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  1. X is selling existing users' handles
    ×1.92 38 #60 | 143 points by hac 9 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: Apple development certificate server seems down?
    ×0.90 45 | 107 points by strongpigeon 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Is Claude down again?
    ×1.30 19 | 84 points by coderbants 14 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)
    ×1.32 76 | 285 points by david927 3 days ago | 1094 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How do we build a new Human First online community in the LLM age?
    ×1.10 29 | 7 points by bluefirebrand 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: How are people doing AI evals these days?
    ×0.75 84 | 30 points by yelmahallawy 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What are you using to mitigate prompt injection?
    ×1.03 64 | 5 points by ramoz 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Remember Fidonet?
    ×1.13 65 | 119 points by ukkare 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What on this "List of Unsolved Problems in Physics" Has Your Attention?
    ×0.71 56 | 3 points by ghastmaster 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: How to be alone?
    ×4.44 61 | 680 points by sillysaurusx 3 days ago | 556 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting
    ×5.32 47 | 711 points by Oras 3 days ago | 505 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Happy Birthday YC/HN
    ×2.38 24 | 6 points by ellis0n 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Most beautiful personal blog UI you have ever seen?
    ×2.77 90 | 145 points by ms7892 3 days ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. IdeaRank – Startup Analysis Engine
    ×0.41 | 2 points by TMDev 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Can I repurpose a Bluetooth voice remote as input device for a PC?
    ×0.24 128 | 15 points by albert_e 3 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion
    ×5.56 68 | 1068 points by shannoncc 5 days ago | 978 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Maybe we can keep on coding? pseudo code project
    ×1.12 101 | 8 points by EmptyDrum 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How do you review gen-AI created code?
    ×0.83 114 | 6 points by captainkrtek 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How are people forecasting AI API costs for agent workflows?
    ×0.58 111 | 5 points by Barathkanna 23 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Why is GPT-5.4 obsessed with Goblins?
    ×1.48 115 | 16 points by pants2 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Is GitHub getting less reliable, or is it just me?
    ×1.18 126 | 13 points by _pdp_ 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Tell HN: Vertical tabs has arrived (behind a flag) in Chrome stable
    ×0.99 116 | 6 points by crummy 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Is Starlink still being jammed in Iran?
    ×0.52 137 | 3 points by Jblx2 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Finding a purpose after tech layoffs
    ×1.24 87 | 7 points by fud101 14 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: How to "make it" as a newlygrad/junior?
    ×0.68 127 | 4 points by kartoffelsaft 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Does automatic multilingual support make sense for a launch platform?
    ×0.19 | 2 points by LeanVibe 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Unlocked SaaS, file source as truth?
    ×0.24 | 2 points by abmmgb 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. The Architecture of an Exit Scam: A Technical Audit of Zszrun
    ×0.41 138 | 5 points by cappyfjao 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Since a week HN keeps logging me off every few days, why?
    ×0.39 140 | 5 points by epolanski 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: What AI content automation stack are you using in 2026?
    ×0.27 149 | 3 points by jackcofounder 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Do you still run Redis and workers just for background jobs?
    ×0.13 | 2 points by sergF 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Anyone else feel this community has changed recently?
    ×3.32 132 | 59 points by kypro 5 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Favorite Non-Spammy iPhone Games?
    ×0.71 141 | 6 points by bix6 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: What game engine would you recommend for vibe coding?
    ×0.91 142 | 6 points by general_reveal 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. I replaced my freelance SaaS stack with 5 single-file HTML tools
    ×1.32 152 | 8 points by AnnSri 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Tell HN: The proposed KIDS Act (HR 7757) effectively mandates biometric browsing
    ×1.12 151 | 20 points by fokdelafons 5 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Read‑only LLM tool for email triage and knowledge extraction?
    ×0.25 | 2 points by maille 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: Any informed guesses on the actual size/architecture of GPT-5.4 etc.?
