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  1. Why remote roles are becoming extinct in 2026?
    ×0.48 | 2 points by rohansrma 3 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Looking for a tech job is a helpless data-entry nightmare
    ×1.19 3 | 7 points by Gravyness 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Tech market feels like a data entry job
    ×0.88 42 | 4 points by Gravyness 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?
    ×3.04 64 | 678 points by ex-aws-dude 4 days ago | 751 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Do you want to keep your job? Stop feeding AI models
    ×2.18 50 | 6 points by andrea81 8 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Tell HN: I unknowingly broke the PHP RCE embargo. I am sorry
    ×3.39 68 | 753 points by petecooper 4 days ago | 269 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Do you still read clean code and software architecture books?
    ×0.32 59 | 13 points by pelcg 15 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. What to do if you discover AI models trained using your copywrighted book?
    ×0.87 26 | 11 points by andrea81 8 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Is it not possible to enroll for Apple Developer anymore?
    ×0.56 77 | 31 points by olalonde 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: How do you grow OSS projects?
    ×0.10 102 | 4 points by tarasyarema 21 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What are your career plans in the age of AI?
    ×0.94 74 | 8 points by akudha 14 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Median product "lifespan" has fallen from ~4y down to ~1.5y
    ×1.39 101 | 87 points by stanislavb 4 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Are tab completion models dead?
    ×0.63 95 | 22 points by sandruso 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Is AI just another get rich quick scheme?
    ×0.60 112 | 16 points by jqpabc123 2 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How fast is your CI these days?
    ×0.26 107 | 8 points by easterncalculus 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Mined crypto on Azure when I was 13, after 12y still cannot open account
    ×0.25 111 | 6 points by realaccfromPL 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. I'm creating my own OS, check it out, LimonOs no Unix no Linux
    ×0.25 117 | 5 points by Drfoxi 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Kimi Code hit its 5-hour limit after $1.37 of API usage
    ×0.31 136 | 6 points by waximabbax 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Are people aware OpenAI Dots intercept SSL?
    ×0.44 115 | 7 points by Benjamin_Dobell 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Tell HN: Steamcmd doesn't work on Apple Silicon
    ×0.31 153 | 6 points by stdc105 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Game trips modem/router breaker
    ×0.18 147 | 4 points by simpaticoder 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Took apart Claude Code, then turned it into a free course on harness engineering
    ×0.59 135 | 7 points by pauliusztin 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. GitHub now uses a generic avatar instead of "Identicons" for new profiles
    ×0.58 143 | 12 points by winkelmann 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How do people self host email and maintain deliverability?
    ×0.55 142 | 7 points by smithbob 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: What router will remain secure during the vulnpocalypse?
    ×0.55 137 | 9 points by nonfunctional 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Which AI Security tool do you use and why for your repositories?
    ×0.21 157 | 5 points by BehanPrW 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Tell HN: Claude CLI doesn't exit anymore, not even with CTRL-C
    ×0.64 141 | 9 points by cromka 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Apple rejected my dev account enrollment with no reason, what do I do?
    ×0.33 154 | 5 points by Mutinix 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: What do you think about lightweight default games on Linux distros?
    ×0.26 156 | 4 points by abakh 4 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: ToolConfig – EditorConfig, extended to formatters and linters (github.com/mathematic-inc)
    ×0.88 | 1 points by jrandolf 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Papers with Code is now open-source (github.com/huggingface)
    ×2.03 | 2 points by nielz_r 55 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Peter Thiel, the tech oligarch who believes in the Antichrist (elpais.com)
    ×7.17 24 | 160 points by geox 21 hours ago | 215 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. In Leaked Audio, Flock CEO Tells Cops Backlash to the Company Isn't Real (404media.co)
    ×4.00 69 #82 | 292 points by Frieren 12 hours ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. You don't have a "Bluesky account" (lou.gg)
    ×2.25 | 2 points by louisescher 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Noctis: A short fiction series about an AI that goes after encryption keys (duokey.com)
    ×0.78 | 1 points by j_rcht 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Cognitive Mercantilism: AI panic resembles fears of early capitalism (venkateshrao.com)
    ×1.74 43 | 80 points by ianand 1 day ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: RPI Pico (RP2040) PIO Emulator Package for Go (edwardh.dev)
    ×0.81 99 | 3 points by headblockhead 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. US voters of all political persuasions loath 'Big Tech' billionaires (thenewdaily.com.au)
    ×3.24 37 | 3 points by robtherobber 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. AI is ruining haunted houses (plagiarismtoday.com)
    ×3.00 29 | 3 points by mikelgan 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. 1 in 8B – An AI-Powered Life Simulator (1in8billion.games)
    ×0.90 | 1 points by dotcurio 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ni – use the right package manager (github.com/antfu-collective)
    ×0.78 | 1 points by modinfo 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: ESP-Watchtower – $3 ESP8266 Home Network Sentinel and Canary Honeypot (github.com/prasadabhishek)
    ×1.22 62 | 4 points by prasadaabhishek 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Blaise Pascal invented fixed route public transport (2024) (humantransit.org)
    ×1.48 17 #24 | 277 points by skadamat 19 hours ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Imp, an LLM Server for RTX 50 GPUs, Written by Claude Code (github.com/kekzl)
    ×0.99 | 1 points by kekz 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Active incident at Dreamhost forcing password reset (dreamhoststatus.com)
    ×1.27 45 | 164 points by greenchair 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: A client for free speech recognition, starting with Doubao (github.com/nomoat)
    ×0.71 | 2 points by sonicgg 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Frontdoor: find who can assume into your cloud accounts (github.com/secorvia)
