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  1. Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?
    ×2.70 19 #37 | 331 points by nishilpatel 12 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What did you lose forever because you had no backup?
    ×1.59 | 2 points by postit 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Can You Patent Prompts?
    ×0.37 50 | 7 points by rcarmo 9 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Why are we accepting silent data corruption in Vector Search? (x86 vs. ARM)
    ×1.33 41 | 4 points by varshith17 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: My mother was scammed out of all her savings. What should I do?
    ×2.27 35 | 122 points by scapbi 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Tell HN: HN was down
    ×2.71 79 | 597 points by uyzstvqs 6 days ago | 327 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Oberon et al., vs. Rust
    ×0.40 82 | 14 points by mikethe 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What's the most open/hacker friendly Android phone for 2026?
    ×0.72 84 | 13 points by recvonline 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell
    ×2.73 81 | 472 points by cvbox 5 days ago | 546 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. I built two dozen single-file HTML tools that run offline and need no back end
    ×0.60 90 | 14 points by ajtracysk 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What would you do if you didn't work in tech?
    ×1.64 56 | 59 points by johnathandos 1 day ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2026?
    ×0.88 100 | 112 points by mfrw 6 days ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Migrating old Substack posts to my own blog, have a question
    ×0.11 | 2 points by Praddy 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What developer tool do you wish existed in 2026?
    ×0.65 105 | 16 points by allenleee 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Broadcom Changing Licensing to BSL
    ×0.29 108 | 10 points by CubsFan1060 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Does anyone understand how Hacker News works?
    ×1.93 97 | 169 points by jannesblobel 5 days ago | 229 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. FWS – pip-installable embedded process supervisor with PTY/pipe/dtach back ends
    ×0.19 104 | 16 points by mrsurge 5 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How many email accounts do you have?
    ×0.63 114 | 9 points by asim 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Who here is not working on web apps/server code?
    ×1.38 98 | 84 points by ex-aws-dude 5 days ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Is GitHub becoming more and more unstable?
    ×0.48 132 | 9 points by pavish 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: How are most people converting HEIC to jpg?
    ×0.86 74 | 18 points by par 4 days ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Why isn't there competition to LinkedIn yet?
    ×2.57 38 | 53 points by antfie 23 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Resources to get better at outbound sales?
    ×0.29 130 | 4 points by sieep 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How do I bridge the gap between PhD and SWE experiences?
    ×0.62 144 | 4 points by ecophyseis 5 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: What is still hard about system design with AI?
    ×0.14 | 2 points by brihati 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: How do you deal with large, hard-to-read Excel formulas?
    ×0.74 137 | 11 points by jack_ruru 4 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Cloudflare has been broken for 15 hours
    ×0.81 129 | 13 points by Canada 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Well being in times of algorithms (ssp.sh)
    ×0.99 63 | 72 points by articsputnik 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Chishiko – 8 free AI tools for academic researchers (built on OpenAlex) (chishiko.com)
    ×0.83 | 2 points by AiStyl 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Pion 4.2.0, 69 Contributors, Rack SCTP – ICE Renomination – Cryptex – FlexFEC (github.com/pion)
    ×1.65 | 2 points by joeturki 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Microspeak: North Star – The Old New Thing (microsoft.com)
    ×1.66 | 2 points by rbanffy 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Writing DataFrame-Agnostic Python Code with Narwhals – Real Python (realpython.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by rbanffy 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. We Become What We Behold (itch.io)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by gmays 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Disney Imagineering Debuts Next-Generation Robotic Character, Olaf (disneyparksblog.com)
    ×1.71 34 | 277 points by ChrisArchitect 2 days ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Cerberus – Real-time network monitor with eBPF (github.com/zrougamed)
    ×1.76 127 | 11 points by zrouga 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Got tired of searching for AI news daily so I built my own AI news page (dreyx.com)
    ×1.52 136 | 5 points by lilsquid 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. LAVD: Meta's New Default Scheduler [pdf] (lpc.events)
    ×1.26 27 #24 | 12 points by todsacerdoti 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Partial inlining (xania.org)
    ×0.67 48 #39 | 56 points by hasheddan 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Scaling LLMs to Larger Codebases (kierangill.xyz)
    ×1.35 6 | 293 points by kierangill 1 day ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Wingspan Games: Arrow – a multiplayer game built in Elixir / Phoenix (wingspan.games)
    ×1.30 134 | 5 points by calflegal 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Video to ASCII React Component (github.com/elijah0528)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by elijah0528 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Hybrid Aerial Underwater Drone – Bachelor Project [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.69 40 | 65 points by nhma 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: Why Did Python Win?
