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  1. Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub
    ×3.63 6 #9 | 258 points by dhruv3006 3 hours ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers
    ×4.22 4 #46 | 601 points by stagas 23 hours ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What's the Best Agent Harness?
    ×0.61 | 2 points by cakbeslik 59 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Is this the worst time to be human?
    ×0.81 22 #56 | 6 points by bg117 2 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Is Mockup Data a thing you can ask from SaaS Salesperson?
    ×0.42 | 2 points by xtiansimon 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Is classical AI research still being done because it helps modern AI?
    ×0.59 42 | 3 points by amichail 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?
    ×5.91 81 | 87 points by sharts 2 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?
    ×1.13 77 | 88 points by simonebrunozzi 2 days ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What tools are you using for human code review of AI-assisted code?
    ×0.62 92 | 9 points by dafelst 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What is your favorite lightweight tool or CLI utility in 2026?
    ×0.58 94 | 21 points by pranav_tech26 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Where to learn software engineering fundamentals?
    ×0.61 95 | 10 points by mstank 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Why is the GitHub trending page weirdly excluding DeepSeek projects?
    ×1.40 80 | 9 points by tianyicui 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Alternative to Internet Archive
    ×0.64 106 | 19 points by earworms 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What LLM subscription/provider to use with pi harness?
    ×0.27 112 | 3 points by vira28 22 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: When do you think LLM capacity will reach its ceiling?
    ×0.45 83 | 3 points by vincenthsin 10 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How would you market this service?
    ×0.34 131 | 4 points by dmzxnico 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. TrueMath – An open-source exact symbolic math tool
    ×0.15 128 | 3 points by SAWANs 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Should hard-tech founders join a problem or technology-first PhD lab?
    ×0.24 132 | 13 points by misterballer 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Does a human still review your code?
    ×0.47 136 | 11 points by stikit 3 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Privacy is an underrated advantage in Slack apps
    ×0.27 141 | 3 points by alance 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. How does an ARP Spoofing Attack work?
    ×0.19 150 | 6 points by emn4tor 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Tell HN: In 2021, there were 4.5 jobs per job seeker vs. 2.5 job seekers/job now
    ×0.54 149 | 11 points by ed_balls 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: What physical publication do you still buy?
    ×0.34 137 | 8 points by sergiotapia 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: When you sell your company, do you receive the money with a normal wire?
    ×0.41 133 | 6 points by supergilbert 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Great music selection without overthinking
    ×0.31 147 | 4 points by cr34t1ve 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Live Experiment of the Veblen Effect
    ×0.39 158 | 5 points by henryfudgeoffic 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Do you know how much head hunters cost?
    ×0.47 159 | 5 points by mojomark 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Clamiga: Common Lisp for the Amiga (nnamgreb.de)
    ×0.92 32 #85 | 122 points by emptybits 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Trust Without Boundaries: An Architectural Analysis of Satellite Flight Software (arxiv.org)
    ×1.12 | 2 points by Jimmc414 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. What happens when an LLM never sees material beyond fifth grade? (littlelearner-ll.github.io)
    ×3.19 20 | 243 points by porridgeraisin 1 day ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Bede Liu, a digital signal processing pioneer, has died (ieee.org)
    ×0.93 63 | 74 points by Jimmc414 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Saggar, a Mac terminal that keeps sessions and your attention organized (marginalutility.dev)
    ×0.83 23 #16 | 17 points by mcclowes 3 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. We don't search databases–we calculate reality. EXXOGEN is now live (google.com)
    ×0.69 36 #41 | 3 points by kisnorbert 47 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. The AI Credit Resale Economy (vectoral.com)
    ×1.75 14 #74 | 319 points by mlenhard 1 day ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Geo Challenge – A Geography Game (geo-dude.com)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by gurjeet 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Bench on Your Network (vbus.dev)
    ×1.52 108 | 5 points by abu-matterize 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: DSH Plugin Directory – Every DeepSeek Harness Plugin (dshplugin.online)
    ×0.60 | 2 points by niliu123 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. GitHub Was Never About the Source Code (endler.dev)
    ×2.29 35 | 3 points by lwhsiao 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Italy's cheese loan system under strain as extreme heat drives up storage costs (yahoo.com)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by glasss 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Streambench – Native Mac Client for Kafka and NATS (streambench.app)
    ×0.79 163 | 3 points by valentinprgnd 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira (wiz.io)
    ×1.44 6 #3 | 147 points by galnagli 3 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Sokoban AI Solver (mkornreich.me)
    ×0.48 20 #12 | 48 points by enjoyyourlife 4 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. A True Telnet BBS on a Casio Calculator (ei3lh.eu)
    ×0.92 65 #63 | 108 points by austinallegro 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. The weekend is 100 years old (theguardian.com)
    ×2.65 12 #86 | 213 points by lentil_soup 1 day ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: The Naturalist's Walk – A Web Game Based on William Jardine's Library (thenaturalistswalk.com)
    ×1.25 | 2 points by soneca 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: I backtested my own stock site's signals and published what failed (matterofstocks.com)
    ×0.68 | 2 points by matterofstocks 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Wevna – Local-first runtime dashboard for Node.js back ends (github.com/wevna)
    ×1.08 154 | 5 points by boluajy 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. EFF Joins Calling on Governor to Reject the Stealth Crawler Prohibition Act (eff.org)
