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  1. Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
    ×1.16 4 #20 | 146 points by david927 9 hours ago | 492 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Why is example.com using Cloudflare
    ×0.77 35 #83 | 6 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. True Scale of Solar System
    ×0.42 37 | 3 points by Sarakuzoi 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Cheaper Datadog Anyone?
    ×0.42 | 2 points by kvaranasi_ 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Moved to SF to build a startup. What next?
    ×0.59 66 | 3 points by kvaranasi_ 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What was the best sci-fi book of 2025?
    ×1.35 4 | 11 points by Erikun 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Senior engineering mngrs: how has AI changed your day-to-day work?
    ×1.06 86 | 30 points by kitetm 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Is Programming as a Profession Cooked?
    ×0.53 63 | 11 points by fnoef 13 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: When has a "dumb" solution beaten a sophisticated one for you?
    ×0.26 96 | 6 points by amadeuswoo 23 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Aaron Swartz died 13 years ago today
    ×6.42 34 | 65 points by vitaelabitur 11 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Best way to find chill job where I can learn and grow as a swe
    ×0.47 94 | 33 points by digitdiglet 3 days ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Senior software engineers, how do you use Claude Code?
    ×0.74 71 | 12 points by allie1 17 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Any Microsoft employees/devs here? What's happening to Microsoft?
    ×0.82 108 | 110 points by thehamkercat 5 days ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Is it time for HN to implement a form of captcha?
    ×0.99 91 | 89 points by Rooster61 3 days ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Tell HN: Get a dying iPhone 12 mini in 2026
    ×0.53 109 | 26 points by remywang 2 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Are There Any Similar Sites Like Downdetector?
    ×0.22 126 | 3 points by nomadfounder 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Would you pay for a privacy-first social platform?
    ×0.79 103 | 7 points by sammiej 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Should I learn Docker to deploy my app in VPS?
    ×0.52 120 | 4 points by danver0 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. macOS Tahoe 26.2 ships with an outdated version of Python 3.9.6
    ×0.80 105 | 6 points by Gabrielfair 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What happened to self-hosted models?
    ×0.28 138 | 3 points by curiousaboutml 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Implementing NaN Boxing in a Stack-Based VM
    ×0.14 154 | 5 points by tracyspacy 4 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: How would you decouple from the US?
    ×2.18 117 | 35 points by yawa_me_worht 3 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: How do you do store-and-forward telemetry at the edge?
    ×0.26 153 | 6 points by Aydarbek 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Feeling irrelevant in back end. How to pivot to automotive software?
    ×0.29 155 | 3 points by culopatin 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: How to make working in software fun again?
    ×0.87 131 | 6 points by canxerian 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Why isn't AI spawning profitable indie games?
    ×1.19 148 | 6 points by eveningsun 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Working on decentralized compute at io.net sharing what we're learning
    ×0.19 146 | 4 points by plutodev 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: What's your preferred digital payment method?
    ×0.40 151 | 3 points by vednig 2 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Funding Opportunities with Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC)
    ×0.49 152 | 5 points by ARDC_73 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. I've maintained an open source task manager for 8 years
    ×0.60 141 | 7 points by johannesjo 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Miditui – A terminal app/UI for MIDI composing, mixing, and playback (github.com/minimaxir)
    ×0.89 78 | 65 points by minimaxir 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. KaraDAV – Lightweight Nextcloud compatible WebDAV server (github.com/kd2org)
    ×0.83 49 #54 | 36 points by indigodaddy 13 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Maybe the database got it right (fhur.me)
    ×0.35 | 1 points by fernandohur 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: AeroTag – Tag-based workspace management for AeroSpace (macOS) (typester.dev)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by typester 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Yellopages – New tab Chrome extension (kawaicheung.io)
    ×0.60 50 | 31 points by kiwigod17 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. CLI agents make self-hosting on a home server easier and fun (fulghum.io)
    ×2.77 2 #2 | 291 points by websku 4 hours ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. AI is a business model stress test (dri.es)
    ×1.92 5 #90 | 330 points by amarsahinovic 1 day ago | 319 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Replace the Retiring Windows XP with Linux (2014) (linux.com)
    ×1.93 44 | 69 points by righthand 10 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Why Nvidia's PhysX is hitting a "SIM-to-Real" wall at 5000W (github.com/ZC502)
    ×0.80 133 | 3 points by ZuoCen_Liu 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Just published a hard-SF novel Voyager1 returns with a quantum palantir (amazon.com)
    ×0.98 | 2 points by dufbugderopa 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Live Captions (avc.xyz)
    ×0.38 | 1 points by wslh 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. America's most novel train project is too deadly (economist.com)
    ×1.90 13 | 4 points by yakkomajuri 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: HAPI - Vibe Coding Anytime, Anywhere (github.com/tiann)
    ×1.22 118 | 3 points by weishu 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Ever wanted to look at yourself in Braille? (github.com/NishantJoshi00)
    ×1.76 129 | 10 points by cat-whisperer 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. iOS as Acceleration (arxiv.org)
    ×1.30 17 | 3 points by PaulHoule 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Ripple: The Elegant TypeScript UI Framework (jsdev.space)
    ×0.82 46 | 42 points by javatuts 21 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Ogre 14.5 Released (ogre3d.org)
