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  1. Ask HN: Remember Fidonet?
    ×1.44 19 #35 | 88 points by ukkare 4 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)
    ×1.34 42 #74 | 278 points by david927 1 day ago | 1049 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What Happened to xAI?
    ×0.75 10 | 4 points by zof3 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. The Architecture of an Exit Scam: A Technical Audit of Zszrun
    ×0.71 40 | 4 points by cappyfjao 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Since a week HN keeps logging me off every few days, why?
    ×0.73 41 | 5 points by epolanski 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: How to be alone?
    ×4.54 12 | 662 points by sillysaurusx 2 days ago | 545 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What AI content automation stack are you using in 2026?
    ×0.28 | 2 points by jackcofounder 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting
    ×5.54 11 | 700 points by Oras 1 day ago | 493 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Can I repurpose a Bluetooth voice remote as input device for a PC?
    ×0.27 85 | 15 points by albert_e 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Let's rethink the architecture and future of Emacs
    ×1.38 4 | 3 points by kurouna 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Most beautiful personal blog UI you have ever seen?
    ×3.00 62 | 133 points by ms7892 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Do you still run Redis and workers just for background jobs?
    ×0.28 | 2 points by sergF 6 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Why is GPT-5.4 obsessed with Goblins?
    ×1.36 65 | 9 points by pants2 10 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion
    ×5.57 48 | 1063 points by shannoncc 3 days ago | 968 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Is GitHub getting less reliable, or is it just me?
    ×1.16 80 | 9 points by _pdp_ 18 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Why is email so resilient as a technology?
    ×2.78 30 | 6 points by noemit 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Favorite Non-Spammy iPhone Games?
    ×0.68 88 | 4 points by bix6 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: What game engine would you recommend for vibe coding?
    ×1.21 86 | 5 points by general_reveal 14 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Read‑only LLM tool for email triage and knowledge extraction?
    ×0.38 | 2 points by maille 16 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Any informed guesses on the actual size/architecture of GPT-5.4 etc.?
    ×0.65 97 | 4 points by dsrtslnd23 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Code-review-graph: persistent code graph that cuts Claude Code token usage
    ×0.25 | 2 points by tirthkanani 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Who Needs Help?
    ×1.86 83 | 14 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. A job ad for Agentic AI Advocate
    ×0.43 115 | 4 points by greenpinia 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Are showlang and thelang HN endpoints not being maintained?
    ×0.60 116 | 4 points by freakynit 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. I replaced my freelance SaaS stack with 5 single-file HTML tools
    ×1.74 125 | 7 points by AnnSri 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days?
    ×1.79 91 | 6 points by chistev 19 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Anyone else feel this community has changed recently?
    ×3.59 110 | 57 points by kypro 3 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. OpenAI might end up on the right side of history
    ×0.93 114 | 12 points by shoman3003 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: How are you handling persistent memory across local Ollama sessions
    ×0.41 142 | 5 points by null-phnix 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. All tmux sessions as a single terminal
    ×0.22 | 2 points by lygten 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Whisker – Self hosted e-commerce cart, pure PHP, zero dependencies
    ×0.46 144 | 7 points by eLohith 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Are we going to see more job postings asking for only agentic coding?
    ×0.86 121 | 6 points by ronbenton 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Tell HN: The proposed KIDS Act (HR 7757) effectively mandates biometric browsing
    ×1.15 133 | 19 points by fokdelafons 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: How are you monitoring AI agents in production?
    ×0.57 137 | 4 points by jairooh 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: How are you adapting your career in this AI era?
    ×2.51 90 | 12 points by sarthaksaxena 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. PhD interrupted by personal safety issues, now publication record is thin
    ×0.24 157 | 4 points by qthrwaway 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Why Is Phil Wang / Lucidrains Off GitHub?
    ×0.18 153 | 3 points by vessenes 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: Do You Enjoy Your Career in Tech Nowadays?
    ×0.85 135 | 29 points by karakoram 4 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Add llms.txt and fix robots.txt for AI agent discoverability
    ×0.27 158 | 3 points by nishiohiroshi 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: Last time you wrote code?
    ×0.46 148 | 5 points by blinkbat 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: What is your oldest living presence on the World Wide Web?
