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  1. How does a "you interview for US company, we do the work" scam work?
    ×0.91 39 #75 | 17 points by marttilaine 3 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What are you buying your kids for Christmas?
    ×1.18 9 | 29 points by JamesSwift 13 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. AI coding is sexy, but accounting is the real low-hanging automation target
    ×0.80 34 | 23 points by bmadduma 15 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Revolutionizing Lighting: How Smart LEDs Are Transforming Homes and Businesses
    ×0.24 | 2 points by emmasuntech 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How can I delete a Substack account in Australia?
    ×0.74 38 | 4 points by freefrog334433 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines?
    ×6.41 6 | 957 points by embedding-shape 2 days ago | 460 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Practical Tips for Gemini 3
    ×0.20 88 | 5 points by xiaoru 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Can someone explain why OpenAI credits expire?
    ×1.01 107 | 3 points by jemiluv8 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Relatively SoTA LLM Agents from Scratch?
    ×0.12 | 2 points by solsane 18 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What hard problems are still underexplored?
    ×0.52 82 | 11 points by brihati 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Why are "remote" jobs in late 2025 still limited to hiring in US/CA/UK/DE?
    ×0.73 94 | 19 points by ftonato 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Has anyone been able to renew their IEEE this month?
    ×0.27 79 | 8 points by chrisaycock 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: End of Year Book Recommendations
    ×2.86 84 | 13 points by marai2 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Console.text() – SMS alerts when code executes
    ×0.27 96 | 5 points by Noel04 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Is any of you using LLMs to create full features in big enterprise apps?
    ×0.34 121 | 6 points by not_that_d 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What are young technically minded people reading?
    ×0.80 108 | 17 points by drdec 2 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: How do small businesses handle phone calls?
    ×0.15 124 | 4 points by duckkg5 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Is there a "good" (non-privacy horror) aftermarket HUD for your car?
    ×0.18 138 | 3 points by xrd 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How can I learn smartphone repair online?
    ×0.24 129 | 4 points by rishikeshs 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Are there any viable Android phones for a power user to buy nowadays?
    ×0.40 134 | 12 points by gooob 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. What's Next? Clippy Copilot?
    ×0.38 128 | 8 points by johnnyballgame 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Is it still worth learning a new programming language?
    ×0.85 104 | 11 points by xparadigm 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Cursor and Claude Opus 4.5 is a game changer
    ×0.45 133 | 18 points by seinecle 4 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Is it just me or techno-optimism died in the past few years?
    ×1.56 112 | 37 points by shubhamjain 5 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. An SVG is all you need (recoil.org)
    ×1.95 17 #25 | 284 points by sadiq 19 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. The architecture of “not bad”: Decoding the Chinese source code of the void (suggger.substack.com)
    ×1.02 44 #33 | 114 points by Suggger 18 hours ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Einstein: NewtonOS running on other operating systems (github.com/pguyot)
    ×1.12 39 #35 | 75 points by fanf2 14 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2020) (jeffhuang.com)
    ×2.45 4 #50 | 249 points by simonebrunozzi 18 hours ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Going Through Snowden Documents, Part 1 (libroot.org)
    ×2.08 18 #67 | 229 points by libroot 19 hours ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. EFF launches Age Verification Hub (eff.org)
    ×3.29 4 #69 | 353 points by iamnothere 1 day ago | 310 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. The next version of the web will be built for machines, not humans (economist.com)
    ×1.46 | 2 points by bookofjoe 39 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Google de-indexed Bear Blog and I don't know why (james-zhan.com)
    ×3.10 7 #12 | 257 points by nafnlj 13 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. New benchmark shows top LLMs struggle in real mental health care (swordhealth.com)
    ×1.41 56 | 113 points by RicardoRei 2 days ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. How Much Wealth an AI Stock Market Crash Could Destroy (economist.com)
    ×3.30 77 | 40 points by skx001 1 day ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Denial of service and source code exposure in React Server Components (react.dev)
    ×1.86 10 #21 | 305 points by sangeeth96 17 hours ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Armenia’s ancient 'dragon stones' are the work of a 6,000-year-old water cult (newatlas.com)
    ×1.41 10 #64 | 5 points by breve 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Common Lisp, ASDF, and Quicklisp: packaging explained (cdegroot.com)
    ×0.87 52 #86 | 105 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Codex is Open Sourcing AI models (huggingface.co)
    ×0.95 | 1 points by ibobev 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Introduction to the World of Computers(Need a Feedback) [pdf] (github.com/ALIABBASABASOV)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by ALIABBASABASOV 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Rethinking Sudo with Object Capabilities (ariadne.space)
    ×1.40 | 2 points by todsacerdoti 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: A 3-Tool ETL Pipeline for CSV/TSV/Excel/Parquet in Go
    ×0.73 | 2 points by mimixbox 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Smartphone without a battery (2022) (yaky.dev)
    ×1.26 6 #23 | 53 points by MYEUHD 6 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. UK watchdog urged to probe GDPR failures in Home Office eVisa rollout (theregister.com)
    ×2.19 36 | 3 points by jjgreen 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Advent of Compiler Optimisations, 2025 (youtube.com)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by ColinWright 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: I built a system for active note-taking in regular meetings like 1-1s (withdocket.com)
    ×1.23 73 | 173 points by davnicwil 3 days ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Push vs. Pull in Web-Based Network Management (1998) [pdf] (epfl.ch)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by fodmap 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Nintendo Switch 2 RAM prices rise 41%, NAND flash up 8% – shares nosedive (tomshardware.com)
