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  1. The $LANG Programming Language
    ×2.18 2 #3 | 55 points by dang 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Quantum Computation, Computers and Programming
    ×0.47 21 #32 | 17 points by rramadass 3 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: ADHD – How do you manage the constant stream of thoughts and ideas?
    ×2.54 19 #36 | 27 points by chriswright1664 1 hour ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Iran's 120h internet shutdown, phones back. How to stay resilient?
    ×2.76 23 #45 | 47 points by us321 7 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Vxlan over WireGuard or WireGuard over Vxlan?
    ×0.84 10 #52 | 33 points by mlhpdx 5 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Discrepancy between Lichess and Stockfish
    ×0.47 43 #60 | 15 points by HNLurker2 5 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: 500 citation MSc CS, stuck in a low-trust region. How to move forward?
    ×0.57 52 #75 | 15 points by throwawaysafely 8 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Looking for Windows contributors for meeting-detection engine
    ×0.61 78 #77 | 7 points by Ayobamiu 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Who remembers AWS Spot's auction era before the 2017 pricing change?
    ×0.20 | 2 points by aleroawani 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Tell HN: DigitalOcean's managed services broke each other after update
    ×1.24 50 | 75 points by neilfrndes 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
    ×1.14 70 | 253 points by david927 2 days ago | 836 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Tell HN: The Google Tenor GIF API has been shut down
    ×1.79 38 | 16 points by dfajgljsldkjag 8 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Tell HN: The insane price hike of internal SSDs
    ×0.59 69 | 3 points by malshe 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Tell HN: Intel could blow up the Console Wars if it had the guts
    ×0.65 | 2 points by noumenon1111 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Does anyone else think that humanoid robots is a bubble?
    ×1.92 49 | 5 points by NewUser76312 5 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Learning Discoverability
    ×0.41 | 2 points by learnwithmattc 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Are you underutilizing your insurance too?
    ×0.73 | 2 points by nemath 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Is "AI vibe coding" making prototyping worse inside real companies?
    ×1.39 54 | 11 points by arapkuliev 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What made you move back to HTML-to-PDF in production?
    ×2.15 87 | 5 points by gokulsiva 10 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Unpopular Opinion: Bootstrap is a better front-end framework than Tailwind
    ×1.28 79 | 21 points by pyeri 19 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Eleva.js – A 2.3KB JavaScript framework with signals and no virtual DOM
    ×0.43 | 2 points by TarekRaafat 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Experiment: Using NotebookLM as a cynical code reviewer (via custom prompts)
    ×0.43 | 2 points by practicalaifg 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Gh Account Permabanned – Help?
    ×1.15 61 | 9 points by nicomeemes 9 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Story about a CEO going off on a user who left feedback?
    ×1.05 102 | 3 points by VladVladikoff 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: How do you prevent AI agents from going rogue in production?
    ×1.16 103 | 3 points by techbuilder4242 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Salesforce, SAP, or ServiceNow: Which Is Most Ripe for Disruption?
    ×0.44 83 | 6 points by Saurabh_Kumar_ 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. My casual chat with AI about cancer led to an internal prototype named"Onco-Bus"
    ×0.76 | 2 points by sony707 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Where is all the protest music?
    ×1.10 91 | 8 points by swiper_lux 14 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Job seekers, what's working / not working?
    ×0.81 107 | 17 points by Jabbs 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Is Reddit Down(-Ish)?
    ×0.55 93 | 3 points by theanonymousone 8 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: When has a "dumb" solution beaten a sophisticated one for you?
    ×0.37 166 | 12 points by amadeuswoo 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. I am a fan of XianXia's novels from China
    ×0.75 | 2 points by tain1223 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Erratic HN front page algorithm
    ×0.41 136 | 6 points by 7777777phil 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: How do you automate your release notes?
    ×0.41 119 | 9 points by dustfinger 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Senior engineering mngrs: how has AI changed your day-to-day work?
    ×0.99 140 | 35 points by kitetm 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Speculate About a Hypothetical Cyber Exploit That Would Leverage AI
    ×0.30 154 | 3 points by burnerToBetOut 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Should I shutdown my 20 year old SaaS sideline?
    ×0.36 159 | 3 points by pohwp 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: Best way to find chill job where I can learn and grow as a swe
    ×0.47 152 | 35 points by digitdiglet 5 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: Has anyone built payment flows inside AI voice calls?
    ×0.40 160 | 6 points by wasiyc 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Tell HN: Mattermost "upgrade" to v11 enforces 10k UI message limit
    ×0.83 131 | 5 points by nemosaltat 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: Is it time for HN to implement a form of captcha?
    ×0.96 138 | 89 points by Rooster61 5 days ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ask HN: Is Programming as a Profession Cooked?
    ×0.77 134 | 20 points by fnoef 2 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: What business processes still waste time every week?
    ×0.39 161 | 5 points by lzr_mihnea 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Tell HN: Auto-download in Apple Podcasts is so unreliable it's basically useless
    ×0.29 167 | 4 points by garyfirestorm 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Tell HN: Get a dying iPhone 12 mini in 2026
    ×0.54 169 | 28 points by remywang 4 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Ask HN: What are you proud of about doing for you health and wellness regularly?
    ×1.20 114 | 11 points by nemath 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Ask HN: Senior software engineers, how do you use Claude Code?
    ×0.75 148 | 15 points by allie1 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Ask HN: Would you pay for a privacy-first social platform?
