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  1. Tell HN: Remember to migrate away from .name domain
    ×1.09 46 #53 | 156 points by nikanj 1 day ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: How can we stop UX people from changing UIs to get promotions?
    ×0.44 69 | 5 points by ex-aws-dude 11 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Why do computers/phones have a restart option along with the power off option?
    ×0.37 82 | 7 points by saonnet 21 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. How do you deal with AI Output of your boss?
    ×0.94 56 | 12 points by okr 15 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Google Meet Enshittification
    ×2.00 50 | 7 points by chrisjj 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Talk like Paul Dirac – fewer words is better
    ×0.31 98 | 5 points by asen 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Is anyone still running Token Ring or FDDI networks?
    ×0.32 99 | 11 points by robotnikman 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How do I stop Gemini Live from asking."Would like to know more about..?"
    ×0.11 | 2 points by orsenthil 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Thoughts on hiring junior engineers in 2026?
    ×0.57 111 | 11 points by abhishekbasu 2 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Flying Car Practical Tech
    ×0.32 124 | 6 points by NarcisMirandes 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. More Powerful Than Ever, (can't find work)
    ×0.82 113 | 9 points by pieratt 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Emu Concept – Make AI Follows Your Rules. (Feedback Wanted)
    ×0.27 122 | 5 points by JariwalaH 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Why is there no AlphaZero for theorem proving?
    ×0.25 130 | 4 points by hyperpallium2 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Tell HN: Google Argon on a Pro subscription is worthless
    ×0.63 118 | 11 points by bb88 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Are you hesitant to install vibe-coded apps?
    ×0.34 127 | 19 points by ex-aws-dude 3 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. AI Revolution vs. Computing Revolution
    ×0.17 143 | 3 points by nitinagg 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. VectorCraft vs. Figma vs. Penpot vs. Adobe Illustrator vs. Wunjo Design?
    ×0.60 121 | 6 points by wladradchenko 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: macOS 27.x upgrade without Siri eating disk space?
    ×0.31 146 | 3 points by prologic 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Triplet of 'Ghostly' Galaxies Hints at What Dark Matter Is – and Isn't
    ×0.74 100 | 4 points by gumby 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Which books did you read at least twice?
    ×0.72 116 | 9 points by chessnode 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Has anyone decompiled Claude Code yet?
    ×0.18 150 | 3 points by matt3210 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Survey: How do you create the video demo for your project or product?
    ×0.71 112 | 4 points by loveTech 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Where has creativity in software gone?
    ×0.92 117 | 37 points by piratesAndSons 4 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Domain Health
    ×0.23 151 | 9 points by anjalibery 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. DeepSeek: DeepSeek v4.1 Flash 1017 (openrouter.ai)
    ×3.32 56 | 514 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. A History of Curves and Surfaces in Computer Aided Geometric Design [pdf] (pku.edu.cn)
    ×0.65 38 #13 | 12 points by mbustamanter 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. A story of WiFi secrets, UART lockdowns and a damaged flash memory chip (of0x.cc)
    ×0.79 85 #54 | 89 points by michidk 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Kosmos 2612 and ICEYE-X36: a worrisome cat-and-mouse-game in Space (sattrackcam.blogspot.com)
    ×3.43 35 | 5 points by runningmike 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Japan to launch world-first mission to collect samples from Martian moon (theguardian.com)
    ×2.05 6 | 3 points by Betelbuddy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: PrimerKit, financial market work at agent speed (primerkit.ai)
    ×0.91 94 | 3 points by KalskiTheDan 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Regex visualized as 3D marble run (regexmarblerun.com)
    ×1.27 12 #11 | 42 points by seizethecheese 6 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. NY announces game ownership bill requiring ownership rather than licensing (tomshardware.com)
    ×4.36 16 #27 | 369 points by guiambros 14 hours ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. GhostAction hid a credential stealer in a fake font file in 94 GitHub repos (opensourcemalware.com)
    ×1.75 62 | 3 points by wondersky 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Uh filter Claude Code plugin (github.com/amirzak)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by amirzak 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: A forest's wildlife, synthesized live in Rust, playable in the browser (zaghaghi.github.io)
    ×2.44 29 | 5 points by zaghaghi 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. The First Candid (newyorker.com)
    ×0.46 60 #75 | 45 points by Thevet 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Dream of birds: the lost songs of Argentina – Ornithology Documentary (youtube.com)
    ×1.24 | 2 points by todoesverso 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Hyper Optimizing Kimi K3 in vLLM (vllm.ai)
    ×2.04 20 | 3 points by torutofu 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Tesla Roadster (tesla.com)
    ×5.72 17 #42 | 1623 points by shekhar101 2 days ago | 3055 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Monitoring my 'dumb' boiler with AI (ndroo.github.io)
    ×1.94 137 | 4 points by verelo 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Artie (YC S23) Is Hiring Enterprise AES and Senior Engineers (artie.com)
    21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Okl – hold your agent to rules proven by checks and gated at push (github.com/emeraldleaf)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by emeraldleaf 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Zuckerberg's Meta Takes Down No Kings Instagram During Protest Day (meidasnews.com)
    ×8.87 84 | 528 points by DeepLogin 13 hours ago | 320 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Patterns Were Made for Humans (cadienvan.github.io)
    ×1.34 | 2 points by dotneter 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. ARP Tell your network to explain itself (benjcal.space)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by _benj 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Anthropic assigned highest junk credit rating in June (ft.com)
    ×3.35 15 | 292 points by JumpCrisscross 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: New social networking site supprting feature phones built in malawi (mososi.vercel.app)
