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  1. Ask HN: Are there examples of 3D printing data onto physical surfaces?
    ×0.31 45 #27 | 33 points by catapart 7 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Thank HN: You helped save 33k lives
    ×4.63 19 #47 | 1060 points by chaseadam17 21 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Tell HN: We analyzed our dev time.80% is still infrastructure'setup',notfeatures
    ×1.43 19 | 11 points by thesssaism 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: How do you debug multi-step AI workflows when the output is wrong?
    ×0.67 88 | 3 points by terryjiang2020 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How do you motivate your humans to stop AI-washing their emails?
    ×0.54 80 | 26 points by causal 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Any AI / Agent power users out there? Do you have any tips?
    ×0.30 104 | 3 points by uejfiweun 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How do you overcome imposter syndrome?
    ×0.58 96 | 7 points by fdneng 18 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Claude web blocked its assets visit via csp?
    ×0.48 106 | 6 points by xgstation 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Why is my Claude experience so bad? What am I doing wrong?
    ×0.92 107 | 78 points by moomoo11 5 days ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Tell HN: Attackers using Google parental controls to prevent account recovery
    ×1.10 78 | 12 points by TazeTSchnitzel 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Watching an elderly relative trying to use the modern web
    ×0.89 92 | 44 points by ColinWright 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Top non-ad google result for "polymarket" in Australia is a crypto scam
    ×0.40 122 | 16 points by rtrgrd 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Companies that advertise being a "best place to work", is it a red flag?
    ×0.32 118 | 12 points by jrs235 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Picknar – Lightweight YouTube Thumbnail Extractor (No Login, No API Key)
    ×0.09 | 2 points by Picknar 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Grand Time: Time-Based Models in Decentralized Trust
    ×0.38 | 2 points by AGsist 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How do companies that use Cursor handle compliance?
    ×0.43 119 | 8 points by Poomba 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Why is YouTube's recommendation system so bad?
    ×0.83 117 | 14 points by mr-pink 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Do global AGENTS.md with coding principles make sense?
    ×0.26 129 | 4 points by endorphine 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Ranking sliders on a personal blog?
    ×0.46 127 | 13 points by incognito124 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Info on the 1982 Apple 2 text game Abuse?
    ×0.17 134 | 6 points by jmount 4 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. What web businesses will continue to make money post AI?
    ×0.39 128 | 15 points by surume 3 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Stripe is asking for bank statements to check financial health
    ×0.60 132 | 10 points by kinj28 4 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Tell HN: Microsoft Edge self-destroys updating it in Debian based distros
    ×0.28 125 | 8 points by usr1106 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Share your vibe coded project
    ×0.35 133 | 5 points by firefoxd 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Want to move to use a "dumb" phone. How to make the switch?
    ×0.77 130 | 12 points by absoluteunit1 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: LLMs helping you read papers and books
    ×0.55 131 | 8 points by amelius 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Exceptionally well-written research papers in CS/ML/AI?
    ×0.57 135 | 6 points by b3rkus 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: What happens after the AI bubble bursts?
    ×1.11 108 | 39 points by 101008 2 days ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: SQL-tap – Real-time SQL traffic viewer for PostgreSQL and MySQL (github.com/mickamy)
    ×1.24 100 | 231 points by mickamy 4 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Trained YOLOX from scratch to avoid Ultralytics (aircraft detection) (austinsnerdythings.com)
    ×0.90 | 2 points by auspiv 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Fastest Front End Tooling for Humans and AI (cpojer.net)
    ×1.01 19 #21 | 70 points by cpojer 7 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Improved web search with dynamic filtering (claude.com)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by softwaredoug 20 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Gemini lies to user about health info, says it wanted to make him feel better (theregister.com)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by geekinchief 38 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. LCM: Lossless Context Management [pdf] (voltropy.com)
    ×1.04 82 | 79 points by ClintEhrlich 2 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Owoa – Image watermarking resistant to camera capture (owoa.app)
    ×1.48 59 | 3 points by wodoshio 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Simple org-mode web adapter (github.com/SpaceTurth)
    ×0.52 93 | 61 points by turth 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning (arthurcnops.blog)
    ×3.19 10 #84 | 499 points by acnops 1 day ago | 408 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Use protocols, not services (notnotp.com)
    ×2.80 39 | 306 points by enz 2 days ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Semantic ablation: Why AI writing is generic and boring (theregister.com)
    ×3.15 2 | 268 points by benji8000 1 day ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Agent Paperclip: A Desktop "Clippy" That Monitors Claude Code/Codex (github.com/fredruss)
    ×1.17 | 2 points by fredrussias 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Breadboard – A modern HyperCard for building web apps on the canvas (breadboards.io)
    ×0.87 45 #46 | 68 points by simquat 13 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Use Microsoft Office Shortcuts in Libre Office (github.com/Zaki101Aslam)
    ×0.80 45 #73 | 64 points by Zaki101Aslam 19 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: See – searchable JSON compression, smaller than ZSTD (on our data) (github.com/kodomonocch1)
    ×0.71 | 1 points by Tetsuro 11 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Nedagram – Transfer Text Over Sound, when internet isn't available (nedagram.com)
    ×1.79 63 | 3 points by shayanbahal 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Native FreeBSD Kerberos/LDAP with FreeIPA/IDM (wordpress.com)
    ×0.71 23 #19 | 89 points by vermaden 8 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Knock-Knock.net – Visualizing the bots knocking on my server's door (knock-knock.net)
