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  1. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)
    ×1.18 14 #13 | 268 points by whoishiring 17 hours ago | 329 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Where do all the web devs talk?
    ×1.90 6 #14 | 40 points by LinguaBrowse 5 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)
    ×0.94 23 #37 | 115 points by whoishiring 17 hours ago | 287 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. G Lang – A lightweight interpreter written in D (2.4MB)
    ×0.87 1 #47 | 33 points by pouyathe 7 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. CiderStack – Native macOS VM manager, pay once, no subscription
    ×1.46 5 | 3 points by ciderdev 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Have you been fired because of AI?
    ×2.42 20 | 5 points by s-stude 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: OpenClaw users, what is your token spend?
    ×0.63 17 | 5 points by 8cvor6j844qw_d6 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Kernighan on Programming
    ×1.82 38 | 147 points by chrisjj 17 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What weird or scrappy things did you do to get your first users?
    ×1.70 21 | 11 points by preston-kwei 9 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Request limits vs. token limits for AI-powered apps?
    ×0.72 | 2 points by JeduDev 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Is anyone losing sleep over retry storms or partial API outages?
    ×0.79 | 2 points by rjpruitt16 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Anyone else struggle with how to learn coding in the AI era?
    ×1.78 69 | 38 points by 44Bulldog 5 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Why dead code detection in Python is harder than most tools admit
    ×1.36 49 | 3 points by duriantaco 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. GitHub Actions Have "Major Outage"
    ×3.15 14 | 49 points by graton 13 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Interest in low cost / fast container registry?
    ×0.85 | 2 points by osigurdson 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Latex-wc: word count and word frequency for LaTeX projects
    ×0.41 | 2 points by sethbarrettAU 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: A proposal for interviewing "AI-Augmented" Engineers
    ×0.44 | 2 points by vanbashan 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Are you still using spec driven development?
    ×0.40 | 2 points by cherry_tree 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Who is firing? (February 2026)
    ×4.78 8 | 19 points by chalmovsky 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Why are customer feedback boards so static? Building a live alternative
    ×0.43 | 2 points by develotor 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Google Cloud suspended my account for 2 years, only automated replies
    ×1.44 63 | 154 points by andylizf 2 days ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: What are the immediate/near/long-term non-corporate benefits of AI?
    ×0.42 | 2 points by 0x4e 10 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Has anybody moved their local community off of Facebook groups?
    ×0.85 68 | 18 points by madsohm 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How do you give AI agents access without over-permissioning?
    ×1.22 61 | 6 points by NBenkovich 11 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. GitHub Incidents with Actions and Codespaces
    ×2.69 42 | 11 points by jeduardo 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Why do people still talk about AGI?
    ×1.13 59 | 37 points by cermicelli 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Do you still use physical calculators?
    ×0.67 98 | 32 points by speedylight 2 days ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Junior getting lost
    ×0.64 107 | 49 points by TheRegularOne 4 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: What serious task have you accomplished with Moltbot / OpenClaw?
    ×0.68 92 | 8 points by lukol 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Any Successful Co-Ops of Software Engineers
    ×0.85 105 | 13 points by rubyn00bie 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Any real OpenClaw (Clawd Bot/Molt Bot) users? What's your experience?
    ×2.17 72 | 112 points by cvhc 2 days ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Task engine VM – for tasks with executable instructions (progress update)
    ×0.12 122 | 4 points by tracyspacy 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Do you also "hoard" notes/links but struggle to turn them into actions?
    ×1.82 70 | 230 points by item007 3 days ago | 213 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. AI has failed to replace a single software application or feature
    ×0.77 118 | 20 points by cadabrabra 3 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: How do you reset an AppleID?
    ×0.58 140 | 13 points by OhMeadhbh 4 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Is a RAM-only PWA "Secure Camera" safe for journalists?
    ×0.85 148 | 3 points by blackknightdev 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: How do you handle auth when AI dev agents spin up short-lived apps?
    ×0.33 119 | 5 points by NBenkovich 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Waypoint 1.1, a local-first world model for interactive simulation
    ×0.56 131 | 13 points by lcastricato 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. A simple HTTPS, HTTP/3, SSL and security headers checker I built with AI
    ×0.20 142 | 3 points by dragonman 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: How do you market a side project?
    ×1.35 130 | 15 points by ruairidhwm 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: What's the Point Anymore?
    ×1.74 121 | 67 points by fnoef 6 days ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. The preposterous notion of AI automating "repetitive" work
    ×0.73 143 | 11 points by cadabrabra 4 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: What's your biggest LLM cost multiplier?
    ×0.66 132 | 7 points by teilom 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Ask HN: What recent UX changes make no sense to you?
