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  1. Ask HN: Senior software engineers, how do you use Claude Code?
    ×0.77 26 | 7 points by allie1 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What's a standard way for apps to request text completion as a service?
    ×0.36 36 | 47 points by nvader 5 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: When has a "dumb" solution beaten a sophisticated one for you?
    ×0.29 49 | 5 points by amadeuswoo 9 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Senior engineering mngrs: how has AI changed your day-to-day work?
    ×1.16 45 | 28 points by kitetm 23 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Best way to find chill job where I can learn and grow as a swe
    ×0.49 73 | 33 points by digitdiglet 2 days ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Any Microsoft employees/devs here? What's happening to Microsoft?
    ×0.81 94 | 107 points by thehamkercat 4 days ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Are There Any Similar Sites Like Downdetector?
    ×0.27 90 | 3 points by nomadfounder 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Would you pay for a privacy-first social platform?
    ×0.99 71 | 7 points by sammiej 16 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Is it time for HN to implement a form of captcha?
    ×0.99 78 | 88 points by Rooster61 2 days ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Should I learn Docker to deploy my app in VPS?
    ×0.66 88 | 4 points by danver0 18 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. macOS Tahoe 26.2 ships with an outdated version of Python 3.9.6
    ×1.04 72 | 6 points by Gabrielfair 15 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Tell HN: Get a dying iPhone 12 mini in 2026
    ×0.54 91 | 26 points by remywang 2 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What happened to self-hosted models?
    ×0.32 109 | 3 points by curiousaboutml 23 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Implementing NaN Boxing in a Stack-Based VM
    ×0.15 147 | 5 points by tracyspacy 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How would you decouple from the US?
    ×2.35 101 | 34 points by yawa_me_worht 3 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How to make working in software fun again?
    ×1.05 111 | 6 points by canxerian 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: How do you do store-and-forward telemetry at the edge?
    ×0.27 146 | 6 points by Aydarbek 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Working on decentralized compute at io.net sharing what we're learning
    ×0.20 130 | 4 points by plutodev 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Feeling irrelevant in back end. How to pivot to automotive software?
    ×0.35 148 | 3 points by culopatin 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What's your preferred digital payment method?
    ×0.49 139 | 3 points by vednig 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Why isn't AI spawning profitable indie games?
    ×1.50 135 | 6 points by eveningsun 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. How to search Remote-from-Anywhere jobs
    ×1.58 80 | 8 points by andrewstetsenko 20 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Funding Opportunities with Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC)
    ×0.54 144 | 5 points by ARDC_73 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. I've maintained an open source task manager for 8 years
    ×0.65 123 | 7 points by johannesjo 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. I built an AI agent that deploys a PR to production
    ×0.22 145 | 3 points by amouehsan 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Where is legacy codebase maintenance headed?
    ×0.46 138 | 6 points by AnnKey 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Amazon Prime AI overviews can't even get the basics right
    ×1.36 128 | 43 points by PyWoody 5 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Prism.Tools – Free and privacy-focused developer utilities (blgardner.github.io)
    ×1.71 74 | 378 points by BLGardner 5 days ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: 25 years of house prices in England and Wales (housepricedashboard.co.uk)
    ×1.28 143 | 14 points by rowanajmarshall 4 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Tux Paint (tuxpaint.org)
    ×1.72 50 #47 | 37 points by 1317 14 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Outcomes > Learning Opportunities – By Shreyas Doshi (shreyasdoshi.substack.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by kiyanwang 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: GPU Cuckoo Filter – faster queries than Blocked Bloom, with deletion (github.com/tdortman)
    ×0.59 127 | 31 points by tdortman 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Umaro – An interactive music theory suite for guitarists (umaro.app)
    ×1.14 32 #84 | 9 points by SnowingXIV 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Google: Don't make "bite-sized" content for LLMs (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.56 | 2 points by cebert 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ad Blockers helped kill the open web (christianheilmann.com)
    ×2.20 1 | 3 points by saeedesmaili 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Exercise can be nearly as effective as therapy for depression (sciencedaily.com)
    ×4.72 4 | 389 points by mustaphah 1 day ago | 333 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. BasiliskII Macintosh 68k Emulator Ported to ESP32-P4 / M5Stack Tab5 (github.com/amcchord)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by rcarmo 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Meshii – Open-source AI tool to generate 3D meshes for game development (github.com/sciences44)
    ×1.40 | 2 points by sciences44 42 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Just Logo – Multi-source logo generator for side projects (just-logo.vercel.app)
    ×2.06 121 | 5 points by ahmedsemih 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 books (pieterma.es)
    ×2.21 8 #7 | 384 points by pmaze 17 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: SMTP Tunnel – A SOCKS5 proxy disguised as email traffic to bypass DPI (github.com/x011)
    ×1.04 86 | 140 points by lobito25 4 days ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. How Judges Are Using AI to Help Decide Your Legal Dispute (wsj.com)
    ×1.31 | 2 points by pseudolus 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. My Scala journey from back end to chip verification (ecofunctor.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by doofin 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: macOS menu bar app to track Claude usage in real time (github.com/richhickson)
    ×1.08 62 | 158 points by RichHickson 2 days ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Human or AI-made song detector and 100% Private Audio Mastering (kliga.com)
    ×0.76 | 2 points by aswinsilvadasan 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: A geofence-based social network app 6 years in development (localvideoapp.com)
    ×0.81 81 | 78 points by Adrian-ChatLocl 2 days ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: User-first oriented picture browser optimised for Fujifilm Xhalf (nakarmamana.ch)
