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  1. Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?
    ×3.21 51 #31 | 168 points by sharts 1 day ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub
    ×3.16 15 #89 | 623 points by dhruv3006 1 day ago | 416 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: I've quit six systems for tracking my illness. What works?
    ×0.70 52 | 37 points by Abh1Works 3 days ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Why Don't We Version UIs?
    ×0.75 31 | 4 points by gruensk 2 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers
    ×3.84 33 | 641 points by stagas 2 days ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Good content on using AI to modernize professional services delivery
    ×0.21 67 | 5 points by mguerville 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Do you feel comfortable admitting that you use AI?
    ×0.86 23 | 8 points by var0xyz 4 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Another GitHub Outage?
    ×0.57 69 | 3 points by tom1337 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. I made a secure way for agents to request secrets from you using HyperDHT
    ×0.44 | 2 points by smashah 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Science Fiction. Some AI as world leader. Would you vote it?
    ×0.52 | 2 points by ewjloop 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Can I realistically make an app as a junior dev?
    ×0.54 66 | 4 points by brooke1 4 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Is there room for an AI-powered webmail service built on a single-letter domain?
    ×0.83 72 | 4 points by pbt93 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: How do you manage focus and avoid burnout while working remotely?
    ×1.02 75 | 4 points by pranav_tech26 6 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What's a Dirty Secret No One Wants to Admit in the Tech Industry?
    ×2.62 6 | 10 points by karakoram 4 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Today I realized you can't star an achived repo in GitHub anymore
    ×2.16 40 | 6 points by dclavijo 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Email Client for the Terminal?
    ×0.51 105 | 6 points by ewjloop 17 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?
    ×1.10 113 | 90 points by simonebrunozzi 3 days ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Best code editor without AI?
    ×0.29 119 | 6 points by nerdyguy90 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What is your favorite lightweight tool or CLI utility in 2026?
    ×0.56 139 | 22 points by pranav_tech26 2 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What's the Best Agent Harness?
    ×0.35 127 | 5 points by cakbeslik 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: How can we care more about fewer things?
    ×0.29 136 | 4 points by robalni 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: If you're burning tokens at scale, what are you using them for?
    ×0.47 128 | 5 points by simonw 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Trivially bypass text watermarks by requesting a Base64 response
    ×0.37 137 | 4 points by hanneshdc 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Is GitHub Fried Today?
    ×0.43 138 | 4 points by johncole 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Is Mockup Data a thing you can ask from SaaS Salesperson?
    ×0.31 148 | 3 points by xtiansimon 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Is classical AI research still being done because it helps modern AI?
    ×0.32 151 | 3 points by amichail 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Where to learn software engineering fundamentals?
    ×0.70 144 | 13 points by mstank 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: What tools are you using for human code review of AI-assisted code?
    ×0.64 140 | 11 points by dafelst 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Alternative to Internet Archive
    ×0.60 150 | 19 points by earworms 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility (404media.co)
    ×4.59 44 | 155 points by amarcheschi 1 day ago | 312 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Nikala UI – UI Component Library for SolidJS and Tailwind CSS v4 (nikala.dev)
    ×1.16 143 | 3 points by magradze 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Open-source comment section widget, Disqus alternative (github.com/Runn077)
    ×1.16 146 | 3 points by Runn077 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Why your Amazon order confirmation emails have become so unhelpful (theverge.com)
    ×2.23 19 #36 | 48 points by Macha 2 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Meta pays pro-Meta influencers when countries look into teen safety on Instagram (theguardian.com)
    ×2.34 9 #71 | 33 points by mikelgan 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. The new Framework 12 [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.05 14 #78 | 13 points by what-is-water 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Incident with Github.com [resolved] (githubstatus.com)
    ×3.24 12 | 553 points by SpyCoder77 1 day ago | 954 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: UL-SMF – Open-source linear-complexity ~300x KV-cache compression (github.com/liventruth)
    ×0.47 106 | 13 points by liventruth 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. We've flown a radiation-blocking vest to the Moon and back, and it worked (arstechnica.com)
    ×0.79 19 #9 | 36 points by rbanffy 3 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Splitting a Git Commit (gnoack.org)
    ×1.25 11 #12 | 86 points by signa11 5 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Baking a Model: A Metaphor for LLM Training (kentbeck.com)
    ×0.38 51 #38 | 30 points by KentBeck 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. JPEG XL converter and .jxl viewer (jpegxlconvert.com)
    ×0.95 24 #52 | 19 points by El-Necora 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Rethinking Database Programming (acadia.engineering)
    ×1.62 11 #32 | 207 points by honungsburk 11 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Leviath – Structured context regions for LLM agents, in one Rust binary (leviath.dev)
    ×1.49 89 | 3 points by gemisis 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: LumoTray for Mac (lumotray.com)
    ×1.59 90 | 3 points by lgl 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Dreadsweeper – Minesweeper Raycasted (franzai.com)
    ×1.60 85 | 4 points by franze 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: AI-generated music box version of any song (for baby) (lullabyconverter.com)
    ×1.25 121 | 4 points by johnnydamacha 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Silent Shark – tactical map-based WWII submarine sim (silentshark.app)
    ×1.18 116 | 79 points by epaga 5 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. U.S. to tell partners they must pick sides in AI race with China (cnbc.com)
    ×4.45 69 | 8 points by devonnull 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Gold medal at International Olympiad in Informatics lost over flag waving (twitter.com/RabbiPoupko)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by rmason 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Ask HN: Does anyone else feel like nothing matters anymore?
