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  1. Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users
    ×3.89 17 #30 | 515 points by miki123211 11 hours ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Stripe closed my account – no notice – my LLC was registered using Stripe Atlas
    ×3.25 4 #32 | 8 points by travelyesim 33 minutes ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Stripe closed my account – no notice – my LLC was registered using Stripe Atlas
    ×1.63 22 | 3 points by travelyesim 34 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. I don't need AI to build me a new app. I need it to make Jira bearable
    ×0.94 18 #77 | 10 points by niel_hu 4 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. I built a 151k-node GraphRAG swarm that autonomously invents SDG solutions
    ×0.20 | 2 points by wisdomagi 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Programmable Watches with WiFi?
    ×0.27 92 | 34 points by dakiol 4 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Claude Code Bug triggers Rate limits without usage
    ×0.18 85 | 3 points by busssard 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Comparing manual vs. AI requirements gathering: 2 sentences vs. 127-point spec
    ×0.24 | 2 points by thesssaism 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Who Is Using XMPP?
    ×0.38 88 | 20 points by nunobrito 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. 1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March
    ×3.51 70 | 142 points by otterley 2 days ago | 193 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What's it like working in big tech recently with all the AI tools?
    ×1.05 73 | 17 points by ex-aws-dude 19 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Chromebook leads for K-8 school in need?
    ×0.39 115 | 46 points by techteach00 4 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. LazyGravity – I made my phone control Antigravity so I never leave bed
    ×0.18 98 | 4 points by masaTokyo 16 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Starting a New Role with Ada
    ×0.67 101 | 9 points by NoNameHaveI 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. New Claude Code Feature "Remote Control"
    ×0.46 121 | 8 points by rob 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Could you create a competitor to your company at 10% of the cost?
    ×0.62 91 | 7 points by TheAlchemist 20 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Fix cron routes: POST → GET (Vercel cron sends GET)
    ×0.18 | 2 points by nishiohiroshi 21 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: What will happen with Anthropics ultimatum?
    ×1.03 97 | 6 points by maniacwhat 21 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How do you know if AI agents will choose your tool?
    ×0.55 107 | 34 points by dmpyatyi 3 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. What podcasts are you listening to?
    ×2.57 4 | 41 points by thomk 4 days ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Have top AI research institutions just given up on the idea of safety?
    ×2.06 54 | 79 points by DietaryNonsense 1 day ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Would you choose the Microsoft stack today if starting greenfield?
    ×1.48 118 | 20 points by JB_5000 2 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: How are you controlling AI agents that take real actions?
    ×0.40 130 | 7 points by thesvp 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Comparing manual vs. AI requirements gathering: 2 sentences vs. 127-point spec
    ×0.42 129 | 7 points by thesssaism 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. ChatGPT finds an error in Terence Tao's math research
    ×1.06 104 | 42 points by codexon 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Who has seen productivity increases from AI
    ×0.44 122 | 11 points by Kapura 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: What Linux Would Be a Good Transition from Windows 11
    ×1.03 126 | 13 points by Cyberis 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Any DIY open-source Alexa/Google alternatives?
    ×0.29 128 | 8 points by personality0 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Persistent Prompts and Built in Search
    ×0.15 | 2 points by lazybusy 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Is it better to have no Agent.md than a bad one?
    ×0.37 132 | 9 points by parvardegr 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Is it worth avoiding AI while making a game?
    ×0.92 127 | 6 points by 2muchclout 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Using "Hi Claudette " on Claude.ai
    ×0.21 131 | 4 points by mlongval 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Share your productive usage of OpenClaw
    ×2.17 64 | 96 points by aavci 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Why doesn't HN have a rec algorithm?
    ×0.24 133 | 9 points by sujayk_33 4 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Are AI "Chatbot Wrappers" ruining EdTech? I'm testing a proactive UX
    ×0.20 | 2 points by Swadesh9422 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Mission Control – Open-source task management for AI agents (github.com/MeisnerDan)
    ×0.80 23 #19 | 21 points by meisnerd 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Pentagon officials send Anthropic best and final offer for military use of AI (cbsnews.com)
    ×2.25 11 #50 | 20 points by rob 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Access to a Shared Unix Computer (tilde.club)
    ×0.92 50 #84 | 79 points by TigerUniversity 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. The Agent Operating System: OpenFang (openfang.sh)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by zakkg3 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: StreamHouse – S3-native Kafka alternative written in Rust (github.com/gbram1)
    ×3.67 109 | 10 points by gbram 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Llama 3.1 70B on a single RTX 3090 via NVMe-to-GPU bypassing the CPU (github.com/xaskasdf)
    ×2.09 89 | 394 points by xaskasdf 4 days ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. AirSnitch: Demystifying and breaking client isolation in Wi-Fi networks [pdf] (ndss-symposium.org)
    ×1.54 1 #1 | 251 points by DamnInteresting 4 hours ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Banned in California (bannedincalifornia.org)
    ×3.92 19 #29 | 467 points by pie_flavor 21 hours ago | 547 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Anthropic gives Opus 3 exit interview, "retirement" blog (anthropic.com)
    ×1.78 58 #42 | 15 points by colinhb 6 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Respectify – A comment moderator that teaches people to argue better (respectify.org)
