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  1. Ask HN: Anyone Using a Mac Studio for Local AI/LLM?
    ×0.50 49 #64 | 37 points by UmYeahNo 19 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: 10 months since the Llama-4 release: what happened to Meta AI?
    ×0.86 10 #86 | 38 points by Invictus0 14 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Why LLM providers sell access instead of consulting services?
    ×0.26 44 | 3 points by pera 6 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What is the most complicated Algorithm you came up with yourself?
    ×0.38 58 | 3 points by meffmadd 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)
    ×0.78 73 | 139 points by whoishiring 4 days ago | 503 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)
    ×1.24 61 | 312 points by whoishiring 4 days ago | 503 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Tell HN: Another round of Zendesk email spam
    ×0.96 42 | 104 points by Philpax 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Has your whole engineering team gone big into AI coding? How's it going?
    ×0.84 75 | 16 points by jchung 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Is Connecting via SSH Risky?
    ×0.50 77 | 17 points by atrevbot 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Anyone Seeing YT ads related to chats on ChatGPT?
    ×0.12 | 2 points by guhsnamih 17 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Does global decoupling from the USA signal comeback of the desktop app?
    ×0.31 81 | 4 points by wewewedxfgdf 18 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: How does ChatGPT decide which websites to recommend?
    ×0.64 84 | 4 points by nworley 18 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Mem0 stores memories, but doesn't learn user patterns
    ×0.38 105 | 9 points by fliellerjulian 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Is it just me or are most businesses insane?
    ×1.07 90 | 4 points by justenough 21 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Is there anyone here who still uses slide rules?
    ×1.15 66 | 120 points by blenderob 3 days ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How Did You Validate?
    ×0.10 101 | 4 points by haute_cuisine 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. We built a serverless GPU inference platform with predictable latency
    ×0.40 111 | 5 points by QubridAI 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Kernighan on Programming
    ×1.79 70 | 169 points by chrisjj 4 days ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Test management tools for automation heavy teams
    ×0.25 | 2 points by Divyakurian 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Cheap laptop for Linux without GUI (for writing)
    ×0.83 115 | 15 points by locusofself 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Are "provably fair" JavaScript games trustless?
    ×0.25 | 2 points by rishi_blockrand 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Have you been fired because of AI?
    ×1.45 125 | 16 points by s-stude 3 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Anyone have a "sovereign" solution for phone calls?
    ×0.68 136 | 10 points by kldg 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: OpenClaw users, what is your token spend?
    ×0.84 131 | 14 points by 8cvor6j844qw_d6 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Has anybody moved their local community off of Facebook groups?
    ×0.84 130 | 22 points by madsohm 4 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Where does operational truth live before it reaches "systems of record"?
    ×0.28 144 | 3 points by former-aws 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. GitHub Actions Have "Major Outage"
    ×2.24 99 | 52 points by graton 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. How do you deal with SEO nowadays?
    ×0.70 89 | 4 points by jackota 20 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: What weird or scrappy things did you do to get your first users?
    ×0.91 138 | 13 points by preston-kwei 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. YC S26 Application: "Attach a coding agent session you're particularly proud of"
    ×0.22 139 | 4 points by simplydt 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: When will LLMs generate professional-level CAD models?
    ×0.54 112 | 8 points by dsrtslnd23 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Are ISPs "evil" and who runs the Internet?
    ×0.40 126 | 6 points by tavro 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. How do you manage context/memory across multiple AI tools?
    ×0.29 124 | 7 points by arapkuliev 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Why do people still talk about AGI?
    ×1.16 114 | 42 points by cermicelli 4 days ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Are you still using spec driven development?
    ×0.58 161 | 6 points by cherry_tree 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Will crypto currencies survive past this market downturn?
    ×0.55 72 | 6 points by halamadrid 20 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. My small SaaS got recommended my Google in the AI search overview
    ×0.48 163 | 4 points by kaave 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: What serious task have you accomplished with Moltbot / OpenClaw?
    ×0.87 154 | 12 points by lukol 4 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: Tech Debt War Stories
    ×0.35 140 | 6 points by erubini_fg 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: Why dead code detection in Python is harder than most tools admit
    ×0.81 159 | 6 points by duriantaco 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: Does a good "read it later" app exist?
    ×0.37 149 | 5 points by buchanae 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Signal Is Down
    ×2.06 92 | 41 points by Daniel_sk 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: Anyone else struggle with how to learn coding in the AI era?
    ×2.15 95 | 53 points by 44Bulldog 3 days ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Ask HN: Where do all the web devs talk?
    ×1.64 93 | 56 points by LinguaBrowse 3 days ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Ask HN: What are you building this Friday?