    ×0.69 138 | 34 points by superasn 6 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Cicada – A scripting language that integrates with C (github.com/heltilda)
    ×0.56 95 | 57 points by briancr 3 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: OpenRAPP – AI agents autonomously evolve a world via GitHub PRs (kody-w.github.io)
    ×0.98 126 | 3 points by bothangles 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Only What Is Alive Can Be Conscious (noemamag.com)
    ×0.80 63 #82 | 5 points by sonicrocketman 8 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. The world is trying to log off U.S. tech (restofworld.org)
    ×2.66 55 | 6 points by devonnull 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Research: Most Trusted AI Humanizer Tools 2026 (copywritersforum.com)
    ×1.25 | 2 points by AngelPower 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. TIL: Apple Broke Time Machine Again on Tahoe (taoofmac.com)
    ×2.86 15 | 225 points by rcarmo 1 day ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: 127 PRs to Prod this wknd with 18 AI agents: metaswarm. MIT licensed (github.com/dsifry)
    ×1.84 43 | 5 points by dsifry 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Bullmq-dash – Terminal UI dashboard for BullMQ (zero setup) (npmjs.com)
    ×1.03 99 | 3 points by quanghuynt14 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Adboost – A browser extension that adds ads to every webpage (github.com/surprisetalk)
    ×1.11 38 #43 | 106 points by surprisetalk 19 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking (netbird.io)
    ×3.11 4 #77 | 721 points by l1am0 1 day ago | 275 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production (arcadeblogger.com)
    ×0.80 | 1 points by videotopia 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. The Startup Rush for Europe's New War Chest (businessinsider.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by maxloh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. The Dangerous Drift to Redefine Protest as Terrorism (lawfaremedia.org)
    ×7.25 22 | 64 points by hn_acker 14 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. See how many words you have written in Hacker News comments (serjaimelannister.github.io)
    ×1.61 5 #8 | 68 points by Imustaskforhelp 6 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Linux From Scratch ends SysVinit support (linuxfromscratch.org)
    ×1.83 22 #21 | 157 points by cf100clunk 15 hours ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Walter Writes AI (walterwrites.ai)
    ×2.48 7 | 4 points by DukaAgency 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Frog 'saunas' could help endangered species beat a deadly fungus (2024) (science.org)
    ×0.44 48 #30 | 9 points by noleary 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Treasures found on HS2 route (bbc.com)
    ×0.91 40 #73 | 118 points by breve 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Digital Immortality via Instagram Chats (ceresai.xyz)
    ×1.56 | 2 points by Mohsin_Gatz 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Nucleus – enforced permission envelopes for AI agents (Firecracker) (github.com/coproduct-opensource)
    ×0.90 96 | 3 points by difc 19 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: A private FIRE calculator suite that runs in the browser (firenum.com)
    ×1.51 116 | 5 points by Mikulas_Tomanka 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Find viral video ideas on YouTube (viraloutlier.com)
    ×0.88 | 1 points by jklepatch 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Apple keeps winning today by betting on tomorrow (macworld.com)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by slimadvies 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. What Is Ruliology? (stephenwolfram.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by helloplanets 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Coding assistants are solving the wrong problem (bicameral-ai.com)
    ×2.24 6 #9 | 109 points by jinhkuan 4 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Carnegie Mellon Unversity Computer Club FTP Server (157.9)
    ×1.43 3 #16 | 82 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 8 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Board Games in Ancient Fiction: Egypt, Iran, Greece (reference-global.com)
    ×0.66 42 #86 | 47 points by bryanrasmussen 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. What Most People Miss About Getting Promoted (theuncommonexecutive.com)
    ×1.48 32 | 46 points by yuezhao 23 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Securing the Ralph Wiggum Loop – DevSecOps for Autonomous Coding Agents (github.com/agairola)
    ×1.39 136 | 4 points by agairola 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Actors: A Model of Concurrent Computation [pdf] (1985) (dtic.mil)
    ×0.92 40 #69 | 132 points by kioku 1 day ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. So you care about tail latency? (speedyio.com)
    ×0.76 | 1 points by irondhoti 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. The FAX Numbers of the Beast, and Other Mathematical Sports (cabinetmagazine.org)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by marysminefnuf 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Stelvio – Ship Python to AWS (stelvio.dev)
    ×0.54 30 | 30 points by michal-stlv 17 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Claw-daw – offline, deterministic terminal-first DAW (clawdaw.com)
    ×0.97 111 | 3 points by soyadiaoune 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. The Wayland–X11 feud nobody needs (xda-developers.com)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by cumo 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Operation Sovereignty: Bundestag Plans a Breakthrough from Microsoft and Co (heise.de)
    ×1.30 | 2 points by novaRom 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Amla Sandbox – WASM bash shell sandbox for AI agents (github.com/amlalabs)
    ×0.73 76 | 146 points by souvik1997 3 days ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: File Markers – Track file status directly in VS Code's Explorer (github.com/joneldominic)
    ×0.46 | 2 points by joneldominic 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. GitHub experience various partial-outages/degradations (githubstatus.com)
    ×1.53 7 #7 | 206 points by bhouston 11 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Joedb, the Journal-Only Embedded Database (joedb.org)
    ×1.00 20 #29 | 70 points by mci 11 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. NeXTWorld Interviews Bud Tribble (1994) (computeradsfromthepast.substack.com)
    ×0.79 | 1 points by rbanffy 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Stay Away from My Trash (tldraw.dev)
    ×1.82 1 | 3 points by EvgeniyZh 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. General Graboids: Worms and Remote Code Execution in Command and Conquer (atredis.com)
    ×0.64 43 #51 | 37 points by speckx 13 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Zuckerman – minimalist personal AI agent that self-edits its own code (github.com/zuckermanai)
    ×1.25 62 | 71 points by ddaniel10 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. A simple HTTPS, HTTP/3, SSL and security headers checker I built with AI (httpsornot.com)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by dragonman 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Kiki – Accountability monster for people who are easily distracted (kiki.computer)
    ×1.53 64 | 49 points by pikseladam 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???