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  1. Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?
    ×1.87 63 #53 | 301 points by sharts 1 day ago | 249 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. AWS new AZ in eu-west-2 - beware of unexpected results
    ×0.41 26 | 3 points by eddie_catflap 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: I've quit six systems for tracking my illness. What works?
    ×0.54 68 | 47 points by Abh1Works 3 days ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub
    ×3.09 20 | 634 points by dhruv3006 2 days ago | 426 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What's the endgame of the AI comments buried in every post?
    ×0.59 24 | 5 points by elar_verole 4 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers
    ×3.79 52 | 650 points by stagas 3 days ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How do you access archive.today?
    ×0.20 | 2 points by crazybonkersai 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. ServiceNow are pushing customers off SaaS – are other industries doing similar?
    ×0.72 82 | 9 points by rorychatt 17 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. New OllamaMQ v0.3.0
    ×0.56 92 | 5 points by chleba 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What are independent software contractors doing now?
    ×1.81 66 | 10 points by Madmallard 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Why Don't We Version UIs?
    ×0.74 96 | 8 points by gruensk 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: How should I price an AI infrastructure platform?
    ×0.28 | 2 points by aqibkhan026 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Good IMAP Email Clients?
    ×0.67 97 | 5 points by pudgywalsh 20 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Good content on using AI to modernize professional services delivery
    ×0.17 123 | 5 points by mguerville 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How do you manage focus and avoid burnout while working remotely?
    ×0.78 124 | 5 points by pranav_tech26 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Focus for 7 Months
    ×0.67 110 | 4 points by Ssedume 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Combinatorics-Framework released for QA testers/students
    ×0.15 | 2 points by yb-combi 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Countries with greatest temperature increases have benefited from them?
    ×0.83 104 | 5 points by amichail 22 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?
    ×1.10 113 | 92 points by simonebrunozzi 4 days ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Do you feel comfortable admitting that you use AI?
    ×0.68 94 | 9 points by var0xyz 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Another GitHub Outage?
    ×0.34 135 | 3 points by tom1337 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. I made a secure way for agents to request secrets from you using HyperDHT
    ×0.26 | 2 points by smashah 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Science Fiction. Some AI as world leader. Would you vote it?
    ×0.46 136 | 3 points by ewjloop 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Can I realistically make an app as a junior dev?
    ×0.40 130 | 4 points by brooke1 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Is there room for an AI-powered webmail service built on a single-letter domain?
    ×0.56 131 | 4 points by pbt93 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: What is your favorite lightweight tool or CLI utility in 2026?
    ×0.54 146 | 22 points by pranav_tech26 3 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Leviath – Structured context regions for LLM agents, in one Rust binary (leviath.dev)
    ×1.39 141 | 3 points by gemisis 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Turbovec – Google's TurboQuant for vector search in Rust (github.com/RyanCodrai)
    ×1.35 35 #45 | 286 points by fittingopposite 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Computational Life Reactor (Based on Brainfuck) (alexborger.com)
    ×0.88 | 1 points by a2x 1 minute ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Reconciling global tipping point theories: Insight from magnetic experiments (cell.com)
    ×0.89 | 1 points by jambalaya8 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on OpenRouter (openrouter.ai)
    ×3.25 8 | 625 points by Topfi 1 day ago | 449 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Mic Drop, a real-time multiplayer karaoke game (micdrop.gg)
    ×0.72 101 | 90 points by johnsillings 3 days ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: I benchmarked LLMs on predicting knife steel properties (github.com/Steel-predictor-project)
    ×0.79 | 2 points by p-s-v 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Faro – a text message based accountability companion
    ×2.19 108 | 5 points by Farooo 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Deltix – AI Driven Testing (deltix.ai)
    ×0.82 134 | 54 points by oneounceman 4 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. S1-mini, Superwhisper's first open-weights language model (huggingface.co)
    ×2.11 32 #74 | 8 points by Softmaximalist 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. A blog should be a folder of files (robinkroonen.com)
    ×1.64 | 2 points by rob-x-ai 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Establishing a Fixed Time Period of Admission and an Extension of Stay Procedure (federalregister.gov)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by petethomas 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. SpaceX rocket spotted off Christmas Island coast (bbc.co.uk)
    ×1.53 20 | 3 points by yzydserd 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Stop Mapping Stuff in Your Middleware. Use SQL's XML or JSON Operators Instead (jooq.org)
    ×1.08 | 2 points by theanonymousone 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: A local MitM proxy to control TLS fingerprints (github.com/ytkoka)
    ×0.64 81 | 27 points by ytkoka 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. That Disgraceful, Disreputable, (Wonderful) Form of Punctuation: The Parenthesis (lithub.com)
    ×0.54 61 #76 | 37 points by pseudolus 17 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Trading the Infrastructure of Tomorrow (cmegroup.com)
    ×0.71 | 1 points by nairboon 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Inference Engineering: A free book on the systems behind AI inference (baseten.co)
    ×0.98 | 2 points by DarenWatson 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. How a giant battery is transforming a town centre in Cannington, Ontario (betakit.com)
    ×0.73 65 #73 | 53 points by builtbystef 21 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera (catcrafts.net)
    ×1.61 40 | 281 points by pizzaiolo 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Where Human Sleep Went Wrong (nautil.us)
