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  1. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)
    ×1.29 2 #1 | 146 points by whoishiring 2 hours ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)
    ×1.64 9 #12 | 39 points by whoishiring 2 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Kernighan on Programming
    ×1.93 16 #21 | 85 points by chrisjj 2 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Has anybody moved their local community off of Facebook groups?
    ×0.84 3 | 15 points by madsohm 9 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Google Cloud suspended my account for 2 years, only automated replies
    ×1.46 38 | 153 points by andylizf 2 days ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Why do people still talk about AGI?
    ×1.05 10 | 32 points by cermicelli 15 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Do you still use physical calculators?
    ×0.70 82 | 32 points by speedylight 2 days ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What serious task have you accomplished with Moltbot / OpenClaw?
    ×0.58 76 | 6 points by lukol 18 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Junior getting lost
    ×0.65 99 | 49 points by TheRegularOne 4 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Any Successful Co-Ops of Software Engineers
    ×0.94 88 | 13 points by rubyn00bie 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Task engine VM – for tasks with executable instructions (progress update)
    ×0.10 107 | 3 points by tracyspacy 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Any real OpenClaw (Clawd Bot/Molt Bot) users? What's your experience?
    ×2.14 54 | 108 points by cvhc 2 days ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Do you also "hoard" notes/links but struggle to turn them into actions?
    ×1.83 55 | 230 points by item007 3 days ago | 211 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How do you handle auth when AI dev agents spin up short-lived apps?
    ×0.07 | 2 points by NBenkovich 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. AI has failed to replace a single software application or feature
    ×0.80 105 | 20 points by cadabrabra 3 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. A simple HTTPS, HTTP/3, SSL and security headers checker I built with AI
    ×0.21 119 | 3 points by dragonman 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: How do you reset an AppleID?
    ×0.61 128 | 13 points by OhMeadhbh 3 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Waypoint 1.1, a local-first world model for interactive simulation
    ×0.58 118 | 13 points by lcastricato 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. G Lang – A lightweight interpreter written in D (2.4MB)
    ×0.15 | 2 points by pouyathe 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: How do you market a side project?
    ×1.13 125 | 12 points by ruairidhwm 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: The Next Big OS Leap
    ×0.74 87 | 4 points by rafaelmdec 21 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: What's your biggest LLM cost multiplier?
    ×0.70 112 | 7 points by teilom 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. The preposterous notion of AI automating "repetitive" work
    ×0.76 131 | 11 points by cadabrabra 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: What's the Point Anymore?
    ×1.78 114 | 67 points by fnoef 6 days ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: What recent UX changes make no sense to you?
    ×0.70 129 | 34 points by superasn 5 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: How do you force yourself to take breaks while coding?
    ×0.77 143 | 6 points by glidea 3 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: How far has "vibe coding" come?
    ×0.27 135 | 13 points by pigon1002 4 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. How much recurring income do you generate in 2026 and from what?
    ×0.48 146 | 12 points by djshah 5 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Should a software engineer have research exposure?
    ×0.23 144 | 4 points by c_daeda 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Hypergrowth isn’t always easy (tailscale.com)
    ×1.24 5 #25 | 98 points by usrme 8 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Text only anti-ICE protest list (stallman.org)
    ×5.67 28 #46 | 14 points by olelele 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. llm-d 0.4: Achieve SOTA performance across accelerators (llm-d.ai)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by teleforce 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. A Broken Heart: getting a 100x speedup with one dumb line of code (allenpike.com)
    ×0.71 | 1 points by ingve 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. TrumpRx delayed as senators question if it's a giant scam with Big Pharma (arstechnica.com)
    ×4.80 71 | 47 points by duxup 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. The User Guide for Elite, the Tool Palantir Made for ICE (404media.co)
    ×4.11 67 | 44 points by juujian 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: VCluster Free – Free K8s Multi-Tenancy with Virtual Clusters (vcluster.com)
    ×1.76 126 | 17 points by gentele 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Waymo Seeking About $16B Near $110B Valuation (bloomberg.com)
    ×3.04 43 #50 | 109 points by JumpCrisscross 3 hours ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Soldering Prototypes with Enamel Magnet Wire (2020) (tomverbeure.github.io)
    ×0.46 59 #60 | 29 points by hasheddan 18 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Nonograms: a practical guide with interactive examples (lab174.com)
    ×1.30 36 #90 | 111 points by merelysounds 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Drift FM – Ambient Mood Radio (Go, SQLite, Vanilla JavaScript) (1mb.dev)
    ×0.76 | 1 points by vnykmshr 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Parting thoughts from a departing co-founder (shreyansb.substack.com)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by shreyans 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Being sane in insane places (1973) [pdf] (weber.edu)
    ×1.32 1 #10 | 25 points by dbgrman 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Founding is a snowball (bawolf.com)
    ×1.04 28 #53 | 101 points by bryantwolf 21 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: A small API for generating reliable PDFs using LaTeX (texapi.ovh)
    ×1.72 | 2 points by MrGrzybek 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. ICE protester says her Global Entry was revoked after agent scanned her face (arstechnica.com)
    ×11.74 38 | 146 points by theahura 15 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: LemonSlice – Upgrade your voice agents to real-time video
    ×0.91 97 | 131 points by lcolucci 6 days ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. My fast zero-allocation webserver using OxCaml (recoil.org)
