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  1. Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?
    ×1.69 8 #21 | 264 points by e-topy 14 hours ago | 403 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Should AI credits be refunded on mistakes?
    ×0.22 72 | 13 points by ed_elliott_asc 15 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw
    ×3.32 69 | 1097 points by firloop 5 days ago | 828 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Founders/investors, what AI bet you made in 2022 and how it is going?
    ×0.22 70 | 5 points by kjok 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How do you handle marketing as a solo technical founder?
    ×1.27 84 | 127 points by lazarkap 2 days ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: How do you manage your digital legacy for after you die?
    ×0.48 85 | 8 points by orbanlevi 13 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Hybrid Attention
    ×0.42 94 | 40 points by JohannaAlmeida 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2026) (Non AI)
    ×1.27 106 | 17 points by cousin_it 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Early precursor signals observed before incidents (RTT/DNS/HTTP telemetry)
    ×0.18 | 2 points by ravensystems 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Zooming UIs in 2026: Prezi, impress.js, and why I built something different
    ×1.12 93 | 98 points by tinchox6 2 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Anthropic banned Pi, a third party harness
    ×0.39 116 | 3 points by rapiz 14 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. GPT 5.4 in practice – Stinks?
    ×0.36 125 | 5 points by sjt-at-rev 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Free models you can use with your OpenClaw (no credit card needed)
    ×0.13 | 2 points by stosssik 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Claude Code limits are starting to feel like a psychological trick
    ×0.31 142 | 6 points by trinsic2 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Alternatives to Claude (Code)?
    ×1.06 133 | 10 points by vixalien 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How are you orchestrating multi-agent AI workflows in production?
    ×0.29 145 | 7 points by swrly 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Where are all the disruptive software that AI promised?
    ×1.11 134 | 23 points by p-o 3 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Write Your Own Copy
    ×1.08 136 | 32 points by operatingthetan 4 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How are you controlling costs and enforcing limits for LLM calls?
    ×0.11 147 | 3 points by 8dazo 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Compact multi-port network setup (2.5G / 10G / SFP+) – looking for feedback
    ×0.10 | 2 points by Qotom 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Upwork Inc. violates its own DMARC and SPF policy
    ×0.27 144 | 8 points by tmcdos 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Microsoft Discontinuing Publisher. Alternatives?
    ×1.12 146 | 17 points by supliminal 4 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Intelligence Cannot Be Trained?
    ×0.60 149 | 10 points by hyperzzw 4 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Anthropic to limit Using third-party harnesses with Claude subscriptions
    ×0.53 148 | 20 points by guiyuwei 5 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: Output.ai - OSS framework we extracted from 500+ production AI agents (output.ai)
    ×8.92 92 | 40 points by bnchrch 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. John Deere to pay $99M in right-to-repair settlement (thedrive.com)
    ×3.35 13 #19 | 182 points by CharlesW 5 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Bevy game development tutorials and in-depth resources (taintedcoders.com)
    ×1.14 | 2 points by GenericCanadian 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. You can't cancel a JavaScript promise (except sometimes you can) (inngest.com)
    ×0.76 66 | 94 points by goodoldneon 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: AdaShape-3D modeler for intuitive 3D printing parts / Windows 11 (adashape.com)
    ×0.48 103 | 32 points by fsloth 4 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Cambodia unveils statue to honour famous landmine-sniffing rat (bbc.com)
    ×1.81 12 #82 | 472 points by speckx 1 day ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Our digital devices are putting our right to privacy at risk (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.20 15 | 5 points by nobody9999 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Cloudflare targets 2029 for full post-quantum security (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.51 1 | 378 points by ilreb 1 day ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. DeiMOS – A Superoptimizer for the MOS 6502 (aransentin.github.io)
    ×0.78 79 | 77 points by Aransentin 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Clawcast – A peer-to-peer podcast network for agents (clawcast.dev)
    ×2.24 124 | 7 points by PiersonMarks 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Harness engineering for coding agent users (martinfowler.com)
    ×1.79 | 2 points by mooreds 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Layoff Thinking (newardassociates.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by zdw 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: PromptJuggler – A dev env and runner for prompts, workflows, agents (promptjuggler.com)
    ×1.04 141 | 3 points by TamasSzigeti 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Eavesdropping on Satellite Internet: Trying the "Dontlookup" Code (youtube.com)
    ×1.39 | 2 points by emsign 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. USD Purchasing Power in Real Time Since 2000 (onedollar.today)
    ×1.76 53 | 77 points by traviswingo 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: I pipe free sports streams into Jellyfin – no ads, just HLS (github.com/pcruz1905)
    ×1.05 18 #45 | 94 points by pruz 14 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: I built a local data lake for AI powered data engineering and analytics (stream-sock-3f5.notion.site)
    ×2.67 28 #73 | 8 points by vpfaiz 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. A whole boss fight in 256 bytes (111mb.de)
    ×1.01 46 #80 | 124 points by HellMood 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Little Snitch for Linux (obdev.at)
    ×1.92 59 #84 | 12 points by robenkleene 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. JSIR: A High-Level IR for JavaScript (llvm.org)
    ×0.78 39 | 80 points by nnx 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Skrun – Deploy any agent skill as an API (github.com/skrun-dev)
    ×0.65 17 #33 | 44 points by frizull 7 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: 500k+ events/sec transformations for ClickHouse ingestion (github.com/glassflow)
