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  1. Tell HN: Another round of Zendesk email spam
    ×2.44 14 #21 | 68 points by Philpax 3 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Mem0 stores memories, but doesn't learn user patterns
    ×0.57 57 #57 | 5 points by fliellerjulian 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Where does operational truth live before it reaches "systems of record"?
    ×0.51 | 2 points by former-aws 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. What is going on with Crypto and metals?
    ×0.46 26 | 5 points by cope123 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)
    ×0.80 81 | 135 points by whoishiring 2 days ago | 434 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. What questions do you have about using MCP servers with Postgres?
    ×0.50 59 | 3 points by pgedge_postgres 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)
    ×1.22 55 | 304 points by whoishiring 2 days ago | 453 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. YC S26 Application: "Attach a coding agent session you're particularly proud of"
    ×0.13 | 2 points by simplydt 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: When will LLMs generate professional-level CAD models?
    ×0.55 50 | 6 points by dsrtslnd23 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Are ISPs "evil" and who runs the Internet?
    ×0.31 92 | 4 points by tavro 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Is there anyone here who still uses slide rules?
    ×1.19 48 | 118 points by blenderob 1 day ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Do you still use physical calculators?
    ×0.80 88 | 58 points by speedylight 4 days ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. How do you manage context/memory across multiple AI tools?
    ×0.33 74 | 7 points by arapkuliev 11 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Kernighan on Programming
    ×1.81 76 | 165 points by chrisjj 2 days ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Google Cloud suspended my account for 2 years, only automated replies
    ×1.45 111 | 159 points by andylizf 4 days ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Cheap laptop for Linux without GUI (for writing)
    ×0.70 109 | 10 points by locusofself 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Tech Debt War Stories
    ×0.40 110 | 6 points by erubini_fg 20 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: OpenClaw users, what is your token spend?
    ×1.05 128 | 14 points by 8cvor6j844qw_d6 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Anyone have a "sovereign" solution for phone calls?
    ×0.79 129 | 9 points by kldg 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Does a good "read it later" app exist?
    ×0.42 119 | 5 points by buchanae 21 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Have you been fired because of AI?
    ×1.92 123 | 15 points by s-stude 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. GitHub Actions Have "Major Outage"
    ×2.48 102 | 52 points by graton 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: What weird or scrappy things did you do to get your first users?
    ×1.11 135 | 13 points by preston-kwei 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Has anybody moved their local community off of Facebook groups?
    ×0.89 136 | 21 points by madsohm 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Are you still using spec driven development?
    ×0.82 150 | 6 points by cherry_tree 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. My small SaaS got recommended my Google in the AI search overview
    ×0.60 153 | 4 points by kaave 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Signal Is Down
    ×2.28 83 | 40 points by Daniel_sk 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
    ×1.45 132 | 6 points by iryndin 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Why dead code detection in Python is harder than most tools admit
    ×1.08 147 | 6 points by duriantaco 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Why do people still talk about AGI?
    ×1.22 121 | 42 points by cermicelli 2 days ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Google terminated my YouTube channel even thought I made no videos or used it
    ×1.10 114 | 5 points by paulpauper 20 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Where do all the web devs talk?
    ×1.63 97 | 54 points by LinguaBrowse 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Anyone else struggle with how to learn coding in the AI era?
    ×2.08 98 | 49 points by 44Bulldog 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: What serious task have you accomplished with Moltbot / OpenClaw?
    ×0.95 155 | 12 points by lukol 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. CiderStack – Native macOS VM manager, pay once, no subscription
    ×0.84 148 | 5 points by ciderdev 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Who is firing? (February 2026)
    ×4.05 118 | 24 points by chalmovsky 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Any Successful Co-Ops of Software Engineers
    ×0.79 161 | 13 points by rubyn00bie 4 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: Request limits vs. token limits for AI-powered apps?
    ×0.57 162 | 3 points by JeduDev 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: Is anyone losing sleep over retry storms or partial API outages?
    ×0.39 | 2 points by rjpruitt16 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: Any real OpenClaw (Clawd Bot/Molt Bot) users? What's your experience?
    ×2.21 116 | 116 points by cvhc 4 days ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: Interest in low cost / fast container registry?
    ×0.42 | 2 points by osigurdson 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ask HN: What's your competitive intelligence workflow as a small team?
    ×0.94 | 2 points by VoderAI 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: A proposal for interviewing "AI-Augmented" Engineers
    ×0.51 163 | 3 points by vanbashan 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Ask HN: Why are customer feedback boards so static? Building a live alternative
    ×0.23 | 2 points by develotor 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Ask HN: What are the immediate/near/long-term non-corporate benefits of AI?
    ×0.53 164 | 3 points by 0x4e 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Ask HN: How do you give AI agents access without over-permissioning?
