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  1. Tell HN: MitID, Denmark's digital ID, was down
    ×2.60 19 #23 | 91 points by mousepad12 7 hours ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users
    ×3.38 6 #80 | 664 points by miki123211 1 day ago | 253 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Trump Administration reiterates human in the loop policy for nuclear weapons
    ×0.98 14 | 8 points by apolloartemis 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. If you drive clock wise along the beach on an island
    ×0.58 33 | 6 points by Cookingboy 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How do you handle duplicate side effects when jobs, workflows retry?
    ×0.39 83 | 7 points by shineDaPoker 18 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. I don't need AI to build me a new app. I need it to make Jira bearable
    ×0.65 81 | 19 points by niel_hu 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: My competitor wants to buy us out, recommend a lawyer?
    ×0.56 96 | 5 points by VladVladikoff 21 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. 36yo: Career at home vs. Simple life abroad?
    ×0.57 67 | 8 points by Slaboli 12 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. 1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March
    ×3.06 79 | 144 points by otterley 3 days ago | 197 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Who Is Using XMPP?
    ×0.40 100 | 23 points by nunobrito 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What's it like working in big tech recently with all the AI tools?
    ×0.98 94 | 20 points by ex-aws-dude 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. How do you evaluate a person's ability to use AI?
    ×0.70 86 | 5 points by imwoody 16 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. I built a 151k-node GraphRAG swarm that autonomously invents SDG solutions
    ×0.07 | 2 points by wisdomagi 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. New Claude Code Feature "Remote Control"
    ×0.39 129 | 8 points by rob 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Starting a New Role with Ada
    ×0.54 117 | 9 points by NoNameHaveI 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Claude Code Bug triggers Rate limits without usage
    ×0.13 123 | 3 points by busssard 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What will happen with Anthropics ultimatum?
    ×0.81 115 | 7 points by maniacwhat 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Comparing manual vs. AI requirements gathering: 2 sentences vs. 127-point spec
    ×0.25 125 | 3 points by thesssaism 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. LazyGravity – I made my phone control Antigravity so I never leave bed
    ×0.21 120 | 5 points by masaTokyo 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Would you choose the Microsoft stack today if starting greenfield?
    ×1.31 122 | 20 points by JB_5000 3 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: How are you controlling AI agents that take real actions?
    ×0.37 139 | 7 points by thesvp 3 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Could you create a competitor to your company at 10% of the cost?
    ×0.67 109 | 9 points by TheAlchemist 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Fix cron routes: POST → GET (Vercel cron sends GET)
    ×0.15 | 2 points by nishiohiroshi 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. ChatGPT finds an error in Terence Tao's math research
    ×1.03 107 | 42 points by codexon 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Comparing manual vs. AI requirements gathering: 2 sentences vs. 127-point spec
    ×0.38 138 | 7 points by thesssaism 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: What Linux Would Be a Good Transition from Windows 11
    ×0.94 132 | 13 points by Cyberis 3 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Who has seen productivity increases from AI
    ×0.46 127 | 12 points by Kapura 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Have top AI research institutions just given up on the idea of safety?
    ×1.97 78 | 81 points by DietaryNonsense 2 days ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Any DIY open-source Alexa/Google alternatives?
    ×0.32 134 | 9 points by personality0 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Persistent Prompts and Built in Search
    ×0.14 | 2 points by lazybusy 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Is it worth avoiding AI while making a game?
    ×0.91 133 | 7 points by 2muchclout 2 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Using "Hi Claudette " on Claude.ai
    ×0.19 140 | 4 points by mlongval 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Are AI "Chatbot Wrappers" ruining EdTech? I'm testing a proactive UX
    ×0.16 | 2 points by Swadesh9422 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Missing page from Practical Computing magazine (1980)
    ×0.51 142 | 3 points by sim04ful 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Share your productive usage of OpenClaw
    ×2.22 82 | 101 points by aavci 2 days ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Does anyone use CrewAI or LangChain anymore?
    ×0.86 135 | 11 points by rakan1 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: What is up with all the glitchy and off-topic comments?
