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  1. Ask HN: Senior software engineers, how do you use Claude Code?
    ×1.41 62 | 4 points by allie1 49 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: When has a "dumb" solution beaten a sophisticated one for you?
    ×0.32 38 | 5 points by amadeuswoo 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What's a standard way for apps to request text completion as a service?
    ×0.37 40 | 47 points by nvader 5 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Senior engineering mngrs: how has AI changed your day-to-day work?
    ×1.21 45 | 28 points by kitetm 21 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Best way to find chill job where I can learn and grow as a swe
    ×0.49 84 | 33 points by digitdiglet 2 days ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Are There Any Similar Sites Like Downdetector?
    ×0.18 | 2 points by nomadfounder 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Would you pay for a privacy-first social platform?
    ×1.06 74 | 7 points by sammiej 14 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Any Microsoft employees/devs here? What's happening to Microsoft?
    ×0.81 102 | 107 points by thehamkercat 4 days ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. macOS Tahoe 26.2 ships with an outdated version of Python 3.9.6
    ×1.11 73 | 6 points by Gabrielfair 12 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Should I learn Docker to deploy my app in VPS?
    ×0.70 96 | 4 points by danver0 15 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Is it time for HN to implement a form of captcha?
    ×1.00 90 | 88 points by Rooster61 2 days ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Tell HN: Get a dying iPhone 12 mini in 2026
    ×0.55 99 | 26 points by remywang 2 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What happened to self-hosted models?
    ×0.32 113 | 3 points by curiousaboutml 20 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Implementing NaN Boxing in a Stack-Based VM
    ×0.15 158 | 5 points by tracyspacy 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How would you decouple from the US?
    ×2.40 110 | 34 points by yawa_me_worht 3 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How to make working in software fun again?
    ×1.09 119 | 6 points by canxerian 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Working on decentralized compute at io.net sharing what we're learning
    ×0.20 137 | 4 points by plutodev 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How do you do store-and-forward telemetry at the edge?
    ×0.22 159 | 5 points by Aydarbek 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What's your preferred digital payment method?
    ×0.50 150 | 3 points by vednig 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Feeling irrelevant in back end. How to pivot to automotive software?
    ×0.36 160 | 3 points by culopatin 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. How to search Remote-from-Anywhere jobs
    ×1.62 86 | 8 points by andrewstetsenko 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Why isn't AI spawning profitable indie games?
    ×1.55 145 | 6 points by eveningsun 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Funding Opportunities with Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC)
    ×0.55 155 | 5 points by ARDC_73 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. I've maintained an open source task manager for 8 years
    ×0.66 132 | 7 points by johannesjo 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. I built an AI agent that deploys a PR to production
    ×0.22 157 | 3 points by amouehsan 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Where is legacy codebase maintenance headed?
    ×0.46 149 | 6 points by AnnKey 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Amazon Prime AI overviews can't even get the basics right
    ×1.36 140 | 43 points by PyWoody 5 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Has anyone else been struggling with search lately?
    ×1.66 144 | 31 points by areoform 5 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Git analytics that works across GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket
    ×0.17 161 | 3 points by akhnid 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Is Web Development in a rut?
    ×0.96 | 1 points by falloutx 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. “Erdos problem #728 was solved more or less autonomously by AI” (mathstodon.xyz)
    ×2.56 14 #61 | 602 points by cod1r 1 day ago | 345 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ontology and Information Systems (stanford.edu)
    ×0.97 | 1 points by hackandthink 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: macOS menu bar app to track Claude usage in real time (github.com/richhickson)
    ×1.08 72 | 158 points by RichHickson 2 days ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. UK government exempting itself from cyber law inspires little confidence (theregister.com)
    ×2.52 23 #54 | 294 points by DyslexicAtheist 20 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Torvalds: Another silly guitar-pedal-related repo (github.com/torvalds)
    ×1.82 22 | 3 points by m-hodges 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Understand the picture of the day (learntosolveit.com)
    ×0.94 121 | 4 points by orsenthil 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Blobber – Push and stream arbitrary files with OCI registries (github.com/meigma)
    ×1.42 131 | 4 points by sepositus 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: I built an Instagram-style productivity app with gamification (apple.com)
    ×1.91 24 | 4 points by mandynoee 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Jax-JS, array library in JavaScript targeting WebGPU (ekzhang.com)
    ×1.08 111 | 83 points by ekzhang 4 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Max Payne – two decades later – Graphics Critique (darkcephas.blogspot.com)
    ×1.76 53 #32 | 11 points by davikr 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: I made a memory game to teach you to play piano by ear (specr.net)
    ×2.69 19 #84 | 534 points by vunderba 1 day ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. 21 years of IDE evolution in one chart (2004 – 2025) (twitter.com/willwangcc)
    ×1.26 | 2 points by will_wang 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Removing Tahoe's Unwanted Menu Icons (rogueamoeba.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by dbushell 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. How your high school affects your chances of UC Admission (sfeducation.substack.com)
    ×1.52 21 #48 | 80 points by mutator 16 hours ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Pulling a new proof from Knuth's fixed-point printer, with code in Ivy (swtch.com)
    ×1.87 | 2 points by fanf2 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11 (eteknix.com)
    ×6.47 69 | 309 points by nabla9 17 hours ago | 338 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Visual regression tests for personal blogs (marending.dev)
