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  1. Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?
    ×2.82 11 #24 | 318 points by lemonlime227 17 hours ago | 336 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Computer animator and Amiga fanatic Dick van Dyke turns 100
    ×2.13 3 #41 | 241 points by ggm 1 day ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. I miss the old Internet of 10-20 years ago
    ×1.91 20 | 10 points by morpheos137 8 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Meta "deletes" years of conversations with friends/family
    ×0.68 81 | 6 points by effectkai 16 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Any online tech spaces you hang around that don't involve AI?
    ×0.81 83 | 7 points by jc_811 19 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Thought-Provoking Books
    ×1.10 84 | 7 points by Agraillo 19 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. What is the most effective way to learn programming?
    ×1.21 71 | 4 points by luis_journey 9 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines?
    ×6.31 54 | 969 points by embedding-shape 4 days ago | 461 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. AI coding is sexy, but accounting is the real low-hanging automation target
    ×0.83 96 | 34 points by bmadduma 2 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. How does a "you interview for US company, we do the work" scam work?
    ×0.81 86 | 31 points by marttilaine 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Did anyone else notice that the OpenAI Labs website was completely gone?
    ×0.50 85 | 23 points by underlipton 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: How do you handle release notes for multiple audiences?
    ×0.77 20 | 36 points by glidr_dev 12 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Our "enterprise" experience with Stripe after $1B+ processed (be careful)
    ×1.60 89 | 24 points by Boulderchaim 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Is writing without AI worse than sharing your medical records online?
    ×0.15 132 | 3 points by amichail 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Searching: Cybersecurity Classes
    ×0.45 117 | 3 points by prospopa 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Go all-in on AI Boom vs. enjoy parenthood?
    ×0.49 98 | 10 points by pratchett 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: How can I delete a Substack account in Australia?
    ×0.47 123 | 5 points by freefrog334433 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Referral to coach for fundraising for pre-revenue seed capital?
    ×0.23 124 | 3 points by FWKevents 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Why are "remote" jobs in late 2025 still limited to hiring in US/CA/UK/DE?
    ×0.72 122 | 22 points by ftonato 4 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: End of Year Book Recommendations
    ×3.00 112 | 22 points by marai2 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Can someone explain why OpenAI credits expire?
    ×0.74 146 | 5 points by jemiluv8 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Relatively SoTA LLM Agents from Scratch?
    ×0.15 158 | 3 points by solsane 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: ArXiv Endorsement as Independent Researcher
    ×1.06 115 | 6 points by 7777777phil 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Has anyone been able to renew their IEEE this month?
    ×0.25 125 | 8 points by chrisaycock 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Revolutionizing Lighting: How Smart LEDs Are Transforming Homes and Businesses
    ×0.22 142 | 3 points by emmasuntech 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Practical Tips for Gemini 3
    ×0.22 137 | 6 points by xiaoru 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: What hard problems are still underexplored?
    ×0.64 116 | 15 points by brihati 3 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: What are young technically minded people reading?
    ×0.77 134 | 18 points by drdec 4 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI (simonwillison.net)
    ×2.50 3 #35 | 550 points by simonw 1 day ago | 310 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Will blockbuster obesity drugs revolutionize addiction treatment? (nature.com)
    ×1.79 8 | 3 points by qnleigh 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. AI is bringing old nuclear plants out of retirement (wbur.org)
    ×1.98 9 | 50 points by geox 19 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Microscopic robots that sense, think, act, and compute (science.org)
    ×1.27 | 2 points by XzetaU8 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Cryptids (bbchallenge.org)
    ×0.90 27 #25 | 109 points by frozenseven 19 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Epic celebrates "the end of the Apple Tax" after court win in iOS payments case (arstechnica.com)
    ×4.21 26 | 424 points by nobody9999 1 day ago | 326 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. When did the job market get so rude? (theatlantic.com)
    ×3.20 73 | 43 points by nlawalker 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: I built a system for active note-taking in regular meetings like 1-1s (withdocket.com)
    ×1.24 97 | 175 points by davnicwil 5 days ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: EdgeVec – Sub-millisecond vector search in the browser (Rust/WASM) (github.com/matte1782)
    ×2.15 101 | 7 points by matteo1782 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. macOS 26.2 enables fast AI clusters with RDMA over Thunderbolt (apple.com)
    ×2.28 7 #52 | 520 points by guiand 1 day ago | 278 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: I'm building an open-source Amazon (openship.org)
    ×1.96 11 #65 | 39 points by theturtletalks 13 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Dutch-American Friendship Treaty (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by TechTechTech 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Interlock – a circuit breaker and certification system for AI infrastructure (github.com/CULPRITCHAOS)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by CULPRITCHAOS 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ask HN: A browser that syncs history reliably across devices?
