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  1. Tell HN: Apple development certificate server seems down?
    ×1.24 11 #36 | 91 points by strongpigeon 12 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: How are people doing AI evals these days?
    ×0.62 43 #74 | 15 points by yelmahallawy 9 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: How are people forecasting AI API costs for agent workflows?
    ×1.19 12 | 4 points by Barathkanna 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)
    ×1.33 54 | 283 points by david927 2 days ago | 1079 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Remember Fidonet?
    ×1.19 4 | 116 points by ukkare 20 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Maybe we can keep on coding? pseudo code project
    ×1.93 8 | 6 points by EmptyDrum 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How do you review gen-AI created code?
    ×1.10 77 | 4 points by captainkrtek 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How to be alone?
    ×4.48 34 | 670 points by sillysaurusx 2 days ago | 552 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Tell HN: Vertical tabs has arrived (behind a flag) in Chrome stable
    ×1.65 76 | 5 points by crummy 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Is Starlink still being jammed in Iran?
    ×0.93 91 | 3 points by Jblx2 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting
    ×5.40 21 | 706 points by Oras 2 days ago | 502 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Most beautiful personal blog UI you have ever seen?
    ×2.89 87 | 141 points by ms7892 2 days ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: How to "make it" as a newlygrad/junior?
    ×1.36 89 | 4 points by kartoffelsaft 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Devs who are out of work – what are you doing for income now?
    ×2.86 2 | 6 points by a1n 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Can I repurpose a Bluetooth voice remote as input device for a PC?
    ×0.25 116 | 15 points by albert_e 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Does automatic multilingual support make sense for a launch platform?
    ×0.24 | 2 points by LeanVibe 14 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion
    ×5.55 57 | 1063 points by shannoncc 4 days ago | 974 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Why is GPT-5.4 obsessed with Goblins?
    ×1.55 98 | 14 points by pants2 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Unlocked SaaS, file source as truth?
    ×0.48 | 2 points by abmmgb 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Is GitHub getting less reliable, or is it just me?
    ×1.16 112 | 11 points by _pdp_ 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. The Architecture of an Exit Scam: A Technical Audit of Zszrun
    ×0.47 110 | 5 points by cappyfjao 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Since a week HN keeps logging me off every few days, why?
    ×0.45 111 | 5 points by epolanski 21 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: What AI content automation stack are you using in 2026?
    ×0.20 | 2 points by jackcofounder 22 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Do you still run Redis and workers just for background jobs?
    ×0.16 | 2 points by sergF 23 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Favorite Non-Spammy iPhone Games?
    ×0.82 124 | 6 points by bix6 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: What game engine would you recommend for vibe coding?
    ×1.09 126 | 6 points by general_reveal 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Read‑only LLM tool for email triage and knowledge extraction?
    ×0.30 | 2 points by maille 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Any informed guesses on the actual size/architecture of GPT-5.4 etc.?
    ×0.54 137 | 4 points by dsrtslnd23 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Code-review-graph: persistent code graph that cuts Claude Code token usage
    ×0.22 | 2 points by tirthkanani 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Anyone else feel this community has changed recently?
    ×3.42 130 | 57 points by kypro 4 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. I replaced my freelance SaaS stack with 5 single-file HTML tools
    ×1.61 151 | 8 points by AnnSri 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Who Needs Help?
    ×1.64 115 | 14 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. A job ad for Agentic AI Advocate
    ×0.38 148 | 4 points by greenpinia 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Let's rethink the architecture and future of Emacs
    ×0.77 122 | 3 points by kurouna 18 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Are showlang and thelang HN endpoints not being maintained?
    ×0.53 149 | 4 points by freakynit 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: How are you handling persistent memory across local Ollama sessions
    ×0.37 163 | 5 points by null-phnix 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Tell HN: The proposed KIDS Act (HR 7757) effectively mandates biometric browsing
    ×1.16 155 | 20 points by fokdelafons 4 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. OpenAI might end up on the right side of history
    ×0.87 138 | 12 points by shoman3003 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Whisker – Self hosted e-commerce cart, pure PHP, zero dependencies
    ×0.44 164 | 7 points by eLohith 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days?
    ×2.47 119 | 10 points by chistev 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Why is email so resilient as a technology?
    ×2.16 105 | 7 points by noemit 21 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. All tmux sessions as a single terminal
    ×0.21 | 2 points by lygten 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: Are we going to see more job postings asking for only agentic coding?
    ×0.78 150 | 6 points by ronbenton 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Ask HN: How are you monitoring AI agents in production?
    ×0.52 161 | 4 points by jairooh 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. PhD interrupted by personal safety issues, now publication record is thin
    ×0.31 168 | 5 points by qthrwaway 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Ask HN: Why Is Phil Wang / Lucidrains Off GitHub?
