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  1. Ask HN: What's a standard way for apps to request text completion as a service?
    ×0.44 24 #41 | 46 points by nvader 11 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Best way to find chill job where I can learn and grow as a swe
    ×0.53 68 #68 | 31 points by digitdiglet 21 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Senior engineering mngrs: how has AI changed your day-to-day work?
    ×1.18 15 #70 | 16 points by kitetm 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Should I learn Docker to deploy my app in VPS?
    ×1.15 1 | 3 points by danver0 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What happened to self-hosted models?
    ×0.43 59 | 3 points by curiousaboutml 6 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. How to search Remote-from-Anywhere jobs
    ×1.92 15 | 7 points by andrewstetsenko 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Any Microsoft employees/devs here? What's happening to Microsoft?
    ×0.82 93 | 107 points by thehamkercat 4 days ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Is it time for HN to implement a form of captcha?
    ×1.01 64 | 88 points by Rooster61 2 days ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2026)
    ×0.82 131 | 171 points by whoishiring 1 week ago | 411 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Tell HN: Get a dying iPhone 12 mini in 2026
    ×0.49 84 | 23 points by remywang 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How do you use 5–10 minute gaps productively?
    ×0.61 150 | 46 points by pea 5 days ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026)
    ×1.40 106 | 358 points by whoishiring 1 week ago | 353 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: How to make working in software fun again?
    ×1.11 98 | 5 points by canxerian 22 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Working on decentralized compute at io.net sharing what we're learning
    ×0.21 111 | 4 points by plutodev 23 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What's your preferred digital payment method?
    ×0.65 132 | 3 points by vednig 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Implementing NaN Boxing in a Stack-Based VM
    ×0.15 159 | 5 points by tracyspacy 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: How would you decouple from the US?
    ×2.53 95 | 33 points by yawa_me_worht 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Feeling irrelevant in back end. How to pivot to automotive software?
    ×0.42 158 | 3 points by culopatin 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How do you do store-and-forward telemetry at the edge?
    ×0.23 160 | 5 points by Aydarbek 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. I've maintained an open source task manager for 8 years
    ×0.46 128 | 5 points by johannesjo 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. RevisionDojo, a YC startup, is running astroturfing campaigns targeting kids?
    ×2.73 74 | 452 points by red-polygon 5 days ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Have AI tools like agents affected your motivation at work?
    ×1.23 77 | 7 points by SpicyNoodle 18 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Why isn't AI spawning profitable indie games?
    ×1.53 144 | 5 points by eveningsun 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. I built an AI agent that deploys a PR to production
    ×0.23 157 | 3 points by amouehsan 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Where is legacy codebase maintenance headed?
    ×0.48 140 | 6 points by AnnKey 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Funding Opportunities with Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC)
    ×0.44 156 | 4 points by ARDC_73 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Reading list for being a better engineer?
    ×1.20 153 | 48 points by drekipus 6 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Jax-JS, array library in JavaScript targeting WebGPU (ekzhang.com)
    ×1.06 104 | 82 points by ekzhang 4 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. A Eulogy for Dark Sky, a Data Visualization Masterpiece (2023) (nightingaledvs.com)
    ×1.75 3 #3 | 289 points by skadamat 7 hours ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions (github.com/anomalyco)
    ×4.59 22 | 593 points by sergiotapia 1 day ago | 493 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Landlords are using automated services to monitor tenant promotions (reddit.com)
    ×3.63 17 | 58 points by xyzal 14 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: InfiniteGPU, An open-source AI compute network,now supporting training (github.com/Scalerize)
    ×1.52 68 | 4 points by frank_lbt 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Das Mouse (mad-scientist.club)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by Levitating 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Extended Periodic Table (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by thunderbong 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. I got paid minimum wage to solve an impossible problem (tiespetersen.substack.com)
    ×2.05 33 #64 | 80 points by thunderbong 9 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. We Built a Piano That Lets You See Music [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.41 | 2 points by shscs911 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Operating system for human and AI Agent Collaboration (computer-agents.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by janlucasandmann 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. ASCII-Driven Development (medium.com)
    ×1.70 14 #4 | 30 points by _hfqa 3 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. How your high school affects your chances of UC Admission (sfeducation.substack.com)
    ×1.64 9 #6 | 30 points by mutator 2 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Trump's Steep Science Budget Cuts to Be Turned Back by Congress (nytimes.com)
    ×1.81 13 | 3 points by MilnerRoute 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Let's call a murder a murder (daringfireball.net)
    ×29.52 5 | 379 points by hermitcrab 1 day ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. CDC staff 'blindsided' as child vaccine schedule unilaterally overhauled (unmc.edu)
    ×6.61 33 | 98 points by stopbulying 15 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: KeelTest – AI-driven VS Code unit test generator with bug discovery (keelcode.dev)
    ×0.27 121 | 29 points by bulba4aur 3 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Make audio loops online (makeloops.online)
    ×1.08 101 | 69 points by bilalba 5 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt accused of rape, surveillance by ex-mistress (news.com.au)
    ×5.61 59 #73 | 45 points by randycupertino 3 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. How to Get Stronger (harvard.edu)
    ×1.25 | 2 points by gnabgib 43 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Why Are Grok and X Still Available in App Stores? (wired.com)
    ×6.21 66 | 65 points by alwillis 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: arxiv2md: Convert ArXiv papers to markdown (arxiv2md.org)
