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  1. Ask HN: Notification Overload
    ×0.57 39 #58 | 33 points by fractal618 12 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Junior getting lost
    ×0.70 37 | 35 points by TheRegularOne 17 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. The preposterous notion of AI automating "repetitive" work
    ×0.45 59 | 3 points by cadabrabra 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: How do you reset an AppleID?
    ×0.55 68 | 5 points by OhMeadhbh 10 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How are devtool founders getting their paying users in 2026?
    ×0.77 61 | 7 points by yasu_c 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Books to learn 6502 ASM and the Apple II
    ×0.60 82 | 101 points by abkt 3 days ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Is archive.is currently broken for WSJ links?
    ×0.35 84 | 6 points by bigwheels 18 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Who do you follow via RSS feed?
    ×0.90 99 | 67 points by znpy 3 days ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How far has "vibe coding" come?
    ×0.24 90 | 11 points by pigon1002 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: DDD was a great debugger – what would a modern equivalent look like?
    ×0.67 115 | 56 points by manux81 4 days ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Tell HN: Beeper deletes inactive accounts without notice
    ×0.22 | 2 points by kldx 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Designing programming languages beyond AI comprehension
    ×0.13 128 | 6 points by mr_bob_sacamano 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What's the Point Anymore?
    ×1.93 95 | 62 points by fnoef 2 days ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What recent UX changes make no sense to you?
    ×0.69 101 | 31 points by superasn 2 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. How much recurring income do you generate in 2026 and from what?
    ×0.55 118 | 12 points by djshah 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Vibe Researching" with AI – Anyone Using It for Real?
    ×0.50 134 | 8 points by spenceXu 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Where can I find startups looking for fractional product leads?
    ×0.40 140 | 7 points by stulogy 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How to prevent Claude/GPT/Gemini from reinforcing your biases?
    ×0.80 129 | 29 points by akshay326 3 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: European alternative to Vercel/Cloudflare for hosting
    ×0.59 135 | 12 points by vldszn 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Tell HN: I cut Claude API costs from $70/month to pennies
    ×1.18 130 | 40 points by ok_orco 4 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Has Show HN become LLM-prompt-centric?
    ×0.64 114 | 8 points by piratesAndSons 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Where to find cool companies to work for?
    ×0.28 131 | 6 points by truetaurus 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: How much emphasis to put on unit testing and when?
    ×0.39 146 | 9 points by theturtlemoves 3 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. I built a C++ runtime with immutable objects and no GIL
    ×0.59 155 | 5 points by gamarino 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. How to DeGoogle Myself?
    ×0.62 116 | 12 points by neuralkoi 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Frigate NVR Critical RCE Vulnerability Severity
    ×0.24 | 2 points by shadybraden 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: If Everyone Can "Build" a SaaS, What Becomes Valuable?
    ×1.26 122 | 12 points by spenceXu 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. The Anti-Pomodoro Technique: Focus on Taking Breaks, Not Watching the Timer
    ×0.62 98 | 6 points by kentich 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Is there a good open-source alternative to Adobe Acrobat?
    ×0.28 154 | 9 points by sebastian_z 4 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Tell HN: JumpCloud 2FA appears to be down
    ×0.10 | 2 points by sgammon 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Email experiments: filtering out external images (terracrypt.net)
    ×1.58 | 2 points by todsacerdoti 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Forensic trace shows SISVIDA is a simulation with no liquidity
    ×0.55 | 1 points by Morris_ 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. shapez.io (shapez.io)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by cl3misch 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: AI Mailbox – An CLI inbox for your agent, no questions asked (github.com/ted2048-maker)
    ×2.44 18 | 4 points by ted2048 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Record and share your coding sessions with CodeMic (codemic.io)
    ×0.65 104 | 13 points by seansh 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. 9front OS (9front.org)
    ×1.55 14 #65 | 48 points by doener 11 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Apple buys Israeli startup Q.ai (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.51 27 #83 | 116 points by ishener 15 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Spar – Built a tool to help improve store conversion rates (cuped.ai)
    ×1.74 137 | 4 points by 6farer 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. SolarWinds Web Help Desk Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (solarwinds.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by beny23 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Is this the perfect 404 page? [CSS only] (github.com/AntiKippi)
    ×2.36 132 | 6 points by AntiKippi 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: vind – A Better Kind (Kubernetes in Docker) (github.com/loft-sh)
    ×5.38 65 | 15 points by saiyampathak 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Ghostly: The Ultimate Platform for Ghosting Candidates (Satire) (wasmer.app)
    ×0.89 | 2 points by dw1014 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Stargaze: SpaceX's Space Situational Awareness System (starlink.com)
    ×1.66 7 #18 | 102 points by hnburnsy 9 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. TGUI, a cross-platform modern C++ GUI library (tgui.eu)
    ×1.19 | 2 points by createrockvent 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Elisa – The music player developed by KDE community (kde.org)
    ×1.28 | 2 points by 0x54MUR41 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: ZK Visualizer – I built this while learning zero-knowledge proofs (zkvisualizer.com)
    ×2.05 110 | 5 points by zkenthusiast 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. A lot of population numbers are fake (davidoks.blog)
    ×2.30 9 #31 | 356 points by bookofjoe 22 hours ago | 291 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. The Sovereign Tech Fund invests in Scala (scala-lang.org)
