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  1. Ask HN: Is it still worth learning a new programming language?
    ×1.35 61 | 4 points by xparadigm 51 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Agentic QA – Open-source middleware to fuzz-test agents for loops
    ×0.22 62 #51 | 32 points by Saurabh_Kumar_ 17 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines?
    ×8.04 49 #56 | 874 points by embedding-shape 18 hours ago | 432 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
    ×3.55 64 | 7 points by mchaver 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Why are "remote" jobs in late 2025 still limited to hiring in US/CA/UK/DE?
    ×1.55 8 | 10 points by ftonato 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Is any of you using LLMs to create full features in big enterprise apps?
    ×0.53 19 | 4 points by not_that_d 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What are young technically minded people reading?
    ×0.46 66 | 7 points by drdec 16 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
    ×0.96 73 | 226 points by proberts 4 days ago | 303 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2025)
    ×0.74 113 | 160 points by whoishiring 1 week ago | 428 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. What's Next? Clippy Copilot?
    ×0.35 75 | 6 points by johnnyballgame 19 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Quality of recent gens of Dell/Lenovo laptops worse than 10 years ago?
    ×0.78 120 | 112 points by ferguess_k 1 week ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Are there any viable Android phones for a power user to buy nowadays?
    ×0.48 90 | 12 points by gooob 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)
    ×1.27 97 | 314 points by whoishiring 1 week ago | 521 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Cursor and Claude Opus 4.5 is a game changer
    ×0.42 107 | 15 points by seinecle 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Modern C# book for experienced developers?
    ×0.69 116 | 30 points by Fire-Dragon-DoL 4 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Cloudflare WAF Alternatives?
    ×0.71 121 | 28 points by rco8786 4 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Is it just me or techno-optimism died in the past few years?
    ×1.53 89 | 35 points by shubhamjain 2 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Why does every B2B SaaS have to look like Linear/Stripe?
    ×0.34 128 | 8 points by PaulShin 3 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Why don't GPU/TPU manufacturers commoditize their RAM complement
    ×0.13 134 | 4 points by DoctorOetker 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Kroger acknowledges that its bet on robotics went too far (grocerydive.com)
    ×1.58 2 #83 | 271 points by JumpCrisscross 1 day ago | 322 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Show HN: MTXT – Music Text Format (github.com/Daninet)
    ×0.94 100 | 124 points by daninet 1 week ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Show HN: Tacopy – Tail Call Optimization for Python (github.com/raaidrt)
    ×0.62 99 | 94 points by raaid-rt 1 week ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Show HN: Banana Prompts – Curated Prompts for Nano Banana Pro (bananaprompts.fun)
    ×2.03 141 | 6 points by zenja 5 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Apple's slow AI pace becomes a strength as market grows weary of spending (yahoo.com)
    ×3.07 6 #34 | 309 points by bgwalter 19 hours ago | 375 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Brent's Encapsulated C Programming Rules (2020) (retroscience.net)
    ×0.71 48 #60 | 75 points by p2detar 23 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Join the on-call roster, it'll change your life (serce.me)
    ×0.82 | 1 points by furkansahin 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. If NFS isn't the answer for an all-Linux setup, what is? (reddit.com)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by sipofwater 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: RAG in 3 Lines of Python (pypi.org)
    ×3.46 125 | 41 points by init0 6 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: AlgoDrill – Interactive drills to stop forgetting LeetCode patterns (algodrill.io)
    ×1.01 20 #44 | 163 points by henwfan 23 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. A Story About 'Magic' (catb.org)
    ×1.99 17 #53 | 5 points by sebg 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Harvard Classics (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by tosh 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Blinding HDR profile pics for Twitter (xhdr.org)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by mesmertech 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Briddle – Guess the AI's semantic path between two words (briddle.io)
    ×1.11 70 | 3 points by rvranjan 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Free Logo API – logos for any company or domain (apistemic.com)
    ×4.45 71 | 9 points by lorey 22 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental (lwn.net)
    ×3.58 #1 | 538 points by rascul 7 hours ago | 330 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Meshoptimizer 1.0 Released (zeux.io)
    ×1.19 | 2 points by ibobev 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. The closer we look at time, the stranger it gets (sciencefocus.com)
    ×1.77 31 | 82 points by philbo 1 day ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Edge HTTP to S3 (edge.mq)
    ×0.28 | 2 points by _ben_ 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Oliver Sacks Put Himself into His Case Studies. What Was the Cost? (newyorker.com)
    ×0.67 33 #86 | 46 points by barry-cotter 21 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Webb identifies earliest supernova to date, shows host galaxy (esawebb.org)
    ×0.91 | 1 points by doener 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: I made a nice Anki-app for iOS (apple.com)
    ×1.71 81 | 5 points by quantized_state 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Dependable C (dependablec.org)
    ×1.22 28 #47 | 55 points by RossBencina 6 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. More on the messy economics of streaming music (birchtree.me)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by wrxd 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Freedom Graph – FI calculator that models sequence-of-returns risk (freedomgraph.com)
    ×0.65 | 2 points by Nathanadian 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. 10 Years of Let's Encrypt (letsencrypt.org)
    ×3.84 9 #15 | 661 points by SGran 15 hours ago | 275 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. AI will make formal verification go mainstream (kleppmann.com)
    ×0.89 | 1 points by mau 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Tesla Optimus robot takes a suspicious tumble in new demo (electrek.co)
