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  1. Tell HN: Ralph Giles has died (Xiph.org| Rust@Mozilla | Ghostscript)
    ×2.53 8 #10 | 143 points by ffworld 8 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What would you recommend a vibe coder learn about how all this works?
    ×1.32 67 #59 | 10 points by alexdobrenko 9 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Better hardware means OpenAI, Anthropic, etc. are doomed in the future?
    ×0.74 21 | 3 points by kart23 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Do sociotechnical pressures select for beneficial or harmful AI systems?
    ×0.15 34 #83 | 3 points by jerlendds 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Did YouTube change how it handles uBlock?
    ×0.67 46 #84 | 11 points by tefloon69 11 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What happens when capability decouples from credentials?
    ×0.75 5 #88 | 5 points by falsework 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Tools to code using voice?
    ×0.74 4 #90 | 5 points by emerongi 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
    ×1.24 73 | 327 points by david927 4 days ago | 1120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How do you audit LLM code in programming languages you don't know?
    ×0.66 72 | 5 points by syx 13 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: We're building a saving app for European savers and need GTM advice
    ×0.44 | 2 points by AlePra00 10 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: If your OpenClaw could do 1 thing it currently can't, what would it be?
    ×0.69 52 | 5 points by stosssik 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: How do founders demo real product without exposing sensitive data?
    ×1.36 66 | 4 points by legitimate_key 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: How do you "step through" your own anxiety?
    ×1.94 55 | 5 points by schneak 9 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Would you use context-based "modes" in Instagram(work,study,sport,news)?
    ×0.94 67 | 3 points by MatiasLaudonio 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How much PTO do you get?
    ×0.44 | 2 points by SunshineTheCat 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Are you using an agent orchestrator to write code?
    ×1.18 48 | 26 points by gusmally 12 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Best practices for AI agent safety and privacy
    ×0.41 | 2 points by mw1 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How to build text-to-app platforms?
    ×0.46 | 2 points by desperado1 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Why are electronics still so unrecyclable?
    ×0.73 61 | 70 points by alexandrehtrb 1 day ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: GPT-5.3-Codex being silently routed to GPT-5.2?
    ×1.00 71 | 4 points by tardis_thad 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: What's the current state of ChatGPT Apps?
    ×0.77 90 | 3 points by arthurlee 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Is Prettier extension working for you in Cursor?
    ×0.36 | 2 points by vldszn 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Has anyone achieved recursive self-improvement with agentic tools?
    ×0.31 103 | 8 points by nycdatasci 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Anyone else get bricked by the macOS update?
    ×0.45 | 2 points by bix6 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Dumping GitHub for Forgejo for a free and open source project
    ×0.16 97 | 4 points by th0th 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Tell HN: GPT-5.3-codex is now available in the API
    ×0.41 95 | 3 points by bigwheels 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Why is everyone here so AI-hyped?
    ×1.27 108 | 29 points by fandorin 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Does OpenClaw need a re-architecture to be usable?
    ×0.17 125 | 4 points by xinbenlv 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Do provisional patents matter for early-stage startups?
    ×0.32 131 | 20 points by gdad 3 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. HN needs a context reminder in the URL window
    ×0.77 132 | 4 points by newsoftheday 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Mass Resignation from xAI
    ×0.82 101 | 19 points by hargup 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: How do you deal with long Covid?
    ×0.39 116 | 4 points by manx 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: What do you want people to build?
    ×0.42 137 | 7 points by billsunshine 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. OrthoRay – A native, lightweight DICOM viewer written in Rust/wgpu by a surgeon
    ×0.25 138 | 8 points by DrMeric 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. GPT-5 outperforms federal judges in legal reasoning experiment (ssrn.com)
    ×2.62 13 | 301 points by droidjj 1 day ago | 230 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years (thehill.com)
    ×7.13 44 | 108 points by hypeatei 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. LLM Reasoning Failures (arxiv.org)
    ×0.37 | 1 points by gradus_ad 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Private-equity barons have a giant AI problem (economist.com)
    ×0.38 | 1 points by petethomas 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Waymo Paying DoorDash Drivers to Shut Open Robotaxi Doors (bloomberg.com)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by helsinkiandrew 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Three Inverse Laws of AI and Robotics (susam.net)
    ×2.24 27 | 4 points by susam 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: HN Companion – web app that enhances the experience of reading HN (hncompanion.com)
    ×0.94 111 | 30 points by georgeck 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. A Claude Code skill that gives the AI a "therapy session" when it gets stuck (github.com/zeahoo)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by ekaesmem 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. The-Complete-Guide-to-Building-Skill-for-Claude (anthropic.com)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by handfuloflight 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: BetterDB – Valkey/Redis monitoring that persists what servers forget
    ×0.66 106 | 3 points by kaliades 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark (openai.com)
    ×2.33 6 #2 | 680 points by meetpateltech 13 hours ago | 280 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Rtk CLI Proxy (github.com/rtk-ai)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by handfuloflight 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. First Vibecoded AI Operating System (github.com/viralcode)
