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  1. Ask HN: Why there are no actual studies that show AI is more productive?
    ×1.89 61 | 3 points by make_it_sure 23 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Add llms.txt and fix robots.txt for AI agent discoverability
    ×0.77 | 2 points by nishiohiroshi 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Would you use a job board where every listing is verified?
    ×0.91 7 #57 | 48 points by BelVisgarra 11 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion
    ×5.50 69 | 996 points by shannoncc 1 day ago | 883 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Last time you wrote code?
    ×0.45 81 | 3 points by blinkbat 8 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Whisker – Self hosted e-commerce cart, pure PHP, zero dependencies
    ×0.43 95 | 4 points by eLohith 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Can we talk about AI Astroturfing?
    ×3.13 22 | 27 points by overgard 14 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. PhD interrupted by personal safety issues, now publication record is thin
    ×0.29 90 | 3 points by qthrwaway 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. How do teams prevent duplicate LLM API calls and token waste?
    ×0.56 94 | 3 points by cachelogic 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Anyone else feel this community has changed recently?
    ×3.83 75 | 41 points by kypro 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. If AI is so good, why don't we have an infinite supply of 10x engineers?
    ×1.28 40 | 4 points by YounesDz 5 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. What Will Happen to Android?
    ×0.34 | 2 points by MrLey 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Tell HN: The proposed KIDS Act (HR 7757) effectively mandates biometric browsing
    ×1.26 97 | 16 points by fokdelafons 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Best Monitoring and Observability Platform?
    ×0.33 | 2 points by kebforlifer1 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What career will you switch to when AI replaces developers?
    ×3.37 51 | 20 points by DGAP 16 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Should AI web agents skip sponsored/ad results by default?
    ×0.28 132 | 3 points by ilyasJosef 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: How are you using multi-agent AI systems in your daily workflow?
    ×0.43 118 | 15 points by paifamily 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Doctor with software development experience – careers combining both?
    ×0.51 114 | 4 points by frank-cheynne 23 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Best way to implement logging and audit trails for AI apps?
    ×0.47 116 | 4 points by devstatic 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Do You Enjoy Your Career in Tech Nowadays?
    ×0.89 110 | 28 points by karakoram 2 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Self taught gen-xers with senior dev/pm exp. Where's my imposter syndrome team?
    ×0.38 140 | 4 points by _hugerobots_ 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. I started making money online in 10th grade – some lessons about capital
    ×0.43 127 | 6 points by udit_50 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Do You Have a Homelab?
    ×0.50 112 | 12 points by ricardbejarano 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Anyone fought a big corp over IP theft courts?
    ×0.31 138 | 6 points by NatalijaAAD 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Turns out making games is the easy part
    ×0.59 121 | 5 points by clamlotus 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. $1k and the difficult future that AI has left for many
    ×1.23 99 | 5 points by 01-_- 21 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Has anyone noticed the fear-driven prompt suggestions that GPT5.3 makes?
    ×0.48 144 | 14 points by cedarscarlett 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Are there any companies who are anti-AI?
    ×1.04 120 | 6 points by anti-ai-dev 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Why do we still buy things by browsing catalogs?
    ×0.37 135 | 5 points by dannythecount 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. I lost my ability to learn anything new because of AI and I need your opinions
    ×1.02 148 | 23 points by dokdev 4 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Tell HN: Digital Ocean has run out of GPU droplets
    ×0.47 145 | 17 points by nathannaveen 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: If your project is free, what are you building and why keep it free?
    ×0.60 156 | 11 points by LeanVibe 3 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: How do you give AI agents real codebase context without burning tokens?
    ×0.68 158 | 5 points by donhardman 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: How are LLMs supposed to be used for warfare?
    ×0.39 150 | 5 points by sirnicolaz 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Self-Learning Customer Marketing
    ×0.20 159 | 3 points by davismartens 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. How do I get startups to use my open-code project?
