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  1. Ask HN: Share your personal website
    ×2.37 4 #5 | 422 points by susam 10 hours ago | 1340 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: How do you safely give LLMs SSH/DB access?
    ×0.92 16 #29 | 63 points by nico 8 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Iran's 120h internet shutdown, phones back. How to stay resilient?
    ×1.65 83 | 106 points by us321 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Weird Archive.today Behavior?
    ×0.96 68 | 5 points by rabinovich 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. The $LANG Programming Language
    ×1.51 16 | 258 points by dang 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Tell HN: Properly using dishwasher reduced friction with my wife
    ×1.86 61 | 9 points by xylo 6 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: ADHD – How do you manage the constant stream of thoughts and ideas?
    ×2.67 70 | 111 points by chriswright1664 1 day ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How are you doing RAG locally?
    ×1.25 59 | 29 points by tmaly 12 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Distributed SQL engine for ultra-wide tables
    ×0.52 | 2 points by synsqlbythesea 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
    ×1.14 113 | 256 points by david927 3 days ago | 857 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Quantum Computation, Computers and Programming
    ×0.52 105 | 31 points by rramadass 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Are diffs still useful for AI-assisted code changes?
    ×0.43 104 | 4 points by nuky 9 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Vxlan over WireGuard or WireGuard over Vxlan?
    ×0.85 99 | 44 points by mlhpdx 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Tell HN: DigitalOcean's managed services broke each other after update
    ×1.16 115 | 76 points by neilfrndes 2 days ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Discrepancy between Lichess and Stockfish
    ×0.54 126 | 21 points by HNLurker2 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Looking for Windows contributors for meeting-detection engine
    ×0.42 148 | 7 points by Ayobamiu 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Anything Down?
    ×0.51 122 | 3 points by Artur-Defences 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: What makes someone hate their job?
    ×1.09 98 | 5 points by agcat 9 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. A Proposal to Modernize Xorg as a Protocol-Only Graphics Layer
    ×0.64 124 | 3 points by powerwordtree 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Tell HN: Intel could blow up the Console Wars if it had the guts
    ×1.03 144 | 7 points by noumenon1111 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Any evidence AI coding assistants are helping open source projects?
    ×1.73 90 | 6 points by UncleOxidant 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Tell HN: I Downgraded from macOS Tahoe to Sequoia
    ×1.57 121 | 7 points by inatreecrown2 16 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Who remembers AWS Spot's auction era before the 2017 pricing change?
    ×0.27 173 | 3 points by aleroawani 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: 500 citation MSc CS, stuck in a low-trust region. How to move forward?
    ×0.64 130 | 19 points by throwawaysafely 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Tell HN: The Google Tenor GIF API has been shut down
    ×2.08 127 | 23 points by dfajgljsldkjag 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Learning Discoverability
    ×0.20 | 2 points by learnwithmattc 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: How to find gaps and oppurtunities in the AI era?
    ×0.94 137 | 6 points by SRMohitkr 20 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Are you underutilizing your insurance too?
    ×1.53 145 | 7 points by nemath 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Is "AI vibe coding" making prototyping worse inside real companies?
    ×1.68 136 | 16 points by arapkuliev 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: What made you move back to HTML-to-PDF in production?
    ×1.38 158 | 6 points by gokulsiva 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Personal website featured on HN, list of restaurants in NYC
    ×1.18 133 | 4 points by laffOr 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: When has a "dumb" solution beaten a sophisticated one for you?
    ×0.36 182 | 12 points by amadeuswoo 4 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: How are you preventing LLM hallucinations in production systems?
    ×0.21 | 2 points by kundan_s__r 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Recommendations for self hostable OCR to extract code from images
    ×1.71 184 | 3 points by vivzkestrel 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Job seekers, what's working / not working?
    ×0.86 154 | 19 points by Jabbs 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Does anyone else think that humanoid robots is a bubble?
    ×1.17 156 | 5 points by NewUser76312 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Unpopular Opinion: Bootstrap is a better front-end framework than Tailwind
    ×1.35 139 | 24 points by pyeri 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Eleva.js – A 2.3KB JavaScript framework with signals and no virtual DOM
    ×0.90 166 | 4 points by TarekRaafat 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Experiment: Using NotebookLM as a cynical code reviewer (via custom prompts)
    ×0.25 | 2 points by practicalaifg 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Gh Account Permabanned – Help?
    ×1.12 143 | 10 points by nicomeemes 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: Senior engineering mngrs: how has AI changed your day-to-day work?
    ×0.97 168 | 35 points by kitetm 4 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ask HN: Story about a CEO going off on a user who left feedback?
    ×0.61 179 | 3 points by VladVladikoff 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: How do you prevent AI agents from going rogue in production?
    ×0.69 180 | 3 points by techbuilder4242 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Ask HN: Salesforce, SAP, or ServiceNow: Which Is Most Ripe for Disruption?
    ×0.67 153 | 7 points by Saurabh_Kumar_ 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. My casual chat with AI about cancer led to an internal prototype named"Onco-Bus"
    ×0.41 | 2 points by sony707 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Ask HN: Where is all the protest music?
    ×1.39 146 | 11 points by swiper_lux 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Ask HN: Best way to find chill job where I can learn and grow as a swe
    ×0.46 175 | 35 points by digitdiglet 6 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Ask HN: Is it time for HN to implement a form of captcha?
    ×0.95 164 | 89 points by Rooster61 6 days ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Ask HN: Erratic HN front page algorithm
    ×0.46 176 | 7 points by 7777777phil 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Ask HN: How do you automate your release notes?
