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Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?

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Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?

▲ 285 points 89 comments

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Ask HN: Can You Patent Prompts?

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Ask HN: Can You Patent Prompts?

▲ 6 points 11 comments

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Ask HN: My mother was scammed out of all her savings. What should I do?

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Ask HN: My mother was scammed out of all her savings. What should I do?

▲ 119 points 55 comments

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Oberon et al., vs. Rust

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Oberon et al., vs. Rust

▲ 14 points 28 comments

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Ask HN: What's the most open/hacker friendly Android phone for 2026?

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Ask HN: What's the most open/hacker friendly Android phone for 2026?

▲ 12 points 5 comments

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I built two dozen single-file HTML tools that run offline and need no back end

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I built two dozen single-file HTML tools that run offline and need no back end

▲ 14 points 11 comments

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Ask HN: What would you do if you didn't work in tech?

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Ask HN: What would you do if you didn't work in tech?

▲ 59 points 135 comments

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Tell HN: HN was down

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Tell HN: HN was down

▲ 597 points 327 comments

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Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell

472 points

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Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell

▲ 472 points 545 comments

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Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2026?

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Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2026?

▲ 111 points 196 comments

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Ask HN: Migrating old Substack posts to my own blog, have a question

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Ask HN: Migrating old Substack posts to my own blog, have a question

▲ 2 points 1 comment

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Ask HN: What developer tool do you wish existed in 2026?

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Ask HN: What developer tool do you wish existed in 2026?

▲ 16 points 16 comments

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Broadcom Changing Licensing to BSL

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Broadcom Changing Licensing to BSL

▲ 10 points 4 comments

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FWS – pip-installable embedded process supervisor with PTY/pipe/dtach back ends

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FWS – pip-installable embedded process supervisor with PTY/pipe/dtach back ends

▲ 16 points 4 comments

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Ask HN: How many email accounts do you have?

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Ask HN: How many email accounts do you have?

▲ 9 points 10 comments

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Ask HN: Does anyone understand how Hacker News works?

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Ask HN: Does anyone understand how Hacker News works?

▲ 168 points 229 comments

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Ask HN: Who here is not working on web apps/server code?

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Ask HN: Who here is not working on web apps/server code?

▲ 84 points 99 comments

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Ask HN: How are most people converting HEIC to jpg?

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Ask HN: How are most people converting HEIC to jpg?

▲ 18 points 43 comments

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Ask HN: Is GitHub becoming more and more unstable?

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Ask HN: Is GitHub becoming more and more unstable?

▲ 9 points 4 comments

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Ask HN: Why isn't there competition to LinkedIn yet?

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Ask HN: Why isn't there competition to LinkedIn yet?

▲ 51 points 52 comments

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Ask HN: Resources to get better at outbound sales?

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Ask HN: Resources to get better at outbound sales?

▲ 4 points 4 comments

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Ask HN: How do I bridge the gap between PhD and SWE experiences?

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Ask HN: How do I bridge the gap between PhD and SWE experiences?

▲ 4 points 2 comments

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Ask HN: What is still hard about system design with AI?

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Ask HN: What is still hard about system design with AI?

▲ 2 points 4 comments

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Ask HN: How do you deal with large, hard-to-read Excel formulas?

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Ask HN: How do you deal with large, hard-to-read Excel formulas?

▲ 11 points 10 comments

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Cloudflare has been broken for 15 hours

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Cloudflare has been broken for 15 hours

▲ 13 points 13 comments