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Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)

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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)

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Ask HN: Tech Debt War Stories

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Kernighan on Programming

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Google terminated my YouTube channel even thought I made no videos or used it

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Google Cloud suspended my account for 2 years, only automated replies

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Signal Is Down

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Ask HN: OpenClaw users, what is your token spend?

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Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)

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Ask HN: What weird or scrappy things did you do to get your first users?

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GitHub Actions Have "Major Outage"

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Ask HN: Are you still using spec driven development?

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Best practices for powering and wiring addressable LED strip installs?

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My small SaaS got recommended my Google in the AI search overview

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Ask HN: Junior getting lost

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Why do people still talk about AGI?

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CiderStack – Native macOS VM manager, pay once, no subscription

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Ask HN: What's your preferred Python tool to convert Markdown to print ready PDF

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Ask HN: Anyone else struggle with how to learn coding in the AI era?

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Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)

3•iryndin•14h ago
New projects, refactors, experiments, startups, or late-night hacks — tell us what you’re building or exploring this month and why.

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iryndin•14h ago
I’m continuing to work on AllZonefiles.io — a domain-data hub that aggregates and serves large-scale zone files. Right now it covers ~354M domains across 1,575 zones, including ~114M domains from 317 ccTLDs, which turned out to be the hardest part operationally.

The next step is an extended dataset parsed from WHOIS: create/expire/update timestamps, NS records, and IANA registrar info. Stack is fairly boring on purpose: Go, bare-metal Linux, PostgreSQL, Bootstrap 5. The motivation is to make downloading and keeping the most complete domain lists possible automated and predictable, without manual registry workflows or fragmented sources.

predkambrij•14h ago
I'm playing with repeatable development environment with incus. So, it's like in Docker, but naturally more things should be possible (eg. snap package manager is the ultimate test), but still more disposable than VMs (eg. it won't finish your laptop battery and annoy your ears with fan).

https://github.com/predkambrij/incus-container-desktop https://github.com/predkambrij/devcontainer

iryndin•13h ago
What are advantages compared to Docker/Apple containers/VMs like Virtual Box?
predkambrij•12h ago
I'm a Linux user (I don't know Apple much). I use devcontainers (the repo I listed) for almost everything, because almost everything is possible to do with about zero overhead. Eg, it won't do memory fragmantation that VMs do, processes are just the same, as on host. GUI apps work just the same as the ones on host, which is really cool. Storage can be an issue if images multiply too much, but not a real issue. Incus is a bit different, I still evaluate it, so can't comment much. By description is just the very thing I was looking for (a VM, but without VM's overhead). It's amazing, that Debian12 desktop will start in about 2 seconds. Performance is again just the same as on host's machine. VMs are still cool, I still use them, where I want to be really sure that I won't have a bug that containers would cause them (weird networking and such).
cjflog•12h ago
I'm working on https://laboratory.love

Laboratory.love lets you fund independent plastic chemical lab testing of the specific foods you actually buy. Think Consumer Reports meets Kickstarter, but focused on detecting endocrine disruptors in your yogurt, your kid’s snacks, or whatever you’re curious about.

Find a product (or suggest one), contribute to its testing fund, and get full lab results when testing completes. If a product doesn’t reach its goal within 365 days, you’re automatically refunded. All results are published publicly.

This project was inspired by Nat Friedman's PlasticList.org and we use the same ISO 17025-accredited methodology they did, testing three separate production lots per product (when possible) and detecting down to parts-per-billion. The entire protocol is open.

I just published new results today! Turns out Muir Glen's caned Fire Roasted Diced Tomatoes are incredibly low in plastic chemicals. Yay!

Browse funded tests, propose your own, or just follow along: https://laboratory.love

iryndin•12h ago
Wow, that is pretty cool! Do you run lab tests yourself, or have to engage a certified lab instead? How does that all work ?
cjflog•12h ago
The testing is surprisingly complex!

I partner with Light Labs to handle the testing → https://www.lightlabs.com/

junaid_97•2h ago
II built a free USCIS form-filling tool (no Adobe required) USCIS forms still use XFA PDFs, which don’t let you edit in most browsers. Even with Adobe, fields break, and getting the signature is hard. So I converted the PDF form into modern, browser-friendly web forms - and kept every field 1:1 with the original. You fill the form, submit it, and get the official USCIS PDF filled.

https://fillvisa.com/demo/

What Fillvisa does:

- Fill USCIS forms directly in your browser - no Adobe needed

- 100% free

- No login/account required

- Autosave as you type

- Local-only storage (your data never leaves the browser)

- Clean, mobile-friendly UI

- Generates the official USCIS PDF, ready to submit

- Built-in signature pad

I just wanted a fast, modern, free way to complete the actual USCIS form itself without the PDF headaches. This is a beta version

techtalksweekly•2h ago
https://techtalksweekly.io/

I'm building a newsletter called Tech Talks Weekly[1] where my readers get one email per week with all the latest Software Engineering conference talks and podcasts[1] published that week.

In January, I've released a paid tier[2] where my subscribers additionally get:

1. Access to my internal database of all the talks and podcasts since 2020 (+48,000 in total) where they can search, filter, sort, and group by title, conference/podcast, view count, date, and duration.

2. See the list of the most-watched talks over the last 7, 30, 90 days, 6 months, and 12 months based on number of views.

3. Get category-based view of new talks & podcasts by tech stack, language, and domain (Software Architecture, Backend, Frontend, Full Stack, Data, ML, DevOps, Security, Leadership and every major language & ecosystem)

[1] https://www.techtalksweekly.io/p/what-is-tech-talks-weekly

[2] https://plus.techtalksweekly.io/

chunza2542•1h ago
I'm working on https://storymotion.video/

a tool for creating hand-drawn animated diagrams for educational creators or technical writer.

- You can export it as video (4k, 60fps) - Do some presentation. - or embed as iframe on to the blog posts or technical docs.

It's combined the experiences of Keynote and Excalidraw, both software I was enjoy using!

sensecall•41m ago
https://spud.recipes

A tiny web app for busy weeknight cooking.

You tap in what ingredients you’ve got, add a time limit + a couple of preferences, and it gives you 3 genuinely doable dinner ideas with step-by-step recipes (no “manage your pantry”, no endless scrolling).

It’s early, but people seem to like the “use up what you’ve got” angle. Feedback very welcome.

BrunoBernardino•30m ago
I've been working with my wife on Uruky [1] for a couple of months, now. It's a EU-based (early) Kagi [2] alternative (privacy-focused and ad-free search with domain boosting/exclusion rules).

We've been using it with friends and family semi-successfully (hashbangs always work if the results aren't satisfactory).

It's really difficult to get bigger indexes other than Mojeek and Marginalia to want to work with us and improve the results further, so that's something I've been researching more, lately.

If you're interested in trying it for a few days and are a human, reach out with your account number and I'll give you a couple of weeks for free. We're pushing improvements daily.

[1] https://uruky.com

[2] https://kagi.com