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  1. Ask HN: My family business runs on a 1993-era text-based-UI (TUI). Anybody else?
    ×2.31 20 #40 | 267 points by urnicus 16 hours ago | 259 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. The amount of fear in bullish investors and bubble companies is unreal
    ×2.64 54 #66 | 5 points by zerosizedweasle 37 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not
    ×3.45 11 | 626 points by stillatit 2 days ago | 508 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: VC-funded startup lurking in my community Slack – how to respond?
    ×1.37 14 | 8 points by nduncan_hmc 7 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025)
    ×1.53 28 | 390 points by whoishiring 2 days ago | 493 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: How to deal with long vibe-coded PRs?
    ×1.77 47 | 181 points by philippta 1 week ago | 342 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2025)
    ×1.10 56 | 195 points by whoishiring 2 days ago | 403 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Tell HN: Mechanical Turk is twenty years old today
    ×1.02 72 | 94 points by csmoak 3 days ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Tell HN: Azure outage
    ×3.19 66 | 885 points by tartieret 1 week ago | 804 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Where to begin with "modern" Emacs?
    ×1.54 69 | 220 points by weakfish 4 days ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Who uses open LLMs and coding assistants locally? Share setup and laptop
    ×2.45 70 | 347 points by threeturn 5 days ago | 189 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Anyone else use FreePascal as their low level language?
    ×1.03 75 | 67 points by rlawson 1 week ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Google flagged my site for phishing and won't tell my why
    ×1.21 96 | 15 points by iambateman 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Not treated respectfully by colleague – advice?
    ×0.69 132 | 116 points by golly_ned 1 week ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Is this the fast take off?
    ×0.43 93 | 4 points by noduerme 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How did you find your job?
    ×0.57 103 | 5 points by dirtybirdnj 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. I just trained a physics-based earthquake forecasting model on a $1000 GPU
    ×1.22 92 | 14 points by ArchitectAI 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. I built sbsh: Persistent terminal sessions with discovery, profiles, and an API
    ×0.36 119 | 3 points by eminwux 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How opiniated Is HN?
    ×1.18 98 | 9 points by janikvonrotz 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Tell HN: Twilio support replies with hallucinated features
    ×1.46 97 | 159 points by haute_cuisine 1 week ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Lawyers of HN, how do you deal with AI slop?
    ×1.18 82 | 8 points by gardnr 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. New gel restores dental enamel and could revolutionise tooth repair (nottingham.ac.uk)
    ×3.15 5 #11 | 439 points by CGMthrowaway 11 hours ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Optimism associated with exceptional longevity (2019) (pnas.org)
    ×1.24 32 #36 | 97 points by RickJWagner 17 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Bluetui – A TUI for managing Bluetooth on Linux (github.com/pythops)
    ×1.63 24 #52 | 263 points by birdculture 1 day ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. RISC-V takes first step toward international ISO/IEC standardization (riscv.org)
    ×1.42 2 #70 | 256 points by jrepinc 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Hypothesis: Property-Based Testing for Python (hypothesis.readthedocs.io)
    ×1.25 15 #85 | 224 points by lwhsiao 1 day ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Optimizing Datalog for the GPU (danglingpointers.substack.com)
    ×0.73 36 | 122 points by blakepelton 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Composition AI: Empower Ordinary People to Do Extraordinary Things (mofa.ai)
    ×0.92 | 1 points by xiaokuge 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Despite All the Talk of Free Buses, Crime Continues to Spike on MTA Buses (queensvoicenyc.blogspot.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by BronxVoice 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Google Cloud suspended customer's account 3 times, for 3 different reasons (theregister.com)
    ×4.50 42 | 103 points by bishopsmother 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Wosp – advanced full-text search on the command line (github.com/atrettel)
    ×1.16 64 | 6 points by atrettel 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. New modelling shows difficult future for the GBR under climate change (scimex.org)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by estheryo 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. A novel bacterium feeds off spent battery waste for self-sufficient recycling (phys.org)
    ×0.85 | 2 points by PaulHoule 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Dynamic Code Execution with MCP: A More Efficient Approach (github.com/pranftw)
    ×0.45 | 2 points by pranftw 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Free Quantum-Resistant Timestamping API (Dual-Signature and Bitcoin)
    ×0.99 86 | 5 points by sasasavic 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Run a GitHub Actions step in a gVisor sandbox (github.com/geomys)
    ×0.86 105 | 85 points by FiloSottile 1 week ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Strange Attractors – Visualized with Easylang (easylang.online)
    ×0.37 | 2 points by chrka 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Parsing Chemistry (factorcode.org)
    ×0.60 46 #56 | 53 points by kencausey 19 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. A Deep Dive into the Morris Worm (rapid7.com)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by sysoleg 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race (nbcnews.com)
    ×15.95 69 | 777 points by jsheard 1 day ago | 1103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Direct File won't happen in 2026, IRS tells states (nextgov.com)
    ×3.34 41 | 331 points by jhatax 1 day ago | 227 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg (desmog.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by doener 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Ellipticc Drive – open-source cloud drive with E2E and PQ encryption (ellipticc.com)
    ×0.67 140 | 21 points by iliasabs 6 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Secret Management for Local Development (github.com/athishrao)
    ×0.77 143 | 3 points by athish-rao 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Barcable – We Built Agents That Automatically Load Test Your Back End (barcable.dev)
    ×0.37 112 | 3 points by iyang_steraflow 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Internet Archive's legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.65 22 #39 | 170 points by thinkcontext 11 hours ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. The grim truth behind the Pied Piper (2020) (bbc.com)
