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  1. Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
    ×1.26 81 #52 | 311 points by david927 2 days ago | 1074 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: AI is not a slippery slope, it's a waterslide
    ×0.48 31 | 4 points by keepamovin 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Dear OpenAI and Anthropic Sales Leaders
    ×0.99 33 | 9 points by kevinprince 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Cursor switches pay-per-token when your plan limit end. Calls "On-Demand usage"
    ×1.03 45 | 10 points by hardwellvibe 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Why is everyone here so AI-hyped?
    ×1.58 60 | 7 points by fandorin 11 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Do provisional patents matter for early-stage startups?
    ×0.38 81 | 20 points by gdad 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. AI Isn't Dangerous. Evaluation Structures Are.
    ×0.20 85 | 4 points by clover-s 16 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Am I holding it wrong?
    ×0.35 78 | 6 points by notpachet 19 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Are past LLM models getting dumber?
    ×0.30 98 | 4 points by hmate9 19 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What do you want people to build?
    ×0.38 99 | 4 points by billsunshine 19 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Tell HN: Increased 403's on the Cloudflare Dashboard
    ×0.14 | 2 points by TimCTRL 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. OrthoRay – A native, lightweight DICOM viewer written in Rust/wgpu by a surgeon
    ×0.24 116 | 6 points by DrMeric 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. A Deep Dive into Nova – A Web Framework for Erlang on Beam
    ×0.21 126 | 3 points by taure 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: 10 months since the Llama-4 release: what happened to Meta AI?
    ×0.82 120 | 55 points by Invictus0 5 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Ideas for small ways to make the world a better place
    ×0.83 121 | 40 points by jlmcgraw 4 days ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What made VLIW a good fit for DSPs compared to GPUs?
    ×0.31 130 | 7 points by rishabhaiover 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. I Built a Browser Flight Simulator Using Three.js and CesiumJS
    ×0.70 104 | 10 points by dimartarmizi 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How to get started with robotics as a hobbyist?
    ×0.68 136 | 3 points by StefanBatory 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. What Is Genspark?
    ×0.33 129 | 6 points by powera 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. What do you use for your customer facing analytics?
    ×0.20 134 | 3 points by arbiternoir 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Open Models are 9 months behind SOTA, how far behind are Local Models?
    ×0.58 112 | 11 points by myk-e 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. The $5.5T Paradox: Structural displacement in the GPU/AI infra labor demand?
    ×0.18 135 | 3 points by y2236li 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. AI Regex Scientist: A self-improving regex solver
    ×0.29 137 | 7 points by PranoyP 4 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Opus 4.6 ignoring instructions, how to use 4.5 in Claude Code instead?
    ×0.08 138 | 3 points by Chance-Device 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. What happens when you give Claude Code $1,500 to Run Meta Ads Autonomously (medium.com)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by schappim 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: Talk things through to find your next step (heyecho.app)
    ×0.79 | 2 points by samxkoh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Pyrig – One command to set up a production-ready Python project (github.com/Winipedia)
    ×0.56 | 2 points by Winipedia 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Benchmarking Automatic Typesetting Systems (speedata.de)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by patrickg 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Forrus – A Bridge for Forgejo and Cirrus CI (lchenghui.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by chenghui 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: "hard questions" as a shared language for cross-domain reasoning (github.com/onestardao)
    ×0.51 | 2 points by wfgy-github 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Darna – Atomic commit validator for Go (github.com/darccio)
    ×0.93 103 | 3 points by darccio 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Thoughts on Generating C (wingolog.org)
    ×1.21 46 #65 | 251 points by ingve 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Discord Alternatives, Ranked (taggart-tech.com)
    ×4.34 14 #68 | 640 points by pseudalopex 1 day ago | 409 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. FrankenTUI Live Web Demo (frankentui.com)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by eigenvalue 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Harmless reward hacks generalize to shutdown evasion and dictatorship in GPT-4.1 (arxiv.org)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by toliveistobuild 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Kanban-md – File-based CLI Kanban built for local agents collaboration (github.com/antopolskiy)
    ×0.86 65 | 17 points by santopol 21 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: I just want *one page* to see all investments, so that's what I built (mynetworthone.com)
    ×1.69 77 | 4 points by stedwick 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: ArtisanForge: Learn Laravel through a gamified RPG adventure (artisanforge.online)
    ×0.63 35 #32 | 31 points by grazulex 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Robinson–Patman Act (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.87 | 1 points by ndesaulniers 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer? (eljojo.github.io)
    ×2.45 66 | 399 points by eljojo 4 days ago | 231 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. The $0 bill Vercel doesn't want you to see (chaosguru.substack.com)
    ×2.28 39 | 3 points by taubek 53 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Go 1.26 Is Released (go.dev)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by trulyrandom 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Sleeper Shells: Attackers Are Planting Dormant Backdoors in Ivanti EPMM (defusedcyber.com)
    ×0.74 44 | 144 points by waihtis 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Track your input data and create colourful renders with it (github.com/huntfx)
    ×1.32 88 | 3 points by Xarovin 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Anti-detection browser server for AI agents, powered by Camoufox (github.com/jo-inc)
