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  1. Sqlit – A lazygit-style TUI for SQL databases
    ×0.54 10 | 13 points by MaxTeabag 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Did the Linux memory management maintainer "just quit"?
    ×1.44 38 | 9 points by hliyan 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. S there room for a VPN with zero Five Eyes servers and RAM-only infrastructure?
    ×0.19 75 | 3 points by yanbinette 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Forensic analysis of STM32F7 firmware failure modes in drone swarms
    ×0.25 76 | 3 points by ArchiveForensic 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How do you prepare to tech interview? Any tip and tricks?
    ×0.42 52 | 8 points by DmitriyBuchilin 10 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Why didn't the C64 come with Simons' BASIC in the box from 1983 onward?
    ×0.32 88 | 15 points by amichail 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Why do we snore? And what to do about it?
    ×0.51 54 | 18 points by simonebrunozzi 16 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Did Messages get removed from Google Takeout?
    ×0.50 96 | 22 points by MollyRealized 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How to get back into programming without AI?
    ×0.40 79 | 8 points by coolcoder613 21 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Best worldwide / classic phone games?
    ×0.23 106 | 7 points by bix6 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Shouldn't Google need to give a public statement about Railway incident?
    ×1.39 94 | 179 points by srameshc 5 days ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Is a Claw driven Hacker News user a problem?
    ×0.39 107 | 7 points by delichon 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Are Tech Meetups Dead?
    ×0.70 98 | 12 points by mlinhares 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. $100 to upgrade Fresh IDE for ePub TUI reading
    ×0.32 124 | 4 points by jph 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Using games/cards to learn new skills
    ×0.35 129 | 6 points by dominikz 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Alternatives to HN for "tech outside of AI" discussion?
    ×0.89 120 | 61 points by summonerOS 6 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Is $300/HR too low these days for custom full stack?
    ×0.47 112 | 17 points by noduerme 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Are there any serious efforts to organize tech labor now?
    ×0.92 126 | 38 points by 0rganize 5 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Do you have a colophon for your personal website?
    ×0.43 119 | 10 points by susam 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Failing interviews for mid-level SWE in UK, advice please
    ×0.44 135 | 19 points by mjb8086 4 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. The solution the supply chain problems is removing your deps from .gitignore
    ×0.64 109 | 10 points by SchizoDuckie 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: How will you manage your digital assets when you die?
    ×1.70 68 | 8 points by chistev 13 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: How much AI is in your writing?
    ×0.36 142 | 10 points by js98 3 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How to learn how to develop real time applications?
    ×0.27 137 | 5 points by creatorcoder 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Tell HN: Google banned Railway's account. Everything down
    ×0.56 140 | 32 points by sergiotapia 6 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Tell HN: I went to Alaska's northernmost town and this was the GeoIP location
    ×0.49 161 | 5 points by ironmagma 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Valgrind-3.27.1 Is Available
    ×0.28 150 | 12 points by paulf38 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: OpenAI, SpaceX/xAI, Anthropic all to IPO, is this a sign of the peak?
    ×0.35 143 | 9 points by virgildotcodes 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Iconic: A collection of images that inspire (hvpandya.com)
    ×1.16 | 2 points by mjshashank 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Anyone interested in a tool helps to explore C++ ASTs (uvic-aurora.github.io)
    ×0.60 83 | 47 points by leomicv 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Running BitNet b1.58 inside DRAM by breaking DDR4 timing rules
    ×1.79 131 | 6 points by pcdeni 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: I Made a Claude Skill for Spec-Driven Development (SDD) (github.com/FredAntB)
    ×1.30 114 | 36 points by NTRIXLM 4 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Squares in Squares (kingbird.myphotos.cc)
    ×1.19 14 #8 | 36 points by carlos-menezes 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Notes about reading messages with the Python email packages (utoronto.ca)
    ×0.56 71 #53 | 52 points by ankitg12 20 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Exposing fake Canadians pushing to join the US [video] (youtube.com)
    ×3.71 10 #74 | 40 points by cloche 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Google is its own worst enemy (disconnect.blog)
    ×2.22 44 #87 | 15 points by cdrnsf 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. LibreOffice Tips and Tricks: Replacing Microsoft Fonts (2020) (documentfoundation.org)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by bariumbitmap 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Crypto code commits fall 75% as developers move to AI projects (coindesk.com)
    ×3.16 53 | 5 points by wslh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Usborne 1980s Computer Books (usborne.com)
    ×1.57 27 | 182 points by ngram 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: CPU-only fast OCR for screenshots, images, PDFs, webpages (github.com/kouhxp)
    ×1.06 121 | 4 points by mrkn1 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Everyone Against Us (2023) (chicagomag.com)
    ×0.83 27 #29 | 58 points by NaOH 10 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Taiwan Overtakes India as Fifth-Largest Stock Market (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.78 39 | 5 points by leopoldj 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: HN Audio to video AI generator (audiocleaner.ai)
    ×0.99 | 2 points by audio_cleaner 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Pg_deltax, Apache-licensed alternative to TimescaleDB (github.com/xataio)
    ×1.11 138 | 38 points by tee-es-gee 6 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Pgcraft – a lazygit-style TUI for Postgres (github.com/lucasfrederico)
    ×1.91 28 | 3 points by lucasfrederico 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Wyoming Company Uses High-Tech AI Sprinklers to Save Homes from Wildfire (cowboystatedaily.com)