    ×0.91 171 | 11 points by sammiej 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Implementing NaN Boxing in a Stack-Based VM
    ×0.13 174 | 5 points by tracyspacy 6 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Reddit Is Down
    ×1.83 78 | 5 points by heroicmailman 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Ask HN: Iran has now been offline for 100 hours. What can we "technically" do?
    ×1.08 116 | 7 points by us321 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Why are so many images now in unusual file formats?
    ×0.98 133 | 5 points by paulpauper 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Ask HN: How would you decouple from the US?
    ×2.04 170 | 38 points by yawa_me_worht 5 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Aaron Swartz died 13 years ago today
    ×5.34 96 | 92 points by vitaelabitur 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Ask HN: Moved to SF to build a startup. What next?
    ×0.65 165 | 7 points by kvaranasi_ 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Ask HN: What was the best sci-fi book of 2025?
    ×1.14 139 | 14 points by Erikun 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Why have death rates from accidental falls tripled? (usafacts.org)
    ×1.75 3 | 63 points by atlasunshrugged 12 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Postal Arbitrage (walzr.com)
    ×2.35 7 #84 | 535 points by The28thDuck 1 day ago | 271 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Consumers Can Fight the Credit Card Industry (theprogressiveinvestor.org)
    ×0.92 | 2 points by chuckepstein 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Speakhelp.org – An AAC tool for those with speech difficulties (hugedomains.com)
    ×0.37 | 1 points by JJarrard 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. No management needed: anti-patterns in early-stage engineering teams (ablg.io)
    ×1.81 17 #11 | 68 points by tonioab 5 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe (noheger.at)
    ×9.75 20 #78 | 2712 points by happosai 2 days ago | 1172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. The world is one bad decision away from a silicon Ice Age (theregister.com)
    ×3.79 68 | 63 points by dlipovetsky 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Image0.dev – image tools that run in the browser (image0.dev)
    ×0.45 | 2 points by ayushpawar 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: An open-source communication layer for AI agents (github.com/GetBindu)
    ×0.67 | 2 points by ai_biden 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Miditui – A terminal app/UI for MIDI composing, mixing, and playback (github.com/minimaxir)
    ×0.90 127 | 66 points by minimaxir 5 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: AsciiSketch a free browser-based ASCII art and diagram editor (littlebird.com.au)
    ×0.68 33 #26 | 13 points by schappim 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. One Simple Arrow Changed Automobiles Forever [video] (wsj.com)
    ×0.79 | 1 points by fortran77 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. US gives green light to Nvidia H200 chip exports to China (reuters.com)
    ×1.40 37 | 3 points by falcor84 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients (archaeologist.dev)
    ×2.28 31 | 341 points by codesparkle 1 day ago | 238 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: ZCCInfo – Fast status line for Claude Code written in Zig (github.com/tuananh131001)
    ×1.36 155 | 6 points by tuananh131001 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. SkyPilot: One system to use and manage all AI compute (K8s, 20 clouds, Slurm) (github.com/skypilot-org)
    ×0.52 69 #38 | 4 points by covi 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Apple Creator Studio (apple.com)
    ×2.94 29 #44 | 472 points by lemonlime227 11 hours ago | 391 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. MoneyRank – a daily 60-second game that scores your financial risk instincts (moneyrank.onrender.com)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by abbster52 30 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Logitech caused its mice to freak out by not renewing a certificate (theverge.com)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by abdelhousni 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: B-IR – An LLM-optimized programming language (github.com/ImJasonH)
    ×0.60 100 | 47 points by ImJasonH 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Open sourcing Dicer: Databricks's auto-sharder (databricks.com)
    ×1.36 10 #42 | 64 points by vivek-jain 5 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Signal leaders warn agentic AI is an insecure, unreliable surveillance risk (coywolf.com)
    ×2.61 51 #62 | 320 points by speckx 7 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875 (github.com/haykgrigo3)
    ×2.72 3 #79 | 716 points by admp 1 day ago | 300 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Toyota remained top automaker by sales for 6th straight year in 2025 (nikkei.com)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by breve 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Yolobox – Run AI coding agents with full sudo without nuking home dir (github.com/finbarr)
    ×1.04 51 | 119 points by Finbarr 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Giant JSON Viewer – Open 1GB+ JSON Files on Android (Rust and MMAP) (giantjson.com)
    ×0.82 | 2 points by kotysoft 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Every GitHub object has two IDs (greptile.com)
    ×2.58 6 #2 | 80 points by dakshgupta 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Starlink activates free internet in Iran (cnn.com)
    ×4.49 32 #50 | 36 points by Agreed3750 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Text-based web browsers (cssence.com)
    ×1.56 8 #67 | 277 points by pabs3 20 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Terry Tao: "LLMs Are Simpler Than You Think – The Real Mystery Is Why They Work" [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.91 | 2 points by gmays 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Data from a mixed-brand LiFePO₄ battery bank
    ×1.02 81 | 4 points by wkcollis1 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Scott Adams has died (usatoday.com)
    ×8.72 79 | 417 points by schmuckonwheels 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Iran Is Hunting Down Starlink Users to Stop Protest Videos from Going Global (wsj.com)
    ×3.45 32 | 91 points by Agreed3750 20 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Going for Gold: The Story of the Golden Lego RCX and NXT (bricknerd.com)
    ×0.77 33 #41 | 37 points by kotaKat 6 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???