    ×1.03 13 #15 | 109 points by noelwelsh 8 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Stop incentivizing surface parking lots (progressandpoverty.substack.com)
    ×2.67 46 | 3 points by surprisetalk 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Pijul: A DVCS based on a theory of asynchronous work (Git alternative) (pijul.org)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by eamag 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. We (As a Society) Peaked in the 90s (pagecord.com)
    ×4.69 | 63 points by stog 19 hours ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: My Open Source Deep Research tools beats Google and I can Prove it (github.com/IamLumae)
    ×1.30 66 | 14 points by LutumVeritas 23 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: I trained a 9M speech model to fix my Mandarin tones (simedw.com)
    ×2.16 20 | 463 points by simedw 2 days ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Typechecking is undecidable when 'type' is a type (1989) [pdf] (mit.edu)
    ×0.82 29 #67 | 76 points by zem 23 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. AI May Bring Unprecedented Employee Surveillance (deadneurons.substack.com)
    ×2.05 | 2 points by nr378 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Fresh – The Terminal Text Editor (getfresh.dev)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by thunderbong 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: A site where anyone can rename any location on Earth (rename.world)
    ×1.11 104 | 4 points by kafked 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Stop Using Pseudo-Types (f2r.github.io)
    ×0.48 49 #61 | 23 points by speckx 15 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. A web server on a single floppy disk (floppy.ddns.net)
    ×1.11 38 #70 | 108 points by ActionRetro 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Nvidia GPU health validation on Linux Test(PCIe, memory, compute) (github.com/parallelArchitect)
    ×0.83 | 1 points by gpu_systems 4 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Vibe Coding Turns One (braingrid.ai)
    ×1.48 | 2 points by acossta 41 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: A different approach to intonation training (conpixel.es)
    ×1.61 1 | 4 points by ogig 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Efficient String Compression for Modern Database Systems (cedardb.com)
    ×1.05 33 #44 | 147 points by jandrewrogers 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. FOSDEM: Open-Source Is Political – Resist Organize Protect (belnet.be)
    ×1.71 57 #79 | 33 points by obeleh 23 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Solvingn the Santa Claus concurrency puzzle with a model checker (wyounas.github.io)
    ×0.63 29 #20 | 11 points by simplegeek 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. OpenAI Codex: A coding agent that automates code workflows, tests & PRs (openai.com)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by bakigul 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Noctia: A sleek and minimal desktop shell thoughtfully crafted for Wayland (github.com/noctalia-dev)
    ×1.15 56 | 93 points by doener 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Zuckerman – minimalist personal AI agent that self-edits its own code (github.com/zuckermanai)
    ×1.26 30 | 70 points by ddaniel10 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out (moltbook.com)
    ×2.74 18 | 272 points by schlichtm 4 days ago | 871 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Taracode – Open-source DevOps AI assistant that runs 100% locally (github.com/tara-vision)
    ×1.11 108 | 3 points by taravision 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Agents should learn skills on demand. I built Skyll to make it real (skyll.app)
    ×0.85 | 2 points by assafe 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: OpenJuris – AI legal research with citations from primary sources (openjuris.org)
    ×0.89 80 | 18 points by Zachzhao 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Claude Confessions – a sanctuary for AI agents (claudeconfessions.com)
    ×1.14 90 | 4 points by moona3k 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Building a Telegram Bot with Cloudflare Workers, Durable Objects and Grammy (flashblaze.xyz)
    ×0.67 35 #64 | 33 points by flashblaze 15 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent (mariozechner.at)
    ×2.25 7 #74 | 394 points by SatvikBeri 1 day ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Hybrid Concolic Testing with Large Language Models for Guided Path Exploration (arxiv.org)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by PaulHoule 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Make AI motion videos with text (framecall.com)
    ×1.65 26 | 4 points by mesmertech 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Todd C. Miller – sudo Maintainer for over 30 years (millert.dev)
    ×2.95 11 #13 | 74 points by wodniok 1 hour ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Towards a science of scaling agent systems: When and why agent systems work (research.google)
    ×1.00 36 #56 | 99 points by gmays 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. The largest number representable in 64 bits (tromp.github.io)
    ×1.62 | 2 points by tromp 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: A private FIRE calculator suite that runs in the browser (firenum.com)
    ×1.52 94 | 5 points by Mikulas_Tomanka 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Bunnie – Use Bun as the templating engine in Rust applications (github.com/aspizu)
    ×1.15 137 | 3 points by aspizu 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. 'Tesla is (still) trying to deceive investors into thinking it has SF robotaxis' (electrek.co)
    ×6.50 50 | 64 points by MilnerRoute 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Database Internals, a book by Claude Opus 4.5 (cloudstreet-dev.github.io)
    ×1.11 | 2 points by DavidCanHelp 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Clearspace (YC W23) Is Hiring an Applied Researcher (ML) (ycombinator.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. A new local LLM king: Step-3.5-Flash-int4 (reddit.com)
    ×0.85 | 1 points by diyer22 4 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. RCC: A boundary theory explaining why LLMs hallucinate and planning collapses (effacermonexistence.com)
    ×1.68 | 2 points by noncentral 20 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Monitoring and engaging in social media conversations during a crisis (tandfonline.com)
    ×0.78 | 1 points by Caarticles 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: I built an AI conversation partner to practice speaking languages (apple.com)
    ×0.57 78 | 65 points by omarisbuilding 2 days ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Booktest – review-driven regression testing for LLM / ML behavior (github.com/lumoa-oss)
    ×0.96 124 | 3 points by arauhala 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Avaricious Publishers
    ×0.52 | 1 points by cryNthedark 53 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???