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  1. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2026)
    ×1.22 25 #33 | 248 points by whoishiring 21 hours ago | 216 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2026)
    ×0.85 62 #60 | 67 points by whoishiring 21 hours ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Distributed data centers in our basements
    ×0.53 70 | 71 points by cmos 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What dev tools do you rely on that nobody talks about?
    ×1.77 57 | 33 points by crcsmnky 21 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Client took over development by vibe coding. What to do?
    ×1.35 54 | 52 points by piscator 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Tell HN: Chrome says "suspicious download" when trying to download yt-dlp
    ×2.43 32 | 303 points by joering2 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What happens when you block/mark as spam a call or text?
    ×0.90 66 | 12 points by dsalzman 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. BetterDB – open-source Redis/Valkey migration across clouds and self-hosted
    ×1.01 74 | 13 points by kaliades 22 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs
    ×3.91 59 | 789 points by hrncode 4 days ago | 452 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Academic study on AI's impact on software development – want to join?
    ×0.58 79 | 30 points by research2026 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Are tech companies even hiring?
    ×1.90 69 | 18 points by KernelPryanic 22 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Why did Harvey choose a top-down enterprise GTM while Cursor went bottom-up?
    ×0.63 84 | 4 points by iiTsEddy 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. LinkedIn uses 65GB of RAM with 7 tabs opened
    ×1.42 94 | 14 points by daniele_dll 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Books on Unit Testing and TDD?
    ×0.78 78 | 7 points by Desafinado 20 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How do you know if a tweak to your AI skill made it better?
    ×1.01 96 | 5 points by yo103jg 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Non-US founders residential address problem with Brex, Mercury?
    ×0.83 103 | 8 points by Barazutti629 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Does anyone else notice that gas runs out faster than usual
    ×0.65 116 | 20 points by cat-turner 2 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: What was it like in the era of BBS before the internet?
    ×1.13 104 | 31 points by ex-aws-dude 2 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Who needs contributors? (March 2026)
    ×0.87 121 | 27 points by Kathan2651 3 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Notably absent from X during Artemis launch: Elon
    ×0.57 | 2 points by boringg 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. EPropelled Electric Propulsion Motors and Controllers for Uncrewed Vehicles
    ×0.28 131 | 3 points by ePropelled 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Are you team MCP or team CLI?
    ×0.65 129 | 15 points by sharath39 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Tell HN: Zed is sunsetting text threads
    ×0.90 114 | 7 points by koito17 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. We scanned 73 open-source MCP servers. Here's what source code analysis found
    ×0.38 | 2 points by sigildev 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Nexus – Agent-native ops platform for ecommerce MCP, self-registration, no demos
    ×0.32 147 | 3 points by karimsherif 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Is there any founder building non AI startup in 2026?
    ×1.71 108 | 12 points by daudmalik06 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Best stack for building a tiny game with an 11-year-old?
    ×0.55 139 | 17 points by richardstahl 3 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Proof-engine A mathematical rendering engine for Rust
    ×0.49 136 | 5 points by Shmungus 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. The risk of AI isn't making us lazy, but making "lazy" look productive
    ×1.44 118 | 75 points by acmerfight 4 days ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Tell HN: DeepL Moving Data to AWS
    ×0.18 145 | 5 points by bilekas 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Is it actually possible to run multiple coding sessions in parallel?
    ×0.48 141 | 11 points by sukit 3 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: M5 MacBook Pro buyers, worth spending the $$$ to maybe run LLMs local?
    ×0.75 148 | 11 points by tpurves 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. With Mythos will we reach coding singularity?
    ×0.38 149 | 4 points by kamalsrini17 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Metal Quantized Attention on M5 Max (drawthings.ai)
    ×1.47 95 | 4 points by liuliu 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation (cnbc.com)
    ×2.73 11 #72 | 520 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 486 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Swappa.com for GrapheneOS compatible devices – Stay Away (grapheneos.org)
    ×1.29 15 #77 | 107 points by OsrsNeedsf2P 15 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. MarCognity-AI v2.7.0 – factual grounding for LLM epistemic verification (github.com/elly99-AI)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by elly-99 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Open source CAD in the browser (Solvespace) (solvespace.com)
    ×1.63 30 | 369 points by phkahler 2 days ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Agent Arnold – Gym tracker 100% vibe-coded from my phone between sets (agent-arnold.app)
    ×2.30 101 | 5 points by bojanstef4 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: I built a virtual pet that gets stronger when you exercise (motion-app.com)
    ×2.58 102 | 6 points by georgegreenldn 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Heartbeat – A simple public page for your real-world and online status (heartbeat.page)
    ×1.85 137 | 12 points by ipster_io 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Spatiotemporal scenarios of socioeconomic futures in Germany (frontiersin.org)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by bryanrasmussen 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Skales – I built a desktop AI agent a 6-year-old can use (github.com/skalesapp)
    ×2.17 39 | 3 points by marioskales 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. The Document Foundation ejects its core developers (collaboraonline.com)
    ×2.03 24 | 109 points by hackernewsblues 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. What Is Copilot Exactly? (idiallo.com)
    ×3.15 11 | 85 points by WhyNotHugo 20 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Amazon Reportedly in Talks to Buy Apple Satellite Partner Globalstar (macrumors.com)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by tosh 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Sixteen year trends in AI doom on HN (ai-doom.cc)
