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  1. Ask HN: What do you still do manually in 2026 that should be automated?
    ×0.64 3 | 4 points by lishunsheng 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Terafab – Smart move or insane financial risk?
    ×0.29 95 | 3 points by imheretolearn 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Who got hired with Who wants to be hired? (On 2026)
    ×0.34 98 | 13 points by Gooblebrai 22 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Is anyone seriously considering a career change?
    ×0.92 48 | 26 points by zeven7 13 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Time to add option in Hacker News "AI excluded Show HN"
    ×0.42 62 | 16 points by tukunjil 11 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: How to start up as an individual developer?
    ×0.43 113 | 5 points by alexyan0431 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Reviewing in the Age of AI
    ×0.54 91 | 7 points by maxalbarello 13 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated
    ×1.76 54 | 29 points by CliffStoll 14 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Is the future everyone having 100 MCP processes running on their PC?
    ×0.28 119 | 6 points by ex-aws-dude 23 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: The death of software development as a job?
    ×2.79 108 | 15 points by piratesAndSons 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Is there a term for feeling sad about forced AI adoption?
    ×0.91 109 | 21 points by ge96 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad?
    ×1.79 122 | 126 points by idontwantthis 4 days ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Best Embedding Models?
    ×0.41 124 | 17 points by devstein 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How do I get freelance developer jobs?
    ×0.97 97 | 5 points by downbad_ 12 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Why would we care about "extended time horizons" and LLMs?
    ×0.68 159 | 5 points by ozozozd 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Where are you getting your AI news from?
    ×0.38 143 | 10 points by baetylus 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Those building Swift apps without touching Xcode, what is your workflow?
    ×0.46 153 | 18 points by p5v 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Is a hands-off, family-friendly, de-Googled "home lab" feasible?
    ×0.32 151 | 10 points by strix_varius 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Why Does a Single Firefox Tab Take Almost 1.5GB RAM?
    ×0.27 154 | 6 points by syeare 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: When did you move from AI agentic loops to simpler deterministic system?
    ×0.37 158 | 7 points by laxmena 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Tell HN: The saddest irony of my/our craft
    ×1.53 125 | 21 points by dakiol 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Can anyone point me to a ShowHN first post policy documentation?
    ×0.39 147 | 11 points by upwindchange 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Quilt Poems (leetusman.com)
    ×2.35 20 | 5 points by andsoitis 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Encountering Artificial Intelligence: Ethical and Anthropological Investigations (scholasticahq.com)
    ×2.32 25 | 5 points by andsoitis 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: Hallucinopedia (halupedia.com)
    ×1.85 17 #16 | 189 points by bstrama 13 hours ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Virtual violin produces realistic sounds (mit.edu)
    ×0.80 74 #35 | 88 points by gmays 20 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Coverage Cat (YC S22) Seeks Fractional Engineer to Build AI Growth Toolkit (coveragecat.com)
    18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Lessons for Agentic Coding: What should we do when code is cheap? (dbreunig.com)
    ×1.57 77 #78 | 259 points by ingve 1 day ago | 232 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Three-Em Dash (compart.com)
    ×1.77 40 | 4 points by gregsadetsky 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Apple's SHARP running in the browser via ONNX runtime web (github.com/bring-shrubbery)
    ×0.96 106 | 182 points by bring-shrubbery 3 days ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Hello, World in many different languages (jdunn.dev)
    ×2.18 165 | 10 points by jdironman 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Bonsai 1.7B ternary model at 442T/s on M4 Max (agents2agents.ai)
    ×1.69 142 | 13 points by hhuytho 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. An Open Invite to Targeted Indivduals
    ×0.48 | 1 points by beeburrt 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: A Mutating Webhook to automatically strip PII from K8s logs (github.com/aragossa)
    ×0.46 110 | 24 points by aragoss 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: A tiny C program where an LLM rewires its DAG while running (github.com/kouhxp)
    ×1.60 135 | 12 points by mrkn1 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: I built an API for agents visiting my personal website (mczaykowski.com)
    ×1.85 133 | 7 points by selvmvde 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Software Engineer to Novelist: Writing a Book Like Coding (frequal.com)
    ×1.10 146 | 22 points by TeaVMFan 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Retroguard – Verifiably secure AI guardrails (retroguard.ai)
    ×1.57 152 | 6 points by ttttonyhe 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Diskless Linux boot using ZFS, iSCSI and PXE (aniket.foo)
    ×1.56 3 #2 | 46 points by stereo-highway 2 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. SoundOff: Low-Cost Passive Ultrasound Tags (yibo-fu.com)
    ×0.83 61 #28 | 53 points by jonbaer 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Reverse-engineering the 1998 Ultima Online demo server (draxinar.github.io)
    ×1.55 13 #59 | 235 points by notsentient 23 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. ReleaseJet – the release notes tool for repos with many customers (github.com/makisp)
    ×0.55 100 #85 | 3 points by PaulHoule 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Apple Cuts More Mac Studio and Mac Mini RAM Options as Memory Shortage Worsens (macrumors.com)
    ×2.93 81 | 67 points by pixelesque 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. GPT‑5.5 Instant (openai.com)
    ×3.17 79 | 86 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. RSS Feeds Send Me More Traffic Than Google (shkspr.mobi)
    ×2.02 24 #15 | 31 points by SpyCoder77 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. DNA donors help identify Franklin expedition members (theglobeandmail.com)
