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  1. Generate tests from GitHub pull requests
    ×0.42 36 #52 | 4 points by Aamir21 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. AI, Human Cognition and Knowledge Collapse – Daren Acemoglu
    ×0.29 51 | 3 points by aanet 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What's your biggest pain point when joining a new developer team?
    ×0.24 66 | 4 points by KevStatic 5 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. I traced $2B in nonprofit grants for Meta and Age Verification lobbying
    ×3.34 28 | 67 points by theseusares 18 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Got cancer, a new job,new boss in less than a year What do I do now?
    ×0.40 68 | 17 points by Goleniewski 13 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Is there prior art for this rich text data model?
    ×0.17 87 | 3 points by chrisecker 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. I'm a project manager, to the engineers: how replaceable do you think my job is?
    ×0.43 84 | 9 points by ferociousmadman 13 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)
    ×1.30 114 | 289 points by david927 5 days ago | 1122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Tell HN: Apple development certificate server seems down?
    ×0.76 112 | 109 points by strongpigeon 3 days ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Instagram Ending Encrypted DMs
    ×0.84 71 | 4 points by 01-_- 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Why have co-ops never played a major role in tech?
    ×0.58 95 | 6 points by AbstractH24 11 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. X is selling existing users' handles
    ×1.73 78 | 196 points by hac 2 days ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Enabling Media Router by default undermines Brave's privacy claims
    ×0.30 126 | 4 points by noguff 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How to be alone?
    ×4.39 100 | 686 points by sillysaurusx 5 days ago | 560 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Looking for Partner to Build Agent Memory (Zig/Erlang)
    ×0.32 132 | 6 points by kendallgclark 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Is Claude down again?
    ×1.10 105 | 86 points by coderbants 2 days ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Remember Fidonet?
    ×1.09 117 | 121 points by ukkare 3 days ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Does anyone here use Discord as their work chat tool?
    ×0.08 | 2 points by Poomba 20 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting
    ×5.24 98 | 716 points by Oras 5 days ago | 508 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Most beautiful personal blog UI you have ever seen?
    ×2.66 124 | 150 points by ms7892 5 days ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion
    ×5.56 103 | 1076 points by shannoncc 1 week ago | 984 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Claude 4.6 Opus can recite Linux's list.h
    ×0.97 116 | 23 points by itzmetanjim 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: How do you cope with the broken rythm of agentic coding?
    ×0.52 111 | 14 points by pauletienney 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. AI is supercharging fake work
    ×1.33 127 | 12 points by rxm233 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Can I repurpose a Bluetooth voice remote as input device for a PC?
    ×0.23 164 | 15 points by albert_e 5 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Why is my submission not visible if I am not logged in?
    ×0.72 151 | 3 points by beepbooptheory 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Which DNS based ad blocker do you suggest?
    ×0.11 156 | 3 points by SoftwareEn2 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. The Strait of Hormuz: A systems engineering view on the $20k drone threat
    ×0.20 162 | 3 points by BeyondTheMap 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. LazyFire – a lazygit-style terminal UI for Firebase Firestore
    ×0.37 155 | 4 points by egosurffing 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. What is the strongest open source model for coding against Opus 4.6?
    ×0.46 144 | 3 points by eeko_systems 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. BuzzFeed Nearing Bankruptcy After Disastrous Turn Toward AI (futurism.com)
    ×2.22 31 | 4 points by jsheard 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. How the Strait of Hormuz closure affects global oil supply (reuters.com)
    ×3.96 46 | 6 points by aanet 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. DHS Contracts Explorer – Hacked data from the Office of Industry Partnership (micahflee.github.io)
    ×3.30 64 | 237 points by peq42 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: AI milestone verification for construction using AWS (aws.com)
    ×0.39 | 2 points by eugenelotsu 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Rudel – Claude Code Session Analytics (github.com/obsessiondb)
    ×1.04 60 | 140 points by keks0r 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Urea prices (tradingeconomics.com)
    ×1.84 85 | 112 points by burnt-resistor 1 day ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Exploring JEPA for real-time speech translation (startpinch.com)
    ×0.64 39 #18 | 23 points by christiansafka 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Gvisor on Raspbian (nubificus.co.uk)
    ×0.61 65 #38 | 62 points by _ananos_ 14 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. PoC for partially desynchronizing Windows PatchGuard (github.com/afonp)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by afpereira 20 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Biases abound when predicting biomarkers from histological images (nature.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by PaulHoule 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Returning to Rails in 2026 (markround.com)
    ×2.40 30 | 364 points by stanislavb 1 day ago | 233 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. 1B identity records exposed in ID verification data leak (aol.com)
    ×2.66 46 | 221 points by robtherobber 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Commute home, hit the banana, feel nice (banana-car.netlify.app)
    ×0.71 | 1 points by whothatcodeguy 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. What Did You Forget to Prompt? $87,500 in Fraud from Vibe-Coded Startup (qualitymax.io)
    ×1.40 | 2 points by qualitymax 42 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Digg cuts jobs after facing AI bot surge (reuters.com)
    ×1.15 | 2 points by geox 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. I Found 39 Algolia Admin Keys Exposed Across Open Source Documentation Sites (benzimmermann.dev)
    ×0.88 1 #1 | 55 points by kernelrocks 1 hour ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Okmain: How to pick an OK main colour of an image (dgroshev.com)
