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  1. Tell HN: 48 absurd web projects – one every month
    ×0.87 32 #57 | 62 points by absurdwebsite 5 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?
    ×2.11 15 #74 | 308 points by misterchocolat 22 hours ago | 358 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Tell HN: Fiverr left customer files public and searchable
    ×4.77 3 | 810 points by morpheuskafka 1 day ago | 230 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Advice for tracking down a listening device?
    ×0.51 59 | 5 points by comrade1234 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Who is your favourite Entrepreneur/Visionary?
    ×0.81 51 | 11 points by wasimsk 10 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: How are you using LLMs in production?
    ×0.27 67 | 3 points by Anon84 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How are you actively keeping your thinking sharp while using LLMs daily?
    ×0.99 52 | 6 points by smonk108 6 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)
    ×1.44 82 | 342 points by david927 4 days ago | 1159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How do you find motivation to do stuff?
    ×0.90 86 | 21 points by RockstarSprain 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block
    ×5.01 55 | 1142 points by littlecranky67 4 days ago | 420 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: SeedLegals Partnerships in London, worth it?
    ×0.20 | 2 points by pain_perdu 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Durable Object alarm loop: $34k in 8 days, zero users, no platform warning
    ×2.21 74 | 15 points by thewillmoss 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: How to highlight talent from untraditional backgrounds?
    ×0.50 94 | 4 points by etherus 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allows you to fix to specific model version
    ×0.87 96 | 23 points by baobabKoodaa 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: As an Australian, is it possible to get a remote US role?
    ×0.36 132 | 4 points by apatheticonion 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Any engineers here with experience of clinical data standards?
    ×0.12 | 2 points by kalturnbull 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Tell HN: OpenAI silently removed Study Mode from ChatGPT
    ×1.55 98 | 187 points by smokel 4 days ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. GitHub gave webhook secrets away in webhook call
    ×0.69 115 | 11 points by time4tea 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Is Claude Getting Worse?
    ×0.91 112 | 6 points by sahli 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Easiest UX for Seniors
    ×1.16 83 | 57 points by khoury 5 days ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Robotics engineers – how painful was setting up GPU sim infra?
    ×0.33 131 | 4 points by nikhilol 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: What's the point in creating a startup when anyone can copy it in days?
    ×1.76 99 | 17 points by wewewedxfgdf 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Can anyone suggest me a SaaS product idea?
    ×0.40 135 | 4 points by wasimsk 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: I quit my job over weaponized robots to start my own venture
    ×2.74 79 | 116 points by barratia 2 days ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. What do you want out of a coding monospace font?
    ×0.25 | 2 points by d0able 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: LeetCode, anyone still doing it?
    ×1.10 123 | 14 points by kwar13 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Are Web Agencies Cooked?
    ×0.70 117 | 10 points by mijustin 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Are you negatively affected by the recent economic stagnation?
    ×0.64 155 | 8 points by adinhitlore 3 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: What's your favorite security cam system?
    ×0.27 150 | 4 points by SunshineTheCat 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: What standards or protocols exist for AI Agent permissions
    ×0.12 | 2 points by lyfeninja 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Tell HN: GitHub might have been leaking your webhook secrets. Check your emails.
    ×3.38 101 | 37 points by ssiddharth 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. PersMEM: Persistent Semantic Memory and Multi-Instance Communication for AI
    ×0.30 160 | 3 points by asixicle 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Why most AI projects feel useless
    ×0.54 152 | 8 points by vaishcodescape 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: What should I do with my app? 130 downloads 3 real subscribers
    ×0.42 163 | 7 points by oyaa52 4 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Claude Code OAuth down for >12 hours
    ×0.41 138 | 8 points by pixel_popping 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Technical SEO vs. content optimization: which one moves rankings?
    ×0.33 158 | 4 points by zensorsolutions 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Can't view public pull requests without logging in (GitHub)
    ×0.59 113 | 5 points by alskdj21 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Claude Opus 4.7 Model Card (anthropic.com)
    ×2.26 11 #22 | 108 points by adocomplete 2 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Do you even need a database? (dbpro.app)
    ×1.64 38 #60 | 260 points by upmostly 1 day ago | 285 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Cush – curl your shell, an HTTP tunnel for AI agents (github.com/statespace-tech)
    ×0.84 124 | 3 points by esafranchik 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Modern Microprocessors – A 90-Minute Guide (lighterra.com)
    ×1.41 7 #21 | 137 points by Flex247A 8 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Why Gen Zers are trashing smartphones: 'People are just sick of it' (nypost.com)
    ×0.85 | 1 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 4 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Apple accelerates eco progress with highest-ever recycled materials (apple.com)
    ×1.83 68 | 80 points by salkahfi 5 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Omi – watches your screen, hears conversations, tells you what to do (github.com/BasedHardware)
    ×1.51 80 | 15 points by kodjima33 20 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all (qwen.ai)
    ×3.95 #3 | 504 points by cmitsakis 3 hours ago | 251 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. How are people handling AI personality consistency?
