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  1. Ask HN: Does anyone else notice that gas runs out faster than usual
    ×1.11 #50 | 8 points by cat-turner 1 hour ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Are you team MCP or team CLI?
    ×0.62 40 #71 | 7 points by sharath39 5 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What was it like in the era of BBS before the internet?
    ×1.05 24 | 18 points by ex-aws-dude 4 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs
    ×3.94 12 | 768 points by hrncode 1 day ago | 437 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Who needs contributors? (March 2026)
    ×0.87 60 | 21 points by Kathan2651 17 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What's your favorite number, and why?
    ×1.67 8 | 8 points by QuantumNomad_ 4 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Is it actually possible to run multiple coding sessions in parallel?
    ×0.50 65 | 9 points by sukit 12 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How to Handle Claude's Stubbornness?
    ×0.45 76 | 6 points by classicpsy 13 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Best stack for building a tiny game with an 11-year-old?
    ×0.53 90 | 14 points by richardstahl 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: M5 MacBook Pro buyers, worth spending the $$$ to maybe run LLMs local?
    ×0.84 98 | 9 points by tpurves 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Google Finance Replacement Without AI Slop?
    ×0.68 68 | 5 points by rurp 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. The risk of AI isn't making us lazy, but making "lazy" look productive
    ×1.51 85 | 74 points by acmerfight 2 days ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Release Path for 'Transformers Alternatives'?
    ×0.32 111 | 4 points by adinhitlore 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What's the latest concensus on OpenAI vs. Anthropic $20/month tier?
    ×0.95 113 | 12 points by whatarethembits 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How are you keeping AI coding agents from burning money?
    ×0.38 122 | 8 points by bhaviav100 2 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Why do SF billboards hit different?
    ×0.19 131 | 3 points by YouAreExisting 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Operator23: Describe Your Workflow in English, Deploy Everywhere
    ×0.23 128 | 4 points by Mrakermo 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Is it just me?
    ×0.93 110 | 17 points by twoelf 2 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Claude API Error: 529
    ×0.48 123 | 25 points by anujbans 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Anyone using Meshtastic/LoRa for non-chat applications?
    ×0.67 129 | 12 points by redgridtactical 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Repsy – A lightweight, open-source alternative to Nexus/Artifactory
    ×0.30 151 | 7 points by nuricanozturk 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Fear of Missing Code
    ×0.47 137 | 9 points by lukol 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. GitHub now requiring 2FA for all contributors,what authenticator apps you using?
    ×0.30 144 | 14 points by nickcageinacage 4 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Anybody tried to cheat AI-HR-system with hidden/white sentences?
    ×0.27 146 | 5 points by KellyCriterion 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Rses – cross-resume between Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode
    ×0.29 148 | 13 points by plawlost 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Fibonacci's Composed Fractions (ztoz.blog)
    ×0.31 67 #41 | 13 points by aebtebeten 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. I use Excalidraw to manage my diagrams for my blog (lysk.tech)
    ×1.57 #48 | 268 points by mlysk 17 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: I made my fitness dashboard public and Apple Health needs an API (aka.me)
    ×1.09 54 #75 | 8 points by pbarondadditude 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Freedom Studio – local AI runner with Tor, E2E encryption, and zero telemetry (github.com/albertotijunelis)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by Tijunelis 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Is anyone still resisting the slop onslaught?
    ×0.93 | 1 points by 0xDEFACED 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. The Hateful Eight is 85% of S&P 500 Decline (paulkedrosky.com)
    ×4.30 60 | 67 points by aanet 6 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Veil – Dark mode PDFs without destroying images, runs in the browser (simoneamico.com)
    ×1.48 102 | 100 points by simoneamico 4 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Tinyvision:-Building Ultra-Lightweight Models for Image Tasks (github.com/SaptakBhoumik)
    ×0.73 130 | 3 points by saptakbhoumik3 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Wisp: WebAssembly Lisp (github.com/DavidLiedle)
    ×2.14 12 | 4 points by DavidCanHelp 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Easel is now an expression language (March 2026 update) (easel.games)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by BSTRhino 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Live map of SF fires and 911 calls – P25 radio decoded with AI (monitorsthesituation.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by teocalin37 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. The stealthy startup that pitched brainless human clones (technologyreview.com)
    ×1.87 29 #53 | 42 points by joozio 4 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Scaling Last-Mile route optimization to 1M stops on a laptop (medium.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by pantherolive 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ubuntu 26.04 Showing Nice Gains over Ubuntu 25.10 on AMD Ryzen 9000 Series (phoronix.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by teleforce 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. PocketMage PDA CrowdSupply (crowdsupply.com)
    ×1.70 22 | 3 points by caminanteblanco 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Sheet Ninja – Google Sheets as a CRUD Back End for Vibe Coders (sheetninja.io)
    ×0.79 64 | 81 points by sxa001 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. App that shows real-time lightning on Earth is showing bombings in Middle East (blitzortung.org)
    ×1.84 70 | 51 points by 0ut0flin3 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Do your own writing (alexhwoods.com)
    ×2.55 1 #3 | 342 points by karimf 7 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Vulnerability research is cooked (sockpuppet.org)
    ×3.19 22 #35 | 127 points by pedro84 6 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Kyushu Railway Company Train Varieties (jrkyushu.co.jp)
    ×0.86 58 #76 | 92 points by NaOH 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. How A Spartan Revolutionized Baseball (msu.edu)
    ×0.45 55 #80 | 27 points by rmason 16 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find live streamers who need views the most (twitchroulette.net)
    ×1.22 77 | 177 points by ellg 3 days ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Pretext: TypeScript library for multiline text measurement and layout (github.com/chenglou)
    ×1.97 12 #83 | 370 points by emersonmacro 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Claude Code runs Git reset –hard origin/main against project repo every 10 mins (github.com/anthropics)
    ×2.43 | 251 points by mthwsjc_ 1 day ago | 195 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Git bayesect – Bayesian Git bisection for non-deterministic bugs (github.com/hauntsaninja)
    ×1.03 154 | 3 points by hauntsaninja 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Build123d: A Python CAD programming library (github.com/gumyr)
    ×0.95 19 #23 | 115 points by Ivoah 10 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Philly courts will ban all smart eyeglasses starting next week (inquirer.com)
    ×2.73 6 #55 | 388 points by Philadelphia 23 hours ago | 203 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Icons inside underlined links without text <span>ning (blades.ninja)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by anydigital 51 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Ask HN: Anyone getting random quotes from U-Haul while their website is down?