    ×0.50 | 1 points by workfromspace 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Pizlix: Memory Safe Linux from Scratch (fil-c.org)
    ×1.91 25 | 3 points by nullbyte808 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Building small Docker images faster (hootr.club)
    ×1.22 60 | 68 points by steinuil 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. The Coming Need for Formal Specification (benjamincongdon.me)
    ×0.88 52 | 57 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. 50 years of proof assistants (lawrencecpaulson.github.io)
    ×1.21 53 #55 | 133 points by baruchel 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Hacking Google Chrome Source Code: Make Puppeteer work over Redis PubSub (deadf00d.com)
    ×0.75 65 #90 | 15 points by deadf00d 16 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: I built this because finding a job f**king sucks (trylockedin.app)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by irfahm11 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: PharmVault – Secure Notes with Spring Boot and JWT (github.com/nifski)
    ×1.19 113 | 4 points by nifemi1234 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Tascli, a command line based (human) task and record manager (github.com/Aperocky)
    ×0.61 139 | 43 points by Aperocky 1 week ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: An ASCII table that doesn't hurt your eyes (asciify.dev)
    ×1.89 103 | 6 points by dklepenko 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. He set out to walk around the world. After 27 years, his quest is nearly over (washingtonpost.com)
    ×1.79 52 #76 | 245 points by wallflower 2 days ago | 269 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. The Well: 15TB of Physics Simulations (github.com/PolymathicAI)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by punnerud 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Redk: Redis Re-Implemented with SQL (github.com/nalgeon)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by maxloh 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Briddle – Guess the AI's semantic path between two words (briddle.io)
    ×2.64 151 | 10 points by rvranjan 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: AlgoDrill – Interactive drills to stop forgetting LeetCode patterns (algodrill.io)
    ×1.03 94 | 178 points by henwfan 4 days ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Open-source, offline voice typing and live captions for Android (github.com/notune)
    ×1.04 136 | 3 points by leumon 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Moving from WordPress to Substack (charity.wtf)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by gpi 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Fearless Website Updates with Hugo (expurple.me)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by Expurple 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. A giant ball will help this man survive a year on an iceberg (outsideonline.com)
    ×0.98 8 | 50 points by areoform 17 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. AI Analyzes Language as Well as a Human Expert (wired.com)
    ×1.21 | 2 points by quapster 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Ask HN: New user here – unable to submit a link. Do I just need to wait?
    ×0.48 | 1 points by ursAxZA 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Neutrino Alchemy: Sun's Ghost Particles Caught Transforming Atoms (sciencealert.com)
    ×1.83 21 | 3 points by Guestmodinfo 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Training LLMs for honesty via confessions (arxiv.org)
    ×0.95 74 | 66 points by arabello 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Autofix Bot – Hybrid static analysis and AI code review agent
    ×0.52 82 | 35 points by sanketsaurav 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Size of Life (neal.fun)
    ×9.04 18 #74 | 2589 points by eatonphil 3 days ago | 277 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Journaling and Prompting
    ×0.56 | 1 points by grandimam 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Photonic Chips Are Coming Faster Than Anyone Expected – Akhetonics [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by starwatch 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: LinkedQL – Live Queries over Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB (github.com/linked-db)
    ×0.56 48 | 24 points by phrasecode 5 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: High-Performance Order Matching Engine in C++20 (2.2M ops/SEC) (github.com/PIYUSH-KUMAR1809)
    ×0.52 | 2 points by kpiyush8826 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Will West Coast Jazz Get Some Respect? (honest-broker.com)
    ×0.97 51 #38 | 74 points by paulpauper 22 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Workday project at Washington University hits $266M (theregister.com)
    ×2.97 14 #49 | 76 points by sebastian_z 11 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Guarding My Git Forge Against AI Scrapers (vulpinecitrus.info)
    ×1.38 50 | 170 points by todsacerdoti 2 days ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. The Chinese Billionaires Having 100s of U.S.-Born Babies via Surrogate (wsj.com)
    ×13.45 75 | 21 points by jkuria 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: I added a print edition to my indie blog (contraption.co)
    ×0.94 160 | 5 points by philip1209 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Windows 3.1 in the Browser (pcjs.org)
    ×1.81 63 #62 | 47 points by memalign 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Want to know what LLMs think about your brand? (spottedby.ai)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by dalnoon 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Rails Pulse: Performance monitoring and debugging gems for Rails application (github.com/railspulse)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by ksec 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: An endless scrolling word search game (endless-wordsearch.com)
    ×0.71 100 | 25 points by marcusdev 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: PhenixCode – Added admin dashboard for multi-server management (github.com/nesall)
    ×0.80 126 | 3 points by nesall 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. UK judge judge accused of packing verdict with dodgy AI quotes (rollonfriday.com)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by esquivalience 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Ask HN: How does traceroute on airplane wifis work?
    ×0.49 | 1 points by bjourne 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. US threatens new ICC sanctions unless court pledges not to prosecute Trump (reuters.com)
    ×7.54 78 | 49 points by jeroenhd 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Positive Imagining Changes the Brain in Seconds (neurosciencenews.com)
    ×1.09 | 2 points by ashishgupta2209 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Seedance2:AI Video Generator with smooth motion and rich details (seedance-2.org)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by Aa123128 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Capsudo: Rethinking sudo with object capabilities (ariadne.space)
    ×0.83 69 #71 | 84 points by fanf2 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Want to sway an election? Here’s how much fake online accounts cost (science.org)
    ×2.91 77 #86 | 163 points by rbanffy 11 hours ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. ClickHaskell 1.0.0 Is Out (github.com/KovalevDima)
    ×0.92 | 1 points by todsacerdoti 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. First-Time User Experience (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by nomilk 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Counter Social – a next-generation anti abuse and user privacy social network (counter.social)
    ×1.15 | 2 points by inesranzo 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???