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  1. Ask HN: Anyone Using a Mac Studio for Local AI/LLM?
    ×0.43 65 | 50 points by UmYeahNo 2 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Ideas for small ways to make the world a better place
    ×0.74 61 | 23 points by jlmcgraw 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Opus 4.6 ignoring instructions, how to use 4.5 in Claude Code instead?
    ×0.12 70 | 3 points by Chance-Device 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)
    ×0.77 84 | 140 points by whoishiring 5 days ago | 528 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Non AI-obsessed tech forums
    ×1.28 48 | 35 points by nanocat 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: 10 months since the Llama-4 release: what happened to Meta AI?
    ×0.80 64 | 45 points by Invictus0 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)
    ×1.24 69 | 314 points by whoishiring 5 days ago | 515 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. LLMs are powerful, but enterprises are deterministic by nature
    ×0.30 76 | 5 points by prateekdalal 21 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Tell HN: Another round of Zendesk email spam
    ×0.94 68 | 105 points by Philpax 3 days ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. AI Regex Scientist: A self-improving regex solver
    ×0.38 92 | 7 points by PranoyP 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Is Connecting via SSH Risky?
    ×0.50 101 | 19 points by atrevbot 3 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Has your whole engineering team gone big into AI coding? How's it going?
    ×0.79 100 | 18 points by jchung 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Non-profit, volunteers run org needs CRM. Is Odoo Community a good sol.?
    ×0.38 106 | 3 points by netfortius 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Is it just me or are most businesses insane?
    ×1.48 107 | 9 points by justenough 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Is there anyone here who still uses slide rules?
    ×1.16 78 | 123 points by blenderob 4 days ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Kernighan on Programming
    ×1.78 80 | 171 points by chrisjj 5 days ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Mem0 stores memories, but doesn't learn user patterns
    ×0.35 123 | 9 points by fliellerjulian 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How does ChatGPT decide which websites to recommend?
    ×0.51 120 | 5 points by nworley 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Why LLM providers sell access instead of consulting services?
    ×0.29 109 | 5 points by pera 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What is the most complicated Algorithm you came up with yourself?
    ×0.24 125 | 3 points by meffmadd 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Does a good "read it later" app exist?
    ×0.54 139 | 8 points by buchanae 4 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Have you been fired because of AI?
    ×1.35 129 | 17 points by s-stude 5 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. We built a serverless GPU inference platform with predictable latency
    ×0.35 135 | 5 points by QubridAI 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Anyone Seeing YT ads related to chats on ChatGPT?
    ×0.09 | 2 points by guhsnamih 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Anyone have a "sovereign" solution for phone calls?
    ×0.76 134 | 12 points by kldg 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Does global decoupling from the USA signal comeback of the desktop app?
    ×0.34 119 | 5 points by wewewedxfgdf 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Cheap laptop for Linux without GUI (for writing)
    ×0.77 122 | 15 points by locusofself 4 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. GitHub Actions Have "Major Outage"
    ×2.16 105 | 53 points by graton 5 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Has anybody moved their local community off of Facebook groups?
    ×0.84 130 | 23 points by madsohm 5 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: OpenClaw users, what is your token spend?
    ×0.83 132 | 15 points by 8cvor6j844qw_d6 5 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: How Did You Validate?
    ×0.09 133 | 4 points by haute_cuisine 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: What weird or scrappy things did you do to get your first users?
    ×0.85 138 | 13 points by preston-kwei 5 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Test management tools for automation heavy teams
    ×0.17 | 2 points by Divyakurian 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Why do people still talk about AGI?
    ×1.14 116 | 42 points by cermicelli 6 days ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Any International Job Boards for International Workers?
    ×0.47 | 2 points by 15charslong 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Claude Opus 4.6 (anthropic.com)
    ×8.20 11 #49 | 2314 points by HellsMaddy 2 days ago | 1011 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Are there anyone interested about a creator economy startup
    ×0.55 | 1 points by Nejana 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Big Tech's AI Push Is Costing More Than the Moon Landing (wsj.com)
    ×2.62 2 | 46 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 19 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: MCP App to play backgammon with your LLM (github.com/sam-mfb)
    ×1.04 82 | 3 points by sam256 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Morph – Videos of AI testing your PR, embedded in GitHub (morphllm.com)
    ×0.43 94 | 34 points by bhaktatejas922 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Beam – Terminal Organizer for macOS (getbeam.dev)
    ×0.66 | 2 points by faalbane 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. FORTH? Really!? (rescrv.net)
    ×0.89 45 #71 | 76 points by rescrv 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Reverse-Engineering Raiders of the Lost Ark for the Atari 2600 (github.com/joshuanwalker)
    ×1.04 31 #72 | 16 points by todsacerdoti 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. The rocky 1960s origins of online dating (2025) (bbc.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by 1659447091 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Tell HN: I'm a PM at a big system of record SaaS. We're cooked
    ×8.16 14 | 102 points by throwawaypm123 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. How virtual textures work (shlom.dev)
    ×0.67 42 | 45 points by betamark 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: An AI-Powered President Simulator (feedscription.com)
    ×1.57 111 | 14 points by tzhu1997 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. France's homegrown open source online office suite (github.com/suitenumerique)
