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  1. Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2026?
    ×0.94 18 | 89 points by mfrw 2 days ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Is Stack Overflow Dead?
    ×0.33 3 | 4 points by raphar 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What would you call a package whose purpose is to import data?
    ×0.61 15 | 7 points by ctc24 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell
    ×2.84 8 | 429 points by cvbox 1 day ago | 502 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: HN was down
    ×2.90 13 | 595 points by uyzstvqs 2 days ago | 326 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
    ×1.67 82 | 437 points by david927 5 days ago | 1443 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Do you allow vibecoded submissions in your open-source projects?
    ×0.14 58 | 3 points by sneas 5 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Does anyone understand how Hacker News works?
    ×2.06 46 | 158 points by jannesblobel 1 day ago | 217 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Tell HN: AI coding is sexy, but accounting is the real low-hanging target
    ×0.64 97 | 64 points by bmadduma 1 week ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: How do you deal with large, hard-to-read Excel formulas?
    ×0.76 83 | 6 points by jack_ruru 15 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: If one day AI brain chips become a thing, would you get it?
    ×0.68 74 | 6 points by keepamovin 12 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Tell HN: Cloudflare Down Again?
    ×2.47 28 | 9 points by valtlfelipe 7 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. FWS – pip-installable embedded process supervisor with PTY/pipe/dtach back ends
    ×0.71 137 | 4 points by mrsurge 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Is starting a personal blog still worth it in the age of AI?
    ×1.14 122 | 63 points by nazarh 4 days ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How do teams remember why infrastructure decisions were made?
    ×0.79 94 | 5 points by curious_sre 16 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Who here is not working on web apps/server code?
    ×1.15 87 | 13 points by ex-aws-dude 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Computer animator and Amiga fanatic Dick van Dyke turns 100
    ×1.91 99 | 281 points by ggm 6 days ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Is building a calm, non-gamified learning app a mistake?
    ×0.86 108 | 86 points by hussein-khalil 4 days ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Is anyone using LLM based document processing in production?
    ×1.09 95 | 7 points by asdev 20 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Should I start a software foundation (goal: help emergency services)?
    ×1.74 115 | 12 points by strgcmc 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Is analytics a necessary evil rather than a real value driver?
    ×0.43 103 | 6 points by tiazm 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Is RSS Still Alive?
    ×1.46 107 | 10 points by militanz 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: How to fight back against Lovable, Replit, etc. in enterprise products
    ×0.36 129 | 3 points by bears123 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. GitHub Actions Degraded
    ×0.25 130 | 3 points by 1qaboutecs 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Should I Open Source Every Product I Build as an Indie Developer?
    ×0.72 110 | 6 points by tomfox2 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: If you had to get a non-tech masters degree, what would you go for?
    ×0.27 | 2 points by highwayman47 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Etiquette giving feedback on mostly AI-generated PRs from co-workers
    ×0.53 141 | 4 points by chfritz 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Why do official-looking emails cause anxiety before I read them?
    ×0.44 124 | 4 points by BianDan 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Tell HN: iOS 18.7.3 Update Hidden
    ×0.99 89 | 5 points by alemanek 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?
    ×2.86 90 | 467 points by lemonlime227 6 days ago | 466 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Decentralized Auth for Information Exchange?
    ×0.29 | 2 points by vxsz 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: How are you vibe coding in an established code base?
    ×0.55 142 | 12 points by adam_gyroscope 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Memory Safety in C# vs. Rust
    ×0.55 143 | 14 points by northlondoner 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Breaking Changes in Python-3.14
    ×1.41 96 | 6 points by wef 20 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Google's AI quoted me verbatim 12 days later
    ×0.53 | 2 points by rkagerer 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Did anyone else notice that the OpenAI Labs website was completely gone?
    ×0.50 157 | 27 points by underlipton 1 week ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Claude Opus 4.5 vs. GPT 5.1 Codex Max for coding. Worth the upgrade?
    ×0.69 160 | 5 points by terabytest 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: How are you building your MCP servers?
