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  1. Freedom is the only thing that matters. Living freely. Creating freely
    ×0.98 52 | 5 points by kaizenb 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Are you too getting addicted to the dev workflow of coding with agents?
    ×1.09 9 #74 | 25 points by gchamonlive 8 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Sandflare – I built a sandbox that launches AI agent VMs in ~300ms
    ×0.36 | 2 points by ajaysheoran2323 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Does anyone else notice that gas runs out faster than usual
    ×0.80 27 | 15 points by cat-turner 8 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Gemini CLI vs. Claude Code
    ×0.96 20 | 6 points by elC0mpa 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs
    ×3.93 | 772 points by hrncode 1 day ago | 441 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Are you team MCP or team CLI?
    ×0.75 48 | 12 points by sharath39 12 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What was it like in the era of BBS before the internet?
    ×1.11 29 | 22 points by ex-aws-dude 11 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Curious. anyone here allow agents to make purchase decisions of >$100?
    ×0.30 | 2 points by adityasriram 6 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Who needs contributors? (March 2026)
    ×0.90 72 | 23 points by Kathan2651 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Is it actually possible to run multiple coding sessions in parallel?
    ×0.58 75 | 11 points by sukit 19 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Is anyone still resisting the slop onslaught?
    ×2.29 39 | 7 points by 0xDEFACED 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Best stack for building a tiny game with an 11-year-old?
    ×0.51 96 | 14 points by richardstahl 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What's your favorite number, and why?
    ×1.56 56 | 9 points by QuantumNomad_ 11 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How to Handle Claude's Stubbornness?
    ×0.51 85 | 7 points by classicpsy 20 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: M5 MacBook Pro buyers, worth spending the $$$ to maybe run LLMs local?
    ×0.79 110 | 9 points by tpurves 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. The risk of AI isn't making us lazy, but making "lazy" look productive
    ×1.50 84 | 74 points by acmerfight 2 days ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Release Path for 'Transformers Alternatives'?
    ×0.30 123 | 4 points by adinhitlore 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Google Finance Replacement Without AI Slop?
    ×0.63 82 | 5 points by rurp 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What's the latest concensus on OpenAI vs. Anthropic $20/month tier?
    ×0.92 121 | 12 points by whatarethembits 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: How are you keeping AI coding agents from burning money?
    ×0.38 132 | 8 points by bhaviav100 2 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Why do SF billboards hit different?
    ×0.19 141 | 3 points by YouAreExisting 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Operator23: Describe Your Workflow in English, Deploy Everywhere
    ×0.23 136 | 4 points by Mrakermo 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Claude API Error: 529
    ×0.47 129 | 25 points by anujbans 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Is it just me?
    ×0.91 116 | 17 points by twoelf 2 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Anyone using Meshtastic/LoRa for non-chat applications?
    ×0.65 133 | 12 points by redgridtactical 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Repsy – A lightweight, open-source alternative to Nexus/Artifactory
    ×0.30 154 | 7 points by nuricanozturk 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Fear of Missing Code
    ×0.46 142 | 9 points by lukol 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. I'm betting on ATProto (brittanyellich.com)
    ×2.12 5 #45 | 106 points by speckx 12 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Raincast – Describe an app, get a desktop app (open source) (github.com/tihiera)
    ×0.70 48 | 9 points by tito777 2 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Coding agents could make free software matter again (gjlondon.com)
    ×1.71 21 | 262 points by rogueleaderr 1 day ago | 293 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. C++26 is done: ISO C++ standards meeting Trip Report (herbsutter.com)
    ×1.56 26 #88 | 313 points by pjmlp 1 day ago | 379 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: TaskTrace, a local-first activity log that gives LLMs context (tasktrace.com)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by warrenronsiek 58 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Cherri – programming language that compiles to an Apple Shortuct (github.com/electrikmilk)
    ×2.01 #25 | 300 points by mihau 16 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. The ladder is missing rungs – Engineering Progression When AI Ate the Middle (negroniventurestudios.com)
    ×1.37 48 #52 | 85 points by sorenvrist 18 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. I am definitely missing the pre-AI writing era (lesswrong.com)
    ×2.61 4 #61 | 305 points by joozio 1 day ago | 224 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Good CTE Bad CTE (boringsql.com)
    ×1.03 | 2 points by x591 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Midnight train from GA: A view of America from the tracks as airports struggle (apnews.com)
    ×0.99 41 | 144 points by walterbell 1 day ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. QuantumLeap: 2.3× faster MoE inference with intelligent expert caching (github.com/MartinCrespoC)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by ikharoz 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Loreline, narrative language transpiled via Haxe: C++/C#/JS/Java/Py/Lua (loreline.app)
    ×0.43 | 2 points by jeremyfa 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Neovim 0.12.0 (github.com/neovim)
    ×3.10 11 | 394 points by pawelgrzybek 1 day ago | 258 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. 15 years, one server, 8GB RAM and 500k users – how Webminal refuses to die (webminal.org)
    ×3.35 19 | 287 points by giis 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: We built a multi-agent research hub. The waitlist is a reverse-CAPTCHA (enlidea.com)
    ×0.58 111 | 29 points by LZK 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Veil – Dark mode PDFs without destroying images, runs in the browser (simoneamico.com)
    ×1.48 105 | 100 points by simoneamico 4 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Seeing like a spreadsheet (davidoks.blog)
    ×1.03 25 #33 | 102 points by paulpauper 13 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Mad Bugs: Vim vs. Emacs vs. Claude (calif.io)
    ×2.76 40 #79 | 11 points by unacorner 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Would you use a GitHub App that auto-generates changelogs from commit diffs?
