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  1. Ask HN: How are you preparing for PEPPOL?
    ×1.49 #9 | 25 points by elric 2 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Is anyone doing anything cool with tiny language models?
    ×3.32 #20 | 331 points by prettyblocks 11 hours ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Organize local communities without Facebook?
    ×2.88 #35 | 359 points by recvonline 17 hours ago | 343 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and startups. AMA
    ×1.64 #80 | 361 points by proberts 1 day ago | 375 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Songwriters, what software do you use?
    ×1.05 | 33 points by ArlenBales 2 days ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Seeking an IPL-V Interpreter
    ×0.52 | 50 points by abrax3141 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Is wind power financially viable without subsidies?
    ×1.36 | 16 points by xnx 12 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. A Minimalist TypeScript for C
    ×0.97 | 5 points by GLC-ninja 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Im trying to find a post in HN about some OS developer in the 80s coding by hand
    ×1.44 | 5 points by lexoj 18 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Is anyone making money selling traditional downloadable software?
    ×2.99 | 199 points by 101008 2 days ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Is AG Grid worth it?
    ×0.96 | 13 points by edouardjmn 13 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Websites / Apps that aren't a waste of time?
    ×0.95 | 8 points by ChilledTonic 20 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Do any languages specify package requirements in import / include statements?
    ×0.65 | 3 points by foobarbecue 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Seeking device to normalize audio output for consistent volume levels
    ×0.48 | 58 points by ghoomketu 1 week ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: State of the Art in Video Stabilization?
    ×0.73 | 6 points by ChadNauseam 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. How would you start to learn coding today?
    ×0.71 | 19 points by cbenjumea 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: How can I realistically change careers?
    ×1.54 | 181 points by throw101010101 4 days ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Are you applying to the YC Spring 2025 batch?
    ×0.45 | 3 points by miletus 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Lessons we learned from our first 200 users
    ×0.83 | 5 points by klaus_bupple 21 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. How much RAM and Disk do you have in Prod?
    ×0.35 | 3 points by veqq 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. TurboTax has 4.8 stars on the App Store?
    ×1.31 | 9 points by cyberlurker 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: How to try out AIML finetuning on a laptop?
    ×0.87 | 6 points by profsummergig 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Has anyone tried alternative company models (like a co-op) for SaaS?
    ×1.97 | 168 points by snide 3 days ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. OpenAI crawler burning money for nothing
    ×0.44 | 12 points by babuskov 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: What prevents the following vulnerability I found from being exploited?
    ×0.49 | 4 points by vitalipom 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Any Next.js devs willing to share their headaches with payments?
    ×0.12 | 2 points by harrisontelyan 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: What will be the next trend after AI?
    ×4.54 | 15 points by vtr1130 12 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Why can't we comment on YC hiring ads?
    ×2.71 | 8 points by haliskerbas 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Self hosted Waitlist with Landing page?
    ×0.26 | 7 points by surrTurr 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Is anyone using Function Calling with LLMs in production?
    ×1.05 | 5 points by asdev 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: How do you discover new music?
    ×4.06 | 8 points by processing 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Best dedicated server in the US
    ×0.97 | 26 points by truetraveller 3 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Email address validity checks suck
    ×0.57 | 7 points by MountainMan1312 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Underrated emerging fields in science/engineering?
    ×0.64 | 13 points by cbracketdash 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Patent Worth It?
    ×0.30 | 4 points by ruwak 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Is there money in RAG?
    ×0.79 | 10 points by tamersalama 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Does frequently upgrading dependencies add real value to a product?
    ×0.27 | 7 points by chaifeng 5 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: What would be the practical implications of US leaving the WHO?
    ×1.95 | 5 points by ekm2 14 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. FAANG Employees: Are You Bullish on Jobs That Monetize User Data?
