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  1. Tell HN: DigitalOcean's managed services broke each other after update
    ×1.53 3 #21 | 11 points by neilfrndes 45 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. YC Cofounder Matching inbox stuck in infinite loading loop – anyone else?
    ×0.49 34 #43 | 8 points by founder_mode 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
    ×1.16 51 #55 | 242 points by david927 1 day ago | 773 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Speculate About a Hypothetical Cyber Exploit That Would Leverage AI
    ×0.50 | 2 points by burnerToBetOut 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Job seekers, what's working / not working?
    ×0.82 49 | 11 points by Jabbs 11 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: How do you automate your release notes?
    ×0.38 55 | 7 points by dustfinger 9 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Erratic HN front page algorithm
    ×0.29 82 | 3 points by 7777777phil 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Tell HN: Mattermost "upgrade" to v11 enforces 10k UI message limit
    ×0.44 | 2 points by nemosaltat 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: When has a "dumb" solution beaten a sophisticated one for you?
    ×0.42 128 | 12 points by amadeuswoo 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Why are so many images now in unusual file formats?
    ×1.08 37 | 4 points by paulpauper 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Why is example.com using Cloudflare
    ×0.51 103 | 10 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What are you proud of about doing for you health and wellness regularly?
    ×1.18 54 | 9 points by nemath 10 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Has anyone built payment flows inside AI voice calls?
    ×0.47 101 | 6 points by wasiyc 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What business processes still waste time every week?
    ×0.36 105 | 4 points by lzr_mihnea 17 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Tell HN: Auto-download in Apple Podcasts is so unreliable it's basically useless
    ×0.24 118 | 3 points by garyfirestorm 18 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Senior engineering mngrs: how has AI changed your day-to-day work?
    ×0.98 112 | 33 points by kitetm 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Is Programming as a Profession Cooked?
    ×0.69 100 | 17 points by fnoef 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Best way to find chill job where I can learn and grow as a swe
    ×0.48 125 | 35 points by digitdiglet 4 days ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Is it time for HN to implement a form of captcha?
    ×0.97 117 | 89 points by Rooster61 4 days ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Senior software engineers, how do you use Claude Code?
    ×0.75 113 | 14 points by allie1 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Would you pay for a privacy-first social platform?
    ×1.01 132 | 11 points by sammiej 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Tell HN: Get a dying iPhone 12 mini in 2026
    ×0.53 136 | 27 points by remywang 3 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Moved to SF to build a startup. What next?
    ×0.71 116 | 7 points by kvaranasi_ 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: What was the best sci-fi book of 2025?
    ×1.13 95 | 13 points by Erikun 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Aaron Swartz died 13 years ago today
    ×5.65 58 | 86 points by vitaelabitur 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Cheaper Datadog anyone?
    ×0.65 121 | 5 points by kvaranasi_ 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Implementing NaN Boxing in a Stack-Based VM
    ×0.14 162 | 5 points by tracyspacy 5 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: How do you do store-and-forward telemetry at the edge?
    ×0.33 161 | 8 points by Aydarbek 5 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Are There Any Similar Sites Like Downdetector?
    ×0.20 158 | 3 points by nomadfounder 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: How would you decouple from the US?
    ×2.09 141 | 37 points by yawa_me_worht 4 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Should I learn Docker to deploy my app in VPS?
    ×0.54 151 | 5 points by danver0 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: What happened to self-hosted models?
    ×0.24 159 | 3 points by curiousaboutml 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Funding Opportunities with Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC)
    ×0.64 160 | 7 points by ARDC_73 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. macOS Tahoe 26.2 ships with an outdated version of Python 3.9.6
    ×0.78 143 | 7 points by Gabrielfair 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Feeling irrelevant in back end. How to pivot to automotive software?
    ×0.25 163 | 3 points by culopatin 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Rank up your local business on Google Maps (mapclimb.com)
    ×2.04 157 | 6 points by bagusfarisa 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. This game is a single 13 KiB file that runs on Windows, Linux and in the Browser (iczelia.net)
    ×1.39 20 #63 | 285 points by snoofydude 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Who Companies Call When They Want to Become a Bank (bloomberg.com)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by petethomas 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. You can now reserve a hotel room on the Moon for $250k (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.84 9 | 3 points by dangle1 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: HAPI - Vibe Coding Anytime, Anywhere (github.com/tiann)
    ×1.63 150 | 4 points by weishu 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: flash.nvim, but for tmux…sort of (github.com/Kristijan)
    ×1.10 94 | 5 points by KristijanM13 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Message Queues: A Simple Guide with Analogies (2024) (cloudamqp.com)
    ×0.72 22 #18 | 73 points by byt3h3ad 8 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. You are not required to close your <p>, <li>, <img>, or <br> tags in HTML (novalistic.com)
    ×1.56 56 #82 | 163 points by jen729w 1 day ago | 224 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Gentoo Linux 2025 Review (gentoo.org)
    ×1.55 17 #88 | 329 points by akhuettel 1 day ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. The will to win is nothing without the will to sleep (therundownbytherunningeffect.substack.com)
    ×1.18 | 2 points by RalphHavensPT 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Sidecar – AI Social Manager (Analyzes past hits to write new posts) (sidecar.bz)
    ×1.01 75 | 4 points by ecotto123 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. BasiliskII Macintosh 68k Emulator Ported to ESP32-P4 / M5Stack Tab5 (github.com/amcchord)
    ×0.73 65 | 86 points by rcarmo 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. I Was Kidnapped by Idiots (theatlantic.com)
