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  1. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)
    ×1.70 86 | 457 points by david927 6 days ago | 1343 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. What is the most beautiful / highest quality code you've seen (or written)?
    ×0.61 70 | 27 points by gooob 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: How to learn concurrency?
    ×1.05 82 | 40 points by shivajikobardan 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Why is Apache still popular even as Nginx has proven its mettle on performance?
    ×0.34 80 | 6 points by pyeri 17 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Is Computer Science still a good choice?
    ×0.62 89 | 19 points by speedylight 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Anyone else hate the GitHub Android app
    ×0.18 99 | 3 points by raffraffraff 19 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How does one stay motivated to grind through LeetCode?
    ×1.00 91 | 85 points by blutoot 3 days ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How would you set up a child’s first Linux computer?
    ×1.54 94 | 226 points by evolve2k 6 days ago | 298 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Are Agents Just Hype?
    ×0.46 103 | 6 points by spacemnstr42069 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Could Microsoft replace its CEO with ChatGPT?
    ×0.55 109 | 24 points by nothrowaways 3 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How common is banning Docker?
    ×0.37 104 | 9 points by martypitt 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Senior people, how did your career evolve?
    ×1.19 98 | 83 points by Seb-C 4 days ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Why isn't everyone using Cerebras?
    ×0.21 130 | 3 points by tghack 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not
    ×3.13 101 | 647 points by stillatit 1 week ago | 519 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Looking for a good course to learn proof assistant Lean 4
    ×0.34 132 | 5 points by rabarbers 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Interviewing currently (or recently)? how have interviews changed?
    ×0.25 115 | 4 points by akudha 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025)
    ×1.52 116 | 400 points by whoishiring 1 week ago | 580 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: My family business runs on a 1993-era text-based-UI (TUI). Anybody else?
    ×1.58 113 | 316 points by urnicus 1 week ago | 308 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How do you handle logging and evaluation when training ML models?
    ×0.15 140 | 3 points by calepayson 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. The Lotus program analysis framework
    ×0.17 | 2 points by cutelimination 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: How do you get over the fear of sharing code?
    ×0.79 124 | 75 points by sodokuwizard 6 days ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: What's your solution to tech addiction?
    ×0.15 118 | 5 points by asim 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: How Do Developers Stay Up to Date Without Being on Twitter All Day?
    ×1.21 66 | 4 points by jerawaj740 7 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Show HN: Encore – Type-safe back end framework that generates infra from code (github.com/encoredev)
    ×0.65 68 | 74 points by andout_ 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: Unified Payment Sandbox – A UAT Env for Stripe/Razorpay Integrations
    ×0.63 | 2 points by g-sudarshan 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: I built a synth for my daughter (bitsnpieces.dev)
    ×1.08 166 | 5 points by random_moonwalk 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Shattering the Illusion: Maker Achieves Million-Step, Zero-Error LLM Reasoning (cognizant.com)
    ×1.38 67 #69 | 5 points by dataminer 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. A Complete Guide to USB Connectors (rs-online.com)
    ×1.29 | 2 points by teleforce 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Mathematical parameter selection to eliminate synchronization bugs
    ×0.41 | 1 points by Patternician 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. 6B Miles Driven (tesla.com)
    ×3.36 11 | 42 points by mensetmanusman 14 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Cancer diagnosis makes for an interesting RL environment for LLMs
    ×0.58 100 | 45 points by dchu17 3 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. The Nature of the Beast: Charles Le Brun's Human-Animal Hybrids (1806) (publicdomainreview.org)
    ×0.43 49 #38 | 46 points by Petiver 16 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Lawmakers want to ban VPNs (eff.org)
    ×5.43 1 #52 | 613 points by gslin 1 day ago | 358 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Tiny Diffusion – A character-level text diffusion model from scratch (github.com/nathan-barry)
    ×1.03 45 #63 | 157 points by nathan-barry 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. (Ab)Using Null Uniqueness in Postgres
    ×0.52 | 1 points by BWStearns 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Google Colab Is Coming to VS Code (googleblog.com)
    ×0.99 | 2 points by tamnd 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: I built E2E Test Agent – describe tests in plain English,AI executes it (github.com/armannaj)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by ProgrammerByDay 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Nvidia is gearing up to sell servers instead of just GPUs and components (tomshardware.com)
    ×1.81 29 | 176 points by giuliomagnifico 1 day ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Trilogy Studio, open-source browser-based SQL editor and visualizer (trilogydata.dev)
    ×0.62 160 | 19 points by efromvt 6 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. The inconceivable types of Rust: How to make self-borrows safe (2024) (polybdenum.com)
    ×1.30 13 #6 | 49 points by birdculture 6 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. An Antivenom Cocktail, Made by a Llama (asimov.press)
    ×0.50 50 #60 | 20 points by surprisetalk 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Unflip – a puzzle game about XOR patterns of squares (unflipgame.com)
    ×1.33 2 #13 | 101 points by bogdanoff_2 9 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. I made a better DOM morphing algorithm (drapper.me)
    ×1.08 9 #20 | 73 points by joeldrapper 10 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. EyesOff: How I built a screen contact detection model (ym2132.github.io)
    ×0.39 32 #22 | 13 points by Two_hands 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Hyundai Paywalls Brake Pads replacement on Ioniq 5 N (thedrive.com)
    ×1.61 7 | 3 points by zdw 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. RegreSQL: Regression Testing for PostgreSQL Queries (boringsql.com)
    ×0.96 53 | 149 points by radimm 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Genergo: Propellantless space-propulsion system (satcom.digital)
