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  1. Google Cloud suspended my account for 2 years, only automated replies
    ×1.59 1 | 141 points by andylizf 1 day ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Task engine VM – for tasks with executable instructions (progress update)
    ×0.12 59 | 3 points by tracyspacy 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Do you still use physical calculators?
    ×0.79 71 | 30 points by speedylight 1 day ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: The Next Big OS Leap
    ×0.60 | 2 points by rafaelmdec 3 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Any Successful Co-Ops of Software Engineers
    ×0.97 74 | 9 points by rubyn00bie 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: How do you handle auth when AI dev agents spin up short-lived apps?
    ×0.10 | 2 points by NBenkovich 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Junior getting lost
    ×0.67 84 | 48 points by TheRegularOne 3 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. A simple HTTPS, HTTP/3, SSL and security headers checker I built with AI
    ×0.26 77 | 3 points by dragonman 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Any real OpenClaw (Clawd Bot/Molt Bot) users? What's your experience?
    ×2.21 24 | 102 points by cvhc 1 day ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Do you also "hoard" notes/links but struggle to turn them into actions?
    ×1.83 37 | 227 points by item007 2 days ago | 203 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. AI has failed to replace a single software application or feature
    ×0.78 89 | 18 points by cadabrabra 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: How do you reset an AppleID?
    ×0.61 107 | 12 points by OhMeadhbh 2 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Waypoint 1.1, a local-first world model for interactive simulation
    ×0.63 96 | 13 points by lcastricato 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What's your biggest LLM cost multiplier?
    ×0.57 94 | 5 points by teilom 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. G Lang – A lightweight interpreter written in D (2.4MB)
    ×0.21 | 2 points by pouyathe 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How do you market a side project?
    ×1.18 104 | 11 points by ruairidhwm 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. The preposterous notion of AI automating "repetitive" work
    ×0.75 109 | 10 points by cadabrabra 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: What's the Point Anymore?
    ×1.77 100 | 65 points by fnoef 5 days ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How do you force yourself to take breaks while coding?
    ×0.91 127 | 6 points by glidea 2 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What recent UX changes make no sense to you?
    ×0.71 112 | 34 points by superasn 5 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Should a software engineer have research exposure?
    ×0.24 121 | 4 points by c_daeda 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: How far has "vibe coding" come?
    ×0.27 117 | 13 points by pigon1002 3 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. AI creates over-efficiency. Organizations must absorb it
    ×0.60 111 | 7 points by eriam 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Ergo wireless keyboard with mouse for coding?
    ×0.51 118 | 5 points by MarcelOlsz 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: How are you managing secrets with AI agents?
    ×0.07 | 2 points by m-hodges 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Is archive.is currently broken for WSJ links?
    ×0.38 125 | 8 points by bigwheels 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Is free identity theft protection after a data breach worth the bother?
    ×0.13 | 2 points by daoboy 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. How much recurring income do you generate in 2026 and from what?
    ×0.49 134 | 12 points by djshah 4 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Designing programming languages beyond AI comprehension
    ×0.12 140 | 6 points by mr_bob_sacamano 4 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Where can I find startups looking for fractional product leads?
    ×0.40 141 | 8 points by stulogy 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: How did you get from learning to code to making your first dollar?
    ×0.48 | 2 points by chistev 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: European alternative to Vercel/Cloudflare for hosting
    ×0.57 138 | 13 points by vldszn 5 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. I built a C++ runtime with immutable objects and no GIL
    ×0.74 142 | 7 points by gamarino 5 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Vibe Researching" with AI – Anyone Using It for Real?
    ×0.43 139 | 8 points by spenceXu 4 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: How are devtool founders getting their paying users in 2026?
    ×0.53 122 | 7 points by yasu_c 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Pg_tracing: Distributed Tracing for PostgreSQL (github.com/DataDog)
    ×1.15 25 #47 | 125 points by tanelpoder 21 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Guix System First Impressions as a Nix User (nemin.hu)
    ×1.37 24 #80 | 184 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words (forkingmad.blog)
    ×1.30 53 #87 | 38 points by cyanbane 6 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Why the World Must Measure Well-Being, Not GDP (worldsensorium.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by dnetesn 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native (theregister.com)
    ×6.36 41 | 781 points by jamesblonde 1 day ago | 672 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Film students who can no longer sit through films (theatlantic.com)
    ×3.34 15 | 133 points by haunter 1 day ago | 223 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Founding is a snowball (bawolf.com)
    ×1.10 12 #11 | 18 points by bryantwolf 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Reliable 25 Gigabit Ethernet via Thunderbolt (kohlschuetter.github.io)
    ×2.21 19 #17 | 198 points by kohlschuetter 15 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Free Text-to-Speech Tool – No Signup, 40 Languages (texttospeech.site)
    ×2.05 97 | 5 points by digi_wares 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. I built a pSEO engine – menipages (menipages.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by chiswanjo 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. How to Scale a System from 0 to 10M+ Users (algomaster.io)
    ×2.64 56 | 130 points by olayiwoladekoya 12 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: LemonSlice – Upgrade your voice agents to real-time video
    ×0.91 86 | 131 points by lcolucci 5 days ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: How We Run 60 Hugging Face Models on 2 GPUs
