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  1. Tell HN: Fiverr left customer files public and searchable
    ×5.48 19 #30 | 705 points by morpheuskafka 17 hours ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allows you to fix to specific model version
    ×1.52 14 #86 | 16 points by baobabKoodaa 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What's the point in creating a startup when anyone can copy it in days?
    ×2.28 14 | 7 points by wewewedxfgdf 3 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Robotics engineers – how painful was setting up GPU sim infra?
    ×0.56 58 | 3 points by nikhilol 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: As an Australian, is it possible to get a remote US role?
    ×0.46 | 2 points by apatheticonion 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)
    ×1.45 57 | 339 points by david927 2 days ago | 1143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Can anyone suggest me a SaaS product idea?
    ×0.72 77 | 4 points by wasimsk 7 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block
    ×5.03 10 | 1135 points by littlecranky67 2 days ago | 420 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. GitHub gave webhook secrets away in webhook call
    ×0.80 94 | 8 points by time4tea 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Easiest UX for Seniors
    ×1.16 12 | 53 points by khoury 4 days ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. What do you want out of a coding monospace font?
    ×0.45 | 2 points by d0able 10 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Who needs contributors? (April 2026)
    ×0.86 90 | 18 points by Kathan2651 22 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Tell HN: OpenAI silently removed Study Mode from ChatGPT
    ×1.54 91 | 183 points by smokel 2 days ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: I quit my job over weaponized robots to start my own venture
    ×3.00 11 | 112 points by barratia 1 day ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Are Web Agencies Cooked?
    ×0.76 93 | 9 points by mijustin 16 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What's your favorite security cam system?
    ×0.31 113 | 4 points by SunshineTheCat 18 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What standards or protocols exist for AI Agent permissions
    ×0.13 | 2 points by lyfeninja 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Tell HN: GitHub might have been leaking your webhook secrets. Check your emails.
    ×3.52 51 | 31 points by ssiddharth 19 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. PersMEM: Persistent Semantic Memory and Multi-Instance Communication for AI
    ×0.39 123 | 3 points by asixicle 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?
    ×1.54 122 | 152 points by meander_water 6 days ago | 221 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Claude Code OAuth down for >12 hours
    ×0.39 114 | 7 points by pixel_popping 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Technical SEO vs. content optimization: which one moves rankings?
    ×0.39 134 | 4 points by zensorsolutions 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: LeetCode, anyone still doing it?
    ×0.84 112 | 9 points by kwar13 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Why most AI projects feel useless
    ×0.66 135 | 8 points by vaishcodescape 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Are you negatively affected by the recent economic stagnation?
    ×0.65 149 | 7 points by adinhitlore 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Hiring in the age of AI-assisted coding: what works?
    ×0.45 155 | 28 points by nitramm 4 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: What should I do with my app? 130 downloads 3 real subscribers
    ×0.45 176 | 7 points by oyaa52 3 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: What makes it so hard to keep LLMs online?
    ×0.19 174 | 3 points by realberkeaslan 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Tell HN: Another Monday, Another Claude Outage
    ×0.42 145 | 6 points by ericol 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: What's the best AI model for system design nowadays?
    ×0.50 152 | 5 points by jcremona 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Do you trust AI agents with API keys / private keys?
    ×0.49 147 | 17 points by devendra116 3 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Anyone using Nostr as a lightweight back end/DB for rapid prototyping?
    ×0.28 179 | 6 points by wasimsk 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Best books on building a programming language
    ×0.69 165 | 18 points by ezzato 4 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. How do you validate your GTM Efforts?
    ×0.17 178 | 3 points by pranaywankhede 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Is Codex really on Par with Claude Code?
    ×1.49 129 | 12 points by shivang2607 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Any Open Source projects in need of documentation writer?
