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  1. I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
    ×1.03 14 | 218 points by proberts 1 day ago | 294 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Why does every B2B SaaS have to look like Linear/Stripe?
    ×0.48 17 | 5 points by PaulShin 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Modern C# book for experienced developers?
    ×0.74 69 | 23 points by Fire-Dragon-DoL 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2025)
    ×0.76 91 | 158 points by whoishiring 5 days ago | 401 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Quality of recent gens of Dell/Lenovo laptops worse than 10 years ago?
    ×0.83 96 | 110 points by ferguess_k 5 days ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Cloudflare WAF Alternatives?
    ×0.82 75 | 25 points by rco8786 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)
    ×1.26 83 | 309 points by whoishiring 5 days ago | 486 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What's Been Your Experience Implementing Web Accessibility?
    ×0.18 90 | 4 points by lalithaar 21 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How many people got VPNs in response to laws like UK Online Safety Act?
    ×2.43 1 | 92 points by hodgesrm 1 day ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Is Mythical Man-Month still relevant in todays AI Vibe Coding world?
    ×0.59 61 | 4 points by Codegres 10 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Lenovo Support – Hot Garbage
    ×0.43 107 | 7 points by rizs12 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What is the future of SaaS when things are this easy to build?
    ×1.04 89 | 8 points by fbrncci 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Tell HN: It's now impossible to disable all AI features in Firefox 145 (latest)
    ×0.99 112 | 73 points by pera 6 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What are the ethics at YC?
    ×0.79 98 | 25 points by jagged-chisel 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How is you and your team are using AI?
    ×0.40 116 | 3 points by IdontKnowRust 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How does one get involved in FPGA development?
    ×0.51 108 | 14 points by meifun 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Agentic QA – Open-source middleware to fuzz-test agents for loops
    ×0.15 153 | 3 points by Saurabh_Kumar_ 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Microsoft won't let me pay a $24 bill, blocking thousands in Azure spending
    ×3.25 81 | 194 points by Javin007 4 days ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Is Cloudflare Down for You?
    ×0.46 109 | 20 points by Palmik 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Are LLMs just expensive search and scripting tools? Is it that simple?
    ×0.25 135 | 5 points by edwin2 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Anyone writing code from scratch or mostly doing architecting and LLM?
    ×0.48 124 | 10 points by mattfrommars 3 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: I haven't had to buy a Windows computer in 20 years
    ×0.27 131 | 11 points by meifun 3 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Tell HN: Even LinkedIn is running on Cloudflare and not Azure
    ×0.11 | 2 points by vira28 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Is Cloudflare Down Again? Also, DownDetector/Claude.ai/LinkedIn?
    ×0.65 85 | 31 points by dfasoro 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Tell HN: iOS 18.7.2 in Lockdown Mode is unable to load many websites
    ×1.09 77 | 4 points by HotGarbage 15 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Will Kagi's subscription cost reduce with enough subscribers?
    ×0.25 147 | 4 points by IndySun 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Regarding Thien-Thi Nguyen
    ×5.14 82 | 368 points by SmolCloud 6 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: I built a dashboard to compare mortgage rates across 120 credit unions (finfam.app)
    ×2.23 48 | 387 points by mhashemi 3 days ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Apple OS 1 inspired personal website (benrichardson.dev)
    ×1.60 86 | 7 points by ben-gy 23 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. My Working Thoughts (bramadams.dev)
    ×1.15 | 2 points by _bramses 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Sam Altman’s DRAM Deal (mooreslawisdead.com)
    ×5.31 27 | 316 points by pabs3 1 day ago | 231 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. The general who refused to crush Tiananmen's protesters (economist.com)
    ×4.69 66 | 124 points by marojejian 14 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. LLM Fingerprints in Text (budgetflow.cc)
    ×2.54 59 | 3 points by mkrd 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Alan Dye Was in Tim Cook's Blind Spot (daringfireball.net)
    ×2.96 67 | 4 points by andsoitis 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. AI – For Building a Transformer Model
    ×0.48 | 1 points by Keerthikamathi 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Covid-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality (jamanetwork.com)
    ×3.87 6 | 270 points by bpierre 1 day ago | 318 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025 (cloudflare.com)
    ×3.14 14 #52 | 765 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 555 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. How to Get Hired in 2025 (tonsky.me)
    ×2.22 62 #57 | 30 points by genericlemon24 18 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Carrier-grade NAT: The Killer of the "Homelab" (a6n.co.uk)
    ×1.29 70 #85 | 10 points by type0 18 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: MTXT – Music Text Format (github.com/Daninet)
    ×0.93 68 | 122 points by daninet 1 week ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: AgentPG – Stateful AI Agents in Go with PostgreSQL Persistence (github.com/youssefsiam38)
    ×0.47 | 2 points by youssefsiam38 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Playwright for Windows Computer Use (useterminator.com)
    ×1.68 121 | 6 points by louis030195 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Without evidence, RFK Jr.'s vaccine panel tosses hep B vaccine recommendation (arstechnica.com)
    ×4.63 53 | 41 points by doener 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Glasses to detect smart-glasses that have cameras (github.com/NullPxl)
    ×2.34 87 | 508 points by nullpxl 1 week ago | 193 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Copy-Item is slower than File Explorer (andrew-quinn.me)
    ×2.84 33 #70 | 66 points by hiAndrewQuinn 12 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Quantifying Human-AI Synergy (osf.io)
    ×0.88 | 1 points by hunglee2 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Judge Signals Win for Software Freedom Conservancy in Vizio GPL Case (fossforce.com)
