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  1. Tell HN: Apple development certificate server seems down?
    ×1.01 34 #64 | 105 points by strongpigeon 21 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Is Claude Down Again?
    ×2.60 82 | 58 points by coderbants 2 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: How are people doing AI evals these days?
    ×0.73 54 | 25 points by yelmahallawy 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)
    ×1.32 60 | 283 points by david927 2 days ago | 1090 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Remember Fidonet?
    ×1.17 32 | 118 points by ukkare 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Finding a purpose after tech layoffs
    ×1.22 4 | 4 points by fud101 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How to be alone?
    ×4.46 47 | 672 points by sillysaurusx 3 days ago | 553 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting
    ×5.37 36 | 708 points by Oras 2 days ago | 503 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How are people forecasting AI API costs for agent workflows?
    ×0.74 87 | 5 points by Barathkanna 10 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Most beautiful personal blog UI you have ever seen?
    ×2.86 92 | 143 points by ms7892 2 days ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How do you review gen-AI created code?
    ×1.18 96 | 6 points by captainkrtek 15 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Maybe we can keep on coding? pseudo code project
    ×1.34 81 | 7 points by EmptyDrum 12 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Can I repurpose a Bluetooth voice remote as input device for a PC?
    ×0.25 125 | 15 points by albert_e 3 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion
    ×5.55 58 | 1064 points by shannoncc 4 days ago | 975 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Tell HN: Vertical tabs has arrived (behind a flag) in Chrome stable
    ×1.09 100 | 5 points by crummy 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Is Starlink still being jammed in Iran?
    ×0.69 115 | 3 points by Jblx2 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: How to "make it" as a newlygrad/junior?
    ×0.94 109 | 4 points by kartoffelsaft 18 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Why is GPT-5.4 obsessed with Goblins?
    ×1.54 107 | 15 points by pants2 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Does automatic multilingual support make sense for a launch platform?
    ×0.22 | 2 points by LeanVibe 22 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Is GitHub getting less reliable, or is it just me?
    ×1.20 120 | 12 points by _pdp_ 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Unlocked SaaS, file source as truth?
    ×0.34 | 2 points by abmmgb 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Devs who are out of work – what are you doing for income now?
    ×2.88 74 | 8 points by a1n 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. The Architecture of an Exit Scam: A Technical Audit of Zszrun
    ×0.44 128 | 5 points by cappyfjao 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Since a week HN keeps logging me off every few days, why?
    ×0.42 130 | 5 points by epolanski 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: What AI content automation stack are you using in 2026?
    ×0.30 145 | 3 points by jackcofounder 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Do you still run Redis and workers just for background jobs?
    ×0.15 | 2 points by sergF 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Favorite Non-Spammy iPhone Games?
    ×0.78 137 | 6 points by bix6 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: What game engine would you recommend for vibe coding?
    ×1.01 139 | 6 points by general_reveal 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Read‑only LLM tool for email triage and knowledge extraction?
    ×0.28 | 2 points by maille 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Any informed guesses on the actual size/architecture of GPT-5.4 etc.?
    ×0.51 150 | 4 points by dsrtslnd23 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Anyone else feel this community has changed recently?
    ×3.45 135 | 59 points by kypro 4 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. I replaced my freelance SaaS stack with 5 single-file HTML tools
    ×1.46 160 | 8 points by AnnSri 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Code-review-graph: persistent code graph that cuts Claude Code token usage
    ×0.21 | 2 points by tirthkanani 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: How are you handling persistent memory across local Ollama sessions
    ×0.46 166 | 6 points by null-phnix 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Tell HN: The proposed KIDS Act (HR 7757) effectively mandates biometric browsing
    ×1.15 161 | 20 points by fokdelafons 4 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Who Needs Help?
    ×1.58 126 | 14 points by surprisetalk 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. A job ad for Agentic AI Advocate
    ×0.37 159 | 4 points by greenpinia 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: Are showlang and thelang HN endpoints not being maintained?
    ×0.51 162 | 4 points by freakynit 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. OpenAI might end up on the right side of history
    ×0.86 146 | 12 points by shoman3003 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Whisker – Self hosted e-commerce cart, pure PHP, zero dependencies
    ×0.44 167 | 7 points by eLohith 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days?
