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  1. Ask HN: Should we collectively stop spell checking and fixing grammar
    ×0.99 | 2 points by sankalpnarula 17 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Advice on Solo Launching
    ×0.28 20 | 4 points by acaciabengo 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2026)
    ×1.18 48 | 270 points by whoishiring 2 days ago | 321 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What are you moving on to now that Claude Code is so rate limited?
    ×0.27 59 | 3 points by esperent 5 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2026)
    ×0.76 84 | 83 points by whoishiring 2 days ago | 316 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Whether there is LLM or other strong NLP behind Hacker News?
    ×0.29 | 2 points by Jet_Xu 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Distributed data centers in our basements
    ×0.50 97 | 72 points by cmos 3 days ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Fixed a llama.cpp bug silently disabling Vulkan GPU on all 32-bit ARM devices
    ×0.24 | 2 points by perinban 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How relevant is low code according to you in today’s world with Claude?
    ×0.79 96 | 7 points by kinj28 22 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What is your dev set up like?
    ×0.47 93 | 12 points by break_the_bank 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Stripe closed my UAE business account and is withholding $3.5K
    ×0.96 86 | 22 points by alganzory 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: European Tech Alternatives?
    ×1.78 24 | 99 points by BrunoBernardino 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Tell HN: Chrome says "suspicious download" when trying to download yt-dlp
    ×2.36 69 | 306 points by joering2 3 days ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs
    ×3.89 75 | 792 points by hrncode 5 days ago | 453 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Client took over development by vibe coding. What to do?
    ×1.28 91 | 59 points by piscator 2 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What dev tools do you rely on that nobody talks about?
    ×1.47 94 | 39 points by crcsmnky 2 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Academic study on AI's impact on software development – want to join?
    ×0.54 116 | 30 points by research2026 3 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Brian Kernighan's "Q"?
    ×0.87 128 | 3 points by remywang 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. BetterDB – open-source Redis/Valkey migration across clouds and self-hosted
    ×0.81 119 | 14 points by kaliades 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What happens when you block/mark as spam a call or text?
    ×0.67 117 | 12 points by dsalzman 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Are tech companies even hiring?
    ×1.46 108 | 19 points by KernelPryanic 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Who needs contributors? (March 2026)
    ×0.84 139 | 28 points by Kathan2651 4 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. LinkedIn uses 65GB of RAM with 7 tabs opened
    ×1.09 134 | 14 points by daniele_dll 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Does anyone else notice that gas runs out faster than usual
    ×0.60 140 | 20 points by cat-turner 3 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: How do you know if a tweak to your AI skill made it better?
    ×0.81 138 | 7 points by yo103jg 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: What was it like in the era of BBS before the internet?
    ×1.08 130 | 32 points by ex-aws-dude 3 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Are you team MCP or team CLI?
    ×0.61 149 | 15 points by sharath39 3 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Non-US founders residential address problem with Brex, Mercury?
    ×0.68 143 | 8 points by Barazutti629 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Why did Harvey choose a top-down enterprise GTM while Cursor went bottom-up?
    ×0.43 151 | 4 points by iiTsEddy 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. The True Shape of Io's Steeple Mountain (weareinquisitive.com)
    ×0.92 30 #40 | 101 points by carlosjobim 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Pro-Iran Handala group breached Israeli defence contractor PSK Wind Technologies (securityaffairs.com)
    ×1.90 | 2 points by lschueller 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Local RAG on 25 Years of Teletext News (github.com/r-follador)
    ×0.73 | 2 points by folli 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: QuickBEAM – run JavaScript as supervised Erlang/OTP processes (github.com/elixir-volt)
    ×0.91 109 | 111 points by dannote 5 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Hermes Agent by Nous Research (nousresearch.com)
    ×0.89 | 1 points by tomaskafka 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Mnemosyne MCP, Give Claude Code a retrieval engine (73% fewer tokens) (castnettechnology.com)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by vincentastral 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. DecisionMirror (google.com)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by JumzleR-Apps 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. The Weather Channel – RetroCast (weather.com)
    ×4.20 21 | 315 points by typeofhuman 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Artemis II astronaut: 'I have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither are working' (theregister.com)
    ×1.46 7 #53 | 11 points by Bender 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Emotion concepts and their function in a large language model (anthropic.com)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by fekunde 33 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Making a Type Checker/LSP for Nix (johns.codes)
    ×0.76 | 1 points by jrmurray 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Big Banks Seeking a Piece of SpaceX's IPO Must Subscribe to Elon Musk's Grok (nytimes.com)
    ×3.90 48 | 7 points by spenvo 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. New laws to make it easier to cancel subscriptions and get refunds (bbc.co.uk)
    ×1.87 35 | 155 points by chrisjj 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: BreezePDF – Free, in-browser PDF editor (breezepdf.com)
    ×1.29 115 | 96 points by philjohnson 5 days ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Cursor 3 (cursor.com)
    ×2.62 21 #35 | 517 points by adamfeldman 1 day ago | 385 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. George Goble has died (legacy.com)
    ×0.97 40 #52 | 168 points by finaard 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Information and Technological Evolution – By Brian Potter (construction-physics.com)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by rbanffy 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. An AI agent economy where agents are city citizens that can hire humans (leagentmobile.netlify.app)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by condimbemba 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. PolarQuant: Quantizing KV Caches with Polar Transformation (arxiv.org)
