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  1. Ask HN: Will Crypto Currencies survive past this market downturn?
    ×0.34 | 2 points by halamadrid 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: Another round of Zendesk email spam
    ×1.01 30 | 103 points by Philpax 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Has your whole engineering team gone big into AI coding? How's it going?
    ×1.02 69 | 14 points by jchung 17 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: How Did You Validate?
    ×0.10 61 | 4 points by haute_cuisine 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)
    ×0.78 95 | 136 points by whoishiring 3 days ago | 454 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Is Connecting via SSH Risky?
    ×0.52 75 | 16 points by atrevbot 19 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)
    ×1.23 74 | 307 points by whoishiring 3 days ago | 486 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Mem0 stores memories, but doesn't learn user patterns
    ×0.43 106 | 9 points by fliellerjulian 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. We built a serverless GPU inference platform with predictable latency
    ×0.49 100 | 5 points by QubridAI 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Do you still use physical calculators?
    ×0.76 102 | 58 points by speedylight 5 days ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Is there anyone here who still uses slide rules?
    ×1.16 83 | 120 points by blenderob 2 days ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Google Cloud suspended my account for 2 years, only automated replies
    ×1.42 116 | 159 points by andylizf 5 days ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Kernighan on Programming
    ×1.79 90 | 167 points by chrisjj 3 days ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Where does operational truth live before it reaches "systems of record"?
    ×0.32 143 | 3 points by former-aws 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Cheap laptop for Linux without GUI (for writing)
    ×0.84 131 | 14 points by locusofself 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. YC S26 Application: "Attach a coding agent session you're particularly proud of"
    ×0.23 141 | 4 points by simplydt 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: When will LLMs generate professional-level CAD models?
    ×0.58 115 | 8 points by dsrtslnd23 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Anyone have a "sovereign" solution for phone calls?
    ×0.74 155 | 10 points by kldg 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Have you been fired because of AI?
    ×1.65 148 | 16 points by s-stude 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: OpenClaw users, what is your token spend?
    ×0.90 153 | 14 points by 8cvor6j844qw_d6 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Are ISPs "evil" and who runs the Internet?
    ×0.43 132 | 6 points by tavro 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. How do you manage context/memory across multiple AI tools?
    ×0.30 129 | 7 points by arapkuliev 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Has anybody moved their local community off of Facebook groups?
    ×0.88 156 | 22 points by madsohm 3 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. GitHub Actions Have "Major Outage"
    ×2.32 117 | 52 points by graton 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: What weird or scrappy things did you do to get your first users?
    ×0.98 159 | 13 points by preston-kwei 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Are you still using spec driven development?
    ×0.65 179 | 6 points by cherry_tree 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Tech Debt War Stories
    ×0.36 151 | 6 points by erubini_fg 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Why do people still talk about AGI?
    ×1.18 134 | 42 points by cermicelli 3 days ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Does a good "read it later" app exist?
    ×0.38 162 | 5 points by buchanae 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. My small SaaS got recommended my Google in the AI search overview
    ×0.51 183 | 4 points by kaave 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Does anyone have interests in anything besides AI?
    ×2.42 89 | 11 points by drsalt 20 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Signal Is Down
    ×2.11 104 | 41 points by Daniel_sk 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Why dead code detection in Python is harder than most tools admit
    ×0.86 175 | 6 points by duriantaco 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: What serious task have you accomplished with Moltbot / OpenClaw?
    ×0.89 173 | 12 points by lukol 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Anyone else struggle with how to learn coding in the AI era?
    ×2.09 110 | 51 points by 44Bulldog 2 days ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Where do all the web devs talk?
    ×1.65 107 | 56 points by LinguaBrowse 2 days ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Any Successful Co-Ops of Software Engineers
    ×0.83 182 | 14 points by rubyn00bie 4 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
    ×1.38 161 | 7 points by iryndin 2 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: Any real OpenClaw (Clawd Bot/Molt Bot) users? What's your experience?
