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  1. Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?
    ×2.13 44 #35 | 271 points by sharts 1 day ago | 213 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: I've quit six systems for tracking my illness. What works?
    ×0.56 38 #77 | 43 points by Abh1Works 18 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub
    ×3.11 18 | 632 points by dhruv3006 1 day ago | 422 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers
    ×3.80 17 | 644 points by stagas 2 days ago | 197 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. ServiceNow are pushing customers off SaaS – are other industries doing similar?
    ×0.87 36 | 8 points by rorychatt 8 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What are independent software contractors doing now?
    ×1.80 6 | 5 points by Madmallard 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. New OllamaMQ v0.3.0
    ×0.81 69 | 5 points by chleba 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How should I price an AI infrastructure platform?
    ×0.41 | 2 points by aqibkhan026 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Good IMAP Email Clients?
    ×0.70 79 | 4 points by pudgywalsh 11 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. LLMs .what do you smoke beforehand?
    ×1.32 71 | 6 points by kderbyma 12 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Focus for 7 Months
    ×0.90 85 | 4 points by Ssedume 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Combinatorics-Framework released for QA testers/students
    ×0.21 | 2 points by yb-combi 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Countries with greatest temperature increases have benefited from them?
    ×0.80 91 | 4 points by amichail 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Good content on using AI to modernize professional services delivery
    ×0.18 104 | 5 points by mguerville 20 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Why Don't We Version UIs?
    ×0.66 89 | 6 points by gruensk 17 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Do you feel comfortable admitting that you use AI?
    ×0.74 80 | 9 points by var0xyz 19 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Another GitHub Outage?
    ×0.39 121 | 3 points by tom1337 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. I made a secure way for agents to request secrets from you using HyperDHT
    ×0.29 | 2 points by smashah 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Science Fiction. Some AI as world leader. Would you vote it?
    ×0.34 | 2 points by ewjloop 19 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Can I realistically make an app as a junior dev?
    ×0.44 108 | 4 points by brooke1 19 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Is there room for an AI-powered webmail service built on a single-letter domain?
    ×0.62 110 | 4 points by pbt93 20 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: How do you manage focus and avoid burnout while working remotely?
    ×0.75 111 | 4 points by pranav_tech26 21 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?
    ×1.10 109 | 91 points by simonebrunozzi 4 days ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Today I realized you can't star an achived repo in GitHub anymore
    ×1.73 92 | 7 points by dclavijo 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: What's a Dirty Secret No One Wants to Admit in the Tech Industry?
    ×2.16 77 | 11 points by karakoram 19 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Is GitHub Fried Today?
    ×0.51 146 | 5 points by johncole 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Are xPal Total and Remote Wipeout, Terminate Mode Meaningful for Privacy?
    ×0.30 | 2 points by Brandon-Coll 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Email Client for the Terminal?
    ×0.47 128 | 6 points by ewjloop 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: What is your favorite lightweight tool or CLI utility in 2026?
    ×0.55 144 | 22 points by pranav_tech26 3 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Alternative to Internet Archive
    ×0.59 148 | 19 points by earworms 4 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Where to learn software engineering fundamentals?
    ×0.67 147 | 13 points by mstank 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Best code editor without AI?
    ×0.28 138 | 6 points by nerdyguy90 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. A Preview of DuckDB v2.0 (duckdb.org)
    ×2.73 20 | 704 points by ibotty 1 day ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Sealed evidence record of an AI agent run – broken twice, credited (github.com/cjchanh)
    ×1.61 87 | 5 points by cjarchivist 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Singular – local orchestration for autonomous coding agents (github.com/alex-reysa)
    ×2.40 83 | 8 points by alexreysa 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Leviath – Structured context regions for LLM agents, in one Rust binary (leviath.dev)
    ×1.40 131 | 3 points by gemisis 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Meta's blockbuster trial draws parallels to big tobacco (economist.com)
    ×1.88 16 #22 | 236 points by newsomix9xl 7 hours ago | 189 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. A Thermodynamic Failure of the Soul (sightlessscribbles.com)
    ×2.01 14 | 4 points by robin_reala 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: UL-SMF – Open-source linear-complexity ~300x KV-cache compression (github.com/liventruth)
    ×0.47 117 | 13 points by liventruth 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: PhysiClaw – an AI agent that physically operates an iPhone (github.com/physiclaw)
    ×1.63 134 | 3 points by qiaoqian 21 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: A searchable index of GitHub's lists that shows what's dead (donld.me)
    ×1.60 135 | 3 points by donald_sh 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: AirStats – Mac menu bar system monitor, 0.046% CPU idle, MIT (github.com/byrencheema)
    ×0.79 122 | 4 points by byrencodes 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Mathematics in the Age of AI (arxiv.org)
    ×1.32 63 #76 | 4 points by aaraujo002 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Kakoune Code Editor (kakoune.org)
    ×1.46 29 #84 | 34 points by olexsmir 16 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Pander Score: How much do AI models mirror what users believe? (sophronresearch.org)
    ×1.46 | 2 points by stared 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Apple's App Tracking Transparency treated its own apps better than rivals (bundeskartellamt.de)
    ×1.75 23 | 257 points by nyku 1 day ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility (404media.co)
    ×4.45 45 | 158 points by amarcheschi 1 day ago | 316 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Desktopcolors.com – A museum for solid background colors of classic OS (desktopcolors.com)
