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  1. Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?
    ×2.80 31 #70 | 405 points by nishilpatel 1 day ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: Merry Christmas
    ×0.79 4 #73 | 6 points by franze 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Stronk.app – open-source gym lifts journal
    ×0.96 15 #87 | 53 points by apatheticonion 14 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Which is the best sync engine?
    ×0.74 6 | 4 points by olivieropinotti 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Anybody here ever write apps for Windows Phone?
    ×0.82 54 | 3 points by ge96 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Tell HN: Merry Christmas
    ×3.85 27 | 10 points by teruakohatu 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What did you lose forever because you had no backup?
    ×1.04 64 | 12 points by postit 16 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: My mother was scammed out of all her savings. What should I do?
    ×2.16 61 | 128 points by scapbi 2 days ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Can You Patent Prompts?
    ×0.51 84 | 12 points by rcarmo 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Tell HN: HN was down
    ×2.71 85 | 599 points by uyzstvqs 6 days ago | 327 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell
    ×2.73 90 | 476 points by cvbox 6 days ago | 550 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2026?
    ×0.88 109 | 113 points by mfrw 1 week ago | 197 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. I built two dozen single-file HTML tools that run offline and need no back end
    ×0.64 104 | 16 points by ajtracysk 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Oberon et al., vs. Rust
    ×0.41 96 | 15 points by mikethe 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What's the most open/hacker friendly Android phone for 2026?
    ×0.76 97 | 15 points by recvonline 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Why are we accepting silent data corruption in Vector Search? (x86 vs. ARM)
    ×0.68 93 | 5 points by varshith17 21 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What would you do if you didn't work in tech?
    ×1.60 74 | 61 points by johnathandos 1 day ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Resources to get better at outbound sales?
    ×0.33 142 | 5 points by sieep 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What developer tool do you wish existed in 2026?
    ×0.62 122 | 16 points by allenleee 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Does anyone understand how Hacker News works?
    ×1.91 105 | 169 points by jannesblobel 6 days ago | 229 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Broadcom Changing Licensing to BSL
    ×0.28 129 | 10 points by CubsFan1060 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Migrating old Substack posts to my own blog, have a question
    ×0.11 | 2 points by Praddy 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. FWS – pip-installable embedded process supervisor with PTY/pipe/dtach back ends
    ×0.19 119 | 16 points by mrsurge 6 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How many email accounts do you have?
    ×0.59 132 | 9 points by asim 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Who here is not working on web apps/server code?
    ×1.36 108 | 84 points by ex-aws-dude 5 days ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Is GitHub becoming more and more unstable?
    ×0.47 144 | 9 points by pavish 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: How do I bridge the gap between PhD and SWE experiences?
    ×0.54 152 | 4 points by ecophyseis 5 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: How do you deal with large, hard-to-read Excel formulas?
    ×0.84 146 | 13 points by jack_ruru 5 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Why isn't there competition to LinkedIn yet?
    ×2.45 68 | 54 points by antfie 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: LLMKit – Compare LLMs side-by-side with real-time streaming (llmkit.cc)
    ×0.45 | 2 points by chieund 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Learn Lisp/Fennel Programming Against Neovim (github.com/humorless)
    ×0.78 42 #32 | 64 points by veqq 15 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. The post-GeForce era: What if Nvidia abandons PC gaming? (pcworld.com)
    ×1.90 8 #88 | 130 points by taubek 22 hours ago | 262 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. 2025: The year of the global cloud outage (statusgator.com)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by colinbartlett 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine (nytimes.com)
    ×5.38 37 | 217 points by karakoram 1 day ago | 271 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Postponed '60 Minutes' segment on Salvadoran prison is streamed by Canadian news (nbcnews.com)
    ×10.90 5 | 157 points by duxup 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. When irate product support customers demand to speak to Bill Gates (microsoft.com)
    ×2.64 14 | 75 points by magnat 22 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. The Breachies 2025: The Worst, Weirdest Most Impactful Data Breaches of the Year (eff.org)
    ×3.66 45 | 5 points by thread_id 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Executorch: On-device AI across mobile, embedded and edge for PyTorch (github.com/pytorch)
    ×0.75 63 #44 | 115 points by klaussilveira 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Notes for December 9-24 (taoofmac.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by rcarmo 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Real-time SF 911 dispatch feed (open source) (sfpoliceblotter.com)
    ×1.02 147 | 3 points by 1zael 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves (404media.co)
    ×4.49 5 #61 | 793 points by chaps 1 day ago | 468 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Stop Slopware (stopslopware.net)
    ×2.84 18 | 136 points by bradley_taunt 22 hours ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: I Built a US Grid Telemetry API Using Azure Functions and Python (github.com/Norris-Eng)
    ×0.81 115 | 3 points by Norris-Eng 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Linggen – A local-first memory layer for your AI (Cursor, Zed, Claude) (github.com/linggen)
    ×0.88 127 | 36 points by linggen 4 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. I'm returning my Framework 16 (yorickpeterse.com)
    ×3.45 53 | 5 points by YorickPeterse 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. The Port I couldn't Ship (ammil.industries)
    ×1.20 5 #3 | 27 points by cjlm 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Astrophotography Target Planner: Discover Hidden Nebulas (astroimagery.com)
    ×0.56 59 #60 | 58 points by kianN 23 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Partial inlining (xania.org)
