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  1. Aura-State: Formally Verified LLM State Machine Compiler
    ×0.39 33 #81 | 20 points by rohanmunshi08 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. We don't need continual learning for AGI. What top labs are currently doing
    ×0.53 48 | 4 points by kok14 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2026)
    ×0.53 99 | 124 points by whoishiring 2 days ago | 367 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. An offline map using OruxMaps(satellite,routing,3D terrain,GPS and POI)
    ×0.20 | 2 points by supergoogler 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Has anyone noticed the fear-driven prompt suggestions that GPT5.3 makes?
    ×0.57 75 | 10 points by cedarscarlett 11 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026)
    ×0.84 83 | 243 points by whoishiring 2 days ago | 357 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Tell HN: Digital Ocean has run out of GPU droplets
    ×0.46 89 | 14 points by nathannaveen 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: If your project is free, what are you building and why keep it free?
    ×0.73 103 | 9 points by LeanVibe 20 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Stathat Is Shutting Down
    ×0.91 91 | 6 points by jervant 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Maintainers, do LLM-only users often clutter your issues/PRs?
    ×0.30 105 | 8 points by lucrbvi 19 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Anyone have experience making physical toys that you've sold?
    ×0.27 | 2 points by general_reveal 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: How are you all staying sane?
    ×4.37 100 | 146 points by throwaway53463 3 days ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. I lost my ability to learn anything new because of AI and I need your opinions
    ×0.96 113 | 18 points by dokdev 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What sources like HN do you consume?
    ×0.85 125 | 54 points by DavidHaerer 3 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What's your experience self-hosting in 2026?
    ×1.45 110 | 25 points by rustcore 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Tell HN: I got Claude Max for my open source project
    ×0.60 120 | 10 points by asim 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Why has ChatGPT disabled links to websites?
    ×0.37 119 | 6 points by krschacht 22 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: What will OpenAI employees do now who have signed notdividedorg petition
    ×0.79 133 | 17 points by Imustaskforhelp 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What Online LLM / Chat do you use?
    ×0.55 152 | 12 points by ddxv 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: How many of you hold an amateur radio license in your country?
    ×0.77 173 | 3 points by ToddWBurgess 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: What prompt do you use to get Claude to consistently render LaTeX?
    ×0.22 158 | 5 points by TobyTheCamel 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Whats Up with Claude Lately?
    ×1.56 142 | 19 points by mech422 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Who still works async and has a 'no meetings' work policy in 2026?
    ×0.76 154 | 8 points by RaulOnRails 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Would engineers be interested in a technical prep consultant?
    ×0.67 167 | 8 points by TechPrepper 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: How is Claude agent experience in Xcode 26.3?
    ×0.72 148 | 8 points by malshe 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: What is the "Control Plane" for local AI agents?
    ×0.45 140 | 7 points by denis4inet 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Facebook Appears to Be Down
    ×0.55 127 | 13 points by Molitor5901 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: How do you find contracting/freelance roles without recruiters nowadays?
    ×0.52 129 | 3 points by Gooblebrai 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: How Do Emergency Alerts on Phone Work?
    ×0.63 165 | 6 points by rishikeshs 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Tell HN: GitHub Having Issues
    ×1.36 92 | 52 points by Sytten 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Codex CLI error reveals "GPT-5.4-ab-arm2" string
    ×0.96 164 | 8 points by quantisan 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Google violates its 14-day deprecation policy for Gemini 3 Pro Preview
    ×0.56 163 | 5 points by goolulusaurs 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. I have $10k+ in cloud credits and want to turn them into a real business
    ×0.27 172 | 3 points by Palominocoq 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: How are you structuring Markdown-based context for AI coding agents?
    ×0.12 | 2 points by lepuski 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: AI Code Review CLI (github.com/kodustech)
    ×1.19 123 | 5 points by eddelgado 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Earth Garden: Field Recordings Around the World (alen.ro)
    ×0.91 14 #15 | 15 points by alentodorov 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Getting Better at Coding with LLMs (ricardoanderegg.com)
    ×0.92 | 1 points by speckx 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: A logic puzzle game I built for my 5-year-old daughter(mostly AI coded) (99puz.com)
    ×1.30 | 2 points by oser 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Sea level much higher than assumed in most coastal hazard assessments (nature.com)
    ×2.01 19 | 102 points by jacquesm 20 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. OpenBSD on SGI: A Rollercoaster Story (online.fr)
    ×1.38 33 #14 | 36 points by brynet 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Raspberry Pi Pico as AM Radio Transmitter (pesfandiar.com)
    ×0.90 69 #39 | 106 points by pesfandiar 20 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: NiroDB – A key-value storage engine built from scratch in Go (github.com/nirodbx)
    ×1.42 | 2 points by nirox 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Computer Scientists Caution Against Internet Age-Verification Mandates (reason.com)
    ×2.08 6 | 3 points by smurda 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Medical journal says the case reports it has published for 25 years are fiction (retractionwatch.com)
    ×2.30 1 | 172 points by Tomte 22 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Yare.io – Kill all enemy cats. With JavaScript. (yare.io)
    ×0.92 161 | 3 points by levmiseri 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Dbslice: Extract a slice of your production database to reproduce bugs (github.com/nabroleonx)
    ×0.74 44 #34 | 22 points by rbanffy 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. DBSM – BahnBet (bahn.bet)
    ×1.34 | 2 points by benlaxer 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. World is entering an era of 'water bankruptcy' (newscientist.com)
