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  1. Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?
    ×3.36 1 #26 | 271 points by Ekami 17 hours ago | 462 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?
    ×2.68 11 #27 | 484 points by andrehacker 1 day ago | 867 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Does anyone know since when we are close to building in space?
    ×1.15 12 | 3 points by kingleopold 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: So what happened to Facebook "localhost" tracking?
    ×0.76 62 | 103 points by juliusceasar 2 days ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow?
    ×1.92 2 | 144 points by dv35z 1 day ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What was your best experience with a VC?
    ×0.97 | 2 points by krrishd 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Were CS profs right to look down on programming in light of modern AI?
    ×0.73 37 | 4 points by amichail 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Does robotics capabilities research accelerate AGI timelines?
    ×0.73 59 | 8 points by themasterchief 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2026)
    ×1.01 81 | 239 points by whoishiring 5 days ago | 430 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: How do you find deep technical content?
    ×1.09 82 | 36 points by f311a 2 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: My competitors have flawed products but I can't get traction
    ×0.57 77 | 10 points by saveitincork 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Bad MCP design costs your agent 5x more tokens
    ×0.70 74 | 11 points by JohnnyZhang483 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Gin rummy strategies
    ×0.57 85 | 24 points by bix6 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)
    ×0.80 92 | 149 points by whoishiring 5 days ago | 536 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Is the web for machines (/llm.txt) the one we wished we had as humans?
    ×0.92 60 | 36 points by sunshine-o 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How did you discover Hacker News?
    ×0.97 65 | 9 points by chistev 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Is Azure capacity this constraind or am I doing it wrong?
    ×0.77 87 | 11 points by lanycrost 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Why isn't AI image generation closely linked with graphics code gen?
    ×0.16 | 2 points by amichail 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Is Everyone an Engineer Now?
    ×2.17 114 | 7 points by piratesAndSons 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. I'm tired of LLM skill slop, so I built mine with regression tests
    ×0.50 120 | 6 points by iliaov 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Life saving / first aid posters
    ×0.46 91 | 37 points by cpu_ 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: How do you stay up to date without information overload?
    ×0.59 106 | 4 points by bohdanstefaniuk 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: For non-hackers/nerds, why do you read HN?
    ×1.77 68 | 5 points by throwaway2037 12 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Being privacy-conscious comes with some downsides
    ×1.18 112 | 8 points by wqtz 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Google killed my $1M ARR startup overnight
    ×3.98 100 | 18 points by vadumo 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Supply chain attack alert: .github/setup.js
    ×4.78 73 | 21 points by antihero 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. I underestimated how hard audio waveforms are in the browser
    ×0.85 126 | 5 points by syncara 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Do you know any company that's making money with LLMs?
    ×0.98 121 | 4 points by camillomiller 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Hey, you, tech worker–how are you feeling?
    ×0.59 132 | 5 points by arm32 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: A Brief History of LLMs
    ×0.44 147 | 9 points by menomatter 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Good books/resources for learning SQL?
    ×0.66 134 | 5 points by CobaltFire 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: A searchable archive of declassified UAP/UFO files, news, and analysis (didyousee.xyz)
    ×2.25 144 | 13 points by sonjaqql 4 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. pg_durable: Microsoft open sources in-database durable execution (github.com/microsoft)
    ×2.00 12 #31 | 455 points by coffeemug 1 day ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Mouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows (mouseless.click)
    ×2.59 13 #35 | 571 points by riddley 1 day ago | 237 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. A Server Called Mercury (kennethreitz.org)
    ×1.17 | 2 points by zdw 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Communities of Not (pocoo.org)
    ×2.10 15 #46 | 19 points by Tomte 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Formally verified polygon intersection – Opus 4.8 oneshots, prev failed (github.com/schildep)
    ×1.13 63 #60 | 80 points by permute 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Cost.dev (YC W21) – making agents cost-aware and cheaper to call (cost.dev)
    ×0.63 80 | 36 points by akh 2 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Textile – A desktop app for weaving together bits of text (gettextile.app)
    ×0.73 130 | 36 points by stack_framer 5 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. First Commodore PET sold, June 5, 1977 (dfarq.homeip.net)
    ×1.12 35 #36 | 6 points by erickhill 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Mathematician solves origami donut efficiency challenge with fewest folds (phys.org)
    ×0.52 33 #81 | 9 points by pseudolus 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Mantine-datatable (and others) compromised – owner account suspended (github.com/icflorescu)
    ×0.74 30 #88 | 69 points by justsomehuman 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Markdown Notes with Chat and Mail (github.com/ThGSoft)
    ×1.25 | 2 points by thg01 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: 100cc - Roll your own Claude in 100 lines (github.com/yujqiao)
    ×1.14 148 | 10 points by rapiz 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Synapse – 2.9MB Mac app with screenshot, clipboard, Keep Awake and more (synapsemac.com)
    ×1.97 143 | 17 points by harshanacz 4 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Open Code Review – An AI-powered code review CLI tool (github.com/alibaba)
    ×1.70 23 #82 | 272 points by geoffbp 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Looking for Backdoors in Jane Street LLMs (alignmentforum.org)
