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  1. Ask HN: What are the nice feature you need in a programming language?
    ×0.48 #70 | 6 points by Hashex129542 5 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Bluesky Accounts Worth Following for HN Enthusiasts
    ×2.77 | 143 points by IAmGraydon 1 day ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: How do you communicate in a remote startup?
    ×1.66 | 237 points by aml183 5 days ago | 271 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Open-Source Alternatives to Google Location History?
    ×1.45 | 9 points by simonmysun 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. How to Take Good Decisions?
    ×0.92 | 5 points by rookie123 13 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: How to Emigrate from EU and Where?
    ×1.43 | 16 points by mathverse 14 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. How to Reach Angel Investors in the San Francisco Area for Agentic AI Startup?
    ×0.44 | 15 points by ttsemih 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Facebook is bullying me, what can I do? Warning
    ×2.34 | 29 points by Beijinger 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How does a cash acquistion with SAFEs work?
    ×0.48 | 6 points by funnywalrus 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What is your expierence selling a domain name?
    ×2.25 | 7 points by r2b2 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Why do we see no companies offering to deploy local LLMs?
    ×0.93 | 7 points by oogwayy 14 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What are some of the best take-home coding tasks you've gotten?
    ×0.43 | 9 points by n2d4 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What are your used Matrix homeservers?
    ×0.24 | 2 points by laserstrahl 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: FontAwesome makes it impossible to downgrade. Any alternatives?
    ×0.69 | 3 points by dk8996 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Recruiters, why do you repost jobs with 1000 applications a month later?
    ×0.99 | 28 points by charliebwrites 2 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How does one negotiate for a remote job?
    ×0.42 | 24 points by singhrac 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Great maker projects for 8th grade kids and above?
    ×0.23 | 12 points by ostaquet 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Did the HN header become harsh bright orange color?
    ×0.83 | 3 points by imvetri 12 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What are your favorite tools for taming your email?
    ×0.45 | 11 points by AbstractH24 3 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: How to check who the black bar is honoring?
    ×1.09 | 65 points by alstonite 5 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Anybody used Retool for production, user-facing app?
    ×0.62 | 50 points by bootstrpppin 1 week ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Tell HN: Unable to archive HN posts using Wayback Machine
    ×1.08 | 3 points by shrvtv 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: What job search strategies work for you?
    ×1.36 | 44 points by Jabbs 5 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: What programming languages are you learning currently or in 2025
    ×1.10 | 4 points by adelowo 10 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Best practices using AI as an experienced web dev
    ×0.68 | 9 points by thebordella 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Is there an HN-like forum for woodworking?
    ×0.31 | 5 points by ok_dad 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: What projects are you going to work on if no need to work?
    ×0.91 | 13 points by hnthrowaway0328 2 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: How to learn software development concepts crucial for senior roles?
    ×0.78 | 25 points by swirly-mcswirl 5 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Why hasn't the JavaScript event loop model scaled horizontally?
    ×0.15 | 3 points by wkyleg 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Have you gotten anywhere cold messaging investors?
    ×0.76 | 21 points by iiJDSii 5 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Light self-hosted logs/metrics/traces dashboard?
    ×1.02 | 19 points by z33k 5 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Smart Dating Assistant – AI-Powered Help for Better Matches and Conversations
    ×0.33 | 11 points by tfreundp 6 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Qwen2.5-coder on the events occurring during the Tiananmen Square protests
    ×1.07 | 7 points by matthewmcneely 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Greatest books about the history of computing
    ×0.84 | 11 points by kaycebasques 4 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: What open source projects need help?
    ×2.45 | 200 points by aaronbrethorst 4 days ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Which blog platform is suitable for personal blogging?
    ×0.62 | 14 points by elliot93 5 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2024?
    ×1.52 | 17 points by vintageclothldn 5 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: How to handle sensitive document uploads as a one-person SaaS?
