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  1. Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion
    ×5.49 13 #28 | 912 points by shannoncc 19 hours ago | 789 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Can we talk about AI Astroturfing?
    ×2.46 55 | 7 points by overgard 1 hour ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Whisker – Self hosted e-commerce cart, pure PHP, zero dependencies
    ×0.47 | 2 points by eLohith 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: How many of you hold an amateur radio license in your country?
    ×0.81 57 #89 | 74 points by ToddWBurgess 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What career will you switch to when AI replaces developers?
    ×2.87 35 | 11 points by DGAP 3 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Anyone else feel this community has changed recently?
    ×3.62 42 | 31 points by kypro 20 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Doctor with software development experience – careers combining both?
    ×0.66 73 | 4 points by frank-cheynne 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Should AI web agents skip sponsored/ad results by default?
    ×0.33 93 | 3 points by ilyasJosef 15 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Tell HN: The proposed KIDS Act (HR 7757) effectively mandates biometric browsing
    ×1.26 76 | 14 points by fokdelafons 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Best way to implement logging and audit trails for AI apps?
    ×0.55 78 | 4 points by devstatic 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How are you using multi-agent AI systems in your daily workflow?
    ×0.41 100 | 14 points by paifamily 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. $1k and the difficult future that AI has left for many
    ×0.91 71 | 3 points by 01-_- 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Turns out making games is the easy part
    ×0.64 89 | 5 points by clamlotus 20 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Do You Have a Homelab?
    ×0.52 85 | 12 points by ricardbejarano 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Do You Enjoy Your Career in Tech Nowadays?
    ×0.88 88 | 27 points by karakoram 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Are there any companies who are anti-AI?
    ×0.94 97 | 5 points by anti-ai-dev 22 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Anyone fought a big corp over IP theft courts?
    ×0.32 111 | 6 points by NatalijaAAD 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Self taught gen-xers with senior dev/pm exp. Where's my imposter syndrome team?
    ×0.27 121 | 3 points by _hugerobots_ 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Why do we still buy things by browsing catalogs?
    ×0.42 106 | 5 points by dannythecount 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. I started making money online in 10th grade – some lessons about capital
    ×0.37 107 | 5 points by udit_50 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Has anyone noticed the fear-driven prompt suggestions that GPT5.3 makes?
    ×0.49 127 | 14 points by cedarscarlett 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: How are LLMs supposed to be used for warfare?
    ×0.41 126 | 5 points by sirnicolaz 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Tell HN: Digital Ocean has run out of GPU droplets
    ×0.47 131 | 17 points by nathannaveen 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: If your project is free, what are you building and why keep it free?
    ×0.62 141 | 11 points by LeanVibe 3 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Self-Learning Customer Marketing
    ×0.21 145 | 3 points by davismartens 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. I lost my ability to learn anything new because of AI and I need your opinions
    ×0.99 136 | 22 points by dokdev 3 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: What's your experience self-hosting in 2026?
    ×1.28 132 | 27 points by rustcore 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. How do I get startups to use my open-code project?
    ×0.23 139 | 5 points by ErezShahaf 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Amazon degraded shopping- you have to put in cart to see the price
    ×0.90 108 | 15 points by talkingtab 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: What will OpenAI employees do now who have signed notdividedorg petition
    ×0.66 144 | 17 points by Imustaskforhelp 4 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. HATEOAS Works with an LLM in the Mix
    ×0.05 | 2 points by charlieflowers 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Why is arstechnica.com still running dev story advertorials for a game that...
    ×0.26 138 | 6 points by chrisjj 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Maintainers, do LLM-only users often clutter your issues/PRs?
    ×0.30 143 | 9 points by lucrbvi 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: How do you give AI agents real codebase context without burning tokens?
    ×0.54 146 | 4 points by donhardman 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. An offline map using OruxMaps(satellite,routing,3D terrain,GPS and POI)
    ×0.19 147 | 3 points by supergoogler 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: I Made OpenClaw for Coding – ClawCode (clawcode.app)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by pvisilias 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Kanon 2 Enricher – the first hierarchical graphitization model (isaacus.com)
    ×0.32 115 | 10 points by ubutler 4 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Utter, a free local dictation and meeting notes app for Mac and iPhone (utter.to)
    ×1.13 140 | 3 points by hubab 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Gumlet CLI and Skills: Upload and manage videos with agents (github.com/gumlet)
    ×0.77 | 1 points by adityapatadia 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: NovusNet, a C++ networking library for beginners (github.com/Nullora)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by nullora 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Why Gen Z Is Unprepared for the Workplace (wsj.com)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by paulpauper 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Moral Hazard (gregmankiw.blogspot.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by kamaraju 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. What if AI just makes us work harder? (ft.com)
    ×3.32 32 | 48 points by paulpauper 22 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. A Modular Robot Dashboard (github.com/transitiverobotics)
    ×0.52 63 #76 | 22 points by chfritz 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4k Developer Machines (grith.ai)
    ×2.93 11 #82 | 621 points by edf13 2 days ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Information Topology as a Behavioral Parameter in Multi-Agent Systems (medium.com)