    ×2.74 9 | 197 points by speckx 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. What HBO's "Chernobyl" Got Right, and What It Got Terribly Wrong (2019) (newyorker.com)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by zeristor 41 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Kilauea erupts, destroying webcam [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.74 #2 | 333 points by zdw 10 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Running Claude Code in a loop to mirror human development practices (anandchowdhary.com)
    ×1.67 42 #44 | 39 points by Kerrick 15 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. A compact camera built using an optical mouse (petapixel.com)
    ×1.61 2 #58 | 233 points by PaulHoule 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. The effect of shingles vaccination at different stages of dementia (cell.com)
    ×2.90 15 | 199 points by Archelaos 1 day ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Do we need MCPs? Reverse-engineered Slack and Linear API for Evals & RL (agentdiff.dev)
    ×3.51 111 | 11 points by hubertmarek 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Nook Browser (browsewithnook.com)
    ×1.49 35 #37 | 117 points by ray__ 22 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Money Doesn't Buy Elections. It Does Something Worse (data4democracy.substack.com)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by doener 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Why do we become mathematicians? (maa.org)
    ×1.83 12 | 3 points by the-mitr 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Drop – Self-destructing encrypted messages (privsen.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by privsen 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. A $20 drug in Europe requires a prescription and $800 in the U.S. (statnews.com)
    ×5.81 9 | 251 points by geox 1 day ago | 260 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. SpaceX in Talks for Share Sale That Would Boost Valuation to $800B (wsj.com)
    ×1.72 65 | 44 points by bko 1 day ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Runprompt – run .prompt files from the command line (github.com/chr15m)
    ×0.99 113 | 134 points by chr15m 1 week ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: AI music and auto-charting and custom rhythm minigame sandbox (rhythm-seodang-web.vercel.app)
    ×2.48 136 | 7 points by sputnikwrkshp 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Leaving Intel (brendangregg.com)
    ×2.25 3 #66 | 333 points by speckx 1 day ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Python AsyncIO: Parallelism, Multiprocessing, Concurrency and Threading (realpython.com)
    ×1.91 | 2 points by BinaryIgor 23 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Amiga Mouse Cursor: The impossible hot spot (heckmeck.de)
    ×1.20 | 2 points by atan2 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. The end of the middle-class traveler in Hawaii is near (sfgate.com)
    ×2.79 17 #60 | 33 points by rblion 9 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Russia's Africa Corps fights in Mali, witnesses describe beheadings, rapes (apnews.com)
    ×3.24 47 | 5 points by Bondi_Blue 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Quirky – server monitoring for real people (github.com/quirky-dev)
    ×1.39 | 2 points by remy_v 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: RunMat – runtime with auto CPU/GPU routing for dense math (github.com/runmat-org)
    ×0.36 127 | 20 points by nallana 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Saving Japan's exceptionally rare 'snow monsters' (bbc.com)
    ×1.30 2 #19 | 82 points by 1659447091 11 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Linux Instal Fest Belgrade (dmz.rs)
    ×1.37 23 #36 | 164 points by ubavic 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Wolfram Compute Services (stephenwolfram.com)
    ×1.76 14 #68 | 224 points by nsoonhui 1 day ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. The Game Industry of Poland: Report 2025 [pdf] (parp.gov.pl)
    ×2.67 39 | 4 points by Vedor 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Traveling Neighborhoods (supernuclear.substack.com)
    ×0.27 55 #83 | 10 points by surprisetalk 14 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Nimony (Nim 3.0) Design Principles (nim-lang.org)
    ×1.05 44 #84 | 147 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. IDEsaster: A Novel Vulnerability Class in AI IDEs (maccarita.com)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by deanc 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Linus Torvalds thinks Elon Musk is 'too stupid' to be working at a tech company (neowin.net)
    ×7.81 57 | 76 points by bundie 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Wall Street races to protect itself from AI bubble (rollingout.com)
    ×3.10 49 | 71 points by zerosizedweasle 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Zellij: A terminal workspace with batteries included (zellij.dev)
    ×1.78 56 | 65 points by ndr 1 day ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Manifesto – An AI-Native UI Framework Intent-to-State, Not Text-to-App (manifesto-ai.dev)
    ×0.41 | 2 points by eggplantiny 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Fanfa – Interactive and animated Mermaid diagrams (fanfa.dev)
    ×1.21 | 2 points by bairess 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Stacked Diffs with git rebase —onto (dineshpandiyan.com)
    ×1.29 56 #77 | 146 points by flexdinesh 2 days ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Ghostty is now non-profit (mitchellh.com)
    ×4.87 3 #90 | 1329 points by vrnvu 3 days ago | 288 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Stablecoins Can Help Criminals Launder Money and Evade Sanctions (nytimes.com)
    ×0.80 | 1 points by fleahunter 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Pipetap: A Windows Named Pipe Multi-Tool / Proxy (github.com/sensepost)
    ×0.88 76 #75 | 5 points by leonjza 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Belgium's Latest Pirate Site-Blocking Order Spares DNS Providers (torrentfreak.com)
    ×3.20 21 | 5 points by gslin 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Mdit – clean Markdown notes with local files (mdit.app)
    ×1.40 144 | 4 points by hjinco 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Influential study on glyphosate safety retracted 25 years after publication (lemonde.fr)
    ×3.21 7 | 288 points by isolli 1 day ago | 269 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Tacopy – Tail Call Optimization for Python (github.com/raaidrt)
    ×0.62 58 | 93 points by raaid-rt 1 week ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. How the 'hypnagogic state' of drowsiness could enhance your creativity (theconversation.com)
    ×1.99 15 | 33 points by zeristor 12 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: FuseCells – a handcrafted logic puzzle game with 2,500 levels (apple.com)
    ×0.50 36 #31 | 29 points by keini 10 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???