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  1. Ask HN: How many of you hold an amateur radio license in your country?
    ×0.98 45 #51 | 58 points by ToddWBurgess 13 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: The proposed KIDS Act (HR 7757) effectively mandates biometric browsing
    ×1.79 27 | 6 points by fokdelafons 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Self taught gen-xers with senior dev/pm exp. Where's my imposter syndrome team?
    ×0.83 30 | 3 points by _hugerobots_ 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. I started making money online in 10th grade – some lessons about capital
    ×0.28 66 | 3 points by udit_50 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Anyone fought a big corp over IP theft courts?
    ×0.38 77 | 6 points by NatalijaAAD 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2026)
    ×0.50 112 | 126 points by whoishiring 4 days ago | 405 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How are you using multi-agent AI systems in your daily workflow?
    ×0.42 86 | 13 points by paifamily 19 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Do You Have a Homelab?
    ×0.43 39 | 9 points by ricardbejarano 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Do You Enjoy Your Career in Tech Nowadays?
    ×0.84 83 | 24 points by karakoram 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026)
    ×0.85 96 | 247 points by whoishiring 4 days ago | 391 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How are LLMs supposed to be used for warfare?
    ×0.37 104 | 4 points by sirnicolaz 16 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Has anyone noticed the fear-driven prompt suggestions that GPT5.3 makes?
    ×0.52 121 | 14 points by cedarscarlett 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Self-Learning Customer Marketing
    ×0.23 132 | 3 points by davismartens 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Aura-State: Formally Verified LLM State Machine Compiler
    ×0.32 101 | 22 points by rohanmunshi08 5 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How are you all staying sane?
    ×3.96 110 | 150 points by throwaway53463 4 days ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. How do I get startups to use my open-code project?
    ×0.25 123 | 5 points by ErezShahaf 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Amazon degraded shopping- you have to put in cart to see the price
    ×0.96 93 | 15 points by talkingtab 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Tell HN: Digital Ocean has run out of GPU droplets
    ×0.49 130 | 17 points by nathannaveen 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: If your project is free, what are you building and why keep it free?
    ×0.66 146 | 11 points by LeanVibe 2 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What sources like HN do you consume?
    ×0.94 140 | 61 points by DavidHaerer 4 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. HATEOAS Works with an LLM in the Mix
    ×0.05 | 2 points by charlieflowers 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Why is arstechnica.com still running dev story advertorials for a game that...
    ×0.27 127 | 6 points by chrisjj 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. I lost my ability to learn anything new because of AI and I need your opinions
    ×0.99 145 | 21 points by dokdev 2 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How do you give AI agents real codebase context without burning tokens?
    ×0.65 153 | 4 points by donhardman 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: What's your experience self-hosting in 2026?
    ×1.35 138 | 27 points by rustcore 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. We don't need continual learning for AGI. What top labs are currently doing
    ×0.40 144 | 6 points by kok14 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. An offline map using OruxMaps(satellite,routing,3D terrain,GPS and POI)
    ×0.20 157 | 3 points by supergoogler 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Maintainers, do LLM-only users often clutter your issues/PRs?
    ×0.31 152 | 9 points by lucrbvi 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. I keep building projects nobody wants. So this time I'm doing it backwards
    ×0.66 125 | 5 points by thefern 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: What will OpenAI employees do now who have signed notdividedorg petition
    ×0.69 156 | 17 points by Imustaskforhelp 3 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Altman takes jab at Anthropic, says gov't should be more powerful than companies
    ×0.64 134 | 5 points by spenvo 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: What Online LLM / Chat do you use?
    ×0.50 158 | 12 points by ddxv 3 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Seeing More Techcrunch on Frontpage?
    ×0.28 | 2 points by par 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. The government uses targeted advertising to track your location (eff.org)
    ×3.62 2 | 292 points by hn_acker 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Multifactor (YC F25) Is Hiring an Engineering Lead (ycombinator.com)
    5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Data does not speak to you (tantaman.com)
    ×0.64 50 #85 | 32 points by tantaman 17 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Technical Beauty: FreeBSD Jails (vivianvoss.net)
    ×3.02 47 | 3 points by vermaden 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Flock vs. FOIA: The Suppression Manual (haveibeenflocked.com)
    ×1.34 | 2 points by wayathr0w 28 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. China's 792M kWh compressed air energy station now operational (interestingengineering.com)
    ×1.99 14 | 3 points by pseudolus 52 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Re-creating the complex cuisine of prehistoric Europeans (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.21 | 2 points by apollinaire 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Metateam: run many Claude/Codex/Gemini CLI instances in one terminal UI (metateam.ai)
    ×0.70 | 2 points by falsename 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Markdown-to-Book – Convert Markdown to KDP Ready PDFs and EPUBs (github.com/vpuna)
    ×1.03 99 | 3 points by vpuna 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Vet – Prevent coding agents from making mistakes (imbue.com)
    ×6.83 91 | 17 points by andrewlak 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Plan 9 from User Space (9fans.github.io)
    ×1.25 | 2 points by tosh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Jails for NetBSD – Kernel Enforced Isolation and Native Resource Control (petermann-digital.de)
    ×0.85 65 | 109 points by vermaden 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: A shell-native cd-compatible directory jumper using power-law frecency (github.com/jghub)
    ×0.47 115 | 24 points by jghub 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Paul Brainerd, founder of Aldus PageMaker, has died (adafruit.com)
    ×1.74 3 #27 | 113 points by fortran77 6 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Parse, Don't Guess (event-driven.io)
