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  1. Ask HN: Whose building on Python NoGIL?
    ×0.60 | 32 points by grandimam 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Stanford CS 153 help
    ×1.54 | 52 points by anjneymidha 13 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light of LLMs?
    ×2.86 | 514 points by throwaway_43793 4 days ago | 976 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: How do you find part time work?
    ×2.24 | 307 points by leros 5 days ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Examples of agentic LLM systems in production?
    ×1.45 | 107 points by SebaSeba 4 days ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Embeddable Browser Alternatives to Browserling?
    ×0.13 | 4 points by MarcelOlsz 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How Do You Find the Right Fit for Career Growth?
    ×0.55 | 10 points by mcrogz 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Using LLMs for Better Design in Front End Development?
    ×0.57 | 31 points by dsrtslnd23 4 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Quit Stimulants, Productivity Suffering
    ×1.20 | 20 points by hnthrowhelp12 3 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Who has an interesting job?
    ×1.37 | 34 points by nizbiz 6 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Lost IBM OS/2 Warp 3 and 4 localizations: Looking for help finding and archiving
    ×0.94 | 74 points by markostamcar 5 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Why do we care about message privacy but let AI listen to our meetings?
    ×1.76 | 7 points by librarian1 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Deduplicating a 10.4 TiB game preservation archive (WIP)
    ×0.62 | 20 points by DrFrugal 3 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Has anyone used Devin for web-dev?
    ×0.52 | 19 points by vsroy 3 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. AutoMQ: A Cloud-Native Kafka Alternative with 95% Cost Savings over Confluent
    ×0.58 | 7 points by Honestsoul 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. My experience trying to scrape Google Maps with no code
    ×0.13 | 3 points by YoungGato 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Better ways to extract skills from job postings?
    ×0.55 | 7 points by azeusCC 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How do you deal with overly negative comments
    ×1.81 | 16 points by Uptrenda 3 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Please help: My business Facebook, Instagram, and personal acct all got disabled
    ×6.84 | 31 points by solfox 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: How do I keep up with work?
    ×0.48 | 11 points by JohnBrookz 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Anyone on macOS 15.x having issues with gevent/greenlet?
    ×0.11 | 3 points by whalesalad 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Why is Ilya saying data is limited when the whole world is data?
    ×1.46 | 11 points by georgestrakhov 5 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: How do I get the most out of an analyst job?
    ×0.49 | 6 points by Qision 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: AWS Lambda Credible Alternatives?
    ×0.46 | 6 points by brunaxLorax 5 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Bioherbicides: The Future of Sustainable Agriculture or Just a Niche Trend?
    ×0.10 | 2 points by Tamanpreet 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. 2024 Lichess Recap
    ×0.43 | 7 points by benatkin 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: What database does HN use?
    ×0.61 | 8 points by ghd_ 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Am I the only one who hates the new AWS UI?
    ×0.70 | 10 points by robertkoss 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. What should I look for in my first SWE job?
    ×0.16 | 2 points by s0rr0wskill 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. A bestiary of exotic hadrons: the 23 exotic hadrons discovered at the LHC so far
    ×0.90 | 5 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Why aren't cost-minded SME/startups using Linux on laptops even now?
    ×0.90 | 15 points by raghava 6 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: What you are planning to learn in 2025 for your career and why?
    ×1.41 | 4 points by maheshs 19 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Are any other languages as big as C++?
    ×1.09 | 7 points by codingclaws 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: How much performance can be gained by etching LLM weights into hardware?
    ×0.27 | 3 points by hexomancer 4 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Byte Latent Transformer: Patches Scale Better Than Tokens (meta.com)
    ×2.09 | 378 points by zxexz 1 week ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. What is entropy? A measure of just how little we know (quantamagazine.org)
    ×2.25 | 382 points by nsoonhui 1 week ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. I made a free Figma library packed with components for fast prototyping (veryfront.com)
    ×1.59 | 279 points by kojiwakayama 1 week ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Svader – Create GPU-rendered Svelte components (github.com/sockmaster27)
    ×1.03 | 189 points by sokmastr 1 week ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: A simple web game to help learn chords and basic progressions (yottanami.com)
    ×1.49 | 215 points by yottanami 1 week ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: High-accuracy OCR API for receipts/invoice with easy customisation (visionparser.com)
    ×7.06 | 21 points by salihkoodathil 6 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Open-sourcing my failed startup Buzee – A file search application (github.com/gsidhu)
    ×2.08 | 228 points by thatgurjot 6 days ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Making a watch from scratch (reddit.com)
    ×2.90 | 513 points by dcminter 6 days ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Preferring throwaway code over design docs (softwaredoug.com)
    ×2.15 | 326 points by softwaredoug 6 days ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Fast LLM Inference From Scratch (using CUDA) (andrewkchan.dev)
    ×2.15 | 341 points by homarp 6 days ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. IRATA.ONLINE: A Community for Retro-Computing Enthusiasts (irata.online)
    ×1.07 | 216 points by Bluestein 6 days ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. They see your photos (theyseeyourphotos.com)
    ×3.71 | 437 points by vladyslavfox 6 days ago | 224 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. School smartphone ban results in better sleep and improved mood: study (york.ac.uk)
    ×3.89 | 1010 points by jonatron 6 days ago | 677 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: 31Memorize–Free vocab builder with FSRS-5 spaced repetition (31memorize.com)