    ×1.39 | 2 points by speckx 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Is llms.txt is of any use? (soniclinker.com)
    ×2.03 10 | 3 points by rajeevk 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. AI-generated art can’t be copyrighted after Supreme Court declines review (theverge.com)
    ×3.24 72 | 188 points by duggan 1 day ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Cloudwright – validate, cost, and export cloud architectures from text (github.com/xmpuspus)
    ×1.11 139 | 6 points by xmpuspus 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: oMLX – SSD-backed KV cache cuts coding agent TTFT from 90s to 1s on Mac (github.com/jundot)
    ×1.54 138 | 4 points by jundot 23 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Augur – A text RPG boss fight where the boss learns across encounters (theaugur.ai)
    ×0.84 166 | 3 points by thutch76 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Emails to Outlook.com rejected due to a fault or overzealous blocking rules (theregister.com)
    ×1.73 57 #48 | 172 points by Bender 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Vertex.js – A 1kloc SPA Framework (lukeb42.github.io)
    ×0.40 68 #72 | 43 points by LukeB42 17 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. PyTorch Broadcasting Semantics (pytorch.org)
    ×0.91 | 1 points by tosh 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. BullshitBench v2: LLMs answering nonsense questions (github.com/petergpt)
    ×1.32 | 2 points by nkko 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: PeekAPI – API analytics middleware, 7 languages, zero dependencies (peekapi.dev)
    ×1.38 | 2 points by konstantinkai 44 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Google Workspace CLI (github.com/googleworkspace)
    ×3.35 2 #2 | 676 points by gonzalovargas 12 hours ago | 221 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Noem Can't Explain Why She Hired 8-Day-Old Company for Ad Campaign (newrepublic.com)
    ×9.16 88 #90 | 120 points by TrackerFF 4 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Stolen Gemini API key racks up $82,000 in 48 hours (llmhorrors.com)
    ×2.44 88 | 85 points by salkahfi 2 days ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: MontaukOS - Hobbyist OS with a desktop, networking, HTTP, and DOOM (github.com/danihamm)
    ×0.58 | 2 points by danihamm 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Upload test cases and get automated Playwright tests back (instantqa.ai)
    ×0.68 | 2 points by ksurace 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Intel's make-or-break 18A process node debuts for data center with 288-core Xeon (tomshardware.com)
    ×1.19 43 | 299 points by vanburen 1 day ago | 290 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Nobody gets promoted for simplicity (terriblesoftware.org)
    ×3.64 31 | 229 points by SerCe 1 day ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: I built a tamper-evident evidence system for AI agents (guardianreplay.pages.dev)
    ×0.44 | 2 points by Slaine 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Espflash – Go CLI/library for flashing ESP8266/ESP32 with no dependencies (github.com/tinygo-org)
    ×0.99 91 #45 | 9 points by deadprogram 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Faster C software with Dynamic Feature Detection (github.com/jjl)
    ×0.87 62 #58 | 70 points by todsacerdoti 18 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project (twitter.com/Gavriel_Cohen)
    ×2.94 27 | 522 points by devinitely 1 day ago | 258 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Schelling Protocol – Where AI agents coordinate on behalf of humans (github.com/codyz123)
    ×0.60 | 2 points by codyz123 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Interactive WordNet Visualizer-Explore Semantic Relations as a Graph (wordnet-vis.onrender.com)
    ×0.36 | 2 points by ricky_risky 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Reverse Engineering Crazy Taxi, Part 1 (wretched.computer)
    ×0.86 | 1 points by typeofhuman 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: StocksAnalyzer – Free tool to analyze stocks in seconds (stocksanalyzer.app)
    ×0.77 | 1 points by JuGaDev 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Buy Deploy-Ready AI Assistants and Skills (easyclawmart.pro)
    ×1.31 | 2 points by gateszhang92 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Claude is an Electron App because we've lost native (tonsky.me)
    ×3.06 67 | 194 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 240 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Fast Chladni figure simulation in Python with NumPy vectorization (github.com/ratwolfzero)
    ×1.14 84 | 4 points by ratwolf 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Agent Action Protocol (AAP) – MCP got us started, but is insufficient (github.com/agentactionprotocol)
    ×1.04 135 | 13 points by hank2000 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Humans 40k yrs ago developed a system of conventional signs (pnas.org)
    ×1.05 47 #26 | 137 points by bikenaga 17 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Tell HN: We modeled the cost of boilerplate (it's ~80% of the budget)
    ×1.98 7 | 3 points by thesssaism 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: DevTrack – A personal dashboard to track your developer growth (devtrack-rose.vercel.app)
    ×1.50 9 | 3 points by nullAffi 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Bet on German Train Delays (bahn.bet)
    ×3.42 5 | 289 points by indiantinker 1 day ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Smalltalk's Browser: Unbeatable, yet Not Enough (lorenzano.eu)
    ×0.99 4 #7 | 64 points by mpweiher 5 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Turn GitHub commits into a publish-ready changelog (heyemit.com)
    ×2.13 34 | 3 points by alexkuchar 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. The coming war on general-purpose computation (2011) (lwn.net)
    ×2.17 24 | 3 points by rzk 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: I built a daily affirmation iOS app solo — what AI actually helped with
    ×1.33 | 2 points by imMovie 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Stacked Game of Life (koenvangilst.nl)
    ×1.44 60 #59 | 182 points by vnglst 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: 3D linear and nonlinear WebGL Schrödinger numerical solver (marl0ny.github.io)
    ×1.32 | 2 points by marl0ny 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Open-sourced a web client that lets any device use Apple's on-device AI (github.com/Techopolis)
    ×2.24 104 | 10 points by tayarndt 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Open-Source Article 12 Logging Infrastructure for the EU AI Act
    ×0.41 101 | 42 points by systima 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: We build a Graph of public Skills (skillinsight.io)
    ×2.78 114 | 9 points by mapleeman 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???