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  1. Ask HN: Why isn't there competition to LinkedIn yet?
    ×2.39 57 | 5 points by antfie 20 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Oberon et al., vs. Rust
    ×0.42 13 | 7 points by mikethe 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What would you do if you didn't work in tech?
    ×1.75 43 | 45 points by johnathandos 6 hours ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What's the most open/hacker friendly Android phone for 2026?
    ×0.49 41 | 4 points by recvonline 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. I built two dozen single-file HTML tools that run offline and need no back end
    ×0.60 52 | 10 points by ajtracysk 11 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Tell HN: HN was down
    ×2.73 72 | 597 points by uyzstvqs 5 days ago | 327 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell
    ×2.74 75 | 469 points by cvbox 4 days ago | 541 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2026?
    ×0.85 94 | 107 points by mfrw 5 days ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What developer tool do you wish existed in 2026?
    ×0.60 85 | 13 points by allenleee 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Broadcom Changing Licensing to BSL
    ×0.28 84 | 9 points by CubsFan1060 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How many email accounts do you have?
    ×0.58 96 | 7 points by asim 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. FWS – pip-installable embedded process supervisor with PTY/pipe/dtach back ends
    ×0.20 80 | 16 points by mrsurge 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Does anyone understand how Hacker News works?
    ×1.92 89 | 165 points by jannesblobel 4 days ago | 229 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Who here is not working on web apps/server code?
    ×1.40 87 | 83 points by ex-aws-dude 4 days ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Resources to get better at outbound sales?
    ×0.33 106 | 4 points by sieep 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Is GitHub becoming more and more unstable?
    ×0.47 120 | 8 points by pavish 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What is still hard about system design with AI?
    ×0.15 | 2 points by brihati 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Cloudflare has been broken for 15 hours
    ×0.82 112 | 12 points by Canada 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How are most people converting HEIC to jpg?
    ×1.32 137 | 5 points by par 3 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Does XML still have any value in creating APIs?
    ×1.15 70 | 6 points by 01-_- 12 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. AI Code assistants has made completing side projects so easy
    ×0.42 109 | 10 points by akmittal 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. LLM Benchmark: Frontier models now statistically indistinguishable
    ×0.21 126 | 4 points by js4ever 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: How do you deal with large, hard-to-read Excel formulas?
    ×0.66 129 | 9 points by jack_ruru 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: What public Claude Code MCPs, Skills do you have installed and use?
    ×0.78 108 | 5 points by franze 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: How do I bridge the gap between PhD and SWE experiences?
    ×0.24 | 2 points by ecophyseis 4 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Should I start a software foundation (goal: help emergency services)?
    ×1.27 132 | 14 points by strgcmc 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. The offline geocoder we wanted
    ×0.42 121 | 7 points by gipsyjaeger 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Is analytics a necessary evil rather than a real value driver?
    ×0.34 138 | 7 points by tiazm 4 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: If you had to get a non-tech masters degree, what would you go for?
    ×0.70 139 | 7 points by highwayman47 4 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Why do official-looking emails cause anxiety before I read them?
    ×0.34 141 | 5 points by BianDan 4 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Setting Up the AWS SDK for Rust (rup12.net)
    ×0.99 | 2 points by ruptwelve 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. A guide to local coding models (aiforswes.com)
    ×2.45 1 #50 | 566 points by mpweiher 1 day ago | 325 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. More on whether useful quantum computing is “imminent” (scottaaronson.blog)
    ×1.19 68 #45 | 129 points by A_D_E_P_T 1 day ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Shittp – Volatile Dotfiles over SSH (github.com/FOBshippingpoint)
    ×0.88 41 #89 | 131 points by sdovan1 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Malicious Chrome Extensions "Phantom Shuttle" Masquerade as a VPN to Intercept (socket.dev)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by feross 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Flock and Cyble Inc. weaponize “cybercrime” takedowns to silence critics (haveibeenflocked.com)
    ×3.33 9 | 587 points by _a9 1 day ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Indoor tanning makes youthful skin much older on a genetic level (ucsf.edu)
    ×1.56 33 | 252 points by SanjayMehta 1 day ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Got tired of searching for AI news daily so I built my own AI news page (dreyx.com)
    ×1.53 119 | 5 points by lilsquid 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Ava – open-source AI voice assistant that runs in the browser (muthu.co)
    ×0.62 | 2 points by muthukrishnanwz 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. NPM Package with 56K Downloads Caught Stealing WhatsApp Messages (koi.ai)
    ×3.08 1 #1 | 56 points by sohkamyung 34 minutes ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Lua 5.5 Released: Global Variable Declarations and Garbage Collection (phoronix.com)
    ×2.04 28 | 3 points by birdculture 33 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. DACs and ADCs, or there and back again (lcamtuf.substack.com)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by weinzierl 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: SHA-256 quasi-collision with 184/256 matching bits (github.com/POlLLOGAMER)
    ×0.32 | 2 points by KaoruAK 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Tc – Theodore Calvin's language-agnostic testing framework (github.com/ahoward)
    ×0.45 24 #17 | 6 points by mooreds 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Scaling LLMs to Larger Codebases (kierangill.xyz)
    ×1.15 12 #10 | 188 points by kierangill 7 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Isengard in Oxford (lareviewofbooks.org)
    ×1.09 56 | 112 points by lermontov 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Claude Code gets native LSP support (github.com/anthropics)
