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  1. Tell HN: Ralph Giles has died (Xiph.org| Rust@Mozilla | Ghostscript)
    ×2.50 #56 | 489 points by ffworld 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
    ×1.24 87 | 330 points by david927 5 days ago | 1138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What would you recommend a vibe coder learn about how all this works?
    ×0.69 77 | 27 points by alexdobrenko 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Did YouTube change how it handles uBlock?
    ×0.63 88 | 17 points by tefloon69 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How do you audit LLM code in programming languages you don't know?
    ×0.67 117 | 9 points by syx 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: AI Depression
    ×2.92 28 | 39 points by pavello 16 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Do sociotechnical pressures select for beneficial or harmful AI systems?
    ×0.30 118 | 5 points by jerlendds 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: We're building a saving app for European savers and need GTM advice
    ×0.46 139 | 4 points by AlePra00 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Moss: A Linux-compatible Rust async kernel, 3 months on
    ×0.36 86 | 4 points by hexagonal-sun 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Better hardware means OpenAI, Anthropic, etc. are doomed in the future?
    ×0.37 125 | 4 points by kart23 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What happens when capability decouples from credentials?
    ×0.82 97 | 8 points by falsework 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Tools to code using voice?
    ×0.63 100 | 7 points by emerongi 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Why are electronics still so unrecyclable?
    ×0.72 85 | 71 points by alexandrehtrb 2 days ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. SMTP server from scratch in Go – FSM, raw TCP, and buffer-oriented I/O
    ×0.57 107 | 4 points by Jyotishmoy 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Why is my Claude experience so bad? What am I doing wrong?
    ×0.60 111 | 4 points by moomoo11 20 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: If your OpenClaw could do 1 thing it currently can't, what would it be?
    ×0.52 128 | 5 points by stosssik 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: How do founders demo real product without exposing sensitive data?
    ×0.68 137 | 4 points by legitimate_key 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How do you "step through" your own anxiety?
    ×1.52 119 | 7 points by schneak 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Who discovered grokking and why is the name hard to find?
    ×0.42 | 2 points by asmodeuslucifer 22 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: GPT-5.3-Codex being silently routed to GPT-5.2?
    ×0.84 131 | 5 points by tardis_thad 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: What's the current state of ChatGPT Apps?
    ×1.16 134 | 5 points by arthurlee 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Has anyone achieved recursive self-improvement with agentic tools?
    ×0.34 138 | 9 points by nycdatasci 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Would you use context-based "modes" in Instagram(work,study,sport,news)?
    ×0.53 143 | 3 points by MatiasLaudonio 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How much PTO do you get?
    ×1.22 127 | 5 points by SunshineTheCat 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Best practices for AI agent safety and privacy
    ×0.24 | 2 points by mw1 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: How to build text-to-app platforms?
    ×0.26 | 2 points by desperado1 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Are you using an agent orchestrator to write code?
    ×1.56 64 | 35 points by gusmally 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Why is everyone here so AI-hyped?
    ×1.26 133 | 30 points by fandorin 3 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Is Prettier extension working for you in Cursor?
    ×0.24 | 2 points by vldszn 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Anyone else get bricked by the macOS update?
    ×0.28 | 2 points by bix6 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. How the world will be if P = NP?
    ×0.31 | 2 points by fouadelkh 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Dumping GitHub for Forgejo for a free and open source project
    ×0.15 149 | 4 points by th0th 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Tell HN: GPT-5.3-codex is now available in the API
    ×0.52 144 | 4 points by bigwheels 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Do provisional patents matter for early-stage startups?
    ×0.31 155 | 20 points by gdad 4 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Does OpenClaw need a re-architecture to be usable?
    ×0.16 158 | 4 points by xinbenlv 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Ergo – Minimal, fast, persistent task backlog in your repo (github.com/sandover)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by sandover 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Shut Up: Comment Blocker (rickyromero.com)
    ×0.70 57 | 105 points by mefengl 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. New Nick Bostrom Paper: Optimal Timing for Superintelligence [pdf] (nickbostrom.com)
    ×1.15 75 #31 | 72 points by uejfiweun 19 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Stanford Review: Is YC for Cowards? (stanfordreview.org)
    ×4.47 12 #25 | 19 points by hedgehog0 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Geo Racers – Race from London to Tokyo on a single bus pass (geo-racers.com)
    ×0.91 83 #66 | 136 points by pattle 1 day ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: My OpenClaw doesn't respond. Anybody met with the same problem?
