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  1. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026)
    ×1.30 2 #8 | 263 points by whoishiring 12 hours ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2026)
    ×1.02 29 #20 | 95 points by whoishiring 12 hours ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Tell HN: I'm having the worst career winter of my life
    ×3.18 15 | 69 points by mariogintili 14 hours ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Is there any way to lock apps on iPhone?
    ×0.49 | 2 points by Quinzel 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: Happy New Year
    ×2.49 35 | 438 points by schappim 2 days ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. iOS: Apps persist data after full deletion
    ×0.93 72 | 5 points by WorldDev 8 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. How to use AI to augment learning without losing critical thinking skills?
    ×0.67 93 | 17 points by mintsuku 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. I built a screen-aware desktop assistant; now it can write and use your computer
    ×0.72 86 | 4 points by luthiraabeykoon 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Who is using local LLMs in a production environment here?
    ×0.40 97 | 7 points by Haeuserschlucht 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: When do we expose "Humans as Tools" so LLM agents can call us on demand?
    ×1.28 84 | 42 points by vedmakk 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?
    ×1.73 119 | 336 points by kwar13 1 week ago | 444 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. I optimised my vibe coding tech stack cost to $0
    ×0.78 101 | 7 points by udit_50 18 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Security breaks during partial failures – design notes from distributed systems
    ×0.41 116 | 7 points by sandhyavinjam 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. A quantum-resistant RNG powered by collective human entropy
    ×0.47 117 | 4 points by EntropyGrid 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Loneliness at 19, how to cope?
    ×0.94 149 | 62 points by yresting 5 days ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How did you learn to code?
    ×2.15 104 | 30 points by chistev 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What do you plan to read in 2026?
    ×1.12 85 | 4 points by __patio 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Building a tool to ensure things get done on time
    ×0.35 152 | 3 points by Vishal19111999 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Any example of successful vibe-coded product?
    ×1.39 113 | 79 points by sirnicolaz 3 days ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. I'm building a 30k‑line V12 codebase solo with a "team" of 4 AIs
    ×1.45 99 | 8 points by garylauchina 19 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: What is the best microVMs for AI agents?
    ×0.53 150 | 9 points by zfoong 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Why is Apple's voice transcription hilariously bad?
    ×0.80 124 | 7 points by keepamovin 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible?
    ×4.33 55 | 57 points by makemethrowaway 8 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How Are You Handling Auth in 2026?
    ×0.76 118 | 11 points by joshcsimmons 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Is being hungry enough to win?
    ×1.74 138 | 7 points by meysamazad 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. I built a public skill registry and MCP server so Codex can install new skills
    ×0.24 174 | 3 points by iluxu 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Does reading HN make you happy?
    ×1.16 129 | 47 points by yakattak 3 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: How to do a Personal Cybersecurity audit
    ×0.50 164 | 24 points by preciousoo 4 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Semantica – Open-source semantic layer and GraphRAG framework
    ×0.61 148 | 8 points by kaifahmad1 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: How to go back to listening to MP3s?
    ×0.89 181 | 9 points by muratsu 6 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: How did you make yourself more marketable?
    ×1.63 167 | 11 points by ronbenton 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. A curated directory of open-source AI projects
    ×0.35 176 | 12 points by doanbactam 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Tell HN: Happy New Year!
    ×0.38 177 | 4 points by realberkeaslan 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Which AI productivity tools are you using in 2026?
    ×0.99 126 | 5 points by Vishal19111999 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: How long before the first civilian cargo flights are AI piloted?
    ×0.37 179 | 3 points by givemeethekeys 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: How are you sandboxing coding agents?
    ×1.25 175 | 44 points by m-hodges 6 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Happy New Year HN!
    ×1.14 155 | 11 points by thunderbong 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Tell HN: I am afraid AI will take my job at some point
    ×1.22 178 | 24 points by funnyfoobar 1 week ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. TP-Link only works with a permanent internet connection
    ×0.47 180 | 8 points by roscas 4 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Could OpenAI make a move on Pinterest? (seekingalpha.com)
    ×0.78 | 2 points by randycupertino 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Snowflake Emulator – Local Snowflake Development with Go and DuckDB (github.com/nnnkkk7)
    ×2.62 29 | 5 points by sr-white 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world (theregister.com)
    ×2.79 6 #7 | 304 points by Brajeshwar 13 hours ago | 605 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. All my Deutschlandtickets gone: Fraud at an industrial scale [video] (ccc.de)
    ×1.16 52 #89 | 124 points by Kyro38 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Is success just luck? (keygen.sh)
    ×0.79 | 1 points by ezekg 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Ask HN: Do any significant web communities exist anymore that value free speech?
