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  1. Ask HN: Do you also "hoard" notes/links but struggle to turn them into actions?
    ×1.86 5 #15 | 139 points by item007 7 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Why don't form-fitting Faraday iPhone cases exist?
    ×0.72 6 #39 | 35 points by par_12 4 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Notification Overload
    ×0.49 67 | 39 points by fractal618 3 days ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Is understanding code becoming "optional"?
    ×0.87 29 | 6 points by mikaelaast 5 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Junior getting lost
    ×0.67 75 | 39 points by TheRegularOne 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Should a software engineer have research exposure?
    ×0.25 74 | 3 points by c_daeda 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. AI has failed to replace a single software application or feature
    ×0.51 62 | 8 points by cadabrabra 11 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Waypoint 1.1, a local-first world model for interactive simulation
    ×0.54 57 | 8 points by lcastricato 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How do you reset an AppleID?
    ×0.66 98 | 9 points by OhMeadhbh 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. AI creates over-efficiency. Organizations must absorb it
    ×0.72 70 | 6 points by eriam 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Ergo wireless keyboard with mouse for coding?
    ×0.43 85 | 3 points by MarcelOlsz 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: How do you market a side project?
    ×1.55 82 | 7 points by ruairidhwm 16 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: How are you managing secrets with AI agents?
    ×0.10 | 2 points by m-hodges 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Is free identity theft protection after a data breach worth the bother?
    ×0.15 | 2 points by daoboy 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Who do you follow via RSS feed?
    ×0.90 116 | 69 points by znpy 4 days ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Why the OpenClaw hype? What's so special?
    ×1.22 71 | 4 points by anon_anon12 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. The preposterous notion of AI automating "repetitive" work
    ×0.66 94 | 7 points by cadabrabra 22 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Books to learn 6502 ASM and the Apple II
    ×0.59 101 | 101 points by abkt 3 days ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How do you force yourself to take breaks while coding?
    ×0.68 130 | 3 points by glidea 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: DDD was a great debugger – what would a modern equivalent look like?
    ×0.66 131 | 56 points by manux81 5 days ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Is archive.is currently broken for WSJ links?
    ×0.36 120 | 7 points by bigwheels 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: How far has "vibe coding" come?
    ×0.24 121 | 11 points by pigon1002 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: How are devtool founders getting their paying users in 2026?
    ×0.60 104 | 7 points by yasu_c 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: What's the Point Anymore?
    ×1.85 110 | 63 points by fnoef 3 days ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: What recent UX changes make no sense to you?
    ×0.70 126 | 32 points by superasn 3 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Designing programming languages beyond AI comprehension
    ×0.13 152 | 6 points by mr_bob_sacamano 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Tell HN: Beeper deletes inactive accounts without notice
    ×0.56 137 | 4 points by kldx 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. How much recurring income do you generate in 2026 and from what?
    ×0.52 143 | 12 points by djshah 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Where can I find startups looking for fractional product leads?
    ×0.43 161 | 8 points by stulogy 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Where to find cool companies to work for?
    ×0.32 150 | 7 points by truetaurus 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Vibe Researching" with AI – Anyone Using It for Real?
    ×0.47 159 | 8 points by spenceXu 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: How to prevent Claude/GPT/Gemini from reinforcing your biases?
    ×0.78 142 | 29 points by akshay326 4 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Tell HN: I cut Claude API costs from $70/month to pennies
    ×1.15 140 | 40 points by ok_orco 5 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: European alternative to Vercel/Cloudflare for hosting
    ×0.56 157 | 12 points by vldszn 3 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. I built a C++ runtime with immutable objects and no GIL
    ×0.88 169 | 7 points by gamarino 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: How much emphasis to put on unit testing and when?
    ×0.37 167 | 9 points by theturtlemoves 3 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: If Everyone Can "Build" a SaaS, What Becomes Valuable?
    ×1.27 141 | 13 points by spenceXu 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: Has Show HN become LLM-prompt-centric?
