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  1. Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has ignited a passion again
    ×6.11 11 #12 | 331 points by shannoncc 6 hours ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Should AI web agents skip sponsored/ad results by default?
    ×0.60 | 2 points by ilyasJosef 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: How many of you hold an amateur radio license in your country?
    ×0.81 53 #58 | 63 points by ToddWBurgess 21 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Anyone else feel this community has changed recently?
    ×3.12 3 | 14 points by kypro 6 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Turns out making games is the easy part
    ×0.34 | 2 points by clamlotus 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Tell HN: The proposed KIDS Act (HR 7757) effectively mandates biometric browsing
    ×0.98 47 | 8 points by fokdelafons 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Are there any companies who are anti-AI?
    ×0.81 72 | 3 points by anti-ai-dev 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Self taught gen-xers with senior dev/pm exp. Where's my imposter syndrome team?
    ×0.34 81 | 3 points by _hugerobots_ 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How are you using multi-agent AI systems in your daily workflow?
    ×0.43 78 | 14 points by paifamily 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Do You Have a Homelab?
    ×0.55 64 | 12 points by ricardbejarano 16 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Why do we still buy things by browsing catalogs?
    ×0.56 71 | 5 points by dannythecount 12 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Anyone fought a big corp over IP theft courts?
    ×0.35 84 | 6 points by NatalijaAAD 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. I started making money online in 10th grade – some lessons about capital
    ×0.23 93 | 3 points by udit_50 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Do You Enjoy Your Career in Tech Nowadays?
    ×0.91 73 | 27 points by karakoram 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Has anyone noticed the fear-driven prompt suggestions that GPT5.3 makes?
    ×0.50 112 | 14 points by cedarscarlett 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How are LLMs supposed to be used for warfare?
    ×0.45 103 | 5 points by sirnicolaz 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Self-Learning Customer Marketing
    ×0.22 128 | 3 points by davismartens 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Tell HN: Digital Ocean has run out of GPU droplets
    ×0.48 116 | 17 points by nathannaveen 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: If your project is free, what are you building and why keep it free?
    ×0.64 131 | 11 points by LeanVibe 2 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. How do I get startups to use my open-code project?
    ×0.24 117 | 5 points by ErezShahaf 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Amazon degraded shopping- you have to put in cart to see the price
    ×0.93 94 | 15 points by talkingtab 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. I lost my ability to learn anything new because of AI and I need your opinions
    ×1.02 122 | 22 points by dokdev 3 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. HATEOAS Works with an LLM in the Mix
    ×0.05 | 2 points by charlieflowers 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Why is arstechnica.com still running dev story advertorials for a game that...
    ×0.26 119 | 6 points by chrisjj 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: What's your experience self-hosting in 2026?
    ×1.32 118 | 27 points by rustcore 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: How do you give AI agents real codebase context without burning tokens?
    ×0.60 143 | 4 points by donhardman 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: What will OpenAI employees do now who have signed notdividedorg petition
    ×0.67 141 | 17 points by Imustaskforhelp 3 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Maintainers, do LLM-only users often clutter your issues/PRs?
    ×0.30 136 | 9 points by lucrbvi 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. We don't need continual learning for AGI. What top labs are currently doing
    ×0.46 126 | 7 points by kok14 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. An offline map using OruxMaps(satellite,routing,3D terrain,GPS and POI)
    ×0.20 145 | 3 points by supergoogler 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Seeing More Techcrunch on Frontpage?
    ×0.25 | 2 points by par 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Altman takes jab at Anthropic, says gov't should be more powerful than companies
    ×0.62 125 | 5 points by spenvo 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. I keep building projects nobody wants. So this time I'm doing it backwards
    ×0.64 120 | 5 points by thefern 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Tell HN: I got Claude Max for my open source project
    ×0.59 138 | 11 points by asim 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Whats Up with Claude Lately?
    ×1.36 144 | 19 points by mech422 4 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Stathat Is Shutting Down
    ×0.72 137 | 7 points by jervant 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Who still works async and has a 'no meetings' work policy in 2026?
    ×0.62 146 | 8 points by RaulOnRails 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: Anyone have experience making physical toys that you've sold?
