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  1. Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?
    ×2.23 47 #41 | 237 points by sharts 1 day ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: I've quit six systems for tracking my illness. What works?
    ×0.60 39 #69 | 41 points by Abh1Works 12 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. ServiceNow are pushing customers off SaaS – are other industries doing similar?
    ×0.87 3 | 5 points by rorychatt 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub
    ×3.13 7 | 629 points by dhruv3006 1 day ago | 421 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. New OllamaMQ v0.3.0
    ×1.01 45 | 4 points by chleba 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers
    ×3.82 42 | 643 points by stagas 2 days ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How should I price an AI infrastructure platform?
    ×0.65 | 2 points by aqibkhan026 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Good IMAP Email Clients?
    ×0.92 72 | 4 points by pudgywalsh 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. LLMs .what do you smoke beforehand?
    ×1.46 68 | 5 points by kderbyma 5 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Focus for 7 Months
    ×1.19 90 | 4 points by Ssedume 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Combinatorics-Framework released for QA testers/students
    ×0.27 | 2 points by yb-combi 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Countries with greatest temperature increases have benefited from them?
    ×1.04 96 | 4 points by amichail 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Good content on using AI to modernize professional services delivery
    ×0.18 117 | 5 points by mguerville 14 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Why Don't We Version UIs?
    ×0.71 105 | 6 points by gruensk 11 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Do you feel comfortable admitting that you use AI?
    ×0.79 97 | 9 points by var0xyz 12 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Another GitHub Outage?
    ×0.42 126 | 3 points by tom1337 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. I made a secure way for agents to request secrets from you using HyperDHT
    ×0.32 | 2 points by smashah 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Science Fiction. Some AI as world leader. Would you vote it?
    ×0.37 | 2 points by ewjloop 13 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Can I realistically make an app as a junior dev?
    ×0.46 119 | 4 points by brooke1 13 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Is there room for an AI-powered webmail service built on a single-letter domain?
    ×0.67 120 | 4 points by pbt93 14 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: How do you manage focus and avoid burnout while working remotely?
    ×0.81 121 | 4 points by pranav_tech26 14 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Today I realized you can't star an achived repo in GitHub anymore
    ×1.91 107 | 7 points by dclavijo 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Are xPal Total and Remote Wipeout, Terminate Mode Meaningful for Privacy?
    ×0.35 | 2 points by Brandon-Coll 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: What's a Dirty Secret No One Wants to Admit in the Tech Industry?
    ×2.10 94 | 10 points by karakoram 12 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?
    ×1.10 144 | 91 points by simonebrunozzi 3 days ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Email Client for the Terminal?
    ×0.48 146 | 6 points by ewjloop 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Is GitHub Fried Today?
    ×0.53 161 | 5 points by johncole 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Slightly Strange LinkedIn Survey
    ×0.79 | 2 points by duxup 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: What is your favorite lightweight tool or CLI utility in 2026?
    ×0.55 162 | 22 points by pranav_tech26 3 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Best code editor without AI?
    ×0.28 154 | 6 points by nerdyguy90 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Alternative to Internet Archive
    ×0.59 166 | 19 points by earworms 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Where to learn software engineering fundamentals?
    ×0.68 164 | 13 points by mstank 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: What's the Best Agent Harness?
    ×0.34 158 | 5 points by cakbeslik 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: How can we care more about fewer things?
    ×0.28 165 | 4 points by robalni 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: If you're burning tokens at scale, what are you using them for?
    ×0.44 159 | 5 points by simonw 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: What tools are you using for human code review of AI-assisted code?
    ×0.62 163 | 11 points by dafelst 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Trivially bypass text watermarks by requesting a Base64 response
    ×0.48 160 | 5 points by hanneshdc 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: I built the YouTube Music TUI I wanted (Vim registers, 0-9 to seek, ..) (github.com/indigo0445)
    ×1.69 | 2 points by indigo0445 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Sealed evidence record of an AI agent run – broken twice, credited (github.com/cjchanh)
    ×1.64 98 | 5 points by cjarchivist 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Scientists stunned by children's lung recovery in ultra low emission zone (bbc.com)
    ×2.21 1 #8 | 65 points by dabinat 3 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative (cursor.com)
    ×3.24 3 #15 | 504 points by tomasreimers 15 hours ago | 386 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Splitting a Git Commit (gnoack.org)
    ×1.12 21 #38 | 122 points by signa11 13 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. UC Berkeley Admissions vs. Math Competency (encona.com)
    ×1.61 | 2 points by rahimnathwani 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Learn Flags Quiz (flagquizzes.com)
    ×0.61 106 | 56 points by artiomyak 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: ThoughtDAG – An editable context graph for LLM conversations (chenxiachan.github.io)
    ×1.18 129 | 136 points by chatchan 3 days ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Tiny satellite will use the dark side of the Moon as a shield (cam.ac.uk)
    ×0.68 13 #23 | 16 points by NordStreamYacht 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union (apple.com)
    ×1.98 17 #28 | 128 points by newusertoday 11 hours ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. The Official History of Arm (arm.com)
