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  1. Ask HN: Cheap laptop for Linux without GUI (for writing)
    ×2.22 56 | 4 points by locusofself 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Is there anyone here who still uses slide rules?
    ×1.21 38 #68 | 105 points by blenderob 8 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)
    ×0.90 57 #69 | 128 points by whoishiring 1 day ago | 378 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)
    ×1.22 14 #78 | 299 points by whoishiring 1 day ago | 406 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Anyone have a "sovereign" solution for phone calls?
    ×0.97 63 | 6 points by kldg 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Signal Is Down
    ×3.05 42 | 39 points by Daniel_sk 6 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What's your preferred Python tool to convert Markdown to print ready PDF
    ×0.84 | 2 points by eon01 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Do you still use physical calculators?
    ×0.78 13 | 52 points by speedylight 3 days ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Kernighan on Programming
    ×1.87 24 | 160 points by chrisjj 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: OpenClaw users, what is your token spend?
    ×1.10 77 | 11 points by 8cvor6j844qw_d6 21 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What weird or scrappy things did you do to get your first users?
    ×1.32 83 | 12 points by preston-kwei 22 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Have you been fired because of AI?
    ×2.14 72 | 11 points by s-stude 16 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. GitHub Actions Have "Major Outage"
    ×2.89 56 | 52 points by graton 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Google Cloud suspended my account for 2 years, only automated replies
    ×1.45 81 | 156 points by andylizf 3 days ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Where do all the web devs talk?
    ×1.79 30 | 54 points by LinguaBrowse 18 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Best practices for powering and wiring addressable LED strip installs?
    ×0.82 100 | 3 points by emmasuntech 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. My small SaaS got recommended my Google in the AI search overview
    ×0.39 | 2 points by kaave 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Why dead code detection in Python is harder than most tools admit
    ×1.05 107 | 4 points by duriantaco 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Are you still using spec driven development?
    ×0.26 117 | 3 points by cherry_tree 21 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. CiderStack – Native macOS VM manager, pay once, no subscription
    ×1.10 91 | 5 points by ciderdev 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Has anybody moved their local community off of Facebook groups?
    ×0.91 98 | 20 points by madsohm 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Anyone else struggle with how to learn coding in the AI era?
    ×2.07 36 | 46 points by 44Bulldog 18 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Request limits vs. token limits for AI-powered apps?
    ×0.47 | 2 points by JeduDev 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Is anyone losing sleep over retry storms or partial API outages?
    ×0.51 | 2 points by rjpruitt16 18 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Interest in low cost / fast container registry?
    ×0.57 | 2 points by osigurdson 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Why do people still talk about AGI?
    ×1.23 84 | 41 points by cermicelli 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Latex-wc: word count and word frequency for LaTeX projects
    ×0.27 | 2 points by sethbarrettAU 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: A proposal for interviewing "AI-Augmented" Engineers
    ×0.68 115 | 3 points by vanbashan 20 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Who is firing? (February 2026)
    ×4.64 73 | 22 points by chalmovsky 23 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Junior getting lost
    ×0.63 134 | 49 points by TheRegularOne 5 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Why are customer feedback boards so static? Building a live alternative
    ×0.31 | 2 points by develotor 22 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: What are the immediate/near/long-term non-corporate benefits of AI?
    ×0.69 122 | 3 points by 0x4e 23 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Who's Coding on Their Phone?
    ×1.16 80 | 4 points by raunaqvaisoha 10 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: How do you give AI agents access without over-permissioning?
    ×1.05 109 | 6 points by NBenkovich 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. GitHub Incidents with Actions and Codespaces
    ×2.33 95 | 11 points by jeduardo 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: What serious task have you accomplished with Moltbot / OpenClaw?
    ×0.84 120 | 10 points by lukol 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Any Successful Co-Ops of Software Engineers
    ×0.82 137 | 13 points by rubyn00bie 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: Any real OpenClaw (Clawd Bot/Molt Bot) users? What's your experience?
    ×2.17 93 | 113 points by cvhc 3 days ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: Do you also "hoard" notes/links but struggle to turn them into actions?
    ×1.83 85 | 232 points by item007 4 days ago | 213 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Task engine VM – for tasks with executable instructions (progress update)
    ×0.12 151 | 4 points by tracyspacy 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. AI has failed to replace a single software application or feature
    ×0.80 144 | 21 points by cadabrabra 4 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ask HN: How do you reset an AppleID?
    ×0.58 152 | 13 points by OhMeadhbh 4 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Waypoint 1.1, a local-first world model for interactive simulation
    ×0.56 150 | 13 points by lcastricato 4 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Ask HN: How do you handle auth when AI dev agents spin up short-lived apps?
