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  1. Ask HN: Would you use a job board where every listing is verified?
    ×0.99 #27 | 32 points by BelVisgarra 4 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Last time you wrote code?
    ×1.06 11 | 3 points by blinkbat 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion
    ×5.49 59 #79 | 977 points by shannoncc 1 day ago | 855 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: How many of you hold an amateur radio license in your country?
    ×0.82 62 | 77 points by ToddWBurgess 4 days ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. PhD interrupted by personal safety issues, now publication record is thin
    ×0.37 39 | 3 points by qthrwaway 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Whisker – Self hosted e-commerce cart, pure PHP, zero dependencies
    ×0.54 69 | 4 points by eLohith 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Can we talk about AI Astroturfing?
    ×2.88 19 | 21 points by overgard 8 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. How do teams prevent duplicate LLM API calls and token waste?
    ×0.80 57 | 3 points by cachelogic 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. What Will Happen to Android?
    ×0.50 | 2 points by MrLey 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Anyone else feel this community has changed recently?
    ×3.62 56 | 36 points by kypro 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What career will you switch to when AI replaces developers?
    ×2.98 15 | 16 points by DGAP 10 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Best Monitoring and Observability Platform?
    ×0.43 | 2 points by kebforlifer1 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Tell HN: The proposed KIDS Act (HR 7757) effectively mandates biometric browsing
    ×1.32 80 | 16 points by fokdelafons 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Should AI web agents skip sponsored/ad results by default?
    ×0.29 107 | 3 points by ilyasJosef 21 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Doctor with software development experience – careers combining both?
    ×0.55 88 | 4 points by frank-cheynne 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Best way to implement logging and audit trails for AI apps?
    ×0.50 90 | 4 points by devstatic 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: How are you using multi-agent AI systems in your daily workflow?
    ×0.40 101 | 14 points by paifamily 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Self taught gen-xers with senior dev/pm exp. Where's my imposter syndrome team?
    ×0.39 121 | 4 points by _hugerobots_ 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Do You Enjoy Your Career in Tech Nowadays?
    ×0.90 91 | 28 points by karakoram 2 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. I started making money online in 10th grade – some lessons about capital
    ×0.44 106 | 6 points by udit_50 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. $1k and the difficult future that AI has left for many
    ×1.31 78 | 5 points by 01-_- 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Do You Have a Homelab?
    ×0.51 92 | 12 points by ricardbejarano 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Turns out making games is the easy part
    ×0.60 98 | 5 points by clamlotus 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Anyone fought a big corp over IP theft courts?
    ×0.32 119 | 6 points by NatalijaAAD 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Are there any companies who are anti-AI?
    ×1.09 96 | 6 points by anti-ai-dev 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Has anyone noticed the fear-driven prompt suggestions that GPT5.3 makes?
    ×0.48 128 | 14 points by cedarscarlett 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Why do we still buy things by browsing catalogs?
    ×0.38 113 | 5 points by dannythecount 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Tell HN: Digital Ocean has run out of GPU droplets
    ×0.47 131 | 17 points by nathannaveen 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: If your project is free, what are you building and why keep it free?
    ×0.61 143 | 11 points by LeanVibe 3 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. I lost my ability to learn anything new because of AI and I need your opinions
    ×1.03 137 | 23 points by dokdev 4 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: How are LLMs supposed to be used for warfare?
    ×0.40 134 | 5 points by sirnicolaz 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: How do you give AI agents real codebase context without burning tokens?
    ×0.71 146 | 5 points by donhardman 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Self-Learning Customer Marketing
    ×0.20 147 | 3 points by davismartens 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: What's your experience self-hosting in 2026?
    ×1.26 130 | 27 points by rustcore 4 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: What will OpenAI employees do now who have signed notdividedorg petition
    ×0.65 145 | 17 points by Imustaskforhelp 4 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. How do I get startups to use my open-code project?
    ×0.23 144 | 5 points by ErezShahaf 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Amazon degraded shopping- you have to put in cart to see the price
    ×0.89 108 | 15 points by talkingtab 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. HATEOAS Works with an LLM in the Mix
    ×0.11 148 | 3 points by charlieflowers 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Why is arstechnica.com still running dev story advertorials for a game that...
    ×0.26 142 | 6 points by chrisjj 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. OpenWrt 25.12 Stable Release (openwrt.org)
    ×3.31 75 | 53 points by drewfax 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: How to Catch Documentation Drift with Claude Code and GitHub Actions (dosu.dev)
    ×0.41 | 2 points by onlydole 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Compiling Match Statements to Bytecode (xnacly.me)
    ×0.44 45 #84 | 21 points by ingve 16 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Local News (minir.ai)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by MRviber 51 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Compiling Prolog to Forth [pdf] (vfxforth.com)
    ×1.02 19 #20 | 98 points by PaulHoule 10 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Galileo's handwritten notes found in ancient astronomy text (science.org)
    ×1.46 5 #70 | 212 points by tzury 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Anthropic and The Pentagon (schneier.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by benwen 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. I don't know if my job will still exist in ten years (seangoedecke.com)
    ×2.15 22 | 4 points by nomdep 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Solace – Mac menu bar app that adapts to the world around you. Finally (theodorehq.com)
    ×0.74 | 2 points by theodorehq 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. The stagnancy of publishing and the disappearance of the midlist (honest-broker.com)
    ×1.13 11 #6 | 50 points by wallflower 5 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. The surprising whimsy of the Time Zone Database (jprs.me)
    ×1.90 27 #16 | 45 points by jprs 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse (matduggan.com)
    ×4.99 40 | 162 points by wrxd 16 hours ago | 165 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Procedural Music Workstation in the Browser (kiekko.pro)
    ×3.04 116 | 7 points by timo_h 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. High-performance Go web framework; Ships with OpenTelemetry, OpenAPI docs (github.com/rivaas-dev)
    ×0.37 | 1 points by atkrad 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. How to run Qwen 3.5 locally (unsloth.ai)
    ×1.04 | 2 points by Curiositry 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Ask HN: Building on-device call screening–no cloud, just local ML. Realistic?"
