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  1. Ask HN: Why do we snore? And what to do about it?
    ×0.75 41 #74 | 8 points by simonebrunozzi 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: How to get back into programming without AI?
    ×0.52 20 | 6 points by coolcoder613 7 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Why didn't the C64 come with Simons' BASIC in the box from 1983 onward?
    ×0.32 48 | 12 points by amichail 17 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. European vs. American Productivity Culture: 10 Key Differences in 2026
    ×0.47 | 2 points by marian_abz 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Did Messages get removed from Google Takeout?
    ×0.53 82 | 21 points by MollyRealized 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Best worldwide / classic phone games?
    ×0.23 88 | 6 points by bix6 22 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Is a Claw driven Hacker News user a problem?
    ×0.50 84 | 7 points by delichon 22 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Are Tech Meetups Dead?
    ×0.69 81 | 10 points by mlinhares 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. $100 to upgrade Fresh IDE for ePub TUI reading
    ×0.28 107 | 3 points by jph 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Shouldn't Google need to give a public statement about Railway incident?
    ×1.40 87 | 179 points by srameshc 4 days ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Does anyone what a "RiotCache.dat" file was doing in my EFI partition?
    ×0.14 122 | 5 points by kromerless 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Is $300/HR too low these days for custom full stack?
    ×0.43 102 | 15 points by noduerme 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Alternatives to HN for "tech outside of AI" discussion?
    ×0.90 111 | 61 points by summonerOS 5 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. The solution the supply chain problems is removing your deps from .gitignore
    ×0.63 97 | 9 points by SchizoDuckie 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Are there any serious efforts to organize tech labor now?
    ×0.92 121 | 37 points by 0rganize 4 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How to learn how to develop real time applications?
    ×0.28 113 | 5 points by creatorcoder 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Failing interviews for mid-level SWE in UK, advice please
    ×0.45 123 | 19 points by mjb8086 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Using games/cards to learn new skills
    ×0.32 115 | 5 points by dominikz 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How much AI is in your writing?
    ×0.37 129 | 10 points by js98 3 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Do you have a colophon for your personal website?
    ×0.36 108 | 8 points by susam 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. We were building infra for OpenClaw, and today I just tried Hermes and holy shit
    ×0.52 118 | 6 points by Stanlyya 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Tell HN: Google banned Railway's account. Everything down
    ×0.56 136 | 32 points by sergiotapia 5 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Tell HN: I went to Alaska's northernmost town and this was the GeoIP location
    ×0.57 157 | 5 points by ironmagma 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: OpenAI, SpaceX/xAI, Anthropic all to IPO, is this a sign of the peak?
    ×0.36 132 | 9 points by virgildotcodes 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Valgrind-3.27.1 Is Available
    ×0.28 143 | 12 points by paulf38 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: How to increase depth instead of breadth as 10 yoe as swe?
    ×0.39 120 | 8 points by Cheesebh 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: What to learn and do, that makes me least affected by AI in STEM?
    ×0.32 133 | 7 points by s3arch 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: AI Guided 3D atomic orbital simulation (plumocracy.com)
    ×0.75 158 | 3 points by plumocracy 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. C constructs that still don't work in C++ (lospino.so)
    ×1.58 3 #27 | 98 points by jalospinoso 11 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Why Japanese companies do so many different things (davidoks.blog)
    ×3.36 8 #76 | 891 points by d0ks 2 days ago | 402 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. The seed oil panic is hurting my cardiac patients (statnews.com)
    ×7.02 28 | 157 points by randycupertino 22 hours ago | 225 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. New Attack "Megaladon" Compromises 5.5K+ GitHub Repos (theregister.com)
    ×2.65 66 | 53 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Superlog (YC P26) – Observability that installs itself and fixes bugs (superlog.sh)
    ×0.49 110 | 73 points by Magnanten 5 days ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: The Hanging Sculptures of the Xiaoxitian (funes.world)
    ×0.55 117 | 27 points by hanyangwang 6 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Pg_deltax, Apache-licensed alternative to TimescaleDB (github.com/xataio)
    ×1.11 131 | 38 points by tee-es-gee 5 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Mastering Dyalog APL (dyalog.com)
    ×0.84 40 #34 | 149 points by tosh 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. OpenSMTPD Is the Mail Server for the Future (nxdomain.no)
    ×1.51 | 2 points by rodrigo975 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Simulating a 3D Quadcopter from Scratch (mrandri19.github.io)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by daww 25 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. China launches 'human artificial embryos' into space: off-world reproduction? (livescience.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by bookofjoe 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Open-source .docx editor library for building document apps (github.com/eigenpal)
    ×1.86 86 | 105 points by thisisjedr 3 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Oura says it gets government demands for user data (weekinsecurity.com)
    ×2.20 7 | 292 points by donohoe 1 day ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Free Fonts – a collection of 400+ original, open-source typefaces (mixfont.com)
    ×3.72 137 | 12 points by justswim 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Agent Chat Bridge – give AI IDE agents an async callback (github.com/sathvikc)
    ×1.11 168 | 4 points by sathvikchinnu 4 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Poverty Changes Your Mind-Set (2018) (chicagobooth.edu)
    ×2.20 13 #48 | 8 points by downbad_ 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Highest Random Weight in Elixir (jola.dev)
    ×0.74 58 #89 | 77 points by shintoist 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Not All On-Device AI Is the Same – Chip Compute Tiers Decide Product Capability (easelinktech.com)
