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  1. Ask HN: What is it like being in a CS major program these days?
    ×1.34 49 | 199 points by tathagatadg 1 day ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?
    ×2.82 46 | 420 points by svara 2 days ago | 599 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. What's your biggest challenge as a founder?
    ×0.41 71 | 4 points by bysyd 9 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Open AI is actively censoring information about voting today in the US
    ×0.30 76 | 4 points by resters 10 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How do you handle payments for AI agents?
    ×0.17 | 2 points by bahaghazghazi 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Apple Screen Sharing High Performance
    ×0.75 70 | 6 points by chapoly1305 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Claude Code 500s
    ×2.04 53 | 14 points by bavarianbob 13 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Tell HN: AI tools are making me lose interest in CS fundamentals
    ×1.40 75 | 95 points by Tim25659 2 days ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Claude Is Having an Outage
    ×1.79 5 | 45 points by theahura 12 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: How are you doing technical interviews in the age of Claude/ChatGPT?
    ×0.30 86 | 6 points by jonjou 16 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: We need to learn algorithm when there are Claude Code etc.
    ×0.55 94 | 11 points by JasonHEIN 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. It feels like Claude goes down almost daily now
    ×1.64 28 | 22 points by mrprincerawat 11 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What breaks first when your team grows from 10 to 50 people?
    ×0.86 128 | 17 points by hariprasadr 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Have you successfully treated forward head posture ("nerd neck")?
    ×1.04 116 | 55 points by trashymctrash 3 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Did GitHub remove Opus and Sonnet from their Copilot Pro subscription?
    ×0.69 118 | 13 points by lgl 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. I'm 60 years old. Claude Code killed a passion
    ×4.74 65 | 240 points by fred1268 2 days ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: How to Learn C++ in 2026?
    ×0.58 126 | 14 points by creatorcoder 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Tell HN: Godaddy DNS resolution down for 2+ hours
    ×0.54 113 | 9 points by codegeek 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Do you really need an agent?
    ×0.85 147 | 5 points by g_br_l 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Winstwaker – automated bookkeeping with a real accountant attached
    ×0.06 | 2 points by kyliandegroot 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: What signals do you look for when hiring?
    ×1.21 102 | 9 points by kathir05 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Tons of new LLM bot accounts here
    ×1.03 124 | 17 points by koolala 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. AI coding agents accidentally introduced vulnerable dependencies
    ×1.16 145 | 7 points by hsin003 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Who is using Ollama day-to-day?
    ×0.25 150 | 3 points by brauhaus 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Why can't we just make more RAM?
    ×0.59 139 | 26 points by chatmasta 4 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: What was it like for programmers when spreadsheets became ubiquitous?
    ×0.47 143 | 12 points by yodaiken 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Is vibe coding a new mandatory job requirement?
    ×1.14 28 | 27 points by newswangerd 6 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. MiniMax M2.5 is trained by Claude Opus 4.6?
    ×0.55 148 | 12 points by Orellius 4 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: How do you use Coding Agents/CLIs out of coding?
    ×0.45 152 | 6 points by arbayi 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Manifesto on Symbiosis: A New Paradigm for Civilization Part III
    ×0.36 131 | 3 points by acehs 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: How is your team collaborating while working with coding agents?
    ×0.23 151 | 3 points by wek 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Tell HN: iPhone 6s still getting security updates
    ×0.30 149 | 7 points by uticus 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: What's your biggest pain point when joining a new developer team?
    ×0.30 153 | 8 points by KevStatic 4 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Polycode – self-hosted GitHub bot that runs AI agent workflows from issue labels
    ×1.33 | 2 points by xeroc 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: QCCBot – Android in a browser tab, with AI agent control
    ×2.23 42 | 6 points by Eastra 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: N0x – LLM inference, agents, RAG, Python exec in browser, no back end (n0xth.vercel.app)
    ×2.49 21 | 7 points by redhanuman 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: HN Skins – Available Skins: Cafe, Courier, London, Midnight, Terminal (github.com/susam)
    ×1.18 140 | 8 points by susam 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. The Plumbing of Everyday Magic (hyperclay.com)
    ×0.70 45 #62 | 44 points by hannahilea 15 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: What's your strategy for inconsistent date formats?
