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  1. Console.text() – SMS alerts when code executes
    ×0.68 14 | 3 points by Noel04 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What hard problems are still underexplored?
    ×0.26 16 | 4 points by brihati 5 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Agentic QA – Open-source middleware to fuzz-test agents for loops
    ×0.19 64 | 36 points by Saurabh_Kumar_ 1 week ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines?
    ×6.84 48 | 948 points by embedding-shape 1 day ago | 456 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Why are "remote" jobs in late 2025 still limited to hiring in US/CA/UK/DE?
    ×0.90 66 | 18 points by ftonato 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
    ×0.97 73 | 228 points by proberts 5 days ago | 304 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
    ×1.69 61 | 19 points by mchaver 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2025)
    ×0.73 119 | 160 points by whoishiring 1 week ago | 432 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How do small businesses handle phone calls?
    ×0.17 78 | 4 points by duckkg5 20 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Is any of you using LLMs to create full features in big enterprise apps?
    ×0.44 86 | 6 points by not_that_d 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Is there a "good" (non-privacy horror) aftermarket HUD for your car?
    ×0.21 90 | 3 points by xrd 21 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: How can I learn smartphone repair online?
    ×0.29 85 | 4 points by rishikeshs 22 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Quality of recent gens of Dell/Lenovo laptops worse than 10 years ago?
    ×0.77 130 | 112 points by ferguess_k 1 week ago | 207 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)
    ×1.27 97 | 315 points by whoishiring 1 week ago | 528 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What are young technically minded people reading?
    ×0.63 84 | 12 points by drdec 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Is it still worth learning a new programming language?
    ×1.03 68 | 11 points by xparadigm 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. What's Next? Clippy Copilot?
    ×0.36 109 | 7 points by johnnyballgame 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Are there any viable Android phones for a power user to buy nowadays?
    ×0.43 117 | 12 points by gooob 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Modern C# book for experienced developers?
    ×0.66 132 | 30 points by Fire-Dragon-DoL 5 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Cursor and Claude Opus 4.5 is a game changer
    ×0.45 121 | 17 points by seinecle 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Show HN: LocalDrop – Private, client-side HEIC converter (Next.js and WASM) (jaid.dev)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by ntempus 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Stephen Hawking's floppy disks: an interview with Leontien Talboom (aip.org)
    ×1.27 | 2 points by fanf2 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. 10 Years of Let's Encrypt (letsencrypt.org)
    ×4.01 46 | 800 points by SGran 1 day ago | 339 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Show HN: RAG in 3 Lines of Python (pypi.org)
    ×3.46 137 | 41 points by init0 1 week ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Django: what’s new in 6.0 (adamj.eu)
    ×1.82 10 #85 | 366 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Linux CVEs, more than you ever wanted to know (kroah.com)
    ×0.81 39 #80 | 97 points by voxadam 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Vibing on the fly by having an LLM write functions during runtime (github.com/ramiluisto)
    ×0.83 | 1 points by matriisitulo 10 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. US forces take over sanctioned, stateless VLCC off Venezuela (lloydslist.com)
    ×1.28 | 2 points by monerozcash 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Post-transformer inference: 224× compression of Llama-70B with improved accuracy (zenodo.org)
    ×1.53 35 | 71 points by anima-core 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Cupcake – Better performance and security for coding agents (via OPA) (github.com/eqtylab)
    ×4.34 57 | 12 points by ramoz 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: DskDitto (github.com/jdefrancesco)
    ×0.82 116 | 3 points by jdefr89 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: I built a dashboard to compare mortgage rates across 120 credit unions (finfam.app)
    ×2.25 74 | 391 points by mhashemi 1 week ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Fossils reveal anacondas have been giants for over 12 million years (cam.ac.uk)
    ×0.73 18 #21 | 51 points by ashishgupta2209 9 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Finding Broken Migrations with Bisect (iain-rocks.pages.dev)
    ×1.00 | 1 points by that_guy_iain 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Metir AI: Your Second Brain (metirai.com)
    ×5.13 77 | 5 points by thewanit1 13 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Does professional coding make you forget the "magic" feeling?
