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  1. Ask HN: Who Is Using XMPP?
    ×0.32 26 #76 | 11 points by nunobrito 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Programmable Watches with WiFi?
    ×0.29 69 | 33 points by dakiol 3 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. 1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March
    ×4.57 30 | 136 points by otterley 1 day ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Starting a New Role with Ada
    ×0.53 58 | 5 points by NoNameHaveI 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Have top AI research institutions just given up on the idea of safety?
    ×2.18 58 | 72 points by DietaryNonsense 6 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. New Claude Code Feature "Remote Control"
    ×0.53 88 | 7 points by rob 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Chromebook leads for K-8 school in need?
    ×0.39 95 | 45 points by techteach00 3 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How do you know if AI agents will choose your tool?
    ×0.52 91 | 31 points by dmpyatyi 2 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Share your productive usage of OpenClaw
    ×2.17 7 | 88 points by aavci 17 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Persistent Prompts and Built in Search
    ×0.18 | 2 points by lazybusy 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Comparing manual vs. AI requirements gathering: 2 sentences vs. 127-point spec
    ×0.27 128 | 4 points by thesssaism 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Would you choose the Microsoft stack today if starting greenfield?
    ×1.62 93 | 18 points by JB_5000 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: How are you controlling AI agents that take real actions?
    ×0.39 121 | 6 points by thesvp 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Is it worth avoiding AI while making a game?
    ×1.01 98 | 5 points by 2muchclout 23 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. ChatGPT finds an error in Terence Tao's math research
    ×1.09 86 | 41 points by codexon 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Using "Hi Claudette " on Claude.ai
    ×0.23 112 | 4 points by mlongval 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Any DIY open-source Alexa/Google alternatives?
    ×0.31 106 | 8 points by personality0 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Looking 4 open-source knowledge base and project management tool 4 personal use
    ×0.37 116 | 4 points by TheAlgorist 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What Linux Would Be a Good Transition from Windows 11
    ×1.16 107 | 13 points by Cyberis 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Who has seen productivity increases from AI
    ×0.29 104 | 7 points by Kapura 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Is it better to have no Agent.md than a bad one?
    ×0.30 132 | 7 points by parvardegr 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Are AI "Chatbot Wrappers" ruining EdTech? I'm testing a proactive UX
    ×0.30 | 2 points by Swadesh9422 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Missing page from Practical Computing magazine (1980)
    ×1.01 136 | 3 points by sim04ful 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Why doesn't HN have a rec algorithm?
    ×0.25 141 | 9 points by sujayk_33 3 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Does anyone use CrewAI or LangChain anymore?
    ×0.85 117 | 10 points by rakan1 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: What Comes After Markdown?
    ×0.40 139 | 9 points by YuukiJyoudai 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: What is up with all the glitchy and off-topic comments?
    ×1.02 118 | 10 points by marginalia_nu 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: What breaks when you run AI agents unsupervised?
    ×0.39 137 | 12 points by marvin_nora 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. What podcasts are you listening to?
    ×0.46 | 2 points by thomk 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. GLP-1 Second-Order Effects
    ×0.98 101 | 22 points by 7777777phil 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. I'm 15 and built a platform for developers to showcase WIP projects
    ×0.71 140 | 12 points by amin2011 4 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. So Claude's stealing our business secrets, right?
    ×1.14 126 | 26 points by arm32 3 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Cognitive Offloading to AI
    ×0.69 135 | 12 points by daringrain32781 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: If the "AI bubble" pops, will it really be that dramatic?
    ×0.77 138 | 14 points by moomoo11 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Why don't software developers make medical devices?
    ×1.05 142 | 8 points by piratesAndSons 4 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Aniframe- AI Powered Cartoon E-Ink Picture Frame (justusdevs.substack.com)
    ×1.17 | 2 points by floydhead01 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. LLM=True (codemine.be)
    ×1.60 9 #32 | 199 points by avh3 12 hours ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Dekal – Design CAD kinematics with code (dekal.sh)
    ×0.81 | 1 points by Timot05 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Designing APIs for AI Agents (apideck.com)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by gertjandewilde 33 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Hetzner Is Down (statusgator.com)
    ×7.98 73 | 9 points by alcazar 15 minutes ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Scene Data (scene-data.com)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by rprend 51 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Penclaw.ai hire OpenClaw tenant for pentesting (penclaw.ai)
    ×1.68 19 | 3 points by ozgurozkan 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Disk Inventory X updated for Apple Silicon (diskinv.github.io)
    ×1.69 111 | 4 points by lababidi 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: I Indexed My Closet to Make It Easier to Get Ready in the Morning (crnicholson.com)
    ×1.60 131 | 3 points by crnicholson 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Colorado Lawmakers Push for Age Verification at the Operating System Level (pcmag.com)
    ×2.75 14 #59 | 5 points by josephcsible 33 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Combien de Bises ? (free.fr)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by jjgreen 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Steerling-8B, a language model that can explain any token it generates (guidelabs.ai)
    ×2.10 32 | 321 points by adebayoj 1 day ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Russian soldiers tell BBC they saw fellow troops executed on commanders' orders (bbc.com)
    ×4.81 42 | 94 points by breve 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Sowbot – Open-hardware agricultural robot (ROS2, RTK GPS) (sowbot.co.uk)