    ×2.35 7 #7 | 249 points by JamesSwift 7 hours ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. I announced my divorce on Instagram and then AI impersonated me (eiratansey.com)
    ×5.49 15 | 133 points by robin_reala 15 hours ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Lyrics to Rolling WebVTT Converter (gitlab.com)
    ×0.73 | 2 points by 9o1d 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: I built an LLM agent that finds you online and roasts you (veris.ai)
    ×0.71 | 2 points by _josh_meyer_ 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: ArkhamMirror – CIA's Analysis of Competing Hypotheses, Runs in Browser (mantisfury.github.io)
    ×2.51 110 | 7 points by ArkhamMirror 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Kernighan's Lever (linusakesson.net)
    ×0.98 63 #47 | 97 points by xk3 21 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Jax-JS: a machine learning library and compiler for the web (jax-js.com)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by polyrand 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Starlink Satellite 35956 is largely intact (twitter.com/michaelnicollsx)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by perihelions 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. The Comprehensive Cognition Blog (mateolafalce.github.io)
    ×1.61 10 | 3 points by lafalce 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Pac-Man with Guns (pac-man-with-guns.netlify.app)
    ×2.16 93 | 6 points by admtal 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. I can't upgrade to Windows 11, now leave me alone (idiallo.com)
    ×5.07 13 #78 | 523 points by firefoxd 1 day ago | 520 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. The Going Dark initiative or ProtectEU is a Chat Control 3.0 attempt (mastodon.online)
    ×4.54 37 | 630 points by janandonly 1 day ago | 262 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Benn Jordan – This Flock Camera Leak Is Like Netflix for Stalkers [video] (youtube.com)
    ×4.81 84 | 258 points by SamInTheShell 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Mozilla right now (Digital Painting) (davidrevoy.com)
    ×5.11 65 | 53 points by linschn 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Memora – MCP persistent memory server knowledge graph vis (github.com/agentic-mcp-tools)
    ×0.75 | 2 points by spokv 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Bias Is Ruining Your Life (Here's Why) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by saltysalt 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Linggen – A local-first memory layer for your AI (Cursor, Zed, Claude) (github.com/linggen)
    ×0.88 101 | 36 points by linggen 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Wingspan Games: Arrow – a multiplayer game built in Elixir / Phoenix (wingspan.games)
    ×1.31 116 | 5 points by calflegal 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Pixen 6 – New release of longstanding macOS pixel art editor (pixenapp.com)
    ×0.41 | 2 points by albertru90 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. What Goes Around Comes Around and Around (acm.org)
    ×1.12 | 2 points by infogulch 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Deliberate Internet Shutdowns (schneier.com)
    ×1.81 19 #53 | 307 points by WaitWaitWha 23 hours ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: LTP – Lazy Tool Protocol. Up to 93% token reduction for AI agents (github.com/JuN-B-official)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by Song-JunHyeong 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Rebus (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.05 | 2 points by foster_nyman 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Biocomputing: The Promise of Biological Computing (polytechnique-insights.com)
    ×1.10 | 2 points by andsoitis 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Passkeybot.com – add passkey auth with a few server side HTTP handlers (github.com/emadda)
    ×1.16 114 | 3 points by emadda 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. The biggest CRT ever made: Sony's PVM-4300 (dfarq.homeip.net)
    ×1.24 12 #20 | 204 points by giuliomagnifico 10 hours ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Comprehensive Migration Guide for Ingress Nginx Controller Retirement (ingressnginxmigration.org)
    ×1.05 | 2 points by simjue 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Ruby website redesigned (ruby-lang.org)
    ×2.49 12 | 415 points by psxuaw 1 day ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Backlog – a public repository of real work problems (worldsbacklog.com)
    ×1.54 13 | 107 points by anticlickwise 14 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Zeroed Out (lukebechtel.substack.com)
    ×0.91 | 1 points by lukebechtel 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Nil, boosters, budgets: The athletic director simulator (espn.com)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by 1659447091 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Passkeys Explained [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.62 5 | 3 points by jonbaer 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Danish postal service to stop delivering letters (theguardian.com)
    ×3.27 21 | 90 points by hackerbeat 21 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Real-time SF 911 dispatch feed (open source) (sfpoliceblotter.com)
    ×1.05 104 | 3 points by 1zael 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Rue: Higher level than Rust, lower level than Go (rue-lang.dev)
    ×2.20 50 #44 | 228 points by ingve 1 day ago | 218 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Toad is a unified experience for AI in the terminal (willmcgugan.github.io)
    ×2.41 48 #49 | 21 points by nikolatt 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. My 6-Month Retrospective: Using AI Coding Assistants for Database Infrastructure (bearblog.dev)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by maznaq 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Logging sucks (loggingsucks.com)
    ×3.57 29 | 557 points by FlorinSays 1 day ago | 215 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. In Pursuit of Clancy Sigal (2021) (yalereview.org)
    ×0.43 55 #19 | 8 points by dang 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Profunctors, Arrows, & Static Analysis (elvishjerricco.github.io)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by ChadNauseam 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. The WhatsApp Whisperer (whatsprivcy.com)
    ×15.41 48 | 72 points by RyanJB 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: MCPShark Viewer (VS Code/Cursor extension)- view MCP traffic in-editor
    ×0.83 105 | 27 points by mywork-dev 5 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Vince Zampella, developer of Call of Duty and Battlefield has died (comicbook.com)
    ×2.18 20 #29 | 85 points by superpupervlad 2 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. See sunrise and sunset lines overlaid on any street map (suncalc.org)
    ×1.24 | 2 points by robinwarren 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???