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  1. Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...
    ×2.64 23 #61 | 426 points by mittermayr 1 day ago | 320 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Before Open Source took over the server, what was the discourse like?
    ×0.88 11 | 3 points by mbgerring 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated
    ×7.50 57 #87 | 1623 points by CliffStoll 1 day ago | 248 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. How are folks affordably self-training in AI?
    ×0.54 52 | 6 points by macartain 9 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. LLM generated parsers and compliance checkers for Sparrow DSL
    ×0.35 73 | 3 points by melezhik 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What is the underlying stack behind multi-agent platforms?
    ×0.36 84 | 3 points by throwaw12 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Reflections on NetBSD 11
    ×0.40 96 | 8 points by morpheos137 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What is your go-to solution for a personal wiki in 2026?
    ×0.44 101 | 15 points by ex-aws-dude 2 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Can NPM, pnpm etc. use frontier models to check packages for malware?
    ×0.30 103 | 5 points by VikRubenfeld 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Novel macro signals for AI-related job loss?
    ×0.39 105 | 5 points by sfmz 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How do we handle the rise of low quality "This is LLM" comments?
    ×0.58 93 | 9 points by shantnutiwari 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What do you still do manually in 2026 that should be automated?
    ×0.34 110 | 19 points by lishunsheng 2 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What will happen as AI costs increase?
    ×0.48 99 | 14 points by MetaWhirledPeas 2 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How are you handling QA being bottlenecked with more AI-generated PRs?
    ×0.25 126 | 4 points by softneon 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Are we gonna back less powerful local LLMs
    ×0.30 117 | 9 points by omertt27 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad?
    ×1.74 111 | 134 points by idontwantthis 1 week ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: How to start up as an individual developer?
    ×0.50 129 | 14 points by alexyan0431 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Who got hired with Who wants to be hired? (On 2026)
    ×0.31 120 | 18 points by Gooblebrai 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. "Surface" a Governed AI-Agentic Surface
    ×0.09 151 | 3 points by paulbernard 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Claude Flags Hantavirus Vaccine Questions as Security Risk
    ×0.96 92 | 12 points by pell 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Discord Incident – Resolved (discordstatus.com)
    ×2.09 33 | 89 points by moelf 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Forking the Web (dillo-browser.org)
    ×1.55 15 #29 | 106 points by wrxd 13 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. PortalVR Motion – use any VR content in 2D with 3D tracked Joy-Cons (portalvr.io)
    ×0.71 47 #79 | 42 points by gfodor 20 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. React-AI-stream – back end-agnostic SSE streaming hook for React (github.com/trimooo)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by devleoo 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: DAG-based Kanji learning through components (mykanji.app)
    ×0.58 156 | 3 points by barisozmen 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. The React2Shell Story (lachlan.nz)
    ×1.52 23 #49 | 211 points by mufeedvh 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce (reuters.com)
    ×5.44 9 #65 | 1322 points by PriorityLeft 2 days ago | 972 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Judge rules DOGE cancellation of humanities grants was unconstitutional (apnews.com)
    ×6.32 41 | 66 points by 1659447091 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Local AI search for your video library (local, open source) (edit-mind.com)
    ×0.41 | 2 points by iliashad 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Codeberg (Forgejo) CLI, built with Xclif (codeberg.org)
    ×1.08 143 | 16 points by thatxliner 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Mux (YC W16) Is Hiring (mux.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Kendrick Lamar to an Italian Poet (youtube.com)
    ×1.47 | 2 points by lawgimenez 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Digital Simulation of Non-Hermitian Knotted Bands on Quantum Hardware (arxiv.org)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by marysminefnuf 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Permutational wreath pullbacks and framed braid-type groups (arxiv.org)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by marysminefnuf 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. War.gov/UFO/ UFO file download reference repo (github.com/dopper)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by dopper 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. How do I deal with memory leaks? (2022) (stroustrup.com)
    ×0.84 46 #88 | 90 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Countries where you can leave your MacBook at a random coffee shop (vouchatlas.com)
    ×0.91 10 | 3 points by canergl 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. ToolOps: One Decorator Away from Production-Ready AI Agents (github.com/hedimanai-pro)
    ×1.00 | 2 points by hedimanai 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Non-determinism is an issue with patching CVEs (flox.dev)
    ×0.59 50 | 48 points by mathewpregasen 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Hallucinopedia (halupedia.com)
    ×1.98 62 | 303 points by bstrama 3 days ago | 266 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Rejected by YC (rejectedbyyc-ten.vercel.app)
    ×0.96 114 | 4 points by leonagano 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Read Programming as Theory Building (codeutopia.net)
    ×1.72 32 #77 | 76 points by birdculture 12 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Did the Soviets Collude in the 1953 Candidates Tournament? (lichess.org)
    ×1.55 | 2 points by fzliu 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. I built a private memory system for remembering people (apple.com)
    ×1.98 38 | 3 points by Phangweijun 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. The FCC wants your ID before you get a phone number (reclaimthenet.org)
    ×4.91 51 | 74 points by delichon 11 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Notion-to-site – sync any Notion database to local Markdown/MDX/JSON (github.com/rashidazarang)
    ×0.41 109 | 5 points by rashidae 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: I built a game where AI agents compete to ship code (aion.quest)
    ×2.73 134 | 10 points by xkoda 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Artemis II Photo Timeline (artemistimeline.com)
