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  1. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)
    ×1.43 24 #17 | 274 points by david927 20 hours ago | 880 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block
    ×5.14 7 #22 | 1037 points by littlecranky67 1 day ago | 378 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. How do you validate your GTM Efforts?
    ×0.20 | 2 points by pranaywankhede 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Are you negatively affected by the recent economic stagnation?
    ×0.98 15 | 4 points by adinhitlore 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: OpenAI silently removed Study Mode from ChatGPT
    ×1.57 21 | 171 points by smokel 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Is Codex really on Par with Claude Code?
    ×1.55 3 | 5 points by shivang2607 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What are all the bad things that AI companies have done which we forgot
    ×0.65 65 | 8 points by Imustaskforhelp 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Tell HN: Reddit now demands to know why you won't use their app
    ×2.22 19 | 16 points by josephcsible 12 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Antigravity Is Down
    ×0.99 | 2 points by samroar04 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Do you trust AI agents with API keys / private keys?
    ×0.41 64 | 13 points by devendra116 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?
    ×1.56 66 | 148 points by meander_water 4 days ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Anyone using Nostr as a lightweight back end/DB for rapid prototyping?
    ×0.34 85 | 6 points by wasimsk 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Hiring in the age of AI-assisted coding: what works?
    ×0.45 81 | 26 points by nitramm 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Is the pitch deck culture making founders worse at building businesses?
    ×0.36 76 | 17 points by chinhqtran 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What's your experience with PoW captchas against form spam?
    ×0.48 71 | 5 points by pentacent_hq 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Best books on building a programming language
    ×0.73 80 | 17 points by ezzato 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What should I do with my app? 130 downloads 3 real subscribers
    ×0.24 108 | 3 points by oyaa52 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Any Open Source projects in need of documentation writer?
    ×0.39 102 | 21 points by tree666 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Former grok-code-fast-1 users, what coding model are you using now?
    ×0.18 | 2 points by whycombinetor 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Why Databases Instead of Filesystem?
    ×0.37 103 | 14 points by uticus 3 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Agentic Permutation of Testing Paths In A System
    ×0.15 110 | 4 points by davidajackson 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Tor Browser on Android leaks IP in desktop mode
    ×0.66 78 | 13 points by shchess 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Should AI credits be refunded on mistakes?
    ×0.26 121 | 20 points by ed_elliott_asc 5 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Has anyone reconsidered Antivirus software after recent security news?
    ×1.03 94 | 6 points by pants2 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Do founders' political views affect how you see a product?
    ×0.54 119 | 4 points by rishikeshs 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. I collected startup ideas. It changed how I think about ideas completely
    ×1.05 96 | 10 points by vibecoder21 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: How do you manage your digital legacy for after you die?
    ×0.49 128 | 15 points by orbanlevi 5 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Is VC the new PMF strategy?
    ×0.28 137 | 3 points by networkOne 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Local-first meetings recorder and transcriber?
    ×0.51 139 | 7 points by dandaka 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Open Source card game cuttle.cards has its world championship Saturday at 1pm ET
    ×0.18 134 | 4 points by aleph_one 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Point Cloud Allemansrätten (digitalflapjack.com)
    ×0.87 1 #18 | 30 points by ColinWright 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Struggling to heat your home? How about 500 Raspberry Pi units? (theregister.com)
    ×1.05 5 #46 | 10 points by cmsefton 3 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Astro SEO Guide – From Yoast SEO Founder (joost.blog)
    ×1.41 | 2 points by johnnyballgame 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: I'm organizing a vibe coding game dev competition (vibej.am)
    ×1.97 101 | 7 points by pieterhg 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. The Closing of the Frontier (tanyaverma.sh)
    ×1.71 12 #69 | 186 points by MindGods 20 hours ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found (aisle.com)
    ×4.87 23 #71 | 1258 points by dominicq 1 day ago | 333 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. High-Level Rust: Getting 80% of the Benefits with 20% of the Pain (hamy.xyz)
    ×1.38 57 #75 | 74 points by maxloh 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. More Legal Systems Different from Ours: Video-Game Law (freumh.org)
    ×0.76 | 1 points by surprisetalk 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Reverse-engineering a Tinder scam [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by busymom0 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. The secrets of the shinkansen (worksinprogress.news)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by herbertl 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: CSS Studio. Design by hand, code by agent (cssstudio.ai)
    ×1.03 60 | 171 points by SirHound 4 days ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Toy Python Lisp interpreters based on the 1960 McCarthy paper (github.com/jhud)
    ×0.78 99 | 3 points by disconnection 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: QVAC SDK, a universal JavaScript SDK for building local AI applications
    ×0.57 83 | 30 points by qvac 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Is math big or small? (chessapig.github.io)
    ×0.78 40 #27 | 66 points by robinhouston 15 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Uncharted island soon to appear on nautical charts (awi.de)
    ×1.07 32 #36 | 93 points by tannhaeuser 18 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Rockstar hackers set to release GTA 6 data breach as 'demands not met' (dexerto.com)
    ×1.60 2 #43 | 6 points by 01-_- 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. The End of Eleventy (brennan.day)
    ×1.31 29 #62 | 217 points by ValentineC 1 day ago | 182 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. The APL programming language source code (2012) (computerhistory.org)
