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  1. Ask HN: What prompt do you use to get Claude to consistently render LaTeX?
    ×0.24 35 #65 | 3 points by TobyTheCamel 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2026)
    ×0.70 53 #80 | 117 points by whoishiring 1 day ago | 313 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What's your experience self-hosting in 2026?
    ×5.54 57 | 15 points by rustcore 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Best use / examples of agents / OpenClaw that you saw recently?
    ×0.53 26 | 3 points by simonebrunozzi 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026)
    ×0.82 18 | 230 points by whoishiring 1 day ago | 307 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: How is Claude agent experience in Xcode 26.3?
    ×0.95 40 | 6 points by malshe 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Google violates its 14-day deprecation policy for Gemini 3 Pro Preview
    ×0.70 49 | 4 points by goolulusaurs 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What will OpenAI employees do now who have signed notdividedorg petition
    ×0.81 52 | 10 points by Imustaskforhelp 9 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. I have $10k+ in cloud credits and want to turn them into a real business
    ×0.45 71 | 3 points by Palominocoq 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: How are you all staying sane?
    ×5.55 53 | 135 points by throwaway53463 1 day ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What Online LLM / Chat do you use?
    ×0.64 90 | 11 points by ddxv 20 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Tell HN: MitID, Denmark's digital ID, was down
    ×0.69 102 | 141 points by mousepad12 4 days ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Whats Up with Claude Lately?
    ×2.01 76 | 17 points by mech422 18 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What sources like HN do you consume?
    ×0.84 85 | 50 points by DavidHaerer 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How are you structuring Markdown-based context for AI coding agents?
    ×0.18 | 2 points by lepuski 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How Do Emergency Alerts on Phone Work?
    ×0.72 93 | 5 points by rishikeshs 16 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Would engineers be interested in a technical prep consultant?
    ×0.77 105 | 7 points by TechPrepper 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Who still works async and has a 'no meetings' work policy in 2026?
    ×0.69 83 | 6 points by RaulOnRails 11 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Codex CLI error reveals "GPT-5.4-ab-arm2" string
    ×1.27 95 | 7 points by quantisan 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Aura-State: Formally Verified LLM State Machine Compiler
    ×0.15 150 | 4 points by rohanmunshi08 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. A timeline of cyber attacks:home users, contractors, and SMBs are now targets
    ×0.65 113 | 4 points by EricAUS 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. BlackTape – open-source music discovery built on MusicBrainz and Discogs
    ×1.62 97 | 7 points by Blacktape 22 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: How did you figure out what research field you were passionate about?
    ×2.01 99 | 7 points by aabiji 22 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How to approach new people in 2026?
    ×0.44 131 | 10 points by tavro 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Tell HN: My daily game won a Players Choice Award
    ×0.65 136 | 20 points by paulhebert 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. I used 2D Base64 to bypass Gemini and expose Google's moderation flaws
    ×0.86 146 | 7 points by MissMajordazure 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Billions of dollars in funding, but what's changed for robotics?
    ×0.76 119 | 9 points by ajax33 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: How do we solve the bot flooding problem without destroying anonymity?
    ×0.66 138 | 14 points by txrx0000 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. AWS ME-CENTRAL-1 Region Down (Due to additional loss of mec1-az3)
    ×1.66 116 | 11 points by nixgeek 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. AnChat – E2E messenger on decentralized infrastructure, no phone number required
    ×0.47 147 | 3 points by debros 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. AWS Console Degraded Worldwide?
    ×0.20 | 2 points by asdfghjkltyuiop 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: When do you expect ChatGPT moment in robotics?
    ×0.50 126 | 10 points by p1esk 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: How will most Anthropic customers respond to the threats by the govt?
    ×0.36 143 | 6 points by Poomba 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Garbage In, Garbage Out: The Degradation of Human Requirements in the LLM Era
    ×0.57 148 | 9 points by waylake 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. I built AI agents that do the grunt work solo founders hate
    ×0.25 152 | 5 points by Seleci 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. I don't need AI to build me a new app. I need it to make Jira bearable
    ×0.49 149 | 23 points by niel_hu 5 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Builder.ai ($1B Microsoft-backed AI company) who's lookin at the assets?
    ×0.27 151 | 6 points by gamelock 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Iran War Cost Tracker (iran-cost-ticker.com)
    ×5.89 84 #85 | 255 points by TSiege 3 hours ago | 309 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. First in-utero stem cell therapy for fetal spina bifida repair is safe: study (ucdavis.edu)
    ×1.28 7 #90 | 341 points by gmays 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Clud – super light-weight tool to turn natural language to terminal commands (github.com/oskob)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by oskob 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Omni – Open-source workplace search and chat, built on Postgres (github.com/getomnico)
    ×0.87 48 | 165 points by prvnsmpth 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: BoardMint – upload a PCB, get a standards-backed issue report in ~30s (boardmint.io)
    ×0.42 135 | 3 points by pranavchahal 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Smart-commit-rs – A zero-dependency Git commit tool in Rust (github.com/gtkacz)
    ×0.53 | 2 points by gtkacz 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS (motorolanews.com)
    ×7.04 12 #52 | 2294 points by km 1 day ago | 843 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Most-read tech publications have lost over half their Google traffic since 2024 (growtika.com)
    ×2.01 11 #35 | 200 points by Growtika 8 hours ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: MoodJot – Mood tracker mobile app with community feed, built with KMP (moodjot.app)
    ×0.79 142 | 3 points by appmuzzik 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Ralphex – autonomous GPT Codex agent loop for ChatGPT Pro users (github.com/SmolNero)
    ×1.56 145 | 3 points by edgar_ortega 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Payment fees matter more than you think (cuencahighlife.com)
    ×1.36 13 #26 | 81 points by dxs 3 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. The Social Media Discoverability Problem (samranda.com)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by performative 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Trae Stephens: I want to buy Wired (twitter.com/i)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by mudil 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Apple AI servers unused in warehouses due to low Apple Intelligence usage (9to5mac.com)
    ×4.28 50 | 87 points by _____k 1 day ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Don't become an engineering manager (manager.dev)
    ×1.79 3 #11 | 257 points by flail 8 hours ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Grok Brain – Turn your Grok data into a private 3D brain visualization (grok-brain.vercel.app)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by zimtzimt 17 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Google Rewrites Applications Every Few Years. Can You? (orischwartz.com)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by fleaflicker 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: A Free, interactive API course for product managers (api101.org)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by matb31240 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Ask HN: Can hash verification replace EV code-signing on Windows?
