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  1. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)
    ×1.15 10 #6 | 235 points by whoishiring 9 hours ago | 298 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)
    ×0.94 22 #18 | 95 points by whoishiring 9 hours ago | 228 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Where have all the humans gone?
    ×1.06 | 2 points by adrianwaj 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What weird or scrappy things did you do to get your first users?
    ×1.10 17 | 4 points by preston-kwei 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Kernighan on Programming
    ×1.84 31 #61 | 140 points by chrisjj 9 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. GitHub Actions Have "Major Outage"
    ×3.71 43 #76 | 48 points by graton 5 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Who is firing? (February 2026)
    ×3.98 35 #81 | 10 points by chalmovsky 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How do you give AI agents access without over-permissioning?
    ×1.27 16 | 5 points by NBenkovich 4 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. GitHub Incidents with Actions and Codespaces
    ×3.40 4 | 11 points by jeduardo 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Has anybody moved their local community off of Facebook groups?
    ×0.88 47 | 18 points by madsohm 16 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Google Cloud suspended my account for 2 years, only automated replies
    ×1.44 53 | 153 points by andylizf 2 days ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Why do people still talk about AGI?
    ×1.12 46 | 36 points by cermicelli 22 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Do you still use physical calculators?
    ×0.68 86 | 32 points by speedylight 2 days ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Junior getting lost
    ×0.64 99 | 49 points by TheRegularOne 4 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What serious task have you accomplished with Moltbot / OpenClaw?
    ×0.50 84 | 6 points by lukol 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Any Successful Co-Ops of Software Engineers
    ×0.87 90 | 13 points by rubyn00bie 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Task engine VM – for tasks with executable instructions (progress update)
    ×0.09 117 | 3 points by tracyspacy 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Any real OpenClaw (Clawd Bot/Molt Bot) users? What's your experience?
    ×2.17 62 | 111 points by cvhc 2 days ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Do you also "hoard" notes/links but struggle to turn them into actions?
    ×1.82 61 | 230 points by item007 3 days ago | 213 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. AI has failed to replace a single software application or feature
    ×0.78 108 | 20 points by cadabrabra 3 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Is a RAM-only PWA "Secure Camera" safe for journalists?
    ×0.43 | 2 points by blackknightdev 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: How do you reset an AppleID?
    ×0.59 133 | 13 points by OhMeadhbh 3 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: How do you handle auth when AI dev agents spin up short-lived apps?
    ×0.25 109 | 4 points by NBenkovich 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. A simple HTTPS, HTTP/3, SSL and security headers checker I built with AI
    ×0.20 128 | 3 points by dragonman 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Waypoint 1.1, a local-first world model for interactive simulation
    ×0.57 120 | 13 points by lcastricato 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. G Lang – A lightweight interpreter written in D (2.4MB)
    ×0.14 | 2 points by pouyathe 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: How do you market a side project?
    ×1.28 125 | 14 points by ruairidhwm 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: What's the Point Anymore?
    ×1.75 114 | 67 points by fnoef 6 days ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. The preposterous notion of AI automating "repetitive" work
    ×0.74 135 | 11 points by cadabrabra 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: What's your biggest LLM cost multiplier?
    ×0.67 119 | 7 points by teilom 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: What recent UX changes make no sense to you?
    ×0.70 131 | 34 points by superasn 6 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: The Next Big OS Leap
    ×0.68 97 | 4 points by rafaelmdec 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. 1-Click RCE to steal your Moltbot data and keys (depthfirst.com)
    ×2.31 12 | 175 points by arwt 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. The Dangerous Drift to Redefine Protest as Terrorism (lawfaremedia.org)
    ×7.34 55 | 61 points by hn_acker 6 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. OpenClaw security assessment [pdf] (zeroleaks.ai)
    ×1.84 65 | 61 points by nreece 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Light exposure and aspects of cognitive function in everyday life (nature.com)
    ×1.35 50 | 52 points by PaulHoule 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Ask-a-Human.com – Human-as-a-Service for Agents (ask-a-human.com)
    ×0.52 | 2 points by ManuelKiessling 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Build Web Automations via Demonstration (notte.cc)
    ×0.47 122 | 36 points by ogandreakiro 6 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. I Hate Fish (randsinrepose.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by gukov 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Jobs report postponed due to Govt shutdown (axios.com)
    ×2.39 2 #64 | 8 points by xvxvx 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Partner at Day One Ventures ranks intelligence by how Jewish someone is (twitter.com/amasad)
    ×5.37 72 | 14 points by sosomoxie 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. MRI scans show exercise can make the brain look younger (sciencedaily.com)
    ×2.11 22 | 119 points by amichail 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Phage Explorer (phage-explorer.org)
    ×0.89 66 | 122 points by eigenvalue 2 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Cicada – A scripting language that integrates with C (github.com/heltilda)
    ×0.56 87 | 57 points by briancr 3 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Securing the Ralph Wiggum Loop – DevSecOps for Autonomous Coding Agents (github.com/agairola)
    ×1.39 124 | 4 points by agairola 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. My iPhone 16 Pro Max produces garbage output when running MLX LLMs (rafaelcosta.me)
    ×2.20 18 #55 | 413 points by rafaelcosta 1 day ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Nvidia shares are down after report that its OpenAI investment stalled (cnbc.com)
    ×2.48 15 #27 | 95 points by greatgib 4 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Adboost – A browser extension that adds ads to every webpage (github.com/surprisetalk)
