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  1. Tell HN: Digital Ocean has run out of GPU droplets
    ×0.42 8 | 3 points by nathannaveen 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: If your project is free, what are you building and why keep it free?
    ×0.46 | 2 points by LeanVibe 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2026)
    ×0.55 70 | 119 points by whoishiring 2 days ago | 348 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Why has ChatGPT disabled links to websites?
    ×0.56 5 | 6 points by krschacht 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026)
    ×0.83 48 | 238 points by whoishiring 2 days ago | 347 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. I lost my ability to learn anything new because of AI and I need your opinions
    ×1.03 71 | 15 points by dokdev 18 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Tell HN: I got Claude Max for my open source project
    ×0.35 76 | 5 points by asim 10 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What's your experience self-hosting in 2026?
    ×1.87 66 | 24 points by rustcore 20 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How are you all staying sane?
    ×4.77 75 | 140 points by throwaway53463 2 days ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What will OpenAI employees do now who have signed notdividedorg petition
    ×0.89 90 | 16 points by Imustaskforhelp 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What is the "Control Plane" for local AI agents?
    ×0.44 82 | 6 points by denis4inet 13 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What prompt do you use to get Claude to consistently render LaTeX?
    ×0.25 105 | 5 points by TobyTheCamel 20 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What sources like HN do you consume?
    ×0.85 95 | 52 points by DavidHaerer 2 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What Online LLM / Chat do you use?
    ×0.62 112 | 12 points by ddxv 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How is Claude agent experience in Xcode 26.3?
    ×0.86 101 | 8 points by malshe 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Whats Up with Claude Lately?
    ×1.61 104 | 17 points by mech422 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Facebook Appears to Be Down
    ×0.65 80 | 13 points by Molitor5901 19 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Would engineers be interested in a technical prep consultant?
    ×0.76 131 | 8 points by TechPrepper 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Best use / examples of agents / OpenClaw that you saw recently?
    ×0.28 113 | 4 points by simonebrunozzi 21 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Tell HN: GitHub Having Issues
    ×1.43 43 | 52 points by Sytten 22 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Google violates its 14-day deprecation policy for Gemini 3 Pro Preview
    ×0.65 109 | 5 points by goolulusaurs 23 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. I have $10k+ in cloud credits and want to turn them into a real business
    ×0.31 134 | 3 points by Palominocoq 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Aura-State: Formally Verified LLM State Machine Compiler
    ×0.14 156 | 4 points by rohanmunshi08 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How Do Emergency Alerts on Phone Work?
    ×0.58 135 | 5 points by rishikeshs 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Codex CLI error reveals "GPT-5.4-ab-arm2" string
    ×1.20 124 | 8 points by quantisan 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: How are you structuring Markdown-based context for AI coding agents?
    ×0.14 | 2 points by lepuski 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Who still works async and has a 'no meetings' work policy in 2026?
    ×0.54 117 | 6 points by RaulOnRails 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. A timeline of cyber attacks:home users, contractors, and SMBs are now targets
    ×0.53 146 | 4 points by EricAUS 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Tell HN: My daily game won a Players Choice Award
    ×0.63 147 | 20 points by paulhebert 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: How to approach new people in 2026?
    ×0.43 148 | 10 points by tavro 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. BlackTape – open-source music discovery built on MusicBrainz and Discogs
    ×1.49 127 | 8 points by Blacktape 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: How did you figure out what research field you were passionate about?
    ×1.55 132 | 7 points by aabiji 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Why don't MacBooks have Cellular Modems yet?
    ×1.35 107 | 4 points by avonmach 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. I used 2D Base64 to bypass Gemini and expose Google's moderation flaws
    ×0.79 155 | 7 points by MissMajordazure 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: How do we solve the bot flooding problem without destroying anonymity?
    ×0.63 149 | 14 points by txrx0000 3 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Billions of dollars in funding, but what's changed for robotics?
