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  1. Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
    ×1.15 46 #59 | 246 points by david927 1 day ago | 810 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Unpopular Opinion: Bootstrap is a better front-end framework than Tailwind
    ×0.87 23 | 4 points by pyeri 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Job seekers, what's working / not working?
    ×0.74 68 | 12 points by Jabbs 20 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tell HN: DigitalOcean's managed services broke each other after update
    ×1.38 52 | 57 points by neilfrndes 9 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Speculate About a Hypothetical Cyber Exploit That Would Leverage AI
    ×0.27 | 2 points by burnerToBetOut 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Erratic HN front page algorithm
    ×0.34 92 | 4 points by 7777777phil 18 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How do you automate your release notes?
    ×0.46 71 | 9 points by dustfinger 18 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Should I shutdown my 20 year old SaaS sideline?
    ×0.60 90 | 3 points by pohwp 14 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: When has a "dumb" solution beaten a sophisticated one for you?
    ×0.40 129 | 12 points by amadeuswoo 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Tell HN: Mattermost "upgrade" to v11 enforces 10k UI message limit
    ×1.30 72 | 5 points by nemosaltat 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Why is example.com using Cloudflare
    ×0.49 108 | 10 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Senior engineering mngrs: how has AI changed your day-to-day work?
    ×1.03 109 | 35 points by kitetm 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Has anyone built payment flows inside AI voice calls?
    ×0.44 114 | 6 points by wasiyc 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What business processes still waste time every week?
    ×0.43 111 | 5 points by lzr_mihnea 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Best way to find chill job where I can learn and grow as a swe
    ×0.47 122 | 35 points by digitdiglet 4 days ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What are you proud of about doing for you health and wellness regularly?
    ×1.21 73 | 10 points by nemath 19 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Is Programming as a Profession Cooked?
    ×0.76 99 | 19 points by fnoef 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Tell HN: Auto-download in Apple Podcasts is so unreliable it's basically useless
    ×0.31 123 | 4 points by garyfirestorm 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Is it time for HN to implement a form of captcha?
    ×0.96 112 | 89 points by Rooster61 4 days ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Iran has now been offline for 100 hours. What can we "technically" do?
    ×1.68 60 | 7 points by us321 13 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Why are so many images now in unusual file formats?
    ×1.17 78 | 5 points by paulpauper 13 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Senior software engineers, how do you use Claude Code?
    ×0.79 115 | 15 points by allie1 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Would you pay for a privacy-first social platform?
    ×0.97 133 | 11 points by sammiej 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Tell HN: Get a dying iPhone 12 mini in 2026
    ×0.53 135 | 27 points by remywang 4 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Implementing NaN Boxing in a Stack-Based VM
    ×0.14 168 | 5 points by tracyspacy 5 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Aaron Swartz died 13 years ago today
    ×5.53 52 | 89 points by vitaelabitur 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Moved to SF to build a startup. What next?
    ×0.69 126 | 7 points by kvaranasi_ 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: What was the best sci-fi book of 2025?
    ×1.19 96 | 14 points by Erikun 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Cheaper Datadog anyone?
    ×0.76 127 | 6 points by kvaranasi_ 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: How would you decouple from the US?
    ×2.05 140 | 37 points by yawa_me_worht 5 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Are There Any Similar Sites Like Downdetector?
    ×0.19 164 | 3 points by nomadfounder 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Should I learn Docker to deploy my app in VPS?
    ×0.52 155 | 5 points by danver0 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Funding Opportunities with Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC)
    ×0.63 166 | 7 points by ARDC_73 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Feeling irrelevant in back end. How to pivot to automotive software?
    ×0.24 169 | 3 points by culopatin 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: What happened to self-hosted models?
    ×0.24 167 | 3 points by curiousaboutml 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. macOS Tahoe 26.2 ships with an outdated version of Python 3.9.6
    ×0.76 145 | 7 points by Gabrielfair 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Why isn't AI spawning profitable indie games?
