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  1. Claude 4.6 Opus can recite Linux's list.h
    ×1.07 54 | 8 points by itzmetanjim 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. X is selling existing users' handles
    ×1.96 46 | 177 points by hac 16 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Tell HN: Apple development certificate server seems down?
    ×0.88 42 | 108 points by strongpigeon 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. AI is supercharging fake work
    ×0.94 27 | 3 points by rxm233 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)
    ×1.32 61 | 286 points by david927 3 days ago | 1102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Is Claude down again?
    ×1.24 6 | 85 points by coderbants 22 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How are people doing AI evals these days?
    ×0.71 72 | 30 points by yelmahallawy 2 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Remember Fidonet?
    ×1.11 55 | 119 points by ukkare 2 days ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How to be alone?
    ×4.42 44 | 680 points by sillysaurusx 4 days ago | 557 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: How do we build a new Human First online community in the LLM age?
    ×0.89 59 | 7 points by bluefirebrand 13 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting
    ×5.31 33 | 712 points by Oras 3 days ago | 505 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What are you using to mitigate prompt injection?
    ×0.99 70 | 6 points by ramoz 14 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Most beautiful personal blog UI you have ever seen?
    ×2.76 75 | 146 points by ms7892 3 days ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion
    ×5.56 54 | 1070 points by shannoncc 5 days ago | 975 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Can I repurpose a Bluetooth voice remote as input device for a PC?
    ×0.24 124 | 15 points by albert_e 4 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What on this "List of Unsolved Problems in Physics" Has Your Attention?
    ×0.59 80 | 3 points by ghastmaster 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Maybe we can keep on coding? pseudo code project
    ×1.04 98 | 8 points by EmptyDrum 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. IdeaRank – Startup Analysis Engine
    ×0.32 | 2 points by TMDev 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How do you review gen-AI created code?
    ×0.78 112 | 6 points by captainkrtek 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Happy Birthday YC/HN
    ×2.00 60 | 6 points by ellis0n 12 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: How are people forecasting AI API costs for agent workflows?
    ×0.55 108 | 5 points by Barathkanna 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Is GitHub getting less reliable, or is it just me?
    ×1.14 121 | 13 points by _pdp_ 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Why is GPT-5.4 obsessed with Goblins?
    ×1.43 107 | 16 points by pants2 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Tell HN: Vertical tabs has arrived (behind a flag) in Chrome stable
    ×0.93 114 | 6 points by crummy 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Is Starlink still being jammed in Iran?
    ×0.49 135 | 3 points by Jblx2 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: How to "make it" as a newlygrad/junior?
    ×0.63 128 | 4 points by kartoffelsaft 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Does automatic multilingual support make sense for a launch platform?
    ×0.19 | 2 points by LeanVibe 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Finding a purpose after tech layoffs
    ×1.36 79 | 8 points by fud101 21 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Unlocked SaaS, file source as truth?
    ×0.22 | 2 points by abmmgb 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Anyone else feel this community has changed recently?
    ×3.38 122 | 61 points by kypro 5 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Since a week HN keeps logging me off every few days, why?
    ×0.38 134 | 5 points by epolanski 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: What AI content automation stack are you using in 2026?
    ×0.27 141 | 3 points by jackcofounder 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Do you still run Redis and workers just for background jobs?
    ×0.12 | 2 points by sergF 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. I replaced my freelance SaaS stack with 5 single-file HTML tools
    ×1.27 142 | 8 points by AnnSri 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Tell HN: The proposed KIDS Act (HR 7757) effectively mandates biometric browsing
    ×1.11 140 | 20 points by fokdelafons 5 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Is MCP Dead? (medium.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by interpol_p 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: I built an open harness that excels at autonomous ML research (github.com/snoglobe)
    ×0.68 | 2 points by snwy 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: I built a tool that watches webpages and exposes changes as RSS (sitespy.app)
    ×1.45 22 #24 | 268 points by vkuprin 19 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Social media firms asked to toughen up age checks for under-13s (bbc.com)
    ×1.45 | 2 points by Brajeshwar 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. AI Agent Security: Authentication, Tool Access, and Defense in Depth (chatbotkit.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by _pdp_ 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: I built a real-time OSINT dashboard pulling 15 live global feeds (github.com/BigBodyCobain)
    ×2.02 62 | 308 points by vancecookcobxin 3 days ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Printf-Tac-Toe (github.com/carlini)
    ×1.29 7 #9 | 51 points by carlos-menezes 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. US banks' exposure to private credit hits $300B (alternativecreditinvestor.com)
    ×0.99 | 1 points by JumpCrisscross 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Detect when an LLM silently changes behavior for the same prompt (github.com/aelitium-dev)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by catarina_eng 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: A mission-based game to help students apply math in real life (owsterlabs.com)
    ×1.15 | 2 points by firepegasus11 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Preliminary data from a longitudinal AI impact study (getdx.com)
    ×0.79 35 #53 | 55 points by donutshop 15 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Poland says foiled cyberattack on nuclear center may have come from Iran (reuters.com)
    ×1.67 | 2 points by alephnerd 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (twitter.com/ctnzr)
    ×1.33 | 2 points by tosh 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Silly Faces (juliushuijnk.nl)
