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  1. The $LANG Programming Language
    ×1.65 2 #9 | 168 points by dang 7 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Iran's 120h internet shutdown, phones back. How to stay resilient?
    ×2.02 38 #50 | 65 points by us321 14 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: ADHD – How do you manage the constant stream of thoughts and ideas?
    ×2.58 13 #61 | 60 points by chriswright1664 8 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Quantum Computation, Computers and Programming
    ×0.48 41 #65 | 24 points by rramadass 9 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Vxlan over WireGuard or WireGuard over Vxlan?
    ×0.85 31 #71 | 39 points by mlhpdx 12 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: How to find gaps and oppurtunities in the AI era?
    ×1.38 17 | 4 points by SRMohitkr 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Discrepancy between Lichess and Stockfish
    ×0.50 42 | 18 points by HNLurker2 12 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Looking for Windows contributors for meeting-detection engine
    ×0.51 87 | 7 points by Ayobamiu 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
    ×1.14 69 | 254 points by david927 2 days ago | 840 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Tell HN: DigitalOcean's managed services broke each other after update
    ×1.22 59 | 75 points by neilfrndes 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Who remembers AWS Spot's auction era before the 2017 pricing change?
    ×0.16 | 2 points by aleroawani 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Tell HN: Intel could blow up the Console Wars if it had the guts
    ×0.81 97 | 3 points by noumenon1111 11 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: 500 citation MSc CS, stuck in a low-trust region. How to move forward?
    ×0.64 56 | 18 points by throwawaysafely 14 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How are you preventing LLM hallucinations in production systems?
    ×0.34 | 2 points by kundan_s__r 8 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Are you underutilizing your insurance too?
    ×0.92 101 | 3 points by nemath 12 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Tell HN: The Google Tenor GIF API has been shut down
    ×1.99 55 | 19 points by dfajgljsldkjag 15 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Learning Discoverability
    ×0.32 | 2 points by learnwithmattc 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Unpopular Opinion: Bootstrap is a better front-end framework than Tailwind
    ×1.31 83 | 22 points by pyeri 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Is "AI vibe coding" making prototyping worse inside real companies?
    ×1.44 76 | 12 points by arapkuliev 15 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What made you move back to HTML-to-PDF in production?
    ×2.20 93 | 6 points by gokulsiva 16 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Does anyone else think that humanoid robots is a bubble?
    ×1.61 84 | 5 points by NewUser76312 11 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Eleva.js – A 2.3KB JavaScript framework with signals and no virtual DOM
    ×0.36 | 2 points by TarekRaafat 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Experiment: Using NotebookLM as a cynical code reviewer (via custom prompts)
    ×0.36 | 2 points by practicalaifg 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Gh Account Permabanned – Help?
    ×1.23 79 | 10 points by nicomeemes 15 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Story about a CEO going off on a user who left feedback?
    ×0.89 110 | 3 points by VladVladikoff 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: How do you prevent AI agents from going rogue in production?
    ×0.97 111 | 3 points by techbuilder4242 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Salesforce, SAP, or ServiceNow: Which Is Most Ripe for Disruption?
    ×0.38 96 | 6 points by Saurabh_Kumar_ 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. My casual chat with AI about cancer led to an internal prototype named"Onco-Bus"
    ×0.60 | 2 points by sony707 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. What will enshittification of LLMs look like?
    ×0.83 | 2 points by scoofy 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Job seekers, what's working / not working?
    ×0.85 104 | 18 points by Jabbs 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Where is all the protest music?
    ×1.36 90 | 10 points by swiper_lux 21 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: When has a "dumb" solution beaten a sophisticated one for you?
    ×0.37 159 | 12 points by amadeuswoo 3 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Erratic HN front page algorithm
    ×0.41 138 | 6 points by 7777777phil 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: How do you automate your release notes?
    ×0.45 120 | 10 points by dustfinger 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Senior engineering mngrs: how has AI changed your day-to-day work?
    ×0.98 135 | 35 points by kitetm 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Is Reddit Down(-Ish)?
    ×0.50 105 | 3 points by theanonymousone 15 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Speculate About a Hypothetical Cyber Exploit That Would Leverage AI
    ×0.29 152 | 3 points by burnerToBetOut 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. I am a fan of XianXia's novels from China
    ×0.62 | 2 points by tain1223 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: Best way to find chill job where I can learn and grow as a swe
    ×0.47 145 | 35 points by digitdiglet 5 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: Should I shutdown my 20 year old SaaS sideline?
    ×0.36 160 | 3 points by pohwp 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: Is it time for HN to implement a form of captcha?
    ×0.95 131 | 89 points by Rooster61 5 days ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ask HN: Has anyone built payment flows inside AI voice calls?
    ×0.40 155 | 6 points by wasiyc 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: Is Programming as a Profession Cooked?
    ×0.76 132 | 20 points by fnoef 2 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Tell HN: Mattermost "upgrade" to v11 enforces 10k UI message limit
    ×0.82 136 | 5 points by nemosaltat 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Tell HN: Get a dying iPhone 12 mini in 2026
    ×0.54 161 | 28 points by remywang 5 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Ask HN: What business processes still waste time every week?
    ×0.39 157 | 5 points by lzr_mihnea 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Tell HN: Auto-download in Apple Podcasts is so unreliable it's basically useless
    ×0.29 164 | 4 points by garyfirestorm 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Ask HN: Would you pay for a privacy-first social platform?
