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  1. Tell HN: Ralph Giles has died (Xiph.org| Rust@Mozilla | Ghostscript)
    ×2.78 10 #15 | 371 points by ffworld 16 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What would you recommend a vibe coder learn about how all this works?
    ×0.90 58 #86 | 19 points by alexdobrenko 17 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: AI Depression
    ×3.10 61 | 18 points by pavello 3 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
    ×1.25 81 | 329 points by david927 4 days ago | 1128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Did YouTube change how it handles uBlock?
    ×0.70 64 | 14 points by tefloon69 19 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Better hardware means OpenAI, Anthropic, etc. are doomed in the future?
    ×0.41 87 | 3 points by kart23 11 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. SMTP server from scratch in Go – FSM, raw TCP, and buffer-oriented I/O
    ×0.62 59 | 3 points by Jyotishmoy 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How do you audit LLM code in programming languages you don't know?
    ×0.68 101 | 6 points by syx 21 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Tools to code using voice?
    ×0.74 67 | 6 points by emerongi 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: We're building a saving app for European savers and need GTM advice
    ×0.61 122 | 3 points by AlePra00 18 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Why is my Claude experience so bad? What am I doing wrong?
    ×0.84 57 | 4 points by moomoo11 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Do sociotechnical pressures select for beneficial or harmful AI systems?
    ×0.11 91 | 3 points by jerlendds 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What happens when capability decouples from credentials?
    ×0.74 66 | 6 points by falsework 14 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Who discovered grokking and why is the name hard to find?
    ×0.63 | 2 points by asmodeuslucifer 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: If your OpenClaw could do 1 thing it currently can't, what would it be?
    ×0.61 92 | 5 points by stosssik 16 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How do founders demo real product without exposing sensitive data?
    ×0.99 104 | 4 points by legitimate_key 17 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: How do you "step through" your own anxiety?
    ×1.43 93 | 5 points by schneak 17 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Why are electronics still so unrecyclable?
    ×0.72 76 | 70 points by alexandrehtrb 2 days ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Are you using an agent orchestrator to write code?
    ×1.52 17 | 33 points by gusmally 20 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: GPT-5.3-Codex being silently routed to GPT-5.2?
    ×1.25 100 | 5 points by tardis_thad 18 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Would you use context-based "modes" in Instagram(work,study,sport,news)?
    ×0.72 109 | 3 points by MatiasLaudonio 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: How much PTO do you get?
    ×1.23 97 | 4 points by SunshineTheCat 15 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Best practices for AI agent safety and privacy
    ×0.32 | 2 points by mw1 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How to build text-to-app platforms?
    ×0.36 | 2 points by desperado1 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Has anyone achieved recursive self-improvement with agentic tools?
    ×0.35 123 | 9 points by nycdatasci 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: What's the current state of ChatGPT Apps?
    ×1.27 113 | 4 points by arthurlee 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Is Prettier extension working for you in Cursor?
    ×0.31 | 2 points by vldszn 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Anyone else get bricked by the macOS update?
    ×0.37 | 2 points by bix6 23 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Dumping GitHub for Forgejo for a free and open source project
    ×0.16 128 | 4 points by th0th 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Why is everyone here so AI-hyped?
    ×1.30 124 | 30 points by fandorin 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Tell HN: GPT-5.3-codex is now available in the API
    ×0.38 130 | 3 points by bigwheels 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Do provisional patents matter for early-stage startups?
    ×0.32 148 | 20 points by gdad 3 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Does OpenClaw need a re-architecture to be usable?
    ×0.16 147 | 4 points by xinbenlv 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. HN needs a context reminder in the URL window
    ×0.71 153 | 4 points by newsoftheday 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Mass Resignation from xAI
    ×0.81 119 | 19 points by hargup 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: What do you want people to build?
    ×0.41 156 | 7 points by billsunshine 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. OrthoRay – A native, lightweight DICOM viewer written in Rust/wgpu by a surgeon
    ×0.25 157 | 8 points by DrMeric 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: How do you deal with long Covid?
