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  1. My Logitech mouse became unusable, Logi Options+ can't validate certificate
    ×0.81 33 | 5 points by enescakir 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Any Microsoft employees/devs here? What's happening to Microsoft?
    ×0.87 23 | 36 points by thehamkercat 18 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2026)
    ×0.84 97 | 163 points by whoishiring 4 days ago | 377 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: How do you use 5–10 minute gaps productively?
    ×0.65 100 | 36 points by pea 2 days ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Git analytics that works across GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket
    ×0.21 | 2 points by akhnid 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026)
    ×1.38 76 | 347 points by whoishiring 4 days ago | 304 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2026 – Show and tell
    ×1.01 10 | 6 points by selmas58 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. RevisionDojo, a YC startup, is running astroturfing campaigns targeting kids?
    ×2.80 14 | 448 points by red-polygon 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What's a standard way for apps to request text completion as a service?
    ×0.26 137 | 4 points by nvader 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Amazon Prime AI overviews can't even get the basics right
    ×1.63 62 | 42 points by PyWoody 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Has anyone else been struggling with search lately?
    ×2.06 73 | 27 points by areoform 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. ProjectCLI: The Swiss Army Knife CLI for bootstrapping any project
    ×0.78 104 | 3 points by dawitworku 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: How do small teams make sure recurring tasks don't slip?
    ×0.36 107 | 5 points by batels 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Anyone building software for wearable tech?
    ×0.36 103 | 15 points by ssc23 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Tell HN: Internet Bug Bounty (IBB) on HackerOne Appears Dead, CVEs Unpaid
    ×0.35 87 | 6 points by irke882 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What kind of setup do you run for your children?
    ×0.67 88 | 6 points by mattwdelong 20 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Private Operating System
    ×0.57 110 | 6 points by ariatelco 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. I made a lofi page for late night work
    ×0.90 92 | 17 points by onmyway133 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Reading list for being a better engineer?
    ×1.17 117 | 41 points by drekipus 3 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. What do people usually do with spare Android phones? Any practical use cases?
    ×0.63 131 | 18 points by AndroidShare 2 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Launching niche service soon, how should I prepare?
    ×0.73 | 2 points by thedangler 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: What's the future of software testing and QA?
    ×0.84 129 | 23 points by sjgeek 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: What did you learn in 2025?
    ×1.37 138 | 19 points by kiernanmcgowan 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Tell HN: I'm having the worst career winter of my life
    ×2.55 113 | 98 points by mariogintili 4 days ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Are you missing daily email alerts from HN?
    ×0.43 126 | 9 points by unknownhad 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: What's the best talk you've watched?
    ×3.32 84 | 20 points by barddoo 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Is anyone having success with Reddit ads?
    ×2.48 86 | 6 points by mattglossop 18 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: How is your work making the world a better place?
    ×1.14 122 | 15 points by AbstractH24 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. How to use AI to augment learning without losing critical thinking skills?
    ×0.69 143 | 24 points by mintsuku 5 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Tell HN: EU soliciting feedback on law that could affect Open Access
    ×0.88 125 | 10 points by Quanttek 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Expository/Succinct Books on Modern Physics
    ×0.75 134 | 27 points by rramadass 4 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: When do we expose "Humans as Tools" so LLM agents can call us on demand?
    ×1.22 140 | 48 points by vedmakk 5 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Who is using Nebula (mesh VPN)?
    ×0.84 144 | 8 points by cdsl 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Replacement for MacUpdater which reached EOL on 2026-01-01
    ×0.87 145 | 6 points by croemer 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. GOG Patrons- Join gamers keeping classics alive (gog.com)
    ×1.71 51 | 146 points by CyMonk 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Mamdani Targets Junk Fees and Hidden Charges in Two Executive Orders (nytimes.com)
    ×5.36 34 | 113 points by lordleft 19 hours ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Singularity Rootkit: SELinux bypass and netlink filter (ss/conntrack hidden) (github.com/MatheuZSecurity)
    ×0.94 58 | 105 points by matheuzsec 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: I used AI to recreate a $4000 piece of audio hardware as a plugin
    ×1.99 70 | 160 points by johnwheeler 4 days ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: H-1B Salary Data Explorer
    ×1.92 105 | 28 points by zuhayeer 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Hierarchical Autoregressive Modeling for Memory-Efficient Language Generation (arxiv.org)
    ×0.63 38 #67 | 42 points by PaulHoule 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Teenager died of overdose 'after ChatGPT coached him on drug-taking' (telegraph.co.uk)
    ×2.48 36 | 3 points by doppp 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Promoting AI Agents (hey.com)
    ×2.32 22 | 3 points by Tomte 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Unicode cursive font generator that checks cross-platform compatibility (cursivefontgenerator.info)
    ×0.60 116 | 11 points by xiaomohaha 5 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Lego introduces display-free smart bricks (lego.com)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by l1am0 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Claude and Typst – Examples for AI-Assisted Document Generation [pdf] (richardcocks.github.io)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by eterm 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: A Git structure for AI to orchestrate across code, docs, and ops (goldsborough.io)
    ×1.08 93 | 4 points by barefootsanders 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. The creator of Claude Code just revealed his workflow (venturebeat.com)
    ×1.25 51 #75 | 32 points by weinzierl 19 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. AI voice agents which convert (coldi.ai)
    ×0.85 | 1 points by Olivia8 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. CI-Hush (gitlab.com)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by jjgreen 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Ask HN: Cheapest / most efficient way of pre-filtering candidates
    ×0.67 | 1 points by sz4kerto 59 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Imagine 130M Washing Machines (scottsumner.substack.com)
    ×1.02 64 | 74 points by RickJWagner 1 day ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. New Lego smart-play system (lego.com)
    ×2.99 | 70 points by acoye 19 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Laylo (YC S20) – Head of Growth (Organic and Partners and Loops and AI) – Remote US (ycombinator.com)
    13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. High-performance header-only container library for C++23 on x86-64 (github.com/kressler)
    ×0.71 53 #46 | 70 points by mattgodbolt 20 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Valve Should Buy Discord (Before the IPO) (garbagecollected.dev)
    ×2.64 52 | 3 points by ee64a4a 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Electronic nose for indoor mold detection and identification (wiley.com)
    ×1.29 14 #6 | 122 points by PaulHoule 10 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Post-growth: the science of wellbeing within planetary boundaries (thelancet.com)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by hamburgererror 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Ask HN: IF you could get a functional prototype in 24h for €5k,would you buy it?