    ×2.00 89 | 5 points by timf34 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Time Travelling and Fixing Bugs with Property-Based Testing (2019) (wickstrom.tech)
    ×0.42 41 #22 | 15 points by todsacerdoti 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Deno has made its PyPI distribution official (github.com/denoland)
    ×1.05 45 #65 | 65 points by zahlman 22 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. The rise and fall of the company behind Reader Rabbit (2018) (theoutline.com)
    ×0.65 46 #83 | 29 points by mmcclure 18 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Rank up your local business on Google Maps (mapclimb.com)
    ×1.67 88 | 4 points by bagusfarisa 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Mantic.sh – A structural code search engine for AI agents (github.com/marcoaapfortes)
    ×0.66 103 | 81 points by marcoaapfortes 4 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Blobber – Push and stream arbitrary files with OCI registries (github.com/meigma)
    ×1.44 102 | 4 points by sepositus 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Rocket Launch and Orbit Simulator (donutthejedi.com)
    ×0.95 46 #38 | 158 points by donutthejedi 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Asimpy: Simple discrete event simulation framework in Python using async/await (third-bit.com)
    ×1.67 | 2 points by ingve 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Databases in 2025: A Year in Review (cmu.edu)
    ×1.47 | 2 points by Olshansky 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. V16 beacon full uplink conversation (destevez.net)
    ×1.31 | 2 points by todsacerdoti 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Tailsnitch – A security auditor for Tailscale (github.com/Adversis)
    ×1.18 83 | 280 points by thesubtlety 5 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. "They Saw a Protest": Cognitive Illiberalism and the Speech-Conduct Distinction [pdf] (2012) (stanfordlawreview.org)
    ×1.57 40 | 74 points by pcaharrier 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Iran's internet shutdown is chillingly precise and may last some time (theguardian.com)
    ×7.20 55 | 68 points by robaato 9 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Bichon: A lightweight, high-performance Rust email archiver with WebUI (github.com/rustmailer)
    ×1.09 1 #9 | 16 points by rendx 48 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Good Judgment Open (gjopen.com)
    ×0.37 43 #23 | 6 points by kaycebasques 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11 (eteknix.com)
    ×5.88 31 #32 | 236 points by nabla9 3 hours ago | 250 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. How to store a chess position in 26 bytes (2022) (ezzeriesa.notion.site)
    ×1.24 45 #52 | 125 points by kurinikku 1 day ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Wikipedia at 25: A Wake-Up Call (wikimedia.org)
    ×4.36 35 #75 | 11 points by i_love_limes 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: EuConform – Offline-first EU AI Act compliance tool (open source) (github.com/Hiepler)
    ×0.65 45 #76 | 68 points by hiepler 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. 1994 $32K Sedans Comparison Test (caranddriver.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by xqcgrek2 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Sopro TTS: A 169M model with zero-shot voice cloning that runs on the CPU (github.com/samuel-vitorino)
    ×1.73 12 | 357 points by sammyyyyyyy 1 day ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: A geofence-based social network app 6 years in development (localvideoapp.com)
    ×0.81 65 | 77 points by Adrian-ChatLocl 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Symbolic Circuit Distillation: prove program to LLM circuit equivalence (github.com/neelsomani)
    ×0.59 152 | 16 points by nsomani 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. The Rustonomicon – The Dark Arts of Advanced and Unsafe Rust Programming (rust-lang.org)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by Brysonbw 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Texas first state to end American bar association oversight of law schools (keranews.org)
    ×2.57 71 | 65 points by randycupertino 1 day ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: A simulator for engineers transitioning from IC to management (apmcommunication.com)
    ×1.06 123 | 73 points by pingananth 5 days ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Foundertrace – chain of YC startups founded by its employees (foundertrace.com)
    ×0.65 130 | 38 points by loondri 6 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: DoNotNotify – Log and intelligently block notifications on Android (donotnotify.com)
    ×1.53 79 | 346 points by awaaz 5 days ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. UpCodes (YC S17) is hiring PMs, SWEs to automate construction compliance (up.codes)
    3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. My article on why AI is great (or terrible) or how to use it (matthewrocklin.com)
    ×1.52 44 #44 | 156 points by akshayka 1 day ago | 221 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Diving into Qualcomm's Upcoming Adreno X2 GPU with Eric Demers (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×0.35 60 #51 | 24 points by rbanffy 13 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. The First 'Apple Silicon': The Aquarius Processor Project (thechipletter.substack.com)
    ×0.79 | 1 points by rbanffy 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Logseq: A privacy-first, open-source platform for knowledge management (github.com/logseq)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by tosh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. 73% People Detained by ICE Have No Convictions (cato.org)
    ×12.54 25 | 79 points by gtirloni 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: GitChoco – virtual Chocolatey for GitHub Releases (gitcho.co)
    ×1.46 119 | 4 points by lostmsu 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Surviving Rome – the surprising truths about everyday life in the empire (ft.com)
    ×2.82 26 #47 | 10 points by bookofjoe 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Flock Hardcoded the Password for America's Surveillance Infrastructure 53 Times (nexanet.ai)
    ×4.03 16 #55 | 485 points by fuck_flock 1 day ago | 161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. NASA announces unprecedented return of sick ISS astronaut and crew (livescience.com)
    ×1.99 65 | 52 points by bookofjoe 6 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Bindless Oriented Graphics Programming (alextardif.com)
    ×0.92 42 #17 | 5 points by ibobev 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Org Mode Syntax Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages to Use for Text (karl-voit.at)
    ×2.41 10 #30 | 178 points by adityaathalye 11 hours ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. An Open Letter to Bigot Diners (2013) (wordpress.com)
    ×1.77 | 2 points by Tomte 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: I visualized the entire history of Citi Bike in the browser (bikemap.nyc)
    ×1.02 76 | 112 points by freemanjiang 3 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???