    ×0.18 169 | 3 points by vessenes 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Two Years of Emacs Solo (rahuljuliato.com)
    ×1.67 17 | 336 points by celadevra_ 1 day ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Draxl, agent-native source code with stable AST node IDs (github.com/draxl-org)
    ×1.39 94 | 4 points by rndhouse 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: I built a site where strangers leave kind voice notes for each other (kindvoicenotes.com)
    ×1.79 101 | 57 points by thepaulthomson 2 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. No, it doesn't cost Anthropic $5k per Claude Code user (martinalderson.com)
    ×3.47 12 #53 | 452 points by jnord 1 day ago | 327 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. MacBook Neo Review: No Other Budget Laptop Can Compete (gizmodo.com)
    ×3.32 32 #56 | 29 points by thunderbong 4 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Engineering Management and Fatherhood – Take #2 (manager.dev)
    ×0.85 | 1 points by AntonZ234 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Claude 2028 – For a More Perfect Union (claude2028.org)
    ×1.42 | 2 points by jonbaer 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Uber reported to the state that I was fired for "annoying a coworker." (medium.com)
    ×5.34 61 | 108 points by anon-ex-uber 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Ash, an Agent Sandbox for Mac (ashell.dev)
    ×0.64 80 #79 | 9 points by amsha 10 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: DD Photos – open-source photo album site generator (Go and SvelteKit) (github.com/dougdonohoe)
    ×0.73 32 #82 | 60 points by dougdonohoe 19 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Michael Faraday: Scientist and Nonconformist (1996) (mit.edu)
    ×1.83 25 | 3 points by o4c 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Tony Hoare has died (lefenetrou.blogspot.com)
    ×4.44 3 | 268 points by nextos 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. SSH Secret Menu (twitter.com/rebane2001)
    ×2.35 2 #14 | 174 points by piccirello 9 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. DOGE employee stole Social Security data and put it on a thumb drive (techcrunch.com)
    ×7.85 55 #85 | 78 points by elsewhen 9 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. So you want to write an “app” (2025) (arcanenibble.github.io)
    ×1.79 39 | 140 points by jmusall 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. A static recompiler for original GameBoy ROMs (github.com/arcanite24)
    ×0.94 | 1 points by mvdwoord 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Kula – Lightweight, self-contained Linux server monitoring tool (github.com/c0m4r)
    ×0.95 120 | 91 points by c0m4r 4 days ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Graph-Oriented Generation – Beating RAG for Codebases by 89% (github.com/dchisholm125)
    ×3.06 162 | 12 points by dchisholm125 4 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Mother of All Grease Fires (1994) (milk.com)
    ×1.86 25 #37 | 67 points by xk3 12 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Passkeys were supposed to replace passwords, but they're failing (howtogeek.com)
    ×1.40 | 2 points by vdelitz 40 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Ad-tech is fascist tech (pluralistic.net)
    ×10.01 32 | 113 points by only_in_america 16 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. The first airplane fatality (amusingplanet.com)
    ×0.72 71 | 84 points by Hooke 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: WolfStack – Proxmox-like server management in a single Rust binary (wolfscale.org)
    ×1.02 118 | 32 points by wolfsoftware 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Optimizing Top K in Postgres (paradedb.com)
    ×1.15 32 #76 | 148 points by philippemnoel 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Removing recursion via explicit callstack simulation (jnkr.tech)
    ×0.67 42 #78 | 12 points by gsky 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Restoring a Sun SPARCstation IPX part 1: PSU and NVRAM (2020) (rs-online.com)
    ×0.72 73 | 108 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. 60 Minutes Havana Syndrome report finds U.S. government tested energy weapon (cbsnews.com)
    ×4.20 66 | 96 points by jonas21 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: I built a real-time OSINT dashboard pulling 15 live global feeds (github.com/BigBodyCobain)
    ×2.01 62 | 305 points by vancecookcobxin 2 days ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Moongate – Ultima Online server emulator in .NET 10 with Lua scripting (github.com/moongate-community)
    ×1.21 99 | 286 points by squidleon 4 days ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Reviving a 20-year-old puzzle game Chromatron with Ghidra and AI (quesma.com)
    ×0.65 113 | 26 points by stared 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Skir – like Protocol Buffer but better (skir.build)
    ×0.89 90 | 111 points by gepheum 2 days ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: We're making an inventory autobattler game and released a WebGL demo (itch.io)
    ×1.06 | 2 points by valryon 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Bavaria 1930: How Beer Halls Became Town Halls (warcommons.com)
    ×1.24 | 2 points by NENCMediaGroup 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Revealed: UK's multibillion AI drive is built on 'phantom investments' (theguardian.com)
    ×1.80 78 | 97 points by tablets 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Mathematics is undergoing the biggest change in its history (newscientist.com)
    ×2.52 28 #51 | 6 points by jonbaer 56 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. The $2 per hour worker behind the OnlyFans boom (bbc.com)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by 1659447091 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Web Reading Assistant (speakoala.com)
    ×1.27 | 2 points by yuhoayu 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: VS Code Agent Kanban: Task Management for the AI-Assisted Developer (appsoftware.com)
    ×0.71 84 | 94 points by gbro3n 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Reverse-engineering the UniFi inform protocol (tamarack.cloud)
    ×1.08 47 | 173 points by baconomatic 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Hopalong Attractor. An old classic with a new perspective in 3D (github.com/ratwolfzero)
    ×0.81 95 | 24 points by ratwolf 4 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Draft2final – CLI converts Markdown into manuscript and screenplay PDFs (draft2final.app)
    ×0.56 | 2 points by cosmiciron 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Billion-Parameter Theories (worldgov.org)
    ×0.89 14 #44 | 94 points by seanlinehan 14 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Tablelot, A real estate marketplace exclusively for restaurants (tablelot.com)
    ×0.71 | 1 points by isandeep1995 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. The State of AI in the Enterprise 2026 (deloitte.com)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by swolpers 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???