    ×0.36 | 1 points by klaussilveira 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. High RAM prices mean record-setting profits for Samsung and other memory makers (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.76 9 | 4 points by walterbell 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. DHS restricts congressional visits to ICE facilities in Minneapolis (npr.org)
    ×6.16 73 | 89 points by mickle00 5 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: I made a memory game to teach you to play piano by ear (specr.net)
    ×2.73 22 | 545 points by vunderba 2 days ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Revibing nanochat's inference model in C++ with ggml (github.com/k-ye)
    ×1.05 124 | 4 points by makechan 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Anthropic: Developing a Claude Code competitor using Claude Code is banned (twitter.com/SIGKITTEN)
    ×3.43 24 #31 | 245 points by behnamoh 7 hours ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome F. Powell [video] (youtube.com)
    ×10.28 44 #45 | 294 points by sprawl_ 1 hour ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Chasing mythical creatures: a critique of entrepreneurship's unicorns obsession (sciencedirect.com)
    ×0.86 | 2 points by wslh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: DeepDream for Video with Temporal Consistency (github.com/jeremicna)
    ×0.47 99 | 71 points by fruitbarrel 3 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Erich von Däniken has died (daniken.com)
    ×1.55 25 #48 | 37 points by Kaibeezy 3 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Revolutionary eye injection saved my sight, says first ever patient (bbc.co.uk)
    ×1.26 10 | 3 points by 1a527dd5 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Desperately Seeking Squircles (2018) (figma.com)
    ×0.29 59 #61 | 7 points by kjeetgill 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Ethical Principles in the Creation of Artificial Minds (nickbostrom.com)
    ×0.78 | 2 points by maxloh 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Diagnosing performance with dotnet-trace and Perfetto (dfamonteiro.com)
    ×0.34 | 1 points by lalitmaganti 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Perfectly Replicating Coca Cola [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.58 10 #18 | 136 points by HansVanEijsden 9 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. BasiliskII Macintosh 68k Emulator Ported to ESP32-P4 / M5Stack Tab5 (github.com/amcchord)
    ×0.71 38 #39 | 71 points by rcarmo 14 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Instagram Saved Collection Downloader (google.com)
    ×0.81 | 2 points by qwikhost 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. "Scholars Will Call It Nonsense": The Structure of von Däniken's Argument (1987) (penn.museum)
    ×0.87 10 #27 | 58 points by Kaibeezy 6 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 books (pieterma.es)
    ×2.31 15 #73 | 471 points by pmaze 1 day ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. New information extracted from Snowden PDFs through metadata version analysis (libroot.org)
    ×1.97 11 | 311 points by libroot 1 day ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: I built a Postgres GUI in Swift because existing tools felt bloated (postgresgui.com)
    ×2.91 122 | 7 points by fikrigha 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Turntiles, an NYT style word game I made for my parents (github.com/wheybags)
    ×0.37 | 1 points by todsacerdoti 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. WUTA WRENs (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.91 | 2 points by CHB0403085482 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Think of Pavlov (boz.com)
    ×1.04 3 #70 | 96 points by kiyanwang 15 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: 2k or Nothing – A Social Platform Dedicated to Long-Form Content (2k-or-nothing.com)
    ×0.37 | 1 points by Lbesecker195 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. I Built a 1 Petabyte Server from Scratch [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.79 | 2 points by guiambros 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Stash – Sync Markdown Files with Apple Notes via CLI (github.com/shakedlokits)
    ×1.01 119 | 74 points by shuka 5 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. This game is a single 13 KiB file that runs on Windows, Linux and in the Browser (iczelia.net)
    ×1.01 6 #3 | 90 points by snoofydude 4 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Overdose deaths are falling in America because of a 'supply shock': study (economist.com)
    ×1.86 29 #64 | 206 points by marojejian 1 day ago | 216 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. How to stalk your ex; made easier than ever [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.85 | 2 points by vo2maxer 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11 (eteknix.com)
    ×6.54 4 | 330 points by nabla9 1 day ago | 363 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Landlords are using automated services to monitor tenant promotions (reddit.com)
    ×3.57 73 | 66 points by xyzal 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: MCP Server for Job Search (github.com/jobswithgpt)
    ×1.51 107 | 5 points by sp1982 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. I Cannot SSH into My Server Anymore (and That's Fine) (soap.coffee)
    ×1.16 11 #5 | 76 points by TheWiggles 5 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. I'm making a game engine based on dynamic signed distance fields (SDFs) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.00 5 #7 | 191 points by imagiro 7 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Fetch – A minimalistic and super fast macOS app launcher (github.com/hackerbirds)
    ×0.79 | 2 points by hackerbirds 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15 (eupolicy.social)
    ×4.40 32 | 769 points by colinprince 1 day ago | 532 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. CDC staff 'blindsided' as child vaccine schedule unilaterally overhauled (unmc.edu)
    ×5.75 68 | 104 points by stopbulying 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Extracting books from production language models (2026) (arxiv.org)
    ×1.04 53 | 65 points by logicprog 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: ESPTimeCast – DIY WiFi Clock and Weather Station for ESP32 / ESP8266 (github.com/mfactory-osaka)
    ×0.46 | 2 points by m-factory 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Sampling at negative temperature (cavendishlabs.org)
    ×1.01 6 #8 | 115 points by ag8 6 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Instagram data breach reportedly exposed the personal info of 17.5M users (engadget.com)
    ×2.37 31 #56 | 189 points by IvanAchlaqullah 11 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Web CLI v0.2.4 – Added YAML/JSON validators with auto-fix (github.com/pozgo)
    ×0.36 | 1 points by polinux 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Universal Commerce Protocol (ucp.dev)
    ×0.75 | 2 points by qainsights 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???