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  1. Ask HN: Former grok-code-fast-1 users, what coding model are you using now?
    ×0.76 | 2 points by whycombinetor 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Is the pitch deck culture making founders worse at building businesses?
    ×0.27 66 | 11 points by chinhqtran 18 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Agentic Permutation of Testing Paths In A System
    ×0.17 62 | 4 points by davidajackson 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?
    ×1.98 51 | 478 points by e-topy 6 days ago | 725 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Best books on building a programming language
    ×0.75 72 | 14 points by ezzato 22 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Hiring in the age of AI-assisted coding: what works?
    ×0.49 82 | 26 points by nitramm 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?
    ×1.56 75 | 141 points by meander_water 2 days ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Tor Browser on Android leaks IP in desktop mode
    ×0.77 47 | 13 points by shchess 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Do founders' political views affect how you see a product?
    ×0.65 120 | 3 points by rishikeshs 19 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Why Databases Instead of Filesystem?
    ×0.34 109 | 12 points by uticus 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. My AI workflow evolved from prompts to a near-autonomous workflow
    ×0.25 111 | 4 points by hoangnnguyen 21 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Any Open Source projects in need of documentation writer?
    ×0.41 115 | 21 points by tree666 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: How do you handle marketing as a solo technical founder?
    ×1.24 107 | 144 points by lazarkap 5 days ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. I collected startup ideas. It changed how I think about ideas completely
    ×1.21 90 | 9 points by vibecoder21 22 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Is VC the new PMF strategy?
    ×0.34 135 | 3 points by networkOne 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Open Source card game cuttle.cards has its world championship Saturday at 1pm ET
    ×0.20 137 | 4 points by aleph_one 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Should AI credits be refunded on mistakes?
    ×0.25 142 | 19 points by ed_elliott_asc 3 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Zooming UIs in 2026: Prezi, impress.js, and why I built something different
    ×1.02 124 | 100 points by tinchox6 5 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Hybrid Attention
    ×0.37 138 | 40 points by JohannaAlmeida 4 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: How do you manage your digital legacy for after you die?
    ×0.51 150 | 15 points by orbanlevi 3 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Are you encountering AI-related questions in the hiring market?
    ×0.29 136 | 7 points by somthingwrong 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Local-first meetings recorder and transcriber?
    ×0.48 156 | 6 points by dandaka 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Yuku – A fast, spec-compliant JavaScript parser written in Zig
    ×0.39 148 | 6 points by arshadyaseen 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: What would you do with an AI model capable of continuous learning?
    ×0.26 157 | 4 points by jballanc 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: MarkitMe, Turn Anything into Markdown (github.com/Luthiraa)
    ×1.01 83 | 4 points by llamatheollama 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk (xda-developers.com)
    ×4.88 25 #48 | 430 points by pabs3 21 hours ago | 245 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Bitcoin miners are losing on every coin produced as difficulty drops (coindesk.com)
    ×2.62 25 #54 | 225 points by PaulHoule 16 hours ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. TigerBeetle: A Trillion Transactions [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.62 | 2 points by adityaathalye 29 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Find spaces to work and remote workers to connect with (opentotalk.it)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by alainrk 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. AI Can't Read an Investor Deck (mercor.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by gmays 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. The 'Enshittification' of the Internet [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.06 | 2 points by goekjclo 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Bluesky April 2026 Outage Post-Mortem (pckt.blog)
    ×1.14 27 | 138 points by jcalabro 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS (github.com/matthartman)
    ×1.68 79 | 466 points by MattHart88 5 days ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Rockstar Games Hacked, Hackers Threaten a Massive Data Leak If Not Paid Ransom (kotaku.com)
    ×2.13 21 #68 | 98 points by c420 13 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters (playlists.at)
    ×1.68 96 | 324 points by nevernothing 6 days ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Catalog of AI Knowledge Retrieval, Memory and RAG Systems (github.com/machinarii)
    ×1.66 | 2 points by datalater 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. An LLM That Watches Your Logs and Kills Compromised Services at 3am (jonno.nz)
    ×3.32 47 | 5 points by jonno-nz 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Women are getting most of the new jobs. What's going on with men? (npr.org)
    ×4.12 67 | 56 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Gemma Gem – AI model embedded in a browser – no API keys, no cloud (github.com/kessler)
    ×1.03 122 | 155 points by ikessler 6 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Scrum Master Interview Questions for the AI Era (age-of-product.com)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by swolpers 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Building a Z-Machine in the worst possible language – Whitebeard's Realm (whitebeard.blog)
    ×1.23 14 #13 | 12 points by techbelly 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. CPU-Z and HWMonitor compromised (theregister.com)
    ×2.08 #84 | 394 points by pashadee 1 day ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Druids – Build your own software factory (github.com/fulcrumresearch)
    ×0.67 86 | 62 points by etherio 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Do All the Things (doallthethings.app)
    ×4.88 93 | 24 points by brainbun 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Brocards for Vulnerability Triage (yossarian.net)
    ×1.08 70 #47 | 13 points by woodruffw 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Has Mythos just broken the deal that kept the internet safe? (martinalderson.com)
    ×1.86 55 | 44 points by jnord 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: SubnetLens – a concurrent local network scanner built in Go with a TUI (github.com/ostefani)
