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  1. Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
    ×1.15 14 #19 | 191 points by david927 17 hours ago | 610 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: Auto-download in Apple Podcasts is so unreliable it's basically useless
    ×0.34 | 2 points by garyfirestorm 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Has anyone built payment flows inside AI voice calls?
    ×0.23 | 2 points by wasiyc 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Why is example.com using Cloudflare
    ×0.49 59 | 7 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. True Scale of Solar System
    ×0.26 74 | 3 points by Sarakuzoi 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Senior engineering mngrs: how has AI changed your day-to-day work?
    ×1.01 77 | 31 points by kitetm 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: When has a "dumb" solution beaten a sophisticated one for you?
    ×0.24 92 | 6 points by amadeuswoo 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Best way to find chill job where I can learn and grow as a swe
    ×0.46 86 | 33 points by digitdiglet 3 days ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Is Programming as a Profession Cooked?
    ×0.58 64 | 13 points by fnoef 20 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Moved to SF to build a startup. What next?
    ×0.58 71 | 4 points by kvaranasi_ 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Aaron Swartz died 13 years ago today
    ×6.11 9 | 72 points by vitaelabitur 19 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What was the best sci-fi book of 2025?
    ×1.14 42 | 11 points by Erikun 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Is it time for HN to implement a form of captcha?
    ×0.98 83 | 89 points by Rooster61 3 days ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Senior software engineers, how do you use Claude Code?
    ×0.70 69 | 12 points by allie1 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Cheaper Datadog anyone?
    ×0.29 | 2 points by kvaranasi_ 10 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Tell HN: Get a dying iPhone 12 mini in 2026
    ×0.52 99 | 26 points by remywang 3 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Are There Any Similar Sites Like Downdetector?
    ×0.21 120 | 3 points by nomadfounder 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Would you pay for a privacy-first social platform?
    ×0.74 96 | 7 points by sammiej 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Should I learn Docker to deploy my app in VPS?
    ×0.61 109 | 5 points by danver0 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Implementing NaN Boxing in a Stack-Based VM
    ×0.14 142 | 5 points by tracyspacy 4 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. macOS Tahoe 26.2 ships with an outdated version of Python 3.9.6
    ×0.74 100 | 6 points by Gabrielfair 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: What happened to self-hosted models?
    ×0.26 132 | 3 points by curiousaboutml 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: How would you decouple from the US?
    ×2.29 105 | 37 points by yawa_me_worht 4 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How do you do store-and-forward telemetry at the edge?
    ×0.25 141 | 6 points by Aydarbek 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Feeling irrelevant in back end. How to pivot to automotive software?
    ×0.28 143 | 3 points by culopatin 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Why isn't AI spawning profitable indie games?
    ×1.33 135 | 7 points by eveningsun 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: How to make working in software fun again?
    ×0.82 124 | 6 points by canxerian 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Working on decentralized compute at io.net sharing what we're learning
    ×0.19 136 | 4 points by plutodev 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Funding Opportunities with Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC)
    ×0.47 139 | 5 points by ARDC_73 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: What's your preferred digital payment method?
    ×0.37 140 | 3 points by vednig 2 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. I've maintained an open source task manager for 8 years
    ×0.78 121 | 9 points by johannesjo 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Sophisticated Simplicity of Modern SQLite (shivekkhurana.com)
    ×1.50 11 | 3 points by enz 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. A simpler and more efficient fixed point iterative scheme (arxiv.org)
    ×0.90 | 2 points by 7777777phil 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. The ESP32-C3 Super Mini Scam [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.89 | 2 points by josephcsible 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Various shape regularization algorithms (github.com/nickponline)
    ×0.77 73 | 76 points by nickponline 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Fun things to do with your VM/370 machine (rbanffy.github.io)
    ×0.97 91 | 3 points by rbanffy 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. The 5 "levels" of optimization (edm115.dev)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by EDM115 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Boost social media CTR. Auto generate Open Graph images for website (myog.social)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by hboon 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. AGI Next Frontier Summit in Beijing (260110) (haebom.dev)
    ×0.96 | 2 points by haebom 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Circumcision classed as possible child abuse in draft CPS document (theguardian.com)
    ×6.60 47 | 81 points by isomorph 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: VAM Seek – 2D video navigation grid, 15KB, zero server load (github.com/unhaya)
    ×0.58 55 | 39 points by haasiy 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. FUSE is All You Need – Giving agents access to anything via filesystems (jakobemmerling.de)
    ×1.14 14 #12 | 134 points by jakobem 12 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Newly discovered coffee compounds beat diabetes drug in lab tests (sciencedaily.com)
    ×1.26 | 2 points by ashishgupta2209 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Writing a Program in Par [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.95 | 2 points by razodactyl 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. The great calculator debate: Educators disagree over their place in the classro (csmonitor.com)
    ×0.97 | 2 points by todsacerdoti 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. A Glimpse into DexProtector (romainthomas.fr)
    ×0.28 52 #61 | 10 points by shelfchair 5 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. How to code Claude Code in 200 lines of code (mihaileric.com)
    ×3.02 39 #80 | 800 points by nutellalover 3 days ago | 239 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. A battle over Canada’s mystery brain disease (bbc.com)
