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  1. Tell HN: Fiverr left customer files public and searchable
    ×5.15 25 #65 | 786 points by morpheuskafka 23 hours ago | 219 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: How do you find motivation to do stuff?
    ×0.60 3 | 7 points by RockstarSprain 3 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allows you to fix to specific model version
    ×1.07 37 | 21 points by baobabKoodaa 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)
    ×1.45 71 | 340 points by david927 3 days ago | 1150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block
    ×5.02 30 | 1137 points by littlecranky67 3 days ago | 420 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Can't view public pull requests without logging in (GitHub)
    ×0.87 23 | 5 points by alskdj21 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. GitHub gave webhook secrets away in webhook call
    ×0.77 93 | 9 points by time4tea 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Robotics engineers – how painful was setting up GPU sim infra?
    ×0.34 95 | 3 points by nikhilol 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: As an Australian, is it possible to get a remote US role?
    ×0.27 | 2 points by apatheticonion 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What's the point in creating a startup when anyone can copy it in days?
    ×1.42 50 | 10 points by wewewedxfgdf 10 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Can anyone suggest me a SaaS product idea?
    ×0.55 92 | 4 points by wasimsk 13 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Easiest UX for Seniors
    ×1.20 32 | 56 points by khoury 4 days ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. What do you want out of a coding monospace font?
    ×0.34 | 2 points by d0able 17 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Tell HN: OpenAI silently removed Study Mode from ChatGPT
    ×1.56 85 | 186 points by smokel 3 days ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Who needs contributors? (April 2026)
    ×0.82 88 | 18 points by Kathan2651 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: I quit my job over weaponized robots to start my own venture
    ×2.92 42 | 114 points by barratia 1 day ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Claude Is Down
    ×2.70 12 | 6 points by mercurialsolo 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Are Web Agencies Cooked?
    ×0.80 91 | 10 points by mijustin 23 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What's your favorite security cam system?
    ×0.30 120 | 4 points by SunshineTheCat 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What standards or protocols exist for AI Agent permissions
    ×0.13 | 2 points by lyfeninja 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Tell HN: GitHub might have been leaking your webhook secrets. Check your emails.
    ×3.60 75 | 34 points by ssiddharth 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: LeetCode, anyone still doing it?
    ×0.99 110 | 11 points by kwar13 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. PersMEM: Persistent Semantic Memory and Multi-Instance Communication for AI
    ×0.36 132 | 3 points by asixicle 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?
    ×1.55 119 | 153 points by meander_water 6 days ago | 221 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Claude Code OAuth down for >12 hours
    ×0.38 118 | 7 points by pixel_popping 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Technical SEO vs. content optimization: which one moves rankings?
    ×0.37 138 | 4 points by zensorsolutions 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Why most AI projects feel useless
    ×0.62 134 | 8 points by vaishcodescape 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Hiring in the age of AI-assisted coding: what works?
    ×0.45 149 | 28 points by nitramm 5 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Are you negatively affected by the recent economic stagnation?
    ×0.62 144 | 7 points by adinhitlore 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: What should I do with my app? 130 downloads 3 real subscribers
    ×0.44 160 | 7 points by oyaa52 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Do you trust AI agents with API keys / private keys?
    ×0.48 139 | 17 points by devendra116 3 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: What makes it so hard to keep LLMs online?
    ×0.18 159 | 3 points by realberkeaslan 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Tell HN: Another Monday, Another Claude Outage
    ×0.41 142 | 6 points by ericol 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Best books on building a programming language
    ×0.68 155 | 18 points by ezzato 4 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Printing real headline news on the Commodore 64 with The Newsroom's Wire Service (oldvcr.blogspot.com)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by superultra 14 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Playonsnow.com – Play HTML5 Games for Free (playonsnow.com)
    ×1.30 | 2 points by jackpste 55 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: A stateful UI runtime for reactive web apps in Go (github.com/doors-dev)
    ×0.93 100 | 13 points by derstruct 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them (anchor.host)
    ×4.45 17 #63 | 1177 points by speckx 2 days ago | 331 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. HuggingFace launches pre-compiled machine learning kernels repository (huggingface.co)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by embedding-shape 59 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Saying goodbye to Agile (lewiscampbell.tech)
    ×2.76 36 | 167 points by matrixhelix 14 hours ago | 236 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. An AI Vibe Coding Horror Story (tobru.ch)
    ×4.72 25 | 210 points by teichmann 1 day ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Prmana – OIDC SSH Login for Linux with DPoP (Rust, Apache 2.0) (github.com/prodnull)
    ×0.75 154 | 3 points by cbchhaya 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. The tiniest e-reader in the world, and you can build one yourself (androidauthority.com)
    ×1.69 14 #31 | 32 points by Brajeshwar 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. The Courage to Stop (zeldman.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by speckx 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Shoe brand Allbirds says it will become an AI company, sending shares soaring (sfchronicle.com)
    ×2.51 42 | 4 points by jaredwiener 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Ask HN: How to Sell a Niche Domain
    ×0.52 | 1 points by ksaj 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. AI ruling prompts warnings from US lawyers: Your chats could be used against you (reuters.com)
