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  1. Ask HN: Is GitHub Down Again?
    ×5.05 82 | 9 points by delduca 7 minutes ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: How do you keep notes organized across long-running side projects?
    ×0.58 5 | 5 points by hackerstest 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Do teams really need to use GitHub?
    ×0.52 14 | 4 points by avinoth 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?
    ×1.55 78 | 321 points by sharts 3 days ago | 260 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Do you need Google ads help?
    ×0.51 46 | 5 points by cosbgn 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub
    ×2.99 69 | 643 points by dhruv3006 4 days ago | 431 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What do you think of the Intel stock now?
    ×2.57 61 | 4 points by roschdal 24 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: I've quit six systems for tracking my illness. What works?
    ×0.50 115 | 52 points by Abh1Works 5 days ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers
    ×3.69 79 | 655 points by stagas 4 days ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: How did you write code on restricted hardware?
    ×0.15 119 | 3 points by diselody 16 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Idea to reduce AI token use at large orgs
    ×0.54 125 | 5 points by mgav 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Qwen3.8 Fetches Weird URLs
    ×0.37 95 | 7 points by Luker88 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. InstantDB Is Shutting Down
    ×0.60 92 | 9 points by redindian75 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How do you review and validate LLM generated code?
    ×0.74 98 | 7 points by darkLord19 19 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Are you good at AI, or just using it?
    ×0.92 90 | 11 points by ppezaris 20 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: One SSH key or many SSH keys?
    ×0.29 137 | 3 points by htunnicliff 20 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Google Cloud us-west1 down
    ×1.09 88 | 14 points by anurag 21 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: No Path from Techie to Management?
    ×0.49 106 | 7 points by seeking_gruntle 22 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Is AI the New Spreadsheet?
    ×0.76 107 | 7 points by Gshaheen 22 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Do you automate your prospection or doing hand made?
    ×0.41 144 | 3 points by mathieu_aithos 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Is this AWS RI/SP simulation engine interesting / valuable?
    ×0.14 | 2 points by Exstratus 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: What's the endgame of the AI comments buried in every post?
    ×0.96 124 | 17 points by elar_verole 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Algorithm Interview: a conversation between two parrots
    ×0.34 148 | 3 points by dersoverflow 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. OpenRouter is joining Stripe (openrouter.ai)
    ×3.55 7 #74 | 950 points by rvz 1 day ago | 489 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Website behind widely shared fake election polls run by 21-year-old (theguardian.com)
    ×1.18 | 2 points by cdrnsf 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era (theverge.com)
    ×0.95 72 | 92 points by animalcule 1 day ago | 257 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Local design and video editor with in-browser 4K MP4 export (github.com/karamuhammet)
    ×0.55 | 2 points by muhammetck 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: terminal-code – VS Code inside the terminal (terminal-code.com)
    ×3.24 138 | 11 points by robpruzan 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Argentic – An L402 Lightning toll booth for AI scraping agents (argentic.network)
    ×0.29 70 #71 | 8 points by Ag0146 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Studio is a personal assistant from Spotify Labs (spotify.com)
    ×2.23 48 | 3 points by mmayberry 11 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. UC Berkeley professor admits to using AI to edit op-ed on students' math skills (theguardian.com)
    ×1.70 20 | 3 points by pseudolus 45 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Doing Everyone Else's Job (yosefk.com)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by olvy0 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. FCC Weakens U.S. Broadband Speed Goals to the Benefit of Elon Musk and Comcast (techdirt.com)
    ×1.94 6 | 3 points by beardyw 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Shown HN : Idum Authenticator (apple.com)
    ×1.18 | 1 points by SylvainMouquet 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Meridian(PH #1) – Automatic AI Workjournal for Devs (github.com/Meridiona)
    ×1.79 116 | 4 points by adithyaharish 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: trailers.fm – live channel of movie trailers (trailers.fm)
    ×2.97 101 | 6 points by dogancan 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates (remapradio.com)
    ×1.45 2 #10 | 181 points by spankibalt 6 hours ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Remote workers report the highest well-being in study of 7,700 employees (colorado.edu)
    ×4.58 9 | 635 points by downbad_ 1 day ago | 346 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. U.S. Debt Hits $40T as America's Borrowing Binge Continues (nytimes.com)
    ×6.09 73 | 83 points by latchkey 1 day ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Pressed Penny Machine Map (pennypresses.net)
    ×0.84 80 | 71 points by willmeyers 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Kindle update toughens DRM and ends Libby loophole (androidauthority.com)
    ×2.63 55 | 3 points by grepex 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Yes/No/Cancel causes Aspirin sales to soar (kleppmann.com)
    ×1.24 | 2 points by ankitg12 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Convite (guidavid.com)
    ×1.99 56 #20 | 3 points by gdss 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Micron announces $10B research hub in Boise (micron.com)
    ×1.58 28 #23 | 83 points by osnium123 10 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Ox Alpha (openrouter.ai)
    ×1.86 8 #25 | 203 points by mtokmak06 14 hours ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Git at any scale (cursor.com)
    ×2.49 13 #77 | 350 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Openleetcode – Local LeetCode runner where tests live in the repo (github.com/therepanic)
    ×0.67 105 | 73 points by therepanic 2 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Cop Explains Why He Used License Plate Reader to Stalk Woman (404media.co)
