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  1. Ask HN: What do you still do manually in 2026 that should be automated?
    ×0.19 45 | 5 points by lishunsheng 8 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Who got hired with Who wants to be hired? (On 2026)
    ×0.31 66 | 13 points by Gooblebrai 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Terafab – Smart move or insane financial risk?
    ×0.15 79 | 3 points by imheretolearn 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: How to start up as an individual developer?
    ×0.35 90 | 5 points by alexyan0431 23 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Is anyone seriously considering a career change?
    ×0.89 39 | 27 points by zeven7 19 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Reviewing in the Age of AI
    ×0.48 64 | 7 points by maxalbarello 19 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated
    ×1.76 37 | 31 points by CliffStoll 20 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Is the future everyone having 100 MCP processes running on their PC?
    ×0.26 94 | 6 points by ex-aws-dude 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: The death of software development as a job?
    ×2.31 74 | 15 points by piratesAndSons 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad?
    ×1.78 87 | 126 points by idontwantthis 4 days ago | 203 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Best Embedding Models?
    ×0.40 97 | 17 points by devstein 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Is there a term for feeling sad about forced AI adoption?
    ×0.88 75 | 21 points by ge96 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Why would we care about "extended time horizons" and LLMs?
    ×0.60 132 | 5 points by ozozozd 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How do I get freelance developer jobs?
    ×1.06 68 | 6 points by downbad_ 18 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Where are you getting your AI news from?
    ×0.37 117 | 10 points by baetylus 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Those building Swift apps without touching Xcode, what is your workflow?
    ×0.45 123 | 18 points by p5v 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Is a hands-off, family-friendly, de-Googled "home lab" feasible?
    ×0.31 126 | 10 points by strix_varius 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Why Does a Single Firefox Tab Take Almost 1.5GB RAM?
    ×0.26 128 | 6 points by syeare 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: When did you move from AI agentic loops to simpler deterministic system?
    ×0.36 130 | 7 points by laxmena 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Tell HN: The saddest irony of my/our craft
    ×1.49 100 | 21 points by dakiol 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Can anyone point me to a ShowHN first post policy documentation?
    ×0.43 118 | 12 points by upwindchange 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. DNSSEC disruption affecting .de domains – Resolved (denic.de)
    ×3.02 5 #62 | 737 points by warpspin 1 day ago | 405 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Show HN: Tuiql – A keyboard-driven SQL database client in the terminal (github.com/okira-e)
    ×0.94 93 | 3 points by okira_e 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Show HN: BattleClaws – A battle arena where AI agents fight autonomously (battleclaws.ai)
    ×2.96 70 | 8 points by bryhaw 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. SingleRide: Longest route on NYC Subway without visiting the same station twice (singleride.nyc)
    ×1.28 13 #14 | 30 points by TMWNN 5 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. The Upper Middle Class Trap (ofdollarsanddata.com)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by speckx 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Coding Agent Harness Comparison 2026: Claude Code, Codex, Amp (techstackups.com)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by ritzaco 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Behavior-Oriented Concurrency for Python (microsoft.github.io)
    ×1.12 36 | 69 points by mpweiher 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Skymap – a 3D galaxy catalog explorer in the browser via WebGPU (rulkens.com)
    ×1.60 78 | 5 points by thereallex 20 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Mythos is the best cybersecurity news in a decade (sfstandard.com)
    ×1.55 51 #47 | 45 points by littlexsparkee 15 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Wolfenstein 3D for Gameboy Color on custom cartridge (2016) (happydaze.se)
    ×0.99 49 #53 | 130 points by ksymph 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. The Future Is Shrouded in an AI Fog (hbr.org)
    ×0.90 | 1 points by thedebuglife 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. It's official: Utah is the U.S. state closest to banning VPNs (yahoo.com)
    ×5.05 38 | 156 points by giantg2 1 day ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Kanban-CLI – a web UI for local Markdown todo lists (github.com/Vochsel)
    ×3.26 110 | 11 points by vochsel 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Why is Cloudflare protecting the DDoS'er (beamed.st) attacking Ubuntu servers? (infosec.exchange)
    ×2.87 51 | 87 points by mystraline 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Keyterm Filtering for Voice AI (aditu.tech)
    ×0.96 131 | 3 points by mayowa_osibodu 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX (anthropic.com)
    ×5.28 33 #50 | 471 points by meetpateltech 19 hours ago | 432 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Telus Uses AI to Alter Call-Agent Accents (letsdatascience.com)
    ×1.65 15 #82 | 233 points by debo_ 1 day ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Bliss – a backlog quality scanner for AI-powered teams (trybliss.io)
    ×1.47 | 2 points by nitzano 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Stop playing my matchstick puzzles, start building your own in seconds (mathstick.github.io)
    ×0.71 124 | 36 points by trangram 5 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Agent-skills-eval – Test whether Agent Skills improve outputs (github.com/darkrishabh)
    ×0.96 9 #22 | 32 points by darkrishabh 5 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. I built a free GPT to test whether an idea is clear before launch (chatgpt.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by DELTAX-Editions 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. How to Work and Compound with AI (eugeneyan.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by swyx 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: I indexed 8,643 BSides talks across 227 chapters and 6 continents (allbsides.com)
    ×1.75 95 | 24 points by Parkado 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: PHP-fts – Full-text search engine in pure PHP, no extensions (github.com/olivier-ls)
    ×1.00 32 #41 | 75 points by asmodios 15 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. CARA 2.0 – “I Built a Better Robot Dog” (aaedmusa.com)
