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  1. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2026)
    ×0.59 63 #85 | 118 points by whoishiring 1 day ago | 334 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: I got Claude Max for my open source project
    ×0.44 19 | 4 points by asim 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026)
    ×0.83 29 | 235 points by whoishiring 1 day ago | 330 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What's your experience self-hosting in 2026?
    ×2.53 35 | 22 points by rustcore 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What is the "Control Plane" for local AI agents?
    ×0.43 51 | 5 points by denis4inet 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. I lost my ability to learn anything new because of AI and I need your opinions
    ×1.18 40 | 14 points by dokdev 11 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What will OpenAI employees do now who have signed notdividedorg petition
    ×0.94 77 | 15 points by Imustaskforhelp 22 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What prompt do you use to get Claude to consistently render LaTeX?
    ×0.28 83 | 5 points by TobyTheCamel 14 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How are you all staying sane?
    ×5.13 61 | 140 points by throwaway53463 2 days ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: How is Claude agent experience in Xcode 26.3?
    ×0.98 81 | 8 points by malshe 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Facebook Appears to Be Down
    ×0.73 52 | 13 points by Molitor5901 13 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What sources like HN do you consume?
    ×0.86 87 | 52 points by DavidHaerer 2 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What Online LLM / Chat do you use?
    ×0.59 98 | 11 points by ddxv 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Best use / examples of agents / OpenClaw that you saw recently?
    ×0.32 93 | 4 points by simonebrunozzi 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Whats Up with Claude Lately?
    ×1.76 90 | 17 points by mech422 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Google violates its 14-day deprecation policy for Gemini 3 Pro Preview
    ×0.71 94 | 5 points by goolulusaurs 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Would engineers be interested in a technical prep consultant?
    ×0.81 121 | 8 points by TechPrepper 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. I have $10k+ in cloud credits and want to turn them into a real business
    ×0.35 109 | 3 points by Palominocoq 18 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How Do Emergency Alerts on Phone Work?
    ×0.63 117 | 5 points by rishikeshs 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Aura-State: Formally Verified LLM State Machine Compiler
    ×0.14 156 | 4 points by rohanmunshi08 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: How are you structuring Markdown-based context for AI coding agents?
    ×0.15 | 2 points by lepuski 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Codex CLI error reveals "GPT-5.4-ab-arm2" string
    ×1.32 106 | 8 points by quantisan 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Who still works async and has a 'no meetings' work policy in 2026?
    ×0.59 100 | 6 points by RaulOnRails 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Why don't MacBooks have Cellular Modems yet?
    ×1.69 88 | 4 points by avonmach 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. A timeline of cyber attacks:home users, contractors, and SMBs are now targets
    ×0.58 133 | 4 points by EricAUS 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. BlackTape – open-source music discovery built on MusicBrainz and Discogs
    ×1.66 112 | 8 points by Blacktape 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: How did you figure out what research field you were passionate about?
    ×1.72 120 | 7 points by aabiji 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: How to approach new people in 2026?
    ×0.43 139 | 10 points by tavro 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Tell HN: My daily game won a Players Choice Award
    ×0.64 138 | 20 points by paulhebert 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. I used 2D Base64 to bypass Gemini and expose Google's moderation flaws
    ×0.82 153 | 7 points by MissMajordazure 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: How do we solve the bot flooding problem without destroying anonymity?
    ×0.64 142 | 14 points by txrx0000 3 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Billions of dollars in funding, but what's changed for robotics?
    ×0.73 130 | 9 points by ajax33 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. AWS ME-CENTRAL-1 Region Down (Due to additional loss of mec1-az3)
    ×1.47 128 | 11 points by nixgeek 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. AnChat – E2E messenger on decentralized infrastructure, no phone number required
    ×0.43 155 | 3 points by debros 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. AWS Console Degraded Worldwide?
    ×0.18 | 2 points by asdfghjkltyuiop 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Garbage In, Garbage Out: The Degradation of Human Requirements in the LLM Era
    ×0.56 154 | 9 points by waylake 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: When do you expect ChatGPT moment in robotics?
    ×0.49 134 | 10 points by p1esk 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: What are you working on (March 2026)
    ×2.22 101 | 6 points by ludovicianul 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. I built AI agents that do the grunt work solo founders hate
    ×0.25 157 | 5 points by Seleci 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: How will most Anthropic customers respond to the threats by the govt?
