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  1. Ask HN: Share your personal website
    ×3.13 9 #15 | 719 points by susam 22 hours ago | 1967 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: How are you doing RAG locally?
    ×1.98 5 #20 | 247 points by tmaly 13 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?
    ×1.74 13 #22 | 146 points by blahaj 12 hours ago | 245 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Turning weeks of medical device documentation into minutes
    ×1.90 | 2 points by feargalosull 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What is the best way to provide continuous context to models?
    ×0.91 28 #53 | 58 points by nemath 12 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Continuous agents and what happens after Ralph Wiggum?
    ×1.41 | 3 points by waynenilsen 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How do you safely give LLMs SSH/DB access?
    ×0.85 31 #83 | 75 points by nico 20 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What is your favourite GitHub Repo?
    ×1.21 | 2 points by amanverasia 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Distributed SQL engine for ultra-wide tables
    ×0.58 50 #90 | 17 points by synsqlbythesea 12 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Why does Google still provide an open redirect for phishers?
    ×1.43 47 | 17 points by throwaway89201 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Iran's 120h internet shutdown, phones back. How to stay resilient?
    ×1.69 76 | 112 points by us321 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. The $LANG Programming Language
    ×1.52 29 | 261 points by dang 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Trying to find a website featured on HN that listed restaurants in NYC
    ×1.53 64 | 12 points by laffOr 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
    ×1.14 94 | 256 points by david927 3 days ago | 862 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Weird archive.today behavior?
    ×2.90 51 | 129 points by rabinovich 16 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Are you worried, and care, about AI stealing your code/secrets?
    ×0.81 | 2 points by fnoef 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: ADHD – How do you manage the constant stream of thoughts and ideas?
    ×2.63 66 | 113 points by chriswright1664 1 day ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Thoughts on maintaining anonymity against state-level actors?
    ×2.01 70 | 9 points by adamanteye 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Tell HN: Properly using dishwasher reduced friction with my wife
    ×2.30 81 | 13 points by xylo 18 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Tell HN: A Proposal to Modernize Xorg as a Protocol-Only Graphics Layer
    ×0.75 88 | 5 points by powerwordtree 21 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Quantum Computation, Computers and Programming
    ×0.52 105 | 31 points by rramadass 2 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Vxlan over WireGuard or WireGuard over Vxlan?
    ×0.84 98 | 44 points by mlhpdx 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Tell HN: DigitalOcean's managed services broke each other after update
    ×1.16 104 | 76 points by neilfrndes 2 days ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Discrepancy between Lichess and Stockfish
    ×0.53 123 | 21 points by HNLurker2 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Looking for Windows contributors for meeting-detection engine
    ×0.41 159 | 7 points by Ayobamiu 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Best setup for Golang HTTP API development in 2026?
    ×1.29 110 | 5 points by labarilem 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Are diffs still useful for AI-assisted code changes?
    ×0.54 125 | 5 points by nuky 21 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Trouble Redeeming YC Student Event Deal?
    ×0.33 | 2 points by NirekShetty 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Tell HN: Cloudflare's broken abuse report system, lack of staff to review issues
    ×0.81 129 | 3 points by rtsam 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Form History Control is great. Why doesn't Firefox integrate it?
    ×1.01 130 | 3 points by Openai2 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. How do small property management teams handle data entry from tenant documents?
    ×0.39 | 2 points by scannyai 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: How are teams sourcing long-term GPU capacity outside hyperscalers?
    ×1.31 115 | 5 points by dloku 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Make cemeteries in cities less offensive by using virtual headstones?
    ×0.39 | 2 points by amichail 18 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Tell HN: Intel could blow up the Console Wars if it had the guts
    ×1.15 150 | 8 points by noumenon1111 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Tell HN: I Downgraded from macOS Tahoe to Sequoia
    ×1.88 121 | 9 points by inatreecrown2 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Anything Down?
    ×0.48 144 | 3 points by Artur-Defences 21 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: CRM vs. HubSpot
    ×0.36 | 2 points by isura 21 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: What makes someone hate their job?
    ×0.96 126 | 5 points by agcat 21 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: Critical review of a spec-first economic protocol
    ×0.45 | 2 points by AGsist 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Tell HN: Setting boundaries with people
    ×1.45 137 | 4 points by zwilderrr 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: Amazon Robotics SDE – new grad expectations?
    ×0.94 151 | 3 points by aroy21 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ask HN: Who remembers AWS Spot's auction era before the 2017 pricing change?
    ×0.26 176 | 3 points by aleroawani 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: Could AI prevent the decline of social media by highlighting usernames?
    ×0.53 | 2 points by amichail 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Ask HN: What's your opinion on a VR/XR business?
    ×0.55 | 2 points by izwasm 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Ask HN: 500 citation MSc CS, stuck in a low-trust region. How to move forward?
    ×0.64 131 | 19 points by throwawaysafely 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Ask HN: Did Glassdoor figure out your identity?
    ×0.49 | 2 points by penguin_booze 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Tell HN: The Google Tenor GIF API has been shut down
    ×2.23 119 | 25 points by dfajgljsldkjag 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Ask HN: Learning Discoverability
    ×0.19 | 2 points by learnwithmattc 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Ask HN: When has a "dumb" solution beaten a sophisticated one for you?