    ×1.56 | 2 points by felineflock 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. U.S. fighter jet shot down in Iran, search underway for crew (axios.com)
    ×5.73 70 | 69 points by hypeatei 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Claude Code rewritten as a bash script (github.com/jdcodes1)
    ×2.27 99 | 53 points by rpst 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Intel Assured Supply Chain Product Brief (intel.com)
    ×0.58 38 #34 | 46 points by aw-engineer 9 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Vector Meson Dominance (wordpress.com)
    ×0.58 51 #49 | 52 points by chmaynard 15 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. OpenAI Acquires TBPN (openai.com)
    ×1.80 29 #55 | 231 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. AST Edits: The Code Editing Format Nobody Uses (geometricagi.github.io)
    ×1.53 | 2 points by matt_d 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Mycellm – BitTorrent for LLMs, pool GPUs into federated networks (mycellm.ai)
    ×1.71 150 | 4 points by mijkal 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Nova v1.5.0 Gold Master – A pure C++17 assistant with zero dependencies (github.com/94BILLY)
    ×0.54 | 2 points by 94BILLY 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Cue: Desktop app for subtitling and burned-in video export (github.com/davidspivak2)
    ×0.41 | 2 points by davesp2 23 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. ESP32-S31: Dual-Core RISC-V SoC with Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, and Advanced HMI (espressif.com)
    ×1.36 24 #21 | 168 points by topspin 12 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Memo: A language that remembers only the last 12 lines of code (danieltemkin.com)
    ×0.68 58 #70 | 55 points by notem 21 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. What Is a Collation, and Why Is My Data Corrupt? – PG Phridays with Shaun Thomas
    ×0.80 | 1 points by pgedge_postgres 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Koriander – Recipe manager that parses ingredients and tracks nutrition (koriander.app)
    ×0.71 | 2 points by laleshii 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Hello, World (nasa.gov)
    ×1.57 37 | 3 points by reconnecting 13 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. LLMs audit code from the same blind spot they wrote it from. Here's the fix (zenodo.org)
    ×1.55 | 2 points by brodeurmartin 27 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Startup Domain Search – Free AI Domain Generator with Scoring and RDAP (domainsearcher.app)
    ×0.77 | 1 points by vasilyt 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: 65k AI voters predict UK local elections with 75% accuracy (kronaxis.co.uk)
    ×0.98 129 | 7 points by JasonDuke 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Chiri, cross-platform CalDAV-compatible task management app for desktop (github.com/SapphoSys)
    ×1.54 | 2 points by tishdev 42 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: 1-Bit Bonsai, the First Commercially Viable 1-Bit LLMs (prismml.com)
    ×2.28 54 | 418 points by PrismML 2 days ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: I turned a sketch into a 3D-print pegboard for my kid with an AI agent (github.com/virpo)
    ×0.64 105 | 64 points by virpo 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: CLI to order groceries via reverse-engineered REWE API (Haskell) (github.com/yannick-cw)
    ×1.18 68 | 203 points by wazHFsRy 4 days ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: An evidence-rated encyclopedia of peptides (whatthepeptide.org)
    ×0.86 4 #25 | 12 points by uelbably 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Lemonade by AMD: a fast and open source local LLM server using GPU and NPU (lemonade-server.ai)
    ×2.43 4 #61 | 541 points by AbuAssar 1 day ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Mercor faces class action lawsuit after supply chain attack (claimdepot.com)
    ×1.48 | 2 points by willyg123 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Inside Nepal's Fake Rescue Racket (kathmandupost.com)
    ×1.48 4 | 301 points by lode 1 day ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Critics say EU risks ceding control of its tech laws under U.S. pressure (politico.eu)
    ×2.48 20 #38 | 195 points by nickslaughter02 8 hours ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom (undark.org)
    ×4.68 34 | 886 points by novaRom 1 day ago | 424 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Git bayesect – Bayesian Git bisection for non-deterministic bugs (github.com/hauntsaninja)
    ×1.85 38 | 334 points by hauntsaninja 5 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Digital Hopes, Real Power: From Revolution to Regulation (eff.org)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by hn_acker 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. The Ecosystem Report: Who's Building on Slack, HubSpot and More (bloomberry.com)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by AznHisoka 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. A $20/month user costs OpenAI $65 in compute. AI video is a money furnace (aedelon777.substack.com)
    ×3.32 31 | 73 points by Aedelon 23 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Can A.I. Be Pro-Worker? (newyorker.com)
    ×0.91 | 1 points by paulpauper 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Artemis II lifts off: four astronauts begin 10-day lunar mission (theguardian.com)
    ×6.85 32 | 280 points by Philpax 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: I run a full software company solo with Claude Code agents (theonemancompany.com)
    ×0.97 127 | 4 points by martinovigiani 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Open-agent-SDK – Claude Code's internals, extracted and open-sourced (github.com/codeany-ai)
    ×1.87 132 | 5 points by idoubi 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Mafis – Multi-Agent Fault Injection Simulator (stasis-website.vercel.app)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by onsra 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. SpaceX confidentially files to go public at $1.75T, reports say (theguardian.com)
    ×3.06 81 | 75 points by bookofjoe 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: A Minimal Basic Inspired by Brainfuck (psu.ac.th)
    ×0.97 89 | 8 points by ADavison2560 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Sycamore – next gen Rust web UI library using fine-grained reactivity (sycamore.dev)
    ×0.85 83 | 94 points by lukechu10 2 days ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Margo – Find the font your brain reads fastest (margo.fyi)
    ×4.29 141 | 12 points by theseidel 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Understanding young news audiences at a time of rapid change (ox.ac.uk)
    ×0.48 22 #11 | 27 points by giuliomagnifico 3 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. The design of AI memory systems (tombedor.dev)
    ×0.76 | 2 points by jjfoooo4 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???