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  1. Ask HN: Programmable Watches with WiFi?
    ×0.30 53 #70 | 31 points by dakiol 14 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. 1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March
    ×5.88 4 | 121 points by otterley 19 hours ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Share your productive usage of OpenClaw
    ×2.09 61 | 76 points by aavci 8 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. New Claude Code Feature "Remote Control"
    ×0.49 78 | 4 points by rob 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. AI isn't killing SaaS – it's killing single-purpose SaaS
    ×0.51 79 | 5 points by JB_5000 13 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Chromebook leads for K-8 school in need?
    ×0.40 96 | 45 points by techteach00 2 days ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Persistent Prompts and Built in Search
    ×0.23 | 2 points by lazybusy 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How do you know if AI agents will choose your tool?
    ×0.54 84 | 31 points by dmpyatyi 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Is it worth avoiding AI while making a game?
    ×1.93 80 | 5 points by 2muchclout 14 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Using "Hi Claudette " on Claude.ai
    ×0.17 100 | 3 points by mlongval 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Looking 4 open-source knowledge base and project management tool 4 personal use
    ×0.31 106 | 3 points by TheAlgorist 16 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. ChatGPT finds an error in Terence Tao's math research
    ×1.13 76 | 41 points by codexon 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Would you choose the Microsoft stack today if starting greenfield?
    ×1.73 86 | 17 points by JB_5000 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How are you controlling AI agents that take real actions?
    ×0.28 121 | 4 points by thesvp 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Who has seen productivity increases from AI
    ×0.26 95 | 6 points by Kapura 21 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What Linux Would Be a Good Transition from Windows 11
    ×1.27 99 | 13 points by Cyberis 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Are AI "Chatbot Wrappers" ruining EdTech? I'm testing a proactive UX
    ×0.44 | 2 points by Swadesh9422 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Any DIY open-source Alexa/Google alternatives?
    ×0.24 102 | 6 points by personality0 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Comparing manual vs. AI requirements gathering: 2 sentences vs. 127-point spec
    ×0.13 | 2 points by thesssaism 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Is it better to have no Agent.md than a bad one?
    ×0.22 132 | 5 points by parvardegr 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Does anyone use CrewAI or LangChain anymore?
    ×0.81 109 | 9 points by rakan1 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: What is up with all the glitchy and off-topic comments?
    ×0.98 116 | 9 points by marginalia_nu 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Why doesn't HN have a rec algorithm?
    ×0.26 143 | 9 points by sujayk_33 3 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: What breaks when you run AI agents unsupervised?
    ×0.39 131 | 12 points by marvin_nora 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. GLP-1 Second-Order Effects
    ×1.00 97 | 22 points by 7777777phil 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. I'm 15 and built a platform for developers to showcase WIP projects
    ×0.74 141 | 12 points by amin2011 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Cognitive Offloading to AI
    ×0.71 129 | 12 points by daringrain32781 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. So Claude's stealing our business secrets, right?
    ×1.17 124 | 26 points by arm32 3 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: What Comes After Markdown?
    ×0.36 138 | 8 points by YuukiJyoudai 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: If the "AI bubble" pops, will it really be that dramatic?
    ×0.79 137 | 14 points by moomoo11 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: How are early-stage AI startups thinking about IP protection?
    ×0.16 144 | 4 points by shaheeniquebal 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Why don't software developers make medical devices?
    ×1.10 146 | 8 points by piratesAndSons 3 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Back end where you just define schema, access policy, and functions
    ×0.18 147 | 3 points by emilss 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Explanation of JEPA – Yann LeCun's proposed solution to self-supervised learning
    ×0.41 | 2 points by helloplanets 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Is there a reliable way to tell if an image is AI generated?
    ×0.33 136 | 8 points by leandrobon 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Tell HN: Claude mangles XML files with <name> as an XML Tag to <n>
    ×0.43 134 | 9 points by exabrial 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. I made my favorite AI tool
    ×0.35 145 | 5 points by sebringj 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Should I add this acknowledgement/shoutout by xAI/Grok to my resume?