    ×0.39 | 15 points by wayoverthecloud 1 week ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Bluetooth USB Peripheral Relay – Bridge Bluetooth Devices to USB (github.com/bahaaador)
    ×1.55 | 233 points by bahaaador 1 week ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. OpenAI, Google and Anthropic are struggling to build more advanced AI (bloomberg.com)
    ×4.20 | 617 points by lukebennett 1 week ago | 602 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: A simple image puzzle generator (puzzlip.com)
    ×0.65 | 56 points by lnenad 1 week ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Konga Beat – A custom track editor for Donkey Konga 2 and 3 (kongabeat.com)
    ×0.66 | 113 points by CIARobotFish 1 week ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Burner – A low cost wallet to gift crypto (burner.pro)
    ×1.34 | 48 points by ccamrobertson 1 week ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Windsurf – Agentic IDE (codeium.com)
    ×1.09 | 100 points by fortenforge 1 week ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development (pikuma.com)
    ×2.86 | 693 points by atan2 1 week ago | 320 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. A Student's Guide to Writing with ChatGPT (openai.com)
    ×3.14 | 323 points by timbilt 1 week ago | 309 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Amazon Makes It Harder for Disabled Employees to Work from Home (bloomberg.com)
    ×3.97 | 283 points by belter 1 week ago | 341 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. FBI Raids Home of Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan (axios.com)
    ×4.13 | 249 points by jaboutboul 1 week ago | 214 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. New York City Council Votes to End Broker Fees Squeezing Renters (bloomberg.com)
    ×3.48 | 258 points by JumpCrisscross 1 week ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Francois Chollet is leaving Google (googleblog.com)
    ×2.44 | 376 points by xnx 1 week ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. PRC Targeting of Commercial Telecommunications Infrastructure (fbi.gov)
    ×2.14 | 286 points by 2OEH8eoCRo0 1 week ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: I made a scam detector and build a public database for it (antiphish.ai)
    ×1.60 | 8 points by ngalongc 1 week ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. I Followed the Official AWS Amplify Guide and Was Charged $1,100 (elliott-king.github.io)
    ×3.99 | 461 points by thunderbong 6 days ago | 276 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Lessons from my first exit (mtlynch.io)
    ×2.35 | 408 points by saeedesmaili 6 days ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Interview with gwern (dwarkeshpatel.com)
    ×2.27 | 308 points by synthmeat 6 days ago | 247 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. SQLite Index Visualization (mrsuh.com)
    ×1.46 | 294 points by mrsuh 6 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. FireDucks: Pandas but Faster (bearblog.dev)
    ×2.55 #36 | 369 points by sebg 22 hours ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. MomBoard: E-ink display for a parent with amnesia (miksovsky.com)
    ×7.16 | 2091 points by pabs3 6 days ago | 251 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. The Onion buys Infowars (nytimes.com)
    ×9.46 | 1888 points by coloneltcb 6 days ago | 1227 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Why is it so hard to find a job now? Enter Ghost Jobs (arxiv.org)
    ×3.39 | 391 points by JSeymourATL 6 days ago | 564 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. The barriers to AI engineering are crumbling fast (helix.ml)
    ×1.87 | 250 points by lewq 6 days ago | 187 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Air traffic failure caused by two locations 3600nm apart sharing 3-letter code (flightglobal.com)
    ×1.70 | 265 points by basilesimon 6 days ago | 282 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. AI makes tech debt more expensive (gauge.sh)
    ×2.74 | 464 points by 0x63_Problems 6 days ago | 239 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. The letter ℘: name and origin? (2017) (mathoverflow.net)
    ×1.27 | 283 points by IdealeZahlen 6 days ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Daisy, an AI granny wasting scammers' time (virginmediao2.co.uk)
    ×3.56 | 706 points by ortusdux 6 days ago | 262 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess (dynomight.substack.com)
    ×3.85 | 688 points by crescit_eundo 6 days ago | 471 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Red Hat to contribute container tech (Podman, bootc, ComposeFS...) to CNCF (redhat.com)
    ×2.20 | 272 points by twelvenmonkeys 6 days ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. The Problem of Thinking Too Much (2002) (jstor.org)
    ×1.19 #37 | 9 points by lermontov 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Visual Basic 6 IDE recreated in C# (github.com/BAndysc)
    ×2.31 | 377 points by porterde 6 days ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Thomas E. Kurtz has died (computerhistory.org)
    ×3.20 | 613 points by 1986 6 days ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Analysis of economic and productivity losses caused by cookie banners in Europe (legiscope.com)
    ×3.25 | 332 points by vegasbrianc 6 days ago | 381 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. New Apple security feature reboots iPhones after 3 days, researchers confirm (techcrunch.com)
    ×3.75 | 285 points by joegibbs 6 days ago | 215 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Relativty: An open-source VR headset for $200 (relativty.com)
    ×2.15 | 322 points by LorenDB 6 days ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Retry a command with exponential backoff and jitter (+ Starlark exprs) (github.com/dbohdan)
    ×0.74 #51 | 71 points by networked 20 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: OnAir – create link, receive calls (onair.io)
    ×1.53 | 263 points by bigmicro 5 days ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Researchers have built server prototypes that re-use old components (ieee.org)
    ×0.61 #81 | 44 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Seer: A GUI front end to GDB for Linux (github.com/epasveer)
    ×1.77 | 375 points by turrini 5 days ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: OnePageGA – Simple dashboard for GA4 like Plausible (onepagega.com)
    ×2.21 | 10 points by johnnytee 5 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: MagicQuill – An Intelligent Interactive Image Editing System (magicquill.art)
    ×1.76 | 4 points by brky 5 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Zyme – An Evolvable Programming Language (zyme.dev)
    ×1.09 | 157 points by almusdives 5 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Fashion History Timeline (fitnyc.edu)
    ×0.63 #23 | 16 points by danielam 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. 1-Bit AI Infrastructure (arxiv.org)
    ×1.28 #85 | 150 points by galeos 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Gregglogger (sonnet.io)
    ×0.76 #26 | 17 points by rpastuszak 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Please stop the coding challenges (bearblog.dev)
    ×4.62 | 257 points by CrazyEmi 5 days ago | 478 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. 99 Bottles of OOP now available in Python (sandimetz.com)
    ×1.70 #76 | 243 points by mattcollins 1 day ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Scooter – Interactive find and replace in the terminal (github.com/thomasschafer)
    ×0.83 | 131 points by tomschafer 5 days ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Free mortgage analysis tool to avoid getting screwed by closing costs (closingwtf.com)
    ×1.59 | 273 points by aaln 5 days ago | 161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Biological Miracle – Wood Frog (nps.gov)
    ×2.18 | 500 points by thunderbong 5 days ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Libretto – Simple recording and editing, an alternative to Descript (libretto.fm)
    ×0.63 | 31 points by michael_y 5 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Chemist Identifies Mystery 'Blobs' Washing Up in Newfoundland (nytimes.com)
    ×0.81 #74 | 73 points by mykowebhn 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???