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  1. 10 months since the Llama-4 release: what happened to Meta AI?
    ×0.49 | 2 points by Invictus0 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Anyone Using a Mac Studio for Local AI/LLM?
    ×0.38 7 #81 | 11 points by UmYeahNo 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Anyone Seeing YT ads related to chats on ChatGPT?
    ×0.42 | 2 points by guhsnamih 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Does global decoupling from the USA signal comeback of the desktop app?
    ×0.31 51 | 3 points by wewewedxfgdf 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)
    ×0.78 88 | 138 points by whoishiring 3 days ago | 470 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Is it just me or are most businesses insane?
    ×1.00 | 2 points by justenough 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Tell HN: Another round of Zendesk email spam
    ×0.98 32 | 103 points by Philpax 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)
    ×1.23 68 | 308 points by whoishiring 3 days ago | 494 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Has your whole engineering team gone big into AI coding? How's it going?
    ×0.93 78 | 15 points by jchung 23 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Is Connecting via SSH Risky?
    ×0.53 80 | 17 points by atrevbot 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How Did You Validate?
    ×0.10 83 | 4 points by haute_cuisine 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Mem0 stores memories, but doesn't learn user patterns
    ×0.41 104 | 9 points by fliellerjulian 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. We built a serverless GPU inference platform with predictable latency
    ×0.44 107 | 5 points by QubridAI 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Test management tools for automation heavy teams
    ×0.39 | 2 points by Divyakurian 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Is there anyone here who still uses slide rules?
    ×1.16 77 | 120 points by blenderob 2 days ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Kernighan on Programming
    ×1.79 82 | 168 points by chrisjj 3 days ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Are "provably fair" JavaScript games trustless?
    ×0.36 | 2 points by rishi_blockrand 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Cheap laptop for Linux without GUI (for writing)
    ×0.81 122 | 14 points by locusofself 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Datacenter capex gravy train is over
    ×2.51 9 | 6 points by zerosizedweasle 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Will crypto currencies survive past this market downturn?
    ×0.38 58 | 4 points by halamadrid 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Where does operational truth live before it reaches "systems of record"?
    ×0.30 140 | 3 points by former-aws 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Have you been fired because of AI?
    ×1.57 131 | 16 points by s-stude 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Anyone have a "sovereign" solution for phone calls?
    ×0.72 147 | 10 points by kldg 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: OpenClaw users, what is your token spend?
    ×0.88 138 | 14 points by 8cvor6j844qw_d6 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. YC S26 Application: "Attach a coding agent session you're particularly proud of"
    ×0.23 136 | 4 points by simplydt 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: When will LLMs generate professional-level CAD models?
    ×0.56 111 | 8 points by dsrtslnd23 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Has anybody moved their local community off of Facebook groups?
    ×0.86 141 | 22 points by madsohm 3 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. GitHub Actions Have "Major Outage"
    ×2.29 108 | 52 points by graton 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Are ISPs "evil" and who runs the Internet?
    ×0.42 128 | 6 points by tavro 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. How do you manage context/memory across multiple AI tools?
    ×0.29 123 | 7 points by arapkuliev 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: What weird or scrappy things did you do to get your first users?
    ×0.96 149 | 13 points by preston-kwei 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Are you still using spec driven development?
    ×0.61 170 | 6 points by cherry_tree 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Why do people still talk about AGI?
    ×1.17 126 | 42 points by cermicelli 4 days ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Tech Debt War Stories
    ×0.36 145 | 6 points by erubini_fg 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. My small SaaS got recommended my Google in the AI search overview
    ×0.50 175 | 4 points by kaave 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Does a good "read it later" app exist?
    ×0.37 154 | 5 points by buchanae 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: What serious task have you accomplished with Moltbot / OpenClaw?
    ×0.88 165 | 12 points by lukol 4 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Signal Is Down
    ×2.09 99 | 41 points by Daniel_sk 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: Why dead code detection in Python is harder than most tools admit
    ×0.84 167 | 6 points by duriantaco 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: Anyone else struggle with how to learn coding in the AI era?
    ×2.08 102 | 51 points by 44Bulldog 3 days ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: Where do all the web devs talk?
    ×1.64 101 | 56 points by LinguaBrowse 3 days ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ask HN: Does anyone have interests in anything besides AI?