    ×0.61 | 1 points by dorjedev 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Anthropic, please make a new Slack (fivetran.com)
    ×3.80 15 | 263 points by georgewfraser 1 day ago | 249 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. LLMs work best when the user defines their acceptance criteria first (katanaquant.com)
    ×2.96 23 #67 | 424 points by dnw 1 day ago | 377 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. The User Is Stochastic: Testing Agentic Systems with Simulation and Evaluation (gojiberries.io)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by neehao 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. The Case of the Disappearing Secretary (rowlandmanthorpe.substack.com)
    ×1.65 21 | 56 points by rwmj 13 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Free salary converter with 3,400 neighborhood comparisons in 182 cities (salary-converter.com)
    ×0.85 | 2 points by jay7gr 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Astra: An open-source observatory control software (github.com/ppp-one)
    ×0.76 36 | 98 points by pppone 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. TeX Live 2026 is available for download now (tug.org)
    ×1.68 61 | 94 points by jithinraj 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. The home computer war (technicshistory.com)
    ×1.12 76 | 53 points by cfmcdonald 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: SRA – A new architectural pattern for modern product engineering (github.com/FelixZY)
    ×0.61 72 #78 | 4 points by FelixZY 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Werner Herzog Between Fact and Fiction (unherd.com)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by tintinnabula 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Markdown-to-Book – Convert Markdown to KDP Ready PDFs and EPUBs (github.com/vpuna)
    ×1.74 125 | 5 points by vpuna 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Maybe there's a pattern here? (dynomight.net)
    ×1.65 37 #46 | 154 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. LLM Doesn't Write Correct Code. It Writes Plausible Code (twitter.com/KatanaLarp)
    ×4.63 34 | 60 points by pretext 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Secure Snake Home (SSH) (eieio.games)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by fratellobigio 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Best Music Distributors in 2026
    ×0.54 | 1 points by anonyxbiz 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Why can't you just ask AI to find you a trading edge? You can now (github.com/augiemazza)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by varrd1 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Launch HN: Palus Finance (YC W26): Better yields on idle cash for startups, SMBs
    ×0.37 81 #61 | 57 points by sam_palus 1 day ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. OpenClaw Partners with VirusTotal for Skill Security (openclaw.ai)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by Wjh555777 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: I built a daily game that tests if you can tell 1999 apart from 2005 (yeartobeat.com)
    ×1.29 72 | 3 points by FKJ 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: A trainable, modular electronic nose for industrial use (sniphi.com)
    ×0.51 71 | 34 points by kwitczak 4 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Jido 2.0, Elixir Agent Framework (jido.run)
    ×1.53 32 | 320 points by mikehostetler 2 days ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. AI Project Handoff Format (github.com/yy4uic-ai)
    ×0.89 | 1 points by yy4uic 4 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Tech jobs are getting demolished in ways not seen since 2008 (businessinsider.com)
    ×5.27 43 | 62 points by elsewhen 9 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Paul Brainerd, founder of Aldus PageMaker, has died (adafruit.com)
    ×1.68 19 | 162 points by fortran77 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. My application programmer instincts failed when debugging assembler (landedstar.com)
    ×0.58 60 #59 | 41 points by lifefeed 20 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Chinese Open Source: A Definitive History (interconnect.substack.com)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by mountainview 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: PKGSmith (pkgsmith.app)
    ×0.62 | 2 points by Fogh 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Nirvana – A TUI YouTube Music Player with a Physics-Based Visualizer (github.com/iamekabir-web)
    ×1.43 82 | 4 points by ekabir 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Agent-town – A pixel-art AI agent online collaboration platform (github.com/geezerrrr)
    ×1.57 | 2 points by felixding 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. New imagery suggests U.S. responsible for Iran school strike (cnn.com)
    ×9.17 4 | 169 points by agluszak 1 day ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Working and Communicating with Japanese Engineers (tokyodev.com)
    ×1.45 31 #36 | 138 points by zdw 19 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Seurat Most Famous for Paris Park Painting Yet Half His Paintings Were Seascapes (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×0.47 57 #48 | 24 points by bookofjoe 12 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Agile legged locomotion in reconfigurable modular robots (modularlegs.github.io)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by hhs 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. A new clue to how the body detects physical force (scripps.edu)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by hhs 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February (bbc.com)
    ×4.72 29 | 558 points by smartbit 1 day ago | 771 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???