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  1. Tell HN: Another round of Zendesk email spam
    ×1.33 3 #50 | 96 points by Philpax 13 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Is Connecting via SSH Risky?
    ×0.72 42 #56 | 10 points by atrevbot 6 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Has your whole engineering team gone big into AI coding? How's it going?
    ×0.90 33 | 3 points by jchung 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. We built a serverless GPU inference platform with predictable latency
    ×0.60 46 | 3 points by QubridAI 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)
    ×0.80 73 | 136 points by whoishiring 2 days ago | 438 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)
    ×1.22 49 | 305 points by whoishiring 2 days ago | 465 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Mem0 stores memories, but doesn't learn user patterns
    ×0.49 62 | 8 points by fliellerjulian 13 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Where does operational truth live before it reaches "systems of record"?
    ×0.29 | 2 points by former-aws 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Do you still use physical calculators?
    ×0.79 81 | 58 points by speedylight 5 days ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Is there anyone here who still uses slide rules?
    ×1.18 52 | 119 points by blenderob 1 day ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. YC S26 Application: "Attach a coding agent session you're particularly proud of"
    ×0.26 92 | 4 points by simplydt 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: When will LLMs generate professional-level CAD models?
    ×0.66 74 | 8 points by dsrtslnd23 16 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Kernighan on Programming
    ×1.80 68 | 165 points by chrisjj 2 days ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Google Cloud suspended my account for 2 years, only automated replies
    ×1.44 93 | 159 points by andylizf 4 days ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Does anyone have interests in anything besides AI?
    ×2.31 24 | 8 points by drsalt 7 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Are ISPs "evil" and who runs the Internet?
    ×0.39 95 | 5 points by tavro 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. How do you manage context/memory across multiple AI tools?
    ×0.32 88 | 7 points by arapkuliev 20 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Cheap laptop for Linux without GUI (for writing)
    ×0.74 102 | 11 points by locusofself 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: OpenClaw users, what is your token spend?
    ×1.00 122 | 14 points by 8cvor6j844qw_d6 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Have you been fired because of AI?
    ×1.80 118 | 15 points by s-stude 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Anyone have a "sovereign" solution for phone calls?
    ×0.75 126 | 9 points by kldg 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. GitHub Actions Have "Major Outage"
    ×2.43 91 | 52 points by graton 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Has anybody moved their local community off of Facebook groups?
    ×0.87 129 | 21 points by madsohm 3 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Tech Debt War Stories
    ×0.38 113 | 6 points by erubini_fg 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: What weird or scrappy things did you do to get your first users?
    ×1.07 130 | 13 points by preston-kwei 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Does a good "read it later" app exist?
    ×0.41 125 | 5 points by buchanae 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Are you still using spec driven development?
    ×0.76 144 | 6 points by cherry_tree 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. My small SaaS got recommended my Google in the AI search overview
    ×0.57 150 | 4 points by kaave 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Signal Is Down
    ×2.22 79 | 40 points by Daniel_sk 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Why do people still talk about AGI?
    ×1.20 112 | 42 points by cermicelli 3 days ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Why dead code detection in Python is harder than most tools admit
    ×1.01 140 | 6 points by duriantaco 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
    ×1.57 127 | 7 points by iryndin 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Where do all the web devs talk?
    ×1.61 86 | 54 points by LinguaBrowse 2 days ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: What serious task have you accomplished with Moltbot / OpenClaw?
    ×0.93 143 | 12 points by lukol 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Anyone else struggle with how to learn coding in the AI era?
    ×2.06 87 | 49 points by 44Bulldog 2 days ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Any Successful Co-Ops of Software Engineers
    ×0.78 152 | 13 points by rubyn00bie 4 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Google terminated my YouTube channel even thought I made no videos or used it
    ×1.04 121 | 5 points by paulpauper 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: Any real OpenClaw (Clawd Bot/Molt Bot) users? What's your experience?
    ×2.21 103 | 116 points by cvhc 4 days ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: Who is firing? (February 2026)
    ×3.95 110 | 24 points by chalmovsky 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. CiderStack – Native macOS VM manager, pay once, no subscription
    ×0.82 142 | 5 points by ciderdev 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: Request limits vs. token limits for AI-powered apps?
    ×0.55 153 | 3 points by JeduDev 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ask HN: Is anyone losing sleep over retry storms or partial API outages?
    ×0.38 | 2 points by rjpruitt16 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: Interest in low cost / fast container registry?
    ×0.41 | 2 points by osigurdson 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Ask HN: What's your competitive intelligence workflow as a small team?
    ×0.89 | 2 points by VoderAI 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Ask HN: A proposal for interviewing "AI-Augmented" Engineers
    ×0.49 154 | 3 points by vanbashan 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Ask HN: Why are customer feedback boards so static? Building a live alternative
    ×0.23 | 2 points by develotor 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Ask HN: What are the immediate/near/long-term non-corporate benefits of AI?
    ×0.52 155 | 3 points by 0x4e 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Ask HN: How do you give AI agents access without over-permissioning?