    ×1.10 71 | 179 points by Sabrees 2 days ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Cl-kawa: Scheme on Java on Common Lisp (github.com/atgreen)
    ×0.60 48 #58 | 76 points by varjag 17 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Hacker used Anthropic's Claude chatbot to attack government agencies in Mexico (engadget.com)
    ×1.98 7 #63 | 15 points by LordAtlas 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Collabora clashes with LibreOffice over decision to revive LibreOffice Online (neowin.net)
    ×0.84 | 1 points by bundie 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: L88 – A Local RAG System on 8GB VRAM (Need Architecture Feedback)
    ×1.45 110 | 10 points by adithyadrdo 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Claude Copy – Drop-in fix for Claude Code's broken copy-paste (github.com/andersmyrmel)
    ×0.91 | 2 points by andersmyrmel 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: I ported Tree-sitter to Go (github.com/odvcencio)
    ×1.56 1 #6 | 128 points by odvcencio 2 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Following 35% growth, solar has passed hydro on US grid (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.51 6 #8 | 284 points by rbanffy 4 hours ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. A 62-byte FLAC file that requests 8.5GB in dr_flac, used by raylib and SDL (medium.com)
    ×2.97 43 | 4 points by BambaNugat 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Synlets – Assign Jira/Asana tickets to AI, get working PRs back (synlets.com)
    ×0.89 | 2 points by stas-user 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Agent that matches sales reps with warm leads based on product usage (getbeton.ai)
    ×1.70 28 | 4 points by nadyyym 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Cost per Outcome for AI Workflows (github.com/botanu-ai)
    ×1.57 114 | 4 points by deborahjacob 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. GNU Texmacs (texmacs.org)
    ×0.94 14 #11 | 83 points by remywang 5 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. AI podcast network publishes 11,000 episodes a day. It rips off media outlets (indicator.media)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by jaredwiener 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Breakthrough Study Shows Sound Stimulation May Help Clear Alzheimer's Plaques (scitechdaily.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by donsupreme 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Cell Service for the Fairly Paranoid (cape.co)
    ×1.54 29 #67 | 161 points by 0xWTF 22 hours ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Recursively apply patterns for pathfinding (pattern-pathfinder.vercel.app)
    ×0.36 67 | 25 points by seveibar 23 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. We are changing our developer productivity experiment design (metr.org)
    ×0.99 45 | 82 points by ej88 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Awsim – Lightweight AWS emulator in Go (40 services in progress) (github.com/sivchari)
    ×1.01 130 | 3 points by sivchari 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives (reuters.com)
    ×4.85 16 #25 | 351 points by colinhb 6 hours ago | 293 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. One Hack Nearly Took Down the Internet (Veritasium) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.25 | 2 points by sbuttgereit 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Flock cameras gifted by Horowitz Foundation, avoiding public oversight (thenevadaindependent.com)
    ×3.40 55 | 256 points by rurp 2 days ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Cellarium: A Playground for Cellular Automata (github.com/andrewosh)
    ×0.62 82 | 39 points by andrewosh 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: 3D Mahjong, Built in CSS (voxjong.com)
    ×0.96 85 | 137 points by rofko 3 days ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Xcode Copilot Code Assistant (github.com/mobile-ar)
    ×0.42 | 2 points by mobile-ar 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Private Credit Fears Deepen with UBS Warning of 15% Defaults (bloomberg.com)
    ×3.32 17 #90 | 23 points by koolhead17 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. DSSP and Forth (xxiivv.com)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by tosh 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: AI Timeline – 171 LLMs from Transformer (2017) to GPT-5.3 (2026) (llm-timeline.com)
    ×1.12 78 | 169 points by ai_bot 2 days ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Local-First Linux MicroVMs for macOS (shuru.run)
    ×1.32 81 | 209 points by harshdoesdev 3 days ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Context Mode – 315 KB of MCP output becomes 5.4 KB in Claude Code
    ×0.82 | 1 points by mksglu 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. SQL vs. NoSQL: How to Answer This Interview Question in 2026 (thetrueengineer.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by janandonly 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Refine (grumpy-economist.com)
    ×1.10 | 2 points by paulpauper 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Linex – A daily challenge: placing pieces on a board that fights back (playlinex.com)
    ×0.15 47 #39 | 5 points by Humanista75 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Ghist – Task management that lives in your repo (github.com/unnecessary-special-projects)
    ×1.34 84 | 17 points by nxnze 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: MasqueradeORM – Memory Efficient Node ORM: Just Write Classes (github.com/MasqueradeORM)
    ×0.80 127 | 3 points by masqueradeorm 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Why the KeePass format should be based on SQLite (mketab.org)
    ×1.52 55 #70 | 139 points by wps 1 day ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Palantir Built the Data Layer That Right to Erasure Can't Touch (frontierlabs.substack.com)
    ×2.11 8 #75 | 37 points by muskanshafat 7 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. My Phone Will Spam You If I Fail to Exercise by 3PM (taylor.town)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by surprisetalk 38 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Wisp – Full Screen Frameless Browser for iOS (getwisp.online)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by janandonly 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. The History of a Security Hole (os2museum.com)
    ×0.51 30 #50 | 34 points by st_goliath 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Turing Completeness of GNU find (arxiv.org)
    ×1.00 26 #57 | 114 points by todsacerdoti 16 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. The Pentagon threatens Anthropic (astralcodexten.com)
    ×5.00 56 #64 | 140 points by lukeplato 3 hours ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???