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  1. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026)
    ×0.89 9 #27 | 210 points by whoishiring 17 hours ago | 247 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2026)
    ×0.77 39 #30 | 100 points by whoishiring 17 hours ago | 230 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What Online LLM / Chat do you use?
    ×0.91 17 #87 | 10 points by ddxv 7 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: How Do Emergency Alerts on Phone Work?
    ×0.65 19 | 3 points by rishikeshs 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Whats Up with Claude Lately?
    ×2.94 23 | 13 points by mech422 5 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: How are you all staying sane?
    ×6.31 2 | 120 points by throwaway53463 23 hours ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What sources like HN do you consume?
    ×0.84 41 | 48 points by DavidHaerer 23 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Would engineers be interested in a technical prep consultant?
    ×0.64 68 | 5 points by TechPrepper 12 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Tell HN: MitID, Denmark's digital ID, was down
    ×0.69 83 | 141 points by mousepad12 3 days ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. A timeline of cyber attacks:home users, contractors, and SMBs are now targets
    ×0.93 58 | 4 points by EricAUS 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Codex CLI error reveals "GPT-5.4-ab-arm2" string
    ×1.07 59 | 4 points by quantisan 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. BlackTape – open-source music discovery built on MusicBrainz and Discogs
    ×1.97 49 | 6 points by Blacktape 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: How did you figure out what research field you were passionate about?
    ×2.49 51 | 6 points by aabiji 9 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Aura-State: Formally Verified LLM State Machine Compiler
    ×0.15 121 | 4 points by rohanmunshi08 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How to approach new people in 2026?
    ×0.46 104 | 10 points by tavro 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Billions of dollars in funding, but what's changed for robotics?
    ×0.81 75 | 9 points by ajax33 22 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. AWS ME-CENTRAL-1 Region Down (Due to additional loss of mec1-az3)
    ×1.98 76 | 11 points by nixgeek 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. AnChat – E2E messenger on decentralized infrastructure, no phone number required
    ×0.24 | 2 points by debros 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. AWS Console Degraded Worldwide?
    ×0.24 | 2 points by asdfghjkltyuiop 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Tell HN: My daily game won a Players Choice Award
    ×0.66 116 | 20 points by paulhebert 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. I used 2D Base64 to bypass Gemini and expose Google's moderation flaws
    ×0.94 119 | 7 points by MissMajordazure 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: How do we solve the bot flooding problem without destroying anonymity?
    ×0.67 114 | 14 points by txrx0000 2 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: When do you expect ChatGPT moment in robotics?
    ×0.51 92 | 10 points by p1esk 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How will most Anthropic customers respond to the threats by the govt?
    ×0.38 117 | 6 points by Poomba 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. I built AI agents that do the grunt work solo founders hate
    ×0.26 125 | 5 points by Seleci 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Garbage In, Garbage Out: The Degradation of Human Requirements in the LLM Era
    ×0.59 122 | 9 points by waylake 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Builder.ai ($1B Microsoft-backed AI company) who's lookin at the assets?
    ×0.28 124 | 6 points by gamelock 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. I don't need AI to build me a new app. I need it to make Jira bearable
    ×0.49 123 | 23 points by niel_hu 4 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. 36yo: Career at home vs. Simple life abroad?
    ×0.56 126 | 14 points by Slaboli 4 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Super Editor – Atomic file editor with automatic backups (Python and Go)
    ×0.20 128 | 6 points by larryste 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: How do you handle duplicate side effects when jobs, workflows retry?
    ×0.36 127 | 11 points by shineDaPoker 4 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: My competitor wants to buy us out, recommend a lawyer?
    ×0.40 129 | 8 points by VladVladikoff 4 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Kanon 2 Enricher – the first hierarchical graphitization model (isaacus.com)
    ×0.83 | 1 points by ubutler 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: I Built a TypeScript ORM for DynamoDB (zeroinbox.ai)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by shayan-arman 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. I built a demo of what AI chat will look like when it's “free” and ad-supported (99helpers.com)
    ×3.25 8 | 584 points by nickk81 1 day ago | 308 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Know Your SMD Footprints (pikkoloassembly.com)
    ×0.71 | 2 points by pikkoloassembly 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Pianoterm – Run shell commands from your Piano. A Linux CLI tool (github.com/vustagc)
    ×0.64 30 #41 | 52 points by vustagc 12 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. A plastic made from milk that vanishes in 13 weeks (sciencedaily.com)
    ×1.37 2 #78 | 97 points by JeanKage 18 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. How to Recover Stolen Cryptocurrency and USDT (autopsymainnetsolutions.com)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by SAMUELluck 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Open-source Loom / Screen Studio with editing and auto-zoom (github.com/jkuri)
    ×2.41 72 | 7 points by kundi 17 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Deff – Side-by-side Git diff review in your terminal (github.com/flamestro)
    ×0.86 101 | 119 points by flamestro 4 days ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ars Technica fires reporter after AI controversy involving fabricated quotes (futurism.com)
    ×2.98 1 #4 | 262 points by danso 8 hours ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Jolla phone – a full-stack European alternative (jolla.com)
    ×3.60 37 #64 | 459 points by spinningslate 22 hours ago | 197 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Judge finalizes order for Greenpeace to pay $345M in ND oil pipeline case (northdakotamonitor.com)
    ×2.09 7 #58 | 183 points by gmays 18 hours ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Free Fares for Public Transit? (youtube.com)
    ×0.85 | 1 points by nhhvhy 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Separating Business Definition from Execution in Infrastructure (lynq.sh)
    ×0.82 | 1 points by selenehyun 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. The Death of Spotify: Why Streaming Is Minutes Away from Being Obsolete (joelgouveia.substack.com)