    ×0.23 157 | 5 points by ErezShahaf 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Amazon degraded shopping- you have to put in cart to see the price
    ×0.89 124 | 15 points by talkingtab 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. 10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips (mas.to)
    ×4.50 10 #89 | 905 points by marvinborner 2 days ago | 471 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Dotfiles for Consistent AI-Assisted Development – Dylan Bochman (dylanbochman.com)
    ×0.79 | 1 points by ankitg12 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Making Firefox's right-click not suck, more, with userChrome.css (joshua.hu)
    ×1.75 | 2 points by nocy 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Neural-Q-Forge – a Rust-native quantum circuit forging framework (github.com/cleitonaugusto)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by CleitonAugusto 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: cryptographic receipts for AI code changes pip install titanate (github.com/Rehanrana11)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by rmasoodx22 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Tessera – MCP server that gives Claude persistent memory and local RAG (github.com/besslframework-stack)
    ×1.36 102 | 3 points by jasonjeong 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Revisiting Time: UT1, UTC, NTP and NTS (potaroo.net)
    ×1.62 71 #31 | 7 points by pabs3 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Procedural Music Workstation in the Browser (kiekko.pro)
    ×3.02 134 | 7 points by timo_h 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Auto-Co – 14 AI agents that run a startup autonomously (open source) (github.com/NikitaDmitrieff)
    ×1.60 137 | 4 points by formreply 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Sqry – semantic code search using AST and call graphs (sqry.dev)
    ×1.60 133 | 4 points by verivusai 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. SCRY 17-source research engine for Claude Code(no API keys, pure stdlib) (github.com/Kastarter)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by Kastarted 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: TTS.ai (tts.ai)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by nadermx 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. A decade of Docker containers (acm.org)
    ×1.49 7 #10 | 293 points by zacwest 15 hours ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Sarvam 105B, the first competitive Indian open source LLM (sarvam.ai)
    ×2.56 8 | 171 points by logicchains 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Llm9p: LLM as a Plan 9 file system (github.com/NERVsystems)
    ×0.97 | 1 points by mleroy 3 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Files are the interface humans and agents interact with (madalitso.me)
    ×2.04 29 #26 | 216 points by malgamves 22 hours ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. How important was the Battle of Hastings? (historytoday.com)
    ×0.66 45 #27 | 31 points by benbreen 9 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. The Vienna Method in Amsterdam (silverchair.com)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by jruohonen 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Ruffle.rs brought back a 2012 Flash MMO to the modern web (oldschoolrealms.com)
    ×1.60 87 | 5 points by crosschainer 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. A Grand Vision for Rust (yoshuawuyts.com)
    ×1.89 2 #13 | 51 points by todsacerdoti 5 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Lisp-style C++ template meta programming (github.com/mistivia)
    ×0.92 33 #25 | 45 points by mistivia 10 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: TracePact – Catch tool-call regressions in AI agents before prod (github.com/dcdeve)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by soydanicg 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Render Claude Code and Codex Transcripts as Browsable HTML (github.com/forhadahmed)
    ×1.58 14 | 3 points by forhadahmed 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: OpenGraviton – Run 500B+ parameter models on a consumer Mac Mini (opengraviton.github.io)
    ×2.56 82 | 8 points by fatihturker 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Dumping Lego NXT firmware off of an existing brick (2025) (arcanenibble.github.io)
    ×1.49 12 #11 | 199 points by theblazehen 15 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. New Research Reassesses the Value of Agents.md Files for AI Coding (infoq.com)
    ×1.71 10 #20 | 8 points by noemit 1 hour ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Flora – Compile-time Dependency Injection for Go without reflection (github.com/soner3)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by soner3 32 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Trump says not mulling a draft executive order to seize control over elections (pbs.org)
    ×2.30 23 | 4 points by pabs3 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Will Claude Code ruin our team? (justinjackson.ca)
    ×4.57 79 | 59 points by YounesDz 5 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. They all said Hormuz closure would be brief. What if they were wrong? (lloydslist.com)
    ×3.58 72 | 57 points by everybodyknows 7 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Best performance of a C++ singleton (andreasfertig.com)
    ×0.82 31 #17 | 29 points by jandeboevrie 7 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Training students to prove they're not robots is pushing them to use more AI (techdirt.com)
    ×4.22 63 | 151 points by PretzelFisch 13 hours ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Paster – A keyboard-first clipboard manager for Vim users (pasterapp.com)
    ×1.15 101 | 3 points by luanderock 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February (bbc.com)
    ×4.72 15 | 560 points by smartbit 1 day ago | 772 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. BlackRock limits withdrawals as redemptions rattle private credit fund (reuters.com)
    ×3.08 69 | 71 points by itbeho 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. AI Error May Have Contributed to Girl's School Bombing in Iran (thisweekinworcester.com)
    ×6.58 41 | 61 points by apolloartemis 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Scan0tron – AI screen capture that auto-fills forms ($49) (jrdconnect.com)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by jaydurangodev 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Verification debt: the hidden cost of AI-generated code (medium.com)
    ×2.08 1 #61 | 95 points by xfz 15 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Go LLM inference with a Vulkan GPU back end that beats Ollama's CUDA (github.com/computerex)
    ×1.40 | 1 points by computerex 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: MysteryMaker AI (mysterymaker.ai)
    ×0.80 | 2 points by jhappy77 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Digital Iris [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.65 91 #19 | 3 points by surprisetalk 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. U.S. Capabilities Are Showing Signs of Rot (theatlantic.com)
    ×6.13 80 | 65 points by exceptione 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: SitDeck – Customizable live dashboard of news, markets, threats (sitdeck.com)
    ×1.05 111 | 23 points by danushman 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Wez, modern terminal web browser with Vim bindings (github.com/keyle)
    ×0.96 141 | 3 points by keyle 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. UUID package coming to Go standard library (github.com/golang)
    ×1.94 11 #55 | 355 points by soypat 1 day ago | 230 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Editing changes in patch format with Jujutsu (knifepoint.net)
    ×0.70 54 #84 | 58 points by cassepipe 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Salt Typhoon hacked 80 countries – AT&T can't confirm hackers are out
    ×1.50 | 2 points by Abhscanink 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Need Help: Promoting indie AI image edit platform VAKPixel
    ×0.48 | 1 points by krishna-vakx 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions (twitter.com/JosephPolitano)
    ×5.34 53 | 1001 points by enraged_camel 1 day ago | 674 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Nintendo Sues U.S. Government for Tariff Refunds (scribd.com)
    ×5.20 32 | 129 points by coloneltcb 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. SigNoz (YC W21) is hiring for engineering, growth and product roles (signoz.io)
    15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Leonardo – FFmpeg Video Converter for Linux Creators (github.com/RossContino1)
    ×1.26 76 | 8 points by RossC17331 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Cross-Claude MCP – Let multiple Claude instances talk to each other (github.com/rblank9)
    ×0.43 | 2 points by rblank9 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???