    ×5.16 62 | 52 points by fud101 1 day ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Haystack Slop Detector – a lightweight barrier against unreviewed PRs (haystackeditor.com)
    ×1.55 119 | 3 points by akshaysg 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Local AI is driving the biggest change in laptops in decades (ieee.org)
    ×1.76 40 #23 | 150 points by barqawiz 17 hours ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. A centennial look back at Edward Gorey's macabre art and guarded life (washingtonpost.com)
    ×0.51 45 #83 | 29 points by prismatic 17 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: A lightweight ad blocker Chrome extension I built (google.com)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by SahilAdBlocker 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Claude Code gets native LSP support (github.com/anthropics)
    ×2.46 33 | 495 points by JamesSwift 1 day ago | 320 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. There Is No Future for Online Safety Without Privacy and Security (itsfoss.com)
    ×1.61 10 | 97 points by abdelhousni 23 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Executorch: On-device AI across mobile, embedded and edge for PyTorch (github.com/pytorch)
    ×0.79 23 #18 | 102 points by klaussilveira 11 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. GLM-4.7: Advancing the Coding Capability (z.ai)
    ×2.04 14 #71 | 410 points by pretext 1 day ago | 227 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Linus Torvalds on Linus Torvalds (1999) (yarchive.net)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by oliverkwebb 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine (nytimes.com)
    ×5.57 3 | 215 points by karakoram 1 day ago | 271 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: A vibe-coded database GUI (seaquel.app)
    ×1.73 83 | 5 points by mootoday 16 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Astrophotography Target Planner: Discover Hidden Nebulas (astroimagery.com)
    ×0.57 25 #17 | 44 points by kianN 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Puzzle Designers Search for That 'Satisfying Click' (nytimes.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by robinhouston 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Exposing Honey's Evil Business Model Part 2 [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.51 27 | 4 points by busymom0 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Searching for Soul in Roblox (meghanboilard.substack.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by bookofjoe 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Things I learnt about passkeys when building passkeybot (enzom.dev)
    ×1.55 4 | 167 points by emadda 1 day ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: I Built an Image Captioning Tool Using Llama.cpp (github.com/paradox460)
    ×1.63 143 | 7 points by paradox460 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Lockify – developer-friendly CLI for managing encrypted env variables (github.com/ahmed-abdelgawad92)
    ×1.92 133 | 4 points by ahmedabdelgawad 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. An amateur codebreaker may have just solved the Black Dahlia and Zodiac killings (latimes.com)
    ×3.94 23 #36 | 16 points by davweb 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Can a Transformer "Learn" Economic Relationships? Revisiting the Lucas Critique (aleximas.substack.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by larsiusprime 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Kimwolf Exposed: The Android Botnet with 1.8M Infected Devices (qianxin.com)
    ×2.64 36 | 4 points by _____k 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: WalletWallet – create Apple passes from anything (alen.ro)
    ×2.57 23 | 438 points by alentodorov 2 days ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. We replaced H.264 streaming with JPEG screenshots (and it worked better) (helix.ml)
    ×3.05 4 #8 | 231 points by quesobob 4 hours ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Quake's Player Speed According to John Romero (2017) (rome.ro)
    ×1.63 75 #77 | 5 points by klaussilveira 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Full-text search engine for Epstein docs (OCR and OpenSearch)
    ×1.13 | 2 points by ProbDashAI 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Agent/Claude skill for creating ChatGPT Apps (github.com/BayramAnnakov)
    ×0.78 | 2 points by Bayram 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Paper2Any – Open tool to generate editable PPTs from research papers (github.com/OpenDCAI)
    ×0.43 140 | 13 points by Mey0320 5 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: ArgueWiki, where arguments live forever (arguewiki.com)
    ×0.80 | 2 points by cyjackx 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. iOS 26.2 lockscreen clock is slowly moving left (twitter.com/ffaebi)
    ×4.31 33 #47 | 31 points by faebi 2 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Oblique Strategies for Claude Code (github.com/jakedahn)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by jakedahn 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Openinary – Self-hosted image processing like Cloudinary (github.com/openinary)
    ×1.36 54 | 4 points by fheysen 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Languagecat, a free dataset for people making language-learning apps (language.cat)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by ChadNauseam 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: TinyPDF – 3kb pdf library (70x smaller than jsPDF) (github.com/Lulzx)
    ×1.83 77 | 250 points by lulzx 5 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Claude Code Plugin to play music when waiting on user input (github.com/Sevii)
    ×0.95 93 | 56 points by Sevii 3 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Sisu – Browse AWS as a Filesystem (github.com/semonte)
    ×1.50 106 | 5 points by smonte 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. An initial analysis of the discovered Unix V4 tape (spinellis.gr)
    ×1.89 15 #25 | 71 points by DSpinellis 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Amnezia – Self-Hosted VPN (amnezia.org)
    ×1.92 47 #43 | 7 points by eustoria 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. RCX Codex v1.0: A pre-axiomatic framework for recursive structure and paradox (zenodo.org)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by jabramsja 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Debian adds LoongArch as officially supported architecture (debian.org)
    ×1.48 45 #44 | 138 points by cbmuser 22 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Go in 9×9 is Awesome (entropicthoughts.com)
    ×1.31 21 #59 | 4 points by ibobev 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Top MCP tools for software architects (icepanel.io)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by shehabas 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Social media encourages the worst of AI boosterism (technologyreview.com)
    ×1.24 18 #87 | 8 points by jethronethro 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Unger Parsing (buttondown.com)
    ×1.45 | 2 points by ibobev 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Context is all you need (fakepixels.substack.com)
    ×1.17 | 2 points by walterbell 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Open-source Markdown publishing framework for AI agents and developers (github.com/waynesutton)
    ×0.79 | 2 points by waynesutton 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Stop Slopware (stopslopware.net)
    ×2.67 19 #38 | 101 points by bradley_taunt 6 hours ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. How the RESISTORS put computing into 1960s counter-culture (ieee.org)
    ×0.70 49 #72 | 81 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???