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  1. Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub
    ×3.23 17 #38 | 606 points by dhruv3006 23 hours ago | 391 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers
    ×3.85 16 #85 | 632 points by stagas 1 day ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Email Client for the Terminal?
    ×0.53 62 | 5 points by ewjloop 10 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Best code editor without AI?
    ×0.32 74 | 6 points by nerdyguy90 18 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?
    ×1.11 77 | 90 points by simonebrunozzi 3 days ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What's the Best Agent Harness?
    ×0.39 85 | 5 points by cakbeslik 20 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How can we care more about fewer things?
    ×0.33 92 | 4 points by robalni 20 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: If you're burning tokens at scale, what are you using them for?
    ×0.40 93 | 4 points by simonw 20 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Trivially bypass text watermarks by requesting a Base64 response
    ×0.43 94 | 4 points by hanneshdc 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Is GitHub Fried Today?
    ×0.49 95 | 4 points by johncole 21 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Is Mockup Data a thing you can ask from SaaS Salesperson?
    ×0.35 113 | 3 points by xtiansimon 22 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Is classical AI research still being done because it helps modern AI?
    ×0.34 118 | 3 points by amichail 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What is your favorite lightweight tool or CLI utility in 2026?
    ×0.55 110 | 21 points by pranav_tech26 2 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What tools are you using for human code review of AI-assisted code?
    ×0.66 106 | 11 points by dafelst 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Where to learn software engineering fundamentals?
    ×0.66 115 | 12 points by mstank 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Alternative to Internet Archive
    ×0.61 121 | 19 points by earworms 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Does anyone else feel like nothing matters anymore?
    ×14.24 76 | 197 points by ramesh31 11 hours ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Ive quit six systems for tracking my illness. What works?
    ×0.34 | 2 points by Abh1Works 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Why is the GitHub trending page weirdly excluding DeepSeek projects?
    ×1.05 104 | 9 points by tianyicui 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?
    ×5.49 2 | 105 points by sharts 21 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: What LLM subscription/provider to use with pi harness?
    ×0.24 145 | 3 points by vira28 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: How would you market this service?
    ×0.30 148 | 4 points by dmzxnico 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Is Kimi down for anyone else?
    ×0.50 | 2 points by elendilm 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Should hard-tech founders join a problem or technology-first PhD lab?
    ×0.23 144 | 13 points by misterballer 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. TrueMath – An open-source exact symbolic math tool
    ×0.14 150 | 3 points by SAWANs 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Does a human still review your code?
    ×0.45 146 | 11 points by stikit 3 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. A True Telnet BBS on a Casio Calculator (ei3lh.eu)
    ×0.90 57 | 109 points by austinallegro 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Will you have spent more of your life with computers than your family? (bearblog.dev)
    ×2.62 18 | 87 points by Gecko4072 17 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: AI-generated music box version of any song (for baby) (lullabyconverter.com)
    ×1.29 73 | 4 points by johnnydamacha 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. How to disable or avoid intrusive AI (librarian.net)
    ×1.63 14 #28 | 316 points by ColinWright 22 hours ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Judge sets framework for Nine PBS to retrieve archival data (current.org)
    ×1.23 33 #31 | 174 points by qingcharles 20 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner (philo.gay)
    ×2.38 62 | 3 points by otherayden 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Pilots and Flight Attendants Are Bombarded by Cosmic Radiation (gizmodo.com)
    ×1.56 | 2 points by amichail 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. How software work changed in three years [Linear's first full data analysis] (linear.app)
    ×1.29 | 2 points by AntonZ234 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Tidy – a Mac app that names files by reading what's inside them (tidymacapp.com)
    ×1.23 86 | 4 points by sdiazthomas 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: All roads lead home – a Google timeline replacement (takeallroads.com)
    ×2.98 71 | 10 points by lizhang 22 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. How I developed an Am29000 C compiler and web browser (nanochess.org)
    ×0.71 59 #53 | 86 points by nanochess 23 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. I built a J1939 sniffer with a GUI, no hardware required (medium.com)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by PhilYeh75 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: A public AI whose memory is shared across all users (wildstatic.com)
    ×0.99 63 | 84 points by adjohu 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Is AI Dumber Today? An index of AI model experience from user's opinion (isaidumber.today)
    ×0.74 139 | 17 points by schafberg 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots (responsiblestatecraft.org)
    ×7.80 3 #10 | 716 points by DeepLogin 16 hours ago | 416 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Democracy vs. the machine: birth of digital age,the warnings that were ignored (theguardian.com)
    ×0.99 7 #55 | 4 points by pseudolus 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ghosts of the Past and Devils of the Present (thenewcuriosityshop.substack.com)
    ×0.18 69 #66 | 7 points by benbreen 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Gakutensoku (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.84 48 #90 | 71 points by benbreen 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: FileIndexer (simple N-copies verification on ext USB drives) (thanassis.space)
    ×0.36 | 2 points by ttsiodras 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. State Farm defense lawyers admit AI generated fake cases in LA lawsuit (calmatters.org)
    ×2.90 50 #74 | 5 points by cdrnsf 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. I just lost a whole lot of cloud files (moodywarlock.net)
    ×1.50 | 2 points by speckx 21 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 control rods drop into core (wptv.com)