    ×0.90 163 | 11 points by sammiej 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Ask HN: Senior software engineers, how do you use Claude Code?
    ×0.75 146 | 15 points by allie1 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Ask HN: What are you proud of about doing for you health and wellness regularly?
    ×1.19 118 | 11 points by nemath 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Aaron Swartz died 13 years ago today
    ×5.32 92 | 92 points by vitaelabitur 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Various shape regularization algorithms (github.com/nickponline)
    ×0.78 123 | 77 points by nickponline 5 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. The insecure evangelism of LLM maximalists (lewiscampbell.tech)
    ×3.88 49 #63 | 213 points by todsacerdoti 9 hours ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. PartyBench: AI throws a house party and is graded on its performance [SATIRE] (astralcodexten.com)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by ryan_j_naughton 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Artificial StupidIntelligence and Airport Sinks (deobald.ca)
    ×1.00 | 2 points by deobald 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Pane – An agent that edits spreadsheets (paneapp.com)
    ×0.49 94 | 32 points by rbajp 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: One RSS Feed for the Most Popular HN Bloggers (2025 Rankings) (philippd.workers.dev)
    ×2.75 88 | 7 points by 7777777phil 16 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Ask HN: How do you apply for jobs in the age of AI?
    ×0.57 | 1 points by surrTurr 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: 26x speedup on BitNet sparse ops with AVX-512 and 2-bit encoding (github.com/microsoft)
    ×0.48 | 2 points by HyperFoldUK 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Google please stop blocking my parody website (ivanca.github.io)
    ×0.93 | 2 points by AmbroseBierce 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 books (pieterma.es)
    ×2.39 68 | 498 points by pmaze 3 days ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Blockchain-Based Equity with Separated Economic and Governance Rights (zenodo.org)
    ×1.37 140 | 4 points by iam_pri_s 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Sei (YC W22) Is Hiring a DevOps Engineer (India/In-Office/Chennai/Gurgaon) (ycombinator.com)
    7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. The month long, 3000 mile roller derby of Chicago (rollerskatingmuseum.org)
    ×0.27 85 #66 | 6 points by afunk 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Iran has now been offline for 96 hours (twitter.com/netblocks)
    ×6.25 43 | 163 points by payamb 1 day ago | 179 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Putting the "You" in CPU (2023) (cpu.land)
    ×0.35 89 #18 | 3 points by vinhnx 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: FastScheduler – Decorator-first Python task scheduler, async support (github.com/MichielMe)
    ×0.73 37 #88 | 44 points by michielme 17 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Static sites from shell (part 1/2) – feeling the html.energy (2022) (evalapply.org)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by adityaathalye 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. X Didn't Fix Grok's 'Undressing' Problem. It Just Makes People Pay for It (wired.com)
    ×8.64 33 | 218 points by pavel_lishin 1 day ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: `tc` like `wc` but for LLM tokens (github.com/jamierpond)
    ×1.78 158 | 6 points by jamiepond 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. A 40-line fix eliminated a 400x performance gap (questdb.com)
    ×1.51 4 #4 | 239 points by bluestreak 9 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Terry Tao: "LLMs Are Simpler Than You Think – The Real Mystery Is Why They Work" [video] (youtube.com)
    ×3.37 19 #77 | 31 points by gmays 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Robotopia: A 3D, first-person, talking simulator (elbowgreasegames.substack.com)
    ×0.78 37 #80 | 102 points by psawaya 23 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids (smartere.dk)
    ×3.23 1 #81 | 734 points by mchro 1 day ago | 407 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. ASCII Clouds (caidan.dev)
    ×1.56 2 #3 | 137 points by majkinetor 5 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Agent OS (buildermethods.com)
    ×1.20 | 2 points by evo_9 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Librario, a book metadata API that aggregates G Books, ISBNDB, and more
    ×0.99 95 | 137 points by jamesponddotco 3 days ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Revup: Upload once to create multiple, relative GitHub PRs (github.com/Skydio)
    ×0.47 69 #52 | 12 points by krosaen 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Text-based web browsers (cssence.com)
    ×1.57 1 #75 | 282 points by pabs3 1 day ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Local Journalism Is How Democracy Shows Up Close to Home (buckscountybeacon.com)
    ×2.30 53 #84 | 367 points by mooreds 18 hours ago | 248 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. The Internet Archive Crawler (github.com/internetarchive)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by dvrp 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. The world is one bad decision away from a silicon Ice Age (theregister.com)
    ×3.74 74 | 64 points by dlipovetsky 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: DSAT – Data Subject Access Toolkit (codeberg.org)
    ×0.63 | 2 points by anticensor 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Are two heads better than one? (eieio.games)
    ×1.20 17 #17 | 157 points by evakhoury 12 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Serverless Compute Platform for AWS (github.com/acikelli)
    ×0.68 | 2 points by oacikelli 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: macOS menu bar app to track Claude usage in real time (github.com/richhickson)
    ×1.08 114 | 159 points by RichHickson 5 days ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: stream-unzip – Python function to unZIP on the fly (github.com/uktrade)
    ×1.62 137 | 8 points by michalc 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. The Gleam Programming Language (gleam.run)
    ×1.95 7 #6 | 82 points by Alupis 5 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work (claude.com)
    ×4.72 3 #47 | 1260 points by adocomplete 1 day ago | 549 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. The Cray-1 Computer System (1977) [pdf] (computerhistory.org)
    ×0.91 59 #67 | 148 points by LordGrey 1 day ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???