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  1. Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?
    ×3.56 24 #31 | 113 points by terabytest 13 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: How do you keep system context from rotting over time?
    ×0.54 63 #45 | 9 points by kennethops 5 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Revive a mostly dead Discord server
    ×0.72 53 #53 | 9 points by movedx 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Which common map projections make Greenland look smaller?
    ×0.50 85 #62 | 12 points by jimnotgym 8 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How to introduce Claude Code to a team?
    ×0.42 75 #84 | 5 points by 9dev 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What are the recommender systems papers from 2024-2025?
    ×2.12 3 #85 | 10 points by haensi 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What's an API that you wish existed?
    ×1.18 45 | 6 points by tornikeo 13 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Did past "bubbles" have so many people claiming we were in a bubble?
    ×2.44 21 | 12 points by bmau5 4 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: COBOL devs, how are AI coding affecting your work?
    ×1.03 61 | 165 points by zkid18 1 day ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Local models to support home network infrastructure?
    ×1.11 50 | 5 points by DrAwdeOccarim 14 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How worried should I be about running LLM code on my machine?
    ×1.27 14 | 8 points by scoofy 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Breaking into tech project management from different field?
    ×0.68 70 | 4 points by conner_h5 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Clipboard overflows causing system crashes in macOS Tahoe 26.3 beta 2?
    ×0.88 46 | 5 points by nhubbard 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How would you design for this scale today?
    ×1.36 67 | 4 points by phs318u 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Would you trust a new browser security extension in 2025?
    ×0.37 85 | 3 points by linklock 12 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. TruCite–an independent verification layer for AI outputs in regulated workflows
    ×0.74 146 | 3 points by docmani74 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Should you combine your personal website and blog or keep them separate?
    ×2.39 87 | 5 points by nanfinitum 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Do we need independence and autonomy in Edge-Cloud?
    ×1.07 | 2 points by Dutchhack 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What should I do with my old laptop in 2026?
    ×1.13 143 | 4 points by nanfinitum 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: how to detect teammate vs. enemy in Krunker.io?
    ×0.75 | 2 points by kracked0x 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Treating anxiety as a bug in legacy code (engineering approach)
    ×0.29 100 | 4 points by bitkin_dev 10 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Fabric lets me assess online AI from my Unix CLI
    ×0.48 | 2 points by oldguy101 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Tell HN: Linode EU-West (London) is having routing problems
    ×0.47 | 2 points by handelaar 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Doing well solo, struggling in team-centric engineering roles
    ×0.49 | 2 points by ig0r0 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: How do you find a GTM cofounder for a developer-first infra startup?
    ×0.50 | 2 points by Aydarbek 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Burned out from tech, what else is there?
    ×4.88 60 | 81 points by bleosh 8 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: What non-fiction do you read?
    ×0.99 88 | 12 points by yanis_t 14 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. AI Californication
    ×2.02 117 | 5 points by shoman3003 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?
    ×1.45 120 | 220 points by blahaj 6 days ago | 433 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: How do solo founders handle security?
    ×1.29 116 | 3 points by massi24 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Claude Opus performance affected by time of day?
    ×0.55 144 | 39 points by scaredreally 4 days ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: When has humanities/history knowledge helped you in tech?
    ×0.55 123 | 7 points by amadeuswoo 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. YC Events
    ×0.65 121 | 8 points by obedvega 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: One IP, multiple unrealistic locations worldwide hitting my website
    ×0.48 161 | 43 points by nacho-daddy 5 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Tell HN: YouTube gave my username switzerland to a half government organization
    ×2.16 155 | 38 points by faebi 4 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Tell HN: The way I do simple data management for new prototypes
    ×0.45 173 | 15 points by AndreyK1984 4 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: How do you safely give LLMs SSH/DB access?
    ×0.85 149 | 85 points by nico 6 days ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: How to bullet proof yourself from AI?
    ×1.20 131 | 20 points by max_ 2 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: How have you or your firm made money with LLMs?
    ×0.79 182 | 12 points by bwestergard 4 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: How many local logins do you have on your computer?
    ×0.36 152 | 8 points by bahmboo 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: Why not have cemeteries for lines of descent?
    ×1.08 157 | 3 points by amichail 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ask HN: Browser extension vs. native app for structured form filling?
    ×0.40 188 | 6 points by livrasand 4 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: How to make spamming us uncomfortable for LinkedIn and friends?
    ×0.83 185 | 14 points by zx8080 5 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Ask HN: What are your best purchases under $100?
    ×4.56 137 | 90 points by krishadi 5 days ago | 247 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Ask HN: How to get a job after a career break?
    ×0.81 154 | 11 points by shivajikobardan 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Ask HN: Where to find VC fund or investor for project in Europe?
    ×0.56 130 | 8 points by nicksbg 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Ask HN: What non-LLM tools have meaningfully improved your dev productivity?
    ×0.36 158 | 4 points by primaprashant 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Ask your Slack bot what the dev team shipped
    ×0.20 | 2 points by inferno22 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Ask HN: Distributed SQL engine for ultra-wide tables
    ×0.57 181 | 23 points by synsqlbythesea 6 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Ask HN: Are cross-platform UI frameworks suitable for camera apps?