    ×0.32 149 | 5 points by NBenkovich 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. The Codex App (openai.com)
    ×3.20 3 #44 | 782 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 597 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Google court filings suggest ChromeOS has an expiration date (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.74 31 #50 | 3 points by pjmlp 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. SBA cuts off non-US citizens from primary loan program (politico.com)
    ×2.92 35 | 4 points by propter_hoc 53 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. this is me (twitter.com/trq212)
    ×1.35 | 2 points by tosh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. CL-32 (cl-32.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by tartoran 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. From Tobacco to Ultraprocessed Food: How Industry Fuels Preventable Disease (wiley.com)
    ×2.60 24 | 100 points by jbotz 13 hours ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Pinecone Explorer – Desktop GUI for the Pinecone vector database (pinecone-explorer.com)
    ×0.37 131 | 31 points by arsentjev 6 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. I made 20 GDPR deletion requests. 12 were ignored (nikolak.com)
    ×3.34 70 #81 | 124 points by nikola-k 4 hours ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. LICENSE: _may be_ licensed to use source code; incorrect license grant (github.com/mattermost)
    ×2.81 8 | 169 points by MallocVoidstar 1 day ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Time Machine-style backups with rsync (2018) (samuelhewitt.com)
    ×1.07 67 | 110 points by accrual 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: PolliticalScience – Anonymous daily polls with 24-hour windows (polliticalscience.vote)
    ×0.53 74 | 29 points by ps2026 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Axiom – C++ tensor library with NumPy API and Metal GPU support
    ×2.19 114 | 5 points by noahkay13 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Stay Away from My Screen (github.com/aeilot)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by aeilot 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Confabulists, a Substack for Fiction Writers (confabulists.com)
    ×0.97 132 | 3 points by soneca 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: File Markers – Track file status directly in VS Code's Explorer (github.com/joneldominic)
    ×0.45 | 2 points by joneldominic 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Next-gen nuclear reactors safe enough to skip full environmental reviews (theregister.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by Bender 48 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. EPA Advances Farmers' Right to Repair (epa.gov)
    ×1.99 10 | 188 points by bilsbie 1 day ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Training a trillion parameter model to be funny (sdan.io)
    ×0.70 57 #89 | 45 points by sdan 23 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. The OpenClaw Security Problem (osohq.com)
    ×2.13 16 | 3 points by meghan 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Corvus Robotics (YC S18) Inventory drones with full life-cycle autonomy
    ×4.38 50 | 6 points by robot_jackie 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. New York Wants to Ctrl+Alt+Delete Your 3D Printer (adafruit.com)
    ×6.08 70 | 117 points by ptorrone 6 hours ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle (dmitrybrant.com)
    ×3.33 2 #88 | 844 points by zdw 2 days ago | 282 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Morton Feldman's Music of Stillness (newyorker.com)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by paulpauper 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Reg.run - Decoupling AI "thinking" from API execution
    ×0.58 | 1 points by regrun 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: OpenSymbolicAI – Agents with typed variables, not just context stuffing
    ×1.01 | 2 points by rksart 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: kiln.bot - Orchestrate Claude Code from GitHub
    ×3.53 18 | 7 points by elondemirock 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. 221 Cannon Road Is Not for Sale (fredbenenson.com)
    ×2.91 16 #34 | 123 points by mecredis 5 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Minikv – Distributed key-value and object store in Rust (Raft, S3 API) (github.com/whispem)
    ×0.98 3 #77 | 61 points by whispem 11 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. What Would Richard Feynman Make of AI Today? (nautil.us)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by dnetesn 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: We Built the 1. EU-Sovereignty Audit for Websites (lightwaves.io)
    ×1.12 135 | 106 points by cmkr 1 week ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Build Web Automations via Demonstration (notte.cc)
    ×0.47 148 | 36 points by ogandreakiro 1 week ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Autoliner – write a bot to control a virtual airline (autoliner.app)
    ×1.49 46 | 3 points by msvan 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Nomad Tracker – a local-first iOS app to track visas and tax residency (nomadtracker.app)
    ×1.00 | 2 points by gotzonza 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Find viral video ideas on YouTube (viraloutlier.com)
    ×1.21 102 | 3 points by jklepatch 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Prism AI – A research agent that generates 2D/3D visualizations (github.com/precious112)
    ×1.54 136 | 4 points by PreciousH 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. LNAI – Define AI coding tool configs once, sync to Claude, Cursor, Codex, etc. (github.com/KrystianJonca)
    ×0.78 38 #47 | 67 points by iamkrystian17 13 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. No Source Code == No Patent (albertcory50.substack.com)
    ×1.77 24 #79 | 11 points by SnobolForever 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Sinofsky to Epstein on Cook and Forstall (mjtsai.com)
    ×2.05 8 | 3 points by bangonkeyboard 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Jetcaller – Make international calls directly from the browser (jetcaller.com)
    ×0.33 | 2 points by sankar_builds 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Nature Became a 'Prestige' Journal (asimov.press)
    ×2.03 5 | 3 points by surprisetalk 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Microsoft Campus Library Closes (geekwire.com)
    ×1.63 3 #49 | 5 points by ohjeez 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Prek: A better, faster, drop-in pre-commit replacement, engineered in Rust (github.com/j178)
    ×1.47 7 #8 | 158 points by fortuitous-frog 5 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. 3D-printed fan-less and pump-less liquid cooler can deliver 600 watts of cooling (tomshardware.com)
    ×1.03 4 #55 | 7 points by whynotmaybe 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Sentinel Gate – Open-source RBAC firewall for MCP agents (github.com/Sentinel-Gate)
    ×1.00 | 2 points by Sentinel-gate 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Agent Skills (agentskills.io)
    ×1.81 6 #6 | 326 points by mooreds 8 hours ago | 187 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Migrate Wizard – IMAP Based Email Migration Tool (migratewizard.com)
    ×0.51 30 #30 | 22 points by techstuff123 5 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???