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Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?

×1.92 10 #29 | 382 points by e-topy 22 hours ago | 566 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?

×3.96 82 | 51 points by meander_water 3 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw

×3.31 70 | 1098 points by firloop 5 days ago | 829 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Should AI credits be refunded on mistakes?

×0.21 97 | 14 points by ed_elliott_asc 23 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How do you handle marketing as a solo technical founder?

×1.27 87 | 129 points by lazarkap 2 days ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Founders/investors, what AI bet you made in 2022 and how it is going?

×0.26 101 | 6 points by kjok 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How do you manage your digital legacy for after you die?

×0.48 103 | 9 points by orbanlevi 22 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: S3(AWS) vs R2(CF)–Which is better?

×0.63 80 | 4 points by wasimsk 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hybrid Attention

×0.41 102 | 40 points by JohannaAlmeida 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Zooming UIs in 2026: Prezi, impress.js, and why I built something different

×1.10 98 | 98 points by tinchox6 2 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2026) (Non AI)

×1.40 117 | 20 points by cousin_it 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Early precursor signals observed before incidents (RTT/DNS/HTTP telemetry)

×0.16 | 2 points by ravensystems 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anthropic banned Pi, a third party harness

×0.34 135 | 3 points by rapiz 23 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GPT 5.4 in practice – Stinks?

×0.56 132 | 8 points by sjt-at-rev 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude Code limits are starting to feel like a psychological trick

×0.29 145 | 6 points by trinsic2 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Free models you can use with your OpenClaw (no credit card needed)

×0.20 144 | 3 points by stosssik 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Alternatives to Claude (Code)?

×1.22 139 | 12 points by vixalien 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Compact multi-port network setup (2.5G / 10G / SFP+) – looking for feedback

×0.23 150 | 3 points by Qotom 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How are you orchestrating multi-agent AI workflows in production?

×0.29 148 | 7 points by swrly 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Where are all the disruptive software that AI promised?

×1.08 140 | 23 points by p-o 3 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Write Your Own Copy

×1.05 141 | 32 points by operatingthetan 4 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Upwork Inc. violates its own DMARC and SPF policy

×0.27 146 | 8 points by tmcdos 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How are you controlling costs and enforcing limits for LLM calls?

×0.10 149 | 3 points by 8dazo 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Intelligence Cannot Be Trained?

×0.58 151 | 10 points by hyperzzw 4 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microsoft Discontinuing Publisher. Alternatives?

×1.09 147 | 17 points by supliminal 4 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Unicode Steganography (patrickvuscan.com)

×0.57 57 #52 | 52 points by PatrickVuscan 19 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: EasyDash for Google Analytics [Android][Wip] (easydash-analytics.com)

×0.57 | 1 points by kotysoft 35 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
BoxWallet v0.3.4 (github.com/richardltc)

×0.49 | 1 points by richardltc 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microsoft's executive shake-up continues as developer division chief resigns (theverge.com)

×1.86 4 | 3 points by pjmlp 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
PBXN-110 (wikipedia.org)

×1.13 | 2 points by simonebrunozzi 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: We fingerprinted 178 AI models' writing styles and similarity clusters (rival.tips)

×1.21 9 | 76 points by nuancedev 21 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: CCG – Block merges until devs prove they read their own diff (github.com/islandbytesio)

×1.17 91 | 3 points by islandbytes 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Tusk for macOS and Gnome (shapemachine.xyz)

×0.99 93 | 120 points by factorialboy 5 days ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Citeseerx.ist.psu.edu Archived, Breaking Tens of Thousands of Links (archive.org)

×0.92 | 1 points by maxaigner 3 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude Use Cases (claude.com)

×0.59 | 1 points by vinhnx 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Modo – I built an open-source alternative to Kiro, Cursor, and Windsurf (github.com/mohshomis)

×0.81 111 | 100 points by mohshomis 3 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: TUI-use: Let AI agents control interactive terminal programs (github.com/onesuper)

×0.55 51 #63 | 45 points by dreamsome 18 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sam Altman Says It'll Take Another Year Before ChatGPT Can Start a Timer (gizmodo.com)

×1.32 | 2 points by choult 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google open-sources experimental agent orchestration testbed Scion (infoq.com)

×1.26 35 | 227 points by timbilt 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
USD Purchasing Power in Real Time Since 2000 (onedollar.today)

×1.72 66 | 77 points by traviswingo 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Xilem – An experimental Rust native UI framework (github.com/linebender)

×1.10 51 #79 | 139 points by Levitating 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Has electricity decoupled from natural gas prices in Germany? (strommarktberatung.de)

×1.18 67 #82 | 139 points by konschubert 1 day ago | 205 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Largest Dutch pension fund cuts ties with controversial tech firm Palantir (nltimes.nl)

×5.67 55 | 9 points by doener 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
US labor force participation continues to slide (restaurant.org)

×2.77 73 | 76 points by toomuchtodo 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work (github.com/arman-bd)

×3.45 34 | 901 points by armanified 3 days ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microsoft terminates VeraCrypt account, halting Windows updates (404media.co)

×3.58 24 #44 | 539 points by donohoe 20 hours ago | 211 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
PolyCombo – Bundle multiple Polymarket positions into a single trade (polycombo.co)

×0.54 | 1 points by fleufleu 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I built a Harvey-style tabular review app, then open sourced the code (isaacus.com)

