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  1. Tell HN: Fiverr left customer files public and searchable
    ×5.21 12 #16 | 456 points by morpheuskafka 9 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Easiest UX for Seniors
    ×1.06 69 | 46 points by khoury 3 days ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. GitHub gave webhook secrets away in webhook call
    ×0.85 54 | 7 points by time4tea 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)
    ×1.44 51 | 336 points by david927 2 days ago | 1137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block
    ×5.02 5 | 1132 points by littlecranky67 2 days ago | 417 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Are Web Agencies Cooked?
    ×0.64 64 | 7 points by mijustin 9 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Who needs contributors? (April 2026)
    ×0.90 57 | 18 points by Kathan2651 14 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What's your favorite security cam system?
    ×0.34 84 | 4 points by SunshineTheCat 11 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: I quit my job over weaponized robots to start my own venture
    ×3.06 28 | 110 points by barratia 17 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What standards or protocols exist for AI Agent permissions
    ×0.14 | 2 points by lyfeninja 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Tell HN: GitHub might have been leaking your webhook secrets. Check your emails.
    ×2.79 21 | 23 points by ssiddharth 12 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. PersMEM: Persistent Semantic Memory and Multi-Instance Communication for AI
    ×0.42 91 | 3 points by asixicle 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Tell HN: OpenAI silently removed Study Mode from ChatGPT
    ×1.54 71 | 182 points by smokel 2 days ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Claude Code OAuth down for >12 hours
    ×0.40 88 | 7 points by pixel_popping 21 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Technical SEO vs. content optimization: which one moves rankings?
    ×0.30 114 | 3 points by zensorsolutions 21 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: LeetCode, anyone still doing it?
    ×0.78 89 | 8 points by kwar13 22 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?
    ×1.55 106 | 152 points by meander_water 5 days ago | 221 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Are you negatively affected by the recent economic stagnation?
    ×0.56 129 | 6 points by adinhitlore 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Hiring in the age of AI-assisted coding: what works?
    ×0.46 136 | 28 points by nitramm 4 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Why most AI projects feel useless
    ×0.55 111 | 7 points by vaishcodescape 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: What makes it so hard to keep LLMs online?
    ×0.19 152 | 3 points by realberkeaslan 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Tell HN: Another Monday, Another Claude Outage
    ×0.43 119 | 6 points by ericol 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: What's the best AI model for system design nowadays?
    ×0.51 128 | 5 points by jcremona 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: What should I do with my app? 130 downloads 3 real subscribers
    ×0.39 160 | 6 points by oyaa52 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Do you trust AI agents with API keys / private keys?
    ×0.49 127 | 17 points by devendra116 2 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. How do you validate your GTM Efforts?
    ×0.17 156 | 3 points by pranaywankhede 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Anyone using Nostr as a lightweight back end/DB for rapid prototyping?
    ×0.28 159 | 6 points by wasimsk 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Best books on building a programming language
    ×0.69 144 | 18 points by ezzato 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Is Codex really on Par with Claude Code?
    ×1.53 105 | 12 points by shivang2607 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: What are you using OpenClaw or agents for?
    ×1.11 99 | 8 points by bmau5 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Any Open Source projects in need of documentation writer?
    ×0.37 157 | 21 points by tree666 5 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Tell HN: Reddit now demands to know why you won't use their app
    ×1.87 101 | 20 points by josephcsible 2 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Why Databases Instead of Filesystem?
    ×0.41 158 | 16 points by uticus 4 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Real-Time, Streaming SQL Queries on Flight Data (modolap.com)
    ×1.15 145 | 4 points by ronfriedhaber 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: BSCS Bench – College CS Curriculum AI Benchmark (bscsbench.com)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by charlielockyer 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Fuck the cloud (2009) (textfiles.com)
    ×1.77 22 #33 | 130 points by downbad_ 6 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Visualizing CPU Pipelining (2024) (timmastny.com)
    ×0.90 70 #80 | 95 points by flipacholas 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. The Mythos Threshold (joereis.substack.com)
    ×0.76 | 2 points by gmays 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. The secrets of the Shinkansen (worksinprogress.news)
    ×1.97 20 | 152 points by WillDaSilva 22 hours ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. X Randomly Banning Users for "Inauthentic Behavior" (reddit.com)
    ×3.02 74 | 88 points by crmrc114 1 day ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Terminal-Wrench, a dataset of 331 realistic hackable environments (github.com/few-sh)
    ×1.78 2 | 6 points by neversupervised 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: LangAlpha – what if Claude Code was built for Wall Street? (github.com/ginlix-ai)
    ×1.01 21 #27 | 122 points by zc2610 13 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Air Powered Segment Display? [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.37 51 #67 | 138 points by ProfDreamer 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Why Is France Moving from Microsoft Windows to Linux (qazinform.com)
    ×1.60 71 #87 | 5 points by losgehts 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Scandinavian Governance: A Story of Trust and Shared Power (polycentricleadership.com)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by thunderbong 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. YouTube now world's largest media company, topping Disney (hollywoodreporter.com)
    ×3.65 39 #48 | 307 points by bookofjoe 10 hours ago | 239 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. 40% of lost calories globally are from beef, needing 33 cal of feed per 1 cal (iop.org)
    ×4.30 68 | 155 points by randycupertino 10 hours ago | 258 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Lint-AI by RooAGI, a Rust CLI for AI Doc Retrieval (github.com/RooAGI)
