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  1. Ask HN: What are you buying your kids for Christmas?
    ×0.91 9 #71 | 17 points by JamesSwift 8 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. AI coding is sexy, but accounting is the real low-hanging automation target
    ×0.65 21 #81 | 17 points by bmadduma 10 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines?
    ×6.45 3 | 957 points by embedding-shape 2 days ago | 460 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Relatively SoTA LLM Agents from Scratch?
    ×0.13 | 2 points by solsane 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Practical Tips for Gemini 3
    ×0.17 73 | 4 points by xiaoru 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Has anyone been able to renew their IEEE this month?
    ×0.27 61 | 8 points by chrisaycock 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Can someone explain why OpenAI credits expire?
    ×1.01 | 2 points by jemiluv8 19 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Why are "remote" jobs in late 2025 still limited to hiring in US/CA/UK/DE?
    ×0.75 83 | 19 points by ftonato 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Console.text() – SMS alerts when code executes
    ×0.28 77 | 5 points by Noel04 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What hard problems are still underexplored?
    ×0.49 69 | 10 points by brihati 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Is any of you using LLMs to create full features in big enterprise apps?
    ×0.35 99 | 6 points by not_that_d 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What are young technically minded people reading?
    ×0.77 89 | 16 points by drdec 2 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: How do small businesses handle phone calls?
    ×0.15 104 | 4 points by duckkg5 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Is there a "good" (non-privacy horror) aftermarket HUD for your car?
    ×0.18 119 | 3 points by xrd 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How can I learn smartphone repair online?
    ×0.25 109 | 4 points by rishikeshs 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Are there any viable Android phones for a power user to buy nowadays?
    ×0.41 114 | 12 points by gooob 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Is it still worth learning a new programming language?
    ×0.88 86 | 11 points by xparadigm 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. What's Next? Clippy Copilot?
    ×0.39 111 | 8 points by johnnyballgame 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Cursor and Claude Opus 4.5 is a game changer
    ×0.45 115 | 18 points by seinecle 4 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Is it just me or techno-optimism died in the past few years?
    ×1.53 96 | 36 points by shubhamjain 4 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Why does every B2B SaaS have to look like Linear/Stripe?
    ×0.38 132 | 9 points by PaulShin 5 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Show HN: DeChecker – Detect AI-generated text (dechecker.ai)
    ×2.25 123 | 6 points by GrammarChecker 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Python Workers redux: fast cold starts, packages, and a uv-first workflow (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.11 57 #44 | 131 points by dom96 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. RFC 6677 DNS Transport over TCP – Implementation Requirements (2016) (ietf.org)
    ×0.52 66 #45 | 17 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 11 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. The Hallway of the Mountain King (medium.com)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by bryanrasmussen 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Roman occupation of Britain damaged the population's health (newscientist.com)
    ×1.37 | 2 points by Brajeshwar 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ntoh*/hton* is a bad API (purplesyringa.moe)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by PaulHoule 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. AI Could Be the Railroad of the 21st Century. Brace Yourself (derekthompson.org)
    ×2.57 40 | 4 points by DeathArrow 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. LastPass fined £1.2M by ICO for data breach (ico.org.uk)
    ×1.99 20 | 3 points by edent 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Open AI, Microsoft face lawsuit over ChatGPT's alleged role in murder-suicide (apnews.com)
    ×2.35 5 | 4 points by airstrike 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: DuckDB for Kafka Stream Processing (sql-flow.com)
    ×0.82 74 | 75 points by dm03514 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. The highest quality codebase (gricha.dev)
    ×2.77 4 #8 | 522 points by Gricha 18 hours ago | 336 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Benchmarking NVENC video transcoding on the Pi (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×0.58 64 #73 | 6 points by ingve 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Layers of Meaning (claude.ai)
    ×1.67 | 2 points by stoicfungi 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. People power: How LLMs invert tech diffusion (bearblog.dev)
    ×1.90 38 | 3 points by keepamovin 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. How I use my Blackberry Q10 in 2025 (harssh.substack.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by harhargange 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Useful patterns for building HTML tools (simonwillison.net)
    ×2.03 50 | 52 points by simonw 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. CRISPR fungus: Protein-packed, sustainable, and tastes like meat (isaaa.org)
    ×3.01 4 #6 | 120 points by rguiscard 7 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools (larr.net)
    ×2.57 10 #9 | 271 points by todsacerdoti 14 hours ago | 369 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Craft software that makes people feel something (rapha.land)
    ×1.80 10 #20 | 288 points by lukeio 19 hours ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Egg Decorating in Slavic Culture (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by petethomas 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: I built a TurboTax for immigration forms (immiva.com)
    ×2.96 110 | 8 points by mjablons 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Open-Source Excel AI Agent (github.com/SylvianAI)
    ×1.21 93 | 4 points by williamshuang 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Denial of service and source code exposure in React Server Components (react.dev)
    ×1.87 3 #12 | 274 points by sangeeth96 12 hours ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Laying out the 404 Media zine (tedium.co)
    ×1.29 18 #15 | 60 points by robenkleene 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Startups on hard mode: Oxide. Part 1: Hardware (2024) (pragmaticengineer.com)
    ×0.76 | 1 points by tosh 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content (theguardian.com)
