmschulman 20 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Jax-JS, array library in JavaScript targeting WebGPU (ekzhang.com)
    ×1.06 92 | 82 points by ekzhang 3 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Finding similarities in New Yorker covers (shoplurker.com)
    ×0.18 134 | 18 points by tkp-415 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: A to Z – A word game I built from a childhood road trip memory (a26z.fun)
    ×0.55 119 | 13 points by jackhulbert 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Claude Reflect – Auto-turn Claude corrections into project config (github.com/BayramAnnakov)
    ×0.97 128 | 75 points by Bayram 5 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Iran's complete Internet shutdown reaches 24 hours (mastodon.social)
    ×3.43 44 #51 | 34 points by walrus01 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. What is the point of saying the same thing four times? UXQuirks (kde.org)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by sheepscreek 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Mantic.sh – A structural code search engine for AI agents (github.com/marcoaapfortes)
    ×0.64 93 | 79 points by marcoaapfortes 3 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Rocket Launch and Orbit Simulator (donutthejedi.com)
    ×1.00 6 #5 | 49 points by donutthejedi 2 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN : A game to document my electronics learning journey. (jeevan.life)
    ×1.13 13 #20 | 14 points by ssunboyy 1 hour ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. MCP is a fad (tombedor.dev)
    ×3.13 51 | 136 points by risemlbill 11 hours ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Musashi: Motorola 680x0 emulator written in C (github.com/kstenerud)
    ×0.96 56 | 124 points by doener 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. JavaScript Demos in 140 Characters (dwitter.net)
    ×1.10 4 #2 | 90 points by themanmaran 2 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Executable Markdown files with Unix pipes
    ×1.01 41 #49 | 106 points by jedwhite 19 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Meta signs 6+ GW of nuclear with 3 companies (techcrunch.com)
    ×1.35 18 #71 | 4 points by burnt-resistor 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. AI made human passwords embarrassingly predictable (aiipassword.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by amandapoDEV 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Scientists discover oldest poison, on 60k-year-old arrows (nytimes.com)
    ×0.94 18 #4 | 57 points by noleary 3 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Gross Profit per Token (tomtunguz.com)
    ×0.85 | 1 points by gmays 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???