    ×1.49 52 | 77 points by maremmano 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. IDEmacs: A Visual Studio Code clone for Emacs (codeberg.org)
    ×1.68 1 #3 | 136 points by nogajun 5 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Find matching acrylic paints for any HEX color (acrylicmatch.com)
    ×0.60 150 | 56 points by dotspencer 1 week ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: I'm a CEO Coding with AI – Here's the Air Quality iOS App I Built
    ×2.54 108 | 13 points by ahaucnx 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Mystery Fuels Unease in Maine Woods: Who Bought Burnt Jacket Mountain? (nytimes.com)
    ×3.24 52 | 6 points by mykowebhn 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Paper: No Cords Attached (arxiv.org)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by patann 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. GEN-0 / Embodied Foundation Models That Scale with Physical Interaction (generalistai.com)
    ×0.81 56 #83 | 65 points by jackdoe 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Feature Extraction with KNN (davpinto.github.io)
    ×0.70 22 #40 | 19 points by RicoElectrico 8 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Steam Machine (steampowered.com)
    ×10.65 17 #70 | 2882 points by davikr 3 days ago | 1479 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Being poor vs. being broke (ctms.me)
    ×4.69 33 #81 | 555 points by speckx 1 day ago | 645 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. AGI fantasy is a blocker to actual engineering (tomwphillips.co.uk)
    ×3.50 32 #84 | 613 points by tomwphillips 1 day ago | 619 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Dismal reality of modern day corporate IT
    ×3.64 68 | 5 points by pyeri 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. The longest-running newspaper (historytoday.com)
    ×0.81 | 2 points by hhs 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: AI Bubble Monitor (aibubblemonitor.com)
    ×1.18 106 | 25 points by itsnotmyai 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today (adguard-dns.io)
    ×6.43 2 #2 | 1439 points by immibis 19 hours ago | 373 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Agent Playbook – An open-source Storybook-like playground for AI agents (github.com/orlevii)
    ×0.65 149 | 3 points by orlevii 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Strap Rail (construction-physics.com)
    ×0.64 42 #41 | 47 points by juliangamble 16 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Garibaldi, History's Sexiest Revolutionary? (historyextra.com)
    ×0.75 | 2 points by thomassmith65 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Mullvad VPN present And Then? (Chat Control is back on the menu) (mullvad.net)
    ×3.25 56 | 109 points by dotcoma 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: ZenPaint, a pixel-perfect MacPaint recreation for the browser (zenpaint.org)
    ×2.79 24 | 12 points by allthreespies 10 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Invisitris a Tetris-like game, where the placed pieces become invisible (bitechunk.com)
    ×1.18 156 | 6 points by eddguzzo 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Agent-to-code JIT compiler for Z3-theorem-proving agents (github.com/stanford-mast)
    ×2.88 144 | 6 points by calebhwin 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: ShellDash – Browser server dashboard with SSH and globe monitoring (shelldash.com)
    ×0.74 163 | 5 points by mannders 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. The computer poetry of J. M. Coetzee's early programming career (2017) (utexas.edu)
    ×0.67 24 #23 | 51 points by bluejay2 11 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. The Censored History of Able Archer 83 (gwu.edu)
    ×1.48 | 2 points by georgecmu 54 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. One-year-olds among those raped during Sudan civil war (bbc.com)
    ×1.06 | 2 points by wslh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Clickwrap vs. wet signature license agreement
    ×0.43 | 1 points by domlebo70 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Lake Nyos Disaster (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.33 36 | 3 points by hansjorg 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Finding a CPU Design Bug in the Xbox 360 (wordpress.com)
    ×1.27 43 | 3 points by ibobev 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Lua 5.5.0 (rc1) has been released for testing (lua.org)
    ×3.79 35 | 53 points by dottrap 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Trellis AI (YC W24) Is Hiring: Streamline access to life-saving therapies (ycombinator.com)
    12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Minisforum Stuffs Entire Arm Homelab in the MS-R1 (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×0.83 56 #75 | 99 points by kencausey 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. V8 Garbage Collector (wingolog.org)
    ×1.64 55 | 121 points by swah 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: I built an HTTP client that perfectly mimics Chrome 142 (github.com/arman-bd)
    ×1.98 154 | 39 points by armanified 1 week ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Code wikis are documentation theater as a service (passo.uno)
    ×1.87 47 #74 | 26 points by theletterf 15 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: High-Performance .NET Bindings for the Vello Sparse Strips CPU Renderer (github.com/wieslawsoltes)
    ×0.48 25 #44 | 12 points by wiso 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Ask HN: How do you monitor the threads on HN you are engaging with?
    ×2.64 47 | 4 points by spacemnstr42069 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Refringence – Learn hardware design by doing projects with an AI mentor (refringence.com)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by jvmenon 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Open Table is spying on you and ratting out your bad habits (nypost.com)
    ×0.89 | 2 points by mgh2 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Chirp – Local Windows dictation with ParakeetV3 no executable required (github.com/Whamp)
    ×0.64 75 | 31 points by whamp 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Report: Tim Cook could step down as Apple CEO 'as soon as next year' (9to5mac.com)
    ×3.42 10 #18 | 121 points by achow 8 hours ago | 238 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: AI Tarot Reading – get instant 1/3-card or (past/now/future) readings (randomtarotcard.org)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by xiaoshumiao 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Mr. Difficult: William Gaddis and the Problem of Hard-to-Read Books (2002) (adilegian.com)
    ×1.80 5 | 4 points by ofalkaed 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. ML Systems Textbook by Havard (mlsysbook.ai)
    ×0.79 | 2 points by vinhnx 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???