    ×0.36 180 | 12 points by amadeuswoo 4 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Ask HN: Are you underutilizing your insurance too?
    ×1.49 156 | 7 points by nemath 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Ask HN: How to find gaps and oppurtunities in the AI era?
    ×0.92 145 | 6 points by SRMohitkr 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Ask HN: Any evidence AI coding assistants are helping open source projects?
    ×1.64 114 | 6 points by UncleOxidant 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Is "AI vibe coding" making prototyping worse inside real companies?
    ×1.66 135 | 16 points by arapkuliev 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Ask HN: What made you move back to HTML-to-PDF in production?
    ×1.34 164 | 6 points by gokulsiva 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Ask HN: Job seekers, what's working / not working?
    ×0.90 155 | 20 points by Jabbs 3 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Ask HN: Recommendations for self hostable OCR to extract code from images
    ×1.62 181 | 3 points by vivzkestrel 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Ask HN: Senior engineering mngrs: how has AI changed your day-to-day work?
    ×0.97 166 | 35 points by kitetm 5 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Ask HN: How are you preventing LLM hallucinations in production systems?
    ×0.21 | 2 points by kundan_s__r 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Unpopular Opinion: Bootstrap is a better front-end framework than Tailwind
    ×1.35 138 | 24 points by pyeri 2 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Ask HN: Does anyone else think that humanoid robots is a bubble?
    ×1.14 163 | 5 points by NewUser76312 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Ask HN: Is it time for HN to implement a form of captcha?
    ×0.95 161 | 89 points by Rooster61 6 days ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Ask HN: Best way to find chill job where I can learn and grow as a swe
    ×0.46 172 | 35 points by digitdiglet 6 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Eleva.js – A 2.3KB JavaScript framework with signals and no virtual DOM
    ×0.88 173 | 4 points by TarekRaafat 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Experiment: Using NotebookLM as a cynical code reviewer (via custom prompts)
    ×0.24 | 2 points by practicalaifg 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Gh Account Permabanned – Help?
    ×1.11 148 | 10 points by nicomeemes 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Ask HN: Story about a CEO going off on a user who left feedback?
    ×0.60 178 | 3 points by VladVladikoff 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Ask HN: How do you prevent AI agents from going rogue in production?
    ×0.67 179 | 3 points by techbuilder4242 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Ask HN: Salesforce, SAP, or ServiceNow: Which Is Most Ripe for Disruption?
    ×0.66 162 | 7 points by Saurabh_Kumar_ 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. My casual chat with AI about cancer led to an internal prototype named"Onco-Bus"
    ×0.40 | 2 points by sony707 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Ask HN: Erratic HN front page algorithm
    ×0.46 175 | 7 points by 7777777phil 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Ask HN: How do you automate your release notes?
    ×0.44 170 | 10 points by dustfinger 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Ask HN: Where is all the protest music?
    ×1.38 153 | 11 points by swiper_lux 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Ask HN: Is Programming as a Profession Cooked?
    ×0.76 169 | 20 points by fnoef 4 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Time in C++: Creating Your Own Clocks with <Chrono> (sandordargo.com)
    ×2.75 61 | 4 points by ibobev 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Romek – CLI to inject local Chrome cookies into headless Playwright (github.com/jacobgadek)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by jacobgadek 31 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. US freezes visas for 75 nations (mathrubhumi.com)
    ×15.27 13 | 197 points by cdrnsf 22 hours ago | 182 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Commosta – marketplace to share computing resources (commosta.io)
    ×1.77 101 | 4 points by gkm25 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Claude Cowork exfiltrates files (promptarmor.com)
    ×2.91 9 #5 | 760 points by takira 19 hours ago | 334 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Ctrl – Open-source AI OS where each app has an AI that knows its data (github.com/CtrlAIcom)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by rado12 22 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. A (mostly) POSIX-compatible make implemented in Rust (boringcactus.com)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by awalGarg 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Who Can Handle a Loop? (jonatron.github.io)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by jonatron 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Scott Adams has died (youtube.com)
    ×6.57 16 | 1053 points by ekianjo 1 day ago | 1738 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. When hardware goes end-of-life, companies need to open-source the software (marcia.no)
    ×3.48 11 | 395 points by Marciplan 1 day ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. A 40-line fix eliminated a 400x performance gap (questdb.com)
    ×1.70 13 | 363 points by bluestreak 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Engineering Schizophrenia: Trusting yourself through Byzantine faults
    ×0.98 117 | 110 points by rescrv 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Photos Capture the Breathtaking Scale of China's Wind and Solar Buildout (yale.edu)
    ×5.12 27 #28 | 254 points by mrtksn 5 hours ago | 193 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Ui.dev and Fireship Join Forces (fireship.dev)
    ×0.85 | 1 points by taubek 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. AI generated music barred from Bandcamp (reddit.com)
    ×5.16 17 | 934 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 712 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. The truth behind the 2026 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference (owlposting.com)
    ×2.39 17 | 323 points by abhishaike 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: GlyphLang – An AI-first programming language
    ×0.57 154 | 44 points by goose0004 4 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???