    ×0.85 21 #48 | 99 points by Anon84 18 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Microsoft and Google overstate job creation at Chile data centers (restofworld.org)
    ×2.23 21 #50 | 67 points by ohjeez 8 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Simulate car journey routes for deep focus sessions (focusdriveapp.com)
    ×1.00 | 1 points by ahmetomer 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Advice for System Design Interviews (wordpress.com)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by tibbar 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: JotChain – Get more out of your daily work notes (jotchain.com)
    ×0.95 146 | 3 points by morozred 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Write Go code in JavaScript files (npmjs.com)
    ×1.19 116 | 158 points by yar-kravtsov 1 week ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Weak Incentives – lean, minimalistic toolkit for background agents (github.com/weakincentives)
    ×0.83 145 | 3 points by andreisavu 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. SPy: An interpreter and compiler for a fast statically typed variant of Python (antocuni.eu)
    ×1.43 18 #29 | 251 points by og_kalu 1 day ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: DeepFaceLab – Free AI Face Swap Online (deepfacelab.app)
    ×1.56 2 | 3 points by vectraMosaic64 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Singapore to cane scammers as billions lost in financial crimes (freemalaysiatoday.com)
    ×2.14 43 | 76 points by raybb 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: In a single HTML file, an app to encourage my children to invest (roberdam.com)
    ×1.38 84 | 247 points by roberdam 6 days ago | 436 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: I made a website that vibe-codes itself (stavros.io)
    ×4.84 77 | 18 points by stavros 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Git Auto Commit (GAC) – LLM-powered Git commit command line tool (github.com/cellwebb)
    ×0.70 136 | 56 points by merge-conflict 1 week ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: I got fired so I built a bank statement converter (aussiebankstatements.com)
    ×3.65 78 | 15 points by matherslabs 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: An AI to match your voice to songs and artists you should sing (singonesong.com)
    ×12.73 73 | 45 points by JacobSingh 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. End of Japanese community (mozilla.org)
    ×3.66 #1 | 386 points by phantomathkg 4 hours ago | 217 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. The shadows lurking in the equations (gods.art)
    ×1.33 1 #20 | 267 points by calebm 16 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Making MLS More Decentralized (phnx.im)
    ×0.39 42 #53 | 27 points by cityroler 12 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Rari: 10.5x throughput React Server Components framework powered by Rust runtime (github.com/rari-build)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by maxloh 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Can a Startup Beat a Giant? When the Perplexity Case Isn't So Easy
    ×0.41 | 1 points by webkmsyed 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Boa: A standard-conforming embeddable JavaScript engine written in Rust (github.com/boa-dev)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by maxloh 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Myna: monospace typeface designed for symbol-rich programming (github.com/sayyadirfanali)
    ×0.37 | 1 points by vinhnx 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. This week in 1988, Robert Morris unleashed his eponymous worm (tomshardware.com)
    ×2.02 13 #64 | 427 points by canucker2016 1 day ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Stop Explaining What Things Are (kevquirk.com)
    ×1.22 58 #77 | 13 points by speckx 14 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Fuzzy Graphing (gods.art)
    ×0.95 | 1 points by vismit2000 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Peter Drucker: What [American execs] can learn from Japanese management (1970) [pdf] (joaomordomo.com)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by ssivark 40 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: FinBodhi – Local-first, double-entry app/PWA for your financial journey (finbodhi.com)
    ×0.70 79 | 39 points by ciju 2 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. FDA described as a "clown show" amid latest scandal; top drug regulator is out (arstechnica.com)
    ×4.15 5 | 161 points by duxup 1 day ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: I built a local-first daily planner for iOS (apple.com)
    ×0.83 52 | 85 points by zesfy 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Zohran Mamdani wins NYC mayor's race, capping an ascent (apnews.com)
    ×4.08 19 | 62 points by vga42 23 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: HUD-like live annotation and sketching app for macOS (wrobele.com)
    ×0.79 125 | 56 points by tomaszsobota 1 week ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. NY school phone ban has made lunch loud again (gothamist.com)
    ×2.55 12 #13 | 272 points by hrldcpr 17 hours ago | 195 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Microsoft Can't Keep EU Data Safe from US Authorities (forbes.com)
    ×3.52 25 #49 | 252 points by Mossy9 16 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Is OpenAI Becoming Too Big to Fail? – It Is Certainly Trying (wsj.com)
    ×1.70 55 | 4 points by moose_man 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Big Mac Index (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by surprisetalk 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: A CSS-Only Terrain Generator (layoutit.com)
    ×1.69 3 | 357 points by rofko 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Learn German with Games (learngermanwithgames.com)
    ×0.98 104 | 126 points by predictand 1 week ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Why aren't smart people happier? (theseedsofscience.pub)
    ×2.70 4 #9 | 281 points by zdw 14 hours ago | 372 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Learning from failure to tackle hard problems (cmu.edu)
    ×0.80 21 #34 | 108 points by djoldman 16 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: AgentML – SCXML for Deterministic AI Agents (MIT) (github.com/agentflare-ai)
    ×1.67 131 | 5 points by jeffreyajewett 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Pre-training under infinite compute (arxiv.org)
    ×0.75 62 #69 | 12 points by SweetSoftPillow 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. The Left Pad Incident (2016) (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by sans_souse 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Async Mutexes (matklad.github.io)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by vinhnx 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: KeyLeak Detector – Scan websites for exposed API keys and secrets (github.com/Amal-David)
    ×0.70 111 | 28 points by amaldavid 4 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???