    ×0.49 | 1 points by mianzubair 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. 50% of AI Data Centers Have Been Cancelled or "Delayed" [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.07 | 2 points by 52-6F-62 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Trying to Build Your Own Consumer-Grade Router in 2026 (hackaday.com)
    ×1.69 6 | 3 points by speckx 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Open Finance Insurance sandbox (OAuth2, quotes → policies) (github.com/Rp12)
    ×0.92 85 | 3 points by Renjit 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Run Python tools on rust agents (github.com/eggermarc)
    ×0.89 156 | 3 points by eggermarc 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs (darkbloom.dev)
    ×2.11 13 #11 | 418 points by twapi 13 hours ago | 203 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. RamAIn (YC W26) Is Hiring (ycombinator.com)
    10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. AI cybersecurity is not proof of work (antirez.com)
    ×1.70 6 #14 | 144 points by surprisetalk 6 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Tape 05 – Boards of Canada [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.91 | 1 points by boarsofcanada 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Who even uses jemalloc in 2026 anyway? (theconsensus.dev)
    ×1.21 | 2 points by ingve 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Every CEO and CFO change at US public companies, live from SEC (tracksuccession.com)
    ×1.40 24 | 181 points by porsche959 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: EDDI – Multi-agent AI engine where agent logic lives in JSON, not code (github.com/labsai)
    ×0.42 | 2 points by ginccc 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: CodeBurn – Analyze Claude Code token usage by task (github.com/AgentSeal)
    ×0.51 27 #10 | 11 points by agentseal 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Where the DOGE Operatives Are Now (wired.com)
    ×3.84 11 #23 | 16 points by droidjj 17 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Introduction to spherical harmonics for graphics programmers (gpfault.net)
    ×1.24 29 #44 | 133 points by luu 17 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Stop Using LangChain (synapsekit.github.io)
    ×1.08 87 | 3 points by aminau 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: US keyboards don't have enough keys, so I switched to Japanese (simone.org)
    ×1.86 103 | 6 points by smnrg 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: StegoForge – Open-source suite for steganography and ML forensics (github.com/Nour833)
    ×1.29 125 | 4 points by nour833 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Too much discussion of the XOR swap trick (heather.cafe)
    ×1.18 22 #32 | 127 points by CJefferson 14 hours ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Tiny cameras in earbuds let users talk with AI about what they see (washington.edu)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by gmays 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Claudraband – Claude Code for the Power User (github.com/halfwhey)
    ×0.94 104 | 119 points by halfwhey 4 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: I built a social media management tool in 3 weeks with Claude and Codex (github.com/brightbeanxyz)
    ×1.91 89 | 188 points by JanSchu 3 days ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. RedSun: System user access on Win 11/10 and Server with the April 2026 Update (github.com/Nightmare-Eclipse)
    ×1.08 16 #30 | 148 points by airhangerf15 13 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Claude Code injects hidden prompts into file reads to stop malware tweaks (twitter.com/adrian_cooney)
    ×2.24 47 | 3 points by adriancooney 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. "Relative State" Formulation of Quantum Mechanics (1957) (archive.org)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by bookofjoe 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. AMD ROCm: 40x slower at linear algebra than older Nvidia GPUs (github.com/ROCm)
    ×1.11 | 2 points by PhilipVinc 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: I built a Wikipedia based AI deduction game (sleuththetruth.com)
    ×0.99 90 | 8 points by brikym 17 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Object Storage Comparisons (mixpeek.com)
    ×2.28 81 | 9 points by Beefin 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Astrial – Spherical Go on a Snub Dodecahedron (astrial.app)
    ×0.58 143 | 3 points by mingli_yuan 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: MōBrowser, a TypeScript-first desktop app framework with typed IPC (teamdev.com)
    ×1.79 139 | 6 points by Ikryanov 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Tracking takedown notices filed by UK Biobank (rocher.lc)
    ×0.50 | 2 points by Cynddl 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. The public sours on AI, data centers as firms look to IPO, tech keeps spending (cnbc.com)
    ×1.25 3 #75 | 11 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Ohio prison inmates 'built computers and hid them in ceiling' (2017) (bbc.com)
    ×1.29 10 #89 | 109 points by harambae 19 hours ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Are psychedelics better than antidepressants? New study says no (medicalxpress.com)
    ×1.68 5 | 3 points by PaulHoule 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. US national level OS-level age verification bill (social.coop)
    ×3.70 40 | 112 points by marvinborner 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Waffle – Native macOS terminal that auto-tiles sessions into a grid (waffle.baby)
    ×1.84 136 | 40 points by olleeolleeollee 5 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. My AI-Assisted Workflow (maiobarbero.dev)
    ×1.51 62 | 89 points by maiobarbero 1 day ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Pokemon Evolution vs Darwinian Evolution (wordpress.com)
    ×0.52 58 #71 | 15 points by barbazoo 9 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. US nationals behind DPRK IT worker 'laptop farm' sent to prison (bleepingcomputer.com)
    ×1.15 25 #76 | 10 points by Brajeshwar 2 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Pointer-Stable Dynamic Arrays (vectrx.substack.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by ibobev 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. The People's Clock: A Timepiece Made of People (kottke.org)
    ×1.21 | 2 points by evo_9 21 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Best practices for using Claude Opus 4.7 with Claude Code (claude.com)
    ×1.72 34 | 3 points by mfiguiere 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: RetrieveIT – Semantic Search Across Gmail, Confluence, GitHub, etc. (retrieveit.ai)
    ×1.10 | 2 points by linsys 43 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Apple App Store threatened to remove Grok over deepfakes: Letter (nbcnews.com)
    ×1.92 70 | 96 points by donohoe 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. What's new in Claude Opus 4.7 (claude.com)
    ×1.28 16 #61 | 12 points by ilkkao 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???