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  1. Ask HN: European Tech Alternatives?
    ×2.04 5 #13 | 37 points by BrunoBernardino 49 minutes ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What is your dev set up like?
    ×0.41 3 #86 | 7 points by break_the_bank 3 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2026)
    ×1.20 12 #89 | 260 points by whoishiring 1 day ago | 241 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2026)
    ×0.84 73 | 78 points by whoishiring 1 day ago | 218 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Stripe closed my UAE business account and is withholding $3.5K
    ×1.16 6 | 10 points by alganzory 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Distributed data centers in our basements
    ×0.52 92 | 72 points by cmos 2 days ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What dev tools do you rely on that nobody talks about?
    ×1.52 88 | 35 points by crcsmnky 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Client took over development by vibe coding. What to do?
    ×1.29 85 | 55 points by piscator 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Tell HN: Chrome says "suspicious download" when trying to download yt-dlp
    ×2.40 67 | 305 points by joering2 2 days ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs
    ×3.90 82 | 790 points by hrncode 4 days ago | 452 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What happens when you block/mark as spam a call or text?
    ×0.77 97 | 12 points by dsalzman 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. BetterDB – open-source Redis/Valkey migration across clouds and self-hosted
    ×0.96 100 | 14 points by kaliades 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Academic study on AI's impact on software development – want to join?
    ×0.57 104 | 30 points by research2026 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Are tech companies even hiring?
    ×1.75 95 | 19 points by KernelPryanic 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How do you know if a tweak to your AI skill made it better?
    ×0.95 117 | 6 points by yo103jg 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Why did Harvey choose a top-down enterprise GTM while Cursor went bottom-up?
    ×0.53 122 | 4 points by iiTsEddy 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. LinkedIn uses 65GB of RAM with 7 tabs opened
    ×1.28 116 | 14 points by daniele_dll 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Books on Unit Testing and TDD?
    ×0.69 106 | 7 points by Desafinado 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Does anyone else notice that gas runs out faster than usual
    ×0.63 140 | 20 points by cat-turner 2 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2026)
    ×1.66 125 | 5 points by jon_north 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Non-US founders residential address problem with Brex, Mercury?
    ×0.76 130 | 8 points by Barazutti629 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: What was it like in the era of BBS before the internet?
    ×1.10 124 | 31 points by ex-aws-dude 2 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Who needs contributors? (March 2026)
    ×0.85 144 | 27 points by Kathan2651 3 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Are you team MCP or team CLI?
    ×0.64 148 | 15 points by sharath39 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Is there any founder building non AI startup in 2026?
    ×1.73 127 | 13 points by daudmalik06 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. EPropelled Electric Propulsion Motors and Controllers for Uncrewed Vehicles
    ×0.26 157 | 3 points by ePropelled 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Tell HN: Zed is sunsetting text threads
    ×0.84 138 | 7 points by koito17 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Notably absent from X during Artemis launch: Elon
    ×0.48 | 2 points by boringg 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Best stack for building a tiny game with an 11-year-old?
    ×0.58 159 | 18 points by richardstahl 4 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Nexus – Agent-native ops platform for ecommerce MCP, self-registration, no demos
    ×0.30 162 | 3 points by karimsherif 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. We scanned 73 open-source MCP servers. Here's what source code analysis found
    ×0.30 | 2 points by sigildev 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Random numbers, Persian code: A mysterious signal transfixes radio sleuths (rferl.org)
    ×1.07 71 #82 | 123 points by thinkingemote 1 day ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Listen to Prime Numbers (github.com/freaker2k7)
    ×1.63 | 2 points by evgy 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Zerobox – Sandbox any command with file, network, credential controls (github.com/afshinm)
    ×1.35 37 | 133 points by afshinmeh 3 days ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Our AI agent tried to read our .env file 30 seconds in (indiehackers.com)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by emirhan_demir 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Muscula – Lightweight error monitoring with CLI and MCP (muscula.com)
    ×0.92 154 | 3 points by qzum 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. 'Backrooms' and the Rise of the Institutional Gothic (mit.edu)
    ×1.38 10 #12 | 122 points by anarbadalov 6 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Enabling Codex to Analyze Two Decades of Hacker News Data (modolap.com)
    ×0.65 23 #34 | 61 points by ronfriedhaber 8 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Cursor 3 (cursor.com)
    ×4.23 35 #39 | 76 points by adamfeldman 1 hour ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Group Pushing Age Verification for AI Turns Out to Be Backed by OpenAI (gizmodo.com)
    ×2.77 13 #45 | 20 points by SilverElfin 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Amazon to add 3.5% fuel and logistics surcharge as Iran war raises energy prices (cnbc.com)
    ×1.40 13 #49 | 3 points by lehi 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. What Is Copilot Exactly? (idiallo.com)
    ×3.14 59 | 89 points by WhyNotHugo 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: I run a full software company solo with Claude Code agents (theonemancompany.com)
    ×1.04 86 | 4 points by martinovigiani 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Baton – A desktop app for developing with AI agents (getbaton.dev)
    ×1.12 78 | 61 points by tordrt 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Lemonade by AMD: a fast and open source local LLM server using GPU and NPU (lemonade-server.ai)
    ×2.00 11 #6 | 336 points by AbuAssar 8 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Fast and Gorgeous Erosion Filter (runevision.com)
    ×1.55 8 #69 | 228 points by runevision 22 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation (cnbc.com)
    ×2.72 27 | 523 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 486 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. StepFun 3.5 Flash is #1 cost-effective model for OpenClaw tasks (300 battles) (uniclaw.ai)
