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  1. Tell HN: DigitalOcean's managed services broke each other after update
    ×1.62 19 #25 | 41 points by neilfrndes 3 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
    ×1.17 62 #55 | 244 points by david927 1 day ago | 784 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. YC Cofounder Matching inbox stuck in infinite loading loop – anyone else?
    ×0.61 23 #69 | 12 points by founder_mode 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Speculate About a Hypothetical Cyber Exploit That Would Leverage AI
    ×0.39 | 2 points by burnerToBetOut 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Job seekers, what's working / not working?
    ×0.78 73 | 11 points by Jabbs 13 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Erratic HN front page algorithm
    ×0.38 95 | 4 points by 7777777phil 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How do you automate your release notes?
    ×0.37 84 | 7 points by dustfinger 11 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Tell HN: Mattermost "upgrade" to v11 enforces 10k UI message limit
    ×0.85 83 | 3 points by nemosaltat 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: When has a "dumb" solution beaten a sophisticated one for you?
    ×0.41 141 | 12 points by amadeuswoo 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Why is example.com using Cloudflare
    ×0.51 117 | 10 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Has anyone built payment flows inside AI voice calls?
    ×0.46 119 | 6 points by wasiyc 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Why are so many images now in unusual file formats?
    ×1.01 69 | 4 points by paulpauper 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What are you proud of about doing for you health and wellness regularly?
    ×1.15 79 | 9 points by nemath 12 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What business processes still waste time every week?
    ×0.35 123 | 4 points by lzr_mihnea 19 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Senior engineering mngrs: how has AI changed your day-to-day work?
    ×0.98 124 | 33 points by kitetm 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Tell HN: Auto-download in Apple Podcasts is so unreliable it's basically useless
    ×0.24 136 | 3 points by garyfirestorm 20 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Is Programming as a Profession Cooked?
    ×0.69 112 | 17 points by fnoef 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Best way to find chill job where I can learn and grow as a swe
    ×0.48 137 | 35 points by digitdiglet 4 days ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Is it time for HN to implement a form of captcha?
    ×0.96 127 | 89 points by Rooster61 4 days ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Senior software engineers, how do you use Claude Code?
    ×0.74 125 | 14 points by allie1 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Would you pay for a privacy-first social platform?
    ×1.00 145 | 11 points by sammiej 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Tell HN: Get a dying iPhone 12 mini in 2026
    ×0.53 150 | 27 points by remywang 3 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Aaron Swartz died 13 years ago today
    ×5.62 66 | 87 points by vitaelabitur 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Moved to SF to build a startup. What next?
    ×0.70 129 | 7 points by kvaranasi_ 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: What was the best sci-fi book of 2025?
    ×1.13 109 | 13 points by Erikun 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Implementing NaN Boxing in a Stack-Based VM
    ×0.14 179 | 5 points by tracyspacy 5 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Cheaper Datadog anyone?
    ×0.64 139 | 5 points by kvaranasi_ 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: How do you do store-and-forward telemetry at the edge?
    ×0.33 178 | 8 points by Aydarbek 5 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: How would you decouple from the US?
    ×2.08 156 | 37 points by yawa_me_worht 4 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Are There Any Similar Sites Like Downdetector?
    ×0.20 175 | 3 points by nomadfounder 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Should I learn Docker to deploy my app in VPS?
    ×0.53 169 | 5 points by danver0 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: What happened to self-hosted models?
    ×0.24 176 | 3 points by curiousaboutml 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Funding Opportunities with Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC)
    ×0.64 177 | 7 points by ARDC_73 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Feeling irrelevant in back end. How to pivot to automotive software?
    ×0.24 180 | 3 points by culopatin 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. macOS Tahoe 26.2 ships with an outdated version of Python 3.9.6
    ×0.77 158 | 7 points by Gabrielfair 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Are Atomic Operations Better Than a Mutex? It Depends (madflojo.dev)
    ×1.11 | 2 points by madflojo 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Apps like Grok are banned under Google rules–why is it still in the Play Store? (arstechnica.com)
    ×6.70 53 | 50 points by pauljonas 8 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875 (github.com/haykgrigo3)
    ×2.29 2 #2 | 517 points by admp 11 hours ago | 211 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. The Cray-1 Computer System (1977) [pdf] (computerhistory.org)
    ×1.09 11 #3 | 38 points by LordGrey 3 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids (smartere.dk)
    ×2.90 3 #7 | 526 points by mchro 14 hours ago | 306 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. CLI agents make self-hosting on a home server easier and fun (fulghum.io)
    ×3.16 12 #45 | 737 points by websku 1 day ago | 512 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Create Postcards from Museum Artworks (sweetpost.art)
    ×1.44 | 2 points by thebigship 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Fun things to do with your VM/370 machine (rbanffy.github.io)
    ×1.48 155 | 4 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Update on age requirements for apps distributed in Texas (apple.com)
    ×0.97 36 #33 | 29 points by Austin_Conlon 7 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Minimal type-safe language for software architecture (github.com/tesserato)
    ×0.51 | 2 points by tesserato 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Isolated benchmarks to avoid optimization pollution (Node.js) (github.com/Llorx)
    ×0.76 157 | 3 points by Llorx 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. F2 (YC S25) Is Hiring (ycombinator.com)
    5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Ireland fast tracks Bill to criminalise harmful voice or image misuse (irishtimes.com)