    ×0.58 47 #86 | 10 points by super_ar 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. WireGuard developer can't ship software updates after Microsoft locks account (techcrunch.com)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by wglb 41 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead (locker.dev)
    ×1.98 29 | 245 points by Zm44 1 day ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. How to get better at guitar (jakeworth.com)
    ×2.17 23 #88 | 451 points by jwworth 1 day ago | 248 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Identify a London Underground Line just by listening to it (tubesoundquiz.com)
    ×1.05 45 | 180 points by nelson687 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Bx – macOS native sandbox for AI and coding tools (github.com/holtwick)
    ×3.70 126 | 7 points by holtwick 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: ReverseCam – See yourself as others see you (reversecam.com)
    ×0.88 138 | 10 points by ilamparithi 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Unicode Steganography (patrickvuscan.com)
    ×0.60 34 #37 | 47 points by PatrickVuscan 10 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. What does ⍋⍋ even mean? (2023) (wilsonb.com)
    ×0.72 12 #51 | 38 points by tosh 6 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Company Orchestrator: The Last Job (sintem.co)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by sintem 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Open-Source AI That Builds Screens, Not Just Text (github.com/SimonSchubert)
    ×1.05 102 | 3 points by arschibald 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Three hundred synths, 3 hardware projects, and one app (midi.guide)
    ×1.00 71 | 121 points by ductionist 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: OpenMix, open-source computational framework for formulation science (github.com/vijayvkrishnan)
    ×1.72 98 | 3 points by vijayvkrishnan 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Gemma Gem – AI model embedded in a browser – no API keys, no cloud (github.com/kessler)
    ×1.02 96 | 154 points by ikessler 3 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Teardown of unreleased LG Rollable shows why rollable phones aren't a thing (arstechnica.com)
    ×0.73 29 #28 | 83 points by DamnInteresting 12 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Russian spooks hack Wi-Fi routers to spy on West (politico.eu)
    ×0.49 | 2 points by c420 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Have Codex review Claude's work (github.com/anchpop)
    ×2.51 7 | 4 points by ChadNauseam 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Taste in the age of AI and LLMs (rajnandan.com)
    ×1.79 11 | 262 points by speckx 1 day ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. What does it mean to “write like you talk”? (arjunpanickssery.substack.com)
    ×0.96 18 #5 | 30 points by surprisetalk 3 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: A game where you build a GPU (jaso1024.com)
    ×2.81 65 | 955 points by Jaso1024 4 days ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Arrow – A Simple Airdrop Clone (github.com/aabiji)
    ×0.44 129 | 3 points by aabiji 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet? (ishormuzopenyet.com)
    ×4.46 16 #20 | 270 points by anonfunction 4 hours ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Your File System Is Already A Graph Database (rumproarious.com)
    ×1.13 18 #38 | 161 points by alxndr 17 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Dear Heroku: Uhh What's Going On? (judoscale.com)
    ×2.09 83 | 107 points by crcastle 2 days ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Voxcode: local speech to text and ripgrep = transcript and code context (github.com/jensneuse)
    ×2.64 95 | 7 points by jensneuse 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Little Snitch for Linux – Because Nothing Else Came Close (obdev.at)
    ×1.94 6 #8 | 25 points by Cider9986 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. A whole civilization might die tonight (nbcnews.com)
    ×11.51 37 | 145 points by hedayet 1 day ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Move Detroit (movedetroit.com)
    ×1.06 59 | 68 points by rmason 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: A reasoning hierarchical robotics pipeline you can run in the browser (avikde.github.io)
    ×1.27 135 | 4 points by avikde 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. The Clock (senko.net)
    ×0.81 56 #69 | 96 points by senko 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Release Management in the Agentic Era (medium.com)
    ×0.56 | 2 points by taleodor 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. New PC Gaming Handheld Canceled Due to Soaring Storage Prices (kotaku.com)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by PaulHoule 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. A fire sale has U.S. office buildings going for 90% off (wsj.com)
    ×2.79 77 | 74 points by blinding-streak 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: BitBang – P2P tunnels to localhost, no account required (github.com/richlegrand)
    ×2.42 140 | 4 points by narragansett 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. 9 Mothers (YC P26) Is Hiring – Lead Robotics and More (ashbyhq.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Open Source Security at Astral (astral.sh)
    ×1.29 43 #75 | 20 points by woodruffw 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Google backs London AI Campus with Camden partners to expand AI skills provision (edtechinnovationhub.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by smurda 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Ex-Meta worker investigated for downloading 30k private Facebook photos (bbc.com)
    ×4.17 40 | 94 points by 1659447091 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Giving LLMs a Formal Reasoning Engine for Code Analysis (yogthos.net)
    ×1.66 31 | 4 points by zdw 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. 54kb Minecraft clone made without a graphics library [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.10 | 2 points by PaulHoule 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Previously unknown verses by Empedocles found on papyrus (thehistoryblog.com)
    ×0.45 | 2 points by danielam 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Are We Idiocracy Yet? (idiocracy.wtf)
    ×5.37 16 | 621 points by jdiiufccuskal 1 day ago | 540 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: I just built a MCP Server that connects Claude to all your wearables (pacetraining.co)
    ×0.78 130 | 17 points by anton_salcher 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Slightly safer vibecoding by adopting old hacker habits (addxorrol.blogspot.com)
    ×1.03 36 #49 | 170 points by transpute 1 day ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Has electricity decoupled from natural gas prices in Germany? (strommarktberatung.de)
    ×1.22 64 #76 | 137 points by konschubert 1 day ago | 199 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???