    ×0.70 | 1 points by altras 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. A tiny course on differentiable rasterization (jjbannister.github.io)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by ibobev 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Novo Nordisk launches Wegovy weight-loss pill in US, triggering price war (theguardian.com)
    ×2.84 37 | 142 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Utopian Scholastic (wol.fm)
    ×0.83 60 | 70 points by birdculture 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Doloris – A distributed system in Go that feels pain (github.com/FreeFlowLabsCL)
    ×1.02 135 | 3 points by gusiii 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Microsoft probably killed my Snapdragon Dev Kit (jasoneckert.github.io)
    ×1.33 13 #19 | 167 points by jasoneckert 8 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. The Liskov Substitution Principle does more than you think (buttondown.com)
    ×1.77 51 #78 | 24 points by ulrischa 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Hetzner: Measuring the performance of the new gen server types (reddit.com)
    ×0.86 | 1 points by tosh 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. DiskImage: A powerful floppy disk image manager with built-in bitstream analysis (github.com/Digitoxin1)
    ×0.73 64 #59 | 9 points by ibobev 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Server-rendered multiplayer game with proximity chat and LLM NPC (github.com/skorotkiewicz)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by modinfo 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. One Pizza Team (avraam.dev)
    ×1.49 | 2 points by almonerthis 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. So, you want to chunk really fast? (minha.sh)
    ×1.17 43 | 149 points by snyy 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Why German Strings Are Everywhere? (cedardb.com)
    ×1.88 15 | 67 points by byt3h3ad 21 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. XPER on the Commodore 64 (stonetools.ghost.io)
    ×1.07 25 #34 | 41 points by ChristopherDrum 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Most websites don't need cookie consent banners (block81.com)
    ×2.15 18 #45 | 90 points by pickup191 9 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Databases in 2025: A Year in Review (cmu.edu)
    ×2.80 21 #54 | 680 points by viveknathani_ 2 days ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: ISO 8583 simulator in Python with LLM-powered message explanation (github.com/bassrehab)
    ×2.49 127 | 6 points by subhadipmitra 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Tt – P2P terminal sharing over WebRTC
    ×2.89 75 | 8 points by artpar 18 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: OpenWorkers – Self-hosted Cloudflare workers in Rust (openworkers.com)
    ×2.30 78 | 500 points by max_lt 5 days ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Canada's Immigration Dept shelves visa program for entrepreneurs, citing misuse (theglobeandmail.com)
    ×2.50 37 #88 | 14 points by petethomas 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. PixWit – All-in-One AI Video Creation Platform (pixwit.ai)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by maysunyoung 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Read Kindle Like X (kindle-highlights-three.vercel.app)
    ×2.60 124 | 7 points by baristaGeek 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Video Game Websites in the early 00s (webdesignmuseum.org)
    ×1.90 11 #44 | 168 points by klaussilveira 16 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. haggleforme.computer (haggleforme.computer)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by emaadm 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Offline tiles and routing and geocoding in one Docker Compose stack (corviont.com)
    ×0.87 96 | 100 points by packet_mover 3 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Hype Without Proof: The Influentists (carette.xyz)
    ×3.55 39 | 5 points by weird_trousers 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Gemini Protocol Deployment Statistics (obsessivefacts.com)
    ×0.74 21 #76 | 72 points by rickcarlino 20 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Gatekeepers of Law: Inside the Westlaw and LexisNexis Duopoly (thebignewsletter.com)
    ×1.36 33 | 152 points by toomuchtodo 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. The skill of the future is not 'AI', but 'Focus' (2025) (carette.xyz)
    ×1.81 5 | 64 points by Brajeshwar 19 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. A 30B Qwen model walks into a Raspberry Pi and runs in real time (byteshape.com)
    ×1.95 5 #8 | 250 points by dataminer 14 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Backpressure in JavaScript (gaborkoos.com)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by enz 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. 65% of Hacker News posts have negative sentiment, and they outperform (philippdubach.com)
    ×3.36 73 | 470 points by 7777777phil 20 hours ago | 443 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. What is index overhead on writes? (depesz.com)
    ×1.94 13 | 3 points by todsacerdoti 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???