    ×1.10 39 #30 | 86 points by surprisetalk 12 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Al is killing programming and the Python community (reddit.com)
    ×3.01 77 | 10 points by Nash0x7e2 32 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. ICE protester says her Global Entry was revoked after agent scanned her face (arstechnica.com)
    ×11.67 3 | 162 points by theahura 21 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: An extensible pub/sub messaging server for edge applications (github.com/narwhal-io)
    ×0.73 79 | 44 points by ortuman 5 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Echo – Local-first kindle-like reader with annotations and LLM chat (github.com/tibi-iorga)
    ×0.82 106 | 3 points by tb8424 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction (arstechnica.com)
    ×4.58 7 #10 | 148 points by ck2 2 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Moltbook Overtaken by Shellraiser (moltbook.com)
    ×1.08 141 | 3 points by mooball 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: SymDerive – A functional, stateless symbolic math library
    ×0.44 | 2 points by dinunnob 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Toronto, Rendered in Minecraft [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.91 | 1 points by peteforde 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Private LLM UI (no account, no tracking) (wraith.sh)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by harbinger-sec 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. How to Measure Content Performance (scoopanalytics.com)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by andrewsimone 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Furuniverse – Foundational Worldbuilding Archive Hub (standing-rondeletia-267.notion.site)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by FurProject 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: File Markers – Track file status directly in VS Code's Explorer (github.com/joneldominic)
    ×0.48 | 2 points by joneldominic 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: One Human + One Agent = One Browser From Scratch in 20K LOC (emsh.cat)
    ×2.01 83 | 322 points by embedding-shape 6 days ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Training a trillion parameter model to be funny (sdan.io)
    ×0.62 31 #22 | 11 points by sdan 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Craftplan – I built my wife a production management tool for her bakery (github.com/puemos)
    ×1.51 | 2 points by deofoo 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Ian's Shoelace Site (fieggen.com)
    ×3.22 12 #67 | 381 points by righthand 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: S3ui – Lightweight UI for Browsing Amazon S3 (github.com/justinGrosvenor)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by justingrosvenor 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Step 3.5 Flash LLM model, agentic coding ~18x faster than GLM 4.7 / Kimi K2.5 (huggingface.co)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by skhameneh 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Ever been left wondering where that one random item is? (apple.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by shelverapp 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Confabulists, a Substack for Fiction Writers (confabulists.com)
    ×1.19 54 | 3 points by soneca 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Prism AI – A research agent that generates 2D/3D visualizations (github.com/precious112)
    ×1.60 78 | 4 points by PreciousH 15 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Common bacteria (Chlamydia) discovered in the eye linked to cognitive decline (medicalxpress.com)
    ×2.08 7 #63 | 31 points by bikenaga 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Git v2.53.0 (lwn.net)
    ×1.46 23 #44 | 8 points by samtrack2019 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Tomo: A statically typed, imperative language that cross-compiles to C [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.72 25 #47 | 35 points by evakhoury 7 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation (github.com/gavrielc)
    ×2.59 16 #74 | 496 points by jimminyx 1 day ago | 205 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. DuckDB Developer Meeting 1 (duckdb.org)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by kermatt 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Newsgrouper (newsgrouper.org)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by DyslexicAtheist 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Nucleus – enforced permission envelopes for AI agents (Firecracker) (github.com/coproduct-opensource)
    ×0.94 75 | 3 points by difc 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub (ankiweb.net)
    ×2.69 2 #3 | 196 points by trms 4 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Stumpy – Secure AI Agents You Can Text (stumpy.ai)
    ×0.63 | 2 points by bluesnowmonkey 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Hebo Gateway, an embeddable AI gateway with OpenAI-compatible endpoints (github.com/8monkey-ai)
    ×0.68 | 2 points by dselvaggio 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Warden – agent based framework for reviewing code (sentry.dev)
    ×0.43 | 2 points by zeeg 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Agent Tinman – Autonomous failure discovery for LLM systems (github.com/oliveskin)
    ×1.36 137 | 4 points by oliveskin 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Zig Libc (ziglang.org)
    ×3.05 4 #17 | 137 points by ingve 7 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: LemonSlice – Upgrade your voice agents to real-time video
    ×0.91 94 | 132 points by lcolucci 6 days ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: OpenRAPP – AI agents autonomously evolve a world via GitHub PRs (kody-w.github.io)
    ×0.99 107 | 3 points by bothangles 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: I'm building an AI-proof writing tool. How would you defeat it? (auth-auth.vercel.app)
    ×0.58 113 | 24 points by callmeed 5 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: You Are an Agent (youareanagent.app)
    ×3.34 80 | 11 points by robkop 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. NNSA conducts aerial radiation surveys over San Francisco ahead of Super Bowl (energy.gov)
    ×1.14 | 2 points by wilson090 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. GitHub experience various partial-outages/degradations (githubstatus.com)
    ×1.86 3 #4 | 131 points by bhouston 3 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: X's API is finally pay-per-use so I built a CLI for AI agents (Skill) (skills.sh)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by alberduris 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Does AI have human-level intelligence? (Nature Comment) (nature.com)
    ×1.15 | 2 points by dryarzeg 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???