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  1. Tell HN: MitID, Denmark's digital ID, was down
    ×0.91 53 #45 | 134 points by mousepad12 1 day ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. I'm in Tehran, what do you think will be happen?
    ×2.27 23 #81 | 14 points by pajuhaan 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Israel Is Attacking Iran
    ×2.02 54 | 25 points by alsufinow 4 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users
    ×3.25 10 | 669 points by miki123211 2 days ago | 254 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Why are some websites locking or using the audio device on Windows?
    ×0.31 60 | 3 points by ezconnect 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Super Editor – Atomic file editor with automatic backups (Python and Go)
    ×0.24 77 | 5 points by larryste 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. I don't need AI to build me a new app. I need it to make Jira bearable
    ×0.53 103 | 20 points by niel_hu 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. 1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March
    ×2.82 89 | 145 points by otterley 3 days ago | 205 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How do you handle duplicate side effects when jobs, workflows retry?
    ×0.36 110 | 9 points by shineDaPoker 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. 36yo: Career at home vs. Simple life abroad?
    ×0.48 102 | 9 points by Slaboli 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. If you drive clock wise along the beach on an island
    ×0.34 96 | 7 points by Cookingboy 22 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: My competitor wants to buy us out, recommend a lawyer?
    ×0.40 122 | 6 points by VladVladikoff 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Who Is Using XMPP?
    ×0.38 118 | 23 points by nunobrito 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: 2026, where is the best place in the world to create a startup?
    ×0.32 94 | 3 points by wewewedxfgdf 12 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What's it like working in big tech recently with all the AI tools?
    ×0.90 116 | 21 points by ex-aws-dude 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. New Claude Code Feature "Remote Control"
    ×0.39 140 | 9 points by rob 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Starting a New Role with Ada
    ×0.53 130 | 10 points by NoNameHaveI 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. I built a 151k-node GraphRAG swarm that autonomously invents SDG solutions
    ×0.05 | 2 points by wisdomagi 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What will happen with Anthropics ultimatum?
    ×0.63 131 | 7 points by maniacwhat 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Anthropic has stood its ground. What excuse is left for other companies?
    ×0.99 78 | 5 points by chirau 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Claude Code Bug triggers Rate limits without usage
    ×0.11 141 | 3 points by busssard 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Comparing manual vs. AI requirements gathering: 2 sentences vs. 127-point spec
    ×0.22 142 | 3 points by thesssaism 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. How do you evaluate a person's ability to use AI?
    ×0.54 119 | 5 points by imwoody 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How do you think about financial runway before quitting?
    ×0.37 | 2 points by Rooksoni 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. LazyGravity – I made my phone control Antigravity so I never leave bed
    ×0.20 133 | 5 points by masaTokyo 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Comparing manual vs. AI requirements gathering: 2 sentences vs. 127-point spec
    ×0.36 145 | 7 points by thesssaism 4 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Could you create a competitor to your company at 10% of the cost?
    ×0.61 129 | 9 points by TheAlchemist 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Fix cron routes: POST → GET (Vercel cron sends GET)
    ×0.13 | 2 points by nishiohiroshi 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Who has seen productivity increases from AI
    ×0.44 137 | 12 points by Kapura 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Any DIY open-source Alexa/Google alternatives?
    ×0.30 143 | 9 points by personality0 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Have top AI research institutions just given up on the idea of safety?
    ×1.93 91 | 81 points by DietaryNonsense 2 days ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Persistent Prompts and Built in Search
    ×0.13 | 2 points by lazybusy 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Is it worth avoiding AI while making a game?
    ×0.78 144 | 7 points by 2muchclout 3 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Using "Hi Claudette " on Claude.ai
    ×0.17 146 | 4 points by mlongval 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Are AI "Chatbot Wrappers" ruining EdTech? I'm testing a proactive UX
    ×0.14 | 2 points by Swadesh9422 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: CBrowser – Simulate how a confused first-timer experiences your website (github.com/alexandriashai)
    ×1.28 114 | 3 points by alexandriaeden 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Analysis of the US and EU's Approach to AI in the Context of Human Rights (mervevarli.com)
    ×0.85 | 2 points by gyokhan 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: BananaOS, vibecoded operating system that boots on a 486 with ~11MB RAM
    ×2.86 87 | 8 points by madamdo 20 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Lazycal – Google Calendar TUI (github.com/pranavkarthik10)
    ×1.63 113 | 6 points by treexs 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: A CLI tool for agentic code review and auto-fixing (github.com/kenryu42)
    ×1.19 115 | 3 points by kenryu 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Modeling cycles of grift with evolutionary game theory (oranlooney.com)
    ×0.69 60 #46 | 96 points by ibobev 21 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Burger King will use AI to check if employees say 'please' and 'thank you' (theverge.com)
    ×5.04 76 | 77 points by JeanKage 2 days ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Launch HN: Cardboard (YC W26) – Agentic video editor (usecardboard.com)
    ×0.67 68 #82 | 129 points by sxmawl 1 day ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Telos – A structured context framework for humans and AI agents (github.com/noahatfin)
    ×0.73 | 2 points by wrencanfly 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Claude Code is changing my life (oliur.com)
    ×0.38 | 2 points by ingve 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Lenna attended the 50th Anniversary IS&T conference (lenna.org)
    ×0.38 | 2 points by Kiboneu 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: PDF reader with interactive visualizations for research papers (zerodistract.com)
