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  1. Tell HN: Ralph Giles has died (Xiph.org| Rust@Mozilla | Ghostscript)
    ×2.62 23 #23 | 473 points by ffworld 23 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What would you recommend a vibe coder learn about how all this works?
    ×0.70 56 | 23 points by alexdobrenko 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
    ×1.25 73 | 330 points by david927 5 days ago | 1137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Did YouTube change how it handles uBlock?
    ×0.68 67 | 16 points by tefloon69 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: AI Depression
    ×3.05 10 | 33 points by pavello 9 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Moss: A Linux-compatible Rust async kernel, 3 months on
    ×0.30 57 | 3 points by hexagonal-sun 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How do you audit LLM code in programming languages you don't know?
    ×0.36 103 | 6 points by syx 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: We're building a saving app for European savers and need GTM advice
    ×0.39 125 | 3 points by AlePra00 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Better hardware means OpenAI, Anthropic, etc. are doomed in the future?
    ×0.31 106 | 3 points by kart23 18 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Do sociotechnical pressures select for beneficial or harmful AI systems?
    ×0.22 94 | 4 points by jerlendds 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Tools to code using voice?
    ×0.57 79 | 6 points by emerongi 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. SMTP server from scratch in Go – FSM, raw TCP, and buffer-oriented I/O
    ×0.64 72 | 4 points by Jyotishmoy 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What happens when capability decouples from credentials?
    ×0.64 78 | 6 points by falsework 21 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Why is my Claude experience so bad? What am I doing wrong?
    ×0.68 76 | 4 points by moomoo11 14 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Why are electronics still so unrecyclable?
    ×0.73 68 | 71 points by alexandrehtrb 2 days ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Who discovered grokking and why is the name hard to find?
    ×0.48 | 2 points by asmodeuslucifer 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: If your OpenClaw could do 1 thing it currently can't, what would it be?
    ×0.56 102 | 5 points by stosssik 23 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How do founders demo real product without exposing sensitive data?
    ×0.79 112 | 4 points by legitimate_key 23 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How do you "step through" your own anxiety?
    ×1.45 95 | 6 points by schneak 23 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: GPT-5.3-Codex being silently routed to GPT-5.2?
    ×0.98 105 | 5 points by tardis_thad 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: What's the current state of ChatGPT Apps?
    ×1.42 111 | 5 points by arthurlee 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Are you using an agent orchestrator to write code?
    ×1.59 36 | 35 points by gusmally 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Would you use context-based "modes" in Instagram(work,study,sport,news)?
    ×0.59 118 | 3 points by MatiasLaudonio 22 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Has anyone achieved recursive self-improvement with agentic tools?
    ×0.34 120 | 9 points by nycdatasci 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: How much PTO do you get?
    ×1.37 100 | 5 points by SunshineTheCat 22 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Best practices for AI agent safety and privacy
    ×0.27 | 2 points by mw1 23 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: How to build text-to-app platforms?
    ×0.30 | 2 points by desperado1 23 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Why is everyone here so AI-hyped?
    ×1.28 116 | 30 points by fandorin 3 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Is Prettier extension working for you in Cursor?
    ×0.26 | 2 points by vldszn 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Anyone else get bricked by the macOS update?
    ×0.31 | 2 points by bix6 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. How the world will be if P = NP?
    ×0.39 | 2 points by fouadelkh 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Dumping GitHub for Forgejo for a free and open source project
    ×0.15 127 | 4 points by th0th 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Tell HN: GPT-5.3-codex is now available in the API
    ×0.54 122 | 4 points by bigwheels 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Do provisional patents matter for early-stage startups?
    ×0.31 137 | 20 points by gdad 4 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Does OpenClaw need a re-architecture to be usable?
    ×0.16 140 | 4 points by xinbenlv 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. HN needs a context reminder in the URL window
    ×0.67 143 | 4 points by newsoftheday 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: WebExplorer – a tool for preview file in browser (webexplorer.app)
    ×0.53 | 2 points by feblr 20 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Send Claude Code tasks to the Batch API at 50% off (github.com/s2-streamstore)
    ×1.33 98 | 22 points by misker1 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Printable Classics – Free printable classic books for hobby bookbinders (printableclassics.com)
    ×0.86 109 | 83 points by bookman10 4 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: BetterDB – Valkey/Redis monitoring that persists what servers forget
    ×1.02 126 | 4 points by kaliades 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Major European payment processor can't send email to Google Workspace users (atha.io)
    ×2.34 18 #40 | 594 points by thatha7777 1 day ago | 401 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Anthropic taps ex-Microsoft CFO, Trump aide Liddell for board (cnbc.com)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by pelcg 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Fed on Reams of Cell Data, AI Maps New Neighborhoods in the Brain (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by 7777777phil 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Covering electricity price increases from our data centers (anthropic.com)
    ×1.65 51 | 125 points by ryanhn 2 days ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: TinyFish Web Agent (82% on hard tasks vs. Operator's 43%) (tinyfish.ai)
    ×3.13 74 | 16 points by gargi_tinyfish 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Hologram v0.7.0: Milestone release for Elixir-to-JavaScript porting initiative (hologram.page)
    ×0.82 48 | 106 points by bartblast 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. I ditched OpenClaw and built a more secure AI agent (Blink and Mac Mini) (coder.com)
    ×2.36 59 | 51 points by ericpaulsen 6 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: CodeMic (codemic.io)
