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  1. Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw
    ×3.34 4 #72 | 1077 points by firloop 2 days ago | 818 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Is there any interest in a native Qt/C++ Discord client?
    ×0.50 65 | 34 points by txtsd 4 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Training mRNA Language Models Across 25 Species for $165
    ×0.84 53 | 145 points by maziyar 4 days ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Where are all the disruptive software that AI promised?
    ×1.16 67 | 15 points by p-o 17 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Any Interesting Niche Hobbies?
    ×0.67 56 | 11 points by e-topy 12 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2026)
    ×1.18 87 | 276 points by whoishiring 4 days ago | 365 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2026)
    ×0.75 119 | 88 points by whoishiring 4 days ago | 356 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Write Your Own Copy
    ×1.29 82 | 29 points by operatingthetan 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: I don't get why Anthropic is limiting usage
    ×0.33 85 | 5 points by ud0 14 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: LLM-Based Spam Filter
    ×0.16 108 | 3 points by michidk 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Microsoft Discontinuing Publisher. Alternatives?
    ×1.28 95 | 13 points by supliminal 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: How Do You Relax?
    ×1.64 96 | 17 points by azeirah 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Skills to construct and read docs following the progressive exposure principle
    ×0.39 120 | 4 points by Felix-Zhenghao 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Anthropic to limit Using third-party harnesses with Claude subscriptions
    ×0.57 123 | 18 points by guiyuwei 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Learning resources for building AI agents?
    ×1.01 131 | 10 points by 7e10 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Claude Peptides – slash commands to cut Claude Code token usage by 73%
    ×0.89 122 | 4 points by alchaka 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Intelligence Cannot Be Trained?
    ×0.52 136 | 7 points by hyperzzw 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Third-party Claude harnesses will now draw from extra usage
    ×0.60 133 | 14 points by iBelieve 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What dev tools do you rely on that nobody talks about?
    ×1.53 138 | 45 points by crcsmnky 4 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Lightweight IDE to Pair with Claude Code?
    ×0.77 149 | 7 points by zupancik 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Stripe closed my UAE business account and is withholding $3.5K
    ×1.01 139 | 26 points by alganzory 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Anyone else having a terrible experience with Claude Code's remote control?
    ×0.88 134 | 4 points by leddo 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: How relevant is low code according to you in today’s world with Claude?
    ×0.64 164 | 9 points by kinj28 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Should we collectively stop spell checking and fixing grammar
    ×0.42 159 | 6 points by sankalpnarula 2 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: What is your dev set up like?
    ×0.49 154 | 14 points by break_the_bank 3 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: What are you moving on to now that Claude Code is so rate limited?
    ×0.55 146 | 11 points by esperent 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Tell HN: YouTube history setting privacy implications
    ×0.76 151 | 5 points by tinaclaussen 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Why still embed heavy 3rd-party iFrames for simple social proof?
    ×0.50 163 | 4 points by LordKode 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: I built WhyOps: A decision-aware observability for AI agents. Thoughts?
    ×1.07 128 | 3 points by dishant0406 23 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: European Tech Alternatives?
    ×1.73 92 | 105 points by BrunoBernardino 3 days ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: What happens when you block/mark as spam a call or text?
    ×0.60 166 | 14 points by dsalzman 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Are agents _still_ writing most of your code?
    ×0.27 156 | 6 points by etamponi 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. BetterDB – open-source Redis/Valkey migration across clouds and self-hosted
    ×0.79 167 | 15 points by kaliades 4 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Is AI-generated output copyrightable? Should it be?
    ×1.03 110 | 6 points by robalni 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. What Is a Collation, and Why Is My Data Corrupt? – PG Phridays with Shaun Thomas
    ×0.15 170 | 3 points by pgedge_postgres 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Thought Exercise regarding RX dependency
    ×0.31 171 | 3 points by Bender 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Advice on Solo Launching
    ×0.32 162 | 6 points by acaciabengo 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: Whether there is LLM or other strong NLP behind Hacker News?
    ×0.31 172 | 3 points by Jet_Xu 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Are tech companies even hiring?
    ×1.46 158 | 21 points by KernelPryanic 4 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: How do you know if a tweak to your AI skill made it better?
