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  1. Ask HN: How to Handle Claude's Stubbornness?
    ×1.17 67 | 3 points by classicpsy 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs
    ×4.12 38 #60 | 731 points by hrncode 1 day ago | 413 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Who needs contributors? (March 2026)
    ×0.62 3 | 5 points by Kathan2651 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Founders of estonian e-businesses – is it worth it?
    ×1.00 70 | 167 points by udl 6 days ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Best stack for building a tiny game with an 11-year-old?
    ×0.57 51 | 13 points by richardstahl 21 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Release Path for 'Transformers Alternatives'?
    ×0.31 88 | 3 points by adinhitlore 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. The risk of AI isn't making us lazy, but making "lazy" look productive
    ×1.61 67 | 74 points by acmerfight 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: M5 MacBook Pro buyers, worth spending the $$$ to maybe run LLMs local?
    ×0.90 76 | 7 points by tpurves 15 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What's the latest concensus on OpenAI vs. Anthropic $20/month tier?
    ×0.97 97 | 10 points by whatarethembits 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Why do SF billboards hit different?
    ×0.22 113 | 3 points by YouAreExisting 22 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Operator23: Describe Your Workflow in English, Deploy Everywhere
    ×0.18 118 | 3 points by Mrakermo 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: How are you keeping AI coding agents from burning money?
    ×0.36 108 | 7 points by bhaviav100 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Is it just me?
    ×0.84 96 | 14 points by twoelf 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Claude API Error: 529
    ×0.49 114 | 25 points by anujbans 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Anyone using Meshtastic/LoRa for non-chat applications?
    ×0.66 122 | 11 points by redgridtactical 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Repsy – A lightweight, open-source alternative to Nexus/Artifactory
    ×0.32 145 | 7 points by nuricanozturk 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. LLMs learn what programmers create, not how programmers work
    ×0.45 137 | 41 points by noemit 6 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Fear of Missing Code
    ×0.43 133 | 8 points by lukol 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Anybody tried to cheat AI-HR-system with hidden/white sentences?
    ×0.28 135 | 5 points by KellyCriterion 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. GitHub now requiring 2FA for all contributors,what authenticator apps you using?
    ×0.29 138 | 13 points by nickcageinacage 3 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Rses – cross-resume between Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode
    ×0.29 141 | 13 points by plawlost 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. GitHub has been sending me an email every two seconds.
    ×1.14 115 | 16 points by colonelspace 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: How do you deal with obvious AI assistant usage in interviews
    ×0.46 143 | 10 points by stackdestroyer 3 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. I am definitely missing the pre-AI writing era (lesswrong.com)
    ×2.87 38 #47 | 67 points by joozio 4 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Typing and Keyboards (lzon.ca)
    ×0.89 51 #52 | 41 points by jpmitchell 16 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. A nearly perfect USB cable tester (literarily-starved.com)
    ×1.88 5 #65 | 284 points by birdculture 1 day ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Lat.md: Agent Lattice: a knowledge graph for your codebase, written in Markdown (github.com/1st1)
    ×1.54 21 | 85 points by doppp 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Microsoft Set for Worst Quarter Since 2008 (yahoo.com)
    ×3.41 58 | 85 points by dvfjsdhgfv 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Build AI Trading Agents in Cursor/Claude with an MCP Server (financialdata.net)
    ×1.95 144 | 6 points by financial-data 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. WordPress Full Site Editing (weboptimo.pl)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by m4c-pl 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Bike Parking Utrecht Central Station (livetheworld.com)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by thunderbong 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Grafana TUI – Browse Grafana dashboards in the terminal (github.com/lovromazgon)
    ×5.06 117 | 23 points by lmazgon 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. I Built an Open-World Engine for the N64 [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.27 4 | 452 points by msephton 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Kyushu Railway Company Train Varieties (jrkyushu.co.jp)
    ×0.95 35 #36 | 85 points by NaOH 16 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. I turned my Kindle into my own personal newspaper (manualdousuario.net)
    ×1.51 20 #73 | 184 points by rpgbr 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Concerns from the RaBitQ Authors Regarding TurboQuant (openreview.net)
    ×0.95 | 1 points by mellosouls 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Mathematical methods and human thought in the age of AI (arxiv.org)
    ×1.37 | 2 points by zaikunzhang 33 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. I Decompiled the White House's New App (thereallo.dev)
    ×2.21 36 | 3 points by Mike-E 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Give your AI agent a real email address (open source, Cloudflare) (github.com/Digidai)
    ×1.17 | 2 points by genedai 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Vocab extractor for language learners using Stanza and frequency ranks (huggingface.co)
    ×1.79 87 | 4 points by crivlaldo 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Full network of clitoral nerves mapped out for first time (theguardian.com)
    ×3.05 11 #48 | 284 points by onei 19 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Moretti replication published in AER (michaelwiebe.com)
    ×0.24 59 #56 | 8 points by luu 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. TSA lines are so out of control that travelers are hiring line-sitters (washingtonpost.com)
    ×2.68 3 #89 | 110 points by bookofjoe 22 hours ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: GitHub Copilot Technical Writing Skill (github.com/chrisherczeg)
    ×0.90 130 | 4 points by chris_money202 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Antimatter – Match the opposites (Mahjong solitaire mechanic) (linguabase.org)
    ×0.32 158 | 12 points by michaeld123 5 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: For You – AI art floats down a river for strangers to find (foryouriver.com)
    ×0.67 153 | 4 points by arclegger 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. New Apple Silicon M4 and M5 HiDPI Limitation on 4K External Displays (smcleod.net)