    ×1.52 38 | 194 points by toomuchtodo 1 day ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Stripe to Buy OpenRouter for $7B (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.84 17 | 97 points by FinnLobsien 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: A benchmark for AI agent guardrails that caught my own plugin (github.com/couldbeme)
    ×0.53 | 2 points by couldbeme_ 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: A visual ping utility that is pretty (source.tube)
    ×0.96 127 | 4 points by _ache_ 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Making every company programmable like a computer [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.97 107 | 3 points by Marten42 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility (404media.co)
    ×4.42 11 | 144 points by amarcheschi 23 hours ago | 299 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Mole – Deep research agent for your terminal (github.com/lajosdeme)
    ×0.86 81 | 100 points by lajosdeme 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Los Puesteros, solitary men who look after ranches and livestock in Patagonia (newyorker.com)
    ×1.34 25 #32 | 155 points by bookofjoe 18 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Google wins bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines emails, chats, documents (axios.com)
    ×3.27 18 #67 | 87 points by sgustard 12 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. GPS and the Lost Art of Getting Lost (newyorker.com)
    ×0.97 59 #87 | 99 points by karakoram 1 day ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Apple's US App Store Commission Revenue Down 18% This Year (macrumors.com)
    ×0.89 | 1 points by tosh 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Petlibro accused of "gaslighting" users over smart pet feeder outage (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.44 | 2 points by Bender 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Silent Shark – tactical map-based WWII submarine sim (silentshark.app)
    ×1.19 80 | 79 points by epaga 5 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Rex, a parallel functional language for scientific workflows (github.com/peterkelly)
    ×0.96 | 2 points by peterkelly 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Bribes.fyi – Compare bribes statistics department wise (bribes.fyi)
    ×1.69 76 | 55 points by neverenderr 2 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. A particle made of force: physicists say they've found mysterious 'glueball' (nature.com)
    ×1.23 32 #35 | 141 points by Brajeshwar 20 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Taxing AI to Help Workers Sounds Good, but Public Deserves More (bloombergtax.com)
    ×1.43 | 2 points by tldrthelaw 51 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: AI Resume Optimization Tool for Specific Job Positions (aiomniu.top)
    ×2.15 33 | 3 points by aiomniu 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: UL-SMF – Open-source linear-complexity ~300x KV-cache compression (github.com/liventruth)
    ×0.47 66 | 13 points by liventruth 21 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Honeymatcha.io connect your Grok bots for dating, meetups, anything (honeymatcha.io)
    ×0.96 65 | 4 points by JaiRathore 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: I backtested my own stock site's signals and published what failed (matterofstocks.com)
    ×0.56 | 2 points by matterofstocks 22 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Mocktail – Free, open-source mock API server with a built-in dashboard (getmocktail.com)
    ×2.13 123 | 23 points by hhaluk 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Dial-up internet – made a thing that lets you do it again (56k.rip)
    ×1.19 70 #51 | 14 points by henrychannel 10 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. New Spanish nanomaterial cools surfaces by up to 12.9C without electricity (euronews.com)
    ×2.29 8 #80 | 17 points by 2bacon2 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Revenge Bedtime Procrastination (sleepfoundation.org)
    ×0.84 | 1 points by amichail 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. I reverse-engineered my HVAC because I couldn't turn it off reliably (backslasher.net)
    ×0.87 | 1 points by Backslasher 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Online clinics and influencers are promoting Cialis as a longevity drug (npr.org)
    ×1.28 14 | 95 points by brandonb 23 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Quasicrystals Animation Playground with WebXR (hypnagogic-quasicrystals.github.io)
    ×0.73 98 | 40 points by r34 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Chainable Oscillating Drones (greenvitriol.com)
    ×4.28 77 | 6 points by janesconference 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker (mozilla.org)
    ×4.50 13 | 702 points by pentagrama 2 days ago | 274 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: An Hacker News TUI Reader, handcrafted in Rust (newstackwhodis.com)
    ×0.81 | 2 points by pierreyoda 19 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. AGI-64 Brings Sierra Adventures to the Commodore 64 (meanhamster.com)
    ×0.82 61 #62 | 129 points by erickhill 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Engrava – a local graph memory database for AI agents (SQLite, MIT) (github.com/sovantica)
    ×0.99 | 1 points by przemarzec 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. How primary energy is measured has changed across our charts (ourworldindata.org)
    ×0.99 | 1 points by surprisetalk 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Krystal Loop Protocol – a bounded worker/critic loop for AI coding agents (github.com/KrystalUnity)
    ×0.88 | 1 points by Eriksz 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Supply chain concerns increase risks for US power grid (nytimes.com)
    ×1.53 | 2 points by Ostrogoth 27 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: I gave my job search data an MCP interface (ackd.app)
    ×1.81 90 | 4 points by ekascs 19 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: WireDoctor – Spring Boot startup and bean cycle analyzer (github.com/ddsha441981)
    ×0.48 | 2 points by ddsha441981 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: I turned the ending of Trainspotting into a tiny web art installation (trainspotting.vercel.app)
    ×1.62 103 | 3 points by mayilian 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Puppy PPE (amosdudley.com)
    ×0.88 44 #73 | 27 points by ChadNauseam 13 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Incident with Github.com (githubstatus.com)
    ×6.46 74 | 698 points by kevcampb 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. GitHub down again? no PR access
    ×3.43 39 | 289 points by yodon 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Ballet – Workflow automation that writes integrations against any API (ballet.dev)
    ×0.52 135 | 36 points by danielkimber 5 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???