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  1. Tell HN: Ralph Giles has died (Xiph.org| Rust@Mozilla | Ghostscript)
    ×2.44 4 #80 | 502 points by ffworld 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Are there examples of 3D printing data onto physical surfaces?
    ×0.26 42 | 11 points by catapart 20 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What's You Opinon on XMTP
    ×0.17 | 2 points by julienreszka 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
    ×1.25 81 | 332 points by david927 5 days ago | 1143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Are you using an agent orchestrator to write code?
    ×1.37 65 | 36 points by gusmally 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Stripe is asking for bank statements to check financial health
    ×0.26 | 2 points by kinj28 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What would you recommend a vibe coder learn about how all this works?
    ×0.67 80 | 28 points by alexdobrenko 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Built and shipped an iOS app from my phone while traveling Japan
    ×1.10 67 | 5 points by lordokami 13 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Did YouTube change how it handles uBlock?
    ×0.69 91 | 20 points by tefloon69 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: How do you audit LLM code in programming languages you don't know?
    ×0.54 121 | 9 points by syx 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: My OpenClaw doesn't respond. Anybody met with the same problem?
    ×0.78 74 | 4 points by Fendy1 12 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Exceptionally well-written research papers in CS/ML/AI?
    ×0.44 | 2 points by b3rkus 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: AI Depression
    ×3.16 50 | 47 points by pavello 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Anyone else finding the new Gemini Deep Think troublingly sycophantic?
    ×0.83 79 | 4 points by neom 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. We just released Khaos SDK and khaos-examples (BSL 1.1)
    ×0.56 94 | 3 points by exordex 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: We're building a saving app for European savers and need GTM advice
    ×0.39 145 | 4 points by AlePra00 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Do sociotechnical pressures select for beneficial or harmful AI systems?
    ×0.27 128 | 5 points by jerlendds 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Why are electronics still so unrecyclable?
    ×0.73 86 | 72 points by alexandrehtrb 3 days ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Better hardware means OpenAI, Anthropic, etc. are doomed in the future?
    ×0.34 135 | 4 points by kart23 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What happens when capability decouples from credentials?
    ×0.75 108 | 8 points by falsework 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Tools to code using voice?
    ×0.57 113 | 7 points by emerongi 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Why is my Claude experience so bad? What am I doing wrong?
    ×0.84 109 | 6 points by moomoo11 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Moss: A Linux-compatible Rust async kernel, 3 months on
    ×0.33 111 | 4 points by hexagonal-sun 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: If your OpenClaw could do 1 thing it currently can't, what would it be?
    ×0.49 134 | 5 points by stosssik 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: How do founders demo real product without exposing sensitive data?
    ×0.60 142 | 4 points by legitimate_key 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: How do you "step through" your own anxiety?
    ×1.33 126 | 7 points by schneak 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. SMTP server from scratch in Go – FSM, raw TCP, and buffer-oriented I/O
    ×0.66 118 | 5 points by Jyotishmoy 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: GPT-5.3-Codex being silently routed to GPT-5.2?
    ×0.73 137 | 5 points by tardis_thad 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Has anyone achieved recursive self-improvement with agentic tools?
    ×0.33 138 | 9 points by nycdatasci 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: What's the current state of ChatGPT Apps?
    ×0.97 139 | 5 points by arthurlee 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Who discovered grokking and why is the name hard to find?
    ×0.37 | 2 points by asmodeuslucifer 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Why is everyone here so AI-hyped?
    ×1.23 130 | 30 points by fandorin 3 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Would you use context-based "modes" in Instagram(work,study,sport,news)?
    ×0.46 149 | 3 points by MatiasLaudonio 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: How much PTO do you get?
    ×1.07 133 | 5 points by SunshineTheCat 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Best practices for AI agent safety and privacy
    ×0.22 | 2 points by mw1 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: How to build text-to-app platforms?
    ×0.24 | 2 points by desperado1 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Is Prettier extension working for you in Cursor?
    ×0.22 | 2 points by vldszn 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: Anyone else get bricked by the macOS update?
    ×0.26 | 2 points by bix6 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. How the world will be if P = NP?
    ×0.28 | 2 points by fouadelkh 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: Do provisional patents matter for early-stage startups?
    ×0.31 151 | 20 points by gdad 5 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: Dumping GitHub for Forgejo for a free and open source project
    ×0.15 150 | 4 points by th0th 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Tell HN: GPT-5.3-codex is now available in the API
    ×0.50 148 | 4 points by bigwheels 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Realfood.gov includes a Grok search box (realfood.gov)
    ×2.63 62 | 81 points by burkaman 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Dutch Lawmakers Approve a 36% Tax on Unrealized Crypto, Stock, and Bond Gains (imidaily.com)
    ×4.39 18 | 49 points by JumpinJack_Cash 18 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. How the Little Guy Moved (animationobsessive.substack.com)
    ×1.24 20 #22 | 85 points by zdw 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation (anthropic.com)
    ×2.95 56 #42 | 415 points by ryanhn 1 day ago | 431 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: ClipPath – Paste screenshots as file paths in your terminal (github.com/BiteCraft)
    ×0.59 82 #60 | 14 points by viniciusborgeis 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you (skipthe.tips)
    ×2.91 15 #67 | 477 points by randycupertino 1 day ago | 413 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Anthropic's users jumped by 11% after it openly mocked OpenAI in SuperBowl ad (techlifehub.com)
    ×2.24 58 | 3 points by elisson22 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Ask HN: Are junior devs getting worse?
