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  1. Ask HN: Which DNS based ad blocker do you suggest?
    ×0.18 53 | 3 points by SoftwareEn2 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: Apple development certificate server seems down?
    ×0.82 85 | 108 points by strongpigeon 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. X is selling existing users' handles
    ×1.84 17 | 188 points by hac 23 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. AI agent are becoming a workforce. Enterprises still don't have an OS
    ×0.21 | 2 points by saafree 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)
    ×1.31 94 | 286 points by david927 3 days ago | 1110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Claude 4.6 Opus can recite Linux's list.h
    ×0.98 31 | 19 points by itzmetanjim 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. The Strait of Hormuz: A systems engineering view on the $20k drone threat
    ×0.13 | 2 points by BeyondTheMap 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. AI is supercharging fake work
    ×1.23 79 | 7 points by rxm233 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Is Claude down again?
    ×1.20 63 | 86 points by coderbants 1 day ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. LazyFire – a lazygit-style terminal UI for Firebase Firestore
    ×0.35 97 | 3 points by egosurffing 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How are people doing AI evals these days?
    ×0.68 106 | 30 points by yelmahallawy 2 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Remember Fidonet?
    ×1.10 92 | 119 points by ukkare 2 days ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: How to be alone?
    ×4.42 80 | 682 points by sillysaurusx 4 days ago | 558 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting
    ×5.28 73 | 713 points by Oras 3 days ago | 506 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Most beautiful personal blog UI you have ever seen?
    ×2.73 105 | 147 points by ms7892 3 days ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How do we build a new Human First online community in the LLM age?
    ×0.77 102 | 7 points by bluefirebrand 19 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion
    ×5.56 88 | 1072 points by shannoncc 5 days ago | 980 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Can I repurpose a Bluetooth voice remote as input device for a PC?
    ×0.24 148 | 15 points by albert_e 4 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What are you using to mitigate prompt injection?
    ×0.78 109 | 6 points by ramoz 21 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Maybe we can keep on coding? pseudo code project
    ×0.95 132 | 8 points by EmptyDrum 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: How do you review gen-AI created code?
    ×0.72 141 | 6 points by captainkrtek 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. IdeaRank – Startup Analysis Engine
    ×0.24 | 2 points by TMDev 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: What on this "List of Unsolved Problems in Physics" Has Your Attention?
    ×0.50 122 | 3 points by ghastmaster 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Is GitHub getting less reliable, or is it just me?
    ×1.09 147 | 13 points by _pdp_ 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: How are people forecasting AI API costs for agent workflows?
    ×0.52 140 | 5 points by Barathkanna 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Why is GPT-5.4 obsessed with Goblins?
    ×1.36 139 | 16 points by pants2 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Happy Birthday YC/HN
    ×1.71 104 | 6 points by ellis0n 18 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Tell HN: Vertical tabs has arrived (behind a flag) in Chrome stable
    ×0.85 144 | 6 points by crummy 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Is Starlink still being jammed in Iran?
    ×0.46 151 | 3 points by Jblx2 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: How to "make it" as a newlygrad/junior?
    ×0.57 150 | 4 points by kartoffelsaft 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Does automatic multilingual support make sense for a launch platform?
    ×0.18 | 2 points by LeanVibe 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: I built Chronoscope, because Google Maps won't let you visit 3400 BCE (shiphappens.xyz)
    ×3.12 75 | 6 points by tinkeringtechie 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Astro – Ochestrator of AI Agents Such as Claude Code and Codex (github.com/astro-anywhere)
    ×1.76 | 2 points by astroanywhere 11 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. UK MPs give ministers powers to restrict Internet for under 18s (openrightsgroup.org)
    ×2.80 65 | 80 points by robtherobber 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Addressing GitHub's recent availability issues (github.blog)
    ×3.08 37 | 3 points by tjwds 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Pragmatic by design: Engineering AI for the real world (technologyreview.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by joozio 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Free audiobooks with synchronized text for language learning (discovox.org)
    ×1.22 93 | 17 points by floo 22 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Aurion OS – A 32-bit GUI operating system written from scratch in C (github.com/Luka12-dev)
    ×1.28 11 #7 | 21 points by Luka12-dev 48 minutes ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. U.S. to suspend the Jones Act in a bid to curb oil prices (bloomberg.com)
    ×4.32 20 #43 | 36 points by geox 2 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Google closes deal to acquire Wiz (wiz.io)
    ×1.60 14 #89 | 317 points by aldarisbm 1 day ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Elevators.ltd (elevators.ltd)
    ×1.55 86 | 4 points by pkstn 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: 2D RPG base game client recreated in modern HTML5 game engine with AI (github.com/ErkoKnoll)
    ×0.86 143 | 7 points by erkok 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Reversing memory loss via gut-brain communication (stanford.edu)
    ×1.71 8 #4 | 84 points by mustaphah 2 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Launch HN: IonRouter (YC W26) – High-throughput, low-cost inference (ionrouter.io)
    ×1.10 24 #8 | 7 points by vshah1016 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Local Agents with Llama.cpp and Pi (huggingface.co)
    ×1.20 | 2 points by kristianpaul 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Why the global elite gave up on spelling and grammar (wsj.com)
    ×1.86 52 | 126 points by matthieu_bl 1 day ago | 295 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Oil hits $100 a barrel despite deal to release record amount of reserves (bbc.com)
    ×5.35 28 | 67 points by tartoran 15 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: We open sourced Vapi – UI included (github.com/dograh-hq)
