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  1. Ask HN: What Is the State of App Development in 2026?
    ×1.31 12 #29 | 33 points by karakoram 2 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. NPM Packages Attacks
    ×0.10 78 | 3 points by carlostkd 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Any advice on how to learn good software architecture practices?
    ×0.25 74 | 13 points by jimsojim 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: If I cancel Codex today whats the next best local inference agent?
    ×0.32 79 | 9 points by Bulbasaur2015 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How is your org managing PR review load as AI multiplies code output?
    ×0.34 75 | 8 points by meteor333 20 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What Is an "AI Engineer"?
    ×0.27 92 | 17 points by seattle_spring 2 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. FYI: Dreamina is shady; do not use
    ×0.22 94 | 4 points by ronyeh 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Does Claude Code remove the need for so many front-end frameworks?
    ×0.35 101 | 10 points by ex-aws-dude 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HK: How are you building AI apps today?
    ×0.28 86 | 7 points by Mnexium 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What Are You Thankful For?
    ×1.61 54 | 7 points by chistev 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What's the hardest problem you've ever solved?
    ×1.72 42 | 10 points by chistev 9 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro?
    ×1.14 81 | 152 points by widenrun 4 days ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. C++ CLI for folder encryption with AES-256-GCM and USB-based key loading
    ×0.17 | 2 points by nextma 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: I found out that I'm about to be laid off. How do people find jobs?
    ×0.91 84 | 22 points by wwwthrowaway256 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Garnix, the Nix CI, is shutting down
    ×0.39 104 | 12 points by cinericius 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How do you feel about posts about GenAI taking over the HN front page?
    ×0.33 107 | 12 points by blenderob 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Train 1T parameter LLM with 8 GPUs?
    ×0.15 160 | 3 points by kendy1992 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. A disk-first C++ vector engine
    ×0.16 128 | 4 points by saeedq 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Do not use Cloudflare DNS regsitrar
    ×0.55 98 | 11 points by talkingtab 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Why not have an EU browser?
    ×0.26 130 | 7 points by osigurdson 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Thoughts on the current state of tech meetups in the SF Bay Area?
    ×0.64 90 | 4 points by Austin_Conlon 21 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Sqlit – A lazygit-style TUI for SQL databases
    ×0.30 141 | 20 points by MaxTeabag 4 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: How do you model temporarily invalid data structures
    ×0.14 161 | 5 points by escot 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Did the Linux memory management maintainer "just quit"?
    ×0.45 149 | 17 points by hliyan 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Rsync 3.4.3 has hundreds of Claude commits (gamedev.place)
    ×5.58 53 | 79 points by fooker 9 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: Tunnel.to – dead simple localhost reverse tunnels (tunnel.to)
    ×2.44 116 | 7 points by StuntPope 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Iron – A Programmable Compiler that can convert 6.3M LOC/s (github.com/dogmaticdev)
    ×2.44 136 | 8 points by dogmaticdev 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. A new register allocator for ZJIT (railsatscale.com)
    ×0.72 49 #41 | 53 points by tenderlove 13 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. You can just say it (noperator.dev)
    ×3.77 31 #66 | 370 points by antirez 20 hours ago | 199 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Rothko for your current weather conditions (joonas.wtf)
    ×1.55 24 #73 | 144 points by jxmorris12 23 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: I built an Android OS in the browser (mobilegym.dev)
    ×1.15 57 #82 | 15 points by haozaz 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Finding Miscompiles for Fun, Not Profit (semianalysis.com)
    ×0.81 52 #88 | 39 points by tmoertel 20 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. High Density Living, 2000 Years Ago: Inside the Roman Apartment Building (commonedge.org)
    ×1.20 58 #45 | 186 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Demon – open-source real-time music diffusion engine, 25Hz local GPU (daydreamlive.github.io)
    ×4.65 111 | 17 points by ryanontheinside 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Gave Claude Code ADHD.. Now it thinks 3x better (adhdstack.github.io)
    ×1.92 147 | 8 points by udit_50 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. The tension between local and cloud agents (vivekhaldar.com)
    ×1.21 | 2 points by gandalfgeek 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: MigraDiff v1.3.0 – PostgreSQL schema diff with AI migration explanation (github.com/migradiff)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by lateos-ai 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Is this sustainable? (jamiehurst.co.uk)
    ×1.14 50 | 91 points by ColinEberhardt 1 day ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: A website that tracks every stock trade Congress makes (kadoa.com)
    ×1.92 97 | 61 points by hubraumhugo 4 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: VT Code – open-source terminal coding agent in Rust (github.com/vinhnx)
    ×0.75 58 | 14 points by vinhnx 15 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. I am retiring from tech to live offline (openpath.quest)
    ×5.15 45 #75 | 811 points by PinkG 1 day ago | 557 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. GitHub Copilot charges GPT 5.5 with a 57x multiplier per request from June first (github.com/en)
    ×0.82 | 1 points by theanonymousone 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance' (bloomberg.com)
    ×4.84 9 | 256 points by leopoldj 1 day ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Let's talk about encrypted reasoning (cryptographyengineering.com)
    ×1.05 65 #46 | 22 points by MrBuddyCasino 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Inferno (Boards of Canada) (wikipedia.org)
    ×3.43 16 #89 | 33 points by BruceEel 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. A Practical Guide for Secure MCP Server Development (owasp.org)
    ×1.16 | 2 points by mooreds 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Edgar Morin (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.13 | 2 points by simonebrunozzi 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Cars collect a startling amount of data about you (bbc.com)