    ×2.32 91 | 11 points by drsalt 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
    ×1.35 151 | 7 points by iryndin 2 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Ask HN: Who is firing? (February 2026)
    ×3.88 127 | 25 points by chalmovsky 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Google terminated my YouTube channel even thought I made no videos or used it
    ×1.16 146 | 6 points by paulpauper 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. CiderStack – Native macOS VM manager, pay once, no subscription
    ×0.79 172 | 5 points by ciderdev 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. What if writing tests was a joyful experience? (2023) (janestreet.com)
    ×1.11 19 #22 | 49 points by ryanhn 7 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. The Wyden Siren: Senator's Cryptic CIA Letter Pattern Has Never Been Wrong (techdirt.com)
    ×3.65 31 #73 | 97 points by hn_acker 11 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Open-Source Software in the Age of AI (johnloeber.com)
    ×0.83 | 2 points by serviette 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Loneliness is a design flaw, not a character flaw (openenough.com)
    ×4.01 59 | 6 points by truenfel 58 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. I shipped 706 commits in 5 days with Taskwarrior and Claude Code
    ×0.36 | 1 points by neilbb 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. It's 2026, Just Use Postgres (tigerdata.com)
    ×3.79 87 | 470 points by turtles3 8 hours ago | 284 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Petition for Recognition of Work on Open-Source as Volunteering in Germany (openpetition.de)
    ×3.34 36 | 212 points by numeri 2 days ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Octosphere, a tool to decentralise scientific publishing (octosphere.social)
    ×0.55 90 | 63 points by crimsoneer 2 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone (twitter.com/lizziejohnsonnn)
    ×7.80 46 | 68 points by doener 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: difi – A Git diff TUI with Neovim integration (written in Go) (github.com/oug-t)
    ×0.61 98 | 45 points by oug-t 2 days ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: SendRec – Open-source, EU-hosted alternative to Loom (sendrec.eu)
    ×1.26 176 | 3 points by alexneamtu 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Animated Knots (animatedknots.com)
    ×1.63 6 #9 | 115 points by ostacke 7 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: T87s – LLM-optimized cache invalidation with ACID consistency (t87s.dev)
    ×0.80 | 1 points by mikesol 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Extension to Fix YT Background Play (microsoft.com)
    ×0.99 | 2 points by carlosj 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Claude Opus 4.6 (anthropic.com)
    ×6.80 #1 | 1757 points by HellsMaddy 11 hours ago | 744 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler (anthropic.com)
    ×2.95 2 #4 | 462 points by modeless 10 hours ago | 422 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Microsoft's Copilot chatbot is running into problems (wsj.com)
    ×2.01 17 #77 | 289 points by fortran77 1 day ago | 366 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Generative Pen-Trained Transformer (theodore.net)
    ×1.83 30 | 3 points by Twarner 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: I built "AI Wattpad" to eval LLMs on fiction (narrator.sh)
    ×0.61 106 | 31 points by jauws 2 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Nocterm – Flutter-inspired TUI framework with hot reload (Dart) (nocterm.dev)
    ×1.75 133 | 5 points by norbert515 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Advancing finance with Claude Opus 4.6 (claude.com)
    ×1.38 8 #42 | 142 points by da_grift_shift 11 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Voxtral Transcribe 2 (mistral.ai)
    ×3.70 9 #54 | 984 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 237 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Study: Meta AI model can reproduce almost half of Harry Potter book (arstechnica.com)
    ×0.39 | 1 points by throwoutway 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Why This Computer Scientist Says All Cryptocurrency Should "Die in a Fire" (2022) (currentaffairs.org)
    ×3.84 57 | 73 points by bediger4000 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: A text format for UI wireframes – comparing token costs across 4 format (github.com/enlinks-llc)
    ×1.07 116 | 4 points by enlinks 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Interactive California Budget (By Claude Code) (california-budget.com)
    ×0.83 72 | 39 points by sberens 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. VC-Backed Startups Are Low Status (mhdempsey.substack.com)
    ×2.38 44 | 3 points by kstonekuan 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. It's All a Blur (lcamtuf.substack.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by zdw 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. HN Reposted – multiple posts about the same thing (dosaygo.com)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by keepamovin 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. I Gave Claude Code Infinity Gauntlet of LLMs (github.com/Pickle-Pixel)
    ×0.95 | 2 points by picklepixel 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: OpenSymbolicAI – Agents with typed variables, not just context stuffing
    ×0.79 | 2 points by rksart 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product (simonberens.com)
    ×3.34 12 #80 | 815 points by sberens 2 days ago | 402 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Major political upheaval in Japan? Sanae Takaichi may dissolve the Diet
    ×0.40 | 1 points by jocelyner 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Russia 'intercepts Europe's key satellites' (satnews.com)
    ×2.74 25 | 62 points by cal85 22 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Open-source semantic search over your local notes via CLI (github.com/chenxin-yan)
    ×0.61 158 | 9 points by jellyotsiro 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: My Open Source Deep Research tools beats Google and I can Prove it (github.com/IamLumae)
    ×1.53 161 | 17 points by LutumVeritas 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. My AI Adoption Journey (mitchellh.com)
    ×2.95 4 #3 | 462 points by anurag 10 hours ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. The RCE that AMD won't fix (mrbruh.com)
    ×2.83 2 #13 | 116 points by MrBruh 6 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. India's female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI (theguardian.com)
    ×2.75 36 #69 | 54 points by thisislife2 6 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. When Bad UI Design Kills: China Bans Flush Car Door Handles (core77.com)
    ×0.90 | 1 points by fortran77 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Bardo Thodol (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.55 20 | 5 points by toomuchtodo 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Flock CEO calls Deflock a “terrorist organization” (2025) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×5.73 34 #39 | 576 points by cdrnsf 10 hours ago | 399 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. A few CPU hardware bugs (taricorp.net)
    ×0.97 42 #59 | 117 points by signa11 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Axiomeer – An open marketplace for AI agents (github.com/ujjwalredd)
    ×0.29 168 | 6 points by ujjwalreddyks 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???