    ×0.84 24 #25 | 18 points by beingflo 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Mossad urges Iran protests, says agents present (jpost.com)
    ×1.24 | 2 points by ParentiSoundSys 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. HeyToken – Access all LLMs for 30% less via a unified API (heytoken.ai)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by alhazar 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: ElixirBrowser – Android Chromium fork with extensions, inspired by Kiwi (github.com/SF-FLAM)
    ×2.53 101 | 15 points by SF-FLAM 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: How I generate animated pixel art with AI and Python (sarthakmishra.com)
    ×1.13 134 | 17 points by sarthak_drool 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. The Score (penguin.co.uk)
    ×1.17 | 2 points by molteanu 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 books (pieterma.es)
    ×2.10 3 #9 | 344 points by pmaze 14 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Worst of breed software (worstofbreed.net)
    ×2.33 28 #66 | 101 points by facundo_olano 13 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Time Travelling and Fixing Bugs with Property-Based Testing (2019) (wickstrom.tech)
    ×0.38 63 #81 | 20 points by todsacerdoti 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. When AI Speaks, Who Can Prove What It Said? (zenodo.org)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by businessmate 37 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Debian Taco – Towards a GitSecDevOps Debian (josefsson.org)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by pabs3 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. A new type of microscope lets scientists observe life unfolding inside cells (thebrighterside.news)
    ×2.57 15 | 4 points by 01-_- 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Bob Weir has died (rollingstone.com)
    ×3.88 28 #44 | 119 points by asix66 8 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Italy Fines Cloudflare for Refusing to Filter Pirate Sites on Public 1.1.1.1 DNS (torrentfreak.com)
    ×0.80 | 1 points by Rant423 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Verdic Guard – Policy Enforcement and Output Validation for LLMs
    ×0.61 | 1 points by kundan_s__r 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Côme, une ville italienne dénaturée (lemonde.fr)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by altro 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: MCP for browsing, searching, exporting, backing up Cursor chat history (github.com/S2thend)
    ×1.05 | 2 points by mikasisiki 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Revibing nanochat's inference model in C++ with ggml (github.com/k-ye)
    ×1.08 100 | 4 points by makechan 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. My Home Fibre Network Disintegrated (alienchow.dev)
    ×2.05 13 #17 | 140 points by alienchow 5 hours ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: mcpc – Universal command-line client for Model Context Protocol (MCP) (github.com/apify)
    ×0.72 35 #26 | 37 points by jancurn 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Goscript: Transpile Go to human-readable TypeScript (github.com/aperturerobotics)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by aperturecjs 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Instagram breach exposes data of 17.5M accounts (twitter.com/H4ckmanac)
    ×1.82 10 | 3 points by thunderbong 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. LitePoint clears testing milestone with Qualcomm's upcoming Wi-Fi 8 platform (rcrwireless.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by lordwiz 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Iran vows regime will "not back down" as web blackout continues (cbsnews.com)
    ×3.29 82 | 55 points by geox 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Mantic.sh – A structural code search engine for AI agents (github.com/marcoaapfortes)
    ×0.66 112 | 81 points by marcoaapfortes 4 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great (theverge.com)
    ×5.58 18 #29 | 648 points by rorylawless 18 hours ago | 566 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Quake Setup Guide (2023) (sarge945.xyz)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by Lammy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Human or AI-made song detector and 100% Private Audio Mastering (kliga.com)
    ×0.77 | 2 points by aswinsilvadasan 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Just published a hard-SF novel Voyager1 returns with a quantum palantir (amazon.com)
    ×1.00 | 2 points by dufbugderopa 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: arxiv2md: Convert ArXiv papers to markdown (arxiv2md.org)
    ×1.97 120 | 5 points by timf34 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. AI is a business model stress test (dri.es)
    ×1.78 10 #15 | 248 points by amarsahinovic 16 hours ago | 252 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Steam Machine price leak shakes the console market (comuniq.xyz)
    ×1.63 3 #53 | 6 points by 01-_- 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Marten – Elegant Go web framework (nothing in the way) (github.com/gomarten)
    ×1.38 67 #63 | 13 points by jackprescott 12 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Create Google API credentials in 50 easy steps (github.com/glotlabs)
    ×1.15 | 2 points by ukuina 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Rocket Launch and Orbit Simulator (donutthejedi.com)
    ×0.93 30 | 159 points by donutthejedi 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. U.S. mandates more foreign travelers to pay $15,000 visa bond deposits (washingtonpost.com)
    ×5.64 56 | 82 points by hmokiguess 1 day ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. The 3k-Person Team Working in Secret to Create Disney Magic (WSJ) (wsj.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by aenean 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Brands upset Buy For Me is featuring their products on Amazon without permission (modernretail.co)
    ×2.23 15 #41 | 96 points by spenvo 10 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Why Is Greenland Part of the Kingdom of Denmark? A Short History (diis.dk)
    ×2.96 10 #79 | 103 points by Anon84 21 hours ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: An all-in-one image crop/split/collage tool (no uploads, no watermark) (imagesplitter.tools)
    ×2.24 138 | 7 points by harperhuang 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: User-first oriented picture browser optimised for Fujifilm Xhalf (nakarmamana.ch)
    ×0.51 | 2 points by alfanick 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Classic NES Tetris as a REST API, Written in Rust (github.com/skorotkiewicz)
    ×1.15 147 | 4 points by modinfo 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Sisyphus Now Lives in Oh My Claude (github.com/Yeachan-Heo)
    ×0.78 33 #23 | 27 points by deckardt 7 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Anthropic: Demystifying Evals for AI Agents (anthropic.com)
    ×2.49 9 | 4 points by Bayram 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???