    ×3.12 2 | 492 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 day ago | 285 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: TypistStories, new Gothic novel released (typiststories.com)
    ×0.52 | 2 points by afonsosoares 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Perry Compiles TypeScript directly to executables using SWC and LLVM (perryts.com)
    ×1.12 19 #40 | 116 points by 0x1997 15 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Local Git remotes (cblgh.org)
    ×0.75 54 #80 | 85 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Puppetmaster crushes token costs, increases speed, and context (github.com/professorpalmer)
    ×1.98 34 | 3 points by professorpalmer 46 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Announcing Rust 1.96 (rust-lang.org)
    ×2.87 57 | 143 points by adamch 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Open-Source AI Racing Harness (elodin.systems)
    ×0.58 71 | 75 points by danAtElodin 2 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. They STOLE his $200k Lego Collection – – – LEGALLY? [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.81 | 1 points by abirch 6 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. QuitNicPouches: Nicotine pouch quit app built around craving pattern recognition (apple.com)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by swdevpa 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: I think I by accident created something beautiful about LLM [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by modinfo 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. About LLMs at Zig Days (kristoff.it)
    ×1.57 67 | 82 points by kristoff_it 1 day ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM (latimes.com)
    ×4.59 33 #51 | 625 points by brandonb 1 day ago | 824 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Expertise in the age of AI (moderndescartes.com)
    ×1.13 54 #65 | 119 points by brilee 1 day ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Is AI causing a repeat of frontend’s lost decade? (mastrojs.github.io)
    ×2.39 4 #70 | 394 points by xyzal 1 day ago | 323 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. UK military looks at allowing lethal strikes without human approval (ft.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by _____k 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Gochan – A library of channel architectures for Go, inspired by Rust (github.com/amorey)
    ×1.29 157 | 5 points by andres 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: AionOS – self-healing microkernel in Zig (boots on real hardware) (github.com/rodancz)
    ×0.93 91 | 5 points by rodancz 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Someone used my open source project to phish people (andrej.sh)
    ×1.11 62 #64 | 105 points by andrejsshell 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Toranj: Our Adventure Left Mid-Way inside a loud and grieving Iran (medium.com)
    ×1.08 2 #69 | 4 points by alir8zana 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Kelsey Hightower on Practical and Responsible Use Cases for Agentic AI [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.15 50 | 3 points by mooreds 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Intent to Experiment: Email Verification Protocol (google.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by sgoto 46 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Abcdfhijkmnpqrstuvwxyz.com – can you spot what's missing and why it matters? (medium.com)
    ×1.14 | 2 points by gillesr 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit (koenvangilst.nl)
    ×1.92 28 #20 | 434 points by vnglst 1 day ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12 (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×2.03 36 #28 | 364 points by watermelon0 1 day ago | 584 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. China's joint venture policy and the international transfer of technology (2019) (voxchina.org)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by leonidasrup 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Continue? Y/N: A 60-second game about AI agent permission fatigue (scalex.dev)
    ×1.78 36 | 378 points by Wirbelwind 2 days ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Danish pension fund excludes SpaceX citing governance and valuation (reuters.com)
    ×4.79 70 #79 | 436 points by vrganj 10 hours ago | 327 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. A Trademark Dispute over MeshCore (lwn.net)
    ×1.16 | 2 points by 6581 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Tulip mania: when a single flower was worth more than a house (2025) (dutchreview.com)
    ×0.90 23 | 142 points by dotcoma 1 day ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Elemental – simple front ends in plain JavaScript (github.com/fynyky)
    ×1.10 89 | 6 points by fynyky 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. The Kaiser and a "Mediocre Man" Theory of History (deadcarl.com)
    ×1.29 54 | 68 points by baud147258 8 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Teleport-env – <500ms stateful rollbacks for AI agents via CRIU (github.com/JaiCode08)
    ×1.42 126 | 9 points by Jainish08 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. It Takes Two Neurons to Ride a Bicycle (fermatslibrary.com)
    ×1.49 11 #9 | 51 points by malshe 4 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Helios – what plug-in solar could generate for any address in Britain (southlondonscientific.com)
    ×0.93 12 #13 | 82 points by ruaraidh 7 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: BuildBy – find out how many Electron apps are on your Mac or Windows (github.com/wavever)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by wavever 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Community Ninja – Find customers searching for your product (communityninja.ai)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by shashanoid 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. The UK government's Low Value Purchase System is a waste of time (shkspr.mobi)
    ×1.12 22 | 138 points by ColinWright 1 day ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: AI Skill to port PostgreSQL extensions to MySQL (github.com/villagesql)
    ×1.11 144 | 4 points by deesix 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: I built a tool to auto-accept AI slop and bigtech devs loves it (github.com/Alcray)
    ×1.89 129 | 17 points by alcray 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Zig ELF Linker Improvements Devlog (ziglang.org)
    ×2.18 2 #2 | 34 points by kristoff_it 44 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Claude Opus 4.8 (anthropic.com)
    ×6.26 2 #44 | 1737 points by craigmart 2 days ago | 1357 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Emergence World: A Laboratory for Evaluating Long-Horizon Agent Autonomy (emergence.ai)
    ×1.28 | 2 points by rawgabbit 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Game Boy pixel pipeline explorer (pixelpipeline.xyz)
    ×2.22 121 | 14 points by blueblazin 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???