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  1. Ask HN: Should AI credits be refunded on mistakes?
    ×0.86 28 | 3 points by ed_elliott_asc 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: How do you handle marketing as a solo technical founder?
    ×1.30 47 | 120 points by lazarkap 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw
    ×3.32 49 | 1095 points by firloop 4 days ago | 827 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Hybrid Attention
    ×0.43 50 | 39 points by JohannaAlmeida 23 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2026) (Non AI)
    ×1.04 72 | 11 points by cousin_it 18 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Digital Ocean blocked my account
    ×0.65 80 | 5 points by ugly_munchkin 15 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Zooming UIs in 2026: Prezi, impress.js, and why I built something different
    ×1.13 56 | 96 points by tinchox6 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Free models you can use with your OpenClaw (no credit card needed)
    ×0.16 | 2 points by stosssik 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. GPT 5.4 in practice – Stinks?
    ×0.13 89 | 3 points by sjt-at-rev 15 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Claude Code limits are starting to feel like a psychological trick
    ×0.26 111 | 5 points by trinsic2 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Any Interesting Niche Hobbies?
    ×0.75 106 | 19 points by e-topy 2 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Alternatives to Claude (Code)?
    ×1.32 97 | 10 points by vixalien 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: How are you controlling costs and enforcing limits for LLM calls?
    ×0.12 115 | 3 points by 8dazo 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Compact multi-port network setup (2.5G / 10G / SFP+) – looking for feedback
    ×0.12 | 2 points by Qotom 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How are you orchestrating multi-agent AI workflows in production?
    ×0.26 118 | 6 points by swrly 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Upwork Inc. violates its own DMARC and SPF policy
    ×0.28 112 | 8 points by tmcdos 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Where are all the disruptive software that AI promised?
    ×1.01 107 | 20 points by p-o 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Write Your Own Copy
    ×1.08 108 | 31 points by operatingthetan 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Microsoft Discontinuing Publisher. Alternatives?
    ×1.20 119 | 17 points by supliminal 3 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Anthropic to limit Using third-party harnesses with Claude subscriptions
    ×0.54 131 | 19 points by guiyuwei 4 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: SoTA of Context Building Methods
    ×0.35 124 | 5 points by h4ch1 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Intelligence Cannot Be Trained?
    ×0.55 139 | 9 points by hyperzzw 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: How Do You Relax?
    ×1.62 116 | 22 points by azeirah 3 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Third-party Claude harnesses will now draw from extra usage
    ×0.58 138 | 15 points by iBelieve 4 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: I don't get why Anthropic is limiting usage
    ×0.32 135 | 6 points by ud0 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: LLM-Based Spam Filter
    ×0.22 140 | 4 points by michidk 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Mo – checks GitHub PRs against decisions approved in Slack (motionode.com)
    ×1.61 69 | 9 points by oscarcaldera 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Greece to ban under-15s from social media from next year (sky.com)
    ×2.79 35 #53 | 10 points by austinallegro 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Trier OS – Industrial Operating System (github.com/DougTrier)
    ×1.53 | 2 points by DougTrier 34 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Spack: A Package Manager for Supercomputers (spack.io)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by tosh 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Claude Mythos Preview: Available in Private Preview on Vertex AI (google.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by Topfi 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Battle for Wesnoth: open-source, turn-based strategy game (wesnoth.org)
    ×2.44 12 | 533 points by akyuu 1 day ago | 161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. What being ripped off taught me (belief.horse)
    ×1.93 9 | 446 points by doctorhandshake 1 day ago | 223 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. A fire sale has U.S. office buildings going for 90% off (wsj.com)
    ×2.89 24 | 72 points by blinding-streak 23 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. A blind man made it possible for others with low vision to build Lego sets (apnews.com)
    ×0.72 38 #39 | 83 points by speckx 17 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. GIMP: The Movie [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by pentagrama 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS (github.com/matthartman)
    ×1.65 8 | 459 points by MattHart88 1 day ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: GovAuctions lets you browse government auctions at once (govauctions.app)
    ×1.46 19 | 313 points by player_piano 1 day ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. "The new Copilot app for Windows 11 is really just Microsoft Edge" (twitter.com/TheBobPony)
    ×2.67 8 | 114 points by bundie 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: PromptJuggler – A dev env and runner for prompts, workflows, agents (promptjuggler.com)
    ×1.06 94 | 3 points by TamasSzigeti 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Takeaways from Our Search for Bitcoin's Creator (nytimes.com)
    ×1.81 | 2 points by glenstein 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. OpenRouter Model Fusion (openrouter.ai)
    ×0.57 | 2 points by Topfi 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. A little bit, everywhere, all at once (ghostsofthemachine.substack.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by gemniii 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Bx – macOS native sandbox for AI and coding tools (github.com/holtwick)
    ×2.11 99 | 4 points by holtwick 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Assessing Claude Mythos Preview's cybersecurity capabilities (anthropic.com)
    ×2.43 26 #57 | 289 points by sweis 18 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Wrote an extension for the Thunderbird Client to help protect from Phishing (thunderbird.net)
    ×1.39 | 2 points by StopPhisingMe 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates (github.com/anthropics)
    ×5.75 40 | 1314 points by StanAngeloff 1 day ago | 726 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. The cult of vibe coding is dogfooding run amok (bramcohen.com)
