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  1. Ask HN: Is there anyone here who still uses slide rules?
    ×1.59 6 #10 | 31 points by blenderob 1 hour ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)
    ×1.22 33 #23 | 291 points by whoishiring 23 hours ago | 367 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Do you still use physical calculators?
    ×0.75 5 #45 | 41 points by speedylight 8 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)
    ×0.95 46 #48 | 124 points by whoishiring 23 hours ago | 328 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Anyone have a "sovereign" solution for phone calls?
    ×0.99 11 | 3 points by kldg 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: OpenClaw users, what is your token spend?
    ×1.49 38 | 11 points by 8cvor6j844qw_d6 14 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Kernighan on Programming
    ×1.85 6 | 153 points by chrisjj 23 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Best practices for powering and wiring addressable LED strip installs?
    ×0.93 | 2 points by emmasuntech 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. My small SaaS got recommended my Google in the AI search overview
    ×0.54 | 2 points by kaave 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What weird or scrappy things did you do to get your first users?
    ×1.45 58 | 11 points by preston-kwei 15 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Why dead code detection in Python is harder than most tools admit
    ×1.44 78 | 4 points by duriantaco 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. CiderStack – Native macOS VM manager, pay once, no subscription
    ×0.79 67 | 3 points by ciderdev 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. GitHub Actions Have "Major Outage"
    ×3.12 21 | 52 points by graton 19 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Where do all the web devs talk?
    ×1.73 14 | 50 points by LinguaBrowse 11 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Have you been fired because of AI?
    ×2.29 43 | 7 points by s-stude 9 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Google Cloud suspended my account for 2 years, only automated replies
    ×1.46 70 | 156 points by andylizf 2 days ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Request limits vs. token limits for AI-powered apps?
    ×0.56 | 2 points by JeduDev 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Is anyone losing sleep over retry storms or partial API outages?
    ×0.62 | 2 points by rjpruitt16 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Interest in low cost / fast container registry?
    ×0.70 | 2 points by osigurdson 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Latex-wc: word count and word frequency for LaTeX projects
    ×0.33 | 2 points by sethbarrettAU 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: A proposal for interviewing "AI-Augmented" Engineers
    ×0.84 90 | 3 points by vanbashan 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Has anybody moved their local community off of Facebook groups?
    ×0.84 84 | 18 points by madsohm 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Anyone else struggle with how to learn coding in the AI era?
    ×1.83 7 | 40 points by 44Bulldog 11 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Are you still using spec driven development?
    ×0.34 | 2 points by cherry_tree 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Who is firing? (February 2026)
    ×4.89 40 | 21 points by chalmovsky 16 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Why are customer feedback boards so static? Building a live alternative
    ×0.37 | 2 points by develotor 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: What are the immediate/near/long-term non-corporate benefits of AI?
    ×0.36 | 2 points by 0x4e 16 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Why do people still talk about AGI?
    ×1.22 68 | 40 points by cermicelli 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: How do you give AI agents access without over-permissioning?
    ×1.16 86 | 6 points by NBenkovich 18 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. GitHub Incidents with Actions and Codespaces
    ×2.54 69 | 11 points by jeduardo 18 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Junior getting lost
    ×0.64 119 | 49 points by TheRegularOne 4 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: What serious task have you accomplished with Moltbot / OpenClaw?
    ×0.87 103 | 10 points by lukol 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Any Successful Co-Ops of Software Engineers
    ×0.84 120 | 13 points by rubyn00bie 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Any real OpenClaw (Clawd Bot/Molt Bot) users? What's your experience?
    ×2.16 83 | 112 points by cvhc 2 days ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Task engine VM – for tasks with executable instructions (progress update)
    ×0.12 137 | 4 points by tracyspacy 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Do you also "hoard" notes/links but struggle to turn them into actions?
    ×1.83 76 | 231 points by item007 3 days ago | 213 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. AI has failed to replace a single software application or feature
    ×0.76 126 | 20 points by cadabrabra 3 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: How do you reset an AppleID?
    ×0.58 146 | 13 points by OhMeadhbh 4 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Waypoint 1.1, a local-first world model for interactive simulation
    ×0.56 141 | 13 points by lcastricato 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: How do you handle auth when AI dev agents spin up short-lived apps?
    ×0.33 136 | 5 points by NBenkovich 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. A simple HTTPS, HTTP/3, SSL and security headers checker I built with AI
    ×0.20 149 | 3 points by dragonman 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ask HN: What's the Point Anymore?
    ×1.74 128 | 67 points by fnoef 1 week ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: How do you market a side project?
