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  1. Ask HN: Agentic Permutation of Testing Paths In A System
    ×0.35 5 | 4 points by davidajackson 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Is the pitch deck culture making founders worse at building businesses?
    ×0.30 47 | 11 points by chinhqtran 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Best books on building a programming language
    ×0.86 60 | 14 points by ezzato 16 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tor Browser on Android leaks IP in desktop mode
    ×0.70 18 | 11 points by shchess 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?
    ×1.98 55 | 477 points by e-topy 6 days ago | 721 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Hiring in the age of AI-assisted coding: what works?
    ×0.50 75 | 26 points by nitramm 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?
    ×1.57 74 | 141 points by meander_water 2 days ago | 189 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Do founders' political views affect how you see a product?
    ×0.96 94 | 3 points by rishikeshs 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. My AI workflow evolved from prompts to a near-autonomous workflow
    ×0.27 93 | 4 points by hoangnnguyen 15 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. I collected startup ideas. It changed how I think about ideas completely
    ×1.16 77 | 8 points by vibecoder21 16 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Why Databases Instead of Filesystem?
    ×0.35 105 | 12 points by uticus 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Any Open Source projects in need of documentation writer?
    ×0.41 109 | 21 points by tree666 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Is VC the new PMF strategy?
    ×0.36 125 | 3 points by networkOne 20 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How do you handle marketing as a solo technical founder?
    ×1.25 110 | 144 points by lazarkap 5 days ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Open Source card game cuttle.cards has its world championship Saturday at 1pm ET
    ×0.20 127 | 4 points by aleph_one 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Should AI credits be refunded on mistakes?
    ×0.25 142 | 19 points by ed_elliott_asc 3 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Zooming UIs in 2026: Prezi, impress.js, and why I built something different
    ×1.02 124 | 100 points by tinchox6 5 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Hybrid Attention
    ×0.37 134 | 40 points by JohannaAlmeida 4 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How do you manage your digital legacy for after you die?
    ×0.52 146 | 15 points by orbanlevi 3 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Are you encountering AI-related questions in the hiring market?
    ×0.29 130 | 7 points by somthingwrong 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Local-first meetings recorder and transcriber?
    ×0.49 152 | 6 points by dandaka 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Yuku – A fast, spec-compliant JavaScript parser written in Zig
    ×0.40 141 | 6 points by arshadyaseen 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: What would you do with an AI model capable of continuous learning?
    ×0.27 151 | 4 points by jballanc 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. IMDB created my account for merely visiting the site
    ×1.17 128 | 12 points by astr0n0m3r 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Founders/investors, what AI bet you made in 2022 and how it is going?
    ×0.14 157 | 6 points by kjok 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Now is the best time to write code by hand (sitebloom.ch)
    ×2.60 52 #41 | 35 points by nickgreg 12 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Combining spicy foods with mint boosts anti-inflammatory effects 100x or more (scitechdaily.com)
    ×2.00 28 | 84 points by joeax 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: MarkitMe, Turn Anything into Markdown (github.com/Luthiraa)
    ×1.08 50 | 4 points by llamatheollama 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. AGI Is the Wrong Word (breaking-changes.blog)
    ×2.07 21 | 4 points by oakhan3 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident (samaltman.com)
    ×4.29 38 | 341 points by jack_hanford 1 day ago | 854 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Artemis II and the invisible hazard on the way to the Moon (ansto.gov.au)
    ×0.90 63 | 84 points by zeristor 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Peers vote to ban pornography depicting sex acts between stepfamily members (theguardian.com)
    ×2.59 58 | 53 points by azalemeth 1 day ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. The Raft consensus algorithm explained through "Mean Girls" (2019) (cockroachlabs.com)
    ×1.27 52 | 132 points by vermilingua 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: VigIA – A deterministic FSM in .NET 10 to stop LLM hallucinations (github.com/JordanCT)
    ×0.68 | 2 points by JordanCT 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: A social feed with no algo where communities decide what gets seen (veridonia.com)
    ×2.26 158 | 10 points by smnkgv 4 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ukraine and Weapons of Mass Destruction (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.68 36 | 5 points by chistev 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. LPM 1.0 – Video-Based Character Performance Model (large-performance-model.github.io)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by LopRabbit 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Linear RNN/Reservoir hybrid generative model, one C file (no deps.) (raw.githubusercontent.com)
    ×0.75 140 | 7 points by adinhitlore 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. AI for Systems: Using LLMs to Optimize Database Query Execution (together.ai)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by matt_d 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Heartbeat – open implementation of KAIROS, the always-on agent hiden in Claude C (github.com/uameer)
    ×0.91 | 2 points by usmame 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman (nytimes.com)
    ×4.24 4 | 242 points by enraged_camel 1 day ago | 588 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. US summons bank bosses over cyber risks from Anthropic's latest AI model (theguardian.com)
    ×2.41 38 | 106 points by ascold 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Advanced Mac Substitute is an API-level reimplementation of 1980s-era Mac OS (v68k.org)
    ×1.39 2 #8 | 172 points by zdw 7 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. AI Is Tipping the Scales Toward Hackers After Mythos Release (nbcnews.com)
    ×1.94 15 #46 | 11 points by thywis 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. OpenClaw’s memory is unreliable, and you don’t know when it will break (nishantsoni.com)
