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  1. Ask HN: Junior getting lost
    ×0.75 22 #61 | 22 points by TheRegularOne 5 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Is archive.is currently broken for WSJ links?
    ×0.30 67 | 4 points by bigwheels 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: How far has "vibe coding" come?
    ×0.19 83 | 8 points by pigon1002 16 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Books to learn 6502 ASM and the Apple II
    ×0.60 89 | 100 points by abkt 2 days ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Who do you follow via RSS feed?
    ×0.92 106 | 67 points by znpy 3 days ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: DDD was a great debugger – what would a modern equivalent look like?
    ×0.68 124 | 56 points by manux81 4 days ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Designing programming languages beyond AI comprehension
    ×0.13 118 | 6 points by mr_bob_sacamano 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What's the Point Anymore?
    ×2.00 98 | 61 points by fnoef 2 days ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What recent UX changes make no sense to you?
    ×0.71 105 | 31 points by superasn 2 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Notification Overload
    ×0.45 157 | 7 points by fractal618 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. How much recurring income do you generate in 2026 and from what?
    ×0.43 129 | 9 points by djshah 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Frigate NVR Critical RCE Vulnerability Severity
    ×0.30 | 2 points by shadybraden 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Vibe Researching" with AI – Anyone Using It for Real?
    ×0.53 136 | 8 points by spenceXu 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Where can I find startups looking for fractional product leads?
    ×0.42 142 | 7 points by stulogy 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Has Show HN become LLM-prompt-centric?
    ×0.69 109 | 8 points by piratesAndSons 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Where to find cool companies to work for?
    ×0.24 128 | 5 points by truetaurus 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: European alternative to Vercel/Cloudflare for hosting
    ×0.56 140 | 11 points by vldszn 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How to prevent Claude/GPT/Gemini from reinforcing your biases?
    ×0.81 133 | 29 points by akshay326 3 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. The Anti-Pomodoro Technique: Focus on Taking Breaks, Not Watching the Timer
    ×0.54 90 | 5 points by kentich 13 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Tell HN: I cut Claude API costs from $70/month to pennies
    ×1.20 135 | 40 points by ok_orco 4 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: How much emphasis to put on unit testing and when?
    ×0.40 151 | 9 points by theturtlemoves 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. I built a C++ runtime with immutable objects and no GIL
    ×0.67 159 | 5 points by gamarino 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. How to DeGoogle Myself?
    ×0.64 115 | 12 points by neuralkoi 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: What usually happens after a VC asks for a demo?
    ×0.50 160 | 12 points by stijo 5 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: If Everyone Can "Build" a SaaS, What Becomes Valuable?
    ×1.21 126 | 11 points by spenceXu 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Multi-agent systems that learn (git.new)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by ashpreetagno 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Sasha (twitter.com/i)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by barrister 55 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: PNANA - A TUI Text Editor (github.com/Cyxuan0311)
    ×0.89 125 | 8 points by Frameser 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Transmission 4.1.0 (github.com/transmission)
    ×2.90 84 | 67 points by nntwozz 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: An Open Source Alternative to Vercel/Render/Netlify (shorlabs.com)
    ×1.44 54 | 21 points by thirdavenue 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Benchmarking OpenTelemetry: Can AI trace your failed login? (quesma.com)
    ×1.12 9 #42 | 138 points by stared 9 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Award-Winning Palestinian Journalist Banned from TikTok After (commondreams.org)
    ×4.46 25 #48 | 18 points by doener 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Apple posts record-breaking quarterly earnings (apple.com)
    ×3.51 12 #70 | 14 points by linkage 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: TheBaduk – A Go/Baduk Platform Built with Vanilla JavaScript (thebaduk.com)
    ×0.98 117 | 3 points by bugon 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: I'm building an AI-proof writing tool. How would you defeat it? (auth-auth.vercel.app)
    ×0.84 104 | 10 points by callmeed 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Ghostly: The Ultimate Platform for Ghosting Candidates (Satire) (wasmer.app)
    ×0.89 | 2 points by dw1014 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. ServiceNow Stock Tumbles 50% in a Year: Good Earnings Don't Stop 'Death of SaaS' (salesforceben.com)
    ×2.11 6 #76 | 20 points by xnx 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Turn meeting notes into Beautiful professional docs (youtube.com)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by 0nabilbk 14 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. The only moat left is knowing things (growtika.com)
    ×1.76 32 | 61 points by Growtika 17 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Amazon One palm authentication discontinued (aws.com)
    ×0.98 63 | 84 points by KerryJones 1 day ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: I wrapped the Zorks with an LLM (tambo.co)
    ×1.08 77 | 109 points by alecf 2 days ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. The Hallucination Defense (niyikiza.com)
    ×0.90 20 #29 | 38 points by niyikiza 4 hours ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Meet 'Coalie,' the Lethal Mascot for Dirty Energy (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.79 7 | 3 points by petethomas 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Trinity large: An open 400B sparse MoE model (arcee.ai)
    ×1.25 16 | 229 points by linolevan 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Ourguide – OS wide task guidance system that shows you where to click (ourguide.ai)
    ×0.74 123 | 40 points by eshaangulati 3 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: A header-only C++20 compile-time assembler for x86/x64 instructions (github.com/mahmoudimus)
    ×0.42 | 2 points by mahmoudimus 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: CertRadar – Find every certificate ever issued for your domain (certradar.net)