    ×0.36 152 | 6 points by Poomba 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Guido van Rossum Interviews Thomas Wouters (Python Core Dev) (gvanrossum.github.io)
    ×0.86 43 #90 | 90 points by azhenley 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. A Shared Kernel Is a Shared Trust Domain (cdelmonte.dev)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by cdelmonte 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Real-AI needs rolling aggregations and AI won't build them for you (hopsworks.ai)
    ×2.38 9 | 3 points by jamesblonde 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Packaging a Gleam app into a single executable (2025) (dhzdhd.dev)
    ×0.73 65 | 89 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: I interviewed myself to find product ideas for my one-person studio (antropia.studio)
    ×0.68 | 2 points by serchinastico 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Don't become an engineering manager (manager.dev)
    ×1.81 9 #29 | 361 points by flail 20 hours ago | 257 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Google Analytics Made Beautiful (analyticsma.de)
    ×1.44 | 2 points by daniloao 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Donx64mcp-dbg – an injected DLL debugger toolkit with an MCP server for x64 apps (github.com/d0nk3yhm)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by d0nk3yhm 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Lockbox: Constrain Your Bots to Set Them Free (chrismdp.com)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by refset 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Two kinds of error (evanhahn.com)
    ×0.62 30 #76 | 40 points by zdw 16 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. First in-utero stem cell therapy for fetal spina bifida repair is safe: study (ucdavis.edu)
    ×1.28 13 | 342 points by gmays 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for "Armageddon," (jonathanlarsen.substack.com)
    ×17.94 25 | 131 points by fzeroracer 1 day ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Claude Code LSP (karanbansal.in)
    ×2.49 75 | 77 points by LexSiga 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Vertex.js – A 1kloc SPA Framework (lukeb42.github.io)
    ×0.40 113 | 33 points by LukeB42 3 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: I made a zero-copy coroutine tracer to find my scheduler's lost wakeups (github.com/lixiasky-back)
    ×0.82 23 #9 | 11 points by lixiasky 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Mac external displays for designers and developers, part 2 (2022) (bjango.com)
    ×0.93 18 #31 | 48 points by fragmede 8 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Mount Mayhem at Netflix: Scaling Containers on Modern CPUs (netflixtechblog.com)
    ×1.02 7 #38 | 59 points by vquemener 9 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: CUP – MCP but for desktop UI (open spec for computer use agents) (github.com/computeruseprotocol)
    ×1.42 | 2 points by k4cper-g 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Which LLMs fold under pressure? We made 6 LLMs argue 300 hard cases to find out (servanda.ai)
    ×3.69 32 | 5 points by luke14free 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Visual Lambda Calculus – a thesis project (2008) revived for the web (github.com/bntre)
    ×0.75 73 | 48 points by bntr 4 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Indefinite Book Club Hiatus (scalzi.com)
    ×1.71 26 #22 | 34 points by cdrnsf 6 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: TrAIn of Thought – AI chat as I want it to be (bix.computer)
    ×0.38 | 2 points by two-sandwich 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Welcoming Elizabeth Barron as the New Executive Director of the PHP Foundation (thephp.foundation)
    ×0.70 29 #25 | 31 points by ulrischa 7 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Emacs Bedrock (codeberg.org)
    ×1.86 49 #51 | 26 points by thomascountz 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Incrmd: Incremental AI coding by editing PROJECT.md (github.com/b4rtaz)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by b4rtaz__ 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption, saying it makes users less safe (bbc.com)
    ×2.68 6 #12 | 263 points by 1659447091 9 hours ago | 213 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Most-read tech publications have lost over half their Google traffic since 2024 (growtika.com)
    ×1.87 6 #72 | 217 points by Growtika 21 hours ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. A survey of write protect notches on floppy disks and other media (microsoft.com)
    ×1.40 | 2 points by ingve 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Judge finalizes order for Greenpeace to pay $345M in ND oil pipeline case (northdakotamonitor.com)
    ×2.04 45 | 192 points by gmays 1 day ago | 221 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Apcher – Generate self-hosted Node.js workflows from prompts (apcher.dev)
    ×0.88 103 | 3 points by Samueedwards1 17 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Graphics Programming Resources (develop--gpvm-website.netlify.app)
    ×1.05 11 #8 | 105 points by abetusk 8 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: I built a LLM human rights evaluator for HN (content vs. site behavior) (unratified.org)
    ×0.96 89 | 3 points by 9wzYQbTYsAIc 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: BoardMint – upload a PCB, get a standards-backed issue report in ~30s (boardmint.io)
    ×0.42 150 | 3 points by pranavchahal 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. A Day in the Life of an Enshittificator [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.05 3 | 3 points by punnerud 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. 130k Lines of Formal Topology: Simple and Cheap Autoformalization for Everyone? (arxiv.org)
    ×0.69 59 #40 | 26 points by PaulHoule 11 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Agentic Engineering Patterns (simonwillison.net)
    ×2.62 1 #3 | 170 points by r4um 6 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Attorneys get majority of payouts from handicap-accessible website lawsuits (wsbtv.com)
    ×2.78 30 | 4 points by gosub100 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. The Context Optimization Layer for LLM Applications (github.com/chopratejas)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by selvan 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Audicia – Generate least-privilege Kubernetes RBAC from audit log (audicia.io)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by felixnotka 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Writing App for Novelist (novelos.studio)
    ×3.81 111 | 10 points by oknoorap 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. On the Design of Programming Languages (1974) [pdf] (ucdavis.edu)
    ×1.02 22 #11 | 47 points by jruohonen 6 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Lenovo’s new ThinkPads score 10/10 for repairability (ifixit.com)
    ×5.16 47 #52 | 414 points by wrxd 11 hours ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. GitHub having issues [resolved] (githubstatus.com)
    ×2.26 52 | 208 points by Simpliplant 16 hours ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Git-hunk – Stage hunks by hash, no "-p" required (paulie.app)
    ×0.54 92 | 3 points by shhac 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: We filed 99 patents for deterministic AI governance(Prior Art vs. RLHF)
    ×0.39 | 2 points by genesalvatore 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable (grapheneos.social)
    ×3.86 #1 | 750 points by pabs3 10 hours ago | 235 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Apple Studio Display and Studio Display XDR (apple.com)
    ×1.53 2 #61 | 225 points by victorbjorklund 21 hours ago | 290 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Why Europe needs a payment system independent of Mastercard and Visa (euronews.com)
    ×2.40 7 | 3 points by 202508042147 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Omni – Open-source workplace search and chat, built on Postgres (github.com/getomnico)
    ×0.88 56 | 166 points by prvnsmpth 2 days ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Iran Strikes U.S. Military Communication Infrastructure in Mideast (nytimes.com)
    ×2.18 15 #49 | 7 points by TheAlchemist 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???