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  1. Ask HN: Share your productive usage of OpenClaw
    ×1.94 13 #29 | 21 points by aavci 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Programmable Watches with WiFi?
    ×0.31 35 #37 | 27 points by dakiol 7 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. 1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March
    ×7.33 39 | 105 points by otterley 12 hours ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. New Claude Code Feature "Remote Control"
    ×0.62 47 | 3 points by rob 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Persistent Prompts and Built in Search
    ×0.31 | 2 points by lazybusy 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. AI isn't killing SaaS – it's killing single-purpose SaaS
    ×0.37 70 | 3 points by JB_5000 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Using "Hi Claudette " on Claude.ai
    ×0.08 | 2 points by mlongval 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Chromebook leads for K-8 school in need?
    ×0.40 95 | 45 points by techteach00 2 days ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Looking 4 open-source knowledge base and project management tool 4 personal use
    ×0.34 84 | 3 points by TheAlgorist 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: How do you know if AI agents will choose your tool?
    ×0.51 81 | 29 points by dmpyatyi 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Who has seen productivity increases from AI
    ×0.27 80 | 6 points by Kapura 14 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Would you choose the Microsoft stack today if starting greenfield?
    ×1.87 79 | 17 points by JB_5000 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. ChatGPT finds an error in Terence Tao's math research
    ×1.15 66 | 41 points by codexon 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How are you controlling AI agents that take real actions?
    ×0.29 112 | 4 points by thesvp 21 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What Linux Would Be a Good Transition from Windows 11
    ×1.13 99 | 11 points by Cyberis 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Any DIY open-source Alexa/Google alternatives?
    ×0.24 92 | 6 points by personality0 18 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Comparing manual vs. AI requirements gathering: 2 sentences vs. 127-point spec
    ×0.14 | 2 points by thesssaism 18 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Is it better to have no Agent.md than a bad one?
    ×0.22 123 | 5 points by parvardegr 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Where do you save links, notes and random useful stuff?
    ×1.24 94 | 17 points by a_protsyuk 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Does anyone use CrewAI or LangChain anymore?
    ×0.84 100 | 9 points by rakan1 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: What is up with all the glitchy and off-topic comments?
    ×1.02 108 | 9 points by marginalia_nu 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Why doesn't HN have a rec algorithm?
    ×0.26 140 | 9 points by sujayk_33 3 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. GLP-1 Second-Order Effects
    ×1.02 91 | 22 points by 7777777phil 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: What breaks when you run AI agents unsupervised?
    ×0.40 124 | 12 points by marvin_nora 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Cognitive Offloading to AI
    ×0.72 119 | 12 points by daringrain32781 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. I'm 15 and built a platform for developers to showcase WIP projects
    ×0.75 138 | 12 points by amin2011 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. So Claude's stealing our business secrets, right?
    ×1.14 114 | 25 points by arm32 3 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: What Comes After Markdown?
    ×0.36 134 | 8 points by YuukiJyoudai 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: If the "AI bubble" pops, will it really be that dramatic?
    ×0.80 133 | 14 points by moomoo11 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: How are early-stage AI startups thinking about IP protection?
    ×0.16 141 | 4 points by shaheeniquebal 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Explanation of JEPA – Yann LeCun's proposed solution to self-supervised learning
    ×0.43 | 2 points by helloplanets 21 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Why don't software developers make medical devices?
    ×1.14 144 | 8 points by piratesAndSons 3 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Back end where you just define schema, access policy, and functions
    ×0.18 145 | 3 points by emilss 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Is it worth learning Vim in 2026?
    ×1.09 129 | 35 points by zekejohn 4 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Is there a reliable way to tell if an image is AI generated?
    ×0.33 131 | 8 points by leandrobon 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Tell HN: Claude mangles XML files with <name> as an XML Tag to <n>
    ×0.43 128 | 9 points by exabrial 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. I made my favorite AI tool
    ×0.35 142 | 5 points by sebringj 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Should I add this acknowledgement/shoutout by xAI/Grok to my resume?
    ×0.16 | 2 points by aehsan4004 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Georgian wine culture dates back, uninterrupted, approximately 8k years (wsetglobal.com)
    ×1.53 7 #17 | 26 points by Anon84 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Samsung Upcycle Promise (xda-developers.com)
    ×1.28 1 #49 | 166 points by 1970-01-01 15 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Addition Under Pressure (twitter.com/DimitrisPapail)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by vismit2000 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ask HN: Is Meshtastic worth it, what have you done with it?
