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  1. Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw
    ×3.00 1 #1 | 223 points by firloop 2 hours ago | 221 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Anthropic to limit Using third-party harnesses with Claude subscriptions
    ×1.44 7 #48 | 13 points by guiyuwei 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Third-party Claude harnesses will now draw from extra usage
    ×0.87 16 #51 | 8 points by iBelieve 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Are agents _still_ writing most of your code?
    ×0.26 61 | 3 points by etamponi 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2026)
    ×1.18 68 | 272 points by whoishiring 2 days ago | 335 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2026)
    ×0.76 95 | 83 points by whoishiring 2 days ago | 328 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. What Is a Collation, and Why Is My Data Corrupt? – PG Phridays with Shaun Thomas
    ×0.21 | 2 points by pgedge_postgres 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Should we collectively stop spell checking and fixing grammar
    ×0.27 77 | 3 points by sankalpnarula 6 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Thought Exercise regarding RX dependency
    ×0.23 | 2 points by Bender 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Advice on Solo Launching
    ×0.21 87 | 4 points by acaciabengo 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Distributed data centers in our basements
    ×0.50 106 | 72 points by cmos 3 days ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What are you moving on to now that Claude Code is so rate limited?
    ×0.41 88 | 5 points by esperent 11 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Whether there is LLM or other strong NLP behind Hacker News?
    ×0.24 | 2 points by Jet_Xu 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Tell HN: Chrome says "suspicious download" when trying to download yt-dlp
    ×2.35 83 | 306 points by joering2 3 days ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How relevant is low code according to you in today’s world with Claude?
    ×0.70 111 | 7 points by kinj28 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What is your dev set up like?
    ×0.45 105 | 12 points by break_the_bank 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Stripe closed my UAE business account and is withholding $3.5K
    ×0.93 98 | 22 points by alganzory 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: European Tech Alternatives?
    ×1.76 55 | 100 points by BrunoBernardino 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Fixed a llama.cpp bug silently disabling Vulkan GPU on all 32-bit ARM devices
    ×0.20 | 2 points by perinban 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Client took over development by vibe coding. What to do?
    ×1.27 100 | 59 points by piscator 2 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: What dev tools do you rely on that nobody talks about?
    ×1.45 104 | 39 points by crcsmnky 2 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Academic study on AI's impact on software development – want to join?
    ×0.54 121 | 30 points by research2026 3 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Is there any interest in a native Qt/C++ Discord client?
    ×2.68 142 | 5 points by txtsd 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. BetterDB – open-source Redis/Valkey migration across clouds and self-hosted
    ×0.79 124 | 14 points by kaliades 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Training mRNA Language Models Across 25 Species for $165
    ×1.54 163 | 3 points by maziyar 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Brian Kernighan's "Q"?
    ×0.73 136 | 3 points by remywang 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: What happens when you block/mark as spam a call or text?
    ×0.65 123 | 12 points by dsalzman 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Are tech companies even hiring?
    ×1.42 116 | 19 points by KernelPryanic 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. LinkedIn uses 65GB of RAM with 7 tabs opened
    ×1.07 135 | 14 points by daniele_dll 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Does anyone else notice that gas runs out faster than usual
    ×0.60 143 | 20 points by cat-turner 4 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: What was it like in the era of BBS before the internet?
    ×1.07 132 | 32 points by ex-aws-dude 4 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2026)
    ×1.08 148 | 6 points by jon_north 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: How do you know if a tweak to your AI skill made it better?
    ×0.78 144 | 7 points by yo103jg 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Are you team MCP or team CLI?
    ×0.60 154 | 15 points by sharath39 4 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Non-US founders residential address problem with Brex, Mercury?
    ×0.67 150 | 8 points by Barazutti629 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Why did Harvey choose a top-down enterprise GTM while Cursor went bottom-up?
    ×0.43 158 | 4 points by iiTsEddy 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Books on Unit Testing and TDD?
    ×0.91 130 | 10 points by Desafinado 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: Is there any founder building non AI startup in 2026?