    ×0.76 | 1 points by petethomas 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. If AI cuts jobs, it would also threaten Social Security and Medicare (minnesotareformer.com)
    ×5.35 26 | 11 points by littlexsparkee 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Prospero Is Superpowers for Writing (brianguthrie.com)
    ×0.32 | 2 points by bguthrie 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Ableton Live MCP (github.com/bschoepke)
    ×1.14 111 | 119 points by bschoepke 3 days ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken (openrss.org)
    ×2.18 12 #65 | 328 points by veeti 1 day ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. SpaceX IPO gives Musk unchecked power and forbids investor lawsuits (arstechnica.com)
    ×5.85 29 | 14 points by pzxc 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Gulugulu, an old-style client-side search engine for the old weird web (cbrincoveanu.github.io)
    ×0.65 | 2 points by cbrincoveanu 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Pay.sh – Discover, access, and pay for any API autonomously (github.com/solana-foundation)
    ×1.74 85 | 5 points by fmerian 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: State of the Art of Coding Models, According to Hacker News Commenters (hnup.date)
    ×1.23 116 | 162 points by yunusabd 4 days ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Learning the Integral of a Diffusion Model (sander.ai)
    ×1.10 14 #23 | 122 points by benanne 11 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Actor alleges James Cameron used her teenage face to create 'Avatar' character (nbcnews.com)
    ×2.83 55 | 4 points by anigbrowl 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Node-Vmm – Linux MicroVMs in Pure Node.js for Mac/Windows/Linux in ~1s (github.com/misaelzapata)
    ×1.96 150 | 8 points by misaelzapata 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Clipmon is a macOS clipboard manager on steroids (github.com/c9-labs)
    ×1.59 175 | 7 points by vednig 4 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. The Thinking Plant's Man (2025) (sciencehistory.org)
    ×0.51 69 #52 | 56 points by benbreen 17 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Marco Rubio discovers he needs to take over Spirit Airlines (youtube.com)
    ×1.74 46 | 4 points by keepamovin 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: I built an open-source email builder, alternative to Beefree/Unlayer (templatical.com)
    ×0.95 26 #30 | 123 points by oahmadov 13 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Character.ai Faces Unlawful Practice of Medicine Claim in Pennsylvania Suit (law.com)
    ×1.78 31 | 4 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. GLM-5V-Turbo: Toward a Native Foundation Model for Multimodal Agents (arxiv.org)
    ×1.07 60 | 159 points by gmays 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Platos – like Claude Managed Agents but open-source and self-hosted (github.com/winsenlabs)
    ×0.48 | 2 points by tejassuds 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: I indexed 8,643 BSides talks across 227 chapters and 6 continents (allbsides.com)
    ×1.75 123 | 24 points by Parkado 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement (variety.com)
    ×4.41 4 #86 | 471 points by spankibalt 1 day ago | 414 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Password-less authentication via Ramanujan's 1/π series and Nvidia-B200 (zenodo.org)
    ×0.71 | 1 points by Prakash_1 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Spec CPU 2026 (spec.org)
    ×0.82 | 2 points by sanxiyn 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Naval Strike – simultaneous turn-based fleet combat in the browser (navalstrike.app)
    ×0.42 87 | 4 points by pinchydev 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Tuiql – A keyboard-driven SQL database client in the terminal (github.com/okira-e)
    ×0.98 112 | 3 points by okira_e 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Ted Turner has died (cnn.com)
    ×1.96 3 #27 | 258 points by pseudolus 15 hours ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Knitting bullshit (katedaviesdesigns.com)
    ×2.80 2 #50 | 440 points by ColinEberhardt 1 day ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Proton Meet (proton.me)
    ×2.59 15 #58 | 119 points by Einenlum 11 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.57 24 #84 | 323 points by brudgers 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Bun project's GitHub bot has now made more contributions to Bun than Jarred (twitter.com/i)
    ×0.95 | 2 points by thunderbong 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. The bottleneck was never the code (thetypicalset.com)
    ×2.53 13 #31 | 542 points by Anon84 19 hours ago | 349 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Most Widely Deployed and Used Database Engine (sqlite.org)
    ×0.88 | 2 points by sebmellen 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Kula – a family health platform that makes sense of your data
    ×1.29 168 | 6 points by samuraikmc 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent sandbox with a transactional, versioned filesystem (tilde.run)
    ×1.00 30 #18 | 147 points by ozkatz 14 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Trust – Coding Rust like it's 1989 (github.com/wojtczyk)
    ×0.83 | 1 points by wojtczyk 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Orthohantavirus (expasy.org)
    ×1.85 44 | 4 points by rolph 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Sqlflow, a SQLite back end layer for Go (github.com/avalonbits)
    ×0.45 | 2 points by iccananea 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Permacomputing Principles (permacomputing.net)
    ×1.41 1 #4 | 75 points by andsoitis 3 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. The Vatican's Website in Latin (vatican.va)
    ×1.35 3 #7 | 96 points by ks2048 4 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Mythos Shows AI Weapons Inspectors Need Sharp Teeth (bloomberg.com)
    ×0.94 | 1 points by helsinkiandrew 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Finding the differences in a series of power supplies (lttlabs.com)
    ×0.88 3 #19 | 35 points by LabsLucas 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Hand Drawn QR Codes (2025) (sethmlarson.dev)
    ×1.32 81 #82 | 223 points by jollyjerry 2 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: I built a native macOS audio player and it changed my life (github.com/chrisallick)
    ×1.35 129 | 15 points by chrisallick 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: I made a local proxy for AI tool calls to keep my API keys safe (github.com/factorly-dev)
    ×1.87 144 | 5 points by jsherer 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet (alen.ro)
    ×2.13 26 #79 | 421 points by alentodorov 1 day ago | 316 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???