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  1. Ask HN: Why is my Claude experience so bad? What am I doing wrong?
    ×1.24 14 #46 | 39 points by moomoo11 4 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Ranking sliders on a personal blog?
    ×0.81 10 #87 | 7 points by incognito124 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. How to get an AI to check your schematic
    ×0.66 | 2 points by oldguy101 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Is OpenClaw a groundbreaking feat, a highly useful product or both?
    ×1.49 24 | 3 points by chirau 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Share your vibe coded project
    ×0.36 | 2 points by firefoxd 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What's the best realtime, local, TTS solution? Live call interpretation
    ×0.38 46 | 4 points by Wright007 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. What web businesses will continue to make money post AI?
    ×0.37 52 | 11 points by surume 15 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Are there examples of 3D printing data onto physical surfaces?
    ×0.26 90 | 16 points by catapart 2 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Are you using an agent orchestrator to write code?
    ×1.06 96 | 38 points by gusmally 3 days ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: LLMs helping you read papers and books
    ×0.36 70 | 4 points by amelius 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Info on the 1982 Apple 2 text game Abuse?
    ×0.18 110 | 5 points by jmount 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Want to move to use a "dumb" phone. How to make the switch?
    ×0.87 80 | 9 points by absoluteunit1 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What explains the recent surge in LLM coding capabilities?
    ×1.40 74 | 11 points by orange_puff 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Did YouTube change how it handles uBlock?
    ×0.63 116 | 21 points by tefloon69 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How do you audit LLM code in programming languages you don't know?
    ×0.54 133 | 11 points by syx 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Stripe is asking for bank statements to check financial health
    ×0.68 106 | 8 points by kinj28 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Why are electronics still so unrecyclable?
    ×0.72 101 | 73 points by alexandrehtrb 4 days ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Better hardware means OpenAI, Anthropic, etc. are doomed in the future?
    ×0.36 143 | 5 points by kart23 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. ClawdReview – OpenReview for AI Agents
    ×0.41 107 | 5 points by mingtianzhang 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: We're building a saving app for European savers and need GTM advice
    ×0.40 147 | 5 points by AlePra00 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Exceptionally well-written research papers in CS/ML/AI?
    ×0.58 132 | 4 points by b3rkus 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Tell HN: Moving My Blog to IPv6 Only Internet
    ×1.09 108 | 6 points by quaintdev 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Do sociotechnical pressures select for beneficial or harmful AI systems?
    ×0.30 137 | 6 points by jerlendds 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: What's You Opinon on XMTP
    ×0.12 | 2 points by julienreszka 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Are productivity gains due to AI hard-sell where you work?
    ×0.45 | 2 points by newsicanuse 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: What happens when capability decouples from credentials?
    ×0.81 125 | 10 points by falsework 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Tools to code using voice?
    ×0.58 134 | 8 points by emerongi 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: My OpenClaw doesn't respond. Anybody met with the same problem?
    ×0.53 131 | 4 points by Fendy1 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: What would you recommend a vibe coder learn about how all this works?
    ×0.67 103 | 32 points by alexdobrenko 3 days ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Anyone else finding the new Gemini Deep Think troublingly sycophantic?
    ×0.53 135 | 4 points by neom 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. We just released Khaos SDK and khaos-examples (BSL 1.1)
    ×0.35 141 | 3 points by exordex 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Why is everyone here so AI-hyped?
    ×1.21 127 | 31 points by fandorin 5 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Has anyone achieved recursive self-improvement with agentic tools?
    ×0.31 142 | 9 points by nycdatasci 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: If your OpenClaw could do 1 thing it currently can't, what would it be?
    ×0.43 145 | 5 points by stosssik 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: How do founders demo real product without exposing sensitive data?
    ×0.61 146 | 5 points by legitimate_key 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: GPT-5.3-Codex being silently routed to GPT-5.2?
    ×0.52 148 | 5 points by tardis_thad 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: What's the current state of ChatGPT Apps?
    ×0.69 149 | 5 points by arthurlee 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Moss: A Linux-compatible Rust async kernel, 3 months on
    ×0.28 140 | 4 points by hexagonal-sun 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. SMTP server from scratch in Go – FSM, raw TCP, and buffer-oriented I/O
    ×0.57 138 | 5 points by Jyotishmoy 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Who discovered grokking and why is the name hard to find?
    ×0.31 | 2 points by asmodeuslucifer 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: Would you use context-based "modes" in Instagram(work,study,sport,news)?
    ×0.39 151 | 3 points by MatiasLaudonio 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ask HN: How much PTO do you get?
