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  1. Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users
    ×3.76 3 #7 | 190 points by miki123211 4 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Claude Code Bug triggers Rate limits without usage
    ×0.82 9 | 3 points by busssard 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Comparing manual vs. AI requirements gathering: 2 sentences vs. 127-point spec
    ×0.68 | 2 points by thesssaism 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Programmable Watches with WiFi?
    ×0.27 74 | 34 points by dakiol 4 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Who Is Using XMPP?
    ×0.33 64 | 17 points by nunobrito 22 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What's it like working in big tech recently with all the AI tools?
    ×1.05 33 | 15 points by ex-aws-dude 12 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. 1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March
    ×3.67 50 | 138 points by otterley 1 day ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. What podcasts are you listening to?
    ×2.28 77 | 34 points by thomk 4 days ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. LazyGravity – I made my phone control Antigravity so I never leave bed
    ×0.20 68 | 4 points by masaTokyo 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Could you create a competitor to your company at 10% of the cost?
    ×0.68 65 | 7 points by TheAlchemist 13 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Fix cron routes: POST → GET (Vercel cron sends GET)
    ×0.19 | 2 points by nishiohiroshi 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What will happen with Anthropics ultimatum?
    ×1.27 72 | 6 points by maniacwhat 14 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Chromebook leads for K-8 school in need?
    ×0.40 103 | 46 points by techteach00 3 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. New Claude Code Feature "Remote Control"
    ×0.48 102 | 8 points by rob 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How do you know if AI agents will choose your tool?
    ×0.56 97 | 34 points by dmpyatyi 2 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Starting a New Role with Ada
    ×0.45 85 | 6 points by NoNameHaveI 22 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Have top AI research institutions just given up on the idea of safety?
    ×2.13 13 | 79 points by DietaryNonsense 23 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Would you choose the Microsoft stack today if starting greenfield?
    ×1.55 101 | 20 points by JB_5000 2 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How are you controlling AI agents that take real actions?
    ×0.42 124 | 7 points by thesvp 2 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Comparing manual vs. AI requirements gathering: 2 sentences vs. 127-point spec
    ×0.37 125 | 6 points by thesssaism 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. ChatGPT finds an error in Terence Tao's math research
    ×1.08 86 | 42 points by codexon 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Who has seen productivity increases from AI
    ×0.45 112 | 11 points by Kapura 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Persistent Prompts and Built in Search
    ×0.15 | 2 points by lazybusy 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Any DIY open-source Alexa/Google alternatives?
    ×0.30 120 | 8 points by personality0 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: What Linux Would Be a Good Transition from Windows 11
    ×1.07 117 | 13 points by Cyberis 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Is it worth avoiding AI while making a game?
    ×1.00 116 | 6 points by 2muchclout 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Using "Hi Claudette " on Claude.ai
    ×0.22 127 | 4 points by mlongval 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Is it better to have no Agent.md than a bad one?
    ×0.37 129 | 9 points by parvardegr 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Share your productive usage of OpenClaw
    ×2.21 37 | 95 points by aavci 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Are AI "Chatbot Wrappers" ruining EdTech? I'm testing a proactive UX
    ×0.23 | 2 points by Swadesh9422 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Why doesn't HN have a rec algorithm?
    ×0.25 134 | 9 points by sujayk_33 4 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Missing page from Practical Computing magazine (1980)
    ×0.71 133 | 3 points by sim04ful 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: What Comes After Markdown?
    ×0.39 132 | 9 points by YuukiJyoudai 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: What breaks when you run AI agents unsupervised?
    ×0.38 130 | 12 points by marvin_nora 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Does anyone use CrewAI or LangChain anymore?
    ×0.89 119 | 11 points by rakan1 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Prudential's fraud scandal casts spotlight on commission-based remuneration (japantimes.co.jp)
    ×1.79 | 2 points by PaulHoule 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Frontier Model Training Methodologies (djdumpling.github.io)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by sebg 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Free bartending school app – learn cocktails without paying for school (apple.com)
    ×0.44 | 2 points by gigzlabs 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. The Hydrogen Truck Problem Isn't the Truck (mikeayles.com)
    ×1.05 2 #84 | 54 points by mikeayles 15 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Sowbot – Open-hardware agricultural robot (ROS2, RTK GPS) (sowbot.co.uk)
    ×1.10 66 | 180 points by Sabrees 2 days ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: A high-performance Hex Editor with Yara-X support in C# (github.com/pumpkin-bit)
    ×1.60 96 | 4 points by falkerdev 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Declarative open-source framework for MCPs with search and execute (hyperterse.com)
    ×0.42 104 | 10 points by samrith 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: ArcticKey – Managed Redis (Valkey) Hosted in the EU (arctickey.com)
    ×0.90 | 2 points by simskiie 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. The Pentagon threatens Anthropic (astralcodexten.com)
    ×5.65 35 | 177 points by lukeplato 20 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Hugging Face Skills (github.com/huggingface)
    ×1.07 32 | 194 points by armcat 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Unix for the Commodore 64? Open Source (github.com/ascarola)
    ×0.79 45 | 13 points by ascarola 13 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Technical Excellence Is Not Enough (raccoon.land)
    ×2.37 1 #12 | 70 points by bo0tzz 4 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Artist who “paints” portraits on glass by hitting it with a hammer (simonbergerart.com)