    ×1.34 45 #49 | 206 points by vintagedave 1 day ago | 211 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Private Motion Pictures of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun (archives.gov)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by georgecmu 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Dark Sky's Creators Are Back with a New Weather App (gizmodo.com)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by gnabgib 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. CrowdStrike 2026 global threat report (crowdstrike.com)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by chha 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Ohio lawmaker proposes land value tax amendment as alternative to property tax (ohiocapitaljournal.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by briandrum 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Moonshine Open-Weights STT models – higher accuracy than WhisperLargev3 (github.com/moonshine-ai)
    ×1.42 41 | 312 points by petewarden 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. The Pentagon Feuding with an AI Company Is a Bad Sign (foreignpolicy.com)
    ×4.05 65 | 61 points by Jimmc414 4 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: RubyLLM:Agents – A Rails engine for building and monitoring LLM agents (github.com/adham90)
    ×1.85 105 | 4 points by adham900 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. I baked a pie every day for a year and it changed my life (theguardian.com)
    ×2.09 #5 | 124 points by NaOH 3 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Story of XZ Backdoor [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.95 15 #46 | 95 points by Ulf950 6 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Learnings from 4 months of Image-Video VAE experiments (linum.ai)
    ×1.07 41 #69 | 125 points by schopra909 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. LLM=True (codemine.be)
    ×1.62 42 #70 | 253 points by avh3 1 day ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Coding Agents and the Inevitable AI Bubble with Eric Anderson [audio] (lastweekinaws.com)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by mooreds 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Solid Principles in React: SRP, OCP and Dip (jsdev.space)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by javatuts 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: I stopped building apps for people. Now I make CLI tools for agents (github.com/Aayush9029)
    ×1.31 | 2 points by aayush9029 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Smplogs – Local-first AWS Cloudwatch log analyzer via WASM (smplogs.com)
    ×1.08 | 2 points by smplogs 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Large-Scale Online Deanonymization with LLMs (simonlermen.substack.com)
    ×1.74 45 #43 | 335 points by DalasNoin 1 day ago | 233 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Modern Reimplementation of the Speck Molecule Renderer (github.com/vangelov)
    ×0.38 60 #56 | 24 points by vlad_angelov 11 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Prepaid vs. Postpaid Mobile: The cost breakdown nobody talks about
    ×1.00 | 1 points by huntsmans 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Ibex – Typed DataFrame DSL (bobjansen.github.io)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by Bootvis 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: The AltStack – A directory of 450 open-source SaaS alternatives (github.com/altstackHQ)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by AltStackHQ 38 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Increased urination urgency facilitates impulse control in unrelated domains (nih.gov)
    ×3.14 31 | 4 points by u1hcw9nx 47 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: enveil – hide your .env secrets from prAIng eyes (github.com/GreatScott)
    ×1.12 76 | 199 points by parkaboy 2 days ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. LibreOffice resumes work on its self-hosted Google Docs alternative (xda-developers.com)
    ×2.86 56 | 65 points by speckx 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Burger King will use AI to check if employees say 'please' and 'thank you' (theverge.com)
    ×5.39 40 | 58 points by JeanKage 7 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Djevops – Deploy Django Easily (github.com/mherrmann)
    ×1.21 125 | 3 points by mherrmann 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Museum of Plugs and Sockets (plugsocketmuseum.nl)
    ×1.61 26 #9 | 14 points by ohjeez 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. You Want to Visit the UK? You Better Have a Google Play or App Store Account (heltweg.org)
    ×3.78 61 | 187 points by rhazn 9 hours ago | 286 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Technical Excellence Is Not Enough (raccoon.land)
    ×2.63 28 | 85 points by bo0tzz 10 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Emdash – Open-source agentic development environment (github.com/generalaction)
    ×1.07 58 | 201 points by onecommit 2 days ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Cellarium: A Playground for Cellular Automata (github.com/andrewosh)
    ×0.64 102 | 40 points by andrewosh 5 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Specs Should Be Equations, Not Essays (fromanengineersight.substack.com)
    ×2.72 #47 | 4 points by ben8t 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. The Om Programming Language (om-language.com)
    ×1.54 38 #52 | 293 points by tosh 1 day ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. 'Incoherent': Hegseth's Anthropic ultimatum confounds AI policymakers (politico.com)
    ×6.06 62 | 7 points by hackernj 27 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. NATO says iPhones are secure enough to handle classified data (theverge.com)
    ×2.10 11 | 3 points by mikece 51 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. I Built an Agent That Turns Research Papers into Obsidian Notes I Learn From (laksh.us)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by LakshyaC 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Racket v9.1 (racket-lang.org)
    ×1.72 23 | 149 points by azhenley 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Protection Against Zero-Day Cyber Attacks
    ×1.01 | 2 points by gaurav1086 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Launch HN: TeamOut (YC W22) – AI agent for planning company retreats (teamout.com)
    ×0.37 86 #66 | 54 points by vincentalbouy 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Why Developers Keep Choosing Claude over Every Other AI (bhusalmanish.com.np)
    ×2.21 46 #78 | 52 points by gmays 4 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Linex – A daily challenge: placing pieces on a board that fights back (playlinex.com)
    ×0.53 20 #16 | 26 points by Humanista75 3 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Out of Light Adjust Share: Caravaggio, La Tour, and the Art of Attention (harpers.org)
    ×0.44 48 #74 | 32 points by prismatic 14 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. France honors last newspaper hawker in Paris with knighthood (npr.org)
    ×0.71 | 1 points by speckx 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. AI powered migration from Postgres to ClickHouse (clickhouse.com)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by craneca0 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. The Office.js Stability, Security and Trust Crisis: An Open Letter (github.com/OfficeDev)
    ×1.31 | 2 points by awenner 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Stripe reportedly makes offer to acquire PayPal (cnbc.com)
    ×2.41 66 | 125 points by nodesocket 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???