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  1. Ask HN: How do you use 5–10 minute gaps productively?
    ×0.90 9 #63 | 20 points by pea 7 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: How is your work making the world a better place?
    ×1.51 43 | 5 points by AbstractH24 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. LinkedIn Prevents You from Deplatforming
    ×1.72 35 #81 | 33 points by jeffkumar 7 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2026)
    ×0.85 68 | 157 points by whoishiring 2 days ago | 313 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026)
    ×1.37 43 | 343 points by whoishiring 2 days ago | 234 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Svger CLI – Zero-dependency SVG to component tool, 52% faster than SVGR
    ×0.66 64 | 3 points by navid_rezadoost 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. What do people usually do with spare Android phones? Any practical use cases?
    ×0.72 66 | 14 points by AndroidShare 17 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Reading list for being a better engineer?
    ×1.26 65 | 36 points by drekipus 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What's the future of software testing and QA?
    ×0.92 74 | 20 points by sjgeek 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Why not ban first-person pronouns from conversational AI?
    ×0.45 75 | 4 points by libertyit 10 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Tell HN: Happy New Year
    ×2.46 72 | 442 points by schappim 4 days ago | 207 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What did you learn in 2025?
    ×1.90 84 | 17 points by kiernanmcgowan 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What if a language's structure determined memory lifetime?
    ×0.31 88 | 4 points by stevendgarcia 14 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Tell HN: I'm having the worst career winter of my life
    ×2.67 82 | 93 points by mariogintili 2 days ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Expository/Succinct Books on Modern Physics
    ×0.80 85 | 26 points by rramadass 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Who is using Nebula (mesh VPN)?
    ×0.77 109 | 5 points by cdsl 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. It's 2026 now. Is Webpack 6.x going to happen?
    ×0.46 114 | 3 points by narukeu 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Android Tablet as Mac Display
    ×1.36 95 | 7 points by jefferyabbott 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Replacement for MacUpdater which reached EOL on 2026-01-01
    ×0.27 | 2 points by croemer 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. How to use AI to augment learning without losing critical thinking skills?
    ×0.69 115 | 22 points by mintsuku 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Tell HN: Perplexity Has Unspecified Character Limits for Session Export
    ×0.94 90 | 3 points by eth0up 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Books Should Update as Software
    ×0.59 103 | 6 points by fullstackragab 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Tell HN: Instagram Web has been broken for weeks
    ×0.91 119 | 6 points by thrdbndndn 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: When do we expose "Humans as Tools" so LLM agents can call us on demand?
    ×1.27 104 | 47 points by vedmakk 3 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: What is your prediction for the price of computer parts in 2026?
    ×0.19 | 2 points by wand3r 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: What do you think of reality check based behaviour corrector app?
    ×0.22 | 2 points by tbhaxor 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Help with LLVM
    ×1.44 157 | 4 points by kvthweatt 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Where else do you keep up-to-date?
    ×1.07 107 | 7 points by throwaway132448 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. I optimised my vibe coding tech stack cost to $0
    ×0.94 126 | 11 points by udit_50 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. I built a screen-aware desktop assistant; now it can write and use your computer
    ×0.52 147 | 5 points by luthiraabeykoon 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: How did you learn to code?
    ×2.12 117 | 35 points by chistev 3 days ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: How to Make the Most of an Acquisition?
    ×0.39 149 | 3 points by francoispiquard 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Any example of successful vibe-coded product?
    ×1.42 112 | 83 points by sirnicolaz 5 days ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Who is using local LLMs in a production environment here?
    ×0.39 136 | 8 points by Haeuserschlucht 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Is there any way to lock apps on iPhone?
    ×0.21 | 2 points by Quinzel 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Does reading HN make you happy?
    ×1.17 123 | 49 points by yakattak 5 days ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Security breaks during partial failures – design notes from distributed systems
    ×0.36 151 | 7 points by sandhyavinjam 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Is This Unix V4?
    ×0.44 | 2 points by gusfernandez 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. iOS: Apps persist data after full deletion
    ×0.66 138 | 6 points by WorldDev 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: What is the best microVMs for AI agents?
    ×0.49 159 | 9 points by zfoong 4 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: How to do a Personal Cybersecurity audit
    ×0.49 156 | 24 points by preciousoo 6 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ask HN: What personal project do you plan to scale in 2026?
    ×1.90 106 | 6 points by laurentiurad 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. A quantum-resistant RNG powered by collective human entropy
    ×0.39 164 | 4 points by EntropyGrid 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Ask HN: How to Disable Copilot in Office365?
