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  1. Training mRNA Language Models Across 25 Species for $165
    ×0.99 25 #21 | 102 points by maziyar 10 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw
    ×3.40 10 #28 | 1020 points by firloop 1 day ago | 772 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: How Do You Relax?
    ×1.03 21 | 6 points by azeirah 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Intelligence Cannot Be Trained?
    ×0.77 92 | 5 points by hyperzzw 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2026)
    ×1.19 98 | 274 points by whoishiring 3 days ago | 347 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2026)
    ×0.75 128 | 85 points by whoishiring 3 days ago | 337 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Anthropic to limit Using third-party harnesses with Claude subscriptions
    ×0.60 105 | 17 points by guiyuwei 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Third-party Claude harnesses will now draw from extra usage
    ×0.57 111 | 12 points by iBelieve 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Distributed data centers in our basements
    ×0.50 141 | 73 points by cmos 4 days ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Learning resources for building AI agents?
    ×0.64 112 | 5 points by 7e10 15 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Tell HN: YouTube history setting privacy implications
    ×1.06 115 | 5 points by tinaclaussen 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Why still embed heavy 3rd-party iFrames for simple social proof?
    ×0.64 133 | 4 points by LordKode 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Should we collectively stop spell checking and fixing grammar
    ×0.40 146 | 5 points by sankalpnarula 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Tell HN: Chrome says "suspicious download" when trying to download yt-dlp
    ×2.35 109 | 308 points by joering2 4 days ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Analysis of credit card receipts to show one does not buy alcohol
    ×0.55 138 | 4 points by bryanrasmussen 21 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What are you moving on to now that Claude Code is so rate limited?
    ×0.53 139 | 8 points by esperent 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Lightweight IDE to Pair with Claude Code?
    ×0.65 143 | 4 points by zupancik 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Are agents _still_ writing most of your code?
    ×0.19 140 | 5 points by etamponi 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What dev tools do you rely on that nobody talks about?
    ×1.51 142 | 42 points by crcsmnky 3 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. What Is a Collation, and Why Is My Data Corrupt? – PG Phridays with Shaun Thomas
    ×0.17 160 | 3 points by pgedge_postgres 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: What is your dev set up like?
    ×0.47 152 | 13 points by break_the_bank 2 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Stripe closed my UAE business account and is withholding $3.5K
    ×1.02 136 | 25 points by alganzory 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: How relevant is low code according to you in today’s world with Claude?
    ×0.63 161 | 8 points by kinj28 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Thought Exercise regarding RX dependency
    ×0.37 169 | 3 points by Bender 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Academic study on AI's impact on software development – want to join?
    ×0.53 165 | 31 points by research2026 4 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Advice on Solo Launching
    ×0.26 150 | 5 points by acaciabengo 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: European Tech Alternatives?
    ×1.74 100 | 103 points by BrunoBernardino 2 days ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Whether there is LLM or other strong NLP behind Hacker News?
    ×0.33 175 | 3 points by Jet_Xu 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Is there any interest in a native Qt/C++ Discord client?
    ×1.51 196 | 5 points by txtsd 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Fixed a llama.cpp bug silently disabling Vulkan GPU on all 32-bit ARM devices
    ×0.39 181 | 3 points by perinban 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. BetterDB – open-source Redis/Valkey migration across clouds and self-hosted
    ×0.82 173 | 15 points by kaliades 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: What happens when you block/mark as spam a call or text?
    ×0.63 174 | 13 points by dsalzman 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Are tech companies even hiring?
    ×1.43 162 | 20 points by KernelPryanic 3 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Does anyone else notice that gas runs out faster than usual
    ×0.62 182 | 21 points by cat-turner 5 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: What was it like in the era of BBS before the internet?
    ×1.09 176 | 34 points by ex-aws-dude 5 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. LinkedIn uses 65GB of RAM with 7 tabs opened
    ×1.11 180 | 15 points by daniele_dll 4 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Brian Kernighan's "Q"?
    ×0.60 186 | 4 points by remywang 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2026)
    ×1.25 192 | 7 points by jon_north 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: How do you know if a tweak to your AI skill made it better?
    ×0.89 188 | 8 points by yo103jg 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Are you team MCP or team CLI?
