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  1. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)
    ×1.20 19 #4 | 120 points by david927 7 hours ago | 317 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: docker pull fails in spain due to football cloudflare block
    ×4.27 5 #13 | 656 points by littlecranky67 12 hours ago | 251 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Tell HN: OpenAI silently removed Study Mode from ChatGPT
    ×1.67 21 #54 | 164 points by smokel 11 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What are all the bad things that AI companies have done which we forgot
    ×0.64 59 | 5 points by Imustaskforhelp 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Do you trust AI agents with API keys / private keys?
    ×0.42 56 | 12 points by devendra116 18 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What's your experience with PoW captchas against form spam?
    ×0.47 65 | 4 points by pentacent_hq 11 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Anyone using Nostr as a lightweight back end/DB for rapid prototyping?
    ×0.39 79 | 6 points by wasimsk 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?
    ×1.96 58 | 479 points by e-topy 1 week ago | 728 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?
    ×1.56 77 | 145 points by meander_water 3 days ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Is the pitch deck culture making founders worse at building businesses?
    ×0.37 86 | 17 points by chinhqtran 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Hiring in the age of AI-assisted coding: what works?
    ×0.46 98 | 26 points by nitramm 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Best books on building a programming language
    ×0.77 94 | 17 points by ezzato 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What should I do with my app? 130 downloads 3 real subscribers
    ×0.26 106 | 3 points by oyaa52 19 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Former grok-code-fast-1 users, what coding model are you using now?
    ×0.20 | 2 points by whycombinetor 22 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How do you handle marketing as a solo technical founder?
    ×1.26 107 | 147 points by lazarkap 6 days ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Agentic Permutation of Testing Paths In A System
    ×0.15 123 | 4 points by davidajackson 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Any Open Source projects in need of documentation writer?
    ×0.40 128 | 21 points by tree666 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Why Databases Instead of Filesystem?
    ×0.33 131 | 12 points by uticus 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Has anyone reconsidered Antivirus software after recent security news?
    ×1.23 103 | 6 points by pants2 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Tor Browser on Android leaks IP in desktop mode
    ×0.69 90 | 13 points by shchess 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Do founders' political views affect how you see a product?
    ×0.62 138 | 4 points by rishikeshs 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Zooming UIs in 2026: Prezi, impress.js, and why I built something different
    ×1.02 125 | 101 points by tinchox6 6 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. I collected startup ideas. It changed how I think about ideas completely
    ×1.13 110 | 10 points by vibecoder21 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Should AI credits be refunded on mistakes?
    ×0.24 149 | 19 points by ed_elliott_asc 4 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Is VC the new PMF strategy?
    ×0.30 154 | 3 points by networkOne 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Hybrid Attention
    ×0.37 141 | 40 points by JohannaAlmeida 5 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: How do you manage your digital legacy for after you die?
    ×0.50 151 | 15 points by orbanlevi 4 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Open Source card game cuttle.cards has its world championship Saturday at 1pm ET
    ×0.19 150 | 4 points by aleph_one 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Local-first meetings recorder and transcriber?
    ×0.53 155 | 7 points by dandaka 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Internet outage in Iran reaches 1,008 hours (mastodon.social)
    ×2.25 6 #46 | 150 points by miadabdi 13 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. I don't want to fill out your contact form (2024) (adamjones.me)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by JustSkyfall 26 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Should capitalism be a choice? (cyrusradfar.com)
    ×2.19 25 | 6 points by cyrusradfar 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It (thealgorithmicbridge.com)
    ×3.32 62 | 325 points by gHeadphone 15 hours ago | 585 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Hungary's Orban concedes landmark defeat to centre-right opposition (reuters.com)
    ×11.24 78 | 94 points by markerbrod 4 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Israeli strike kills infant girl in south Lebanon during father's funeral (reuters.com)
    ×12.19 75 | 81 points by lr0 4 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Bring Back Idiomatic Design (johnloeber.com)
    ×2.14 16 #2 | 447 points by phil294 12 hours ago | 224 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Every plane you see in the sky – you can now follow it from the cockpit in 3D (flight-viz.com)
    ×2.76 18 #62 | 372 points by coolwulf 1 day ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. GitHub Copilot Session Search and Resume CLI (jonmagic.com)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by willf 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Made an eBPF syscall tracer with a live TUI (github.com/pandaadir05)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by pigeon1231 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Transcribe, analyse, and chat with your voice conversations (github.com/nezhar)
    ×0.29 | 1 points by nezhar 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Swiftpoint Z3: Do you need this much mouse? (swiftpoint.com)
    ×0.35 | 1 points by Exorust 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Hungary Is a Laboratory for Illiberal Nationalism. The Results Are In (cato.org)
    ×2.40 61 | 44 points by rwmj 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Linear RNN/Reservoir hybrid generative model, one C file (no deps.) (raw.githubusercontent.com)
    ×0.75 152 | 7 points by adinhitlore 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Investigating How Long-Distance Couples Use Digital Games to Facilitate Intimacy (arxiv.org)
    ×0.97 30 #17 | 57 points by radeeyate 8 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Keeping a Postgres Queue Healthy (planetscale.com)
    ×0.83 57 #69 | 104 points by tanelpoder 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Git fixup is magic (and Magit is too) (arialdomartini.github.io)