    ×0.88 | 1 points by benkan 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Veo 3 AI (veo-3-ai.org)
    ×1.20 | 2 points by Evan233 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Open-Source Postman for MCP (github.com/baristaGeek)
    ×2.60 53 | 6 points by baristaGeek 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: RDAP API – Normalized JSON for Domain/IP Lookups (Whois Replacement) (rdapapi.io)
    ×0.88 | 2 points by boutetnico 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Fooling Go's X.509 Certificate Verification (danielmangum.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by hasheddan 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Mondrian Entered the Public Domain. The Estate Disagrees (copyrightlately.com)
    ×1.46 31 #46 | 209 points by Tomte 1 day ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Agentic Engineering: Building Without Writing (dehora.net)
    ×0.86 | 1 points by hrpnk 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Another round of reporting on feed readers (rachelbythebay.com)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by theshrike79 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Superagers' Secret Ingredient May Be the Growth of New Brain Cells (sciencealert.com)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by jnord 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Allegations of insider trading over prediction-market bets tied to Iran conflict (morningstar.com)
    ×2.49 44 | 96 points by paulpauper 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Strict Monospace Font for LLM-CLI users using Chinese Japanese Korean, CodexMono (npmjs.com)
    ×3.81 31 | 6 points by monokist 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. How to record and retrieve anything you've ever had to look up twice (ellanew.com)
    ×1.27 37 #60 | 164 points by Curiositry 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: PHP 8 disable_functions bypass PoC (github.com/m0x41nos)
    ×1.24 20 #82 | 27 points by m0x41nos 8 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Audio Toolkit for Agents (github.com/shiehn)
    ×0.60 65 | 57 points by stevehiehn 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Tradefacts.io – US HTS tariff schedule, a JSON API and change detection (tradefacts.io)
    ×0.46 | 2 points by PowMan 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Arm's Cortex X925: Reaching Desktop Performance (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×2.41 #2 | 49 points by ingve 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. U.S. science agency moves to restrict foreign scientists from its labs (science.org)
    ×2.61 47 #89 | 352 points by JeanKage 23 hours ago | 326 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Privacy-preserving age and identity verification via anonymous credentials (cryptographyengineering.com)
    ×0.84 | 1 points by FrasiertheLion 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Boss-CSS: I created another "CSS-in-JS" lib (dev.to)
    ×0.49 53 #68 | 21 points by wintercounter 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Feynman's War: Modelling Weapons, Modelling Nature (1986) [pdf] (gwern.net)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by nill0 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. This system can go fuck itself and burn in hell (shawnfromportland.substack.com)
    ×9.14 46 | 97 points by SirensOfTitan 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Ragtoolina – MCP tool that adds codebase RAG to AI coding agents (ragtoolina.com)
    ×1.06 118 | 3 points by slack812 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Greeks (Finance) (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by tosh 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Anthropic Cowork feature creates 10GB VM bundle on macOS without warning (github.com/anthropics)
    ×2.12 39 #62 | 363 points by mystcb 18 hours ago | 182 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Microgpt (karpathy.github.io)
    ×7.16 29 #76 | 1904 points by tambourine_man 2 days ago | 319 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. How well do you know Claude Code? (claude-code.vercel.app)
    ×1.50 | 2 points by Krishnaa_ 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. The Worst Language Won (theoryvc.com)
    ×1.47 | 2 points by taubek 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Neural-Temporal Compression – A State-Persistence Framework (github.com/andresuarus10-byte)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by KaelyrAT13 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Decision trees – the unreasonable power of nested decision rules (mlu-explain.github.io)
    ×2.49 1 | 544 points by mschnell 2 days ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Operational issue – Multiple services (UAE) (amazon.com)
    ×2.40 20 | 237 points by earthboundkid 1 day ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. The Cathode Ray Tube site (crtsite.com)
    ×0.79 26 #20 | 47 points by joebig 8 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: OxyJen – Java framework to orchestrate LLMs in a graph-style execution
    ×0.65 | 2 points by bdivyansh11 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Seed of Might Color Correction Process (2023) [pdf] (andrewvanner.github.io)
    ×0.63 15 #15 | 87 points by haunter 10 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. New iron nanomaterial wipes out cancer cells without harming healthy tissue (sciencedaily.com)
    ×2.92 16 | 317 points by gradus_ad 1 day ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. A new Polymarket account made over $500k betting on the U.S. strike against Iran (twitter.com/cabsav456)
    ×4.80 39 | 140 points by doener 1 day ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Clean Express – a native NNTP/Usenet client for iOS/macOS/visionOS (apple.com)
    ×1.89 89 | 4 points by jim180 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. "That Shape Had None" – A Horror of Substrate Independence (Short Fiction) (starlightconvenience.net)
    ×0.80 21 #35 | 90 points by casmalia 14 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Reflex (YC W23) Is Hiring Software Engineers – Python (ycombinator.com)
    16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Everett shuts down Flock camera network after judge rules footage public record (wltx.com)
    ×3.49 36 #84 | 466 points by aranaur 1 day ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: My OpenClaw knows EXACTLY what it did a week ago. Thanks to "hmem"-MCP
    ×0.63 | 1 points by Bumblebiber 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: EasyClaw – One-click installer for OpenClaw AI agent (github.com/ybgwon96)
    ×0.46 | 2 points by Singularity26 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: SQLite for Rivet Actors – one database per agent, tenant, or document (github.com/rivet-dev)
    ×0.86 93 | 44 points by NathanFlurry 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. First in-utero stem cell therapy for fetal spina bifida repair is safe: study (ucdavis.edu)
    ×1.30 14 #11 | 298 points by gmays 18 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Timber – Ollama for classical ML models, 336x faster than Python (github.com/kossisoroyce)
    ×1.17 40 #63 | 187 points by kossisoroyce 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???