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  1. Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub
    ×3.26 12 #24 | 490 points by dhruv3006 11 hours ago | 312 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers
    ×4.04 1 #69 | 622 points by stagas 1 day ago | 193 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Best code editor without AI?
    ×0.39 53 | 5 points by nerdyguy90 6 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What's the Best Agent Harness?
    ×0.44 71 | 4 points by cakbeslik 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How can we care more about fewer things?
    ×0.33 80 | 3 points by robalni 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: If you're burning tokens at scale, what are you using them for?
    ×0.40 81 | 3 points by simonw 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Trivially bypass text watermarks by requesting a Base64 response
    ×0.41 84 | 3 points by hanneshdc 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Is GitHub Fried Today?
    ×0.74 73 | 4 points by johncole 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Is Mockup Data a thing you can ask from SaaS Salesperson?
    ×0.43 88 | 3 points by xtiansimon 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Is classical AI research still being done because it helps modern AI?
    ×0.42 92 | 3 points by amichail 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?
    ×1.12 87 | 89 points by simonebrunozzi 2 days ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?
    ×5.71 43 | 99 points by sharts 9 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Is Kimi down for anyone else?
    ×0.65 | 2 points by elendilm 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What is your favorite lightweight tool or CLI utility in 2026?
    ×0.56 109 | 21 points by pranav_tech26 2 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What tools are you using for human code review of AI-assisted code?
    ×0.64 107 | 10 points by dafelst 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Where to learn software engineering fundamentals?
    ×0.70 110 | 12 points by mstank 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Alternative to Internet Archive
    ×0.62 117 | 19 points by earworms 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Why is the GitHub trending page weirdly excluding DeepSeek projects?
    ×1.18 102 | 9 points by tianyicui 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What LLM subscription/provider to use with pi harness?
    ×0.25 133 | 3 points by vira28 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Ive quit six systems for tracking my illness. What works?
    ×0.49 | 2 points by Abh1Works 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: How would you market this service?
    ×0.32 146 | 4 points by dmzxnico 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. TrueMath – An open-source exact symbolic math tool
    ×0.14 145 | 3 points by SAWANs 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Should hard-tech founders join a problem or technology-first PhD lab?
    ×0.23 141 | 13 points by misterballer 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: When do you think LLM capacity will reach its ceiling?
    ×0.41 111 | 3 points by vincenthsin 18 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Does a human still review your code?
    ×0.46 147 | 11 points by stikit 3 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. How does an ARP Spoofing Attack work?
    ×0.18 150 | 6 points by emn4tor 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Privacy is an underrated advantage in Slack apps
    ×0.25 148 | 3 points by alance 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: A visual ping utility that is pretty (source.tube)
    ×0.97 115 | 4 points by _ache_ 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Puppy PPE (amosdudley.com)
    ×1.22 19 #19 | 13 points by ChadNauseam 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. RISC-V Extension Landscape (rpsene.github.io)
    ×0.82 | 1 points by mshockwave 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1T and 114k Lives a Year, Yale Study (yale.edu)
    ×6.55 82 | 382 points by karakoram 9 hours ago | 516 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: A website for exploring historical photographs of my city (maprva.org)
    ×0.62 112 | 35 points by uneekname 5 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. U.S. data-center capacity may nearly double by 2028 (grok.me)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by echohive42 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Making every company programmable like a computer [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.98 82 | 3 points by Marten42 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: OxiSH, a modern, memory-safe SSH server (ochtman.nl)
    ×2.74 138 | 26 points by dochtman 4 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. The Case Against Formal Verification, 50 Years Later (ivan-gavran.github.io)
    ×1.19 43 | 94 points by ghuntley 1 day ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Learn Flags Quiz (flagquizzes.com)
    ×0.51 47 #46 | 41 points by artiomyak 11 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Apple AirTag reveals how Amazon destroys rare books for AI training (the-decoder.com)
    ×1.97 3 #78 | 29 points by Vaslo 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Headjust: macOS app that uses your headphones to surface tilt and lean (headjust.app)
    ×0.76 | 1 points by ValentineC 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Buyer cancels showing after Deflock shows two cameras utilized by the HOA (twitter.com/lydiakauppi)
    ×6.99 24 | 104 points by bilsbie 13 hours ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. How do functions like alloca allocate memory from the stack? (microsoft.com)
    ×1.08 29 #14 | 26 points by ingve 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Launch HN: Speko (YC S26) – OpenRouter for Voice AI (speko.ai)
    ×0.65 29 #20 | 90 points by abdik 9 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Speeding Up the Plush Garbage Collector (pointersgonewild.com)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by matt_d 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Trump administration Announces New "Hacking Back" Program (reason.com)
    ×2.68 40 | 4 points by anonymousiam 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. A True Telnet BBS on a Casio Calculator (ei3lh.eu)
    ×0.90 57 | 109 points by austinallegro 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. India has paved the way for charging merchants a fee on UPI transactions (bbc.com)
    ×1.45 21 #40 | 88 points by monkey_monkey 5 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Tim O'Reilly – Why Open Source Matters for AI (oreillyradar.substack.com)