    ×0.67 | 1 points by Fendy1 20 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. xAI All Hands [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.57 19 | 7 points by nomilk 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Inamate – Open-source 2D animation tool (alternative to Adobe Animate)
    ×0.32 101 | 15 points by hactually 4 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. The wonder of modern drywall (worksinprogress.news)
    ×1.92 8 #23 | 79 points by jger15 22 hours ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Hivemind – Metaskill for skill/experience sharing between agents (flowercomputer.com)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by edouerd 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: FrankenTUI in the Browser (frankentui.com)
    ×6.24 106 | 18 points by eigenvalue 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. The Blurred Line Between Video Calling and Live Streaming Software (red5.net)
    ×0.55 43 #14 | 17 points by mondainx 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Terence Tao: Machine Assistance and the Future of Research Mathematics [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.91 | 1 points by abetusk 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. OpenAI attempts "First Proof" challenge (twitter.com/merettm)
    ×0.91 | 1 points by energy123 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. America's Cyber Defense Agency Is Burning Down and Nobody's Coming to Put It Out (threathunter.ai)
    ×4.48 45 | 167 points by bourbonsec 1 day ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: I speak 5 languages. Common apps taught me none. So I built lairner (lairner.com)
    ×1.99 16 | 32 points by t17r 13 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: PardusDB – SQLite-like vector database in Rust (github.com/JasonHonKL)
    ×0.35 | 2 points by JasonHEIN 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: BetterDB – Valkey/Redis monitoring that persists what servers forget
    ×1.02 147 | 4 points by kaliades 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash (theverge.com)
    ×4.31 20 #64 | 569 points by c420 1 day ago | 308 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: A text-only reasoning core for LLMs (MIT, system prompt and self-test) (github.com/onestardao)
    ×0.87 | 1 points by wfgy-github 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: I vibecoded 177 tools for my own use (CalcBin) (calcbin.com)
    ×4.15 146 | 14 points by diNgUrAndI 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: MicroVibe – minimal JSX web starter (github.com/melendezgg)
    ×0.90 | 1 points by melendezgg 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. An AI agent published a hit piece on me (theshamblog.com)
    ×8.05 38 #57 | 2273 points by scottshambaugh 1 day ago | 930 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Particle Lenia (znah.net)
    ×0.68 38 #82 | 52 points by memalign 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Rowboat – AI coworker that turns your work into a knowledge graph (OSS) (github.com/rowboatlabs)
    ×1.14 81 | 202 points by segmenta 3 days ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Renovate – The Kubernetes-Native Way (github.com/mogenius)
    ×0.40 102 | 42 points by JanLepsky 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Dario Amodei – "We are near the end of the exponential" [video] (dwarkesh.com)
    ×2.11 2 #39 | 86 points by danielmorozoff 10 hours ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Gemini 3 Deep Think (blog.google)
    ×3.55 8 #47 | 1039 points by tosh 1 day ago | 685 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. AWS Adds support for nested virtualization (github.com/aws)
    ×1.75 2 #79 | 294 points by sitole 1 day ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Terrence Tao: Why I Co-Founded SAIR [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.92 | 1 points by abetusk 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: ClawDeploy – OpenClaw deployment for non-technical users (clawdeploy.com)
    ×0.91 140 | 5 points by gregzeng95 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Sandwich Bill of Materials (nesbitt.io)
    ×1.78 4 #30 | 213 points by zdw 12 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. OpenAI accuses DeepSeek of "free-riding" on American R&D (restofworld.org)
    ×2.15 32 | 3 points by billybuckwheat 46 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Against the State: A Primer on Terrorism, Insurgency, and Protest (acoup.blog)
    ×1.58 20 | 3 points by claytonwramsey 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Giving OpenClaw agent a controlled way to pay (theycanpay.com)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by ram-baktha 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. What should we do with CLs generated by AI? (google.com)
    ×1.44 14 | 3 points by ValentineC 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Ghost – Session memory for Claude Code (local, qmd, Git-integrated) (github.com/notkurt)
    ×0.42 | 2 points by notkurt 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Kanban-md – File-based CLI Kanban built for local agents collaboration (github.com/antopolskiy)
    ×0.90 151 | 18 points by santopol 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. MinIO repository is no longer maintained (github.com/minio)
    ×2.57 9 #33 | 461 points by psvmcc 18 hours ago | 338 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning to Dissolve? (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.91 | 1 points by aard 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Toil, a go library for simple parallelism (github.com/indrora)
    ×0.82 90 | 3 points by indrora 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Polis: Open-source platform for large-scale civic deliberation (pol.is)
    ×1.55 19 #73 | 332 points by mefengl 1 day ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Double blind entropy using Drand for verifiably fair randomness (blockrand.net)
    ×0.56 112 | 21 points by rishi_blockrand 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: GuardLLM, hardened tool calls for LLM apps (github.com/mhcoen)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by mhcoen 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder (pcgamer.com)
    ×2.28 38 | 3 points by absqueued 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it (github.com/matplotlib)
    ×8.28 30 | 930 points by wrxd 1 day ago | 741 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Agent Tools – 136 deterministic data tools for AI agents (MCP/A2A/REST) (github.com/AtmaticAI)
    ×0.57 | 2 points by sathish-mg 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Zed editor switching graphics lib from blade to wgpu (github.com/zed-industries)
    ×1.59 14 #35 | 289 points by jpeeler 14 hours ago | 268 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Implementing Auto Tiling with Just 5 Tiles (kyledunbar.dev)
    ×0.68 59 #28 | 84 points by todsacerdoti 16 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. AgentRE-Bench: Can LLM Agents Reverse Engineer Malware? (agentre-bench.ai)
    ×0.88 | 2 points by N3Xxus_6 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. OpenAI retired its most seductive chatbot – leaving users angry and grieving (theguardian.com)
    ×2.30 3 | 5 points by i7l 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. So many trees planted in Taklamakan Desert that it's turned into a carbon sink (livescience.com)
    ×2.04 31 | 186 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: AI agents play SimCity through a REST API (hallucinatingsplines.com)
    ×1.21 66 | 213 points by aed 4 days ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. What dating apps are optimizing. Hint: It isn't love (phys.org)
    ×2.86 2 #11 | 56 points by i7l 3 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: CodeMic (codemic.io)
    ×0.58 103 | 52 points by seansh 5 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???