    ×1.67 14 | 3 points by amichail 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Information: Kynaston L. McShine, 2019 (moma.org)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by rhamonrye 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. I built a passive radar system in my kitchen (reddit.com)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by muttled 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: I taught GPT-OSS-120B to see using Google Lens and OpenCV
    ×0.64 86 | 42 points by vkaufmann 2 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Claude Code is being dumbed down? (symmetrybreak.ing)
    ×5.40 36 #75 | 1052 points by WXLCKNO 1 day ago | 678 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. File shareing going viral due to fast, free and no login friction. Try it now (styloshare.com)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by stylofront 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: CodeMic (codemic.io)
    ×0.58 76 | 52 points by seansh 4 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Ported the 1999 game Bugdom to the browser and added a bunch of mods (reallyeli.com)
    ×0.86 133 | 22 points by reallyeli 4 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Elon Musk's Sci-Fi Hyperloop Failed (washingtonian.com)
    ×1.39 16 | 3 points by _delirium 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. TikTok is tracking you, even if you don't use the app (bbc.com)
    ×2.50 42 | 152 points by belter 17 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. GLaDOS mocks your coding errors in Claude Code (github.com/6m1w)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by lineudemonia 42 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Chrome extensions spying on users' browsing data (qcontinuum.substack.com)
    ×3.05 1 | 463 points by qcontinuum1 1 day ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. How to make a living as an artist (fnnch.com)
    ×1.70 18 #55 | 251 points by gwintrob 1 day ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Call for Founders (twinlabs.notion.site)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by gregherbelux 23 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. America's Cyber Defense Agency Is Burning Down and Nobody's Coming to Put It Out (threathunter.ai)
    ×4.75 36 | 164 points by bourbonsec 19 hours ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Inside Epstein’s network: what 1.4M emails reveal (economist.com)
    ×3.99 75 | 92 points by doener 6 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: ClawDeploy – OpenClaw deployment for non-technical users (clawdeploy.com)
    ×1.02 82 | 5 points by gregzeng95 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: I built a macOS tool for network engineers – it's called NetViews (netviews.app)
    ×1.38 54 | 239 points by n1sni 3 days ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Sol LeWitt-style instruction-based drawings in the browser (intervolz.com)
    ×0.67 5 #25 | 52 points by intervolz 6 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. I Wrote a Scheme in 2025 (maplant.com)
    ×1.24 16 #45 | 131 points by maplant 17 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Why governments insist on CBDCs or stablecoins when most people don't want them (nakedcapitalism.com)
    ×1.98 1 | 4 points by iamnothere 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Railway (PaaS) global outage (railway.com)
    ×1.06 53 | 85 points by TealMyEal 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: FrankenTUI in the Browser (frankentui.com)
    ×2.45 92 | 7 points by eigenvalue 22 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Browse Internet Infrastructure (wirewiki.com)
    ×0.92 96 | 109 points by pul 3 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Recoverable and Irrecoverable Decisions (herbertlui.net)
    ×0.78 16 #24 | 54 points by herbertl 8 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. The Void (github.com/nostalgebraist)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by stickynotememo 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Algorithmically finding the longest line of sight on Earth (alltheviews.world)
    ×1.98 63 | 407 points by tombh 3 days ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Formally equivalent math frameworks fail differently on real data (zenodo.org)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by CreativeLabsRo 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. AI-First Company Memos (the-ai-native.company)
    ×1.61 40 | 129 points by bobismyuncle 1 day ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Generate Web Interfaces from Data (github.com/puffinsoft)
    ×0.48 32 #53 | 32 points by Goose78 11 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Mamdani Hires Lisa Gelobter as Chief Tech Officer (nytimes.com)
    ×2.97 60 | 71 points by leephillips 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Welcome to the Eternal September of open source. What we'll do for maintainers (github.blog)
    ×1.48 | 2 points by Kerrick 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. A polymerase ribozyme that can synthesize itself (biorxiv.org)
    ×2.22 22 | 4 points by eq_ind 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Stop Reading Newsletters on Screens – Print Them Automatically (autoprint.email)
    ×1.03 | 2 points by kelonye 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Built a skill that hugs my agents (hugllm.com)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by zeahoo 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Why vampires live forever (machielreyneke.com)
    ×3.24 5 | 390 points by machielrey 1 day ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Q&A: New UK onshore wind and solar is '50% cheaper' than new gas (carbonbrief.org)
    ×1.53 47 | 82 points by DamonHD 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Mapping the Moon: The Apollo Transforming Printer (loc.gov)
    ×0.44 28 #28 | 12 points by bryanrasmussen 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Personal AI Infrastructure (github.com/danielmiessler)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by anhldbk 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Who discovered grokking and why is the name hard to find?
    ×0.46 | 1 points by asmodeuslucifer 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Got VACE working in real-time – 30fps on a 5090 (daydream.live)
    ×2.41 68 | 10 points by cmuir 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: BlockHost OS – Autonomous VM provisioning through smart contracts (github.com/mwaddip)
    ×1.01 113 | 3 points by mwaddip 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. An AI agent published a hit piece on me (theshamblog.com)
    ×6.60 8 #9 | 1687 points by scottshambaugh 15 hours ago | 697 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Discord just killed anonymity (michael-dev-tech.github.io)
    ×2.72 34 #58 | 131 points by f0r3st 9 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???