    ×0.71 142 | 9 points by ajax33 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Git-hunk – Stage hunks by hash, no "-p" required (paulie.app)
    ×0.52 114 | 3 points by shhac 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Indefinite Book Club Hiatus (scalzi.com)
    ×1.53 12 #64 | 75 points by cdrnsf 13 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project (twitter.com/Gavriel_Cohen)
    ×2.88 14 #73 | 501 points by devinitely 1 day ago | 244 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. The Prolific Output of Wes McKinney in the Age of Agentic Engineering (posit.co)
    ×0.82 | 1 points by richmeister 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. ICE has spun a surveillance web (npr.org)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by mooreds 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. FDA sends warning to 30 telehealth companies selling 'illegal' GLP-1s (thehill.com)
    ×1.32 | 2 points by randycupertino 42 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Punch card simulator and Fortran IV interpreter (ehrlich.dev)
    ×1.46 144 | 6 points by behrlich 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Mexico Mandates Biometric SIM Registration for All Phone Numbers (reclaimthenet.org)
    ×1.66 20 #41 | 22 points by latein 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Lovable Alternative for Product Teams (omniflow.team)
    ×0.86 | 1 points by stellaartois 3 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Glyph, a local-first Markdown notes app for macOS built with Rust (glyphformac.com)
    ×1.66 56 | 5 points by skarat 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Kai – macOS native fully autonomous AI agent. (hikai.space)
    ×1.36 138 | 3 points by StephaneBessa 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Rriftt_ai.h – A bare-metal, dependency-free C23 tensor engine (github.com/Rriftt)
    ×1.28 140 | 4 points by Rriftt 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Welcome to the Wasteland: A Thousand Gas Towns (medium.com)
    ×1.56 2 #10 | 24 points by nop_slide 47 minutes ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Why we'll never see a yokozuna in the Super Bowl (japantimes.co.jp)
    ×0.88 | 1 points by PaulHoule 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. How the War Department Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI (With Naomi Klein) (buzzsprout.com)
    ×1.35 | 2 points by ibobev 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Payment fees matter more than you think (cuencahighlife.com)
    ×1.31 22 | 100 points by dxs 23 hours ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Retrievo – In-memory hybrid search for .NET AI agents (github.com/TianqiZhang)
    ×1.44 58 | 3 points by ztq121121 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: PingMeBud – A macOS app that listens to meetings so you don't have to (pingmebud.com)
    ×0.58 | 2 points by spaceman3 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Nuclear War: An LLM Scenario (chrisclapham.com)
    ×0.93 50 #52 | 23 points by huey77 9 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Cancel ChatGPT AI boycott surges after OpenAI pentagon military deal (euronews.com)
    ×8.95 19 | 147 points by nothrowaways 17 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. I built a pint-sized Macintosh (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×0.82 50 | 106 points by ingve 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Hacking Sony A6000 for Fun (docodethatmatters.com)
    ×0.42 94 | 3 points by skittleson 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Gitcredits – movie-style end credits for any Git repo in your terminal (github.com/Higangssh)
    ×0.77 137 | 38 points by swq115 4 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Review: I Write Like (forkingmad.blog)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by zdw 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: I made a little voice note recorder (stavros.io)
    ×3.01 100 | 10 points by stavros 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Xpandas – running Pandas-style computation directly in pure C++
    ×1.74 153 | 6 points by xqli 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Agentic Engineering Patterns (simonwillison.net)
    ×2.59 9 #11 | 364 points by r4um 12 hours ago | 205 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. On the Design of Programming Languages (1974) [pdf] (ucdavis.edu)
    ×0.81 38 #42 | 70 points by jruohonen 12 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. An Interactive Intro to CRDTs (2023) (jakelazaroff.com)
    ×1.18 38 #49 | 172 points by evakhoury 22 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Mount Mayhem at Netflix: Scaling Containers on Modern CPUs (netflixtechblog.com)
    ×0.99 15 #82 | 66 points by vquemener 15 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Daemon (2006) (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by solomonb 23 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Closure of the Weatheradio service in Canada (rac.ca)
    ×1.05 61 | 122 points by da768 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Better JIT for Postgres (github.com/vladich)
    ×1.03 18 #27 | 122 points by vladich 11 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. I'm reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online services (neilzone.co.uk)
    ×3.05 37 #72 | 955 points by speckx 1 day ago | 601 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Factory Logic (asteriskmag.com)
    ×1.45 | 2 points by herbertl 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Apple Announces Low-Cost 'MacBook Neo' with A18 Pro Chip (macrumors.com)
    ×2.65 80 | 77 points by vanburen 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Where did my 128GB of video RAM go? AMD GPU BIOS gotcha for LLM builders (patrickmccanna.net)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by 0o_MrPatrick_o0 25 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Health optimization as agent-guiding gradient descent (github.com/artiedins)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by dingmuti 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Medical journal says the case reports it has published for 25 years are fiction (retractionwatch.com)
    ×2.55 8 #15 | 88 points by Tomte 2 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Elevator Saga: The elevator programming game (2015) (elevatorsaga.com)
    ×0.89 18 #24 | 68 points by xmprt 7 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Apple AI servers unused in warehouses due to low Apple Intelligence usage (9to5mac.com)
    ×3.87 79 | 87 points by _____k 1 day ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Web Audio Studio – A Visual Debugger for Web Audio API Graphs (webaudio.studio)
    ×0.69 89 | 64 points by alexgriss 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Emails to Outlook.com rejected due to a fault or overzealous blocking rules (theregister.com)
    ×2.61 11 #14 | 66 points by Bender 5 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. RE#: how we built the fastest regex engine in F# (iev.ee)
    ×1.52 8 #16 | 146 points by exceptione 8 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. 130k Lines of Formal Topology: Simple and Cheap Autoformalization for Everyone? (arxiv.org)
    ×0.61 60 #83 | 28 points by PaulHoule 18 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Possible US Government iPhone-Hacking Toolkit in foreign spy and criminal hands (wired.com)
    ×2.78 17 | 229 points by alwillis 21 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Buckle Up for Bumpier Skies (newyorker.com)
    ×0.85 60 | 89 points by littlexsparkee 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Trade Stocks and Crypto On-Chain with Full Transparency (aulico.com)
    ×0.69 151 | 3 points by rendernos 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Judge Blocks Virginia 1-Hour Social Media Law for Minors (reclaimthenet.org)
    ×1.26 | 2 points by bilsbie 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent from scratch (ntik.me)
    ×2.36 8 | 560 points by nicktikhonov 1 day ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. MacBook Air with M5 (apple.com)
    ×2.13 5 #71 | 406 points by Garbage 1 day ago | 471 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. AWS outage due to drone attacks in UAE (bbc.com)
    ×2.25 41 #89 | 128 points by stellastah 1 day ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Audio Toolkit for Agents (github.com/shiehn)
    ×0.59 106 | 57 points by stevehiehn 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Claude-File-Recovery, recover files from your ~/.claude sessions (github.com/hjtenklooster)
    ×0.57 116 | 99 points by rikk3rt 5 days ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???