    ×0.45 | 1 points by tavro 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Can you rewire your brain? (aeon.co)
    ×0.93 49 #52 | 17 points by Hooke 9 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission (theconversation.com)
    ×5.17 35 #54 | 551 points by DamnInteresting 18 hours ago | 278 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. The "Crown of Nobles" Noble Gas Tube Display (2024) (theshamblog.com)
    ×0.70 58 #89 | 150 points by Ivoah 2 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Google and MS authored the spec that turns every site into an API for AI agents (twitter.com/aakashgupta)
    ×2.07 42 | 3 points by r2ob 44 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: I generated a "stress test" of 200 rare defects from 7 real photos
    ×0.67 | 2 points by jmalevez 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. I was insulted today – AI style (forkingmad.blog)
    ×1.82 64 | 49 points by speckx 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: CodeRLM – Tree-sitter-backed code indexing for LLM agents (github.com/JaredStewart)
    ×0.82 77 | 79 points by jared_stewart 3 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Data Engineering Book – An open source, community-driven guide (github.com/datascale-ai)
    ×1.13 27 #21 | 207 points by xx123122 19 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Monosketch (monosketch.io)
    ×3.44 6 #33 | 827 points by penguin_booze 1 day ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. The wonder of modern drywall (worksinprogress.news)
    ×1.60 15 #73 | 140 points by jger15 1 day ago | 229 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. A Programmer's Loss of Identity (ratfactor.com)
    ×1.71 26 | 3 points by zdw 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Django-CKEditor Deprecation (2024) (406.ch)
    ×1.89 17 | 3 points by gregsadetsky 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Discord Voluntarily Pushes Mandatory Age Verification Despite Recent Data Breach (eff.org)
    ×3.05 26 | 71 points by hn_acker 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Agent Alcove – Claude, GPT, and Gemini debate across forums (agentalcove.ai)
    ×0.72 85 | 64 points by nickvec 2 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: YOR – open-source bimanual mobile robot for <$10k (yourownrobot.ai)
    ×4.17 112 | 10 points by jeffacce 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Koala Diff – High-performance local data comparison (Rust and Polars) (github.com/godalida)
    ×1.28 88 | 4 points by godalida 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Bubble Sort on a Turing Machine (github.com/purplejacket)
    ×1.24 102 | 3 points by purplejacket 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Homeland Security has sent out subpoenas to identify ICE critics (engadget.com)
    ×6.65 28 #30 | 123 points by OutOfHere 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. I'm not worried about AI job loss (davidoks.blog)
    ×2.88 4 #45 | 304 points by ezekg 21 hours ago | 493 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Logic for Programmers (leanpub.com)
    ×2.06 52 | 3 points by mooreds 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Clawnet: A OpenClaw Skill for Agent-to-agent discovery and communication (clawhub.ai)
    ×1.30 | 2 points by dendisuhubdy 27 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Beginning fully autonomous operations with the 6th-generation Waymo driver (waymo.com)
    ×1.58 23 | 292 points by ra7 2 days ago | 396 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. ICE, CBP Knew Facial Recognition App Couldn't Do What DHS Says It Could (techdirt.com)
    ×2.80 24 | 224 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Codex HUD – Claude-HUD Style Status Line for Codex CLI (github.com/anhannin)
    ×0.48 122 | 3 points by anhm720 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Insider Trading Alerts – Open-Market Buys&Sells from SEC Form 4 Filings (stockalert.pro)
    ×1.38 136 | 6 points by Adanos 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: I built a concurrent BitTorrent engine in Go to master P2P protocols
    ×1.27 | 2 points by Jyotishmoy 42 minutes ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Talking Again with Jon Gruber (paulkrugman.substack.com)
    ×1.23 | 2 points by bookofjoe 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Code Archaeologists – Kevin.md (kevin.md)
    ×1.07 | 2 points by thekevintang 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Where There Is Connectivity There Is Surveillance (noemamag.com)
    ×1.12 21 | 3 points by Brajeshwar 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Shut Up: Comment Blocker (rickyromero.com)
    ×0.71 60 | 107 points by mefengl 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Backblaze Drive Stats for 2025 (backblaze.com)
    ×1.68 #32 | 133 points by Brajeshwar 12 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verification (matrix.org)
    ×2.87 14 | 310 points by foresto 1 day ago | 182 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: MicroGPT in 243 Lines – Demystifying the LLM Black Box
    ×1.74 124 | 6 points by madugula 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Wip – Monitor AI agent commits and local Git state from the CLI (github.com/drmnaik)
    ×0.44 | 2 points by mahesh588 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Browse Internet Infrastructure (wirewiki.com)
    ×0.93 103 | 110 points by pul 5 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Platforms bend over backward to help DHS censor ICE critics, advocates say (arstechnica.com)
    ×5.15 5 #6 | 85 points by pjmlp 1 hour ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. AI could eat itself: Competitors (..) steal their secrets and clone them (theregister.com)
    ×1.41 5 #82 | 10 points by myk-e 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Getting the Most Out of OpenClaw (github.com/laurentenhoor)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by laurentenhoor 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Recoverable and Irrecoverable Decisions (herbertlui.net)
    ×0.77 58 | 90 points by herbertl 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Terminalcore – The Rhythm Game for PC (terminalcore.vercel.app)
    ×0.89 | 2 points by Kejii_2770 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???