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  1. The offline geocoder we wanted
    ×0.59 3 | 5 points by gipsyjaeger 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Cloudflare has been broken for 15 hours
    ×0.73 9 | 5 points by Canada 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Who here is not working on web apps/server code?
    ×1.63 5 | 79 points by ex-aws-dude 1 day ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2026?
    ×0.91 50 | 98 points by mfrw 3 days ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell
    ×2.81 23 | 441 points by cvbox 2 days ago | 507 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Tell HN: HN was down
    ×2.87 24 | 595 points by uyzstvqs 2 days ago | 327 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
    ×1.67 73 | 437 points by david927 5 days ago | 1444 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What is the most complex software you've built single handedly?
    ×2.45 54 | 3 points by chistev 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Is GitHub becoming more and more unstable?
    ×0.30 62 | 3 points by pavish 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Does anyone understand how Hacker News works?
    ×2.01 55 | 160 points by jannesblobel 2 days ago | 225 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How are you LLM-coding in an established code base?
    ×1.26 13 | 68 points by adam_gyroscope 3 days ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Is Stack Overflow Dead?
    ×0.73 65 | 12 points by raphar 18 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Is starting a personal blog still worth it in the age of AI?
    ×1.11 110 | 63 points by nazarh 5 days ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What would you call a package whose purpose is to import data?
    ×0.47 75 | 7 points by ctc24 19 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Do you allow vibecoded submissions in your open-source projects?
    ×0.12 93 | 3 points by sneas 21 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Is building a calm, non-gamified learning app a mistake?
    ×0.85 89 | 86 points by hussein-khalil 4 days ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. FWS – pip-installable embedded process supervisor with PTY/pipe/dtach back ends
    ×0.55 134 | 4 points by mrsurge 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How do you deal with large, hard-to-read Excel formulas?
    ×0.82 83 | 8 points by jack_ruru 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: If one day AI brain chips become a thing, would you get it?
    ×0.58 85 | 6 points by keepamovin 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Should I start a software foundation (goal: help emergency services)?
    ×1.52 108 | 12 points by strgcmc 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: How do teams remember why infrastructure decisions were made?
    ×0.81 92 | 6 points by curious_sre 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Is anyone using LLM based document processing in production?
    ×0.94 98 | 7 points by asdev 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Is RSS Still Alive?
    ×1.29 103 | 10 points by militanz 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Tell HN: Cloudflare Down Again?
    ×1.84 77 | 9 points by valtlfelipe 23 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Etiquette giving feedback on mostly AI-generated PRs from co-workers
    ×0.49 138 | 4 points by chfritz 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Is analytics a necessary evil rather than a real value driver?
    ×0.39 109 | 6 points by tiazm 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: How to fight back against Lovable, Replit, etc. in enterprise products
    ×0.33 129 | 3 points by bears123 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. GitHub Actions Degraded
    ×0.20 130 | 3 points by 1qaboutecs 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Should I Open Source Every Product I Build as an Indie Developer?
    ×0.78 106 | 7 points by tomfox2 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: If you had to get a non-tech masters degree, what would you go for?
    ×0.25 | 2 points by highwayman47 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Why do official-looking emails cause anxiety before I read them?
    ×0.40 119 | 4 points by BianDan 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Decentralized Auth for Information Exchange?
    ×0.25 | 2 points by vxsz 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Memory Safety in C# vs. Rust
    ×0.54 124 | 14 points by northlondoner 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Tell HN: iOS 18.7.3 Update Hidden
    ×1.09 88 | 6 points by alemanek 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Google's AI quoted me verbatim 12 days later
    ×0.98 148 | 3 points by rkagerer 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Bloggers, how do you manage your content?
    ×0.77 142 | 12 points by freemanjiang 4 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Claude Opus 4.5 vs. GPT 5.1 Codex Max for coding. Worth the upgrade?
