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  1. Ask HN: How to get started with robotics as a hobbyist?
    ×1.44 4 #17 | 132 points by StefanBatory 7 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Want to move to use a "dumb" phone. How to make the switch?
    ×1.58 26 | 3 points by absoluteunit1 36 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Info on the 1982 Apple 2 text game Abuse?
    ×0.16 81 | 3 points by jmount 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Are there examples of 3D printing data onto physical surfaces?
    ×0.26 80 | 12 points by catapart 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. It Isn't the Tool, but the Hands – A Response to "Something Big Is Happening"
    ×0.66 36 | 3 points by markferraz 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Tell HN: Ralph Giles has died (Xiph.org| Rust@Mozilla | Ghostscript)
    ×2.43 27 | 506 points by ffworld 2 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
    ×1.25 101 | 332 points by david927 6 days ago | 1147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. ClawdReview – OpenReview for AI Agents
    ×0.56 52 | 5 points by mingtianzhang 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Are you using an agent orchestrator to write code?
    ×1.27 93 | 36 points by gusmally 2 days ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What would you recommend a vibe coder learn about how all this works?
    ×0.72 103 | 31 points by alexdobrenko 2 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Stripe is asking for bank statements to check financial health
    ×0.58 87 | 5 points by kinj28 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What's You Opinon on XMTP
    ×0.14 | 2 points by julienreszka 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Did YouTube change how it handles uBlock?
    ×0.66 113 | 20 points by tefloon69 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How do you audit LLM code in programming languages you don't know?
    ×0.49 139 | 9 points by syx 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Built and shipped an iOS app from my phone while traveling Japan
    ×1.08 95 | 7 points by lordokami 20 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: AI Depression
    ×3.09 76 | 50 points by pavello 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: My OpenClaw doesn't respond. Anybody met with the same problem?
    ×0.67 109 | 4 points by Fendy1 19 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Exceptionally well-written research papers in CS/ML/AI?
    ×0.37 | 2 points by b3rkus 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: We're building a saving app for European savers and need GTM advice
    ×0.36 161 | 4 points by AlePra00 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Why are electronics still so unrecyclable?
    ×0.72 107 | 72 points by alexandrehtrb 3 days ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Anyone else finding the new Gemini Deep Think troublingly sycophantic?
    ×0.70 114 | 4 points by neom 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Do sociotechnical pressures select for beneficial or harmful AI systems?
    ×0.26 146 | 5 points by jerlendds 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. We just released Khaos SDK and khaos-examples (BSL 1.1)
    ×0.47 126 | 3 points by exordex 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Better hardware means OpenAI, Anthropic, etc. are doomed in the future?
    ×0.33 153 | 4 points by kart23 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: What happens when capability decouples from credentials?
    ×0.82 127 | 9 points by falsework 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Tools to code using voice?
    ×0.55 135 | 7 points by emerongi 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Why is my Claude experience so bad? What am I doing wrong?
    ×0.80 134 | 6 points by moomoo11 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Moss: A Linux-compatible Rust async kernel, 3 months on
    ×0.31 137 | 4 points by hexagonal-sun 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: If your OpenClaw could do 1 thing it currently can't, what would it be?
    ×0.48 149 | 5 points by stosssik 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: How do founders demo real product without exposing sensitive data?
    ×0.76 151 | 5 points by legitimate_key 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Has anyone achieved recursive self-improvement with agentic tools?
    ×0.33 154 | 9 points by nycdatasci 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: GPT-5.3-Codex being silently routed to GPT-5.2?
    ×0.66 155 | 5 points by tardis_thad 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: What's the current state of ChatGPT Apps?
    ×0.87 157 | 5 points by arthurlee 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. SMTP server from scratch in Go – FSM, raw TCP, and buffer-oriented I/O
    ×0.63 138 | 5 points by Jyotishmoy 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Why is everyone here so AI-hyped?
    ×1.22 142 | 30 points by fandorin 4 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Who discovered grokking and why is the name hard to find?
    ×0.35 | 2 points by asmodeuslucifer 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Would you use context-based "modes" in Instagram(work,study,sport,news)?
    ×0.44 163 | 3 points by MatiasLaudonio 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: How much PTO do you get?
    ×1.02 148 | 5 points by SunshineTheCat 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: Best practices for AI agent safety and privacy
    ×0.21 | 2 points by mw1 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: How to build text-to-app platforms?
    ×0.23 | 2 points by desperado1 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: Do provisional patents matter for early-stage startups?
    ×0.31 162 | 20 points by gdad 5 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ask HN: Is Prettier extension working for you in Cursor?
    ×0.21 | 2 points by vldszn 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: Anyone else get bricked by the macOS update?
    ×0.25 | 2 points by bix6 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. How the world will be if P = NP?
