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  1. Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
    ×1.13 11 #21 | 167 points by david927 13 hours ago | 538 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Has anyone built payment flows inside AI voice calls?
    ×0.46 | 2 points by wasiyc 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Why is example.com using Cloudflare
    ×0.58 46 | 7 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. True Scale of Solar System
    ×0.30 68 | 3 points by Sarakuzoi 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Senior engineering mngrs: how has AI changed your day-to-day work?
    ×1.02 86 | 30 points by kitetm 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: When has a "dumb" solution beaten a sophisticated one for you?
    ×0.25 98 | 6 points by amadeuswoo 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Moved to SF to build a startup. What next?
    ×0.64 69 | 4 points by kvaranasi_ 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Is Programming as a Profession Cooked?
    ×0.56 65 | 12 points by fnoef 16 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What was the best sci-fi book of 2025?
    ×1.21 32 | 11 points by Erikun 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Cheaper Datadog anyone?
    ×0.31 | 2 points by kvaranasi_ 7 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Best way to find chill job where I can learn and grow as a swe
    ×0.46 92 | 33 points by digitdiglet 3 days ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Aaron Swartz died 13 years ago today
    ×6.09 14 | 67 points by vitaelabitur 15 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Senior software engineers, how do you use Claude Code?
    ×0.72 73 | 12 points by allie1 21 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Is it time for HN to implement a form of captcha?
    ×0.98 90 | 89 points by Rooster61 3 days ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Tell HN: Get a dying iPhone 12 mini in 2026
    ×0.52 106 | 26 points by remywang 3 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Are There Any Similar Sites Like Downdetector?
    ×0.22 124 | 3 points by nomadfounder 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Would you pay for a privacy-first social platform?
    ×0.76 102 | 7 points by sammiej 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Should I learn Docker to deploy my app in VPS?
    ×0.50 117 | 4 points by danver0 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Implementing NaN Boxing in a Stack-Based VM
    ×0.14 150 | 5 points by tracyspacy 4 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. macOS Tahoe 26.2 ships with an outdated version of Python 3.9.6
    ×0.76 105 | 6 points by Gabrielfair 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: What happened to self-hosted models?
    ×0.27 135 | 3 points by curiousaboutml 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: How would you decouple from the US?
    ×2.14 113 | 35 points by yawa_me_worht 3 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: How do you do store-and-forward telemetry at the edge?
    ×0.26 149 | 6 points by Aydarbek 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Feeling irrelevant in back end. How to pivot to automotive software?
    ×0.29 151 | 3 points by culopatin 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Why isn't AI spawning profitable indie games?
    ×1.14 144 | 6 points by eveningsun 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: How to make working in software fun again?
    ×0.84 129 | 6 points by canxerian 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Working on decentralized compute at io.net sharing what we're learning
    ×0.19 143 | 4 points by plutodev 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Funding Opportunities with Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC)
    ×0.48 147 | 5 points by ARDC_73 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: What's your preferred digital payment method?
    ×0.39 148 | 3 points by vednig 2 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. I've maintained an open source task manager for 8 years
    ×0.69 131 | 8 points by johannesjo 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Overdose deaths are falling in America because of a 'supply shock': study (economist.com)
    ×1.84 36 #63 | 207 points by marojejian 1 day ago | 221 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Karmic Tail Calculator – a free, explainable Matrix of Destiny tool (destiny-matrix.cc)
    ×0.24 | 1 points by yxchen1994 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Rocket Launch and Orbit Simulator (donutthejedi.com)
    ×0.94 63 | 161 points by donutthejedi 2 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: I put economic rules in silicon that can't be changed by software
    ×2.07 84 | 4 points by PrimalOrigins 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. CLI agents make self-hosting on a home server easier and fun (fulghum.io)
    ×2.67 3 #3 | 415 points by websku 8 hours ago | 263 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Elephants Don't Play Chess (1990) [pdf] (mit.edu)
    ×0.49 30 #49 | 7 points by gregsadetsky 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Miditui – A terminal app/UI for MIDI composing, mixing, and playback (github.com/minimaxir)
    ×0.88 76 | 65 points by minimaxir 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Engineering Schizophrenia: Trusting yourself through Byzantine faults
    ×0.89 12 #26 | 55 points by rescrv 8 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Iran is likely jamming Starlink (timesofisrael.com)
    ×3.38 43 #58 | 94 points by ukblewis 22 hours ago | 214 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Linus Torvalds Uses Google Antigravity (github.com/torvalds)
    ×5.42 54 | 67 points by xnx 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. ‘Fuck you, make me’ without saying the words (daringfireball.net)
    ×18.84 50 | 103 points by chmaynard 12 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. "Scholars Will Call It Nonsense": The Structure of von Däniken's Argument (1987) (penn.museum)
    ×0.80 38 | 59 points by Kaibeezy 10 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: I built an Instagram-style productivity app with gamification (apple.com)
    ×1.62 100 | 4 points by mandynoee 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Persistent Memory for Claude Code (MCP) (github.com/DiaaAj)
    ×2.03 110 | 5 points by AttentionBlock 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Jax-JS, array library in JavaScript targeting WebGPU (ekzhang.com)
    ×1.08 108 | 83 points by ekzhang 5 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. A Glimpse into DexProtector (romainthomas.fr)