    ×0.94 149 | 6 points by NBenkovich 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. GitHub Incidents with Actions and Codespaces
    ×2.08 136 | 11 points by jeduardo 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Task engine VM – for tasks with executable instructions (progress update)
    ×0.12 156 | 4 points by tracyspacy 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Guinea worm on track to be 2nd eradicated human disease; only 10 cases in 2025 (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.45 11 #43 | 291 points by bookofjoe 20 hours ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Relax for the Same Result (2015) (sive.rs)
    ×1.98 #74 | 5 points by birdculture 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Bunqueue – Job queue for Bun using SQLite instead of Redis (github.com/egeominotti)
    ×0.89 3 #89 | 35 points by kernelvoid 12 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. AI didn't break copyright law, it just exposed how broken it was (jasonwillems.com)
    ×2.09 50 | 111 points by at1as 1 day ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Randomly discovered websites from the open internet every 60 minutes (randcrawl.com)
    ×0.56 | 2 points by whothatcodeguy 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Pit – Git for LLM prompts (332 tests, 10 features) (github.com/itisrmk)
    ×0.71 | 1 points by rahulrmk 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Axiomeer – An open marketplace for AI agents (github.com/ujjwalredd)
    ×0.22 148 | 5 points by ujjwalreddyks 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Remarkable Pro Colors (thregr.org)
    ×1.04 24 #20 | 107 points by ffaser5gxlsll 13 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Launch HN: Modelence (YC S25) – App Builder with TypeScript / MongoDB Framework
    ×0.46 67 #88 | 70 points by eduardpi 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Replacing NotNull and Preconditions with fluent Java assertions (github.com/Sympol)
    ×0.85 | 1 points by symplice 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. You can find the bash manual in the Epstein files (bsky.app)
    ×1.73 | 2 points by BiteCode_dev 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: OpenShears – I built an uninstaller because OpenClaw refuses to die (github.com/oswarld)
    ×1.69 107 | 4 points by haebom 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Cohesix 0.4.0-alpha, a no-std control-plane OS (github.com/lukeb-aidev)
    ×0.96 | 2 points by Cohesix 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Small "AI slop" classifier running in a browser extension (github.com/distil-labs)
    ×1.05 | 2 points by maciejgryka 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Data Poems (eamer.dev)
    ×0.63 53 #41 | 37 points by putzdown 13 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Behavior-Driven Testing – AI Agent Skill for Exhaustive Test Coverage (github.com/robotlearning123)
    ×1.30 40 | 3 points by cwang75 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Local AI – Curated resources for running LLMs on consumer hardware (github.com/msb-msb)
    ×1.44 72 | 4 points by insiderllm 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. An interactive version of Byrne's The Elements of Euclid (1847) (c82.net)
    ×0.95 17 #22 | 36 points by tzury 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Why more companies are recognizing the benefits of keeping older employees (stanford.edu)
    ×2.93 7 #28 | 139 points by andsoitis 11 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Russia used Starlink in drones; SpaceX's cutoff collapsed command system (euromaidanpress.com)
    ×1.72 | 2 points by c420 19 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Why Do Monads Matter? (wordpress.com)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by sebg 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Data breach: DOGE 'accidentally' leaked the whole Social Security database [pdf] (courtlistener.com)
    ×4.20 64 | 5 points by chirau 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. AWS intruder pulled off AI-assisted cloud break-in in 8 mins (theregister.com)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by beardyw 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email (newrepublic.com)
    ×8.52 11 | 74 points by randycupertino 16 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Open-source semantic search over your local notes via CLI (github.com/chenxin-yan)
    ×0.61 135 | 9 points by jellyotsiro 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Data centers in space makes no sense (civai.org)
    ×4.61 #35 | 1063 points by ajyoon 1 day ago | 1254 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Notepad++ supply chain attack breakdown (securelist.com)
    ×3.10 8 #84 | 371 points by natebc 1 day ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Relative Age Effect (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by wjb3 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. The CIA Is Sunsetting the World Factbook (actualityabridged.substack.com)
    ×2.48 11 #48 | 27 points by blizow 5 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Agent Trace (agent-trace.dev)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by tosh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Civilization VII Coming to Apple Arcade Tomorrow (macrumors.com)
    ×1.44 | 2 points by tosh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: AI Blocker by Kiddokraft (kiddokraft.org)
    ×1.36 115 | 4 points by Rezhe 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Justice.gov JEE files contains bash manual (framapiaf.org)
    ×1.87 24 #5 | 3 points by sametmax 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. A real-world benchmark for AI code review (qodo.ai)
    ×0.59 37 #45 | 47 points by benocodes 13 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Launching the Rural Guaranteed Minimum Income Initiative (codinghorror.com)
    ×2.34 1 | 67 points by d4ft 17 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Skill Gen: A meta skill for auto-generating skills from docs (railly.dev)
    ×0.98 27 | 4 points by Hunter17 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Wood Gas Vehicles: Firewood in the Fuel Tank (2010) (lowtechmagazine.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by Rygian 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. China Moon Mission: Aiming for 2030 lunar landing (ieee.org)
    ×1.63 28 | 153 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Sam Altman responds to Anthropic's "Ads are coming to AI. But not to Claude" ads (twitter.com/sama)
    ×5.81 53 | 65 points by PieUser 9 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. How Democracy for Sale is making investigative journalism pay on Substack (pressgazette.co.uk)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by giuliomagnifico 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???