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  1. Hybrid Attention
    ×0.88 8 #33 | 27 points by JohannaAlmeida 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: How do you handle marketing as a solo technical founder?
    ×1.55 9 #80 | 104 points by lazarkap 18 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw
    ×3.33 37 | 1092 points by firloop 3 days ago | 829 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Zooming UIs in 2026: Prezi, impress.js, and why I built something different
    ×1.19 12 | 93 points by tinchox6 21 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How are you controlling costs and enforcing limits for LLM calls?
    ×0.16 75 | 3 points by 8dazo 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Compact multi-port network setup (2.5G / 10G / SFP+) – looking for feedback
    ×0.32 | 2 points by Qotom 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Claude Code limits are starting to feel like a psychological trick
    ×0.25 93 | 3 points by trinsic2 16 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Is there any interest in a native Qt/C++ Discord client?
    ×0.47 86 | 36 points by txtsd 5 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Any Interesting Niche Hobbies?
    ×0.80 89 | 18 points by e-topy 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: How are you orchestrating multi-agent AI workflows in production?
    ×0.24 99 | 5 points by swrly 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Alternatives to Claude (Code)?
    ×1.29 85 | 5 points by vixalien 19 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Upwork Inc. violates its own DMARC and SPF policy
    ×0.31 90 | 8 points by tmcdos 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Tell HN: Google bot suspended our startup's email with 0 human recourse
    ×1.34 100 | 4 points by FounderLindsay 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Learning resources for building AI agents?
    ×0.84 137 | 11 points by 7e10 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Where are all the disruptive software that AI promised?
    ×0.99 94 | 18 points by p-o 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Write Your Own Copy
    ×1.11 97 | 30 points by operatingthetan 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: SoTA of Context Building Methods
    ×0.31 112 | 4 points by h4ch1 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Microsoft Discontinuing Publisher. Alternatives?
    ×1.33 114 | 17 points by supliminal 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Anthropic to limit Using third-party harnesses with Claude subscriptions
    ×0.57 130 | 19 points by guiyuwei 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Intelligence Cannot Be Trained?
    ×0.61 139 | 9 points by hyperzzw 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: How Do You Relax?
    ×1.69 111 | 21 points by azeirah 2 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: I don't get why Anthropic is limiting usage
    ×0.35 122 | 6 points by ud0 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Claude Code Down
    ×3.61 30 | 83 points by theahura 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: LLM-Based Spam Filter
    ×0.25 138 | 4 points by michidk 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Third-party Claude harnesses will now draw from extra usage
    ×0.61 135 | 15 points by iBelieve 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: How do systems (or people) detect when a text is written by an LLM
    ×1.72 59 | 44 points by elC0mpa 1 day ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Skills to construct and read docs following the progressive exposure principle
    ×0.43 141 | 5 points by Felix-Zhenghao 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Claude Peptides – slash commands to cut Claude Code token usage by 73%
    ×0.77 143 | 5 points by alchaka 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Stripe closed my UAE business account and is withholding $3.5K
    ×1.00 136 | 27 points by alganzory 5 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: How relevant is low code according to you in today’s world with Claude?
    ×0.65 147 | 10 points by kinj28 4 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: What is your dev set up like?
    ×0.50 145 | 15 points by break_the_bank 4 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Lightweight IDE to Pair with Claude Code?
    ×0.76 146 | 8 points by zupancik 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Copilot is 'for entertainment purposes only', per Microsoft's terms of use (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.51 41 | 162 points by airstrike 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: ReverseCam – See yourself as others see you (reversecam.com)
    ×0.88 80 | 10 points by ilamparithi 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Luigis-meter – Claude Code Max quota in your statusline (github.com/Luigigreco)
    ×0.44 | 2 points by lgreco 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. A Fire Sale Has U.S. Office Buildings Going for 90% Off (wsj.com)
    ×3.53 17 #37 | 34 points by blinding-streak 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Peptides: where to begin? (science.org)
    ×2.26 19 #38 | 223 points by A_D_E_P_T 18 hours ago | 309 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart (showbiz411.com)
    ×1.80 37 #42 | 230 points by flinner 23 hours ago | 352 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. The Hacker News Tarpit (joanwestenberg.com)
    ×1.80 10 #62 | 24 points by latexr 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Beta Testing needed for my package Trustcheck (github.com/Halfblood-Prince)
    ×3.14 50 | 6 points by halfblood1010 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: MemberLane – Paid Communities on Telegram, Discord, and WhatsApp (memberlane.app)
    ×0.83 | 2 points by grene98 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Vajra, a background coding agent with graph-based workflows (github.com/zamana-inc)
    ×0.88 | 2 points by shloked 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Apfel – The free AI already on your Mac (franzai.com)
    ×3.73 58 | 734 points by franze 4 days ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: SyNumpy – a Header only C++17 library for working with NumPy Arrays (github.com/symisc)
    ×0.64 142 | 22 points by symisc_devel 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. AI may be making us think and write more alike (usc.edu)
    ×1.89 16 #22 | 160 points by giuliomagnifico 4 hours ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Don't get used to Skills, they'll (mostly) be gone in a year (armanckeser.com)
    ×0.83 | 1 points by armanckeser 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Is Germany's gold safe in New York ? (dw.com)
    ×3.83 3 | 236 points by KnuthIsGod 1 day ago | 266 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Iran's IRGC Publishes Satellite Imagery of OpenAI's $30B Stargate Datacenter (newclawtimes.com)
