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  1. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)
    ×1.41 25 #44 | 260 points by david927 21 hours ago | 953 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Can I repurpose a Bluetooth voice remote as input device for a PC?
    ×0.25 59 #69 | 10 points by albert_e 7 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Code-review-graph: persistent code graph that cuts Claude Code token usage
    ×0.42 | 2 points by tirthkanani 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting
    ×5.66 43 | 677 points by Oras 1 day ago | 476 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Most beautiful personal blog UI you have ever seen?
    ×2.95 15 | 115 points by ms7892 22 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: How to be alone?
    ×4.50 19 | 633 points by sillysaurusx 1 day ago | 523 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days?
    ×2.77 40 | 4 points by chistev 34 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Who Needs Help?
    ×2.01 8 | 11 points by surprisetalk 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. A job ad for Agentic AI Advocate
    ×0.61 53 | 4 points by greenpinia 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Are showlang and thelang HN endpoints not being maintained?
    ×0.59 73 | 3 points by freakynit 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion
    ×5.56 22 | 1057 points by shannoncc 2 days ago | 961 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. All tmux sessions as a single terminal
    ×0.27 | 2 points by lygten 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. OpenAI might end up on the right side of history
    ×1.03 84 | 12 points by shoman3003 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Are we going to see more job postings asking for only agentic coding?
    ×0.85 94 | 5 points by ronbenton 20 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How are you adapting your career in this AI era?
    ×2.34 44 | 9 points by sarthaksaxena 8 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How are you handling persistent memory across local Ollama sessions
    ×0.47 113 | 5 points by null-phnix 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: How are you monitoring AI agents in production?
    ×0.71 103 | 4 points by jairooh 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: What is your oldest living presence on the World Wide Web?
    ×0.45 | 2 points by dhruv3006 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Anyone else feel this community has changed recently?
    ×3.57 96 | 53 points by kypro 2 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Whisker – Self hosted e-commerce cart, pure PHP, zero dependencies
    ×0.49 127 | 7 points by eLohith 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. I replaced my freelance SaaS stack with 5 single-file HTML tools
    ×1.24 111 | 4 points by AnnSri 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Why Is Phil Wang / Lucidrains Off GitHub?
    ×0.19 126 | 3 points by vessenes 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Can we talk about AI Astroturfing?
    ×3.49 82 | 48 points by overgard 2 days ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. PhD interrupted by personal safety issues, now publication record is thin
    ×0.25 137 | 4 points by qthrwaway 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Tell HN: The proposed KIDS Act (HR 7757) effectively mandates biometric browsing
    ×1.15 117 | 18 points by fokdelafons 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Add llms.txt and fix robots.txt for AI agent discoverability
    ×0.29 136 | 3 points by nishiohiroshi 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Do You Enjoy Your Career in Tech Nowadays?
    ×0.87 123 | 29 points by karakoram 4 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Last time you wrote code?
    ×0.48 129 | 5 points by blinkbat 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. How do teams prevent duplicate LLM API calls and token waste?
    ×0.29 139 | 3 points by cachelogic 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Has anyone noticed the fear-driven prompt suggestions that GPT5.3 makes?
    ×0.46 140 | 14 points by cedarscarlett 4 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. What Will Happen to Android?
    ×0.57 138 | 4 points by MrLey 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Self taught gen-xers with senior dev/pm exp. Where's my imposter syndrome team?
    ×0.30 145 | 4 points by _hugerobots_ 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Best Monitoring and Observability Platform?
    ×0.15 | 2 points by kebforlifer1 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Why do we still buy things by browsing catalogs?
    ×0.43 142 | 6 points by dannythecount 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. If AI is so good, why don't we have an infinite supply of 10x engineers?
    ×1.75 104 | 10 points by YounesDz 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: What career will you switch to when AI replaces developers?
    ×3.73 97 | 30 points by DGAP 2 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Do You Have a Homelab?
    ×0.55 131 | 14 points by ricardbejarano 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: Anyone fought a big corp over IP theft courts?
    ×0.34 141 | 7 points by NatalijaAAD 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: Doctor with software development experience – careers combining both?
    ×0.38 143 | 4 points by frank-cheynne 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: Best way to implement logging and audit trails for AI apps?