    ×0.60 193 | 16 points by sharath39 5 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Mbodi AI (YC P25) Is Hiring (ycombinator.com)
    11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Dropping capitalist-individualism for democratic-socialist spiritualism (thenotoriousdmg.substack.com)
    ×1.20 4 | 5 points by himanshu7net 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Quillium, the non-linear writing app (bryanhu.com)
    ×1.47 183 | 5 points by thatxliner 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. LLM Wiki – example of an "idea file" (github.com/karpathy)
    ×0.83 15 #4 | 17 points by tamnd 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: DotReader – connects ideas across your books automatically (dotreader.info)
    ×1.59 135 | 5 points by efecerre 22 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. IBM 3270 Information Display System: Color and Programmed Symbols (1979) [pdf] (bitsavers.org)
    ×1.02 37 #17 | 29 points by hggh 6 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs (blogosphere.app)
    ×2.73 4 #57 | 747 points by ramkarthikk 1 day ago | 189 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. How to Write Unmaintainable Code (1999) (ic.ac.uk)
    ×0.70 76 #82 | 48 points by downbad_ 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. F-15E jet shot down over Iran (theguardian.com)
    ×3.82 21 #84 | 591 points by tjwds 1 day ago | 1331 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. The Only Game Worth Playing (calvinrosser.com)
    ×2.42 27 | 5 points by sillywabbit 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Semantic atlas of 188 constitutions in 3D (30k articles, embeddings) (constitutionalmap.ai)
    ×0.60 170 | 12 points by joaoli131 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Solana Drift Protocol drained of $285M via fake token and governance hijack (anonhaven.com)
    ×1.14 68 | 75 points by anonhaven 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Sundial – a new way to look at a weather forecast (sundial.page)
    ×1.75 147 | 64 points by izaidi 4 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Pardus Browser- a browser for AI agents without Chromium (github.com/JasonHonKL)
    ×0.40 184 | 16 points by JasonHEIN 4 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Margo – Find the font your brain reads fastest (margo.fyi)
    ×4.27 187 | 13 points by theseidel 4 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Improving my focus by giving up my big monitor (ounapuu.ee)
    ×1.31 63 #41 | 178 points by Fudgel 1 day ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. How to make a sliding, self-locking, and predator-proof chicken coop door (2020) (backyardchickens.com)
    ×0.76 89 #49 | 129 points by uticus 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. We replaced RAG with a virtual filesystem for our AI documentation assistant (mintlify.com)
    ×1.88 21 #67 | 390 points by denssumesh 1 day ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Congress Became the Weakest Branch (aei.org)
    ×1.32 8 #68 | 10 points by marojejian 3 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: SkiFlee (an HTML5 game) (easel.games)
    ×2.25 157 | 8 points by BSTRhino 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. The Indie Internet Index – submit your favorite sites (iii.social)
    ×0.98 31 #11 | 82 points by freshman_dev 9 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Cadenza – Connect Wandb logs to agents easily for autonomous research (github.com/mylucaai)
    ×1.23 | 2 points by hgarud 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. April 2026 TLDR Setup for Ollama and Gemma 4 26B on a Mac mini (github.com/greenstevester)
    ×1.71 30 | 316 points by greenstevester 1 day ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: TinyOS – A minimalist RTOS for Cortex-M written in C (github.com/cmc-labo)
    ×0.70 52 | 99 points by hpscript 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: AI-first PostgreSQL client for Mac (guillim.github.io)
    ×0.78 189 | 4 points by Guillim 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Mullenweg to Cloudflare: Keep WordPress Out of Your Mouth (searchenginejournal.com)
    ×4.08 69 | 5 points by ValentineC 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Hacker News RSS Feed Directory (huggingface.co)
    ×3.39 89 | 6 points by tamnd 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Plague Ships (2020) (afloat.com.au)
    ×0.63 30 #20 | 32 points by bryanrasmussen 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. What life looks like on the most remote inhabited island (npr.org)
    ×1.64 14 #44 | 68 points by brightbeige 7 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Positioning, Leverage, and Judgment (daeus.blog)
    ×1.94 | 2 points by kurinikku 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Jack Dorsey says Block employees now bring prototypes, not slides, to meetings (businessinsider.com)
    ×2.88 23 | 70 points by taubek 11 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. A Rave Review of Superpowers (For Claude Code) (emschwartz.me)
    ×1.08 110 | 45 points by emschwartz 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: EU Leadership – Live API data site comparing Europe to the world (ajh.ovh)
    ×2.82 159 | 34 points by aureljohn 4 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Fake Fans (wordsfromeliza.com)
    ×1.27 58 #56 | 149 points by performative 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Iran strikes leave Amazon availability zones "hard down" in Bahrain and Dubai (bigtechnology.com)
    ×3.14 17 #80 | 233 points by upofadown 1 day ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. How Iran Should End the War (foreignaffairs.com)
    ×2.64 12 | 6 points by YeGoblynQueenne 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Tesla Is Sitting on a Record 50k Unsold EVs (insideevs.com)
    ×4.79 21 | 75 points by vrganj 12 hours ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. OpenScreen is an open-source alternative to Screen Studio (github.com/siddharthvaddem)
    ×1.10 20 #7 | 13 points by jskopek 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Category Theory Illustrated – Types (abuseofnotation.github.io)
    ×0.93 94 #69 | 102 points by boris_m 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. If browsers are sandboxed, how can an Edge extension view local apps? (microsoft.com)
    ×0.93 | 1 points by oceansprayed 1 minute ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: React hooks that predict text height before render, using font metrics
    ×2.28 63 | 7 points by ahmadparizaad 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: A simple iOS app that helps you give yourself some time" (apple.com)
    ×2.06 79 | 6 points by sezginozgur 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Linux Running in a PDF (2025) (doompdf.dev)
    ×1.08 68 #88 | 84 points by matthewsinclair 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Google releases Gemma 4 open models (deepmind.google)
    ×6.05 16 #53 | 1759 points by jeffmcjunkin 2 days ago | 462 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Companies' website traffic predicts financial performance and stock returns (berkeley.edu)
    ×1.25 | 2 points by hhs 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Update on the eBay Scam (kevquirk.com)
    ×0.67 91 | 43 points by speckx 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Most products have no idea what their AI agents did yesterday (velt.dev)
    ×0.90 185 | 4 points by rakeshgoyal 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: DeepTable – an API that converts messy Excel files into structured data (deeptable.com)
    ×1.24 199 | 8 points by francisrafal 4 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: TurboQuant-WASM – Google's vector quantization in the browser (github.com/teamchong)
    ×0.79 10 #10 | 123 points by teamchong 8 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Age verification on Systemd and Flatpak (cybrkyd.com)
    ×1.40 70 #59 | 139 points by londonanon 1 day ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???