    ×2.36 2 #54 | 461 points by hakonjdjohnsen 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Lazarus Group Uses Git Hooks to Hide Malware (opensourcemalware.com)
    ×2.88 40 | 4 points by speckx 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. BYD overtakes Tesla and Kia as the best-selling EV brand in key overseas markets (electrek.co)
    ×4.47 61 | 245 points by doener 17 hours ago | 419 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: I made a local proxy for AI tool calls to keep my API keys safe (github.com/factorly-dev)
    ×1.87 120 | 5 points by jsherer 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. SoundOff: Low-Cost Passive Ultrasound Tags (yibo-fu.com)
    ×0.92 1 | 77 points by jonbaer 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license (digitalfoundry.net)
    ×5.53 2 #1 | 1504 points by haunter 20 hours ago | 496 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Photoshop's challenges with focus, pt. 2 (aresluna.org)
    ×1.76 2 #10 | 67 points by frizlab 5 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.56 14 #90 | 324 points by brudgers 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Claude Managed Agents: dreaming, outcomes, and multiagent orchestration (claude.com)
    ×0.87 | 1 points by thedebuglife 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Fooling large language models just keeps getting simpler (theregister.com)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by speckx 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Large Scale Article Extract of Newspapers 1730s-1960s (snewpapers.com)
    ×0.86 109 | 55 points by brettnbutter 5 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Bonsai 1.7B ternary model at 442T/s on M4 Max (agents2agents.ai)
    ×1.69 113 | 13 points by hhuytho 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Permacomputing Principles (permacomputing.net)
    ×1.44 5 #5 | 170 points by andsoitis 9 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Hallucinopedia (halupedia.com)
    ×1.91 12 #24 | 243 points by bstrama 19 hours ago | 219 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent sandbox with a transactional, versioned filesystem (tilde.run)
    ×1.06 31 #28 | 174 points by ozkatz 20 hours ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. The Mathematical Dance Inside Plant Cells (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.85 11 #29 | 51 points by isaacfrond 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Open-Ended Survey? Definition, Benefits, AI Analysis and How to Create One (figshare.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by aishasajjad 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Three-Em Dash (compart.com)
    ×1.76 54 #56 | 12 points by gregsadetsky 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. PS5-Linux (github.com/ps5-linux)
    ×1.49 | 2 points by 26d0 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Anthropomorphism Is the New Skeuomorphism (danielgrantco.substack.com)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by djgrant 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Better Design – 28 Shadcn design systems (OSS, MCP: Cursor/Claude Code) (github.com/marvkr)
    ×2.78 86 | 12 points by marvinkr 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: NeuralScript – A pure-Rust AOT compiler (github.com/bwiemz)
    ×1.14 135 | 5 points by AkaiNa 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Xkcd.com/435: Purity (explainxkcd.com)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by o4c 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Package Darwinism, the Furture of Open Source, Adapt or Get Archived (twitter.com/pelaseyed)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by homanp 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. AI Can Help You Build Better Experiments (aihorizons.io)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by sebg 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: AgentBrain – local-first Markdown/JSON vault for AI agents (heroka.xyz)
    ×0.48 | 2 points by pitashi 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Octopus Code Review is now free for OSI-licensed repos (octopus-review.ai)
    ×1.49 116 | 6 points by redoh 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Godot Usage and Engine Growth (godotengine.org)
    ×1.28 | 2 points by __natty__ 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: I Built a Museum Exhibit (knhash.in)
    ×0.63 82 | 38 points by kn81198 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Idempotency Is Easy Until the Second Request Is Different (dochia.dev)
    ×1.32 | 2 points by ludovicianul 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Clarification on the Notepad++ Trademark Issue (notepad-plus-plus.org)
    ×3.34 27 | 184 points by minimaxir 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. ZAYA1-8B: An 8B Moe Model with 760M Active Params Matching DeepSeek-R1 on Math (firethering.com)
    ×1.81 1 #8 | 32 points by steveharing1 3 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. SQLite Archive Files (sqlite.org)
    ×1.67 63 #59 | 7 points by tehlike 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Pixels I Have Known and Loved (datagubbe.se)
    ×2.06 | 2 points by ibobev 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Urban birds fear women more than men, and scientists don't know why (phys.org)
    ×2.49 58 | 3 points by wjSgoWPm5bWAhXB 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Mizar: The first usable proof assistant for mathematics (lawrencecpaulson.github.io)
    ×1.33 | 2 points by chmaynard 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Boris Cherny: TI-83 Plus Basic Programming Tutorial (2004) (ticalc.org)
    ×1.43 9 #3 | 41 points by suoken 4 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. AI in the Breach: How an Adversary Leveraged AI to Target a Water Utility's OT (dragos.com)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by _____k 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Dreamwork – a job search site I made after Indeed fired my pregnant wif (dreamworkhq.com)
    ×2.05 47 | 6 points by cojj25 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Yames – A distraction-free desktop metronome built with Rust and Tauri (turutupa.github.io)
    ×1.56 133 | 5 points by turutupa 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Pen pal programs endure in a digital age (apnews.com)
    ×0.87 22 #25 | 55 points by petethomas 10 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters (blog.google)
    ×2.68 11 #60 | 669 points by amrrs 1 day ago | 326 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Ced – C REPL in 50 lines of POSIX shell (codeberg.org)
    ×0.86 | 1 points by archargelod 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Two millionth electric car registered as market rebounds from tax changes (smmt.co.uk)
    ×1.89 34 | 162 points by kieranmaine 1 day ago | 281 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. OWASP Foundation's Strategic Plan (owasp.org)
    ×0.90 | 1 points by runningmike 3 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???