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  1. Ask HN: Can I say, "Thank You"?
    ×2.23 33 | 7 points by ghastmaster 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2026)
    ×1.19 28 | 264 points by whoishiring 1 day ago | 301 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2026)
    ×0.81 93 | 80 points by whoishiring 1 day ago | 289 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: European Tech Alternatives?
    ×1.87 53 | 93 points by BrunoBernardino 10 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What is your dev set up like?
    ×0.47 89 | 10 points by break_the_bank 12 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Stripe closed my UAE business account and is withholding $3.5K
    ×1.02 66 | 20 points by alganzory 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Distributed data centers in our basements
    ×0.52 113 | 72 points by cmos 2 days ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How relevant is low code according to you in today’s world with Claude?
    ×0.73 99 | 4 points by kinj28 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Tell HN: Chrome says "suspicious download" when trying to download yt-dlp
    ×2.38 81 | 305 points by joering2 2 days ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Client took over development by vibe coding. What to do?
    ×1.29 105 | 57 points by piscator 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Should there be a temporary ban on new accounts?
    ×2.37 31 | 10 points by l33tbro 7 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What dev tools do you rely on that nobody talks about?
    ×1.41 108 | 35 points by crcsmnky 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs
    ×3.90 98 | 792 points by hrncode 4 days ago | 452 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Academic study on AI's impact on software development – want to join?
    ×0.55 130 | 30 points by research2026 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. BetterDB – open-source Redis/Valkey migration across clouds and self-hosted
    ×0.89 127 | 14 points by kaliades 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What happens when you block/mark as spam a call or text?
    ×0.72 124 | 12 points by dsalzman 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Are tech companies even hiring?
    ×1.61 121 | 19 points by KernelPryanic 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How do you know if a tweak to your AI skill made it better?
    ×0.98 141 | 7 points by yo103jg 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. LinkedIn uses 65GB of RAM with 7 tabs opened
    ×1.19 140 | 14 points by daniele_dll 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Does anyone else notice that gas runs out faster than usual
    ×0.62 158 | 20 points by cat-turner 3 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Who needs contributors? (March 2026)
    ×0.84 161 | 27 points by Kathan2651 3 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: What was it like in the era of BBS before the internet?
    ×1.08 139 | 31 points by ex-aws-dude 3 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Why did Harvey choose a top-down enterprise GTM while Cursor went bottom-up?
    ×0.48 157 | 4 points by iiTsEddy 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Non-US founders residential address problem with Brex, Mercury?
    ×0.72 152 | 8 points by Barazutti629 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Books on Unit Testing and TDD?
    ×0.64 138 | 7 points by Desafinado 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2026)
    ×1.34 155 | 5 points by jon_north 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Are you team MCP or team CLI?
    ×0.62 170 | 15 points by sharath39 3 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Is there any founder building non AI startup in 2026?
    ×1.62 145 | 13 points by daudmalik06 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. EPropelled Electric Propulsion Motors and Controllers for Uncrewed Vehicles
    ×0.25 181 | 3 points by ePropelled 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Tell HN: Zed is sunsetting text threads
    ×0.80 165 | 7 points by koito17 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Loreline, narrative language transpiled via Haxe: C++/C#/JS/Java/Py/Lua (loreline.app)
    ×0.75 114 | 73 points by jeremyfa 5 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Mycellm – BitTorrent for LLMs, pool GPUs into federated networks (mycellm.ai)
    ×1.72 154 | 4 points by mijkal 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. The Whispering Earring (gwern.net)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by shpat 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide (ccunpacked.dev)
    ×4.93 21 | 1093 points by autocracy101 1 day ago | 394 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. The Weather Channel – RetroCast (weather.com)
    ×4.20 18 | 308 points by typeofhuman 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: We open-sourced our content writing workflow as a Claude Code skill (npmjs.com)
    ×1.18 109 | 16 points by arximughal 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Margo – Find the font your brain reads fastest (margo.fyi)
    ×4.32 153 | 12 points by theseidel 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: PhAIL – Real-robot benchmark for AI models (phail.ai)
    ×0.48 137 | 20 points by vertix 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. ParadeDB (YC S23) Is Hiring Database Internal Engineers (Rust) (paradedb.notion.site)
    6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Amazon is adding a fuel surcharge to fees it collects from third-party sellers (cnbc.com)
    ×3.26 20 #43 | 146 points by lehi 9 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Backblaze updated Terms of Service (2026) (backblaze.com)
    ×1.71 6 | 3 points by anonred 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. ZomboCom stolen by a hacker, sold, now replaced with AI-generated makeover (reddit.com)
    ×2.03 70 | 75 points by bananaboy 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Elytra – A 420g CNC aluminum, wireless split keyboard (elimkeys.com)
    ×0.98 128 | 4 points by cui511511 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: BreezePDF – Free, in-browser PDF editor (breezepdf.com)
    ×1.29 133 | 96 points by philjohnson 4 days ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Rustobol – Compile Rust to COBOL (github.com/romanagenda)
    ×2.31 148 | 5 points by mikece 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: You Got Snarked: A snarky messaging app (siliconsnark.com)
    ×1.17 176 | 3 points by SaaSasaurus 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't figure out why (bsky.app)
    ×3.47 15 #27 | 354 points by mooreds 13 hours ago | 271 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. I Built an SMS Gateway with a $20 Android Phone – Jonno.nz (jonno.nz)