    ×7.62 59 | 353 points by ta988 21 hours ago | 321 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: We added iOS real device support to Maestro
    ×1.13 79 | 3 points by omnarayan 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. AI Voice Cloning (aivoicecloning.net)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by jiangyifeng 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: 8B Parallel Coordinated Reasoning Model (github.com/stepfun-ai)
    ×0.67 | 2 points by hzwer 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. You gotta push if you wanna pull (morling.dev)
    ×0.47 61 #48 | 18 points by ingve 11 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Leaving the U.S. for the Netherlands (newyorker.com)
    ×4.91 43 | 93 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 248 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: We vibe coded our team's issue tracker, knowledge base, telemetry board
    ×1.41 113 | 7 points by bhackett 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Nvidia builds location verification tech that could help fight chip smuggling (reuters.com)
    ×1.18 | 2 points by croes 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Advent of Back Ends (adventofbackends.vercel.app)
    ×0.56 | 2 points by rohitghumare 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. The architecture of “not bad”: Decoding the Chinese source code of the void (suggger.substack.com)
    ×1.01 24 #19 | 95 points by Suggger 13 hours ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. When would you ever want bubblesort? (2023) (buttondown.com)
    ×0.99 29 | 106 points by atan2 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Spotify Wrapped but for LeetCode (github.com/collinboler)
    ×0.53 101 | 27 points by collinboler2 4 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Beelines - a travelling salesman game, but with bees (easel.games)
    ×1.10 122 | 4 points by BSTRhino 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. French supermarket's Christmas advert is worldwide hit (without AI) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×3.85 2 #25 | 332 points by gbugniot 19 hours ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. VCMI: An open-source engine for Heroes III (vcmi.eu)
    ×1.49 8 #87 | 183 points by eamag 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. UK House of Lords attempting to ban use of VPNs by anyone under 16 (alecmuffett.com)
    ×5.18 86 | 350 points by nvarsj 12 hours ago | 349 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Cornifi split keyboard, a more staggered corne (github.com/v3lmx)
    ×0.67 | 2 points by v3lmx 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Free Logo API – logos for any company or domain (apistemic.com)
    ×4.33 108 | 9 points by lorey 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Contact Sheet Prompting (willienotwilly.com)
    ×0.44 58 #54 | 18 points by handfuloflight 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: CodeProt – Filter PR nitpicks using AST and context-aware analysis (codeprot.com)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by allenz_cheung 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: FuseCells – a handcrafted logic puzzle game with 2,500 levels (apple.com)
    ×0.46 105 | 36 points by keini 5 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: TapeHead – A CLI tool for stateful random access of file streams (github.com/emamoah)
    ×0.99 121 | 22 points by emamoah 5 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Congress Kills Military "Right to Repair" (theintercept.com)
    ×2.73 9 #74 | 27 points by beepbooptheory 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Factor 0.101 now available (factorcode.org)
    ×0.97 48 #75 | 130 points by birdculture 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Vibe CADing in the cloud with open source tools (siameseai.com)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by mister_jmm 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Swift Configuration 1.0 Released (swift.org)
    ×1.86 30 | 3 points by frizlab 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Cdecl-dump - represent C declarations visually (github.com/bbu)
    ×0.51 91 | 35 points by bluetomcat 4 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. He set out to walk around the world. After 27 years, his quest is nearly over (washingtonpost.com)
    ×2.32 1 #4 | 91 points by wallflower 4 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. An SVG is all you need (recoil.org)
    ×1.89 7 #10 | 234 points by sadiq 13 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. What Is the Nicest Thing a Stranger Has Ever Done for You? (louplummer.lol)
    ×2.64 58 #49 | 26 points by speckx 13 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Wirebrowser – A JavaScript debugger with breakpoint-driven heap search (github.com/fcavallarin)
    ×0.69 55 #66 | 64 points by fcavallarin 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. DeepSeek uses banned Nvidia chips for AI model, report says (yahoo.com)
    ×1.93 3 | 322 points by goodway 1 day ago | 310 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. GPT-5.2 (openai.com)
    ×5.79 67 | 189 points by meetpateltech 14 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: I want to democratise Bloomberg Terminal (aulico.com)
    ×0.63 | 2 points by lalalerodas 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Reddit files lawsuit against Australia's youth social media ban (cbc.ca)
    ×2.86 31 | 4 points by empressplay 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. OpenAI opens internal merch store to the public (openai.com)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by joos3 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Google de-indexed Bear Blog and I don't know why (james-zhan.com)
    ×3.81 1 #5 | 130 points by nafnlj 7 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Patterns.dev (patterns.dev)
    ×3.17 8 #50 | 587 points by handfuloflight 1 day ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. The future of Terraform CDK (github.com/hashicorp)
    ×1.06 46 #72 | 131 points by mfornasa 1 day ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: A 2-row, 16-key keyboard designed for smartphones (k-keyboard.com)
    ×0.69 52 #84 | 78 points by QWERTYmini 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Shopify's first party SimGym app simulates buyer behavior with AI (shopify.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by joos3 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: HarisLab – 30 Free Online Tools (Base64, IP Lookup, PDF Tools) (harislab.tech)
    ×1.31 | 2 points by Haris18 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. A Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Banned Him for It (404media.co)
    ×3.01 36 | 109 points by markatlarge 16 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. You used to be able to just create a Native GUI App in 10 seconds (twitter.com/tsoding)
    ×3.32 55 | 56 points by Ezhik 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???