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  1. Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
    ×1.66 6 #3 | 82 points by david927 3 hours ago | 278 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What was the best sci-fi book of 2025?
    ×2.58 67 | 4 points by Erikun 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Is Programming as a Profession Cooked?
    ×0.60 5 | 11 points by fnoef 7 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What's a standard way for apps to request text completion as a service?
    ×0.38 56 | 50 points by nvader 5 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Aaron Swartz died 13 years ago today
    ×7.54 69 | 57 points by vitaelabitur 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: When has a "dumb" solution beaten a sophisticated one for you?
    ×0.28 79 | 6 points by amadeuswoo 17 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Senior engineering mngrs: how has AI changed your day-to-day work?
    ×1.09 65 | 29 points by kitetm 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Senior software engineers, how do you use Claude Code?
    ×0.73 40 | 11 points by allie1 11 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Best way to find chill job where I can learn and grow as a swe
    ×0.47 83 | 33 points by digitdiglet 3 days ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Any Microsoft employees/devs here? What's happening to Microsoft?
    ×0.80 101 | 107 points by thehamkercat 5 days ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Is it time for HN to implement a form of captcha?
    ×0.99 85 | 89 points by Rooster61 3 days ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Tell HN: Get a dying iPhone 12 mini in 2026
    ×0.53 100 | 26 points by remywang 2 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Are There Any Similar Sites Like Downdetector?
    ×0.24 113 | 3 points by nomadfounder 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Would you pay for a privacy-first social platform?
    ×0.85 87 | 7 points by sammiej 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Should I learn Docker to deploy my app in VPS?
    ×0.57 104 | 4 points by danver0 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. macOS Tahoe 26.2 ships with an outdated version of Python 3.9.6
    ×0.88 90 | 6 points by Gabrielfair 23 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What happened to self-hosted models?
    ×0.29 126 | 3 points by curiousaboutml 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Implementing NaN Boxing in a Stack-Based VM
    ×0.15 147 | 5 points by tracyspacy 4 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How would you decouple from the US?
    ×2.19 108 | 34 points by yawa_me_worht 3 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: How do you do store-and-forward telemetry at the edge?
    ×0.26 145 | 6 points by Aydarbek 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Feeling irrelevant in back end. How to pivot to automotive software?
    ×0.32 148 | 3 points by culopatin 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: How to make working in software fun again?
    ×0.94 122 | 6 points by canxerian 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Working on decentralized compute at io.net sharing what we're learning
    ×0.19 140 | 4 points by plutodev 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Why isn't AI spawning profitable indie games?
    ×1.32 142 | 6 points by eveningsun 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: What's your preferred digital payment method?
    ×0.44 143 | 3 points by vednig 2 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Funding Opportunities with Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC)
    ×0.51 144 | 5 points by ARDC_73 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. I've maintained an open source task manager for 8 years
    ×0.63 134 | 7 points by johannesjo 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. How to search Remote-from-Anywhere jobs
    ×1.47 92 | 8 points by andrewstetsenko 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. I built an AI agent that deploys a PR to production
    ×0.22 146 | 3 points by amouehsan 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Visual regression tests for personal blogs (marending.dev)
    ×0.84 30 #72 | 38 points by beingflo 16 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Modern Python Dictionaries A confluence of a dozen great ideas (PyCon 2017) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.19 | 2 points by tosh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Bob Weir has died (rollingstone.com)
    ×3.51 19 | 134 points by asix66 19 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Circumcision classed as possible child abuse in draft CPS document (theguardian.com)
    ×7.60 26 | 81 points by isomorph 1 day ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. YouTube has removed the ability to search by upload date (twitter.com/TeamYouTube)
    ×5.72 7 | 63 points by sergiotapia 19 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: KeelTest – AI-driven VS Code unit test generator with bug discovery (keelcode.dev)
    ×0.27 123 | 29 points by bulba4aur 4 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Sampling at negative temperature (cavendishlabs.org)
    ×0.81 12 #2 | 9 points by ag8 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too (notebookcheck.net)
    ×6.33 10 #15 | 579 points by smurda 8 hours ago | 595 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece (2023) (nightingaledvs.com)
    ×2.03 6 #71 | 439 points by skadamat 1 day ago | 179 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Kodbox: Open-source cloud desktop with multi-storage fusion and web IDE (github.com/kalcaddle)
    ×0.64 49 #80 | 31 points by indigodaddy 19 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Desperately Seeking Squircles (2018) (figma.com)
    ×0.71 | 2 points by kjeetgill 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. LLMs – Part 1: Tokenization and Embeddings (vasupasupuleti.substack.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by vpasupuleti10 41 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Pigeon's Nuclear Dogshit Vaporiser (pigeonsnest.co.uk)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by joebig 52 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Open Chaos: A self-evolving open-source project (openchaos.dev)
    ×1.84 15 #44 | 405 points by stefanvdw1 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. ASCII-Driven Development (medium.com)
    ×1.27 34 #58 | 151 points by _hfqa 1 day ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Workers at Redmond SpaceX lab exposed to toxic chemicals (fox13seattle.com)
    ×3.26 23 #78 | 163 points by SilverElfin 17 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15 (eupolicy.social)
    ×4.40 31 #83 | 761 points by colinprince 1 day ago | 521 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Cray Customer Service – Memories (1979 to 2014) by Charles Clark (cray-history.net)
