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  1. Ask HN: Any Microsoft employees/devs here? What's happening to Microsoft?
    ×0.81 75 | 95 points by thehamkercat 2 days ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Is it time for HN to implement a form of captcha?
    ×2.17 73 | 45 points by Rooster61 3 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2026)
    ×0.82 121 | 166 points by whoishiring 6 days ago | 397 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Developing a high level language over Zig
    ×0.08 | 2 points by ziyaadsaqlain 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How do you use 5–10 minute gaps productively?
    ×0.59 130 | 40 points by pea 3 days ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026)
    ×1.38 97 | 351 points by whoishiring 6 days ago | 332 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: We built an air-gapped document vault with encrypted print and export
    ×0.12 | 2 points by KevinG777 17 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Cancelled 2x Cursor Ultra plans, here's why
    ×1.18 3 | 5 points by throwawayround 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. RevisionDojo, a YC startup, is running astroturfing campaigns targeting kids?
    ×2.75 55 | 451 points by red-polygon 3 days ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Implementing NaN Boxing in a Stack-Based VM
    ×0.07 | 2 points by tracyspacy 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Is anyone aware of a LinkedIn mirror like xcancel.com for X?
    ×0.70 99 | 11 points by danielfalbo 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Anyone else seeing porn images in YouTube ad preview images?
    ×0.18 131 | 4 points by OhMeadhbh 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What's a standard way for apps to request text completion as a service?
    ×0.24 151 | 5 points by nvader 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How do you do store-and-forward telemetry at the edge?
    ×0.22 132 | 4 points by Aydarbek 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Git analytics that works across GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket
    ×0.19 152 | 3 points by akhnid 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Amazon Prime AI overviews can't even get the basics right
    ×1.43 105 | 43 points by PyWoody 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Has anyone else been struggling with search lately?
    ×1.79 119 | 31 points by areoform 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Anyone building software for wearable tech?
    ×0.35 141 | 16 points by ssc23 3 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Reading list for being a better engineer?
    ×1.17 140 | 44 points by drekipus 4 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. My Logitech mouse became unusable, Logi Options+ can't validate certificate
    ×0.48 111 | 12 points by enescakir 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: How do small teams make sure recurring tasks don't slip?
    ×0.35 147 | 6 points by batels 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: What did you learn in 2025?
    ×1.25 150 | 20 points by kiernanmcgowan 4 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. What do people usually do with spare Android phones? Any practical use cases?
    ×0.58 148 | 18 points by AndroidShare 4 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: What's the future of software testing and QA?
    ×0.79 146 | 23 points by sjgeek 4 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. I made a lofi page for late night work
    ×0.84 136 | 18 points by onmyway133 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Tell HN: I'm having the worst career winter of my life
    ×2.44 134 | 98 points by mariogintili 6 days ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2026 – Show and tell
    ×1.55 103 | 15 points by selmas58 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Private Operating System
    ×0.46 149 | 6 points by ariatelco 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Lessons from Hash Table Merging (github.com/attractivechaos)
    ×0.66 46 #43 | 72 points by attractivechaos 15 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: I used AI to recreate a $4000 piece of audio hardware as a plugin
    ×1.99 98 | 160 points by johnwheeler 5 days ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Intellectual Junkyards (forester-notes.org)
    ×0.82 18 #20 | 20 points by ysangkok 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Open Slopware (codeberg.org)
    ×2.45 41 | 3 points by Philpax 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Deciding what SEO content to create before writing anything (vect.pro)
    ×1.60 | 2 points by afrafgf 20 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Minneapolis driver shot and killed by ICE (nbcnews.com)
    ×49.27 15 | 313 points by fzeroracer 1 day ago | 279 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. ICE's Tool to Monitor Phones in Neighborhoods (404media.co)
    ×7.08 82 | 227 points by cmurf 4 hours ago | 224 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: How I generate animated pixel art with AI and Python (sarthakmishra.com)
    ×1.04 68 | 15 points by sarthak_drool 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. How to Code Claude Code in 200 Lines of Code (mihaileric.com)
    ×1.68 2 #1 | 115 points by nutellalover 2 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Fixing a Buffer Overflow in Unix v4 Like It's 1973 (sigma-star.at)
    ×0.83 12 #7 | 55 points by vzaliva 3 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. IBM AI ('Bob') Downloads and Executes Malware (promptarmor.com)
    ×1.60 9 #13 | 210 points by takira 3 hours ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Decoding the Astonishing Secret Languages of Animals (atmos.earth)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by bikeshaving 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: macOS menu bar app to track Claude usage in real time (github.com/richhickson)
    ×1.21 13 #14 | 40 points by RichHickson 3 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: 90% of GPU Cycles Are Waste. A New Computing Primitive for Physics AI (github.com/isaac-sim)
    ×0.49 | 2 points by ZuoCen_Liu 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: An LLM-Powered PCB Schematic Checker (Major Update) (traceformer.io)
    ×0.71 124 | 54 points by wafflesfreak 4 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Ask HN: Where is legacy codebase maintenance headed?
