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  1. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)
    ×1.40 10 #85 | 320 points by david927 1 day ago | 1079 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block
    ×4.99 41 | 1109 points by littlecranky67 1 day ago | 407 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. AI Home Architecture Startup Looking for Back End/ML Infra Engineer
    ×0.39 | 2 points by AtmosXR 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tell HN: OpenAI silently removed Study Mode from ChatGPT
    ×1.55 39 | 177 points by smokel 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Why most AI projects feel useless
    ×0.94 66 | 6 points by vaishcodescape 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What are you using OpenClaw or agents for?
    ×1.44 43 | 7 points by bmau5 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What makes it so hard to keep LLMs online?
    ×0.25 91 | 3 points by realberkeaslan 14 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Tell HN: Another Monday, Another Claude Outage
    ×0.58 68 | 6 points by ericol 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What's the best AI model for system design nowadays?
    ×0.71 76 | 5 points by jcremona 15 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. How do you validate your GTM Efforts?
    ×0.09 | 2 points by pranaywankhede 19 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Are you negatively affected by the recent economic stagnation?
    ×0.59 89 | 5 points by adinhitlore 20 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Is Codex really on Par with Claude Code?
    ×1.81 67 | 11 points by shivang2607 19 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?
    ×1.55 95 | 149 points by meander_water 4 days ago | 212 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Hiring in the age of AI-assisted coding: what works?
    ×0.47 109 | 28 points by nitramm 3 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Do you trust AI agents with API keys / private keys?
    ×0.45 103 | 15 points by devendra116 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Anyone using Nostr as a lightweight back end/DB for rapid prototyping?
    ×0.30 123 | 6 points by wasimsk 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What should I do with my app? 130 downloads 3 real subscribers
    ×0.37 129 | 5 points by oyaa52 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Best books on building a programming language
    ×0.69 112 | 17 points by ezzato 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Tell HN: Reddit now demands to know why you won't use their app
    ×1.93 71 | 18 points by josephcsible 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What's your experience with PoW captchas against form spam?
    ×0.41 120 | 5 points by pentacent_hq 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Any Open Source projects in need of documentation writer?
    ×0.38 130 | 21 points by tree666 4 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Why Databases Instead of Filesystem?
    ×0.36 131 | 14 points by uticus 3 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Antigravity Is Down
    ×1.16 90 | 4 points by samroar04 17 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Former grok-code-fast-1 users, what coding model are you using now?
    ×0.16 | 2 points by whycombinetor 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Should AI credits be refunded on mistakes?
    ×0.26 146 | 20 points by ed_elliott_asc 5 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Agentic Permutation of Testing Paths In A System
    ×0.14 145 | 4 points by davidajackson 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Tor Browser on Android leaks IP in desktop mode
    ×0.63 114 | 13 points by shchess 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Unlegacy – document everything, from COBOL to AI generated code (unlegacy.ai)
    ×1.18 143 | 9 points by Absonsonson 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Air Powered Segment Display? [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.43 12 #23 | 84 points by ProfDreamer 9 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Tom7: No one can force me to have a secure website [video] (youtube.com)
    ×5.01 29 #68 | 36 points by Audiophilip 6 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Multi-Agentic Software Development Is a Distributed Systems Problem (kirancodes.me)
    ×1.10 | 2 points by tie-in 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Hungary's Orban, a Beacon to the Right Wing, Concedes Election Defeat (nytimes.com)
    ×8.08 54 | 82 points by doener 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Pope Leo XIV denounces the 'delusion of omnipotence' he says fuels the Iran war (politico.com)
    ×6.23 63 | 79 points by achierius 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Rekal – Long-term memory for LLMs in a single SQLite file (github.com/janbjorge)
    ×1.55 104 | 7 points by jeeybee 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. How to make Firefox builds 17% faster (farre.se)
    ×1.21 6 #18 | 159 points by mbitsnbites 11 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Attorneys Face Disciplinary Charges, License Suspension for AI Misuse (law.com)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Optimization of 32-bit Unsigned Division by Constants on 64-bit Targets (arxiv.org)
    ×0.86 32 | 109 points by mpweiher 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: A 24/7 live stream where AI writes a new song about the current time (youtube.com)
    ×2.29 42 | 5 points by mmp7700 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Eve – Managed OpenClaw for work (eve.new)
    ×0.88 93 | 71 points by zachdive 3 days ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Do All the Things (doallthethings.app)
    ×5.04 115 | 26 points by brainbun 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US Pardons
    ×2.44 48 | 496 points by vidluther 2 days ago | 272 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Asthi – Damn good asset tracker (asthi.app)
    ×0.45 84 | 3 points by suvamsh 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Formal – Formal verification for AI-generated code using Lean 4 (github.com/yamafaktory)
    ×0.83 126 | 4 points by yamafaktory 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023) (johnloeber.com)
    ×2.60 11 #67 | 673 points by phil294 1 day ago | 368 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. AI could be the end of the digital wave, not the next big thing (wordpress.com)
    ×2.43 38 | 178 points by surprisetalk 17 hours ago | 255 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. The AI revolution in math has arrived (quantamagazine.org)
    ×2.32 15 #32 | 76 points by sonabinu 6 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Is math big or small? (chessapig.github.io)
    ×0.74 63 #74 | 81 points by robinhouston 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. CIA reportedly used Pegasus software during rescue of airman in Iran (timesofisrael.com)