    ×1.88 15 #16 | 206 points by cs702 14 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives (reuters.com)
    ×4.68 26 #59 | 508 points by colinhb 23 hours ago | 443 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Turing Completeness of GNU find (arxiv.org)
    ×1.07 33 #80 | 132 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. BuildKit: Docker's Hidden Gem That Can Build Almost Anything (tuananh.net)
    ×0.86 | 1 points by jasonpeacock 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. How long could Earth microbes live on Mars? (universetoday.com)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by bookofjoe 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. How to fold the Blade Runner origami unicorn (1996) (archive.org)
    ×1.48 6 #72 | 273 points by exvi 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. just-bash: Bash for Agents (github.com/vercel-labs)
    ×1.33 | 2 points by tosh 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Hegseth gives Anthropic until Friday to back down on AI safeguards (axios.com)
    ×7.84 61 | 95 points by rurp 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. The Dark Side of Private Equity (uchicago.edu)
    ×1.75 | 2 points by Ozzie_osman 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Show your domains and get buyers message you directly (omain.co)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by mrdost 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Amazon would rather blame its own engineers than its AI (theregister.com)
    ×3.49 35 | 76 points by beardyw 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Synlets – Assign Jira/Asana tickets to AI, get working PRs back (synlets.com)
    ×0.87 | 2 points by stas-user 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Agent Swarm – Multi-agent self-learning teams (OSS) (github.com/desplega-ai)
    ×0.93 4 #3 | 32 points by tarasyarema 1 hour ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. The First Fully General Computer Action Model (si.inc)
    ×2.52 10 #24 | 287 points by nee1r 18 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Bitly handles 93 writes/s – URL shortener interviews ask for 1160 (saneengineer.com)
    ×3.04 62 | 3 points by anivan_ 4 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Cellarium: A Playground for Cellular Automata (github.com/andrewosh)
    ×0.62 82 | 39 points by andrewosh 5 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: A free tool to turn your boring screenshots brutalist in seconds (retroui.dev)
    ×1.00 126 | 3 points by devarifhossain 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Implementing ping from the Ethernet layer (ARP,IPv4,ICMP in user space) (github.com/v420v)
    ×1.41 131 | 8 points by ibuki256 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Half million 'Words with Spaces' missing from dictionaries (linguabase.org)
    ×1.30 51 #69 | 145 points by gligierko 1 day ago | 266 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. US farmers are rejecting multimillion-dollar datacenter bids for their land (theguardian.com)
    ×3.06 26 #85 | 34 points by carabiner 9 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Tesla registrations crash 17% in Europe as BEV market surges 14% (electrek.co)
    ×3.81 23 | 224 points by breve 1 day ago | 278 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: OrangeWalrus, an aggregator for trivia nights (and other events) in SF (orangewalrus.com)
    ×1.33 87 | 3 points by gjtrowbridge 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Iron-Wolf – Wolfenstein 3D source port in Rust (github.com/Ragnaroek)
    ×0.84 106 | 88 points by ragnaroekX 4 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: TLA+ Workbench skill for coding agents (compat. with Vercel skills CLI) (github.com/younes-io)
    ×0.81 114 | 41 points by youio 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Dissecting the CPU-memory relationship in garbage collection (OpenJDK 26) (norlinder.nu)
    ×1.00 32 #33 | 106 points by jonasn 17 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Ask HN: Let's rethink the architecture and future of Emacs
    ×0.74 | 1 points by kurouna 18 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week (cloudflare.com)
    ×4.88 16 | 515 points by ghostwriternr 1 day ago | 227 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Mercury 2: Fast reasoning LLM powered by diffusion (inceptionlabs.ai)
    ×1.88 3 | 343 points by fittingopposite 1 day ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Codex builds a working NES Emulator in one hour (github.com/kaonashi-tyc)
    ×3.58 4 | 6 points by zi2zi-jit 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: ProdRescue AI – Turn Slack war-rooms and raw logs into incident reports (prodrescueai.com)
    ×0.36 128 | 4 points by devrimozcay 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. An autopsy of AI-generated 3D slop (aircada.com)
    ×1.58 22 #32 | 92 points by sech8420 14 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Osaka: Kansai Airport proud to have never lost single piece of luggage (2024) (yomiuri.co.jp)
    ×1.86 30 | 218 points by thunderbong 1 day ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Stripe valued at $159B, 2025 annual letter (stripe.com)
    ×1.62 48 #74 | 234 points by jez 1 day ago | 239 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Amazon accused of widespread scheme to inflate prices across the economy (thebignewsletter.com)
    ×5.06 27 #79 | 675 points by toomuchtodo 1 day ago | 269 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: ZSE – Open-source LLM inference engine with 3.9s cold starts (github.com/Zyora-Dev)
    ×0.87 21 #89 | 56 points by zyoralabs 12 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Ask HN: What's Your System Prompt?
    ×0.65 | 1 points by keepamovin 31 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: PullMaster – Recommends code reviewers from your repo history
    ×0.82 | 2 points by justinko 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Recursively apply patterns for pathfinding (pattern-pathfinder.vercel.app)
    ×0.36 76 | 25 points by seveibar 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Why isn't LA repaving streets? (lapublicpress.org)
    ×1.51 29 #47 | 122 points by speckx 21 hours ago | 262 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. The Tax Nerd Who Bet His Life Savings Against DOGE (wsj.com)
    ×1.57 67 #73 | 18 points by igonvalue 16 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Cell Service for the Fairly Paranoid (cape.co)
    ×1.47 29 #90 | 164 points by 0xWTF 1 day ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Is your Agent secure? OpenAgents' agent ID provides encrypted authentication (agentpedia.so)
    ×0.76 | 1 points by Cherie91 17 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. OpenAI's acquisition of OpenClaw signals the the end of the ChatGPT (venturebeat.com)
    ×0.77 | 1 points by wglb 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???