    ×1.30 | 2 points by Gooblebrai 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Lymphoma Treatment Reaches 100% Survival Rates in Large-Scale Study (themedialine.org)
    ×2.60 26 | 4 points by nsoonhui 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Using Claude Code to Fine-Tune Open Source LLMs (huggingface.co)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by victormustar 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in C? (stephenramsay.net)
    ×2.79 19 #78 | 610 points by sramsay 1 day ago | 588 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Diesel-guard – Lint Diesel migrations for unsafe PostgreSQL patterns (github.com/ayarotsky)
    ×0.88 102 | 18 points by ayarotsky 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: We vibe coded our team's issue tracker, knowledge base, telemetry board
    ×1.42 106 | 7 points by bhackett 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Vieta Space, a visual LaTeX math editor (vietaspace.com)
    ×1.19 134 | 4 points by liamhawtin 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Open-Source Excel AI Agent (github.com/SylvianAI)
    ×0.95 70 | 3 points by williamshuang 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Book Notes: The Technological Republic (substack.substack.com)
    ×0.81 | 1 points by barry-cotter 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. How to Turn "Invisible Work" into a Salary Raise (Ft. AI Prompts) (insightlog.substack.com)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by chaewonlog 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. The stack circuitry of the Intel 8087 floating point chip, reverse-engineered (righto.com)
    ×0.87 39 #73 | 138 points by elpocko 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: AlgoDrill – Interactive drills to stop forgetting LeetCode patterns (algodrill.io)
    ×1.01 29 | 173 points by henwfan 2 days ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Freedom Graph – FI calculator that models sequence-of-returns risk (freedomgraph.com)
    ×0.62 | 2 points by Nathanadian 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. How the Brain Parses Language (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.03 10 #10 | 34 points by mylifeandtimes 4 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Why the Sanitizer API is just `setHTML()` (frederikbraun.de)
    ×1.05 9 #51 | 124 points by birdculture 20 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: NextUnicorn – Swipe to validate SaaS ideas before building them (nextunicorn.app)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by killersheep 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Cloth Simulation (mikail-khan.com)
    ×1.63 26 #46 | 198 points by adamch 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Octopii, a runtime for writing distributed applications in Rust (github.com/octopii-rs)
    ×1.95 93 | 17 points by puterbonga 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: VoxCSS – A DOM based voxel engine (github.com/LayoutitStudio)
    ×0.78 32 #50 | 45 points by rofko 14 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. The AI-Education Death Spiral a.k.a. Let the Kids Cheat (anandsanwal.me)
    ×2.81 37 | 68 points by LouisLazaris 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: I got tired of switching AI tools, so I built an IDE with 11 of them (hivetechs.io)
    ×0.84 75 | 18 points by hivetechs 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Nano PDF – A CLI Tool to Edit PDFs with Gemini's Nano Banana (github.com/gavrielc)
    ×1.18 128 | 176 points by GavCo 1 week ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: TreatyHopper – Pay Less Taxes (treatyhopper.com)
    ×0.88 | 2 points by realberkeaslan 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. When would you ever want bubblesort? (2023) (buttondown.com)
    ×0.98 1 #42 | 96 points by atan2 14 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Glyphosate safety article retracted 8 years after Monsanto ghostwriting revealed (retractionwatch.com)
    ×2.94 4 | 61 points by robtherobber 18 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. The future of Terraform CDK (github.com/hashicorp)
    ×1.05 13 #34 | 114 points by mfornasa 16 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Helping aspiring founders with startup ideas
    ×2.64 47 | 5 points by suhaspatil101 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Big Tech are the new Soviets (unherd.com)
    ×3.45 23 | 52 points by saubeidl 1 day ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Fate, a new data framework for React and tRPC, inspired by Relay (github.com/nkzw-tech)
    ×0.88 63 | 29 points by cpojer 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: MimicKit – RL framework for humanoid motion imitation (github.com/xbpeng)
    ×0.67 88 | 3 points by xbpeng4 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Pbnj – A minimal, self-hosted pastebin you can deploy in 60 seconds (pbnj.sh)
    ×0.76 113 | 69 points by bhavnicksm 5 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: An unlimited Wordle practice site I built (wordles.org)
    ×0.81 125 | 3 points by mr_windfrog 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Is it a bubble? (oaktreecapital.com)
    ×2.25 1 #31 | 248 points by saigrandhi 18 hours ago | 404 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Factor 0.101 now available (factorcode.org)
    ×1.02 20 #41 | 122 points by birdculture 20 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Deequ - Unit Tests for Data (github.com/awslabs)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by saikatsg 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Agentic AI Foundation (block.xyz)
    ×1.09 22 | 126 points by thinkingkong 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. The Big Vitamin D Mistake [pdf] (2017) (nih.gov)
    ×3.51 46 | 72 points by felineflock 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Detail, a Bug Finder (detail.dev)
    ×0.83 50 | 66 points by drob 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Kraa – Writing App for Everything (kraa.io)
    ×0.83 89 | 127 points by levmiseri 1 week ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: PVAC FHE over hypergraphs with LPN security (github.com/octra-labs)
    ×0.11 141 | 5 points by 0x0ffh_local 1 week ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Automated license plate reader coverage in the USA (alpranalysis.com)
    ×1.38 15 #22 | 183 points by sodality2 18 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Beelines - a travelling salesman game, but with bees (easel.games)
    ×0.82 126 | 3 points by BSTRhino 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. McDonald's removes AI-generated ad after backlash (theguardian.com)
    ×2.70 28 #38 | 11 points by terabytest 1 hour ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Shield protecting Chernobyl nuclear power plant no longer blocks radiation (euronews.com)
    ×1.24 | 2 points by mohi-kalantari 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. I built a tool that turns raw Git activity into AI summaries
    ×0.53 | 1 points by slmslm 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Donating the Model Context Protocol and establishing the Agentic AI Foundation (anthropic.com)
    ×1.70 3 | 286 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Cloudflare error page generator (github.com/donlon)
    ×0.98 20 | 94 points by sawirricardo 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Validated Table Extractor–Verify PDF Tables Using Docling+Vision LLMs (github.com/2dogsandanerd)
    ×1.30 143 | 3 points by 2dogsanerd 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Wirebrowser – A JavaScript debugger with breakpoint-driven heap search (github.com/fcavallarin)
    ×0.66 13 #23 | 32 points by fcavallarin 7 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Israel used Palantir technologies in pager attack in Lebanon (the307.substack.com)
    ×6.20 23 #45 | 475 points by cramsession 20 hours ago | 455 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Skin-roasted peanut consumption improves brain vascular function and memory (clinicalnutritionjournal.com)
    ×1.46 51 #74 | 26 points by PaulHoule 20 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Are the Three Musketeers allergic to muskets? (2014) (ox.ac.uk)
    ×0.90 34 #87 | 58 points by rolph 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Ask HN: Can I get feedback on this product (mu.xyz)
    ×1.31 | 2 points by asim 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. A Modular, Human-Centric LED System That Reacts to Circadian Patterns
    ×0.53 | 1 points by emmasuntech 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Qyavix – A 155-byte DOM runtime inspired by React hooks (github.com/Yinhao-c)
    ×0.74 124 | 3 points by yihac1 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???