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  1. Ask HN: Who needs contributors? (April 2026)
    ×0.87 24 #65 | 11 points by Kathan2651 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: I quit my job over weaponized robots to start my own venture
    ×3.10 75 #88 | 97 points by barratia 4 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)
    ×1.42 30 | 330 points by david927 2 days ago | 1122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block
    ×5.01 11 | 1125 points by littlecranky67 2 days ago | 411 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Claude Code OAuth down for >12 hours
    ×0.45 49 | 7 points by pixel_popping 8 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Technical SEO vs. content optimization: which one moves rankings?
    ×0.37 73 | 3 points by zensorsolutions 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: LeetCode, anyone still doing it?
    ×0.69 69 | 6 points by kwar13 10 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Tell HN: OpenAI silently removed Study Mode from ChatGPT
    ×1.54 58 | 180 points by smokel 2 days ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Why most AI projects feel useless
    ×0.49 90 | 6 points by vaishcodescape 23 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?
    ×1.54 97 | 150 points by meander_water 5 days ago | 217 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What makes it so hard to keep LLMs online?
    ×0.21 118 | 3 points by realberkeaslan 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Tell HN: Another Monday, Another Claude Outage
    ×0.48 93 | 6 points by ericol 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What's the best AI model for system design nowadays?
    ×0.57 100 | 5 points by jcremona 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. How do you validate your GTM Efforts?
    ×0.08 | 2 points by pranaywankhede 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Are you negatively affected by the recent economic stagnation?
    ×0.50 112 | 5 points by adinhitlore 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What are you using OpenClaw or agents for?
    ×1.25 74 | 8 points by bmau5 18 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Hiring in the age of AI-assisted coding: what works?
    ×0.46 124 | 28 points by nitramm 3 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: What should I do with my app? 130 downloads 3 real subscribers
    ×0.42 138 | 6 points by oyaa52 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Is Codex really on Par with Claude Code?
    ×1.69 81 | 12 points by shivang2607 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Do you trust AI agents with API keys / private keys?
    ×0.47 113 | 16 points by devendra116 2 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Anyone using Nostr as a lightweight back end/DB for rapid prototyping?
    ×0.29 137 | 6 points by wasimsk 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Best books on building a programming language
    ×0.67 130 | 17 points by ezzato 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Tell HN: Reddit now demands to know why you won't use their app
    ×1.90 82 | 19 points by josephcsible 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Any Open Source projects in need of documentation writer?
    ×0.38 139 | 21 points by tree666 4 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: What's your experience with PoW captchas against form spam?
    ×0.48 135 | 6 points by pentacent_hq 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Why Databases Instead of Filesystem?
    ×0.36 142 | 14 points by uticus 4 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Should AI credits be refunded on mistakes?
    ×0.27 154 | 21 points by ed_elliott_asc 6 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Former grok-code-fast-1 users, what coding model are you using now?
    ×0.16 | 2 points by whycombinetor 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Uncharted island soon to appear on nautical charts (awi.de)
    ×0.97 67 | 100 points by tannhaeuser 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Safety (aphyr.com)
    ×2.21 20 #82 | 313 points by aphyr 1 day ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: I built a social media management tool in 3 weeks with Claude and Codex (github.com/brightbeanxyz)
    ×1.91 19 | 184 points by JanSchu 1 day ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Tsplat – Render Gaussian Splats directly in your terminal (github.com/darshanmakwana412)
    ×1.08 66 | 6 points by darshanmakwana 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: A WYSIWYG word processor in Python (codeberg.org)
    ×0.94 92 | 91 points by chrisecker 3 days ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Bad Apple (Oscilloscope-Like) – one stroke per frame (bad-apple-on-oscilloscope.pages.dev)
    ×1.35 121 | 5 points by araniwa 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Can Claude Fly a Plane? (thanks.fish)
    ×1.81 44 #83 | 94 points by casi 9 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. PersMEM: Persistent Semantic Memory and Multi-Instance Communication for AI
    ×0.54 | 1 points by asixicle 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. State of Homelab 2026 (mrlokans.work)
    ×1.92 53 | 111 points by swq115 1 day ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Who's Been Impersonating This ProPublica Reporter? (propublica.org)
    ×2.01 18 | 118 points by hn_acker 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Hungary's Orban concedes landmark defeat to centre-right opposition (reuters.com)
    ×8.89 63 | 114 points by markerbrod 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Pushduck – S3 uploads that run on Cloudflare Workers, no AWS SDK
    ×0.88 57 | 8 points by abhay_ramesh 10 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: A 24/7 live stream where AI writes a new song about the current time (youtube.com)
    ×2.24 78 | 5 points by mmp7700 16 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. 5NF and Database Design (databasedesignbook.com)
    ×1.72 | 2 points by petalmind 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps? (apple.com)
    ×8.12 25 | 352 points by thepasswordis 1 day ago | 187 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning (adlrocha.substack.com)
    ×3.76 2 | 421 points by walterbell 1 day ago | 371 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Caffeine, cocaine, and painkillers detected in sharks from The Bahamas (sciencedirect.com)
    ×1.48 54 | 75 points by LostMyLogin 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: A Better Internet (tomclancy.info)
    ×1.64 136 | 10 points by tclancy 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. iCloud Private Relay is not secure (webrtchacks.com)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by blowerwhistle 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: A Birth Control Pill Reminder for Couples (paircare.love)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by oyaa52 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Hacker breached one of China's supercomputers and is attempting to sell data (cnn.com)