    ×1.04 24 | 169 points by skysniper 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. OpenAI demand sinks on secondary market as Anthropic runs hot (bloomberg.com)
    ×4.27 41 | 137 points by helsinkiandrew 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: A 3D Body Scan for Nine Cents – Without SMPL (clad.you)
    ×0.80 146 | 17 points by arkadiuss 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Delve allegedly forked an open-source tool and sold it as its own (techcrunch.com)
    ×1.95 6 #16 | 196 points by nickvec 4 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Scientists crack a 20-year nuclear mystery behind the creation of gold (sciencedaily.com)
    ×0.88 65 #73 | 81 points by prabal97 23 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Microsoft tests new way to make Edge the default browser on Windows 11 (neowin.net)
    ×1.03 17 | 3 points by 01-_- 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Free AI API gateway that auto-fails over Gemini, Groq, Mistral, etc. (github.com/msmarkgu)
    ×1.32 161 | 7 points by markfront 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. A dot a day keeps the clutter away (scottlawsonbc.com)
    ×2.96 21 | 570 points by scottlawson 1 day ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. MiniStack (replacement for LocalStack) (ministack.org)
    ×1.63 52 | 309 points by kerblang 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. U.S. exempts oil industry from protecting Gulf animals, for 'national security' (npr.org)
    ×5.35 48 | 260 points by Jimmc414 1 day ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration with Arm (ibm.com)
    ×1.27 14 #14 | 240 points by bonzini 10 hours ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Renewables reached nearly 50% of global electricity capacity last year (theregister.com)
    ×2.53 3 #17 | 153 points by Growtika 3 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Tracing Goroutines in Realtime with eBPF (sazak.io)
    ×0.63 88 #63 | 8 points by darccio 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×3.17 29 #66 | 592 points by ingve 21 hours ago | 513 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Set the Line Before It's Crossed (nomagicpill.substack.com)
    ×0.90 46 #79 | 74 points by surprisetalk 20 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Iran war sparks renewables boom as Europeans rush to buy solar, heat pumps, EVs (euronews.com)
    ×4.87 70 | 85 points by vrganj 1 day ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: QuickBEAM – run JavaScript as supervised Erlang/OTP processes (github.com/elixir-volt)
    ×0.90 105 | 110 points by dannote 4 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Artemis II astronaut finds two Outlook instances running on computers (tomshardware.com)
    ×1.14 2 #46 | 9 points by taubek 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. What is reinforcement learning finetuning (youtube.com)
    ×1.00 | 1 points by kumama 59 seconds ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Tesla reports weaker than expected 6% rise in global deliveries (ft.com)
    ×1.59 19 | 3 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 47 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: AgentDog – Open-source dashboard for monitoring local AI agents (github.com/shenli)
    ×1.08 | 2 points by shenli3514 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: I made a Mario Galaxy game with Claude Code and Three.js in 53 days (supertommy.com)
    ×2.60 123 | 6 points by supertommy 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. There's No Substitute for Reading: A Roundtable with 4 Literary Magazine Editors (aliahabib.substack.com)
    ×1.06 | 2 points by diodorus 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Blind marathon runner to be guided by smart glasses (bbc.co.uk)
    ×1.05 | 2 points by thunderbong 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Pam Bondi ousted as Attorney General (cnn.com)
    ×7.61 78 | 66 points by Cider9986 1 hour ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Medical bill analyzer that runs client-side (OCR and 3.3M CMS rules in-browser (nbcnews.com)
    ×0.89 5 #77 | 7 points by abdusm 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. CloudMock – Open-source AWS mock, 110x faster than Moto, 10 language SDKs (github.com/Viridian-Inc)
    ×0.81 | 1 points by viridian-inc 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. LocalSend: Share files locally between devices (localsend.org)
    ×0.62 | 2 points by SunshineTheCat 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. China expands digital yuan programme with 12 new bank operators (reuters.com)
    ×1.02 | 2 points by 01-_- 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. We replaced RAG with a virtual filesystem for our AI documentation assistant (mintlify.com)
    ×1.02 | 2 points by denssumesh 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. A forecast of the fair market value of SpaceX's businesses (futuresearch.ai)
    ×1.55 31 #40 | 87 points by ddp26 2 hours ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. On the trail of ancient art, deep in the Sahara (ft.com)
    ×0.44 20 #41 | 22 points by bookofjoe 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. IPv6 address, as a sentence you can remember (tib3rius.com)
    ×1.20 32 | 73 points by LorenDB 19 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: We open-sourced our content writing workflow as a Claude Code skill (npmjs.com)
    ×1.04 87 | 14 points by arximughal 16 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Protecting Your Host from Malicious Dependencies (grepular.com)
    ×1.01 1 #90 | 8 points by Brajeshwar 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. The SpaceX IPO: retail investor notes (bearblog.dev)
    ×1.97 55 | 90 points by u1hcw9nx 8 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. ReactOS Shows Improved Stability and 64-Bit Support at Chemnitz Linux Days 2026 (reddit.com)
    ×1.47 19 #62 | 65 points by jeditobe 7 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. From Semantic Ablation to Attentional Ablation (florianernotte.be)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by flornt 16 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Most products have no idea what their AI agents did yesterday (velt.dev)
    ×0.69 | 2 points by rakeshgoyal 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data (nautil.us)
    ×1.05 79 | 138 points by WaitWaitWha 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. A new way to measure poverty shows the US falling behind Europe (euronews.com)
    ×4.73 49 | 96 points by _DeadFred_ 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Sixteen year trends in AI doom on HN (ai-doom.cc)
    ×0.79 | 2 points by easygenes 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Lazy-tool: reducing prompt bloat in MCP-based agent workflows (github.com/rpgeeganage)
    ×4.79 107 | 22 points by like-to-code1 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???