    ×1.31 | 6 points by saidhasyim 6 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Tenstorrent and the State of AI Hardware Startups (irrationalanalysis.substack.com)
    ×1.12 | 224 points by zdw 6 days ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Crystal Ball Trading Game (elmwealth.com)
    ×1.43 | 253 points by EvgeniyZh 6 days ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Ruby Video – On a mission to index all Ruby conferences (rubyvideo.dev)
    ×1.86 | 286 points by faebi 5 days ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. A visual proof that a^2 – b^2 = (a + b)(a – b) (futilitycloset.com)
    ×4.37 | 715 points by beardyw 5 days ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: I built an embeddable Unicode library with MISRA C conformance (railgunlabs.com)
    ×0.80 | 116 points by hgs3 5 days ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Non-backtracking, Unicode aware regular expression library in C89 (github.com/mnurzia)
    ×1.69 | 6 points by mnurzia 5 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. SVC16: Simplest Virtual Computer (github.com/JanNeuendorf)
    ×1.05 | 207 points by thunderbong 5 days ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: SmartHome – An Adventure Game (steviep.xyz)
    ×1.70 | 268 points by scyclow 5 days ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: HS student built an AI lab that makes dev tools and free tech courses (nozomio.com)
    ×1.31 | 5 points by arlanrakh 5 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. 3D-Printed Dune Chess Set (parametric-architecture.com)
    ×1.75 | 240 points by gnabgib 5 days ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Palm’s CEO emails Steve Jobs (2007) (twitter.com/TechEmails)
    ×3.59 | 255 points by mfiguiere 5 days ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Dumb TVs deserve a comeback (makeuseof.com)
    ×5.50 | 378 points by znpy 5 days ago | 438 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Kowloon Walled City: Heterotopia in a Space of Disappearance (2013) (mascontext.com)
    ×1.30 #50 | 227 points by hyperific 2 days ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Map of GitHub (github.com/anvaka)
    ×3.22 | 710 points by vortex_ape 5 days ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. 25 Years of Dillo (dillo-browser.github.io)
    ×1.63 | 283 points by todsacerdoti 5 days ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. US lawmakers tell Apple, Google to be ready to remove TikTok from stores Jan. 19 (reuters.com)
    ×5.29 | 325 points by thunderbong 5 days ago | 732 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. OpenERV (openerv.ca)
    ×3.90 | 829 points by graboy 5 days ago | 262 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Conda: A package management disaster? (pyherald.com)
    ×1.97 #36 | 143 points by osdotsystem 1 day ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. UK's Online Safety Act comes into force (ofcom.org.uk)
    ×2.01 | 209 points by AndrewDucker 5 days ago | 363 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Nokia 5110 – Back from the Dead (2022) (opsbros.com)
    ×1.43 | 252 points by hackertux 5 days ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Popeye and Tintin enter the public domain in 2025 along with Faulkner, Hemingway (apnews.com)
    ×3.19 | 412 points by sohkamyung 5 days ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Time for a code-yellow?: A blunt instrument that works (nilam.ca)
    ×0.93 #72 | 62 points by BerislavLopac 1 day ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. "Nvidia is so far ahead that all the 4090s are nerfed to half speed" (twitter.com/realGeorgeHotz)
    ×5.80 | 206 points by BIackSwan 4 days ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: NCompass Technologies – yet another AI Inference API, but hear us out (ncompass.tech)
    ×0.37 | 37 points by adiraja 4 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Why is it so hard to buy things that work well? (2022) (danluu.com)
    ×4.00 | 678 points by janandonly 4 days ago | 572 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Most iPhone owners see little to no value in Apple Intelligence so far (9to5mac.com)
    ×5.90 | 345 points by mgh2 4 days ago | 393 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Modelica (modelica.org)
    ×1.61 | 305 points by v9v 4 days ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Socratify: Learn by Debating – critical thinking coach (socratify.com)
    ×0.99 | 9 points by adidoit 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Xiaomi Home Integration for Home Assistant (github.com/XiaoMi)
    ×2.28 | 557 points by coherence73 4 days ago | 326 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Apple Watch with Android (abishekmuthian.com)
    ×1.79 | 243 points by Abishek_Muthian 4 days ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. In Search of a Faster SQLite (avi.im)
    ×1.87 | 353 points by avinassh 4 days ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. The Power Mac 4400 (512pixels.net)
    ×1.24 #56 | 108 points by speckx 1 day ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. What did Ada Lovelace's program actually do? (2018) (twobithistory.org)
    ×1.88 | 354 points by mitchbob 4 days ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Veo 2: Our video generation model (deepmind.google)
    ×2.77 | 582 points by mvoodarla 4 days ago | 323 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Lfgss shutting down 16th March 2025 (day before Online Safety Act is enforced) (lfgss.com)
    ×3.91 | 782 points by buro9 4 days ago | 542 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Autonomous AI agents that monitor the stock market for you (decodeinvesting.com)
    ×0.79 | 38 points by clark-kent 4 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: I made a multiplayer crossword game (crosswordracing.com)
    ×0.91 | 4 points by abstractbill 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Go Protobuf: The New Opaque API (go.dev)
    ×1.52 | 287 points by secure 4 days ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Auto-VPN – Deploy temporary WireGuard servers with automatic cleanup (github.com/g1ibby)
    ×0.33 | 2 points by g1ibby 4 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Open source inference time compute example from HuggingFace (github.com/huggingface)
    ×0.84 #51 | 80 points by burningion 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Terraform functions that should have been built-in (github.com/northwood-labs)
    ×1.42 | 5 points by skyzyx 4 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Borrow Checking, RC, GC, and Eleven Other Memory Safety Approaches (verdagon.dev)
    ×1.51 #66 | 172 points by PotatoPancakes 2 days ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???