    ×1.34 140 | 15 points by ruairidhwm 4 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. The preposterous notion of AI automating "repetitive" work
    ×0.73 148 | 11 points by cadabrabra 4 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Suno, AI Music, and the Bad Future [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by q3k 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Apple Seemingly Avoiding Latest Chip Tech for New iPhones and Macs (macrumors.com)
    ×0.77 | 1 points by virgildotcodes 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. I don't read code anymore - creator of Superpowers (claudecodecamp.com)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by aray07 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Pinchwork – A task marketplace where AI agents hire each other (github.com/anneschuth)
    ×3.10 124 | 11 points by aschuth 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. A WhatsApp bug lets malicious media files spread through group chats (malwarebytes.com)
    ×1.57 8 #40 | 4 points by iamnothere 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Vibe Alignment (avc.xyz)
    ×0.82 | 1 points by wslh 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Nono – Kernel-enforced sandboxing for AI agents (nono.sh)
    ×1.17 129 | 4 points by decodebytes 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: 127 PRs to Prod this wknd with 18 AI agents: metaswarm. MIT licensed (github.com/dsifry)
    ×1.71 81 | 5 points by dsifry 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. The Connection Machine CM-1 "Feynman" T-shirt (tamikothiel.com)
    ×0.99 41 #24 | 105 points by tosh 15 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: govalid – Go validation without reflection (5-44x faster) (github.com/sivchari)
    ×1.36 | 2 points by sivchari 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: A different approach to intonation training (conpixel.es)
    ×1.56 98 | 5 points by ogig 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Phenakistoscopes (1833) (publicdomainreview.org)
    ×0.49 61 #37 | 25 points by tobr 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Persistent, Sandboxed, Single-Site Browser (Firejail and Proxychains) (michaelaltfield.net)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by speckx 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Archive.today is directing a DDoS attack against my blog? (gyrovague.com)
    ×3.10 6 #22 | 242 points by gyrovague-com 15 hours ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: OpenRAPP – AI agents autonomously evolve a world via GitHub PRs (kody-w.github.io)
    ×0.98 143 | 3 points by bothangles 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. I Hate Fish (randsinrepose.com)
    ×1.55 | 2 points by digitallogic 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Sentinel Gate – Open-source RBAC firewall for MCP agents (github.com/Sentinel-Gate)
    ×1.39 | 2 points by Sentinel-gate 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Light exposure and aspects of cognitive function in everyday life (nature.com)
    ×1.35 74 | 53 points by PaulHoule 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Zuckerman – minimalist personal AI agent that self-edits its own code (github.com/zuckermanai)
    ×1.24 71 | 71 points by ddaniel10 2 days ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Axiom – C++ tensor library with NumPy API and Metal GPU support
    ×2.21 93 | 5 points by noahkay13 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Paris prosecutors raid France offices of Elon Musk's X (bbc.com)
    ×10.41 66 #71 | 110 points by vikaveri 5 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Best Gas Masks (theverge.com)
    ×6.31 35 #83 | 549 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. How I fixed a small bug in an app I use daily (akshaychugh.xyz)
    ×1.42 | 2 points by akshay2603 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. GitHub Actions is broken again
    ×1.71 | 2 points by Fizzadar 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down (idiallo.com)
    ×6.37 17 | 815 points by firefoxd 1 day ago | 359 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Oregon gave homeless youth $1k/month with no strings (oregonlive.com)
    ×4.83 61 | 75 points by xqcgrek2 1 day ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Stelvio – Ship Python to AWS (stelvio.dev)
    ×0.54 52 | 30 points by michal-stlv 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Julia (borretti.me)
    ×1.83 13 #38 | 148 points by ashergill 16 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Rust in the NetBSD Kernel, and other odd decisions (bentsukun.ch)
    ×1.01 73 #51 | 14 points by jaypatelani 11 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: LemonSlice – Upgrade your voice agents to real-time video
    ×0.91 112 | 132 points by lcolucci 6 days ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Mystral Native – Run JavaScript games natively with WebGPU (no browser) (github.com/mystralengine)
    ×0.67 113 | 49 points by Flux159 6 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Time Machine-style backups with rsync (2018) (samuelhewitt.com)
    ×1.08 44 | 110 points by accrual 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Axiomeer – An open marketplace for AI agents (github.com/ujjwalredd)
    ×0.14 82 #88 | 4 points by ujjwalreddyks 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: macOS bar for Claude Code skills performance (github.com/fernandezbaptiste)
    ×1.77 32 | 3 points by jorkim32 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Discovery Alert: An Ice-Cold Earth? Science (nasa.gov)
    ×2.29 31 | 3 points by JeanKage 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors (notepad-plus-plus.org)
    ×7.95 44 | 892 points by mysterydip 1 day ago | 496 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. 1-Click RCE to steal your Moltbot data and keys (depthfirst.com)
    ×2.28 35 | 176 points by arwt 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Spain to ban social media access for under-16s, PM Sanchez says (reuters.com)
    ×6.65 84 | 53 points by xavaki 4 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Banning lead in gas worked. The proof is in our hair (utah.edu)
    ×3.47 19 #15 | 156 points by geox 13 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. On being sane in insane places (1973) [pdf] (weber.edu)
    ×0.85 58 #42 | 92 points by dbgrman 21 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Cursor for Userscripts (github.com/chebykinn)
    ×0.73 123 | 56 points by mifydev 5 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. How does misalignment scale with model intelligence and task complexity? (anthropic.com)
    ×1.29 11 #18 | 215 points by salkahfi 14 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Greenland tensions harden Europe's push for energy independence (ft.com)
    ×3.01 29 | 61 points by JumpCrisscross 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Actors: A Model of Concurrent Computation [pdf] (1985) (dtic.mil)
    ×0.92 48 #77 | 134 points by kioku 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Redress – failure policy for Python services (github.com/aponysus)
    ×0.71 | 1 points by aponysus 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Know what your dev team shipped, without reading code
    ×0.65 | 1 points by inferno22 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???