    ×0.42 139 | 3 points by juliushuijnk 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Physicist Astrid Eichhorn is a leader in the field of asymptotic safety (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.86 27 #50 | 123 points by tzury 20 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. TrueNAS Deprecates Public Build Repository and Raises Transparency Concerns (linuxiac.com)
    ×0.79 | 1 points by speckx 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. BIP-39 Passphrase is a "Recovery Black Hole" waiting to happen (frozensecurity.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by frozensecurity 46 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. WireGuard Is Two Things (proxylity.com)
    [flagged] ×1.89 47 #79 | 60 points by mlhpdx 8 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Claude Code Token Elo (clauderank.com)
    ×0.53 105 | 9 points by ymaws 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Claude-replay – A video-like player for Claude Code sessions (github.com/es617)
    ×1.01 110 | 104 points by es617 5 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Temporal: The 9-year journey to fix time in JavaScript (bloomberg.github.io)
    ×2.68 5 #8 | 718 points by robpalmer 21 hours ago | 225 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. 5,200 holes carved into a Peruvian mountain left by an ancient economy (newatlas.com)
    ×0.93 34 #33 | 135 points by defrost 19 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after decryption failure (theregister.com)
    ×1.65 32 #36 | 197 points by jjgreen 23 hours ago | 437 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: DD Photos – open-source photo album site generator (Go and SvelteKit) (github.com/dougdonohoe)
    ×0.81 66 | 71 points by dougdonohoe 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. The Caffeine Inception: Coffee, Sleep, and the Greatest Biological Heist (vikasz.substack.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by vikasz 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Autoresearch anything – set up your own autonomous research loop (github.com/zkarimi22)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by zknowledge 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: CryptoFlora – Visualize SHA256 to a flower using Rose curves (tonytonyjan.net)
    ×0.67 | 2 points by tonytonyjan 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Big Data on the Cheapest MacBook (duckdb.org)
    ×2.13 2 #1 | 42 points by bcye 1 hour ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Klaus – OpenClaw on a VM, batteries included (klausai.com)
    ×0.86 34 #32 | 151 points by robthompson2018 20 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Against vibes: When is a generative model useful (williamjbowman.com)
    ×1.05 23 #38 | 94 points by takira 14 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Skir – like Protocol Buffer but better (skir.build)
    ×0.90 86 | 113 points by gepheum 3 days ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Faster asin() was hiding in plain sight (16bpp.net)
    ×1.60 35 #25 | 220 points by def-pri-pub 22 hours ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Ask HN: Devs, what would you want in an API Monitor?
    ×0.93 | 1 points by acrtic 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. A Guide to Multi-Agent Coordination (chatbotkit.com)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by _pdp_ 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. The Billionaires' War (paulkrugman.substack.com)
    ×3.30 71 #88 | 9 points by xqcgrek2 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. We linted 5,046 repos on GitHub and here's what we found (clusteryield.app)
    ×0.71 | 1 points by cy_analytics 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Top news shared by the people you trust (sill.social)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by doener 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Joha – a free browser-based drawing playground with preset shape tools (joha-app.pages.dev)
    ×0.38 94 | 13 points by smlee 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: VS Code Agent Kanban: Task Management for the AI-Assisted Developer (appsoftware.com)
    ×0.74 78 | 98 points by gbro3n 3 days ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Ash, an Agent Sandbox for Mac (ashell.dev)
    ×0.76 95 | 13 points by amsha 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. More common mistakes in architecture diagrams to avoid (ilograph.com)
    ×1.15 | 2 points by billyp-rva 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. WA Income Tax – Real estate agent says 7 people listed homes this week
    ×0.52 | 1 points by silexia 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Foreign-funded lobby groups outside EU are pushing ChatControl with propaganda (digitalcourage.social)
    ×3.16 65 | 70 points by latexr 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Meticulous (YC S21) is hiring to redefine software dev (ashbyhq.com)
    15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Study: Social media influencers increase the toxicity, power of misinformation (cardiff.ac.uk)
    ×1.64 | 2 points by giuliomagnifico 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Why your AI writing sounds like everyone else's (usenoren.ai)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by snoren 34 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. RISC-V Is Sloooow (juszkiewicz.com.pl)
    ×1.81 4 | 309 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 342 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web (mozilla.org)
    ×2.60 6 #12 | 600 points by mikece 21 hours ago | 213 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job (theverge.com)
    ×2.23 10 #15 | 346 points by speckx 18 hours ago | 325 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. How we hacked McKinsey's AI platform (codewall.ai)
    ×2.83 17 #34 | 443 points by mycroft_4221 1 day ago | 179 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: I built a site where strangers leave kind voice notes for each other (kindvoicenotes.com)
    ×1.81 99 | 58 points by thepaulthomson 3 days ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN:Conduit–Headless browser with SHA-256 hash chain - Ed25519 audit trails
    ×1.97 87 | 3 points by TaxFix 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Juniors are more valuable than ever [pdf] (thoughtworks.com)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by w-m 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Throwing away 18 months of code and starting over (tompiagg.io)
    ×1.07 64 | 63 points by tomaspiaggio12 1 day ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: A tool that audits healthcare ML models for safety and trust (runable.site)
    ×1.30 71 | 4 points by AyodeleFikayomi 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???