    ×4.54 6 #90 | 34 points by Tomte 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Meta shakes up its review system with 'stronger rewards for top performers' (businessinsider.com)
    ×0.96 | 1 points by ryandrake 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Spy Shots Catch the Strangest New Car We've Seen Since Cybertruck (carbuzz.com)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by gnabgib 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: I made a physical app blocker with ESP32 (github.com/benjamin-feldman)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by b_feldman 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) (google.com)
    ×1.19 | 2 points by jcfrei 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Meta Taps Trump Alum as New President (thehill.com)
    ×2.44 54 | 4 points by 650REDHAIR 28 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Reject the Religion of Efficiency (digitalliturgies.net)
    ×2.03 15 | 3 points by zdw 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Yes, You Can Use AI in Our Interviews. In Fact, We Insist (canva.dev)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by SupremumLimit 50 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Stop Calling Everything an AI Agent (eagleeyethinker.substack.com)
    ×1.31 | 2 points by eagleeyethinker 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. A battle over Canada’s mystery brain disease (bbc.com)
    ×1.95 46 | 194 points by lewww 1 day ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Bob Weir has died (rollingstone.com)
    ×3.43 66 | 145 points by asix66 2 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Voice Composer – Browser-based pitch detection to MIDI/strudel/tidal (dioptre.github.io)
    ×0.76 77 | 22 points by dioptre 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Porting xv6 to HiFive Unmatched board (github.com/eyengin)
    ×0.48 90 | 26 points by eyengin 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Agent-of-empires: OpenCode and Claude Code session manager (github.com/njbrake)
    ×1.02 17 #13 | 60 points by river_otter 6 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. CLI agents make self-hosting on a home server easier and fun (fulghum.io)
    ×3.15 5 #42 | 734 points by websku 1 day ago | 509 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Shellock, a real-time CLI flag explainer for fish shell (github.com/ibehnam)
    ×0.53 66 #65 | 35 points by behnamoh 18 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. YAML? That's Norway Problem (lab174.com)
    ×1.04 | 2 points by thes1lv3r 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. More than one hundred years of Film Sizes (xs4all.nl)
    ×0.70 72 | 86 points by exvi 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875 (github.com/haykgrigo3)
    ×2.21 2 #2 | 475 points by admp 9 hours ago | 197 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. "Scholars Will Call It Nonsense": The Structure of von Däniken's Argument (1987) (penn.museum)
    ×0.80 61 | 60 points by Kaibeezy 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Play poker with LLMs, or watch them play against each other (llmholdem.com)
    ×1.22 70 | 160 points by projectyang 2 days ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: macOS menu bar app to track Claude usage in real time (github.com/richhickson)
    ×1.08 99 | 159 points by RichHickson 4 days ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. The chess bot on Delta Air Lines will destroy you (2024) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.84 8 #14 | 145 points by cjaackie 5 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Non-Essential French Embassy Staff Have Left Iran (barrons.com)
    ×2.64 34 #48 | 37 points by mhb 2 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Code and Let Live (fly.io)
    ×2.72 78 #56 | 485 points by usrme 2 days ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Grounding LLMs with Recursive Code Execution (yogthos.net)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by yogthos 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. BYD's cheapest electric cars to have Lidar self-driving tech (thedriven.io)
    ×2.56 5 | 230 points by senti_sentient 1 day ago | 304 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Open-Meteo is a free and open-source weather API for non-commercial use (open-meteo.com)
    ×2.05 2 #51 | 85 points by Brajeshwar 9 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Nate the Lawyer breaks down the ICE shooting footage in detail [video] (youtube.com)
    ×6.74 70 | 9 points by zahlman 49 minutes ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Hotdog – Performant Bun Based Web-Server Framework (github.com/shedtheshade)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by vednig 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. X Didn't Fix Grok's 'Undressing' Problem. It Just Makes People Pay for It (wired.com)
    ×8.15 82 | 166 points by pavel_lishin 6 hours ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Iran has now been offline for 96 hours (twitter.com/netblocks)
    ×6.61 72 | 148 points by payamb 7 hours ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Reproducing DeepSeek's MHC: When Residual Connections Explode (taylorkolasinski.com)
    ×0.78 26 #30 | 101 points by taykolasinski 11 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Conbini Wars – Map of Japanese convenience store ratios (kikkia.dev)
    ×1.25 41 #46 | 130 points by zdw 20 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Seniority Is Clarity Not Cleverness (dontbreakprod.com)
    ×1.00 32 #66 | 5 points by dorkrawk 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. YouTube has removed the ability to search by upload date (twitter.com/TeamYouTube)
    ×5.06 81 | 71 points by sergiotapia 2 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Terminal UI for GCP (github.com/yogirk)
    ×1.40 140 | 4 points by yogirk1 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: WinBorg, a beautiful alternative to Vorta for BorgBackup (github.com/robotnikz)
    ×1.16 155 | 3 points by robotnikz 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. I'm making a game engine based on dynamic signed distance fields (SDFs) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.37 1 #74 | 437 points by imagiro 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: 30k IKEA items in flat text (huggingface.co)
    ×0.75 4 #87 | 53 points by tsazan 13 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Is life a game?Philosopher C. Thi Nguyen argues that play is the meaning of life (newyorker.com)
    ×1.33 | 2 points by bookofjoe 42 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. GoFundMe Ignores Rules Hosting Legal Fund for ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good (wired.com)
    ×8.74 60 | 16 points by cdrnsf 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Enforcing time-bounded technical debt with Git history (github.com/jobin-404)
    ×1.78 133 | 5 points by jjdev8157 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???