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  1. Broadcom Changing Licensing to BSL
    ×0.20 47 | 5 points by CubsFan1060 10 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What developer tool do you wish existed in 2026?
    ×0.64 57 | 8 points by allenleee 16 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. FWS – pip-installable embedded process supervisor with PTY/pipe/dtach back ends
    ×0.19 29 | 15 points by mrsurge 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tell HN: HN was down
    ×2.75 45 | 597 points by uyzstvqs 4 days ago | 327 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell
    ×2.74 49 | 463 points by cvbox 4 days ago | 533 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2026?
    ×0.83 71 | 102 points by mfrw 5 days ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How many email accounts do you have?
    ×0.11 | 2 points by asim 14 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Resources to get better at outbound sales?
    ×0.40 67 | 4 points by sieep 14 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What is still hard about system design with AI?
    ×0.18 | 2 points by brihati 19 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Who here is not working on web apps/server code?
    ×1.43 63 | 83 points by ex-aws-dude 3 days ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Does anyone understand how Hacker News works?
    ×1.94 69 | 164 points by jannesblobel 4 days ago | 228 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Is GitHub becoming more and more unstable?
    ×0.52 96 | 8 points by pavish 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What public Claude Code MCPs, Skills do you have installed and use?
    ×0.74 79 | 4 points by franze 21 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Cloudflare has been broken for 15 hours
    ×0.89 88 | 12 points by Canada 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How are most people converting HEIC to jpg?
    ×1.96 122 | 5 points by par 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. AI Code assistants has made completing side projects so easy
    ×0.44 85 | 10 points by akmittal 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. LLM Benchmark: Frontier models now statistically indistinguishable
    ×0.22 100 | 4 points by js4ever 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How do you deal with large, hard-to-read Excel formulas?
    ×0.71 113 | 9 points by jack_ruru 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. The offline geocoder we wanted
    ×0.44 97 | 7 points by gipsyjaeger 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: How do I bridge the gap between PhD and SWE experiences?
    ×0.32 | 2 points by ecophyseis 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: How are you LLM-coding in an established code base?
    ×1.23 64 | 70 points by adam_gyroscope 5 days ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Should I start a software foundation (goal: help emergency services)?
    ×1.36 117 | 14 points by strgcmc 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. How would you learn to code in 2026?
    ×0.37 86 | 5 points by jeevships 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Is Stack Overflow Dead?
    ×0.68 93 | 13 points by raphar 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: What would you call a package whose purpose is to import data?
    ×0.40 110 | 7 points by ctc24 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: If you had to get a non-tech masters degree, what would you go for?
    ×0.52 130 | 5 points by highwayman47 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Do you allow vibecoded submissions in your open-source projects?
    ×0.10 131 | 3 points by sneas 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Is RSS Still Alive?
    ×1.36 116 | 13 points by militanz 4 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Etiquette giving feedback on mostly AI-generated PRs from co-workers
    ×0.49 132 | 5 points by chfritz 4 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: If one day AI brain chips become a thing, would you get it?
    ×0.47 123 | 6 points by keepamovin 3 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Memory Safety in C# vs. Rust
    ×0.55 128 | 15 points by northlondoner 5 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: What's a book that fundamentally altered your mental models
    ×2.03 2 | 38 points by brihati 16 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: How do teams remember why infrastructure decisions were made?
    ×0.75 120 | 7 points by curious_sre 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Composify – Open-Source Visual Editor / Server-Driven UI for React (github.com/composify-js)
    ×1.68 74 | 72 points by injung 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Learn Japanese contextually while browsing (lingoku.ai)
    ×1.62 87 | 91 points by englishcat 5 days ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Day laborers protest noise machines installed at Home Depot (latimes.com)
    ×2.83 33 | 62 points by geox 13 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Mruby: Ruby for Embedded Systems (github.com/mruby)
    ×1.15 | 2 points by nateb2022 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. CBS's Bari Weiss abruptly pulled segment on Trump deportations (washingtonpost.com)
    ×5.12 39 | 8 points by Analemma_ 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Reverse Engineering Hyperliquid (can.ac)
    ×1.16 | 2 points by pigeons 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. GameNative: PC Gaming on Android (gamenative.app)
    ×1.31 33 #64 | 15 points by dtj1123 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Honey Targeted Minors and Exploited Small Businesses [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.91 7 | 3 points by skunkworker 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: EasyHow – search and discover how-to guides (easyhow.vercel.app)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by dfskGT 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Stickerbox, a kid-safe, AI-powered voice to sticker printer (stickerbox.com)
    ×0.72 72 | 45 points by spydertennis 2 days ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Passkeybot.com – add passkey auth with a few server side HTTP handlers (github.com/emadda)
    ×1.20 76 | 3 points by emadda 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: I open-sourced my Go and Next B2B SaaS Starter (deploy anywhere, MIT) (github.com/moasq)
    ×1.06 66 | 82 points by moh_quz 2 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Exploring Speculative JIT Compilation for Emacs Lisp with Java (iroiro.party)
    ×1.20 7 #17 | 22 points by gudzpoz 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Joan Didion and Kurt Vonnegut Had Something to Say. We Have It on Tape (nytimes.com)
    ×1.18 | 2 points by tintinnabula 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Backing up Spotify (annas-archive.li)
