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  1. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)
    ×0.83 51 #82 | 133 points by whoishiring 1 day ago | 403 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)
    ×1.22 5 | 302 points by whoishiring 1 day ago | 428 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Is there anyone here who still uses slide rules?
    ×1.22 17 | 114 points by blenderob 21 hours ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Tech Debt War Stories
    ×0.44 40 | 5 points by erubini_fg 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Does a good "read it later" app exist?
    ×0.43 60 | 4 points by buchanae 8 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Do you still use physical calculators?
    ×0.78 44 | 54 points by speedylight 4 days ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Kernighan on Programming
    ×1.82 36 | 161 points by chrisjj 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Anyone have a "sovereign" solution for phone calls?
    ×0.85 82 | 8 points by kldg 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Cheap laptop for Linux without GUI (for writing)
    ×0.67 59 | 8 points by locusofself 13 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Google Cloud suspended my account for 2 years, only automated replies
    ×1.44 74 | 156 points by andylizf 3 days ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: OpenClaw users, what is your token spend?
    ×1.12 86 | 13 points by 8cvor6j844qw_d6 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Signal Is Down
    ×2.53 21 | 40 points by Daniel_sk 19 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Have you been fired because of AI?
    ×2.06 81 | 13 points by s-stude 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
    ×1.62 83 | 5 points by iryndin 17 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Google terminated my YouTube channel even thought I made no videos or used it
    ×1.15 53 | 4 points by paulpauper 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. GitHub Actions Have "Major Outage"
    ×2.70 65 | 52 points by graton 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What weird or scrappy things did you do to get your first users?
    ×1.24 95 | 13 points by preston-kwei 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Has anybody moved their local community off of Facebook groups?
    ×0.88 107 | 20 points by madsohm 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Why dead code detection in Python is harder than most tools admit
    ×1.29 115 | 6 points by duriantaco 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Junior getting lost
    ×0.64 138 | 50 points by TheRegularOne 5 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Where do all the web devs talk?
    ×1.71 54 | 54 points by LinguaBrowse 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Are you still using spec driven development?
    ×0.20 140 | 3 points by cherry_tree 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Best practices for powering and wiring addressable LED strip installs?
    ×0.66 126 | 3 points by emmasuntech 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. My small SaaS got recommended my Google in the AI search overview
    ×0.52 127 | 3 points by kaave 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Why do people still talk about AGI?
    ×1.21 89 | 41 points by cermicelli 2 days ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. CiderStack – Native macOS VM manager, pay once, no subscription
    ×0.96 114 | 5 points by ciderdev 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Request limits vs. token limits for AI-powered apps?
    ×0.63 137 | 3 points by JeduDev 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Is anyone losing sleep over retry storms or partial API outages?
    ×0.44 | 2 points by rjpruitt16 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Anyone else struggle with how to learn coding in the AI era?
    ×2.07 57 | 47 points by 44Bulldog 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Who is firing? (February 2026)
    ×4.36 75 | 23 points by chalmovsky 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Interest in low cost / fast container registry?
    ×0.47 | 2 points by osigurdson 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: What's your preferred Python tool to convert Markdown to print ready PDF
    ×0.53 | 2 points by eon01 14 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: A proposal for interviewing "AI-Augmented" Engineers
    ×0.57 139 | 3 points by vanbashan 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: What serious task have you accomplished with Moltbot / OpenClaw?
    ×0.82 133 | 10 points by lukol 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Why are customer feedback boards so static? Building a live alternative
    ×0.26 | 2 points by develotor 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Any Successful Co-Ops of Software Engineers
    ×0.81 141 | 13 points by rubyn00bie 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: What are the immediate/near/long-term non-corporate benefits of AI?
    ×0.58 142 | 3 points by 0x4e 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: How do you give AI agents access without over-permissioning?
    ×0.99 123 | 6 points by NBenkovich 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. GitHub Incidents with Actions and Codespaces
    ×2.19 111 | 11 points by jeduardo 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: Any real OpenClaw (Clawd Bot/Molt Bot) users? What's your experience?
    ×2.18 87 | 114 points by cvhc 3 days ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: Do you also "hoard" notes/links but struggle to turn them into actions?
    ×1.83 77 | 233 points by item007 4 days ago | 215 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. AI has failed to replace a single software application or feature
    ×0.79 145 | 21 points by cadabrabra 4 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: How do you reset an AppleID?
    ×0.57 150 | 13 points by OhMeadhbh 5 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Task engine VM – for tasks with executable instructions (progress update)
    ×0.12 149 | 4 points by tracyspacy 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Who's Coding on Their Phone?