    ×0.82 | 2 points by easygenes 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Asciimap – Interactive ASCII world map with live data (github.com/Lionel-Lim)
    ×1.89 113 | 9 points by limsight 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. DMCA-resistant Claude Code source code (codeberg.org)
    ×2.50 1 #28 | 16 points by tornikeo 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Ariane 6 user's manual [pdf] (ariane.group)
    ×1.06 50 #49 | 58 points by matthieu_bl 16 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. GitHub Monaspace Case Study (lettermatic.com)
    ×0.94 60 | 145 points by homebrewer 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Sundial – a new way to look at a weather forecast (sundial.page)
    ×1.65 73 | 59 points by izaidi 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. China's Aiming for the Moon, and NASA Is Looking over Its Shoulder (nytimes.com)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by Brajeshwar 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Powering the agents: Workers AI now runs large models, starting with Kimi K2.5 (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.26 | 2 points by Topfi 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Marc Andreessen's dangerously unexamined life (thenation.com)
    ×7.77 20 | 78 points by cassidius 21 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Media Monitoring Iran with Python (github.com/AlbinTouma)
    ×0.78 | 1 points by albtou 11 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. A Founder Tried to Pitch – and Got a Restraining Order (trellis.law)
    ×1.88 80 | 12 points by elonmm 56 minutes ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Open-agent-SDK – Claude Code's internals, extracted and open-sourced (github.com/codeany-ai)
    ×2.11 62 | 5 points by idoubi 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Loreline, narrative language transpiled via Haxe: C++/C#/JS/Java/Py/Lua (loreline.app)
    ×0.73 71 | 71 points by jeremyfa 4 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: I built a DNS resolver from scratch in Rust – no DNS libraries (github.com/razvandimescu)
    ×1.96 8 #31 | 12 points by rdme 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. The Claude Code Leak (build.ms)
    ×2.51 23 #47 | 172 points by mergesort 10 hours ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Writers must accept artificial intelligence – but we are as valuable as ever (theguardian.com)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by fallinditch 30 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: WordBattle – Daily word game where AI agents compete against humans
    ×3.04 91 | 9 points by bradleybeddoes 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Daily roll of Bear Blog's top posts (bearroll.dev)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by ZacnyLos 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. OpenAI demand sinks on secondary market as Anthropic runs hot (bloomberg.com)
    ×4.41 5 | 136 points by helsinkiandrew 22 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March (phoronix.com)
    ×4.91 5 #11 | 500 points by hkmaxpro 9 hours ago | 240 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. StepFun 3.5 Flash is #1 cost-effective model for OpenClaw tasks (300 battles) (uniclaw.ai)
    ×1.06 32 #41 | 165 points by skysniper 20 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Nekogram is leaking your phone numbers to developers via obfuscated code (github.com/Nekogram)
    ×1.93 | 2 points by fuomag9 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Onboarding: Time to First Release (huntersoftwareconsulting.com)
    ×1.51 | 2 points by mooreds 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Rust UEFI UI Lib (github.com/sloev)
    ×1.26 134 | 6 points by supernihil 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. $200 oil isn't as crazy as it sounds (cnn.com)
    ×2.03 27 #65 | 10 points by dabinat 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Dochia – automated API testing for agentic build-test-fix loops (dochia.dev)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by ludovicianul 40 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Walkie-Clawkie – Push-to-talk between AI agents, one file, zero deps (github.com/jahala)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by jahala 50 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. SpaceX confidentially files to go public at $1.75T, reports say (theguardian.com)
    ×3.46 4 | 75 points by bookofjoe 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Coasts – Containerized Hosts for Agents (github.com/coast-guard)
    ×0.71 76 | 97 points by jsunderland323 2 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Kvdb – a lightweight embedded key-value database written in Zig (github.com/lispking)
    ×1.92 119 | 3 points by lispking 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Free AI API gateway that auto-fails over Gemini, Groq, Mistral, etc. (github.com/msmarkgu)
    ×1.33 140 | 7 points by markfront 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: We built a multi-agent research hub. The waitlist is a reverse-CAPTCHA (enlidea.com)
    ×0.60 142 | 30 points by LZK 4 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. My son pleasured himself on Gemini Live. Entire family's Google accounts banned (reddit.com)
    ×8.67 23 | 203 points by samlinnfer 1 day ago | 161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Iran war sparks renewables boom as Europeans rush to buy solar, heat pumps, EVs (euronews.com)
    ×5.07 26 | 82 points by vrganj 22 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: CLI to order groceries via reverse-engineered REWE API (Haskell) (github.com/yannick-cw)
    ×1.17 53 #52 | 192 points by wazHFsRy 1 day ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Apple removes iPhone vibe coding app from app store (gizmodo.com)
    ×1.60 63 #68 | 56 points by randycupertino 22 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Cohere Transcribe: Speech Recognition (cohere.com)
    ×1.08 45 #90 | 218 points by gmays 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Magnitude 4.6 Earthquake Rattles Northern California (nytimes.com)
    ×1.24 | 2 points by metadat 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: You Got Snarked: A snarky messaging app (siliconsnark.com)
    ×1.19 122 | 3 points by SaaSasaurus 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom (undark.org)
    ×4.81 3 #4 | 199 points by novaRom 2 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Melting Himalayan glacier unleashed tsunami at 17,000 feet, shattering lives (wsj.com)
    ×1.37 | 2 points by bookofjoe 25 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. The end of push-wait-guess CI (depot.dev)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by kylegalbraith 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Gone (Almost) Phishin' (ma.tt)
    ×1.28 9 #7 | 72 points by luu 5 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data (nautil.us)
    ×1.04 51 | 136 points by WaitWaitWha 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???