    ×0.63 | 1 points by hypersnatch_dev 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Incentives Drive Everything (yusufaytas.com)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by kakerane 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. You don't have to (scottsmitelli.com)
    ×3.29 64 | 204 points by marginalia_nu 2 days ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. An Interesting Find: STM32 RDP1 Decryptor (carlossless.io)
    ×0.78 66 | 80 points by carlossless 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Textadept (orbitalquark.github.io)
    ×0.99 57 #9 | 7 points by giancarlostoro 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Punch card simulator and Fortran IV interpreter (ehrlich.dev)
    ×1.49 118 | 6 points by behrlich 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: OmniGlass – Executable AI screen snips with kernel-level sandboxing (github.com/goshtasb)
    ×0.44 | 2 points by goshtasb 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: We want to displace Notion with collaborative Markdown files (moment.dev)
    ×3.17 11 #68 | 12 points by antics 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Plugtest (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.68 43 #81 | 36 points by dhorthy 14 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Possible US Government iPhone-Hacking Toolkit in foreign spy and criminal hands (wired.com)
    ×4.38 9 #14 | 122 points by alwillis 2 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. WebMCP is available for early preview (chrome.com)
    ×1.69 38 | 358 points by andsoitis 2 days ago | 207 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Govbase – Follow a bill from source text to news bias to social posts (govbase.com)
    ×1.10 19 | 209 points by foxfoxx 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: TrAIn of Thought – AI chat as I want it to be (bix.computer)
    ×0.54 | 2 points by two-sandwich 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: LazyTail – Terminal log viewer with built-in MCP server for AI analysis (github.com/raaymax)
    ×1.39 87 | 3 points by raaymax 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: FixYou – AI tool that tells you which cancer screenings you need (fixyou.app)
    ×0.73 | 2 points by forrestzhong 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. /e/OS is a complete, fully “deGoogled” mobile ecosystem (e.foundation)
    ×2.80 7 | 630 points by doener 1 day ago | 389 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Sai – Your always-on co-worker (simular.ai)
    ×0.55 | 2 points by pentamassiv 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning to Dissolve? (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.40 84 | 94 points by wjb3 2 days ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Process-Based Concurrency: Why Beam and OTP Keep Being Right (variantsystems.io)
    ×1.05 69 | 107 points by linkdd 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Light-responsive porous aromatic frameworks manipulate CO2 uptake (pnas.org)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by PaulHoule 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. TrustLoop – Real-time policy enforcement and audit logging for AI agents (trustloop.live)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by soji_mathew 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Avery Is Different: You Don't Vibe Code. You Work with an AI Virtual Engineer (avery.dev)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by rubanp 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Stolen Gemini API key racks up $82,000 in 48 hours (llmhorrors.com)
    ×2.81 36 | 83 points by salkahfi 9 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Ledge - Policy layer for AI agent payments (prevents unauthorized txns) (github.com/Devendra116)
    ×1.66 141 | 3 points by devendra116 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Guilty Displeasures (hopefulmons.com)
    ×0.94 48 #64 | 108 points by aregue 21 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. AI causing programmers to work longer hours fixing bugs (scientificamerican.com)
    ×3.27 50 | 6 points by timoth3y 50 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. U.S. science agency moves to restrict foreign scientists from its labs (science.org)
    ×2.61 16 | 359 points by JeanKage 1 day ago | 339 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Right-sizes LLM models to your system's RAM, CPU, and GPU (github.com/AlexsJones)
    ×1.84 45 | 286 points by bilsbie 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Claude Code LSP (karanbansal.in)
    ×2.56 68 | 77 points by LexSiga 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Neovim cookies for the pluginless – random nvim native tips (eduardofuncao.com)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by xGoivo 33 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Strikes on Amazon data centers highlight vulnerability to physical disasters (apnews.com)
    ×0.92 | 2 points by the_arun 5 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Aegis - A safe, auditable, replayable agentic guardrails framework (github.com/agentlifylabs)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by aposded 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Microslop Manifesto (microslop.com)
    ×4.60 27 | 218 points by gostsamo 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: UMC – Lossless compression that beats lzma by 7-46% on numeric data (github.com/gunnerhowe)
    ×1.09 144 | 3 points by gunnerlevi 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Why Objective-C (inessential.com)
    ×1.10 45 #89 | 138 points by ingve 1 day ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???