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  1. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2026)
    ×0.56 86 | 123 points by whoishiring 2 days ago | 357 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: Digital Ocean has run out of GPU droplets
    ×0.37 41 | 9 points by nathannaveen 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Maintainers, do LLM-only users often clutter your issues/PRs?
    ×0.27 50 | 6 points by lucrbvi 6 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026)
    ×0.83 63 | 239 points by whoishiring 2 days ago | 352 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: If your project is free, what are you building and why keep it free?
    ×0.52 64 | 5 points by LeanVibe 7 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Why has ChatGPT disabled links to websites?
    ×0.43 71 | 6 points by krschacht 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How do you find contracting/freelance roles without recruiters nowadays?
    ×0.84 49 | 3 points by Gooblebrai 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. I lost my ability to learn anything new because of AI and I need your opinions
    ×1.02 94 | 17 points by dokdev 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How are you all staying sane?
    ×4.64 89 | 144 points by throwaway53463 2 days ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What's your experience self-hosting in 2026?
    ×1.64 88 | 25 points by rustcore 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What will OpenAI employees do now who have signed notdividedorg petition
    ×0.88 113 | 17 points by Imustaskforhelp 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Tell HN: I got Claude Max for my open source project
    ×0.51 95 | 8 points by asim 16 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What sources like HN do you consume?
    ×0.85 114 | 53 points by DavidHaerer 2 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What prompt do you use to get Claude to consistently render LaTeX?
    ×0.24 127 | 5 points by TobyTheCamel 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What Online LLM / Chat do you use?
    ×0.59 129 | 12 points by ddxv 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What is the "Control Plane" for local AI agents?
    ×0.48 105 | 7 points by denis4inet 19 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: How many of you hold an amateur radio license in your country?
    ×0.60 | 2 points by ToddWBurgess 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How is Claude agent experience in Xcode 26.3?
    ×0.78 123 | 8 points by malshe 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Whats Up with Claude Lately?
    ×1.70 117 | 19 points by mech422 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Would engineers be interested in a technical prep consultant?
    ×0.71 146 | 8 points by TechPrepper 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Facebook Appears to Be Down
    ×0.59 101 | 13 points by Molitor5901 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Who still works async and has a 'no meetings' work policy in 2026?
    ×0.67 132 | 7 points by RaulOnRails 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Aura-State: Formally Verified LLM State Machine Compiler
    ×0.14 162 | 4 points by rohanmunshi08 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Tell HN: GitHub Having Issues
    ×1.39 70 | 52 points by Sytten 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: How Do Emergency Alerts on Phone Work?
    ×0.54 151 | 5 points by rishikeshs 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Google violates its 14-day deprecation policy for Gemini 3 Pro Preview
    ×0.61 130 | 5 points by goolulusaurs 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. I have $10k+ in cloud credits and want to turn them into a real business
    ×0.29 153 | 3 points by Palominocoq 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Codex CLI error reveals "GPT-5.4-ab-arm2" string
    ×1.10 140 | 8 points by quantisan 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: How are you structuring Markdown-based context for AI coding agents?
    ×0.13 | 2 points by lepuski 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Tell HN: My daily game won a Players Choice Award
    ×0.66 156 | 21 points by paulhebert 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: How to approach new people in 2026?
    ×0.46 158 | 11 points by tavro 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. A timeline of cyber attacks:home users, contractors, and SMBs are now targets
    ×0.50 159 | 4 points by EricAUS 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. BlackTape – open-source music discovery built on MusicBrainz and Discogs
    ×1.33 143 | 8 points by Blacktape 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: How did you figure out what research field you were passionate about?
    ×1.42 147 | 7 points by aabiji 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Gobble – Yet Another OSS Alternative to Google Analytics/PostHog, etc. (github.com/inventhq)
    ×0.66 | 2 points by vishinvents 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: We want to displace Notion with collaborative Markdown files (moment.dev)
    ×3.86 93 | 27 points by antics 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Herniated disc made me build a back-safe kettlebell app (kbemom.com)
    ×0.70 | 2 points by blacktarmac 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. GPT‑5.3 Instant (openai.com)
    ×1.72 13 #73 | 387 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 296 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Thoughts and Observationsp on the MacBook Neo (daringfireball.net)
    ×0.77 | 1 points by alwillis 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ars Technica fires reporter after AI controversy involving fabricated quotes (futurism.com)
    ×2.72 22 | 593 points by danso 1 day ago | 375 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Visual Lambda Calculus – a thesis project (2008) revived for the web (github.com/bntre)
    ×0.77 100 | 49 points by bntr 4 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: I built a zero-browser, pure-JS typesetting engine for bit-perfect PDFs (github.com/cosmiciron)
    ×1.74 110 | 77 points by cosmiciron 3 days ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. MacBook Neo (apple.com)
    ×6.42 1 #1 | 1389 points by dm 9 hours ago | 1742 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Building a new Flash (newgrounds.com)
    ×2.59 2 #2 | 161 points by TechPlasma 3 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Workers at top US low-wage firms rely on public assistance, report says (theguardian.com)
    ×2.57 14 #90 | 28 points by i7l 6 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: FixYou – AI tool that tells you which cancer screenings you need (fixyou.app)
    ×0.66 | 2 points by forrestzhong 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. The Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.42 | 2 points by CPLX 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. We've freed Cookie's Bustle from copyright hell (gamehistory.org)