    ×0.97 155 | 21 points by ops_mechanic 4 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Transport for London Interchange Signs Standard [pdf] (tfl.gov.uk)
    ×1.41 | 2 points by susam 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Build your own multi-agent system. Run local using Docker, prod on railway (ashpreetbedi.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by ashpreetagno 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Jellyfin LLM/"AI" Development Policy (jellyfin.org)
    ×2.23 18 | 202 points by mmoogle 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. In car safety, why some companies merely meet a standard and others exceed it (ucla.edu)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by hhs 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Ecosystem (dumbideas.xyz)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by omegastick 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Amazon cuts 16k jobs (reuters.com)
    ×5.18 15 | 679 points by DGAP 1 day ago | 950 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. How to choose colors for your CLI applications (2023) (xoria.org)
    ×1.18 17 #22 | 143 points by kruuuder 9 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants (ncase.me)
    ×5.97 42 #52 | 829 points by mijailt 14 hours ago | 589 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. ArcaOS is a proprietary operating system based on OS/2 (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.79 | 1 points by doener 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: I made a new compression algorithm (github.com/BrowserBox)
    ×1.31 91 | 4 points by keepamovin 11 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Clings – Learn C through interactive, Rustlings-style exercises (github.com/a-hariti)
    ×1.10 96 | 3 points by drht_ 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Run Clawdbot/Moltbot on Cloudflare with Moltworker (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.75 22 #18 | 141 points by ghostwriternr 9 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Xmake: A cross-platform build utility based on Lua (xmake.io)
    ×0.73 58 #64 | 86 points by phmx 20 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. SeqMem, A theoretical reference-based memory for AI (google.com)
    ×1.11 | 2 points by goofgef 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Alcoholless: A Lightweight Security Sandbox for Claude Code (medium.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by behnamoh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Why do RSS readers look like email clients? (terrygodier.com)
    ×3.91 34 | 69 points by zdw 19 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: pqry – A fast, lightweight CLI tool to diagnose Parquet datasets (github.com/symblic)
    ×1.62 139 | 4 points by setzeno 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: A 4.8MB native iOS voice notes app built with SwiftUI (apple.com)
    ×1.96 150 | 6 points by karamalaskar 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. The Value of Things (stuffwithstuff.com)
    ×1.12 18 #12 | 53 points by vinhnx 5 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: GitViral – Turn technical READMEs into social media threads (git-viral.vercel.app)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by Helios999 52 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Bluesky 2025 Transparency Report (bsky.social)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by emschwartz 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: mute your macOS mic to ZERO. But Siri keeps listening (github.com/BrowserBox)
    ×1.27 154 | 3 points by keepamovin 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Landslide Leaves Town in Sicily Perched on a Cliff's Edge (nytimes.com)
    ×1.89 8 | 3 points by bookofjoe 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Kolibri, a DIY music club in Sweden (kolibrinkpg.com)
    ×0.79 27 #19 | 32 points by EastLondonCoder 4 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Decompiling Xbox games using PDB debug info (i686.me)
    ×0.94 49 #55 | 106 points by orange_redditor 18 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Common Lisp Extension for Zed (github.com/etyurkin)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by mike_ivanov 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Shelvy Books (shelvybooks.com)
    ×0.72 61 | 45 points by tekkie00 23 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Config manager for Claude Code (and others) – rules, MCPs, permissions (github.com/regression-io)
    ×1.01 92 | 19 points by jtr101 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Drug trio found to block tumour resistance in pancreatic cancer (drugtargetreview.com)
    ×1.56 13 #5 | 208 points by axiomdata316 8 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. OpenAI's In-House Data Agent (openai.com)
    ×1.51 4 #57 | 48 points by meetpateltech 6 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Was Vibe Coding a Ruse? (inc.com)
    ×2.16 7 #86 | 14 points by toss1 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: One Human + One Agent = One Browser From Scratch in 20K LOC (emsh.cat)
    ×1.96 65 | 313 points by embedding-shape 2 days ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Code Puppy (github.com/mpfaffenberger)
    ×1.24 131 | 4 points by oep8w 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Flameshot (github.com/flameshot-org)
    ×1.64 6 #8 | 103 points by OsrsNeedsf2P 5 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Maine’s ‘Lobster Lady’ who fished for nearly a century dies aged 105 (theguardian.com)
    ×1.40 8 #82 | 228 points by NaOH 22 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Native Instruments enters into insolvency proceedings (engadget.com)
    ×2.58 46 | 112 points by elevaet 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Make.ts (matklad.github.io)
    ×1.56 47 #89 | 237 points by ingve 1 day ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Jury finds exGoogle engineer guilty of stealing AI secrets for Chinese companies (courthousenews.com)
    ×0.83 | 1 points by voxadam 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. 9front OS (9front.org)
    ×1.69 | 2 points by doener 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. In 6 violent encounters, evidence contradicts immigration officials' narratives (reuters.com)
    ×11.79 6 | 247 points by petethomas 1 day ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. SpaceX in Merger Talks with xAI (reuters.com)
    ×5.52 64 | 73 points by m-hodges 5 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Heating homes with the largest particle accelerator (home.cern)
    ×0.93 25 #34 | 66 points by elashri 8 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Networks Hold the Key to a Decades-Old Problem About Waves (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.74 44 #36 | 20 points by makira 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???