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  1. Ask HN: Best way to create a searchable knowledge base?
    ×0.57 44 | 16 points by aljgz 11 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)
    ×1.44 84 | 340 points by david927 4 days ago | 1010 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What in the world is going on at Supabase?
    ×3.72 37 | 50 points by DANmode 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?
    ×1.82 92 | 356 points by ofalkaed 5 days ago | 883 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Why is it so hard to design an open-source smartphone?
    ×0.18 96 | 6 points by hamburgererror 20 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Sexbots Are Coming to ChatGPT
    ×0.46 111 | 14 points by nutanc 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What are some of your favorite documentaries?
    ×0.50 131 | 14 points by itdude 3 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Blogs / Sites / Channels for agentic coding topics
    ×0.26 126 | 9 points by d_sc 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What are your go-to websites for honest consumer electronics reviews?
    ×0.54 98 | 9 points by ronbenton 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Locally enabled vibe coding environment?
    ×0.25 149 | 7 points by p0w3n3d 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Which cross platform desktop GUI to use instead of Electron?
    ×0.62 122 | 14 points by tones411 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: How are these AI cover songs made?
    ×0.23 113 | 9 points by afro88 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What's the best alternative to Dragon NaturallySpeaking?
    ×0.66 132 | 28 points by Openai2 5 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Has AI stolen the satisfaction from programming?
    ×2.74 97 | 90 points by marxism 3 days ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Is Hacker News a good place to find a job in tech?
    ×0.62 140 | 12 points by rrmdp 4 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What do you do while ChatGPT-5 is thinking?
    ×0.62 125 | 13 points by cuber_messenger 2 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What's on your vibe coding roadmap?
    ×0.17 138 | 4 points by ashu1461 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Where can I track training cost trend for AI models?
    ×0.09 152 | 3 points by hedayet 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Lost all my sites overnight: Vercel terminated my account without notice
    ×0.68 144 | 26 points by hikerell 6 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Desktop Agents for Linux
    ×0.16 148 | 4 points by dotancohen 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Lace: A New Kind of Cellular Automata Where Links Matter (novaspivack.com)
    ×1.00 29 #26 | 124 points by airesearcher 15 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. California to begin selling affordable state-branded insulin beginning next year (apnews.com)
    ×3.47 4 #67 | 30 points by toomuchtodo 7 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. HTML dialog: Getting accessibility and UX right (jaredcunha.com)
    ×1.12 25 | 4 points by todsacerdoti 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Bacterial quorum sensing slows wound healing (ucsd.edu)
    ×0.43 | 2 points by hhs 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: Coordable – Get better geocoding results with AI cleaning and analytics (coordable.co)
    ×0.35 | 2 points by s-p-w_ 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: Shorter – search for shorter versions of your domain (shorter.dev)
    ×0.58 90 | 15 points by aanesn 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Jiga (YC W21) Is Hiring Full Stacks (workatastartup.com)
    16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Generalized Orders of Magnitude (arxiv.org)
    ×0.89 27 #49 | 36 points by leokoz8 9 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. He lost nearly $100k to a con artist. He turned it into a business (thehustle.co)
    ×1.21 | 2 points by paulpauper 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Marketing and growth strategies from a five-figure MRR founder (proofstories.io)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by proofstories 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. AI's Effect on the US Economy Is Exaggerated (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.55 49 | 3 points by alephnerd 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Open-source, local-first Context7 alternative (github.com/cheolwanpark)
    ×0.61 146 | 3 points by covil 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Multiple choice video webgame experiment (bemmu.com)
    ×0.98 160 | 11 points by bemmu 6 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Relaya – Agent calls businesses for you (relaya.ai)
    ×1.75 128 | 7 points by rishavmukherji 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Peeking Inside Gigantic Zips with Only Kilobytes (ritiksahni.com)
    ×0.78 33 #58 | 29 points by rtk0 10 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Recursive Language Models (RLMs) (alexzhang13.github.io)
    ×1.10 74 #71 | 127 points by talhof8 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Top US financiers sound alarm on lending standards (ft.com)
    ×4.12 45 | 7 points by zerosizedweasle 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Lead Magnets That Convert? (beehiiv.com)
    ×1.08 | 2 points by mattglossop 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Observations on AI and the Capital Markets in 2025 (vinaysridhar.com)
    ×0.95 | 2 points by paulpauper 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Run PyTorch locally with a remote GPU backend (github.com/alyxya)
    ×1.53 158 | 5 points by alyxya 4 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. The Hidden Math of Ocean Waves Crashes Into View (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.97 60 #63 | 68 points by pykello 21 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Read Your Way Through Hà NộI (vietnamesetypography.com)
    ×0.82 41 #23 | 5 points by jxmorris12 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Silver Snoopy Award (nasa.gov)
    ×0.83 68 #47 | 102 points by LorenDB 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Did lead limit extinct hominid and Neanderthals?
