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My AI workflow evolved from prompts to a near-autonomous workflow

×0.65 21 | 3 points by hoangnnguyen 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Best books on building a programming language

×1.38 2 | 3 points by ezzato 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I collected startup ideas. It changed how I think about ideas completely

×1.85 8 | 4 points by vibecoder21 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Hiring in the age of AI-assisted coding: what works?

×0.46 58 | 20 points by nitramm 14 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Is VC the new PMF strategy?

×0.57 84 | 3 points by networkOne 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?

×1.96 62 | 468 points by e-topy 5 days ago | 709 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?

×1.55 80 | 135 points by meander_water 2 days ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Why Databases Instead of Filesystem?

×0.28 99 | 9 points by uticus 19 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Open Source card game cuttle.cards has its world championship Saturday at 1pm ET

×0.22 103 | 4 points by aleph_one 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Any Open Source projects in need of documentation writer?

×0.41 109 | 20 points by tree666 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How do you handle marketing as a solo technical founder?

×1.24 121 | 142 points by lazarkap 4 days ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Are you encountering AI-related questions in the hiring market?

×0.26 125 | 6 points by somthingwrong 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Should AI credits be refunded on mistakes?

×0.21 146 | 17 points by ed_elliott_asc 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Zooming UIs in 2026: Prezi, impress.js, and why I built something different

×1.04 131 | 100 points by tinchox6 4 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Yuku – A fast, spec-compliant JavaScript parser written in Zig

×0.43 135 | 6 points by arshadyaseen 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How do you manage your digital legacy for after you die?

×0.46 155 | 13 points by orbanlevi 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hybrid Attention

×0.38 142 | 40 points by JohannaAlmeida 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What would you do with an AI model capable of continuous learning?

×0.29 151 | 4 points by jballanc 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
IMDB created my account for merely visiting the site

×1.18 126 | 11 points by astr0n0m3r 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Founders/investors, what AI bet you made in 2022 and how it is going?

×0.15 164 | 6 points by kjok 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Local-first meetings recorder and transcriber?

×0.20 166 | 3 points by dandaka 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Gombe Chimpanzee War (wikipedia.org)

×1.66 4 | 3 points by creamyhorror 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Vercel plugin on Claude Code wants to read your prompts (akshaychugh.xyz)

×2.05 31 | 270 points by akshay2603 1 day ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Reverse engineering Gemini's SynthID detection (github.com/aloshdenny)

×1.06 52 | 169 points by _tk_ 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Installing every* Firefox extension (jack.cab)

×3.16 1 #6 | 378 points by RohanAdwankar 11 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter (braw.dev)

×2.08 38 | 341 points by kisamoto 2 days ago | 231 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The effects of caffeine consumption do not decay with a ~5 hour half-life (lesswrong.com)

×3.20 1 | 91 points by swah 19 hours ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: QVAC SDK, a universal JavaScript SDK for building local AI applications

×0.53 75 | 28 points by qvac 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Quien – A better WHOIS lookup tool (github.com/retlehs)

×1.30 2 #20 | 43 points by bretthopper 5 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What is RISC-V and why it matters to Canonical (ubuntu.com)

×1.14 23 #26 | 129 points by fork-bomber 15 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Instant 1.0, a backend for AI-coded apps (instantdb.com)

×1.60 49 #72 | 208 points by stopachka 1 day ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Give Your Agent a Canvas, Not Just a Chatbox (create0.ai)

×0.75 | 1 points by enha 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Relationship Between Two People Is Not Located in Either Person (substack.substack.com)

×0.68 43 | 3 points by problemist 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Moving from WordPress to Jekyll (and static site generators in general) (demandsphere.com)

×0.89 71 | 97 points by rgrieselhuber 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Guruka.com – free guided mediations. No signup, private, works offline (guruka.com)

×1.02 107 | 34 points by eummm 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tabularis: A lightweight, cross-platform database client. Hackable with pkugins (github.com/debba)

×0.80 | 1 points by thunderbong 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude API Error: 529

×2.70 39 | 4 points by anujbans 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Apple Museum Officially Opens April 2 – Update – Stichting the Apple Museum (applemuseum.nl)

×0.42 | 1 points by janandonly 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I built a Cargo-like build tool for C/C++ (github.com/randerson112)

×0.92 57 | 167 points by randerson_112 1 day ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Moon simulator game, ray-casting (mooncraft2000.com)

×1.05 83 | 111 points by JKCalhoun 4 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Rust based eBook library for Python, with MIT license (github.com/arc53)

×0.73 96 | 33 points by larry-the-agent 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Watgo – A WebAssembly Toolkit for Go (thegreenplace.net)

×0.75 31 #24 | 95 points by ibobev 14 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ThinkPad X1 Carbon 14: Light on Weight, Heavy on Intelligence (lenovo.com)

×1.09 | 2 points by seekdeep 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Session-roam – Resume Claude Code conversations from any machine via Syncthing (github.com/VirelNode)

×1.63 9 | 3 points by JDaily 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Many African families spend fortunes burying their dead (davidoks.blog)

×1.63 19 | 215 points by powera 1 day ago | 215 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Dynamic Map of YouTube Channels (ytmap.xyz)

×1.76 101 | 6 points by Bachal 15 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Pion/handoff – Move WebRTC out of browser and into Go (github.com/pion)

×0.97 122 | 101 points by Sean-Der 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman (nytimes.com)

