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  1. Ask HN: DevOps Assistance for LA Fires Relief Initiative
    ×0.28 #48 | 6 points by johanam 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Dense Tree Layout Algorithms
    ×0.64 #53 | 34 points by bwestergard 22 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: How do you prevent the impact of social media on your children?
    ×0.77 #72 | 293 points by justneedaname 2 days ago | 380 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Coincidence between the start spacecraft scene in Prometheus and 60s phreaking
    ×0.78 | 3 points by damiaozi 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What's it like being an American employee of ByteDance?
    ×2.04 | 5 points by AbstractH24 15 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Is maintaining a personal blog still worth it?
    ×2.11 | 197 points by namanyayg 3 days ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How to approach first days on a new job as a senior PM?
    ×0.98 | 58 points by LifeIsBio 6 days ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Work on robotics or agents?
    ×0.71 | 79 points by hcwilk 1 week ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Tell HN: I'm a programmer who bought a typewriter
    ×0.63 | 58 points by sasha_fishter 6 days ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Relocating for Tech Jobs in 2025
    ×0.76 | 13 points by andrewstetsenko 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What's the best book you've read regarding software development?
    ×1.35 | 31 points by nadis 3 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: How do you sleep on time?
    ×0.96 | 14 points by rookie123 2 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Seeking Device to Normalize Audio Output for Consistent Volume Levels
    ×0.85 | 2 points by ghoomketu 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How do you backup your Android?
    ×1.42 | 139 points by Openai2 1 week ago | 219 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: A friend has brain cancer: any bio hacks that worked?
    ×1.92 | 154 points by d--b 1 week ago | 363 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Have any of you become homeless?
    ×0.88 | 11 points by thatxliner 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Sick of AI Agent Frameworks
    ×0.66 | 12 points by ailover 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Would you make every country have a wealth tax like Sweden used to
    ×0.45 | 8 points by upmind 3 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What to do if I got team mismatch?
    ×0.91 | 2 points by misplaced994 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What is a common PR review time at your company?
    ×0.65 | 32 points by ericyd 6 days ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Best side hustle for WFH guys
    ×0.62 | 11 points by rookie123 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Alternatives to WordPress for Personal Blogging
    ×0.93 | 7 points by muddi900 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Want to keep my software engineering skills sharp
    ×0.76 | 19 points by mettamage 3 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Coding on an iPad?
    ×0.27 | 9 points by tmaly 3 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: How to approach first days on a new job as a senior engineer?
    ×3.34 | 114 points by rolothrow 6 days ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Will HN ever have a dark mode?
    ×0.54 | 13 points by anthropodie 4 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Looking for work, cannot pass background check
    ×1.15 | 9 points by sskalnik 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Tell HN: New/Novel? Form of PayPal Phishing
    ×0.95 | 5 points by compsciphd 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Google.com search now refusing to search for FF esr 128 without JavaScript
    ×3.44 | 69 points by superkuh 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Do you pay your children for good grades?
    ×0.41 | 13 points by mr_coffee 4 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Give a whole server to an agent with the full permission of doing whatever
    ×0.50 | 5 points by itstomo 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: 10k in organic course sales, now what?
    ×0.42 | 7 points by ada1981 5 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: What does Salesforce AI do?
    ×0.52 | 9 points by suzzer99 4 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: How to work at a bigger tech company?
    ×1.09 | 9 points by llmdrinker 3 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Looking for a good pair of over ear headphones
    ×0.47 | 4 points by jickes 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Pull the curtain back on Nvidia's CES keynote please
    ×1.96 | 54 points by btbt 5 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. A minimax chess engine in regular expressions (carlini.com)
    ×1.43 | 556 points by ilya_m 1 week ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ending our third party fact-checking program and moving to Community Notes model (fb.com)
    ×4.16 | 866 points by impish9208 1 week ago | 1359 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Learning Synths (ableton.com)
    ×2.20 | 381 points by holdit 1 week ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: TubePen – My attempt to get more out of YouTube learning (tubepen.com)
    ×0.86 | 74 points by n0vella 1 week ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: HipScript – Run CUDA in the browser with WebAssembly and WebGPU (lights0123.com)
    ×1.50 | 308 points by lights0123 1 week ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Tramway SDK – An unholy union between Half-Life and Morrowind engines (racenis.github.io)
    ×2.64 | 659 points by racenis 1 week ago | 238 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Tinyhnsw – The Littlest Vector Database (github.com/jbarrow)
    ×1.21 | 17 points by jbarrow 1 week ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Type 2 Diabetes and cardiovascular disease attributable to sugar beverages (nature.com)
    ×3.55 | 427 points by tchalla 1 week ago | 383 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HNL: Upload resume, get a motivational audio (adauris.ai)
    ×1.54 | 17 points by zino3000 1 week ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases (seangoedecke.com)
    ×3.70 | 806 points by BerislavLopac 1 week ago | 368 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Magic/tragic email links: don't make them the only option (recyclebin.zip)
    ×2.91 | 704 points by gepeto42 1 week ago | 504 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Servo Revival: 2023-2024 (igalia.com)