    ×1.01 112 | 4 points by raunaqvaisoha 23 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. JavaScript Bin Down in 2026 (remysharp.com)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by robin_reala 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: difi – A Git diff TUI with Neovim integration (written in Go) (github.com/oug-t)
    ×0.59 31 | 44 points by oug-t 21 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: I built a task manager in the MacBook notch for my ADHD brain (notchable.com)
    ×2.26 100 | 6 points by rezabeye 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: LemonSlice – Upgrade your voice agents to real-time video
    ×0.91 131 | 132 points by lcolucci 1 week ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Emerge Career (YC S22) is hiring a product designer (ycombinator.com)
    23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Promptable Speech Language Model by AssemblyAI (YC S17) (assemblyai.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by makaimc 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. LICENSE: _may be_ licensed to use source code; incorrect license grant (github.com/mattermost)
    ×2.75 20 | 169 points by MallocVoidstar 1 day ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Ultra-processed foods should be treated more like cigarettes than food – study (theguardian.com)
    ×4.26 49 | 56 points by jnord 10 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: OpenSymbolicAI – Agents with typed variables, not just context stuffing
    ×0.81 | 2 points by rksart 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. GitHub Browser Plugin for AI Contribution Blame in Pull Requests (rbby.dev)
    ×0.41 60 #40 | 60 points by rbbydotdev 20 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. OpenClaw is basically a cascade of LLMs in prime position to mess stuff up (acm.org)
    ×2.62 21 #76 | 98 points by Beeroness 16 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. The browser catches homograph attacks. Your terminal doesn't (github.com/sheeki03)
    ×2.39 58 #84 | 28 points by MrBuddyCasino 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Multitui – sandbox claude/codex/gemini on macOS without containers (multitui.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by davidcann 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction (arstechnica.com)
    ×4.27 32 | 490 points by ck2 1 day ago | 391 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. EPA Advances Farmers' Right to Repair (epa.gov)
    ×1.99 22 | 191 points by bilsbie 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Latchkey – inject credentials into agents' curl calls (github.com/imbue-ai)
    ×5.72 56 | 12 points by Wuzzy 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. I miss thinking hard (jernesto.com)
    ×4.15 #1 | 638 points by jernestomg 7 hours ago | 366 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Claude Code Plugins (github.com/ComposioHQ)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by sunilkumardash9 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Dash0 Acquires Lumigo to Expand Agentic Observability (dash0.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by puppion 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Nomad Tracker – a local-first iOS app to track visas and tax residency (nomadtracker.app)
    ×0.88 | 2 points by gotzonza 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Kolibri, a DIY music club in Sweden (kolibrinkpg.com)
    ×1.08 103 | 143 points by EastLondonCoder 5 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. My Eighth Year as a Bootstrapped Founder (mtlynch.io)
    ×1.54 7 #43 | 6 points by Brajeshwar 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: I built an AI twin recruiters can interview (chengai.me)
    ×0.72 | 2 points by Charlie112 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Coding assistants are solving the wrong problem (bicameral-ai.com)
    ×2.00 32 #55 | 171 points by jinhkuan 1 day ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. DHS is trying to force tech companies to hand over data about Trump critics (techcrunch.com)
    ×7.94 11 | 55 points by speckx 16 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: ShapedQL – A SQL engine for multi-stage ranking and RAG (shaped.ai)
    ×0.63 128 | 80 points by tullie 1 week ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok (bbc.com)
    ×4.96 15 #18 | 396 points by vikaveri 1 day ago | 761 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub (ankiweb.net)
    ×2.78 11 #69 | 553 points by trms 1 day ago | 242 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Stelvio – Ship Python to AWS (stelvio.dev)
    ×0.54 80 | 30 points by michal-stlv 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Build Web Automations via Demonstration (notte.cc)
    ×0.47 148 | 36 points by ogandreakiro 1 week ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. "time to GPT-2", down to 2.91 hours (twitter.com/karpathy)
    ×3.99 18 #22 | 33 points by tosh 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Notepad++ supply chain attack breakdown (securelist.com)
    ×3.20 20 #30 | 307 points by natebc 13 hours ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Rentahuman – The Meatspace Layer for AI (rentahuman.ai)
    ×2.36 31 #58 | 117 points by p0nce 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Migrate Wizard – IMAP Based Email Migration Tool (migratewizard.com)
    ×0.58 47 #63 | 36 points by techstuff123 18 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Output.md – Import sitemap, export all pages as Markdown (output.md)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by glennhv 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. GitHub experience various partial-outages/degradations (githubstatus.com)
    ×1.45 3 | 260 points by bhouston 1 day ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Bunny Database (bunny.net)
    ×1.92 14 #24 | 300 points by dabinat 23 hours ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Librediffusion: C++ / CUDA Reimplementation of StreamDiffusion (github.com/jcelerier)
    ×0.99 70 | 3 points by jcelerier 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: PolliticalScience – Anonymous daily polls with 24-hour windows (polliticalscience.vote)
    ×0.53 76 | 29 points by ps2026 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. The Codex App (openai.com)
    ×3.19 16 #64 | 788 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 622 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Geologists may have solved mystery of Green River's 'uphill' route (phys.org)
    ×0.95 59 #71 | 166 points by defrost 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Nano-vLLM: How a vLLM-style inference engine works (neutree.ai)
    ×1.25 16 | 269 points by yz-yu 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out (moltbook.com)
    ×2.81 69 | 281 points by schlichtm 6 days ago | 881 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. ×12.05 89 | 33 points by tromp 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. See how many words you have written in Hacker News comments (serjaimelannister.github.io)
    ×1.12 43 #59 | 136 points by Imustaskforhelp 1 day ago | 239 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???