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  1. Ask HN: When will LLMs generate professional-level CAD models?
    ×1.87 52 | 3 points by dsrtslnd23 6 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)
    ×0.80 66 | 134 points by whoishiring 2 days ago | 419 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Are ISPs "evil" and who runs the Internet?
    ×0.13 | 2 points by tavro 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. How do you manage context/memory across multiple AI tools?
    ×0.38 10 | 7 points by arapkuliev 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)
    ×1.22 31 | 303 points by whoishiring 2 days ago | 440 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Is there anyone here who still uses slide rules?
    ×1.20 20 | 116 points by blenderob 1 day ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Do you still use physical calculators?
    ×0.80 68 | 57 points by speedylight 4 days ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Kernighan on Programming
    ×1.79 61 | 162 points by chrisjj 2 days ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Tech Debt War Stories
    ×0.43 78 | 6 points by erubini_fg 13 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Cheap laptop for Linux without GUI (for writing)
    ×0.75 83 | 10 points by locusofself 19 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Do you also "hoard" notes/links but struggle to turn them into actions?
    ×1.83 92 | 234 points by item007 5 days ago | 215 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Does a good "read it later" app exist?
    ×0.36 91 | 4 points by buchanae 14 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Google Cloud suspended my account for 2 years, only automated replies
    ×1.44 90 | 157 points by andylizf 3 days ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Anyone have a "sovereign" solution for phone calls?
    ×0.85 102 | 9 points by kldg 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: OpenClaw users, what is your token spend?
    ×1.12 106 | 14 points by 8cvor6j844qw_d6 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Have you been fired because of AI?
    ×2.12 98 | 15 points by s-stude 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. GitHub Actions Have "Major Outage"
    ×2.57 85 | 52 points by graton 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: What weird or scrappy things did you do to get your first users?
    ×1.17 116 | 13 points by preston-kwei 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Signal Is Down
    ×2.38 60 | 40 points by Daniel_sk 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Google terminated my YouTube channel even thought I made no videos or used it
    ×1.23 86 | 5 points by paulpauper 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Has anybody moved their local community off of Facebook groups?
    ×0.91 119 | 21 points by madsohm 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. My small SaaS got recommended my Google in the AI search overview
    ×0.65 134 | 4 points by kaave 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
    ×1.31 113 | 5 points by iryndin 23 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Are you still using spec driven development?
    ×0.91 133 | 6 points by cherry_tree 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Junior getting lost
    ×0.64 145 | 50 points by TheRegularOne 5 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Why dead code detection in Python is harder than most tools admit
    ×1.18 130 | 6 points by duriantaco 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Where do all the web devs talk?
    ×1.66 74 | 54 points by LinguaBrowse 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Why do people still talk about AGI?
    ×1.20 105 | 41 points by cermicelli 2 days ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Best practices for powering and wiring addressable LED strip installs?
    ×0.61 143 | 3 points by emmasuntech 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: What serious task have you accomplished with Moltbot / OpenClaw?
    ×0.89 141 | 11 points by lukol 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Anyone else struggle with how to learn coding in the AI era?
    ×2.07 76 | 48 points by 44Bulldog 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. CiderStack – Native macOS VM manager, pay once, no subscription
    ×0.90 131 | 5 points by ciderdev 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Who is firing? (February 2026)
    ×4.23 95 | 24 points by chalmovsky 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Request limits vs. token limits for AI-powered apps?
    ×0.59 147 | 3 points by JeduDev 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Is anyone losing sleep over retry storms or partial API outages?
    ×0.41 | 2 points by rjpruitt16 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Any Successful Co-Ops of Software Engineers
    ×0.80 148 | 13 points by rubyn00bie 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Interest in low cost / fast container registry?
    ×0.43 | 2 points by osigurdson 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: A proposal for interviewing "AI-Augmented" Engineers
    ×0.53 149 | 3 points by vanbashan 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: Why are customer feedback boards so static? Building a live alternative
    ×0.24 | 2 points by develotor 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: What are the immediate/near/long-term non-corporate benefits of AI?
    ×0.55 151 | 3 points by 0x4e 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: Any real OpenClaw (Clawd Bot/Molt Bot) users? What's your experience?
    ×2.20 101 | 115 points by cvhc 3 days ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ask HN: How do you give AI agents access without over-permissioning?
    ×0.97 140 | 6 points by NBenkovich 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. GitHub Incidents with Actions and Codespaces
    ×2.14 125 | 11 points by jeduardo 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Ask HN: What's your preferred Python tool to convert Markdown to print ready PDF
    ×0.51 | 2 points by eon01 20 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. AI has failed to replace a single software application or feature
    ×0.79 150 | 21 points by cadabrabra 5 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Ask HN: How do you reset an AppleID?