    ×0.33 147 | 3 points by general_reveal 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. The Brand Age (paulgraham.com)
    ×2.15 13 #62 | 473 points by bigwheels 1 day ago | 365 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Good software knows when to stop (writizzy.com)
    ×2.43 7 #72 | 533 points by ssaboum 1 day ago | 265 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: DiggaByte Labs – pick your stack, download production-ready SaaS code (diggabyte.com)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by GraysoftDev 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. BlackRock limits withdrawals as redemptions rattle private credit fund (reuters.com)
    ×3.10 25 | 66 points by itbeho 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Anki(-Ish) for Music Theory (chordreps.com)
    ×1.00 140 | 3 points by interbolt_colin 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. GPT 5.4 Thinking and Pro (twitter.com/OpenAI)
    ×2.55 57 | 64 points by twtw99 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Kybernis – Prevent AI agents from executing the same action twice (kybernis.io)
    ×0.45 110 | 6 points by wingrammer 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Htmx Infinite Scroll (alchemists.io)
    ×1.20 66 #42 | 20 points by speckx 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February (bbc.com)
    ×4.47 63 #75 | 514 points by smartbit 16 hours ago | 696 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Nvidia PersonaPlex 7B on Apple Silicon: Full-Duplex Speech-to-Speech in Swift (ivan.digital)
    ×1.64 16 | 371 points by ipotapov 1 day ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Remotely unlocking an encrypted hard disk (jyn.dev)
    ×1.33 21 | 178 points by janandonly 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Claude Code wiped our production database with a Terraform command (twitter.com/Al_Grigor)
    ×6.19 59 | 133 points by jv22222 12 hours ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Stop using grey text (2025) (catskull.net)
    ×2.21 33 | 99 points by catskull 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Pg_sorted_heap–Physically sorted PostgreSQL with builtin vector search (github.com/skuznetsov)
    ×3.56 63 | 8 points by skuznetsov37 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Analytic Fog Rendering with Volumetric Primitives (2025) (matejlou.blog)
    ×0.66 47 #29 | 91 points by surprisetalk 17 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. The home computer war (technicshistory.com)
    ×1.09 60 #81 | 49 points by cfmcdonald 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence (anthropic.com)
    ×2.20 10 #87 | 319 points by jjwiseman 1 day ago | 542 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Every Claim from Meta Child Safety Trials (meta-trials.vercel.app)
    ×1.00 58 #89 | 35 points by laurex 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Scientists Transfer Longevity Gene (scitechdaily.com)
    ×2.32 39 | 3 points by thunderbong 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. AI and the Illegal War (buttondown.com)
    ×6.96 82 | 44 points by interpol_p 3 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: WingNews – Htmx Hacker News Reader (wingman.actor)
    ×1.76 106 | 5 points by ChaseRensberger 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. How to install and start using LineageOS on your phone (lockywolf.net)
    ×1.10 59 #63 | 96 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. China completes 3k-km green belt around Taklamakan desert (2024) (reuters.com)
    ×0.83 | 1 points by thunderbong 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Collaborative Blogging (sgo.to)
    ×0.49 124 | 3 points by sgoto 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Vet – Prevent coding agents from making mistakes (imbue.com)
    ×6.82 91 | 17 points by andrewlak 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Codex for Open Source (openai.com)
    ×0.82 | 1 points by archb 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs (wsj.com)
    ×5.73 44 | 1055 points by JumpCrisscross 1 day ago | 756 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous 'Stop Cop City' Protester (404media.co)
    ×4.70 21 | 417 points by sedatk 1 day ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Querying 3B Vectors (vickiboykis.com)
    ×1.14 16 #10 | 21 points by surprisetalk 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. C# strings silently kill your SQL Server indexes in Dapper (consultwithgriff.com)
    ×0.97 9 #11 | 85 points by PretzelFisch 7 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Kula – Lightweight, self-contained Linux server monitoring tool (github.com/c0m4r)
    ×0.82 23 #13 | 34 points by c0m4r 6 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Grammarly is using our identities without permission (theverge.com)
    ×4.19 53 | 7 points by LordAtlas 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. The Shady World of IP Leasing (acid.vegas)
    ×1.23 13 #15 | 89 points by alibarber 9 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: What zero-intervention E2E test generation looks like (youtube.com)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by nadeem1 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Hormuz Crisis Dashboard Real-time shipping disruption tracker (hormuztracker.com)
    ×2.18 80 | 28 points by MrNekked 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: MCPSec – OWASP MCP Top Scanner for Model Context Protocol Configs (github.com/pfrederiksen)
    ×0.38 | 2 points by iamdesertpaul 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Cameras built to police Iranians became the regime's Achilles' heel (royapakzad.substack.com)
    ×1.96 68 #74 | 86 points by benbreen 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. NPM audit passes malicious packages with no CVE (westbayberry.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by ComCat 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. TSA leaves passenger needing surgery after illegally forcing her through scanner (thetravel.com)
    ×8.38 68 | 160 points by SunshineTheCat 11 hours ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: ContextFlow – YouTube videos to viral social content (built by a 15yo) (contextflowai.online)
    ×1.16 98 | 3 points by Terminator_XD 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Reformat Word document citations (APA/Vancouver) in <1 second (github.com/brodie-neuro)
    ×0.82 109 | 7 points by brodie-neuro 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Steadwing – Your Autonomous On-Call Engineer (steadwing.com)
    ×3.67 88 | 10 points by abejith 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. System76 on Age Verification Laws (system76.com)
    ×3.96 49 #71 | 818 points by LorenDB 1 day ago | 574 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Swarm – Program a colony of 200 ants using a custom assembly language (moment.com)
    ×1.21 11 #76 | 183 points by armandhammer10 1 day ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Smalltalk's Browser: Unbeatable, yet Not Enough (lorenzano.eu)
    ×0.96 47 #90 | 152 points by mpweiher 1 day ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Anthropic Unveils Amazon Inspired Marketplace (bloomberg.com)
    ×0.94 | 2 points by dthread3 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: LoRA gradients on Apple's Neural Engine at 2.8W (github.com/jmanhype)
    ×1.14 95 | 3 points by jmanhype 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Modembin – A pastebin that encodes your text into real FSK modem audio (modembin.com)
    ×1.16 34 | 24 points by a13x57 15 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. The worst acquisition in history, again (profgmedia.com)
    ×2.22 34 #55 | 108 points by JumpCrisscross 9 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: NeoNetrek – modernizing the internet's first team game (1988) (neonetrek.com)
    ×0.65 90 #67 | 3 points by yuriksan 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Glad-IA-Tor – Tired of Vibecoded Products? Come and Roast Them for Free (glad-ia-tor.com)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by GiornoJojo 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. The IRIX 6.5.7M (sgi) source code (github.com/calmsacibis995)
    ×1.22 61 | 67 points by reconnecting 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???