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  1. Ask HN: My mother was scammed out of all her savings. What should I do?
    ×7.24 35 #41 | 17 points by scapbi 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. I built two dozen single-file HTML tools that run offline and need no back end
    ×0.57 23 | 5 points by ajtracysk 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What developer tool do you wish existed in 2026?
    ×0.61 58 | 11 points by allenleee 22 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tell HN: HN was down
    ×2.74 43 | 597 points by uyzstvqs 4 days ago | 327 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell
    ×2.74 47 | 465 points by cvbox 4 days ago | 538 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Broadcom Changing Licensing to BSL
    ×0.23 55 | 7 points by CubsFan1060 16 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. FWS – pip-installable embedded process supervisor with PTY/pipe/dtach back ends
    ×0.20 44 | 16 points by mrsurge 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2026?
    ×0.85 68 | 105 points by mfrw 5 days ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How many email accounts do you have?
    ×0.35 72 | 4 points by asim 20 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Does XML still have any value in creating APIs?
    ×1.43 11 | 6 points by 01-_- 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Resources to get better at outbound sales?
    ×0.37 73 | 4 points by sieep 20 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Does anyone understand how Hacker News works?
    ×1.94 66 | 165 points by jannesblobel 4 days ago | 228 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Who here is not working on web apps/server code?
    ×1.42 62 | 83 points by ex-aws-dude 3 days ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What is still hard about system design with AI?
    ×0.17 | 2 points by brihati 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Is GitHub becoming more and more unstable?
    ×0.50 96 | 8 points by pavish 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Cloudflare has been broken for 15 hours
    ×0.86 90 | 12 points by Canada 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: How are most people converting HEIC to jpg?
    ×1.68 121 | 5 points by par 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: What public Claude Code MCPs, Skills do you have installed and use?
    ×0.68 86 | 4 points by franze 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. AI Code assistants has made completing side projects so easy
    ×0.43 85 | 10 points by akmittal 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. LLM Benchmark: Frontier models now statistically indistinguishable
    ×0.22 103 | 4 points by js4ever 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: How do you deal with large, hard-to-read Excel formulas?
    ×0.69 112 | 9 points by jack_ruru 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: How do I bridge the gap between PhD and SWE experiences?
    ×0.29 | 2 points by ecophyseis 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. The offline geocoder we wanted
    ×0.43 98 | 7 points by gipsyjaeger 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How are you LLM-coding in an established code base?
    ×1.22 63 | 70 points by adam_gyroscope 5 days ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Should I start a software foundation (goal: help emergency services)?
    ×1.33 118 | 14 points by strgcmc 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: If you had to get a non-tech masters degree, what would you go for?
    ×0.62 126 | 6 points by highwayman47 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Is Stack Overflow Dead?
    ×0.72 93 | 14 points by raphar 2 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: What would you call a package whose purpose is to import data?
    ×0.40 111 | 7 points by ctc24 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Do you allow vibecoded submissions in your open-source projects?
    ×0.10 128 | 3 points by sneas 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Is RSS Still Alive?
    ×1.33 114 | 13 points by militanz 4 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. How would you learn to code in 2026?
    ×0.36 89 | 5 points by jeevships 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Memory Safety in C# vs. Rust
    ×0.55 124 | 15 points by northlondoner 6 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Etiquette giving feedback on mostly AI-generated PRs from co-workers
    ×0.48 129 | 5 points by chfritz 4 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: If one day AI brain chips become a thing, would you get it?
    ×0.47 122 | 6 points by keepamovin 3 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. If you don't design your career, someone else will (2014) (gregmckeown.com)
    ×2.87 3 #4 | 205 points by TheAlchemist 4 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Three ways to solve problems (andreasfragner.com)
    ×1.19 10 #66 | 132 points by 42point2 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. The power of agentic loops – implementing Flexbox layout in 3 hours (scottlogic.com)
    ×1.26 | 2 points by furkansahin 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. I wrote a code editor in C and now I'm a changed man (github.com/thisismars-x)
    ×1.86 52 | 38 points by birdculture 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: I Built an Image Captioning Tool Using Llama.cpp (github.com/paradox460)
    ×1.64 104 | 7 points by paradox460 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: jax-js – JAX in pure JavaScript (github.com/ekzhang)
    ×0.73 | 2 points by ekzhang 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. The ancient monuments saluting the winter solstice (bbc.com)
    ×1.03 1 #2 | 87 points by 1659447091 5 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Single-Pass Huffman Coding (doisinkidney.com)
    ×0.96 13 #49 | 26 points by todsacerdoti 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. James Webb Space Telescope confirms first 'runaway' supermassive black hole (space.com)
    ×2.31 20 #55 | 10 points by benkan 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: High-Performance Wavelet Matrix for Python, Implemented in Rust (pypi.org)
    ×0.64 78 | 93 points by math-hiyoko 4 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: I built a job board that filters "Ghost Jobs" in the Middle East (camels.work)
    ×0.75 | 2 points by adityamallah 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. E.W.Dijkstra Archive (utexas.edu)
    ×0.90 28 #43 | 138 points by surprisetalk 23 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Vibe code from phone template repo (github.com/AdmTal)
    ×0.71 | 1 points by admtal 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: I built an LLM agent that finds you online and roasts you (veris.ai)
