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  1. OpenAI API and ChatGPT are down
    ×1.59 40 | 3 points by themanmaran 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Is it time for HN to implement a form of captcha?
    ×1.87 22 #44 | 57 points by Rooster61 5 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Where is legacy codebase maintenance headed?
    ×0.58 12 | 3 points by AnnKey 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Amazon gives managers a new way to spot employees not spending time in office
    ×2.65 48 | 4 points by cebert 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Any Microsoft employees/devs here? What's happening to Microsoft?
    ×0.85 75 | 100 points by thehamkercat 2 days ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2026)
    ×0.82 117 | 167 points by whoishiring 6 days ago | 397 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Developing a high level language over Zig
    ×0.08 | 2 points by ziyaadsaqlain 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How do you use 5–10 minute gaps productively?
    ×0.58 129 | 40 points by pea 4 days ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026)
    ×1.38 96 | 352 points by whoishiring 6 days ago | 333 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: We built an air-gapped document vault with encrypted print and export
    ×0.18 116 | 3 points by KevinG777 19 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Implementing NaN Boxing in a Stack-Based VM
    ×0.11 140 | 3 points by tracyspacy 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. RevisionDojo, a YC startup, is running astroturfing campaigns targeting kids?
    ×2.75 57 | 451 points by red-polygon 3 days ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Cancelled 2x Cursor Ultra plans, here's why
    ×1.52 18 | 7 points by throwawayround 5 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Is anyone aware of a LinkedIn mirror like xcancel.com for X?
    ×0.69 100 | 11 points by danielfalbo 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What's a standard way for apps to request text completion as a service?
    ×0.23 151 | 5 points by nvader 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Anyone else seeing porn images in YouTube ad preview images?
    ×0.18 131 | 4 points by OhMeadhbh 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: How do you do store-and-forward telemetry at the edge?
    ×0.21 132 | 4 points by Aydarbek 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Git analytics that works across GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket
    ×0.19 152 | 3 points by akhnid 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Amazon Prime AI overviews can't even get the basics right
    ×1.42 103 | 43 points by PyWoody 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Has anyone else been struggling with search lately?
    ×1.77 115 | 31 points by areoform 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Anyone building software for wearable tech?
    ×0.35 141 | 16 points by ssc23 3 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Reading list for being a better engineer?
    ×1.16 137 | 44 points by drekipus 4 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. My Logitech mouse became unusable, Logi Options+ can't validate certificate
    ×0.48 108 | 12 points by enescakir 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: What did you learn in 2025?
    ×1.24 149 | 20 points by kiernanmcgowan 5 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. What do people usually do with spare Android phones? Any practical use cases?
    ×0.58 148 | 18 points by AndroidShare 4 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Tell HN: I'm having the worst career winter of my life
    ×2.44 130 | 98 points by mariogintili 6 days ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: What's the future of software testing and QA?
    ×0.78 145 | 23 points by sjgeek 4 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: How do small teams make sure recurring tasks don't slip?
    ×0.35 147 | 6 points by batels 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. I made a lofi page for late night work
    ×0.83 134 | 18 points by onmyway133 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Private Operating System
    ×0.45 150 | 6 points by ariatelco 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2026 – Show and tell
    ×1.54 102 | 15 points by selmas58 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Website that plays the lottery every second (lffl.me)
    ×1.95 98 | 260 points by Loeffelmann 5 days ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Lord of War, meet Lord of Tokens: Testing image models on design-agency work (singhkays.com)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by singhkays 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. US Job Openings Decline to Lowest Level in More Than a Year (bloomberg.com)
    ×4.70 3 | 342 points by toomuchtodo 1 day ago | 336 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Symbolic Circuit Distillation: prove program to LLM circuit equivalence (github.com/neelsomani)
    ×0.60 118 | 16 points by nsomani 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Intellectual Junkyards (forester-notes.org)
    ×0.77 16 #30 | 31 points by ysangkok 5 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Experimenting with AI to defend critical infrastructure (anthropic.com)
    ×1.15 | 2 points by Kristopher1337 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Mabl vs. Mechasm: From low-code recordings to agentic E2E testing (mechasm.ai)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by sleepless02 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. German president says US is destroying world order (reuters.com)
    ×10.22 10 | 59 points by TechTechTech 12 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Open database of link metadata for large-scale analysis (github.com/rumca-js)
    ×0.27 70 | 12 points by renegat0x0 5 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: uvx ptn, scan a QR, get a terminal in your phone (github.com/lyehe)
    ×1.23 127 | 99 points by yxl448 5 days ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Why AI is pushing developers toward typed languages (github.blog)
    ×1.80 14 #48 | 3 points by ingve 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Mitsubishi Delica Is the Smallest Camper Van You'll See in 2026 (robbreport.com)
    ×1.57 | 2 points by tortilla 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Kenyan barber who wields sharpened shovel thrives on Africa's social media craze (apnews.com)
    ×1.46 | 2 points by gnabgib 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Remotedays – Cross-border remote work compliance for EU companies
    ×0.88 | 2 points by alwinaugustin 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: llmgame.ai – The Wikipedia Game but with LLMs (llmgame.ai)
    ×0.64 104 | 24 points by jmcallister 2 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. AI coding assistants are getting worse? (ieee.org)