    ×0.37 175 | 21 points by tree666 5 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Gas Town: From Clown Show to v1.0 (medium.com)
    ×1.73 7 #68 | 104 points by martythemaniak 16 hours ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Sperm whales' communication closely parallels human language, study finds (theguardian.com)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by ljf 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Helix – open-source self-healing back end for production crashes (88hours.github.io)
    ×0.74 | 2 points by NomiJ 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Aeolus – a library for unified access to air quality sensor networks (github.com/southlondonscientific)
    ×0.42 172 | 3 points by ruaraidh 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Good Sleep, Good Learning (2012) (super-memory.com)
    ×1.79 #2 | 85 points by downbad_ 3 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Game: Print Gallery Of An Artist, A brief exploration of recursive spaces (itch.io)
    ×0.69 46 #42 | 28 points by zdw 9 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. You can try Linux 7.0 now on these distros – here's what's new (zdnet.com)
    ×2.26 36 | 3 points by CrankyBear 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. New: NoRegistry censorship-resistant DNS over BitTorrent's DHT, 1 command to run (noregistry.com)
    ×1.41 | 2 points by Synonym-recruit 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Linux and Fingerprint Readers: A Tough Combination (tedium.co)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by speckx 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. How to make Firefox builds 17% faster (farre.se)
    ×1.20 37 | 202 points by mbitsnbites 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. B-trees and database indexes (2024) (planetscale.com)
    ×1.30 67 | 120 points by tosh 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. A soft robot has no problem moving with no motor and no gears (princeton.edu)
    ×0.75 71 #65 | 86 points by hhs 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. AI Guided Hybrid Application Static Testing (Aghast) (github.com/BounceSecurity)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by yuribro 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Commodore 64 Bitcoin Wallet (github.com/geek197)
    ×2.32 44 | 3 points by svenfaw 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. NimConf 2026: Dates Announced, Registrations Open (nim-lang.org)
    ×0.85 16 | 103 points by moigagoo 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Proliferate (YC S25) Is Hiring Founding Engineers (ycombinator.com)
    11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. AgentFM – A single Go binary that turns idle GPUs into a P2P AI grid (github.com/Agent-FM)
    ×0.79 94 #69 | 15 points by s4saif 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Agent Citizen – Your AI agents are sitting around doing nothing (agent-citizen.vercel.app)
    ×1.45 82 | 4 points by daltonlcarr 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Run Python tools on rust agents (github.com/eggermarc)
    ×0.61 | 2 points by eggermarc 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Rekal – Long-term memory for LLMs in a single SQLite file (github.com/janbjorge)
    ×1.65 159 | 8 points by jeeybee 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Scientists discover why bread can cause weight gain without extra calories (sciencedaily.com)
    ×2.13 1 #58 | 19 points by XzetaU8 5 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Plain – The full-stack Python framework designed for humans and agents (github.com/dropseed)
    ×0.76 46 #46 | 87 points by focom 18 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS (boringbar.app)
    ×2.22 40 | 514 points by a-ve 2 days ago | 297 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Website Is a Video Game (run-labs.com)
    ×1.59 109 | 4 points by mnewme 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: A social feed with no strangers (grateful.so)
    ×1.21 151 | 9 points by rpatni 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Do All the Things (doallthethings.app)
    ×5.22 162 | 27 points by brainbun 5 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Wacli – WhatsApp CLI: sync, search, send (github.com/steipete)
    ×1.64 6 #10 | 130 points by dinakars777 5 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. I wrote to Flock's privacy contact to opt out of their domestic spying program (honeypot.net)
    ×3.48 18 #33 | 619 points by speckx 18 hours ago | 241 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: StockFit API – structured SEC EDGAR data with a free tier (stockfit.io)
    ×1.04 101 | 3 points by areimann 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US Pardons
    ×2.46 84 | 500 points by vidluther 4 days ago | 274 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: 15 yrs of Django in prod: patterns I keep using (agent skills) (github.com/dvf)
    ×1.81 146 | 6 points by vanflymen 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. List of Equipment and Services Covered by Section 2 of the Secure Networks Act (fcc.gov)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by neogodless 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Nice Models Finish Last (medium.com)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by Dlama 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Distributed DuckDB Instance (github.com/citguru)
    ×1.22 58 #40 | 178 points by citguru 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Security researcher releases tool that can extract data from Recall (theverge.com)
    ×2.36 58 | 4 points by coinfused 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Dbg – One CLI debugger for every language (AI-agent ready) (redknightlois.github.io)
    ×1.92 143 | 6 points by redknight666 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Playing Doom on a Receipt Printer (hackaday.com)
    ×1.62 | 2 points by austinallegro 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Why you should work much harder RIGHT NOW (marginalrevolution.com)
    ×3.26 60 | 4 points by mooreds 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. California ghost-gun bill wants 3D printers to play cop, EFF says (theregister.com)
    ×4.01 21 | 120 points by Bender 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Experience AI Impact report 2026 [pdf] (raspberrypi.org)
    ×1.64 | 2 points by salkahfi 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. An AI Vibe Coding Horror Story (tobru.ch)
    ×4.80 1 | 208 points by teichmann 1 day ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: I built a social media management tool in 3 weeks with Claude and Codex (github.com/brightbeanxyz)
    ×1.89 59 | 186 points by JanSchu 2 days ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Hitoku Draft – context aware local macOS assistant (github.com/Saladino93)
    ×0.91 160 | 4 points by lostathome 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.66 1 #22 | 659 points by jrm-veris 22 hours ago | 193 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Seed: Adding `vau` with an immutable dynamic environment to Chez Scheme (github.com/amirouche)
    ×0.69 42 #47 | 9 points by PaulHoule 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. AI could be the end of the digital wave, not the next big thing (wordpress.com)
    ×2.40 54 | 184 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 276 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Memwright – Self-hosted memory for multi-agent teams, no LLM in path (github.com/bolnet)
    ×1.12 97 | 3 points by Bolnet 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet? (ishormuzopenyet.com)
    ×4.00 105 | 483 points by anonfunction 6 days ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Real-Time, Streaming SQL Queries on Flight Data (modolap.com)
    ×1.15 169 | 4 points by ronfriedhaber 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16 (iczelia.net)
    ×1.48 3 #4 | 176 points by snoofydude 7 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Zen Browser (zen-browser.app)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by domoritz 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Europe Is Accelerating a NATO Fallback Plan in Case Trump Pulls Out (wsj.com)
    ×4.51 68 | 6 points by doener 53 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. 'Seeking connection': video game where players stopped shooting, started talking (theguardian.com)
    ×1.80 3 #12 | 34 points by andsoitis 2 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Kubernetes Bin Packing Vizualiser (oschvr.com)
    ×2.61 50 | 3 points by oschvr 22 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???