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  1. Tell HN: MitID, Denmark's digital ID, was down
    ×1.40 22 #31 | 118 points by mousepad12 10 hours ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users
    ×3.34 5 | 667 points by miki123211 1 day ago | 254 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. If you drive clock wise along the beach on an island
    ×0.42 64 | 6 points by Cookingboy 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. I don't need AI to build me a new app. I need it to make Jira bearable
    ×0.60 92 | 19 points by niel_hu 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How do you handle duplicate side effects when jobs, workflows retry?
    ×0.39 95 | 8 points by shineDaPoker 21 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: My competitor wants to buy us out, recommend a lawyer?
    ×0.45 107 | 5 points by VladVladikoff 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. 36yo: Career at home vs. Simple life abroad?
    ×0.52 84 | 8 points by Slaboli 16 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. 1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March
    ×2.99 90 | 144 points by otterley 3 days ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Who Is Using XMPP?
    ×0.39 110 | 23 points by nunobrito 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What's it like working in big tech recently with all the AI tools?
    ×0.94 102 | 20 points by ex-aws-dude 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. New Claude Code Feature "Remote Control"
    ×0.42 138 | 9 points by rob 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. I built a 151k-node GraphRAG swarm that autonomously invents SDG solutions
    ×0.06 | 2 points by wisdomagi 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. How do you evaluate a person's ability to use AI?
    ×0.63 99 | 5 points by imwoody 20 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Starting a New Role with Ada
    ×0.52 124 | 9 points by NoNameHaveI 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What will happen with Anthropics ultimatum?
    ×0.75 121 | 7 points by maniacwhat 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Claude Code Bug triggers Rate limits without usage
    ×0.12 135 | 3 points by busssard 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Comparing manual vs. AI requirements gathering: 2 sentences vs. 127-point spec
    ×0.24 137 | 3 points by thesssaism 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Would you choose the Microsoft stack today if starting greenfield?
    ×1.27 131 | 20 points by JB_5000 3 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. LazyGravity – I made my phone control Antigravity so I never leave bed
    ×0.21 130 | 5 points by masaTokyo 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: How are you controlling AI agents that take real actions?
    ×0.42 144 | 8 points by thesvp 3 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Could you create a competitor to your company at 10% of the cost?
    ×0.66 119 | 9 points by TheAlchemist 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Fix cron routes: POST → GET (Vercel cron sends GET)
    ×0.14 | 2 points by nishiohiroshi 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. ChatGPT finds an error in Terence Tao's math research
    ×1.02 118 | 42 points by codexon 4 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Comparing manual vs. AI requirements gathering: 2 sentences vs. 127-point spec
    ×0.38 145 | 7 points by thesssaism 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: What Linux Would Be a Good Transition from Windows 11
    ×0.92 139 | 13 points by Cyberis 4 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Who has seen productivity increases from AI
    ×0.45 136 | 12 points by Kapura 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Have top AI research institutions just given up on the idea of safety?
    ×1.96 88 | 81 points by DietaryNonsense 2 days ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Any DIY open-source Alexa/Google alternatives?
    ×0.31 142 | 9 points by personality0 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Persistent Prompts and Built in Search
    ×0.13 | 2 points by lazybusy 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Is it worth avoiding AI while making a game?
    ×0.87 141 | 7 points by 2muchclout 3 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Using "Hi Claudette " on Claude.ai
    ×0.18 146 | 4 points by mlongval 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Are AI "Chatbot Wrappers" ruining EdTech? I'm testing a proactive UX
    ×0.16 | 2 points by Swadesh9422 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Missing page from Practical Computing magazine (1980)
    ×0.49 147 | 3 points by sim04ful 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Does anyone use CrewAI or LangChain anymore?
    ×0.85 140 | 11 points by rakan1 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Share your productive usage of OpenClaw
    ×2.21 91 | 101 points by aavci 2 days ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: What is up with all the glitchy and off-topic comments?
    ×0.93 143 | 10 points by marginalia_nu 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: StillPoint – local-first Markdown workspace with distributed sync (github.com/grnwood)
    ×0.80 | 2 points by grnwood 22 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. An interactive intro to quadtrees (growingswe.com)
    ×1.55 21 #37 | 190 points by evakhoury 15 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Don't Cite Unsold eBay Listing Prices (danlew.net)
    ×1.28 51 #39 | 29 points by speckx 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. I rendered 1,418 confusables over 230 fonts. Most aren't confusable to the eye (paultendo.github.io)
    ×1.10 43 #70 | 106 points by paultendo 22 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. 'RentAHuman' platform includes Texans who can be rented by AI agents for tasks (dallasinnovates.com)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by hhs 49 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. OpenAI's $110B funding round (investments from Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank) (reuters.com)
    ×2.73 20 | 60 points by throwaw12 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Unix for the Commodore 64? Open Source (github.com/ascarola)
    ×0.89 111 | 15 points by ascarola 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Librarian – Cut token costs by up to 85% for LangGraph and OpenClaw (uselibrarian.dev)
    ×1.05 103 | 8 points by Pinkert 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. A Chinese official’s use of ChatGPT revealed an intimidation operation (cnn.com)
    ×1.65 6 #13 | 109 points by cwwc 5 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Allocating on the Stack (go.dev)
    ×1.08 12 #20 | 114 points by spacey 8 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Altman says OpenAI agrees with Anthropic's red lines in Pentagon dispute (thehill.com)
