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  1. Tell HN: Apple development certificate server seems down?
    ×1.50 #27 | 71 points by strongpigeon 7 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: How are people doing AI evals these days?
    ×0.75 19 #58 | 11 points by yelmahallawy 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Remember Fidonet?
    ×1.18 22 | 113 points by ukkare 15 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: How do you review gen-AI created code?
    ×1.97 3 | 4 points by captainkrtek 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)
    ×1.33 69 | 282 points by david927 2 days ago | 1076 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Is Starlink still being jammed in Iran?
    ×0.89 | 2 points by Jblx2 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How to be alone?
    ×4.49 41 | 670 points by sillysaurusx 2 days ago | 552 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting
    ×5.42 23 | 706 points by Oras 2 days ago | 501 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Most beautiful personal blog UI you have ever seen?
    ×2.84 94 | 137 points by ms7892 2 days ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Does automatic multilingual support make sense for a launch platform?
    ×0.26 | 2 points by LeanVibe 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Can I repurpose a Bluetooth voice remote as input device for a PC?
    ×0.26 119 | 15 points by albert_e 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Why is GPT-5.4 obsessed with Goblins?
    ×1.51 101 | 13 points by pants2 22 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion
    ×5.56 73 | 1063 points by shannoncc 4 days ago | 973 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. The Architecture of an Exit Scam: A Technical Audit of Zszrun
    ×0.48 106 | 5 points by cappyfjao 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Since a week HN keeps logging me off every few days, why?
    ×0.47 109 | 5 points by epolanski 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What AI content automation stack are you using in 2026?
    ×0.21 | 2 points by jackcofounder 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Is GitHub getting less reliable, or is it just me?
    ×1.20 115 | 11 points by _pdp_ 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Do you still run Redis and workers just for background jobs?
    ×0.17 | 2 points by sergF 18 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Favorite Non-Spammy iPhone Games?
    ×0.85 122 | 6 points by bix6 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What game engine would you recommend for vibe coding?
    ×1.14 124 | 6 points by general_reveal 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Read‑only LLM tool for email triage and knowledge extraction?
    ×0.31 | 2 points by maille 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Any informed guesses on the actual size/architecture of GPT-5.4 etc.?
    ×0.56 137 | 4 points by dsrtslnd23 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Let's rethink the architecture and future of Emacs
    ×0.81 114 | 3 points by kurouna 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Code-review-graph: persistent code graph that cuts Claude Code token usage
    ×0.22 | 2 points by tirthkanani 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Who Needs Help?
    ×1.68 117 | 14 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. A job ad for Agentic AI Advocate
    ×0.39 150 | 4 points by greenpinia 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. I replaced my freelance SaaS stack with 5 single-file HTML tools
    ×1.70 155 | 8 points by AnnSri 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Anyone else feel this community has changed recently?
    ×3.46 135 | 57 points by kypro 4 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Are showlang and thelang HN endpoints not being maintained?
    ×0.54 151 | 4 points by freakynit 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Why is email so resilient as a technology?
    ×2.25 102 | 7 points by noemit 16 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: How are you handling persistent memory across local Ollama sessions
    ×0.38 166 | 5 points by null-phnix 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. OpenAI might end up on the right side of history
    ×0.87 140 | 12 points by shoman3003 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days?
    ×2.28 121 | 9 points by chistev 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Tell HN: The proposed KIDS Act (HR 7757) effectively mandates biometric browsing
    ×1.17 158 | 20 points by fokdelafons 4 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Whisker – Self hosted e-commerce cart, pure PHP, zero dependencies
    ×0.44 169 | 7 points by eLohith 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. All tmux sessions as a single terminal
    ×0.21 | 2 points by lygten 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Are we going to see more job postings asking for only agentic coding?
    ×0.79 153 | 6 points by ronbenton 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: How are you monitoring AI agents in production?
    ×0.53 164 | 4 points by jairooh 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. PhD interrupted by personal safety issues, now publication record is thin
    ×0.32 173 | 5 points by qthrwaway 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: Why Is Phil Wang / Lucidrains Off GitHub?
    ×0.18 174 | 3 points by vessenes 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: How are you adapting your career in this AI era?
    ×2.35 127 | 12 points by sarthaksaxena 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Mesa (mesa.dev)
    ×1.63 56 | 3 points by handfuloflight 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: TinyChart. Paste CSV, get shareable chart. No accounts (tinychart.io)
    ×2.79 134 | 7 points by jordanf 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Environment Variable Checker (github.com/Chrilleweb)
    ×1.64 149 | 8 points by chrillemn 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Terence Tao had a paper rejected (mathstodon.xyz)
    ×2.50 21 | 5 points by paulpauper 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Ohio judge rules that Kalshi is sports betting and must adhere to state law (nbcnews.com)
    ×2.03 20 | 4 points by petethomas 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. US blindsides states with surprise settlement in Live Nation/Ticketmaster trial (arstechnica.com)
    ×4.69 52 | 98 points by voxadam 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. I built a programming language using Claude Code (ankursethi.com)
    ×1.19 2 #38 | 104 points by GeneralMaximus 10 hours ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Tell HN: Vertical tabs has arrived (behind a flag) in Chrome stable
    ×2.08 28 | 4 points by crummy 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Anthropic gives lesson in AI revenue hallucination (reuters.com)
    ×0.93 | 2 points by latinodev 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Do YC companies all use the top sales tools?
