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  1. The $LANG Programming Language
    ×1.60 2 #8 | 122 points by dang 4 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Iran's 120h internet shutdown, phones back. How to stay resilient?
    ×2.32 30 #46 | 58 points by us321 11 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Quantum Computation, Computers and Programming
    ×0.50 25 #54 | 23 points by rramadass 6 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: ADHD – How do you manage the constant stream of thoughts and ideas?
    ×2.63 27 #59 | 49 points by chriswright1664 5 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Vxlan over WireGuard or WireGuard over Vxlan?
    ×0.83 19 #66 | 36 points by mlhpdx 9 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Discrepancy between Lichess and Stockfish
    ×0.48 30 #86 | 17 points by HNLurker2 9 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Looking for Windows contributors for meeting-detection engine
    ×0.53 79 | 7 points by Ayobamiu 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
    ×1.14 70 | 254 points by david927 2 days ago | 836 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Tell HN: DigitalOcean's managed services broke each other after update
    ×1.23 57 | 75 points by neilfrndes 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Who remembers AWS Spot's auction era before the 2017 pricing change?
    ×0.18 | 2 points by aleroawani 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Tell HN: Intel could blow up the Console Wars if it had the guts
    ×0.89 89 | 3 points by noumenon1111 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Are you underutilizing your insurance too?
    ×1.01 94 | 3 points by nemath 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: 500 citation MSc CS, stuck in a low-trust region. How to move forward?
    ×0.65 41 | 18 points by throwawaysafely 11 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Tell HN: The Google Tenor GIF API has been shut down
    ×1.82 49 | 17 points by dfajgljsldkjag 12 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Learning Discoverability
    ×0.35 | 2 points by learnwithmattc 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Does anyone else think that humanoid robots is a bubble?
    ×1.72 74 | 5 points by NewUser76312 8 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Is "AI vibe coding" making prototyping worse inside real companies?
    ×1.35 69 | 11 points by arapkuliev 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: What made you move back to HTML-to-PDF in production?
    ×1.89 96 | 5 points by gokulsiva 13 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Unpopular Opinion: Bootstrap is a better front-end framework than Tailwind
    ×1.26 82 | 21 points by pyeri 23 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Eleva.js – A 2.3KB JavaScript framework with signals and no virtual DOM
    ×0.39 | 2 points by TarekRaafat 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. What will enshittification of LLMs look like?
    ×0.88 | 2 points by scoofy 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Experiment: Using NotebookLM as a cynical code reviewer (via custom prompts)
    ×0.39 | 2 points by practicalaifg 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Gh Account Permabanned – Help?
    ×1.26 73 | 10 points by nicomeemes 12 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Story about a CEO going off on a user who left feedback?
    ×0.95 109 | 3 points by VladVladikoff 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: How do you prevent AI agents from going rogue in production?
    ×1.04 110 | 3 points by techbuilder4242 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Salesforce, SAP, or ServiceNow: Which Is Most Ripe for Disruption?
    ×0.41 90 | 6 points by Saurabh_Kumar_ 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. My casual chat with AI about cancer led to an internal prototype named"Onco-Bus"
    ×0.66 | 2 points by sony707 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Where is all the protest music?
    ×1.39 87 | 10 points by swiper_lux 18 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Job seekers, what's working / not working?
    ×0.85 108 | 18 points by Jabbs 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: When has a "dumb" solution beaten a sophisticated one for you?
    ×0.37 164 | 12 points by amadeuswoo 3 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Is Reddit Down(-Ish)?
    ×0.52 104 | 3 points by theanonymousone 12 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Erratic HN front page algorithm
    ×0.41 143 | 6 points by 7777777phil 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: How do you automate your release notes?
    ×0.40 124 | 9 points by dustfinger 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. I am a fan of XianXia's novels from China
    ×0.65 | 2 points by tain1223 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Senior engineering mngrs: how has AI changed your day-to-day work?
    ×0.98 141 | 35 points by kitetm 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Speculate About a Hypothetical Cyber Exploit That Would Leverage AI
    ×0.30 156 | 3 points by burnerToBetOut 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Should I shutdown my 20 year old SaaS sideline?
    ×0.36 163 | 3 points by pohwp 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: Best way to find chill job where I can learn and grow as a swe
    ×0.47 150 | 35 points by digitdiglet 5 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: Has anyone built payment flows inside AI voice calls?
    ×0.40 158 | 6 points by wasiyc 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: Is it time for HN to implement a form of captcha?
    ×0.95 137 | 89 points by Rooster61 5 days ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Tell HN: Mattermost "upgrade" to v11 enforces 10k UI message limit
    ×0.82 136 | 5 points by nemosaltat 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ask HN: Is Programming as a Profession Cooked?
    ×0.76 135 | 20 points by fnoef 2 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: What business processes still waste time every week?
    ×0.39 161 | 5 points by lzr_mihnea 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Tell HN: Auto-download in Apple Podcasts is so unreliable it's basically useless
    ×0.29 168 | 4 points by garyfirestorm 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Tell HN: Get a dying iPhone 12 mini in 2026
    ×0.54 166 | 28 points by remywang 4 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Ask HN: Would you pay for a privacy-first social platform?
    ×0.91 169 | 11 points by sammiej 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Ask HN: Senior software engineers, how do you use Claude Code?