    ×0.38 | 2 points by dhruv3006 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ask HN: 1 Hash/Sec paced PoW making 51% attacks impossible – seeking engineers
    ×0.99 | 1 points by HurairahShamsi 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: I open-sourced my Steam game, 100% written in Lua, engine is also open (github.com/willtobyte)
    ×1.74 108 | 62 points by delduca 3 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. AI Assistants Are Moving the Security Goalposts (krebsonsecurity.com)
    ×0.84 | 1 points by Bender 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. MCP Roadmap (modelcontextprotocol.io)
    ×0.83 | 1 points by pentagrama 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Should You Move to Sweden? (shouldyoumovetosweden.com)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by iamEAP 27 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. The truth behind the 2026 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference (lesswrong.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by surprisetalk 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Training a Neural Network in 16-Bit Fixed Point on a 1982 BBC Micro (jamesdrandall.com)
    ×1.46 | 2 points by mariuz 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: ChatShell – 22MB AI Agent with 9 Built-In Tools (Tauri, Not Electron) (github.com/chatshellapp)
    ×0.42 | 2 points by s3anw3 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Swarm – Program a colony of 200 ants using a custom assembly language (moment.com)
    ×1.22 94 | 189 points by armandhammer10 4 days ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. FFmpeg at Meta: Media Processing at Scale (fb.com)
    ×2.37 44 #61 | 263 points by sudhakaran88 1 day ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. AI Agent hacked McKinsey's chatbot and gained full read-write access in 2 hours (theregister.com)
    ×1.95 23 #62 | 6 points by smurda 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Ash, an Agent Sandbox for Mac (ashell.dev)
    ×1.39 | 2 points by amsha 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: AI matchmaking from open ended dating profiles (sentiamor.com)
    ×1.05 67 | 3 points by FrenchDevRemote 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Hopalong Attractor. An old classic with a new perspective in 3D (github.com/ratwolfzero)
    ×0.71 57 | 21 points by ratwolf 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Environment Variable Checker (github.com/Chrilleweb)
    ×1.65 120 | 8 points by chrillemn 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Amazon is holding a mandatory meeting about AI breaking its systems (twitter.com/lukolejnik)
    ×7.43 8 #10 | 67 points by lwhsiao 56 minutes ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Rethinking Syntax: Binding by Adjacency (github.com/manifold-systems)
    ×0.55 66 #76 | 50 points by owlstuffing 22 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Source-available projects and their AI contribution policies (theconsensus.dev)
    ×1.57 | 2 points by todsacerdoti 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025) (pv-magazine.com)
    ×5.10 59 | 1000 points by robin_reala 1 day ago | 629 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. WSL Manager (github.com/bostrot)
    ×0.89 70 | 135 points by gballan 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Latchup – Competitive programming for hardware description languages (latchup.app)
    ×0.70 | 2 points by fayalalebrun 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: How I Topped the HuggingFace Open LLM Leaderboard on Two Gaming GPUs (dnhkng.github.io)
    ×2.00 2 #15 | 36 points by dnhkng 2 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. The hidden compile-time cost of C++26 reflection (vittorioromeo.com)
    ×0.86 26 #32 | 53 points by SuperV1234 9 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. New Patch Can Boost Linux ZRAM Compression Performance by over 50% (phoronix.com)
    ×0.82 | 1 points by Bender 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: WebNami – Open-source local-first static blogging platform (github.com/webnami-dev)
    ×1.47 | 2 points by aks579 17 minutes ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Most of the US economy is in a recession (businessinsider.com)
    ×6.13 46 | 231 points by wslh 1 day ago | 245 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: We help engineers understand codebases with interactive missions (oncode.tech)
    ×1.45 111 | 4 points by AfthabShiraz 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. No, it doesn't cost Anthropic $5k per Claude Code user (martinalderson.com)
    ×3.77 #25 | 373 points by jnord 16 hours ago | 265 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. On Thinking Machines (sicpers.info)
    ×0.86 82 #51 | 5 points by ingve 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Fixfest is a global gathering of repairers, tinkerers, and activists (therestartproject.org)
    ×1.19 6 #72 | 174 points by robtherobber 22 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Ask HN: What are the most uplifting comments you've read on HN?
    ×0.60 | 1 points by chistev 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Point it at your local dev server, get a demo video with AI voiceover (demofly.ai)
    ×2.30 39 | 3 points by mhamann 31 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: I gave my robot physical memory – it stopped repeating mistakes (github.com/robotmem)
    ×0.73 76 | 18 points by robotmem 23 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses (lapcatsoftware.com)
    ×3.91 16 #39 | 276 points by robenkleene 12 hours ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. I don't know Apple's endgame for the Fn/Globe key–or if Apple does (aresluna.org)
    ×3.38 9 #88 | 129 points by tambourine_man 23 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Afghanistan's Airspace Is Uncontrolled (twitter.com/i)
    ×0.85 | 1 points by marklit 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Uber reported to the state that I was fired for "annoying a coworker." (medium.com)
    ×5.67 3 | 105 points by anon-ex-uber 20 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. JSLinux Now Supports x86_64 (bellard.org)
    ×1.72 22 #31 | 360 points by TechTechTech 23 hours ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. We've only just confirmed that Homo habilis existed (newscientist.com)
    ×0.82 | 1 points by Brajeshwar 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Anthropic Claims Pentagon Feud Could Cost It Billions (wired.com)
    ×1.47 | 2 points by g-mork 16 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Google just gave Sundar Pichai a $692M pay package (techcrunch.com)
    ×4.48 69 | 133 points by Arcuru 1 day ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Feral cattle and horses shape vegetation structure in a trophic rewilding area (wiley.com)
    ×0.86 | 1 points by PaulHoule 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Minutes is 1% of Your Day (2022) (taylor.town)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by surprisetalk 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: A playable version of the Claude Code Terraform destroy incident (youbrokeprod.com)
    ×0.75 | 2 points by cdnsteve 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Rendezvous with Rama (engora.com)
    ×1.76 6 | 103 points by Vermin2000 18 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. M5 Max: Chiplets, Thermals, and Performance per Watt (creativestrategies.com)
    ×1.84 72 #77 | 26 points by zdw 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Segagaga Has Been Translated into English (thedreamcastjunkyard.co.uk)
    ×0.93 53 #87 | 100 points by nanna 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. German publishers push regulators to fine Apple over App Tracking Transparency (9to5mac.com)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by smurda 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: I wrote an application to help me practice speaking slower (cates.fm)
    ×0.39 | 2 points by benja123 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???