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  1. Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion
    ×5.42 #3 | 556 points by shannoncc 12 hours ago | 428 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: How many of you hold an amateur radio license in your country?
    ×0.83 44 #69 | 70 points by ToddWBurgess 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. $1k and the difficult future that AI has left for many
    ×2.38 60 | 3 points by 01-_- 45 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Best way to implement logging and audit trails for AI apps?
    ×0.68 26 | 3 points by devstatic 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Should AI web agents skip sponsored/ad results by default?
    ×0.47 57 | 3 points by ilyasJosef 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Tell HN: The proposed KIDS Act (HR 7757) effectively mandates biometric browsing
    ×1.16 50 | 11 points by fokdelafons 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Anyone else feel this community has changed recently?
    ×3.65 8 | 23 points by kypro 12 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Turns out making games is the easy part
    ×0.44 74 | 3 points by clamlotus 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How are you using multi-agent AI systems in your daily workflow?
    ×0.42 78 | 14 points by paifamily 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Are there any companies who are anti-AI?
    ×0.57 80 | 3 points by anti-ai-dev 15 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Do You Have a Homelab?
    ×0.54 65 | 12 points by ricardbejarano 22 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Self taught gen-xers with senior dev/pm exp. Where's my imposter syndrome team?
    ×0.30 92 | 3 points by _hugerobots_ 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Anyone fought a big corp over IP theft courts?
    ×0.34 83 | 6 points by NatalijaAAD 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Do You Enjoy Your Career in Tech Nowadays?
    ×0.90 70 | 27 points by karakoram 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Why do we still buy things by browsing catalogs?
    ×0.48 77 | 5 points by dannythecount 18 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. I started making money online in 10th grade – some lessons about capital
    ×0.23 100 | 3 points by udit_50 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Has anyone noticed the fear-driven prompt suggestions that GPT5.3 makes?
    ×0.50 110 | 14 points by cedarscarlett 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How are LLMs supposed to be used for warfare?
    ×0.44 104 | 5 points by sirnicolaz 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Self-Learning Customer Marketing
    ×0.21 129 | 3 points by davismartens 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Tell HN: Digital Ocean has run out of GPU droplets
    ×0.48 113 | 17 points by nathannaveen 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: If your project is free, what are you building and why keep it free?
    ×0.63 125 | 11 points by LeanVibe 2 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. How do I get startups to use my open-code project?
    ×0.24 119 | 5 points by ErezShahaf 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. I lost my ability to learn anything new because of AI and I need your opinions
    ×1.01 117 | 22 points by dokdev 3 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Amazon degraded shopping- you have to put in cart to see the price
    ×0.92 84 | 15 points by talkingtab 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: What's your experience self-hosting in 2026?
    ×1.31 114 | 27 points by rustcore 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. HATEOAS Works with an LLM in the Mix
    ×0.05 | 2 points by charlieflowers 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Why is arstechnica.com still running dev story advertorials for a game that...
    ×0.26 118 | 6 points by chrisjj 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: What will OpenAI employees do now who have signed notdividedorg petition
    ×0.67 133 | 17 points by Imustaskforhelp 3 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: How do you give AI agents real codebase context without burning tokens?
    ×0.58 137 | 4 points by donhardman 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Maintainers, do LLM-only users often clutter your issues/PRs?
    ×0.30 131 | 9 points by lucrbvi 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. An offline map using OruxMaps(satellite,routing,3D terrain,GPS and POI)
    ×0.19 138 | 3 points by supergoogler 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Seeing More Techcrunch on Frontpage?
    ×0.23 | 2 points by par 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Tell HN: I got Claude Max for my open source project
    ×0.58 134 | 11 points by asim 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Altman takes jab at Anthropic, says gov't should be more powerful than companies
    ×0.61 123 | 5 points by spenvo 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Who still works async and has a 'no meetings' work policy in 2026?
