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  1. Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
    ×1.53 3 #5 | 66 points by david927 3 hours ago | 261 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Is Programming as a Profession Cooked?
    ×0.61 2 | 11 points by fnoef 6 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. 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 | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Aaron Swartz died 13 years ago today
    ×7.60 72 | 56 points by vitaelabitur 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: When has a "dumb" solution beaten a sophisticated one for you?
    ×0.29 78 | 6 points by amadeuswoo 17 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Senior engineering mngrs: how has AI changed your day-to-day work?
    ×1.10 65 | 29 points by kitetm 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Senior software engineers, how do you use Claude Code?
    ×0.74 40 | 11 points by allie1 10 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Best way to find chill job where I can learn and grow as a swe
    ×0.47 84 | 33 points by digitdiglet 3 days ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Any Microsoft employees/devs here? What's happening to Microsoft?
    ×0.80 101 | 107 points by thehamkercat 5 days ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. 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 | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Tell HN: Get a dying iPhone 12 mini in 2026
    ×0.54 100 | 26 points by remywang 2 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Are There Any Similar Sites Like Downdetector?
    ×0.24 113 | 3 points by nomadfounder 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Would you pay for a privacy-first social platform?
    ×0.86 87 | 7 points by sammiej 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Should I learn Docker to deploy my app in VPS?
    ×0.57 104 | 4 points by danver0 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. macOS Tahoe 26.2 ships with an outdated version of Python 3.9.6
    ×0.89 90 | 6 points by Gabrielfair 22 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What happened to self-hosted models?
    ×0.29 126 | 3 points by curiousaboutml 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Implementing NaN Boxing in a Stack-Based VM
    ×0.15 149 | 5 points by tracyspacy 4 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How would you decouple from the US?
    ×2.19 108 | 34 points by yawa_me_worht 3 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How do you do store-and-forward telemetry at the edge?
    ×0.26 147 | 6 points by Aydarbek 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Feeling irrelevant in back end. How to pivot to automotive software?
    ×0.32 150 | 3 points by culopatin 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: How to make working in software fun again?
    ×0.94 122 | 6 points by canxerian 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Working on decentralized compute at io.net sharing what we're learning
    ×0.20 140 | 4 points by plutodev 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Why isn't AI spawning profitable indie games?
    ×1.32 143 | 6 points by eveningsun 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: What's your preferred digital payment method?
    ×0.44 144 | 3 points by vednig 2 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Funding Opportunities with Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC)
    ×0.51 146 | 5 points by ARDC_73 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. I've maintained an open source task manager for 8 years
    ×0.63 134 | 7 points by johannesjo 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. How to search Remote-from-Anywhere jobs
    ×1.48 92 | 8 points by andrewstetsenko 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. I built an AI agent that deploys a PR to production
    ×0.22 148 | 3 points by amouehsan 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. "Food JPEGs" in Super Smash Bros. & Kirby Air Riders (sethmlarson.dev)
    ×2.01 5 #11 | 225 points by SethMLarson 9 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Why (We Don't Need To?) Care About Debt-to-GDP? (ssrn.com)
    ×0.79 | 1 points by neehao 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Why are there always new agent platforms?
    ×0.54 | 1 points by ZeroAurora 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Vibe Engineering: What I've Learned Working with AI Coding Agents (twitter.com/mrexodia)
    ×1.24 | 2 points by nekitamo 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. 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 | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Enforcing time-bounded technical debt with Git history (github.com/jobin-404)
    ×1.18 59 | 3 points by jjdev8157 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. CPU Counters on Apple Silicon: article + tool (bugsiki.dev)
    ×1.50 30 #33 | 153 points by verte_zerg 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. ASCII-Driven Development (medium.com)
    ×1.28 34 #58 | 151 points by _hfqa 1 day ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15 (eupolicy.social)
    ×4.40 33 #81 | 760 points by colinprince 1 day ago | 521 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. LLMs – Part 1: Tokenization and Embeddings (vasupasupuleti.substack.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by vpasupuleti10 20 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Canada's Scaling Problem Isn't Compute, It's Coastlines (zeitgeistml.substack.com)
    ×3.06 66 | 4 points by eh_tk 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. David Long's 751-point Adventure has been found (quuxplusone.github.io)
    ×3.53 65 | 5 points by homarp 44 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. The First Relhic? Cloud-9 Is a Starless Gas Cloud (harvard.edu:443)
    ×1.24 | 2 points by taubek 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. The 400-year software patch to a 10-day memory leak (ischemist.com)
    ×1.23 | 2 points by hiddenseal 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: An all-in-one image crop/split/collage tool (no uploads, no watermark) (imagesplitter.tools)
    ×2.24 137 | 7 points by harperhuang 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Bob Weir has died (rollingstone.com)
    ×3.51 19 | 134 points by asix66 19 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: I gamified a habit tracker to fight unhealthy eating patterns (whatthefood.io)
    ×0.86 | 1 points by Odeh13 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Ask HN: Has macOS Tahoe been fixed enough to update to?