    ×1.09 55 | 162 points by vlowrian 2 days ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative (cursor.com)
    ×3.23 23 #43 | 567 points by tomasreimers 21 hours ago | 416 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Landlords can buy their way out of NYC's climate law starting this week (gothamist.com)
    ×0.96 | 1 points by geox 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. How to disable or avoid intrusive AI (librarian.net)
    ×1.66 9 | 334 points by ColinWright 1 day ago | 195 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. "Sabotage": Experts, lawmakers blast RFK Jr. for destroying healthcare research (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.47 36 #40 | 51 points by 01-_- 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. I blew through 24M tokens in a day (2025) (kronis.dev)
    ×0.87 | 1 points by Bluestein 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. CapsLock Enhancement (vonng.com)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by figmert 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Harvard, MIT among 30 US universities ordered to audit China research ties (scmp.com)
    ×1.02 | 2 points by 01-_- 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released (roboflow.com)
    ×1.55 10 | 360 points by plurby 1 day ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. A 3D fruit fly on macOS desktop powered by the real FlyWire connectome (github.com/DenisSergeevitch)
    ×1.62 6 #8 | 283 points by phoenix120 12 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. LG Display unveils FLiPP, achieving dream next-generation OLED technology (lgdisplay.com)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by ledoge 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Nitrogen pollution from the sky is a likely driver of global vegetative greening (wiley.com)
    ×1.21 | 2 points by vixen99 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Bad benchmarks and evals: Senior SWE-Bench, napkin math, and winter tires (danluu.com)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by yosefk 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. AirTag reveals Amazon is trashing rare books to train AI (arstechnica.com)
    ×5.06 38 | 129 points by jefurii 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: ChatOSS – A Codex alternative for Open Source AI built on Ollama (chatoss.ai)
    ×1.11 81 | 5 points by thetjmccarty 13 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Rethinking Database Programming (acadia.engineering)
    ×1.64 20 #49 | 244 points by honungsburk 1 day ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Splitting a Git Commit (gnoack.org)
    ×1.08 28 #44 | 126 points by signa11 20 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Google has acquired the data of failed US airline Spirit (theregister.com)
    ×3.83 32 #57 | 583 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 405 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Why it might be time to rethink the human family tree (theconversation.com)
    ×1.65 | 2 points by georgecmu 26 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Warp DD – AI that analyzes technology ecosystems in ~30 seconds (warpdd.com)
    ×0.96 73 | 3 points by masato_furuno 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: RoamIQ – Travel and workation platform for digital nomads (nomads-travel-indol.vercel.app)
    ×0.86 | 2 points by pranav_tech26 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. A 25-year-old video patent just expired, ending a legal headache for Linux (xda-developers.com)
    ×1.98 19 #21 | 194 points by theanonymousone 15 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. My experience with the Fitbit Air after a month (kulman.sk)
    ×0.96 | 1 points by ig0r0 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Eberto Streaming Companion (eberto.net)
    ×1.46 | 2 points by nkrycek 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Incident with Github.com [resolved] (githubstatus.com)
    ×3.24 10 | 558 points by SpyCoder77 1 day ago | 965 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Draw.city – geography game where you circle the target population [US] (draw.city)
    ×1.70 82 | 4 points by NameError 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Robot or Meatbag? (atomic14.com)
    ×1.76 100 | 5 points by iamflimflam1 20 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. We turned off Pub/Sub and nobody noticed (incident.io)
    ×2.01 54 #69 | 38 points by patrickhamann 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Degraded performance for multiple models (claude.com)
    ×1.94 37 | 147 points by matt89 17 hours ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. US announces new sanctions on top ICC figures (bbc.com)
    ×6.30 43 | 148 points by root-parent 15 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Tracepack – Build local-first evidence packs from your files (tracepack.org)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by ace2016 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Idea Miner – find what to build next, backed by real paid demand (idea-miner.com)
    ×1.26 103 | 4 points by alexstarks 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Phone-harness – let your agent control your phone (github.com/ShawnPana)
    ×0.66 | 2 points by shawnpana 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Rataflow – React Flow, but for the Terminal (Rust/Ratatui) (github.com/furkankly)
    ×1.35 130 | 3 points by furkankly 21 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Fixing a bricked Framework laptop (quantum5.ca)
    ×1.96 19 #50 | 404 points by jp_sc 21 hours ago | 274 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Fairphone is now officially available in the United States (fairphone.com)
    ×2.97 22 #60 | 376 points by Vinnl 21 hours ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Pilots and Flight Attendants Are Bombarded by Cosmic Radiation–and Dying from It (gizmodo.com)
    ×0.82 | 1 points by robtherobber 13 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Build your first FlaskTrack MCP agent (flasktrack.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by boredumb 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Remote-Timer-as-a-Service: Microarchitectural Leakage in the Cloud (arxiv.org)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by sbulaev 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Learn Flags Quiz (flagquizzes.com)
    ×0.61 78 | 56 points by artiomyak 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Scientists stunned by children's lung recovery in ultra low emission zone (bbc.com)
    ×2.57 1 #9 | 266 points by dabinat 9 hours ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Benchmarking General-Purpose Agents on Market-Validated End-to-End Workflows (arxiv.org)
    ×0.96 | 1 points by tcp_handshaker 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: ResumeSkip – automatically tailor your resume to jobs (resumeskip.com)
    ×0.48 | 2 points by ghosts_ 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???