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  1. Ask HN: What's a standard way for apps to request text completion as a service?
    ×0.45 34 #21 | 42 points by nvader 9 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Senior engineering mngrs: how has AI changed your day-to-day work?
    ×1.47 15 #51 | 13 points by kitetm 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Best way to find chill job where I can learn and grow as a swe
    ×0.55 74 #57 | 30 points by digitdiglet 19 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What happened to self-hosted models?
    ×0.52 47 | 3 points by curiousaboutml 4 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. How to search Remote-from-Anywhere jobs
    ×1.78 38 | 5 points by andrewstetsenko 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Is it time for HN to implement a form of captcha?
    ×1.01 66 | 87 points by Rooster61 1 day ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Any Microsoft employees/devs here? What's happening to Microsoft?
    ×0.82 101 | 107 points by thehamkercat 4 days ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Tell HN: Get a dying iPhone 12 mini in 2026
    ×0.50 87 | 23 points by remywang 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2026)
    ×0.83 137 | 171 points by whoishiring 1 week ago | 411 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: How do you use 5–10 minute gaps productively?
    ×0.61 155 | 46 points by pea 5 days ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026)
    ×1.40 111 | 358 points by whoishiring 1 week ago | 353 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: How to make working in software fun again?
    ×1.21 98 | 5 points by canxerian 20 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Working on decentralized compute at io.net sharing what we're learning
    ×0.21 112 | 4 points by plutodev 21 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What's your preferred digital payment method?
    ×0.71 134 | 3 points by vednig 23 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Implementing NaN Boxing in a Stack-Based VM
    ×0.15 163 | 5 points by tracyspacy 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How would you decouple from the US?
    ×2.60 104 | 33 points by yawa_me_worht 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Feeling irrelevant in back end. How to pivot to automotive software?
    ×0.44 162 | 3 points by culopatin 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How do you do store-and-forward telemetry at the edge?
    ×0.23 164 | 5 points by Aydarbek 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. I've maintained an open source task manager for 8 years
    ×0.47 127 | 5 points by johannesjo 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Have AI tools like agents affected your motivation at work?
    ×1.27 75 | 7 points by SpicyNoodle 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. RevisionDojo, a YC startup, is running astroturfing campaigns targeting kids?
    ×2.73 77 | 452 points by red-polygon 5 days ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Why isn't AI spawning profitable indie games?
    ×1.62 145 | 5 points by eveningsun 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. I built an AI agent that deploys a PR to production
    ×0.24 161 | 3 points by amouehsan 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Where is legacy codebase maintenance headed?
    ×0.48 144 | 6 points by AnnKey 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Funding Opportunities with Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC)
    ×0.44 159 | 4 points by ARDC_73 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Reading list for being a better engineer?
    ×1.20 158 | 48 points by drekipus 6 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN : A game to document my electronics learning journey. (jeevan.life)
    ×0.79 57 | 26 points by ssunboyy 1 week ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Photographing the hidden world of slime mould (bbc.com)
    ×1.05 58 #77 | 108 points by 1659447091 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Mantic.sh – A structural code search engine for AI agents (github.com/marcoaapfortes)
    ×0.66 109 | 81 points by marcoaapfortes 4 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: I built "Google" for searching Shadcn blocks on the web (shoogle.dev)
    ×1.31 152 | 23 points by ali-dev 1 week ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Cloudspecs: Cloud Hardware Evolution Through the Looking Glass (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)
    ×0.64 60 #76 | 51 points by speckx 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Hover – IDE style hover documentation on any webpage (github.com/Sampsoon)
    ×0.63 151 | 58 points by sampsonj 5 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Various shape regularization algorithms (github.com/nickponline)
    ×0.75 67 #52 | 68 points by nickponline 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. My mouse stopped working because Logitech's servers went down (reddit.com)
    ×3.91 9 #69 | 50 points by akshayy2a 10 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Exercise can be nearly as effective as therapy for depression (sciencedaily.com)
    ×4.69 44 #84 | 375 points by mustaphah 23 hours ago | 307 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Had an attempted password reset on my account about 4 hours ago too (twitter.com/troyhunt)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by wapasta 16 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: I built a visualization of top AI X account interactions (youware.app)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by marv1nnnnn 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: GPU Cuckoo Filter – faster queries than Blocked Bloom, with deletion (github.com/tdortman)
    ×0.59 140 | 31 points by tdortman 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Minnesota officials say they can't access evidence after fatal ICE shooting (pbs.org)
    ×21.79 24 | 335 points by perihelions 2 days ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley (sfstandard.com)
    ×2.36 27 | 293 points by newusertoday 2 days ago | 499 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Richard D. James aka Aphex Twin speaks to Tatsuya Takahashi (2017) (archive.org)
    ×1.71 26 | 272 points by lelandfe 1 day ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. AI is a business model stress test (dri.es)
    ×1.18 7 #3 | 22 points by amarsahinovic 1 hour ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Code Is Cheap Now. Software Isn't (chrisgregori.dev)
    ×1.23 | 2 points by bustylasercanon 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Career growth doesn't happen to you. It happens because of you (thinkandgrow.substack.com)
    ×1.14 | 2 points by utyagi 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. A Typical PDF (hackerfactor.com)
    ×1.49 11 | 3 points by 1317 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Make audio loops online (makeloops.online)