    ×1.09 165 | 7 points by eveningsun 4 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Instagram data breach reportedly exposed the personal info of 17.5M users (engadget.com)
    ×2.31 22 | 214 points by IvanAchlaqullah 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Which programming languages are most token-efficient? (martinalderson.com)
    ×1.33 24 | 113 points by tehnub 1 day ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: DeepDream for Video with Temporal Consistency (github.com/jeremicna)
    ×0.47 125 | 71 points by fruitbarrel 4 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: HAPI - Vibe Coding Anytime, Anywhere (github.com/tiann)
    ×2.06 151 | 5 points by weishu 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Ever wanted to look at yourself in Braille? (github.com/NishantJoshi00)
    ×1.75 159 | 10 points by cat-whisperer 4 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. F2 (YC S25) Is Hiring (ycombinator.com)
    12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Building a 25 Gbit/s workstation for the SCION Association (github.com/scionassociation)
    ×0.81 45 #36 | 83 points by romshark 18 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: I made a memory game to teach you to play piano by ear (specr.net)
    ×2.79 47 | 558 points by vunderba 3 days ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: I built a tool to calculate the True Cost of Ownership (TCO) for yachts (yachtvaluereport.com)
    ×1.48 75 | 3 points by todaycompanies 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: EuConform – Offline-first EU AI Act compliance tool (open source) (github.com/Hiepler)
    ×0.66 103 | 71 points by hiepler 3 days ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Google: Don't make "bite-sized" content for LLMs (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.67 63 | 79 points by cebert 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: stream-unzip – Python function to unZIP on the fly (github.com/uktrade)
    ×1.47 88 | 7 points by michalc 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: I built a Postgres GUI in Swift because existing tools felt bloated (postgresgui.com)
    ×3.32 152 | 9 points by fikrigha 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Symfreq – Analyse symbol frequencies in code (Rust) (github.com/vaskort)
    ×1.04 163 | 3 points by vaskort 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: AI Motion Control – Transfer any motion to any character with Kling AI (aimotioncontrol.app)
    ×0.86 95 | 4 points by sunpy 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: I made a Tailwind alternative for Preact (github.com/aziis98)
    ×2.98 131 | 6 points by aziis98 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: An LLM response cache that's aware of dynamic data (butter.dev)
    ×0.40 161 | 17 points by raymondtana 5 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. US Nightmare Propaganda (twitter.com/i)
    ×4.15 57 | 5 points by barrister 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Agnostic library without code, only specs and tests (github.com/dbreunig)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by nesk_ 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Statement from Jerome Powell (federalreserve.gov)
    ×16.66 59 | 873 points by 0xedb 1 day ago | 788 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Sampling at negative temperature (cavendishlabs.org)
    ×1.08 16 | 199 points by ag8 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: An LLM-optimized programming language (github.com/ImJasonH)
    ×0.59 51 | 46 points by ImJasonH 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Commit-based code review instead of PR-based (commitguard.ai)
    ×0.73 150 | 15 points by moshetanzer 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Hashing Go Functions Using SSA and Scalar Evolution (github.com/BlackVectorOps)
    ×1.11 162 | 3 points by BlackVectorOps 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Domains and Resources in Ash for Elixir (appsignal.com)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by amalinovic 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Building this platform for CTO's/devs/founders
    ×0.67 | 1 points by slmslm22 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. ‘Fuck you, make me’ without saying the words (daringfireball.net)
    ×14.44 35 | 128 points by chmaynard 1 day ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. The world is one bad decision away from a silicon Ice Age (theregister.com)
    ×3.66 13 | 55 points by dlipovetsky 14 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: words.zip – Massively infinite word search (words.zip)
    ×2.04 70 | 11 points by yathern 20 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. India demands crypto outfits geolocate customers, get a selfie to prove real (theregister.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by Brajeshwar 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. MacPrompt: Maraconic-Guided Jailbreak Against Text-to-Image Models (arxiv.org)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by 7777777phil 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Using DistributedDataParallel to train a base model from scratch in the cloud (gilesthomas.com)
    ×0.36 69 #60 | 10 points by ibobev 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Ralph Wiggum went from 'The Simpsons' to the biggest name in AI (venturebeat.com)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by doppp 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Benchmarking AI gateways At 10000 RPS (vidai.uk)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by nagug 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Working with Ruby Threads (workingwithruby.com)
    ×2.36 33 | 3 points by gmac 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Xfce is great (rubenerd.com)
    ×3.43 30 | 301 points by mikece 1 day ago | 231 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Agent-of-empires: opencode & claudecode session manager (github.com/njbrake)
    ×1.15 147 | 7 points by river_otter 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Designing an IPv6-native P2P transport – lessons from building I6P (medium.com)
    ×1.07 33 #22 | 5 points by TheusHen 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy (cornell.edu)
    ×4.09 5 #30 | 405 points by giuliomagnifico 22 hours ago | 735 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Roleplay-first chat UI for an OpenAI-compatible chat completions API (abliteration.ai)
    ×0.76 148 | 10 points by abliterationai 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Various shape regularization algorithms (github.com/nickponline)
    ×0.78 100 | 77 points by nickponline 4 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. A Mini-IBM PC Using an Adafruit Fruit Jam (adafruit-playground.com)
    ×1.13 79 #57 | 11 points by runamuck 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. KaraDAV – Lightweight Nextcloud compatible WebDAV server (github.com/kd2org)
    ×0.82 76 | 50 points by indigodaddy 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. /R/Atlanta Has New Mods: Here's What Happened (reddit.com)
    ×2.13 8 | 3 points by echelon 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Drizzle ORM schema to DBML/Markdown/Mermaid documentation generator (github.com/rikeda71)
    ×0.49 | 2 points by rikeda71 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: I vibecoded an ARM64 operating system that boots on real hardware (github.com/kaansenol5)
    ×8.38 132 | 20 points by kaansenol5 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Lightpanda migrate DOM implementation to Zig (lightpanda.io)
    ×1.21 11 #56 | 192 points by gearnode 1 day ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Code is cheap now, but software isn't (chrisgregori.dev)
    ×2.16 20 #80 | 148 points by fs_software 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Cloud RAM (mikekohn.net)
    ×1.31 65 #53 | 21 points by matt_d 15 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Computational complexity of schema-guided document extraction (runpulse.com)
    ×0.23 71 #86 | 11 points by sidmanchkanti21 18 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. How Brain waves shape our sense of self (ki.se)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by XzetaU8 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids (smartere.dk)
    ×3.13 6 #7 | 629 points by mchro 21 hours ago | 355 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. LLVM: The bad parts (npopov.com)
    ×1.69 10 #17 | 338 points by vitaut 20 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???