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  1. Tell HN: Apple development certificate server seems down?
    ×1.20 16 #38 | 96 points by strongpigeon 14 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: How are people doing AI evals these days?
    ×0.54 45 #80 | 15 points by yelmahallawy 11 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)
    ×1.33 49 | 283 points by david927 2 days ago | 1082 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Remember Fidonet?
    ×1.18 3 | 116 points by ukkare 23 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How are people forecasting AI API costs for agent workflows?
    ×0.92 29 | 4 points by Barathkanna 4 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Maybe we can keep on coding? pseudo code project
    ×1.93 22 | 7 points by EmptyDrum 6 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How to be alone?
    ×4.47 32 | 670 points by sillysaurusx 2 days ago | 552 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How do you review gen-AI created code?
    ×0.99 84 | 4 points by captainkrtek 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting
    ×5.40 15 | 707 points by Oras 2 days ago | 502 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Most beautiful personal blog UI you have ever seen?
    ×2.90 82 | 142 points by ms7892 2 days ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Tell HN: Vertical tabs has arrived (behind a flag) in Chrome stable
    ×1.47 81 | 5 points by crummy 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Is Starlink still being jammed in Iran?
    ×0.86 91 | 3 points by Jblx2 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Can I repurpose a Bluetooth voice remote as input device for a PC?
    ×0.25 114 | 15 points by albert_e 3 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How to "make it" as a newlygrad/junior?
    ×1.24 87 | 4 points by kartoffelsaft 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion
    ×5.56 47 | 1064 points by shannoncc 4 days ago | 975 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Devs who are out of work – what are you doing for income now?
    ×2.65 24 | 6 points by a1n 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Does automatic multilingual support make sense for a launch platform?
    ×0.24 | 2 points by LeanVibe 16 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Why is GPT-5.4 obsessed with Goblins?
    ×1.53 96 | 14 points by pants2 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Unlocked SaaS, file source as truth?
    ×0.45 | 2 points by abmmgb 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Is GitHub getting less reliable, or is it just me?
    ×1.15 110 | 11 points by _pdp_ 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. The Architecture of an Exit Scam: A Technical Audit of Zszrun
    ×0.46 107 | 5 points by cappyfjao 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Since a week HN keeps logging me off every few days, why?
    ×0.44 109 | 5 points by epolanski 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: What AI content automation stack are you using in 2026?
    ×0.31 129 | 3 points by jackcofounder 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Do you still run Redis and workers just for background jobs?
    ×0.16 | 2 points by sergF 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Favorite Non-Spammy iPhone Games?
    ×0.81 122 | 6 points by bix6 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: What game engine would you recommend for vibe coding?
    ×1.07 123 | 6 points by general_reveal 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Read‑only LLM tool for email triage and knowledge extraction?
    ×0.30 | 2 points by maille 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Any informed guesses on the actual size/architecture of GPT-5.4 etc.?
    ×0.53 135 | 4 points by dsrtslnd23 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Anyone else feel this community has changed recently?
    ×3.47 126 | 58 points by kypro 4 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Code-review-graph: persistent code graph that cuts Claude Code token usage
    ×0.21 | 2 points by tirthkanani 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. I replaced my freelance SaaS stack with 5 single-file HTML tools
    ×1.57 150 | 8 points by AnnSri 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Who Needs Help?
    ×1.63 112 | 14 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. A job ad for Agentic AI Advocate
    ×0.38 146 | 4 points by greenpinia 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: How are you handling persistent memory across local Ollama sessions
    ×0.37 161 | 5 points by null-phnix 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Are showlang and thelang HN endpoints not being maintained?
    ×0.52 147 | 4 points by freakynit 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Tell HN: The proposed KIDS Act (HR 7757) effectively mandates biometric browsing
    ×1.16 152 | 20 points by fokdelafons 4 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. OpenAI might end up on the right side of history
    ×0.86 136 | 12 points by shoman3003 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: Let's rethink the architecture and future of Emacs
    ×0.76 120 | 3 points by kurouna 20 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Whisker – Self hosted e-commerce cart, pure PHP, zero dependencies
    ×0.44 162 | 7 points by eLohith 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days?
    ×2.46 116 | 10 points by chistev 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. All tmux sessions as a single terminal
    ×0.21 | 2 points by lygten 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Why is email so resilient as a technology?
    ×2.14 102 | 7 points by noemit 23 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: Are we going to see more job postings asking for only agentic coding?
    ×0.78 149 | 6 points by ronbenton 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Ask HN: How are you monitoring AI agents in production?
    ×0.52 160 | 4 points by jairooh 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. PhD interrupted by personal safety issues, now publication record is thin
    ×0.31 166 | 5 points by qthrwaway 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Billion-Parameter Theories (worldgov.org)
    ×0.90 16 #48 | 97 points by seanlinehan 16 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Amazon is holding a mandatory meeting about AI breaking its systems (twitter.com/lukolejnik)
    ×6.01 60 | 287 points by lwhsiao 19 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Germany's Solar Boom Eases Power Costs as Gas Price Jumps (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.84 5 | 83 points by toomuchtodo 21 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Husky hook that blocks Git push until you do your pushups (git-push.app)
    ×1.01 121 | 14 points by zimboy 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Google to Provide Pentagon with AI Agents (bloomberg.com)
    ×4.75 12 #16 | 16 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Rebasing in Magit (entropicthoughts.com)
    ×1.12 14 #66 | 202 points by ibobev 20 hours ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. AI research paper – IEEE open access journal (ieee.org)
    ×1.20 | 2 points by funnyguy678 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Ask HN: Should we add game as product type for 3DIMLI?