    ×0.63 125 | 3 points by yibers 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Sorting with Fibonacci Numbers and a Knuth Reward Check (orlp.net)
    ×0.96 29 #79 | 17 points by g0xA52A2A 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Magic CSV – Transform CSVs with plain English, no formulas (magiccsv.app)
    ×0.55 37 #89 | 16 points by bored-developer 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: I Made a Gamma Clone with 1 Prompt (lovable.app)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by nsemikey 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Software Craftsmanship Is Dead (pcloadletter.dev)
    ×2.96 58 | 40 points by ronbenton 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Log Voyager – View 10GB+ log files in browser without crashing RAM (logvoyager.cc)
    ×0.63 105 | 3 points by murzynalbinos 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Gojju, a Fun Programming Language (hemanth.github.io)
    ×1.91 146 | 8 points by init0 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Microsoft CEO resorts to blogging in defense of AI (gamesradar.com)
    ×3.73 21 | 53 points by juujian 12 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Auxide- a Real-Time Audio Graph Library for Rust (github.com/Michael-A-Kuykendall)
    ×0.88 121 | 3 points by MKuykendall 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. I charged $18k for a Static HTML Page (2019) (idiallo.com)
    ×3.06 8 #9 | 213 points by caminanteblanco 12 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Building a Rust-Style Static Analyzer for C++ with AI (mpaxos.com)
    ×1.60 | 2 points by shuaimu 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Why I Keep Returning to Middle-Earth (nytimes.com)
    ×1.87 11 | 3 points by handfuloflight 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Cool project, will you actually maintain it? (pcloadletter.dev)
    ×1.74 28 | 3 points by ronbenton 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. X-Clacks-Overhead (hleb.dev)
    ×1.08 53 | 121 points by hleb_dev 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Trump says U.S. operation captured Venezuela's president Nicolas Maduro (cnbc.com)
    ×8.14 77 | 54 points by edweis 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: A local-first financial auditor using IBM Granite, MCP, and SQLite (github.com/simplynd)
    ×1.66 132 | 20 points by simplynd 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Open-source CSPM, DSPM, CIEM, and vulnerability management (github.com/clay-good)
    ×0.59 | 2 points by hireclay 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. My Tour Through a Particle Detector at Fermilab (whostakingthetrain.com)
    ×1.23 | 2 points by toomuchtodo 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Damn Vulnerable AI Bank – Practice AI Security (dvaib.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by dxsecarch 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Cardiovascular disease is a solved problem (totalhealthoptimization.com)
    ×2.95 55 | 83 points by brandonb 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Nike's Crisis and the Economics of Brand Decay (philippdubach.com)
    ×3.30 9 | 64 points by 7777777phil 15 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Stop Forwarding Errors, Start Designing Them (fast.github.io)
    ×1.18 7 #37 | 83 points by andylokandy 10 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. From silicon to Darude – Sandstorm: breaking famous synthesizer DSPs [video] (ccc.de)
    ×1.35 39 #48 | 118 points by anigbrowl 23 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. 'Chinese Peptides' Are the Latest Biohacking Trend in the Tech World (nytimes.com)
    ×1.74 7 | 3 points by bookofjoe 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Fluxer – open-source Discord-like chat (fluxer.app)
    ×2.06 130 | 7 points by hampus 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: RAMBnB.xyz P2P marketplace for RAM rentals (rambnb.xyz)
    ×1.01 139 | 29 points by olivierroy 5 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Bad Apple but it's played with cargo compilation output (reddit.com)
    ×2.65 25 | 4 points by afdbcreid 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Enclose.horse (enclose.horse)
    ×1.14 | 2 points by justicz 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Vho – AST-based analysis for better AI refactoring of large codebases (vue-hook-optimizer.vercel.app)
    ×1.15 | 2 points by huali 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. OpenGitOps (opengitops.dev)
    ×0.93 32 | 41 points by locknitpicker 9 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Comet MCP – Give Claude Code a browser that can click (github.com/hanzili)
    ×0.82 111 | 4 points by hanzili 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: BusterMQ, Thread-per-core NATS server in Zig with io_uring (bustermq.sh)
    ×0.92 94 | 133 points by jbaptiste 4 days ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Trellis AI (YC W24) is hiring engineers to build AI agents for healthcare access (ycombinator.com)
    12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. So You Want to Learn Physics Second Edition (susanrigetti.com)
    ×1.56 | 2 points by suioir 29 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Jan. 6 Archive: The Capital Charges database (npr.org)
    ×1.98 33 | 3 points by 1659447091 57 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: A concept implementation for a faster Transformer [pdf] (github.com/tuned-org-uk)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by tuned 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Ask HN: Is there a better alternative to email?
    ×0.46 | 1 points by DinakarS 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Venezuela's interim government says it is united behind Maduro (reuters.com)
    ×5.52 39 | 63 points by SilverElfin 11 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time (stackexchange.com)
    ×6.57 75 | 1458 points by maartin0 1 day ago | 913 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: An interactive guide to how browsers work (howbrowserswork.com)
    ×1.44 12 #12 | 202 points by krasun 14 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Agentic Patterns (github.com/nibzard)
    ×1.73 7 #19 | 95 points by PretzelFisch 10 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. MyTorch – Minimalist autograd in 450 lines of Python (github.com/obround)
    ×0.76 56 #64 | 93 points by iguana2000 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes (reuters.com)
    ×9.88 46 #77 | 1743 points by jumpocelot 1 day ago | 4507 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: A Android Color Detection Auto Clicker with no full-screen ads
    ×0.52 | 1 points by dopifier 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. What is Agent context engine (ragflow.io)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by yingfeng 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Street Fighter II, the World Warrier (2021) (fabiensanglard.net)
    ×1.74 8 #7 | 335 points by birdculture 14 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: PromptKelp – A prompt manager I'm using to build itself (promptkelp.com)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by nathan-aii 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???