    ×2.62 35 | 4 points by ls612 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Blogs Are Back – Discover and Follow Independent Blogs (blogsareback.com)
    ×1.26 | 2 points by ArmageddonIt 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: AI Code Guard – Security scanner for AI-generated code (github.com/ThorneShadowbane)
    ×1.30 | 2 points by ajujaans 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Various shape regularization algorithms (github.com/nickponline)
    ×0.75 68 | 74 points by nickponline 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Quake 1 Single-Player Map Design Theories (2001) (quaddicted.com)
    ×1.10 35 #18 | 6 points by Lammy 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. UK government exempting itself from cyber law inspires little confidence (theregister.com)
    ×2.48 15 | 303 points by DyslexicAtheist 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Tux Paint (tuxpaint.org)
    ×1.69 46 #77 | 50 points by 1317 21 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Kodbox: Open-source cloud desktop with multi-storage fusion and web IDE (github.com/kalcaddle)
    ×0.65 52 #78 | 31 points by indigodaddy 18 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Miditui – A terminal app/UI for MIDI composing, mixing, and playback (github.com/minimaxir)
    ×0.89 60 | 65 points by minimaxir 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: InfiniteGPU, An open-source AI compute network,now supporting training (github.com/Scalerize)
    ×1.43 118 | 4 points by frank_lbt 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Anthropic: Developing a Claude Code competitor using Claude Code is banned (twitter.com/SIGKITTEN)
    ×5.75 6 #8 | 53 points by behnamoh 58 minutes ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. NASA announces unprecedented return of sick ISS astronaut and crew (livescience.com)
    ×1.54 41 #66 | 128 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: I built an Open Source screen timer for the m5stickc (Arduino) (partridge.works)
    ×0.36 37 #72 | 16 points by urbandw311er 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Samsung Galaxy S26 launch date rumored
    ×0.53 | 1 points by AhmadKhattak 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Sigmund Freud's Begonia (observer.co.uk)
    ×0.61 75 | 44 points by dang 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Impressed by Synology Support (notmyhostna.me)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by dewey 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Yuanzai World – LLM RPGs with branching world-lines (yuanzai.world)
    ×0.69 64 | 30 points by yuanzaiworld 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: I built an Instagram-style productivity app with gamification (apple.com)
    ×1.66 83 | 4 points by mandynoee 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Mantic.sh – A structural code search engine for AI agents (github.com/marcoaapfortes)
    ×0.66 107 | 81 points by marcoaapfortes 5 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Erich von Däniken – 14.04.1935 – 10.01.2026 (daniken.com)
    ×2.38 17 #46 | 5 points by Kaibeezy 46 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Don't fall into the anti-AI hype (antirez.com)
    ×8.68 42 #51 | 371 points by todsacerdoti 9 hours ago | 544 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Rust's SemVer snares: sizedness and size (wrenn.fyi)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by fanf2 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Stacky Bird: A two-dimensional programming game for kids 4+ (stackybird.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by jtwaleson 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Oh My Zsh adds bloat (rushter.com)
    ×2.42 4 | 319 points by fla 1 day ago | 281 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Vojtux – Unofficial Linux Distribution Aimed at Visually Impaired Users (github.com/vojtapolasek)
    ×0.95 30 #27 | 107 points by TheWiggles 14 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Worldview – persistent strategic context for Claude Code (extremeclarity.ai)
    ×0.83 | 1 points by faizanbhat 6 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Linus is vibe coding (github.com/torvalds)
    ×4.12 16 | 52 points by dhruv3006 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Why Are Federal Agents Using GoPros, Smart Glasses, and Phones to Record Us? (gizmodo.com)
    ×3.79 79 | 42 points by nickthegreek 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Ping6.it (ping6.it)
    ×2.30 131 | 5 points by antonioprado 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Sampling at negative temperature (cavendishlabs.org)
    ×0.31 22 #9 | 3 points by ag8 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: A MCP for controlling terminal UI apps built with bubbletea and ratatui (github.com/michaellee8)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by michaellee8 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Mississippi Transformed Its Schools from Worst to Best (nytimes.com)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by ghaff 13 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Effectiveness vs. Collateral Damage in Italy's Piracy Shield (ripe.net)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by alberto-m 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Show HN: Uilaa – Generate Better Production-Ready UI Design (uilaa.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by rokontech 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Drones that recharge directly on transmission lines (ycombinator.com)
    ×2.21 3 | 175 points by alphabetatango 1 day ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Caltrain shows why every region should be moving toward regional rail (hsrail.org)
    ×2.89 61 | 67 points by gok 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Linus Torvalds Uses Google Antigravity (github.com/torvalds)
    ×5.84 27 | 65 points by xnx 23 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. My mouse stopped working because Logitech's servers went down (reddit.com)
    ×3.98 53 | 64 points by akshayy2a 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Umaro – An interactive music theory suite for guitarists (umaro.app)
    ×1.70 51 | 15 points by SnowingXIV 16 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: WinBorg, a beautiful alternative to Vorta for BorgBackup (github.com/robotnikz)
    ×0.77 | 2 points by robotnikz 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. 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 | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Poison Fountain (rnsaffn.com)
    ×3.07 3 #6 | 129 points by atomic128 2 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Private equity firms acquired more than 500 autism centers in past decade: study (brown.edu)
    ×3.49 38 #85 | 290 points by hhs 20 hours ago | 205 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. China, 2004: Every 02 minutes, 9 Chinese attempt to take their lives and 8 die (china.org.cn)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by joebig 53 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: ESPTimeCast – DIY WiFi Clock and Weather Station for ESP32 / ESP8266 (github.com/mfactory-osaka)
    ×0.49 | 2 points by m-factory 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???