    ×0.95 157 | 6 points by NBenkovich 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. GitHub Incidents with Actions and Codespaces
    ×2.11 142 | 11 points by jeduardo 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Task engine VM – for tasks with executable instructions (progress update)
    ×0.12 165 | 4 points by tracyspacy 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Ask HN: What's your preferred Python tool to convert Markdown to print ready PDF
    ×0.50 | 2 points by eon01 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Cohesix 0.4.0-alpha, a no-std control-plane OS (github.com/lukeb-aidev)
    ×1.01 | 2 points by Cohesix 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: I built an AI movie making and design engine in Rust (github.com/storytold)
    ×2.62 140 | 5 points by echelon 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Deno Sandbox (deno.com)
    ×2.23 11 #66 | 515 points by johnspurlock 1 day ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. I Am Not a Functional Programmer (daniel-beskin.com)
    ×2.99 13 | 5 points by birdculture 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. AI didn't break copyright law, it just exposed how broken it was (jasonwillems.com)
    ×2.02 55 #87 | 104 points by at1as 1 day ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: C discrete event SIM w stackful coroutines runs 45x faster than SimPy (github.com/ambonvik)
    ×0.71 70 | 63 points by ambonvik 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: I built "AI Wattpad" to eval LLMs on fiction (narrator.sh)
    ×0.57 90 | 29 points by jauws 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Zuckerman – minimalist personal AI agent that self-edits its own code (github.com/zuckermanai)
    ×1.24 117 | 71 points by ddaniel10 3 days ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Browser based state machine simulator and visualizer (svylabs.github.io)
    ×0.53 | 2 points by sridhar87 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Sqldef: Idempotent schema management tool for MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite (sqldef.github.io)
    ×2.09 12 #4 | 34 points by Palmik 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. AI is killing B2B SaaS (nmn.gl)
    ×2.51 4 #6 | 197 points by namanyayg 7 hours ago | 343 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Study: emotional support from social media found to reduce anxiety (uark.edu)
    ×0.74 3 #43 | 67 points by giuliomagnifico 7 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Claude Code for Infrastructure (fluid.sh)
    ×1.60 5 #7 | 131 points by aspectrr 6 hours ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. NDP wants Carney to kill U.S. fighter jet contract in favour of Swedish aircraft (ctvnews.ca)
    ×3.67 32 #45 | 20 points by c420 1 hour ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Student Loans May Get Discharged, Refunded for 200k as Key Deadline Passes (forbes.com)
    ×1.08 | 2 points by toomuchtodo 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Stigmergy pattern for multi-agent LLMs (80% fewer API calls) (github.com/KeepALifeUS)
    ×1.31 151 | 3 points by keepalifeus 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Sentinel Gate – Open-source RBAC firewall for MCP agents (github.com/Sentinel-Gate)
    ×0.95 | 2 points by Sentinel-gate 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Simple LLM Native Todo System on OpenCode (mataroa.blog)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by xupybd 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Sandboxing AI Agents in Linux (senko.net)
    ×1.53 42 | 113 points by speckx 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: LayerClaw – Observability tool for PyTorch training
    ×0.99 | 2 points by prabhavsanga 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw (brandon.wang)
    ×1.57 18 #13 | 237 points by brdd 11 hours ago | 384 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Litestream Writable VFS (fly.io)
    ×1.17 13 #30 | 20 points by emschwartz 1 hour ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: DuoBolt – a review-first duplicate file finder powered by BLAKE3 (duobolt.app)
    ×0.83 94 | 3 points by r9ne 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Tabstack Research – An API for verified web research (by Mozilla)
    ×2.37 38 | 7 points by MrTravisB 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Toktrack – 1000x faster AI CLI cost tracker (Rust and SIMD) (github.com/mag123c)
    ×2.21 22 | 3 points by mag123c 41 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Everyone Is Stealing TV (theverge.com)
    ×2.52 5 | 4 points by jnord 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. X offices raided in France (apnews.com)
    ×5.43 14 | 289 points by labrador 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Minikv – Distributed key-value and object store in Rust (Raft, S3 API) (github.com/whispem)
    ×1.04 77 | 68 points by whispem 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. I built a 30KB language model that's never been wrong (towardsai.net)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by nicklamb 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Qwen3-Coder-Next (qwen.ai)
    ×2.90 25 | 714 points by danielhanchen 1 day ago | 414 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. AI and Trust (2023) (schneier.com)
    ×2.21 37 | 96 points by insuranceguru 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: npx claude-mycelium grow – fungi agent orchestration for your repo (npmjs.com)
    ×0.67 | 2 points by altras 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. As Rocks May Think (evjang.com)
    ×1.48 3 #2 | 38 points by modeless 1 hour ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. What Spectroscopy Was to the 1800s, Embeddings Are to Science Now (mnky9800n.substack.com)
    ×1.05 | 2 points by mnky9800n 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Ask HN: chat agent for n8n development?
    ×0.52 | 1 points by realityfactchex 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB) (safe-now.live)
    ×1.43 43 | 184 points by tinuviel 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. China Moon Mission: Aiming for 2030 lunar landing (ieee.org)
    ×1.59 28 | 148 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Epstein asked Chomsky for advice over 'putrid' media coverage, files show (bbc.com)
    ×5.18 22 #48 | 19 points by tartoran 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. From building client websites to launching my own SaaS
    ×0.48 | 1 points by CheckAnalytic 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. How Jeff Bezos Brought Down the Washington Post (newyorker.com)
    ×6.77 89 | 207 points by thm 5 hours ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. GPT-5.2 and GPT-5.2-Codex are now 40% faster (twitter.com/OpenAIDevs)
    ×2.99 46 | 65 points by davidbarker 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???