    ×0.59 147 | 5 points by dsrtslnd23 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. What Happens After You Die? (2016) (lamag.com)
    ×0.96 20 #12 | 14 points by NaOH 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Satellite imagery object detection using text prompts (useful-ai-tools.com)
    ×0.46 39 #44 | 44 points by eyasu6464 11 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Visualizing Ukkonen's Suffix Tree Algorithm (abahgat.com)
    ×0.50 60 #56 | 31 points by gsky 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Anthropic has strong case against Pentagon blacklisting, legal experts say (reuters.com)
    ×1.72 10 #65 | 39 points by tartoran 8 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. The Death of the Downvote (nathankyoung.substack.com)
    ×1.78 13 | 4 points by bookofjoe 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Windows: Microsoft broke the only thing that mattered (yankodesign.com)
    ×5.19 71 | 129 points by kjellsbells 2 days ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: DD Photos – open-source photo album site generator (Go and SvelteKit) (github.com/dougdonohoe)
    ×0.77 77 | 67 points by dougdonohoe 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Faster, cheaper Claude Code with local semantic code search via sqlite (ory.com)
    ×2.60 81 | 9 points by luckyturkey 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Reviving a 20-year-old puzzle game Chromatron with Ghidra and AI (quesma.com)
    ×0.65 122 | 26 points by stared 4 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. OpenUI: Open Standard for Generative UI (openui.com)
    ×0.36 | 1 points by handfuloflight 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job (washingtonpost.com)
    ×6.44 76 | 587 points by raldi 15 hours ago | 258 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: A retention mechanic for learning that isn't Duolingo manipulation? (dailylabs.co)
    ×0.32 125 | 6 points by aidanadd 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Apple releases iOS 15.8.7 to fix Coruna exploit for iPhone 6S from 2015 (apple.com)
    ×2.75 29 #38 | 83 points by seam_carver 4 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Vanilla JavaScript refinery simulator built to explain job to my kids (fuelingcuriosity.com)
    ×1.07 9 #42 | 93 points by fuelingcurious 12 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI (reuters.com)
    ×3.86 36 #47 | 172 points by jp0d 7 hours ago | 233 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Free audiobooks with synchronized text for language learning (discovox.org)
    ×0.85 54 #75 | 10 points by floo 8 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: I Was Here – Draw on street view, others can find your drawings (washere.live)
    ×0.86 88 | 64 points by mrktsm__ 2 days ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. There is a lot AI on HN nowadays (coredump.cx)
    ×0.95 | 1 points by nazgu1 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Ultra-Fast CLI for QBittorrent – Qbtctl (github.com/creptic)
    ×0.71 | 1 points by creptic 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Ever Onward IBM [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by walterbell 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Why corporate lawyers always win (economist.com)
    ×1.80 | 4 points by petethomas 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Zenòdot – Find if a book has been translated into your language (zenodot.app)
    ×0.52 129 | 14 points by AusiasTsel 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Julia Snail – An Emacs Development Environment for Julia Like Clojure's Cider (github.com/gcv)
    ×1.02 50 #50 | 145 points by TheWiggles 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. The Evolution of Lego Sorting (2001) (lugnet.com)
    ×0.43 54 #86 | 11 points by fifilura 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Amazon is holding a mandatory meeting about AI breaking its systems (twitter.com/lukolejnik)
    ×5.68 17 | 289 points by lwhsiao 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. We were right about Havana syndrome (warontherocks.com)
    ×2.14 45 | 67 points by Bender 9 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Launch HN: Didit (YC W26) – Stripe for Identity Verification
    ×0.46 81 #77 | 75 points by rosasalberto 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Invoker Commands API (mozilla.org)
    ×0.89 53 #89 | 96 points by maqnius 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Faster Bundler (railsatscale.com)
    ×0.91 | 1 points by thunderbong 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a strict no-LLM policy (redox-os.org)
    ×2.11 16 | 399 points by pjmlp 1 day ago | 450 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job (washingtonpost.com)
    ×7.08 52 | 101 points by greenburger 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Type resolution redesign, with language changes to taste (ziglang.org)
    ×1.95 2 #61 | 395 points by Retro_Dev 1 day ago | 228 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Mesh over Bluetooth LE, TCP, or Reticulum (github.com/torlando-tech)
    ×1.15 55 #71 | 128 points by khimaros 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. HyperCard discovery: Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive (2022) (macintoshgarden.org)
    ×1.18 42 | 117 points by naves 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Latchup – Competitive programming for hardware description languages (latchup.app)
    ×0.63 | 2 points by fayalalebrun 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Britain is ejecting hereditary nobles from Parliament after 700 years (apnews.com)
    ×2.65 15 #28 | 220 points by divbzero 8 hours ago | 223 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. We are building data breach machines and nobody cares (idealloc.me)
    ×1.60 53 #79 | 161 points by idealloc_haris 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Code Quality in the Age of Coding Agents (michaeltimbs.me)
    ×1.71 | 2 points by cspags 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Big Data on the Cheapest MacBook (duckdb.org)
    ×0.39 | 1 points by nateb2022 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Draft2final – CLI converts Markdown into manuscript and screenplay PDFs (draft2final.app)
    ×0.54 | 2 points by cosmiciron 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: I built a tool that watches webpages and exposes changes as RSS (sitespy.app)
    ×1.28 15 #14 | 211 points by vkuprin 12 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Autoresearch@home (ensue-network.ai)
    ×0.82 4 #24 | 53 points by austinbaggio 6 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. SSH Secret Menu (twitter.com/rebane2001)
    ×2.39 5 #83 | 340 points by piccirello 1 day ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Tetris Is Hard with Just One Piece Type (arxiv.org)
    ×1.59 3 | 3 points by bmc7505 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Procreate Dreams 2 (procreate.com)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by twalichiewicz 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. The Handwriting of Simone Weil (registerofaliens.substack.com)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by rmdmphilosopher 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Hurricane Electric (HE.NET) IPv6 tunnelbroker page offline due to expired domain (tunnelbroker.net)
    ×0.65 56 #81 | 25 points by luckman212 16 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Atlassian slashes 10% of workforce to 'self-fund' investments in AI (cnbc.com)
    ×2.20 5 | 5 points by elsewhen 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Silly Faces (juliushuijnk.nl)
    ×0.43 148 | 3 points by juliushuijnk 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Mcp2cli – One CLI for every API, 96-99% fewer tokens than native MCP (github.com/knowsuchagency)
    ×1.76 89 | 145 points by knowsuchagency 3 days ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. CoverDrop White Paper (2025) [pdf] (coverdrop.org)
    ×0.79 | 1 points by Tomte 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. GitHub Having Issues (githubstatus.com)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by rd 36 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???