    ×2.74 21 #82 | 36 points by Cider9986 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: SCP – A protocol that drops LLM API calls to zero in 60fps physics loop (github.com/srk0102)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by srk0102 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: 2nnel – self-hosted ngrok with one-click framework-agnostic deployment (github.com/22or)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by rogerdodgerwang 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Human scientists trounce the best AI agents on complex tasks (nature.com)
    ×2.19 14 | 4 points by frasermarlow 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Encrypted, nothing stored, nothing repeated face-gated asset sharing (veylt.net)
    ×1.37 73 | 4 points by bekkerza 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning (adlrocha.substack.com)
    ×3.73 22 #77 | 407 points by walterbell 1 day ago | 358 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Mcptube – Karpathy's LLM Wiki idea applied to YouTube videos (github.com/0xchamin)
    ×1.03 68 #87 | 7 points by 0xchamin 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Pepsi was warned $7 for Doritos was too much. Now they are paying the price (independent.co.uk)
    ×2.72 32 | 5 points by matthest 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Apple update looks like Czech mate for locked-out iPhone user (theregister.com)
    ×4.27 21 | 332 points by OuterVale 1 day ago | 215 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Toy Python Lisp interpreters based on the 1960 McCarthy paper (github.com/jhud)
    ×0.77 140 | 3 points by disconnection 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. DIY Soft Drinks (blinry.org)
    ×3.25 3 #65 | 710 points by _Microft 1 day ago | 220 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. I Built a Open Source Portfolio and Project Website – Sean Filimon (seanfilimon.com)
    ×0.43 | 2 points by seanfilimon 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. How to talk about open source without making a mess (dirkriehle.com)
    ×0.95 | 2 points by Tomte 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Narrate – Generate multi-voice long-form audio with one command (github.com/zackham)
    ×1.32 105 | 5 points by zackham 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: QVAC SDK, a universal JavaScript SDK for building local AI applications
    ×0.57 110 | 30 points by qvac 4 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. TanStack Start Now Support React Server Components (tanstack.com)
    ×2.14 2 #7 | 17 points by polywock 46 minutes ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. When AI Trading Works, You Won't Hear About It (magis.substack.com)
    ×1.90 4 #69 | 24 points by izyda 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Sam Altman: Man charged with attempting to murder OpenAI boss (sky.com)
    ×1.07 | 2 points by taspeotis 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Guruka.com – free guided mediations. No signup, private, works offline (guruka.com)
    ×1.15 117 | 39 points by eummm 4 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Steadcast – Free Mac podcast player for learning, not background noise (steadcast.co)
    ×2.79 149 | 7 points by steadcast 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Visualizing CPU Pipelining (2024) (timmastny.com)
    ×0.92 20 #34 | 76 points by flipacholas 11 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Kyomu - 13 puzzles from math and physics that map your cognitive style (mostlykiguess.github.io)
    ×1.40 98 | 4 points by mostlyk 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: The Universe in One Chart (saminloes.com)
    ×2.33 141 | 8 points by atleastoptimal 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Building a CLI for all of Cloudflare (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.74 1 #20 | 289 points by soheilpro 14 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Claude Code may be burning your limits with invisible tokens (efficienist.com)
    ×2.25 51 #55 | 36 points by jenic_ 14 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Willingness to fail is now a superpower (nekolucifer.substack.com)
    ×1.96 26 #76 | 6 points by gurjeet 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Social media platforms need to stop never-ending scrolling, UK's Starmer says (reuters.com)
    ×0.39 | 1 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Why AI Sucks at Front End (nerdy.dev)
    ×1.73 55 | 114 points by tobr 1 day ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Lythonic – Compose Python functions into data-flow pipelines (github.com/walnutgeek)
    ×0.42 65 | 4 points by walnutgeek 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Millions in the US never finished college (yahoo.com)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by lxm 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Over 4,732 Messages, He Fell in Love with an AI Chatbot. Now He's Dead (wsj.com)
    ×0.87 | 2 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Free Blur Image Online – Easily Blur Your Photos (youtube.com)
    ×0.90 | 2 points by teroquyiqwu 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Make tmux pretty and usable (2024) (hamvocke.com)
    ×2.27 1 #17 | 348 points by speckx 15 hours ago | 221 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. European AI. A playbook to own it (mistral.ai)
    ×2.58 17 | 199 points by hjouneau 1 day ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: T4 – a versioned datastore with branching and time-travel (S3-backed) (github.com/t4db)
    ×1.46 108 | 7 points by amakhov 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Telegram feed reader using DNS TXT records for Iran's Internet shutdown (github.com/sartoopjj)
    ×0.45 | 2 points by znano 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: CSS Studio. Design by hand, code by agent (cssstudio.ai)
    ×1.04 88 | 172 points by SirHound 4 days ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Skrun – Deploy any agent skill as an API (github.com/skrun-dev)
    ×0.68 113 | 62 points by frizull 5 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Design and implementation of DuckDB internals (duckdb.org)
    ×1.75 1 #11 | 91 points by mpweiher 6 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. State of Homelab 2026 (mrlokans.work)
    ×1.98 58 #64 | 104 points by swq115 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Bear Roll – Daily roll of Bear Blog's top posts (bearroll.dev)
    ×0.98 | 2 points by freediver 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Israel Destroys Villages in Lebanon (theguardian.com)
    ×12.63 52 | 165 points by pera 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Sam Altman's home targeted in second attack (sfstandard.com)
    ×7.61 23 | 152 points by babelfish 1 day ago | 353 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???