    ×4.86 38 #47 | 719 points by nar001 17 hours ago | 302 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Nvidia CEO Says AI Capital Spending Is Appropriate, Sustainable (bloomberg.com)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by virgildotcodes 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Actors with Tokio (2021) (ryhl.io)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by vinhnx 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years (bbc.com)
    ×3.01 69 | 198 points by bookofjoe 15 hours ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. macOS No Longer Ships with Emacs (batsov.com)
    ×2.00 44 | 57 points by tosh 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Witnessd – Prove human authorship via hardware-bound jitter seals (github.com/writerslogic)
    ×1.56 | 2 points by davidcondrey 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: BPU – Reliable ESP32 Serial Streaming with Cobs and CRC (github.com/choihimchan)
    ×0.66 | 2 points by octablock 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Was Benoit Mandelbrot a hedgehog or a fox? (arxiv.org)
    ×0.70 36 #82 | 37 points by bikenaga 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Roger Ebert Reviews "The Shawshank Redemption" (rogerebert.com)
    ×1.33 | 2 points by monero-xmr 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Axiomeer – An open marketplace for AI agents (github.com/ujjwalredd)
    ×0.47 8 | 12 points by ujjwalreddyks 5 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. HRL Labs in Malibu laying off 1/3 of their workforce (dailynews.com)
    ×3.29 22 | 6 points by osnium123 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. IBM Beam Spring: The Ultimate Retro Keyboard (rs-online.com)
    ×1.30 11 #57 | 21 points by rbanffy 6 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Zram as Swap (archlinux.org)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by seansh 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: R3forth, a ColorForth-inspired language with a tiny VM (github.com/phreda4)
    ×0.79 40 #69 | 87 points by phreda4 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Aisbf – an intelligent routing proxy for OpenAI compatible clients (pypi.org)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by nextime 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. ShowHN: Make OpenClaw respond in Scarlett Johansson’s AI Voice from the Film Her (twitter.com/sathish316)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by sathish316 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Seedance 2.0 – The Most Powerful AI Video Generator (seedance.ai)
    ×0.86 | 2 points by bigbromaker 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Weatherman introduces fruit-based authentication system to combat deep fakes (youtube.com)
    ×1.57 4 | 3 points by savrajsingh 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Substack confirms data breach affects users’ email addresses and phone numbers (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.54 8 #15 | 31 points by witnessme 2 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Look Ma, No Linux: Shell, App Installer, Vi, Cc on ESP32-S3 / BreezyBox (github.com/valdanylchuk)
    ×1.56 31 #29 | 304 points by isitcontent 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: More beautiful and usable Hacker News (twitter.com/shivamhwp)
    ×2.57 16 | 4 points by shivamhwp 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Evolution of car door handles over the decades (newatlas.com)
    ×0.61 51 #87 | 52 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Crypto Deposit Frauds
    ×1.26 | 2 points by wwdesouza 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Effects of Zepbound on Stool Quality (twitter.com/ScottHickle)
    ×1.73 9 | 3 points by aloukissas 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Wall Street just lost $285B because of 13 Markdown files (martinalderson.com)
    ×2.77 45 | 61 points by nomdep 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Masked namespace vulnerability in Temporal (depthfirst.com)
    ×0.55 53 | 32 points by bmit 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: ARM64 Android Dev Kit (github.com/denuoweb)
    ×0.50 54 | 18 points by denuoweb 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Haskell for all: Beyond agentic coding (haskellforall.com)
    ×1.58 5 #3 | 80 points by RebelPotato 5 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Stay Away from My Trash (tldraw.dev)
    ×1.42 36 #75 | 189 points by EvgeniyZh 2 days ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Local task classifier and dispatcher on RTX 3080 (github.com/resilientworkflowsentinel)
    ×0.35 79 | 25 points by Shubham_Amb 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: 33rpm – A vinyl screensaver for macOS that syncs to your music (noonpacific.com)
    ×1.27 113 | 3 points by kaniksu 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Turn Claude Code/OpenClaw into Your Local Lovart – AI Design MCP Server (github.com/jau123)
    ×0.85 | 1 points by jaujaujau 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Kessler Syndrome Has Started [video] (tiktok.com)
    ×1.07 | 2 points by pbradv 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB) (safe-now.live)
    ×1.48 73 | 194 points by tinuviel 4 days ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Sem – Semantic diffs and patches for Git (ataraxy-labs.github.io)
    ×0.71 104 | 3 points by rs545837 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Stories from 25 Years of Software Development (susam.net)
    ×1.39 21 #12 | 176 points by vinhnx 16 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer? (eljojo.github.io)
    ×2.40 26 #32 | 374 points by eljojo 1 day ago | 218 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Pony Alpha: New free 200K context model for coding, reasoning and roleplay (ponyalpha.pro)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by qzcanoe 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. StrongDM's AI team build serious software without even looking at the code (simonwillison.net)
    ×2.44 11 | 41 points by simonw 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: GitHub Browser Plugin for AI Contribution Blame in Pull Requests (rbby.dev)
    ×0.36 96 | 62 points by rbbydotdev 4 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Which chef knife steels are good? Data from 540 Reddit tread (knife.day)
    ×1.19 | 2 points by p-s-v 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation (github.com/gavrielc)
    ×2.70 63 | 527 points by jimminyx 6 days ago | 224 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. How to effectively write quality code with AI (heidenstedt.org)
    ×2.35 16 #48 | 334 points by i5heu 1 day ago | 291 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???