    ×2.10 | 318 points by panic 1 week ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Counting Tap Toy (memalign.github.io)
    ×0.51 | 31 points by memalign 1 week ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Operating System in 1,000 Lines – Intro (operating-system-in-1000-lines.vercel.app)
    ×4.18 | 1046 points by ingve 1 week ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Belshazzar's Clock, luminous paint night clock (karliner.net)
    ×0.54 | 73 points by mkarliner 1 week ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Cracking a 512-bit DKIM key for less than $8 in the cloud (dmarcchecker.app)
    ×2.97 | 798 points by awulf 1 week ago | 405 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Fidget (mattkeeter.com)
    ×2.47 | 554 points by todsacerdoti 1 week ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Atlas of Space (atlasof.space)
    ×3.12 | 763 points by pieix 1 week ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Cardstock- Free TCG Proxy Manager for Magic, Yugioh, & Pokemon (denta.co)
    ×0.73 | 69 points by adenta 1 week ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Awra – AI-powered legislative bill analyzer (awra.ai)
    ×2.33 | 11 points by wcisco17 1 week ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Stagehand – an open source browser automation framework powered by AI (github.com/browserbase)
    ×1.80 | 326 points by hackgician 1 week ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. NeuralSVG: An Implicit Representation for Text-to-Vector Generation (sagipolaczek.github.io)
    ×2.89 | 777 points by lnyan 1 week ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Zig Obfusgator (github.com/ringtailsoftware)
    ×1.26 | 6 points by trj 1 week ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. I had to take down my course-swapping site or be expelled (linkedin.com)
    ×7.57 | 1341 points by jdkaim 1 week ago | 695 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. LA wildfires force thousands to evacuate, NASA JPL closed (theregister.com)
    ×3.52 | 359 points by rntn 1 week ago | 645 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Salesforce will hire no more software engineers in 2025, says Marc Benioff (salesforceben.com)
    ×3.47 | 349 points by lordswork 1 week ago | 387 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Steve Langasek, one of Ubuntu Linux's leading lights, has died (thenewstack.io)
    ×2.56 | 310 points by CrankyBear 1 week ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. You don't have to pay the Microsoft 365 price increase (consumer.org.nz)
    ×4.53 | 396 points by lancewiggs 1 week ago | 249 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: LA Wildfire Satellite Analysis (github.com/xingyzt)
    ×1.65 | 116 points by xingyzt 1 week ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Luigi Mangione's account has been renamed on Stack Overflow (evancarroll.com)
    ×9.76 | 980 points by OsrsNeedsf2P 1 week ago | 808 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Factorio Blueprint Visualizer (github.com/piebro)
    ×2.25 | 448 points by piebro 1 week ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Scientists uncover how the brain washes itself during sleep (science.org)
    ×3.11 | 339 points by pseudolus 1 week ago | 274 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Tetris in a PDF (th0mas.nl)
    ×4.66 | 1282 points by ThomasRinsma 1 week ago | 223 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. The Tsunami of Burnout Few See (charleshughsmith.blogspot.com)
    ×3.63 | 572 points by dxs 1 week ago | 326 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Kate's App (katesapp.org)
    ×1.44 | 160 points by bhpreece 1 week ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. WorstFit: Unveiling Hidden Transformers in Windows ANSI (orange.tw)
    ×1.70 | 373 points by notmine1337 1 week ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: TabPFN v2 – A SOTA foundation model for small tabular data (nature.com)
    ×1.23 | 152 points by onasta 1 week ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Ultra-portable Gantt chart tool for very regulated environments (github.com/aerugo)
    ×1.69 | 114 points by aerugo_ 1 week ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Why is my CPU usage always 100%? (downtowndougbrown.com)
    ×2.51 | 535 points by pncnmnp 1 week ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Lines of code that beat A/B testing (2012) (stevehanov.ca)
    ×2.01 | 374 points by Kerrick 1 week ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Never let friends forget who is the winner (shmelo.io)
    ×1.47 | 5 points by itsikap 1 week ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Visualizing All ISBNs (annas-archive.org)
    ×2.06 | 391 points by RyanShook 6 days ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Check if your website's images have alt text (alttextgenerator.co)
    ×0.78 | 13 points by allenz_cheung 6 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Boulette - Protect you from yourself (even as root). (github.com/pipelight)
    ×1.10 | 73 points by jean_dupont 6 days ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. I've acquired a new superpower (danielwirtz.com)
    ×6.85 | 1770 points by wirtzdan 6 days ago | 552 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs (axios.com)
    ×7.24 | 1172 points by bsilvereagle 6 days ago | 1744 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Cuttle – a MTG like game using a standard 52 card deck (pagat.com)
    ×2.04 | 379 points by 7thaccount 6 days ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: 3D Terrain simulation for hiking, skiing etc. (github.com/r-follador)
    ×1.18 | 150 points by folli 6 days ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. A laptop stand made from a single sheet of recycled paper (core77.com)
    ×1.81 | 341 points by surprisetalk 6 days ago | 242 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Be Aware of the Makefile Effect (yossarian.net)
    ×3.61 | 424 points by thunderbong 5 days ago | 340 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Track your devices via Apple FindMy network in Go/TinyGo (github.com/hybridgroup)
    ×1.93 | 360 points by deadprogram 5 days ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: A Better Log Service (txtlog.net)
    ×1.12 | 153 points by williebeek 5 days ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: TypeScript/React/Vue Window Layout Manager (Tabs, Floating, Popouts) (github.com/mathuo)
    ×1.96 | 331 points by mathuo 5 days ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. TSMC begins producing 4-nanometer chips in Arizona (reuters.com)
    ×1.84 #57 | 404 points by heresie-dabord 1 day ago | 342 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???