    ×0.61 139 | 8 points by RaulOnRails 4 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. I keep building projects nobody wants. So this time I'm doing it backwards
    ×0.63 121 | 5 points by thefern 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: SPF Flattener Solves the 10-Lookup Limit using recursive DNS resolution (spf1.com)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by bwoud 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: A shell-native cd-compatible directory jumper using power-law frecency (github.com/jghub)
    ×0.49 99 | 25 points by jghub 3 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Open-Source Article 12 Logging Infrastructure for the EU AI Act
    ×0.41 105 | 42 points by systima 4 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. this css proves me human (will-keleher.com)
    ×1.62 8 #5 | 284 points by todsacerdoti 14 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. How to install and start using LineageOS on your phone (lockywolf.net)
    ×1.09 45 #79 | 98 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: 1v1 coding game that LLMs struggle with (yare.io)
    ×0.45 55 #36 | 22 points by levmiseri 11 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: I couldn't scale my YouTube channels, so I built Shortgram (shortgram.com)
    ×0.81 | 1 points by mister_tars 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to "The Office" (ribbonfarm.com)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by janandonly 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Americans' electricity bills are up. Don't blame AI (economist.com)
    ×1.37 | 2 points by pingou 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Jse v2.0 AI Output Specification (marchliu.github.io)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by mars_liu 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Vimalender a Vim style calendar for the terminal written in Go (github.com/Sadoaz)
    ×1.33 | 2 points by sadoaz 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues (torrentfreak.com)
    ×4.84 7 #8 | 81 points by askl 3 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Editing changes in patch format with Jujutsu (knifepoint.net)
    ×0.78 28 #15 | 35 points by cassepipe 8 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Paste a URL and watch multiple AI models redesign it side-by-side (shuffle.dev)
    ×2.82 128 | 8 points by kemyd 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. US economy sheds 92,000 jobs in February in sharp slide (ft.com)
    ×1.79 | 2 points by doener 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Custom Data Structures in E-Graphs (uwplse.org)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by PaulHoule 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. TeX Live 2026 is available for download now (tug.org)
    ×1.68 21 | 92 points by jithinraj 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Never Bet Against x86 (osnews.com)
    ×3.18 13 | 68 points by raphinou 18 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Htmx Infinite Scroll (alchemists.io)
    ×1.02 65 #57 | 24 points by speckx 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. MacBook Neo (apple.com)
    ×7.02 4 #66 | 1955 points by dm 2 days ago | 2299 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Free salary converter with 3,400 neighborhood comparisons in 182 cities (salary-converter.com)
    ×0.88 | 2 points by jay7gr 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. The Brand Age (paulgraham.com)
    ×2.16 2 #74 | 477 points by bigwheels 1 day ago | 366 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: A trainable, modular electronic nose for industrial use (sniphi.com)
    ×0.49 43 #75 | 32 points by kwitczak 19 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Data Center Intelligence at the Price of a Laptop (tomtunguz.com)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by vinhnx 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: I made a keygen for my own software (vrsal.cc)
    ×0.51 97 | 3 points by univrsal 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Crazly – structured AI workflows instead of random prompts (crazly.pro)
    ×0.85 | 2 points by starup-guy 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: A Claude Code skill that renders decisions as interactive HTML pages (github.com/jnemargut)
    ×1.30 124 | 4 points by jontomato 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Simple Stripe analytics dashboard – MRR, churn, LTV on one page
    ×0.69 | 1 points by solofoundr 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Private credit defends software bets as Blue Owl cratered (businessinsider.com)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by alecco 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: MysteryMaker AI (mysterymaker.ai)
    ×0.84 | 2 points by jhappy77 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Anypost – P2P (group)chat with calls (anypost.xyz)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by emilss 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. The next generations of Bubble Tea, Lip Gloss, and Bubbles are available now (charm.land)
    ×2.43 6 | 199 points by atkrad 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. What it's like being an airline pilot when missiles start crossing flight path (theguardian.com)
    ×0.93 | 1 points by bookofjoe 6 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. The Michael Scott Theory of Social Class (alexdanco.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by dboon 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Apple: Enough Is Enough (bastibe.de)
    ×3.92 62 | 62 points by speckx 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: I made a design portfolio reviewer (evalv.ai)
    ×0.65 | 2 points by eldardesign 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. UUID package coming to Go standard library (github.com/golang)
    ×1.91 6 #4 | 230 points by soypat 10 hours ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Claude-replay – A video-like player for Claude Code sessions (github.com/es617)
    ×0.99 38 #41 | 86 points by es617 20 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Build an Agent That Learns from Its Own Mistakes [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by malgamves 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: LinkedRecords – Build SaaS apps like there is no backend (linkedrecords.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by WolfOliver 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Remotely unlocking an encrypted hard disk (jyn.dev)
    ×1.35 19 | 180 points by janandonly 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Go-TUI – A framework for building declarative terminal UIs in Go (go-tui.dev)
    ×2.39 69 | 6 points by grindlemire 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Shadow, your AI Wingman for smarter conversations online (shadowlabs.ai)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by shubham16180 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. I don't know if my job will still exist in ten years (seangoedecke.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by s_dev 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. This iceberg was once the biggest in the world (bbc.co.uk)
    ×1.33 | 2 points by rwmj 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: NeoNetrek – modernizing the internet's first team game (1988) (neonetrek.com)
    ×0.55 68 | 4 points by yuriksan 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Nirvana – A TUI YouTube Music Player with a Physics-Based Visualizer (github.com/iamekabir-web)
    ×1.54 41 | 3 points by ekabir 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Warmto.me Record a voice note after networking, AI writes your follow-up (warmto.me)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by aimoae 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Making Braindance from Cyberpunk 2077 a reality (braindance.dance)
    ×1.55 12 | 4 points by shibo 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: mTile – native macOS window tiler inspired by gTile (github.com/protortyp)
    ×0.90 | 2 points by protortyp 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Veil – On-device meeting transcription with 100% PII redaction (helloveil.com)
    ×0.55 | 2 points by nakaiwilliams 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: What Installing a New OS Taught Me About Disk Partitions (access2vivek.com)
    ×0.70 | 2 points by access2vivek 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: PenguWarpOS – OS SIM made in py for Linux newbies (github.com/theidioticdev)
    ×0.76 | 2 points by theidioticdev 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Moongate – Ultima Online server emulator in .NET 10 with Lua scripting (github.com/moongate-community)
    ×1.16 19 #13 | 261 points by squidleon 22 hours ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???