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  1. Ask HN: Are there examples of 3D printing data onto physical surfaces?
    ×0.28 27 #46 | 9 points by catapart 5 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Critical Logic Bypass "Intended Behavior" Full System Access
    ×0.72 | 2 points by CorporationHit 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Tell HN: Ralph Giles has died (Xiph.org| Rust@Mozilla | Ghostscript)
    ×2.48 5 #64 | 495 points by ffworld 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
    ×1.24 80 | 330 points by david927 5 days ago | 1141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Are you using an agent orchestrator to write code?
    ×1.46 62 | 35 points by gusmally 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: My OpenClaw doesn't respond. Anybody met with the same problem?
    ×1.02 40 | 4 points by Fendy1 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What would you recommend a vibe coder learn about how all this works?
    ×0.69 73 | 28 points by alexdobrenko 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Exceptionally well-written research papers in CS/ML/AI?
    ×0.58 | 2 points by b3rkus 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Built and shipped an iOS app from my phone while traveling Japan
    ×0.92 60 | 3 points by lordokami 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Did YouTube change how it handles uBlock?
    ×0.68 84 | 19 points by tefloon69 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Anyone else finding the new Gemini Deep Think troublingly sycophantic?
    ×1.08 57 | 4 points by neom 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. We just released Khaos SDK and khaos-examples (BSL 1.1)
    ×0.70 71 | 3 points by exordex 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: How do you audit LLM code in programming languages you don't know?
    ×0.59 112 | 9 points by syx 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: AI Depression
    ×3.13 28 | 44 points by pavello 22 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: We're building a saving app for European savers and need GTM advice
    ×0.42 135 | 4 points by AlePra00 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Do sociotechnical pressures select for beneficial or harmful AI systems?
    ×0.28 118 | 5 points by jerlendds 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Better hardware means OpenAI, Anthropic, etc. are doomed in the future?
    ×0.36 125 | 4 points by kart23 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Why are electronics still so unrecyclable?
    ×0.72 81 | 71 points by alexandrehtrb 2 days ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What happens when capability decouples from credentials?
    ×0.78 95 | 8 points by falsework 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Tools to code using voice?
    ×0.60 103 | 7 points by emerongi 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Moss: A Linux-compatible Rust async kernel, 3 months on
    ×0.34 91 | 4 points by hexagonal-sun 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. SMTP server from scratch in Go – FSM, raw TCP, and buffer-oriented I/O
    ×0.69 100 | 5 points by Jyotishmoy 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: If your OpenClaw could do 1 thing it currently can't, what would it be?
    ×0.51 126 | 5 points by stosssik 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How do founders demo real product without exposing sensitive data?
    ×0.64 132 | 4 points by legitimate_key 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: How do you "step through" your own anxiety?
    ×1.42 114 | 7 points by schneak 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Why is my Claude experience so bad? What am I doing wrong?
    ×0.58 117 | 4 points by moomoo11 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: GPT-5.3-Codex being silently routed to GPT-5.2?
    ×0.79 129 | 5 points by tardis_thad 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: What's the current state of ChatGPT Apps?
    ×1.07 130 | 5 points by arthurlee 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Who discovered grokking and why is the name hard to find?
    ×0.40 | 2 points by asmodeuslucifer 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Has anyone achieved recursive self-improvement with agentic tools?
    ×0.33 131 | 9 points by nycdatasci 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Why is everyone here so AI-hyped?
    ×1.25 124 | 30 points by fandorin 3 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Would you use context-based "modes" in Instagram(work,study,sport,news)?
    ×0.49 140 | 3 points by MatiasLaudonio 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: How much PTO do you get?
    ×1.14 123 | 5 points by SunshineTheCat 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Best practices for AI agent safety and privacy
    ×0.23 | 2 points by mw1 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: How to build text-to-app platforms?
    ×0.25 | 2 points by desperado1 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Is Prettier extension working for you in Cursor?
    ×0.23 | 2 points by vldszn 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Anyone else get bricked by the macOS update?
    ×0.27 | 2 points by bix6 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. How the world will be if P = NP?
    ×0.29 | 2 points by fouadelkh 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: Dumping GitHub for Forgejo for a free and open source project
    ×0.15 142 | 4 points by th0th 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: Do provisional patents matter for early-stage startups?
    ×0.31 147 | 20 points by gdad 4 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Tell HN: GPT-5.3-codex is now available in the API
    ×0.51 139 | 4 points by bigwheels 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ask HN: Does OpenClaw need a re-architecture to be usable?
