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  1. Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...
    ×2.59 8 #69 | 431 points by mittermayr 1 day ago | 322 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Can a tinnitus be triggered by high frequency noises?
    ×0.16 47 | 3 points by tinnitus_crazy 4 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated
    ×7.50 59 #89 | 1630 points by CliffStoll 2 days ago | 250 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Former master-tech building AI systems – how to break into software?
    ×0.23 | 2 points by nicku711 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Best AI coding plan alternative to Claude and ChatGPT
    ×1.74 44 | 4 points by Jsttan 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Before Open Source took over the server, what was the discourse like?
    ×0.72 68 | 4 points by mbgerring 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. How are folks affordably self-training in AI?
    ×0.56 82 | 7 points by macartain 15 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. LLM generated parsers and compliance checkers for Sparrow DSL
    ×0.30 100 | 3 points by melezhik 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What is the underlying stack behind multi-agent platforms?
    ×0.32 106 | 3 points by throwaw12 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Reflections on NetBSD 11
    ×0.39 114 | 8 points by morpheos137 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What is your go-to solution for a personal wiki in 2026?
    ×0.43 119 | 15 points by ex-aws-dude 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Can NPM, pnpm etc. use frontier models to check packages for malware?
    ×0.29 123 | 5 points by VikRubenfeld 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Novel macro signals for AI-related job loss?
    ×0.37 124 | 5 points by sfmz 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What do you still do manually in 2026 that should be automated?
    ×0.33 125 | 19 points by lishunsheng 3 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How do we handle the rise of low quality "This is LLM" comments?
    ×0.57 111 | 9 points by shantnutiwari 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What will happen as AI costs increase?
    ×0.48 118 | 14 points by MetaWhirledPeas 2 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad?
    ×1.74 122 | 134 points by idontwantthis 1 week ago | 207 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Are we gonna back less powerful local LLMs
    ×0.29 133 | 9 points by omertt27 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How to start up as an individual developer?
    ×0.49 144 | 14 points by alexyan0431 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: How are you handling QA being bottlenecked with more AI-generated PRs?
    ×0.24 148 | 4 points by softneon 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Who got hired with Who wants to be hired? (On 2026)
    ×0.31 136 | 18 points by Gooblebrai 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. "Surface" a Governed AI-Agentic Surface
    ×0.09 166 | 3 points by paulbernard 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Epupp – Browser Extension to Tamper with Web Pages, Live and with Userscriptss (github.com/PEZ)
    ×1.64 31 | 3 points by TheWiggles 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Show HN: Best Old School UFO Website (ufoevidence.org)
    ×1.63 96 | 9 points by techteach00 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school (theguardian.com)
    ×2.28 93 #61 | 377 points by rustoo 3 days ago | 605 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. David Attenborough's 100th Birthday (bbc.com)
    ×4.25 23 #64 | 853 points by defrost 1 day ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: TRUST – Coding Rust like it's 1989 (github.com/wojtczyk)
    ×1.01 81 | 161 points by wojtczyk 3 days ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: DAG-based Kanji learning through components (mykanji.app)
    ×0.58 169 | 3 points by barisozmen 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. A construction of the Hat tilings by a Markov partition (dal.ca)
    ×0.43 16 #27 | 6 points by robinhouston 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. America's carpet capital: an empire and its toxic legacy (apnews.com)
    ×1.35 19 #40 | 165 points by rawgabbit 1 day ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Local AI search for your video library (local, open source) (edit-mind.com)
    ×0.38 | 2 points by iliashad 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Agentctl, a local control plane for coding agents (github.com/chocks)
    ×0.24 | 2 points by chocks 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Giant Virginia Data Center Project Upended by Clerical Error (bloomberg.com)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Bun ported to Rust in 6 days (twitter.com/jarredsumner)
    ×4.03 59 | 99 points by qprofyeh 12 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Multiple universities forced to reschedule final exams after Canvas incident (therecord.media)
    ×1.07 | 2 points by jruohonen 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Pocket Raspberry Pi Computer for Hackers [Pre-Sale] (m5stack.com)
    ×1.44 40 | 3 points by daniel_iversen 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged (privatecaptcha.com)
    ×3.53 47 | 691 points by ribtoks 1 day ago | 354 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Remind – schedule Claude Code on your Mac (olliewagner.com)
    ×1.81 59 | 3 points by olliewagner 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Software Engineer to Novelist: Writing a Book Like Coding (frequal.com)
    ×1.10 165 | 22 points by TeaVMFan 6 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: I built open-source auth for AI agents (Go, single binary) (github.com/shark-auth)
    ×0.77 160 | 4 points by raulgooo 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. We see something that works, and then we understand it (lemire.me)
    ×2.36 2 #5 | 57 points by surprisetalk 4 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Wi is Fi: Understanding Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7/8 (802.11 n/AC/ax/be/bn) (wiisfi.com)
    ×2.40 9 #41 | 386 points by homebrewer 1 day ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. When life gives you lemons, write better error messages (wix-ux.com)
    ×1.99 28 | 4 points by dnw 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Snyk and Claude Code: real-time security scanning of AI-generated code (codebrainery.com)
    ×1.66 10 | 4 points by yogeshbansal 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking (sinceyouarrived.world)
    ×4.70 37 | 596 points by mwheelz 1 day ago | 289 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: I mirrored war.gov's UAP archive in pure Rail with verifiable bytes (ledatic.org)
    ×0.68 131 | 3 points by zem0g 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Bookstoread.ai – Discover non-fiction books using AI (bookstoread.ai)