    ×0.40 | 1 points by mandeepsng 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. 1.5M GitHub pull requests have had ads injected into them by Microsoft Copilot (neowin.net)
    ×5.76 68 | 340 points by bundie 16 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Agent Orchestrator, a local-first Harness Engineering control plane
    ×3.51 107 | 14 points by gpgkd906 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: /slot-machine development (CC vs. Codex; CE vs. superpowers) (github.com/pejmanjohn)
    ×0.90 125 | 5 points by pejmanjohn 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Roulette Computers: Hidden Devices That Predict Spins (roulette-computers.com)
    ×1.03 16 #46 | 84 points by o4c 12 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Q4_0 KV cache collapses 92.5% at 64K on DGX Spark GB10 (unified memory paradox) (github.com/Memoriant)
    ×1.02 | 2 points by memoriant 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. We Used to Think Everybody Heard a Voice Inside Their Heads – But We Were Wrong (sciencealert.com)
    ×1.33 19 | 3 points by Anon84 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Payphone Tag is territory game using Australia's 15,000 payphones (payphonetag.com)
    ×3.85 95 | 20 points by gangerang 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: axil – A terminal user-interface for treesitter (github.com/terror)
    ×0.51 86 | 5 points by crap 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Run Claude Code using ChatGPT subscription (npmjs.com)
    ×0.95 143 | 3 points by yungookim 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan (stepsecurity.io)
    ×4.57 #1 | 607 points by mtud 5 hours ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Claude Code runs Git reset –hard origin/main against project repo every 10 mins (github.com/anthropics)
    ×2.42 22 | 251 points by mthwsjc_ 1 day ago | 195 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. TSA lines are so out of control that travelers are hiring line-sitters (washingtonpost.com)
    ×2.54 59 | 112 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Researchers find 3,500-year-old loom that reveals textile revolution (ua.es)
    ×1.23 25 #27 | 110 points by geox 12 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Executive Briefing: The Invisible AI Input (dekodiert.de)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by sdoering 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: CLI to order groceries via reverse-engineered REWE API (Haskell) (github.com/yannick-cw)
    ×1.92 98 | 6 points by wazHFsRy 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. We hid a free trip to Switzerland in our privacy policy (cape.co)
    ×3.29 25 | 67 points by bwoah 11 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: a Rust CLI to automatically swap monitor focus based on your gaze (github.com/pranavkarthik10)
    ×1.06 147 | 4 points by treexs 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Clojure: The Documentary, official trailer [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.57 1 #9 | 158 points by fogus 7 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. How to turn anything into a router (nbailey.ca)
    ×2.70 2 #12 | 660 points by yabones 18 hours ago | 229 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Bird brains (2023) (dhanishsemar.com)
    ×1.46 18 #16 | 315 points by DiffTheEnder 18 hours ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Robust LLM extractor for websites in TypeScript (github.com/lightfeed)
    ×0.71 117 | 72 points by andrew_zhong 5 days ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Think Fu – Metacognition as a service (thinkfu.org)
    ×1.05 144 | 3 points by georgestrakhov 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: New Causal Impact Library (github.com/YuminosukeSato)
    ×0.99 151 | 9 points by djwjjtw 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Ninja is a small build system with a focus on speed (github.com/ninja-build)
    ×0.89 56 #67 | 100 points by tosh 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Stripe Won't Save You from Bad Access Control (getprobo.com)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by gearnode 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. The carcinogenicity of e-cigarettes: a qualitative risk assessment (oup.com)
    ×1.19 | 2 points by femto 41 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Bitwarden integrates with OneCLI agent vault (onecli.sh)
    ×1.18 15 | 62 points by sudo_chmod 15 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find live streamers who need views the most (twitchroulette.net)
    ×1.22 79 | 177 points by ellg 3 days ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: A plain-text cognitive architecture for Claude Code (puga.com.br)
    ×1.29 103 | 156 points by marciopuga 5 days ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Memopt – GPU memory infrastructure for AI clusters (memopt.com)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by lachu_536 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Ghostmoon.app – A Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar (mgrunwald.com)
    ×1.49 6 | 143 points by mgrunwald_ 20 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Netscape News Feed Straight Out of the Late 00s (netscape.com)
    ×1.90 47 | 125 points by mistyvales 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Mental Health Fashion (nosaddays.com)
    ×0.39 | 2 points by samdreamin 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Memv – Memory for AI Agents (github.com/vstorm-co)
    ×0.83 87 | 4 points by brgsk 14 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Recover Apple Keychain (arkoinad.com)
    ×1.08 44 #36 | 82 points by speckx 14 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Hardware Image Compression (ludicon.com)
    ×0.55 59 #75 | 69 points by luu 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Office EU: European-owned cloud based office suite (office.eu)
    ×0.90 16 #78 | 6 points by koenraad 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. The Download: brainless human clones and the first uterus kept alive outside a (technologyreview.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by joozio 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. A group of flamingoes is called a 'flamboyance' (themarginalian.org)
    ×2.02 14 | 4 points by sparshselim 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Learn Claude Code by doing, not reading (nagdy.me)
    ×2.17 19 #38 | 226 points by taubek 11 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. OCR for construction documents does not work, we fixed it (getanchorgrid.com)
    ×1.09 2 #66 | 122 points by wcisco17 15 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Corebot 26.03 released with Intel PantherLake support (coreboot.org)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by cromka 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Gone (Almost) Phishin' (ma.tt)
    ×0.80 | 2 points by luu 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???