    ×3.14 21 #41 | 15 points by rectang 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: MCP server for AI compliance documentation (Colorado AI Act) (github.com/jeremytuite)
    ×1.11 13 | 3 points by jeremytuite 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away." (twitter.com/KryDotExe)
    ×5.98 29 | 169 points by josephcsible 1 day ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: I ported Tree-sitter to Go (github.com/odvcencio)
    ×1.46 60 | 221 points by odvcencio 2 days ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: I built a local AI-powered Ouija board with a fine-tuned 3B model (github.com/SurceBeats)
    ×2.19 115 | 5 points by SurceBeats 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Tag Promptless on any GitHub PR/Issue to get updated user-facing docs
    ×0.41 113 | 35 points by prithvi2206 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. The Most-Seen UI on the Internet? Redesigning Turnstile and Challenge Pages (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.07 36 #48 | 44 points by corvad 2 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. An AI agent coding skeptic tries AI agent coding, in excessive detail (minimaxir.com)
    ×1.60 26 #62 | 20 points by minimaxir 6 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. 80386 Protection (nand2mario.github.io)
    ×1.00 37 #64 | 119 points by nand2mario 21 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. The history of knocking on wood (resobscura.substack.com)
    ×0.46 51 #73 | 51 points by benbreen 18 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Hyperion author Dan Simmons dies from stroke at 77 (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.21 2 #84 | 12 points by speckx 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Layoffs at Block (twitter.com/jack)
    ×4.57 45 | 881 points by mlex 1 day ago | 1026 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Qt45: A small polymerase ribozyme that can synthesize itself (science.org)
    ×0.85 6 #3 | 19 points by ppnpm 55 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Modeling cycles of grift with evolutionary game theory (oranlooney.com)
    ×0.72 28 #22 | 76 points by ibobev 8 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Court finds Fourth Amendment doesn’t support broad search of protesters’ devices (eff.org)
    ×3.79 17 #24 | 481 points by hn_acker 9 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. What Claude Code chooses (amplifying.ai)
    ×2.83 10 #78 | 582 points by tin7in 1 day ago | 222 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Notemac++ – A Notepad++-inspired code editor for macOS and the web (github.com/sergioadevita)
    ×0.75 | 2 points by sergioadevita 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Gonzales – Self-hosted internet speed monitor with Home Assistant (github.com/akustikrausch)
    ×2.11 117 | 5 points by janiskl93 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk (twitter.com/secwar)
    ×9.26 #1 | 752 points by jacobedawson 2 hours ago | 621 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. The normalization of corruption in organizations (2003) [pdf] (gwern.net)
    ×1.86 10 #46 | 257 points by rendx 17 hours ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. The complete Manic Miner disassembly (skoolkit.ca)
    ×0.99 39 #67 | 67 points by sandebert 16 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. AutoKey – a desktop automation utility for Linux and X11 (github.com/autokey)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by Curiositry 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Burger King will use AI to check if employees say 'please' and 'thank you' (theverge.com)
    ×5.64 68 | 76 points by JeanKage 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Number of UK workers on zero-hours contracts hits record high ahead of crackdown (bbc.co.uk)
    ×1.91 74 | 64 points by robtherobber 1 day ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Leaving Google has actively improved my life (pseudosingleton.com)
    ×2.43 24 #26 | 375 points by speckx 5 hours ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Distributed Systems for Fun and Profit (mixu.net)
    ×0.82 22 #33 | 10 points by vinhnx 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Ghist – Task management that lives in your repo (github.com/unnecessary-special-projects)
    ×1.41 122 | 18 points by nxnze 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Zugunruhe, and what makes things worth doing (nathanzhao.cc)
    ×0.78 38 #28 | 5 points by nzhaa 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. The quixotic team trying to build a world in a 20-year-old game (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.27 34 #47 | 108 points by nxobject 15 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. The Physics and Economics of Moving 44 Tonnes at 56mph (mikeayles.com)
    ×1.32 53 #90 | 132 points by mikeayles 1 day ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Accept.md now supports SvelteKit – return Markdown from any page (accept.md)
    ×1.72 | 2 points by hval 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Technical Excellence Is Not Enough (raccoon.land)
    ×2.37 67 | 92 points by bo0tzz 1 day ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Block spent $68M on a company offsite in September 2025 (twitter.com/BullTheoryio)
    ×5.12 66 | 90 points by kappi 6 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. F-Droid Board of Directors nominations 2026 (f-droid.org)
    ×1.10 16 #45 | 158 points by edent 14 hours ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. FCC approves Charter Communications' $34.5B deal to buy Cox (reuters.com)
    ×0.84 | 1 points by geox 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Google Street View in 2026 (marksblogg.com)
    ×1.38 35 | 142 points by marklit 1 day ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Recursively apply patterns for pathfinding (pattern-pathfinder.vercel.app)
    ×0.38 114 | 26 points by seveibar 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: A minimal Claude Code clone written in Rust (github.com/keon)
    ×0.42 | 2 points by kwk236 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Declarative open-source framework for MCPs with search and execute (hyperterse.com)
    ×0.46 134 | 11 points by samrith 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Claude-File-Recovery, recover files from your ~/.claude sessions (github.com/hjtenklooster)
    ×0.55 21 #10 | 35 points by rikk3rt 3 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Cards Against Humanity Statement and Form for Tariff Refunds (getyourfuckingmoneyback.com)
    ×3.79 29 #63 | 71 points by verdverm 6 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Shift from passive documentation to active enforcement
    ×3.09 39 | 3 points by iamalizaidi 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: A self-hosted OAuth 2.0 server for authenticating AI agents and machine (github.com/mandarwagh9)
    ×1.42 106 | 4 points by mandarwagh 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Safari-CLI – Control Safari without an MCP (npmjs.com)
    ×0.78 | 2 points by boros2me 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???