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  1. Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users
    ×3.58 18 #45 | 635 points by miki123211 1 day ago | 237 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. 36yo: Career at home vs. Simple life abroad?
    ×1.60 26 | 7 points by Slaboli 3 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: How do you handle duplicate side effects when jobs, workflows retry?
    ×0.41 57 | 5 points by shineDaPoker 9 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. I don't need AI to build me a new app. I need it to make Jira bearable
    ×0.71 64 | 17 points by niel_hu 19 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: My competitor wants to buy us out, recommend a lawyer?
    ×0.23 | 2 points by VladVladikoff 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. How do you evaluate a person's ability to use AI?
    ×0.82 53 | 4 points by imwoody 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. 1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March
    ×3.26 74 | 144 points by otterley 2 days ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Who Is Using XMPP?
    ×0.41 93 | 23 points by nunobrito 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. I built a 151k-node GraphRAG swarm that autonomously invents SDG solutions
    ×0.08 | 2 points by wisdomagi 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What's it like working in big tech recently with all the AI tools?
    ×1.02 90 | 19 points by ex-aws-dude 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Claude Code Bug triggers Rate limits without usage
    ×0.14 111 | 3 points by busssard 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Comparing manual vs. AI requirements gathering: 2 sentences vs. 127-point spec
    ×0.28 112 | 3 points by thesssaism 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. New Claude Code Feature "Remote Control"
    ×0.42 124 | 8 points by rob 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What will happen with Anthropics ultimatum?
    ×0.94 108 | 7 points by maniacwhat 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Starting a New Role with Ada
    ×0.58 110 | 9 points by NoNameHaveI 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How do you know if AI agents will choose your tool?
    ×0.59 109 | 37 points by dmpyatyi 3 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. LazyGravity – I made my phone control Antigravity so I never leave bed
    ×0.17 114 | 4 points by masaTokyo 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Could you create a competitor to your company at 10% of the cost?
    ×0.63 103 | 8 points by TheAlchemist 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Fix cron routes: POST → GET (Vercel cron sends GET)
    ×0.16 | 2 points by nishiohiroshi 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Would you choose the Microsoft stack today if starting greenfield?
    ×1.38 116 | 20 points by JB_5000 3 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: How are you controlling AI agents that take real actions?
    ×0.38 136 | 7 points by thesvp 3 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Comparing manual vs. AI requirements gathering: 2 sentences vs. 127-point spec
    ×0.40 135 | 7 points by thesssaism 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. ChatGPT finds an error in Terence Tao's math research
    ×1.04 105 | 42 points by codexon 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Have top AI research institutions just given up on the idea of safety?
    ×1.99 67 | 80 points by DietaryNonsense 1 day ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Who has seen productivity increases from AI
    ×0.47 123 | 12 points by Kapura 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: What Linux Would Be a Good Transition from Windows 11
    ×0.98 128 | 13 points by Cyberis 3 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Any DIY open-source Alexa/Google alternatives?
    ×0.32 132 | 9 points by personality0 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Is it better to have no Agent.md than a bad one?
    ×0.40 137 | 10 points by parvardegr 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Persistent Prompts and Built in Search
    ×0.14 | 2 points by lazybusy 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Is it worth avoiding AI while making a game?
    ×0.99 130 | 7 points by 2muchclout 2 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Using "Hi Claudette " on Claude.ai
    ×0.20 138 | 4 points by mlongval 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Are AI "Chatbot Wrappers" ruining EdTech? I'm testing a proactive UX
    ×0.19 | 2 points by Swadesh9422 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Missing page from Practical Computing magazine (1980)
    ×0.58 140 | 3 points by sim04ful 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Share your productive usage of OpenClaw
    ×2.16 75 | 98 points by aavci 2 days ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Does anyone use CrewAI or LangChain anymore?
    ×0.88 133 | 11 points by rakan1 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: What is up with all the glitchy and off-topic comments?
