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  1. Tell HN: Fiverr left customer files public and searchable
    ×5.72 9 #12 | 196 points by morpheuskafka 3 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. GitHub gave webhook secrets away in webhook call
    ×0.41 | 2 points by time4tea 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Are Web Agencies Cooked?
    ×0.85 5 | 7 points by mijustin 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)
    ×1.43 50 | 334 points by david927 2 days ago | 1133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What's your favorite security cam system?
    ×0.28 65 | 3 points by SunshineTheCat 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What standards or protocols exist for AI Agent permissions
    ×0.15 | 2 points by lyfeninja 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block
    ×5.03 7 | 1131 points by littlecranky67 2 days ago | 416 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Who needs contributors? (April 2026)
    ×0.86 27 | 16 points by Kathan2651 8 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Tell HN: GitHub might have been leaking your webhook secrets. Check your emails.
    ×2.87 21 | 21 points by ssiddharth 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. PersMEM: Persistent Semantic Memory and Multi-Instance Communication for AI
    ×0.48 77 | 3 points by asixicle 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: I quit my job over weaponized robots to start my own venture
    ×3.12 49 | 108 points by barratia 11 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. If what you're doing seems impossible: in 1903 NYT said planes are impossible
    ×0.26 81 | 3 points by adinhitlore 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Tell HN: OpenAI silently removed Study Mode from ChatGPT
    ×1.54 72 | 182 points by smokel 2 days ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Claude Code OAuth down for >12 hours
    ×0.41 82 | 7 points by pixel_popping 14 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Technical SEO vs. content optimization: which one moves rankings?
    ×0.32 93 | 3 points by zensorsolutions 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: LeetCode, anyone still doing it?
    ×0.82 83 | 8 points by kwar13 16 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?
    ×1.54 106 | 151 points by meander_water 5 days ago | 220 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Why most AI projects feel useless
    ×0.58 103 | 7 points by vaishcodescape 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What makes it so hard to keep LLMs online?
    ×0.20 139 | 3 points by realberkeaslan 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Tell HN: Another Monday, Another Claude Outage
    ×0.44 111 | 6 points by ericol 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: What's the best AI model for system design nowadays?
    ×0.53 119 | 5 points by jcremona 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Hiring in the age of AI-assisted coding: what works?
    ×0.46 133 | 28 points by nitramm 4 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: What should I do with my app? 130 downloads 3 real subscribers
    ×0.40 156 | 6 points by oyaa52 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. How do you validate your GTM Efforts?
    ×0.18 150 | 3 points by pranaywankhede 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Are you negatively affected by the recent economic stagnation?
    ×0.47 128 | 5 points by adinhitlore 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Do you trust AI agents with API keys / private keys?
    ×0.50 122 | 17 points by devendra116 2 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Is Codex really on Par with Claude Code?
    ×1.59 98 | 12 points by shivang2607 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Anyone using Nostr as a lightweight back end/DB for rapid prototyping?
    ×0.29 155 | 6 points by wasimsk 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: What are you using OpenClaw or agents for?
    ×1.16 91 | 8 points by bmau5 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Best books on building a programming language
    ×0.70 143 | 18 points by ezzato 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Tell HN: Reddit now demands to know why you won't use their app
    ×1.93 92 | 20 points by josephcsible 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Any Open Source projects in need of documentation writer?
    ×0.38 154 | 21 points by tree666 4 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Why Databases Instead of Filesystem?
    ×0.41 153 | 16 points by uticus 4 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: What's your experience with PoW captchas against form spam?
    ×0.47 151 | 6 points by pentacent_hq 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Turn your best AI prompts into one-click tools in Chrome (blog.google)
    ×1.04 18 #6 | 69 points by xnx 5 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. This year’s insane timeline of hacks (ringmast4r.substack.com)
    ×3.23 6 | 330 points by laurex 1 day ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another' (eetimes.com)
    ×1.21 52 | 261 points by mindcrime 2 days ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Rekal – Long-term memory for LLMs in a single SQLite file (github.com/janbjorge)
    ×1.67 130 | 8 points by jeeybee 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Greptile for Security (open source) (strix.ai)
    ×1.10 | 2 points by bearsyankees 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others (rareese.com)
    ×5.59 5 #16 | 886 points by rrreese 14 hours ago | 535 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Kontext CLI – Credential broker for AI coding agents in Go (github.com/kontext-dev)
    ×0.61 24 #32 | 58 points by mc-serious 8 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: A memory database that forgets, consolidates, and detects contradiction (github.com/yantrikos)
    ×0.93 11 #33 | 43 points by pranabsarkar 6 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. ChatGPT, make me a corporate takeover strategy (twitter.com/_nathancalvin)
    ×0.71 | 1 points by yoyohello13 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Rails at the Center of DNSimple (rubyonrails.org)
    ×1.73 9 | 3 points by robbyrussell 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Do All the Things (doallthethings.app)
    ×5.22 144 | 27 points by brainbun 4 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. WebGPU – One Graphics API to Rule Them All (kitware.com)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by wb14123 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Uninum – All elementary functions from a single operator, in Python (github.com/Brumbelow)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by brumbelow 52 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. How to diagnose RAG failures from traces (siquick.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by siquick 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Waffle – Native macOS terminal that auto-tiles sessions into a grid (waffle.baby)
