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  1. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)
    ×1.35 17 #9 | 199 points by david927 13 hours ago | 596 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block
    ×4.56 10 #19 | 803 points by littlecranky67 18 hours ago | 299 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Tell HN: OpenAI silently removed Study Mode from ChatGPT
    ×1.63 31 #76 | 169 points by smokel 18 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tell HN: Reddit now demands to know why you won't use their app
    ×2.76 37 | 13 points by josephcsible 4 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What are all the bad things that AI companies have done which we forgot
    ×0.60 67 | 6 points by Imustaskforhelp 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Do you trust AI agents with API keys / private keys?
    ×0.40 65 | 12 points by devendra116 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Anyone using Nostr as a lightweight back end/DB for rapid prototyping?
    ×0.37 81 | 6 points by wasimsk 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?
    ×1.58 70 | 148 points by meander_water 3 days ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What's your experience with PoW captchas against form spam?
    ×0.40 73 | 4 points by pentacent_hq 17 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Is the pitch deck culture making founders worse at building businesses?
    ×0.37 78 | 17 points by chinhqtran 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Hiring in the age of AI-assisted coding: what works?
    ×0.45 86 | 26 points by nitramm 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Best books on building a programming language
    ×0.75 85 | 17 points by ezzato 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What should I do with my app? 130 downloads 3 real subscribers
    ×0.25 103 | 3 points by oyaa52 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Former grok-code-fast-1 users, what coding model are you using now?
    ×0.19 | 2 points by whycombinetor 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Any Open Source projects in need of documentation writer?
    ×0.39 107 | 21 points by tree666 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Why Databases Instead of Filesystem?
    ×0.32 111 | 12 points by uticus 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Agentic Permutation of Testing Paths In A System
    ×0.15 110 | 4 points by davidajackson 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Tor Browser on Android leaks IP in desktop mode
    ×0.67 82 | 13 points by shchess 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Has anyone reconsidered Antivirus software after recent security news?
    ×1.14 92 | 6 points by pants2 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Do founders' political views affect how you see a product?
    ×0.59 122 | 4 points by rishikeshs 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Should AI credits be refunded on mistakes?
    ×0.24 129 | 19 points by ed_elliott_asc 4 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. I collected startup ideas. It changed how I think about ideas completely
    ×1.10 98 | 10 points by vibecoder21 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Is VC the new PMF strategy?
    ×0.29 142 | 3 points by networkOne 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How do you manage your digital legacy for after you die?
    ×0.49 134 | 15 points by orbanlevi 4 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Local-first meetings recorder and transcriber?
    ×0.52 146 | 7 points by dandaka 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Open Source card game cuttle.cards has its world championship Saturday at 1pm ET
    ×0.19 137 | 4 points by aleph_one 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Is it just me, or Opus 4.6 is sounding bit dumb lately
    ×2.51 128 | 7 points by rambrrest 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Are you encountering AI-related questions in the hiring market?
    ×0.28 130 | 7 points by somthingwrong 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. End of the Orban Era (bloomberg.com)
    ×4.43 45 | 8 points by dlx 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Bitcoin miners are losing on every coin produced as difficulty drops (coindesk.com)
    ×2.44 18 | 236 points by PaulHoule 1 day ago | 223 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Keeper – embedded secret store for Go (help me break it) (github.com/agberohq)
    ×0.47 72 | 63 points by babawere 2 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: We scanned uscis.gov for third-party trackers. The results are jarring (varlog.in)
    ×2.54 112 | 5 points by simple_elephant 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS (boringbar.app)
    ×1.93 9 #5 | 336 points by a-ve 13 hours ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. We have a 99% email reputation, but Gmail disagrees (wpcomstaging.com)
    ×1.96 17 #20 | 225 points by em-bee 18 hours ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Xlg – Jq for APIs
    ×0.49 | 1 points by alykirk 57 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Relocating Rigor (leaflet.pub)
    ×1.04 | 2 points by kiyanwang 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Explore the Silk Roads through an interactive map (intofarlands.com)
    ×0.49 105 | 47 points by intofarlands 4 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: LightningWindowSwitcher – search for open windows on macOS/Win (lightningwindowswitcher.com)
    ×1.67 145 | 4 points by afonso_soares 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Haunt, the 70s text adventure game, is now playable on a website (madebywindmill.com)
    ×0.92 10 #18 | 50 points by jscalo 3 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. European AI. A playbook to own it (mistral.ai)
    ×2.65 24 #48 | 172 points by hjouneau 11 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: ReverseYC (rocketplace.org)
    ×0.33 | 2 points by remarketme 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Real-Time OLAP Infrastructure (modolap.com)
    ×0.93 76 | 4 points by ronfriedhaber 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Meta is set to pay its top AI executives almost a billion each in bonuses (msn.com)
    ×2.61 60 | 49 points by seekdeep 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: A security scanner for AI Agent Skills (github.com/Fangcun-AI)
    ×1.68 141 | 5 points by mayziem 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Battery Intelligence SDK for IoT (NRF52840, STM32, ESP32-C3) (github.com/aliaksandr-liapin)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by iBattery 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional (theguardian.com)
