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  1. The $LANG Programming Language
    ×1.58 8 #35 | 246 points by dang 16 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: How are you doing RAG locally?
    ×1.50 22 #46 | 16 points by tmaly 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Iran's 120h internet shutdown, phones back. How to stay resilient?
    ×1.78 48 #65 | 96 points by us321 22 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Unemployed almost a year after graduating MIT – a rant
    ×3.72 3 #69 | 15 points by TimGubth 4 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: ADHD – How do you manage the constant stream of thoughts and ideas?
    ×2.76 9 #83 | 102 points by chriswright1664 17 hours ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Quantum Computation, Computers and Programming
    ×0.53 54 | 30 points by rramadass 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Vxlan over WireGuard or WireGuard over Vxlan?
    ×0.88 47 | 44 points by mlhpdx 20 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
    ×1.14 71 | 255 points by david927 3 days ago | 849 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Discrepancy between Lichess and Stockfish
    ×0.53 69 | 20 points by HNLurker2 21 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Tell HN: DigitalOcean's managed services broke each other after update
    ×1.20 68 | 76 points by neilfrndes 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Looking for Windows contributors for meeting-detection engine
    ×0.46 100 | 7 points by Ayobamiu 23 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Tell HN: I Downgraded from macOS Tahoe to Sequoia
    ×1.83 36 | 6 points by inatreecrown2 5 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Personal website featured on HN, list of restaurants in NYC
    ×1.65 39 | 4 points by laffOr 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Tell HN: Intel could blow up the Console Wars if it had the guts
    ×1.28 92 | 7 points by noumenon1111 20 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How to find gaps and oppurtunities in the AI era?
    ×1.15 73 | 5 points by SRMohitkr 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Who remembers AWS Spot's auction era before the 2017 pricing change?
    ×0.31 120 | 3 points by aleroawani 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: 500 citation MSc CS, stuck in a low-trust region. How to move forward?
    ×0.62 80 | 18 points by throwawaysafely 23 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Tell HN: The Google Tenor GIF API has been shut down
    ×1.94 78 | 20 points by dfajgljsldkjag 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Learning Discoverability
    ×0.25 | 2 points by learnwithmattc 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Are you underutilizing your insurance too?
    ×1.28 103 | 5 points by nemath 20 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: How are you preventing LLM hallucinations in production systems?
    ×0.26 | 2 points by kundan_s__r 16 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Is "AI vibe coding" making prototyping worse inside real companies?
    ×1.69 84 | 15 points by arapkuliev 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: What made you move back to HTML-to-PDF in production?
    ×1.76 107 | 6 points by gokulsiva 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Does anyone else think that humanoid robots is a bubble?
    ×1.37 101 | 5 points by NewUser76312 20 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Eleva.js – A 2.3KB JavaScript framework with signals and no virtual DOM
    ×1.07 112 | 4 points by TarekRaafat 23 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Job seekers, what's working / not working?
    ×0.83 109 | 18 points by Jabbs 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: When has a "dumb" solution beaten a sophisticated one for you?
    ×0.37 157 | 12 points by amadeuswoo 3 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Experiment: Using NotebookLM as a cynical code reviewer (via custom prompts)
    ×0.30 | 2 points by practicalaifg 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Gh Account Permabanned – Help?
    ×1.17 93 | 10 points by nicomeemes 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Unpopular Opinion: Bootstrap is a better front-end framework than Tailwind
    ×1.39 88 | 24 points by pyeri 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Story about a CEO going off on a user who left feedback?
    ×0.72 134 | 3 points by VladVladikoff 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: How do you prevent AI agents from going rogue in production?
    ×0.79 136 | 3 points by techbuilder4242 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Salesforce, SAP, or ServiceNow: Which Is Most Ripe for Disruption?
    ×0.75 105 | 7 points by Saurabh_Kumar_ 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. My casual chat with AI about cancer led to an internal prototype named"Onco-Bus"
    ×0.47 | 2 points by sony707 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Where is all the protest music?
    ×1.43 97 | 11 points by swiper_lux 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Senior engineering mngrs: how has AI changed your day-to-day work?
    ×0.98 139 | 35 points by kitetm 4 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Erratic HN front page algorithm
    ×0.40 150 | 6 points by 7777777phil 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: How do you automate your release notes?
    ×0.44 131 | 10 points by dustfinger 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: Best way to find chill job where I can learn and grow as a swe
    ×0.46 147 | 35 points by digitdiglet 5 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: Is it time for HN to implement a form of captcha?
    ×0.95 132 | 89 points by Rooster61 5 days ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. What will enshittification of LLMs look like?
    ×1.16 106 | 3 points by scoofy 15 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ask HN: Speculate About a Hypothetical Cyber Exploit That Would Leverage AI
    ×0.29 162 | 3 points by burnerToBetOut 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: Has anyone built payment flows inside AI voice calls?
    ×0.40 158 | 6 points by wasiyc 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Ask HN: Should I shutdown my 20 year old SaaS sideline?
    ×0.35 163 | 3 points by pohwp 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Ask HN: Is Programming as a Profession Cooked?
    ×0.76 137 | 20 points by fnoef 3 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Ask HN: Is Reddit Down(-Ish)?
