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  1. Why does it look like LLMs consistently overestimate implementation time?
    ×0.36 | 2 points by bridgettegraham 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: Gemini 3.5 Flash breaks in stupid ways
    ×1.23 5 | 6 points by XCSme 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Failing interviews for mid-level SWE in UK, advice please
    ×0.47 55 | 11 points by mjb8086 9 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Debatable but likely not insane: there MAY be an issue with SpaceX' hiring
    ×0.20 73 | 3 points by adinhitlore 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: I'm tired of AI-generated answers
    ×6.30 85 | 84 points by theorchid 3 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Valgrind-3.27.1 Is Available
    ×0.26 77 | 9 points by paulf38 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Shouldn't Google need to give a public statement about Railway incident?
    ×1.49 38 | 173 points by srameshc 1 day ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Is HN Blocking Mullvad VPN?
    ×0.16 87 | 3 points by burger_moon 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Anyone else struggling with AI and work?
    ×0.54 69 | 7 points by carlgreene 10 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Alternatives to HN for "tech outside of AI" discussion?
    ×0.90 88 | 54 points by summonerOS 2 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Are there any serious efforts to organize tech labor now?
    ×0.87 91 | 27 points by 0rganize 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Tell HN: Google banned Railway's account. Everything down
    ×0.58 96 | 30 points by sergiotapia 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Can one run AI on source code with the prompt "Find below-avg swear rate files"?
    ×0.13 117 | 3 points by pcwir 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How does everyone talk about their work when they've used AI?
    ×0.35 120 | 5 points by deku2099 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How to manage AI APIs for SaaS application?
    ×0.26 130 | 4 points by sbinnee 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Suggest Google Antigravity Alternative
    ×0.22 110 | 7 points by Pallavimdb 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: How to make a mono-repo AI-Ready?
    ×0.12 | 2 points by kasnaka 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Sorry, what Was FiveThirtyEight?
    ×0.73 112 | 9 points by gagdiez 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Does root have to be uid 0? Does uid 0 have to be root?
    ×0.36 136 | 5 points by axismundi 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Do you enjoy reading any type of AI written text?
    ×0.18 106 | 4 points by reed1234 20 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Did moving to new place have intended effect?
    ×0.41 118 | 12 points by Jeff2Serve 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: What are Stainless users doing now that Anthropic has killed it?
    ×0.38 122 | 5 points by ubutler 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Anthropic is killing stainless, so we built our own SDK/MCP generator
    ×0.29 123 | 6 points by iiviie 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Antigravity 2.0 installer breaks existing Antigravity IDEs
    ×0.20 145 | 3 points by jdw64 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Is grpcurl home page compromised?
    ×0.19 138 | 4 points by jicea 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: How do word docs, slides, excel, and PDFs generate value?
    ×0.59 128 | 6 points by FailMore 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Go all in on startup idea, or stay W2
    ×0.05 | 2 points by Mnexium 2 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. NES Documentation [pdf] (nesdev.org)
    ×1.21 71 #52 | 5 points by medbar 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. DOS Zone (dos.zone)
    ×1.89 16 #88 | 345 points by rglover 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Testing distributed systems with AI agents (github.com/shenli)
    ×0.74 67 | 93 points by shenli3514 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Let agents run any analysis with Mixpanel data, no UI required (mixpanel.com)
    ×6.03 39 | 21 points by ttchen2 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: expo-callkit-telecom – easily integrate CallKit/Core-Telecom (github.com/mfairley)
    ×0.95 115 | 4 points by mfairley 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: A fast, thread-safe C hashmap with lazy sorting (github.com/RaphaelPrevost)
    ×0.88 127 | 3 points by jaguarwan 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. The IBM-ification of Google? (bearblog.dev)
    ×3.25 6 #10 | 102 points by sabatonfan 3 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. The Letter S, by Donald Knuth (1980) [pdf] (gwern.net)
    ×1.65 36 #49 | 267 points by bambax 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Qian Xuesen: The missile genius America lost and China gained (2025) (usni.org)
    ×1.32 33 | 194 points by thnaks 1 day ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: The user agents crawling HN today (realhackers.org)
    ×1.18 125 | 5 points by Bender 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Vivaldi 8.0 (vivaldi.com)
    ×2.44 15 #60 | 353 points by OuterVale 19 hours ago | 233 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Cleve Moler (Matlab, MathWorks) passed away on May 20, 2026 (mathworks.com)
    ×1.28 | 2 points by mychele 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS (github.com/stephenlthorn)
    ×2.19 80 | 324 points by stephenlthorn 3 days ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: LibreOffice-rs – I built a pure-Rust LibreOffice using autoresearch (github.com/clark-labs-inc)
    ×2.46 119 | 9 points by stan_kirdey 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Recreate famous water profiles using supermarket bottled water (waterdictionary.net)
    ×1.26 49 #63 | 116 points by smugglerFlynn 23 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Pocket TTS running in (mobile) Safari (ldenoue.github.io)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by ldenoue 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Convert between 30 color formats in one tool (HEX, RGB, Tailwind, Flutter, etc) (colorcx.com)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by hkdb 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Mycorrhizal Fungi, Nature's Key to Plant Survival and Success (pacifichorticulture.org)
    ×1.20 20 #9 | 45 points by mooreds 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. BBEdit 16 (barebones.com)
    ×1.89 13 #23 | 275 points by qaz_plm 8 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. EHRC guidance puts women first, which may upset people (millihill.substack.com)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by appreciatorBus 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades (newscientist.com)