×1.15 | 2 points by afistfullof 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I just built a MCP Server that connects Claude to all your wearables (pacetraining.co)

×0.77 138 | 17 points by anton_salcher 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: TurboQuant-WASM – Google's vector quantization in the browser (github.com/teamchong)

×0.74 121 | 165 points by teamchong 4 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Expanding Swift's IDE Support (swift.org)

×0.88 30 #26 | 120 points by frizlab 15 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I've been waiting over a month for Anthropic to respond to my billing issue (nickvecchioni.github.io)

×3.02 15 #39 | 367 points by nickvec 17 hours ago | 179 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A database of analog cameras that can be 3D printed (analogcamera.space)

×1.24 46 #74 | 162 points by thomasjb 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Search page for Rust developer blogs (rustgrep.dev)

×0.49 | 1 points by adamsmo 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
FalconFly 3dfx Archive (3dfxarchive.com)

×0.52 | 1 points by BruceEel 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Moving fast in hardware: lessons from lab to $100M ARR (zacka.io)

×0.73 65 | 113 points by rryan 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Go-Bt: Minimalist Behavior Trees for Go (github.com/rvitorper)

×0.38 51 #60 | 57 points by rvitorper 20 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I replaced a $1K/month radar API with a self-hosted $7/mo EC2 (github.com/tjamjam)

×2.22 51 | 4 points by terrencef413 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
App Store sees 84% surge in new apps as AI coding tools take off (9to5mac.com)

×3.75 59 | 57 points by gardaani 7 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: The King James Bible deserved a better website (officialkingjamesbible.com)

×2.46 133 | 11 points by L23234 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fossils reveal many complex animals existed before the Cambrian Explosion (sciencenews.org)

×0.58 | 1 points by nobody9999 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Is anyone winning with Server-Driven UI (SDUI) in 2026?

×0.60 | 1 points by divyanshub024 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
JSIR: A High-Level IR for JavaScript (llvm.org)

×0.79 55 | 82 points by nnx 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Explore the Silk Roads through an interactive map (intofarlands.com)

×0.49 32 | 47 points by intofarlands 20 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Gemma Gem – AI model embedded in a browser – no API keys, no cloud (github.com/kessler)

×1.03 99 | 155 points by ikessler 3 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Give Claude Code disposable servers to work on tasks in parallel (gibil.dev)

×0.95 | 2 points by AlexFromTwelve 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS (github.com/matthartman)

×1.67 41 | 464 points by MattHart88 2 days ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Hippo, biologically inspired memory for AI agents (github.com/kitfunso)

×0.95 89 | 127 points by kitfunso 2 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: BAREmail ʕ·ᴥ·ʔ – minimalist Gmail client for bad WiFi (github.com/matt-virgo)

×0.87 43 | 43 points by Virgo_matt 20 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Docking – Extensible Linux dock in Python (docking.cc)

×0.39 129 | 26 points by edumucelli 5 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
USB for Software Developers: An introduction to writing userspace USB drivers (werwolv.net)

×1.47 10 #12 | 314 points by WerWolv 15 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I pipe free sports streams into Jellyfin – no ads, just HLS (github.com/pcruz1905)

×1.01 26 #67 | 102 points by pruz 22 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Internet needs an antibotty immune system, stat (recoil.org)

×0.56 | 1 points by avsm 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Assessing Claude Mythos Preview's cybersecurity capabilities (anthropic.com)

×2.40 7 | 313 points by sweis 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Phantom UI – Skeleton that measures your real DOM (Web Component, 8kb) (github.com/Aejkatappaja)

×2.14 92 | 6 points by Aejkatappaja 13 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Safari MCP – Native macOS browser automation (80 tools) (github.com/achiya-automation)

×1.28 112 | 4 points by Achiyacohen 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: OpenMix, open-source computational framework for formulation science (github.com/vijayvkrishnan)

×1.69 124 | 3 points by vijayvkrishnan 18 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Audio Reactive LED Strips Are Diabolically Hard (scottlawsonbc.com)

×1.21 33 #34 | 231 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
One item purchased, ten emails (joshghent.com)

×2.04 31 | 123 points by speckx 17 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Composer – Diagram Your Codebase with MCP (usecomposer.com)

×0.96 105 | 3 points by olivergrabner 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A social feed with no algo where communities decide what gets seen (veridonia.com)

×2.29 134 | 10 points by smnkgv 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs (blogosphere.app)

×2.81 90 | 781 points by ramkarthikk 5 days ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The kenopsia of dead software [video] (youtube.com)

×0.53 | 1 points by macgyverismo 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Some Better Defaults for Emacs (sr.ht)

×2.40 11 | 4 points by fanf2 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI may be making us think and write more alike (usc.edu)

×1.87 46 | 231 points by giuliomagnifico 1 day ago | 243 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks (z.ai)

×2.15 13 #87 | 611 points by zixuanlimit 1 day ago | 254 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
BrikPanel 2.0 – Free WooCommerce Admin Dashboard (Metorik Alternative) (wordpress.org)

×0.57 | 1 points by niyht 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Eclipse Linux Alpha - Void-based with custom init (github.com/TheCodeVerseHub)

×1.82 114 | 4 points by SinisterMage2 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Understanding the Kalman filter with a simple radar example (kalmanfilter.net)

×1.71 14 #14 | 355 points by alex_be 18 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How Costco Won in Japan (readtrung.com)

×1.12 51 #57 | 43 points by gmays 17 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???