    ×1.75 | 2 points by allenleee 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. posix_spawn syscall added (2012) (netbsd.org)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by JdeBP 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers (cnbc.com)
    ×5.43 10 | 81 points by toephu2 23 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Build Your Own AI Agent CLI in 150 Lines (go-micro.dev)
    ×1.70 118 | 33 points by asim 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Paseo – Beautiful open-source coding agent interface (github.com/getpaseo)
    ×1.48 88 | 89 points by timhigins 3 days ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: MetaBrain – A local document memory for AI agents (metabrain.eu)
    ×1.33 153 | 8 points by acoye 4 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: SnapToCode – Screenshot any UI and get clean Tailwind code (google.com)
    ×0.29 | 2 points by adithagrawaal 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Our Great War Is a Spiritual War (geohot.github.io)
    ×0.94 | 1 points by therepanic 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. C++: The Documentary (herbsutter.com)
    ×2.21 17 | 412 points by ingve 1 day ago | 304 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Interactive explorer for cybersecurity vulnerability trends (epoch.ai)
    ×1.17 | 2 points by cubefox 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Claude, Teach Me Something (hugotunius.se)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by dannyboland 17 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. The Great Emu War (1932) (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by freakynit 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. How LLMs work (0xkato.xyz)
    ×3.72 3 #10 | 739 points by 0xkato 17 hours ago | 203 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Readers' top novels of all time (theguardian.com)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by fallinditch 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Fires reverse progress toward ozone air quality standards in the United States (science.org)
    ×1.21 | 2 points by geox 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Communication on European Tech Sovereignty, and an EU Open-Source Strategy (europa.eu)
    ×1.67 33 | 99 points by jrepinc 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Do we need billionaires? (bjhess.com)
    ×5.72 42 | 70 points by speckx 1 day ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Sub-Agent MCP: LLM delegation and sub-agent orchestration via MCP (github.com/stormaref)
    ×1.42 48 | 5 points by avestura 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Open-source X Bookmark Manager
    ×1.06 67 | 3 points by ssarisen 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: RePlaya – self-hosted browser session replay with live tailing (github.com/s2-streamstore)
    ×0.67 105 | 50 points by shikhar 4 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. The new bibliomaniacs (engelsbergideas.com)
    ×0.73 20 #49 | 56 points by RickJWagner 7 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Mass Layoffs Caused by AI (olegdubovoi.com)
    ×1.91 | 2 points by empiree 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Competitive Programmer's Web Debugger (klyroni.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by s3arch 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. The beauty and simplicity of the good old C-style void* in C++ (giodicanio.com)
    ×1.28 | 1 points by movd128 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Lowfat – pluggable CLI filter that saved 91.8% of my LLM tokens (github.com/zdk)
    ×1.18 43 #68 | 143 points by zdkaster 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Rivian Owner Spray Paints R1T and Launches "Rivian Is Junk" Website (autoblog.com)
    ×1.35 | 2 points by GiorgioG 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Dear Microsoft, enough is enough (politico.eu)
    ×3.95 49 | 71 points by giuliomagnifico 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Documenting an Obscure Japanese Wii Game – and-Kensaku (github.com/TylerJaacks)
    ×1.92 78 | 6 points by TylerJaacks 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Digger Solo – Local AI File Explorer (digger.lol)
    ×1.33 135 | 5 points by sean_pedersen 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: I've hooked up 2D LiDARs to Raspberry Pi, wrote Python library lds2d (github.com/kaiaai)
    ×1.60 137 | 7 points by iliaov 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Code3DBench – single-image to executable Three.js benchmark (github.com/VladimirGl)
    ×1.10 154 | 4 points by vladgl94 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. "Maybe later" was a feature (arnorhs.dev)
    ×1.07 34 #70 | 94 points by arnorhs 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Microsoft wants users to be addicted to Scout, their AI personal assistant (disassociated.com)
    ×2.16 9 | 67 points by berlianta 21 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Prela – Purely Algebraic Relation Combinators (github.com/remysucre)
    ×0.68 70 | 71 points by remywang 5 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Omni – Local-first multimodal file search on macOS (hanxiao.io)
    ×0.56 84 | 5 points by artex_xh 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2025) (magicvinyldigital.net)
    ×2.10 23 | 3 points by sneela 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Lint Your Markdown with ESLint (github.com/lumirlumir)
    ×0.63 124 | 14 points by beenzinozino 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Infinite canvas notes in the non-Euclidean Poincaré disk (uonr.github.io)
    ×1.64 8 #8 | 49 points by uonr 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Cooldown Support for Ruby Bundler (rubygems.org)
    ×1.01 42 #53 | 161 points by calyhre 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: ABC Classic 100 Rankings visualised (gotski.workers.dev)
    ×0.55 28 #85 | 35 points by gotski 18 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Getting agents to code less slop (thempatel.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by thempatel 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Building a Fast Lock-Free Queue in Modern C++ from Scratch (jaysmito.dev)
    ×1.36 | 2 points by tahazsh 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Technical Interviews Reject the Wrong Engineers (fagnerbrack.com)
    ×2.32 44 | 56 points by fagnerbrack 1 day ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: SupXML, modern memory-safe XML parser replacement for libxml2 (supso.org)
    ×1.01 111 | 3 points by jrpt 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???