    ×0.25 179 | 4 points by Austin_Conlon 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Ask HN: Is replacing an enterprise product with LLMs a realistic strategy?
    ×0.66 170 | 8 points by chandmk 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Tell HN: Poshmark instantly leaked my email to scammers
    ×0.53 163 | 8 points by hardenedmetapod 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Tell HN: Execution is cheap, ideas matter again
    ×1.03 177 | 18 points by keepamovin 5 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Ask HN: Who's using DuckDB in production?
    ×0.61 186 | 7 points by yakkomajuri 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Ask HN: 1 year from today what will have been the worst behavior from AI corps?
    ×0.25 178 | 3 points by keepamovin 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Ask HN: What is the best way to provide continuous context to models?
    ×0.90 153 | 73 points by nemath 6 days ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Why are websites trying to talk at me?
    ×0.45 189 | 3 points by LeratoAustini 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Ask HN: Fundraising compensation
    ×0.64 190 | 4 points by ebitda_ai 4 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Ask HN: Anyone else finding it impossible to land a job?
    ×4.63 169 | 31 points by Arch485 5 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Ask HN: Do you think college is/was worth it?
    ×1.05 180 | 9 points by hallole 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Ask HN: AI music covers in 2026?
    ×0.79 176 | 17 points by sexy_seedbox 5 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Ask HN: What to teach my kid if AI does math and CS?
    ×1.68 187 | 12 points by devShark 5 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Tell HN: Deskflow is getting spammed with AI-slop PRs
    ×1.31 140 | 4 points by acheong08 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Ask HN: Why is opening a new window in OS26 Safari so slow this week?
    ×1.27 128 | 6 points by zahirbmirza 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Ask HN: Those who quit tech, moved back home, what do you do?
    ×1.62 174 | 14 points by akudha 4 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. x86 prefixes and escape opcodes flowchart (soc.me)
    ×0.85 30 #83 | 95 points by gaul 22 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Gödel, Turing, and AI： the Incomplete Space in Post-AI Architecture (jimiwen.substack.com)
    ×1.10 | 2 points by jimiwen 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge (theregister.com)
    ×7.69 68 | 80 points by dijksterhuis 7 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Crypto payment cards surge 22x in daily transactions since late 2024 (theblock.co)
    ×1.07 | 2 points by adrianwaj 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Using an expensive model made our agent 75% cheaper (twitter.com/bwarrn)
    ×1.72 33 | 3 points by remolacha 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Loci – Visual knowledge map with auto-generated flashcards and FSRS (github.com/lmanhes)
    ×1.09 105 | 3 points by omnitrol 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One (stripe.com)
    ×1.76 13 #17 | 72 points by mitchbob 7 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: On-device browser agent (Qwen) running locally in Chrome (github.com/RunanywhereAI)
    ×0.72 58 #51 | 9 points by sanchitmonga 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. British redcoat's lost memoir reveals realities of life as a disabled veteran (phys.org)
    ×1.00 67 #66 | 124 points by wglb 1 day ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Chinese EVs Blow Past Tesla and Tariffs En Route to Global Reign (wsj.com)
    ×0.86 | 2 points by JumpCrisscross 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Running custom code on a PAX credit card machine by swapping the SoC (lucasteske.dev)
    ×1.01 | 2 points by rmast 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: wxpath – Declarative web crawling in XPath (github.com/rodricios)
    ×0.61 21 #35 | 59 points by rodricios 10 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: An interactive physics simulator with 1000’s of balls, in your terminal (github.com/minimaxir)
    ×0.73 75 | 70 points by minimaxir 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Claude Skill Editor (github.com/mtct)
    ×1.16 | 2 points by mtct88 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Amazon is ending all inventory commingling as of March 31, 2026 (twitter.com/ghhughes)
    ×5.57 10 | 508 points by MrBuddyCasino 1 day ago | 254 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Immigration Agencies Are Openly Defying Federal Courts (lpeproject.org)
    ×8.43 63 | 86 points by abrownbear 8 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Catching API regressions with snapshot testing (kreya.app)
    ×0.56 36 #13 | 9 points by CommonGuy 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. The challenges of soft delete (atlas9.dev)
    ×1.56 7 #16 | 86 points by buchanae 5 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. LG UltraFine Evo 6K 32-inch Monitor Review (wired.com)
    ×2.01 4 #37 | 57 points by tosh 7 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Autonomous outbound research and outreach drafts (prospecter.io)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by Greateste 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Ask HN: Was Node.js a Mistake?
    ×1.81 3 | 3 points by danver0 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. California is free of drought for the first time in 25 years (latimes.com)
    ×3.01 2 #3 | 262 points by thnaks 3 hours ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: macOS native DAW with Git branching model (scratchtrackaudio.com)
    ×1.18 10 #24 | 14 points by hpen 2 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. High-bandwidth flash progress and future (blocksandfiles.com)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by tanelpoder 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Windows 11 had 20 major update problems in 2025 and and 2026 started badly too (windowslatest.com)
    ×3.13 18 | 5 points by speckx 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???