    ×1.45 5 #84 | 19 points by rmason 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Burning Down Yosemite and the Redwoods (steady.substack.com)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by BallardNomads 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee (reuters.com)
    ×2.82 4 | 243 points by root-parent 1 day ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. GIMP Development Update (gimp.org)
    ×3.43 15 | 253 points by lumpa 22 hours ago | 233 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Graphlib -- A new way to create directional graphs in C++ (github.com/RANDOMFNP)
    ×1.36 36 | 3 points by RandomFNP 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. How to ship a database every day (turbopuffer.com)
    ×0.81 37 #42 | 65 points by tarunnnp 11 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Applying a photosynthetic process to treat “dry eye” (science.org)
    ×0.72 71 #65 | 67 points by gumby 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Anybody Working on Agentic Payment? (twitter.com/samliuhappy)
    ×1.00 | 2 points by Bobby_Liu 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Cursor Origin is now live (xcancel.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by SpyCoder77 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Schemagic – visual JSON Schema editor (schemagic.app)
    ×1.47 75 | 3 points by Minhir 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: 3D Graph of DeepSWE, via Three.js (icauro.com)
    ×1.61 131 | 4 points by icauroboros 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Repair Cafe – Fix Your Broken Items (repaircafe.org)
    ×1.49 34 #22 | 7 points by rglover 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Cogni: MCP memory for LLMs, with no LLM in the retrieval path (getcogni.io)
    ×1.24 | 2 points by ihamilton7 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Ballet – Workflow automation that writes integrations against any API (ballet.dev)
    ×0.52 136 | 36 points by danielkimber 5 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: A nutrition companion for endurance athletes
    ×2.43 118 | 6 points by bravang 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Cosyncing: Control DeepSeek Harness and other agents on your phone (github.com/cosyncing)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by howardme1 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. MidWestWhips (midwestwhips.com)
    ×1.70 32 | 3 points by sickophancy 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: ThoughtDAG – An editable context graph for LLM conversations (chenxiachan.github.io)
    ×1.17 79 | 134 points by chatchan 2 days ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. CRTC allows Canadian carriers to lock phones again, with a catch (mobilesyrup.com)
    ×1.24 11 | 3 points by jethronethro 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Cumora, a cross-platform team chat where AI agents work alongside humans (github.com/yetone)
    ×1.14 | 2 points by jinqueeny 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. AI writes dead code – the Go team's deadcode tool finds it in one command (towardsdev.com)
    ×1.81 29 | 3 points by cheikhdev 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: All roads lead home – a Google timeline replacement (takeallroads.com)
    ×3.13 56 | 10 points by lizhang 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Woxi - Open-source Mathematica / Wolfram Language reimplementation (ad-si.com)
    ×1.62 96 | 314 points by adius 5 days ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. 70 Strategies/Moats on How Things Win (stephango.com)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by momentmaker 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Why Aging May Be a Program, Not a Breakdown (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.64 9 | 4 points by ibobev 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months, up to 10x the lowest ever tracked prices (tomshardware.com)
    ×3.71 58 | 91 points by haunter 7 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Mocktail – Free, open-source mock API server with a built-in dashboard (getmocktail.com)
    ×2.13 123 | 23 points by hhaluk 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: A multiplayer coding environment for dev teams and agents (forklane.ai)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by akshayl284 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Ask HN: Svbtle Nudges?
    ×0.40 | 1 points by righthand 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Qwen3.8-27B on a single RTX 3090: crash fix, 131K context, 9 myths (jonidimo.github.io)
    ×1.61 18 | 3 points by jonaddb 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Rysh – an AI harness where Claude and Codex agents work as a team (Go) (github.com/rysh-ai)
    ×1.00 | 2 points by halilagin 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. The oldest bar in every state (businessinsider.com)
    ×1.05 20 #30 | 66 points by NaOH 8 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: UL-SMF – Open-source linear-complexity ~300x KV-cache compression (github.com/liventruth)
    ×0.53 76 #57 | 11 points by liventruth 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Anthropic's Claude Will Add Watermarks to AI-Generated Text and Files (cnet.com)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by wglb 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. LongHorizon-Harness: Advancing Long-Horizon Agents for Real-World Tasks (github.com/AMAP-ML)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by tingletech 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding (highereddive.com)
    ×5.32 6 | 277 points by walrus01 1 day ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. AI Coding Without the Vibes (peterbloem.nl)
    ×1.63 62 | 96 points by riskone 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Examining RFK Jr.'S Role in the Measles Outbreak (nationalreview.com)
    ×2.66 11 | 4 points by petethomas 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose (w4g1.dev)
    ×3.11 1 | 327 points by hruvhwe 1 day ago | 187 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Continuum – Financial simulations for DIY multimillionaires (continuum-app.xyz)
    ×0.85 101 | 7 points by charleswcho 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Online SNMP MIB database - upload/view your own MIBs (mib-viewer.com)
    ×0.47 139 | 15 points by beefstew123 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. GPU Offload in Rust: Portable, Safe, and Fast (arxiv.org)
    ×1.02 10 #6 | 155 points by linggen 6 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Incident with Github.com (githubstatus.com)
    ×3.20 3 #8 | 524 points by SpyCoder77 11 hours ago | 907 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Sun Clock (sunclock.net)
    ×1.62 5 #16 | 165 points by Gecko4072 8 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???