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  1. Ask HN: Anyone Using a Mac Studio for Local AI/LLM?
    ×0.55 52 #44 | 23 points by UmYeahNo 12 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: 10 months since the Llama-4 release: what happened to Meta AI?
    ×1.12 #47 | 31 points by Invictus0 7 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What is the most complicated Algorithm you came up with yourself?
    ×1.29 33 | 3 points by meffmadd 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)
    ×0.78 77 | 138 points by whoishiring 3 days ago | 480 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)
    ×1.23 57 | 309 points by whoishiring 3 days ago | 500 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Anyone Seeing YT ads related to chats on ChatGPT?
    ×0.16 | 2 points by guhsnamih 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Tell HN: Another round of Zendesk email spam
    ×0.97 34 | 103 points by Philpax 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Does global decoupling from the USA signal comeback of the desktop app?
    ×0.35 63 | 4 points by wewewedxfgdf 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How does ChatGPT decide which websites to recommend?
    ×0.88 65 | 4 points by nworley 11 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Has your whole engineering team gone big into AI coding? How's it going?
    ×0.88 71 | 15 points by jchung 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Is Connecting via SSH Risky?
    ×0.52 72 | 17 points by atrevbot 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Is it just me or are most businesses insane?
    ×1.16 86 | 3 points by justenough 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Mem0 stores memories, but doesn't learn user patterns
    ×0.40 99 | 9 points by fliellerjulian 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How Did You Validate?
    ×0.10 87 | 4 points by haute_cuisine 19 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. We built a serverless GPU inference platform with predictable latency
    ×0.42 102 | 5 points by QubridAI 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Is there anyone here who still uses slide rules?
    ×1.15 66 | 120 points by blenderob 2 days ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Kernighan on Programming
    ×1.79 70 | 168 points by chrisjj 3 days ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Test management tools for automation heavy teams
    ×0.32 | 2 points by Divyakurian 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. How do you deal with SEO nowadays?
    ×0.86 69 | 4 points by jackota 13 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Cheap laptop for Linux without GUI (for writing)
    ×0.80 115 | 14 points by locusofself 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Are "provably fair" JavaScript games trustless?
    ×0.31 | 2 points by rishi_blockrand 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: What are you building this Friday?
    ×0.98 | 2 points by cranberryturkey 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Have you been fired because of AI?
    ×1.53 122 | 16 points by s-stude 3 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Where does operational truth live before it reaches "systems of record"?
    ×0.29 137 | 3 points by former-aws 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Anyone have a "sovereign" solution for phone calls?
    ×0.70 132 | 10 points by kldg 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: OpenClaw users, what is your token spend?
    ×0.86 129 | 14 points by 8cvor6j844qw_d6 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Has anybody moved their local community off of Facebook groups?
    ×0.86 128 | 22 points by madsohm 4 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. YC S26 Application: "Attach a coding agent session you're particularly proud of"
    ×0.22 131 | 4 points by simplydt 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. GitHub Actions Have "Major Outage"
    ×2.27 97 | 52 points by graton 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: When will LLMs generate professional-level CAD models?
    ×0.55 105 | 8 points by dsrtslnd23 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Will crypto currencies survive past this market downturn?
    ×0.47 64 | 5 points by halamadrid 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: What weird or scrappy things did you do to get your first users?
    ×0.94 135 | 13 points by preston-kwei 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Are ISPs "evil" and who runs the Internet?
    ×0.41 120 | 6 points by tavro 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. How do you manage context/memory across multiple AI tools?
    ×0.29 119 | 7 points by arapkuliev 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Are you still using spec driven development?
    ×0.60 163 | 6 points by cherry_tree 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Why do people still talk about AGI?
    ×1.17 116 | 42 points by cermicelli 4 days ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. My small SaaS got recommended my Google in the AI search overview
    ×0.49 167 | 4 points by kaave 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: Tech Debt War Stories
    ×0.36 134 | 6 points by erubini_fg 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: Does a good "read it later" app exist?
    ×0.37 145 | 5 points by buchanae 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: What serious task have you accomplished with Moltbot / OpenClaw?
    ×0.88 157 | 12 points by lukol 4 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Datacenter capex gravy train is over
    ×2.34 47 | 6 points by zerosizedweasle 10 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ask HN: Why dead code detection in Python is harder than most tools admit
    ×0.83 160 | 6 points by duriantaco 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Signal Is Down
    ×2.08 89 | 41 points by Daniel_sk 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Ask HN: Anyone else struggle with how to learn coding in the AI era?
    ×2.07 94 | 51 points by 44Bulldog 3 days ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Ask HN: Where do all the web devs talk?