    ×3.44 26 | 8 points by pritesh1908 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Ink – Deploy full-stack apps from AI agents via MCP or Skills (ml.ink)
    ×0.53 119 | 7 points by august- 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: ANSI-Saver – A macOS Screensaver (github.com/lardissone)
    ×0.78 130 | 104 points by lardissone 5 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: s@: decentralized social networking over static sites (satproto.org)
    ×1.86 4 #52 | 393 points by remywang 19 hours ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Auto-georeferenced 381 Soviet military maps of China (monarcha.ai)
    ×1.57 | 2 points by everettglee 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Lazyagent – One terminal UI for all your coding agents (lazyagent.dev)
    ×1.82 87 | 3 points by nahime 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Physicist Astrid Eichhorn is a leader in the field of asymptotic safety (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.86 56 #82 | 127 points by tzury 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: MoneyOnFIRE – FI date and action plan (v2) (moneyonfire.com)
    ×1.65 20 | 3 points by LambdaAndLatte 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. The cost of duplicating domain data for performance
    ×0.49 | 1 points by davidvartanian 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. I'm glad the Anthropic fight is happening now (dwarkesh.com)
    ×1.80 25 | 168 points by emschwartz 23 hours ago | 203 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. US- and Greek-owned tankers ablaze after Iran claims 'underwater drone' strike (lloydslist.com)
    ×4.51 85 | 149 points by everybodyknows 3 hours ago | 231 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads (tomshardware.com)
    ×3.17 50 | 94 points by CharlesW 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Skir – like Protocol Buffer but better (skir.build)
    ×0.90 110 | 113 points by gepheum 4 days ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Dolphin Progress Release 2603 (dolphin-emu.org)
    ×1.66 13 #14 | 243 points by BitPirate 9 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Raccoon AI – Collaborative AI Agent for Anything (raccoonai.tech)
    ×1.53 5 | 3 points by scorchy38 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: A modern React onboarding tour library (github.com/btahir)
    ×0.77 134 | 12 points by bilater 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: VaultLeap – USD accounts for founders outside the US (vaultleap.com)
    ×0.90 67 | 3 points by GregReve 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. WolfIP: Lightweight TCP/IP stack with no dynamic memory allocations (github.com/wolfssl)
    ×1.39 18 #22 | 29 points by 789c789c789c 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Common Worflow Patterns for AI Agents (claude.com)
    ×3.00 36 | 3 points by danebalia 8 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Klaus – OpenClaw on a VM, batteries included (klausai.com)
    ×0.85 41 | 154 points by robthompson2018 1 day ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Challenging the Single-Responsibility Principle (kiss-and-solid.com)
    ×0.53 67 #86 | 35 points by WolfOliver 18 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. 2M DNS domains compressed into 253 bytes – with proof of correctness (proofcodec.github.io)
    ×0.85 | 2 points by RusDyn 7 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Lloyds, Bank of Scot and Halifax apps showed customers other users' transactions (bbc.co.uk)
    ×1.58 | 2 points by ColinWright 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. AI is getting scary good at finding hidden software bugs (zdnet.com)
    ×1.18 | 2 points by CrankyBear 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: VS Code Agent Kanban: Task Management for the AI-Assisted Developer (appsoftware.com)
    ×0.74 108 | 98 points by gbro3n 3 days ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Loquix – Open-source Web Components for AI chat interfaces (github.com/loquix-dev)
    ×0.73 142 | 3 points by loookas 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: StreamHouse – Open-source Kafka alternative (github.com/gbram1)
    ×0.69 146 | 3 points by gbram 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Understudy – Teach a desktop agent by demonstrating a task once (github.com/understudy-ai)
    ×1.04 13 #9 | 37 points by bayes-song 2 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. WebPKI and You (brycekerley.net)
    ×0.83 54 #55 | 81 points by aragilar 15 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. TrueTime Meetings – open-source video meetings, built for customization (red5.net)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by mondainx 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: XLA-based array computing framework for R (github.com/r-xla)
    ×0.33 74 | 11 points by sebffischer 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: The Mog Programming Language (moglang.org)
    ×1.00 96 | 162 points by belisarius222 3 days ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: OpenUI – A code-like rendering spec for Generative UI (openui.com)
    ×1.92 120 | 7 points by 1234567890123 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: AgentSign – Open-source zero trust engine for AI agents (github.com/razashariff)
    ×0.49 | 2 points by AskCarX 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. The MacBook Neo (daringfireball.net)
    ×3.45 2 #74 | 620 points by etothet 1 day ago | 992 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. MongoDB outage – AWS UAE and Bahrain datacenters (mongodb.com)
    ×1.60 21 | 3 points by peterjliu 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. FFmpeg-over-IP – Connect to remote FFmpeg servers (github.com/steelbrain)
    ×1.56 66 | 231 points by steelbrain 2 days ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. ArcaOS 5.1.2 (based on OS/2 Warp 4.52) now available (arcanoae.com)
    ×0.96 9 #60 | 42 points by speckx 5 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. US Navy will escort vessels via Strait of Hormuz as soon as militarily possible (cnbc.com)
    ×0.85 | 1 points by donsupreme 5 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Vela: The True Scale of a Hidden Giant Structure Revealed (sarao.ac.za)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by layer8 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Big Data on the Cheapest MacBook (duckdb.org)
    ×1.95 28 #48 | 248 points by bcye 7 hours ago | 229 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. gstack – Garry Tan's Claude Code Setup (github.com/garrytan)
    ×1.95 1 | 3 points by jumploops 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. AI may never be as cheap to use as it is today (axios.com)
    ×1.85 6 | 3 points by giuliomagnifico 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???