    ×0.38 | 1 points by Bender 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. I Found the Lost Amiga Unix 2.02 [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.35 | 1 points by zdw 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Cursed Browser – a VLM reads the HTML and hallucinates the page (github.com/scosman)
    ×1.74 59 | 6 points by scosman 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Datapoint AI – Make Something People Want, but Ask Them First (trydatapoint.com)
    ×1.18 158 | 4 points by yoloakki 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Using AI to write better code more slowly (nolanlawson.com)
    ×2.59 1 #1 | 218 points by signa11 4 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. The analog computer museum's online library (analogmuseum.org)
    ×0.42 52 #55 | 25 points by nill0 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Sweden now considered a smoke free country (sverigesradio.se)
    ×1.87 12 | 4 points by aleda145 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Microsoft's 6502 BASIC is now Open Source (2025) (microsoft.com)
    ×1.83 57 | 92 points by GTP 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Don't know where your data is from? Bayesian modeling for unknown coordinates (christopherkrapu.com)
    ×0.73 66 | 50 points by ckrapu 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: TLS Certificate Management and PKI
    ×1.58 149 | 10 points by zaitanz 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS (github.com/stephenlthorn)
    ×2.19 102 | 325 points by stephenlthorn 1 week ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Stack Overflow Sold to Tech Giant Prosus for $1.8B (2021) (wsj.com)
    ×1.81 16 #65 | 11 points by poly2it 3 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Russia strikes Kyiv with drones and hypersonic missile, in photos (apnews.com)
    ×5.89 47 | 30 points by consumer451 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: I made a 3D pose maker for artists (setpose.com)
    ×0.70 115 | 88 points by augustvdv 6 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: TryPost – open-source Social Media Scheduler (trypost.it)
    ×0.71 72 #68 | 5 points by paulocastellano 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. The Eternal Sloptember (geohot.github.io)
    ×6.11 55 | 448 points by razin 23 hours ago | 353 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. 2026 HIPAA Security Rule Update (medcurity.com)
    ×1.24 30 | 95 points by mooreds 13 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Bae – AI companion built around persistent memory architecture (ppl.studio)
    ×0.82 | 2 points by zeshutmax 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers (github.com/kageroumado)
    ×2.16 73 | 426 points by kageroumado 5 days ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Cited AI Workspace: No More Re-Uploading Files (uumuse.ai)
    ×1.20 | 2 points by owjdie 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. The political polarization of health outcomes in the USA (nature.com)
    ×2.84 62 | 51 points by geox 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Mac app that unlocks superpowers for GhostCMS sites (spectersync.com)
    ×0.77 146 | 4 points by aabergkvist 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Computer Systems Design and Related Services Employment Statistics (stlouisfed.org)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by sakompella 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Alaska's oil revival sparks a new energy rush Into the Arctic (fortune.com)
    ×1.42 32 | 46 points by Brajeshwar 9 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. If you let AI do your writing, I will come to your house and kill you (samkriss.substack.com)
    ×7.35 46 | 35 points by ghghgfdfgh 20 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry (superspl.at)
    ×2.35 86 | 529 points by danybittel 6 days ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. The Lottery – Shirley Jackson (1948) (newyorker.com)
    ×0.89 17 #25 | 16 points by jxmorris12 3 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Scientists solve 200-year-old puzzle of how tobacco plants make nicotine (york.ac.uk)
    ×0.98 45 #85 | 111 points by sohkamyung 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Exit IP VPN servers mitigation rollout (mullvad.net)
    ×1.70 4 #5 | 286 points by Cider9986 9 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Hawaii just found a way around Citizens United. Other states are following (ms.now)
    ×7.85 23 #80 | 36 points by xyst 7 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Chatbot Has a Long Memory. That Isn't Always a Good Thing (wsj.com)
    ×1.07 14 | 9 points by lucaspauker 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Yt-x v0.8.0 – Browse, play, and download YouTube from the terminal (github.com/Benexl)
    ×0.93 148 | 27 points by Benex254 6 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Jensen–Shannon Divergence (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.21 8 #22 | 80 points by teleforce 9 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Tidy PSU – PD-64 C64 PSU Brings USB PD to Commodore 64 (theoasisbbs.com)
    ×0.85 59 #40 | 12 points by IronWolve 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Amazon Web Services – Four Years and Out (adventuresinoss.com)
    ×3.00 26 | 321 points by RyeCombinator 1 day ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Ruby for Good (ti.to)
    ×1.25 35 | 145 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: I made Pokémon but with real animals in the real world (apple.com)
    ×0.56 | 2 points by robert-whiteley 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Play nbsdgames to increase your brain (exclamation mark) (github.com/abakh)
    ×0.84 123 | 6 points by abakh 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: AgentLens – see if your AI features work, per customer (agentlens-demo-omega.vercel.app)
    ×0.52 154 | 3 points by MMEHTA22 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Browser-based file encryption tool using WebCrypto (secvant.com)
    ×0.53 8 #26 | 7 points by unixlor 1 hour ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Mondegreen (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.46 8 | 3 points by bear_with_me 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Game built in Godot performed significantly better than in Unity (twitter.com/Pirat_Nation)
    ×0.94 | 2 points by vincentchau 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Alexander Grothendieck Revolutionized 20th-Century Mathematics (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.14 58 | 149 points by anujbans 2 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. What is 'pink-slime' journalism and has it infiltrated Australian media? (abc.net.au)
    ×1.53 19 #73 | 5 points by MarxOk 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. The Journal of Craptology (anagram.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by colonCapitalDee 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???