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  1. Ask HN: What are you working on this Thursday?
    ×0.53 | 2 points by Sayyidalijufri 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
    ×1.24 85 #77 | 320 points by david927 3 days ago | 1095 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Has anyone achieved recursive self-improvement with agentic tools?
    ×0.34 26 | 5 points by nycdatasci 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Why are electronics still so unrecyclable?
    ×0.78 4 | 64 points by alexandrehtrb 16 hours ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How do you deal with long Covid?
    ×0.99 7 | 4 points by manx 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Does OpenClaw need a re-architecture to be usable?
    ×0.57 67 | 4 points by xinbenlv 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Why is everyone here so AI-hyped?
    ×1.12 93 | 19 points by fandorin 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Mass Resignation from xAI
    ×0.73 78 | 14 points by hargup 20 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Do provisional patents matter for early-stage startups?
    ×0.34 115 | 20 points by gdad 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Dear OpenAI and Anthropic Sales Leaders
    ×0.45 105 | 9 points by kevinprince 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. OrthoRay – A native, lightweight DICOM viewer written in Rust/wgpu by a surgeon
    ×0.24 133 | 7 points by DrMeric 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Cursor switches pay-per-token when your plan limit end. Calls "On-Demand usage"
    ×0.63 102 | 11 points by hardwellvibe 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. AI Isn't Dangerous. Evaluation Structures Are.
    ×0.16 128 | 4 points by clover-s 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Am I holding it wrong?
    ×0.28 121 | 6 points by notpachet 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Are past LLM models getting dumber?
    ×0.23 132 | 4 points by hmate9 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What do you want people to build?
    ×0.44 122 | 6 points by billsunshine 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Tell HN: Increased 403's on the Cloudflare Dashboard
    ×0.11 | 2 points by TimCTRL 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: What made VLIW a good fit for DSPs compared to GPUs?
    ×0.28 138 | 7 points by rishabhaiover 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How to get started with robotics as a hobbyist?
    ×1.20 139 | 7 points by StefanBatory 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. A Deep Dive into Nova – A Web Framework for Erlang on Beam
    ×0.17 140 | 3 points by taure 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. I Built a Browser Flight Simulator Using Three.js and CesiumJS
    ×0.74 120 | 12 points by dimartarmizi 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. The $5.5T Paradox: Structural displacement in the GPU/AI infra labor demand?
    ×0.24 141 | 4 points by y2236li 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Kimwolf Botnet Swamps Anonymity Network I2P (krebsonsecurity.com)
    ×0.79 69 #57 | 28 points by todsacerdoti 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. The Day the Telnet Died (greynoise.io)
    ×2.33 11 #62 | 486 points by pjf 1 day ago | 369 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. RIP Robert Tinney, the illustrator behind so many Byte magazines (tinney.net)
    ×2.05 36 #65 | 18 points by ohjeez 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. AI's Real Impact on Software Launches: Evidence from Product Hunt (asanchez.dev)
    ×1.64 54 | 3 points by asanchezdev 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. What the Fall of the Telegraph Says About Fossil Fuels (oilprice.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by xbmcuser 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Paragon accidentally uploaded a photo of its spyware control panel (twitter.com/DrWhax)
    ×2.63 25 #48 | 167 points by CGMthrowaway 12 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Zellij Roadmap (zellij.dev)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by tosh 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Increasingly, HIPAA Can't Stop AI from De-Anonymizing Patient Data (unite.ai)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by 50kIters 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. AI-First Company Memos (the-ai-native.company)
    ×1.58 24 #86 | 123 points by bobismyuncle 16 hours ago | 187 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. CoLoop (YC S21) Is Hiring Ex Technical Founders in London (workatastartup.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: NotebookLM lets you import multiple tabs and YouTube videos at once (google.com)
    ×2.46 45 | 3 points by AlesBeg 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. How Did the FBI Get Nancy Guthrie's Nest Doorbell Footage? (lifehacker.com)
    ×3.05 43 | 111 points by daft_pink 13 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Sol LeWitt-style instruction-based drawings in the browser (intervolz.com)
    ×0.66 76 | 43 points by intervolz 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Baby Vault – A 100% offline, privacy-first PWA for new parents (moshmage.com)
    ×2.33 99 | 5 points by moshmage 20 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: OpenClaw Kubernetes Operator (github.com/OpenClaw-rocks)
    ×0.46 | 2 points by stubbi 21 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Apple's latest attempt to launch the new Siri runs into snags (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.54 32 #23 | 77 points by petethomas 12 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Elysia JIT "Compiler", why it's one of the fastest JavaScript framework (elysiajs.com)
    ×0.63 84 | 51 points by saltyaom 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1961-1964) (caltech.edu)
    ×2.16 8 #67 | 477 points by rramadass 1 day ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents (entire.io)
    ×2.76 3 #80 | 601 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 567 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. A brief history of oral peptides (seangeiger.substack.com)
    ×1.11 47 #87 | 130 points by odedfalik 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. An async HTTP server in ~80 lines of modern C++ (coroutines) (vixcpp.com)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by gkirira 18 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Instagram chief likens social media addiction to being hooked on a Netflix show (cnbc.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD? (microsoft.com)
    ×1.78 25 | 194 points by ingve 1 day ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: I created a Mars colony RPG based on Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars books (underhillgame.com)
    ×1.71 77 | 305 points by ariaalam 3 days ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Hacking the last Z80 computer – FOSDEM 2026 [video] (fosdem.org)