    ×0.81 57 #81 | 80 points by tosh 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Men Are Arrested in $1M Lego Theft in California (nytimes.com)
    ×1.53 | 2 points by ripe 25 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: The Infinite Tolkien – endless narration of Middle-earth (infinitetolkien.com)
    ×0.53 | 2 points by Jarlakxen 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: I built a site that shows every world event you lived through (youdidntnotice.com)
    ×3.09 112 | 9 points by lip404 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning (adlrocha.substack.com)
    ×3.92 10 #24 | 325 points by walterbell 12 hours ago | 280 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Galactic Algorithm (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.51 9 #31 | 19 points by tmtvl 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Programming Used to Be Free (purplesyringa.moe)
    ×1.28 56 #39 | 11 points by yeputons 8 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Equirect – a Rust VR video player (github.com/greggman)
    ×0.86 65 #40 | 6 points by greggman65 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. The sonic anatomy of a double-tap strike (earshotngo.substack.com)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by moxifly7 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Radio time machine AI audio system recreates past sounds for cognitive health (designboom.com)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by ohjeez 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Solar Panels in Aleppo Syria (reddit.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by locallost 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Rockstar Games Hacked, Hackers Threaten a Massive Data Leak If Not Paid Ransom (kotaku.com)
    ×2.11 40 | 109 points by c420 1 day ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Steadcast – Free Mac podcast player for learning, not background noise (steadcast.co)
    ×2.81 123 | 7 points by steadcast 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Israel Destroys Villages in Lebanon (theguardian.com)
    ×14.72 7 | 161 points by pera 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Bitcoin and Quantum Computing – a three-part research series (bitcoinquantum.space)
    ×1.65 98 | 6 points by nvk 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: 41 years sea surface temperature anomalies (willhelps.org)
    ×1.01 63 | 147 points by willmeyers 4 days ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. The Triumph of Stupidity (1933) (russell-j.com)
    ×1.19 66 #68 | 20 points by downbad_ 21 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. An Oligarchy of Old People (theatlantic.com)
    ×0.80 | 1 points by paulpauper 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Remy: Remember Everything (twitter.com/JacobTrebil)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by Jacobtrebil 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Percussive maintenance, planned obsolescence, and other PC myths (howtogeek.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by dxs 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Bunqueue – Saga workflow engine for Bun with embedded SQLite (bunqueue.dev)
    ×1.01 129 | 3 points by kernelvoid 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Why do NES colors look so different in emulators? [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.54 15 #77 | 7 points by JuniperMesos 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Darkdrive – self-hosted encrypted cloud storage with split keys (darkdrive.de)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by plue-tech 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Rekal – Long-term memory for LLMs in a single SQLite file (github.com/janbjorge)
    ×0.69 70 | 3 points by jeeybee 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: T4 – a versioned datastore with branching and time-travel (S3-backed) (github.com/t4db)
    ×1.51 62 | 7 points by amakhov 21 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: I pipe free sports streams into Jellyfin – no ads, just HLS (github.com/pcruz1905)
    ×1.09 74 | 118 points by pruz 5 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. A perfectable programming language (alok.github.io)
    ×1.40 31 #16 | 173 points by yuppiemephisto 17 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. I gave every train in New York an instrument (trainjazz.com)
    ×1.90 22 #21 | 340 points by joshuawolk 23 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Observer Patch Holography (OPH) (github.com/FloatingPragma)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by regnull 43 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. I ran Gemma 4 as a local model in Codex CLI (danielvaughan.com)
    ×2.59 30 #26 | 149 points by dvaughan 18 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack (stevehanov.ca)
    ×5.76 31 #64 | 907 points by tradertef 1 day ago | 490 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Booking.com warns customers of hack that exposed their data (theguardian.com)
    ×2.20 39 #67 | 4 points by Brajeshwar 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. State of Homelab 2026 (mrlokans.work)
    ×2.02 42 | 93 points by swq115 13 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Druids – Build your own software factory (github.com/fulcrumresearch)
    ×0.69 73 | 64 points by etherio 4 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: TUI-use: Let AI agents control interactive terminal programs (github.com/onesuper)
    ×0.59 93 | 52 points by dreamsome 4 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Minimalist template for scientific and academic resumes (github.com/pmichaillat)
    ×0.71 111 | 3 points by reomgdfsrtr 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. We May Be Living Through the Most Consequential Hundred Days in Cyber History (ringmast4r.substack.com)
    ×0.81 | 1 points by laurex 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Popular Psychology Myths You Probably Still Believe (nateliason.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by theorchid 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. What Is Pura Vida Lifestyle, Really? (johnquam.substack.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by headmonkey 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Kondi-chat (open cursor) – multi-model AI coding CLI with intelligent routing (github.com/thisPointOn)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by thispointon 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Apple Silicon and Virtual Machines: Beating the 2 VM Limit (2023) (khronokernel.com)
    ×1.38 7 | 233 points by krackers 1 day ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Android now stops you sharing your location in photos (shkspr.mobi)
    ×2.16 1 #2 | 198 points by edent 3 hours ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Phyphox – Physical Experiments Using a Smartphone (phyphox.org)
    ×1.38 39 #33 | 242 points by _Microft 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???