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  1. Ask HN:500 citation EU MSc CS, stuck in a low-trust region. How to move forward?
    ×0.75 43 | 4 points by throwawaysafely 59 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. The Google Tenor GIF API has been shut down
    ×1.56 62 | 8 points by dfajgljsldkjag 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Tell HN: DigitalOcean's managed services broke each other after update
    ×1.39 32 #62 | 65 points by neilfrndes 17 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Is "AI vibe coding" making prototyping worse inside real companies?
    ×0.92 29 | 5 points by arapkuliev 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Gh Account Permabanned – Help?
    ×1.02 32 | 6 points by nicomeemes 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
    ×1.14 53 #78 | 251 points by david927 2 days ago | 823 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Iran's 120h internet shutdown,Phones back. How to stay resilient?
    ×1.31 | 2 points by us321 15 minutes ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Is Reddit Down(-Ish)?
    ×0.89 13 | 3 points by theanonymousone 1 hour ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Unpopular Opinion: Bootstrap is a better front-end framework than Tailwind
    ×1.00 42 | 15 points by pyeri 12 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Where is all the protest music?
    ×0.74 52 | 5 points by swiper_lux 7 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. X Is Down
    ×4.00 42 | 13 points by takoid 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Job seekers, what's working / not working?
    ×0.85 80 | 17 points by Jabbs 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Reddit Is Down
    ×2.35 48 | 5 points by heroicmailman 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: When has a "dumb" solution beaten a sophisticated one for you?
    ×0.38 143 | 12 points by amadeuswoo 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Erratic HN front page algorithm
    ×0.44 103 | 6 points by 7777777phil 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How do you automate your release notes?
    ×0.42 91 | 9 points by dustfinger 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Speculate About a Hypothetical Cyber Exploit That Would Leverage AI
    ×0.32 114 | 3 points by burnerToBetOut 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Should I shutdown my 20 year old SaaS sideline?
    ×0.41 123 | 3 points by pohwp 21 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Senior engineering mngrs: how has AI changed your day-to-day work?
    ×1.00 117 | 35 points by kitetm 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Tell HN: Mattermost "upgrade" to v11 enforces 10k UI message limit
    ×0.93 95 | 5 points by nemosaltat 20 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Has anyone built payment flows inside AI voice calls?
    ×0.42 136 | 6 points by wasiyc 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Best way to find chill job where I can learn and grow as a swe
    ×0.47 135 | 35 points by digitdiglet 4 days ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Is Programming as a Profession Cooked?
    ×0.74 111 | 19 points by fnoef 2 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Is it time for HN to implement a form of captcha?
    ×0.96 118 | 89 points by Rooster61 4 days ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: What business processes still waste time every week?
    ×0.40 134 | 5 points by lzr_mihnea 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Tell HN: Auto-download in Apple Podcasts is so unreliable it's basically useless
    ×0.30 144 | 4 points by garyfirestorm 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: What are you proud of about doing for you health and wellness regularly?
    ×1.24 87 | 11 points by nemath 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Senior software engineers, how do you use Claude Code?
    ×0.77 131 | 15 points by allie1 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Tell HN: Get a dying iPhone 12 mini in 2026
    ×0.54 146 | 28 points by remywang 4 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Would you pay for a privacy-first social platform?
    ×0.94 147 | 11 points by sammiej 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Iran has now been offline for 100 hours. What can we "technically" do?
    ×1.27 85 | 7 points by us321 20 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Why are so many images now in unusual file formats?
    ×1.04 97 | 5 points by paulpauper 21 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Implementing NaN Boxing in a Stack-Based VM
    ×0.13 164 | 5 points by tracyspacy 6 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Aaron Swartz died 13 years ago today
    ×5.40 73 | 92 points by vitaelabitur 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Moved to SF to build a startup. What next?
    ×0.66 141 | 7 points by kvaranasi_ 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: What was the best sci-fi book of 2025?
    ×1.15 112 | 14 points by Erikun 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: How would you decouple from the US?
    ×2.07 150 | 38 points by yawa_me_worht 5 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: Cheaper Datadog anyone?
    ×0.72 142 | 6 points by kvaranasi_ 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Are There Any Similar Sites Like Downdetector?
    ×0.19 162 | 3 points by nomadfounder 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Funding Opportunities with Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC)
    ×0.61 163 | 7 points by ARDC_73 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: Should I learn Docker to deploy my app in VPS?
    ×0.50 161 | 5 points by danver0 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ask HN: Feeling irrelevant in back end. How to pivot to automotive software?
    ×0.23 165 | 3 points by culopatin 5 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Former NYC Mayor Eric Adams rugs his own memecoin just 30 minutes after launch (reddit.com)
    ×4.20 10 | 75 points by pulisse 14 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Ask HN: What are real success stories of ungated freemium products?