    ×0.48 92 #73 | 3 points by stmw 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: SubTrends – 18 years of Reddit data across 100K+ subreddits (subtrends.io)
    ×0.96 | 2 points by dataneedscoffee 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Incident with Github.com [resolved] (githubstatus.com)
    ×3.24 2 | 556 points by SpyCoder77 1 day ago | 961 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Convex clients in 100 programming languages (github.com/mikecann)
    ×0.44 | 2 points by mikeyseee 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Teaching my kid to code with a modern MUD (tau.dev)
    ×1.49 21 #33 | 237 points by andrewjanke 17 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Companies promote incompetent employees to management to limit damage they do (lawsofsoftwareengineering.com)
    ×1.56 51 #86 | 61 points by behnamoh 6 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Keenpix – an OSS image CDN with predictable managed pricing (keenpix.com)
    ×0.38 | 1 points by lord007tn 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: A sample dataset of computer-use tasks on professional software (graderlabs.com)
    ×6.14 12 | 15 points by parthmah 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: I brought back a free online radio player project I built 16 years ago (nradiobox.com)
    ×0.61 | 2 points by nradiobox 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Private Chinese rocket aces landing on 2nd-ever flight (space.com)
    ×0.82 | 1 points by whwhyb 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Bonds Are Getting Hammered, and Wall Street Says the Rout Won't End Anytime Soon (wsj.com)
    ×1.89 30 | 4 points by petethomas 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: ChatOSS – A Codex alternative for Open Source AI built on Ollama (chatoss.ai)
    ×1.18 86 | 5 points by thetjmccarty 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. How a giant battery is transforming a town centre in Cannington, Ontario (betakit.com)
    ×0.74 29 #29 | 29 points by builtbystef 6 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. fx :Tiny, open, native coding agent. (fx.sh)
    ×2.28 53 #74 | 79 points by handfuloflight 6 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Exercise intensity modulates interorgan communication and is associated with (cell.com)
    ×1.10 40 #87 | 100 points by newsomix9xl 23 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. OpenAI announces slowing pace of development after hack by rogue agent (theguardian.com)
    ×0.85 | 2 points by pseudolus 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released (roboflow.com)
    ×1.55 25 | 359 points by plurby 1 day ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. GIMP Development Update (gimp.org)
    ×3.38 70 | 263 points by lumpa 2 days ago | 251 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Repair Cafe – Fix Your Broken Items (repaircafe.org)
    ×1.62 31 #88 | 172 points by rglover 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. The Recursive Economy: AI Self-Improvement and Scarcity (recursive-economy.pages.dev)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by codelion 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Universal Dive Data Format (dcmod.org)
    ×0.95 | 2 points by nvahalik 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. RF Cafe (rfcafe.com)
    ×2.17 5 | 4 points by gregsadetsky 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Amazon scans and destroys books to comply with copyright law (bsky.app)
    ×2.19 17 | 6 points by platzhirsch 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: K7d – Fork live Kubernetes clusters in <1s –> GRPO-train AI on infra (github.com/katakate)
    ×1.10 132 | 3 points by gbxk 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: PantheonGPU – GPU health testing and AI workload benchmarking (pantheongpu.com)
    ×0.35 57 | 12 points by saqibkhan1992 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Figranium – Dockerized, API-first, block-based browser automation (github.com/figranium)
    ×1.12 134 | 3 points by asernasr 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Effects of Corporal Punishment on Children (duke.edu)
    ×1.10 71 #72 | 10 points by simonebrunozzi 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Does anyone care about HR?
    ×0.49 | 1 points by drguzman 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Qwen3.8 27B scores 52 on Artificial Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai)
    ×3.19 7 | 372 points by anana_ 1 day ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Interactive, animated architecture of any HuggingFace models (modelmap.cc)
    ×1.02 4 #13 | 51 points by lizhaoliu 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: I benchmarked LLMs on predicting knife steel properties (github.com/Steel-predictor-project)
    ×0.81 | 2 points by p-s-v 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Strive to Be Earth's Best Employer
    ×0.44 | 1 points by oenton 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Termaxa – my agent gate passed its security rig, failed a two-user test (github.com/termaxa)
    ×0.76 | 2 points by devdoc83 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. GLM-5.3 Artificial Analysis Benchmarks (artificialanalysis.ai)
    ×1.94 12 #27 | 100 points by apitman 5 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Two lines of Python that segfault the interpreter – Timofei Ivankov (deadlovelll.github.io)
    ×1.13 74 #66 | 7 points by rbanffy 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Degraded performance for multiple models (claude.com)
    ×1.97 45 #82 | 146 points by matt89 11 hours ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Faro – a text message based accountability companion
    ×2.26 100 | 5 points by Farooo 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Craton Bolt – A Pure Rust, JIT-Compiled GPU SQL Engine (github.com/craton-co)
    ×1.38 110 | 4 points by victor-craton 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Phone-harness – let your agent control your phone (github.com/ShawnPana)
    ×0.67 | 2 points by shawnpana 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Deltix – AI Driven Testing (deltix.ai)
    ×0.82 153 | 54 points by oneounceman 4 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. 2,500-year-old sculpture discovered at UNESCO site in Turkey (theartnewspaper.com)
    ×1.03 15 #31 | 85 points by speckx 9 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Stripe to Buy OpenRouter for $7B (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.70 93 | 97 points by FinnLobsien 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. One Oakland police officer made $490k in overtime (oaklandside.org)
    ×3.47 22 | 84 points by speckx 12 hours ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???