    ×0.82 38 #30 | 46 points by michalpleban 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks (z.ai)
    ×2.22 17 #7 | 352 points by CuriouslyC 18 hours ago | 436 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. From 34% to 96%: The Porting Initiative Delivers – Hologram v0.7.0 (hologram.page)
    ×0.86 11 #18 | 35 points by bartblast 5 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Lessons from CalyxOS signing process redesign (calyxos.org)
    ×0.88 | 1 points by todsacerdoti 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Huesnatch – 6 free color tools for designers, no login, no uploads (github.com/huesnatch)
    ×0.86 | 1 points by tatheery 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Inside the Secret Smear Machine That's Targeting Hollywood (hollywoodreporter.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by mikhael 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass (kibty.town)
    ×3.30 #2 | 649 points by JustSkyfall 9 hours ago | 251 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Agent framework that generates its own topology and evolves at runtime (github.com/adenhq)
    ×1.29 #36 | 87 points by vincentjiang 10 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Global Solo – Structural risk diagnostic for cross-border solo founders (globalsolo.global)
    ×1.20 | 2 points by jettfu 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: HN Companion – web app that enhances the experience of reading HN (hncompanion.com)
    ×0.95 85 | 30 points by georgeck 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. The other Markov's inequality (ethanepperly.com)
    ×0.99 15 #12 | 24 points by tzury 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Stripe HK: Approved, paid small sum, withheld $12k via dissolved entity
    ×0.51 | 1 points by poontszho 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Yet another music player but written in Rust (github.com/temidaradev)
    ×0.52 | 2 points by temidaradev 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. DeepWiki and Increasing Malleability of Software (twitter.com/karpathy)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by ipnon 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Grangou: Match over Meals, Not Messages (apple.com)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by eminio31020 24 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Oxide raises $200M Series C (oxide.computer)
    ×3.28 10 | 598 points by igrunert 1 day ago | 322 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: ArtisanForge: Learn Laravel through a gamified RPG adventure (artisanforge.online)
    ×0.63 79 | 38 points by grazulex 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: I taught GPT-OSS-120B to see using Google Lens and OpenCV
    ×0.62 57 | 41 points by vkaufmann 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Ktop – a themed terminal system monitor with charts and OOM tracking (github.com/brontoguana)
    ×2.20 116 | 5 points by brontoguana 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Automatic Differentiation from Scratch (2023) (esciencecenter.nl)
    ×0.82 79 #81 | 5 points by measurablefunc 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Exploring a Modern SMTPE 2110 Broadcast Truck (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×0.91 59 #51 | 148 points by assimpleaspossi 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Memio, a knowledge hub for your notes, RSS, and web articles on Android (memio.site)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by cpacm 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Jury told that Meta, Google 'engineered addiction' at landmark US trial (techxplore.com)
    ×4.39 | 492 points by geox 1 day ago | 381 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Heroku is not dead (nombiezinja.com)
    ×1.17 19 #26 | 44 points by jbm 7 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Bazzite Post-Mortem (antheas.dev)
    ×2.26 52 | 132 points by transportheap 1 day ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. The Falkirk Wheel (scottishcanals.co.uk)
    ×0.91 51 | 101 points by scapecast 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Vibe-coded AI video clipper that runs in the browser (github.com/imgly)
    ×1.33 131 | 4 points by buss_jan 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Amazon Ring's lost dog ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance (theverge.com)
    ×4.66 21 #28 | 540 points by jedberg 13 hours ago | 281 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. America's $1T AI Gamble (apricitas.io)
    ×2.10 80 | 57 points by m-hodges 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. 'The world is in peril': AI researchers quit with public warnings (thetimes.com)
    ×1.42 | 2 points by petethomas 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Migrating a 40k Product Store to Slug-Only URLs (PrestaShop) (kbizsoft.com)
    ×1.18 | 2 points by digi-marketer 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: I vibecoded 177 tools for my own use (CalcBin) (calcbin.com)
    ×3.94 95 | 12 points by diNgUrAndI 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Anna's Archive 'Releases' Spotify Tracks, Despite Legal Pushback (torrentfreak.com)
    ×3.59 25 #58 | 33 points by pabs3 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Should your developer company go open source? (extremefoundership.substack.com)
    ×0.70 51 #35 | 63 points by paraphrenia 14 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Indian teacher who created hundreds of learning centers wins $1M Global Prize (apnews.com)
    ×1.09 | 2 points by thunderbong 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: I made paperboat.website, a platform for friends and creativity (paperboat.website)
    ×0.73 65 | 75 points by yethiel 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: I spent 3 years reverse-engineering a 40 yo stock market sim from 1986 (wallstreetraider.com)
    ×3.51 87 | 51 points by benstopics 2 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Deobfuscation and Analysis of Ring-1.io (back.engineering)
    ×0.89 10 #16 | 31 points by raggi 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Maintaining Skills During the AI Advent (saadnaveed.com)
    ×0.99 | 1 points by saadn92 53 seconds ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Something I believe to be true with the AI platform shift (twitter.com/stevesi)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by tosh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. My team lead wants 25% of the total bonus pool for himself (reddit.com)
    ×1.12 | 2 points by fanux 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Showboat and Rodney, so agents can demo what they've built (simonwillison.net)
    ×0.92 56 | 89 points by simonw 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Who smeared Richard Feynman? (2014) (nuclearsecrecy.com)
    ×1.83 5 | 72 points by srean 18 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: I built a tool for lazy founders – it's called BunnyDesk (bunnydesk.ai)
    ×1.35 112 | 3 points by jacobsyc 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???