    ×0.75 149 | 15 points by allie1 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Ask HN: What are you proud of about doing for you health and wellness regularly?
    ×1.19 118 | 11 points by nemath 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Ask HN: Iran has now been offline for 100 hours. What can we "technically" do?
    ×1.06 123 | 7 points by us321 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Aaron Swartz died 13 years ago today
    ×5.33 98 | 92 points by vitaelabitur 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Why are so many images now in unusual file formats?
    ×0.97 139 | 5 points by paulpauper 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Ask HN: Moved to SF to build a startup. What next?
    ×0.64 165 | 7 points by kvaranasi_ 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Ask HN: What was the best sci-fi book of 2025?
    ×1.14 142 | 14 points by Erikun 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Solving Factorio with Terraform [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.10 | 2 points by itherseed 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: macOS menu bar app to track Claude usage in real time (github.com/richhickson)
    ×1.08 117 | 159 points by RichHickson 5 days ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. A deep dive on agent sandboxes (pierce.dev)
    ×1.02 37 #33 | 44 points by icyfox 9 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. The insecure evangelism of LLM maximalists (lewiscampbell.tech)
    ×3.84 46 #53 | 200 points by todsacerdoti 6 hours ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Y0 – Platform for autonomous AI agents that do real work (y0-app.vercel.app)
    ×1.23 112 | 3 points by yethikrishnar 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Worldview, persistent strategic context for Claude Code (extremeclarity.ai)
    ×2.16 167 | 6 points by faizanbhat 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Chromium Has Merged JpegXL (googlesource.com)
    ×4.19 25 #79 | 421 points by thunderbong 22 hours ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Why Apple's Security Transparency Is a Double-Edged Sword for iOS 18.5 (medium.com)
    ×0.86 | 2 points by ryuzaburo 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. One Simple Arrow Changed Automobiles Forever [video] (wsj.com)
    ×0.35 | 1 points by fortran77 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. SkyPilot: One system to use and manage all AI compute (K8s, 20 clouds, Slurm) (github.com/skypilot-org)
    ×0.38 70 #60 | 5 points by covi 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Starlink activates free internet in Iran (cnn.com)
    ×4.33 33 #75 | 48 points by Agreed3750 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. The Case for Blogging in the Ruins (joanwestenberg.com)
    ×1.53 23 | 74 points by herbertl 11 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: 26x speedup on BitNet sparse ops with AVX-512 and 2-bit encoding (github.com/microsoft)
    ×0.49 | 2 points by HyperFoldUK 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. tmux for Agents (2025) (philz.dev)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by indigodaddy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Rust (language) at Volvo Cars [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.37 | 1 points by cwt137 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Dylan Araps has taken up farming (dylan.gr)
    ×0.87 | 2 points by planet36 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Vibe scrape with AI Web Agents, prompt => get data [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.33 33 | 5 points by arjunchint 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Test in Production with AI Agents (papercuts.dev)
    ×0.76 107 | 3 points by Sayuj01 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: AI video generator that outputs React instead of video files (outscal.com)
    ×0.99 134 | 6 points by mayankkgrover 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: `tc` like `wc` but for LLM tokens (github.com/jamierpond)
    ×1.78 162 | 6 points by jamiepond 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Scott Adams has died (youtube.com)
    ×6.93 16 #25 | 838 points by ekianjo 13 hours ago | 1348 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Building Threat Models with MCP and AI Agents (detectionatscale.com)
    ×0.92 | 2 points by gmays 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. The UK is shaping a future of precrime and dissent management (2025) (freedomnews.org.uk)
    ×3.06 36 | 219 points by robtherobber 16 hours ago | 266 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Various shape regularization algorithms (github.com/nickponline)
    ×0.78 130 | 77 points by nickponline 5 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. My Conversation with Stacey Abrams (snyder.substack.com)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by hkhn 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Apple Creator Studio (apple.com)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by aenean 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. The month long, 3000 mile roller derby of Chicago (rollerskatingmuseum.org)
    ×0.25 77 #51 | 5 points by afunk 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. What Will Work (and Won't) in SaaS in 2026:- Lessons from Building 100 Tools (digiwares.xyz)
    ×1.42 | 2 points by digi_wares 29 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month (greg.technology)
    ×1.03 | 2 points by gregsadetsky 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: DSAT – Data Subject Access Toolkit (codeberg.org)
    ×0.64 | 2 points by anticensor 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Agonist-Antagonist Myoneural Interface (mit.edu)
    ×0.55 29 #18 | 44 points by kaycebasques 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Nogic – VS Code extension that visualizes your codebase as a graph (visualstudio.com)
    ×0.97 16 #28 | 94 points by davelradindra 9 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Fossil versus Git (fossil-scm.org)
    ×2.01 76 | 93 points by vednig 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Keychron's Nape Pro turns your keyboard into a laptop‑style trackball rig (yankodesign.com)
    ×1.55 72 | 86 points by tortilla 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Timberlogs – Drop-in structured logging for TypeScript
    ×0.95 101 | 3 points by enaboapps 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Inlining – The Ultimate Optimisation (xania.org)
    ×0.63 47 #40 | 51 points by PaulHoule 11 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Windows 8 Desktop Environment for Linux (github.com/er-bharat)
    ×1.47 34 | 231 points by edent 1 day ago | 221 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???