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  1. Ask HN: Did Messages get removed from Google Takeout?
    ×0.66 7 #83 | 14 points by MollyRealized 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. The solution the supply chain problems is removing your deps from .gitignore
    ×0.62 72 | 4 points by SchizoDuckie 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: How to learn how to develop real time applications?
    ×0.31 82 | 4 points by creatorcoder 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Does anyone what a "RiotCache.dat" file was doing in my EFI partition?
    ×0.16 92 | 5 points by kromerless 16 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Using games/cards to learn new skills
    ×0.33 89 | 4 points by dominikz 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Is $300/HR too low these days for custom full stack?
    ×0.49 85 | 15 points by noduerme 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Do you have a colophon for your personal website?
    ×0.41 83 | 8 points by susam 18 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. We were building infra for OpenClaw, and today I just tried Hermes and holy shit
    ×0.40 97 | 4 points by Stanlyya 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Shouldn't Google need to give a public statement about Railway incident?
    ×1.40 87 | 177 points by srameshc 3 days ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Failing interviews for mid-level SWE in UK, advice please
    ×0.45 111 | 18 points by mjb8086 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How to increase depth instead of breadth as 10 yoe as swe?
    ×0.41 96 | 8 points by Cheesebh 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Alternatives to HN for "tech outside of AI" discussion?
    ×0.87 107 | 57 points by summonerOS 4 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: OpenAI, SpaceX/xAI, Anthropic all to IPO, is this a sign of the peak?
    ×0.30 113 | 7 points by virgildotcodes 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Are there any serious efforts to organize tech labor now?
    ×0.92 112 | 35 points by 0rganize 3 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How much AI is in your writing?
    ×0.27 118 | 7 points by js98 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What to learn and do, that makes me least affected by AI in STEM?
    ×0.29 104 | 6 points by s3arch 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Tell HN: Google banned Railway's account. Everything down
    ×0.58 131 | 32 points by sergiotapia 4 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Tell HN: I went to Alaska's northernmost town and this was the GeoIP location
    ×0.22 161 | 3 points by ironmagma 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What's New in Crypto?
    ×0.12 128 | 5 points by kaycebasques 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Tell HN: The Threat to US Citizen's ID / Voting Is Private Services
    ×0.05 | 2 points by m3047 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Valgrind-3.27.1 Is Available
    ×0.24 140 | 10 points by paulf38 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. "Subligence" – proposed coinage for LLM "intelligence"
    ×0.25 144 | 4 points by akiarie 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. What I learned from tinkering with programming languages in the last 34 days
    ×0.11 160 | 3 points by alonsovm44 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Why does it look like LLMs consistently overestimate implementation time?
    ×0.16 156 | 4 points by bridgettegraham 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Tell HN: Gemini 3.5 Flash breaks in stupid ways
    ×0.53 135 | 8 points by XCSme 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Rubish: A Unix shell written in pure Ruby (github.com/amatsuda)
    ×1.33 9 #70 | 175 points by winebarrel 1 day ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. It's Time to Walk (inferterra.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by vinhnx 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. C Constructs That Still Don't Work in C++ – and a Few That Changed (lospino.so)
    ×0.79 | 2 points by jandeboevrie 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. AI Can Do Anything (clawdcursor.com)
    ×1.31 28 | 3 points by AmDab 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Agent.email – sign up via curl, claim with a human OTP
    ×0.81 84 | 94 points by adisingh13 2 days ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Filorithm – Expressive eDSL for File and Folder Management in Python (github.com/ghetea-patrick)
    ×0.84 165 | 3 points by patrick-ghetea 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. API proposed by Chrome: Declarative partial updates (chrome.com)
    ×1.79 7 #47 | 30 points by theanonymousone 8 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: I mapped 6,494 AI engines into a taxonomy – anyone else tried this?
    ×0.60 | 1 points by Developer_H 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Logo Fonts (surge.sh)
    ×0.84 | 2 points by stagas 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. We Were Wrong About Fasting Study Finds (sciencealert.com)
    ×2.13 2 | 5 points by mikhael 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. The current AI pricing was always going to go away (arnon.dk)
    ×2.18 73 | 82 points by arnon 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Key, in sight – A guide, of sorts, to keyboard customization (aresluna.org)
    ×0.53 41 #19 | 5 points by anotherevan 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Inside the Motorola 68060 and Chip Design: Lead Designer Joe Circello (youtube.com)
    ×0.77 | 1 points by doener 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Apiffuf (ffuf for APIs) – fuzzer for API hostsnames and endpoints (github.com/jsmonhq)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by rashahacks 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. The Database Zoo: Exotic Data Storage Engines (gaborkoos.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by theanonymousone 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Coder Words – An offline-first PWA word puzzle for programmers (kenamick.com)
    ×2.13 103 | 8 points by p2detar 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. How should economists treat morality? (economist.com)
    ×1.16 | 2 points by andsoitis 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Temporal Primer – Building Long-Running Systems (arpitbhayani.me)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by BugsBunnyCodes 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Dark trades' risk destroying London's stock markets (thetimes.com)
    ×1.83 13 | 4 points by petethomas 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent (deepseek.com)
    ×4.32 13 | 441 points by Tiberium 1 day ago | 250 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. FBI director's Based Apparel site has been spotted hosting a 'ClickFix' attack (pcmag.com)