    ×0.47 121 | 3 points by ostefani 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Used Graphify to turn incidents into a queryable knowledge graph (github.com/Rootly-AI-Labs)
    ×1.14 32 #25 | 10 points by hamzmu 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Keeping a Postgres Queue Healthy (planetscale.com)
    ×0.89 21 #28 | 91 points by tanelpoder 13 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Previously unknown verses by Empedocles found on papyrus (thehistoryblog.com)
    ×0.83 41 #41 | 74 points by danielam 17 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Polymarket gamblers betting millions on war (theguardian.com)
    ×2.52 41 | 151 points by sandebert 17 hours ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: A WYSIWYG word processor in Python (codeberg.org)
    ×0.87 42 | 82 points by chrisecker 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Unicode Steganography (patrickvuscan.com)
    ×0.56 112 | 57 points by PatrickVuscan 4 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: VigIA – A deterministic FSM in .NET 10 to stop LLM hallucinations (github.com/JordanCT)
    ×0.68 | 2 points by JordanCT 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Git why – log your agent reasoning trace along your code (hexapode.github.io)
    ×1.40 39 | 6 points by pierre 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Excellence Is a Habit (flyingbarron.com)
    ×1.68 6 #3 | 23 points by mooreds 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. How Complex is my Code? (philodev.one)
    ×1.83 8 #6 | 75 points by speckx 6 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. US – Iran negotiations end with no deal reached (nytimes.com)
    ×6.31 10 #12 | 28 points by chirau 53 minutes ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Every plane you see in the sky – you can now follow it from the cockpit in 3D (flight-viz.com)
    ×2.82 17 #29 | 292 points by coolwulf 13 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Vance Says U.S.-Iran Peace Talks Break Down over Nuclear Issue (wsj.com)
    ×4.33 40 #76 | 8 points by kamaraju 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Keeper – embedded secret store for Go (help me break it) (github.com/agberohq)
    ×0.46 70 | 62 points by babawere 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Dynamic Map of YouTube Channels (ytmap.xyz)
    ×1.73 127 | 6 points by Bachal 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Samsamelo – Silicon Valley selling trolley problem lies [fixed link] (arweave.net)
    ×1.71 15 | 3 points by awbvious 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Ze networking tool you didn't know you were looking for (github.com/ze-software)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by ccakes 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Lmscan – Detect AI text and fingerprint which LLM wrote it (zero deps) (github.com/stef41)
    ×0.85 134 | 3 points by zach22 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: GovAuctions lets you browse government auctions at once (govauctions.app)
    ×1.48 92 | 318 points by player_piano 5 days ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Filing the corners off my MacBooks (kentwalters.com)
    ×5.00 20 #37 | 1317 points by normanvalentine 1 day ago | 622 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. 14,000 Images of the French Revolution Released Online (2014) (hyperallergic.com)
    ×1.74 24 #80 | 21 points by downbad_ 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. A new interpretation of the Riemann Hypothesis based on wave interaction (Flux) (zenodo.org)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by kimhanhee 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: A living Vancouver. Connor is walking dogs at the SPCA this morning (brasilia-phi.vercel.app)
    ×0.82 87 | 3 points by auran 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: An interactive map of Tolkien's Middle-earth (middle-earth-interactive-map.web.app)
    ×1.63 80 | 291 points by frasermarlow 4 days ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Team from ETH Zurich make high quality quantum swap gate using a geometric phase (ethz.ch)
    ×1.31 39 #82 | 232 points by joko42 2 days ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. We spoke to the man making viral Lego-style AI videos for Iran (bbc.com)
    ×3.30 86 | 64 points by breve 3 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. JSON formatter Chrome plugin now closed and injecting adware (github.com/callumlocke)
    ×1.63 3 | 279 points by jkl5xx 1 day ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. CPU-Z and HWMonitor compromised (reddit.com)
    ×3.14 36 | 125 points by Wingy 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Artemis II is competency porn (lizplank.substack.com)
    ×2.79 23 | 47 points by jgrodziski 21 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech (techcrunch.com)
    ×6.07 21 #88 | 594 points by Teever 1 day ago | 682 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. LLM Time (dreamwidth.org)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by sho_hn 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Tofolli gates are all you need (johndcook.com)
    ×0.53 62 #21 | 3 points by ibobev 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: I built a site that shows every world event you lived through (youdidntnotice.com)
    ×3.10 106 | 9 points by lip404 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. U.S. Intelligence Shows China Taking a More Active Role in Iran War (nytimes.com)
    ×0.92 | 1 points by Teever 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Ask HN: Anyone using Nostr as a lightweight back end/DB for rapid prototyping?
    ×0.83 | 1 points by wasimsk 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN easier to read (oj-hn.com)
    ×1.08 84 | 146 points by latchkey 3 days ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: FluidCAD – Parametric CAD with JavaScript (fluidcad.io)
    ×1.02 26 #87 | 143 points by maouida 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: MCP is for tools. A2A is for agents. What's for websites? (rtrvr.ai)
    ×1.90 | 2 points by quarkcarbon279 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Building a better crossword page for my daily cryptic hit – Whitebeard's Realm (whitebeard.blog)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by techbelly 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. The disturbing white paper Red Hat is trying to erase from the internet (osnews.com)
    ×5.49 69 | 174 points by choult 13 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Americans still opt for print books over digital or audio versions (pewresearch.org)
    ×4.30 53 #59 | 60 points by thm 3 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. The Center Has a Bias (pocoo.org)
    ×1.32 | 2 points by theshrike79 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Helium is hard to replace (construction-physics.com)
    ×1.81 6 | 360 points by JumpCrisscross 1 day ago | 260 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???