    ×1.74 20 #84 | 4 points by Jimmc414 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Mic Drop, a real-time multiplayer karaoke game (micdrop.gg)
    ×0.69 57 | 86 points by johnsillings 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Stop Turning every purchase into a tip request (foxnews.com)
    ×5.19 25 | 69 points by gist 20 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. What I've Been Reading (marginalrevolution.com)
    ×0.81 | 1 points by paulpauper 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. How the Blog Broke the Web (stackingthebricks.com)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by smartmic 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Write Code Like You Just Learned How to Program (2010) (dadgum.com)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by tosh 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. What's an Orchestrator–and Why Does Software Need One? – O'Reilly (oreilly.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by rbanffy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. The Life and Death of Direct File [pdf] (berkeley.edu)
    ×1.44 3 #62 | 203 points by ronbenton 17 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure" (google.com)
    ×3.95 2 #78 | 417 points by Alifatisk 1 day ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Open Sourcing the YC Application (metorial.com)
    ×0.93 | 1 points by KarimWen 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Guiding Ships with Moire Patterns (2018) (tinkerings.org)
    ×1.01 51 | 113 points by Eridanus2 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Flynt.js – 2.2kb, zero-build, CSP-safe reactivity library for MPAs (github.com/marsbos)
    ×1.05 81 | 12 points by bosmarcel 23 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. A Decongestant Debate That Won't Clear Up (undark.org)
    ×1.76 38 #44 | 3 points by onychomys 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Setting up a VC fund in India: step by step guide and cost: papermark [pdf] (papermark.com)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by koolhead17 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. DagFlo: Turn code/diagrams/docs into visual stories (dagflo.com)
    ×1.87 8 | 3 points by aargh_aargh 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. ICE Shot a Journalist and Threw Him in Detention. He's Approaching 300 Days (theintercept.com)
    ×12.83 8 | 135 points by Jimmc414 21 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Desktopcolors.com – A museum for solid background colors of classic OS (desktopcolors.com)
    ×1.20 20 #20 | 104 points by vlowrian 9 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. How do I permanently disable random Google Photos popup to backup photos? (2024) (google.com)
    ×2.07 42 #31 | 203 points by dt3ft 19 hours ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Trusting-Trust Attack Against a Linux Distribution Through Binary Manipulation (arxiv.org)
    ×1.19 | 2 points by Tomte 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Selvum – a password manager designed to outlive its developer (selvum.app)
    ×0.58 72 | 3 points by selvum 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Localizing Slack (slack.engineering)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by tornikeo 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. AI Native, Without the Badge (x.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by arkwor 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker (mozilla.org)
    ×4.51 38 | 690 points by pentagrama 1 day ago | 269 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: FileIndexer (simple N-copies verification on ext USB drives) (thanassis.space)
    ×0.38 | 2 points by ttsiodras 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: I serve my website with a swarm of ESP32 microcontrollers on a shelf (github.com/Novotarskyi)
    ×4.08 121 | 14 points by disco_jack 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: I evaluated file, vector, graph and RL based memory frameworks (pinglin.tw)
    ×1.57 110 | 13 points by pinglin 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Back In Time 2.0.0 – Release Candidate 1 (github.com/bit-team)
    ×2.86 130 | 7 points by buhtz 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Incident with Github.com (githubstatus.com)
    ×6.62 89 | 690 points by kevcampb 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Software Engineering fundamentals matter more (rhonabwy.com)
    ×2.59 29 | 307 points by ingve 1 day ago | 233 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Stripe to Buy OpenRouter for $7B (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.94 75 | 95 points by FinnLobsien 4 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: I built a native app for coding agents with Rust and GPUI (waku.sh)
    ×1.65 78 | 39 points by 0x142857 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Procedural Generated Grafitti Wall (procgrafprot.vercel.app)
    ×2.32 144 | 7 points by whtspc64 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Plastic mechanical computer from 1963: The Digi-Comp 1 [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.69 36 #88 | 81 points by tobr 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Teaching Everyone to Fish for Tokens (interconnects.ai)
    ×1.59 | 2 points by tosh 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. The Iran War Is a Whole New Level of Quagmire for the US (politico.com)
    ×10.59 48 | 93 points by hebelehubele 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. The Pacing of the Frontier (thezvi.substack.com)
    ×0.82 | 1 points by paulpauper 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Silent Shark – tactical map-based WWII submarine sim (silentshark.app)
    ×1.19 82 | 79 points by epaga 4 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Between Tokens – an interactive piece where you are the language model (chrisjz.github.io)
    ×2.89 120 | 9 points by chrisjz 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. What 15M Gemini conversations tell us about AI at work (leaddev.com)
    ×0.64 15 | 5 points by chhum 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Build a Stratum 1 PTP Grandmaster on a Budget (opscode.io)
    ×0.62 56 #38 | 36 points by malcolmfrazier 9 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Red queen hypothesis – A new way forward for self-improving AI (cam.ac.uk)
    ×1.22 59 #55 | 89 points by hardlianotion 21 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Convertix – Fast, 100% in-browser media and QR tools (convertix-fast-imager-co.blogspot.com)
    ×0.53 97 | 3 points by convertix123 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. The quirky personal homepages of programming language creators (breck.lol)
    ×1.75 61 | 64 points by cjlm 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???