    ×0.39 141 | 4 points by manx 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Pgthon – A Working CPython 3.11 VM Written in PL/PgSQL (github.com/cykim8811)
    ×0.95 | 1 points by cykim8811 50 seconds ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Trump Antitrust Is Dead (pluralistic.net)
    ×2.84 59 | 4 points by leotravis10 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Why vampires live forever (machielreyneke.com)
    ×3.22 25 | 391 points by machielrey 1 day ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Profiling on Windows: A Short Rant (mropert.github.io)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by ingve 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. RNA droplets may have accelerated Earth's development of complex molecules (phys.org)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by PaulHoule 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Higher effort reduces deep research accuracy for Gemini Flash 3 and GPT-5 (futuresearch.ai)
    ×5.42 69 | 8 points by wawawildwildest 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Ring owners are returning their cameras (msn.com)
    ×4.56 22 #30 | 312 points by c420 9 hours ago | 227 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code (github.com/tonyyont)
    ×4.15 4 #47 | 970 points by doppp 1 day ago | 290 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Consumers and businesses paid nearly 90% of Trump tariffs in 2025 (cbsnews.com)
    ×5.00 70 | 10 points by loughnane 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Blip – Ephemeral chat that stores nothing, anywhere. open source (github.com/greatsk55)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by hackersk 42 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Hardware Mute Button (f5n.org)
    ×1.21 | 2 points by speckx 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Paragon accidentally uploaded a photo of its spyware control panel (twitter.com/DrWhax)
    ×2.59 37 | 194 points by CGMthrowaway 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues (noheger.at)
    ×3.20 4 #5 | 714 points by erickhill 15 hours ago | 353 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Implementing Auto Tiling with Just 5 Tiles (kyledunbar.dev)
    ×0.89 14 #9 | 36 points by todsacerdoti 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. We interfaced single-threaded C++ with multi-threaded Rust (antithesis.com)
    ×0.93 25 #20 | 70 points by lukastyrychtr 9 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Ireland rolls out basic income scheme for artists (reuters.com)
    ×3.11 16 #81 | 488 points by abe94 1 day ago | 668 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: NgDiagram v1.0, an open-source Angular library for interactive diagrams (github.com/synergycodes)
    ×0.52 | 2 points by mononykus 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Multimodal perception system for real-time conversation (tavuslabs.org)
    ×0.69 107 | 54 points by mert_gerdan 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Carapace – A security-hardened Rust alternative to OpenClaw (github.com/puremachinery)
    ×0.74 | 2 points by puremachinery 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Sol LeWitt-style instruction-based drawings in the browser (intervolz.com)
    ×0.62 23 #57 | 65 points by intervolz 15 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. BinaryAudit: Can AI find backdoors in raw machine code? (quesma.com)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by stared 31 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Railway (PaaS) global outage (railway.com)
    ×1.05 69 | 85 points by TealMyEal 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Libgd-GIS – Render maps and GIS data directly in Ruby (GeoJSON → Image) (ggerman.github.io)
    ×0.80 | 1 points by ggerman2025 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Migetpacks – Zero-config container builds, no Dockerfile needed (github.com/migetapp)
    ×0.89 121 | 3 points by ktaraszk 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Ktop – a themed terminal system monitor with charts and OOM tracking (github.com/brontoguana)
    ×3.04 154 | 7 points by brontoguana 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Nigeria makes big gains in fight against neglected tropical diseases (semafor.com)
    ×0.89 | 1 points by stareatgoats 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Ruby Newbie Is Joining the Ruby Users Forum (rubyforum.org)
    ×1.02 20 #26 | 56 points by jvrc 8 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. SCPI and Hardware Instrumentation for Reverse Engineers (voidstarsec.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by wrongbaud 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Administration working to strip citizenship from foreign-born Americans (nbcnews.com)
    ×4.62 32 | 68 points by OutOfHere 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Algorithmically finding the longest line of sight on Earth (alltheviews.world)
    ×1.98 73 | 407 points by tombh 4 days ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Open Source Is Not About You (2018) (github.com/richhickey)
    ×1.78 1 #3 | 44 points by doubleg 58 minutes ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. America's Cyber Defense Agency Is Burning Down and Nobody's Coming to Put It Out (threathunter.ai)
    ×4.63 2 | 164 points by bourbonsec 1 day ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Illness Is Rampant Among Children Trapped in ICE's Jail in Texas (truthout.org)
    ×5.92 62 | 90 points by wahnfrieden 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: ClawPool – Pool Claude tokens to make $$$ or crazy cheap Claude Code (clawpool.ai)
    ×1.31 117 | 20 points by pablojamjam 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Let Me Ask AI for You (letmeaskai.fyi)
    ×2.32 49 | 3 points by dmitrysergeyev 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: MicroGPT in 243 Lines – Demystifying the LLM Black Box
    ×1.26 82 | 4 points by madugula 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: The Rails developers' guide to mobile app frameworks (masilotti.com)
    ×1.33 126 | 3 points by joemasilotti 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: I taught GPT-OSS-120B to see using Google Lens and OpenCV
    ×0.64 103 | 42 points by vkaufmann 2 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Particle Lenia (znah.net)
    ×0.85 20 #18 | 38 points by memalign 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. The Future for Tyr, a Rust GPU Driver for Arm Mali Hardware (lwn.net)
    ×0.76 46 #52 | 132 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Shark filmed swimming in deep Antarctic waters for first time (abc.net.au)
    ×1.86 15 | 3 points by speckx 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Byte magazine artist Robert Tinney, who illustrated the birth of PCs, dies at 78 (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.89 21 | 134 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Anthropic Partners with CodePath (anthropic.com)
    ×1.23 | 2 points by ryanhn 56 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. The risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory (cell.com)
    ×2.83 23 | 339 points by Archelaos 1 day ago | 403 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Renovate – The Kubernetes-Native Way (github.com/mogenius)
    ×0.40 86 | 42 points by JanLepsky 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Minimal NIST/OWASP-compliant auth implementation for Cloudflare Workers (github.com/vhscom)
    ×0.45 138 | 33 points by vhsdev 4 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Apocalypse no: how almost everything we thought we knew about the Maya is wrong (theguardian.com)
    ×1.48 8 #24 | 10 points by speckx 58 minutes ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Ticksupply – Record Binance tick data (order books, trades) as CSV (ticksupply.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by ticksupply 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: CoChat MCP – Let your team review what your coding agent is building (github.com/CoChatAI)
    ×2.54 32 | 4 points by intheleantime 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Assistant to the Regional Manager (paulbloom.net)
    ×1.19 | 2 points by NaOH 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. iOS 26.3 and macOS 26.3 Fix Dozens of Vulnerabilities, Including Zero-Day (macrumors.com)
    ×1.85 48 | 149 points by akyuu 1 day ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: LocalGPT – A local-first AI assistant in Rust with persistent memory (github.com/localgpt-app)
    ×1.70 94 | 329 points by yi_wang 5 days ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???