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  1. Tell HN: HN was down
    ×2.78 44 | 595 points by uyzstvqs 3 days ago | 327 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell
    ×2.73 46 | 452 points by cvbox 3 days ago | 523 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2026?
    ×0.84 75 | 101 points by mfrw 4 days ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. How would you learn to code in 2026?
    ×0.33 17 | 4 points by jeevships 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Who here is not working on web apps/server code?
    ×1.50 58 | 82 points by ex-aws-dude 2 days ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Built a content system that 6x'd traffic. Turning it into product. Want to test?
    ×0.81 90 | 4 points by zchmael 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. AI Code assistants has made completing side projects so easy
    ×0.33 76 | 7 points by akmittal 16 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Does anyone understand how Hacker News works?
    ×1.97 74 | 162 points by jannesblobel 3 days ago | 226 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. LLM Benchmark: Frontier models now statistically indistinguishable
    ×0.25 93 | 4 points by js4ever 17 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Cloudflare has been broken for 15 hours
    ×0.97 85 | 11 points by Canada 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Is GitHub becoming more and more unstable?
    ×0.39 102 | 5 points by pavish 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Is building a calm, non-gamified learning app a mistake?
    ×0.85 105 | 87 points by hussein-khalil 5 days ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. The offline geocoder we wanted
    ×0.49 94 | 7 points by gipsyjaeger 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. FWS – pip-installable embedded process supervisor with PTY/pipe/dtach back ends
    ×0.43 150 | 4 points by mrsurge 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How do you deal with large, hard-to-read Excel formulas?
    ×0.79 113 | 9 points by jack_ruru 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How are you LLM-coding in an established code base?
    ×1.25 55 | 70 points by adam_gyroscope 4 days ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Is Stack Overflow Dead?
    ×0.66 99 | 12 points by raphar 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: What would you call a package whose purpose is to import data?
    ×0.43 106 | 7 points by ctc24 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Should I start a software foundation (goal: help emergency services)?
    ×1.30 127 | 12 points by strgcmc 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Do you allow vibecoded submissions in your open-source projects?
    ×0.11 136 | 3 points by sneas 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: If you had to get a non-tech masters degree, what would you go for?
    ×0.34 156 | 3 points by highwayman47 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: If one day AI brain chips become a thing, would you get it?
    ×0.52 121 | 6 points by keepamovin 2 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Is RSS Still Alive?
    ×1.14 126 | 10 points by militanz 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How do teams remember why infrastructure decisions were made?
    ×0.70 124 | 6 points by curious_sre 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Etiquette giving feedback on mostly AI-generated PRs from co-workers
    ×0.43 153 | 4 points by chfritz 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Is anyone using LLM based document processing in production?
    ×0.83 123 | 7 points by asdev 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Memory Safety in C# vs. Rust
    ×0.57 139 | 15 points by northlondoner 4 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Is analytics a necessary evil rather than a real value driver?
    ×0.36 134 | 6 points by tiazm 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: How to fight back against Lovable, Replit, etc. in enterprise products
    ×0.30 154 | 3 points by bears123 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. GitHub Actions Degraded
    ×0.16 155 | 3 points by 1qaboutecs 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Should I Open Source Every Product I Build as an Indie Developer?
    ×0.69 130 | 7 points by tomfox2 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Why do official-looking emails cause anxiety before I read them?
    ×0.35 147 | 4 points by BianDan 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: What is the most complex software you've built single handedly?
    ×2.65 83 | 9 points by chistev 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Decentralized Auth for Information Exchange?
    ×0.23 | 2 points by vxsz 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Tell HN: Cloudflare Down Again?
    ×1.58 104 | 9 points by valtlfelipe 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. I spent a week without IPv4 (2023) (apalrd.net)
    ×1.20 8 #23 | 141 points by mahirsaid 14 hours ago | 248 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Clair Obscur has 'Game of the Year" title stripped away over AI use (thegamer.com)
    ×3.37 16 #24 | 24 points by anigbrowl 2 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. PG&E outages in S.F. leave 130k without electricity (sfchronicle.com)
    ×2.67 22 #32 | 72 points by hamandcheese 5 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Tacit: We Know More Than We Can Tell (stripe.press)
    ×1.17 28 | 3 points by walterbell 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. What's New in Python 3.15 (python.org)
    ×2.84 15 #22 | 71 points by azhenley 4 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Contrails Map (contrails.org)
    ×1.50 #84 | 122 points by schaum 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Learning a Language Using Only Words You Know (simedw.com)
    ×1.06 78 | 81 points by simedw 5 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. School security AI flagged clarinet as a gun. Exec says it wasn't an error (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.09 16 | 39 points by kyrofa 18 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Music player for big local collections with mpd support (github.com/olegantonyan)
    ×1.48 117 | 4 points by oleg_antonyan 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Git rewind – your Git year in review (gitrewind.dev)
    ×1.22 138 | 5 points by thijser 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Inca Stone Masonry (earthasweknowit.com)
    ×1.40 5 #8 | 14 points by jppope 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. I doubt anything resembling genuine AGI is within reach (mathstodon.xyz)
    ×4.29 1 #11 | 39 points by gmays 4 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Italian bears living near villages have evolved to be smaller and less agressive (phys.org)