    ×0.41 | 1 points by justin_cheu 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: I Was Here – Draw on street view, others can find your drawings (washere.live)
    ×0.82 50 | 60 points by mrktsm__ 22 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: KaraMagic – automatic karaoke video maker (karamagic.com)
    ×0.83 | 2 points by godot 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Locode, a local first CLI that routes tasks to local LLMs or Claude (github.com/chocks)
    ×0.84 148 | 4 points by chocks 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Intel Demos Chip to Compute with Encrypted Data (ieee.org)
    ×1.27 10 #19 | 224 points by sohkamyung 14 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Surpassing vLLM with a Generated Inference Stack (infinity.inc)
    ×0.57 48 #48 | 31 points by lukebechtel 10 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. A Special AMD Ryzen AM5 Motherboard for Linux / Open-Source Enthusiasts (phoronix.com)
    ×3.92 29 #77 | 16 points by RachelF 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. MetaLayer –Compare answers of multiple AI models and generate a consensus result (metalayerlabs.com)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by PaulmHope 20 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. xAI wins permit to build power plant in Mississippi despite pollution concerns (cnbc.com)
    ×1.51 25 | 3 points by spenvo 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. The Beginning of History (wheresyoured.at)
    ×0.88 | 2 points by elorant 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Updating yes(1) to run at 175GiB/s (github.com/coreutils)
    ×1.00 | 2 points by pixelbeat__ 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. RFC 454545 – Human Em Dash Standard (github.com/bignimbus)
    ×1.43 9 #54 | 115 points by jdauriemma 12 hours ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. The Enterprise Context Layer (andychen32.substack.com)
    ×0.85 30 #56 | 36 points by zachperkel 10 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Eyot, A programming language where the GPU is just another thread (cowleyforniastudios.com)
    ×0.86 107 | 78 points by steeleduncan 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Zenòdot – Find if a book has been translated into your language (zenodot.app)
    ×0.53 116 | 14 points by AusiasTsel 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Time as the 4th Dimension – What if it emerges from rotational motion?
    ×1.33 145 | 4 points by lisajguo 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. HyperCard discovery: Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive (2022) (macintoshgarden.org)
    ×1.29 12 #35 | 102 points by naves 8 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Optimizing Top K in Postgres (paradedb.com)
    ×1.14 23 #74 | 146 points by philippemnoel 23 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. The Elders (Organization) (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.79 | 1 points by beatthatflight 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Programming the Loop (ianbarber.blog)
    ×0.39 | 1 points by matt_d 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: I built a site where strangers leave kind voice notes for each other (kindvoicenotes.com)
    ×1.77 105 | 56 points by thepaulthomson 2 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Rampart – Open-source firewall for AI agents (v0.8) (rampart.sh)
    ×1.09 | 2 points by trevxr 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Debian decides not to decide on AI-generated contributions (lwn.net)
    ×1.65 4 #10 | 293 points by jwilk 12 hours ago | 215 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Converting Binary Floating-Point Numbers to Shortest Decimal Strings (wiley.com)
    ×0.48 48 #64 | 17 points by matt_d 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Telegram Finance Bot Powered by OpenClaw (github.com/bisbeebucky)
    ×0.84 | 1 points by bisbeebucky 10 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. VPNs surge in Australia as mandatory age verification for adult content begins (techradar.com)
    ×2.57 15 | 5 points by reassess_blind 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Bay Area man gets 11 years for $1B solar Ponzi scheme (sfgate.com)
    ×1.00 60 | 3 points by randycupertino 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font (pirillo.com)
    ×2.16 9 | 470 points by rendx 1 day ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Hisense TVs add unskippable startup ads before live TV (guru3d.com)
    ×4.94 36 | 108 points by akyuu 13 hours ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Cloudflare crawl endpoint (cloudflare.com)
    ×2.14 #4 | 148 points by jeffpalmer 4 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. I used pulsar detection techniques to turn a phone into a watch timegrapher (chronolog.watch)
    ×0.87 23 #40 | 66 points by tylerjaywood 11 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. PgAdmin 4 9.13 with AI Assistant Panel (pgadmin.org)
    ×0.96 35 #46 | 85 points by __natty__ 15 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Widevine retiring its Cloud License Service (CLS) (castlabs.com)
    ×0.86 21 #81 | 38 points by dabinat 8 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Robinhood Agent Integration (github.com/kevin1chun)
    ×1.66 19 | 3 points by kevin1chun 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Curly Prompt – An AI Prompting Language with Local LLM Powered AI Agent (github.com/jimthunderbird)
    ×0.94 | 2 points by jimthunderbird 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. SSH Is the Agent Internet (rolandsharp.com)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by epscylonb 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Building a Procedural Hex Map with Wave Function Collapse (felixturner.github.io)
    ×2.27 24 | 560 points by imadr 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Microsoft Outlook app now showing paid spam/phishing ad's (imgur.com)
    ×4.25 72 | 89 points by xvxvx 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: A mission-based game to help students apply math in real life (owsterlabs.com)
    ×1.20 | 2 points by firepegasus11 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Roblox is minting teen millionaires (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.04 9 #23 | 73 points by petethomas 8 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???