    ×2.77 27 | 230 points by Jimmc414 1 day ago | 248 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. One neat trick to end extreme poverty (economist.com)
    ×2.08 49 | 63 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. How a dancer with ALS used brainwaves to perform live (electronicspecifier.com)
    ×0.81 38 | 57 points by 1659447091 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Zed, A sans for the needs of 21st century (2024) (typotheque.com)
    ×2.30 50 #33 | 35 points by yurivish 12 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. An Interview with Pat Gelsinger (morethanmoore.substack.com)
    ×0.80 54 #45 | 107 points by zdw 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: A living Vancouver. Connor is walking dogs at the SPCA this morning (brasilia-phi.vercel.app)
    ×0.76 120 | 3 points by auran 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Tech valuations are back to pre-AI boom levels (apollo.com)
    ×2.62 25 #43 | 133 points by akyuu 9 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. "Cursor Agent Is a Rebranded Claude Code" (twitter.com/jasonkneen)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by nreece 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file (playstarfling.com)
    ×3.25 17 #72 | 613 points by iceberger2001 2 days ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. We change when others are watching (nesslabs.com)
    ×1.89 39 | 3 points by theorchid 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Go-Bt: Minimalist Behavior Trees for Go (github.com/rvitorper)
    ×0.40 96 | 62 points by rvitorper 4 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. JVM Options Explorer (chriswhocodes.com)
    ×1.00 27 #24 | 189 points by 0x54MUR41 20 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Security Best Practices for Speedify Self-Hosted Servers (speedify.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by goodburb 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Reconciling Two UC Berkeleys – The Soapbox (dailycal.org)
    ×1.02 | 2 points by paulpauper 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Stork – MCP server so Claude/Cursor can search 14k MCP servers AI tools (stork.ai)
    ×0.34 | 2 points by usestork 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Fees for seas: a history of taxing waterways (ft.com)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by uijl 40 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Mano-P – On-device GUI agent, #1 on OSWorld, runs on M4 Mac (github.com/Mininglamp-AI)
    ×1.14 | 2 points by mininglamp 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. The Future Is Neuro-Symbolic: Where Has It Been, and Where Is It Going? (aaai.org)
    ×2.34 31 | 4 points by walterbell 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Artemis II is competency porn (lizplank.substack.com)
    ×2.57 61 | 50 points by jgrodziski 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. How to breathe in fewer microplastics in your home (bbc.com)
    ×1.82 51 | 77 points by vinni2 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. No one owes you supply-chain security (purplesyringa.moe)
    ×1.69 5 | 70 points by birdculture 19 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Local LLM on a Pi 4 controlling hardware via tool calling (github.com/stfurkan)
    ×0.88 58 | 3 points by stfurkan 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. A Simple Lofi Player (github.com/talwat)
    ×1.45 27 | 3 points by lwhsiao 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. I ran Gemma 4 as a local model in Codex CLI (danielvaughan.com)
    ×2.17 41 #32 | 30 points by dvaughan 10 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. How to Share Terraform State (Tutorial) (spacelift.io)
    ×1.02 | 2 points by kat-w 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Advanced Mac Substitute is an API-level reimplementation of 1980s-era Mac OS (v68k.org)
    ×1.41 12 | 261 points by zdw 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. The Grand Line (pilgrima.ge)
    ×1.37 36 | 55 points by momentmaker 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: See what your employees are prompting LLMs (without network proxies) (privent.ai)
    ×1.63 153 | 4 points by asilozyildirim 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Most people can't juggle one ball (lesswrong.com)
    ×2.08 10 #11 | 322 points by surprisetalk 15 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Is math big or small? (chessapig.github.io)
    ×0.79 33 #16 | 30 points by robinhouston 7 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. 1D Chess (rowan441.github.io)
    ×3.79 15 #71 | 978 points by burnt-resistor 2 days ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Bullseye2D – A Dart library for cross-platform 2D games (github.com/bullseye2d)
    ×0.61 87 | 4 points by joemanaco 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: FeedSense – A private recommendation system built from your own sources
    ×2.29 123 | 7 points by langtang1996 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. How long-distance couples use digital games to facilitate intimacy (2025) (arxiv.org)
    ×0.97 32 #25 | 86 points by radeeyate 15 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: A social feed with no strangers (grateful.so)
    ×0.86 78 #65 | 4 points by rpatni 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. 447 TB/cm² at zero retention energy – atomic-scale memory on fluorographane (zenodo.org)
    ×1.57 17 #73 | 259 points by iliatoli 1 day ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Best AI coding interview assistant in 2026 (linkjob.ai)
    ×0.92 | 2 points by Silviaaa 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. My Dialogue with Jonathan Zittrain (marginalrevolution.com)
    ×1.63 17 | 4 points by paulpauper 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. The Expensive Anxiety of AI (aarils.com)
    ×1.07 | 2 points by bridgettegraham 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Killing of Hind Rajab (2024) (wikipedia.org)
    ×6.39 46 | 69 points by lr0 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023) (johnloeber.com)
    ×2.28 15 #4 | 526 points by phil294 19 hours ago | 286 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. A Git helper tool that breaks large merges into parallelizable tasks (github.com/mwallner)
    ×0.77 | 1 points by schusterfredl 11 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Is AI Really gonna take our jobs?
    ×0.54 | 1 points by PotatoAditya 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Bad Apple (Oscilloscope-Like) – one stroke per frame (bad-apple-on-oscilloscope.pages.dev)
    ×0.84 | 2 points by araniwa 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Formal – Formal verification for AI-generated code using Lean 4 (github.com/yamafaktory)
    ×0.87 74 | 4 points by yamafaktory 17 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???