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  1. Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub
    ×3.30 17 #28 | 572 points by dhruv3006 17 hours ago | 362 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers
    ×3.94 16 #80 | 627 points by stagas 1 day ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Email Client for the Terminal?
    ×0.96 31 | 5 points by ewjloop 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Best code editor without AI?
    ×0.39 70 | 6 points by nerdyguy90 12 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What's the Best Agent Harness?
    ×0.46 77 | 5 points by cakbeslik 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: How can we care more about fewer things?
    ×0.40 83 | 4 points by robalni 15 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: If you're burning tokens at scale, what are you using them for?
    ×0.49 84 | 4 points by simonw 15 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Trivially bypass text watermarks by requesting a Base64 response
    ×0.33 98 | 3 points by hanneshdc 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Is GitHub Fried Today?
    ×0.59 86 | 4 points by johncole 15 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Does anyone else feel like nothing matters anymore?
    ×12.21 87 | 154 points by ramesh31 5 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?
    ×1.12 82 | 89 points by simonebrunozzi 3 days ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Is Mockup Data a thing you can ask from SaaS Salesperson?
    ×0.38 104 | 3 points by xtiansimon 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Is classical AI research still being done because it helps modern AI?
    ×0.38 107 | 3 points by amichail 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What is your favorite lightweight tool or CLI utility in 2026?
    ×0.55 113 | 21 points by pranav_tech26 2 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What tools are you using for human code review of AI-assisted code?
    ×0.69 109 | 11 points by dafelst 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Where to learn software engineering fundamentals?
    ×0.68 115 | 12 points by mstank 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Alternative to Internet Archive
    ×0.62 119 | 19 points by earworms 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?
    ×5.58 25 | 102 points by sharts 15 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Is Kimi down for anyone else?
    ×0.56 | 2 points by elendilm 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Why is the GitHub trending page weirdly excluding DeepSeek projects?
    ×1.11 106 | 9 points by tianyicui 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Ive quit six systems for tracking my illness. What works?
    ×0.40 | 2 points by Abh1Works 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: What LLM subscription/provider to use with pi harness?
    ×0.24 143 | 3 points by vira28 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: How would you market this service?
    ×0.31 149 | 4 points by dmzxnico 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Should hard-tech founders join a problem or technology-first PhD lab?
    ×0.23 145 | 13 points by misterballer 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. TrueMath – An open-source exact symbolic math tool
    ×0.14 151 | 3 points by SAWANs 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Does a human still review your code?
    ×0.46 148 | 11 points by stikit 3 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. How does an ARP Spoofing Attack work?
    ×0.18 153 | 6 points by emn4tor 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Olo (Color) (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.61 14 #9 | 402 points by inigyou 18 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. LLM City – 3D render of all Kimi K3's weights as 2.5mm tiles (magik.net)
    ×0.73 63 #81 | 17 points by devttyeu 15 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Is Google Search Down?
    ×0.42 | 1 points by frollogaston 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. AI Stock Research Assistant · Streamlit (streamlit.app)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by KiaanKothari 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: A public AI whose memory is shared across all users (wildstatic.com)
    ×0.96 65 | 81 points by adjohu 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: SolidSync – Poorman's Solidworks PDM (github.com/baggiest)
    ×0.34 | 2 points by Baggie 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: FileIndexer (simple N-copies verification on ext USB drives) (thanassis.space)
    ×0.36 | 2 points by ttsiodras 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: I backtested my own stock site's signals and published what failed (matterofstocks.com)
    ×0.57 | 2 points by matterofstocks 16 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Flock-style scanners now track WiFi/Bluetooth identity from devices in your car (techradar.com)
    ×2.61 11 | 57 points by ck2 15 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera (catcrafts.net)
    ×1.36 13 #5 | 146 points by pizzaiolo 9 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. How fast is C++26's std:hive? (lemire.me)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by signa11 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. LLM Speedrun: Architecture (layog.io)
    ×0.39 | 1 points by layog 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Why It Hasn't Happened Yet: Capable AI and Malicious Intent (norabble.com)
    ×0.89 | 2 points by nedruod 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Red queen hypothesis – A new way forward for self-improving AI (cam.ac.uk)
    ×1.20 50 | 99 points by hardlianotion 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Job listings scraped daily from 8k company career pages (github.com/trylynceus)
    ×1.54 129 | 5 points by omar_bouaziz 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Desktopcolors.com – A museum for solid background colors of classic OS (desktopcolors.com)
    ×1.07 61 #39 | 144 points by vlowrian 23 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Shading Motion (maximeheckel.com)
    ×1.65 | 2 points by tobr 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months, up to 10x the lowest ever tracked prices (tomshardware.com)
    ×4.08 40 | 102 points by haunter 13 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: MCP Memory – Fast Agent Memory Using Google's OKF and SQLite FTS5 (github.com/fellowgeek)
    ×0.63 117 | 69 points by pcbmaker20 4 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Mexico crackdown on coastal development (yucatanmagazine.com)
    ×1.03 30 #57 | 113 points by untiledsource 19 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Rhombus 1.1 is now available (racket-lang.org)
    ×0.88 56 #67 | 122 points by spdegabrielle 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Niu Lai – a two-person animated film becomes an unlikely hit in China [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.38 | 1 points by gregzeng95 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 control rods drop into core (wptv.com)
    ×1.53 39 | 194 points by toomuchtodo 1 day ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. NIH is ending a key grant for budding clinical researchers (science.org)
    ×1.73 45 | 158 points by brandonb 1 day ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Silent Shark – tactical map-based WWII submarine sim (silentshark.app)
    ×1.19 89 | 79 points by epaga 5 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Rex, a parallel functional language for scientific workflows (github.com/peterkelly)
    ×0.97 | 2 points by peterkelly 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Wellington second-hand bookstore's mysterious orders (rnz.co.nz)
    ×2.07 24 #40 | 69 points by beanaroo 5 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Zotero 10.0 (zotero.org)
    ×1.34 | 2 points by y1zhou 45 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Running Qwen3.8-27B on DGX Spark (kubesimplify.com)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by saiyampathak 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: 3D Graph of DeepSWE, via Three.js (icauro.com)
    ×1.61 139 | 4 points by icauroboros 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Forget Work. Passive Income Is the New American Dream (wsj.com)
    ×2.73 | 5 points by hheikinh 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Ask HN: Do you know of any company that went back to hand-written code?