    ×0.46 | 1 points by phyzix5761 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Yoink – Spotify to lossless with full metadata, self-hostable, ad-free (yoinkify.com)
    ×2.07 121 | 58 points by chasefrazier 5 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. A sea of sparks: Seeing radioactivity (maurycyz.com)
    ×0.66 21 #18 | 49 points by maurycyz 6 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: I built a Bitcoin signing device where the private key is physical (frozensecurity.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by frozensecurity 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: I built an OS that is pure AI (pneuma.computer)
    ×1.51 97 | 32 points by evanbarke 2 days ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: NerdFlair, a Claude Code QoL Plugin (github.com/jcraigk)
    ×0.83 165 | 3 points by block_dagger 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. The ladder is missing rungs – Engineering Progression When AI Ate the Middle (negroniventurestudios.com)
    ×1.58 41 #28 | 75 points by sorenvrist 11 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. A guide to Io_uring (nick-black.com)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by teleforce 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Rusdantic (github.com/mmgehlot)
    ×0.66 | 2 points by mmgehlot 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies (sytse.com)
    ×5.31 14 #68 | 1384 points by bob_theslob646 2 days ago | 249 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: The Alphabetical Clock (boat.horse)
    ×0.80 38 #90 | 38 points by secretdark 17 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: For You – AI art floats down a river for strangers to find (foryouriver.com)
    ×0.66 161 | 4 points by arclegger 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. How to turn anything into a router (nbailey.ca)
    ×2.51 2 #6 | 576 points by yabones 11 hours ago | 207 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Alzheimer's disease mortality among taxi and ambulance drivers (2024) (bmj.com)
    ×1.63 48 | 226 points by bookofjoe 2 days ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: DeepRepo – AI architecture diagrams from GitHub repos (deeprepo.dev)
    ×1.77 87 | 17 points by uwais12 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Android Developer Verification (googleblog.com)
    ×2.40 #2 | 121 points by ingve 3 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. More on Version Control (bramcohen.com)
    ×0.83 58 #73 | 96 points by velmu 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. The Terrarium (lesswrong.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by johnfn 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: I made a "programming language" looking for feedback (github.com/alonsovm44)
    ×0.53 72 | 36 points by alonsovm 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Polymarket (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.13 | 2 points by DyslexicAtheist 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Lat.md: Agent Lattice: a knowledge graph for your codebase, written in Markdown (github.com/1st1)
    ×1.55 66 | 88 points by doppp 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Shipment of KitKat bars stolen en route from Italy to Poland (apnews.com)
    ×3.34 75 | 56 points by petethomas 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Pglens – 27 read-only PostgreSQL tools for AI agents via MCP (github.com/janbjorge)
    ×2.50 99 | 11 points by jeeybee 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Grafana TUI – Browse Grafana dashboards in the terminal (github.com/lovromazgon)
    ×4.97 125 | 23 points by lmazgon 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. 15 Years of Forking (waterfox.com)
    ×1.83 8 #72 | 290 points by MrAlex94 1 day ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Cairn CLI: The Machine Interface (backpac.xyz)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by allynjalford 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. The road signs that teach travellers about France (bbc.com)
    ×1.26 25 | 148 points by 1659447091 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: CLI to order groceries via reverse-engineered REWE API (Haskell) (github.com/yannick-cw)
    ×1.97 89 | 6 points by wazHFsRy 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. MAME 0.287 (mamedev.org)
    ×2.17 20 #61 | 8 points by chungy 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. The rise and fall of IBM's 4 Pi aerospace computers: an illustrated history (righto.com)
    ×0.77 65 #78 | 96 points by zdw 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. What Happens When AI Stops Being Artificially Cheap (danielmiessler.com)
    ×1.44 | 2 points by davikr 29 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Gavin Newsom signs executive order to strengthen AI protections, responsible use (ca.gov)
    ×2.04 16 | 3 points by hentrep 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Codemaxxing – Maximize your slop abilities (github.com/jshchnz)
    ×1.93 10 | 4 points by jshchnz 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (2018) (anishathalye.com)
    ×2.08 1 #4 | 184 points by HughParry 5 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. NumPy as Synth Engine (kennethreitz.org)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by birdculture 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. 1.5M GitHub pull requests have had ads injected into them by Microsoft Copilot (neowin.net)
    ×5.83 80 | 339 points by bundie 10 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Agent Orchestrator, a local-first Harness Engineering control plane
    ×3.65 100 | 14 points by gpgkd906 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???