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  1. Ask HN: What is the "Control Plane" for local AI agents?
    ×0.89 14 | 3 points by denis4inet 58 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2026)
    ×0.63 60 | 117 points by whoishiring 1 day ago | 324 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. I lost my ability to learn anything new because of AI and I need your opinions
    ×0.94 18 | 9 points by dokdev 5 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What's your experience self-hosting in 2026?
    ×3.59 11 | 20 points by rustcore 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026)
    ×0.83 42 | 233 points by whoishiring 1 day ago | 321 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What prompt do you use to get Claude to consistently render LaTeX?
    ×0.22 81 | 4 points by TobyTheCamel 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Facebook Appears to Be Down
    ×0.86 17 | 13 points by Molitor5901 6 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What will OpenAI employees do now who have signed notdividedorg petition
    ×0.69 82 | 12 points by Imustaskforhelp 16 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How is Claude agent experience in Xcode 26.3?
    ×0.93 85 | 7 points by malshe 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Best use / examples of agents / OpenClaw that you saw recently?
    ×0.36 88 | 4 points by simonebrunozzi 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Tell HN: MitID, Denmark's digital ID, was down
    ×0.69 116 | 141 points by mousepad12 4 days ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: How are you all staying sane?
    ×5.28 68 | 137 points by throwaway53463 1 day ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What Online LLM / Chat do you use?
    ×0.61 103 | 11 points by ddxv 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Google violates its 14-day deprecation policy for Gemini 3 Pro Preview
    ×0.76 90 | 5 points by goolulusaurs 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What sources like HN do you consume?
    ×0.83 97 | 50 points by DavidHaerer 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. I have $10k+ in cloud credits and want to turn them into a real business
    ×0.38 107 | 3 points by Palominocoq 12 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Whats Up with Claude Lately?
    ×1.87 96 | 17 points by mech422 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Would engineers be interested in a technical prep consultant?
    ×0.84 126 | 8 points by TechPrepper 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How Do Emergency Alerts on Phone Work?
    ×0.66 119 | 5 points by rishikeshs 22 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: How are you structuring Markdown-based context for AI coding agents?
    ×0.16 | 2 points by lepuski 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Why don't MacBooks have Cellular Modems yet?
    ×1.28 87 | 3 points by avonmach 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Who still works async and has a 'no meetings' work policy in 2026?
    ×0.63 102 | 6 points by RaulOnRails 18 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Codex CLI error reveals "GPT-5.4-ab-arm2" string
    ×1.41 115 | 8 points by quantisan 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Aura-State: Formally Verified LLM State Machine Compiler
    ×0.15 162 | 4 points by rohanmunshi08 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. A timeline of cyber attacks:home users, contractors, and SMBs are now targets
    ×0.61 138 | 4 points by EricAUS 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. BlackTape – open-source music discovery built on MusicBrainz and Discogs
    ×1.78 117 | 8 points by Blacktape 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: How did you figure out what research field you were passionate about?
    ×1.83 125 | 7 points by aabiji 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: How to approach new people in 2026?
    ×0.44 149 | 10 points by tavro 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Tell HN: My daily game won a Players Choice Award
    ×0.64 151 | 20 points by paulhebert 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. I used 2D Base64 to bypass Gemini and expose Google's moderation flaws
    ×0.84 159 | 7 points by MissMajordazure 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Billions of dollars in funding, but what's changed for robotics?
    ×0.74 136 | 9 points by ajax33 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: How do we solve the bot flooding problem without destroying anonymity?
    ×0.65 154 | 14 points by txrx0000 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: What are you working on (March 2026)
    ×1.57 111 | 5 points by ludovicianul 18 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. AWS ME-CENTRAL-1 Region Down (Due to additional loss of mec1-az3)
    ×1.53 135 | 11 points by nixgeek 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. AnChat – E2E messenger on decentralized infrastructure, no phone number required
    ×0.44 161 | 3 points by debros 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. AWS Console Degraded Worldwide?
    ×0.19 | 2 points by asdfghjkltyuiop 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: When do you expect ChatGPT moment in robotics?