    ×3.93 55 | 66 points by LopRabbit 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: I wrote a book – Debugging TypeScript Applications (in beta) (pragprog.com)
    ×0.68 94 | 12 points by ozornin 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: I replaced my premium workout app with vibecode (lovable.app)
    ×2.56 115 | 9 points by maddmann 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Launch HN: Mentat (YC F24) – Controlling LLMs with Runtime Intervention
    ×0.43 61 #43 | 50 points by cgorlla 18 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Browser extensions with a feed of personal dev blogs (alldevblogs.com)
    ×1.76 4 | 3 points by alamando 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros (cnbc.com)
    ×2.92 5 | 361 points by gniting 1 day ago | 399 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. NYC congestion pricing cuts air pollution by a fifth in six months (airqualitynews.com)
    ×5.79 83 | 135 points by pseudolus 7 hours ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: An an Ad Library/Competitor Tracking for B2B SaaS (adkit.so)
    ×0.83 | 2 points by Jeannen 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: TapeHead – A CLI tool for stateful random access of file streams (github.com/emamoah)
    ×1.00 114 | 22 points by emamoah 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN : WealthYogi - Net worth Tracker (apple.com)
    ×1.00 127 | 5 points by aalbatross 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Quanta to publish popular math and physics books by Terence Tao and David Tong (simonsfoundation.org)
    ×1.72 41 | 127 points by digital55 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Cancer is surging, bringing a debate about whether to look for it (nytimes.com)
    ×2.54 53 | 79 points by brandonb 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Beelines - a travelling salesman game, but with bees (easel.games)
    ×0.68 | 2 points by BSTRhino 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Revisiting "Let's Build a Compiler" (thegreenplace.net)
    ×1.17 1 #3 | 81 points by cui 4 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. The stack circuitry of the Intel 8087 floating point chip, reverse-engineered (righto.com)
    ×0.93 25 #24 | 113 points by elpocko 16 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Joyboard is a balance board peripheral for the Atari 2600 (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.39 54 #72 | 17 points by doener 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Time in C++: std:chrono:high_resolution_clock – Myths and Realities (sandordargo.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by ibobev 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Math Predicting the Death of Nations [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by est 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. How private equity is changing housing (theatlantic.com)
    ×1.95 38 | 109 points by harambae 17 hours ago | 279 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. The Joy of Playing Grandia, on Sega Saturn (segasaturnshiro.com)
    ×1.05 5 #70 | 180 points by tosh 1 day ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Fanfa – Interactive and animated Mermaid diagrams (fanfa.dev)
    ×1.21 50 #73 | 144 points by bairess 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Five LLMs Tried to Build a Website. ChatGPT Failed (msukhareva.substack.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by janandonly 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle (tailscale.com)
    ×1.75 4 | 325 points by Quizzical4230 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Are the Three Musketeers allergic to muskets?(2014) (ox.ac.uk)
    ×1.33 11 #14 | 27 points by rolph 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Ask HN: New swe engineer at a scale-up, low quality of projects
    ×1.11 | 2 points by elnatro 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz (forever-wars.com)
    ×10.36 14 | 81 points by perihelions 23 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Durable Streams – Kafka-style semantics for client streaming over HTTP (github.com/durable-streams)
    ×1.46 67 | 6 points by kylemathews 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Zonformat– 35–60% fewer LLM tokens using zero-overhead notation (zonformat.org)
    ×0.71 | 2 points by ronibhakta 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Transformers know more than they can tell: Learning the Collatz sequence (arxiv.org)
    ×0.89 40 #38 | 124 points by Xcelerate 23 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Tell HN: GitHub listened and removed the AI summary feature
    ×1.90 15 | 3 points by muragekibicho 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: I built a TurboTax for immigration forms (immiva.com)
    ×3.08 68 | 8 points by mjablons 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Sloppylint – A linter for AI-generated Python code (github.com/rsionnach)
    ×1.28 126 | 19 points by kyub 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: LinkedQL – Live Queries over Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB (github.com/linked-db)
    ×0.23 | 2 points by phrasecode 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: OpenFret – Guitar inventory, AI practice, and a note-detection RPG (openfret.com)
    ×0.44 137 | 3 points by openfret 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. PeerTube is recognized as a digital public good by Digital Public Goods Alliance (digitalpublicgoods.net)
    ×2.22 8 #4 | 542 points by fsflover 17 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. When a video codec wins an Emmy (mozilla.org)
    ×1.92 5 #6 | 148 points by todsacerdoti 8 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Stop Breaking TLS (markround.com)
    ×2.97 13 #16 | 85 points by todsacerdoti 3 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Operando interlayer expansion of curved graphene for dense supercapacitors (nature.com)
    ×0.43 50 #30 | 26 points by westurner 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. America is going through a big economic experiment (economist.com)
    ×1.15 51 #37 | 18 points by andsoitis 9 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Securing VMware workloads in regulated industries (technologyreview.com)
    ×0.82 | 1 points by fleahunter 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Big Tech are the new Soviets (unherd.com)
    ×2.74 21 #26 | 19 points by saubeidl 1 hour ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Atomic time source failure at NIST Gaithersburg campus (google.com)
    ×1.71 24 #69 | 33 points by dpcx 8 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Induction Variables and Loops (xania.org)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by ibobev 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: A deterministic code-rewrite engine that learns from one example
    ×0.47 | 2 points by heavymemory 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???