    ×1.41 | 2 points by FrojoS 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Multi-Agentic Software Development Is a Distributed Systems Problem (kirancodes.me)
    ×1.00 25 #23 | 86 points by tie-in 10 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. The rational conclusion of doomerism is violence (campbellramble.ai)
    ×2.20 24 | 90 points by thedudeabides5 23 hours ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Deconflict – Open-source WiFi planner with physics-based walls (deconflict.pages.dev)
    ×0.85 106 | 3 points by s_e__a___n 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US Pardons
    ×2.45 59 | 497 points by vidluther 3 days ago | 272 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: pg_grpc – Call gRPC services directly from PostgreSQL (github.com/CSenshi)
    ×2.33 83 | 7 points by csenshi 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Chunk – macOS menu bar time-blocking app with Claude AI integration (chunkapp.net)
    ×0.21 | 2 points by dudleyspence 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Make tmux pretty and usable (2024) (hamvocke.com)
    ×2.29 11 #63 | 419 points by speckx 1 day ago | 255 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Is Anthropic 'nerfing' Claude? Users increasingly report performance degradation (venturebeat.com)
    ×2.97 68 | 5 points by speckx 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6: Embodied reasoning for real-world robotics tasks (deepmind.google)
    ×2.11 16 | 3 points by meetpateltech 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Re-Mapping Opcodes on the 6502 (6502.org)
    ×1.27 | 2 points by JPLeRouzic 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Building a SaaS in 2026 Using Only EU Infrastructure (eualternative.eu)
    ×2.48 51 | 193 points by sparkling 1 day ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Rust based eBook library for Python, with MIT license (github.com/arc53)
    ×0.71 133 | 33 points by larry-the-agent 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan (2024) (quantamagazine.org)
    ×2.31 17 #67 | 98 points by paulpauper 11 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. The Fanfare Around the Band Geese Was a Psyop (wired.com)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by coloneltcb 19 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Hyperbridge exploited two weeks after April Fools' hack joke (web3isgoinggreat.com)
    ×1.86 31 | 3 points by LorenDB 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Cliparr – Export clips from your personal media server (github.com/TechSquidTV)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by TechSquidTV 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Tracking in Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini Chatbots (infosec.exchange)
    ×1.36 | 2 points by jllyhill 58 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. They See Your Photos (theyseeyourphotos.com)
    ×2.80 21 | 130 points by cyberlurker 1 day ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Git-style branching for your Rails database (github.com/carldaws)
    ×1.01 126 | 3 points by carldaws 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Diving the Oceanos (2004) (deeperblue.com)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by nixass 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Farchive – SQLite-backed history-preserving compressed archive (github.com/eliask)
    ×1.39 96 | 5 points by ekns 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. If you started a company two years ago, many assumptions are no longer true (steveblank.com)
    ×2.45 10 #71 | 200 points by tie-in 23 hours ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. The Meta Product Manager (k2xl.substack.com)
    ×1.18 | 2 points by k2xl 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Waffle – Native macOS terminal that auto-tiles sessions into a grid (waffle.baby)
    ×1.85 103 | 40 points by olleeolleeollee 3 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Missouri town fires half its city council over data center deal (politico.com)
    ×4.25 13 | 127 points by impish9208 1 day ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Druids – Build your own software factory (github.com/fulcrumresearch)
    ×0.69 116 | 64 points by etherio 5 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Figma for Coding Agents (getdesign.md)
    ×1.33 150 | 11 points by omeraplak 4 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. MOS tech 6502 8-bit microprocessor in pure SQL powered by Postgres (github.com/lasect)
    ×0.86 37 #30 | 59 points by adunk 10 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Exploiting the most prominent AI agent benchmarks (berkeley.edu)
    ×2.41 53 #78 | 581 points by Anon84 2 days ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Realtime Raytracing in Bevy 0.19 (Solari) (jms55.github.io)
    ×0.87 | 1 points by ibobev 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Context-pnpm – Score TypeScript monorepo files by AI context waste (notion.so)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by kondvik 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. It's OK to compare floating-points for equality (lisyarus.github.io)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by coinfused 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Hungary's Orban, a Beacon to the Right Wing, Concedes Election Defeat (nytimes.com)
    ×7.40 71 | 82 points by doener 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Bloomberg Terminal for LLM ops – free and open source
    ×1.33 87 | 7 points by amans9712 23 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Let's Talk Space Toilets (mceglowski.substack.com)
    ×0.57 41 #15 | 6 points by zdw 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Lean proved this program correct; then I found a bug (kirancodes.me)
    ×2.18 11 #19 | 337 points by bumbledraven 16 hours ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Ithihāsas – a character explorer for Hindu epics, built in a few hours (ithihasas.in)
    ×1.23 27 #55 | 162 points by cvrajeesh 21 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Using Godot's RenderingServer for Dynamically Rendering Billboards, Thumbnails (hexaquo.at)
    ×0.92 | 1 points by ibobev 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: OQP – A verification protocol for AI agents (github.com/OranproAi)
    ×1.62 77 | 6 points by Aamir21 18 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: 15 yrs of Django in prod: patterns I keep using (agent skills) (github.com/dvf)
    ×1.84 94 | 6 points by vanflymen 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Eve – Managed OpenClaw for work (eve.new)
    ×0.88 99 | 71 points by zachdive 3 days ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???