    ×0.67 150 | 5 points by terabytest 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Code Orange: Fail Small – our resilience plan following recent incidents (cloudflare.com)
    ×2.76 28 | 5 points by cloudflare728 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. OpenCyc 4.0 (sourceforge.net)
    ×0.87 | 2 points by swatson741 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: TinyPDF – 3kb pdf library (70x smaller than jsPDF) (github.com/Lulzx)
    ×1.75 9 #29 | 185 points by lulzx 16 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Data Bank – Nuforc – Latest UFO Sightings (nuforc.org)
    ×1.09 13 #35 | 32 points by handfuloflight 4 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. You can now play Grand Theft Auto Vice City in the browser (dos.zone)
    ×4.11 54 #70 | 308 points by Alifatisk 15 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Jax-JS: an ML library for the web (ekzhang.substack.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by samuel246 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Robocop – The Future of Copy Protection (home.blog)
    ×1.06 | 2 points by neitsa 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. 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 | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. The most banned books in U.S. schools (pen.org)
    ×2.79 52 | 89 points by FigurativeVoid 1 day ago | 249 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Graphite is joining Cursor (cursor.com)
    ×1.67 20 #20 | 230 points by fosterfriends 18 hours ago | 233 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Len Sassaman and Satoshi: A Cypherpunk History (medium.com)
    ×1.37 7 #57 | 4 points by chistev 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Detailed balance in large language model-driven agents (arxiv.org)
    ×0.42 61 #74 | 20 points by Anon84 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Google's boomerang year: 20% of AI engineers hired in 2025 were ex-employees (cnbc.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by arberavdullahu 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Skills for organizations, partners, the ecosystem (claude.com)
    ×1.35 14 | 284 points by adocomplete 1 day ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Valve is running Apple's playbook in reverse (garbagecollected.dev)
    ×1.72 46 | 141 points by ee64a4a 1 day ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. A school locked down after AI flagged a gun. It was a clarinet (washingtonpost.com)
    ×3.29 58 | 102 points by reaperducer 1 day ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Agents.db – an AGENTS.md alternative for LLM agent context (github.com/krazyjakee)
    ×0.70 | 2 points by krazyjakee 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Toad. A unified terminal UI for coding agents (github.com/batrachianai)
    ×1.94 96 | 9 points by willm 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Thing, Creature, or Mirror? The Standards We Set for AI (msthgn.com)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by msthgn 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. SMB Direct – SMB3 over RDMA (kernel.org)
    ×0.78 45 | 70 points by tambourine_man 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Made a plugin where you can generate consistent illustrations in Figma (figma.com)
    ×0.43 | 2 points by Kristjan_Retter 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. A better zip bomb (2019) (bamsoftware.com)
    ×1.27 13 #21 | 139 points by kekqqq 13 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Android introduces $2-4 install fee and 10–20% cut for US external content links (google.com)
    ×4.50 42 #47 | 175 points by radley 5 hours ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. People Watched 700M Hours of YouTube Podcasts on TV in October (bloomberg.com)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by solalf 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Bird Radio (bird-radio.pages.dev)
    ×1.18 82 | 3 points by chill_ai_guy 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Xsql – SQL schema conversion via an intermediate representation (Rust) (github.com/Dawaman43)
    ×0.89 94 | 4 points by dawitworku 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Designing a Passive Lidar Detector Device (atredis.com)
    ×0.81 49 #68 | 78 points by speckx 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. New Design for the Official Ruby Website (ruby-lang.org)
    ×0.71 | 1 points by thunderbong 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. How to Watch the Ursids Winter Solstice Meteor Shower (nytimes.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by quapster 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. LG forced a Copilot web app onto its TVs but will let you delete it (theverge.com)
    ×1.36 43 | 3 points by breve 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. The immortality of Microsoft Word (versionstory.com)
    ×1.18 60 | 67 points by jpbryan 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: MDXport – Browser-Based Markdown to PDF Using Typst and WASM (mdxport.com)
    ×1.82 132 | 5 points by ZacharyZZ 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: My Personal Portfolio (omakidx.me)
    ×0.37 | 2 points by Omakidx 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Mistral OCR 3 (mistral.ai)
    ×2.68 4 #6 | 541 points by pember 15 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. What Makes You Senior (terriblesoftware.org)
    ×1.77 59 #53 | 45 points by mooreds 18 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Using TypeScript to obtain one of the rarest license plates (jack.bio)
    ×1.11 62 #69 | 184 points by lafond 1 day ago | 197 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. AMD officially confirms fresh next-gen Zen 6 CPU details (overclock3d.net)
    ×1.71 2 | 88 points by akyuu 20 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: A pager (udp7777.com)
    ×0.89 87 | 104 points by keepamovin 5 days ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: A lightweight DLP browser extension to prevent data leaks in LLM tools (asturic.com)
    ×1.10 | 2 points by __alberto 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Footywhoops – MIDI Sequencer Software (github.com/system32-ai)
    ×0.82 153 | 4 points by debarshri 4 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Are Apple gift cards safe to redeem? (daringfireball.net)
    ×4.20 9 | 550 points by tosh 1 day ago | 462 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Privacy doesn't mean anything anymore, anonymity does (servury.com)
    ×2.21 6 #12 | 93 points by ybceo 4 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. A tagging system for documentation review comments (techdocs.studio)
    ×0.72 21 #43 | 17 points by dgarcia360 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Buteyko Method (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.02 18 #49 | 58 points by rzk 13 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Noclip.website – A digital museum of video game levels (noclip.website)
    ×2.86 14 #73 | 456 points by ivmoreau 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. I built FoodieLens because ordering food should not be a gamble (foodielens.app)
    ×0.78 | 1 points by MikeyLi 14 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Epstein Files Browser (epstein-files-browser.vercel.app)
    ×1.90 | 2 points by helloplanets 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Subscription with a 3-year trial period (google.com)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by Typexex 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Most parked domains now serving malicious content (krebsonsecurity.com)
    ×1.84 48 | 143 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: High-Performance Wavelet Matrix for Python, Implemented in Rust (pypi.org)
    ×0.62 71 | 91 points by math-hiyoko 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: GhostStream – zero-config hardware-accelerated video transcoding (github.com/BleedingXiko)
    ×0.52 | 2 points by BleedingXiko 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Gh-actions-lockfile: generate and verify lockfiles for GitHub Actions (gh-actions-lockfile.net)
    ×0.73 20 #26 | 36 points by gjtorikian 7 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. The post-GeForce era: What if Nvidia abandons PC gaming? (pcworld.com)
    ×2.90 19 #44 | 4 points by taubek 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???