    ×0.29 | 1 points by birdculture 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. US – Iran negotiations end with no deal reached (nytimes.com)
    ×9.43 15 | 80 points by chirau 20 hours ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. New synthesis of astronomical measurements shows Hubble tension is real (noirlab.edu)
    ×1.11 40 | 73 points by anigbrowl 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024) (sam-burns.com)
    ×2.37 57 | 786 points by sam-bee 5 days ago | 238 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Unicode Steganography (patrickvuscan.com)
    ×0.57 119 | 58 points by PatrickVuscan 5 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack (stevehanov.ca)
    ×5.57 18 #39 | 813 points by tradertef 19 hours ago | 464 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. An Interview with Pat Gelsinger (morethanmoore.substack.com)
    ×0.81 48 #33 | 104 points by zdw 18 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: FluidCAD – Parametric CAD with JavaScript (fluidcad.io)
    ×1.06 50 | 152 points by maouida 2 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Steadcast – Free Mac podcast player for learning, not background noise (steadcast.co)
    ×2.84 144 | 7 points by steadcast 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Explore the Silk Roads through an interactive map (intofarlands.com)
    ×0.49 126 | 47 points by intofarlands 4 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Most people can't juggle one ball (lesswrong.com)
    ×1.81 12 #5 | 225 points by surprisetalk 8 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. We have a 99% email reputation. Gmail disagrees (wpcomstaging.com)
    ×1.82 28 #64 | 164 points by em-bee 12 hours ago | 165 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Open Source MCP server that refines prompts from retrieval evidence (github.com/farukalpay)
    ×3.15 54 | 4 points by Zelray0 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Gephi – The Open Graph Visualization Platform (gephi.org)
    ×0.69 | 2 points by maxloh 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Been building a multi-agent framework in public for 5 weeks, its been a Journey (github.com/AIOSAI)
    ×0.83 | 2 points by Input-X 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: ReverseYC (rocketplace.org)
    ×0.34 | 2 points by remarketme 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Unlegacy – document everything, from COBOL to AI generated code (unlegacy.ai)
    ×1.20 135 | 9 points by Absonsonson 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. IrDA (computer.rip)
    ×1.27 72 #48 | 7 points by Sniffnoy 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. AI Integration Pack: 9 Production Python Modules for Payments, CRM, SMS (gumroad.com)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by DruEdwards 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Most AI travel apps don't help you travel (navoy.io)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by tnaaron 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: 41 years sea surface temperature anomalies (willhelps.org)
    ×1.01 75 | 147 points by willmeyers 3 days ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Seven countries now generate 100% of their electricity from renewable energy (the-independent.com)
    ×3.48 6 #16 | 482 points by mpweiher 11 hours ago | 238 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Compute iOS XNU offset from kernel cache (reversesociety.co)
    ×0.43 68 #37 | 28 points by tonygo 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. 447 TB/cm² at zero retention energy – atomic-scale memory on fluorographane (zenodo.org)
    ×1.58 12 #71 | 258 points by iliatoli 1 day ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Waffle – Native macOS terminal that auto-tiles sessions into a grid (waffle.baby)
    ×1.84 62 | 38 points by olleeolleeollee 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work (github.com/arman-bd)
    ×3.50 67 | 914 points by armanified 1 week ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: I rebuilt a 2000s browser strategy game on Cloudflare's edge (kampfinsel.com)
    ×1.99 124 | 6 points by parzivalt 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play (bsky.app)
    ×3.97 6 #8 | 278 points by super256 5 hours ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Floyd's Sampling Algorithm (buttondown.com)
    ×0.70 44 #35 | 42 points by ibobev 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Anthropic’s Claude Mythos release created a Glomar Trap for customers and rivals (10io.com)
    ×0.78 | 2 points by anactofgod 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Israel Destroys Villages in Lebanon (theguardian.com)
    ×16.31 40 | 153 points by pera 15 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. The Grand Line (pilgrima.ge)
    ×1.39 26 | 55 points by momentmaker 22 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Finalrun – Spec-driven testing using English and vision for mobile apps (github.com/final-run)
    ×0.41 148 | 28 points by ashish004 5 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Jarvis for Audio Engineers (soorf.xyz)
    ×1.73 130 | 3 points by copypirate 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. '"one" | "two" | string' autocomplete TypeScript trick (jcbhmr.com)
    ×1.42 | 2 points by jcbhmr 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. ORAC-NT MedChem Copilot that blocks synthetically infeasible molecules (github.com/Kretski)
    ×0.36 | 1 points by DREDREG 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Vapephone (wefumevapes.com)
    ×0.31 | 1 points by wvlia5 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Apple update looks like Czech mate for locked-out iPhone user (theregister.com)
    ×4.38 59 | 324 points by OuterVale 16 hours ago | 211 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. 20 years on AWS and never not my job (daemonology.net)
    ×2.49 24 | 252 points by cperciva 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Real-Time OLAP Infrastructure (modolap.com)
    ×0.97 70 | 4 points by ronfriedhaber 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Android AI agent-assistant operating your apps (no adb,PC,root,etc.)
    ×0.64 | 2 points by sshnaidm1 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. I gave every train in New York an instrument (trainjazz.com)
    ×1.62 18 #7 | 198 points by joshuawolk 9 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Claude Opus 4.6 accuracy on BridgeBench hallucination test drops from 83% to 68% (twitter.com/bridgemindai)
    ×3.35 3 #45 | 35 points by bratao 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Scaling a Monolith to 1M LOC: 113 Pragmatic Lessons from Tech Lead to CTO (semicolonandsons.com)
    ×0.85 | 1 points by PaulHoule 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. A Macroeconomic Perspective on Stock Market Valuation Ratios (minneapolisfed.org)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by mooreds 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???