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Deloitte to refund the Australian government after using AI in $440k report (Score: 156+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6D76F
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6D76F
CodeMender: an AI agent for code security (Score: 150+ in 10 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6D5Q7
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6D5Q7
Why did Crunchyroll's subtitles just get worse? (❄️ Score: 151+ in 4 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6CRRp
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6CRRp
It's just a virus, the E.R. told him – days later, he was dead (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6D2X9
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6D2X9
Kirigami-inspired parachute falls on target (❄️ Score: 151+ in 4 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6CNFz
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6CNFz
Valorant's 128-Tick Servers (2020) (🔥 Score: 150+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6D5Hc
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6D5Hc
OpenZL: An open source format-aware compression framework (Score: 152+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6D4Dv
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6D4Dv
https://github.com/facebook/openzl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03203
https://openzl.org/
AI-powered open-source code laundering (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6CXP7
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6CXP7
Flightcontrol: A PaaS that deploys to your AWS account (Score: 150+ in 12 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6D3fB
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6D3fB
Show HN: Kent Dybvig's Scheme Machine in 400 Lines of C (Heap-Memory Model) (Score: 150+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6D4gb
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6D4gb
Ladybird passes the Apple 90% threshold on web-platform-tests (🔥 Score: 156+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6D4Pq
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6D4Pq
Mise: Monorepo Tasks (🔥 Score: 153+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6D4gp
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6D4gp
AMD signs AI chip-supply deal with OpenAI, gives it option to take a 10% stake (🔥 Score: 151+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6D3Vf
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6D3Vf
Five years as a startup CTO: How, why, and was it worth it? (2024) (❄️ Score: 150+ in 5 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6CJRN
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6CJRN
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 (Score: 150+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6D3B7
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6D3B7
California law forces Netflix, Hulu to turn down ad volumes (Score: 153+ in 7 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6D6Hb
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6D6Hb
OpenAI ChatKit (Score: 150+ in 14 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6D4VQ
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6D4VQ
The least amount of CSS for a decent looking site (2023) (Score: 152+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6D6bA
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6D6bA
Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account (🔥 Score: 150+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6D67i
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6D67i
Who owns Express VPN, Nord, Surfshark? VPN relationships explained (2024) (❄️ Score: 153+ in 2 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6CVba
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6CVba
One to two Starlink satellites are falling back to Earth each day (Score: 150+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6D4Kz
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6D4Kz
Apple's Unlawful Evil (Score: 150+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6D4wu
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6D4wu
Apps SDK (🔥 Score: 151+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6D5cQ
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Indefinite Backpack Travel (❄️ Score: 150+ in 4 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6CPMi
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6CPMi
Basic Math Textbook: The Napkin Project (❄️ Score: 154+ in 3 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6CRdx
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6CRdx
The AI bubble is 17 times the size of the dot-com frenzy and four times subprime (🔥 Score: 179+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6D4N9
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6D4N9
Modern messaging: Running your own XMPP server (Score: 152+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6D3Th
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6D3Th
Gem.coop (Score: 154+ in 10 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6D33D
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6D33D
The death of industrial design and the era of dull electronics (Score: 150+ in 17 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6D2dh
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6D2dh
Show HN: While everyone builds AI apps, my spreadsheet reached 2,300 users (🔥 Score: 164+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6D3VL
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6D3VL
Everyone’s chasing AI hype.
I built a Google Sheet and it quietly took off.
In 2020, I made it to track my own finances for income, expenses, savings, yearly summaries etc. I shared it once on Reddit, forgot about it for a year… When I checked back, it had over 130k views and I was honestly stoked!
No launch. No funding. No AI.
Just a spreadsheet people actually stick with and find useful.
I finally gave it a proper home: write-it-down.com
Now, more than 2,300 people use it.
It’s intentionally boring and that’s why it works.
People don’t always need AI. They just need something that actually solves their problem.
This isn’t a billion-dollar startup of course, but it taught me more about building products than almost anything else.
Build something useful.
Solve a real problem.
Even if it’s just a simple spreadsheet.
So, what’s the most “boring” thing you’ve built that found unexpected traction?