    ×0.57 | 1 points by junaid_97 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. guys why does armenian completely break Claude (twitter.com/dyushag)
    ×1.62 69 | 99 points by ag8 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: DSAT – Data Subject Access Toolkit (codeberg.org)
    ×0.75 | 2 points by anticensor 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: SubTrack – A SaaS tracker for devs that finds unused tools (pulseguard.in)
    ×0.63 92 | 9 points by hrshw 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Tsonic – A TypeScript to native code compiler via CLR and NativeAOT (tsonic.org)
    ×2.08 31 | 3 points by jeswin 42 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: I visualized the entire history of Citi Bike in the browser (bikemap.nyc)
    ×1.02 126 | 113 points by freemanjiang 5 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Watch LLMs play 21,000 hands of Poker (adfontes.io)
    ×1.31 148 | 36 points by jazarwil 5 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Isolated benchmarks to avoid optimization pollution (Node.js) (github.com/Llorx)
    ×0.76 160 | 3 points by Llorx 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. The Cray-1 Computer System (1977) [pdf] (computerhistory.org)
    ×0.94 53 #22 | 132 points by LordGrey 17 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Network of Scottish X accounts go dark amid Iran blackout (heraldscotland.com)
    ×4.35 38 #50 | 270 points by TiredOfLife 6 hours ago | 219 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Be Wary of Digital Deskilling (calnewport.com)
    ×1.53 34 #79 | 10 points by L0in 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Towards a short taxonomy of technological progress (mynamelowercase.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by surprisetalk 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Vector: A high-performance observability data pipeline (github.com/vectordotdev)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by tosh 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. American Dialect Society 2025 Word of the Year Is "Slop" (americandialect.org)
    ×2.17 71 | 94 points by ChrisArchitect 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Librario, a book metadata API that aggregates G Books, ISBNDB, and more
    ×0.99 77 | 137 points by jamesponddotco 2 days ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Fall asleep by watching JavaScript load (github.com/sarusso)
    ×0.76 54 #58 | 77 points by sarusso 23 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Chrome 145 will support JPEG XL / JXL (twitter.com/jonsneyers)
    ×1.35 | 2 points by yboris 20 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Linux in the Air (sals.place)
    ×0.59 | 2 points by speckx 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: The Kitchen Table – a quiet space to unload your thoughts (thekitchentable.site)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by gossa 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. UK Expands Online Safety Act to Mandate Preemptive Scanning (reclaimthenet.org)
    ×6.73 53 | 62 points by aftergibson 8 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Engineering Schizophrenia: Trusting yourself through Byzantine faults
    ×0.98 61 | 109 points by rescrv 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: One RSS Feed for the Most Popular HN Bloggers (2025 Rankings) (philippd.workers.dev)
    ×3.46 25 | 7 points by 7777777phil 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: stream-unzip – Python function to unZIP on the fly (github.com/uktrade)
    ×1.64 105 | 8 points by michalc 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Titan – a distributed orchestrator with dynamically mutable DAGs (github.com/ramn51)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by ramnarayanan747 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Scott Adams, Creator of the Satirical 'Dilbert' Comic Strip, Dies at 68 (nytimes.com)
    ×1.36 | 2 points by reaperducer 26 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: flash.nvim, but for tmux…sort of (github.com/Kristijan)
    ×1.32 121 | 6 points by KristijanM13 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Intelligent search and analysis for your browsing history (google.com)
    ×2.54 113 | 5 points by fiveleavesleft 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: ZSweep – A keyboard-first Minesweeper inspired by Vim (zsweep.com)
    ×1.57 86 | 4 points by oug-t 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Seapie – a Python debugger where breakpoints drop into a REPL (github.com/hirsimaki-markus)
    ×0.90 119 | 5 points by markushirsimaki 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: WinBorg, a beautiful alternative to Vorta for BorgBackup (github.com/robotnikz)
    ×1.99 158 | 5 points by robotnikz 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Anthropic: Developing a Claude Code competitor using Claude Code is banned (twitter.com/SIGKITTEN)
    ×3.25 23 | 318 points by behnamoh 1 day ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Yuanzai World – LLM RPGs with branching world-lines (yuanzai.world)
    ×0.71 124 | 31 points by yuanzaiworld 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Everything you never wanted to know about file locking (2010) (apenwarr.ca)
    ×0.90 18 #13 | 16 points by SmartHypercube 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. The UK is shaping a future of precrime and dissent management (2025) (freedomnews.org.uk)
    ×3.50 14 #27 | 164 points by robtherobber 5 hours ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. PawSense: Catproof Your Computer (bitboost.com)
    ×1.48 25 #70 | 45 points by zdw 14 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. An ecosystem of smuggled tech holds Iran's last link to the outside world (theguardian.com)
    ×1.45 | 2 points by robaato 40 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Statement from Jerome Powell (federalreserve.gov)
    ×16.31 26 | 892 points by 0xedb 1 day ago | 794 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Porting xv6 to HiFive Unmatched board (github.com/eyengin)
    ×0.48 100 | 26 points by eyengin 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Unauthenticated remote code execution in OpenCode (cy.md)
    ×2.18 29 #18 | 406 points by CyberShadow 1 day ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Google removes AI health summaries (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.37 11 #67 | 212 points by barishnamazov 19 hours ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Fart Walks (alearningaday.blog)
    ×1.37 | 2 points by herbertl 34 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Jed's List of Situation Puzzles (kith.org)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by surprisetalk 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Soklet, a zero-dependency Java HTTP/1.1 and SSE virtual-threaded server (soklet.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by revetkn 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Subtitle Insights – Language Learning via YouTube with On-Device Gemini (mauriciopoppe.github.io)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by maurizzzio 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Marten – Elegant Go web framework (nothing in the way) (github.com/gomarten)
    ×1.19 139 | 18 points by jackprescott 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: `tc` like `wc` but for LLM tokens (github.com/jamierpond)
    ×1.79 137 | 6 points by jamiepond 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: An iOS budget app I've been maintaining since 2011 (primoco.me)
    ×1.14 13 #10 | 96 points by Priotecs 7 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???