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  1. AI coding is sexy, but accounting is the real low-hanging automation target
    ×0.59 3 #53 | 7 points by bmadduma 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Relatively SoTA LLM Agents from Scratch?
    ×0.17 | 2 points by solsane 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines?
    ×6.53 8 | 955 points by embedding-shape 2 days ago | 459 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Agentic QA – Open-source middleware to fuzz-test agents for loops
    ×0.19 92 | 38 points by Saurabh_Kumar_ 1 week ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Has anyone been able to renew their IEEE this month?
    ×0.29 46 | 8 points by chrisaycock 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Practical Tips for Gemini 3
    ×0.18 79 | 4 points by xiaoru 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Console.text() – SMS alerts when code executes
    ×0.30 87 | 5 points by Noel04 16 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What hard problems are still underexplored?
    ×0.51 75 | 10 points by brihati 18 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Why are "remote" jobs in late 2025 still limited to hiring in US/CA/UK/DE?
    ×0.78 97 | 19 points by ftonato 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
    ×0.96 98 | 228 points by proberts 6 days ago | 304 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2025)
    ×0.73 138 | 160 points by whoishiring 1 week ago | 433 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Quality of recent gens of Dell/Lenovo laptops worse than 10 years ago?
    ×0.77 147 | 113 points by ferguess_k 1 week ago | 207 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)
    ×1.27 112 | 315 points by whoishiring 1 week ago | 537 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Is any of you using LLMs to create full features in big enterprise apps?
    ×0.37 120 | 6 points by not_that_d 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What are young technically minded people reading?
    ×0.79 106 | 16 points by drdec 2 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How do small businesses handle phone calls?
    ×0.16 124 | 4 points by duckkg5 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Is there a "good" (non-privacy horror) aftermarket HUD for your car?
    ×0.19 139 | 3 points by xrd 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How can I learn smartphone repair online?
    ×0.26 130 | 4 points by rishikeshs 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Is it still worth learning a new programming language?
    ×0.91 100 | 11 points by xparadigm 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. What's Next? Clippy Copilot?
    ×0.39 135 | 8 points by johnnyballgame 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Are there any viable Android phones for a power user to buy nowadays?
    ×0.41 141 | 12 points by gooob 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. The curious case of Mark V. Shaney (2008) [pdf] (rice.edu)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by susam 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. NYT Connections LLM Benchmark (github.com/lechmazur)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by cainxinth 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Show HN: Fate, a new data framework for React and tRPC, inspired by Relay (github.com/nkzw-tech)
    ×0.87 94 | 29 points by cpojer 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: I wrote a book – Debugging TypeScript Applications (in beta) (pragprog.com)
    ×0.68 143 | 12 points by ozornin 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Common Lisp, ASDF, and Quicklisp: packaging explained (cdegroot.com)
    ×0.86 46 #80 | 99 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Golang's big miss on memory arenas (medium.com)
    ×1.17 42 #83 | 146 points by andr3wV 1 day ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. The Code That Revolutionized Orbital Simulation [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.03 | 2 points by todsacerdoti 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Octopii, a runtime for writing distributed applications in Rust (github.com/octopii-rs)
    ×1.94 119 | 17 points by puterbonga 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Forecaster Arena – Testing LLMs on real events with prediction markets (forecasterarena.com)
    ×0.89 | 1 points by setrf 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. FreeBSD debates sunsetting power64/power64le support (osnews.com)
    ×2.92 47 | 3 points by ksec 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Instead of fixing WoW's new floating house exploit, Blizzard makes it official (arstechnica.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by Bender 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. VMware kills vSphere Foundation in parts of EMEA (theregister.com)
    ×1.00 | 2 points by Bender 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Israel used Palantir technologies in pager attack in Lebanon (the307.substack.com)
    ×5.87 16 | 518 points by cramsession 1 day ago | 570 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Useful patterns for building HTML tools (simonwillison.net)
    ×1.94 57 | 49 points by simonw 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: I made a turn-based strategy game inspired by Advance Wars (frontwarsio.org)
    ×1.12 122 | 4 points by cby821555203 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. An SVG is all you need (recoil.org)
    ×1.65 5 #6 | 125 points by sadiq 5 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. A Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Banned Him for It (404media.co)
    ×3.01 55 #81 | 106 points by markatlarge 8 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Layoutz – Make Simple, Beautiful CLI Output, No Component-Library Limitations (github.com/mattlianje)
    ×0.97 | 2 points by MrJulia 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Cursor Launches an AI Coding Tool for Designers (wired.com)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by rmason 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. I got an Nvidia GH200 server for €7.5k on Reddit and converted it to a desktop (dnhkng.github.io)
    ×5.30 10 | 348 points by dnhkng 1 day ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Days since last GitHub incident (github-incidents.pages.dev)
    ×1.75 46 #62 | 191 points by AquiGorka 8 hours ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. South Korea – A cautionary tale for the rest of humanity (worksinprogress.co)
    ×3.82 11 | 61 points by barry-cotter 12 hours ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. How Google Maps allocates survival across London's restaurants (laurenleek.substack.com)
    ×2.30 9 #82 | 382 points by justincormack 1 day ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Prompts.chat: Free and Open Source Social Platform for AI Prompts (prompts.chat)
    ×0.85 | 1 points by fka 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: I built a WebMIDI sequencer to control my hardware synths (simplychris.ai)