    ×1.61 86 #62 | 4 points by jonno-nz 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Timeline of Microsoft's SmartNIC Tech (Azure Boost) (glennklockwood.com)
    ×2.10 18 | 4 points by WarOnPrivacy 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Baton – A desktop app for developing with AI agents (getbaton.dev)
    ×1.14 103 | 62 points by tordrt 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: A 3D Body Scan for Nine Cents – Without SMPL (clad.you)
    ×0.80 169 | 17 points by arkadiuss 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Procfile-compatible tool with hot reload, readiness, dependencies, etc. (github.com/alecthomas)
    ×0.88 | 2 points by alecthomas 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. The AI Marketing BS Index (rieck.me)
    ×1.67 72 | 105 points by speckx 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: API for Flight Prices (ignav.com)
    ×1.13 144 | 3 points by gusgordon 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. A Rave Review of Superpowers (For Claude Code) (emschwartz.me)
    ×0.72 | 2 points by emschwartz 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. CDC Pauses Testing for Rabies and Pox Viruses (nytimes.com)
    ×3.59 52 | 6 points by detaro 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Wordie – Spaced repetition vocab app built around sentences not quizzes (gowordie.com)
    ×1.41 65 | 3 points by tailaiw 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. I Am Not A Number. In memory of the more than 72,000 Palestinians killed (bkhmsi.github.io)
    ×19.56 60 | 414 points by bjourne 18 hours ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Cash Transfers (nicholasdecker.substack.com)
    ×2.17 5 | 4 points by paulpauper 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Why OpenAI Decided to Buy 'TBPN,' Tech's Hottest News Show (wsj.com)
    ×1.32 51 | 3 points by mudil 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Metal Quantized Attention on M5 Max (drawthings.ai)
    ×1.44 164 | 4 points by liuliu 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: SideX – VS Code rebuilt on Tauri instead of Electron (96% smaller) (github.com/Sidenai)
    ×3.67 112 | 8 points by KendallCBooker 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Sixteen year trends in AI doom on HN (ai-doom.cc)
    ×0.78 | 2 points by easygenes 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Modern SQLite: Features You Didn't Know It Had (slicker.me)
    ×2.81 30 #57 | 192 points by thunderbong 11 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Analyzing 38,000 Dota games to see if this item helps [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by marysminefnuf 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. The Technocracy Movement of the 1930s (donotresearch.substack.com)
    ×1.99 23 | 5 points by lazydogbrownfox 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Jax's true calling: Ray-Marching renderers on WebGL (benoit.paris)
    ×0.97 74 | 88 points by BenoitP 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Hyprmoncfg – Terminal-based monitor config manager for Hyprland (paolino.me)
    ×0.40 162 | 11 points by earcar 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. The Catholic Priest Who Helped Write Anthropic's A.I. Ethics Code (observer.com)
    ×2.82 9 | 5 points by Geekette 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. GEN-1: Scaling Embodied Foundation Models to Mastery (generalistai.com)
    ×4.33 10 | 9 points by gryfft 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: A P2P messenger with dual network modes (Fast and Tor) (github.com/Realman78)
    ×0.59 39 #36 | 33 points by Realman78 8 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Renewables reached nearly 50% of global electricity capacity last year (theregister.com)
    ×2.68 18 #39 | 260 points by Growtika 13 hours ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Built a cheap DIY fan controller because my motherboard never had working PWM (himthe.dev)
    ×0.74 67 #69 | 69 points by bobsterlobster 22 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. How are people treating/deploying on-device AI? (yliu.me)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by romerocruzsa 41 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. ReactOS Shows Improved Stability and 64-Bit Support at Chemnitz Linux Days 2026 (reddit.com)
    ×1.43 13 | 67 points by jeditobe 16 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find live streamers who need views the most (twitchroulette.net)
    ×1.23 134 | 179 points by ellg 6 days ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Marc Andreessen Is Right That AI Isn't Killing Jobs. Interest Rate Hikes Are (governance.fyi)
    ×2.18 4 #86 | 22 points by bigbobbeeper 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Tileserver-RS – Tile Server in Rust with MapLibre Native Rendering (github.com/vinayakkulkarni)
    ×0.60 | 2 points by vinayakkulkarni 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Open-agent-SDK – Claude Code's internals, extracted and open-sourced (github.com/codeany-ai)
    ×1.89 132 | 5 points by idoubi 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. The open web isn't dying, we're killing it (ouvre-boite.com)
    ×2.65 13 #16 | 63 points by benwerd 2 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. A simplified presentation of Einstein's unified field equations (1929) (gutenberg.org)
    ×0.95 | 1 points by petethomas 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. The Grammar Is Not Its Own Ground (jimiwen.substack.com)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by jimiwen 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Everyone is building the same thing (a generalist agent) (twitter.com/nichochar)
    ×1.25 | 2 points by nichochar 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. What Would You See Changed in Haskell? (haskell.org)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by shpat 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: 65k AI voters predict UK local elections with 75% accuracy (kronaxis.co.uk)
    ×0.99 131 | 7 points by JasonDuke 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Mkdnsite – Markdown-native web server for humans (HTML) and agents (md) (github.com/mkdnsite)
    ×1.43 146 | 4 points by nexdrew 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Agent2; Open-source production runtime for AI agents (github.com/duozokker)
    ×0.84 | 2 points by duozokker 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Mac-hardware toys, control your Mac's hardware like a modular synth (github.com/pirate)
    ×0.38 | 2 points by nikisweeting 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: AI-first PostgreSQL client for Mac (guillim.github.io)
    ×0.81 111 | 4 points by Guillim 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: OpenHarness Open-source terminal coding agent for any LLM (github.com/zhijiewong)
    ×2.64 147 | 6 points by wangzhijie 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???