    ×0.92 | 2 points by surprisetalk 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Keats, Letters (ualberta.ca)
    ×0.39 | 1 points by highfrequency 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. What we lost the last time code got cheap (poppastring.com)
    ×2.03 21 | 118 points by speckx 1 day ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Looking at the data behind prediction markets (asteriskmag.com)
    ×1.16 20 #90 | 114 points by kqr 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. 24/7 AI-powered radio station. Generates music, writes hosted breaks,speaks them (github.com/keltokhy)
    ×0.63 | 2 points by pseudolus 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged (privatecaptcha.com)
    ×3.53 44 | 690 points by ribtoks 1 day ago | 351 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Filling PDF forms with AI using client-side tool calling (simplepdf.com)
    ×0.67 137 | 60 points by nip 1 week ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Meta's embrace of A.I. is making its employees miserable (nytimes.com)
    ×5.95 14 #17 | 280 points by JumpCrisscross 6 hours ago | 243 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. You gave me a u32. I gave you root. (io_uring ZCRX freelist LPE) (ze3tar.github.io)
    ×1.21 38 #50 | 209 points by MrBruh 1 day ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Bitter Lessons from the ISSpresso (mceglowski.substack.com)
    ×1.32 20 #76 | 125 points by zdw 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. What Software Engineers Can Learn from the Aviation Industry (mwalterskirchen.dev)
    ×0.98 | 1 points by JSLegendDev 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. The Real Story of Troy (storica.club)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by cemsakarya 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Blaise – A modern self-hosting zero-legacy Object Pascal compiler targeting QBE (github.com/graemeg)
    ×0.89 55 | 101 points by peter_d_sherman 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Stage CLI – An easier way of reading your AI generated changes locally (github.com/ReviewStage)
    ×0.65 82 | 44 points by cpan22 2 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Building the TD4 4-Bit CPU (jayakody2000lk.blogspot.com)
    ×0.69 16 #47 | 57 points by zdw 12 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. David Attenborough's 100th Birthday (bbc.com)
    ×4.26 14 #56 | 848 points by defrost 1 day ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Why do Oregon farms plant red clover every spring? (wholelottanothing.org)
    ×3.51 29 #66 | 19 points by speckx 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Catatumbo Lightning (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by nomilk 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Rethinking how our brains use categories to make sense of the world (mit.edu)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by hhs 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Trump reportedly plans to fire FDA Commissioner Marty Makary (arstechnica.com)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by Bender 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: tltv – Federation protocol for 24/7 TV channels (timelooptv.org)
    ×1.28 100 | 5 points by tltv 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Better Design – 28 Shadcn design systems (OSS, MCP: Cursor/Claude Code) (github.com/marvkr)
    ×2.93 144 | 13 points by marvinkr 4 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Surfel-based global illumination on the web (juretriglav.si)
    ×0.74 9 #23 | 11 points by vmg12 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. GeoJSON (geojson.org)
    ×1.13 38 #83 | 167 points by tosh 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Why Apple Is Launching a Touchscreen MacBook [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.21 | 2 points by mgh2 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Just Use Go (blainsmith.com)
    ×9.80 15 | 201 points by xngbuilds 1 day ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: AirScore – Daily air-quality emails synthesizing EPA, NOAA, and pollen (getairscore.com)
    ×0.50 | 2 points by JHARDIMAN 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: UltraCompress – first mathematically lossless 5-bit LLM compression (github.com/sipsalabs)
    ×1.06 108 | 5 points by mounnar 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Local privilege escalation via execve() (freebsd.org)
    ×1.89 3 #6 | 82 points by Deeg9rie9usi 5 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. GrapheneOS fixes Android VPN leak Google refused to patch (cyberinsider.com)
    ×4.30 23 #34 | 267 points by Georgelemental 11 hours ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Pitch Is Just Rhythm Sped Up [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.39 | 1 points by ersinesen 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc (twitter.com/jarredsumner)
    ×2.74 #1 | 404 points by heldrida 6 hours ago | 391 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Koide Formula for the Down Quarks (doi.org)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by arivero 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Court to DOGE: Asking ChatGPT 'Is This DEI?' Is Not Proper Legal Process (techdirt.com)
    ×5.40 39 | 95 points by hn_acker 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Disputron – AI small claims court for petty disputes (disputron.ai)
    ×2.20 115 | 8 points by etaheri 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Production engineering when trading billions of dollars a day [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.58 3 #13 | 90 points by abstrus 6 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Instagram DMs Lose End-to-End Encryption Starting Today (macrumors.com)
    ×1.54 16 #62 | 6 points by 0in 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. A .bat script to auto‑connect ADB over LAN (github.com/JTRSoftware)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by jtr87 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Poland is now among the 20 largest economies (apnews.com)
    ×4.58 38 #71 | 1022 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 819 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: A lie detector game that reads your pulse through your phone camera (kouh.me)
    ×1.89 86 | 11 points by mrkn1 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Notion-to-site – sync any Notion database to local Markdown/MDX/JSON (github.com/rashidazarang)
    ×0.85 153 | 3 points by rashidae 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Large Scale Article Extract of Newspapers 1730s-1960s (snewpapers.com)
    ×0.86 141 | 55 points by brettnbutter 1 week ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Reducing TTFT by CPUMaxxing Tokenization (crusoe.ai)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by intrepidsoldier 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???