    ×1.48 | 2 points by block_dagger 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Coding Agent Is a Slot Machine (kvit.app)
    ×1.37 | 2 points by skolos 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. How SQLite is tested (sqlite.org)
    ×1.86 32 | 313 points by whatisabcdefgh 2 days ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Cordon – Reduce large log files to anomalous sections (github.com/calebevans)
    ×0.72 146 | 20 points by calebevans 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Building a Transparent Keyserver (filippo.io)
    ×0.71 2 #22 | 35 points by noident 3 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Working quickly is more important than it seems (2015) (jsomers.net)
    ×1.76 44 #82 | 261 points by bschne 1 day ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. What is an elliptic curve? (2019) (johndcook.com)
    ×0.86 47 | 134 points by tzury 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Why do commercial spaces sit vacant? (strongtowns.org)
    ×5.21 63 | 119 points by NaOH 1 day ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Heart and Kidney Diseases and Type 2 Diabetes May Be One Ailment (scientificamerican.com)
    ×1.43 52 | 68 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Agents.db – an AGENTS.md alternative for LLM agent context (github.com/krazyjakee)
    ×0.83 | 2 points by krazyjakee 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Prepare for That Stupid World (ploum.net)
    ×2.45 5 #11 | 59 points by speckx 1 hour ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Helping others for a few hours a week may slow brain aging (sciencedaily.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by saikatsg 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. TikTok signs Trump-backed deal to avoid US ban (theguardian.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by bookofjoe 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Syntax highlighting library in Rust that matches VSCode (github.com/getzola)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by Keats 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: CommerceTXT – An open standard for AI shopping context (like llms.txt) (commercetxt.org)
    ×0.32 1 | 18 points by tsazan 3 days ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: I implemented generics in my programming language (axe-docs.pages.dev)
    ×0.54 2 #69 | 34 points by death_eternal 7 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Dogalog: A realtime Prolog-based livecoding music environment (github.com/danja)
    ×0.86 54 #85 | 77 points by triska 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chips (japantimes.co.jp)
    ×2.37 21 #32 | 436 points by artninja1988 23 hours ago | 527 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. VRChat: “There are more Japanese creators than all other countries combined” (twitter.com/chyadosensei)
    ×1.76 75 | 76 points by numpad0 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: MiraTTS, a 48kHz Open-Source TTS at 100x Real-Time Speed (github.com/ysharma3501)
    ×0.24 | 2 points by Yatharth3501 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Getting bitten by Intel's poor naming schemes (lorendb.dev)
    ×1.44 16 #19 | 235 points by LorenDB 13 hours ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts (github.com/DGoettlich)
    ×3.57 2 #25 | 669 points by iamwil 20 hours ago | 327 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Why we're taking legal action against SerpApi's unlawful scraping (blog.google)
    ×4.84 71 | 6 points by xnx 18 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Effective CTest [pdf] (cppnow.org)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by ValtteriL 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. North Korean infiltrator caught at Amazon due to 110ms keystroke lag (tomshardware.com)
    ×4.40 22 | 69 points by bns 21 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Zenflow – orchestrate coding agents without "you're right" loops (zencoder.ai)
    ×0.79 118 | 31 points by andrewsthoughts 3 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications will be made open access (acm.org)
    ×6.66 12 #6 | 1923 points by Kerrick 1 day ago | 232 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. SMB Direct – SMB3 over RDMA (kernel.org)
    ×0.73 42 #46 | 58 points by tambourine_man 14 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Turn around and run (lrb.co.uk)
    ×1.50 | 2 points by lermontov 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Help my website is too small (lukeplant.me.uk)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by todsacerdoti 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. 'Ghost jobs' are on the rise – and so are calls to ban them (bbc.com)
    ×3.04 26 | 199 points by 1659447091 1 day ago | 239 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Cloudflare Radar 2025 Year in Review (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.15 62 | 116 points by ksec 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: BlazeDiff v2 – Fastest image diff with native binary and SIMD (github.com/teimurjan)
    ×0.84 55 | 4 points by teimurjan 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Delty (YC X25) Is Hiring an ML Engineer (ycombinator.com)
    21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Top Open Source Authorization Libraries (2024) (permify.co)
    ×0.54 50 #74 | 17 points by mooreds 11 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: C-compiler to compile TCC for live-bootstrap (github.com/FransFaase)
    ×1.43 132 | 6 points by fjfaase 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Do communities have leverage against $70 games?
    ×0.55 | 1 points by v_Anxiety_v 47 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. TikTok Deal Is the Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse (techdirt.com)
    ×4.67 15 #17 | 197 points by lateforwork 2 hours ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Pa. high court rules that police can access Google searches without a warrant (therecord.media)
    ×3.85 69 | 5 points by GeekyBear 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: A Full-Control Cloud That Puts You in Charge of Your Deployments (hubfly.space)
    ×0.66 155 | 3 points by octave12 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: The feature gap "Chat with PDF" tuts and a regulated enterprise system (github.com/2dogsandanerd)
    ×0.88 156 | 3 points by 2dogsanerd 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: My Personal Portfolio (omakidx.me)
    ×0.37 | 2 points by Omakidx 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Programming language speed comparison using Leibniz formula for π (niklas-heer.github.io)
    ×0.96 10 #9 | 26 points by PKop 2 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. AI will kill all the lawyers (spectator.com)
    ×1.71 23 #21 | 10 points by 015UUZn8aEvW 2 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Toad. A unified terminal UI for coding agents (github.com/batrachianai)
    ×1.22 104 | 6 points by willm 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: A local-first memory store for LLM agents (SQLite) (github.com/CaviraOSS)
    ×0.78 61 | 47 points by nullure 5 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Git rewind – your Git year in review (gitrewind.dev)
    ×1.25 113 | 5 points by thijser 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Open-Source Browser Use LLM (30B, A3B) (huggingface.co)
    ×1.42 | 2 points by gregpr07 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: TheAuditor v2.0 – A “Flight Computer” for AI Coding Agents (github.com/TheAuditorTool)
    ×0.65 102 | 38 points by ThailandJohn 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Ducktape – a tiny HTTP/2 wrapper around DuckDB's Appender API (github.com/artie-labs)
    ×2.59 148 | 11 points by williamhaw 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Graphite Is Joining Cursor (cursor.com)
    ×2.68 29 #38 | 64 points by fosterfriends 2 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. The Scottish Highlands, the Appalachians, Atlas are the same mountain range (vividmaps.com)
    ×1.31 38 #60 | 137 points by lifeisstillgood 23 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. I got hacked: My Hetzner server started mining Monero (jakesaunders.dev)
    ×3.18 6 | 589 points by jakelsaunders94 1 day ago | 385 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???