    ×0.98 169 | 9 points by yo103jg 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. The CMS is dead, long live the CMS (jazzsequence.com)
    ×1.06 55 | 154 points by taubek 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. How Pope Leo is pushing back on divine justification of war (cnn.com)
    ×3.85 47 | 73 points by 1659447091 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Bb – Windows API viewer for hackers, in the browser (cristeigabriela.github.io)
    ×1.21 118 | 5 points by gabriela_c 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Gemma 4 on iPhone (apple.com)
    ×2.77 3 #2 | 644 points by janandonly 15 hours ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: I built an Open-source Dropbox/Google Drive BOYB(Bring your own bucket) (github.com/zmeyer44)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by Zm44 46 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Texas Republican Called Out for Sharing AI Rendering of Rescued Soldier (mediaite.com)
    ×1.09 | 2 points by 01-_- 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Baby's Second Garbage Collector (matheusmoreira.com)
    ×0.56 66 #40 | 62 points by matheusmoreira 20 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Termux: Differences from Linux (termux.com)
    ×1.26 33 | 3 points by thunderbong 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. We cut our agent's API costs by 10x with prompt caching (kern-ai.com)
    ×0.82 | 2 points by obilgic 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: jsoncompat – a library to detect/fuzz breaking changes in JSON schemas (jsoncompat.com)
    ×1.32 60 | 5 points by rogaos 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: I built a DNS resolver from scratch in Rust – no DNS libraries (github.com/razvandimescu)
    ×1.15 98 | 113 points by rdme 4 days ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Flight-Viz – 10K flights on a 3D globe in 3.5MB of Rust+WASM (flight-viz.com)
    ×0.88 114 | 88 points by coolwulf 4 days ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: AdaShape-3D modeler for intuitive 3D printing parts / Windows 11 (adashape.com)
    ×0.69 153 | 4 points by fsloth 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't (sschueller.github.io)
    ×5.09 2 #14 | 508 points by sschueller 15 hours ago | 379 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing (ergosphere.blog)
    ×4.61 23 #39 | 876 points by zaikunzhang 1 day ago | 579 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Estimates of the expected utility gain of AI Safety Research (lesswrong.com)
    ×0.36 | 1 points by joozio 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs (blogosphere.app)
    ×2.76 18 | 769 points by ramkarthikk 2 days ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Modern Generic SVGA driver for Windows 3.1 (github.com/PluMGMK)
    ×1.26 43 | 70 points by userbinator 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: A P2P messenger with dual network modes (Fast and Tor) (github.com/Realman78)
    ×0.52 124 | 39 points by Realman78 3 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. One ant for $220: The new frontier of wildlife trafficking (bbc.com)
    ×1.19 8 #10 | 38 points by gmays 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video] (bbc.com)
    ×1.91 7 #30 | 482 points by mooreds 20 hours ago | 368 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Scientists found a protein that drives brain aging – and how to stop it (sciencedaily.com)
    ×1.54 #62 | 14 points by mikhael 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Anthropic has a blacklist on the word "OpenClaw" (iili.io)
    ×2.07 3 #76 | 15 points by benn67 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Japanese, French and Omani vessels cross Strait of Hormuz (japantoday.com)
    ×2.31 25 #88 | 153 points by vrganj 19 hours ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Hell Is a World in Which Everybody Writes Like Axios (2022) (newrepublic.com)
    ×2.16 37 | 4 points by Tomte 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad (dw.com)
    ×5.21 2 | 396 points by L_226 1 day ago | 712 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Modo – I built an open-source alternative to Kiro, Cursor, and Windsurf (github.com/mohshomis)
    ×0.80 28 #23 | 51 points by mohshomis 10 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. OpenAI's fall from grace as investors race to Anthropic (latimes.com)
    ×3.85 29 #48 | 164 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 10 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Rendering arbitrary-scale emojis using the Slug algorithm (leduyquang753.name.vn)
    ×0.54 20 #59 | 14 points by leduyquang753 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Shooting down ideas is not a skill (scottlawsonbc.com)
    ×3.07 20 | 155 points by zdw 1 day ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Qwen-3.6-Plus is the first model to break 1T tokens processed in a day (twitter.com/openrouter)
    ×1.78 9 #81 | 55 points by Alifatisk 13 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Talk about PPU (Parallel Processing Unit) increasing CPU speeds exponentially (youtube.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by openhw 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Dot-Globe – React component that renders NASA night-light data (kurt.xyz)
    ×1.12 69 | 4 points by krtbgb 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Java: The Foreign Function and Memory API (dev.java)
    ×1.06 | 2 points by tosh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Ragot – a front end runtime built around lifecycle and ownership (github.com/BleedingXiko)
    ×0.73 | 2 points by BleedingXiko 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Uncompressed – Self-hosted Netflix alternative at 60 Mbps instead of 15 (uncompressed.media)
    ×2.70 125 | 7 points by lackoftactics 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Deeplink – Go library for short links, click tracking, and OG previews (github.com/yinebebt)
    ×1.02 157 | 4 points by yinebeb_sc 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: M. C. Escher spiral in WebGL inspired by 3Blue1Brown (laszlokorte.de)
    ×1.43 58 #65 | 164 points by laszlokorte 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Anomaly detection with nothing but Welford's algorithm and a KV store (uriv.me)
    ×1.40 21 | 3 points by birdculture 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Paramera modified carbon fiber hood (porsche-km.com)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by edl8888 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. GabeN Is Shitting Yacht Money into Flatpak and You're Still Arguing Init Systems (s3kshun8.games)
    ×4.02 48 | 58 points by S3kshun8 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: A Dad Joke Website (joshkurz.net)
    ×2.03 83 | 7 points by joshkurz 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Sheets Spreadsheets in Your Terminal (github.com/maaslalani)
    ×1.39 13 #12 | 84 points by _____k 8 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. PlayStation 3 emulator makes Cell CPU 'breakthrough' that improves performance (tomshardware.com)
    ×1.55 2 | 3 points by adunk 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. The Population Bomb (1968) (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.93 | 2 points by downboots 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Ownscribe – local meeting transcription, summarization and search (github.com/paberr)
    ×2.46 111 | 15 points by paberr 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Humans Persistently Devalue AI-Generated Creative Writing (apa.org)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by Growtika 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. ELF and Dynamic Linking (fmdlc.github.io)
    ×1.27 24 | 3 points by signa11 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: DocMason – Agent Knowledge Base for local complex office files (github.com/jetxu-llm)
    ×2.81 116 | 11 points by Jet_Xu 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Case study: recovery of a corrupted 12 TB multi-device pool (github.com/kdave)
    ×1.27 8 #18 | 67 points by salt4034 7 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???