    ×0.97 | 2 points by Gyanangshu 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Nvidia DLSS 5 Delivers AI-Powered Breakthrough in Visual Fidelity for Games (nvidia.com)
    ×5.62 72 | 53 points by davikr 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Java 26 is here (hanno.codes)
    ×2.70 9 #40 | 234 points by mfiguiere 14 hours ago | 228 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Corruption erodes social trust more in democracies than in autocracies (frontiersin.org)
    ×3.04 #78 | 730 points by PaulHoule 1 day ago | 386 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Signet – Autonomous wildfire tracking from satellite and weather data (signet.watch)
    ×0.78 82 | 123 points by mapldx 2 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. It Took Me 30 Years to Solve This VFX Problem – Green Screen Problem [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.76 13 #22 | 236 points by yincrash 15 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. GPT‑5.4 Mini and Nano (openai.com)
    ×3.51 24 #60 | 223 points by meetpateltech 15 hours ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Garry Tan's Claude Code Setup (github.com/garrytan)
    ×4.32 20 #87 | 59 points by alienreborn 11 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Psi-Commit – Cryptographic Commitments Anchored to Bitcoin via OpenTimestamps (psicommit.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by RayanOghabian 27 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. You have to earn your calculator (matthiasplappert.com)
    ×1.07 | 2 points by sherlock_h 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Pincer – Twitter/X for bots. No humans allowed (pincer.wtf)
    ×1.52 106 | 10 points by johnpolacek 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. SSH has no Host header (exe.dev)
    ×1.56 17 #21 | 106 points by apitman 3 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: NetLab – A browser based packet tracer alternative (thecybersecguru.com)
    ×6.24 79 | 7 points by lesterrue 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Vue-OTP-pro – Minimal OTP input for Vue 3 (vue-otp-pro.netlify.app)
    ×0.80 | 2 points by pratik227 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Flowershow Publish Markdown in seconds. Hosted, free, zero config (flowershow.app)
    ×1.98 92 | 5 points by rufuspollock 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Crust – A CLI framework for TypeScript and Bun (github.com/chenxin-yan)
    ×0.78 52 #41 | 80 points by jellyotsiro 16 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language (kagi.com)
    ×6.26 32 #51 | 1359 points by smitec 1 day ago | 325 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Claw Compactor: compress LLM tokens 54% with zero dependencies (github.com/open-compress)
    ×61.48 90 | 101 points by Iamkkdasari74 48 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. PHP 8.4.19 Release Announcement (php.net)
    ×0.80 | 2 points by ms7892 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. DeepSeek by Hand in Excel (byhand.ai)
    ×3.74 40 | 8 points by teleforce 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: GitGlimpse – GitHub Action that generates UI/UX demos for your PRs (github.com/DeDuckProject)
    ×0.99 81 | 4 points by fatach 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. A tale about fixing eBPF spinlock issues in the Linux kernel (rovarma.com)
    ×1.48 9 #17 | 91 points by y1n0 8 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Leviathan (1651) (gutenberg.org)
    ×1.26 #25 | 55 points by mrwh 5 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. The Starving Time in Jamestown (historytoday.com)
    ×0.31 63 #53 | 8 points by samclemens 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. ClearanceKit – Protect your Mac from compromised packages (OSS) (github.com/craigjbass)
    ×1.08 | 2 points by b800h 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. AI won't make you rich. But fixing bugs in AI slopware will (boreal.social)
    ×1.06 | 2 points by birdculture 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. The Hyperscale IPv4 Moat: Analyzing AWS's Latest 9M Address Acquisition (circleid.com)
    ×0.79 | 2 points by jruohonen 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. AirPods Max 2 (apple.com)
    ×1.81 24 | 318 points by ssijak 1 day ago | 548 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Han – A Korean programming language written in Rust (github.com/xodn348)
    ×1.10 80 | 207 points by xodn348 3 days ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Open-source, extract any brand's logos, colors, and assets from a URL (openbrand.sh)
    ×2.13 120 | 8 points by hitchyhocker 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. LightningPDF – HTML to PDF API with a native renderer and Chromium fallback (lightningpdf.dev)
    ×1.83 9 | 4 points by DigitalTrubador 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Arno's Engram Keyboard Layouts (github.com/binarybottle)
    ×0.38 55 #43 | 15 points by so-cal-schemer 7 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. What I Learned When I Started a Design Studio (2011) (subtraction.com)
    ×0.58 57 #82 | 28 points by colinprince 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Seeking the Source of Ebola (nationalgeographic.org)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by thunderbong 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. 'Another internet is possible': Norway rails against 'enshittification' (theguardian.com)
    ×4.05 84 | 46 points by voxleone 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Honda is killing its EVs (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.89 66 #23 | 317 points by sylvainkalache 1 day ago | 661 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Speed at the cost of quality: Study of use of Cursor AI in open source projects (2025) (arxiv.org)
    ×1.18 65 #76 | 142 points by wek 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Universal Paperclips (decisionproblem.com)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by iamstan23 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Backblaze Pricing and Product Updates (backblaze.com)
    ×2.67 13 | 58 points by precommunicator 16 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Grafly.io – Free online diagramming tool (grafly.io)
    ×1.39 132 | 5 points by lnenad 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Peter Thiel's lectures on Antichrist in Rome spark debate (cnn.com)
    ×2.20 36 | 4 points by doener 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. If you thought code writing speed was your problem you have bigger problems (andrewmurphy.io)
    ×4.56 68 | 313 points by mooreds 15 hours ago | 205 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Silicon Valley's "Pronatalists" Killed WFH. The Strait of Hormuz Brought It Back (governance.fyi)
    ×4.52 27 | 195 points by bigbobbeeper 19 hours ago | 277 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Comparing Python Type Checkers: Typing Spec Conformance (pyrefly.org)
    ×1.06 60 | 118 points by ocamoss 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: What if your synthesizer was powered by APL (or a dumb K clone)? (octetta.github.io)
    ×0.77 91 | 92 points by octetta 2 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: GrobPaint: Somewhere Between MS Paint and Paint.net (github.com/groverburger)
    ×0.81 111 | 54 points by __grob 3 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Autonomous Prover Running > 1hr (perqed.com)
    ×1.20 127 | 4 points by bneb-dev 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. AI changed software cost structure not Value structure (testdouble.com)
    ×0.85 | 2 points by kathir05 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Grace Hopper's Revenge (thefuriousopposites.com)
    ×0.97 38 | 63 points by ashirviskas 23 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. The future of Amazon coders is the present of Amazon warehouse workers (pluralistic.net)
    ×5.18 61 | 56 points by martin-t 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Celebrating Tony Hoare's mark on computer science (bertrandmeyer.com)
    ×0.83 28 #5 | 13 points by benhoyt 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Notion Alternative (mytracker.today)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by rakanalalami 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???