    ×1.28 136 | 4 points by RedsonNgwira 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Mosh-rs, Mosh rewritten in Rust with scrollback and Windows support (github.com/Arunjay4213)
    ×1.06 134 | 20 points by Arunjay__ 4 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Bleached corals thrive within days when touching healthy neighbour (nature.com)
    ×2.15 6 #9 | 504 points by alkyon 20 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Fun Extending the C Preprocessor (davidpriver.com)
    ×0.77 32 #25 | 42 points by david2ndaccount 10 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Frontier class vulnerabilities: it gets worse before it (maybe) gets better (shubs.io)
    ×1.33 | 2 points by fagnerbrack 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Laser Fault Injection on a Budget: RP2350 Edition (2025) (courk.cc)
    ×0.72 53 #44 | 62 points by gregsadetsky 19 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. A Tudor life in the time of plague (2020) (historytoday.com)
    ×0.50 60 #67 | 51 points by pepys 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Why Math Dumped OpenAI (raymyers.org)
    ×7.49 51 | 59 points by xeonmc 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Ask a technical question, get an animated explainer you can interrupt (openlume.com)
    ×0.92 126 | 17 points by shadaba 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Making chicken transparent using Dorito dust (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)
    ×1.62 15 #22 | 331 points by crescit_eundo 1 day ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. What's on That Access Port? (danielmangum.com)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by hasheddan 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Musk approached Trump to slow down Starlink in Ukraine (telegraph.co.uk)
    ×5.83 73 | 51 points by defly 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Types of types: Haskell's Kind system (thunk.blog)
    ×1.09 10 #71 | 83 points by Thom2503 17 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. "Tame" boar and deer are instinctively adapting to the wolf in the Netherlands (nos.nl)
    ×0.90 59 #78 | 57 points by felipevb 1 day ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. New 'super ice' 10 times stronger, bringing it close to the strength of concrete (sciencealert.com)
    ×1.12 59 #79 | 131 points by andrewl 1 day ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. OpenPrinter (crowdsupply.com)
    ×3.09 10 #88 | 34 points by xjia 10 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Petal, the first petabit transoceanic fiber cable (livescience.com)
    ×1.73 | 2 points by geox 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Open MicroManipulator – A sub-micrometer 3D motion control plattform (github.com/0x23)
    ×1.81 2 #4 | 63 points by _Microft 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. The Commodore 64 hardware simulator: break chips and pins, see the results (github.com/antirez)
    ×1.22 26 #23 | 214 points by antirez 21 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Gold is now the top U.S. export (numismaticnews.net)
    ×2.67 2 #30 | 375 points by iamnothere 20 hours ago | 211 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Putaway – sorts your Mac's Downloads into the folders you have (github.com/devYRPauli)
    ×1.03 140 | 3 points by yashrajpandey 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Securities Class Action Filed Against Duolingo, Inc (businesswire.com)
    ×1.26 | 2 points by theanonymousone 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: 2026 Midterms Tracker blends polls and Kalshi/Poymarket odds (pressaudit.org)
    ×0.94 102 | 12 points by SLHamlet 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Hover.com Is a Masterclass in Dark Patterns (davidsobsessions.com)
    ×2.08 47 | 3 points by newswangerd 54 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: I built a tool to track what AI leaders say and how their views change (blumify.io)
    ×1.52 92 | 119 points by gcsydney 4 days ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Southern ground hornbill gets 3D printed beak prostheses at Artis Zoo (nltimes.nl)
    ×0.86 32 #21 | 52 points by jacquesm 10 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Each step of decoding a PNG (2022) (iter.ca)
    ×0.77 50 #51 | 36 points by jxmorris12 15 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Distance Fields Visualization (visualrambling.space)
    ×0.83 | 1 points by damarberlari 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Guitoro, a virtual guitar you strum with your keyboard (guitoro.com)
    ×2.46 63 | 571 points by talccc 4 days ago | 161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Tinywm – a scrolling window manager for macOS, inspired by Niri (github.com/bbodi)
    ×4.49 101 | 12 points by bbodi 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Reelbird, an open-source Loom and Screen Studio alternative for macOS (github.com/btahir)
    ×0.84 | 2 points by bilater 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Superoptimizing an FPU Emulator (purplesyringa.moe)
    ×0.76 56 #33 | 40 points by dverlaeckt80 13 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. So Much Tech News: Week 1 (10/11/2026) (amichae2.substack.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by amichae2 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. How employment is changing at Anthropic (anthropic.com)
    ×5.23 87 | 82 points by theanonymousone 3 hours ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Automattic Wants .wordpress. It Doesn't Own WordPress (medium.com)
    ×1.93 31 | 3 points by ValentineC 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Tesla unveils 'flying' Roadster with SpaceX thrusters [video] (youtube.com)
    ×3.83 72 | 63 points by skadamat 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Online Piano – Play a Free Virtual Piano Keyboard (urpiano.com)
    ×1.83 86 | 13 points by artiomartiom 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: MirrorMD – An AI second opinion from a facial cosmetic surgeon (mymirrormd.com)
    ×0.60 76 | 10 points by AIcosmeticsurge 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Lean now ships with verified kernels (leodemoura.github.io)
    ×1.43 12 #15 | 171 points by matt_d 14 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Solar surpasses nuclear power globally for first time (pv-magazine.com)
    ×3.87 14 #35 | 640 points by xbmcuser 1 day ago | 406 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Intuitive concurrent programming in any language (lf-lang.org)
    ×1.22 44 #72 | 130 points by mpweiher 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Scriber-Pro 2.0, a Mac app that transcribes m3u8 streams from web pages (scriberpro.cc)
    ×1.64 138 | 4 points by raqix 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Hatching (Heraldry) (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.72 6 #7 | 24 points by theanonymousone 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Vobdoom – Doom on a DVD Player (blazelight.dev)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by theblazehen 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???