    ×0.63 66 #76 | 59 points by hasheddan 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Microspeak: North Star – The Old New Thing (2015) (microsoft.com)
    ×0.49 53 #78 | 24 points by rbanffy 16 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. C++ Container Choice and Its Impact on Performance (techfortalk.co.uk)
    ×0.92 | 1 points by vivekbhadra 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Paperzilla Digested Scientist (twitter.com/Paperzilla_ai)
    ×1.73 | 2 points by flubble 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Semantic Coverage – A tool to visualize RAG blind spots using UMAP (github.com/aashirpersonal)
    ×1.40 31 | 3 points by aashirpersonal 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: An easy way of broadcasting radio around you (looking for feedback) (github.com/dpipstudio)
    ×0.48 87 | 36 points by douxx 6 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: I built a 1‑dollar feedback tool as a Sunday side project (onedollarfeedback.com)
    ×3.65 113 | 19 points by jeremy0405 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. What makes you senior (terriblesoftware.org)
    ×2.78 118 #52 | 368 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. ICP and PMF End Up Killing Your Real Business (oswarld.com)
    ×1.42 | 2 points by haebom 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Static Allocation for Compilers (matklad.github.io)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by ibobev 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Dutch rental fleet Mistergreen goes bankrupt after betting on Tesla self-driving (guessingheadlights.com)
    ×4.90 54 | 49 points by toss1 9 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: RenderCV – Open-source CV/resume generator, YAML to PDF (github.com/rendercv)
    ×1.09 86 | 97 points by sinaatalay 3 days ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Instant database clones with PostgreSQL 18 (boringsql.com)
    ×2.23 8 #56 | 403 points by radimm 1 day ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. ReadAloud – Hear anything on you Mac (readaloud-sigma.vercel.app)
    ×1.30 | 2 points by 0nabilbk 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. FCC Updates Covered List to Include Foreign UAS and UAS Critical Components [pdf] (fcc.gov)
    ×0.97 43 | 103 points by Espressosaurus 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. (Social) media manipulation in one image (kerkour.com)
    ×2.80 80 | 51 points by randomint64 2 days ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Don't Become the Machine (bearblog.dev)
    ×2.27 2 #21 | 140 points by armeetj 11 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Cryptographers Show That AI Protections Will Always Have Holes (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by sonabinu 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Davy Lamp (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.23 9 | 3 points by pinkmuffinere 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Usefull Items Forsale (clone-hosting.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by MarshallJhon 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Why Wormholes Are Making Headlines (backreaction.blogspot.com)
    ×1.27 | 2 points by tsenturk 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Inside CECOT – 60 Minutes [video] (archive.org)
    ×14.66 22 #43 | 1560 points by lawlessone 1 day ago | 509 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: I scraped Honey's affiliate database and now sharing the analysis (ecomscout.com)
    ×2.79 30 | 4 points by germa 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: CarryFit – Open-source carry-on compliance checker for 170 airlines (carryon.fit)
    ×1.11 102 | 3 points by axeluser 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. US destroying its reputation as a scientific leader – European science diplomat (sciencebusiness.net)
    ×6.88 39 | 178 points by xqcgrek2 1 day ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. 60 Minutes: Cecot
    ×7.80 21 | 162 points by jtgeibel 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. The biggest CRT ever made: Sony's PVM-4300 (dfarq.homeip.net)
    ×1.33 37 #84 | 278 points by giuliomagnifico 2 days ago | 179 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. OpenTV Player – Cross-Platform IPTV Player for macOS and Windows (Open Source) (github.com/jaccon)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by jaccon 26 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. The Egghead Breach of 2000 (dfarq.homeip.net)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by speckx 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Leash – Security guardrails for AI coding agents (github.com/melihmucuk)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by melihmucuk 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Sisu – Browse AWS as a Filesystem (github.com/semonte)
    ×1.48 130 | 5 points by smonte 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Stickerbox, a kid-safe, AI-powered voice to sticker printer (stickerbox.com)
    ×0.73 120 | 46 points by spydertennis 4 days ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS (github.com/bellard)
    ×4.66 4 #2 | 1221 points by Aissen 21 hours ago | 443 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Avoid Mini-Frameworks (laike9m.com)
    ×1.75 18 #20 | 52 points by laike9m 2 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Perfect Software – Software for an Audience of One (outofdesk.netlify.app)
    ×1.27 19 #24 | 166 points by ggauravr 19 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Dancing around the rhythm space with Euclid (pv.wtf)
    ×0.58 76 #64 | 46 points by dracyr 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. TermsTooLong: Plain-language analysis of Terms and Conditions (termstoolong.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by thunderbong 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Study Shows Alzheimer's Disease Can Be Reversed in Animal Models (uhhospitals.org)
    ×1.28 | 2 points by bilsbie 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: I built an open-source Linux-capable single-board computer with DDR3 (github.com/cheyao)
    ×0.94 | 1 points by Cyao 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Turning code execution logic into support-friendly flow diagrams (github.com/KalaINC)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by KalaINC 59 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Nano Banana – Structured AI prompts for commercial design (nanobananaimages.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by danielvers 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Our vibe coded openrouter alternative just made over $40k last 30 days (trustmrr.com)
    ×0.49 | 2 points by smakosh 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Gaming Couch – a local multiplayer party game platform for 8 players (gamingcouch.com)
    ×2.01 151 | 3 points by ChaosOp 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???