    ×3.24 38 #46 | 268 points by smcleod 9 hours ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. The loneliness of A Room of One’s Own (newrepublic.com)
    ×0.93 69 #57 | 55 points by prismatic 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Tipos como Guia: Como usar a segurança para controlar a IA (diccar.substack.com)
    ×0.63 | 2 points by robsonamendonca 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Finland to audit whether US actually delivering NATO-bought weapons to Ukraine (euromaidanpress.com)
    ×1.39 | 2 points by vrganj 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Emulating Petzold's Code BCD decoder -logic gates are persistent tasks on a VM
    ×0.52 | 1 points by tracyspacy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: I wrote a ~2KB executable file HTTP file downloader without Libc (github.com/Ferki-git-creator)
    ×2.99 82 | 9 points by DenisDolya 21 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. The curious case of retro demo scene graphics (datagubbe.se)
    ×1.55 1 #1 | 216 points by zdw 6 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Running Tesla Model 3's computer on my desk using parts from crashed cars (xdavidhu.me)
    ×3.53 52 #76 | 978 points by driesdep 4 days ago | 333 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Ag.sh – All-in-one CLI tool to do parallelised AI development with ease (github.com/andrewhathaway)
    ×1.40 | 2 points by hathers 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. To Lure Top AI Talent, Startups Are Turning to Cold Hard Cash (wsj.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by cebert 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Potential developmental health effect of "eco-friendly" biodegradable plastic (plos.org)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by wjSgoWPm5bWAhXB 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. JSON Canvas Spec (jsoncanvas.org)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by tobr 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Paseo – Open-source coding agent interface (desktop, mobile, CLI) (github.com/getpaseo)
    ×4.38 139 | 13 points by boudra 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: DuckDB community extension for prefiltered HNSW using ACORN-1 (github.com/cigrainger)
    ×0.68 111 | 90 points by cigrainger 5 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: New Causal Impact Library (github.com/YuminosukeSato)
    ×0.99 142 | 9 points by djwjjtw 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. HD Audio Driver for Windows 98SE / Me (github.com/andrew-hoffman)
    ×1.00 9 #35 | 46 points by userbinator 6 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History (nybooks.com)
    ×1.06 51 #81 | 92 points by mitchbob 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Inline code review UI for Claude Code (VSCode extension) (github.com/etsd-tech)
    ×3.57 66 | 5 points by noeclement 56 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: We Built 450 Modular Agent Skills for Medical Research (github.com/aipoch)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by The_resa 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. No one is happy with NASA's new idea for private space stations (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.93 68 | 87 points by rbanffy 2 days ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Veil – Dark mode PDFs without destroying images, runs in the browser (simoneamico.com)
    ×1.45 92 | 98 points by simoneamico 3 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. A Commandery of the Knights in Lachapelle, Occitanie, France for Sale (14388943) (jamesedition.com)
    ×1.32 | 2 points by Anon84 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Twice this week, I have come across embarassingly bad data (successfulsoftware.net)
    ×1.43 2 | 82 points by hermitcrab 19 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder (techfixated.com)
    ×2.49 6 #6 | 564 points by speckx 19 hours ago | 212 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. The First Video Game Was Just a Box in the Corner of a Bar (lithub.com)
    ×0.59 30 #26 | 9 points by PaulHoule 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: The Alphabetical Clock (boat.horse)
    ×1.02 61 #29 | 6 points by secretdark 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies (sytse.com)
    ×5.28 6 #44 | 1362 points by bob_theslob646 1 day ago | 246 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. The Epistemology of Microphysics (edwardfeser.com)
    ×0.58 24 #78 | 48 points by danielam 18 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Din SDK Ship Accountable Agents with Cryptographic Evidence (at1c.com)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by At1C 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: I built a Git extension to capture AI-code context and tied to commits (gitwhy.dev)
    ×1.26 103 | 4 points by quannguyen028 23 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Spanish legislation as a Git repo (github.com/EnriqueLop)
    ×3.75 22 | 802 points by enriquelop 1 day ago | 229 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. There is no spoon – A software engineers primer for demystified ML (github.com/dreddnafious)
    ×1.58 48 | 91 points by jmatthews 13 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Minimalist library to generate SVG views of scientific data (github.com/alefore)
    ×0.78 99 | 47 points by afc 6 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Gemini can now natively embed video, so I built sub-second video search (github.com/ssrajadh)
    ×2.23 84 | 434 points by sohamrj 5 days ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Gridland: make terminal apps that also run in the browser (gridland.io)
    ×0.99 110 | 108 points by rothific 5 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. We Added a Console Notice to Internationalizationext – and Why We Removed It (locize.com)
    ×0.59 71 #77 | 13 points by screeny05 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Why mathematicians are boycotting their biggest conference (scientificamerican.com)
    ×4.68 56 | 64 points by nickcotter 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Run Claude Code using ChatGPT subscription (npmjs.com)
    ×1.00 116 | 3 points by yungookim 23 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Ohm's Peg-to-WASM Compiler (ohmjs.org)
    ×0.67 50 #37 | 57 points by azhenley 15 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Category Theory Illustrated – Types (abuseofnotation.github.io)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by boris_m 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. OpenCiv1 – open-source rewrite of Civ1 (github.com/rajko-horvat)
    ×1.69 23 | 191 points by caminanteblanco 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. The Strait of Hormuz Oil Shock Is Now Heading West (bloomberg.com)
    ×4.25 41 | 61 points by petethomas 11 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: QuickBEAM – run JavaScript as supervised Erlang/OTP processes (github.com/elixir-volt)
    ×0.90 37 #41 | 98 points by dannote 18 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. User Mode Linux (kernel.org)
    ×1.23 | 2 points by hliyan 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???