    ×0.94 137 | 10 points by marginalia_nu 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Launching the Agent Protocols Tech Tree (harvard.edu)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by mixedmath 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: PyMOL-RS – Rust reimplementation of PyMOL with modern rendering (github.com/zmactep)
    ×1.85 119 | 4 points by zmactep 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Amid crackdown on Chinese students, one US university appears to block them (theguardian.com)
    ×1.56 3 | 3 points by pseudalopex 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. NASA announces overhaul of Artemis program amid safety concerns, delays (cbsnews.com)
    ×1.78 10 #5 | 107 points by voxadam 4 hours ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Linex – A daily challenge: placing pieces on a board that fights back (playlinex.com)
    ×0.56 58 #77 | 77 points by Humanista75 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Instant DB clones for AI agents (contextbits.com)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by classx 54 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Google workers seek 'red lines' on military A.I., echoing Anthropic (nytimes.com)
    ×4.21 36 | 269 points by mikece 17 hours ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. The Hunt for Dark Breakfast (wordpress.com)
    ×2.71 7 #27 | 500 points by moultano 17 hours ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Trump moves to blacklist Anthropic over AI fight with Pentagon (axios.com)
    ×1.00 42 | 3 points by jaz 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Scientists Are Setting Off Earthquakes. On Purpose (popularmechanics.com)
    ×1.00 | 1 points by markoph 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. AdaptiveCpp's new Metal backend to support CUDA dialect on Apple GPUs (github.com/AdaptiveCpp)
    ×1.87 | 2 points by puschkinfr 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Ask HN: Apple locked me out of the developer program for a technical error
    ×1.59 | 2 points by LoganDark 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: OpenAI to Buy Babuger.com for $1B? (Just Kidding, I Built It)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by lyuata 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. FBI was hacked and 100tb from the Epstein file deleted [pdf] (justice.gov)
    ×1.87 21 | 4 points by Aeroi 1 hour ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. D3D12 Opacity Micromaps (microsoft.com)
    ×1.11 | 2 points by ibobev 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Recursively apply patterns for pathfinding (pattern-pathfinder.vercel.app)
    ×0.38 105 | 26 points by seveibar 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Duck Talk – Real-time voice interface to talk to your Claude Code (github.com/dhuynh95)
    ×3.19 102 | 6 points by DanyWin 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. An interactive intro to quadtrees (growingswe.com)
    ×1.61 6 #33 | 181 points by evakhoury 11 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. The normalization of corruption in organizations (2003) [pdf] (gwern.net)
    ×1.84 4 #41 | 242 points by rendx 13 hours ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: ImageCFN – Analog, Resolution-Independent Image Representation (web-demo-ten-navy.vercel.app)
    ×0.76 | 2 points by prof_garlic 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Google Street View in 2026 (marksblogg.com)
    ×1.39 36 #78 | 140 points by marklit 1 day ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. TaskForge – immutable, orchiestration for OpenClaw bots (github.com/romanklis)
    ×1.00 | 1 points by roman_klis 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. I never estimate on the call. Best engineering rule I made for myself (perspectiveship.com)
    ×1.11 | 2 points by birdculture 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Origin of the rule that swap size should be 2x of the physical memory (stackexchange.com)
    ×1.54 74 | 66 points by SeenNotHeard 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: CodeLeash: framework for quality agent development, NOT an orchestrator (codeleash.dev)
    ×0.64 70 | 11 points by cadamsdotcom 17 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. BuildKit: Docker's Hidden Gem That Can Build Almost Anything (tuananh.net)
    ×1.29 42 #68 | 211 points by jasonpeacock 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Hacker Smacker – Spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance (hackersmacker.org)
    ×0.94 49 #70 | 137 points by conesus 1 day ago | 161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Anthropic says company 'cannot in good conscience accede' to Pentagon's demands (apnews.com)
    ×4.68 30 | 78 points by geox 21 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: I built a managed Claude AI and hosting service (codedoc.us)
    ×0.94 | 2 points by novatrope 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. I Built an Open-Source AI Agent That Builds Its Own Tools (github.com/elophanto)
    ×1.00 | 1 points by elophanto_agent 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: DumpCleaner – Native macOS/iPadOS app to filter SQL dumps (dumpcleaner.app)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by marcelglaeser 59 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. A Nationwide Book Ban Bill Has Been Introduced in the House of Representatives (bookriot.com)
    ×5.71 22 | 172 points by LostMyLogin 17 hours ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Story of XZ Backdoor [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.19 34 | 132 points by Ulf950 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Declarative open-source framework for MCPs with search and execute (hyperterse.com)
    ×0.46 126 | 11 points by samrith 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Writing a Guide to SDF Fonts (redblobgames.com)
    ×0.70 14 #7 | 38 points by chunkles 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Unfucked – version every change between commits - local-first (unfudged.io)
    ×1.04 3 #30 | 36 points by cyrusradfar 3 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Edward L. Deci, 83, Dies; Founder of Self-Determination.. (nytimes.com)
    ×1.00 | 1 points by paulpauper 16 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. NASA announces Artemis III mission no longer aims to send humans to moon (theguardian.com)
    ×2.61 19 | 3 points by bookofjoe 46 minutes ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Modeling cycles of grift with evolutionary game theory (oranlooney.com)
    ×0.84 17 #13 | 53 points by ibobev 4 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. ChatGPT Health fails to recognise medical emergencies – study (theguardian.com)
    ×2.91 16 #28 | 172 points by simonebrunozzi 5 hours ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Rob Grant, creator of Red Dwarf, has died (beyondthejoke.co.uk)
    ×4.10 30 #32 | 117 points by nephihaha 1 hour ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Theory of Constraints: "Blue Light" creating capacity for nothing (2007) (theoryofconstraints.blogspot.com)
    ×0.93 12 #35 | 21 points by strongpigeon 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Anthropic refuses to bend to Pentagon on AI safeguards as dispute nears deadline (apnews.com)
    ×2.06 9 #49 | 15 points by infinitewars 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Palantir's AI Is Playing a Major Role in Tracking Gaza Aid Deliveries (dropsitenews.com)
    ×4.59 1 | 143 points by mikece 20 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Django Control Room – All Your Tools Inside the Django Admin (github.com/yassi)
    ×1.04 68 | 132 points by yassi_dev 2 days ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Smartphone market forecast to decline this year due to memory shortage (idc.com)
    ×1.76 28 #47 | 256 points by littlexsparkee 22 hours ago | 298 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Warner Bros signs $110B deal with Paramount (reuters.com)
    ×2.50 19 #56 | 7 points by Vitamin_Sushi 50 minutes ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. The Man Who Stole Infinity (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.37 48 #64 | 16 points by pseudolus 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Ask HN: How do you enforce guardrails on Claude agents taking real actions?
    ×1.00 | 2 points by jamiecode 25 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Will magnesium supplements help you relax? (economist.com)
    ×1.15 | 2 points by vinni2 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: I'm building TaskWeave, a typesafe task orchestrator (github.com/spicyPoke)
    ×0.86 | 2 points by spicypoke 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War (anthropic.com)
    ×10.38 16 #26 | 2782 points by qwertox 22 hours ago | 1481 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. The complete Manic Miner disassembly (skoolkit.ca)
    ×0.99 32 #57 | 61 points by sandebert 12 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???