    ×1.08 106 | 69 points by bilalba 5 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: A website that auctions itself daily (thedailyauction.com)
    ×0.61 69 #65 | 37 points by nsomani 21 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. The Napoleon Technique: Postponing things to increase productivity (effectiviology.com)
    ×1.53 54 #86 | 276 points by Khaine 2 days ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Emulating the Gameboy Printer with an Arduino (mofosyne.github.io)
    ×0.87 | 1 points by rockbruno 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. A practical guide to a PhD in economics (theeconomicmisfit.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by paulpauper 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Curious Cones (cones.lol)
    ×1.07 | 2 points by jan_Sate 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: DeepDream for Video with Temporal Consistency (github.com/jeremicna)
    ×0.47 78 | 71 points by fruitbarrel 2 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: I replaced Beads with a faster, simpler Markdown-based task tracker (github.com/wedow)
    ×1.22 120 | 80 points by wild_egg 6 days ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Fixing a Buffer Overflow in Unix v4 Like It's 1973 (sigma-star.at)
    ×0.98 55 #88 | 160 points by vzaliva 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. We Stand Together as a People (siumut.gl)
    ×0.47 | 2 points by perihelions 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Photoshop plugin to sign (embed invisible watermarks) & verify photos (adobe.com)
    ×1.12 | 2 points by iamnnk 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: macOS menu bar app to track Claude usage in real time (github.com/richhickson)
    ×1.06 54 | 156 points by RichHickson 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: How I generate animated pixel art with AI and Python (sarthakmishra.com)
    ×1.14 128 | 17 points by sarthak_drool 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: 25 years of house prices in England and Wales (housepricedashboard.co.uk)
    ×1.28 160 | 14 points by rowanajmarshall 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Yuanzai World – LLM RPGs with branching world-lines (yuanzai.world)
    ×0.72 41 #20 | 15 points by yuanzaiworld 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. OLED, Not for Me (nuxx.net)
    ×2.29 15 #50 | 152 points by c0nsumer 14 hours ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. OKLCH Color Picker and Converter (oklch.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by michelangelo 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Twofa.dev – Local first and offline 2FA/TOTP debugger (twofa.dev)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by maurohouseless 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Choosing a GGUF Model: K-Quants, IQ Variants, and Legacy Formats (kaitchup.substack.com)
    ×1.04 | 2 points by theanonymousone 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Caixa (caixa.gov.br)
    ×1.08 | 2 points by ladraoHacker 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Removing Tahoe's Unwanted Menu Icons (rogueamoeba.com)
    ×1.63 9 | 3 points by ingve 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Beating the Tutorial (elliotmorris.net)
    ×0.68 29 #39 | 25 points by demorro 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: C-TURTL, a turtle graphics game (michae2.github.io)
    ×0.41 34 #42 | 9 points by michae2 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: I built a tool to create AI agents that live in iMessage (tryflux.ai)
    ×0.64 34 | 54 points by danielsdk 6 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Prism.Tools – Free and privacy-focused developer utilities (blgardner.github.io)
    ×1.71 71 | 378 points by BLGardner 4 days ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Jax-JS, array library in JavaScript targeting WebGPU (ekzhang.com)
    ×1.06 110 | 82 points by ekzhang 3 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Offline tiles and routing and geocoding in one Docker Compose stack (corviont.com)
    ×0.89 143 | 102 points by packet_mover 1 week ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Janderland/fenv: FoundationDB development environment (github.com/janderland)
    ×0.55 66 #22 | 4 points by surprisetalk 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSS (twitter.com/OfficialLoganK)
    ×4.40 15 #87 | 763 points by qwertyforce 1 day ago | 288 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Welcome Back to the Office. You Won't Get Anything Done (thewalrus.ca)
    ×1.82 35 | 3 points by Teever 55 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. SQL Studio (sql.studio)
    ×2.05 62 | 95 points by handfuloflight 1 day ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: I visualized the entire history of Citi Bike in the browser (bikemap.nyc)
    ×1.02 84 | 112 points by freemanjiang 2 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Rocket Launch and Orbit Simulator (donutthejedi.com)
    ×0.95 49 #29 | 154 points by donutthejedi 22 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. How to store a chess position in 26 bytes (2022) (ezzeriesa.notion.site)
    ×1.26 50 #43 | 123 points by kurinikku 1 day ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Transform any photo into paper animations in seconds (paper-animator.net)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by cottomzhang 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Ask HN: What was your best interview experience?
    ×0.50 | 1 points by hubraumhugo 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Stash – Sync Markdown Files with Apple Notes via CLI (github.com/shakedlokits)
    ×1.00 115 | 73 points by shuka 4 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Diving into Qualcomm's Upcoming Adreno X2 GPU with Eric Demers (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×0.36 60 #36 | 23 points by rbanffy 11 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. A new approach to pain management? (nature.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by paulpauper 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. FreeBSD and Poudriere in High Security Environments (wordpress.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by enz 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 books (pieterma.es)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by pmaze 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Wikipedia at 25: A Wake-Up Call (wikimedia.org)
    ×3.55 64 | 6 points by i_love_limes 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Immich AutoTag – A Python tool for automatic classification via API (github.com/txemi)
    ×1.69 113 | 4 points by txemitron 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Crossview – visualize Crossplane resources and compositions (github.com/corpobit)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by moeidheidari 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Iran Protest Map (pouyaii.github.io)
    ×4.10 36 | 178 points by breppp 1 day ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???