    ×2.12 16 #44 | 6 points by speckx 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Optimizing Mannequin (real-mrbeam.github.io)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by ibobev 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Super Mario 64 for the PS1 (github.com/malucard)
    ×1.52 12 | 294 points by LaserDiscMan 1 day ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. South Korea – A cautionary tale for the rest of humanity (worksinprogress.co)
    ×3.79 31 | 64 points by barry-cotter 1 day ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Cornifi split keyboard, a more staggered corne (github.com/v3lmx)
    ×1.02 103 | 3 points by v3lmx 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Spirograph style Lego drawing machine (jkbrickworks.com)
    ×0.70 27 #26 | 28 points by ensocode 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: DomainOptic – Free Web Security audit that scans what other tools miss (domainoptic.com)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by renbuilds 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: AlgoDrill – Interactive drills to stop forgetting LeetCode patterns (algodrill.io)
    ×1.03 67 | 177 points by henwfan 3 days ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: DuckDB for Kafka Stream Processing (sql-flow.com)
    ×0.83 87 | 76 points by dm03514 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Can you guess the name of a person who doesn't exist? (namethisface.com)
    ×1.11 106 | 3 points by oztamir 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: S3 compatible store with 1M IOPS(4K-R,p99~5ms), BYOC in 5min with rust (github.com/fractalbits-labs)
    ×2.14 132 | 23 points by fractalbits 5 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Training LLMs for Honesty via Confessions (arxiv.org)
    ×1.07 28 #17 | 16 points by arabello 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. A Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Banned Him for It (404media.co)
    ×3.08 4 | 113 points by markatlarge 22 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: LinkedQL – Live Queries over Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB (github.com/linked-db)
    ×0.53 147 | 3 points by phrasecode 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Impact statements submitted by victims of Do Kwon, 2022 Terra/Luna meltdown (mollywhite.net)
    ×0.92 | 1 points by speckx 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Apple Services Experiencing Outage (apple.com)
    ×1.58 40 | 129 points by rock_artist 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Notes on Gamma (poniesandlight.co.uk)
    ×0.59 51 #66 | 21 points by todsacerdoti 13 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Why Text in Vampire Survivors Used to Look Weird (jslegenddev.substack.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by ibobev 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: GPULlama3.java Llama Compilied to PTX/OpenCL Now Integrated in Quarkus
    ×0.37 57 | 22 points by mikepapadim 22 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: ZON-TS 50–65% fewer LLM tokens zero parse overhead better than TOON/CSV (zonformat.org)
    ×0.32 | 2 points by ronibhakta 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. RFC 6677 DNS Transport over TCP – Implementation Requirements (2016) (ietf.org)
    ×0.50 58 #77 | 19 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 17 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. How to Run Ministral 3 with an AMD GPU on Windows (50-nuances-octets.fr)
    ×2.03 20 | 3 points by Sykursen 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Magic Eye Tetris (lutanho.net)
    ×1.26 | 1 points by JelteF 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Israel used Palantir technologies in pager attack in Lebanon (the307.substack.com)
    ×5.90 3 | 534 points by cramsession 1 day ago | 611 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content (theguardian.com)
    ×7.56 33 | 356 points by ta988 1 day ago | 327 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Days since last GitHub incident (github-incidents.pages.dev)
    ×1.77 29 | 206 points by AquiGorka 21 hours ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Mapibara – A Map for Local Events (markets, concerts, hiking...) (mapibara.com)
    ×1.38 97 | 4 points by csantini 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Tascli, a command line based (human) task and record manager (github.com/Aperocky)
    ×0.59 116 | 42 points by Aperocky 5 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. The UK economy is not nearly as bad as you've been told (ft.com)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by robtherobber 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Qyavix – A 155-byte DOM runtime inspired by React hooks (github.com/Yinhao-c)
    ×0.74 144 | 3 points by yihac1 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Mycodosing.wtf – Research‑Informed Psychedelic Dosage Calculator (mycodosing.wtf)
    ×1.49 83 | 5 points by ing-norante 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Cupcake – Better performance and security for coding agents (via OPA) (github.com/eqtylab)
    ×4.16 93 | 12 points by ramoz 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Lot of software engineers don't understand basic networking (oneuptime.com)
    ×3.35 13 #45 | 10 points by ndhandala 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. The Race to Run AI from Space (wsj.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by perihelions 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Next-gen supersonic jet engine gets a less glamorous job (newatlas.com)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by breve 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. US seizes oil tanker off coast of Venezuela (usatoday.com)
    ×5.96 55 | 86 points by geox 1 day ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. US Seizes Oil Tanker Off the Coast of Venezuela (reuters.com)
    ×3.03 70 | 41 points by lurk2 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: We vibe coded our team's issue tracker, knowledge base, telemetry board
    ×1.41 131 | 7 points by bhackett 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Sim – Apache-2.0 n8n alternative (github.com/simstudioai)
    ×1.41 27 #32 | 214 points by waleedlatif1 20 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. How to break free from smart TV ads and tracking (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.91 66 #71 | 32 points by fleahunter 1 hour ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. AI is going to improve your documentation but not the way you expect (acmconsulting.eu)
    ×1.42 | 2 points by mooreds 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Disney making $1B investment in OpenAI, will allow characters on Sora AI (cnbc.com)
    ×3.99 39 | 322 points by tiahura 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: The world's least deterministic programming language (github.com/andr3wV)
    ×1.56 74 | 4 points by andr3wV 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Detail, a Bug Finder (detail.dev)
    ×0.82 80 | 66 points by drob 2 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???