    ×1.05 15 #25 | 87 points by wjSgoWPm5bWAhXB 12 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Waymo temporarily suspends service in SF amid power outage (sfgate.com)
    ×1.07 | 2 points by drfuchs 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Airbus moving critical systems away from AWS, Google, and MS (reddit.com)
    ×3.32 13 | 61 points by taubek 22 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Calcu-gator.com – Financial calculators for Canadians (calcu-gator.com)
    ×1.09 73 | 4 points by Nitromax 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Gemini 3 Pro vs. 2.5 Pro in Pokemon Crystal (jcz.dev)
    ×1.75 6 #21 | 280 points by alphabetting 19 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. A train-sized tunnel is now carrying electricity under South London (ianvisits.co.uk)
    ×1.24 34 #46 | 133 points by zeristor 1 day ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Waymo fleet halts in San Francisco during power outages (twitter.com/breaking911)
    ×1.30 9 | 5 points by defly 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. TikTok Deal Is the Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse (techdirt.com)
    ×5.38 6 | 319 points by lateforwork 1 day ago | 367 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Building a Transparent Keyserver (filippo.io)
    ×0.74 64 | 69 points by noident 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch (theverge.com)
    ×5.36 7 #77 | 1231 points by tortilla 2 days ago | 629 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Stop Losing Intent: Absent, Null, and Value in Rust (minikin.me)
    ×1.33 4 | 3 points by lukastyrychtr 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Help my website is too small (lukeplant.me.uk)
    ×2.39 2 | 5 points by pabs3 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Prepare for That Stupid World (ploum.net)
    ×2.54 20 | 169 points by speckx 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Why do people leave comments on OpenBenches? (shkspr.mobi)
    ×1.87 14 #28 | 152 points by sedboyz 17 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Excel vs. Power BI vs. SQL vs. Python [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.77 | 1 points by senorqa 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. 5 ways of understanding the world at the end of 2025 (dougbelshaw.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by dajbelshaw 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Glory (Optical Phenomenon) (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by thunderbong 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Right to Know Request Related to ALPR in Harrisburg Pa (citizenscounterintelligence.com)
    ×1.61 22 | 4 points by pcgeller 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. AI's Unpaid Debt: How LLM Scrapers Destroy the Social Contract of Open Source (quippd.com)
    ×3.04 56 | 62 points by birdculture 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts (github.com/DGoettlich)
    ×3.75 27 #50 | 857 points by iamwil 2 days ago | 405 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. CSS Grid Lanes (webkit.org)
    ×3.14 18 #54 | 717 points by frizlab 1 day ago | 218 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Mistral OCR 3 (mistral.ai)
    ×2.88 14 #61 | 672 points by pember 1 day ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Terraform cidrsubnet() – find newbits and netnum for Desired Subnet (cidrsubnet.com)
    ×0.79 | 2 points by chillybob 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Is Proton leaving Switzerland? (techradar.com)
    ×5.08 24 | 144 points by _tk_ 1 day ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Solving the ~95% legislative coverage gap using LLM's (lustra.news)
    ×0.95 114 | 40 points by fokdelafons 4 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Ruby's Website Got an Overhaul (ruby-lang.org)
    ×3.12 3 #6 | 55 points by psxuaw 2 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Skills Officially Comes to Codex (openai.com)
    ×1.88 18 #30 | 277 points by rochansinha 1 day ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Americans are hungry for community. So why don't we have European-style squares? (cnn.com)
    ×3.73 38 #89 | 19 points by rawgabbit 6 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Young Adults Making Good Money Say Life Is Unaffordable (nytimes.com)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by ryan_j_naughton 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Current LLM tooling makes understanding optional (vladimirzdrazil.com)
    ×1.42 | 2 points by vlzdr 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Dbzero – Code as if you have infinite RAM (Python persistence engine) (github.com/dbzero-software)
    ×2.12 86 | 7 points by dbzero 21 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: TheAuditor v2.0 – A “Flight Computer” for AI Coding Agents (github.com/TheAuditorTool)
    ×0.66 108 | 39 points by ThailandJohn 4 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Open-source Markdown research tool written in Rust – Ekphos (github.com/hanebox)
    ×0.62 27 #14 | 7 points by haneboxx 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications will be made open access (acm.org)
    ×6.91 9 #59 | 2007 points by Kerrick 2 days ago | 237 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Garage – An S3 object store so reliable you can run it outside datacenters (deuxfleurs.fr)
    ×2.87 13 #68 | 693 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning (norvig.com)
    ×1.20 9 #17 | 61 points by atomicnature 8 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Text similarity search via normalized compression distance (haskell.org)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by todsacerdoti 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Why Can't Gemini Generate Images with Transparent Backgrounds? (ruky.me)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by rukshn 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. What went wrong (and right) while migrating a Qt Widgets app to QML
    ×1.11 | 2 points by yongdohyun 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. The evolution of expendability: Why some ants traded armor for numbers (arstechnica.com)
    ×0.31 | 1 points by Archelaos 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Signaling in the Age of AI: Evidence from Cover Letters (arxiv.org)
    ×0.89 62 #64 | 14 points by tacon 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Nvidia X Palantir, Global Surveillance, "Pre-Crime" Arrests, & AI [Video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.32 8 | 3 points by IlikeKitties 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Japanese companies demand commercial-grade support for open source at no cost (linuxfoundation.org)
    ×2.49 46 | 9 points by nogajun 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???