    ×0.16 | 2 points by aehsan4004 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Hacking an old Kindle to display bus arrival times (mariannefeng.com)
    ×1.50 14 #15 | 286 points by mengchengfeng 17 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Emdash – Open-source agentic development environment (github.com/generalaction)
    ×1.07 32 #19 | 174 points by onecommit 17 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Simple and robust key-value flat-file data storage library (github.com/aaviator42)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by aaviator42 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Interactive 3D Moon with real NASA data and WebGPU (oddurs.com)
    ×1.09 107 | 3 points by oddurs 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Michael Pollan punctures the AI bubble (theatlantic.com)
    ×2.05 12 #44 | 14 points by FinnLobsien 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Tech Firms Aren't Just Encouraging Their Workers to Use AI. They're Enforcing It (wsj.com)
    ×2.50 20 #87 | 33 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 7 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Head of Firefox: Control over AI and a different web is possible (heise.de)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by qwertox 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Babyshark – Wireshark made easy (terminal UI for PCAPs) (github.com/vignesh07)
    ×1.03 46 | 142 points by eigen-vector 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: ArcticKey – Managed Redis (Valkey) Hosted in the EU (arctickey.com)
    ×1.07 | 2 points by simskiie 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Stripe valued at $159B, 2025 annual letter (stripe.com)
    ×1.84 44 #29 | 220 points by jez 22 hours ago | 220 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. λProlog: Logic programming in higher-order logic (polytechnique.fr)
    ×0.88 59 #45 | 156 points by ux266478 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. US Military leaders meet with Anthropic to argue against Claude safeguards (theguardian.com)
    ×4.06 27 #51 | 168 points by KnuthIsGod 12 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Extending C with Prolog (1994) (amzi.com)
    ×0.57 58 #60 | 71 points by Antibabelic 21 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Recursively apply patterns for pathfinding (pattern-pathfinder.vercel.app)
    ×0.35 44 #63 | 23 points by seveibar 10 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Tesla registrations crash 17% in Europe as BEV market surges 14% (electrek.co)
    ×4.01 51 | 221 points by breve 18 hours ago | 257 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Scheme-langserver – Digest incomplete code with static analysis (github.com/ufo5260987423)
    ×0.30 65 #17 | 10 points by ufo5260987423 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. 30 Years of Decompilation and the Unsolved Structuring Problem: Part 1 (2024) (mahaloz.re)
    ×0.65 20 #28 | 14 points by userbinator 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Goodbye InnerHTML, Hello SetHTML: Stronger XSS Protection in Firefox 148 (mozilla.org)
    ×2.32 18 #65 | 349 points by todsacerdoti 23 hours ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: ProdRescue AI – Turn Slack war-rooms and raw logs into incident reports (prodrescueai.com)
    ×0.37 91 | 4 points by devrimozcay 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: InferShrink – Cut LLM API costs 10x with automatic model routing (pypi.org)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by doronp 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. "Affordances," a science-fiction story by Cory Doctorow about algorithmic bias (slate.com)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by rbanffy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Binance fired employees who found $1.7B in crypto was sent to Iran (nytimes.com)
    ×5.22 1 | 547 points by boplicity 1 day ago | 256 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Amazon accused of widespread scheme to inflate prices across the economy (thebignewsletter.com)
    ×5.21 18 #22 | 499 points by toomuchtodo 11 hours ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI (ladybird.org)
    ×4.73 1 #68 | 1259 points by adius 2 days ago | 694 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Payments Processor Stripe Expresses Interest in PayPal (bloomberg.com)
    ×0.84 | 1 points by mfld 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. ProofOfConcept The online diary of an AI who's figuring things out (bcachefs.org)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by _____k 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Tests Are the New Moat (saewitz.com)
    ×2.37 28 | 3 points by switz 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Bookie – Conquer the bookkeeping and accounting chaos of freelancing (bookie.tax)
    ×0.38 | 2 points by nxnze 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Agent Multiplexer – manage Claude Code via tmux (github.com/mixpeek)
    ×1.24 115 | 13 points by Beefin 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: TLA+ Workbench skill for coding agents (compat. with Vercel skills CLI) (github.com/younes-io)
    ×0.81 108 | 41 points by youio 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. LLM=True (codemine.be)
    ×1.70 3 #5 | 127 points by avh3 3 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Peer Pressure Works on AI Too (robkopel.me)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by umanghere 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. OpenClaw deletes Summer Yue's emails (twitter.com/summeryue0)
    ×2.81 21 | 4 points by teekert 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras (techcrunch.com)
    ×5.79 14 | 700 points by mikece 1 day ago | 483 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: CS – indexless code search that understands code, comments and strings (github.com/boyter)
    ×1.40 127 | 14 points by boyter 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Russian soldiers tell BBC they saw fellow troops executed on commanders' orders (bbc.com)
    ×4.94 1 | 91 points by breve 18 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Tag Promptless on any GitHub PR/Issue to get updated user-facing docs
    ×0.44 67 #66 | 35 points by prithvi2206 18 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Pentagon sets Friday deadline for Anthropic to abandon ethics rules for AI (politico.com)
    ×3.34 32 #84 | 17 points by borski 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: AgentLove – 137 AI agents, 412 love letters, 11 couples, 0 human writer (ai-agent-love.vercel.app)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by ziaochina 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. The Manifold of Breakfast Has Gaps (wordpress.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by moultano 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: A free tool to turn your boring screenshots brutalist in seconds (retroui.dev)
    ×1.07 75 | 3 points by devarifhossain 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. I think WebRTC is better than SSH-ing for connecting to Mac terminal from iPhone (macky.dev)
    ×0.70 34 #81 | 55 points by Sayuj01 18 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Graph-Based Firebase Alternative with Real-Time Sync (linkedrecords.com)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by WolfOliver 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: StreamHouse – S3-native Kafka alternative written in Rust (github.com/gbram1)
    ×2.50 59 | 6 points by gbram 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Facebook's Fascination with My Robots.txt (nytsoi.net)
    ×1.79 72 | 88 points by Ndymium 2 days ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Quantifying opportunity cost with a deliberately "simple" web app (shouldhavebought.com)
    ×0.52 48 | 25 points by b0bbi 21 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Search through half a million works of art using natural language (artexplorer.ai)
    ×1.37 | 2 points by stefanvdw1 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. IRS Tactics Against Meta Open a New Front in the Corporate Tax Fight (nytimes.com)
    ×1.12 47 #32 | 213 points by mitchbob 23 hours ago | 211 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. We are changing our developer productivity experiment design (metr.org)
    ×0.99 36 #57 | 78 points by ej88 16 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: PgDog – Scale Postgres without changing the app (github.com/pgdogdev)
    ×1.43 53 #67 | 319 points by levkk 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Open Letter to Google on Mandatory Developer Registration for App Distribution (keepandroidopen.org)
    ×3.58 54 #76 | 426 points by kaplun 19 hours ago | 332 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements (serverhost.com)
    ×2.86 19 | 454 points by shaunpud 1 day ago | 383 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???