×4.80 36 #59 | 227 points by enraged_camel 14 hours ago | 538 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Munro Lecture with Adam Tooze – April 8 2026 [video] (youtube.com)

×0.81 | 1 points by hackandthink 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers (colaptop.pages.dev)

×2.53 1 | 391 points by argentum47 1 day ago | 233 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: We built a camera only robot vacuum for less than $300 (well almost) (indraneelpatil.github.io)

×0.70 106 | 107 points by indraneelpatil 5 days ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: VigIA – A deterministic FSM in .NET 10 to stop LLM hallucinations (github.com/JordanCT)

×0.68 | 2 points by JordanCT 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenClaw’s memory is unreliable, and you don’t know when it will break (nishantsoni.com)

×1.82 23 #30 | 109 points by sonink 14 hours ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
News is bad for you (2013) (theguardian.com)

×1.71 13 #57 | 5 points by downbad_ 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
State of Utopia passes its first law (stateofutopia.com)

×0.63 | 1 points by logicallee 39 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How I made the most intrusive Firefox extension (arnevogel.com)

×0.46 | 1 points by ArneVogel 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Launch HN: Twill.ai (YC S25) – Delegate to cloud agents, get back PRs (twill.ai)

×0.51 48 #27 | 67 points by danoandco 14 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Great at gaming? US air traffic control wants you to apply (bbc.com)

×1.06 64 #81 | 31 points by 1659447091 4 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Gigi – Geometric Intrinsic Global Index – A new approach to database queries (davisgeometric.com)

×0.49 | 1 points by thunderbong 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Securing ECC Cryptocurrencies Against Quantum Vulnerabilities (arxiv.org)

×0.44 | 1 points by u1hcw9nx 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Crawl Code – because prompting was a text adventure (github.com/machinarii)

×1.70 27 | 3 points by datalater 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microsoft PhotoDNA scanning problem (elevenforum.com)

×1.84 54 | 102 points by darkzek 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GazeFollow from Scratch (github.com/aldipiroli)

×1.41 | 2 points by tgnk2341 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Crying Salute Emoji (github.com/achristmascarl)

×0.47 | 1 points by achristmascarl 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DOJ wants to scrap Watergate-era rule that makes presidential records public (theintercept.com)

×5.95 72 | 232 points by tlhunter 13 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
New iPhone age and identity checks restrict internet freedom in the UK (bigbrotherwatch.org.uk)

×3.27 8 | 225 points by josephcsible 1 day ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Clojure on Fennel Part One: Persistent Data Structures (andreyor.st)

×1.08 24 #33 | 147 points by roxolotl 17 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We Only Learn from Error (nathanclonts.com)

×0.65 94 #53 | 4 points by kokopelli 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bringing Rust to the Pixel Baseband (googleblog.com)

×1.84 54 #58 | 9 points by el_duderino 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Dux, a TUI Agent Multiplexer (github.com/patrickdappollonio)

×0.90 | 2 points by pdappollonio 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: TUI-use: Let AI agents control interactive terminal programs (github.com/onesuper)

×0.60 120 | 52 points by dreamsome 2 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Filing the corners off my MacBooks (kentwalters.com)

×3.74 2 #1 | 775 points by normanvalentine 11 hours ago | 394 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file (playstarfling.com)

×2.58 1 #3 | 153 points by iceberger2001 6 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Conservationists teach young regent honeyeaters how to sing their unique song (abc.net.au)

×1.70 10 | 3 points by bryanrasmussen 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A3: Kubernetes for autonomous AI agent fleets (leonidasr.com)

×2.29 3 | 4 points by leonidas1712 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: CSS Studio. Design by hand, code by agent (cssstudio.ai)

×0.98 67 | 162 points by SirHound 1 day ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Real-time AI (audio/video in, voice out) on an M3 Pro with Gemma E2B (github.com/fikrikarim)

×1.72 113 | 292 points by karimf 5 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
1D Chess (rowan441.github.io)

×3.49 3 #4 | 804 points by burnt-resistor 17 hours ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
20 years on AWS and never not my job (daemonology.net)

×2.41 10 #12 | 136 points by cperciva 3 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why you need to replace your native macOS screenshot app? (webytes.net)

×0.62 | 1 points by Mohamm6d 45 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
go-libghostty: Go bindings for libghostty-vt (github.com/mitchellh)

×0.36 | 1 points by doppp 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I built a navigation app that displays weather along the route (navimodo.com)

×0.75 119 | 55 points by vkatluri 4 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Neural Computer (metauto.ai)

×0.46 | 1 points by georgestrakhov 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Little Snitch comes to Linux, but the core logic is closed source (unknown-universe.co.uk)

×1.55 82 | 79 points by TheIPW 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I missed my terminal so I rebuilt email (tallyman.io)

×2.86 53 | 3 points by Mechse 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Picasso's Guernica (Gigapixel) (museoreinasofia.es)

×1.34 | 2 points by guigar 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Hippo, biologically inspired memory for AI agents (github.com/kitfunso)

×0.95 124 | 128 points by kitfunso 4 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Chimpanzees in Uganda locked in eight-year 'civil war', say researchers (bbc.com)

×1.73 2 #7 | 329 points by neversaydie 14 hours ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Raft consensus algorithm explained through "Mean Girls" (2019) (cockroachlabs.com)

×1.25 36 | 129 points by vermilingua 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
EU fingerprint and photo travel rules come into force (bbc.co.uk)

×2.40 43 | 3 points by zeristor 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???