    ×0.58 85 | 52 points by seansh 5 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. NIMBYs Complained About Me to the State Bar. The State Bar Told Them to Get Lost (yimbyaction.org)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by luckyducky99 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Virginia court allows Democrats' redistricting vote in plan to counter to Trump (npr.org)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by rbanffy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. I built Fluxer, a Discord-like chat app (fluxer.app)
    ×2.06 5 | 3 points by birdculture 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Apple patches decade-old iOS zero-day, possibly exploited by commercial spyware (theregister.com)
    ×2.64 1 | 259 points by beardyw 1 day ago | 216 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Musical Interval Trainer (valtterimaja.github.io)
    ×0.67 113 | 21 points by Gravityloss 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Japan's National Chip Startup Races to 2nm Mass Production (ai-supremacy.com)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by rbanffy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. TikTok is tracking you, even if you don't use the app (bbc.com)
    ×2.55 13 | 159 points by belter 1 day ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Heroku is not dead (nombiezinja.com)
    ×1.20 66 | 57 points by jbm 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: TidesDB – A persistent key-value store optimized for modern hardware (github.com/tidesdb)
    ×3.40 88 | 10 points by alexpadula 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Fixing retail with land value capture (worksinprogress.co)
    ×0.96 36 #63 | 105 points by marojejian 1 day ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. The many flavours of ignore files (nesbitt.io)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by fanf2 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. OpenAI GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark Now Running at 1K Tokens per Second on Cerebras Chips (servethehome.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by rbanffy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Apple faces new tensions with Trump administration (ft.com)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by ksec 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: FrankenTUI in the Browser (frankentui.com)
    ×5.21 89 | 15 points by eigenvalue 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Goxe 19k Logs/S on an I5 (github.com/DumbNoxx)
    ×0.22 141 | 9 points by nxus_dev 5 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Green’s Dictionary of Slang - Five hundred years of the vulgar tongue (greensdictofslang.com)
    ×0.64 30 #14 | 76 points by mxfh 8 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Evaluating Multilingual, Context-Aware Guardrails: A Humanitarian LLM Use Case (mozilla.ai)
    ×0.44 59 #65 | 32 points by benbreen 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Bubble Sort on a Turing Machine (github.com/purplejacket)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by purplejacket 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. WolfSSL Sucks Too, So Now What? (feld.me)
    ×1.57 15 | 53 points by thomasjb 11 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Wip – Monitor AI agent commits and local Git state from the CLI (github.com/drmnaik)
    ×0.44 | 2 points by mahesh588 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: SCPN Fusion Core – Tokamak plasma SIM and neuromorphic SNN control (github.com/anulum)
    ×0.87 | 2 points by anulum 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. The first AI-native car search Platform (vehique.ai)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by geboss 18 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Toil, a go library for simple parallelism (github.com/indrora)
    ×0.88 47 | 3 points by indrora 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: YOR – open-source bimanual mobile robot for <$10k (yourownrobot.ai)
    ×4.21 81 | 10 points by jeffacce 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Codex HUD – Claude-HUD Style Status Line for Codex CLI (github.com/anhannin)
    ×0.51 44 | 3 points by anhm720 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Got VACE working in real-time – 30fps on a 5090 (daydream.live)
    ×2.38 96 | 10 points by cmuir 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Browse Internet Infrastructure (wirewiki.com)
    ×0.92 101 | 109 points by pul 4 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: MCP tools that let AI agents dispatch batteries and prove carbon (energyatit.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by kasathur 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Generalized On-Policy Distillation with Reward Extrapolation (arxiv.org)
    ×1.27 | 2 points by fzliu 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Ring owners are returning their cameras (msn.com)
    ×4.43 25 #51 | 374 points by c420 15 hours ago | 265 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. How to Have a Bad Career – David Patterson (2016) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.87 45 #61 | 108 points by rombr 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Culture Is the Mass-Synchronization of Framings (aethermug.com)
    ×0.85 22 #88 | 143 points by mrcgnc 1 day ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Measles cases reported at Florida university amid historic outbreak (dailymail.co.uk)
    ×2.63 42 | 4 points by Bender 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. AI safety leader says 'world is in peril' and quits to study poetry (bbc.com)
    ×3.69 35 #38 | 70 points by darod 59 minutes ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Ruby Newbie is joining the Ruby Users forum (rubyforum.org)
    ×0.87 44 #41 | 71 points by jvrc 15 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Workledger – An offline first engineering notebook (workledger.org)
    ×0.95 | 1 points by birdculture 44 seconds ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. New Way to Predict Your Risk of a Heart Attack (time.com)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by brandonb 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. gRPC: From service definition to wire format (kreya.app)
    ×0.98 15 #13 | 32 points by latonz 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Sovereign Code from the Heart of Suffering: Injecting Logic into AI (paragraph.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by suffering 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. New Nick Bostrom Paper: Optimal Timing for Superintelligence [pdf] (nickbostrom.com)
    ×1.43 4 | 60 points by uejfiweun 17 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. I spent two days gigging at RentAHuman and didn't make a single cent (wired.com)
    ×2.00 10 #28 | 110 points by speckx 6 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Discord Voluntarily Pushes Mandatory Age Verification Despite Recent Data Breach (eff.org)
    ×3.06 15 #54 | 56 points by hn_acker 7 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???