    ×0.44 167 | 10 points by dustfinger 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Ask HN: Has anyone built payment flows inside AI voice calls?
    ×0.39 183 | 6 points by wasiyc 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Ask HN: Is Programming as a Profession Cooked?
    ×0.76 169 | 20 points by fnoef 3 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Ask HN: Speculate About a Hypothetical Cyber Exploit That Would Leverage AI
    ×0.29 185 | 3 points by burnerToBetOut 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Ask HN: Should I shutdown my 20 year old SaaS sideline?
    ×0.34 186 | 3 points by pohwp 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Tell HN: Get a dying iPhone 12 mini in 2026
    ×0.54 181 | 28 points by remywang 5 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Encrypt Your .env in a Meme (github.com/thoughtlesslabs)
    ×2.12 11 | 3 points by thoughtlesslabs 50 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Opinion: Why tech leaders can't regulate AI before releasing them?
    ×0.50 | 1 points by lauraorchid 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. ISS astronauts return to Earth early due to illness of crew member (cbc.ca)
    ×1.24 | 2 points by gnabgib 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation (sparkfun.com)
    ×2.66 5 #10 | 401 points by yaleman 12 hours ago | 400 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. US freezes visas for 75 nations (mathrubhumi.com)
    ×14.92 67 | 176 points by cdrnsf 9 hours ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Sun Position Calculator (drajmarsh.bitbucket.io)
    ×0.80 14 #11 | 66 points by sanbor 5 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Edge of Emulation: Game Boy Sewing Machines (2020) (shonumi.github.io)
    ×0.80 29 #33 | 109 points by mosura 12 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. I’m leaving Redis for SolidQueue (simplethread.com)
    ×1.70 17 #60 | 298 points by amalinovic 17 hours ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Why NUKEMAP isn't on Google Maps anymore (2019) (nuclearsecrecy.com)
    ×1.59 18 #89 | 128 points by fanf2 14 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Webctl – Browser automation for agents based on CLI instead of MCP (github.com/cosinusalpha)
    ×0.92 18 #19 | 69 points by cosinusalpha 7 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. A Brief Introduction to the Basics of Game Theory (ssrn.com)
    ×0.96 40 #42 | 79 points by 7777777phil 12 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Our Moon Is Curiously Lopsided, and an Impact Could Be to Blame (sciencealert.com)
    ×2.27 26 | 3 points by gmays 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Agent-of-empires: OpenCode and Claude Code session manager (github.com/njbrake)
    ×0.91 110 | 116 points by river_otter 2 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Network of Scottish X accounts go dark amid Iran blackout (heraldscotland.com)
    ×4.38 55 | 314 points by TiredOfLife 1 day ago | 262 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: B-IR – An LLM-optimized programming language (github.com/ImJasonH)
    ×0.63 140 | 49 points by ImJasonH 3 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: A slsqp solver WASM demo (shuo23333.app)
    ×0.63 | 2 points by shuoli84 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Wind power slashed 4.6B euros off electricity bills in Spain last year (surinenglish.com)
    ×3.98 45 #57 | 151 points by mooreds 6 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Nepal's Mountainside Teahouses Elevate the Experience for Trekkers (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×1.59 | 2 points by bookofjoe 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Key US Power Grid [PJM] Cuts Demand Outlook on Overstated AI Boom (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.99 33 | 4 points by toomuchtodo 52 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Free observability tool to track your REST and LLM calls (pathwave.io)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by felipe-pathwave 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Yolobox – Run AI coding agents with full sudo without nuking home dir (github.com/finbarr)
    ×1.04 109 | 121 points by Finbarr 2 days ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: HyTags – HTML as a Programming Language (hytags.org)
    ×0.55 54 #35 | 57 points by lassejansen 11 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Virginia Faulkner: Writer, Editor and Ghostwriter? (lithub.com)
    ×0.28 99 #56 | 18 points by samclemens 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Skrillex Releases Kora (skrlx.com)
    ×2.90 17 | 5 points by Lucasoato 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Go.mod Hackery for Compatibility Testing (kablamo.com.au)
    ×0.98 | 2 points by boyter 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. AgentDiscover Scanner – Multi-layer AI agent detection (code, network, K8s eBPF) (github.com/Defend-AI-Tech-Inc)
    ×2.05 26 | 3 points by DefendAI 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Why we don’t use AI (yarnspinner.dev)
    ×3.55 73 | 112 points by parisidau 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Claude Code Scheduler (github.com/jshchnz)
    ×3.07 60 | 7 points by jshchnz 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Imago – open-source AI portrait generator with guided creation (github.com/tenngoxars)
    ×0.46 | 2 points by tenngoxars 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. FOSS in times of war, scarcity and (adversarial) AI [video] (fosdem.org)
    ×1.16 85 | 159 points by maelito 1 day ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Former NYC Mayor Eric Adams rugs his own memecoin just 30 minutes after launch (reddit.com)
    ×3.79 111 | 80 points by pulisse 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Scaling long-running autonomous coding (cursor.com)
    ×1.32 4 #3 | 130 points by samwillis 4 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. The State of OpenSSL for pyca/cryptography (cryptography.io)
    ×0.99 8 #6 | 81 points by SGran 5 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Tool Search Now in Claude Code (twitter.com/trq212)
    ×1.68 | 2 points by gfortaine 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Quick Beats – minimalistic webapp (mobile and desktop) drum machine (alganet.github.io)
    ×1.01 | 2 points by gaigalas 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???