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  1. Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?
    ×2.25 22 #40 | 283 points by misterchocolat 15 hours ago | 333 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Who is your favourite Entrepreneur/Visionary?
    ×0.91 7 #76 | 7 points by wasimsk 3 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Tell HN: Fiverr left customer files public and searchable
    ×4.87 34 | 809 points by morpheuskafka 1 day ago | 229 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: SeedLegals Partnerships in London, worth it?
    ×0.28 | 2 points by pain_perdu 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How to highlight talent from untraditional backgrounds?
    ×0.68 50 | 4 points by etherus 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Durable Object alarm loop: $34k in 8 days, zero users, no platform warning
    ×2.61 37 | 13 points by thewillmoss 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How do you find motivation to do stuff?
    ×0.80 69 | 17 points by RockstarSprain 19 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)
    ×1.44 74 | 341 points by david927 3 days ago | 1155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block
    ×5.02 39 | 1141 points by littlecranky67 3 days ago | 420 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Any engineers here with experience of clinical data standards?
    ×0.13 | 2 points by kalturnbull 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allows you to fix to specific model version
    ×0.83 76 | 21 points by baobabKoodaa 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: As an Australian, is it possible to get a remote US role?
    ×0.40 114 | 4 points by apatheticonion 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. GitHub gave webhook secrets away in webhook call
    ×0.74 100 | 11 points by time4tea 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Tell HN: OpenAI silently removed Study Mode from ChatGPT
    ×1.55 85 | 186 points by smokel 3 days ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Is Claude Getting Worse?
    ×1.14 94 | 6 points by sahli 22 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Robotics engineers – how painful was setting up GPU sim infra?
    ×0.35 113 | 4 points by nikhilol 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Easiest UX for Seniors
    ×1.18 67 | 57 points by khoury 5 days ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Can anyone suggest me a SaaS product idea?
    ×0.43 119 | 4 points by wasimsk 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What's the point in creating a startup when anyone can copy it in days?
    ×1.66 83 | 15 points by wewewedxfgdf 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: I quit my job over weaponized robots to start my own venture
    ×2.75 64 | 115 points by barratia 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. What do you want out of a coding monospace font?
    ×0.27 | 2 points by d0able 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: LeetCode, anyone still doing it?
    ×1.15 110 | 14 points by kwar13 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Are Web Agencies Cooked?
    ×0.73 104 | 10 points by mijustin 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: What's your favorite security cam system?
    ×0.27 134 | 4 points by SunshineTheCat 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: What standards or protocols exist for AI Agent permissions
    ×0.12 | 2 points by lyfeninja 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Tell HN: GitHub might have been leaking your webhook secrets. Check your emails.
    ×3.48 84 | 36 points by ssiddharth 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. PersMEM: Persistent Semantic Memory and Multi-Instance Communication for AI
    ×0.32 145 | 3 points by asixicle 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Are you negatively affected by the recent economic stagnation?
    ×0.67 143 | 8 points by adinhitlore 3 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Can't view public pull requests without logging in (GitHub)
    ×0.62 93 | 5 points by alskdj21 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Why most AI projects feel useless
    ×0.56 138 | 8 points by vaishcodescape 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Claude Code OAuth down for >12 hours
    ×0.41 122 | 8 points by pixel_popping 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Technical SEO vs. content optimization: which one moves rankings?
    ×0.34 144 | 4 points by zensorsolutions 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: What should I do with my app? 130 downloads 3 real subscribers
    ×0.43 155 | 7 points by oyaa52 4 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Do you trust AI agents with API keys / private keys?
    ×0.48 141 | 17 points by devendra116 4 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Anyone using Nostr as a lightweight back end/DB for rapid prototyping?
    ×0.27 158 | 6 points by wasimsk 4 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Claude Is Down
    ×2.50 82 | 9 points by mercurialsolo 19 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Themery – A theme engine that compiles one palette to every major IDE (themery.dev)
    ×1.42 65 | 4 points by Tiagopeter 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: A memory database that forgets, consolidates, and detects contradiction (github.com/yantrikos)
    ×0.94 79 | 47 points by pranabsarkar 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. North American English Dialects (aschmann.net)
    ×0.91 27 #17 | 35 points by skogstokig 7 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Breathing Exercises to Relieve Stress (bhf.org.uk)
    ×1.30 1 #80 | 4 points by thunderbong 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: How do you go from a stack trace to a GitHub issue?
