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  1. Ask HN: What's a book that fundamentally altered your mental models
    ×1.23 61 | 3 points by brihati 25 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Why is human downloading a file called pirating and AI scraping called training
    ×1.58 70 | 7 points by nutanc 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What is still hard about system design with AI?
    ×0.33 | 2 points by brihati 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tell HN: HN was down
    ×2.76 48 | 595 points by uyzstvqs 3 days ago | 327 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell
    ×2.72 49 | 454 points by cvbox 3 days ago | 529 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2026?
    ×0.84 78 | 102 points by mfrw 4 days ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What public Claude Code MCPs, Skills do you have installed and use?
    ×0.54 | 2 points by franze 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Who here is not working on web apps/server code?
    ×1.49 63 | 83 points by ex-aws-dude 2 days ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Does anyone understand how Hacker News works?
    ×1.96 77 | 163 points by jannesblobel 3 days ago | 226 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Is GitHub becoming more and more unstable?
    ×0.44 106 | 6 points by pavish 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Built a content system that 6x'd traffic. Turning it into product. Want to test?
    ×0.65 98 | 4 points by zchmael 22 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. AI Code assistants has made completing side projects so easy
    ×0.42 82 | 9 points by akmittal 23 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Cloudflare has been broken for 15 hours
    ×1.01 90 | 12 points by Canada 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. LLM Benchmark: Frontier models now statistically indistinguishable
    ×0.24 103 | 4 points by js4ever 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. How would you learn to code in 2026?
    ×0.40 61 | 5 points by jeevships 11 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Is building a calm, non-gamified learning app a mistake?
    ×0.85 108 | 87 points by hussein-khalil 6 days ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. FWS – pip-installable embedded process supervisor with PTY/pipe/dtach back ends
    ×0.52 146 | 5 points by mrsurge 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. The offline geocoder we wanted
    ×0.47 101 | 7 points by gipsyjaeger 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How do you deal with large, hard-to-read Excel formulas?
    ×0.77 120 | 9 points by jack_ruru 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: How are you LLM-coding in an established code base?
    ×1.24 60 | 70 points by adam_gyroscope 4 days ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Should I start a software foundation (goal: help emergency services)?
    ×1.36 128 | 13 points by strgcmc 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Is Stack Overflow Dead?
    ×0.65 105 | 12 points by raphar 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: What would you call a package whose purpose is to import data?
    ×0.42 112 | 7 points by ctc24 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Do you allow vibecoded submissions in your open-source projects?
    ×0.11 140 | 3 points by sneas 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: If you had to get a non-tech masters degree, what would you go for?
    ×0.44 148 | 4 points by highwayman47 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: If one day AI brain chips become a thing, would you get it?
    ×0.50 125 | 6 points by keepamovin 2 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Is RSS Still Alive?
    ×1.22 127 | 11 points by militanz 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Etiquette giving feedback on mostly AI-generated PRs from co-workers
    ×0.42 152 | 4 points by chfritz 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: How do teams remember why infrastructure decisions were made?
    ×0.81 124 | 7 points by curious_sre 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Memory Safety in C# vs. Rust
    ×0.56 141 | 15 points by northlondoner 5 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Is anyone using LLM based document processing in production?
    ×0.81 129 | 7 points by asdev 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Is analytics a necessary evil rather than a real value driver?
    ×0.35 136 | 6 points by tiazm 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: How to fight back against Lovable, Replit, etc. in enterprise products
    ×0.29 155 | 3 points by bears123 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. GitHub Actions Degraded
    ×0.15 156 | 3 points by 1qaboutecs 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Should I Open Source Every Product I Build as an Indie Developer?
    ×0.68 134 | 7 points by tomfox2 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Why do official-looking emails cause anxiety before I read them?
    ×0.35 149 | 4 points by BianDan 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. I built the "package manager" for your icons (one source → consistent outputs)
    ×2.19 | 2 points by Theryston 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: I built an LLM agent that finds you online and roasts you (veris.ai)
    ×0.85 | 2 points by _josh_meyer_ 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Deterministic PCIe Diagnostics for GPUs on Linux (github.com/parallelArchitect)
    ×0.77 132 | 20 points by gpu_systems 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: MomentBridge – A 24KB site to share life moments (pure HTML/CSS/JS) (vnglstzrs.github.io)
    ×1.36 | 2 points by vangelistziaros 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. The scariest boot loader code (online.fr)
    ×1.11 56 | 72 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. AI Makes Documenting Small Open Source Projects Viable (emailengine.app)
    ×2.14 11 | 3 points by andris9 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ireland’s Diarmuid Early wins world Microsoft Excel title (bbc.com)
    ×1.39 17 #19 | 268 points by 1659447091 19 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. William Golding's Island of Savagery (historytoday.com)
    ×0.53 17 #25 | 15 points by samclemens 4 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Everyone knew about Walliams: another powerful man protected at women's expense (millihill.substack.com)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by binning 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Prepare for That Stupid World (ploum.net)
    ×2.53 37 | 170 points by speckx 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. AI's Unpaid Debt: How LLM Scrapers Destroy the Social Contract of Open Source (quippd.com)