    ×0.15 149 | 4 points by xinbenlv 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. The Sharp PC-2000 Computer Boombox from 1979 (stereo2go.com)
    ×1.01 18 #75 | 41 points by coloneltcb 15 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. A brief history of barbed wire fence telephone networks (2024) (loriemerson.net)
    ×0.82 35 #90 | 158 points by keepamovin 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. AI Agent Lands PRs in Major OSS Projects (socket.dev)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by junon 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Darknet Market Maximalism (antimoonboy.com)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by nickysielicki 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: What if your job search worked while you were working/sleeping? (jobspire.co.in)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by cbyteai 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Explore ASN Relationships and BGP Route History with Real Internet Data (ipiphistory.com)
    ×1.29 75 | 3 points by wangjiajie917 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. The wonder of modern drywall (worksinprogress.news)
    ×1.62 2 #29 | 109 points by jger15 1 day ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark (openai.com)
    ×2.73 2 #47 | 876 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 376 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: TidesDB – A persistent key-value store optimized for modern hardware (github.com/tidesdb)
    ×3.39 111 | 10 points by alexpadula 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Windows: Prefer the Native API over Win32 (codeberg.org)
    ×0.77 | 1 points by nikbackm 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Shut Up: Comment Blocker (rickyromero.com)
    ×0.70 50 | 105 points by mefengl 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. WV Lawmakers Propose Bill to Remove CS Graduation Mandate (slashdot.org)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by disqard 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Major European payment processor can't send email to Google Workspace users (atha.io)
    ×2.35 20 | 599 points by thatha7777 1 day ago | 407 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Generate Web Interfaces from Data (github.com/puffinsoft)
    ×0.49 67 | 36 points by Goose78 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. How to Vulkan in 2026 (howtovulkan.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by signa11 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. I intend to refactor Gastown for the following
    ×0.44 | 1 points by vanxv 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. The "Crown of Nobles" Noble Gas Tube Display (2024) (theshamblog.com)
    ×0.70 65 #72 | 149 points by Ivoah 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Recovered 1973 diving decompression algorithm (github.com/edelprino)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by birdculture 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Mathematicians issue a major challenge to AI (scientificamerican.com)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by dheerajmp 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Faster Than Dijkstra? (systemsapproach.org)
    ×0.86 38 #31 | 126 points by drbruced 20 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. The AI hater's guide to code with LLMs (dinhe.net)
    ×2.33 55 #45 | 26 points by speckx 13 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: I generated a "stress test" of 200 rare defects from 7 real photos
    ×0.67 | 2 points by jmalevez 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. DBASE on the Kaypro II (stonetools.ghost.io)
    ×1.15 | 2 points by TMWNN 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Send Claude Code tasks to the Batch API at 50% off (github.com/s2-streamstore)
    ×1.33 110 | 22 points by misker1 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Administration working to strip citizenship from foreign-born Americans (nbcnews.com)
    ×4.07 59 | 70 points by OutOfHere 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer; pulls story (infosec.exchange)
    ×3.79 62 | 5 points by robin_reala 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Multispace -save,organize,and launch workspaces–tools,apps,games,anyURL (multispace.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by DanielSystem 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Helion Achieves New Fusion Energy Milestones (helionenergy.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by bezbac 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: HRML – A compiled web language. Three symbols, zero dependencies (hrml.dev)
    ×1.29 | 2 points by mendexio 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Snail: File analyzer for software defined radio recordings (github.com/spetca)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by polalavik 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Lucid – Catch hallucinations in AI-generated code before they ship (github.com/gtsbahamas)
    ×1.49 30 | 4 points by jordanappsite 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Yori – Isolating AI Logic into "Semantic Containers" (Docker for Code)
    ×0.70 133 | 3 points by alonsovm 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. I'm not worried about AI job loss (davidoks.blog)
    ×2.77 11 #32 | 265 points by ezekg 15 hours ago | 441 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Why exercise isn't much help if you are trying to lose weight (newscientist.com)
    ×2.60 9 #57 | 20 points by stevenwoo 5 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission (theconversation.com)
    ×5.23 33 #38 | 515 points by DamnInteresting 12 hours ago | 259 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Age of Empires: 25 years of pathfinding problems with C++ [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.05 2 #43 | 136 points by CharlesW 15 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Americans now spend 6.3 hours per day on their phones, up 1 hour from 2023 (apptopia.com)
    ×1.39 1 #83 | 4 points by gmays 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Drink Now: Water Reminder App (apple.com)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by suryanshJ 19 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. OpenAI Should Build Slack (latent.space)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by swyx 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Understanding the Go Compiler: The Linker (internals-for-interns.com)
    ×1.27 12 #6 | 77 points by valyala 7 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation (anthropic.com)
    ×3.07 38 #34 | 407 points by ryanhn 1 day ago | 410 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Ngn – a new back end programming language (ngnlang.com)
    ×1.88 148 | 4 points by j4w8n 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: I built a macOS tool for network engineers – it's called NetViews (netviews.app)
    ×1.39 66 | 241 points by n1sni 4 days ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Busca – the fuzzy ripgrep fast code explorer (github.com/rokyed)
    ×0.47 | 2 points by rokyed 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Realfood.gov includes a Grok search box (realfood.gov)
    ×2.60 53 | 79 points by burkaman 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Kuro-Nuri – Browser-based image redaction and compression using WASM (kuro-nuri.com)
    ×1.01 74 | 4 points by kunronuri 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Printable Classics – Free printable classic books for hobby bookbinders (printableclassics.com)
    ×0.85 113 | 83 points by bookman10 4 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Kanban-md – File-based CLI Kanban built for local agents collaboration (github.com/antopolskiy)
    ×0.90 141 | 18 points by santopol 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???