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  1. Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
    ×1.16 47 #56 | 246 points by david927 1 day ago | 794 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Unpopular Opinion: Bootstrap is a better front-end framework than Tailwind
    ×1.65 19 | 4 points by pyeri 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Tell HN: DigitalOcean's managed services broke each other after update
    ×1.39 64 | 56 points by neilfrndes 7 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Job seekers, what's working / not working?
    ×0.78 67 | 12 points by Jabbs 18 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Speculate About a Hypothetical Cyber Exploit That Would Leverage AI
    ×0.29 | 2 points by burnerToBetOut 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Erratic HN front page algorithm
    ×0.35 88 | 4 points by 7777777phil 15 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How do you automate your release notes?
    ×0.46 69 | 9 points by dustfinger 15 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Should I shutdown my 20 year old SaaS sideline?
    ×0.68 84 | 3 points by pohwp 11 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Tell HN: Mattermost "upgrade" to v11 enforces 10k UI message limit
    ×1.44 65 | 5 points by nemosaltat 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: When has a "dumb" solution beaten a sophisticated one for you?
    ×0.41 128 | 12 points by amadeuswoo 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Why is example.com using Cloudflare
    ×0.50 107 | 10 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Has anyone built payment flows inside AI voice calls?
    ×0.45 111 | 6 points by wasiyc 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Senior engineering mngrs: how has AI changed your day-to-day work?
    ×1.03 109 | 35 points by kitetm 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What are you proud of about doing for you health and wellness regularly?
    ×1.23 71 | 10 points by nemath 17 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What business processes still waste time every week?
    ×0.43 105 | 5 points by lzr_mihnea 23 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Tell HN: Auto-download in Apple Podcasts is so unreliable it's basically useless
    ×0.32 119 | 4 points by garyfirestorm 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Is Programming as a Profession Cooked?
    ×0.76 98 | 19 points by fnoef 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Best way to find chill job where I can learn and grow as a swe
    ×0.47 124 | 35 points by digitdiglet 4 days ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Why are so many images now in unusual file formats?
    ×1.20 72 | 5 points by paulpauper 11 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Is it time for HN to implement a form of captcha?
    ×0.96 114 | 89 points by Rooster61 4 days ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Senior software engineers, how do you use Claude Code?
    ×0.79 113 | 15 points by allie1 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Would you pay for a privacy-first social platform?
    ×0.98 131 | 11 points by sammiej 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Tell HN: Get a dying iPhone 12 mini in 2026
    ×0.53 134 | 27 points by remywang 4 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Aaron Swartz died 13 years ago today
    ×5.48 51 | 87 points by vitaelabitur 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Moved to SF to build a startup. What next?
    ×0.69 121 | 7 points by kvaranasi_ 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Implementing NaN Boxing in a Stack-Based VM
    ×0.14 166 | 5 points by tracyspacy 5 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: What was the best sci-fi book of 2025?
    ×1.20 95 | 14 points by Erikun 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Cheaper Datadog anyone?
    ×0.63 127 | 5 points by kvaranasi_ 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: How would you decouple from the US?
    ×2.06 138 | 37 points by yawa_me_worht 4 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Are There Any Similar Sites Like Downdetector?
    ×0.19 162 | 3 points by nomadfounder 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Should I learn Docker to deploy my app in VPS?
    ×0.52 152 | 5 points by danver0 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Funding Opportunities with Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC)
    ×0.63 164 | 7 points by ARDC_73 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: What happened to self-hosted models?
    ×0.24 165 | 3 points by curiousaboutml 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Feeling irrelevant in back end. How to pivot to automotive software?
    ×0.24 167 | 3 points by culopatin 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. macOS Tahoe 26.2 ships with an outdated version of Python 3.9.6
    ×0.77 141 | 7 points by Gabrielfair 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Why isn't AI spawning profitable indie games?