    ×1.64 90 | 56 points by LinguaBrowse 3 days ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
    ×1.33 142 | 7 points by iryndin 2 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Ask HN: Who is firing? (February 2026)
    ×3.85 118 | 25 points by chalmovsky 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. GitHub Actions is slowly killing engineering teams (iankduncan.com)
    ×4.31 19 #24 | 274 points by codesuki 8 hours ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. An interactive version of Byrne's The Elements of Euclid (1847) (c82.net)
    ×0.93 46 #72 | 93 points by tzury 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Cop Transforms into Frog, According to AI-Generated Police Report (forbes.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by shakna 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. The Worst Programmer I Know (dannorth.net)
    ×1.39 60 #87 | 11 points by colejohnson66 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Khosrow Alikordi: Lawyer for Mahsa Amini (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.82 | 1 points by ukblewis 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Hacker Backlinks – HN Stories Most Linked To By HN Comments (browserbox.io)
    ×0.80 | 2 points by keepamovin 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Interactive California Budget (By Claude Code) (california-budget.com)
    ×0.83 62 | 39 points by sberens 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Crnd – Cron daemon built for scripts and AI agents
    ×1.71 140 | 4 points by ysm0622 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Things Unix can do atomically (2010) (rcrowley.org)
    ×1.37 1 #5 | 128 points by onurkanbkrc 6 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Why more companies are recognizing the benefits of keeping older employees (stanford.edu)
    ×3.04 2 #85 | 276 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. First Proof: Research-Level Math for AI Evaluation (1stproof.org)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by panic 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone (twitter.com/lizziejohnsonnn)
    ×7.40 42 | 68 points by doener 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Cannabis usage in older adults linked to larger brain, better cognitive function (medicalxpress.com)
    ×3.67 60 | 66 points by PaulHoule 1 day ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: AI Blocker by Kiddokraft (kiddokraft.org)
    ×1.72 133 | 5 points by Rezhe 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Pygantry – Why ship a whole OS when you just need a Python environment? (github.com/erabytse)
    ×2.04 109 | 5 points by takouzlo 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. The world’s first sodium-ion battery EV is here and it could be a game changer (electrek.co)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by breve 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Agentic Memory Bottlenecks (jcarlosroldan.com)
    ×2.69 26 | 4 points by manbitesdog 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: ThumbNew – A fast AI thumbnail generator for creators (thumbnew.netlify.app)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by Timexo 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled (404media.co)
    ×4.88 19 | 596 points by robin_reala 1 day ago | 524 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Craftplan – I built my wife a production management tool for her bakery (github.com/puemos)
    ×2.82 12 | 563 points by deofoo 4 days ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Accept-md – One command to make Next.js sites LLM-scraping friendly (accept.md)
    ×0.58 74 | 5 points by hval 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Generative Pen-Trained Transformer (theodore.net)
    ×0.53 38 #32 | 17 points by Twarner 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Ardour 9.0 (ardour.org)
    ×2.14 16 #42 | 272 points by PaulDavisThe1st 17 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. ICE urged to explain memo about collecting info on protesters (arstechnica.com)
    ×5.68 46 | 75 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Arcan-A12: Weaving a Different Web (divergent-desktop.org)
    ×0.58 55 | 66 points by ingenieroariel 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: I built an AI twin recruiters can interview (chengai.me)
    ×0.69 | 2 points by Charlie112 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Systems Thinking (theprogrammersparadox.blogspot.com)
    ×1.40 1 #6 | 115 points by r4um 6 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Plasma Effect (4rknova.com)
    ×1.45 6 #7 | 36 points by todsacerdoti 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Canada Warms Up to EVs from China (caranddriver.com)
    ×0.86 | 1 points by breve 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. ICE seeks industry input on ad tech location data for investigative use (biometricupdate.com)
    ×5.00 22 | 279 points by WaitWaitWha 1 day ago | 347 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. The Great Unwind (occupywallst.com)
    ×2.42 10 #82 | 319 points by jart 1 day ago | 339 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Signy: Signed URLs for Small Devices (github.com/golioth)
    ×0.77 | 1 points by hasheddan 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. How Containers Work: Building Container Networking from Scratch (amalchandran.xyz)
    ×1.41 | 2 points by amalChandru 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email (newrepublic.com)
    ×7.02 44 | 81 points by randycupertino 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments (neosmart.net)
    ×2.59 3 #11 | 381 points by ComputerGuru 14 hours ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Micropolis/SimCity Clone in Emacs Lisp (github.com/vkazanov)
    ×1.07 27 #52 | 167 points by vkazanov 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Throughput Upgrade (With Train Illustrations) Blog (healthchecks.io)
    ×0.99 | 1 points by tosh 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. TikTok hit with charges by EU for its addictive features (reuters.com)
    ×2.76 60 | 3 points by hackerbeat 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Statin pills much safer than advertised, major review finds (bbc.com)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by tchalla 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. The Wyden Siren: Senator's Cryptic CIA Letter Pattern Has Never Been Wrong (techdirt.com)
    ×3.81 28 | 109 points by hn_acker 17 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: C discrete event SIM w stackful coroutines runs 45x faster than SimPy (github.com/ambonvik)
    ×0.76 78 | 68 points by ambonvik 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Hypernetworks: Neural Networks for Hierarchical Data (sturdystatistics.com)
    ×0.80 46 #27 | 64 points by mkmccjr 15 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Total Recall – write-gated memory for Claude Code (github.com/davegoldblatt)
    ×0.92 58 #69 | 9 points by davegoldblatt 11 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???