    ×2.59 135 | 8 points by yotc 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: I made a Clojure-like language in Go, boots in 7ms (github.com/nooga)
    ×1.75 1 #13 | 146 points by marcingas 10 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Late-interaction rerank made our F1 worse, not better – a negative result (sverklo.com)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by nike-17 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: I built a game where AI agents compete to ship code (aion.quest)
    ×2.73 150 | 10 points by xkoda 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Free tool to mark points and polygon regions (tack.pics)
    ×0.46 65 | 19 points by magikMaker 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Ovlt – Lightweight Auth Server That Runs in ~20MB RAM (ovlt.tech)
    ×1.20 107 | 5 points by Shrpp 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Non-determinism is an issue with patching CVEs (flox.dev)
    ×0.59 69 | 48 points by mathewpregasen 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. PRD Driven Development (debarshibasak.github.io)
    ×1.43 | 2 points by debarshri 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Court to DOGE: Asking ChatGPT 'Is This DEI?' Is Not Proper Legal Process (techdirt.com)
    ×5.33 54 | 96 points by hn_acker 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Hantavirus tracker with Pandemic 2's UI (xetera.dev)
    ×1.93 15 | 4 points by xetera 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Kstack – Skill pack for monitoring/troubleshooting K8s in Claude Code (github.com/kubetail-org)
    ×0.57 103 | 25 points by andres 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Making Julia as Fast as C++ (2019) (byu.edu)
    ×0.93 29 #63 | 79 points by d_tr 22 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Matrix Chat with Embed Search Engine (mwmbl.org)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by daoudc 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Model Provenance Kit: Know Where Your AI Models Come From (cisco.com)
    ×1.43 49 | 3 points by boh 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. All my clients wanted a carousel, now it's an AI chatbot (pages.casa)
    ×3.25 39 | 181 points by edent 1 day ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data (theverge.com)
    ×3.40 17 #82 | 914 points by stefanpie 2 days ago | 625 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Great Little Software – interviews with solo developers (greatlittle.software)
    ×1.71 | 2 points by valeriavg_dev 15 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: DoodleMate: Animate Your Child's Hand Drawings Without Generative AI (doodlemate.com)
    ×4.07 147 | 12 points by hjessmith 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. I caught the car (undecidability.net)
    ×0.81 8 #37 | 46 points by holden_nelson 11 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Can LLMs model real-world systems in TLA+? (sigops.org)
    ×1.02 44 #68 | 118 points by mad 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: A search engine for deleted YouTube videos (1.5B+ indexed since 2005) (archivarix.net)
    ×3.64 73 | 10 points by archivarix 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: UltraCompress – first mathematically lossless 5-bit LLM compression (github.com/sipsalabs)
    ×1.06 126 | 5 points by mounnar 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. The Serial TTL connector we deserve (kohlschuetter.github.io)
    ×1.11 #23 | 80 points by kohlschuetter 9 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. LLMs corrupt your documents when you delegate (arxiv.org)
    ×2.76 8 #19 | 395 points by rbanffy 22 hours ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. CPanel's Black Week: 3 New Vulnerabilities Patched After Attack on 44k Servers (copahost.com)
    ×0.99 14 #21 | 121 points by ggallas 14 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: New Benchmark from SWE-bench team is 0% solved (programbench.com)
    ×4.15 141 | 23 points by lieret 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. 'Try, Score, Change': Reinforcement Learning for Children (gwern.net)
    ×1.62 | 2 points by helloplanets 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Godot Usage and Engine Growth (godotengine.org)
    ×1.50 45 | 3 points by JSLegendDev 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent sandbox with a transactional, versioned filesystem (tilde.run)
    ×1.07 83 | 199 points by ozkatz 3 days ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: I built a new word game, Wordtrak (wordtrak.com)
    ×0.84 110 | 79 points by qrush 4 days ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Orch8 – Durable workflow engine in Rust, one binary, Postgres or SQLite (github.com/orch8-io)
    ×1.81 138 | 26 points by _alphageek 4 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. The hypocrisy of cyberlibertarianism (matduggan.com)
    ×2.99 5 #25 | 314 points by ColinWright 17 hours ago | 277 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. The Disappearance of the Public Bench (placesjournal.org)
    ×1.40 85 #72 | 162 points by cainxinth 2 days ago | 223 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Mythical Man Month (martinfowler.com)
    ×2.10 11 #31 | 375 points by ingve 1 day ago | 197 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Let’s Encrypt: Stopping Issuance for Potential Incident – Resolved (status.io)
    ×3.79 22 | 143 points by rbaudibert 1 day ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Agent-skills-eval – Test whether Agent Skills improve outputs (github.com/darkrishabh)
    ×0.80 94 | 76 points by darkrishabh 3 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Mux (YC W16) Is Hiring (mux.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. VGA Memory Access Is Complicated (os2museum.com)
    ×1.23 75 #73 | 12 points by ingve 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: I built an open-source email builder, alternative to Beefree/Unlayer (templatical.com)
    ×1.06 90 | 160 points by oahmadov 3 days ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Fusion's cost floor: what if the core were free? (1cfe.substack.com)
    ×1.06 | 2 points by helsinkiandrew 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Fidelity to Cut 800 Staffers as It Overhauls Tech, Product Teams (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.67 12 | 5 points by littlexsparkee 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Chewing gum releases microplastics into your saliva, UCLA research shows (ucla.edu)
    ×2.43 60 | 4 points by littlexsparkee 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. tsz: TypeScript checker and LSP written in Rust, designed to outperform tsgo (github.com/mohsen1)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by maxloh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Internet Archive Switzerland (archive.org)
    ×2.56 5 #7 | 593 points by hggh 19 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???