    ×1.10 163 | 7 points by eveningsun 4 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. House GOP unveils new legislation on stock trading ban (thehill.com)
    ×2.57 28 #58 | 14 points by 1659447091 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Keychron's Nape Pro turns your keyboard into a laptop‑style trackball rig (yankodesign.com)
    ×1.54 12 #85 | 82 points by tortilla 17 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Instagram data breach reportedly exposed the personal info of 17.5M users (engadget.com)
    ×2.30 18 | 213 points by IvanAchlaqullah 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Roleplay-first chat UI for an OpenAI-compatible chat completions API (abliteration.ai)
    ×0.76 147 | 10 points by abliterationai 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. The Surprising Truth about Exercise and Childhood Obesity (domofutu.substack.com)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by domofutu 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. I'd tell you a UDP joke… (codepuns.com)
    ×1.70 11 | 181 points by redmattred 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. List of Claude Skills, resources, and tools for customizing Claude AI workflows (github.com/ComposioHQ)
    ×1.28 | 2 points by saikatsg 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Planning on Claude: Tips (skeltoac.substack.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by skeltoac 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Meta announces nuclear energy projects (fb.com)
    ×2.60 1 | 268 points by ChrisArchitect 1 day ago | 334 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Cloud RAM (mikekohn.net)
    ×1.60 68 #42 | 21 points by matt_d 13 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Ai, Japanese chimpanzee who counted and painted dies at 49 (bbc.com)
    ×1.16 10 #52 | 179 points by reconnecting 23 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. How London cracked mobile phone coverage on the Underground (ianvisits.co.uk)
    ×0.71 | 1 points by beardyw 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. User-Agent Switcher and Manager (mozilla.org)
    ×1.48 | 2 points by doener 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Chromium Has Merged JpegXL (googlesource.com)
    ×5.93 28 #33 | 14 points by thunderbong 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Elon Musk says saving for retirement is irrelevant: 'It won't matter' (yahoo.com)
    ×2.08 11 | 3 points by quantified 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Terminal UI for GCP (github.com/yogirk)
    ×1.77 137 | 5 points by yogirk1 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Every Pill I Took: 2000 – 2001 (counter-print.co.uk)
    ×2.12 3 | 3 points by colinprince 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Linus is vibe coding (github.com/torvalds)
    ×3.86 78 | 61 points by dhruv3006 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Code is cheap now, but software isn't (chrisgregori.dev)
    ×2.18 24 #71 | 148 points by fs_software 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Incus-Sandbox-SDK (github.com/divyenduz)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by divyenduz 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. QGIS – a geographic information system software that is free and open-source (qgis.org)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by merusame 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Bohemian Tragedy: the SF-based society may have logged its old-growth forest (vanityfair.com)
    ×1.94 4 | 3 points by wahnfrieden 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: HAPI - Vibe Coding Anytime, Anywhere (github.com/tiann)
    ×2.06 146 | 5 points by weishu 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Marten – Elegant Go web framework (nothing in the way) (github.com/gomarten)
    ×1.19 123 | 18 points by jackprescott 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: The Thiele Machine – Coq-Verified Computational Model Beyond Turing (github.com/sethirus)
    ×0.90 99 | 9 points by nwthiele 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: A geofence-based social network app 6 years in development (localvideoapp.com)
    ×0.81 116 | 78 points by Adrian-ChatLocl 4 days ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. The Cray-1 Computer System (1977) [pdf] (computerhistory.org)
    ×1.10 10 #5 | 87 points by LordGrey 7 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Update on age requirements for apps distributed in Texas (apple.com)
    ×0.93 44 #37 | 33 points by Austin_Conlon 11 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Claude Cowork first impression: Cowork Deleted 11GB of files [video] (youtube.com)
    ×3.40 20 #38 | 11 points by virgildotcodes 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Neo Is Starting to Learn on Its Own [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by simonebrunozzi 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: VAM Seek – 2D video navigation grid, 15KB, zero server load (github.com/unhaya)
    ×0.60 87 | 41 points by haasiy 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Comitis Capital Takes over Threema (borncity.com)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by sschueller 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Indian PSLV satellite launcher fails for the second time in a row (space.com)
    ×1.98 16 | 3 points by Guestmodinfo 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome F. Powell [video] (youtube.com)
    ×10.16 35 | 365 points by sprawl_ 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. A Mini-IBM PC Using an Adafruit Fruit Jam (adafruit-playground.com)
    ×0.92 79 #57 | 7 points by runamuck 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Phind Is Shutting Down (phind.com)
    ×3.51 47 | 5 points by deepdude 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: I built a tool to calculate the True Cost of Ownership (TCO) for yachts (yachtvaluereport.com)
    ×1.48 61 | 3 points by todaycompanies 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: SubTrack – A SaaS tracker for devs that finds unused tools (pulseguard.in)
    ×0.64 73 | 9 points by hrshw 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work (claude.com)
    ×4.13 #1 | 895 points by adocomplete 12 hours ago | 405 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Context7 Without Context Bloat (upstash.com)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by mirzap 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Seapie – a Python debugger where breakpoints drop into a REPL (github.com/hirsimaki-markus)
    ×0.93 91 | 5 points by markushirsimaki 18 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: DeepDream for Video with Temporal Consistency (github.com/jeremicna)
    ×0.47 125 | 71 points by fruitbarrel 4 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Show HN submissions have tripled since 2023 (imgur.com)
    ×3.82 106 | 18 points by anythingworks 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Happy 50th Birthday KIM-1 (github.com/netzherpes)
    ×0.48 70 #83 | 72 points by JKCalhoun 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Jamie Oliver to call millions in SA by their names – using AI (news24.com)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by liampulles 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Himalayas bare and rocky after reduced winter snowfall, scientists warn (bbc.com)
    ×1.54 | 162 points by koolhead17 1 day ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. The chess bot on Delta Air Lines will destroy you (2024) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.79 6 #8 | 217 points by cjaackie 12 hours ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. GitHub: A case study in link maintenance and 404 pages (2013) (chrismorgan.info)
    ×0.50 58 #40 | 20 points by roryokane 10 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Advancing Claude in healthcare and the life sciences (anthropic.com)
    ×1.38 63 #64 | 29 points by ta_u 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Replace the Retiring Windows XP with Linux (2014) (linux.com)
    ×1.84 57 | 70 points by righthand 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. The month long, 3000 mile roller derby of Chicago (rollerskatingmuseum.org)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by afunk 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Which programming languages are most token-efficient? (martinalderson.com)
    ×1.34 20 | 113 points by tehnub 1 day ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Some ecologists fear their field is losing touch with nature (nature.com)
    ×1.26 16 #9 | 98 points by Growtika 9 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Fall asleep by watching JavaScript load (github.com/sarusso)
    ×0.78 33 #28 | 63 points by sarusso 13 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???