    ×0.48 130 | 3 points by theanonymousone 23 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Tell HN: Get a dying iPhone 12 mini in 2026
    ×0.54 159 | 28 points by remywang 5 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Tell HN: Mattermost "upgrade" to v11 enforces 10k UI message limit
    ×0.80 149 | 5 points by nemosaltat 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. I am a fan of XianXia's novels from China
    ×0.57 | 2 points by tain1223 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Ask HN: Would you pay for a privacy-first social platform?
    ×0.90 164 | 11 points by sammiej 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Ask HN: What business processes still waste time every week?
    ×0.39 161 | 5 points by lzr_mihnea 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Tell HN: Auto-download in Apple Podcasts is so unreliable it's basically useless
    ×0.29 165 | 4 points by garyfirestorm 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Ask HN: Senior software engineers, how do you use Claude Code?
    ×0.75 152 | 15 points by allie1 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Ask HN: What are you proud of about doing for you health and wellness regularly?
    ×1.18 128 | 11 points by nemath 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. How AI Saved Me 30 Minutes (rozumem.xyz)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by rozumem 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: YASP – Open-source, modern status page with full CMS control (yasp.io)
    ×6.21 69 | 12 points by soaringmonchi 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. 1000 Blank White Cards (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.96 11 #14 | 301 points by eieio 13 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Government drops plans for mandatory digital ID to work in UK (bbc.com)
    ×2.53 9 #17 | 29 points by FridayoLeary 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. April 9, 1940 a Dish Best Served Cold (2021) (todayinhistory.blog)
    ×1.31 32 #42 | 73 points by vinnyglennon 11 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Where 2025's agentic AI hype fell short (bytesauna.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by mapehe 34 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. A programming language for libraries translated to all the others (github.com/temperlang)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by cod1r 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Video: I built an autonomous AI agent to find startup ideas (Python+Pydantic) (youtube.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by digitalhobbit 47 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Free Personal Password Manager (hypervault.com)
    ×1.15 98 | 4 points by glennhv 16 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Data from a mixed-brand LiFePO₄ battery bank
    ×0.96 111 | 4 points by wkcollis1 22 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: SpecificProxy – Proxy Using a Specific IP (github.com/danthegoodman1)
    ×0.55 154 | 10 points by dangoodmanUT 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Xoscript (xoscript.com)
    ×1.44 24 #10 | 6 points by gabordemooij 51 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. UK police used Copilot AI "hallucination" when banning football fans (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.06 #32 | 5 points by duxup 28 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: An iOS budget app I've been maintaining since 2011 (primoco.me)
    ×1.02 52 #66 | 153 points by Priotecs 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Maggots, an Efficient Source of Protein, May Become Next Superfood for Humans (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×2.01 58 #70 | 32 points by bookofjoe 1 hour ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Usage-aware QuickBooks sync for billing systems (twitter.com/tryflexprice)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by sudeepsd__ 10 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Open Security Controls Assessment Language (OSCAL) (github.com/usnistgov)
    ×1.10 | 2 points by saikatsg 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Iran has now been offline for 96 hours (twitter.com/netblocks)
    ×6.02 58 | 163 points by payamb 1 day ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. AI generated music barred from Bandcamp (reddit.com)
    ×5.14 18 #41 | 888 points by cdrnsf 22 hours ago | 665 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Stop using natural language interfaces (leaflet.pub)
    ×1.80 22 #48 | 111 points by steveklabnik 14 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Why we built our own background agent (ramp.com)
    ×1.41 40 #53 | 114 points by jrsj 18 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. AI and Robotics in 2026: Unprecedented Development, Unresolved Questions (bogdandeac.com)
    ×1.48 | 2 points by bg2d 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Build vs. Run (dust.tt)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by spolu 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. How to lose Western Allies in the Arctic 101 (thearcticinstitute.org)
    ×1.14 | 2 points by mooreds 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Edge of Emulation: Game Boy Sewing Machines (2020) (shonumi.github.io)
    ×0.95 10 #3 | 38 points by mosura 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Artificial StupidIntelligence and Airport Sinks (deobald.ca)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by zdw 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Browser-use, Qwen 2.5 3B, Sentience – Jest assertions for AI web agents
    ×0.50 | 1 points by tonyww 52 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Iran Is Hunting Down Starlink Users to Stop Protest Videos from Going Global (wsj.com)
    ×3.30 59 | 91 points by Agreed3750 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Scott Adams has died (youtube.com)
    ×6.73 16 #44 | 1024 points by ekianjo 1 day ago | 1602 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: SheetsToLabels – Visual label designer for Google Sheets (sheetstolabels.com)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by cvbox 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Customizable OSINT dashboard to monitor the situation (ericli.tech)
    ×0.77 87 | 46 points by ericlmtn 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Print Your Anki Decks to Paper (widloski.com)
    ×1.09 116 | 3 points by Evidlo 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Melker – Terminal UIs you can read before you run (melker.sh)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by ymodulo 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. The Case for Blogging in the Ruins (joanwestenberg.com)
    ×1.59 31 | 78 points by herbertl 22 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Chr2 – consensus for side effects (exactly-once is a lie) (github.com/abokhalill)
    ×0.33 146 | 12 points by yousef06 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Java Data Oriented Programming Concept Proposal, Beyond Records (openjdk.org)
    ×1.55 | 2 points by joe_mwangi 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???