    ×2.61 | 5 points by jerawaj740 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. FFmpeg by Example (ffmpegbyexample.com)
    ×1.85 | 901 points by piyushsthr 1 week ago | 246 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. PostgreSQL is the Database Management System of the Year 2024 (db-engines.com)
    ×2.42 | 263 points by plaur782 1 week ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back (howtogeek.com)
    ×5.75 | 624 points by Vinnl 1 week ago | 519 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Simple Docker Hosting (sliplane.io)
    ×1.18 | 64 points by jonas_scholz 1 week ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. In the belly of the MrBeast (kevinmunger.substack.com)
    ×2.80 | 505 points by stafford_beer 1 week ago | 397 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Using coding skills to make passive income (coryzue.com)
    ×2.94 | 258 points by czue 1 week ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: A blocklist to remove spam and bad websites from search results (github.com/popcar2)
    ×1.29 | 225 points by popcar2 1 week ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Take the pedals off the bike (fortressofdoors.com)
    ×1.60 | 492 points by bemmu 1 week ago | 446 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. 1 in 5 online job postings are either fake or never filled, study finds (gizmodo.com)
    ×2.40 | 417 points by belter 1 week ago | 406 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Making an intersection unsafe for pedestrians to save seconds for drivers (collegetowns.substack.com)
    ×2.97 | 310 points by raybb 1 week ago | 443 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Why is homeschooling becoming fashionable? (goodtechthings.com)
    ×2.18 | 372 points by forrestbrazeal 1 week ago | 1344 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Value likelihoods for OpenAI structured output (arena-ai.github.io)
    ×0.92 | 115 points by ngrislain 1 week ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Google’s OAuth login doesn’t protect against purchasing a failed startup domain (trufflesecurity.com)
    ×0.97 | 503 points by simiones 1 week ago | 285 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Apple will soon receive 'made in America' chips from TSMC's Arizona fab (tomshardware.com)
    ×0.52 | 487 points by rbanffy 1 week ago | 471 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Generating an infinite world with the Wave Function Collapse algorithm (marian42.de)
    ×1.79 | 276 points by klaussilveira 1 week ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: WASM-powered codespaces for Python notebooks on GitHub (marimo.io)
    ×0.87 | 204 points by mscolnick 1 week ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Home Loss File System (google.com)
    ×0.71 | 412 points by borski 1 week ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Don't use cosine similarity carelessly (migdal.pl)
    ×1.06 | 436 points by stared 1 week ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Simplex: Automate browser workflows using code and natural language (simplex.sh)
    ×2.13 | 147 points by marcon680 1 week ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Road signs to help people limit radiation exposure in contaminated areas (theautopian.com)
    ×0.49 | 266 points by colinprince 1 week ago | 199 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: LLMpeg (github.com/jjcm)
    ×1.48 | 162 points by jjcm 1 week ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Nobody cares (grantslatton.com)
    ×3.27 | 1047 points by fzliu 1 week ago | 969 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Nevada court shuts down police use of federal loophole for civil forfeiture (ij.org)
    ×1.06 | 472 points by greyface- 1 week ago | 276 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Apple Engineer Made Samaltmanprize.com (samaltmanprize.com)
    ×0.83 | 4 points by shayarma 6 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Generate audiobooks from E-books with Kokoro-82M (claudio.uk)
    ×0.79 | 420 points by csantini 6 days ago | 246 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday (reuters.com)
    ×0.79 | 685 points by xnhbx 6 days ago | 1782 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Google is making AI in Gmail and Docs free, but raising the price of Workspace (theverge.com)
    ×0.94 | 334 points by lars_francke 6 days ago | 458 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Mongo Murder Mystery – Can You Find Out Whodunnit? (mongomurdermystery.com)
    ×2.87 | 6 points by diana-e 6 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. US will ban cancer-linked Red Dye No. 3 in cereal and other foods (bloomberg.com)
    ×0.91 | 424 points by toomuchtodo 6 days ago | 565 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. WTF Happened in 1971? (2019) (wtfhappenedin1971.com)
    ×0.46 | 276 points by lr0 6 days ago | 267 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: QwQ-32B APIs – o1 like reasoning at 1% the cost
    ×7.37 | 16 points by ozgune 6 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Why is Cloudflare Pages' bandwidth unlimited? (mattsayar.com)
    ×0.77 | 603 points by MattSayar 6 days ago | 356 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: I built a fair alternative to Product Hunt for indie makers
    ×1.78 | 246 points by lakshikag 6 days ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. A marriage proposal spoken in office jargon (mcsweeneys.net)
    ×0.70 | 408 points by ohjeez 6 days ago | 234 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Sweden brings more books and handwriting practice back to its schools (2023) (apnews.com)
    ×0.62 | 425 points by redbell 6 days ago | 322 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. UnitedHealth overcharged cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000% (fortune.com)
    ×1.25 | 359 points by this_weekend 6 days ago | 307 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Israel, Hamas reach ceasefire deal to end 15 months of war in Gaza (reuters.com)
    ×1.47 | 460 points by dnsbty 6 days ago | 1296 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: I made a tool to save multimedia from various platforms (saveplays.com)
    ×1.27 | 69 points by sanusihassan 6 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: News Minimalist – News ranked by significance (newsminimalist.com)
    ×1.84 | 83 points by yakhinvadim 6 days ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: A Common Lisp implementation in development (nongnu.org)
    ×3.23 | 18 points by andreamonaco 6 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. 100x defect tolerance: How we solved the yield problem (cerebras.ai)
    ×0.59 | 330 points by jwan584 6 days ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. I have made the decision to disband Hindenburg Research (hindenburgresearch.com)
    ×1.78 | 770 points by toomuchtodo 6 days ago | 414 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Blue Origin reaches orbit on first flight of its titanic New Glenn rocket (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.49 | 376 points by johnneville 5 days ago | 265 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Genious.name – AI Domain Generator That Checks Availability (genious.name)
    ×1.09 | 8 points by Extender777 5 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. I ditched the algorithm for RSS (joeyehand.com)
    ×1.84 | 732 points by DearNarwhal 5 days ago | 273 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.22 | 780 points by HelloUsername 5 days ago | 970 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: I made an open source directory of where to showoff your projects (github.com/KingMenes)
    ×1.61 | 184 points by soGeneri 5 days ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Nokia's internal presentation after iPhone was launched (2007) [pdf] (tiiny.site)
    ×1.93 | 505 points by late 5 days ago | 515 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Triplit, a new daily word game (triplit.com)
    ×3.33 | 6 points by glezer 5 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Nepenthes is a tarpit to catch AI web crawlers (zadzmo.org)
    ×1.38 | 683 points by blendergeek 5 days ago | 262 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Build a Database in 3000 Lines with 0 Dependencies (build-your-own.org)
    ×2.80 | 417 points by not_a_boat 5 days ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???