    ×0.40 144 | 4 points by devstatic 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Lazy JWT Key Rotation in .NET: Redis-Powered JWKS That Just Works (aaronpina.com)
    ×0.37 39 #52 | 14 points by aaronpina 5 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Beagle, a source code management system that stores AST trees (github.com/gritzko)
    ×0.89 57 #80 | 105 points by strogonoff 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Efficient LLM Architectures for 32GB RAM (Ternary and Sparse Inference) (github.com/opengraviton)
    ×1.33 | 2 points by fatihturker 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Curiosity – DIY 6" Newtonian Reflector Telescope (curiosity-telescope.vercel.app)
    ×0.84 65 | 80 points by big_Brain69 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Bring your own prompts to remote shells (github.com/tgalal)
    ×0.54 72 | 3 points by tgalal 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Striq – Query lossy time series in C at 0.4µs without decompressing (github.com/NahumResearch)
    ×0.53 | 2 points by NahumResearch09 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: ChatML - Run Claude Code Parallel Sessions in a Desktop app (github.com/chatml)
    ×1.03 99 | 4 points by mcastilho 20 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Concern over US travel visas prompts Ig Nobels to move its awards to Europe (apnews.com)
    ×3.98 29 #66 | 4 points by geephroh 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: React Trace – Development-time visual inspector for React components (react-trace.js.org)
    ×0.79 | 1 points by buzinas 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Making Codex stop rediscovering the same repository over and over
    ×0.54 | 1 points by oldskultxo 56 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. To the Polypropylene Makers (lesswrong.com)
    ×2.28 61 | 88 points by raldi 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Botais (Battle of the AI's) – Competitive Snake Game for LLMs (sello.dev)
    ×0.77 89 | 3 points by giza182 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. DARPA's new X-76 (darpa.mil)
    ×1.42 8 #7 | 98 points by newer_vienna 4 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Skir – like Protocol Buffer but better (skir.build)
    ×0.87 44 #78 | 103 points by gepheum 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Freestiler – PMTiles vector tilesets from R and Python (walker-data.com)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by carnevalem 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. The new Apple begins to emerge (parkerortolani.blog)
    ×2.12 49 | 93 points by atombender 1 day ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: SRA – A new architectural pattern for modern product engineering (github.com/FelixZY)
    ×0.70 135 | 5 points by FelixZY 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Bunway – Express-compatible web framework for Bun (jointops.dev)
    ×0.80 95 | 3 points by rockstarsb 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. JSLinux Now Supports x86_64 (bellard.org)
    ×1.47 8 #2 | 148 points by TechTechTech 4 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. So you want to write an "app" (2025) (arcanenibble.github.io)
    ×1.35 47 #21 | 3 points by jmusall 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. No leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2026 (iana.org)
    ×1.24 40 #26 | 54 points by speckx 9 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. SigNoz (YC W21) is hiring for engineering, growth and product roles (signoz.io)
    2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Warn about PyPy being unmaintained (github.com/astral-sh)
    ×2.13 38 #87 | 316 points by networked 1 day ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. LeRobot v0.5.0: Scaling Every Dimension (huggingface.co)
    ×1.19 | 2 points by ibobev 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Ket – quantum circuit simulator, TypeScript, 3 back ends, 14 formats (github.com/dmvjs)
    ×0.82 | 2 points by dmvjs 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Engram – open-source persistent memory for AI agents (Bun and SQLite) (github.com/zanfiel)
    ×0.35 | 2 points by zanfiel 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. PCB devboard the size of a USB-C plug (github.com/Dieu-de-l-elec)
    ×1.46 32 #46 | 252 points by zachlatta 22 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. We should revisit literate programming in the agent era (silly.business)
    ×1.61 9 #74 | 281 points by horseradish 1 day ago | 212 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. LibreOffice Writer now supports Markdown (documentfoundation.org)
    ×3.09 7 #89 | 378 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: LOAB – AI agents get decisions right but skip the process [pdf] (github.com/shubchat)
    ×0.87 | 1 points by shubh-chat 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. The stagnancy of publishing and the disappearance of the midlist (honest-broker.com)
    ×1.09 69 | 99 points by wallflower 2 days ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Run autoresearch on a gaming PC (Windows and RTX GPUs fork) (github.com/jsegov)
    ×0.56 | 2 points by segov 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. FreeBSD Capsicum vs. Linux Seccomp Process Sandboxing (vivianvoss.net)
    ×0.96 9 #30 | 103 points by vermaden 8 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Living human brain cells play DOOM on a CL1 [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.46 43 #58 | 240 points by kevinak 1 day ago | 244 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Are We Sentient AI?
    ×0.58 | 1 points by abmmgb 33 minutes ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. The changing goalposts of AGI and timelines (mlumiste.com)
    ×3.20 14 | 398 points by skandium 1 day ago | 362 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Fixfest is a global gathering of repairers, tinkerers, and activists (therestartproject.org)
    ×1.14 3 #11 | 114 points by robtherobber 3 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Algebraic topology: knots links and braids (tue.nl)
    ×0.98 16 #31 | 55 points by marysminefnuf 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. The window chrome of our discontent (pxlnv.com)
    ×1.47 19 #33 | 134 points by zdw 12 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Testing Apple's 2026 16-inch MacBook Pro, M5 Max, and its new performance cores (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.15 24 | 3 points by rbanffy 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Run 500B+ Parameter LLMs Locally on a Mac Mini (github.com/opengraviton)
    ×2.83 75 | 8 points by fatihturker 14 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Caliper – Auto Instrumented LLM Observability with Custom Metadata (gitlab.com)
    ×1.44 | 2 points by OliverGuy 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. I made a programming language with M&Ms (mufeedvh.com)
    ×0.81 68 #61 | 113 points by tosh 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: HELmR – A runtime control layer for autonomous agents (github.com/helmr-labs)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by systems_arch 41 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Closing the verification loop: Observability-driven harnesses for agents (datadoghq.com)
    ×1.33 | 2 points by alpaylan 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Tunn – open-source ngrok alternative built on QUIC, 4x faster (github.com/Diyarbekoralbaev)
    ×2.70 102 | 6 points by Rocked0205 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Complying with California's AB 1043 via signal fusion, not ID uploads (a3api.io)
    ×1.07 120 | 3 points by digital-arcadia 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Velxio, Arduino Emulator (velxio.dev)
    ×1.22 14 #17 | 23 points by dmonterocrespo 2 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Nvidia backs AI data center startup Nscale as it hits $14.6B valuation (cnbc.com)
    ×1.44 3 #88 | 47 points by voxadam 10 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. How to run Qwen 3.5 locally (unsloth.ai)
    ×3.81 18 | 481 points by Curiositry 1 day ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???