    ×15.02 19 | 236 points by ramesh31 17 hours ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. How to put 170 atoms in an atom (signoregalilei.com)
    ×0.83 51 | 117 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: I backtested my own stock site's signals and published what failed (matterofstocks.com)
    ×0.56 | 2 points by matterofstocks 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Science investigation suggests serious problems in Alzheimer's work (science.org)
    ×1.15 | 2 points by maxall4 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. How I developed an Am29000 C compiler and web browser (nanochess.org)
    ×0.71 68 | 88 points by nanochess 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Shoehorn – Quantize any model down to run on your machine (notactuallytreyanastasio.github.io)
    ×0.86 9 #45 | 34 points by rhgraysonii 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. How I Under-Engineered my Book (chriskiehl.com)
    ×1.16 21 #51 | 60 points by goostavos 4 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Study: Flight attendants, pilots at highest risk from radiation-linked cancers (apnews.com)
    ×1.85 10 | 3 points by bushwart 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. The road to epsilon-zero: Productive programs and well-founded orders (plover.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by pavel_lishin 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Engrava – a local graph memory database for AI agents (SQLite, MIT) (github.com/sovantica)
    ×1.50 80 | 4 points by przemarzec 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Babies born under sugar rationing grew into adults with lower cancer risk (theconversation.com)
    ×2.52 11 #25 | 182 points by zeristor 5 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Poolside Desktop Assistant, for macOS (poolside.ai)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by Bluestein 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: I wrapped iOS 27's on-device AI into an offline live captioning app (apple.com)
    ×1.86 64 | 5 points by markmatsushima 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Figranium – Dockerized, API-first, block-based browser automation (github.com/figranium)
    ×1.19 87 | 3 points by asernasr 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Pace Layers and AI Integration (leaflet.pub)
    ×0.88 | 1 points by fkozlowski 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose (w4g1.dev)
    ×3.10 54 | 334 points by hruvhwe 2 days ago | 187 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Singular – local orchestration for autonomous coding agents (github.com/alex-reysa)
    ×2.67 20 | 8 points by alexreysa 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: An Hacker News TUI Reader, handcrafted in Rust (newstackwhodis.com)
    ×0.80 | 2 points by pierreyoda 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee (reuters.com)
    ×2.78 62 | 246 points by root-parent 1 day ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network (reticulum.network)
    ×1.47 59 | 227 points by sudo_cowsay 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full (fabiensanglard.net)
    ×2.29 3 #62 | 466 points by shdon 21 hours ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Building trustworthy agents for Operational Excellence reviews (cortex.io)
    ×1.56 | 2 points by swuolle 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. The Capital Cycle Theory (s-1.vercel.app)
    ×1.46 | 2 points by _air 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. A TypeScript runtime for deploying Discord bots (uwu.network)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by creatable 54 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. As Wisconsin cities flee Flock, its shared camera network loses value (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.40 41 | 80 points by xoa 7 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. $12B of US ratepayers' money wasted on a modeling mistake in PJM (semianalysis.com)
    ×2.07 86 | 78 points by _delirium 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Robot or Meatbag? (atomic14.com)
    ×1.49 70 | 4 points by iamflimflam1 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Shattered skeleton is first confirmed death from trebuchet (science.org)
    ×0.75 58 #63 | 85 points by hermitcrab 18 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Voyage-code-4: code retrieval built for coding agents (voyageai.com)
    ×1.52 | 2 points by qainsights 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Projects in Buzz (block.xyz)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by ThomPete 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Protobuf has LSP support (buf.build)
    ×1.13 81 | 172 points by theanonymousone 2 days ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: I built a native app for coding agents with Rust and GPUI (waku.sh)
    ×1.64 122 | 39 points by 0x142857 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: ThoughtDAG – An editable context graph for LLM conversations (chenxiachan.github.io)
    ×1.18 107 | 136 points by chatchan 3 days ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Search anyone's digital footprint across 300 websites (github.com/ibnaleem)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by hellowastaken 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. The Case Against Formal Verification, 50 Years Later (ivan-gavran.github.io)
    ×1.17 96 | 94 points by ghuntley 1 day ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read) (rickmanelius.com)
    ×6.44 29 #66 | 1047 points by mooreds 23 hours ago | 648 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Anthropic revenue run rate tops $65B, source says (reuters.com)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by smugma 7 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Improving matrix multiplication exponent with optimization and AlphaEvolve (arxiv.org)
    ×1.13 62 #67 | 5 points by sonabinu 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. "Expect the end of the world. Laugh." (theconvivialsociety.substack.com)
    ×2.38 16 | 4 points by longdefeat 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: TurnKeeper – Fair, explainable team rotations for Slack (no AI) (getturnkeeper.com)
    ×0.79 | 2 points by adriankurz 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: A public AI whose memory is shared across all users (wildstatic.com)
    ×1.01 99 | 86 points by adjohu 2 days ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???