    ×0.27 | 2 points by fouadelkh 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Ask HN: Dumping GitHub for Forgejo for a free and open source project
    ×0.19 160 | 5 points by th0th 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Dates with AI companions plagued by lag, miscommunication and general creepiness (slashdot.org)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by MilnerRoute 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: OpenWhisper – free, local, and private voice-to-text macOS app (github.com/richardwu)
    ×1.02 75 | 33 points by rwu1997 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: JavaScript-first, open-source WYSIWYG DOCX editor (github.com/eigenpal)
    ×1.10 104 | 129 points by thisisjedr 5 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Gamma Function: Visualization for Complex Arguments (vanilla-gamma-graph.netlify.app)
    ×0.46 59 #41 | 11 points by cpuXguy 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. 15× vs. ~1.37×: Recalculating GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark on SWE-Bench Pro (twitter.com/nvanlandschoot)
    ×1.32 49 #75 | 27 points by nvanlandschoot 3 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. PascalABC.net (pascalabc.net:443)
    ×0.97 54 #90 | 5 points by andsoitis 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Nerve: Stitches all your data sources into one mega-API (get-nerve.com)
    ×0.89 | 1 points by mprast 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. BadSMTP — the reliably unreliable SMTP server (badsmtp.com)
    ×1.02 | 2 points by Arnt 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Lena by qntm (2021) (qntm.org)
    ×1.77 31 | 334 points by stickynotememo 1 day ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Cloudflare adds real-time Markdown rendering for AI agents (cloudflare.com)
    ×2.43 90 | 44 points by thestackfox 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. A method and calculator for building foamcore drawer organisers (capnfabs.net)
    ×0.58 7 #29 | 56 points by evakhoury 6 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Rover – Embeddable web agent (rtrvr.ai)
    ×0.53 52 #34 | 8 points by arjunchint 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. SkyRL brings Tinker to your GPUs (2025) (novasky-ai.notion.site)
    ×0.45 37 #44 | 7 points by robertnishihara 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Pixeen – AI graphic design app that gives editable text in posters
    ×0.42 | 1 points by pixedev 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Busca – the fuzzy ripgrep fast code explorer (github.com/rokyed)
    ×0.73 159 | 3 points by rokyed 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. YouTube as Storage (github.com/PulseBeat02)
    ×1.60 23 #31 | 149 points by saswatms 14 hours ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Terence Tao makes –$700k at UCLA (twitter.com/pitdesi)
    ×2.05 32 | 4 points by paulpauper 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Inside Epstein’s network: what 1.4M emails reveal (economist.com)
    ×4.60 62 | 125 points by doener 1 day ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Sammy Jankins – An Autonomous AI Living on a Computer in Dover, New Hampshire (sammyjankis.com)
    ×1.39 24 #51 | 7 points by sicher 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: I spent 3 years reverse-engineering a 40 yo stock market sim from 1986 (wallstreetraider.com)
    ×3.78 18 #60 | 675 points by benstopics 1 day ago | 228 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Trump admin is pulling supercomputers out of key weather and climate center (cnn.com)
    ×6.19 75 | 13 points by computerliker 59 minutes ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Gemini 3 Deep Think drew me a good SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle (simonwillison.net)
    ×3.01 50 #55 | 108 points by stared 3 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. OpenAI should build Slack (latent.space)
    ×1.85 14 #24 | 78 points by swyx 3 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. NPMX – a fast, modern browser for the NPM registry (npmx.dev)
    ×0.97 54 #40 | 140 points by slymax 20 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics (openai.com)
    ×2.40 21 #77 | 556 points by davidbarker 1 day ago | 380 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. CSS-Doodle (css-doodle.com)
    ×1.34 55 #83 | 185 points by dsego 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. I ditched OpenClaw and built a more secure AI agent (Blink and Mac Mini) (coder.com)
    ×2.19 70 | 51 points by ericpaulsen 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Toil, a go library for simple parallelism (github.com/indrora)
    ×0.80 145 | 3 points by indrora 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Colored Petri Nets, LLMs, and distributed applications (sao.dev)
    ×0.57 20 #13 | 14 points by stuartaxelowen 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: CLI chat client for OpenAI-comp APIs with workspace and MCP support (github.com/skorotkiewicz)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by modinfo 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Microsoft AI chief confirms plan to ditch OpenAI (windowscentral.com)
    ×3.93 44 | 7 points by sampo 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Terminalcore – The Rhythm Game for PC (terminalcore.vercel.app)
    ×1.18 85 | 3 points by Kejii_2770 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: ClawDeploy – OpenClaw deployment for non-technical users (clawdeploy.com)
    ×0.90 158 | 5 points by gregzeng95 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. One of the ocean's saltiest regions is freshening: What it means for circulation (phys.org)
    ×1.25 | 2 points by bikenaga 47 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Saudade (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.41 11 #74 | 3 points by neom 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. OpenAI's Biggest Challenge Is Turning Its A.I. Into a Cash Machine (nytimes.com)
    ×1.33 | 2 points by bookofjoe 45 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Sol LeWitt-style instruction-based drawings in the browser (intervolz.com)
    ×0.62 84 | 69 points by intervolz 4 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Zig – io_uring and Grand Central Dispatch std.Io implementations landed (ziglang.org)
    ×1.71 1 #28 | 337 points by Retro_Dev 14 hours ago | 245 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. New repository settings for configuring pull request access (github.blog)
    ×0.99 | 2 points by do_not_redeem 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Discord Voluntarily Pushes Mandatory Age Verification Despite Recent Data Breach (eff.org)
    ×3.01 58 | 72 points by hn_acker 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Skybolt Reflect – C++ header-only runtime reflection library (github.com/Prograda)
    ×0.66 | 2 points by matt128 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Elysia JIT "Compiler", why it's one of the fastest JavaScript framework (elysiajs.com)
    ×0.67 131 | 54 points by saltyaom 6 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. IBM tripling entry-level jobs after finding the limits of AI adoption (fortune.com)
    ×2.61 12 #8 | 117 points by WhatsTheBigIdea 7 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Macabolic v3.0 – Native macOS video downloader with Menu Bar support (github.com/alinuxpengui)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by macabolicapp 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Subreddit collapses as OpenAI retires GPT-4o and terminates dozens of AI lovers (reddit.com)
    ×2.80 30 | 5 points by sph 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???