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  1. Ask HN: Vxlan over WireGuard or WireGuard over Vxlan?
    ×1.06 26 #10 | 12 points by mlhpdx 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Iran's 120h internet shutdown, phones back. How to stay resilient?
    ×2.15 31 #19 | 18 points by us321 3 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Discrepancy between Lichess and Stockfish
    ×0.78 37 #22 | 7 points by HNLurker2 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: 500 citation MSc CS, stuck in a low-trust region. How to move forward?
    ×0.41 67 #35 | 6 points by throwawaysafely 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Who remembers AWS Spot's auction era before the 2017 pricing change?
    ×0.35 | 2 points by aleroawani 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Looking for Windows contributors for meeting-detection engine
    ×1.17 90 #52 | 3 points by Ayobamiu 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Tell HN: The insane price hike of internal SSDs
    ×0.91 | 2 points by malshe 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Tell HN: Intel could blow up the Console Wars if it had the guts
    ×0.94 | 2 points by noumenon1111 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Does anyone else think that humanoid robots is a bubble?
    ×1.56 13 | 3 points by NewUser76312 1 hour ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Are you underutilizing your insurance too?
    ×0.95 | 2 points by nemath 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Tell HN: DigitalOcean's managed services broke each other after update
    ×1.20 21 #86 | 70 points by neilfrndes 21 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
    ×1.14 45 | 253 points by david927 2 days ago | 828 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Tell HN: The Google Tenor GIF API has been shut down
    ×1.31 12 | 11 points by dfajgljsldkjag 5 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Learning Discoverability
    ×0.57 | 2 points by learnwithmattc 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Is "AI vibe coding" making prototyping worse inside real companies?
    ×1.20 4 | 9 points by arapkuliev 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What made you move back to HTML-to-PDF in production?
    ×1.28 64 | 3 points by gokulsiva 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Eleva.js – A 2.3KB JavaScript framework with signals and no virtual DOM
    ×0.54 | 2 points by TarekRaafat 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Experiment: Using NotebookLM as a cynical code reviewer (via custom prompts)
    ×0.52 | 2 points by practicalaifg 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Gh Account Permabanned – Help?
    ×0.92 15 | 7 points by nicomeemes 5 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Unpopular Opinion: Bootstrap is a better front-end framework than Tailwind
    ×1.17 52 | 19 points by pyeri 16 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Story about a CEO going off on a user who left feedback?
    ×1.25 70 | 3 points by VladVladikoff 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: How do you prevent AI agents from going rogue in production?
    ×1.39 72 | 3 points by techbuilder4242 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Salesforce, SAP, or ServiceNow: Which Is Most Ripe for Disruption?
    ×0.52 40 | 6 points by Saurabh_Kumar_ 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. My casual chat with AI about cancer led to an internal prototype named"Onco-Bus"
    ×0.98 | 2 points by sony707 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Where is all the protest music?
    ×0.80 68 | 6 points by swiper_lux 10 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Is Reddit Down(-Ish)?
    ×0.59 54 | 3 points by theanonymousone 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. I am a fan of XianXia's novels from China
    ×0.96 | 2 points by tain1223 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Job seekers, what's working / not working?
    ×0.82 84 | 17 points by Jabbs 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: When has a "dumb" solution beaten a sophisticated one for you?
    ×0.37 144 | 12 points by amadeuswoo 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Erratic HN front page algorithm
    ×0.42 110 | 6 points by 7777777phil 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: How do you automate your release notes?
    ×0.41 94 | 9 points by dustfinger 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Speculate About a Hypothetical Cyber Exploit That Would Leverage AI
    ×0.30 124 | 3 points by burnerToBetOut 23 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Should I shutdown my 20 year old SaaS sideline?
    ×0.37 134 | 3 points by pohwp 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Senior engineering mngrs: how has AI changed your day-to-day work?
    ×0.99 118 | 35 points by kitetm 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Tell HN: Mattermost "upgrade" to v11 enforces 10k UI message limit
    ×0.85 103 | 5 points by nemosaltat 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Has anyone built payment flows inside AI voice calls?
    ×0.41 139 | 6 points by wasiyc 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Best way to find chill job where I can learn and grow as a swe
    ×0.47 135 | 35 points by digitdiglet 5 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: Is it time for HN to implement a form of captcha?
    ×0.96 117 | 89 points by Rooster61 5 days ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: Is Programming as a Profession Cooked?
    ×0.73 113 | 19 points by fnoef 2 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: What business processes still waste time every week?
    ×0.39 138 | 5 points by lzr_mihnea 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Tell HN: Auto-download in Apple Podcasts is so unreliable it's basically useless
    ×0.29 145 | 4 points by garyfirestorm 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Reddit Is Down
    ×1.88 22 | 5 points by heroicmailman 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: What are you proud of about doing for you health and wellness regularly?
    ×1.21 90 | 11 points by nemath 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Tell HN: Get a dying iPhone 12 mini in 2026
    ×0.54 147 | 28 points by remywang 4 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Ask HN: Senior software engineers, how do you use Claude Code?
    ×0.76 129 | 15 points by allie1 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Ask HN: Would you pay for a privacy-first social platform?
    ×0.91 150 | 11 points by sammiej 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Implementing NaN Boxing in a Stack-Based VM
    ×0.13 156 | 5 points by tracyspacy 6 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Ask HN: Iran has now been offline for 100 hours. What can we "technically" do?