    ×0.49 143 | 10 points by p1esk 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Garbage In, Garbage Out: The Degradation of Human Requirements in the LLM Era
    ×0.56 160 | 9 points by waylake 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Bars close and hundreds lose jobs as US firm buys Brewdog in £33M deal (bbc.com)
    ×2.69 54 | 134 points by tartoran 1 day ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Gapless.js – gapless web audio playback (github.com/RelistenNet)
    ×2.28 93 | 35 points by switz 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Anthropic Nears $20B Revenue Run Rate Amid Pentagon Feud (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.90 3 #85 | 6 points by Analemma_ 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. The GPT-3.5 Era: A Retrospective on 404s, Biometric Clocks, and $400 Bills (chippytime.com)
    ×0.83 | 1 points by chippytech 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. The Orchestrator's Garden: Leading Human-Machine Teams in the Agentic Age (architectureintel.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by younss 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. iPhone 17e (apple.com)
    ×2.28 30 | 318 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 493 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Everett shuts down Flock camera network after judge rules footage public record (wltx.com)
    ×3.48 34 | 479 points by aranaur 2 days ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Sai – Your always-on co-worker (simular.ai)
    ×1.16 109 | 3 points by pentamassiv 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Trade Stocks and Crypto On-Chain with Full Transparency (aulico.com)
    ×0.69 140 | 3 points by rendernos 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. OpenAI is working on its own GitHub competitor (neowin.net)
    ×0.73 7 #68 | 4 points by bundie 56 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: A visual sitemap generator that maps any website's full navigation tree
    ×1.18 | 2 points by epic_ai 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. New Launch Workshops and Masterclasses (pretium-inc.com)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by CCK80LLC 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: I turned my AI chat history into a portable cognitive fingerprint (trypaolo.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by waterwitch 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. /e/OS is a complete, fully “deGoogled” mobile ecosystem (e.foundation)
    ×2.80 5 | 633 points by doener 1 day ago | 391 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Jolla phone – a full-stack European alternative (jolla.com)
    ×3.61 14 | 478 points by spinningslate 1 day ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Diarize – CPU-only speaker diarization, 7x faster than pyannote (github.com/FoxNoseTech)
    ×0.31 | 2 points by loookas 13 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Speculative Speculative Decoding (SSD) (arxiv.org)
    ×0.96 16 #6 | 17 points by E-Reverance 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Points on a ring: An interactive walkthrough of a popular math problem (growingswe.com)
    ×0.50 48 #62 | 44 points by evakhoury 13 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Giving LLMs a personality is just good engineering (seangoedecke.com)
    ×2.71 21 | 4 points by dboon 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Upload test cases and get automated Playwright tests back (instantqa.ai)
    ×0.88 | 2 points by ksurace 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: A marketplace where AI agents buy from other AI agents in USDC (agoragentic.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by bourbeau 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. An interactive intro to Elliptic Curve Cryptography (growingswe.com)
    ×1.14 74 | 138 points by vismit2000 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. We've freed Cookie's Bustle from copyright hell (gamehistory.org)
    ×1.53 13 #23 | 108 points by sb057 8 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. What’s in a name? (2014) (sailsandcommas.com)
    ×0.37 49 #32 | 17 points by Curiositry 5 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. The Modular Phone of the Future [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.77 | 1 points by mgh2 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. New Python library by Guido van Rossum (github.com/microsoft)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by tzury 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. An AI Just Did Everything I Do on a Computer – Written by the AI Itself (coasty.ai)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by PrateekJ17 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Know Your SMD Footprints (pikkoloassembly.com)
    ×0.69 | 2 points by pikkoloassembly 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. OpenAI is developing alternative to Microsoft's GitHub (reuters.com)
    ×3.07 13 #64 | 25 points by 0in 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Vanilla JavaScript refinery simulator built to explain job to my kids
    ×1.03 156 | 3 points by fuelingcurious 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Seed of Might color correction process (2023) [pdf] (andrewvanner.github.io)
    ×0.54 56 | 95 points by haunter 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Porn depicting sex between step-relatives set to be banned in the UK (lbc.co.uk)
    ×3.70 7 | 75 points by GaryBluto 16 hours ago | 165 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project (twitter.com/Gavriel_Cohen)
    ×2.86 11 #38 | 460 points by devinitely 15 hours ago | 230 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Ars Technica fires reporter after AI controversy involving fabricated quotes (futurism.com)
    ×2.83 4 #56 | 577 points by danso 1 day ago | 358 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. AI-generated art can’t be copyrighted after Supreme Court declines review (theverge.com)
    ×3.47 16 #74 | 172 points by duggan 14 hours ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. GitNexus: The Zero-Server Code Intelligence Engine (github.com/abhigyanpatwari)
    ×0.79 | 1 points by mpweiher 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Judge finalizes order for Greenpeace to pay $345M in ND oil pipeline case (northdakotamonitor.com)
    ×2.03 51 | 189 points by gmays 1 day ago | 222 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: OpenMandate – Declare what you need, get matched (openmandate.ai)
    ×0.85 100 | 3 points by raj-shekhar 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: GitHub Commits Leaderboard (ghcommits.com)
    ×0.92 146 | 3 points by GustyCube 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Logira – eBPF runtime auditing for AI agent runs (github.com/melonattacker)
    ×0.69 120 | 25 points by melonattacker 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: OctopusGarden – An autonomous software factory (specs in, code out) (github.com/foundatron)
    ×2.24 124 | 7 points by foundatron 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Disable Your SSH access accidentally with scp (sny.sh)
    ×0.92 32 #37 | 107 points by zdw 13 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Lock Scroll with a Vengeance (aresluna.org)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by etothet 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. A pretty looking web for a quantum mechanics tool (github.com/Jamessfks)
    ×0.13 85 #26 | 3 points by Jamessfks123 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. MacBook Air with M5 (apple.com)
    ×2.19 5 #35 | 383 points by Garbage 14 hours ago | 432 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Kai – macOS native fully autonomous AI agent. (hikai.space)
    ×1.41 112 | 3 points by StephaneBessa 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Cortexa – Bloomberg terminal for agentic memory (cortexa.ink)
    ×2.97 104 | 9 points by PrateekRao01 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: We want to displace Notion with collaborative Markdown files (moment.dev)
    ×3.13 41 | 20 points by antics 10 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Visual Lambda Calculus – a thesis project (2008) revived for the web (github.com/bntre)
    ×0.75 79 | 48 points by bntr 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Herniated disc made me build a back-safe kettlebell app (kbemom.com)
    ×0.72 | 2 points by blacktarmac 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. 130k Lines of Formal Topology: Simple and Cheap Autoformalization for Everyone? (arxiv.org)
    ×0.87 45 #27 | 20 points by PaulHoule 5 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. I built a pint-sized Macintosh (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×0.81 49 #66 | 99 points by ingve 21 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???