    ×1.85 112 | 40 points by olleeolleeollee 3 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Mdpdf a 2k line C CLI to convert Markdown to tiny PDFs (github.com/schicho)
    ×2.28 165 | 15 points by bastscho 5 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. I wrote to Flock's privacy contact to opt out of their domestic spying program (honeypot.net)
    ×3.13 6 #7 | 418 points by speckx 4 hours ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Civilization Is Not the Default. Violence Is (apropos.substack.com)
    ×3.60 4 #30 | 5 points by paulpauper 14 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. The Wisdom of the People's Computer Company (arbesman.substack.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by arbesman 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. AI and Videogames (youtube.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by frag 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. The looming college-enrollment death spiral (theatlantic.com)
    ×2.09 33 | 114 points by JumpCrisscross 1 day ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Introspective Diffusion Language Models (introspective-diffusion.github.io)
    ×1.47 20 #20 | 214 points by zagwdt 14 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. War as a Pretext: Gulf States Are Tightening the Screws on Speech–Again (eff.org)
    ×1.98 1 #56 | 42 points by hn_acker 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Why Affordability Isn't the Same as Falling Prices (urbanproxima.com)
    ×0.82 | 1 points by paulpauper 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. GitHub webhook secrets leaked in headers (github.com/ltrgoddard)
    ×0.79 | 1 points by ltrg 14 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US Pardons
    ×2.44 69 | 497 points by vidluther 3 days ago | 273 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Write less code, be more responsible (orhun.dev)
    ×1.27 49 #52 | 156 points by orhunp_ 23 hours ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Secure private networking for users, nodes, agents, Workers – Cloudflare Mesh (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.85 | 2 points by cantaloupe 8 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Overcoming OSS Contribution Anxiety (ym2132.github.io)
    ×0.77 | 1 points by Two_hands 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Digital Freedom Across the World (eylenburg.github.io)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by Cider9986 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. How Poor Am I? (howpoorami.org)
    ×1.17 | 2 points by gaws 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. The dangers of California's legislation to censor 3D printing (eff.org)
    ×5.07 5 #10 | 96 points by salkahfi 2 hours ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. YouTube now world's largest media company, topping Disney (hollywoodreporter.com)
    ×3.41 19 #23 | 233 points by bookofjoe 4 hours ago | 179 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. The exponential curve behind open source backlogs (armanckeser.com)
    ×1.02 6 #74 | 65 points by armanckeser 11 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: WM Arena – Can you tell real Atari gameplay from AI predictions? (worldflux.ai)
    ×1.48 | 1 points by Yoshi_Hyoda 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Cozy landing page I liked (chloeyan.me)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by Akcium 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: GDL – I built an AI-powered invention engine (groundeddiscoverylabs.com)
    ×0.32 | 2 points by Whyachi 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. OpenSSL 4.0.0 (github.com/openssl)
    ×2.68 3 #13 | 157 points by petecooper 4 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. I ran Gemma 4 as a local model in Codex CLI (danielvaughan.com)
    ×2.31 56 #89 | 274 points by dvaughan 2 days ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Claude.ai down (claude.com)
    ×3.41 40 | 132 points by rob 1 day ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Researchers Asked LLMs for Strategic Advice. They Got "Trendslop" in Return (hbr.org)
    ×2.22 40 | 4 points by cdrnsf 55 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Mirror – private reflection app with long-term memory (mirror-eight-gamma.vercel.app)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by eduardonrj 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Domain Knowledge Is the Product (automato.substack.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by andrewstetsenko 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Unlegacy – document everything, from COBOL to AI generated code (unlegacy.ai)
    ×1.18 166 | 9 points by Absonsonson 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Lumina – a statically typed web-native language for JavaScript and WASM (github.com/nyigoro)
    ×0.67 62 #51 | 54 points by light_ideas 16 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. B-trees and database indexes (2024) (planetscale.com)
    ×1.31 48 #85 | 117 points by tosh 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Hacker compromises A16Z-backed phone farm, calling them the 'antichrist' (404media.co)
    ×5.39 17 | 163 points by wibbily 19 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Did games really get more costly to make? (hushcrasher.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by juliebelz 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. They See Your Photos (theyseeyourphotos.com)
    ×2.79 48 | 132 points by cyberlurker 1 day ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Who's Been Impersonating This ProPublica Reporter? (propublica.org)
    ×2.00 46 | 119 points by hn_acker 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Kyomu - 13 puzzles from math and physics that map your cognitive style (mostlykiguess.github.io)
    ×1.38 137 | 4 points by mostlyk 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Responsive images in Hugo using Render Hooks (mijndertstuij.nl)
    ×0.68 53 #18 | 5 points by mijndert 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Gas Town: From Clown Show to v1.0 (medium.com)
    ×1.92 8 #21 | 56 points by martythemaniak 3 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: We fine-tuned an AI model for log search – Accuracy 50% to 80% (thedex.run)
    ×0.77 | 1 points by rkorlimarla 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Comparison of Payment Methods (eylenburg.github.io)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by Cider9986 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times (bandaancha.eu)
    ×3.40 89 | 391 points by akyuu 5 hours ago | 387 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???