    ×3.21 18 | 609 points by drob518 1 day ago | 505 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. A whole civilization might die tonight (nbcnews.com)
    ×14.26 25 | 143 points by hedayet 18 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. US labor force participation continues to slide (restaurant.org)
    ×3.07 7 | 75 points by toomuchtodo 17 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: TTF-DOOM – A raycaster running inside TrueType font hinting (github.com/4RH1T3CT0R7)
    ×0.71 65 | 65 points by 4RH1T3CT0R 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net (jola.dev)
    ×2.41 29 #64 | 398 points by shintoist 23 hours ago | 199 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Tusk for macOS and Gnome (shapemachine.xyz)
    ×0.99 53 | 116 points by factorialboy 4 days ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Heron is open-source security auditor that interviews your AI agents
    ×0.93 | 1 points by IlyaIvanov0 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. $200 subscription VS $3,650 in compute (sderosiaux.substack.com)
    ×0.62 | 2 points by chtefi 23 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. A Claude Code plugin with 20 specialist agents for Elixir/Phoenix (github.com/oliver-kriska)
    ×1.58 39 | 3 points by quatermain 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Lunar Flyby (nasa.gov)
    ×3.33 1 #7 | 784 points by kipi 16 hours ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Move Detroit (movedetroit.com)
    ×1.12 19 #62 | 63 points by rmason 15 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. A macOS bug that causes TCP networking to stop working after 49.7 days (photon.codes)
    ×2.05 34 | 161 points by RyanZhuuuu 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Interactive object storage cost calculator (mixpeek.com)
    ×0.50 | 2 points by Beefin 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Luigis-meter – Claude Code Max quota in your statusline (github.com/Luigigreco)
    ×0.43 | 2 points by lgreco 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Audio Reactive LED Strips Are Diabolically Hard (scottlawsonbc.com)
    ×2.03 1 #8 | 33 points by surprisetalk 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Slightly safer vibecoding by adopting old hacker habits (addxorrol.blogspot.com)
    ×1.15 6 #17 | 129 points by transpute 10 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. The Reasoning Harness: Preserving What's Understood, Not Just What's Said (michael124.substack.com)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by miketep 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Rare China visit, Taiwan's opposition leader calls for reconciliation (aljazeera.com)
    ×0.56 | 2 points by _tk_ 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Are We Idiocracy Yet? (idiocracy.wtf)
    ×5.46 59 | 610 points by jdiiufccuskal 1 day ago | 532 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: I built a site that turns your Steam gaming hours into a RL skill tree (alternatelife.xyz)
    ×3.04 104 | 8 points by naorz 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Gemma 4 Multimodal Fine-Tuner for Apple Silicon (github.com/mattmireles)
    ×1.38 12 #32 | 194 points by MediaSquirrel 16 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. MegaTrain: Full Precision Training of 100B+ Parameter LLMs on a Single GPU (arxiv.org)
    ×1.89 | 2 points by chrsw 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Countries are considering teen social media bans – why experts warn it's 'lazy' (cnbc.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by cebert 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Bernie Sanders: "AI Is a Threat to Everything the American People Hold Dear" (wsj.com)
    ×3.73 58 | 75 points by fortran77 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: A reasoning hierarchical robotics pipeline you can run in the browser (avikde.github.io)
    ×1.29 91 | 4 points by avikde 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf] (anthropic.com)
    ×2.77 1 #12 | 739 points by be7a 18 hours ago | 530 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Reddit vs. SerpApi et al. (documentcloud.org)
    ×0.58 | 2 points by doener 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: HumansMap, Graph visualization of 3M+ Wikidata persons (humansmap.com)
    ×0.54 110 | 3 points by abstracthinker 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Veil a Drop-in PII redaction proxy for any LLM API (veil-api.com)
    ×0.55 | 2 points by A5omic 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Tailslayer: Library for reducing tail latency in RAM reads (github.com/LaurieWired)
    ×1.33 30 #67 | 62 points by hasheddan 17 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Breaking the console: a brief history of video game security (sergioprado.blog)
    ×0.83 38 #78 | 93 points by sprado 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Writing an LLM from scratch, part 32i – Interventions: what is in the noise? (gilesthomas.com)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by ibobev 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Study: Neighborhood conditions may be driving aging at the cellular level (nyu.edu)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by giuliomagnifico 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart (showbiz411.com)
    ×1.77 31 | 240 points by flinner 1 day ago | 373 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Record wind and solar saved UK from gas imports worth £1B in March 2026 (carbonbrief.org)
    ×2.59 7 | 119 points by mindracer 1 day ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: TurboQuant-WASM – Google's vector quantization in the browser (github.com/teamchong)
    ×0.73 84 | 164 points by teamchong 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. 12k Tons of Dumped Orange Peel Grew into a Landscape Nobody Expected (2017) (sciencealert.com)
    ×2.90 22 #65 | 294 points by pulisse 20 hours ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Pion/handoff – Move WebRTC out of browser and into Go (github.com/pion)
    ×0.95 23 #85 | 95 points by Sean-Der 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. USD Purchasing Power in Real Time Since 2000 (onedollar.today)
    ×1.72 13 #87 | 70 points by traviswingo 15 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs (blogosphere.app)
    ×2.80 64 | 780 points by ramkarthikk 4 days ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire (theguardian.com)
    ×3.89 13 #24 | 523 points by g-b-r 13 hours ago | 1562 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Optimize Norm Gathering Asm (serenedb.com)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by MBkkt 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. From Engineer to Director (danielgriesser.com)
    ×1.39 | 2 points by tosh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???