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  1. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)
    ×1.37 46 #50 | 276 points by david927 1 day ago | 1008 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Can I repurpose a Bluetooth voice remote as input device for a PC?
    ×0.28 63 | 15 points by albert_e 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Why is GPT-5.4 obsessed with Goblins?
    ×1.15 12 | 6 points by pants2 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: How to be alone?
    ×4.53 9 | 653 points by sillysaurusx 1 day ago | 538 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting
    ×5.61 38 | 696 points by Oras 1 day ago | 490 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Most beautiful personal blog UI you have ever seen?
    ×2.99 36 | 127 points by ms7892 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Favorite Non-Spammy iPhone Games?
    ×0.38 | 2 points by bix6 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What game engine would you recommend for vibe coding?
    ×1.52 52 | 5 points by general_reveal 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Is GitHub getting less reliable, or is it just me?
    ×1.02 60 | 7 points by _pdp_ 11 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Read‑only LLM tool for email triage and knowledge extraction?
    ×0.45 | 2 points by maille 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Any informed guesses on the actual size/architecture of GPT-5.4 etc.?
    ×0.73 66 | 4 points by dsrtslnd23 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion
    ×5.58 31 | 1062 points by shannoncc 3 days ago | 967 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Code-review-graph: persistent code graph that cuts Claude Code token usage
    ×0.27 | 2 points by tirthkanani 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Who Needs Help?
    ×1.86 62 | 13 points by surprisetalk 17 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. A job ad for Agentic AI Advocate
    ×0.47 92 | 4 points by greenpinia 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Are showlang and thelang HN endpoints not being maintained?
    ×0.47 102 | 3 points by freakynit 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. OpenAI might end up on the right side of history
    ×0.96 97 | 12 points by shoman3003 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. All tmux sessions as a single terminal
    ×0.23 | 2 points by lygten 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How are you handling persistent memory across local Ollama sessions
    ×0.42 125 | 5 points by null-phnix 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days?
    ×1.67 70 | 5 points by chistev 12 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Anyone else feel this community has changed recently?
    ×3.49 98 | 54 points by kypro 3 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Are we going to see more job postings asking for only agentic coding?
    ×0.75 106 | 5 points by ronbenton 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: How are you adapting your career in this AI era?
    ×2.45 73 | 11 points by sarthaksaxena 20 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Whisker – Self hosted e-commerce cart, pure PHP, zero dependencies
    ×0.47 132 | 7 points by eLohith 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: How are you monitoring AI agents in production?
    ×0.61 117 | 4 points by jairooh 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Tell HN: The proposed KIDS Act (HR 7757) effectively mandates biometric browsing
    ×1.17 120 | 19 points by fokdelafons 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. I replaced my freelance SaaS stack with 5 single-file HTML tools
    ×1.05 124 | 4 points by AnnSri 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Why Is Phil Wang / Lucidrains Off GitHub?
    ×0.19 137 | 3 points by vessenes 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. PhD interrupted by personal safety issues, now publication record is thin
    ×0.24 145 | 4 points by qthrwaway 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Do You Enjoy Your Career in Tech Nowadays?
    ×0.86 122 | 29 points by karakoram 4 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Add llms.txt and fix robots.txt for AI agent discoverability
    ×0.27 147 | 3 points by nishiohiroshi 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: What is your oldest living presence on the World Wide Web?
    ×0.40 | 2 points by dhruv3006 22 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Last time you wrote code?
    ×0.46 136 | 5 points by blinkbat 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. How do teams prevent duplicate LLM API calls and token waste?
    ×0.27 155 | 3 points by cachelogic 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Self taught gen-xers with senior dev/pm exp. Where's my imposter syndrome team?
    ×0.28 156 | 4 points by _hugerobots_ 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Why do we still buy things by browsing catalogs?
    ×0.41 152 | 6 points by dannythecount 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. What Will Happen to Android?
    ×0.53 149 | 4 points by MrLey 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Best Monitoring and Observability Platform?
    ×0.15 | 2 points by kebforlifer1 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: Do You Have a Homelab?
    ×0.55 131 | 14 points by ricardbejarano 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: Anyone fought a big corp over IP theft courts?
    ×0.34 151 | 7 points by NatalijaAAD 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: What career will you switch to when AI replaces developers?
    ×3.64 100 | 30 points by DGAP 2 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ask HN: Doctor with software development experience – careers combining both?
    ×0.37 153 | 4 points by frank-cheynne 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. If AI is so good, why don't we have an infinite supply of 10x engineers?
    ×1.70 110 | 10 points by YounesDz 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Ask HN: Best way to implement logging and audit trails for AI apps?
    ×0.39 154 | 4 points by devstatic 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Ask HN: Are there any alternatives to LocalStack?
