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  1. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2026)
    ×1.19 25 | 269 points by whoishiring 1 day ago | 308 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2026)
    ×0.78 73 | 82 points by whoishiring 1 day ago | 300 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Distributed data centers in our basements
    ×0.51 88 | 72 points by cmos 2 days ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: European Tech Alternatives?
    ×1.82 11 | 97 points by BrunoBernardino 18 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What is your dev set up like?
    ×0.50 80 | 12 points by break_the_bank 20 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Stripe closed my UAE business account and is withholding $3.5K
    ×0.93 67 | 20 points by alganzory 21 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How relevant is low code according to you in today’s world with Claude?
    ×0.87 84 | 6 points by kinj28 16 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Tell HN: Chrome says "suspicious download" when trying to download yt-dlp
    ×2.37 53 | 306 points by joering2 2 days ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs
    ×3.89 68 | 792 points by hrncode 5 days ago | 453 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Client took over development by vibe coding. What to do?
    ×1.28 82 | 58 points by piscator 2 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What dev tools do you rely on that nobody talks about?
    ×1.48 85 | 38 points by crcsmnky 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Academic study on AI's impact on software development – want to join?
    ×0.55 109 | 30 points by research2026 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. BetterDB – open-source Redis/Valkey migration across clouds and self-hosted
    ×0.85 108 | 14 points by kaliades 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What happens when you block/mark as spam a call or text?
    ×0.69 107 | 12 points by dsalzman 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Are tech companies even hiring?
    ×1.53 98 | 19 points by KernelPryanic 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. LinkedIn uses 65GB of RAM with 7 tabs opened
    ×1.14 123 | 14 points by daniele_dll 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Who needs contributors? (March 2026)
    ×0.86 130 | 28 points by Kathan2651 4 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How do you know if a tweak to your AI skill made it better?
    ×0.89 124 | 7 points by yo103jg 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Does anyone else notice that gas runs out faster than usual
    ×0.61 129 | 20 points by cat-turner 3 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What was it like in the era of BBS before the internet?
    ×1.06 121 | 31 points by ex-aws-dude 3 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Non-US founders residential address problem with Brex, Mercury?
    ×0.70 132 | 8 points by Barazutti629 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Why did Harvey choose a top-down enterprise GTM while Cursor went bottom-up?
    ×0.45 143 | 4 points by iiTsEddy 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Are you team MCP or team CLI?
    ×0.62 146 | 15 points by sharath39 3 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Books on Unit Testing and TDD?
    ×0.84 118 | 9 points by Desafinado 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2026)
    ×1.20 139 | 5 points by jon_north 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Is there any founder building non AI startup in 2026?
    ×1.56 125 | 13 points by daudmalik06 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Quad9 Enables DNS over HTTP/3 and DNS over QUIC (quad9.net)
    ×1.35 48 #90 | 61 points by itchingsphynx 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Flight-Viz – 10K flights on a 3D globe in 3.5MB of Rust+WASM (flight-viz.com)
    ×0.87 62 | 83 points by coolwulf 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: I thought merging two photos with AI would be a weekend project. Nope (animateoldphotos.org)
    ×1.81 32 | 5 points by imgdesgen 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Sixteen year trends in AI doom on HN (ai-doom.cc)
    ×0.78 | 2 points by easygenes 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Roadie – An open-source KVM that lets AI control your phone (github.com/VibiumDev)
    ×2.34 127 | 5 points by hugs 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: QuickBEAM – run JavaScript as supervised Erlang/OTP processes (github.com/elixir-volt)
    ×0.91 104 | 111 points by dannote 5 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Asciimap – Interactive ASCII world map with live data (github.com/Lionel-Lim)
    ×1.85 136 | 9 points by limsight 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Harvard's Push to Cap 'A' Grades Has Students Howling in Protest (wsj.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by impish9208 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. The Vibecoders Are Coming For Us (coz.is)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by cozis 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. r/programming bans all discussion of LLM programming (reddit.com)
    ×6.39 9 | 188 points by cryptoz 1 day ago | 205 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Loreline, narrative language transpiled via Haxe: C++/C#/JS/Java/Py/Lua (loreline.app)
    ×0.75 90 | 73 points by jeremyfa 5 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. For people in product/software, how have your teams changed since Opus 4.5
    ×0.50 | 1 points by gHeadphone 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. SpaceX Files FCC Complaint over Ariane 64 Amazon Leo Launch (europeanspaceflight.com)
    ×1.21 | 2 points by lysace 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Tailscale's new macOS home (tailscale.com)
    ×2.27 4 #12 | 487 points by tosh 18 hours ago | 239 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: I tested 15 free AI models at building real software on a $25/year VPS (georgelarson.me)
    ×1.89 47 #88 | 27 points by j0rg3 19 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Student Developer and GSoC '25 Contributor Seeking Intern/Junior Roles
    ×0.76 | 1 points by Akshat67 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. The War Against Misinformation Is Over. The Lies Won (thewalrus.ca)
    ×1.38 52 | 3 points by pseudolus 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Zumly – a library for building zooming user interfaces (github.com/zumerlab)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by tinchox6 38 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Killing Slack was the only way to make AI accurate (promptql.io)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by tango12 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: PhAIL – Real-robot benchmark for AI models (phail.ai)
    ×0.50 117 | 21 points by vertix 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Metal Quantized Attention on M5 Max (drawthings.ai)
