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  1. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)
    ×1.42 8 #10 | 187 points by david927 13 hours ago | 692 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: How to be alone?
    ×4.54 4 #27 | 535 points by sillysaurusx 1 day ago | 393 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting
    ×5.88 37 #47 | 624 points by Oras 17 hours ago | 454 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Most beautiful personal blog UI you have ever seen?
    ×3.34 6 #54 | 91 points by ms7892 14 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What is your oldest living presence on the World Wide Web?
    ×0.75 | 2 points by dhruv3006 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion
    ×5.55 18 | 1049 points by shannoncc 2 days ago | 950 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. All tmux sessions as a single terminal
    ×0.39 | 2 points by lygten 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Would you use a job board where every listing is verified?
    ×0.81 53 | 55 points by BelVisgarra 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Are we going to see more job postings asking for only agentic coding?
    ×0.67 66 | 3 points by ronbenton 11 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. OpenAI might end up on the right side of history
    ×0.78 62 | 8 points by shoman3003 18 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Can I repurpose a Bluetooth voice remote as input device for a PC?
    ×0.39 | 2 points by albert_e 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: How are you monitoring AI agents in production?
    ×0.98 73 | 4 points by jairooh 16 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: How are you handling persistent memory across local Ollama sessions
    ×0.40 93 | 4 points by null-phnix 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. I replaced my freelance SaaS stack with 5 single-file HTML tools
    ×1.76 79 | 4 points by AnnSri 21 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Why Is Phil Wang / Lucidrains Off GitHub?
    ×0.21 91 | 3 points by vessenes 22 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Whisker – Self hosted e-commerce cart, pure PHP, zero dependencies
    ×0.45 106 | 6 points by eLohith 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Anyone else feel this community has changed recently?
    ×3.73 72 | 52 points by kypro 2 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Can we talk about AI Astroturfing?
    ×3.46 61 | 45 points by overgard 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. PhD interrupted by personal safety issues, now publication record is thin
    ×0.27 112 | 4 points by qthrwaway 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Add llms.txt and fix robots.txt for AI agent discoverability
    ×0.19 | 2 points by nishiohiroshi 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Tell HN: The proposed KIDS Act (HR 7757) effectively mandates biometric browsing
    ×1.19 95 | 18 points by fokdelafons 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Last time you wrote code?
    ×0.51 100 | 5 points by blinkbat 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Do You Enjoy Your Career in Tech Nowadays?
    ×0.88 98 | 29 points by karakoram 3 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. How do teams prevent duplicate LLM API calls and token waste?
    ×0.32 122 | 3 points by cachelogic 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. What Will Happen to Android?
    ×0.41 127 | 3 points by MrLey 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. If AI is so good, why don't we have an infinite supply of 10x engineers?
    ×1.91 77 | 10 points by YounesDz 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Best Monitoring and Observability Platform?
    ×0.18 | 2 points by kebforlifer1 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Has anyone noticed the fear-driven prompt suggestions that GPT5.3 makes?
    ×0.46 130 | 14 points by cedarscarlett 4 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: What career will you switch to when AI replaces developers?
    ×3.81 71 | 29 points by DGAP 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Self taught gen-xers with senior dev/pm exp. Where's my imposter syndrome team?
    ×0.32 132 | 4 points by _hugerobots_ 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Why do we still buy things by browsing catalogs?
    ×0.46 126 | 6 points by dannythecount 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Doctor with software development experience – careers combining both?
    ×0.39 124 | 4 points by frank-cheynne 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Do You Have a Homelab?
    ×0.52 108 | 13 points by ricardbejarano 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Best way to implement logging and audit trails for AI apps?
    ×0.41 125 | 4 points by devstatic 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Anyone fought a big corp over IP theft courts?
    ×0.30 131 | 6 points by NatalijaAAD 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Turns out making games is the easy part
    ×0.63 120 | 6 points by clamlotus 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Tell HN: Digital Ocean has run out of GPU droplets
    ×0.45 128 | 17 points by nathannaveen 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Are there any companies who are anti-AI?