    ×0.72 | 2 points by _josh_meyer_ 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Evaluating chain-of-thought monitorability (openai.com)
    ×0.78 33 #46 | 61 points by mfiguiere 16 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Jmail – Google Suite for Epstein files (jmail.world)
    ×6.16 18 #50 | 1436 points by dvrp 1 day ago | 335 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. A collective fuck-you letter from humanity to 2025 (worstregards.com)
    ×1.00 | 1 points by tom8opot8o 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. What's in the Future? (mliezun.com)
    ×0.70 | 2 points by nickdevx 20 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. China's Moore Threads unveils new chip in homegrown AI race (nikkei.com)
    ×0.71 | 1 points by xqcgrek2 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. 24/192 Music Downloads are Silly Indeed (2012) (xiph.org)
    ×1.65 | 2 points by Tomte 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Concepts Reader, a Backup Plan for My Life (modulovalue.com)
    ×0.43 | 2 points by modulovalue 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Deterministic PCIe Diagnostics for GPUs on Linux (github.com/parallelArchitect)
    ×0.77 119 | 20 points by gpu_systems 5 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Muxide – Zero-dep pure Rust MP4 muxer (H.264/H.265/AV1, no FFmpeg) (github.com/Michael-A-Kuykendall)
    ×2.43 123 | 10 points by MKuykendall 4 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Rust/WASM lighting data toolkit – parses legacy formats, generates SVGs (eulumdat.icu)
    ×0.82 26 #33 | 39 points by holg 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Waymo halts service during S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams (missionlocal.org)
    ×3.24 35 #40 | 266 points by rwoll 1 day ago | 373 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. A German Engineer Has Become the First Wheelchair User in Space (sciencealert.com)
    ×0.86 | 1 points by ashishgupta2209 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Harsh Environments: Space Radiation (2008) [pdf] (jhuapl.edu)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by Tomte 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: I analyzed 15k user-submitted rents to map NYC's seasonal pricing (streetsmart.inc)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by rorcodes 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Stickerbox, a kid-safe, AI-powered voice to sticker printer (stickerbox.com)
    ×0.73 70 | 46 points by spydertennis 2 days ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Zero Trust API – Image CDR in Rust/WASM (Rebuild Images from Pixels) (zero-trust-web.vercel.app)
    ×0.42 | 2 points by Raviteja_ 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Why do people leave comments on OpenBenches? (shkspr.mobi)
    ×1.87 28 #80 | 224 points by sedboyz 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Go ahead, self-host Postgres (pierce.dev)
    ×3.22 20 #87 | 659 points by pavel_lishin 1 day ago | 389 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Cvxpy: A Python-embedded modeling language for convex optimization problems (github.com/cvxpy)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by simonpure 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: I automated forensic accounting for divorce cases (3 min vs. 4 weeks)
    ×1.77 61 | 4 points by cd_mkdir 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Paper2Any – Open tool to generate editable PPTs from research papers (github.com/OpenDCAI)
    ×0.43 108 | 13 points by Mey0320 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Ruby website redesigned (ruby-lang.org)
    ×2.50 16 #38 | 408 points by psxuaw 1 day ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. ARIN Public Incident Report – 4.10 Misissuance Error (arin.net)
    ×0.90 16 #56 | 137 points by immibis 23 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Skills vs. MCP? Wrong Question (h3manth.com)
    ×0.71 | 1 points by syx 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Perl articles are being memory wiped from Wikipedia (reddit.com)
    ×3.79 65 | 33 points by leejo 5 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: AI-Augmented Memory for Groups (largemem.com)
    ×0.35 50 | 10 points by vishal-ds 6 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Wingspan Games: Arrow – a multiplayer game built in Elixir / Phoenix (wingspan.games)
    ×1.32 92 | 5 points by calflegal 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Kernighan's Lever (linusakesson.net)
    ×1.12 20 #25 | 79 points by xk3 12 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Misata – synthetic data engine using LLM and Vectorized NumPy (github.com/rasinmuhammed)
    ×0.43 81 | 23 points by rasinmuhammed 6 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Privacy doesn't mean anything anymore, anonymity does (servury.com)
    ×2.80 16 #85 | 441 points by ybceo 2 days ago | 286 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Claude Code Plugin to play music when waiting on user input (github.com/Sevii)
    ×0.92 51 | 54 points by Sevii 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: An Agent Skill for analyzing FEC campaign finance filings (github.com/hodgesmr)
    ×0.36 | 2 points by m-hodges 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Rue: Higher level than Rust, lower level than Go (rue-lang.dev)
    ×2.37 9 #28 | 187 points by ingve 17 hours ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Using Terraform with AI: Workflows, Tools and Security (spacelift.io)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by meysamazad 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Risks of Bottled Water (studyfinds.org)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by vixen99 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Minimal DL library in C – 24 NAIVE CUDA/CPU ops, autodiff, Python API (github.com/IaroslavElistratov)
    ×0.79 120 | 13 points by iaroo 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Cartoon Network channel errors (1995 – 2025) (fandom.com)
    ×1.67 3 #26 | 39 points by Pikamander2 5 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Luke Howard’s essay on the modification of clouds (1865) (publicdomainreview.org)
    ×0.29 50 #67 | 10 points by Petiver 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Python Local Sandbox Code Execution (Podman and Uv) (github.com/portofcontext)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by pmkelly4444 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Reasons not to become famous (2020) (tim.blog)
    ×1.84 25 | 156 points by Tomte 23 hours ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: TinyPDF – 3kb pdf library (70x smaller than jsPDF) (github.com/Lulzx)
    ×1.83 35 | 250 points by lulzx 3 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. LynxEye – A fast code complexity analyzer built with Rust and Tree-sitter (github.com/yzzting)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by yzzTing 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???