    ×1.10 91 | 7 points by us321 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Why are so many images now in unusual file formats?
    ×0.99 106 | 5 points by paulpauper 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Aaron Swartz died 13 years ago today
    ×5.35 76 | 92 points by vitaelabitur 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Ask HN: How would you decouple from the US?
    ×2.05 149 | 38 points by yawa_me_worht 5 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Ask HN: Moved to SF to build a startup. What next?
    ×0.65 143 | 7 points by kvaranasi_ 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Ask HN: What was the best sci-fi book of 2025?
    ×1.14 115 | 14 points by Erikun 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Former NYC Mayor Eric Adams rugs his own memecoin just 30 minutes after launch (reddit.com)
    ×4.19 3 | 77 points by pulisse 18 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Pdftl – pdftk in Python with pipelines, AES-256, geometry and more (github.com/pdftl)
    ×1.15 83 | 3 points by pdftl-dev 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Legion Health (YC S21) Hiring Cracked Founding Eng for AI-Native Ops (ashbyhq.com)
    4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: An iOS budget app I've been maintaining since 2011 (primoco.me)
    ×1.02 16 #26 | 127 points by Priotecs 11 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work (claude.com)
    ×4.65 2 #30 | 1231 points by adocomplete 1 day ago | 528 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: AI Motion Control – Transfer any motion to any character with Kling AI (aimotioncontrol.app)
    ×1.28 112 | 6 points by sunpy 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Yellopages – New tab Chrome extension (kawaicheung.io)
    ×0.60 105 | 31 points by kiwigod17 4 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Miditui – A terminal app/UI for MIDI composing, mixing, and playback (github.com/minimaxir)
    ×0.90 107 | 66 points by minimaxir 5 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. AI Generated Music Barred from Bandcamp (reddit.com)
    ×4.40 3 #4 | 402 points by cdrnsf 3 hours ago | 307 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Date is out, Temporal is in (piccalil.li)
    ×2.09 5 #64 | 441 points by alexanderameye 1 day ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Bevy 0.18 (bevy.org)
    ×1.64 | 2 points by _han 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Systems feel slow to build and fast to use (alexscamp.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by dovhyi 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Whistleblower leaks personal details of thousands of Border Patrol/ICE Agents (rawstory.com)
    ×6.44 62 | 14 points by ck2 1 hour ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Eurail B.V. has experienced a security breach (eurail.com)
    ×1.64 3 | 3 points by throw_await 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Going for Gold: The Story of the Golden Lego RCX and NXT (bricknerd.com)
    ×0.58 32 #20 | 13 points by kotaKat 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Organizing My Stuff (bezoar.org)
    ×1.10 | 2 points by thunderbong 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: A geofence-based social network app 6 years in development (localvideoapp.com)
    ×0.81 120 | 78 points by Adrian-ChatLocl 5 days ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Don't fall into the anti-AI hype (antirez.com)
    ×6.67 5 #85 | 1259 points by todsacerdoti 2 days ago | 1586 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Thirteen Months That Changed IBM (2020) (ibm.com)
    ×0.24 71 #79 | 7 points by vednig 10 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Super easy security scanner for founders and developers to check their websites (securemysite.io)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by mfinean 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Games Workshop bans staff from using AI, management not excited about the tech (ign.com)
    ×3.85 #2 | 100 points by jsheard 1 hour ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. LLVM: The bad parts (npopov.com)
    ×1.71 1 #76 | 372 points by vitaut 1 day ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Reproducing DeepSeek's MHC: When Residual Connections Explode (taylorkolasinski.com)
    ×0.75 44 #82 | 112 points by taykolasinski 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Meta Unveils Nuclear-Power Plan to Fuel Its AI Ambitions (wsj.com)
    ×0.88 | 1 points by gmays 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Test in Production with AI Agents (papercuts.dev)
    ×0.51 | 2 points by Sayuj01 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Ever wanted to look at yourself in Braille? (github.com/NishantJoshi00)
    ×0.45 36 #31 | 17 points by cat-whisperer 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Give the Internet an Infinite Word Search and the Internet Will Draw Dicks on It (gizmodo.com)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by yathern 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. AI Adoption vs AI Transformation (dentro.de)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by Zaloog 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. DAG of DAGs crushes math benchmark (google.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by bryceroche 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: DeepDream for Video with Temporal Consistency (github.com/jeremicna)
    ×0.47 131 | 71 points by fruitbarrel 5 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. The Cray-1 Computer System (1977) [pdf] (computerhistory.org)
    ×0.92 40 #42 | 144 points by LordGrey 21 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Uncrossy (uncrossy.com)
    ×1.45 41 | 189 points by dgacmu 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Code is cheap now, but software isn't (chrisgregori.dev)
    ×2.14 48 | 153 points by fs_software 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Fossil versus Git (fossil-scm.org)
    ×2.04 55 | 93 points by vednig 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. We Synchronize .NET's Virtual Monorepo (microsoft.com)
    ×0.81 | 1 points by jayd16 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Statement from Jerome Powell (federalreserve.gov)
    ×16.05 19 | 902 points by 0xedb 1 day ago | 800 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Zen-C: Write like a high-level language, run like C (github.com/z-libs)
    ×1.34 10 | 207 points by simonpure 1 day ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???