    ×1.51 140 | 13 points by daudmalik06 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Flattening the Duck Curve: batteries reach 44% of evening demand in California (reneweconomy.com.au)
    ×2.03 4 #57 | 9 points by bronson 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. New Advances Bring the Era of Quantum Computers Closer (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.76 | 1 points by gmays 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Trump fires Pam Bondi as attorney general (cnn.com)
    ×7.90 50 | 130 points by Cider9986 1 day ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: I built a DNS resolver from scratch in Rust – no DNS libraries (github.com/razvandimescu)
    ×1.13 69 | 106 points by rdme 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: API for Flight Prices (ignav.com)
    ×1.12 159 | 3 points by gusgordon 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. How to Make a Sliding, Self-Locking, and Predator-Proof Chicken Coop Door (2020) (backyardchickens.com)
    ×0.78 12 #19 | 74 points by uticus 6 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Update on the eBay Scam (kevquirk.com)
    ×0.80 29 #37 | 36 points by speckx 7 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Why Are BART and MUNI always broke(n)? (aakash.substack.com)
    ×1.78 33 | 3 points by logicx24 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Adult German men must request permission to leave Germany for more than 3 months (fr.de)
    ×17.00 18 | 92 points by raffael_de 12 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Solar Balconies Take Europe by Storm (hackaday.com)
    ×2.76 84 | 88 points by lxm 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Dull – Instagram Without Reels, YouTube Without Shorts (iOS) (getdull.app)
    ×1.18 75 | 149 points by kasparnoor 2 days ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. TDF ejects its core developers (meeksfamily.uk)
    ×1.32 13 #47 | 151 points by janvdberg 13 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Apple's Fitness Chief, Who Was Accused of Harassment, Is Retiring (nytimes.com)
    ×0.92 | 1 points by canucker2016 2 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Nova v1.5.0 Gold Master – A pure C++17 assistant with zero dependencies (github.com/94BILLY)
    ×0.50 | 2 points by 94BILLY 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Abject: the first self-aware object runtime (mempko.com)
    ×1.59 113 | 9 points by mempko 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Hello, World (nasa.gov)
    ×3.94 17 #53 | 61 points by reconnecting 6 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Linux Gaming Got an Upgrade (youtube.com)
    ×1.19 | 2 points by doener 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: I built a small app for FSI German Course (detawk.com)
    ×0.54 | 2 points by syedmsawaid 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Tlock – Lock macOS folders and apps with your fingerprint (github.com/freyzo)
    ×0.79 | 2 points by leo_agent 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Agent2; Open-source production runtime for AI agents (github.com/duozokker)
    ×0.83 | 2 points by duozokker 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. What changes when you turn a Linux box into a router (patrickmccanna.net)
    ×1.24 11 #10 | 97 points by 0o_MrPatrick_o0 6 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: 1-Bit Bonsai, the First Commercially Viable 1-Bit LLMs (prismml.com)
    ×2.29 73 | 420 points by PrismML 3 days ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Postgres extension for BM25 relevance-ranked full-text search (github.com/timescale)
    ×1.32 91 | 201 points by tjgreen 3 days ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. AI startup envisions '100M new people' making videogames (pcgamer.com)
    ×1.55 43 | 3 points by solomonyardley 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Subscription bombing and how to mitigate it (bytemash.net)
    ×2.09 46 | 297 points by homelessdino 1 day ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Big-Endian Testing with QEMU (hanshq.net)
    ×0.57 32 #46 | 80 points by jandeboevrie 12 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. HarfBuzz Slug Support with WebGL (harfbuzz.github.io)
    ×0.79 64 #84 | 26 points by mcraiha 16 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Why are we still using Markdown? (bgslabs.org)
    ×1.59 27 #23 | 57 points by veqq 7 hours ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. SSH certificates: the better SSH experience (jpmens.net)
    ×1.85 27 #29 | 212 points by jandeboevrie 15 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Block's Dorsey Outlines AI-Powered Vision to Cut Middle Managers (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.76 15 | 4 points by doctaj 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. 1400% surge in GitHub commits explains service issues (twitter.com/kdaigle)
    ×2.37 2 | 5 points by tonymet 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Documentary on the Making of Jmail (twitter.com/donaldjewkes)
    ×1.32 79 | 3 points by djewkes 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Mercurial Dyson – a plan for the disassembly of planet Mercury (github.com/RokoMijic)
    ×1.12 2 #70 | 49 points by indy 8 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. The First Pre-Send SImulation AI Swarm Visualization (murlyn.ai)
    ×1.15 | 2 points by dutybird 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Asciimap – Interactive ASCII world map with live data (github.com/Lionel-Lim)
    ×1.84 152 | 9 points by limsight 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: SpeechSDK – free, open-source SDK that unifies all AI voice models (speechsdk.dev)
    ×1.79 34 | 3 points by PiersonMarks 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. A forecast of the fair market value of SpaceX's businesses (futuresearch.ai)
    ×1.60 60 | 100 points by ddp26 1 day ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. The Case for Economic Growth as the Path to Human Wellbeing (lantpritchett.org)
    ×1.70 | 2 points by barry-cotter 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Open Source Routing Machine (project-osrm.org)
    ×1.20 | 2 points by omnibrain 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: A P2P messenger with dual network modes (Fast and Tor) (github.com/Realman78)
    ×0.49 80 | 37 points by Realman78 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: TinyOS – A minimalist RTOS for Cortex-M written in C (github.com/cmc-labo)
    ×0.71 8 #3 | 70 points by hpscript 3 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Claude AI finds Vim, Emacs RCE bugs that trigger on file open (bleepingcomputer.com)
    ×1.11 14 #76 | 8 points by akyuu 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. ReactOS Shows Improved Stability and 64-Bit Support at Chemnitz Linux Days 2026 (reddit.com)
    ×1.40 76 | 68 points by jeditobe 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. I Built an SMS Gateway with a $20 Android Phone – Jonno.nz (jonno.nz)
    ×1.59 67 #75 | 80 points by jonno-nz 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Tomorrow 12pm PT, Claude subscriptions no longer cover third-party tools (twitter.com/bcherny)
    ×1.06 2 | 4 points by empressplay 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Where do AI-built apps usually break when moving from prototype to production? (openbaton.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by kellonedwards 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. A $20/month user costs OpenAI $65 in compute. AI video is a money furnace (aedelon777.substack.com)
    ×3.29 63 | 74 points by Aedelon 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Herbie: Automatically improve imprecise floating point formulas (uwplse.org)
    ×0.93 25 #7 | 14 points by summarity 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs (blogosphere.app)
    ×2.61 3 #11 | 649 points by ramkarthikk 12 hours ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: I use macOS calendar and have calls. MeetLink adds vid links to events (nicemohawk.com)
    ×1.21 139 | 3 points by blach 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Rust UEFI UI Lib (github.com/sloev)
    ×1.25 164 | 6 points by supernihil 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Wikidata for Developers (wikidata.org)
    ×1.67 | 3 points by matthberg 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???