    ×1.43 | 2 points by erenkaratas 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Never Bet Against x86 (osnews.com)
    ×3.18 27 | 70 points by raphinou 1 day ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Sqry – semantic code search using AST and call graphs (sqry.dev)
    ×1.62 101 | 4 points by verivusai 21 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: MysteryMaker AI (mysterymaker.ai)
    ×0.81 | 2 points by jhappy77 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Troops Mass as Landlocked Ethiopia Chases Access to the Sea (wsj.com)
    ×1.74 | 2 points by JumpCrisscross 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. The Campaign to Take Down Alex Bores Is Just the Beginning (politico.com)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by spenvo 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Anchor Engine – Deterministic Semantic Memory for LLMs Local (<3GB RAM) (github.com/RSBalchII)
    ×1.42 116 | 4 points by BERTmackl1n 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Moji – A read-it-later app with self-organizing smart collections (pcding.com)
    ×0.77 112 | 10 points by desmonding 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. SPA vs. Hypermedia: Real-World Performance Under Load (zweiundeins.gmbh)
    ×1.69 58 #63 | 39 points by todsacerdoti 19 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Maybe there's a pattern here? (dynomight.net)
    ×1.70 28 #90 | 151 points by surprisetalk 19 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. A Homemade Robot Nag (matthewc.dev)
    ×1.34 | 2 points by matthewfcarlson 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Swarm – Program a colony of 200 ants using a custom assembly language (moment.com)
    ×1.22 25 | 187 points by armandhammer10 1 day ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Moltty – Organized, Persistent AI Coding Sessions (moltty.com)
    ×2.40 102 | 8 points by ronreiter 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. The shady world of IP leasing (acid.vegas)
    ×1.34 11 #71 | 129 points by alibarber 22 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. How Genghis Khan Cooled the Planet (mongabay.com)
    ×1.51 | 2 points by thunderbong 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. China's Parents Are Outsourcing the Homework Grind to A.I (nytimes.com)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by rbanffy 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Life Happens at 1x Speed (terriblesoftware.org)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by mooreds 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Supertoast tables (hatchet.run)
    ×0.68 45 | 54 points by abelanger 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: JotSpot – a super fast Markdown note tool with instant shareable pages (jotspot.io)
    ×0.83 | 2 points by Rageypeep 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Wez, modern terminal web browser with Vim bindings (github.com/keyle)
    ×0.97 104 | 3 points by keyle 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Spectre I, shuts down microphones nearby you (deveillance.com)
    ×3.61 60 | 4 points by Balgair 22 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Trump tells CNN he's not insisting Iran needs to be a democratic state (cnn.com)
    ×2.33 41 | 3 points by maxloh 40 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. The Dangerous Illusion of AI Coding? – Jeremy Howard [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.44 | 2 points by tartoran 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Let's Get Physical (m4iler.cloud)
    ×1.23 58 | 139 points by MBCook 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. TypeScript 6.0 RC (microsoft.com)
    ×2.29 12 | 96 points by johnz 23 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Poor Man's Polaroid (boxart.lt)
    ×1.51 56 #86 | 249 points by ZacnyLos 2 days ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee backs social media ban for under-16s (catalannews.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by rbanffy 48 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. GPL upgrades via section 14 proxy delegation (runxiyu.org)
    ×0.74 39 | 104 points by weinzierl 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Free salary converter with 3,400 neighborhood comparisons in 182 cities (salary-converter.com)
    ×0.86 | 2 points by jay7gr 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Writers Studio – macOS writing app with AI entity extraction (litestep.com)
    ×1.99 | 2 points by xclusive36 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Live HTML email playground – preview Gmail/Outlook rendering (mailpeek.dev)
    ×0.50 | 2 points by ashannon 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. A tool that removes censorship from open-weight LLMs (github.com/elder-plinius)
    ×1.89 42 #46 | 200 points by mvdwoord 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. The surprising whimsy of the Time Zone Database (jprs.me)
    ×1.42 | 2 points by jprs 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. The Apollo Guidance Computer Talk (2017) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.44 | 2 points by frederikvs 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Elite Overproduction (wikipedia.org)
    ×4.21 43 | 78 points by softwaredoug 1 day ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: A trainable, modular electronic nose for industrial use (sniphi.com)
    ×0.51 63 | 34 points by kwitczak 4 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Poppy – A simple app to stay intentional with relationships (poppy-connection-keeper.netlify.app)
    ×1.39 67 | 177 points by mahirhiro 2 days ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues (torrentfreak.com)
    ×4.59 13 #23 | 326 points by askl 10 hours ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Knuth Claude's Cycles note update: problem now fully solved by LLMs (stanford.edu)
    ×1.83 | 2 points by fs123 11 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Procedural Music Workstation in the Browser (kiekko.pro)
    ×3.08 110 | 7 points by timo_h 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Auto-Co – 14 AI agents that run a startup autonomously (open source) (github.com/NikitaDmitrieff)
    ×1.62 103 | 4 points by formreply 22 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: I tried writing an interactive novel and accidentally built a platform
    ×0.59 135 | 3 points by oldskultxo 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: µJS, a 5KB alternative to Htmx and Turbo with zero dependencies (mujs.org)
    ×1.90 32 #25 | 58 points by amaury_bouchard 10 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. LLMs work best when the user defines their acceptance criteria first (katanaquant.com)
    ×2.96 1 #29 | 393 points by dnw 18 hours ago | 274 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. CT Scans of Health Wearables (lumafield.com)
    ×1.31 45 #34 | 241 points by radeeyate 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???