    ×0.97 | 1 points by sceptic123 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. We should revisit literate programming in the agent era (silly.business)
    ×1.61 20 #88 | 287 points by horseradish 1 day ago | 226 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. The Download: murky AI surveillance laws, and the White House cracks down on de (technologyreview.com)
    ×1.31 | 2 points by joozio 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Restoring a Sun SPARCstation IPX part 1: PSU and NVRAM (2020) (rs-online.com)
    ×0.70 39 #40 | 100 points by ibobev 18 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Engram – open-source persistent memory for AI agents (Bun and SQLite) (github.com/zanfiel)
    ×0.34 | 2 points by zanfiel 22 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. M5 Max LLM Benchmarks Against M3 Ultra (creativestrategies.com)
    ×1.27 | 2 points by abhikul0 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Ltx AI (ltx23.net)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by cy20251210 53 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Reverse-engineering the UniFi inform protocol (tamarack.cloud)
    ×1.08 37 #31 | 162 points by baconomatic 20 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. The end of geo-blocking within the EU (europe-consommateurs.eu)
    ×1.59 | 2 points by b13n1u 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Against the unchecked growth of satellite mega constellations (scientificamerican.com)
    ×1.49 | 2 points by robtherobber 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Nominal Types in WebAssembly (wingolog.org)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by ingve 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. The “JVG algorithm” only wins on tiny numbers (scottaaronson.blog)
    ×0.80 11 #16 | 63 points by jhalderm 8 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Moji – A read-it-later app with self-organizing smart collections (pcding.com)
    ×0.92 144 | 12 points by desmonding 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Claude struggles to cope with ChatGPT exodus (forbes.com)
    ×3.32 37 | 169 points by perakojotgenije 1 day ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: WebRTC scaling test using Linux network namespaces (github.com/RaisinTen)
    ×1.39 | 2 points by raisin10 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Heinzel – Guardrails that turn Claude Code into your sysadmin (github.com/wintermeyer)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by wintermeyer 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Gone Almost Phishin' (ma.tt)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by jon_bossenger 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. The changing goalposts of AGI and timelines (mlumiste.com)
    ×3.19 6 | 401 points by skandium 1 day ago | 368 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. We Stopped Using the Mathematics That Works (gfrm.in)
    ×3.08 30 | 88 points by slygent 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. The engine of Germany's wealth is blocking its future (europeancorrespondent.com)
    ×2.59 22 #57 | 226 points by mariuz 18 hours ago | 295 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Google just gave Sundar Pichai a $692M pay package (techcrunch.com)
    ×4.61 45 | 133 points by Arcuru 1 day ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. The Government Told Courts It Could Easily Refund Tariffs. Now It Says It Can't (techdirt.com)
    ×4.15 33 | 103 points by cdrnsf 15 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Latchup – Competitive programming for hardware description languages (latchup.app)
    ×0.88 | 2 points by fayalalebrun 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: ANSI-Saver – A macOS Screensaver (github.com/lardissone)
    ×0.77 75 | 103 points by lardissone 2 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: SitDeck – Customizable live dashboard of news, markets, threats (sitdeck.com)
    ×1.05 126 | 23 points by danushman 4 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Draft2final – CLI converts Markdown into manuscript and screenplay PDFs (draft2final.app)
    ×0.78 | 1 points by cosmiciron 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Predbat Documentation (springfall2008.github.io)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by DamonHD 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: We help engineers understand codebases with interactive missions (oncode.tech)
    ×1.47 87 | 4 points by AfthabShiraz 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Tachyum Open Sources 281GB/S TDIMM for the Future of AI and Computing (2025) (tachyum.com)
    ×0.76 | 1 points by peter_d_sherman 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. FrameBook (edoo.gg)
    ×2.21 12 #74 | 516 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. 20% Better–Personalized DNA wellness reports from your 23andMe/Ancestry raw data (20percentbetter.co)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by dahomiequan 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: 1v1 coding game that LLMs struggle with (yare.io)
    ×0.44 107 | 26 points by levmiseri 4 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Launch HN: Terminal Use (YC W26) – Vercel for filesystem-based agents
    ×0.66 50 #20 | 101 points by filipbalucha 16 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Isaacus – the legal AI research company (isaacus.com)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by ubutler 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. LibreOffice: Request to the European Commission to adhere to its own guidances (documentfoundation.org)
    ×3.09 29 | 307 points by maxloh 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Swiss vote places right to use cash in country's constitution (politico.eu)
    ×3.80 43 | 118 points by 627467 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Iranians describe scenes of catastrophe after Tehran's oil depots bombed (theguardian.com)
    ×10.45 28 | 106 points by Red_Tarsius 1 day ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Claude-replay – A video-like player for Claude Code sessions (github.com/es617)
    ×1.00 89 | 102 points by es617 3 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Lotus 1-2-3 on the PC with DOS (stonetools.ghost.io)
    ×1.47 4 #2 | 77 points by TMWNN 5 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. My Homelab Setup (bryananthonio.com)
    ×1.88 23 #87 | 333 points by photon_collider 1 day ago | 213 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. I built a public AI chat on my personal site, this is what I learned (github.com/renatoworks)
    ×2.92 51 | 4 points by renatoworks 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. A Swiss Paperwork Massacre: Why We Fled to Stripe (octigen.com)
    ×2.23 1 | 4 points by mrgraziani 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Utter, a local-first dictation app for Mac and iPhone (utter.to)
    ×2.71 116 | 6 points by hubab 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a strict no-LLM policy (redox-os.org)
    ×3.04 #1 | 40 points by pjmlp 35 minutes ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. How to send your app code to Figma using Claude Code (designexplained.substack.com)
    ×1.24 | 2 points by kaizenb 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Lil Finder Guy (basicappleguy.com)
    ×1.17 48 | 106 points by frizlab 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???