    ×3.04 86 | 8 points by vignesh_warar 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Goatpad (goatpad.xyz)
    ×3.19 88 | 8 points by martialg 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Claude-File-Recovery, recover files from your ~/.claude sessions (github.com/hjtenklooster)
    ×0.55 43 #32 | 89 points by rikk3rt 17 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk (twitter.com/secwar)
    ×8.03 56 #64 | 1289 points by jacobedawson 15 hours ago | 1028 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Arrival Radar (entropicthoughts.com)
    ×0.89 126 | 4 points by kqr 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Usplus.ai – Build a company of AI agents and execute work autonomously (usplus.ai:443)
    ×0.65 | 2 points by usplusAI 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. The Download: how AI is shaking up Go, and a cybersecurity mystery (technologyreview.com)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by joozio 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: AI Agent Team Framework (github.com/danilocaffaro)
    ×0.26 | 1 points by caffaroai 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Windows Taskbar Monitor for Claude Code Usage (Rust, Open Source) (github.com/CodeZeno)
    ×0.36 | 1 points by codezeno 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. We gave terabytes of CI logs to an LLM (mendral.com)
    ×1.19 26 #35 | 203 points by shad42 22 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Allocating on the Stack (go.dev)
    ×0.95 31 #39 | 151 points by spacey 21 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. An AI agent coding skeptic tries AI agent coding, in excessive detail (minimaxir.com)
    ×1.95 49 #73 | 48 points by minimaxir 19 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. OpenAI Fires an Employee for Prediction Market Insider Trading (wired.com)
    ×2.40 78 | 6 points by bookofjoe 7 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. We Built a Compliant AI Companion Platform
    ×0.88 | 2 points by aiangels_24 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Grantex – Delegated authorization protocol for AI agents (github.com/mishrasanjeev)
    ×0.40 | 2 points by mishrasanjeev 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model (blog.google)
    ×3.53 5 | 600 points by davidbarker 1 day ago | 571 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: SVG Weave. A node graph editor that animates SVGs with AI (svgweave.com)
    ×1.29 108 | 4 points by imprakharshukla 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.08 18 #9 | 524 points by zlatkov 20 hours ago | 559 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Smartphone market forecast to decline this year due to memory shortage (idc.com)
    ×1.63 60 #58 | 267 points by littlexsparkee 1 day ago | 311 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Learning to Rewrite Tool Descriptions for Reliable LLM-Agent Tool Use (arxiv.org)
    ×0.96 | 2 points by Anon84 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Linex – A daily challenge: placing pieces on a board that fights back (playlinex.com)
    ×0.57 71 | 80 points by Humanista75 3 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: I built a local AI-powered Ouija board with a fine-tuned 3B model (github.com/SurceBeats)
    ×2.18 128 | 5 points by SurceBeats 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Ask HN: Will AI tools enable mass intelligence gathering?
    ×0.80 | 2 points by Brysonbw 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Why AI bots will never replace human code review (withmartian.com)
    ×0.87 | 2 points by TheAnkurTyagi 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Open source calculator firmware DB48X forbids CA/CO use due to age verification (github.com/c3d)
    ×1.16 37 #27 | 200 points by iamnothere 22 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. The quixotic team trying to build a world in a 20-year-old game (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.14 60 #60 | 121 points by nxobject 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Are self-driving cars safer than public transit? (thenextmile.substack.com)
    ×0.87 | 2 points by nkoren 24 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Expose – OSS localhost tunneling CLI with a self‑hosted server (github.com/kernelshard)
    ×0.37 | 1 points by samiulsk 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Story of XZ Backdoor [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.16 63 | 136 points by Ulf950 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: CarbonLint – Open-source real-time energy&carbon profiler for software (nishal21.github.io)
    ×0.74 | 2 points by nishalk 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Now I Get It – Translate scientific papers into interactive webpages (nowigetit.us)
    ×2.97 60 | 4 points by jbdamask 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. A better streams API is possible for JavaScript (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.64 25 #18 | 426 points by nnx 23 hours ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. The complete Manic Miner disassembly (skoolkit.ca)
    ×0.94 54 | 71 points by sandebert 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Peace? (1814) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.60 | 2 points by JumpCrisscross 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. I don't pay for ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, or Claude – I stick to my self-h (xda-developers.com)
    ×0.84 | 1 points by teembeet 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Ghostty.style – web gallery of Ghostty themes (ghostty-style.vercel.app)
    ×0.78 | 2 points by mrled 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Crypto volume anomaly scanner – a token at 127x its daily market cap (wykr.es)
    ×0.57 | 2 points by agenthustler 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: I made a website to write online math as fast as paper (scratchpad-math.com)
    ×0.88 97 | 3 points by maxtobiasen 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Breaking Free (forbrukerradet.no)
    ×1.48 44 #52 | 188 points by Aissen 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. An interactive intro to quadtrees (growingswe.com)
    ×1.48 36 #53 | 208 points by evakhoury 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Tesla Just Made the Biggest Bet in Industrial History [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by DeathArrow 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Qt45: A small polymerase ribozyme that can synthesize itself (science.org)
    ×0.61 36 #20 | 101 points by ppnpm 14 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Stop Burning Your Context Window – How We Cut MCP Output by 98% in Claude Code (mksg.lu)
    ×1.07 51 #41 | 6 points by mksglu 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription? (openai.com)
    ×7.65 89 | 927 points by tobr 8 hours ago | 225 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???