    ×5.01 35 | 151 points by Anon84 16 hours ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: IResearch – C++ search that beat Lucene and Tantivy on their benchmark (github.com/serenedb)
    ×3.85 108 | 14 points by gnusi 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Every Lego minifigure ranked, from over 1.3M user votes (brickelo.com)
    ×0.42 126 | 3 points by gpattle 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. India Launches Tradable Rainfall Futures Called Rainmumbai (bloomberg.com)
    ×0.79 | 1 points by samarthr1 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Logging Off (bearblog.dev)
    ×1.71 | 2 points by James72689 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Get your passwords out of Bitwarden while you still can (osnews.com)
    ×3.64 57 | 206 points by speckx 12 hours ago | 182 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: ChangeSpec is an open specification for software change communication (github.com/changespec)
    ×1.03 104 | 3 points by cdnsteve 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: AI Audiobook Narrator (warblize.com)
    ×1.35 72 | 4 points by onhacker 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps (freenet.org)
    ×1.91 6 #7 | 215 points by sanity 8 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Samsung chip workers will get an average $340k bonus as AI profits soar (qz.com)
    ×5.26 9 #11 | 49 points by carabiner 1 hour ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. NVSX: Adopt NVSentinel the Easy Way (github.com/nav-beep)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by essekar 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Thoughts on People and Blogs (manuelmoreale.com)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by sebg 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.05 56 #85 | 207 points by CHB0403085482 1 day ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. It's Time to Walk (inferterra.com)
    ×1.13 | 2 points by matt_teresi 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins settlement after lawsuit (fire.org)
    ×6.00 31 | 758 points by ceejayoz 1 day ago | 506 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Noxu DB, a Rust Port of Berkeley DB Java Edition (codeberg.org)
    ×0.78 150 | 3 points by gregburd 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Handsets – A high-performance Android control CLI, built for agents (github.com/elliotgao2)
    ×0.87 109 | 3 points by gaojiuli 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Gpubook – An order book for GPU compute (gpubook.io)
    ×1.72 133 | 6 points by jesse_portal 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Was my $48K GPU server worth it? (rosmine.ai)
    ×2.84 8 #4 | 320 points by apwheele 10 hours ago | 232 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Tracking Starbucks' 'widely recyclable' cups: none ended up at recycling (beyondplastics.org)
    ×2.90 22 | 212 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. There's no earthly way of knowing which direction we are going (kottke.org)
    ×2.39 79 | 75 points by tobr 1 day ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Id-agent – Token efficient UUID alternative for AI agents (github.com/vostride)
    ×0.87 102 | 41 points by pranshuchittora 2 days ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Three matrix algorithms, three walk orders – interactive animations (algo-rhythm.dev)
    ×3.03 42 | 5 points by bytego 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. DApp Inspector – DevTools Panel for Web3 RPC Traffic (github.com/beilunyang)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by beilunyang 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Software Engineering at the Tipping Point (youtube.com)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by rahu_ 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Ex-Apple engineer says Apple deliberately slows older phones via updates (macobserver.com)
    ×4.39 76 | 88 points by neya 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: I Dedicated 4 Years to Mastering Offline Password Cracking
    ×2.37 3 #40 | 214 points by bojta-lepenye 13 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Headroom – Loudness normalizer and Key+BPM playlist sorter for DJs (ravers.workers.dev)
    ×1.44 64 | 6 points by jphfa 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Simulating Infinity in Conway's Game of Life with Modern C++ (ryanjk5.github.io)
    ×0.69 60 #77 | 65 points by HeliumHydride 22 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Hormuz closure could trigger 'agrifood shock', price crisis within a year (reuters.com)
    ×3.01 60 | 100 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Agent-estimate, how long a coding task takes, at agent speed (github.com/kiloloop)
    ×0.76 | 2 points by haoranchg 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: We missed Winamp, so we built an audio player for macOS (advanced-research.net)
    ×1.26 99 | 71 points by surganov 3 days ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Fender escalates legal campaign against S-style guitars (guitarworld.com)
    ×1.47 40 #41 | 106 points by rectang 16 hours ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Residents burn Ebola treatment center in Congo as anger grows over the outbreak (pbs.org)
    ×0.79 | 1 points by bryan0 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. FreeLLMAPI – One key. One billion free LLM tokens. Every month (tashfeenahmed.github.io)
    ×1.24 | 2 points by hamid914 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. U.S. bears brunt of Israel's missile defense, Pentagon assessments show (washingtonpost.com)
    ×4.72 48 | 14 points by Teever 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. After Town Bans Flock, Councilmember Crashes Out, Proposes Internet, Phone Ban (404media.co)
    ×3.38 56 | 119 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Boku – Simple, sequential YAML task runner to automate the boring stuff (hxii.github.io)
    ×0.50 | 2 points by hxii 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Chewing gum restores dad's taste and smell years after Covid (swns.com)
    ×2.37 6 #34 | 156 points by speckx 9 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE (alqst.org)
    ×4.49 36 #86 | 1061 points by giuliomagnifico 1 day ago | 463 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Alleged Kimwolf Botmaster 'Dort' Arrested, Charged in U.S. and Canada (krebsonsecurity.com)
    ×0.95 | 1 points by shepherdjerred 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Codex got better, codex might be built with Claude Opus
    ×0.40 | 1 points by Robelkidin 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Eyes on the Solar System (nasa.gov)
    ×0.35 | 1 points by md224 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???