    ×1.15 139 | 6 points by SunshineTheCat 3 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: Best practices for AI agent safety and privacy
    ×0.19 | 2 points by mw1 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Skill that lets Claude Code/Codex spin up VMs and GPUs (cloudrouter.dev)
    ×0.94 58 | 135 points by austinwang115 2 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. An Enslaved Gardener Transformed the Pecan into a Cash Crop (lithub.com)
    ×0.76 11 #58 | 62 points by PaulHoule 9 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Ars Technica Pulls Article with AI Fabricated Quotes About AI Generated Article (404media.co)
    ×2.60 1 #75 | 8 points by pavel_lishin 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. A review of M Disc archival capability with long term testing results (2016) (microscopy-uk.org.uk)
    ×0.76 40 #79 | 101 points by 1970-01-01 1 day ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Stato captures and transfers AI coding agent expertise across platforms (github.com/genecell)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by prism2 46 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer; pulls story (infosec.exchange)
    ×5.40 16 | 548 points by robin_reala 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Peter Thiel: 2,436 emails with Epstein from 2014 to 2019 (jmail.world)
    ×5.56 24 #42 | 27 points by doener 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Reddit, Meta, & Google Voluntarily Gave DHS Info of Anti-ICE Users, Report Says (gizmodo.com)
    ×4.93 60 #80 | 9 points by arkadiyt 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Sync Apple Notes to Blog Using Shortcuts and GitHub Pages (moire.blog)
    ×1.00 | 1 points by aerisz 27 seconds ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Sameshi – a ~1200 Elo chess engine that fits within 2KB (github.com/datavorous)
    ×1.28 13 | 226 points by datavorous_ 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: 500x faster string matching for Linux Netfilter (O(1) vs. O(N)) (github.com/landerrosette)
    ×0.77 78 | 3 points by landerrosette 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Deadlog – almost drop-in mutex for debugging Go deadlocks (github.com/stevenctl)
    ×0.60 13 #26 | 26 points by dirteater_ 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Shingles Vaccine Linked to Slower Biological Aging in Older Adults (usc.edu)
    ×2.12 2 #52 | 28 points by andsoitis 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. DIY / home built factory machines producing boat cleaning product (youtube.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by lifeisstillgood 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts (nytimes.com)
    ×7.32 23 | 344 points by jjwiseman 2 days ago | 219 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: ScreenKite: Free alternative to Screen Studio with 4x export speed (screenkite.com)
    ×1.14 121 | 3 points by imWildCat 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Oat – Ultra-lightweight, zero dependency, semantic HTML, CSS, JS UI library (oat.ink)
    ×3.34 2 #25 | 458 points by twapi 16 hours ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Sony Jumbotron Image Control System (1998) [pdf] (pro.sony)
    ×0.86 8 #32 | 32 points by xattt 5 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. The price of surveillance: Government pays to snoop (2013) (politico.com)
    ×0.95 | 2 points by marysminefnuf 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. I need AI that scans every PR and issue and de-dupes (twitter.com/steipete)
    ×0.72 36 #44 | 11 points by vibeprofessor 4 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. The motherhood penalty isn't as large as we think (plausiblyexogenous.substack.com)
    ×1.29 27 | 3 points by doener 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Vim 9.2 (vim.org)
    ×3.39 21 | 414 points by tapanjk 1 day ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. 4chan for Clankers (4claw.org)
    ×1.44 61 | 58 points by kekqqq 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Shareful.ai – Stack Overflow for AI Coding Agents (shareful.ai)
    ×6.55 49 | 14 points by thebrownproject 15 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: I made paperboat.website, a platform for friends and creativity (paperboat.website)
    ×0.77 109 | 80 points by yethiel 5 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Generate Web Interfaces from Data (github.com/puffinsoft)
    ×0.51 99 | 38 points by Goose78 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. GNU Pies – Program Invocation and Execution Supervisor (gnu.org.ua)
    ×0.72 4 #13 | 54 points by smartmic 4 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Are you really Gen Z? (whats-my-gen.vercel.app)
    ×1.02 | 2 points by IsruAlpha 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Unicorn Jelly (unicornjelly.com)
    ×0.83 40 | 65 points by avaer 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. No Coding Before 10am (michaelxbloch.substack.com)
    ×3.24 12 | 51 points by imartin2k 16 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Editor's Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.26 13 #27 | 129 points by bikenaga 6 hours ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. New astronauts launch to ISS after medical evacuation (apnews.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by gnabgib 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: HackerTok – HN with Local Recommendations (blode.co)
    ×5.65 65 | 9 points by mblode 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. AI to SWE ratio convergence and where AI Jobs are (revealera.substack.com)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by altdata 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. 7zip.com Is Serving Malware (malwarebytes.com)
    ×2.97 17 | 179 points by Alifatisk 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Git Navigator – Use Git Without Learning Git (gitnav.xyz)
    ×2.98 77 | 8 points by binhonglee 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Makers of AI chatbots that put children at risk face big fines or UK ban (theguardian.com)
    ×1.31 | 2 points by chrisjj 51 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Renovate – The Kubernetes-Native Way (github.com/mogenius)
    ×0.41 115 | 43 points by JanLepsky 4 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Interference Pattern Formed in a Finger Gap Is Not Single Slit Diffraction (note.com)
    ×0.88 35 #61 | 90 points by uolmir 20 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: SyncFlow – Privacy-Focused SMS/MMS Sync Between Android, Mac, and Web (sfweb.app)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by solovibecoder 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Meditations in Code–Applying Stoic Philosophy and the Bhagavad Gita to Software (swanandkriyaban.substack.com)
    ×1.01 | 2 points by lambdathoughts 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Manga Viewer – Zero-dep manga/comic reader in vanilla JavaScript (github.com/tokagemushi999)
    ×0.42 | 2 points by tokagemushi 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Two different tricks for fast LLM inference (seangoedecke.com)
    ×1.34 27 #22 | 161 points by swah 15 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Lightwave – Real-time notes app, 3.5 years of hand-rolled JavaScript
    ×1.01 1 #38 | 27 points by jv22222 3 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. The Chelyabinsk Meteor (2013) [video] (bsky.app)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by gnabgib 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Mcpcalc.com – collaborative math documents for people and agents (mcpcalc.com)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by stride 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw, joins OpenAI (reuters.com)
    ×1.25 | 2 points by escargot 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???