    ×2.22 128 | 117 points by cvhc 5 days ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Google terminated my YouTube channel even thought I made no videos or used it
    ×1.16 152 | 6 points by paulpauper 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: Who is firing? (February 2026)
    ×3.91 135 | 25 points by chalmovsky 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: PII-Shield – Log Sanitization Sidecar with JSON Integrity (Go, Entropy) (github.com/aragossa)
    ×0.40 126 | 20 points by aragoss 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Camel OpenAI Integration Patterns (github.com/ibek)
    ×0.61 | 2 points by aivi 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Real-world speedrun timer that auto-ticks via vision on smart glasses (github.com/RealComputer)
    ×1.51 172 | 4 points by tash_2s 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Opus 4.6 uncovers 500 zero-day flaws in open-source code (axios.com)
    ×2.40 11 #24 | 170 points by speckx 4 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Bitcoin drops below $67,000 as selloff heats up and pessimism grows about crypto (cnbc.com)
    ×2.68 22 #51 | 31 points by stalfosknight 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. CIA to Sunset the World Factbook (abc.net.au)
    ×3.78 36 #59 | 331 points by kshahkshah 10 hours ago | 237 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory [pdf] (freebsd.org)
    ×0.90 | 2 points by sebg 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Voxtral Transcribe 2 (mistral.ai)
    ×3.68 7 #52 | 975 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 237 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Binance denies issuing legal threats over insolvency allegations (theblock.co)
    ×0.36 | 1 points by decimalenough 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. I prefer to pass secrets between programs through standard input (utoronto.ca)
    ×1.82 67 | 61 points by ingve 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Spotlighting the World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell (cia.gov)
    ×2.62 8 | 181 points by mxfh 1 day ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Craftplan – I built my wife a production management tool for her bakery (github.com/puemos)
    ×2.80 16 | 558 points by deofoo 4 days ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Tabstack Research – An API for verified web research (by Mozilla)
    ×2.20 119 | 7 points by MrTravisB 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. European Commission Trials Matrix to Replace Teams (euractiv.com)
    ×2.85 30 #42 | 304 points by Arathorn 6 hours ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. BMW's Newest "Innovation" Is a Logo-Shaped Middle Finger to Right to Repair (ifixit.com)
    ×3.59 10 #76 | 140 points by gnabgib 16 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Arcan-A12: Weaving a Different Web (divergent-desktop.org)
    ×0.59 64 #82 | 66 points by ingenieroariel 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: I reviewed about 300 academic papers of 2025 to write a book on startup
    ×1.08 | 2 points by albertoasquer 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein (scottaaronson.blog)
    ×2.50 60 #77 | 72 points by pfdietz 3 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. The unfathomable Minnesota transcript that tells the reality of America today (lawdork.com)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by hn_acker 16 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Founder-OS: Open Sourcing how I automate my company (github.com/cloudrepo-io)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by 256BitChris 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Musk Predicts SpaceX Will Launch More AI Compute / Year Than Everything on Earth (cheekypint.substack.com)
    ×1.32 | 2 points by m463 29 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Dream-team – assemble a team of Claude Code agents for your task (github.com/drbscl)
    ×0.39 | 1 points by drbscl 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Broken Proofs and Broken Provers (lawrencecpaulson.github.io)
    ×0.86 77 | 61 points by RebelPotato 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Buquet – Durable queues and workflows using only S3 (horv.co)
    ×1.70 99 | 6 points by h0rv 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. MenuetOS – a GUI OS that boots from a single floppy disk (menuetos.net)
    ×1.39 13 #9 | 76 points by pjerem 4 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. NASA Will Let Its Astronauts Bring iPhones to the Moon (twitter.com/NASAAdmin)
    ×2.14 13 #43 | 6 points by m463 30 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers (adafruit.com)
    ×3.59 29 #81 | 667 points by ptorrone 2 days ago | 808 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Guinea worm on track to be 2nd eradicated human disease; only 10 cases in 2025 (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.32 13 #83 | 309 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Crypto Takes a Deep Slide Despite Trump's Support (nytimes.com)
    ×0.94 | 1 points by doener 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. The Riemann Hypothesis: Past, Present and a Letter Through Time (arxiv.org)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by stared 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: C discrete event SIM w stackful coroutines runs 45x faster than SimPy (github.com/ambonvik)
    ×0.75 93 | 67 points by ambonvik 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: I built "AI Wattpad" to eval LLMs on fiction (narrator.sh)
    ×0.61 111 | 31 points by jauws 2 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: BPU – An embedded scheduler for stable UART pipelines
    ×0.41 127 | 10 points by DenisDolya 4 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Data centers in space makes no sense (civai.org)
    ×4.60 13 #67 | 1091 points by ajyoon 2 days ago | 1308 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Lily Programming Language (lily-lang.org)
    ×0.79 55 #74 | 68 points by FascinatedBox 23 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. If you invested $100k in ETH when Eric Trump told you to buy, you have $1,245 (xcancel.com)
    ×1.92 35 | 3 points by doener 34 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. In Tehran (lrb.co.uk)
    ×3.91 40 | 107 points by mitchbob 1 day ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok (bbc.com)
    ×4.22 38 #87 | 586 points by vikaveri 2 days ago | 1102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Why a Fintech Unicorn Is Donating Millions to Start a Credit Union (forbes.com)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by toomuchtodo 19 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: CLI tool to convert Markdown to rich HTML clipboard content (github.com/letientai299)
    ×0.42 81 | 10 points by letientai299 16 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Claude is a space to think (anthropic.com)
    ×3.84 10 | 477 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 258 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Bunqueue – Job queue for Bun using SQLite instead of Redis (github.com/egeominotti)
    ×0.91 63 | 36 points by kernelvoid 3 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: LLM Jailbreak Database (jailbreak.monster)
    ×0.98 146 | 3 points by mhavelka77 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Skills Are the Most Underrated Feature in Agentic AI (brethorsting.com)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by aaronbrethorst 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. RMA – Compile Semgrep rules to native Rust/Tree-sitter matchers (github.com/bumahkib7)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by bumahkib7 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. How do you deal with SEO nowadays?
    ×1.00 13 | 3 points by jackota 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Git's Magic Files (nesbitt.io)
    ×0.92 | 2 points by zdw 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. I miss thinking hard (jernesto.com)
    ×5.61 34 | 1266 points by jernestomg 1 day ago | 691 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Octosphere, a tool to decentralise scientific publishing (octosphere.social)
    ×0.54 94 | 62 points by crimsoneer 2 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???