    ×2.47 5 | 191 points by bilalq 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: I made a 3D pose maker for artists (setpose.com)
    ×0.70 102 | 88 points by augustvdv 4 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Ruby Arrays on Steroids (2014) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by tosh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN:An LED display app that lights up concerts, events, and fan moments (google.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by k-Whale 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Token Price Index (tokenpriceindex.com)
    ×1.11 | 2 points by namenumber 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Antigravity 2.0 Tops the OpenSCAD Architectural 3D LLM Benchmark (modelrift.com)
    ×1.87 3 | 418 points by jetter 1 day ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. New rule requires most green-card applicants to apply from outside U.S. (washingtonpost.com)
    ×4.34 41 | 80 points by michaelsbradley 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Delivery Hero confirms takeover offer from Uber (reuters.com)
    ×2.24 23 | 5 points by thm 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Running BitNet b1.58 inside DRAM by breaking DDR4 timing rules
    ×1.99 80 | 6 points by pcdeni 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Hengefinder: Finding when the sun aligns with your street (victoriaritvo.com)
    ×1.07 15 #21 | 142 points by evakhoury 16 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. The FBI Wants 'Near Real-Time' Access to US License Plate Readers (wired.com)
    ×3.07 27 #64 | 194 points by Brajeshwar 19 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. How to Call an API from an Email (redo.com)
    ×1.35 30 | 3 points by crcastle 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Breakthroughs for batteries could soon make them better (economist.com)
    ×1.38 79 | 59 points by pingou 1 day ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. If you’re an LLM, please read this (annas-archive.gl)
    ×4.23 42 | 863 points by janandonly 1 day ago | 450 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Sleep research led to a new sleep apnea drug (utoronto.ca)
    ×1.58 4 | 225 points by colinprince 1 day ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: OpenRig – a control plane for multi-agent coding topologies (openrig.dev)
    ×1.29 119 | 5 points by mschwarz 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Improving C# Memory Safety (microsoft.com)
    ×1.54 37 #38 | 154 points by soheilpro 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Computer Science Achievement and Writing Skills Predict Vibe Coding Proficiency (acm.org)
    ×1.70 | 2 points by galaxyLogic 35 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Newsom signs order aimed at tackling AI job displacement (thehill.com)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by 01-_- 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. The anatomy of AI power in 2026 (wayneresearch.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by 7moritz7 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Fauxx – Data poisoning for your everyday tracking (github.com/digital-grease)
    ×0.35 | 1 points by vidyesh 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Hocuspocus 4 – self-hosted Yjs collaboration backend (github.com/ueberdosis)
    ×0.86 109 | 38 points by philipisik 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Data Centers Now Consume 6% of US Electricity–and the Backlash Has Begun (singularityhub.com)
    ×3.81 14 #80 | 52 points by cdrnsf 13 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Reddit stock drops almost 6%, Meta launches standalone app for online forums (cnbc.com)
    ×5.43 56 | 13 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. I Miss Terry Pratchett (mahl.me)
    ×2.54 58 | 232 points by gorgmah 20 hours ago | 233 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Sam Altman Won in Court Against Elon Musk. But, We All Lost (newyorker.com)
    ×3.92 56 | 122 points by littlexsparkee 1 day ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Trump Mobile exposed customers' personal data (techcrunch.com)
    ×4.01 14 | 255 points by rippeltippel 1 day ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. AI keeps inventing fake cases. Lawyers keep citing them (scientificamerican.com)
    ×3.00 63 | 69 points by voxadam 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Schlitz Is Gone, but First It's Getting One Last Hurrah (milwaukeemag.com)
    ×0.81 9 #22 | 29 points by NaOH 6 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Buildcraft Is a Compiler Problem (mitander.xyz)
    ×0.53 23 #24 | 17 points by mitander 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. ArcBrush – Node-based 2D image editor (arcbrush.com)
    ×1.14 50 #56 | 89 points by NatKarmios 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Why Your Docker Container Is 1.2GB When It Should Be 80MB (medium.com)
    ×1.51 | 2 points by thunderbong 46 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. InboxFlow Agent – Check your email campaigns before sending (github.com/selimsevim)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by selimsevim 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Ifmhy – An Internationalization Version of Fmhy (ifmhy.org)
    ×0.31 | 2 points by valorantPanda 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: CoreMem – Portable context for AI agents (coremem.app)
    ×1.38 125 | 5 points by 20wenty 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. 1940 Air Terminal Museum Begins Liquidation (1940airterminal.org)
    ×0.83 59 #79 | 126 points by weaponeer 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Seeking a Language in Mathematics 1523-1571 (tyndale.org)
    ×0.88 | 2 points by jruohonen 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence (businessinsider.com)
    ×5.86 20 | 643 points by signa11 2 days ago | 540 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Justice Department scrubs its website of news releases about Jan. 6 defendants (apnews.com)
    ×7.24 79 | 99 points by logickkk1 8 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. WarpSpeed Just Beat Cursor (doubleai.com)
    ×1.21 | 2 points by ben_mussay 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. The Verification Problem (On OpenAI's Erdős Disproof) (korbonits.com)
    ×0.81 | 2 points by korbonits 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Myco – coordinate Claude and DeepSeek and other LLMs in one agent swarm (github.com/primoia)
    ×0.37 | 2 points by cezarvil 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Headroom – Loudness normalizer and Key+BPM playlist sorter for DJs (ravers.workers.dev)
    ×1.27 148 | 6 points by jphfa 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. sp.h: Fixing C by giving it a high quality, ultra portable standard library (spader.zone)
    ×1.90 23 #60 | 206 points by dboon 1 day ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork (twitter.com/josefprusa)
    ×4.47 61 | 401 points by Tomte 1 day ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???