    ×1.95 14 | 190 points by lewww 1 day ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Yuanzai World – LLM RPGs with branching world-lines (yuanzai.world)
    ×0.69 78 | 30 points by yuanzaiworld 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Symfreq – Analyse symbol frequencies in code (Rust) (github.com/vaskort)
    ×0.67 | 2 points by vaskort 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. California governor proposes $200M in new state EV tax rebates (reuters.com)
    ×1.18 11 #83 | 11 points by MilnerRoute 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Malaysia and Indonesia block Musk's Grok over sexually explicit deepfakes (bbc.com)
    ×2.55 28 #88 | 17 points by breve 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Free and local browser tool for designing gear models for 3D printing (dmtrkovalenko.dev)
    ×0.78 104 | 53 points by neogoose 5 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Are the YouTube channel Courts and Crimes's shorts AI-generated deep fakes? (stackexchange.com)
    ×1.67 11 #90 | 6 points by razor-thin 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: AI Anime Generator (animacharacter.com)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by jokera 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Open Chaos: A self-evolving open-source project (openchaos.dev)
    ×1.86 15 | 411 points by stefanvdw1 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Ever wanted to look at yourself in Braille? (github.com/NishantJoshi00)
    ×1.76 118 | 10 points by cat-whisperer 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: I vibecoded an ARM64 operating system that boots on real hardware (github.com/kaansenol5)
    ×7.52 94 | 17 points by kaansenol5 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. "There Are Two Possible Futures for American Science." (issues.org)
    ×1.01 55 #59 | 18 points by mosesbp 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. UK threatens action against X over sexualised AI images of women and children (theguardian.com)
    ×0.99 | 1 points by chrisjj 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: ZCCInfo – Fast status line for Claude Code written in Zig (github.com/tuananh131001)
    ×0.57 | 2 points by tuananh131001 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. New information extracted from Snowden PDFs through metadata version analysis (libroot.org)
    ×1.97 11 | 313 points by libroot 1 day ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: ChemistryLaTeX (google.com)
    ×1.05 | 2 points by quintessen 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Voice Composer – Browser-based pitch detection to MIDI/strudel/tidal (dioptre.github.io)
    ×0.52 25 #58 | 14 points by dioptre 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Age of Invention: Tudor Trade War (ageofinvention.xyz)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by Khaine 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: AIIM – platform to build AI agents with psychological depth (ai-im.tech)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by juliavvrn 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: 25 years of house prices in England and Wales (housepricedashboard.co.uk)
    ×1.28 138 | 14 points by rowanajmarshall 5 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Cloudflare CEO threatens the Winter Olympics after Italy slugs it with a fine (theregister.com)
    ×3.24 40 | 6 points by beardyw 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Turn any topic into a 3Blue1Brown-style video (github.com/mateolafalce)
    ×2.46 126 | 5 points by lafalce 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. What Accenture's acquisition of Faculty means for AI enablement services (aienablementinsider.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by dylancollins 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Exact significance tests for 2 × 2 tables (janhove.github.io)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by dbaupp 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: I put economic rules in silicon that can't be changed by software
    ×2.06 82 | 4 points by PrimalOrigins 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: An LLM response cache that's aware of dynamic data (butter.dev)
    ×0.40 129 | 16 points by raymondtana 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. My Home Fibre Network Disintegrated (alienchow.dev)
    ×1.76 29 #37 | 247 points by alienchow 1 day ago | 215 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Executable Markdown files with Unix pipes
    ×1.00 72 | 122 points by jedwhite 3 days ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Three Inverse Laws of Robotics (susam.net)
    ×1.56 | 3 points by todsacerdoti 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Code Is Clay (campedersen.com)
    ×0.97 37 | 88 points by ecto 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Yellopages – New tab Chrome extension (kawaicheung.io)
    ×0.60 51 | 31 points by kiwigod17 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Horizon Engine – C++20 3D FPS Game Engine with ECS and Modern Renderer (github.com/jackthepunished)
    ×1.75 110 | 4 points by bhdr26k 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Gadget Exposed a Spy Camera [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.83 11 #16 | 50 points by rib3ye 7 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. NASA announces unprecedented return of sick ISS astronaut and crew (livescience.com)
    ×1.45 45 #84 | 132 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. The Simpler Things in Life [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by genderdoog 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. SoleKey – A password manager with no PIN recovery, by design (google.com)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by ping_pundit 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: EuConform – Offline-first EU AI Act compliance tool (open source) (github.com/Hiepler)
    ×0.66 75 | 71 points by hiepler 2 days ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Garbage collection is contrarian (trynova.dev)
    ×0.88 12 #18 | 45 points by aapoalas 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Japan sets sail on rare earth hunt as China tightens supplies (asahi.com)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by lb1lf 21 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. NCSA Mosaic 2.7, one of the first graphical web browsers (github.com/alandipert)
    ×0.47 75 #66 | 9 points by stmw 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. I reverse engineered Ann Arbor's parking ticket system and built a live map (ammarateya.com)
    ×2.42 24 | 5 points by ateya 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. guys why does armenian completely break Claude (twitter.com/dyushag)
    ×1.60 48 | 93 points by ag8 14 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe (noheger.at)
    ×7.07 #1 | 1706 points by happosai 13 hours ago | 694 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???