    ×2.87 85 | 62 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: ContextForge – context engineering platform for AI-assisted development (github.com/waterflane)
    ×0.73 | 2 points by waterflane 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Skilldocs – Figma for Markdown (skilldocs.dev)
    ×1.28 135 | 3 points by rajivayyangar 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Defending Against an Active Threat to Siemens S7 Series PLCs (cisa.gov)
    ×1.30 11 #49 | 3 points by faxmeyourcode 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Manabu Kosaka's Handmade Paper Sculptures (coca11272000.wixsite.com)
    ×1.29 59 #80 | 190 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Appropriations Status Table: FY2027 (congress.gov)
    ×1.34 | 2 points by aqWEFL 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. No IP? No Problem (ersei.net)
    ×1.78 4 | 3 points by speckx 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Xwayland 26.1.0 rc1 (x.org)
    ×1.26 74 | 79 points by ErenayDev 1 day ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: SystemG – An agent-friendly general process composer (sysg.dev)
    ×0.78 | 2 points by ra0x3 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload (safedep.io)
    ×2.30 23 #22 | 527 points by abhisek 1 day ago | 462 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. We analysed 90,651 exhibitor listings. Nine in ten companies never exhibit twice (exhibitorlens.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by jakobgreenfeld 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Streambench – Native Mac Client for Kafka and NATS (streambench.app)
    ×0.42 96 | 13 points by valentinprgnd 6 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Excuse My French – an Open Source French-learning app (excusemyfrench.org)
    ×0.71 143 | 3 points by onurcel 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Ullis – Local Ternary Moe-Kan Training and Inference Engine in Rust (github.com/Vladislav-Kalinkin)
    ×1.32 147 | 3 points by vlad_kalinkin 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. US debt has hit $40tn - Will that be a wake-up call? (bbc.com)
    ×3.83 1 #4 | 23 points by amelius 21 minutes ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint (laserphile.com)
    ×3.91 18 #42 | 988 points by emctech 1 day ago | 318 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. MAK4I – An open protocol for reusable AI artifacts across AI systems (github.com/talvikai)
    ×1.28 | 2 points by aswinb 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Nikon F100 Film Camera Repair Notes (github.com/enthdegree)
    ×0.72 94 | 48 points by enthdegree 6 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Language Audio Trainer – Learn languages without looking at the screen (playling.netlify.app)
    ×0.89 | 2 points by SalaevAl 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers (experimental-history.com)
    ×3.18 4 #18 | 804 points by Ariarule 23 hours ago | 324 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Good Results when training Qwen 3 4B to learn a new domain (teachmecoolstuff.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by dev-experiments 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: LilScript makes JavaScript libraries smaller
    ×7.10 93 | 14 points by yeargun 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: We chased a weather balloon across Montana and never found it (radi8.dev)
    ×0.70 38 | 58 points by radeeyate 20 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Anonymous age verification with passkey-powered encryption (loginwithone.com)
    ×2.06 133 | 15 points by mikeysight 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Grand jury declines to indict Ohio man charged with destroying Flock camera (san.com)
    ×6.34 4 #5 | 133 points by throw7 1 hour ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. The Mystery of Dark Oxygen (newyorker.com)
    ×1.07 4 #24 | 35 points by rbanffy 4 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces (2025) (arxiv.org)
    ×1.74 85 #37 | 270 points by nunodonato 1 day ago | 222 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Lunar, a coding harness extensible with Lua (github.com/gszr)
    ×2.06 8 | 5 points by gszr 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Kodak's "Pre-Invented" Lunar Orbiter Camera; Or, the Fate of SAMOS Readout (invertingvision.com)
    ×0.70 15 #11 | 4 points by cainxinth 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Slack Code (salesforce.com)
    ×1.59 62 #69 | 77 points by trollied 23 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: WaveHouse – Supabase for ClickHouse (wavehouse.dev)
    ×1.83 81 | 16 points by ericandr 20 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. TigerBeetle Core System Architecture: Deconstructing Performance Engineering (ixuvo.com)
    ×1.43 #6 | 76 points by ksec 2 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Why Robot Brains Will Live in the Cloud (dreamscalelabs.com)
    ×1.15 | 2 points by erzhrn 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: ParqDB – Vector search in the browser from Parquet over HTTP" (parqdb.io)
    ×1.04 49 | 23 points by petrizhang 14 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Sentrint, a security scanner for projects build with LLMs (sentrint.com)
    ×0.49 126 | 5 points by Gourabdg 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Four Levels of In-Place Initialization (Rust) (yoshuawuyts.com)
    ×0.45 48 #31 | 5 points by dabinat 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. AI models' 'creative' output is becoming similar across providers (unite.ai)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by 50kIters 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. How Kubernetes Probes Work (ngrok.com)
    ×1.26 68 | 134 points by cyndunlop 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Nvidia AVO achieves 100% in ARC-AGI-3 (nvidia.com)
    ×2.62 53 | 3 points by rochansinha 8 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: BoardLab – Browser-based ESP32/Arduino simulator with real SPI displays (boardlab.dev)
    ×1.04 | 2 points by yuriaguernsey 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Everyday Technology Is Becoming a Black Box. Is There a Cost? (mit.edu)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by pseudolus 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Fsel –. a Rust TUI launcher, fuzzy picker and clipboard browser (github.com/Mjoyufull)
    ×1.97 84 | 5 points by Rikona_Kurasaki 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Bisecto – A minimalist game about cutting shapes into 50/50 halves (bisecto.com)
    ×2.24 122 | 5 points by bpx51 23 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???