    ×1.25 51 #54 | 100 points by bishabosha 23 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Eightile, A Nested Anagram Solver Game (eightile.com)
    ×0.86 143 | 3 points by alexandermorgan 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: CertRadar – Find every certificate ever issued for your domain (certradar.net)
    ×0.97 145 | 21 points by ops_mechanic 4 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Grid: Free, local-first, browser-based 3D printing/CNC/laser slicer (grid.space)
    ×1.71 3 #11 | 314 points by cyrusradfar 13 hours ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Slopaganda: AI images posted by the White House and what they teach us (theguardian.com)
    ×6.74 19 | 90 points by lemming 15 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: FaceTime-style calls with an AI Companion (Live2D and long-term memory) (thebeni.ai)
    ×0.72 133 | 34 points by summerlee9611 4 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Play Zener Cards (zener.cards)
    ×1.81 66 | 6 points by nirvanist 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Somebody used spoofed ADSB signals to raster the meme of JD Vance (alecmuffett.com)
    ×2.65 15 | 539 points by wubin 1 day ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. SoftBank in talks to invest up to $30B more in OpenAI (wsj.com)
    ×2.49 74 | 59 points by JumpCrisscross 2 days ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. I reverse-engineered Netflix's 4K restrictions (github.com/Pickle-Pixel)
    ×2.75 52 | 80 points by picklepixel 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Long-hidden Leonardo mural opens to the public ahead of 2026 Milan Olympics (artnet.com)
    ×0.69 13 #24 | 18 points by antigizmo 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. TÜV Report 2026: Tesla Model Y has the worst reliability of all 2022–2023 cars (2025) (autoevolution.com)
    ×5.60 7 | 176 points by Archelaos 1 day ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. CodeGlyphX: Zero-dependency QR and barcode encoding/decoding for .NET (codeglyphx.com)
    ×1.99 32 | 3 points by themadboy 59 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: PNANA - A TUI Text Editor (github.com/Cyxuan0311)
    ×1.02 124 | 9 points by Frameser 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Spacecurve: A space-filling curve playground (corte.si)
    ×0.58 36 #25 | 21 points by cortesi 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Code is cheap. Show me the talk (nadh.in)
    ×2.53 55 | 3 points by ghostfoxgod 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: I built VanCamera: FOSS, secure, zero-config Android webcam for Windows (github.com/danielbolivar)
    ×1.62 7 | 13 points by danielb74 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: We review YC applications for free – with feedback from YC founders (ycroaster.com)
    ×1.68 78 | 5 points by gjarrosson 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again (openclaw.ai)
    ×2.69 #4 | 267 points by ed 6 hours ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. A History of Haggis (2019) (historytoday.com)
    ×0.50 18 #30 | 33 points by Petiver 7 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Employers, please use postmarked letters for job applications (2025) (mradford.com)
    ×1.71 31 #40 | 67 points by MattyRad 13 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: I built a CSV parser to try Go 1.26's new SIMD package (github.com/nnnkkk7)
    ×1.92 149 | 7 points by tokkyokky 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. 1,400-year-old tomb featuring giant owl sculpture discovered in Mexico (cnn.com)
    ×3.01 34 | 5 points by breve 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: ARC-AGI-3 Toolkit (arcprize.org)
    ×1.74 76 | 6 points by gkamradt 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: ShapedQL – A SQL engine for multi-stage ranking and RAG (shaped.ai)
    ×0.61 50 #72 | 75 points by tullie 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Still waiting for GTA 6? Google Genie 3 says: just prompt it (twitter.com/povssam)
    ×1.13 | 2 points by bakigul 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: SHDL – A minimal hardware description language built from logic gates (github.com/rafa-rrayes)
    ×0.47 75 | 43 points by rafa_rrayes 2 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: pqry – A fast, lightweight CLI tool to diagnose Parquet datasets (github.com/symblic)
    ×1.61 139 | 4 points by setzeno 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Omni-NLI – A multi-interface server for natural language inference
    ×0.48 | 1 points by habedi0 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. METR Clarifying limitations of time horizon (metr.org)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by alphabetatango 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Solar panels on land used for biofuels could power all cars and trucks electric (ourworldindata.org)
    ×1.98 6 #44 | 3 points by alphabetatango 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Building an eBPF Transparent Proxy (jnfrati.dev)
    ×1.51 | 2 points by jnfrati 32 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Is there a good Agent Leaderboard for other real-life things than coding?
    ×0.53 | 1 points by tototozip 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Ask HN: What AI features looked smart early but hurt retention later?
    ×0.49 | 1 points by kajolshah_bt 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: WordRE, Wordle for Real Estate (reidsherman.com)
    ×0.55 113 | 9 points by reidjs 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: TiniText – Small tools for transcription, summaries and drafts (tinitext.com)
    ×0.37 | 2 points by neliousness 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Tesla is committing automotive suicide (electrek.co)
    ×7.73 30 #62 | 279 points by jethronethro 18 hours ago | 345 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Trump says he's decertifying Canada-made aircraft and threatens 50% tariffs (cnn.com)
    ×5.09 60 #71 | 6 points by throw0101c 9 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. I built a 100% offline IBAN and VAT validator using WebAssembly (finovasharp.com)
    ×1.31 | 2 points by fldivrus 55 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: SimpleSVGs – Free Online SVG Optimizer Multiple SVG Files at Once (simplesvgs.online)
    ×0.66 83 | 6 points by firtaet 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Nomod payment integrated into usage-based billing stack
    ×2.75 77 | 9 points by ShreyaChaurasia 20 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. The passive in English (2011) (upenn.edu)
    ×0.57 41 #88 | 20 points by penetralium 13 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: TikTok alternative no login no AI (infinijest.com)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by throwawaste 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???