    ×1.15 | 2 points by stmw 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. I got paid minimum wage to solve an impossible problem (tiespetersen.substack.com)
    ×2.11 42 | 90 points by thunderbong 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: WinBorg, a beautiful alternative to Vorta for BorgBackup (github.com/robotnikz)
    ×0.77 | 2 points by robotnikz 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: ChemistryLaTeX (google.com)
    ×1.07 | 2 points by quintessen 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: An LLM response cache that's aware of dynamic data (butter.dev)
    ×0.40 138 | 16 points by raymondtana 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. guys why does armenian completely break Claude (twitter.com/dyushag)
    ×2.59 3 #9 | 17 points by ag8 22 minutes ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. My Home Fibre Network Disintegrated (alienchow.dev)
    ×1.91 13 #24 | 228 points by alienchow 16 hours ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Think of Pavlov (boz.com)
    ×1.07 14 #45 | 91 points by kiyanwang 9 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Commit-based code review instead of PR-based (commitguard.ai)
    ×0.68 116 | 14 points by moshetanzer 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Instagram data breach reportedly exposed the personal info of 17.5M users (engadget.com)
    ×2.61 15 #23 | 159 points by IvanAchlaqullah 5 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. David Long's 751-point Adventure has been found (quuxplusone.github.io)
    ×3.33 51 | 5 points by homarp 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. LLMs have burned Billions but couldn't build another Tailwind (omarabid.com)
    ×2.17 55 | 39 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. NASA announces unprecedented return of sick ISS astronaut and crew (livescience.com)
    ×1.53 37 #68 | 128 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. PluriSnake gameplay [Sun Jan 11, 2026 puzzle] – Beta available [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by amichail 16 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Canada's Scaling Problem Isn't Compute, It's Coastlines (zeitgeistml.substack.com)
    ×3.39 64 | 5 points by eh_tk 44 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. gRPC Streaming: Real-Time Communication That Works (skoredin.pro)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by ibobev 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Symfreq – Analyse symbol frequencies in code (Rust) (github.com/vaskort)
    ×0.68 | 2 points by vaskort 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Human or AI-made song detector and 100% Private Audio Mastering (kliga.com)
    ×0.75 | 2 points by aswinsilvadasan 22 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. 'Bandersnatch': The Works That Inspired the 'Black Mirror' Interactive Feature (2019) (hollywoodreporter.com)
    ×0.84 30 #43 | 80 points by rafaepta 15 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. UpCodes (YC S17) is hiring PMs, SWEs to automate construction compliance (up.codes)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Ask HN: Is there a point to maintaining distant connections on social media?
    ×0.85 | 1 points by Desafinado 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Org Mode Syntax Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages for Text (2017) (karl-voit.at)
    ×2.22 2 | 276 points by adityaathalye 1 day ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. See it with your lying ears (lcamtuf.substack.com)
    ×1.53 70 | 53 points by fratellobigio 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. AI is a business model stress test (dri.es)
    ×1.89 24 #40 | 321 points by amarsahinovic 1 day ago | 310 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Why (We Don't Need To?) Care About Debt-to-GDP? (ssrn.com)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by neehao 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. CDC staff 'blindsided' as child vaccine schedule unilaterally overhauled (unmc.edu)
    ×6.07 46 | 104 points by stopbulying 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. QtNat – Open you port with Qt UPnP (renaudguezennec.eu)
    ×0.41 77 | 45 points by jandeboevrie 2 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Gentoo Linux 2025 Review (gentoo.org)
    ×1.54 7 #5 | 251 points by akhuettel 8 hours ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Interactive California Budget (by Claude Code) (california-budget.com)
    ×0.83 34 #20 | 6 points by sberens 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. A Conversation with Ken Williams (Sierra Online / Cave) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.95 | 1 points by sgt 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. AI's Bottleneck Isn't Models or Tools, It's Security (zkorman.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by chillax 43 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: I built an Instagram-style productivity app with gamification (apple.com)
    ×1.66 84 | 4 points by mandynoee 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: buse – automate your browser from the terminal (github.com/rinvii)
    ×0.74 | 2 points by rinvi 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. WhatsApp Is Untrustable (toki.la)
    ×0.87 | 1 points by todsacerdoti 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Ask HN: Tips for getting the ROM for an old speech synthesizer?
    ×1.66 | 2 points by ctoth 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Free and local browser tool for designing gear models for 3D printing (dmtrkovalenko.dev)
    ×0.78 106 | 53 points by neogoose 4 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Karmic Tail Calculator – A Destiny Matrix Patterns (karmictail.net)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by lion__93332 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. OpenAI is reportedly asking contractors to upload real work from past jobs (techcrunch.com)
    ×3.57 10 | 49 points by pseudolus 17 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Stash – Sync Markdown Files with Apple Notes via CLI (github.com/shakedlokits)
    ×1.00 110 | 73 points by shuka 5 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Overdose deaths are falling in America because of a 'supply shock': study (economist.com)
    ×1.95 24 #46 | 202 points by marojejian 22 hours ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. The Machinery of Terror (chrishedges.substack.com)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by chmaynard 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Cuckoo Hashing (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by tosh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Scientists map the human genome in 4D (northwestern.edu)
    ×1.24 | 2 points by airstrike 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Why Are Federal Agents Using GoPros, Smart Glasses, and Phones to Record Us? (gizmodo.com)
    ×3.77 78 | 42 points by nickthegreek 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???