    ×0.26 52 #46 | 8 points by shelfchair 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Time without end: Physics and biology in an open universe-Freeman J. Dyson [pdf] (aps.org)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by thunderbong 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Pointa – Point-and-click annotations for AI coding agents (open source) (pointa.dev)
    ×0.37 | 1 points by jberthom 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Tylax – A bidirectional LaTeX to Typst converter in Rust (github.com/scipenai)
    ×1.84 123 | 27 points by democat 4 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: 25 years of house prices in England and Wales (housepricedashboard.co.uk)
    ×1.28 146 | 14 points by rowanajmarshall 5 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. I Cannot SSH into My Server Anymore (and That's Fine) (soap.coffee)
    ×1.08 3 #28 | 95 points by TheWiggles 8 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Max Payne – two decades later – Graphics Critique (2021) (darkcephas.blogspot.com)
    ×2.25 36 #57 | 163 points by davikr 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. DOJ has subpoenaed central bank, threatens criminal indictment (apnews.com)
    ×4.83 75 | 21 points by SilverElfin 2 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: I kept forgetting Git worktree syntax, so I wrapped it (github.com/binbandit)
    ×0.87 | 2 points by binbandit 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Understand the picture of the day (learntosolveit.com)
    ×0.93 136 | 4 points by orsenthil 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Himalayas bare and rocky after reduced winter snowfall, scientists warn (bbc.com)
    ×1.65 3 #6 | 36 points by koolhead17 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: An LLM-optimized programming language (github.com/ImJasonH)
    ×0.73 6 #16 | 19 points by ImJasonH 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: What if AI agents had Zodiac personalities? (github.com/baturyilmaz)
    ×0.54 19 #33 | 24 points by arbayi 6 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Replace the Retiring Windows XP with Linux (2014) (linux.com)
    ×1.92 23 | 69 points by righthand 13 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Extracting books from production language models (2026) (arxiv.org)
    ×1.05 52 | 66 points by logicprog 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Tiktokify Your Blog (github.com/NISH1001)
    ×0.85 | 2 points by igaurab 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Hepatic adaptation to chronic metabolic stress primes tumorigenesis (cell.com)
    ×0.80 | 2 points by PaulHoule 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Barista: Serving up fresh stats for your Claude Code sessions (github.com/pstuart)
    ×0.36 | 1 points by handfuloflight 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Can Shawn Levy Resuscitate "Star Wars?" (nytimes.com)
    ×1.30 13 | 4 points by bookofjoe 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: 15 Years of StarCraft II Balance Changes Visualized Interactively (migdal.pl)
    ×1.74 101 | 8 points by stared 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Statement from Jerome Powell (federalreserve.gov)
    ×14.93 38 #39 | 514 points by 0xedb 5 hours ago | 443 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Vojtux – Unofficial Linux Distribution Aimed at Visually Impaired Users (github.com/vojtapolasek)
    ×0.90 49 #48 | 118 points by TheWiggles 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Duplicate tab notifications and auto closures (google.com)
    ×0.37 | 1 points by pinestack 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: A website that auctions itself daily (thedailyauction.com)
    ×0.63 89 | 41 points by nsomani 3 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Commit-based code review instead of PR-based (commitguard.ai)
    ×0.68 118 | 14 points by moshetanzer 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: An LLM response cache that's aware of dynamic data (butter.dev)
    ×0.40 138 | 16 points by raymondtana 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Ask HN: How to automate aesthetic photo cropping? (CV/AI)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by icons 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Drones that recharge directly on transmission lines (ycombinator.com)
    ×2.21 25 | 178 points by alphabetatango 1 day ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Iran's internet shutdown is chillingly precise and may last some time (theguardian.com)
    ×6.01 67 | 77 points by robaato 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: arxiv2md: Convert ArXiv papers to markdown (arxiv2md.org)
    ×1.96 134 | 5 points by timf34 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Code is cheap now, but software isn't (chrisgregori.dev)
    ×2.49 36 #41 | 93 points by fs_software 3 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Everything you should know about PostgreSQL constraints (xata.io)
    ×0.93 | 2 points by tudorg 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: buse – automate your browser from the terminal (github.com/rinvii)
    ×0.73 | 2 points by rinvi 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Yellopages – New tab Chrome extension (kawaicheung.io)
    ×0.60 55 | 31 points by kiwigod17 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Worldview, persistent strategic context for Claude Code (extremeclarity.ai)
    ×1.15 78 | 3 points by faizanbhat 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: I built a fast, minimal Dota 2 counter tool to help me learn the game (dota2.tools)
    ×0.43 | 2 points by lijinxuan 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Rare Iron Age war trumpet and boar standard found (bbc.com)
    ×0.58 11 #40 | 26 points by breve 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Found a rare moment when HN is restarting server (freeimage.host)
    ×1.33 | 2 points by celurian92 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Google: Don't make "bite-sized" content for LLMs (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.69 3 | 76 points by cebert 17 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: MCP server for SOAP web services (github.com/AustinWise)
    ×1.19 122 | 3 points by MarkSweep 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. KaraDAV – Lightweight Nextcloud compatible WebDAV server (github.com/kd2org)
    ×0.81 57 #56 | 39 points by indigodaddy 17 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Gen Z are arriving to college unable to even read a sentence (fortune.com)
    ×2.07 31 | 4 points by LostMyLogin 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Subformer: Multilingual video dubbing with speaker diarization and voice cloning (subformer.com)
    ×0.89 | 2 points by mashreghi 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Iran shuts down Starlink internet for first time (forbes.com)
    ×4.29 45 | 180 points by neom 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Uncrossy (uncrossy.com)
    ×1.15 9 #20 | 28 points by dgacmu 4 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???