    ×1.32 38 | 135 points by sb057 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Bashd – Helper scripts for bulk CLI file management (github.com/terpinedream)
    ×0.52 | 2 points by terpinedream 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Apcher – Generate self-hosted Node.js workflows from prompts (apcher.dev)
    ×0.86 150 | 3 points by Samueedwards1 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: A Puzzle Game Based on Non-Commutative Operations (commutators.games)
    ×0.90 160 | 3 points by alius 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Indefinite Book Club Hiatus (scalzi.com)
    ×1.43 47 #72 | 77 points by cdrnsf 19 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Blue Brain Nexus – A knowledge graph for data-driven science (github.com/BlueBrain)
    ×1.04 | 2 points by sigalor 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Upload test cases and get automated Playwright tests back (instantqa.ai)
    ×0.68 | 2 points by ksurace 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Rust compiler in PHP emitting x86-64 executables (github.com/mrconter1)
    ×0.98 65 #62 | 57 points by mrconter11 17 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Physics Girl: Super-Kamiokande – Imaging the sun by detecting neutrinos [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.32 10 #89 | 503 points by pcdavid 1 day ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. What Happens When an AI Evaluates a Site About AI Accuracy (unratified.org)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by 9wzYQbTYsAIc 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Payment fees matter more than you think (cuencahighlife.com)
    ×1.29 48 | 100 points by dxs 1 day ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Iran war wreaking havoc on shipping and air cargo, could create global delays (theregister.com)
    ×3.44 28 | 86 points by Bender 11 hours ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Audio Toolkit for Agents (github.com/shiehn)
    ×0.59 120 | 57 points by stevehiehn 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. “It turns out” (2010) (jsomers.net)
    ×1.46 2 #13 | 222 points by Munksgaard 8 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. MyFirst Kids Watch Hacked. Access to Camera and Microphone (kth.se)
    ×1.12 22 #26 | 103 points by jidoka 10 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Father claims Google's AI product fuelled son's delusional spiral (bbc.com)
    ×3.02 34 #40 | 155 points by tartoran 3 hours ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Buckle Up for Bumpier Skies (newyorker.com)
    ×0.87 77 | 91 points by littlexsparkee 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Glyph, a local-first Markdown notes app for macOS built with Rust (glyphformac.com)
    ×1.89 91 | 6 points by skarat 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: An MCP server for the docs of any repo that uses Sphinx (github.com/AUrbanec)
    ×1.26 109 | 3 points by btcalex 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Did Alibaba just kneecap its powerful Qwen AI team? (venturebeat.com)
    ×2.43 30 #74 | 127 points by GTP 10 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Visualize your context in AI chat (99helpers.com)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by nickk81 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for "Armageddon," (jonathanlarsen.substack.com)
    ×12.73 67 | 132 points by fzeroracer 1 day ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Porn depicting sex between step-relatives set to be banned in the UK (lbc.co.uk)
    ×3.45 68 | 79 points by GaryBluto 1 day ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. My spicy take on vibe coding for PMs (ddmckinnon.com)
    ×1.73 43 #61 | 180 points by dmckinno 23 hours ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. MacBook Neo commercial, how did they do it? (reddit.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by mollynpaan 42 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. MacBook Neo Compromises (macrumors.com)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by dabinat 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Hanaco Garden – A Calm iOS Garden (apple.com)
    ×0.94 124 | 4 points by tsuyoshi_k 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Most-read tech publications have lost over half their Google traffic since 2024 (growtika.com)
    ×1.88 35 | 226 points by Growtika 1 day ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Claude-File-Recovery, recover files from your ~/.claude sessions (github.com/hjtenklooster)
    ×0.57 128 | 99 points by rikk3rt 5 days ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: SplatHash – A lightweight alternative to BlurHash and ThumbHash (github.com/junevm)
    ×0.48 135 | 60 points by unsorted2270 4 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Why the Best AI Engineers Are Former Managers (tolans.com)
    ×2.35 21 | 4 points by jshchnz 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Claude is an Electron App because we've lost native (tonsky.me)
    ×3.06 33 | 190 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 237 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Open-Source Article 12 Logging Infrastructure for the EU AI Act
    ×0.41 80 | 42 points by systima 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Cloudwright – validate, cost, and export cloud architectures from text (github.com/xmpuspus)
    ×1.12 99 | 6 points by xmpuspus 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Weave – A language aware merge algorithm based on entities (github.com/Ataraxy-Labs)
    ×1.30 44 #52 | 172 points by rs545837 21 hours ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. I made a website where you can: Scan a bill. Split it fairly. No app needed (snapfair.pages.dev)
    ×1.77 | 2 points by Herliken 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Morgan Stanley lays off 2,500 employees across all divisions (reuters.com)
    ×6.90 73 | 12 points by rvz 51 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Pg_stat_ch: A PostgreSQL extension that exports every metric to ClickHouse (clickhouse.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by samaysharma 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Chinese Cigs (ciggies.app)
    ×1.02 | 2 points by sschnei8 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Nova – AI terminal that writes, fixes, and ships your code
    ×1.25 118 | 3 points by Bridgeye 15 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: PingMeBud – A macOS app that listens to meetings so you don't have to (pingmebud.com)
    ×0.57 | 2 points by spaceman3 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Now I Get It – Translate scientific papers into interactive webpages (nowigetit.us)
    ×1.47 98 | 300 points by jbdamask 4 days ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Humans 40k yrs ago developed a system of conventional signs (pnas.org)
    ×1.12 18 #7 | 39 points by bikenaga 3 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???