    ×0.51 | 2 points by alfanick 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Greenland sharks maintain vision for centuries through DNA repair mechanism (phys.org)
    ×1.84 6 #90 | 255 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: SSL Radar – Real-time CT logs with probabilistic data structures (limite.dev)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by lopezb 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Blobber – Push and stream arbitrary files with OCI registries (github.com/meigma)
    ×1.42 126 | 4 points by sepositus 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Bob Weir has died (rollingstone.com)
    ×3.66 38 #60 | 123 points by asix66 11 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Ultralight iOS apps (~1 MB), no tracking, on-device only (mindbebop.com)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by kentaroyamauchi 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Tesla's Germany Sales Down 72% from Their Peak (cleantechnica.com)
    ×6.85 9 | 51 points by 01-_- 15 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Miditui – A terminal app/UI for MIDI composing, mixing, and playback (github.com/minimaxir)
    ×0.87 43 | 64 points by minimaxir 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Washington National Opera Is Leaving the Kennedy Center (nytimes.com)
    ×5.24 40 | 78 points by mikhael 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Airboard – $1 voice dictation for Mac local (gumroad.com)
    ×1.61 65 | 3 points by mehrad_1 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. UK Orders Ofcom to Explore Encryption Backdoors (reclaimthenet.org)
    ×2.78 27 #68 | 111 points by worldofmatthew 15 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Land Hunter – Real-time antipodes visualizer (true-size.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by dingnews 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Remotedays – Cross-border remote work compliance for EU companies
    ×1.77 142 | 5 points by alwinaugustin 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Matrix.envs.net Is Shutting Down (matrix.to)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by Sami_Lehtinen 48 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: pgwire-replication - pure rust client for Postgres CDC (github.com/vnvo)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by sacs0ni 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Iran vows regime will "not back down" as web blackout continues (cbsnews.com)
    ×3.24 69 | 55 points by geox 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Cloudspecs: Cloud Hardware Evolution Through the Looking Glass (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)
    ×0.64 67 | 52 points by speckx 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. QtNat – Open you port with Qt UPnP (renaudguezennec.eu)
    ×0.42 66 | 45 points by jandeboevrie 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. A Year of Work on the Arch Linux Package Management (ALPM) Project (archlinux.page)
    ×1.13 21 #13 | 72 points by susam 10 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Self-driving cars aren't nearly a solved problem (strangecosmos.substack.com)
    ×1.41 17 #45 | 3 points by lordgrenville 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: CLIs Are All You Need for Agents (github.com/caesarnine)
    ×0.87 141 | 3 points by binalpatel 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Ping6.it (ping6.it)
    ×2.30 119 | 5 points by antonioprado 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Accio – Summon apps with keyboard shortcuts (github.com/bjornorri)
    ×1.36 137 | 3 points by bjornorri 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Brands upset Buy For Me is featuring their products on Amazon without permission (modernretail.co)
    ×2.14 16 #53 | 99 points by spenvo 13 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. CPU Counters on Apple Silicon: article + tool (bugsiki.dev)
    ×1.53 11 #12 | 96 points by verte_zerg 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Don't fall into the anti-AI hype (antirez.com)
    ×8.46 35 #36 | 166 points by todsacerdoti 2 hours ago | 237 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Authentic AI CV optimizer – real keywords only, 90%+ ATS scores (cvora.net)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by jaumapv 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: I built an Instagram-style productivity app with gamification (apple.com)
    ×1.81 38 | 4 points by mandynoee 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great (theverge.com)
    ×5.56 20 #33 | 669 points by rorylawless 21 hours ago | 595 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. NASA announces unprecedented return of sick ISS astronaut and crew (livescience.com)
    ×1.68 47 #34 | 123 points by bookofjoe 22 hours ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. AI "cheating", anti-intellectualism and the carceral (overland.org.au)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by Pamar 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Create a semi-working desktop only based on runtime Windows 3.10 shipped with W (tech.lgbt)
    ×1.32 | 2 points by todsacerdoti 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: GitChoco – virtual Chocolatey for GitHub Releases (gitcho.co)
    ×1.46 134 | 4 points by lostmsu 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Librario, a book metadata API that aggregates G Books, ISBNDB, and more
    ×0.95 12 #20 | 111 points by jamesponddotco 12 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. New information extracted from Snowden PDFs through metadata version analysis (libroot.org)
    ×1.95 22 #66 | 302 points by libroot 1 day ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: I built a Postgres GUI in Swift because existing tools felt bloated (postgresgui.com)
    ×2.94 97 | 7 points by fikrigha 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: llmgame.ai – The Wikipedia Game but with LLMs (llmgame.ai)
    ×0.72 133 | 26 points by jmcallister 5 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. AI is a business model stress test (dri.es)
    ×1.86 12 #16 | 275 points by amarsahinovic 19 hours ago | 259 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Recommended sources to read up on new tech and thinking
    ×1.58 | 2 points by wnscooke 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines (twitter.com/eastdakota)
    ×4.33 23 | 640 points by sidcool 1 day ago | 1013 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Landlords are using automated services to monitor tenant promotions (reddit.com)
    ×3.75 33 | 64 points by xyzal 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt accused of rape, surveillance by ex-mistress (news.com.au)
    ×5.97 16 | 57 points by randycupertino 20 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Linus is vibe coding (github.com/torvalds)
    ×3.51 37 #57 | 30 points by dhruv3006 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Worst of breed software (worstofbreed.net)
    ×2.31 21 #72 | 103 points by facundo_olano 15 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???