    ×1.11 | 2 points by notepad0x90 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Magical Mushroom – Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer (magicalmushroom.com)
    ×2.08 25 | 391 points by microflash 1 day ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. “Car Wash” test with 53 models (opper.ai)
    ×2.50 7 | 361 points by felix089 1 day ago | 427 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Claude Copy – Drop-in fix for Claude Code's broken copy-paste (github.com/andersmyrmel)
    ×0.92 | 2 points by andersmyrmel 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston (apple.com)
    ×2.51 2 #6 | 447 points by haunter 8 hours ago | 437 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Time to Move On – The Reason Relationships End (steveblank.com)
    ×1.27 50 #58 | 35 points by MindGods 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Gawk 5.4.0 is released, with replaced MinRX matcher (gnu.org)
    ×1.09 | 2 points by zdw 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. The Pentagon's UFO Psyop (garberfiles.substack.com)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by nl 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Extending C with Prolog (1994) (amzi.com)
    ×0.57 42 #43 | 67 points by Antibabelic 15 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. ASML unveils EUV light source advance that could yield 50% more chips by 2030 (reuters.com)
    ×3.07 | 367 points by pieterr 1 day ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Interactive 3D Moon with real NASA data and WebGPU (oddurs.com)
    ×1.11 85 | 3 points by oddurs 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Falcon – Chat-first communities built on Bluesky AT Protocol
    ×2.06 113 | 5 points by JohannaWeb 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: A non-programmer built a blockchain ecosystem using only AI
    ×0.45 | 1 points by BizinikiwiBrain 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Is LipoVive Legit? 2026 Reddit and Health Forum Roundup (morningstar.com)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by makugats 26 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Decided to fly to the US to buy some hard drives (reddit.com)
    ×1.92 44 | 127 points by HelloUsername 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Glue – new language and toolchain for data modeling (guywaldman.com)
    ×1.02 | 2 points by guywald 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: 1Password Replica (Security Challenge) (github.com/rajksarkar)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by davinci123 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. DeepSeek-v3.2 on GB300: Performance Breakthrough (vllm.ai)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by roody_wurlitzer 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Iron-Wolf – Wolfenstein 3D source port in Rust (github.com/Ragnaroek)
    ×0.84 103 | 88 points by ragnaroekX 3 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. IRS Tactics Against Meta Open a New Front in the Corporate Tax Fight (nytimes.com)
    ×1.11 28 #23 | 199 points by mitchbob 17 hours ago | 203 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Every privacy concession in history has been permanent (nbtv.substack.com)
    ×2.72 10 #74 | 27 points by Cider9986 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: AgentPass – Identity layer for AI agents (passports, email, trust) (github.com/kai-agent-free)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by kai_agent 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. SQL Has Problems. We Can Fix Them: Pipe Syntax in SQL [pdf] (storage.googleapis.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by advisedwang 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Stop Killing Games update says EU petition advances (videocardz.com)
    ×2.83 41 | 114 points by LorenDB 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Building to Remember. Using AI to Wrangle My Daily Mess (chrisberry-tech.pages.dev)
    ×0.43 | 2 points by WarcrimeActual 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Goodbye InnerHTML, Hello SetHTML: Stronger XSS Protection in Firefox 148 (mozilla.org)
    ×2.27 12 #45 | 331 points by todsacerdoti 17 hours ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Blood test boosts Alzheimer's diagnosis accuracy to 94.5%, clinical study shows (medicalxpress.com)
    ×2.39 32 | 430 points by wglb 1 day ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: MiniVim a Minimal Neovim Configuration (github.com/KyanJeuring)
    ×1.82 64 | 5 points by kppjeuring 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: CharityVerify – Trust scores for 138K Canadian charities (charityverify.com)
    ×0.35 | 2 points by buchler 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: MantleDB – Anonymous JSON storage for your side projects (mantledb.sh)
    ×0.86 83 | 3 points by moonwizard 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: AI phone assistant that became a lifeline for people who can't speak (mio.gg)
    ×1.86 98 | 4 points by talyuk 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: A small, simple music theory library in C99 (github.com/thelowsunoverthemoon)
    ×0.68 121 | 57 points by lowsun 5 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. OpenAI resets spending expectations, from $1.4T to $600B (cnbc.com)
    ×3.30 15 #40 | 195 points by randycupertino 11 hours ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: A deadly simple tmux windows like start UI (github.com/liyu1981)
    ×1.06 126 | 3 points by liyu1981au 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: A portfolio that re-architects its React DOM based on LLM intent (pramit-mandal-ai.netlify.app)
    ×0.69 137 | 6 points by Pramit_2002 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: PgDog – Scale Postgres without changing the app (github.com/pgdogdev)
    ×1.43 51 #59 | 315 points by levkk 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. LibreOffice Online: A Fresh Start (documentfoundation.org)
    ×4.28 13 #80 | 41 points by matricaria 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Anthropic accuses DeepSeek and other Chinese rivals of mass data theft (theguardian.com)
    ×1.97 22 | 3 points by maxloh 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: X86CSS – An x86 CPU emulator written in CSS (lyra.horse)
    ×1.56 6 #86 | 257 points by rebane2001 1 day ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Qntm's Leap Second Simulator (qntm.org)
    ×0.96 34 #90 | 8 points by pavel_lishin 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Eliminate Programmers (ivanturkovic.com)
    ×1.31 | 2 points by dinvlad 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. VTT Test Donut Lab Battery Reaches 80% Charge in Under 10 Minutes [pdf] (r2.dev)
    ×1.33 55 | 112 points by sagyam 1 day ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Ghist – Task management that lives in your repo (github.com/unnecessary-special-projects)
    ×1.28 45 | 16 points by nxnze 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Steel Bank Common Lisp (sbcl.org)
    ×1.50 15 #12 | 181 points by tosh 11 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: StreamHouse – S3-native Kafka alternative written in Rust (github.com/gbram1)
    ×1.83 21 | 4 points by gbram 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: 3D Mahjong, Built in CSS (voxjong.com)
    ×0.95 76 | 136 points by rofko 2 days ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: I vibe-coded a custom WebGPU engine for my MMO (github.com/verekia)
    ×1.10 127 | 4 points by jverrecchia 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Anthropic Adds Caveat to AI Safety Policy in Race Against Rivals (bloomberg.com)
    ×0.97 | 2 points by KerrickStaley 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Decimal-Java is a library to convert java.math.BigDecimal to and from IEEE-754r (github.com/FirebirdSQL)
    ×0.53 55 #82 | 38 points by mariuz 20 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???