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  1. Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
    ×1.39 5 #9 | 121 points by david927 5 hours ago | 407 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What was the best sci-fi book of 2025?
    ×1.42 47 | 8 points by Erikun 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Moved to SF to build a startup. What next?
    ×0.86 | 2 points by kvaranasi_ 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What's a standard way for apps to request text completion as a service?
    ×0.37 56 | 50 points by nvader 5 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Is Programming as a Profession Cooked?
    ×0.56 21 | 11 points by fnoef 9 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Aaron Swartz died 13 years ago today
    ×6.71 57 | 59 points by vitaelabitur 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Senior engineering mngrs: how has AI changed your day-to-day work?
    ×1.07 66 | 29 points by kitetm 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: When has a "dumb" solution beaten a sophisticated one for you?
    ×0.27 78 | 6 points by amadeuswoo 19 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Senior software engineers, how do you use Claude Code?
    ×0.71 45 | 11 points by allie1 13 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Best way to find chill job where I can learn and grow as a swe
    ×0.47 80 | 33 points by digitdiglet 3 days ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Any Microsoft employees/devs here? What's happening to Microsoft?
    ×0.80 97 | 107 points by thehamkercat 5 days ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Is it time for HN to implement a form of captcha?
    ×0.99 79 | 89 points by Rooster61 3 days ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Tell HN: Get a dying iPhone 12 mini in 2026
    ×0.53 96 | 26 points by remywang 2 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Are There Any Similar Sites Like Downdetector?
    ×0.23 112 | 3 points by nomadfounder 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Would you pay for a privacy-first social platform?
    ×0.83 86 | 7 points by sammiej 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Should I learn Docker to deploy my app in VPS?
    ×0.55 104 | 4 points by danver0 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. macOS Tahoe 26.2 ships with an outdated version of Python 3.9.6
    ×0.85 89 | 6 points by Gabrielfair 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: What happened to self-hosted models?
    ×0.29 123 | 3 points by curiousaboutml 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Implementing NaN Boxing in a Stack-Based VM
    ×0.14 138 | 5 points by tracyspacy 4 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: How would you decouple from the US?
    ×2.14 105 | 34 points by yawa_me_worht 3 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: How do you do store-and-forward telemetry at the edge?
    ×0.26 137 | 6 points by Aydarbek 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Feeling irrelevant in back end. How to pivot to automotive software?
    ×0.31 139 | 3 points by culopatin 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: How to make working in software fun again?
    ×0.91 121 | 6 points by canxerian 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Working on decentralized compute at io.net sharing what we're learning
    ×0.19 133 | 4 points by plutodev 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Why isn't AI spawning profitable indie games?
    ×1.27 134 | 6 points by eveningsun 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: What's your preferred digital payment method?
    ×0.42 135 | 3 points by vednig 2 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Funding Opportunities with Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC)
    ×0.50 136 | 5 points by ARDC_73 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. I've maintained an open source task manager for 8 years
    ×0.62 129 | 7 points by johannesjo 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. How to search Remote-from-Anywhere jobs
    ×1.44 90 | 8 points by andrewstetsenko 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: InfiniteGPU, An open-source AI compute network,now supporting training (github.com/Scalerize)
    ×1.43 115 | 4 points by frank_lbt 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Tylax – A bidirectional LaTeX to Typst converter in Rust (github.com/scipenai)
    ×1.84 120 | 27 points by democat 4 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: FitBee – A simpler and more focused alternative to MyFitnessPal (apple.com)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by yqiang 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Deno has made its PyPI distribution official (github.com/denoland)
    ×1.05 61 | 71 points by zahlman 2 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Various shape regularization algorithms (github.com/nickponline)
    ×0.75 67 | 74 points by nickponline 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe (noheger.at)
    ×5.18 #1 | 287 points by happosai 1 hour ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Just published a hard-SF novel Voyager1 returns with a quantum palantir (amazon.com)
    ×0.98 | 2 points by dufbugderopa 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Why Is Greenland Part of the Kingdom of Denmark? A Short History (diis.dk)
    ×3.06 34 | 116 points by Anon84 1 day ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Sigmund Freud's Begonia (observer.co.uk)
    ×0.60 73 | 44 points by dang 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Similarity = cosine(your_GitHub_stars, Karpathy) Client-side (puzer.github.io)
    ×1.34 50 | 168 points by puzer 5 days ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. guys why does armenian completely break Claude (twitter.com/dyushag)
    ×1.92 7 #15 | 66 points by ag8 2 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Military Grade (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.55 55 | 4 points by simonebrunozzi 34 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. ChatGPT Atlas Default Browser Promotion (openai.com)
    ×0.99 | 2 points by alvis 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: We Identified a Counterfeit Pharmaceutical Product in Uzbekistan (wordpress.com)
    ×1.41 75 | 3 points by yashsm01 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Show HN submissions have tripled since 2023 (imgur.com)
    ×3.02 42 | 14 points by anythingworks 13 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: I built a Postgres GUI in Swift because existing tools felt bloated (postgresgui.com)
    ×2.92 110 | 7 points by fikrigha 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Revibing nanochat's inference model in C++ with ggml (github.com/k-ye)
    ×1.06 111 | 4 points by makechan 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Vojtux – Unofficial Linux Distribution Aimed at Visually Impaired Users (github.com/vojtapolasek)