    ×1.33 | 2 points by jdprgm 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Outrage as X's Grok morphs photos of women, children into explicit content (cnbctv18.com)
    ×8.80 58 | 50 points by anonymousab 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Jot - Offline, source available notetaking/assistant app (jot-ai.app)
    ×2.54 27 | 8 points by robust-cactus 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Year end sees record borrowing from Fed's standing repo operation (reuters.com)
    ×2.17 9 | 5 points by JumpCrisscross 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Erdos problems solved more or less autonomously by AI (mathstodon.xyz)
    ×1.44 44 | 3 points by gmays 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Where AI is headed in 2026 (foundationcapital.com)
    ×0.93 | 2 points by gmays 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. DHS Says DHS-Certified Real IDs Too Unreliable to Confirm U.S. Citizenship (reason.com)
    ×4.94 60 | 98 points by xenophonf 1 day ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Daft Punk Easter Egg in the BPM Tempo of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger? (madebywindmill.com)
    ×2.98 1 #2 | 316 points by simonw 7 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Self-driving cars aren't nearly a solved problem (strangecosmos.substack.com)
    ×2.32 7 #78 | 8 points by el_nahual 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. UX Quiz: 2025 Year in Review (nngroup.com)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by neko_ranger 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. System Falsification for Efficient Cyber-Kinetic Vulnerability Detection (arxiv.org)
    ×0.95 | 2 points by PaulHoule 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: A local-first financial auditor using IBM Granite, MCP, and SQLite (github.com/simplynd)
    ×1.59 123 | 19 points by simplynd 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. The rsync algorithm (1996) [pdf] (cmu.edu)
    ×1.59 10 #28 | 103 points by vortex_ape 11 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: A Bloomberg terminal for finding fresh powder (DuckDB WASM) (storage.googleapis.com)
    ×1.88 40 | 4 points by aribenjamin 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Jsonic – Python JSON serialization that works (medium.com)
    ×0.64 41 | 24 points by orrbenyamini 6 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Lock In – A goal Mac tracker controlled by typed commands (letslockin.xyz)
    ×2.01 106 | 5 points by TedOS 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Text-to-3D Motion Generator (Hunyuan 1.0 wrapper) (hy-motion.ai)
    ×2.00 94 | 5 points by yeekal 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Uxn32: Uxn Emulator for Windows and Wine (github.com/randrew)
    ×0.75 19 #29 | 42 points by ibobev 8 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Google AI Overviews put people at risk of harm with misleading health advice (theguardian.com)
    ×2.84 31 #59 | 20 points by sandebert 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. WebAssembly as a Python Extension Platform (nullprogram.com)
    ×0.83 69 #70 | 91 points by ArmageddonIt 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Street-Fighting Mathematics (2008) (mit.edu)
    ×0.95 76 | 51 points by mpweiher 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Feature detection exploration in Lidar DEMs via differential decomp (github.com/bshepp)
    ×0.24 141 | 6 points by DarkForestery 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: ADSBee, an open source dual band embedded ADS-B receiver for anything (pantsforbirds.com)
    ×2.40 128 | 6 points by CoolNamesAllTkn 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. 10 years of personal finances in plain text files (sgoel.dev)
    ×2.30 23 #41 | 451 points by wrxd 17 hours ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. RICO Lawsuit Accuses Drake of Fake Streams (digitalmusicnews.com)
    ×3.32 44 | 6 points by geox 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Marmot – A distributed SQLite server with MySQL wire compatible interface (github.com/maxpert)
    ×1.32 6 | 176 points by zX41ZdbW 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Dealta – A game-theoretic decentralized trading protocol (github.com/orgs)
    ×0.52 23 | 49 points by kalenvale 16 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Children and Helical Time (wordpress.com)
    ×1.95 45 | 189 points by moultano 1 day ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Mini Apps Builder – a no-code way to build Telegram mini apps (miniappsbuilder.com)
    ×1.20 133 | 4 points by Anton_Ingachev 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Replacing my OS process scheduler with an LLM (github.com/mprajyothreddy)
    ×0.81 158 | 22 points by ImPrajyoth 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Claude Cognitive – Working memory for Claude Code (github.com/GMaN1911)
    ×3.78 163 | 13 points by MirrorEthic 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet (neowin.net)
    ×7.20 15 #17 | 189 points by josephcsible 4 hours ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. The PGP Problem (2019) (latacora.com)
    ×0.65 22 #22 | 22 points by croemer 5 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. France arrests Latvian for installing malware on Italian ferry (bleepingcomputer.com)
    ×2.36 18 #73 | 26 points by janandonly 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Rotten Tomatoes' Ownership Shake-Up Raises Privacy Concerns (thatparkplace.com)
    ×2.33 35 | 4 points by fallinditch 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Becoming a Centenarian (newyorker.com)
    ×1.44 13 | 3 points by mrjaeger 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Browser in C and Lua for the Playdate Console (github.com/remysucre)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by remywang 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Life and Death at the County Fair (bittersoutherner.com)
    ×1.58 49 | 3 points by noleary 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Common Lisp SDK for the Datastar Hypermedia Framework (github.com/fsmunoz)
    ×0.96 56 | 111 points by fsmunoz 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Worlds largest electric ship launched by Tasmanian boatbuilder (theguardian.com)
    ×1.41 69 #76 | 160 points by aussieguy1234 1 day ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Supplementation with vitamin D3 reduced telomere attrition (sciencedirect.com)
    ×2.20 18 #90 | 33 points by felineflock 9 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Apple Vision Pro production reportedly axed, marketing cut by more than 95% (pcguide.com)
    ×5.86 62 | 17 points by ivewonyoung 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Share Claude Code and Codex CLI Transcripts (agentexports.com)
    ×0.37 | 1 points by nicoritschel 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. I'm a developer for a major food delivery app (reddit.com)
    ×11.91 67 | 585 points by apayan 23 hours ago | 278 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Testing how symbolic framing affects LLMs
    ×0.37 | 2 points by Daladim 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: ZScreenshot – Capture any viewport size without browser resize (ebot.jp)
    ×1.23 156 | 5 points by zscreenshot 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???