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  1. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026)
    ×0.81 6 #17 | 151 points by whoishiring 8 hours ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2026)
    ×0.63 42 #24 | 57 points by whoishiring 8 hours ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Would engineers be interested in a technical prep consultant?
    ×0.50 47 | 3 points by TechPrepper 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: How are you all staying sane?
    ×6.67 8 | 106 points by throwaway53463 14 hours ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What sources like HN do you consume?
    ×0.76 28 | 43 points by DavidHaerer 14 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Tell HN: MitID, Denmark's digital ID, was down
    ×0.69 96 | 141 points by mousepad12 3 days ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Claude App Down 3/2/26
    ×0.81 54 | 17 points by HPMOR 12 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users
    ×3.15 70 | 682 points by miki123211 4 days ago | 257 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Aura-State: Formally Verified LLM State Machine Compiler
    ×0.16 124 | 4 points by rohanmunshi08 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Billions of dollars in funding, but what's changed for robotics?
    ×0.86 68 | 9 points by ajax33 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How to approach new people in 2026?
    ×0.48 104 | 10 points by tavro 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. AWS ME-CENTRAL-1 Region Down (Due to additional loss of mec1-az3)
    ×2.37 73 | 11 points by nixgeek 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. AnChat – E2E messenger on decentralized infrastructure, no phone number required
    ×0.29 | 2 points by debros 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. AWS Console Degraded Worldwide?
    ×0.28 | 2 points by asdfghjkltyuiop 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: When do you expect ChatGPT moment in robotics?
    ×0.52 93 | 10 points by p1esk 21 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. I used 2D Base64 to bypass Gemini and expose Google's moderation flaws
    ×1.00 122 | 7 points by MissMajordazure 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Tell HN: My daily game won a Players Choice Award
    ×0.67 119 | 19 points by paulhebert 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How will most Anthropic customers respond to the threats by the govt?
    ×0.38 111 | 6 points by Poomba 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How do we solve the bot flooding problem without destroying anonymity?
    ×0.64 118 | 13 points by txrx0000 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. I built AI agents that do the grunt work solo founders hate
    ×0.26 127 | 5 points by Seleci 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Garbage In, Garbage Out: The Degradation of Human Requirements in the LLM Era
    ×0.61 125 | 9 points by waylake 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Builder.ai ($1B Microsoft-backed AI company) who's lookin at the assets?
    ×0.28 126 | 6 points by gamelock 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. I don't need AI to build me a new app. I need it to make Jira bearable
    ×0.50 128 | 22 points by niel_hu 4 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. 36yo: Career at home vs. Simple life abroad?
    ×0.56 129 | 14 points by Slaboli 3 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Who Is Using XMPP?
    ×0.37 130 | 24 points by nunobrito 5 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Super Editor – Atomic file editor with automatic backups (Python and Go)
    ×0.20 132 | 6 points by larryste 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: How do you handle duplicate side effects when jobs, workflows retry?
    ×0.37 131 | 11 points by shineDaPoker 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Seeking Advice on Improving OCR for Watermarked PDFs in My RAG Pipeline
    ×0.16 134 | 3 points by hundredtrillion 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: My competitor wants to buy us out, recommend a lawyer?
    ×0.41 133 | 8 points by VladVladikoff 4 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. When does MCP make sense vs CLI? (ejholmes.github.io)
    ×2.51 3 | 426 points by ejholmes 1 day ago | 279 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. BlackTape – open-source music discovery built on MusicBrainz and Discogs
    ×0.97 | 1 points by Blacktape 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Lenovo's new AI assistant ad portrays humans as useless (neowin.net)
    ×0.76 | 1 points by bundie 14 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Guidelines for Writing Cryptography Specifications (cfrg.github.io)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by themaxdavitt 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. " I've got the guns," is a wild government argument for tech pundits to support (birchtree.me)
    ×1.54 17 | 3 points by alsetmusic 33 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Switch to Claude without starting over (claude.com)
    ×4.14 8 | 579 points by doener 1 day ago | 268 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Iranians face third day of internet blackout as connectivity hits 1% (techradar.com)
    ×3.42 9 #71 | 8 points by geox 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: OctopusGarden – An autonomous software factory (specs in, code out) (github.com/foundatron)
    ×0.90 | 1 points by foundatron 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Augno – a Stripe-like ERP for manufacturing
    ×1.40 80 | 4 points by dalbaugh 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: CrowPay – add x402 in a few lines, let AI agents pay per request (crowpay.ai)
    ×0.56 | 2 points by ssistilli 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. How to talk to anyone and why you should (theguardian.com)
    ×2.85 24 #49 | 545 points by Looky1173 16 hours ago | 501 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Yahoo Scout Beta (yahoo.com)
    ×1.92 19 #58 | 12 points by broabprobe 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Spotify's take on ADRs is great, but how do you enforce them at scale?