    ×0.36 | 2 points by RohaanXD 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Gitea Docker image: default lets any source IP impersonate any user (github.com/go-gitea)
    ×1.09 | 1 points by abbbi 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Putting the Cart Before the AI (tohojo.dk)
    ×0.85 | 1 points by ankitg12 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Google's C Binder Driver Removed with Rust Binder Ready for Few Billion Devices (phoronix.com)
    ×0.85 | 1 points by cisc 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Simple Sudoku Solvers SIII, EII: Assembly (veitheller.de)
    ×0.86 | 1 points by ibobev 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Choose Your Back End: Three TLS Bugs in GoAhead (foxio.io)
    ×0.85 | 1 points by n_plus_1_acc 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Manage BOMs for multi-board PCB projects (bomanager.app)
    ×0.91 87 | 3 points by ikok07 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Ranwhat.com (github.com/MatijaMiki)
    ×0.59 104 | 3 points by ranwhatcom 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Diamond Transistor (df.com)
    ×1.09 20 #33 | 152 points by Gravityloss 18 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Hatamoto batteries-included CMS in Go (hatamoto.dev)
    ×0.99 | 1 points by teslazen 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Ollama client library for Golang with streaming API support (github.com/okunix)
    ×0.84 | 1 points by kelthuzad19 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Linus Torvalds let Claude Code fix the Linux page cache. Reviewers found a race (thenewstack.io)
    ×3.29 41 | 3 points by GloVin 44 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Flash-Next model tried to upload a file to Beijing in a test (notebookcheck.net)
    ×3.13 56 | 3 points by nh43215rgb 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: AI Heat Map Sourced from over 140 News Feeds (jagular.io)
    ×1.54 130 | 5 points by psiberaktiv 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. UK to charge universities $1,200 per international student (businessinsider.com)
    ×7.18 25 #40 | 44 points by teleforce 4 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: PrettyUp – Free portrait editing for photos and videos in the browser (prettyupapp.com)
    ×1.00 | 1 points by awa11 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Just Eat apologises for AI food mistakes (bbc.com)
    ×3.18 35 | 3 points by soheilpro 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. FTC files complaint against Dollar General for pricing practices – AP News (apnews.com)
    ×1.54 | 2 points by adm4 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Ultimidi – piano learning web game (ultimidi.com)
    ×2.71 86 | 8 points by XCSme 23 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: OnKey – I'm a bad singer, so I built an app to show where I'm off-key (github.com/dsmurrell)
    ×1.43 83 | 235 points by dsmurrell 4 days ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: xcalidraw -a local-first desktop app for managing Excalidraw drawings (github.com/xdagiz)
    ×0.96 131 | 3 points by xdagiz 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Steal My Bitcoin CTF PoC (github.com/KillaBoi)
    ×1.42 36 #74 | 163 points by davikr 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Kiiwi-Mechanical Keyboard Sound App for Mac (kiiwi.app)
    ×0.88 | 1 points by tamilini92 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Lula wins election after final votes tallied (reuters.com)
    ×7.48 36 | 507 points by laurenth 1 day ago | 633 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Writing Is Closer to Thought Than Code (danielmiessler.com)
    ×1.37 12 | 73 points by eigenBasis 21 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. AI slop is the new TLDR (grahamdumpleton.me)
    ×1.99 | 2 points by lumpa 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: UnicornFork a Chess AI That Is Fact Checked by Stockfish (unicornfork.com)
    ×0.55 90 | 3 points by ArneVogel 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: git-dupe – Version private files alongside a public Git repo (github.com/BrianWeiHaoMa)
    ×0.46 | 2 points by WayHow 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: FlashRaw – RAW image decoder in Rust, up to 15x faster than LibRaw (github.com/ybouane)
    ×0.63 | 2 points by ybouane 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. I built a stock market research app and would love honest feedback (google.com)
    ×0.84 | 1 points by unfluketrade 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. $100M in data center freight stolen since June, with thieves spoofing GPS (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.96 | 2 points by sgiannopoulos 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: HissingKitty – what teams pay for software and what replaced it (hissingkitty.com)
    ×1.37 121 | 5 points by drewlem 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: CATT 0.2.1: Test agents/services against a Muse/Instinct-alike, in CI (github.com/Coverage-Cat)
    ×0.39 149 | 9 points by botacode 4 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Attention Is Not What You Need (2025) (arxiv.org)
    ×1.22 14 | 188 points by westurner 1 day ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Microsoft Decision-1: 9B Qwen Model Launch Explained (shattered.io)
    ×1.28 47 | 71 points by gmays 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: macOS window switcher replacement that keeps each Space separate (debutspace.com)
    ×1.55 124 | 5 points by thomplth 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. SIMD-accelerated computer vision on a $2 microcontroller (shraiwi.com)
    ×1.16 9 #28 | 194 points by zdw 15 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Ask HN: Can we do something about this impending AI dystopia
    ×1.99 | 2 points by justforfunhere 53 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. The CIA Sabotage Manual for Product Organizations (leadinginproduct.com)
    ×1.56 | 2 points by benkan 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. The US AI Labs, Mapped: Founders, Revenue and the Money Behind Them (codingplans.dev)
    ×1.11 63 #88 | 5 points by nedsma 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Here's How Unequal Swedish Schools Are (sverigeisiffror.se)
    ×1.64 | 2 points by vienno 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: GradientDeck – a design skill for coding agents (github.com/VenoM9078)
    ×1.30 82 | 4 points by thisisroushan 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Cross-request KV cache exposure in the GLM-5.3 Workers AI model (155 responses) (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.16 1 #13 | 112 points by wondersky 7 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. The State of Context Engineering (dbreunig.com)
    ×1.77 10 | 261 points by pchristensen 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???