    ×1.09 102 | 4 points by pveldandi 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. NASA's WB-57 crash lands at Houston (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.17 25 #85 | 167 points by verzali 1 day ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. VoidLink: The Cloud-Native Malware Framework Weaponizing Linux Infrastructure (checkpoint.com)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by PaulHoule 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: I made a new compression algorithm (github.com/BrowserBox)
    ×2.79 126 | 9 points by keepamovin 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Julie Zero – my screen-aware desktop AI that works out of the box (github.com/Luthiraa)
    ×1.86 119 | 5 points by luthiraabeykoon 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. GNU Hurd Is "Almost There" with x86_64, SMP and ~75% of Debian Packages Building (phoronix.com)
    ×3.63 43 #70 | 41 points by sergiogdr 6 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Echo – Local-first kindle-like reader with annotations and LLM chat (github.com/tibi-iorga)
    ×0.69 | 2 points by tb8424 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. MRI scans show exercise can make the brain look younger (sciencedaily.com)
    ×2.33 11 #22 | 48 points by amichail 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. 1-Click RCE to steal your Moltbot data and keys (depthfirst.com)
    ×2.58 17 #25 | 142 points by arwt 4 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Minimal – Open-Source Community driven Hardened Container Images (github.com/rtvkiz)
    ×0.90 29 #74 | 110 points by ritvikarya98 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Chris Bathgate: Machinist Sculptor (chrisbathgate.com)
    ×1.22 55 #76 | 4 points by ripe 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Securing the Ralph Wiggum Loop – DevSecOps for Autonomous Coding Agents (github.com/agairola)
    ×0.66 | 2 points by agairola 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent (mariozechner.at)
    ×2.15 5 #13 | 342 points by SatvikBeri 14 hours ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. A Collection of Awesome Nostr Projects (github.com/aljazceru)
    ×0.94 27 #19 | 10 points by nout 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Genode OS is a tool kit for building highly secure special-purpose OS (genode.org)
    ×0.88 16 | 119 points by doener 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Nonograms: a practical guide with interactive examples (lab174.com)
    ×1.41 21 #57 | 100 points by merelysounds 20 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. LLMs achieve adult human performance on higher-order "theory of mind" tasks (nih.gov)
    ×1.59 8 | 3 points by stareatgoats 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. The User Guide for Elite, the Tool Palantir Made for ICE (404media.co)
    ×4.67 36 | 44 points by juujian 23 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Abusers using AI and digital tech to attack and control women, charity warns (theguardian.com)
    ×1.81 21 | 3 points by binning 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Audio on Hp300 (online.fr)
    ×1.66 3 | 3 points by todsacerdoti 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Selfhosted Bible PWA (mobilebible.net)
    ×1.57 | 2 points by PaxSubChristo 28 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: ShotAPI – open-source screenshot API (free tier, no signup) (github.com/shotapi)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by weekendmaker 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Berlin: Record harvest sparks mass giveaway of free potatoes (theguardian.com)
    ×1.86 4 | 127 points by novaRom 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Opentrees.org (2024) (opentrees.org)
    ×1.22 28 #49 | 144 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. It's All About the Pixel Economy (cvalenzuelab.com)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by nsm 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Using World Models for Consistent AI Filmmaking (getartcraft.com)
    ×0.29 | 2 points by echelon 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Ads Are Killing Podcasting (podcasts.rip)
    ×4.18 54 | 49 points by mpugner 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: SimpleSVGs – Free Online SVG Optimizer Multiple SVG Files at Once (simplesvgs.online)
    ×0.84 124 | 8 points by firtaet 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Record and share your coding sessions with CodeMic (codemic.io)
    ×0.71 123 | 14 points by seansh 4 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. They Said They Weren't Close to Epstein. New Documents Show Otherwise (nytimes.com)
    ×3.09 43 | 5 points by doener 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Vector Inspector – A forensic tool for vector databases (divinedevops.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by spitefowl 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Thunder – Open-source PaaS that deploys Web Apps to your AWS account (github.com/thunder-so)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by saddamazad 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. SQLite Is a Self Contained System (sqlite.org)
    ×2.05 51 | 47 points by whatisabcdefgh 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Autonomous recovery for distributed training jobs (tensorpool.dev)
    ×0.32 115 | 12 points by tsvoboda 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Blink – Native macOS code snippet manager. Local, offline, <1s search (enclyralabs.com)
    ×0.59 | 2 points by enclyra 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Xmrcheckout – self-hosted, non-custodial Monero checkout (xmrcheckout.com)
    ×0.91 136 | 3 points by pigless72 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. MicroPythonOS graphical operating system delivers Android-like user experience (cnx-software.com)
    ×1.49 14 #14 | 167 points by mikece 13 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Apple Platform Security (Jan 2026) [pdf] (apple.com)
    ×1.90 18 #66 | 210 points by pieterr 1 day ago | 179 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Taracode – Open-source DevOps AI assistant that runs 100% locally (github.com/tara-vision)
    ×1.23 63 | 3 points by taravision 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: OpenJuris – AI legal research with citations from primary sources (openjuris.org)
    ×0.86 58 | 17 points by Zachzhao 21 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Coffee as a staining agent substitute in electron microscopy (phys.org)
    ×0.68 42 #54 | 49 points by PaulHoule 18 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Google Introduces Managed Connection Pooling for AlloyDB (infoq.com)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by GavCo 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. I mocked the Saudi leader on YouTube then my phone was hacked, I was beaten up (bbc.com)
    ×6.21 65 | 52 points by tartoran 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???