    ×0.81 140 | 3 points by rooagi 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. OpenAI's $852B valuation faces investor scrutiny amid strategy shift, FT reports (reuters.com)
    ×2.72 21 #23 | 87 points by abdelhousni 3 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out (404media.co)
    ×5.77 60 | 176 points by Cider9986 13 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. The tech jobs bust is real. Don't blame AI (yet) (economist.com)
    ×2.87 36 | 115 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 193 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Kyomu - 13 puzzles from math and physics that map your cognitive style (mostlykiguess.github.io)
    ×1.37 148 | 4 points by mostlyk 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. An open source template for building cloud agents (github.com/vercel-labs)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by obilgic 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. New AI capabilities are coming to Google Vids, powered by Lyria 3 and Veo 3.1 (blog.google)
    ×1.98 34 | 3 points by spaghettifythis 56 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. The rational conclusion of doomerism is violence (campbellramble.ai)
    ×2.18 62 | 92 points by thedudeabides5 1 day ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Aeolus – a library for unified access to air quality sensor networks (github.com/southlondonscientific)
    ×0.42 150 | 3 points by ruaraidh 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Local LLM on a Pi 4 controlling hardware via tool calling (github.com/stfurkan)
    ×0.71 164 | 3 points by stfurkan 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. The Orange Pi 6 Plus (taoofmac.com)
    ×1.18 23 #5 | 146 points by rcarmo 10 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: We built an MCP for Windows – ask Claude about CPU, temps, and privacy (github.com/AppControlLabs)
    ×2.13 78 | 7 points by suprnurd 13 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Rust based eBook library for Python, with MIT license (github.com/arc53)
    ×0.71 147 | 33 points by larry-the-agent 5 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Stork – MCP server so Claude/Cursor can search 14k MCP servers AI tools (stork.ai)
    ×0.28 | 2 points by usestork 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Nucleus Nouns (ben-mini.com)
    ×0.74 29 #39 | 68 points by bewal416 14 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Agent Citizen – Your AI agents are sitting around doing nothing (agent-citizen.vercel.app)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by daltonlcarr 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Sometimes powerful people just do dumb shit (joanwestenberg.com)
    ×5.26 30 | 261 points by zdw 1 day ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. California ghost-gun bill wants 3D printers to play cop, EFF says (theregister.com)
    ×4.10 64 | 120 points by Bender 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Tracking down a 25% Regression on LLVM RISC-V (kaving.me)
    ×0.87 72 #68 | 129 points by luu 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Programming Used to Be Free (purplesyringa.moe)
    ×2.51 77 | 78 points by yeputons 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: GDL – I built an AI-powered invention engine (groundeddiscoverylabs.com)
    ×0.31 | 2 points by Whyachi 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Idea File for LLM Cycling Coach (github.com/leourbina)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by leourbina 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Woman with three deadly diseases has 'remarkable' recovery after cell therapy (theguardian.com)
    ×1.90 10 #50 | 9 points by gmays 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. GAIA – Open-source framework for building AI agents that run on local hardware (amd-gaia.ai)
    ×1.22 49 #71 | 148 points by galaxyLogic 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Glyphosate resistance: a driver for multidrug-resistant clinical strains? (frontiersin.org)
    ×0.35 | 1 points by PaulHoule 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Excalicharts – Charting Library for Excalidraw (github.com/tombedor)
    ×0.98 117 | 4 points by jjfoooo4 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Dependency cooldowns turn you into a free-rider (calpaterson.com)
    ×2.27 10 #3 | 30 points by pabs3 2 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. The FCC just saved Netgear from its router ban for no obvious reason (theverge.com)
    ×3.28 54 #57 | 93 points by HotGarbage 3 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Franklin's bad ads for Apple II clones and the beloved impersonator they depict (buttondown.com)
    ×1.12 7 #60 | 124 points by rfarley04 19 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Moanpoint: Maps TrackPoint pressure to audio output (github.com/nicolasgutierrezdev)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by neptunianalien 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Building a CLI for all of Cloudflare (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.70 1 | 325 points by soheilpro 1 day ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Two Months After I Gave an AI $100 and No Instructions (sebastian-jais.de)
    ×4.84 29 | 89 points by gleipnircode 15 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: FluidCAD – Parametric CAD with JavaScript (fluidcad.io)
    ×1.08 93 | 156 points by maouida 4 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Distributed DuckDB Instance (github.com/citguru)
    ×1.22 29 #36 | 169 points by citguru 22 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. The acyclic e-graph: Cranelift's mid-end optimizer (cfallin.org)
    ×0.67 38 #49 | 67 points by tekknolagi 16 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Write less code, be more responsible (orhun.dev)
    ×1.27 39 #66 | 161 points by orhunp_ 1 day ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Servo is now available on crates.io (servo.org)
    ×2.27 2 #81 | 470 points by ffin 1 day ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Iran's nuke confession blows reasons for America's war wide open (dailymail.co.uk)
    ×0.95 | 2 points by Bender 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. We broke the O(2^N) barrier to compute AI consciousness (Phi) (github.com/InductivityAI)
    ×0.34 | 1 points by Robin_De 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Ransomware Is Growing Three Times Faster Than the Spending Meant to Stop It (ciphercue.com)
    ×1.35 5 | 85 points by adulion 19 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS (boringbar.app)
    ×2.21 28 | 512 points by a-ve 2 days ago | 296 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Understanding Clojure's Persistent Vectors, pt. 1 (2013) (hypirion.com)
    ×0.92 10 #8 | 36 points by mirzap 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Bunk beds for economy passengers take off on Air New Zealand's new planes (cnn.com)
    ×1.12 | 2 points by 1659447091 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???