    ×2.23 67 | 75 points by alvivanco 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Anos – a hand-written ~100KiB microkernel for x86-64 and RISC-V (github.com/roscopeco)
    ×0.97 44 #49 | 97 points by noone_youknow 18 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Developed a solution to automate ASO keyword research (respectaso.com)
    ×0.86 | 1 points by sinthes 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. I don't want an autonomous AI agent. I want a collaborator
    ×2.50 31 | 3 points by robenglander 34 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Goodclaude, CLI that lets you pet Claude (it meows too) (github.com/Ijtihed)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by ijtihed1 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Falcon Builder – the modular OS for designing and deploying AI agents (falconbuilder.dev)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by mecarc 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. AI alignment: the signal is the goal (substack.substack.com)
    ×0.77 | 1 points by atzeus 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. US reputation hits 'depths not seen this century' – and 'may never recover' (rawstory.com)
    ×8.36 7 | 69 points by doener 16 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Tiny TUI for disk usage exploration (github.com/dhbradshaw)
    ×1.27 105 | 4 points by dhbradshaw 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: MCP 2000 – Browser-based drum machine with AI-generated sounds (mcp2000.com)
    ×1.28 115 | 3 points by harmoni-pet 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Identify a London Underground Line just by listening to it (tubesoundquiz.com)
    ×1.25 6 #11 | 126 points by nelson687 5 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Optimizing SQLite for Servers (kerkour.com)
    ×2.36 41 | 4 points by randomint64 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Music for Programming (musicforprogramming.net)
    ×2.08 25 | 345 points by merusame 1 day ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. We found an undocumented bug in the Apollo 11 guidance computer code (juxt.pro)
    ×1.61 2 #3 | 262 points by henrygarner 5 hours ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work (github.com/arman-bd)
    ×3.42 2 #71 | 884 points by armanified 1 day ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. One ant for $220: The new frontier of wildlife trafficking (bbc.com)
    ×0.80 47 #88 | 110 points by gmays 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Modo – I built an open-source alternative to Kiro, Cursor, and Windsurf (github.com/mohshomis)
    ×0.81 56 | 98 points by mohshomis 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. SOM: A minimal Smalltalk for teaching of and research on Virtual Machines (som-st.github.io)
    ×0.70 57 #70 | 53 points by tosh 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Find the latest tag for Docker images (schlachter.xyz)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by dddddaviddddd 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. LibreOffice – Let's put an end to the speculation (documentfoundation.org)
    ×2.07 45 | 200 points by eisa01 1 day ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Women were never meant to give birth on their backs (bbc.com)
    ×1.76 65 | 80 points by ilt 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Beautiful intuitive weather forecasts that don't rely on numbers/units (leftium.com)
    ×1.54 144 | 4 points by Leftium 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Apollo Guidance Computer restoration videos (curiousmarc.com)
    ×0.99 29 #41 | 83 points by mariuz 12 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Kiwi Farms challenges DMCA subpoenas as tools to unmask anonymous speech (reclaimthenet.org)
    ×1.98 9 #46 | 16 points by nslsm 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. What causes most App Store rejections in your workflow? (appcompliance.io)
    ×0.84 | 1 points by Eryq 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. UK intelligence censored report on global warming and homeland security (theoryofchange1.substack.com)
    ×3.56 62 | 100 points by ewidar 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. The Last Quiet Thing (terrygodier.com)
    ×1.80 35 #48 | 264 points by coinfused 1 day ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Linux extreme performance H1 load generator (gcannon.org)
    ×0.48 51 #63 | 26 points by MDA2AV 12 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. How Not to Use AI? (At Work) (hackpravj.com)
    ×1.56 | 2 points by 01-_- 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: td – a CLI to manage tasks, sessions, and worktrees for agentic coding (github.com/rosgoo)
    ×1.75 | 6 points by rosgoo 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Cloudflare targets 2029 for full post-quantum security (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.72 7 #5 | 32 points by ilreb 1 hour ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Hippo, biologically inspired memory for AI agents (github.com/kitfunso)
    ×0.92 32 #52 | 115 points by kitfunso 18 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. France pulls last gold held in US (mining.com)
    ×3.32 7 #73 | 602 points by teleforce 1 day ago | 335 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Adaptive Thinking Doesn't Change Quality. It Changes Variance (vexjoy.com)
    ×0.96 | 1 points by AndyNemmity 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Two Years of Valkey (redmonk.com)
    ×1.58 | 2 points by rmoff 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold (jsnover.com)
    ×3.55 12 #74 | 797 points by naves 1 day ago | 562 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. 81yo Dodgers fan can no longer get tickets because he doesn't have a smartphone (twitter.com/Suzierizzo1)
    ×4.31 32 | 360 points by josephcsible 23 hours ago | 443 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. OpenJDK: Panama (openjdk.org)
    ×0.98 68 | 73 points by tosh 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: LookAway 2.0 – a break reminder for Mac that respects what you're doing (lookaway.com)
    ×0.95 | 2 points by _kush 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: M. C. Escher spiral in WebGL inspired by 3Blue1Brown (laszlokorte.de)
    ×1.38 69 | 173 points by laszlokorte 2 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Pluck – Copy any UI from any website, paste it into AI coding tools (pluck.so)
    ×0.81 118 | 20 points by bring-shrubbery 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates (github.com/anthropics)
    ×5.71 1 #30 | 1250 points by StanAngeloff 1 day ago | 685 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. NanoClaw's Architecture Is a Masterclass in Doing Less (jonno.nz)
    ×1.76 17 #32 | 33 points by timbilt 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???