    ×0.55 | 1 points by arpit077 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Eyot, A programming language where the GPU is just another thread (cowleyforniastudios.com)
    ×0.86 99 | 78 points by steeleduncan 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: AI agent that runs real browser workflows (ghostd.io)
    ×1.24 118 | 4 points by heavymemory 22 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Building a TB-303 from Scratch (loopmaster.xyz)
    ×1.60 9 #2 | 35 points by stagas 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. MacBook Neo Review: Better Than You Think (youtube.com)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by keepamovin 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Encode/httpx: Closing off access (github.com/encode)
    ×1.59 | 2 points by luismedel 32 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Colab pipeline for auto-labeling datasets with prompt and training YOLO (github.com/useful-ai-tools)
    ×1.27 | 2 points by eyasu6464 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Ablation vs Heretic vs Obliteratus: one trick, three layers of tooling (morgin.ai)
    ×1.25 | 2 points by samuelLagent 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: A mission-based game to help students apply math in real life (owsterlabs.com)
    ×1.18 | 2 points by firepegasus11 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Fixfest is a global gathering of repairers, tinkerers, and activists (therestartproject.org)
    ×1.21 36 | 181 points by robtherobber 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: CryptoFlora – Visualize SHA256 to a flower using Rose curves (tonytonyjan.net)
    ×0.81 | 2 points by tonytonyjan 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Bring your own prompts to remote shells (github.com/tgalal)
    ×0.47 156 | 3 points by tgalal 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Revealed: UK's multibillion AI drive is built on 'phantom investments' (theguardian.com)
    ×1.84 73 | 99 points by tablets 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. PgAdmin 4 9.13 with AI Assistant Panel (pgadmin.org)
    ×0.91 49 #50 | 87 points by __natty__ 22 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Unbash: Fast 0-deps bash parser written in TypeScript (github.com/webpro-nl)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by mariuz 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Europe tops global arms imports, SIPRI reports (dw.com)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by breve 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: A simple hardened AI Docker cluster (github.com/kummahiih)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by kummap 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Claude Skills: The Complete Guide (aistaffkit.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by modestpacket 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Restoring a Sun SPARCstation IPX part 1: PSU and NVRAM (2020) (rs-online.com)
    ×0.72 71 | 108 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Remotely use my guitar tuner (realtuner.online)
    ×1.73 6 | 251 points by smith-kyle 4 days ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Agentic Data Analysis with Claude Code (rubenflamshepherd.com)
    ×1.74 100 | 5 points by rubenflamshep 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Meta Acquires Moltbook (arstechnica.com)
    ×0.98 | 1 points by lnrd 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Glanceway – Collect RSS and custom plugin data in your macOS menu bar (glanceway.app)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by codytseng 45 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. The Anthropic Institute (anthropic.com)
    ×3.85 67 | 5 points by meetpateltech 47 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Zen of AI Coding (nonstructured.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by r4um 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Mark Zuckerberg creating new Applied AI engineering company, reorganises teams (indiatimes.com)
    ×5.62 55 | 100 points by matthieu_bl 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: We help engineers understand codebases with interactive missions (oncode.tech)
    ×1.43 144 | 4 points by AfthabShiraz 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Standardizing source maps (bloomberg.github.io)
    ×1.01 6 #20 | 35 points by Timothee 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Surpassing vLLM with a Generated Inference Stack (infinity.inc)
    ×0.52 25 #23 | 38 points by lukebechtel 8 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Roblox is minting teen millionaires (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.01 18 #24 | 141 points by petethomas 15 hours ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. An opinionated take on how to do important research that matters (carlini.com)
    ×1.28 45 #88 | 163 points by mad 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Unions merged into .NET 11 SDK Preview 3 (github.com/dotnet)
    ×1.34 | 2 points by roflcopter69 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. A static recompiler for original GameBoy ROMs (github.com/arcanite24)
    ×1.30 | 2 points by mvdwoord 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Levels of Agentic Engineering (bassimeledath.com)
    ×1.98 22 #19 | 193 points by bombastic311 17 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Online age-verification tools for child safety are surveilling adults (cnbc.com)
    ×4.04 40 #58 | 609 points by bilsbie 21 hours ago | 324 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Chat with your database using AI (open source) (github.com/keminze)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by kkmz 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: SiClaw – Open-source AIOps with a hypothesis-driven diagnostic engine (github.com/scitix)
    ×0.70 155 | 9 points by SherryWong 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: DenchClaw – Local CRM on Top of OpenClaw (github.com/DenchHQ)
    ×0.89 50 | 140 points by kumar_abhirup 1 day ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???