    ×0.60 | 1 points by floam 40 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. What does a Nobel Prize on 'innovation-driven economic growth' reward? (wordpress.com)
    ×1.56 61 | 3 points by paulpauper 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: I invented a new generative model and got accepted to ICLR (discrete-distribution-networks.github.io)
    ×2.69 91 | 651 points by diyer22 6 days ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Cycling app designed to sync video playback with real-time cycling data (github.com/richbl)
    ×1.21 165 | 4 points by richbl 4 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. America’s semiconductor boom (youtube.com)
    ×1.72 #4 | 115 points by zdw 5 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. GifCities – The Geocities Animated GIF Search from Internet Archive (gifcities.org)
    ×1.03 63 #64 | 16 points by sogen 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Forever Free AI Daily Planner – No Login, Syncs to Calendar (healup.me)
    ×0.81 | 1 points by neshwa35 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. H-1B Visa Holders Disappear from US Housing Market (newsweek.com)
    ×4.41 70 | 26 points by thelastgallon 3 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. European.cloud: A Curated Directory of EU-Based Cloud Providers (european.cloud)
    ×3.51 21 | 101 points by florian_s 16 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. China Has Overtaken America (paulkrugman.substack.com)
    ×7.11 79 | 60 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Specific (YC F25) – Build backends with specifications instead of code (specific.dev)
    ×0.62 86 | 28 points by fabianlindfors 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Psycholinguistics and Transformer Circuits (nathanzhao.cc)
    ×0.93 | 2 points by nzhaa 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Betty White's shoulder bag is a time capsule of World War II (si.edu)
    ×0.77 | 1 points by thunderbong 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Statement from OpenAI and King Estate, Inc (twitter.com/OpenAINewsroom)
    ×1.59 26 | 3 points by janpio 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. I am a programmer, not a rubber-stamp that approves Copilot generated code (prahladyeri.github.io)
    ×3.98 57 | 237 points by pyeri 1 day ago | 266 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Hyperflask – Full stack Flask and Htmx framework (hyperflask.dev)
    ×1.82 9 #13 | 303 points by emixam 16 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Upcoming Rust language features for kernel development (lwn.net)
    ×1.85 2 #50 | 316 points by pykello 22 hours ago | 212 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Semantic search over the National Gallery of Art (mixedbread.com)
    ×0.71 112 | 144 points by breadislove 6 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. A stateful browser agent using self-healing DOM maps (100x.bot)
    ×0.70 40 #29 | 110 points by shardullavekar 16 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Art Must Act (aeon.co)
    ×1.47 66 | 3 points by tintinnabula 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Reverse engineering a 27MHz RC toy communication using RTL SDR (wordpress.com)
    ×0.82 76 | 92 points by austinallegro 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Minimal 1Password → shell env loader with Mise hooks (github.com/0xhsn)
    ×0.61 | 2 points by 7asan 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. A Gemma model helped discover a new potential cancer therapy pathway (blog.google)
    ×1.93 18 | 216 points by alexcos 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Why I have to buy doughnuts with cash (ft.com)
    ×1.18 17 #15 | 14 points by hhs 3 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Microwave technique allows energy-efficient chemical reactions (phys.org)
    ×0.66 39 #19 | 39 points by rolph 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. A liver transplant from start to finish (asimov.com)
    ×0.85 20 #21 | 14 points by mailyk 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Nano Banana AI (freeaigen.com)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by andylee2014 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: PyTogether, open-source lightweight real-time Python IDE for learners (pytogether.org)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by JawadR 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Office MCP Registry on Datasette (datasette.io)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by dcreater 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Flux 2 .3 (magnetic experiments) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.04 | 2 points by thro1 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. TaxCalcBench: Evaluating Frontier Models on the Tax Calculation Task (arxiv.org)
    ×0.78 53 | 64 points by handfuloflight 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. A conspiracy to kill IE6 (2019) (chriszacharias.com)
    ×1.96 16 #27 | 174 points by romanhn 10 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Missed Connections and Markov Chains (nry.me)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by dan-g 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Palmer Luckey on Joe Rogan [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.92 | 2 points by neko_ranger 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Computable Babylonian Diaries Project (christopherwolfram.com)
    ×0.31 78 #80 | 6 points by jxmorris12 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agreeing new rules (apnews.com)
    ×5.72 63 | 447 points by pjmlp 22 hours ago | 423 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Steve Jobs and Cray-1 to be featured on 2026 American Innovations $1 coin (usmint.gov)
    ×1.98 29 | 235 points by maguay 22 hours ago | 269 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. ASP.NET Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability (nist.gov)
    ×1.19 82 | 90 points by zeraye 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Get a PMF score for your website, based on simulated user data (semilattice.ai)
    ×0.50 | 2 points by jtewright 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Make AI text sound human (refine.so)
    ×1.07 151 | 5 points by ephraimduncan 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Legal Notices and IP Bans resulting from Salad selling my bandwidth to a VPN
    ×5.06 17 | 6 points by DanielChen7 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Ace Frehley RIP [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.95 | 2 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Huel Is Fine (thebsdetector.substack.com)
    ×0.95 | 2 points by mirabilis 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Code First CDC from Postgres to ClickHouse with MooseStack (github.com/514-labs)
    ×2.03 65 | 6 points by okane 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: I built a web framework in C (github.com/ashtonjamesd)
    ×2.46 103 | 418 points by ashtonjamesd 1 week ago | 218 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. The Moral Case for Speed (fallon2.substack.com)
    ×1.25 | 2 points by paulpauper 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Sony tells SCOTUS that people accused of piracy aren't "innocent grandmothers" (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.95 14 | 5 points by busymom0 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???