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  1. Ask HN: Any Interesting Niche Hobbies?
    ×0.43 20 | 4 points by e-topy 1 hour ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw
    ×3.38 3 #71 | 1069 points by firloop 2 days ago | 819 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: I don't get why Anthropic is limiting usage
    ×0.25 56 | 3 points by ud0 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Is there any interest in a native Qt/C++ Discord client?
    ×0.56 48 | 32 points by txtsd 3 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: LLM-Based Spam Filter
    ×0.37 77 | 3 points by michidk 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Training mRNA Language Models Across 25 Species for $165
    ×0.86 55 | 145 points by maziyar 4 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Where are all the disruptive software that AI promised?
    ×1.17 19 | 11 points by p-o 6 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Why doesn't HN have a mobile app?
    ×0.53 85 | 5 points by kranirudha 10 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Write Your Own Copy
    ×1.32 80 | 27 points by operatingthetan 23 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2026)
    ×1.19 94 | 276 points by whoishiring 4 days ago | 358 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2026)
    ×0.76 122 | 88 points by whoishiring 4 days ago | 348 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Microsoft Discontinuing Publisher. Alternatives?
    ×1.09 100 | 10 points by supliminal 22 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Skills to construct and read docs following the progressive exposure principle
    ×0.47 103 | 4 points by Felix-Zhenghao 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Distributed data centers in our basements
    ×0.50 140 | 74 points by cmos 5 days ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Intelligence Cannot Be Trained?
    ×0.58 129 | 7 points by hyperzzw 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How Do You Relax?
    ×1.47 101 | 14 points by azeirah 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Anthropic to limit Using third-party harnesses with Claude subscriptions
    ×0.59 120 | 18 points by guiyuwei 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Learning resources for building AI agents?
    ×0.98 133 | 9 points by 7e10 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Third-party Claude harnesses will now draw from extra usage
    ×0.63 131 | 14 points by iBelieve 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Tell HN: Chrome says "suspicious download" when trying to download yt-dlp
    ×2.35 108 | 310 points by joering2 5 days ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: What dev tools do you rely on that nobody talks about?
    ×1.49 143 | 43 points by crcsmnky 4 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Lightweight IDE to Pair with Claude Code?
    ×0.85 152 | 7 points by zupancik 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Is AI-generated output copyrightable? Should it be?
    ×1.20 98 | 6 points by robalni 16 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Should we collectively stop spell checking and fixing grammar
    ×0.44 162 | 6 points by sankalpnarula 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Academic study on AI's impact on software development – want to join?
    ×0.52 169 | 31 points by research2026 5 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Tell HN: YouTube history setting privacy implications
    ×0.82 148 | 5 points by tinaclaussen 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: How relevant is low code according to you in today’s world with Claude?
    ×0.67 174 | 9 points by kinj28 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Anyone else having a terrible experience with Claude Code's remote control?
    ×0.75 128 | 3 points by leddo 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: What are you moving on to now that Claude Code is so rate limited?
    ×0.57 146 | 11 points by esperent 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Why still embed heavy 3rd-party iFrames for simple social proof?
    ×0.54 165 | 4 points by LordKode 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: What is your dev set up like?
    ×0.50 160 | 14 points by break_the_bank 3 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Stripe closed my UAE business account and is withholding $3.5K
    ×0.99 142 | 25 points by alganzory 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: European Tech Alternatives?
    ×1.74 106 | 105 points by BrunoBernardino 3 days ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Are agents _still_ writing most of your code?
    ×0.27 159 | 6 points by etamponi 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. What Is a Collation, and Why Is My Data Corrupt? – PG Phridays with Shaun Thomas
    ×0.16 179 | 3 points by pgedge_postgres 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: What happens when you block/mark as spam a call or text?
    ×0.61 176 | 14 points by dsalzman 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Thought Exercise regarding RX dependency
    ×0.32 180 | 3 points by Bender 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: Advice on Solo Launching
    ×0.32 167 | 6 points by acaciabengo 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. BetterDB – open-source Redis/Valkey migration across clouds and self-hosted
    ×0.80 177 | 15 points by kaliades 4 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: Whether there is LLM or other strong NLP behind Hacker News?
    ×0.31 182 | 3 points by Jet_Xu 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Are tech companies even hiring?
    ×1.47 168 | 21 points by KernelPryanic 4 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ask HN: How do you know if a tweak to your AI skill made it better?