    ×2.38 129 | 10 points by chistev 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. All tmux sessions as a single terminal
    ×0.20 | 2 points by lygten 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: Let's rethink the architecture and future of Emacs
    ×0.74 141 | 3 points by kurouna 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Claude Login Outage (reddit.com)
    ×2.08 19 | 3 points by nurettin 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Temporal: A nine-year journey to fix time in JavaScript (bloomberg.github.io)
    ×2.21 1 #1 | 110 points by robpalmer 1 hour ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Wiz joins Google (wiz.io)
    ×2.27 4 #3 | 62 points by aldarisbm 2 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Open-source browser for AI agents (github.com/theredsix)
    ×0.97 4 #16 | 23 points by theredsix 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. We are building data breach machines and nobody cares (idealloc.me)
    ×1.62 47 #57 | 150 points by idealloc_haris 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Building a Procedural Hex Map with Wave Function Collapse (felixturner.github.io)
    ×2.29 11 | 567 points by imadr 2 days ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Hisense TVs add unskippable startup ads before live TV (guru3d.com)
    ×4.79 28 | 111 points by akyuu 1 day ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Latchup – Competitive programming for hardware description languages (latchup.app)
    ×0.63 | 2 points by fayalalebrun 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Exploring the ocean with Raspberry Pi–powered marine robots (raspberrypi.com)
    ×1.09 46 #54 | 106 points by Brajeshwar 21 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. JPMorgan marking down loan portfolios of private credit groups (ft.com)
    ×1.47 26 #72 | 10 points by petethomas 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Teen pregnancy as a pediatric medical issue (ubc.ca)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by lorne_friske 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Nvidia Nemotron 3 Super (nvidia.com)
    ×2.23 38 | 3 points by vinhnx 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Jolla on track to ship new phone with Sailfish OS, user-replaceable battery (liliputing.com)
    ×2.15 51 | 222 points by heresie-dabord 2 days ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Zenòdot – Find if a book has been translated into your language (zenodot.app)
    ×0.52 124 | 14 points by AusiasTsel 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Scientists revive activity in frozen mouse brains for the first time (nature.com)
    ×1.18 17 #71 | 11 points by tzury 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Practical Guide to Bare Metal C++ (arobenko.github.io)
    ×1.12 37 #88 | 127 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Japan aims to sell eight times more chips in 2040 as in 2020 (techxplore.com)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by Brajeshwar 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Enable Code-Mode for all your MCP servers even if they don't support it natively (github.com/aakashh242)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by aakashh242 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Blogpost: Postgres Work_mem Production Incident (mydbanotebook.org)
    ×1.27 | 2 points by ducktastic 50 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. ChatGPT Took The Pentagon's Killer Robot Deal: Boycott Now (quitgpt.org)
    ×0.96 | 1 points by doener 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Amazon holds engineering meeting following AI-related outages (ft.com)
    ×5.26 52 | 111 points by petethomas 1 day ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Remotely use my guitar tuner (realtuner.online)
    ×1.75 31 | 254 points by smith-kyle 4 days ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Kula – Lightweight, self-contained Linux server monitoring tool (github.com/c0m4r)
    ×0.95 119 | 91 points by c0m4r 4 days ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Ask HN: Merge/Nango open source alternative?
    ×0.70 | 1 points by hhthrowaway1230 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: open source, local CLI that turns your commits into product updates (github.com/trydebrief)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by baetylus 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. US missile hit military base near Iran school, video analysis shows (bbc.com)
    ×8.27 65 | 134 points by johnbarron 2 days ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. RFC 454545 – Human Em Dash Standard (github.com/bignimbus)
    ×1.40 23 | 127 points by jdauriemma 1 day ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. US blindsides states with surprise settlement in Live Nation/Ticketmaster trial (arstechnica.com)
    ×4.46 67 | 98 points by voxadam 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: OpenUI – A code-like rendering spec for Generative UI (openui.com)
    ×2.41 40 | 6 points by 1234567890123 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Local-first firmware analyzer using WebAssembly (boldwark.com)
    ×3.31 110 | 8 points by asabil 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: I gave my robot physical memory – it stopped repeating mistakes (github.com/robotmem)
    ×0.73 117 | 18 points by robotmem 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Hurricane Electric (HE.NET) IPv6 tunnelbroker page offline due to expired domain (tunnelbroker.net)
    ×1.10 18 #32 | 16 points by luckman212 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. RISC-V Is Sloooow (juszkiewicz.com.pl)
    ×1.80 21 #35 | 294 points by todsacerdoti 20 hours ago | 316 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. GitHub Accounts Compromised (opensourcemalware.com)
    ×1.93 5 #38 | 4 points by 6mile 28 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Don't lick that cold metal pole in winter–if you do, don't panic (arstechnica.com)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by canucker2016 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Standardizing source maps (bloomberg.github.io)
    ×1.00 29 #41 | 72 points by Timothee 12 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Billion-Parameter Theories (worldgov.org)
    ×0.91 39 #74 | 104 points by seanlinehan 23 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. YouTube just approved 30-second unskippable ads for TV (androidcentral.com)
    ×0.96 | 1 points by LorenDB 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Traffic from Russia to Cloudflare is 60% down from last year (cloudflare.com)
    ×2.10 26 | 126 points by secondary_op 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Eyot, A programming language where the GPU is just another thread (cowleyforniastudios.com)
    ×0.87 106 | 79 points by steeleduncan 3 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Let yourself fall down more (ntietz.com)
    ×1.49 19 #34 | 31 points by Brajeshwar 1 hour ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. XonY.org – the structured opinions of public figures (xony.org)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by itshywu 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. OpenAI is walking away from expanding its Stargate data center with Oracle (cnbc.com)
    ×3.73 18 | 421 points by spenvo 1 day ago | 245 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: 2D RPG base game client recreated in modern HTML5 game engine with AI (github.com/ErkoKnoll)
    ×0.74 104 | 6 points by erkok 20 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: WolfStack – Proxmox-like server management in a single Rust binary (wolfscale.org)
    ×1.02 122 | 32 points by wolfsoftware 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. The first airplane fatality (amusingplanet.com)
    ×0.72 78 | 84 points by Hooke 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Rewriting Mongosh in Golang Using Claude (github.com/adaptive-scale)
    ×2.48 62 | 7 points by debarshri 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???