    ×1.69 52 #52 | 144 points by sonink 1 day ago | 165 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Investigating Split Locks on x86-64 (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×0.80 43 #68 | 74 points by ingve 23 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Pijul a FOSS distributed version control system (pijul.org)
    ×1.87 3 #6 | 44 points by kouosi 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Surelock: Deadlock-Free Mutexes for Rust (brooklynzelenka.com)
    ×1.32 10 #11 | 149 points by codetheweb 9 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. The Problem That Built an Industry (ajitem.com)
    ×0.95 15 #18 | 95 points by ShaggyHotDog 9 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. A general technique for automating NES games (tom7.org)
    ×0.85 | 2 points by azhenley 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high-profile open source projects (bleepingcomputer.com)
    ×4.45 2 | 364 points by N19PEDL2 1 day ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. "Negative" views of Broadcom driving VMware migrations, rival says (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.60 49 | 76 points by breve 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Hippo, biologically inspired memory for AI agents (github.com/kitfunso)
    ×0.95 115 | 128 points by kitfunso 5 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech (techcrunch.com)
    ×6.15 20 #74 | 588 points by Teever 1 day ago | 680 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Apple Sued by Three YouTube Channels (macrumors.com)
    ×4.02 64 | 5 points by gnabgib 36 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. How to Switch AI Chatbots and Why You Might Want To (wsj.com)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by nanfinitum 47 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Git fixup is magic (and Magit is too) (arialdomartini.github.io)
    ×0.88 | 2 points by fanf2 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Helium is hard to replace (construction-physics.com)
    ×1.80 2 #78 | 357 points by JumpCrisscross 1 day ago | 256 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Bessent Urgently Summons Bank CEOs over Anthropic's New AI (youtube.com)
    ×1.93 24 | 3 points by OhMeadhbh 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Inflation Rose to 3.3% in March, Driven by Rising Fuel Costs (wsj.com)
    ×2.32 61 | 63 points by JumpCrisscross 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Zoneless – Open-source Stripe Connect clone with $0.002 fees using USDC (github.com/zonelessdev)
    ×5.09 129 | 15 points by tinyprojects 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: FluidCAD – Parametric CAD with JavaScript (fluidcad.io)
    ×1.02 36 #69 | 141 points by maouida 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. No Acquittal for Storm Today (therage.co)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by Cider9986 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins (numerique.gouv.fr)
    ×6.90 41 | 849 points by embedding-shape 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. High fantasy map of tech writing (passo.uno)
    ×0.93 79 #81 | 3 points by theletterf 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. AI still can't figure out PowerPoint (perspectives.plus)
    ×0.97 | 2 points by jukkan 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS (github.com/matthartman)
    ×1.68 82 | 466 points by MattHart88 5 days ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Metrics SQL: A SQL-based semantic layer for humans and agents (rilldata.com)
    ×0.53 32 #20 | 6 points by sebg 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Bild AI (YC W25) Is Hiring a Founding Product Engineer (ycombinator.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. You can't trust macOS Privacy and Security settings (eclecticlight.co)
    ×2.37 7 #70 | 491 points by zdw 1 day ago | 165 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Code is run more than read (2023) (olano.dev)
    ×1.19 38 #77 | 137 points by facundo_olano 1 day ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Dynamic Map of YouTube Channels (ytmap.xyz)
    ×1.73 119 | 6 points by Bachal 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. He Helped Stop Iran from Getting the Bomb (newyorker.com)
    ×0.83 | 1 points by posthumangr 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. The Exception Butterfly (valhovey.github.io)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by speleo 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work (github.com/arman-bd)
    ×3.49 72 | 911 points by armanified 5 days ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: A cartographer's attempt to realistically map Tolkien's world (intofarlands.com)
    ×0.99 100 | 163 points by intofarlands 4 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. The effects of caffeine consumption do not decay with a ~5 hour half-life (lesswrong.com)
    ×3.20 43 | 95 points by swah 1 day ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: An interactive map of Tolkien's Middle-earth (middle-earth-interactive-map.web.app)
    ×1.62 79 | 290 points by frasermarlow 4 days ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Sash – tiny macOS utility to reliably cycle through app windows (github.com/tacomanator)
    ×0.76 133 | 3 points by dwg 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Logoshi, a brand kit generator for solo founders (logoshi.com)
    ×1.61 150 | 5 points by sjdegraeve 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file (playstarfling.com)
    ×3.18 12 #14 | 544 points by iceberger2001 20 hours ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. How Passive Radar Works (passiveradar.com)
    ×1.56 15 #30 | 144 points by surprisetalk 14 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. AI will test governments on jobs, training, and public trust (hoover.org)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by hhs 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Hours Without Internet (bsky.app)
    ×0.37 | 1 points by stupefy 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Voxcode: local speech to text and ripgrep = transcript and code context (github.com/jensneuse)
    ×3.79 154 | 10 points by jensneuse 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Docker-whisper: Self-hosted Whisper speech-to-text server (OpenAI API) (github.com/hwdsl2)
    ×1.26 45 | 4 points by hwdsl2 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Productive Procrastination (maxvanijsselmuiden.nl)
    ×1.28 36 #37 | 117 points by maxvij 18 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: I visualized Wasteland as an RTS game (gascraft.ai)
    ×1.84 | 2 points by dnewcome 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Side projects: perché falliscono (e come evitarlo davvero) (donatodelpeschio.it)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by donnyBlanko 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Bluesky April 2026 Outage Post-Mortem (pckt.blog)
    ×1.13 22 | 137 points by jcalabro 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???