    ×1.55 37 | 93 points by XzetaU8 11 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: PlugClaw – Private AI agent hardware for any phone or PC (plugos.net)
    ×0.92 83 | 6 points by darkreader 14 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Launch HN: OneCLI (YC S26) – OSS sandboxed agent harness for teams (github.com/onecli)
    ×0.48 13 #6 | 28 points by guyb3 2 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Chesterton's Fence: A Lesson in Thinking (fs.blog)
    ×1.50 | 2 points by Bluestein 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Search inside podcast episodes and read transcript while listening (metapodcast.net)
    ×0.59 | 2 points by lamecoder 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Crammed – turns lecture PDFs into spaced-repetition flashcards (crammed.study)
    ×1.17 119 | 3 points by avisolei 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. The A.I. In Google's New Pixel 11 Is Not Helpful (nytimes.com)
    ×1.58 2 #24 | 6 points by cdrnsf 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative (cursor.com)
    ×3.15 7 #71 | 577 points by tomasreimers 1 day ago | 438 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Meta faces 'astronomical' consequences as legal fight reaches critical moment (cnbc.com)
    ×3.35 79 | 86 points by root-parent 2 days ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Xalgorix – open-source AI pentester that proves vulnerabilities (xalgorix.com)
    ×1.48 28 | 6 points by xalgord 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Sokoban AI Solver (mkornreich.me)
    ×0.46 85 | 70 points by enjoyyourlife 2 days ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Glade API – Amazon data for every build (gladeapi.com)
    ×2.14 133 | 4 points by qwikhost 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. California's new tire efficiency rules could save drivers $1B a year (grist.org)
    ×1.32 75 #58 | 166 points by littlexsparkee 1 day ago | 246 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Using Sound for Microscopic Propulsion (epfl.ch)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by ashTV 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Warp DD – AI that analyzes technology ecosystems in ~30 seconds (warpdd.com)
    ×1.18 93 | 4 points by masato_furuno 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Remote workers report the highest well-being in study of 7,700 employees (colorado.edu)
    ×4.50 5 #9 | 262 points by downbad_ 3 hours ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Btrfs Ready with More Performance Improvements for Linux 7.3 ~3x to ~5x Wins (phoronix.com)
    ×1.74 33 | 3 points by DemiGuru 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. The 6-Stage AI Infra Journey: Navigating the Three FinOps and Hardware Crises (acefleet.dev)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by flyingfishisme 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Roost – top for your Claude Code sessions (github.com/gmhoward9289-ops)
    ×0.80 | 2 points by gmhoward9289 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Agent-codemode – scripts your agent writes can call your MCP servers (github.com/janwilmake)
    ×0.97 128 | 4 points by janwilmake 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Self-Service Analytics Is Not Self-Service. But Don't Tell Anyone (dataanalysis.substack.com)
    ×0.83 | 1 points by dijksterhuis 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Rachel Cusk's Protest Against Personhood (newyorker.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by paulpauper 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full (fabiensanglard.net)
    ×2.36 16 | 487 points by shdon 1 day ago | 222 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Field measurements of neighborhood-scale air temperature impacts of data centers (asme.org)
    ×2.41 13 | 307 points by cwwc 1 day ago | 477 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Will you have spent more of your life with computers than your family? (bearblog.dev)
    ×2.54 76 | 92 points by Gecko4072 1 day ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Monity.ai – Get notified when any website changes (apple.com)
    ×1.18 102 | 4 points by kamilmm21 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union (apple.com)
    ×2.14 41 #49 | 266 points by newusertoday 1 day ago | 397 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Splitting a Git Commit (gnoack.org)
    ×1.04 47 #75 | 131 points by signa11 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. BookHive – Open-source alternative to Goodreads on ATProto (bookhive.buzz)
    ×0.87 | 1 points by ksymph 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Employers are ghosting college grads and rescinding offers (sfgate.com)
    ×3.43 35 #51 | 17 points by bryan0 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Diesel Margins Top $100 a Barrel to Reach Record High as Supply Crunch Grows (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.71 51 | 73 points by toomuchtodo 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Sealed evidence record of an AI agent run – broken twice, credited (github.com/cjchanh)
    ×1.58 107 | 5 points by cjarchivist 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: PageSieve, a web scraping browser extension (julius383.github.io)
    ×1.32 138 | 17 points by kajm 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: HashNotch – Premium AI Integrated Dynamic Island for the Mac OS
    ×0.82 | 2 points by SeifHashish 21 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Cerebras CS-4 (cerebras.ai)
    ×2.10 10 #23 | 426 points by sunils34 18 hours ago | 253 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Zuckerberg lied about concern for child safety (theguardian.com)
    ×4.43 46 #67 | 21 points by jamarna 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner (philo.gay)
    ×1.81 1 #78 | 438 points by otherayden 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. How to Use Harness Engineering to Remove AI Tells (meshintelligence.substack.com)
    ×1.06 | 2 points by meshintel 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Cursor increases usage limits and auto mode costs (reddit.com)
    ×1.08 | 2 points by mellosouls 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. GPU Offload in Rust: Portable, Safe, and Fast (arxiv.org)
    ×1.15 55 | 240 points by linggen 2 days ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Mole – Deep research agent for your terminal (github.com/lajosdeme)
    ×0.86 116 | 100 points by lajosdeme 4 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Rethinking Database Programming (acadia.engineering)
    ×1.61 37 #77 | 252 points by honungsburk 1 day ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Latin Empire (hommepresse.substack.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by paulpauper 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Advertising Built for AI Agents (themobian.ai)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by structuredPizza 31 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???