    ×0.99 | 1 points by EnXu 46 seconds ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Interactive animated walkthroughs of Kubernetes internals (kubesimplify.com)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by saiyampathak 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Reward Is Not Reinforcement Until Admitted (github.com/nikitph)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by loaderchips 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Greg Brockman interview [video] (fs.blog)
    ×1.44 39 #33 | 203 points by prakashqwerty 1 day ago | 224 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. On The <dl> (2021) (benmyers.dev)
    ×1.82 12 #69 | 438 points by ravenical 2 days ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS (github.com/stephenlthorn)
    ×2.19 93 | 325 points by stephenlthorn 1 week ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Generate free golf yardage books from OpenStreetMap data (npilk.github.io)
    ×0.96 153 | 4 points by npilk 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. The C64 Dead Test Font (masswerk.at)
    ×1.18 53 #44 | 141 points by masswerk 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Spanish court declines to fine NordVPN over LaLiga piracy blocking order (torrentfreak.com)
    ×2.18 69 #54 | 210 points by gslin 2 days ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Hengefinder: Finding when the sun aligns with your street (victoriaritvo.com)
    ×1.16 60 #56 | 187 points by evakhoury 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Legibility Is Ruining You (jimmyhmiller.com)
    ×0.84 | 1 points by surprisetalk 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Justice Department scrubs its website of news releases about Jan. 6 defendants (apnews.com)
    ×7.67 24 | 123 points by logickkk1 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Bug 1950764: Work Around Crash on Intel Raptor Lake CPU (mozilla.com)
    ×1.62 11 #17 | 123 points by luu 13 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Mnemosyne – Memory for AI Hermes Agents, Sub-Millisecond Recalls, Local First (mnemosyne.site)
    ×2.02 57 | 3 points by AbdiiSan 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. The Evolution of Program State – Queue (acm.org)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by rbanffy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Docker-On-Android: Guide to run Docker containers directly on Android (github.com/OshekharO)
    ×2.26 35 | 3 points by thunderbong 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. DeepSeek to Make Permanent 75% Discount on Flagship AI Model (bloomberg.com)
    ×3.91 40 | 209 points by moh_maya 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: OpenRig – a control plane for multi-agent coding topologies (openrig.dev)
    ×1.27 145 | 5 points by mschwarz 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Don't know where your data is from? Bayesian modeling for unknown coordinates (christopherkrapu.com)
    ×0.79 55 #47 | 45 points by ckrapu 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Improving C# Memory Safety (microsoft.com)
    ×1.44 49 #78 | 164 points by soheilpro 2 days ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. RCF Protocol – license layer to protect code semantics from AI replication (aliyev.site)
    ×1.00 | 1 points by rcf-protocol 57 seconds ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. How the Iran War Could Threaten Global Internet Access (time.com)
    ×1.43 | 2 points by giuliomagnifico 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Solar Electricity Is Poised to Overtake Coal in Texas (motherjones.com)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by mooreds 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Memory has grown to nearly two-thirds of AI chip component costs (epoch.ai)
    ×2.42 10 #30 | 406 points by intelkishan 20 hours ago | 432 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Jimmy Carr on Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI [video] (youtube.com)
    ×3.29 77 | 29 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: TLS Certificate Management and PKI
    ×1.58 139 | 10 points by zaitanz 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. IBM Spins Off the First Pure-Play Quantum Chip Foundry (futurumgroup.com)
    ×1.16 2 #5 | 37 points by rbanffy 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. New map reveals lost roads of the Roman Empire (scientificamerican.com)
    ×1.18 41 #83 | 112 points by sohkamyung 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. BBS Popcorn – Native YouTube Client for Linux (github.com/blacksamdev)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by blacksamdev 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. The AI Boom Is Reshuffling the Global Stock Market Hierarchy [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by mgh2 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Claude is not your architect. Stop letting it pretend (hollandtech.net)
    ×5.73 65 | 252 points by cdrnsf 18 hours ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: CoreMem – Portable context for AI agents (coremem.app)
    ×1.37 148 | 5 points by 20wenty 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Why Do We Sleep Under Blankets, Even on the Hottest Nights? (2017) (atlasobscura.com)
    ×3.55 58 #79 | 58 points by downbad_ 7 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Awesome: Lists about all kinds of interesting topics (github.com/sindresorhus)
    ×2.12 52 | 3 points by danborn26 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. The generation vs. verification delta explains why LLM's are useful (bearblog.dev)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by simianwords 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. z386: An Open-Source 80386 Built Around Original Microcode (nand2mario.github.io)
    ×1.13 34 | 132 points by wicket 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. The political polarization of health outcomes in the USA (nature.com)
    ×2.84 3 | 47 points by geox 17 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Migrating from Go to Rust (corrode.dev)
    ×2.60 7 #12 | 332 points by jabits 18 hours ago | 327 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Ask HN: Do you embrace AI in your life and business?
    ×0.62 | 1 points by drunx 37 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Agent.email – sign up via curl, claim with a human OTP
    ×0.81 89 | 95 points by adisingh13 3 days ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry (superspl.at)
    ×2.34 74 | 528 points by danybittel 6 days ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: InsForge – Open-source Heroku for coding agents (github.com/InsForge)
    ×0.55 126 | 62 points by mrcoldbrew 6 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. I keep bouncing off the Scheme language (sicpers.info)
    ×1.19 24 #49 | 150 points by ingve 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. .NET (OK, C#) finally gets union types (andrewlock.net)
    ×1.81 17 #77 | 234 points by ingve 1 day ago | 269 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. The U.S. Chip Ban Isn't a Strategy. It's a Countdown (axisbrief.substack.com)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by victoria_aremo 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???