    ×0.55 | 1 points by coolbat 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Shares in shoe brand Allbirds rise 580% after it pivots from footwear to AI (bbc.com)
    ×1.78 16 | 4 points by tcp_handshaker 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Rewriting a 20-year-old Python library (b-list.org)
    ×0.43 14 #51 | 15 points by PaulHoule 5 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. YouTube finally gives you a way to kill Shorts (androidpolice.com)
    ×1.41 | 2 points by thm 53 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Claude Mythos and the EU Cyber Resilience Act (andrew-quinn.me)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by hiAndrewQuinn 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Pseudonymizing sensitive data for LLMs without losing context (atticsecurity.com)
    ×0.15 101 | 4 points by n00pn00p 22 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: OpenRig – agent harness that runs Claude Code and Codex as one system (github.com/mvschwarz)
    ×1.97 112 | 6 points by mschwarz 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Not all elementary functions can be expressed with exp-minus-log (stylewarning.com)
    ×1.25 52 #69 | 142 points by mmastrac 1 day ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Stop Flock (stopflock.com)
    ×5.74 34 #75 | 957 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 291 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Pushduck – S3 uploads that run on Cloudflare Workers, no AWS SDK
    ×1.19 115 | 12 points by abhay_ramesh 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. ChatGPT for Excel (chatgpt.com)
    ×1.89 6 #13 | 215 points by armcat 13 hours ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Do you even need a database? (dbpro.app)
    ×1.62 28 #31 | 240 points by upmostly 22 hours ago | 268 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. YouTube users get option to set their Shorts time limit to zero minutes (theverge.com)
    ×4.02 34 #42 | 285 points by pentagrama 11 hours ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Want to write a compiler? Just read these two papers (2008) (dadgum.com)
    ×2.17 11 #47 | 489 points by downbad_ 1 day ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Farchive – SQLite-backed history-preserving compressed archive (github.com/eliask)
    ×1.69 147 | 6 points by ekns 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. The Inter-War Campaign (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by nashashmi 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Slop is text you haven't read, not text you haven't written (dwyer.co.za)
    ×2.83 65 | 4 points by sixhobbits 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Parents Decide Act introduces mandatory OS-level age verification (congress.gov)
    ×1.27 | 2 points by fokdelafons 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Kintify Cloud Built something to make cloud debugging less painful
    ×0.54 | 1 points by kintify 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Cybersecurity looks like proof of work now (dbreunig.com)
    ×2.10 7 #4 | 436 points by dbreunig 15 hours ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. US v. Heppner (S.D.N.Y. 2026) no attorney-client privilege for AI chats [pdf] (thomsonreuters.com)
    ×1.59 60 #23 | 139 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 20 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Agent - Native Mac OS X coding ide/harness (github.com/macOS26)
    ×1.13 32 #26 | 54 points by jv22222 10 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Study: Back-to-basics approach can match or outperform AI in language analysis (manchester.ac.uk)
    ×0.71 64 #67 | 53 points by giuliomagnifico 22 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Avoiding Malloc for Small Strings in C with Variable Length Arrays (VLAs) (medium.com)
    ×1.11 | 2 points by yairlenga 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Farmer arrested for speaking too long at datacenter town hall vows to fight (404media.co)
    ×4.22 18 | 82 points by sudonanohome 15 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: A Claude Code–driven tutor for learning algorithms in Go (github.com/zuzuleinen)
    ×1.81 124 | 5 points by zuzuleinen 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Object Storage Comparisons (mixpeek.com)
    ×1.66 63 #84 | 6 points by Beefin 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Musk Asks Suppliers to Move at 'Light Speed' on 'Terafab' Chipmaking Plan (bloomberg.com)
    ×0.91 | 1 points by ForHackernews 4 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Using Claude Code: session management and 1M context (claude.com)
    ×2.15 49 | 3 points by cebert 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Computer Science Unplugged (csunplugged.org)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by lambertsimnel 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS (boringbar.app)
    ×2.23 59 | 517 points by a-ve 3 days ago | 298 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Open Source Isn't Dead (strix.ai)
    ×2.29 16 #46 | 330 points by bearsyankees 19 hours ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Open Finance Insurance sandbox (OAuth2, quotes → policies) (github.com/Rp12)
    ×0.97 | 2 points by Renjit 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. IPv6 GitHub Proxy (gh-v6.com)
    ×1.19 | 2 points by Alifatisk 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. NimConf 2026: Dates Announced, Registrations Open (nim-lang.org)
    ×0.86 68 | 106 points by moigagoo 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: MōBrowser, a TypeScript-first desktop app framework with typed IPC (teamdev.com)
    ×1.80 121 | 6 points by Ikryanov 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. SDL bans AI-written commits (github.com/libsdl-org)
    ×2.70 46 | 4 points by davikr 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. For the first time in the U.S., renewables generate more power than natural gas (yale.edu)
    ×3.19 48 | 164 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Waffle – Native macOS terminal that auto-tiles sessions into a grid (waffle.baby)
    ×1.84 125 | 40 points by olleeolleeollee 4 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Gave Claude a casino bankroll – it gambles till it's too broke to think (letaigamble.com)
    ×1.84 58 #50 | 19 points by mackbrowne 9 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Florida surgeon charged with killing man after removing liver instead of spleen (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.82 18 #58 | 42 points by canucker2016 7 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. The Decoder Ring Game (mountaineagle.net)
    ×0.84 | 1 points by uswn 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. I built a voice AI wearable inside a Casio F91W (nRF52840 and Whisper and BLE) (cobalt-watch.com)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by JeanDeBaill 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Eurosky: Portal to the Atmosphere (eurosky.tech)
    ×1.83 10 | 3 points by doener 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Pokemon Evolution vs Darwinian Evolution (wordpress.com)
    ×0.77 14 #24 | 10 points by barbazoo 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. One interface, every protocol (openbindings.com)
    ×1.11 46 #57 | 49 points by clevengermatt 14 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.74 3 #77 | 698 points by jrm-veris 1 day ago | 205 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Fakecloud – Free, open-source AWS emulator (github.com/faiscadev)
    ×1.02 47 #89 | 28 points by lucas_vieira 16 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Compile English specs into 22 MB neural functions that run locally
    ×3.21 78 | 10 points by yuntian 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Skillgrab – scan any project, auto-install matching AI skills (briascoi.github.io)
    ×1.74 90 | 8 points by ismaelb 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???