    ×1.71 61 | 5 points by iamalizaidi 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Werner Herzog Between Fact and Fiction (unherd.com)
    ×1.25 17 | 3 points by tintinnabula 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Running a One Trillion-Parameter LLM Locally on AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Cluster (amd.com)
    ×1.58 77 | 74 points by mindcrime 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. A new Polymarket account made over $500k betting on the U.S. strike against Iran (twitter.com/cabsav456)
    ×4.91 37 | 140 points by doener 1 day ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. HN is drowning in AI comments
    ×7.90 75 | 91 points by waygtdai 2 days ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Logira – eBPF runtime auditing for AI agent runs (github.com/melonattacker)
    ×0.66 74 | 24 points by melonattacker 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Commitdog – Git on steroids CLI (pure Go, ~3MB binary) (aysdog.com)
    ×1.35 92 | 5 points by anirbanfaith 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Interactive 3D WebGL Globe for real-time daylight cycles (github.com/azialle)
    ×1.47 112 | 4 points by codechibi 19 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Programmable Cryptography (0xparc.org)
    ×0.81 24 #13 | 31 points by fi-le 3 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Notes on Lagrange Interpolating Polynomials (thegreenplace.net)
    ×0.41 41 #44 | 34 points by ibobev 8 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Poll: Which VCs Are Tier 1? (vc-compare.vercel.app)
    ×1.30 | 2 points by nezaj 56 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Empirical, a language for time-series analysis (empirical-soft.com)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by dmmalam 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Apple Changes Trade-In Values for iPhones, Macs, and More (macrumors.com)
    ×0.51 | 2 points by mgh2 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. I Fuzzed, and Vibe Fixed, the Vibed C Compiler (regehr.org)
    ×2.62 35 #61 | 12 points by luu 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Timber – Ollama for classical ML models, 336x faster than Python (github.com/kossisoroyce)
    ×1.16 36 #62 | 181 points by kossisoroyce 23 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Musk's fossil data centres are undoing Tesla's climate benefit (ketanjoshi.co)
    ×2.70 36 | 5 points by xvxvx 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning to Dissolve? (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.43 48 | 94 points by wjb3 1 day ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Watchtower – see every API call Claude Code and Codex CLI make (github.com/fahd09)
    ×0.56 | 2 points by fahd09 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Reframing Energy for the Age of Electricity [pdf] (ember-energy.org)
    ×1.21 14 | 3 points by barbazoo 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Steward – an ambient agent that handles low-risk work (github.com/study8677)
    ×0.64 | 2 points by 867762462f 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Why XML tags are so fundamental to Claude (glthr.com)
    ×1.35 29 | 222 points by glth 1 day ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: I built open source Gmail organizer because I refused to pay $30/month (github.com/Lakshay1509)
    ×1.22 121 | 3 points by mafia15 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Microsoft bans the word "Microslop" on its Discord, then locks the server (windowslatest.com)
    ×6.89 25 #32 | 1002 points by robtherobber 13 hours ago | 454 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. An interactive intro to Elliptic Curve Cryptography (growingswe.com)
    ×1.10 28 #64 | 125 points by vismit2000 18 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Axiom – structural OCR for handwritten STEM notes (useaxiomnotes.com)
    ×0.32 | 2 points by mrajatnath 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Ragtoolina – MCP tool that adds codebase RAG to AI coding agents (ragtoolina.com)
    ×1.06 103 | 3 points by slack812 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. RCade: Building a Community Arcade Cabinet (frankchiarulli.com)
    ×0.95 11 #7 | 28 points by evakhoury 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS (motorolanews.com)
    ×6.58 10 #16 | 2021 points by km 17 hours ago | 725 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Japan Radio Begins 24-Hour Shortwave Transmission in Response to Iran Attacks [pdf] (nhk.or.jp)
    ×2.98 33 #45 | 23 points by TigerUniversity 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Updose – A boilerplate for AI coding tool configs (github.com/Alchemist85K)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by beomjunkdev 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Vouch (vouch.sh)
    ×1.24 | 2 points by jplock 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. I used Claude Code's agent teams on a production incident (field report) (magarcia.io)
    ×1.24 | 2 points by martinprins 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. AI is making junior devs useless (beabetterdev.com)
    ×3.39 35 | 209 points by beabetterdev 1 day ago | 358 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. South Korean Police Lose Seized Crypto by Posting Password Online (gizmodo.com)
    ×2.06 53 | 76 points by WarOnPrivacy 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Anthropic and Alignment (stratechery.com)
    ×1.21 19 | 3 points by stochastician 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Claw – Let your AI agent operate any machine as if it were local (github.com/opsyhq)
    ×0.44 | 2 points by d36ugger 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Closure of the Weatherradio Service in Canada (rac.ca)
    ×1.30 4 #4 | 26 points by da768 1 hour ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Parallel coding agents with tmux and Markdown specs (schipper.ai)
    ×0.98 21 #26 | 107 points by schipperai 8 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Everett shuts down Flock camera network after judge rules footage public record (wltx.com)
    ×3.48 25 #70 | 448 points by aranaur 20 hours ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. France Floats Nuclear Deployment Across Europe (wsj.com)
    ×0.96 | 2 points by JumpCrisscross 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Bounded Plasticity Simulation (github.com/Relational-Relativity-Corporation)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by Oberon245 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Atrium – An open-source, self-hosted client portal (github.com/Vibra-Labs)
    ×0.94 82 | 4 points by ecotto123 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Zclaw – The 888 KiB Assistant (zclaw.dev)
    ×0.93 19 #35 | 73 points by kristianpaul 8 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Ape Coding [fiction] (rsaksida.com)
    ×1.53 42 #90 | 185 points by rmsaksida 1 day ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Nobody ever got fired for using a struct (feldera.com)
    ×2.08 5 | 3 points by gz09 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Vibe Theory: Mathematical Derivation of Aesthetic Vibe from Text (github.com/xraymemory)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by idempotent_ 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. 10-202: Introduction to Modern AI (CMU) (modernaicourse.org)
    ×1.43 46 | 254 points by vismit2000 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Vertex.js – A 1kloc SPA Framework (lukeb42.github.io)
    ×0.40 88 | 33 points by LukeB42 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Now I Get It – Translate scientific papers into interactive webpages (nowigetit.us)
    ×1.45 59 | 296 points by jbdamask 2 days ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???