    ×0.69 138 | 9 points by piratesAndSons 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. StudDent – book student dental clinics in Poland (lovable.app)
    ×0.92 | 2 points by TsepoMkwebu 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Two Stop Bits (twostopbits.com)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by basilikum 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: VCluster Free – Free K8s Multi-Tenancy with Virtual Clusters (vcluster.com)
    ×1.68 93 | 16 points by gentele 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Doin' It with a 555: One Chip to Rule Them All (aashvik.com)
    ×1.06 58 #46 | 123 points by MonkeyClub 23 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: A2ABench – agent-native dev Q&A with MCP search/fetch and A2A discovery (a2abench-api.web.app)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by khalidsaidi 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Cua-Bench – a benchmark for AI agents in GUI environments (github.com/trycua)
    ×0.46 103 | 40 points by someguy101010 4 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. I mocked the Saudi leader on YouTube then my phone was hacked, I was beaten up (bbc.com)
    ×3.45 52 | 3 points by tartoran 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. USA Ubiquiti Gear Powers Russian Military Networks in Ukraine Despite Sanctions (united24media.com)
    ×3.14 30 | 5 points by nerdsniper 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. US cybersecurity chief leaked sensitive government files to ChatGPT: Report (dexerto.com)
    ×3.78 7 | 431 points by randycupertino 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. iPhone 16 Best-Selling Smartphone in 2025; Apple Takes 7 Spots in Top Models (counterpointresearch.com)
    ×1.39 59 | 64 points by TMWNN 1 day ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Is this the perfect 404 page? [CSS only] (github.com/AntiKippi)
    ×2.95 153 | 7 points by AntiKippi 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Email experiments: filtering out external images (terracrypt.net)
    ×0.69 38 #19 | 52 points by todsacerdoti 9 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Daily Cat (daily.cat)
    ×0.94 68 | 3 points by abraham 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: SOTA NLP Models (huggingface.co)
    ×0.95 | 1 points by ChadNauseam 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. A judge gave the FBI permission to attempt to bypass biometrics (theintercept.com)
    ×2.86 65 | 115 points by qingcharles 8 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Cursor for Userscripts (github.com/chebykinn)
    ×0.71 89 | 55 points by mifydev 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. AI agent made phone call to arrange dinner while I stayed in meeting (twitter.com/Chi_Wang_)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by Kn1026 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Exploiting MediaTek's Download Agent (r0rt1z2.com)
    ×1.06 | 2 points by timschumi 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. What Is Data Literacy? (ibm.com)
    ×1.35 32 | 3 points by teleforce 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Norway EV Push Nears 100 Percent: What's Next? (ieee.org)
    ×1.96 12 | 85 points by rbanffy 15 hours ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Eightile, A Nested Anagram Solver Game (eightile.com)
    ×0.85 171 | 3 points by alexandermorgan 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Kimi K2.5 Technical Report [pdf] (github.com/MoonshotAI)
    ×1.68 11 #6 | 247 points by vinhnx 11 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Disrupting the largest residential proxy network (google.com)
    ×1.27 14 #7 | 124 points by cdrnsf 8 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Malicious skills targeting Claude Code and Moltbot users (opensourcemalware.com)
    ×3.56 68 | 166 points by 6mile 10 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: ÆTHRA – Writing Music as Code
    ×1.53 107 | 5 points by CzaxTanmay 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Analyzing Semantic Redundancy in LLM Retrieval (Google GIST Protocol)
    ×0.44 156 | 4 points by aggeeinn 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Openclaw on Oracle's Free Tier: Always-On AI for $0/Month (ryanshook.org)
    ×2.29 9 | 4 points by RyanShook 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. I'm not an academic, I'm an engineer (bits-chips.com)
    ×1.41 38 | 3 points by vismit2000 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Heating homes with the largest particle accelerator (home.cern)
    ×0.80 65 | 73 points by elashri 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: An Open Source Alternative to Vercel/Render/Netlify (shorlabs.com)
    ×1.39 97 | 21 points by thirdavenue 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. CaaS – Cat as a Service (cataas.com)
    ×0.77 79 #43 | 11 points by cat-whisperer 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Usenet personality (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.20 70 #71 | 107 points by mellosouls 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Xmrcheckout – self-hosted, non-custodial Monero checkout (xmrcheckout.com)
    ×0.99 88 | 3 points by pigless72 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Spar – Built a tool to help improve store conversion rates (cuped.ai)
    ×1.72 164 | 4 points by 6farer 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Roots is a game server daemon that manages Docker containers for game servers (github.com/SproutPanel)
    ×0.58 44 #21 | 23 points by Kerrick 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Painless Software Schedules (2000) (joelonsoftware.com)
    ×0.88 39 #38 | 61 points by MonkeyClub 12 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Silver plunges 30% in worst day since 1980, gold tumbles (cnbc.com)
    ×4.32 49 #55 | 207 points by pera 7 hours ago | 207 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Cicada – A scripting language that integrates with C (github.com/heltilda)
    ×0.53 48 #63 | 51 points by briancr 16 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Toyota partner breaks ground on electrolytes plant for solid-state EV batteries (electrek.co)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by breve 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. SaneBar – Privacy-first menu bar manager for macOS (open source) (sanebar.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by sanebar 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Some Data Should Be Code (borretti.me)
    ×1.62 25 | 3 points by todsacerdoti 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. The Levels of Knowing a Thing (ismethandzic.com)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by blueblahblue 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Why do RSS readers look like email clients? (terrygodier.com)
    ×3.57 77 | 72 points by zdw 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: CertRadar – Find every certificate ever issued for your domain (certradar.net)
    ×0.97 165 | 21 points by ops_mechanic 5 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Code Puppy (github.com/mpfaffenberger)
    ×1.23 163 | 4 points by oep8w 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Richard Feynman Side Hustles (twitter.com/carl_feynman)
    ×1.83 12 #54 | 171 points by tzury 13 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Backseat Software (mikeswanson.com)
    ×1.69 32 #59 | 199 points by zdw 1 day ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Google SREs Use Gemini CLI to Solve Real-World Outages (google.com)
    ×0.95 | 1 points by vinhnx 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Efficient String Compression for Modern Database Systems (cedardb.com)
    ×0.71 | 1 points by tanelpoder 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. First MW-class S2000 airborne wind turbine (yankodesign.com)
    ×1.10 | 2 points by oco101 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. DECT NR+ Link-Level Simulation (mathworks.com)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by teleforce 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. SpaceX in Merger Talks with xAI (reuters.com)
    ×5.23 54 | 84 points by m-hodges 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???