    ×1.35 | 2 points by irakeshpurohit 59 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Hobby Tunneling (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by DeathArrow 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk (research.google)
    ×1.74 5 | 363 points by aleyan 1 day ago | 555 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. MIT Technology Review has confirmed that posts on Moltbook were fake (technologyreview.com)
    ×2.53 17 #49 | 286 points by helloplanets 1 day ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Inside OpenAI's Decision to Kill the AI Model That People Loved Too Much (wsj.com)
    ×0.83 | 1 points by qsi 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Ask HN: What is your AI assisted dev workflow
    ×1.59 | 2 points by lewisjoe 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Creature – Desktop Client for Building and Sharing MCP Apps Within Orgs (creature.run)
    ×4.79 51 | 11 points by ac360 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Tambo 1.0: Open-source toolkit for agents that render React components (github.com/tambo-ai)
    ×1.13 18 #19 | 85 points by grouchy 10 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Launch HN: Livedocs (YC W22) – An AI-native notebook for data analysis (livedocs.com)
    ×0.40 37 #47 | 44 points by arsalanb 13 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Building a 'Hum to Search' Directory in just an hour (humtosearch.net)
    ×0.99 | 1 points by JohnYuan97 1 minute ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Hands-Free Driving Systems Confuse Drivers, but Carmakers Push for More (wsj.com)
    ×1.93 30 | 3 points by fortran77 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Vibrant Frog Collab – AI-Powered Writing Assistant (frogteam.ai)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by am-piazza 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Irish man detained by ICE for 5 months (rte.ie)
    ×11.40 28 | 181 points by cauliflower99 1 day ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: BioTradingArena – Benchmark for LLMs to predict biotech stock movements (biotradingarena.com)
    ×0.67 122 | 34 points by dchu17 4 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Markdown CLI viewer with VI keybindings (github.com/taf2)
    ×0.64 34 #29 | 69 points by taf2 13 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Qwen-Image-2.0: Professional infographics, exquisite photorealism (qwen.ai)
    ×2.32 8 #44 | 394 points by meetpateltech 22 hours ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. World's first fully Client-Side Webmail Client (cock.li)
    ×1.75 26 #74 | 30 points by zebreus 13 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Block a website in specific countries using Nginx (medium.com)
    ×1.11 | 2 points by kamaraju 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Printable Classics – Free printable classic books for hobby bookbinders (printableclassics.com)
    ×0.80 63 | 77 points by bookman10 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Konform Browser v140.7.0-108 (codeberg.org)
    ×3.38 89 | 7 points by konform 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Google Maps but for your repo (Open Source) (github.com/zacharykapank)
    ×3.10 133 | 7 points by zacharykapank 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish (2005) (stevejobsarchive.com)
    ×1.27 18 #10 | 10 points by walterbell 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Humanity's Last Programming Language (xeiaso.net)
    ×1.48 57 #53 | 15 points by jhvkjhk 10 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Actionbook – Resilient browser automation engine for AI agents (Rust) (github.com/actionbook)
    ×0.91 | 1 points by asen_not_taken 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: A framework that makes your AI coding agent learn from every session (github.com/KaimingWan)
    ×1.31 83 | 7 points by QuantumLeapOG 23 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. The Day the Telnet Died (greynoise.io)
    ×2.11 4 #8 | 307 points by pjf 9 hours ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. The sham legacy of Richard Feynman (2024) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by agnishom 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. AgentScript (anandchowdhary.com)
    ×1.20 | 2 points by anandchowdhary 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Idea Forge – Multi-model product validation(validated an OpenClaw idea) (sparkngine.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by oliverchoy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Humans peak in midlife: A combined cognitive and personality trait perspective (sciencedirect.com)
    ×1.82 36 | 168 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Open-source civic toolkit – 48 policies, 12 interactive tools, forkable
    ×1.15 119 | 3 points by david_mchale 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Game Theory Patterns at Work (daeus.blog)
    ×1.12 38 #80 | 133 points by kurinikku 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into a ESP8266-based Wi-Fi clock (github.com/jim11662418)
    ×2.35 21 #83 | 595 points by tokyobreakfast 1 day ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Cocoon – decentralized network for confidential AI inference (cocoon.org)
    ×0.83 | 1 points by defuz 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. When will we see Factorio with AI agents?
    ×0.65 | 1 points by simonebrunozzi 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. (Un)portable defer in C (antonz.org)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by ingve 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Shuffled - Daily word puzzle game (shuffled.app)
    ×1.85 91 | 4 points by wmora 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun (europeanbusinessmagazine.com)
    ×6.59 8 #18 | 826 points by NewCzech 19 hours ago | 677 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Agent-Tail (agent-tail.vercel.app)
    ×0.94 | 1 points by handfuloflight 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Chances of re-interview post rejection
    ×0.73 | 1 points by ultimatem 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. GraphQLite, Graph Network Extension on Top of SQLite (github.com/colliery-io)
    ×1.17 | 2 points by ekianjo 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Super Bowl Ad for Ring Cameras Touted AI Surveillance Network (truthout.org)
    ×3.79 13 | 193 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70k IDs (arstechnica.com)
    ×4.01 29 | 132 points by MysticOracle 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Flirt: The Native Backend (buenzli.dev)
    ×1.15 21 #9 | 11 points by senekor 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. (Rust) Tracking Issue for Generic Constant Arguments MVP (github.com/rust-lang)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by anfilt 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Sandboxels (neal.fun)
    ×2.46 4 | 390 points by 2sf5 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???