    ×0.51 | 2 points by simplychris 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Walrus – a Kafka alternative written in Rust (github.com/nubskr)
    ×1.10 113 | 158 points by janicerk 1 week ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. What Is the Nicest Thing a Stranger Has Ever Done for You? (louplummer.lol)
    ×1.33 59 #55 | 7 points by speckx 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: I got tired of switching AI tools, so I built an IDE with 11 of them (hivetechs.io)
    ×0.94 103 | 20 points by hivetechs 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Briddle – Guess the AI's semantic path between two words (briddle.io)
    ×2.69 110 | 10 points by rvranjan 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Persistent memory for Claude Code sessions (github.com/TonyStef)
    ×0.77 118 | 21 points by tonyystef 1 week ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Christmas Tree Exec (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.58 31 #27 | 7 points by jamesgill 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Terrain Diffusion: A Diffusion-Based Successor to Perlin Noise (arxiv.org)
    ×1.03 39 #79 | 149 points by kelseyfrog 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Big Tech are the new Soviets (unherd.com)
    ×3.07 69 | 53 points by saubeidl 1 day ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: A TSP game I wanted for 10 years - built in 4 hours (graphhopper.com)
    ×0.67 123 | 11 points by oblonski 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Gotui – a modern Go terminal dashboard library (github.com/metaspartan)
    ×0.91 31 #29 | 13 points by carsenk 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Python Workers redux: fast cold starts, packages, and a uv-first workflow (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.05 54 #44 | 118 points by dom96 20 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Aldrovanda Vesiculosa (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.57 | 2 points by thunderbong 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. When it comes to language, context matters (mit.edu)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by hhs 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Tacopy – Tail Call Optimization for Python (github.com/raaidrt)
    ×0.62 125 | 94 points by raaid-rt 1 week ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Going Through Snowden Documents, Part 1 (libroot.org)
    ×2.04 20 #25 | 184 points by libroot 6 hours ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: GPULlama3.java Llama Compilied to PTX/OpenCL Now Integrated in Quarkus
    ×0.42 56 #45 | 21 points by mikepapadim 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Something Ominous Is Happening in the AI Economy (theatlantic.com)
    ×3.58 33 #61 | 29 points by jonbaer 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Incomplete list of mistakes in the design of CSS (csswg.org)
    ×1.83 5 #71 | 184 points by OuterVale 20 hours ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Fanfa – Interactive and animated Mermaid diagrams (fanfa.dev)
    ×1.23 80 | 151 points by bairess 1 week ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Rubio Deletes Calibri as the State Department's Official Typeface (nytimes.com)
    ×2.80 77 | 67 points by hdk 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: A Real-Time 4D Fractal Explorer in the Browser Using WebGPU (bryanjj.github.io)
    ×0.45 | 2 points by bryan0 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. UK House of Lords attempting to ban use of VPNs by anyone under 16 (alecmuffett.com)
    ×4.82 10 #12 | 247 points by nvarsj 4 hours ago | 233 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Gundam is just the same as Jane Austen but happens to include giant mech suits (eli.li)
    ×1.63 19 #85 | 239 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 182 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Reddit launches high court challenge to Australia's under-16s social media ban (theguardian.com)
    ×3.74 54 | 5 points by t0lo 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Vibe coding is mad depressing (gmnz.xyz)
    ×4.28 25 | 240 points by dirtylowprofile 21 hours ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. When would you ever want bubblesort? (2023) (buttondown.com)
    ×0.99 31 | 106 points by atan2 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Serif – a zero-dependency, DataFrame for Python (github.com/CIG-GitHub)
    ×0.80 81 | 3 points by TheAerius 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight (bearblog.dev)
    ×2.44 47 #17 | 567 points by __rito__ 1 day ago | 250 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Congress Kills Military "Right to Repair" (theintercept.com)
    ×2.50 11 #52 | 13 points by beepbooptheory 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Flow Where You Want – Guidance for Flow Models (drscotthawley.github.io)
    ×0.52 57 #73 | 39 points by rundigen12 19 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Detail, a Bug Finder (detail.dev)
    ×0.82 83 | 66 points by drob 2 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Huge undersea wall dating from 5000 BC found in France (bbc.com)
    ×1.20 58 #69 | 7 points by neversaydie 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. The HTML-First Approach: Why Htmx and Lightweight Frameworks Are Revolutionizin (danieleteti.it)
    ×0.80 | 1 points by todsacerdoti 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. A runner survived 9 days lost in the Sahara during the Marathon des Sables (youtube.com)
    ×1.59 | 2 points by deossaboss 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Intermittent hypoxia increases blood flow and benefits executive function (wiley.com)
    ×0.82 60 | 55 points by PaulHoule 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. What's the Difference Between an ACID and a BASE Database (amazon.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by teleforce 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Stop Breaking TLS (markround.com)
    ×2.51 42 | 165 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: FuseCells – a handcrafted logic puzzle game with 2,500 levels (apple.com)
    ×0.46 136 | 36 points by keini 5 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Marmot – Single-binary data catalog (no Kafka, no Elasticsearch) (github.com/marmotdata)
    ×0.76 144 | 102 points by charlie-haley 1 week ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. How Geometry Is Fundamental for Chess (lichess.org)
    ×1.50 22 | 3 points by fzliu 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Kicking Robots (harpers.org)
    ×0.53 45 #42 | 32 points by Hooke 9 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: A 2-row, 16-key keyboard designed for smartphones (k-keyboard.com)
    ×0.69 51 | 77 points by QWERTYmini 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. TerraUSD creator Do Kwon sentenced to 15 years over $40B crypto collapse (reuters.com)
    ×3.92 18 #50 | 13 points by 2OEH8eoCRo0 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. RoboCrop: Teaching robots how to pick tomatoes (phys.org)
    ×0.78 49 #86 | 101 points by smurda 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???