    ×5.55 62 | 105 points by antipurist 1 day ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: I gave my job search data an MCP interface (ackd.app)
    ×1.88 79 | 4 points by ekascs 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: LuaCAD – Parametric CAD Scripted in Lua (ad-si.com)
    ×0.99 92 | 105 points by adius 3 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. How do functions like alloca allocate memory from the stack? (microsoft.com)
    ×0.83 35 #24 | 49 points by ingve 10 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Chess but in a box. [X,Y,Z] (chesss.xyz)
    ×0.91 | 1 points by niksda 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Incident with Github.com (githubstatus.com)
    ×6.51 83 | 698 points by kevcampb 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Young People Hate AI CEOs So Passionately That It's Almost Hard to Believe (futurism.com)
    ×10.03 34 | 149 points by healsdata 1 day ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Deltix – AI Driven Testing (deltix.ai)
    ×0.82 102 | 54 points by oneounceman 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: A website for exploring historical photographs of my city (maprva.org)
    ×0.62 116 | 35 points by uneekname 5 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. China Hunts for Scientific Talent. The U.S. Is Making It Easier (nytimes.com)
    ×1.03 | 2 points by occamschainsaw 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. What happens when an LLM never sees material beyond fifth grade? (littlelearner-ll.github.io)
    ×3.13 44 | 244 points by porridgeraisin 1 day ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. A Preview of DuckDB v2.0 (duckdb.org)
    ×2.50 3 #7 | 608 points by ibotty 17 hours ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. The 37signals Manager Playbook (basecamp.com)
    ×2.68 2 #11 | 46 points by tosh 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released (roboflow.com)
    ×1.52 18 #14 | 331 points by plurby 19 hours ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Theory of Fluids Enters the 21st Century (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.02 65 #63 | 29 points by librasteve 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: PeekCSS – a CSS inspector built for Firefox, not ported from Chrome (peekcss.com)
    ×1.41 150 | 3 points by LeonGrass 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. How I developed an Am29000 C compiler and web browser (nanochess.org)
    ×0.72 59 #42 | 83 points by nanochess 18 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. New Spanish nanomaterial cools surfaces by up to 12.9C without electricity (euronews.com)
    ×2.29 1 #51 | 4 points by 2bacon2 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Classifier and browser extension to detect rule violating HN comments (stylometry.net)
    ×1.65 66 | 10 points by costco 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Visimer – open-source visual editor for Mermaid diagrams (github.com/inkeep)
    ×5.70 47 | 14 points by engomez 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Flynt.js – 2.2kb, zero-build, CSP-safe reactivity library for MPAs (github.com/marsbos)
    ×1.02 103 | 12 points by bosmarcel 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Saggar, a Mac terminal that keeps sessions and your attention organized (marginalutility.dev)
    ×0.71 28 | 40 points by mcclowes 16 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira (wiz.io)
    ×1.63 13 #8 | 355 points by galnagli 16 hours ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Buy Your Friends Batteries (domenkozar.com)
    ×2.31 43 #88 | 135 points by domenkozar 14 hours ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Frasier Fantasy: The Director's Cut by Edward La Barbera (itch.io)
    ×1.82 | 2 points by rcarmo 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Qutis Health (qurtis.tech)
    ×2.42 52 | 3 points by witstorms 22 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. At least 62 YC startups with over $1.9B in funding are hosting on Replit (runtimewire.com)
    ×0.86 | 2 points by ryanmerket 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. AirTag reveals Amazon is trashing rare books to train AI (arstechnica.com)
    ×5.73 57 | 127 points by jefurii 12 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Self hosted email continues to steeply decline (ripe.net)
    ×3.21 5 | 117 points by minusf 20 hours ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: An RSS Feed for DeepSWE Benchmarks (xlit.app)
    ×0.65 110 | 3 points by ghasemi 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Every MUNI, BART and Caltrain in SF on a Live Map (github.com/UtpalJayNadiger)
    ×2.99 121 | 13 points by iacguy 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: I built a native app for coding agents with Rust and GPUI (waku.sh)
    ×1.64 93 | 39 points by 0x142857 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???