    ×1.44 145 | 4 points by liuliu 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Tlock – Lock macOS folders and apps with your fingerprint (github.com/freyzo)
    ×0.79 | 2 points by leo_agent 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Samsung Magician disk utility takes 18 steps and two reboots to uninstall (chalmovsky.com)
    ×1.48 26 #10 | 11 points by chalmovsky 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. The True Shape of Io's Steeple Mountain (weareinquisitive.com)
    ×1.01 10 #11 | 70 points by carlosjobim 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. SSH certificates: the better SSH experience (jpmens.net)
    ×1.69 54 #33 | 4 points by jandeboevrie 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. The Joy of Numbered Streets (humantransit.org)
    ×0.84 18 #41 | 51 points by dmit 11 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. TurboQuant KV Compression and SSD Expert Streaming for M5 Pro and IOS (github.com/SharpAI)
    ×1.27 69 | 77 points by aegis_camera 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Open-source distributed quantum compute network (quip.network)
    ×3.54 83 | 11 points by cadillion 22 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Operation Save Orbán: Trump Deploys Vance to Hungary (politico.eu)
    ×1.57 | 2 points by amelius 39 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Trump fires Pam Bondi as attorney general (cnn.com)
    ×8.32 18 | 123 points by Cider9986 19 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Hyprmoncfg – Terminal-based monitor config manager for Hyprland (paolino.me)
    ×0.40 137 | 11 points by earcar 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Qwen3.6-Plus: Towards real world agents (qwen.ai)
    ×2.40 4 #16 | 548 points by pretext 22 hours ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. 10 Questions We Always Ask Founders (the-founders-corner.com)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by mgav 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Mercor says it was hit by cyberattack tied to compromise LiteLLM (techcrunch.com)
    ×0.95 56 #56 | 144 points by jackson-mcd 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. From Hierarchy to Intelligence (block.xyz)
    ×1.16 | 2 points by gpi 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. ZomboCom stolen by a hacker, sold, now replaced with AI-generated makeover (reddit.com)
    ×2.00 57 | 75 points by bananaboy 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: 65k AI voters predict UK local elections with 75% accuracy (kronaxis.co.uk)
    ×0.98 116 | 7 points by JasonDuke 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Ukrainian drone holds position for 6 weeks (defenceleaders.com)
    ×3.86 34 | 169 points by AftHurrahWinch 1 day ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: DeepTable – an API that converts messy Excel files into structured data (deeptable.com)
    ×1.24 150 | 8 points by francisrafal 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Artemis II's toilet is a moon mission milestone (scientificamerican.com)
    ×1.78 8 #14 | 269 points by 1659447091 16 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Chip-8 Emulator from Spec (beshr.com)
    ×0.71 | 2 points by beshrkayali 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Renewables dominate 2025's newly installed generating capacity (arstechnica.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by rbanffy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Artemis II lifts off: four astronauts begin 10-day lunar mission (theguardian.com)
    ×7.00 10 | 279 points by Philpax 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Email obfuscation: What works in 2026? (spencermortensen.com)
    ×2.12 8 #87 | 353 points by jaden 1 day ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Event photo matching with badge markers, no face scanning (pictag.io)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by gtpoxa 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: QWERTY mini Pro – Why a 2-row, 16-key keyboard works better (k-keyboard.com)
    ×0.39 101 | 8 points by QWERTYmini 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Adobe wrote to my hosts file. I've never had an app do this before (reddit.com)
    ×4.86 22 #36 | 20 points by speckx 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: I built an offline and privacy-first photo sorter (railway.app)
    ×0.86 97 | 3 points by Sensotix 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: European alternatives to Google, Apple, Dropbox and 120 US apps (only-eu.eu)
    ×3.71 #1 | 301 points by madman_dev 2 hours ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Emacs-libgterm: Terminal emulator for Emacs using libghostty-vt (github.com/rwc9u)
    ×0.75 40 #70 | 88 points by signa11 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Service Monitoring of Your Bike (mbike.cc)
    ×0.66 61 | 3 points by marqn 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. New patches allow building Linux IPv6-only (phoronix.com)
    ×1.76 58 | 120 points by Bender 1 day ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: I built a site where 100k strangers each pay $1.99 to upload one photo (onetile.me)
    ×0.58 154 | 3 points by omara123 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Wazear – A visual AI orchestrator where agents review each other
    ×0.86 | 2 points by Vallar 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Mycellm – BitTorrent for LLMs, pool GPUs into federated networks (mycellm.ai)
    ×1.71 142 | 4 points by mijkal 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. George Goble has died (legacy.com)
    ×0.96 22 #32 | 157 points by finaard 18 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. 'Backrooms' and the Rise of the Institutional Gothic (mit.edu)
    ×1.42 19 #49 | 201 points by anarbadalov 23 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Foxing aspires to be an eBPF-powered replication engine for Linux filesystems (codeberg.org)
    ×0.72 45 #61 | 47 points by tanelpoder 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. LLM Drift in Long Sessions: Claude 60% vs. 85% Integrity After 25 Turns (calmkeep.ai)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by calmkeepai 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. TDF ejects its core developers (meeksfamily.uk)
    ×1.53 | 2 points by janvdberg 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Real-time dashboard for Claude Code agent teams (github.com/simple10)
    ×0.77 76 | 73 points by simple10 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer (isolveproblems.substack.com)
    ×4.72 5 #5 | 881 points by axelriet 17 hours ago | 379 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. C89cc.sh – standalone C89/ELF64 compiler in pure portable shell (github.com/alganet)
    ×1.29 10 #19 | 144 points by gaigalas 12 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Delve allegedly forked an open-source tool and sold it as its own (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.10 21 #65 | 285 points by nickvec 21 hours ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???