    ×2.98 64 | 62 points by birdculture 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Gemini 3 Pro vs. 2.5 Pro in Pokemon Crystal (jcz.dev)
    ×1.73 28 #31 | 302 points by alphabetting 1 day ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. The FreeBSD Foundation's Laptop Support and Usability Project (github.com/FreeBSDFoundation)
    ×1.08 48 #81 | 184 points by mikece 2 days ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Depot (YC W23) Is Hiring an Enterprise Support Engineer (Remote/US) (ycombinator.com)
    21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Extreme brainstorming questions to trigger new, better ideas (2022) (asmartbear.com)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by Brajeshwar 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. LLM Year in Review (bearblog.dev)
    ×3.24 4 | 372 points by swyx 1 day ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Graphite is joining Cursor (cursor.com)
    ×1.59 25 | 267 points by fosterfriends 2 days ago | 251 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: SceneSynth – Text → scene graph → AI render, recursively (github.com/Lywald)
    ×0.56 | 2 points by lywald 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Nano AI - Infinite Canvas AI Image Editor (nanoai.love)
    ×0.96 143 | 3 points by akseli_ukkonen 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Open-source Markdown research tool written in Rust – Ekphos (github.com/hanebox)
    ×0.71 15 #64 | 25 points by haneboxx 9 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Riot's Vanguard Security Update: Closing the Pre-Boot Gap (riotgames.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by areoform 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Trying to Fit a Logistic Curve (johndcook.com)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by ibobev 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Spice Cayenne – SQL acceleration built on Vortex (spice.ai)
    ×1.02 102 | 29 points by lukekim 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Reflections on AI at the End of 2025 (antirez.com)
    ×2.10 27 #59 | 222 points by danielfalbo 1 day ago | 325 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Build Your Own React (pomb.us)
    ×2.24 31 #86 | 176 points by howToTestFE 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Italian bears living near villages have evolved to be smaller and less agressive (phys.org)
    ×1.05 36 #46 | 102 points by wjSgoWPm5bWAhXB 19 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Not a Pipe: The Treachery of Images – Sublius Edition (substack.substack.com)
    ×1.53 | 2 points by spacebacon 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Stephen Sondheim, Puzzle Maestro (newyorker.com)
    ×2.28 51 | 3 points by fortran77 37 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Stainless Transforms: The fast lane for fixing imperfect OpenAPI specs (stainless.com)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by dgellow 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Backing up Spotify (annas-archive.li)
    ×7.06 3 #9 | 1518 points by vitplister 21 hours ago | 511 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Skills Officially Comes to Codex (openai.com)
    ×1.87 40 #41 | 291 points by rochansinha 1 day ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Google Sues SerpApi [pdf] (storage.googleapis.com)
    ×2.28 21 | 3 points by sanj 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Buteyko Method (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.06 54 | 68 points by rzk 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Data Bank – Nuforc – Latest UFO Sightings (nuforc.org)
    ×0.95 58 | 42 points by handfuloflight 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Picknplace.js, an alternative to drag-and-drop (jgthms.com)
    ×2.71 33 | 445 points by bbx 4 days ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Clair Obscur having its Indie Game Game Of The Year award stripped due to AI use (thegamer.com)
    ×3.67 26 #40 | 125 points by anigbrowl 8 hours ago | 289 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Photo Reviewer 4Net (C#, JavaScript, remote web UI, cross platform) (github.com/kjpgit)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by karl_p 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Сulsans – Thread-safe async-aware queue for Python (github.com/x42005e1f)
    ×0.38 | 2 points by x42005e1f 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Inca Stone Masonry (earthasweknowit.com)
    ×1.64 6 #22 | 97 points by jppope 8 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Is Firefox Firefucked? (kevquirk.com)
    ×3.03 75 | 52 points by speckx 2 days ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Self-Monitoring Message Bus in Pure Python (No Dependencies) (github.com/misa76868-lang)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by ultra-meta 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: I built an interactive 3D brain viewer (DK Atlas) (memebu.com)
    ×1.91 94 | 6 points by ronniebasak 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Learn Japanese contextually while browsing (lingoku.ai)
    ×1.62 97 | 91 points by englishcat 4 days ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. From devastation to wonder as Kangaroo Island bushfires lead to cave discoveries (abc.net.au)
    ×1.02 30 #35 | 76 points by speckx 14 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Web-SQLite-JS – Persistent SQLite in the browser via OPFS (wuchuheng.com)
    ×0.92 | 1 points by wuchuheng 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Qwen-Doc (github.com/Tongyi-Zhiwen)
    ×0.79 | 1 points by gmays 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Vis – Combining Modal Editing with Structural Regular Expressions (github.com/martanne)
    ×1.49 | 2 points by Lyngbakr 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Do you want to know the noise level of your environment (realtimesoundmeter.org)
    ×2.25 30 | 3 points by bitvvip 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: The Complete Test – GPT 5.2 vs. Gemini 3.0 pro (clipnotebook.com)
    ×0.61 | 2 points by puildupO 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Ask HN: How do you follow the news?
    ×1.32 | 2 points by Adrig 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Misata – synthetic data engine using LLM and Vectorized NumPy (github.com/rasinmuhammed)
    ×0.43 85 | 23 points by rasinmuhammed 5 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. A terminal emulator that runs in your terminal. Powered by Turbo Vision (github.com/magiblot)
    ×1.12 37 #77 | 117 points by mariuz 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. A twelve-year-old selects his favorite tech and design picks of 2025 (beehiiv.com)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by subdomain 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Automatic Riff Track Creator (github.com/jareklupinski)
    ×0.94 107 | 3 points by jareklupinski 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???