    ×1.87 8 #52 | 137 points by mooreds 14 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: I visualized the entire history of Citi Bike in the browser (bikemap.nyc)
    ×1.02 133 | 113 points by freemanjiang 5 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: DeepDream for Video with Temporal Consistency (github.com/jeremicna)
    ×0.47 140 | 71 points by fruitbarrel 4 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Superhuman AI exfiltrates emails (promptarmor.com)
    ×2.05 2 #41 | 39 points by takira 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Presidential Immunity in the United States (wikipedia.org)
    ×7.36 62 | 67 points by pinkmuffinere 8 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. "Scholars Will Call It Nonsense": The Structure of von Däniken's Argument (1987) (penn.museum)
    ×0.80 71 | 60 points by Kaibeezy 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Statement from Federal Reserve Chair (federalreserve.gov)
    ×6.25 66 | 175 points by nikhizzle 12 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. 2025 marked a record-breaking year for Apple services (apple.com)
    ×1.24 4 | 50 points by soheilpro 13 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Interactive California Budget (by Claude Code) (california-budget.com)
    ×0.86 90 | 36 points by sberens 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. JRR Tolkien reads from The Hobbit for 30 Minutes (1952) (openculture.com)
    ×1.87 5 #49 | 314 points by bookofjoe 22 hours ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. A Mini-IBM PC Using an Adafruit Fruit Jam (adafruit-playground.com)
    ×1.27 84 #66 | 4 points by runamuck 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Meta admits to Instagram password reset mess, denies leaks (theregister.com)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by maxloh 22 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Yoth-yoth – your all-in-one workspace (yoth-yoth.com)
    ×1.07 | 2 points by volokh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Porting xv6 to HiFive Unmatched board (github.com/eyengin)
    ×0.48 103 | 26 points by eyengin 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Umaro – An interactive music theory suite for guitarists (umaro.app)
    ×1.83 128 | 17 points by SnowingXIV 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Message Queues: A Simple Guide with Analogies (2024) (cloudamqp.com)
    ×0.73 17 #23 | 80 points by byt3h3ad 10 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. A battle over Canada’s mystery brain disease (bbc.com)
    ×1.94 55 | 194 points by lewww 1 day ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: flash.nvim, but for tmux…sort of (github.com/Kristijan)
    ×1.33 105 | 6 points by KristijanM13 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 books (pieterma.es)
    ×2.36 38 | 491 points by pmaze 2 days ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. A Couple 3D AABB Tricks (gpfault.net)
    ×0.77 54 #43 | 31 points by ibobev 10 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. The Manchester Garbage Collector and purple-garden's runtime (xnacly.me)
    ×0.41 47 #84 | 22 points by xnacly 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Former NYC Mayor Eric Adams rugs his own memecoin just 30 minutes after launch (reddit.com)
    ×1.74 | 2 points by pulisse 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. I Graduated from Survival Mode (nautilus.quest)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by zeldapoem 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Spy Shots Catch the Strangest New Car We've Seen Since Cybertruck (carbuzz.com)
    ×1.08 | 2 points by gnabgib 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. BYD's cheapest electric cars to have Lidar self-driving tech (thedriven.io)
    ×2.56 16 | 231 points by senti_sentient 1 day ago | 310 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Google: Don't make "bite-sized" content for LLMs (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.68 81 | 79 points by cebert 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: macOS menu bar app to track Claude usage in real time (github.com/richhickson)
    ×1.08 110 | 159 points by RichHickson 4 days ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: ElixirBrowser – Android Chromium fork with extensions, inspired by Kiwi (github.com/SF-FLAM)
    ×2.48 159 | 15 points by SF-FLAM 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Keychron's Nape Pro turns your keyboard into a laptop‑style trackball rig (yankodesign.com)
    ×1.50 9 #79 | 78 points by tortilla 13 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Signal and WhatsApp Now Working on T-Mobile Satellite (Starlink) (cascadialink.com)
    ×0.79 | 1 points by mrdeke 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Meta announces nuclear energy projects (fb.com)
    ×2.60 14 | 268 points by ChrisArchitect 1 day ago | 328 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Jax-JS, array library in JavaScript targeting WebGPU (ekzhang.com)
    ×1.08 149 | 83 points by ekzhang 6 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: I built an Instagram-style productivity app with gamification (apple.com)
    ×2.44 154 | 6 points by mandynoee 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: AI Vibe Coding Hackathon (devpost.com)
    ×1.91 142 | 5 points by abdibrokhim 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Fabrice Bellard's TS Zip (2024) (bellard.org)
    ×1.23 6 #9 | 118 points by everlier 7 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Yolobox – Run AI coding agents with full sudo without nuking home dir (github.com/finbarr)
    ×1.09 30 #13 | 62 points by Finbarr 9 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Ansible battle tested hardening for Linux, SSH, Nginx, MySQL (github.com/dev-sec)
    ×1.07 19 #30 | 64 points by walterbell 9 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. The Benjamin Button Effect: Software Careers in the Age of AI (softwareguru.substack.com)
    ×1.39 | 2 points by ssamptur 54 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Worldview, persistent strategic context for Claude Code (extremeclarity.ai)
    ×2.19 138 | 6 points by faizanbhat 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Agent-of-empires: OpenCode and Claude Code session manager (github.com/njbrake)
    ×0.99 12 #14 | 72 points by river_otter 8 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. End the Fed (2025) (house.gov)
    ×2.18 57 | 4 points by barrister 49 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Compare LLM Responses with OverallGPT (overallgpt.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by walterbell 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Iran has now been offline for 96 hours (twitter.com/netblocks)
    ×6.73 72 | 152 points by payamb 9 hours ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???