    ×2.34 12 #33 | 117 points by alephnerd 6 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Space Force looks at moving "significant number" of launches from ULA to SpaceX (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.37 15 #39 | 3 points by Bender 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Multi-Agentic Software Development Is a Distributed Systems Problem (kirancodes.me)
    ×0.90 61 #85 | 115 points by tie-in 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Compile English specs into 22 MB neural functions that run locally
    ×2.99 4 | 7 points by yuntian 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: MōBrowser, a TypeScript-first desktop app framework with typed IPC (teamdev.com)
    ×1.84 111 | 6 points by Ikryanov 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Tracking takedown notices filed by UK Biobank (rocher.lc)
    ×0.50 | 2 points by Cynddl 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Seed: Adding `vau` with an immutable dynamic environment to Chez Scheme (github.com/amirouche)
    ×0.63 59 #81 | 13 points by PaulHoule 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: HN Tokenmaxxing Leaderboard (odio.dev)
    ×1.24 | 2 points by Sam_Odio 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. The FCC just saved Netgear from its router ban for no obvious reason (theverge.com)
    ×3.61 1 | 112 points by HotGarbage 17 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times (bandaancha.eu)
    ×3.65 25 | 429 points by akyuu 1 day ago | 438 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: We built an MCP for Windows – ask Claude about CPU, temps, and privacy (github.com/AppControlLabs)
    ×2.35 103 | 8 points by suprnurd 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: New Jobs (aphyr.com)
    ×1.85 8 #17 | 195 points by aphyr 5 hours ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. ChatGPT, Is This Real? (arxiv.org)
    ×1.20 | 2 points by runningmike 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. I ran 90 queries through 8 AI models. 86% of findings were unique to one (parallect.ai)
    ×2.19 10 | 3 points by primeobsession 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. (Potentially Vapourware) Trump Phone Redesigned (cnet.com)
    ×1.27 | 2 points by OhMeadhbh 53 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. N-Day-Bench – Can LLMs find real vulnerabilities in real codebases? (winfunc.com)
    ×0.74 78 | 88 points by mufeedvh 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Farchive – SQLite-backed history-preserving compressed archive (github.com/eliask)
    ×1.70 140 | 6 points by ekns 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Deconflict – Open-source WiFi planner with physics-based walls (deconflict.pages.dev)
    ×0.82 157 | 3 points by s_e__a___n 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Intel Desk – a live geopolitical and market desk with replayable source chains (inteldesk.app)
    ×0.86 | 1 points by wudwerd01 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Simdutf Can Now Be Used Without Libc++ or Libc++ABI (mitchellh.com)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by cdrnsf 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Comparing Compression Tools (arp242.net)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by ingve 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: I pipe free sports streams into Jellyfin – no ads, just HLS (github.com/pcruz1905)
    ×1.12 131 | 120 points by pruz 1 week ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. US national level OS-level age verification bill proposed (congress.gov)
    ×5.60 9 #74 | 177 points by cft 20 hours ago | 193 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Your codebase doesn't care how it got written (robbyonrails.com)
    ×0.93 76 #82 | 27 points by robbyrussell 20 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. TanStack Start Now Support React Server Components (tanstack.com)
    ×1.18 69 | 84 points by polywock 1 day ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Two Months After I Gave an AI $100 and No Instructions (sebastian-jais.de)
    ×4.67 44 | 92 points by gleipnircode 1 day ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight (torrentfreak.com)
    ×3.70 20 #15 | 182 points by askl 10 hours ago | 199 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Google Gemma 4 Runs Natively on iPhone with Full Offline AI Inference (gizmoweek.com)
    ×2.38 14 #27 | 238 points by takumi123 13 hours ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Anthropic's rise is giving some OpenAI investors second thoughts (techcrunch.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by Brajeshwar 31 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Stop Flock (stopflock.com)
    ×5.85 14 #42 | 914 points by cdrnsf 20 hours ago | 267 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Use Claude, ChatGPT, or MiniMax Subscriptions in Cursor (open-vsx.org)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by theorchid 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. NimConf 2026: Dates Announced, Registrations Open (nim-lang.org)
    ×0.84 46 | 103 points by moigagoo 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Skillgrab – scan any project, auto-install matching AI skills (briascoi.github.io)
    ×0.99 68 | 4 points by ismaelb 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: A memory database that forgets, consolidates, and detects contradiction (github.com/yantrikos)
    ×0.94 66 | 47 points by pranabsarkar 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Do you even need a database? (dbpro.app)
    ×1.52 12 #14 | 103 points by upmostly 6 hours ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Study: Back-to-basics approach can match or outperform AI in language analysis (manchester.ac.uk)
    ×0.72 34 #29 | 31 points by giuliomagnifico 6 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Dependency cooldowns turn you into a free-rider (calpaterson.com)
    ×1.38 30 #34 | 179 points by pabs3 16 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. MIT Radiation Laboratory (mit.edu)
    ×0.61 48 #36 | 41 points by stmw 9 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. The dangers of California's legislation to censor 3D printing (eff.org)
    ×3.91 7 #57 | 480 points by salkahfi 22 hours ago | 423 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. US national level OS-level age verification bill (social.coop)
    ×3.81 68 | 106 points by marvinborner 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Avec – iOS email app that lets you handle your Gmail inbox in seconds (apple.com)
    ×5.26 30 | 14 points by jnnnthnn 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Want to Write a Compiler? Just Read These Two Papers (2008) (dadgum.com)
    ×2.03 7 #6 | 380 points by downbad_ 9 hours ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Kalshi CEO expects US DOJ to prosecute insider trading cases (semafor.com)
    ×2.29 3 #11 | 28 points by thm 42 minutes ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Wacli – WhatsApp CLI (github.com/steipete)
    ×1.52 20 #19 | 207 points by dinakars777 11 hours ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???