    ×0.96 134 | 10 points by marginalia_nu 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. GLP-1 Second-Order Effects
    ×0.96 122 | 22 points by 7777777phil 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Anomaly Detection in Web Traffic:Comparing Z-Score, Tukey, Grubbs Methods with R (gironi.it)
    ×0.76 | 1 points by dj-trondheim 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: We built a public CTF to stress-test AI agent guardrails (aport.io)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by uchibeke 17 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Heroku: What's Next (judoscale.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by doppp 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Mission Control – Open-source task management for AI agents (github.com/MeisnerDan)
    ×0.77 28 | 40 points by meisnerd 22 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Moonshine Open-Weights STT models – higher accuracy than WhisperLargev3 (github.com/moonshine-ai)
    ×1.42 43 | 312 points by petewarden 2 days ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: I built a managed Claude AI and hosting service (codedoc.us)
    ×0.96 | 2 points by novatrope 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: ImageCFN – Analog, Resolution-Independent Image Representation (web-demo-ten-navy.vercel.app)
    ×0.76 | 2 points by prof_garlic 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. The Hunt for Dark Breakfast (wordpress.com)
    ×2.06 2 #6 | 255 points by moultano 7 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Minima.js – a web-standards back end framework with req context via ALS (minimajs.com)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by md-adil 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: My brother and I built a BI tool with zero UI for data consumers (bonnard.dev)
    ×3.24 63 | 5 points by maxmealing 59 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Provision Stateless GPU Compute with Claude Code's Remote Control (github.com/theoddden)
    ×0.77 | 2 points by Facingsouth 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025) (therecord.media)
    ×4.09 4 #80 | 831 points by robtherobber 2 days ago | 427 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. The Longest Line of Sight (tombh.co.uk)
    ×0.86 57 #89 | 8 points by zdw 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: OpenTrace – Self-hosted observability server with 75 MCP tools (github.com/adham90)
    ×1.40 125 | 3 points by adham900 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective (worksinprogress.co)
    ×1.79 17 #74 | 419 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 625 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Nintendo's partners are selling $2B in company shares (hanafuda.report)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by brandrick 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Palantir's AI Is Playing a Major Role in Tracking Gaza Aid Deliveries (dropsitenews.com)
    ×4.58 72 | 137 points by mikece 10 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: The best agent orchestrator is a 500-line Markdown file (github.com/bassimeledath)
    ×1.12 100 | 3 points by bombastic311 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Context Mode – 315 KB of MCP output becomes 5.4 KB in Claude Code (github.com/mksglu)
    ×1.53 79 | 77 points by mksglu 2 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. The LLM App Isn't a Model, It's a System: Designing for Quarterly Model Swaps (garybake.com)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by garybake 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Racket v9.1 (racket-lang.org)
    ×1.70 42 | 150 points by azhenley 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Gonzales – Self-hosted internet speed monitor with Home Assistant (github.com/akustikrausch)
    ×1.69 94 | 4 points by janiskl93 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: OrangeWalrus, an aggregator for trivia nights (and other events) in SF (orangewalrus.com)
    ×1.31 127 | 3 points by gjtrowbridge 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. F-Droid Board of Directors nominations 2026 (f-droid.org)
    ×1.77 4 #2 | 21 points by edent 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: A real-time strategy game that AI agents can play (llmskirmish.com)
    ×1.13 45 #86 | 216 points by __cayenne__ 2 days ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Block Layoffs (yahoo.com)
    ×0.71 | 1 points by lyfeninja 17 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP PCs (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.10 22 | 380 points by jnord 1 day ago | 333 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Protection Against Zero-Day Cyber Attacks
    ×1.30 99 | 3 points by gaurav1086 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: StreamHouse – S3-native Kafka alternative written in Rust (github.com/gbram1)
    ×3.65 117 | 10 points by gbram 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Dyson settles forced labour suit in landmark UK case (bbc.com)
    ×2.00 1 #4 | 27 points by cmsefton 1 hour ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Google workers seek 'red lines' on military A.I., echoing Anthropic (nytimes.com)
    ×4.02 59 #67 | 246 points by mikece 8 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Some silly Z3 scripts I wrote (hillelwayne.com)
    ×0.73 57 #72 | 44 points by azhenley 23 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. LLM=True (codemine.be)
    ×1.61 45 #81 | 260 points by avh3 2 days ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown (windows.com)
    ×1.81 16 #82 | 349 points by andreynering 1 day ago | 522 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: AliveUI – CSS framework with motion and depth as first-class primitives (aliveui.dev)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by pratikshadake 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Built a Hacker News Client for Terminal
    ×0.49 | 1 points by shivkmojha 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. The Pentagon threatens Anthropic (astralcodexten.com)
    ×5.34 33 | 183 points by lukeplato 1 day ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Transcribe-Critic – Merge transcript sources for stronger transcript (github.com/ringger)
    ×0.82 | 2 points by ringger 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. How Neoliberalism Broke Britain (2023) (tribunemag.co.uk)
    ×0.85 | 1 points by robtherobber 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Coding Agents Wrote a Chess Engine in Pure TeX (mathieuacher.com)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by morgangiraud 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Can you reverse engineer our neural network? (janestreet.com)
    ×1.97 7 #3 | 19 points by jsomers 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Move tests to closed source repo (github.com/tldraw)
    ×1.02 7 #46 | 48 points by nilsbunger 8 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Cartographic Symbologies: The Art and Design of Expression in Historic Maps (stanford.edu)
    ×0.47 55 #48 | 20 points by starkparker 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. The Twilight of the Smartphone (dezeen.com)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by _reza 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. China Floating Turbine Passes Testing and Completes a Grid-Connected Flight (cleantechnica.com)
    ×1.21 | 2 points by indiantinker 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Template for telling the truth on layoffs like at Block
    ×2.59 7 | 4 points by nutanc 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: I built an AI that turns emailed PDFs into ledger entries in 60s (baguno.app)
    ×0.91 | 2 points by lakma 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Steering interpretable language models with concept algebra (guidelabs.ai)
    ×0.77 50 #43 | 72 points by luulinh90s 18 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. I pitched a roller coaster to Disneyland at age 10 in 1978 (wordglyph.xyz)
    ×2.11 59 #66 | 555 points by wordglyph 2 days ago | 197 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. He saw an abandoned trailer, then uncovered a surveillance network (calmatters.org)
    ×2.74 27 #71 | 156 points by Element_ 17 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Tech companies shouldn't be bullied into doing surveillance (eff.org)
    ×4.28 14 #76 | 484 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. America, and probably the world, stands on a precipice (garymarcus.substack.com)
    ×6.11 51 | 133 points by MindGods 15 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Anthropic says company 'cannot in good conscience accede' to Pentagon's demands (apnews.com)
    ×4.98 45 | 78 points by geox 12 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???