    ×0.94 30 #37 | 114 points by TheWiggles 16 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Supply Chain Games: What Have We Learned from the Semiconductor Shortage? (2021) (embeddedrelated.com)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by walterbell 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Why Intelligence Doesn't Improve Reasoning (dianoiaprotocol.substack.com)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by ParadoxHaze 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Colorado is looking for range riders to help reduce conflict with wolves (aspentimes.com)
    ×1.16 | 2 points by mooreds 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. 'F*ck You, Make Me' Without Saying the Words (daringfireball.net)
    ×18.86 78 | 83 points by chmaynard 4 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Apple Withdraws iOS 18 Security Updates (forbes.com)
    ×2.81 40 #78 | 27 points by zaltekk 4 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. How I'm Doing at the End of 2025 (rmondello.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by gpi 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. YouTube has removed the ability to search by upload date (twitter.com/TeamYouTube)
    ×5.77 15 | 65 points by sergiotapia 21 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Poison Fountain (rnsaffn.com)
    ×2.11 4 #16 | 148 points by atomic128 5 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. CPU Counters on Apple Silicon: article + tool (bugsiki.dev)
    ×1.46 24 #49 | 155 points by verte_zerg 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Google: Don't make "bite-sized" content for LLMs (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.75 25 #72 | 73 points by cebert 9 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. AI is a business model stress test (dri.es)
    ×1.91 12 #87 | 327 points by amarsahinovic 1 day ago | 315 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Tech for Iran – An open letter from founders, investors, and operators (techforiran.com)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by knrz 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: A mobile-first React share sheet with native sharing (gwendall.com)
    ×0.96 | 2 points by ges 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Rats caught on camera hunting flying bats (2025) (scienceclock.com)
    ×0.88 24 | 87 points by akg130522 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. You are not required to close your <p>, <li>, <img>, or <br> tags in HTML (novalistic.com)
    ×1.85 13 #38 | 134 points by jen729w 14 hours ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. More than one hundred years of Film Sizes (xs4all.nl)
    ×0.76 22 #47 | 81 points by exvi 13 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Code Is Clay (campedersen.com)
    ×0.98 26 #81 | 85 points by ecto 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok (sdan.io)
    ×2.34 27 | 325 points by sdan 2 days ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: EuConform – Offline-first EU AI Act compliance tool (open source) (github.com/Hiepler)
    ×0.66 65 | 71 points by hiepler 2 days ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Free and local browser tool for designing gear models for 3D printing (dmtrkovalenko.dev)
    ×0.78 103 | 53 points by neogoose 4 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: buse – automate your browser from the terminal (github.com/rinvii)
    ×0.74 | 2 points by rinvi 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Roleplay-first chat UI for an OpenAI-compatible chat completions API (abliteration.ai)
    ×0.57 108 | 8 points by abliterationai 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. The $160K Mechanic Job That Ford Can't Fill (wsj.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by impish9208 53 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: I forced Apple to admit a "Product Issue" using AI and CIA principles (medium.com)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by ryuzaburo 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Linus Torvalds Uses Google Antigravity (github.com/torvalds)
    ×5.66 33 | 65 points by xnx 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Bichon: A lightweight, high-performance Rust email archiver with WebUI (github.com/rustmailer)
    ×0.97 40 | 59 points by rendx 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: VAM Seek – 2D video navigation grid, 15KB, zero server load (github.com/unhaya)
    ×0.58 29 | 39 points by haasiy 19 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Anthropic: Developing a Claude Code competitor using Claude Code is banned (twitter.com/SIGKITTEN)
    ×3.99 13 #17 | 164 points by behnamoh 3 hours ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. The Concise TypeScript Book (github.com/gibbok)
    ×1.35 10 #33 | 206 points by javatuts 16 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Workers at Redmond SpaceX lab exposed to toxic chemicals (fox13seattle.com)
    ×3.27 27 | 168 points by SilverElfin 19 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Max Payne – two decades later – Graphics Critique (2021) (darkcephas.blogspot.com)
    ×2.35 15 #53 | 146 points by davikr 18 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Four more tech bloggers are switching to Linux (slashdot.org)
    ×2.06 25 #74 | 12 points by MilnerRoute 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Claude Coding A Blog Pipeline (clabs.org)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by mooreds 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Persistent Memory for Claude Code (MCP) (github.com/DiaaAj)
    ×2.04 94 | 5 points by AttentionBlock 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: WebTiles – create a tiny 250x250 website with neighbors around you (kicya.net)
    ×0.44 130 | 4 points by dimden 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Outward Signs of Inner Mysteries (lareviewofbooks.org)
    ×0.44 34 #71 | 16 points by prismatic 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Hashing Go Functions Using SSA and Scalar Evolution (github.com/BlackVectorOps)
    ×0.73 | 2 points by BlackVectorOps 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: MCP Server for Job Search (github.com/jobswithgpt)
    ×1.52 91 | 5 points by sp1982 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Washington National Opera Is Leaving the Kennedy Center (nytimes.com)
    ×4.87 58 | 78 points by mikhael 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: SMTP Tunnel – A SOCKS5 proxy disguised as email traffic to bypass DPI (github.com/x011)
    ×1.04 88 | 140 points by lobito25 4 days ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Turn any topic into a 3Blue1Brown-style video (github.com/mateolafalce)
    ×2.47 122 | 5 points by lafalce 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. "Scholars Will Call It Nonsense": The Structure of von Däniken's Argument (1987) (penn.museum)
    ×0.87 5 #12 | 40 points by Kaibeezy 2 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Sprig-config – Spring-like config for Python, layered YAML and secrets (pypi.org)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by gigglesx 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???