    ×2.66 8 #11 | 186 points by voxadam 8 hours ago | 271 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: A geofence-based social network app 6 years in development (localvideoapp.com)
    ×1.03 10 #16 | 23 points by Adrian-ChatLocl 2 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. 1. `Sanctum – Cryptographically deniable encrypted vaults with IPFS storage` (github.com/Teycir)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by teycirb 30 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Grok Deepfaked Renee Nicole Good's Body into a Bikini (motherjones.com)
    ×1.13 | 2 points by cdrnsf 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: A game/benchmark where AI bots hunt each other (hiding-robot.vercel.app)
    ×0.83 89 | 3 points by -babi- 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Notion AI: Unpatched data exfiltration (promptarmor.com)
    ×1.41 39 #59 | 201 points by takira 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Shipmap.org (shipmap.org)
    ×3.18 6 #63 | 755 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Dendrometers challenge the 'moon wood concept' [pdf] (nature.com)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by thunderbong 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Tips for AI Coding with Ralph Wiggum (aihero.dev)
    ×0.95 | 2 points by handfuloflight 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Quantum Tunnel (chuanqisun.github.io)
    ×0.73 135 | 30 points by osmoscraft 4 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: DoNotNotify – Log and intelligently block notifications on Android (donotnotify.com)
    ×1.51 68 | 343 points by awaaz 3 days ago | 165 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: I built "Google" for searching Shadcn blocks on the web (shoogle.dev)
    ×1.05 106 | 21 points by ali-dev 6 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. The Jeff Dean Facts (github.com/LRitzdorf)
    ×1.93 9 #8 | 373 points by ravenical 10 hours ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Kernel bugs hide for 2 years on average. Some hide for 20 (pebblebed.com)
    ×1.37 32 #34 | 277 points by kmavm 21 hours ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. SyneState: Machine Synesthesia with Manifold-Constrained Hyper-Connections (zenodo.org)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by graemefawcett 32 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Texas A&M bans part of Plato's Symposium (dailynous.com)
    ×4.11 14 | 202 points by loughnane 1 day ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Free and local browser tool for designing gear models for 3D printing (dmtrkovalenko.dev)
    ×0.77 60 | 52 points by neogoose 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Firefox extension to redirect x.com to xcancel.com (mozilla.org)
    ×7.00 21 | 253 points by maelito 1 day ago | 165 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. LMArena is a cancer on AI (surgehq.ai)
    ×2.43 2 | 238 points by jumploops 1 day ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: I built a website to find the best Lego minifigures (brickelo.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by pattle 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Judges Question Key Copyright Test in Case over Miles Davis Tattoo (petapixel.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by bahmboo 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Make audio loops online (makeloops.online)
    ×1.05 74 | 67 points by bilalba 3 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Reading Without Limits or Expectations (carolinecrampton.com)
    ×0.72 52 #72 | 60 points by herbertl 21 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Nature-inspired computers are shockingly good at math (sandia.gov)
    ×1.51 | 2 points by hhs 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Let's Call a Murder a Murder (daringfireball.net)
    ×17.59 87 | 62 points by hermitcrab 1 hour ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. I used to be too timid to change a tyre. Now I build my own bikes (theguardian.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by n1b0m 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes (reuters.com)
    ×6.32 54 | 1022 points by kpw94 1 day ago | 1072 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Hyundai Introduces Its Next-Gen Atlas Robot at CES 2026 [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.24 63 | 129 points by surprisetalk 2 days ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Minnesota officials say they can't access evidence after fatal ICE shooting (pbs.org)
    ×26.86 80 | 248 points by perihelions 6 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Htmx: High Power Tools for HTML (github.com/bigskysoftware)
    ×2.81 64 | 74 points by tosh 1 day ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Shellock, a real-time CLI flag explainer for fish shell (github.com/ibehnam)
    ×2.40 139 | 5 points by behnamoh 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Kerns – A Continuous Research Workspace (kerns.ai)
    ×1.33 120 | 4 points by kanodiaayush 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Lessons from Hash Table Merging (github.com/attractivechaos)
    ×0.66 49 #47 | 74 points by attractivechaos 17 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. A Low-Tech Blog Is a Must-Have Accessory (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.17 35 | 3 points by petethomas 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Agcom: 14M fine to Cloudflare for failing to block pirated content (ilsole24ore.com)
    ×0.94 | 2 points by klez 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Claude Code Emergent Behavior: When Skills Combine (vibeandscribe.xyz)
    ×1.46 35 | 91 points by ryanthedev 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: I built Mike – AI motion graphics (mike.new)
    ×0.96 119 | 3 points by chcardoz 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Finding similarities in New Yorker covers (shoplurker.com)
    ×0.18 111 | 18 points by tkp-415 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Hover – IDE style hover documentation on any webpage (github.com/Sampsoon)
    ×0.60 125 | 56 points by sampsonj 4 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Dell admits consumers don't care about AI PCs (pcgamer.com)
    ×3.48 54 #29 | 369 points by mossTechnician 1 day ago | 267 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. How Google got its groove back and edged ahead of OpenAI (wsj.com)
    ×1.89 21 #80 | 223 points by jbredeche 1 day ago | 294 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Internet, phone lines cut as thousands rally in Tehran; death toll at 45 (timesofisrael.com)
    ×1.46 | 2 points by mhb 36 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: ADHD Focus Light (github.com/zonghaoyuan)
    ×2.63 65 | 16 points by zonghao 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Open Infrastructure Map (openinframap.org)
    ×2.34 12 #32 | 413 points by efskap 20 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???