    ×7.55 28 #44 | 1750 points by vitplister 1 day ago | 585 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Shen Condensed in a Few Pages (google.com)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by MTarver 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Memora – MCP persistent memory server knowledge graph vis (github.com/agentic-mcp-tools)
    ×0.75 | 2 points by spokv 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. ONNX Runtime and CoreML May Silently Convert Your Model to FP16 (ym2132.github.io)
    ×1.01 9 #11 | 62 points by Two_hands 7 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Gaia Synthesis: The Codex of Living Numbers [pdf] (doi.org)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by briefcasememoir 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Painted Halafian Pottery of Mesopotamia and Prehistoric Mathematical Thinking (springer.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by wslh 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: SHA-256 quasi-collision with 184/256 matching bits (github.com/POlLLOGAMER)
    ×0.33 | 2 points by KaoruAK 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Rentgen is not a Postman replacement, it fills gap Postman never tried to fill (rentgen.io)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by liudasjank 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. LLM Communications in the Wild (medium.com)
    ×1.93 | 3 points by govmaspy 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Mactop v2.0.0 (github.com/metaspartan)
    ×2.19 38 | 22 points by carsenk 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Epstein Files Viewer (epstein-files-browser.vercel.app)
    ×0.41 | 2 points by ms7892 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Daily Set Puzzle – I rebuilt it after setgame.com's SSL cert expired (anniehu.com)
    ×2.93 109 | 10 points by anniegracehu 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: ZDS – Zig Data Structures (github.com/asheshvidyut)
    ×0.93 112 | 4 points by absolute7 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Vibration Isolation of Precision Objects (2005) [pdf] (sandv.com)
    ×1.24 | 2 points by nill0 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) examines 12 email clients [pdf] (bund.de)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by XzetaU8 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Zero Trust API – Image CDR in Rust/WASM (Rebuild Images from Pixels) (zero-trust-web.vercel.app)
    ×0.43 | 2 points by Raviteja_ 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Toad. A unified terminal UI for coding agents (github.com/batrachianai)
    ×2.85 107 | 13 points by willm 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. The Copyrightability of Fonts Revisited (matthewbutterick.com)
    ×1.55 | 2 points by dchest 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. How Did India Conquer Space? (altermag.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by adityaathalye 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. CSRF Protection Without Tokens or Hidden Form Fields (miguelgrinberg.com)
    ×1.87 8 | 3 points by adevilinyc 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Ex150creamsauce+ACV Review: Failure, but Why? (exfatloss.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by paulpauper 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: An Agent Skill for analyzing FEC campaign finance filings (github.com/hodgesmr)
    ×0.38 | 2 points by m-hodges 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. QBasic64 Phoenix 4.3.0 Released (qb64phoenix.com)
    ×2.77 9 #10 | 14 points by jandeboevrie 52 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: HN Wrapped 2025 - an LLM reviews your year on HN (kadoa.com)
    ×1.94 23 #56 | 285 points by hubraumhugo 1 day ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. What I learned about deploying AV1 from two deployers (streaminglearningcenter.com)
    ×0.64 37 #57 | 44 points by breve 18 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Advice for Individual Contributors (staysaasy.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by zdw 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Towards a Science of Scaling Agent System (arxiv.org)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by hestefisk 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Spice Cayenne – SQL acceleration built on Vortex (spice.ai)
    ×1.01 90 | 29 points by lukekim 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Jmail – Google Suite for Epstein files (jmail.world)
    ×6.13 20 #37 | 1418 points by dvrp 1 day ago | 328 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Politics of the [post-Freudian] psyche, Part II (jdhaltigan.com)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by gsf_emergency_6 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. What happened to all the gold Spain got from the New World? (1985) (straightdope.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by titaniumtown 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: I built a retro gaming site that doesn't feel like a spam trap (retrogamesnexus.com)
    ×1.26 | 2 points by retrogamesnexus 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Cerberus – Real-time network monitor with eBPF (github.com/zrougamed)
    ×1.81 78 | 11 points by zrouga 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Functional Flocking Quadtree in ClojureScript (lbjgruppen.com)
    ×1.26 18 #12 | 25 points by lbj 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Sentence Starters – Phrases for academic and professional writing (sentencestarters.net)
    ×1.75 21 | 4 points by superhuang 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Deterministic PCIe Diagnostics for GPUs on Linux (github.com/parallelArchitect)
    ×0.77 119 | 20 points by gpu_systems 5 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Biscuit is a specialized PostgreSQL index for fast pattern matching LIKE queries (github.com/CrystallineCore)
    ×0.99 43 #73 | 119 points by eatonphil 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. China's Bonkers Bike-share Bubble [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.19 | 2 points by mgh2 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Pilot Locks Himself on Flight Deck over Back Pay (avbrief.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by justinclift 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Logging sucks (loggingsucks.com)
    ×3.42 87 | 528 points by FlorinSays 14 hours ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Airbus moving critical systems away from AWS, Google, and MS (reddit.com)
    ×3.08 56 | 62 points by taubek 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. TailwindSQL – Like TailwindCSS, but for SQL queries in React Server components (github.com/mmarinovic)
    ×0.89 58 | 52 points by ravenical 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: An AI That Builds Personalized Reading Lists (goodbookfinder.com)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by danielandrews43 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???