    ×0.82 | 1 points by AnnKey 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Some super-smart dogs can pick up new words just by eavesdropping (cnn.com)
    ×1.31 | 2 points by breve 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Mathematics for Computer Science (2018) [pdf] (mit.edu)
    ×1.34 | 2 points by nateb2022 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Foundertrace – chain of YC startups founded by its employees (foundertrace.com)
    ×0.65 93 | 38 points by loondri 4 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. It's the little things that change your life, really: combining ChatGPT+DocuSign (yanna.pro)
    ×1.34 | 2 points by abemazak 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: ADHD Focus Light (github.com/zonghaoyuan)
    ×2.66 57 | 16 points by zonghao 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: An LLM response cache that's aware of dynamic data (butter.dev)
    ×0.35 88 | 14 points by raymondtana 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: A to Z – A word game I built from a childhood road trip memory (a26z.fun)
    ×0.55 90 | 13 points by jackhulbert 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Make audio loops online (makeloops.online)
    ×1.05 73 | 67 points by bilalba 3 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: I replaced Beads with a faster, simpler Markdown-based task tracker (github.com/wedow)
    ×1.22 92 | 80 points by wild_egg 4 days ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: I built a simple "Gemini" watermark remover extension, "Peel Banana" (google.com)
    ×2.36 104 | 5 points by davepoon 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: TierHive – Hourly-billed NAT VPS with private /24 subnets (tierhive.com)
    ×0.96 45 | 3 points by backtogeek 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: DeepDream for Video with Temporal Consistency (github.com/jeremicna)
    ×0.46 26 #29 | 60 points by fruitbarrel 8 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Musashi: Motorola 680x0 emulator written in C (github.com/kstenerud)
    ×0.97 41 #52 | 119 points by doener 21 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. An Underappreciated Variable in Sports Success (theatlantic.com)
    ×1.45 | 2 points by breve 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. OAuth 2.0 Security Best Practices for Developers (maida.kim)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by mooreds 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Docker Releases Hardened Images for Free – What Does It Do Differently? (i-programmer.info)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by aquastorm 45 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Being a Scrapy Engineer (patys.dev)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by patys 49 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Hover – IDE style hover documentation on any webpage (github.com/Sampsoon)
    ×0.60 126 | 56 points by sampsonj 4 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: I built a 3D World Map and multiplayer geography game using Three.js (mixora.xyz)
    ×0.80 | 2 points by qwrwenm 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. The Rise of Computer Games, Part II: Digitizing Nerddom – Creatures of Thought (technicshistory.com)
    ×0.45 38 #40 | 19 points by rbanffy 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Sigment – fine-grained reactive framework for building fast apps (sigment.dev)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by microflash 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. An Honest Review of Go (2025) (benraz.dev)
    ×1.55 55 | 68 points by benrazdev 6 hours ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Shuffle Times – a daily puzzle to unscramble real headlines (shuffletimes.com)
    ×0.57 | 2 points by patrickbuahgiar 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Quantum Tunnel (chuanqisun.github.io)
    ×0.73 138 | 30 points by osmoscraft 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. BirdBot, an energy-efficient robot leg inspired by birds' legs (2022) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by Luc 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: llmgame.ai – The Wikipedia Game but with LLMs (llmgame.ai)
    ×0.64 106 | 24 points by jmcallister 2 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: ccrider - Search and Resume Your Claude Code Sessions – TUI / MCP / CLI (github.com/neilberkman)
    ×0.77 116 | 19 points by nberkman 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Distinct AI Models Seem to Converge on How They Encode Reality (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.11 58 #76 | 13 points by nsoonhui 11 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Minimalist LLM Grammar Checker for macOS (github.com/harentius)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by harentius1 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. US Job Openings Decline to Lowest Level in More Than a Year (bloomberg.com)
    ×4.70 8 | 341 points by toomuchtodo 1 day ago | 336 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: A simulator for engineers transitioning from IC to management (apmcommunication.com)
    ×1.06 100 | 73 points by pingananth 3 days ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Project Patchouli: Open-source electromagnetic drawing tablet hardware (patchouli.readthedocs.io)
    ×1.84 14 #21 | 409 points by ffin 16 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Direct evidence for poison use on microlithic arrowheads at 60k years ago (doi.org)
    ×0.64 60 #50 | 10 points by layer8 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. What *is* code? (2015) (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.02 60 #81 | 128 points by bblcla 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Dialektai: Give Every Customer Answers in Seconds AI for Their Data
    ×0.67 | 1 points by edihasaj 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. “Stop Designing Languages. Write Libraries Instead” (2016) (lbstanza.org)
    ×1.48 12 | 269 points by teleforce 1 day ago | 271 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Minnesota officials say they can't access evidence after fatal ICE shooting (pbs.org)
    ×26.03 84 | 231 points by perihelions 4 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Pydantic-AI-stream – Structured event streaming for pydantic-AI agents (github.com/opale-ai)
    ×1.60 18 | 5 points by sbargaoui 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Quake Brutalist Jam III (slipseer.com)
    ×1.99 43 #73 | 217 points by Venn1 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Scaling is not the story anymore. What GPT 6 might change (otieu.com)
    ×1.95 | 2 points by ClipNoteBook 5 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Trump warns Iran over protest crackdown amid internet blackout (iranintl.com)
    ×9.87 74 | 11 points by ukblewis 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. The Life Calendar (thelifecalendar.com)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by twapi 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Texas A&M bans part of Plato's Symposium (dailynous.com)
    ×4.10 9 | 200 points by loughnane 1 day ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. China starts UHV power line: The new 700 km UHV line will transmit 8M kW (switchgear-magazine.com)
    ×1.80 6 #49 | 32 points by taubek 4 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Consumer electronics, the "Modular Middle", and production models of the future (a16z.news)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by walterbell 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Open-Source 8-Ch BCI Board (ESP32 and ADS1299 and OpenBCI GUI) (github.com/Cerelog-ESP-EEG)
    ×0.55 108 | 53 points by simontheHWguy 3 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???