    ×1.65 16 #32 | 240 points by dgroshev 16 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Ceno, browse the web without internet access (ceno.app)
    ×1.00 47 #49 | 111 points by mohsen1 18 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Benchmarking Language Modeling for Lossless Compression of Full-Fidelity Audio (arxiv.org)
    ×1.70 | 2 points by ogurechny 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Simple plugin to get Claude Code to listen to you (gopeek.ai)
    ×5.33 50 | 8 points by itsankur 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Remotely use my guitar tuner (realtuner.online)
    ×1.76 107 | 256 points by smith-kyle 1 week ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. TUI Studio – visual terminal UI design tool (tui.studio)
    ×2.49 3 #12 | 536 points by mipselaer 14 hours ago | 272 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. US orders 2,200 Marines to Middle East (iranintl.com)
    ×4.03 51 #31 | 8 points by taikon 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. E2E encrypted messaging on Instagram will no longer be supported after 8 May (instagram.com)
    ×3.09 17 #34 | 357 points by mindracer 11 hours ago | 179 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. “This is not the computer for you” (samhenri.gold)
    ×5.51 43 #68 | 933 points by MBCook 22 hours ago | 360 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. From model to agent: Equipping the Responses API with a computer environment (openai.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by vinhnx 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Understudy – Teach a desktop agent by demonstrating a task once (github.com/understudy-ai)
    ×0.99 61 | 112 points by bayes-song 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Using Thunderbird for RSS (rubenerd.com)
    ×0.98 22 #15 | 59 points by ingve 6 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Lost Doctor Who Episodes Found (bbc.co.uk)
    ×2.20 32 #19 | 208 points by edent 15 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Colon cancer now leading cause of cancer deaths under 50 in US (theguardian.com)
    ×3.71 52 | 142 points by stevenwoo 1 day ago | 203 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: I built a real-time OSINT dashboard pulling 15 live global feeds (github.com/BigBodyCobain)
    ×2.04 115 | 311 points by vancecookcobxin 5 days ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Eyot, A programming language where the GPU is just another thread (cowleyforniastudios.com)
    ×0.87 137 | 79 points by steeleduncan 5 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Better HN – Realtime Comment Updates and Cleaner Look (github.com/xpl)
    ×2.12 27 | 4 points by xpl 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Baltic security monitor from public data sources (estwarden.eu)
    ×1.31 140 | 4 points by makefunstuff 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Senate Votes to Block Private Equity from Buying Homes (thebignewsletter.com)
    ×1.26 28 | 4 points by pseudolus 56 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Japanese government makes indie game devs eligible for grants up to $60k USD (automaton-media.com)
    ×1.15 | 2 points by maenbalja 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Probabilistic Machine Learning: An Introduction (probml.github.io)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by teleforce 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" (bsky.app)
    ×6.75 72 | 84 points by doener 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. The Bovadium Fragments: Together with The Origin of Bovadium (kirkcenter.org)
    ×0.46 54 #47 | 41 points by freediver 11 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: s@: decentralized social networking over static sites (satproto.org)
    ×1.87 37 | 408 points by remywang 2 days ago | 218 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Anthrology – Time-Traveling Radio (anthrology.site)
    ×1.63 55 | 4 points by airstrike 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Mutate – free inline text replacement for Mac (github.com/robert-v)
    ×0.34 | 2 points by rob3rth 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: VaultLeap – USD accounts for founders outside the US (vaultleap.com)
    ×1.38 135 | 5 points by GregReve 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Execute local LLM prompts in remote SSH shell sessions
    ×1.29 88 | 3 points by smudgy3746 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine (macrumors.com)
    ×1.70 18 #10 | 176 points by tosh 10 hours ago | 235 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Reddit's Lawsuit Is a Dangerous Attempt to Expand Platform Power (serpapi.com)
    ×2.59 16 #72 | 40 points by paigealyse 6 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. In Search of Banksy (reuters.com)
    ×1.60 | 2 points by skibz 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. After Decapitation, What's Next? (gzeromedia.com)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by petethomas 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Peter Thiel's Antichrist Lectures (apnews.com)
    ×6.25 27 | 140 points by aureliusm 14 hours ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Web-based ANSI art viewer (sure.is)
    ×0.51 104 | 27 points by lubujackson 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Cloud to Desktop in the Fastest Way (nativedesktop.com)
    ×0.57 154 | 3 points by lasgawe 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Source code of Swedish e-government services has been leaked (darkwebinformer.com)
    ×1.63 31 #23 | 198 points by tavro 14 hours ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Launch HN: IonRouter (YC W26) – High-throughput, low-cost inference (ionrouter.io)
    ×0.52 82 #82 | 69 points by vshah1016 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Gallo-Roman dodecahedron: twelve faces, zero answers? (nunc.ch)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by az09mugen 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Xi's anti-corruption drive began 14 years ago. Why are the purges still going? (bbc.com)
    ×2.96 36 | 4 points by tartoran 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Anthropic, Do Not A/B Test My Workflow (backnotprop.com)
    ×2.06 15 | 3 points by ramoz 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Email as the Context Substrate for Ambient AI Agents (revo.ai)
    ×1.88 13 | 3 points by mehdidjabri 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Revealed: Face of 75,000-year-old female Neanderthal from cave (cam.ac.uk)
    ×1.24 10 #79 | 41 points by thunderbong 7 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Codelegate, keyboard-driven coding agent orchestrator GUI for Mac/Linux (codelegate.dev)
    ×1.05 145 | 3 points by brucehsu 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Run NanoClaw in Docker Sandboxes (nanoclaw.dev)
    ×1.74 25 #63 | 143 points by outofdistro 10 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???