    ×0.85 123 | 6 points by anti-ai-dev 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Add NPU support for AICore for Gemma4 model (github.com/google-ai-edge)
    ×0.98 | 1 points by limoce 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: LocaShot – Localize App Store screenshots in 30 languages, 30 seconds (locashot.app)
    ×0.66 | 2 points by saylamsafak 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. I don't know if my job will still exist in ten years (seangoedecke.com)
    ×7.02 30 | 101 points by nomdep 1 day ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Bother – model your project as it exists in reality (bother.now)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by kalturnbull 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Oracle may slash up to 30k jobs to fund AI data-centers as US banks retreat (cio.com)
    ×5.48 35 | 173 points by ljoshua 21 hours ago | 219 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. We should revisit literate programming in the agent era (silly.business)
    ×1.63 10 #17 | 258 points by horseradish 17 hours ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Sioyek is a PDF viewer with a focus on textbooks and research papers (github.com/ahrm)
    ×1.54 | 2 points by djoldman 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: LLMTest – The pytest for LLMs with 22 built-in assertions (llmtest.dev)
    ×1.82 83 | 4 points by furtims 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Utter, a local-first dictation app for Mac and iPhone (utter.to)
    ×2.75 76 | 6 points by hubab 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Ethernity: Secure paper backups with age encryption and SSS (github.com/MinorGlitch)
    ×0.78 | 2 points by minorglitch 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: VS Code Agent Kanban: Task Management for the AI-Assisted Developer (appsoftware.com)
    ×0.79 22 #6 | 12 points by gbro3n 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Pushing and Pulling: Three reactivity algorithms (jonathan-frere.com)
    ×0.95 24 #37 | 110 points by frogulis 18 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Swiss vote places right to use cash in country's constitution (politico.eu)
    ×4.02 13 #64 | 103 points by 627467 15 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Notes on writing a voxel game in Dyalog APL (homewithinnowhere.com)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by rak1507 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. House Committee Passes Child "Safety" Bills That Push National Age Verification (reclaimthenet.org)
    ×3.48 21 | 65 points by iamnothere 15 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Kula – Lightweight, self-contained Linux server monitoring tool (github.com/c0m4r)
    ×0.93 63 | 89 points by c0m4r 2 days ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Interactive 3D globe of EU shipping emissions (seafloor.pages.dev)
    ×0.34 97 | 20 points by marcohaber 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Modembin – A pastebin that encodes your text into real FSK modem audio (modembin.com)
    ×1.30 90 | 27 points by a13x57 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Lil Finder Guy (basicappleguy.com)
    ×1.20 5 #52 | 100 points by frizlab 16 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Flame Wars and Hype Fatigue (senko.net)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by senko 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Lawmakers Want DoD Investigated for Biblical 'Armageddon' Claims (military.com)
    ×5.95 32 | 132 points by Jimmc414 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Claude helped select targets for Iran strikes, possibly including school (twitter.com/robertwrighter)
    ×6.00 44 | 61 points by delichon 11 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Tech jobs are getting demolished in ways not seen since 2008 (businessinsider.com)
    ×4.49 56 | 64 points by elsewhen 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Finsight – A Privacy First, AI Credit Card and Bank Statement Analyzer (github.com/AJ)
    ×1.07 31 | 3 points by aj 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Yumo.to, a map of 19,652 onsens in Japan (yumo.to)
    ×1.41 114 | 3 points by katagamistudio 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. We Hacked McKinsey's AI Platform (codewall.ai)
    ×0.81 | 1 points by darkport 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Dire Strait (paulkrugman.substack.com)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by rbanffy 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Reverse-engineering the UniFi inform protocol (tamarack.cloud)
    ×1.47 | 2 points by baconomatic 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Orwell's Happy Ending (2025) (juliansanchez.substack.com)
    ×1.26 | 2 points by mooreds 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Botais (Battle of the AI's) – Competitive Snake Game for LLMs (sello.dev)
    ×0.42 | 2 points by giza182 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: SiClaw – Open-source AIOps with a hypothesis-driven diagnostic engine (github.com/scitix)
    ×0.71 80 | 9 points by SherryWong 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Using Isolation forests to flag anomalies in log patterns (rocketgraph.app)
    ×2.01 54 | 4 points by kvaranasi_ 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. I made a programming language with M&Ms (mufeedvh.com)
    ×0.84 47 #21 | 95 points by tosh 18 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Rust-Like Error Handling in TypeScript (codeinput.com)
    ×0.89 | 1 points by todsacerdoti 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. I resigned from OpenAI (twitter.com/kalinowski007)
    ×9.26 2 | 222 points by mmaia 1 day ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Malicious Extension Sentry: database of removed Chrome/Edge extensions
    ×0.63 | 2 points by toborrm9 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: ChatML - Run Claude Code Parallel Sessions in a Desktop app (github.com/chatml)
    ×0.49 67 | 3 points by mcastilho 11 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Broadcom May Become the Biggest Counterbalance to Nvidia (nextplatform.com)
    ×1.61 | 2 points by rbanffy 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Autoresearch: Agents researching on single-GPU nanochat training automatically (github.com/karpathy)
    ×1.63 12 | 184 points by simonpure 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: ANSI-Saver – A macOS Screensaver (github.com/lardissone)
    ×0.77 49 | 102 points by lardissone 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. The stagnancy of publishing and the disappearance of the midlist (honest-broker.com)
    ×1.08 36 | 97 points by wallflower 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Husky hook that blocks Git push until you do your pushups (git-push.app)
    ×0.66 | 2 points by zimboy 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Ket – quantum circuit simulator, TypeScript, 3 back ends, 14 formats (github.com/dmvjs)
    ×0.84 | 2 points by dmvjs 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Procedural Music Workstation in the Browser (kiekko.pro)
    ×2.99 129 | 7 points by timo_h 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: OpenGrammar Open-source, self-hostable Grammarly alternative (swadhinbiswas.github.io)
    ×0.95 118 | 3 points by 0x0003r 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Last Statements (walzr.com)
    ×1.04 43 #41 | 38 points by sethbannon 14 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. MapReduce Framework (third-bit.com)
    ×0.85 | 1 points by mooreds 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Streaming My Vitals to Dr. Claw (zach.codes)
    ×1.78 | 2 points by zackify 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Lists
    ×1.57 | 2 points by aleyan 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Artificial-life: A simple (300 lines of code) reproduction of Computational Life (github.com/Rabrg)
    ×1.11 28 #18 | 128 points by tosh 16 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Most of the US economy is in a recession (businessinsider.com)
    ×6.34 67 | 212 points by wslh 15 hours ago | 219 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Palantir and Anthropic AI helped the US hit 1k Iran targets in 24 hours (moneycontrol.com)
    ×8.06 47 | 109 points by rainhacker 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???