    ×1.00 181 | 9 points by yo103jg 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. LinkedIn uses 65GB of RAM with 7 tabs opened
    ×1.09 178 | 15 points by daniele_dll 5 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Fixed a llama.cpp bug silently disabling Vulkan GPU on all 32-bit ARM devices
    ×0.35 183 | 3 points by perinban 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Pika's FAQ says "we won't train on your likeness", their ToS say the opposite (pika-not-me.vercel.app)
    ×1.17 5 | 3 points by not-chatgpt 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. The CMS is dead, long live the CMS (jazzsequence.com)
    ×1.02 60 | 149 points by taubek 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. In Japan, the robot isn't coming for your job; it's filling the one nobody wants (techcrunch.com)
    ×1.33 | 2 points by rbanffy 32 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'? (teybannerman.com)
    ×3.65 43 #79 | 784 points by gpi 1 day ago | 367 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. 2003 Angola Boeing 727 disappearance (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by chistev 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Teens Sick of Their iPhones Are 'Mallmaxxing' (bloomberg.com)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by mindcrime 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Components of a Coding Agent (sebastianraschka.com)
    ×1.56 10 | 281 points by MindGods 1 day ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: TinyOS – A minimalist RTOS for Cortex-M written in C (github.com/cmc-labo)
    ×0.69 86 | 100 points by hpscript 2 days ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. From birds to brains: My path to the fusiform face area (2024) (kavliprize.org)
    ×0.47 31 #17 | 33 points by everbody 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. We made significant improvements to the Kokoro TTS trainer (github.com/BovineOverlord)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by SainzA 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Clusterflock: An AI orchestrator for networked hardware
    ×0.52 166 | 3 points by notum 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. XLA (openxla.org)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by tosh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Introduction to Computer Music (2009) [pdf] (composerprogrammer.com)
    ×0.96 4 #64 | 219 points by luu 21 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: A simple sharing platform for Markdown Files (markbin.net)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by zackkitzmiller 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Anti-distill tool, digitize your colleague before they digitize you (twitter.com/MilkRoadAI)
    ×1.24 7 | 3 points by dandaka 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Run Linux containers on Android, no root required (github.com/ExTV)
    ×1.42 66 | 218 points by politelemon 2 days ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. The Indie Internet Index – submit your favorite sites (iii.social)
    ×1.11 42 | 182 points by freshman_dev 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: I built a DNS resolver from scratch in Rust – no DNS libraries (github.com/razvandimescu)
    ×1.15 110 | 113 points by rdme 3 days ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't (sschueller.github.io)
    ×4.41 4 #15 | 93 points by sschueller 4 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. A whole boss fight in 256 bytes (111mb.de)
    ×2.13 36 | 3 points by HellMood 31 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Toshiba goes glassy-eyed with 11-platter 34TB SMR drive (blocksandfiles.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by rbanffy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Electrical transformer manufacturing is throttling the electrified future (bloomberg.com)
    ×0.80 92 #61 | 109 points by toomuchtodo 1 day ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Runfra – Decentralized GPU cluster designed for bulk generation (runfra.com)
    ×1.87 27 | 3 points by spencer9714 49 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Travel Hacking Toolkit – Points search and trip planning with AI (github.com/borski)
    ×1.02 84 | 93 points by borski 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Genetic algorithm engine that evolves trading strategies (github.com/NeuZhou)
    ×1.06 | 2 points by neuzhou 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Aegis – open-source FPGA silicon (github.com/MidstallSoftware)
    ×1.23 47 #31 | 123 points by rosscomputerguy 17 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. US Site Blocking Legislation Could Be Attached to Omnibus Bill – TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)
    ×2.37 35 | 4 points by ls612 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Sopwith – 1984 Game (2000) (sopwith.org)
    ×1.08 59 | 97 points by elvis70 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Web Push Notifications for Hacker News (val.run)
    ×2.26 149 | 5 points by kinlan 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: First Native macOS SDK for NXP NTAG 424 DNA NFC Authentication (github.com/jetnoir)
    ×0.55 | 2 points by ethical 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: A simple iOS app that helps you give yourself some time" (apple.com)
    ×2.34 127 | 7 points by sezginozgur 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: M. C. Escher spiral in WebGL inspired by 3Blue1Brown (laszlokorte.de)
    ×1.44 66 #51 | 153 points by laszlokorte 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Linux 7.1 Expected to Begin Removing I486 CPU Support (phoronix.com)
    ×2.10 16 #48 | 9 points by rbanffy 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Stamp It! All Programs Must Report Their Version (stapelberg.ch)
    ×0.96 54 #67 | 9 points by secure 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Rig: Build modular LLM apps in Rust – 20 providers, one unified interface (github.com/0xPlaygrounds)
    ×1.15 32 | 3 points by michidk 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Made a little Artemis II tracker (artemis-ii-tracker.com)
    ×1.52 91 | 153 points by codingmoh 2 days ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Contrapunk – Real-time counterpoint harmony from guitar input (contrapunk.com)
    ×0.94 44 #45 | 111 points by waveywaves 18 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: I built a tool to show how much ARR you lose to FX fees (fixmyfx.com)
    ×1.01 72 | 3 points by TaniaBell_PD 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: A Common Lisp implementation in development (nongnu.org)
    ×1.55 82 | 4 points by andreamonaco 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Run Claude Code autonomously inside your Docker Compose stack (OSS) (github.com/sayil)
    ×1.83 150 | 8 points by sayil 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. OCR tool in C using SDL2 and LLMs (rectangle select –> text) (github.com/haschka)
    ×0.57 | 2 points by haschka 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. The Melanesian: Dark-skinned people with blonde hair region of Oceania (2022) (guardian.ng)
    ×1.19 9 #54 | 42 points by thunderbong 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. EPA official in charge of methane regulations was an oil and gas lobbyist (propublica.org)
    ×3.50 42 | 55 points by Jimmc414 8 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Postgres extension for BM25 relevance-ranked full-text search (github.com/timescale)
    ×1.33 115 | 203 points by tjgreen 5 days ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Lisette a little language inspired by Rust that compiles to Go (lisette.run)
    ×1.42 #37 | 252 points by jspdown 16 hours ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. The Harvard Library Passport (fi-le.net)
    ×1.30 | 2 points by fi-le 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???