    ×0.85 | 2 points by cranberryturkey 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Invention of DNA "Page Numbers" Opens Up Possibilities for the Bioeconomy (caltech.edu)
    ×0.93 12 #9 | 108 points by dagurp 8 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Daily-updated database of malicious browser extensions (github.com/toborrm9)
    ×0.65 42 #24 | 5 points by toborrm9 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Beam – Terminal Organizer for macOS (getbeam.dev)
    ×0.81 | 2 points by faalbane 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Inklings – Handwritten family notes turned into a printed book monthly (inklings.social)
    ×1.86 104 | 8 points by archaeal 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Plasma Effect (2016) (4rknova.com)
    ×0.82 27 #26 | 74 points by todsacerdoti 10 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Once Operations: Why Idempotency Belongs in the Business Layer (equatorops.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by bobjordan 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Lawnchair Larry Flight (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by bongoman42 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Learning from context is harder than we thought (tencent.com)
    ×1.54 26 #8 | 10 points by limoce 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Hypernetworks: Neural Networks for Hierarchical Data (sturdystatistics.com)
    ×0.79 54 #45 | 78 points by mkmccjr 22 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. GitHub Actions is slowly killing engineering teams (iankduncan.com)
    ×4.07 29 #55 | 341 points by codesuki 15 hours ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. CIA suddenly stops publishing, removes archives of The World Factbook (simonwillison.net)
    ×3.76 10 #73 | 399 points by ck2 1 day ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. JetBrains: Wayland by Default in 2026.1 EAP (jetbrains.com)
    ×0.84 | 1 points by tosh 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. The Loneliest Rung (twitter.com/austinbv)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by austinbv 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Modernizing Linux swapping: introducing the swap table (lwn.net)
    ×1.88 36 | 79 points by chmaynard 1 day ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. LLMs could be, but shouldn't be compilers (alperenkeles.com)
    ×1.17 18 #33 | 93 points by alpaylan 4 hours ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Psychometric Jailbreaks Reveal Internal Conflict in Frontier Models (arxiv.org)
    ×0.65 36 #72 | 66 points by toomuchtodo 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Agent Arena – Test How Manipulation-Proof Your AI Agent Is (jock.pl)
    ×0.64 37 #76 | 45 points by joozio 6 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Nocterm – Flutter-inspired TUI framework with hot reload (Dart) (nocterm.dev)
    ×1.74 134 | 5 points by norbert515 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Viberails – Easy AI Audit and Control (viberails.io)
    ×2.27 122 | 6 points by maximelb 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Grant Guidelines for Libraries and Museums Take "Chilling" Political Turn (propublica.org)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by hn_acker 22 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. I drove three Chinese cars – here's why they would clean up in the US (theverge.com)
    ×2.12 39 | 3 points by cf100clunk 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. How Much Would Continued Low Fertility Affect the US Standard of Living? (aeaweb.org)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by jeffreyrogers 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: BPU – Reliable ESP32 Serial Streaming with Cobs and CRC (github.com/choihimchan)
    ×0.89 | 2 points by octablock 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Ec – a terminal Git conflict resolver inspired by IntelliJ (github.com/chojs23)
    ×2.40 109 | 17 points by neozz 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. My AI Adoption Journey (mitchellh.com)
    ×3.83 9 #13 | 825 points by anurag 23 hours ago | 333 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Maihem (YC W24): hiring senior robotics perception engineer (London, on-site) (ashbyhq.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Agentism – Agentic Religion for Clawbots (agentism.church)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by uncanny_guzus 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Mob Together: When AI Joins the Team (flurdy.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by flurdy 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Cubans rendered powerless as outages persist and tensions with US escalate (apnews.com)
    ×2.29 1 | 81 points by petethomas 19 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Hacker Backlinks – HN Stories Most Linked To By HN Comments (browserbox.io)
    ×0.96 71 | 3 points by keepamovin 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. LinkedIn checks for 2953 browser extensions (github.com/mdp)
    ×3.18 7 #44 | 498 points by mdp 22 hours ago | 230 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. MCP-Scan: A Security scanner for AI agents, MCP servers and agent skills (github.com/invariantlabs-ai)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by lbeurerkellner 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. AI – a proposal for AI that's on your side (r.github.io)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by themattharris 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Seas to Rise Around the World – But Not in Greenland (yale.edu)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by speckx 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Null0 – AI Clone; Open-source CLI that gives AI your personal context (github.com/amaar-mc)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by amaarc 10 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Latch – Open-source security middleware for AI agents (latchagent.com)
    ×1.20 | 2 points by cblovescode 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. CIA to Sunset the World Factbook (abc.net.au)
    ×3.89 22 | 376 points by kshahkshah 1 day ago | 255 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. AI needs to augment rather than replace humans or the workplace is doomed (theguardian.com)
    ×2.50 64 | 60 points by PaulHoule 2 days ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: SwiftFiles – 100% private, browser-based file tools (WASM) (swiftfiles.org)
    ×0.40 | 2 points by deusrazen 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Diffnote – Browser-based document diff tool with no server uploads (diffnote.net)
    ×1.54 156 | 3 points by vivajayyy 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments (neosmart.net)
    ×2.61 11 #25 | 470 points by ComputerGuru 21 hours ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. PsiACE/Skills – A small, shared skill library (github.com/PsiACE)
    ×0.40 51 #68 | 50 points by recrush 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Why all the bootstrapped AI consulting firms are hitting a –$4M ceiling (aienablementinsider.com)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by dylancollins 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. It's 2026, Just Use Postgres (tigerdata.com)
    ×3.99 58 | 501 points by turtles3 21 hours ago | 309 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Sam Altman responds to Anthropic's "Ads are coming to AI. But not to Claude" ads (twitter.com/sama)
    ×5.80 43 | 88 points by PieUser 1 day ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???