    ×1.39 | 2 points by porada 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. The next generations of Bubble Tea, Lip Gloss, and Bubbles are available now (charm.land)
    ×2.45 7 | 197 points by atkrad 22 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Why it takes you and an elephant the same amount of time to poop (2017) (pbs.org)
    ×1.24 7 #15 | 48 points by Tomte 1 hour ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Xous security focused open source on 22nm custom silicon (crowdsupply.com)
    ×0.83 47 #32 | 67 points by ZiiS 12 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. TSA leaves passenger needing surgery after illegally forcing her through scanner (thetravel.com)
    ×6.14 45 #52 | 111 points by SunshineTheCat 3 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Pentagon names former DOGE employee Gavin Kliger as new chief data officer (defensescoop.com)
    ×2.50 23 #76 | 10 points by anigbrowl 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: GPT-5.4 is interesting for one boring reason: fewer retries (clipnotebook.com)
    ×0.50 4 | 3 points by diddddy 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Bus Core – a local-first ERP for small manufacturing shops
    ×2.20 119 | 5 points by True-Good-Craft 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: An AI-powered digital night vision system with drone video feed (indiegogo.com)
    ×1.00 | 1 points by lukascodes 47 seconds ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Auto-Co – 14 AI agents that run a startup autonomously (open source) (github.com/NikitaDmitrieff)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by formreply 13 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Research Shows Models Know Answers Before Finishing Chain-of-Thought Reasoning (simplenews.ai)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by goldkey 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. 3W for In-Browser AI: WebLLM and WASM and WebWorkers (mozilla.ai)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by hwclass 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: What Installing a New OS Taught Me About Disk Partitions (access2vivek.com)
    ×0.70 | 2 points by access2vivek 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Settle It – turn "Pizza or Thai?" into a shareable poll (settleit.now)
    ×1.01 135 | 3 points by karlhills 21 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Global warming has accelerated significantly (researchsquare.com)
    ×6.05 21 #23 | 857 points by morsch 7 hours ago | 839 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples’ movements (404media.co)
    ×2.89 10 #59 | 515 points by ece 1 day ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Are there any companies who are anti-AI?
    ×1.19 | 2 points by anti-ai-dev 54 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Python 'Chardet' Package Replaced with LLM-Generated Clone, Re-Licensed (slashdot.org)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by jakobdabo 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. An IRC bot spawned the most prolific software [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by todsacerdoti 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Let's Get Physical (m4iler.cloud)
    ×1.22 23 | 136 points by MBCook 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Collaborative Blogging (sgo.to)
    ×0.49 120 | 3 points by sgoto 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Claude Code wiped our production database with a Terraform command (twitter.com/Al_Grigor)
    ×5.66 79 #89 | 117 points by jv22222 3 hours ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Project Operational Autonomy: our agent-to-agent-future (pebblebed.com)
    ×1.25 | 2 points by kmavm 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. The Evolution of Go (2015) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by tosh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Relicensing with AI-Assisted Rewrite (tuananh.net)
    ×2.15 19 | 393 points by tuananh 1 day ago | 382 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Moltty – Organized, Persistent AI Coding Sessions (moltty.com)
    ×2.50 71 | 8 points by ronreiter 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: AgnosticUI – A source-first UI library built with Lit (agnosticui.com)
    ×1.00 154 | 3 points by roblevintennis 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Entomologists use a particle accelerator to image ants at scale (ieee.org)
    ×1.06 13 #14 | 71 points by gmays 6 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Is this man the future of US manufacturing? (thehustle.co)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by paulpauper 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Verified n8n community node for Anytype (github.com/splch)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by splch 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Fast-Servers (sdf1.org)
    ×0.86 41 | 113 points by tosh 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: SeaRoutes, find the shortest navigable sea routes on the globe (searoutes.vercel.app)
    ×0.94 143 | 4 points by aayushdutt 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Tracemap – run and visualize traceroutes from probes around the world (tracemap.dev)
    ×1.70 126 | 6 points by solhuang 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Wikipedia was in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise (wikimediastatus.net)
    ×4.30 53 | 1028 points by greyface- 1 day ago | 375 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. US tech firms pledge at White House to bear costs of energy for datacenters (theguardian.com)
    ×1.66 54 | 183 points by geox 1 day ago | 245 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent from scratch (ntik.me)
    ×2.38 75 | 567 points by nicktikhonov 4 days ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Nintendo Sues U.S. Government for Tariff Refunds (scribd.com)
    ×4.80 7 #19 | 16 points by coloneltcb 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Utah's online porn tax proposal poses a major threat to civil liberties (techdirt.com)
    ×1.31 5 #47 | 4 points by speckx 45 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: How to Catch Documentation Drift with Claude Code and GitHub Actions (dosu.dev)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by onlydole 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Palera1n Jailbreak Compiled and Run on a Samsung Galaxy S3 (PostmarketOS, ARMv7) (github.com/noxbitx)
    ×1.30 | 2 points by noxbit 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Anthropic chief back in talks with Pentagon about AI deal (ft.com)
    ×4.36 89 | 55 points by ajam1507 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Writers Studio – macOS writing app with AI entity extraction (litestep.com)
    ×2.22 | 2 points by xclusive36 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: OmoiOS–190K lines of Python to stop babysitting AI agents (Apache 2.0) (github.com/kivo360)
    ×0.54 | 2 points by kanddle 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???