    ×0.57 152 | 13 points by OhMeadhbh 5 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Minikv – Distributed key-value and object store in Rust (Raft, S3 API) (github.com/whispem)
    ×1.06 53 | 68 points by whispem 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Two-week creative lab for developers building with real-time AI video (daydream.live)
    ×4.80 26 | 10 points by cmuir 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Latex-wc – Word count and word frequency for LaTeX projects (piwheels.org)
    ×0.18 88 | 9 points by sethbarrettAU 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Small "AI slop" classifier running in a browser extension (github.com/distil-labs)
    ×1.27 | 2 points by maciejgryka 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Justin Key's "The Hospital at the End of the World" (pluralistic.net)
    ×1.40 | 2 points by hn_acker 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. AI didn't break copyright law, it just exposed how broken it was (jasonwillems.com)
    ×2.19 47 #65 | 100 points by at1as 1 day ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB) (safe-now.live)
    ×1.45 34 #75 | 183 points by tinuviel 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. The Codex App (openai.com)
    ×3.20 10 #87 | 793 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 623 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Defining Safe Hardware Design [pdf] (mit.edu)
    ×0.46 58 #90 | 40 points by rachitnigam 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Managed ClickStack redefining the economics of observability (clickhouse.com)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by samaysharma 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Another London: Excavating the disenchanted city (harpers.org)
    ×0.52 58 #88 | 35 points by jfil 22 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Finding a Cross-Tenant Vulnerability in GCP's Apigee (omeramiad.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by bearsyankees 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Majority of Trump voters back solar power, poll finds (axios.com)
    ×5.01 71 | 8 points by ironyman 47 minutes ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. The Discourse Is Getting Both Smarter and Dumber (richardhanania.com)
    ×1.18 | 2 points by willparks 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: PII-Shield – Log Sanitization Sidecar with JSON Integrity (Go, Entropy) (github.com/aragossa)
    ×0.32 84 | 16 points by aragoss 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: ErwinDB, a TUI to view 7k Stack Overflow answers by Postgres expert (github.com/ahacop)
    ×1.50 128 | 5 points by ahacop 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. "time to GPT-2", down to 2.91 hours (twitter.com/karpathy)
    ×3.08 44 #85 | 70 points by tosh 8 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Feedsmith: Emacs RSS reader with Feedbin sync, pluggable back ends (github.com/curtismchale)
    ×0.81 | 2 points by ingve 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. AlphaGenome Decodes DNA's Hidden Secrets (ieee.org)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by rbanffy 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. I have static meeting links. My AI solved the calendly problem.§
    ×0.69 | 1 points by Mrakermo 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Nomad Tracker – a local-first iOS app to track visas and tax residency (nomadtracker.app)
    ×0.87 | 2 points by gotzonza 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: LUML – an open source (Apache 2.0) MLOps/LLMOps platform (github.com/luml-ai)
    ×2.29 109 | 7 points by okost1 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. 221 Cannon is Not For Sale (fredbenenson.com)
    ×2.04 23 #39 | 299 points by mecredis 1 day ago | 235 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Octosphere, a tool to decentralise scientific publishing (octosphere.social)
    ×0.54 60 #69 | 60 points by crimsoneer 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. You Sound Like ChatGPT (theverge.com)
    ×1.37 | 2 points by satvikpendem 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. The 2025 James C. Morgan Global Humanitarian Award Winner: Steve Wozniak (thetech.org)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by oldnetguy 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Floppinux – An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy, 2025 Edition (krzysztofjankowski.com)
    ×1.17 17 #89 | 243 points by GalaxySnail 1 day ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez announces plans to ban socialmedia access for under-16s (abc.net.au)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by Teever 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Eval on Agentic Workspace Bootstrapping (nightshift.sh)
    ×1.21 | 2 points by tensor_ninja 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Adboost – A browser extension that adds ads to every webpage (github.com/surprisetalk)
    ×1.08 73 | 124 points by surprisetalk 2 days ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Steve Bannon Proposes Using ICE in Elections (newsweek.com)
    ×6.77 4 #10 | 22 points by SilverElfin 10 minutes ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. cad0: A Text-to-CAD Model (campedersen.com)
    ×0.77 | 1 points by ecto 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. In Tehran (lrb.co.uk)
    ×1.37 | 2 points by mitchbob 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Webhook Skills – Agent skills for webhook providers and best practices (github.com/hookdeck)
    ×4.72 4 | 9 points by leggetter 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Mazeru: Clojure full-stack server-state using Deno and Datastar (codeberg.org)
    ×0.79 | 1 points by simonpure 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Building a 24-Bit Arcade CRT Display Adapter, from Scratch (scd31.com)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by evakhoury 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Wi-Fi 7: Welcome to the era of multi-gig wireless (googleblog.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by xnx 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Procedures for Repair of Potholes in Asphalt-Surfaced Pavements (dot.gov)
    ×0.87 15 #7 | 26 points by treebrained 2 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Goblins: Distributed, Transactional Programming with Racket and Guile (spritely.institute)
    ×1.14 26 #32 | 98 points by alhazrod 13 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. The fax numbers of the beast, and other mathematical sports (cabinetmagazine.org)
    ×0.41 18 #36 | 22 points by marysminefnuf 5 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. China Moon Mission: Aiming for 2030 lunar landing (ieee.org)
    ×1.58 10 #70 | 143 points by rbanffy 22 hours ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Rentahuman – The Meatspace Layer for AI (rentahuman.ai)
    ×2.28 40 #81 | 127 points by p0nce 1 day ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. $70 Raspberry Pi CM5 5G Router expansion board offers five GbE ports (cnx-software.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by teleforce 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. One-third of dementia cases are linked to non brain-related diseases (medicalxpress.com)
    ×0.59 | 2 points by bikenaga 33 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???