    ×1.69 83 | 222 points by djkurlander 3 days ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. How LLM agents endanger open-source projects (cusy.io)
    ×0.95 70 #77 | 4 points by lumpa 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Cistercian Numbers (omniglot.com)
    ×0.98 9 #14 | 31 points by debo_ 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. 14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×3.55 10 #80 | 913 points by bookofjoe 2 days ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Trust Protocols for Anthropic/OpenAI/Gemini (mnemom.ai)
    ×0.90 17 #22 | 17 points by alexgarden 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Google Public CA is down (pki.goog)
    ×3.11 13 #67 | 272 points by aloknnikhil 18 hours ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. The Secret Life of Vector Generators (2001) (jmargolin.com)
    ×0.40 50 #71 | 23 points by mosura 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can't Trust His Testimony (techoversight.org)
    ×6.33 70 #74 | 455 points by speckx 6 hours ago | 283 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Discord Rival Gets Overwhelmed by Exodus of Players Fleeing Age-Verification (kotaku.com)
    ×2.53 8 | 253 points by thunderbong 1 day ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Long-term unemployment is becoming 'a status quo' in today's job market (cnbc.com)
    ×5.35 66 | 83 points by rustoo 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Scanned 1927-1945 Daily USFS Work Diary (forestrydiary.com)
    ×0.79 61 | 116 points by dogline 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: AsteroidOS 2.0 – Nobody asked, we shipped anyway (asteroidos.org)
    ×1.97 #55 | 444 points by moWerk 23 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. I swear the UFO is coming any minute (experimental-history.com)
    ×1.58 12 #70 | 171 points by Ariarule 21 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Portabase 1.2.7: Large database backup support, UI/UX improvements
    ×0.97 | 1 points by rambokdev 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. The Cassidy Report on the FDA (marginalrevolution.com)
    ×1.61 | 2 points by paulpauper 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Unauthorized of Cline CLI with modified postinstall script to install OpenClaw (github.com/cline)
    ×1.47 | 2 points by tamnd 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. The Chessmate: Live6 Program Video (detroitsound.org)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by marysminefnuf 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Phoenix pay system fiasco: 10 years of mistakes and lessons (cbc.ca)
    ×2.87 8 #36 | 3 points by Teever 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Nature: The political effects of X's feed algorithm (nature.com)
    ×2.25 23 #57 | 8 points by bhouston 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Escape the AI junk crowding your social media and music streams (apnews.com)
    ×0.62 30 | 3 points by devonnull 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Value extraction (keygen.sh)
    ×1.48 | 2 points by ezekg 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Tesla 'Robotaxi' adds 5 more crashes in Austin in a month – 4x worse than humans (electrek.co)
    ×7.15 34 | 446 points by Bender 1 day ago | 254 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. The Future of AI Software Development (martinfowler.com)
    ×2.93 33 #38 | 154 points by nthypes 3 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Clawy, a companion device to track your Claude Code sessions (clawy.lol)
    ×2.57 35 | 5 points by mrcv 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Chained Assignment in Python Bytecode (loriculus.org)
    ×0.32 53 #34 | 17 points by wenderen 6 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Popcorn Time R3 – The Reboot on Ethereum (bitcoin-zero-down-2ea152.gitlab.io)
    ×1.80 | 2 points by machardmachard 9 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Starting Feb 24, 2026: check out our new site design at beta.stackoverflow.com (stackoverflow.com)
    ×1.36 | 2 points by nickorlow 35 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: I replaced Grafana+Prometheus with a Go binary and SSH for my VPSs (github.com/thobiasn)
    ×1.74 12 | 3 points by thobiasn 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Bashtorio – Factorio-Like in the Browser Backed by a Linux VM (bashtorio.xyz)
    ×1.97 85 | 14 points by elijahcham 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: A real-time chord identifier web app using the Web MIDI API (backwater.systems)
    ×0.93 121 | 4 points by nate-gehringer 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Countries that do not embrace AI could be left behind, saysOpenAI'sGeorgeOsborne (theguardian.com)
    ×1.47 | 2 points by chrisjj 39 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Ppisp: Cleaner Representations of Gaussian Splats and NeRFs (nvidia.com)
    ×2.11 9 #43 | 3 points by totalview 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Assistant to the Regional Manager (paulbloom.net)
    ×1.01 42 #66 | 109 points by NaOH 23 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: I built a "Socratic" AI to stop my daughter from copy-pasting homework (thinkqurio.com)
    ×1.16 51 #88 | 23 points by qurio_dev 14 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: CGK – Provably Preventing Overcommit in Distributed Capacity Markets (distributed-markets-overcommit.github.io)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by XheCarpenXer 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: LockFS (github.com/ghost-in-a-jar-00)
    ×1.14 | 2 points by 0xGhostInAJar 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: How I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard (hawksley.org)
    ×2.10 102 | 5 points by hawksley 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Elvish as She Is Spoke [pdf] (elvish.org)
    ×0.92 24 #42 | 62 points by BerislavLopac 10 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Q12 – A constraint-based 2D drawing tool (q12.app)
    ×3.08 43 | 4 points by Evenedric 36 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Senior Devs Reportedly Being Replaced by Monkeys with Typewriters (monkeyswithtypewriters.com)
    ×1.48 | 2 points by briarcoastal 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: I built a tool to un-dumb Claude Code's CLI output (Local Log Viewer) (github.com/matt1398)
    ×1.42 70 | 69 points by matt1398 5 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Listen to sounds around the world and guess the location (vikborges.com)
    ×1.37 123 | 3 points by bit_nomad 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Beautiful interactive explainers generated with Claude Code (paraschopra.github.io)
    ×1.75 7 | 40 points by paraschopra 12 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. The Small English Town Swept Up in the Global AI Arms Race (wired.com)
    ×0.71 | 1 points by edward 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. State of Show HN: 2025 (sturdystatistics.com)
    ×0.91 65 | 130 points by kianN 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???