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  1. We're temporarily restricting Show HNs because of an influx
    ×2.12 45 | 8 points by cskilbeck 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Is it possible to send a message in Morse code by un-following someone on x.com?
    ×0.20 44 | 6 points by savhascelik 5 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2026)
    ×1.02 71 | 235 points by whoishiring 2 days ago | 384 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)
    ×0.81 77 | 143 points by whoishiring 2 days ago | 473 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Laid off. Broke. Depressed. & idk how to market my SaaS
    ×1.96 11 | 9 points by touseefbuilds 3 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Why Ask HN has only 14 questions now?
    ×1.90 6 | 9 points by throwaw12 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Anyone seen a CC- serial prefix on legacy networking hardware?
    ×0.82 80 | 67 points by Throwaway_sys 3 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Why are so many Show HNs being flagged?
    ×0.38 | 2 points by 866-RON-0-FEZ 9 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: A Brief History of LLMs
    ×0.56 86 | 8 points by menomatter 22 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What Is the State of App Development in 2026?
    ×0.93 104 | 100 points by karakoram 4 days ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What is your opinion on index rule changes to accommodate Mega-Cap IPOs?
    ×0.91 103 | 13 points by figmert 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel
    ×7.64 27 | 950 points by IliaLitviak 1 day ago | 267 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. I'm Done Using AI
    ×2.32 85 | 30 points by nyxtom 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Angular jasmine unit tests are harder to code/maintain than the actual feature
    ×0.82 122 | 3 points by GamingAtWork 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. AI Goal: Senior Software Engineer
    ×0.27 115 | 4 points by oryocyph 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. $100 to a Debian Developer who can get Fresh Editor into Trixie
    ×0.40 113 | 28 points by jph 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Recruiters, How do you vet resume in 2026?
    ×0.41 128 | 15 points by CoffeeSky 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Why is AI use decried if it has been used without attribution?
    ×0.41 119 | 5 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Tell HN: In the old days, computers used to get constantly faster and cheaper
    ×1.42 105 | 14 points by wewewedxfgdf 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. The AI tool discovery problem
    ×0.47 126 | 7 points by meenabhagvat 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Architect MCP and TUI
    ×0.46 138 | 6 points by tonycdr 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Donating AI credits to open source projects
    ×0.28 146 | 7 points by happyPersonR 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Corporate Disconnect Between "Tokenmaxxing" and Token Optimization
    ×0.25 149 | 5 points by mc-0 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Microsoft Office 2019 for Mac Will Soon Stop Letting You Edit Documents (macrumors.com)
    ×3.54 22 #52 | 13 points by CharlesW 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Capstone – multi-platform, multi-architecture disassembly framework (capstone-engine.org)
    ×0.90 57 #66 | 105 points by gregsadetsky 22 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Deck Gallery (deck.gallery)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by handfuloflight 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: 500 years of Joseon court omens as an observability dashboard (ajin.im)
    ×1.13 91 | 157 points by poppypetalmask 4 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Textile – A desktop app for weaving together bits of text (gettextile.app)
    ×0.74 92 | 36 points by stack_framer 2 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. A minimal linear algebra library in pure Go (github.com/igomez10)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by igomeza 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Transparency.org Accuses Trump of Using Anti-Corruption Agenda Against Brazil [pdf] (transparencycdn.org)
    ×1.05 | 2 points by peq42 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. GitHub Copilot App (github.com/features)
    ×1.21 52 | 119 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Pwnd Blaster: Hacking your PC using your speaker without ever touching it (nns.ee)
    ×2.89 1 #8 | 637 points by xx_ns 13 hours ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. A Post-Quantum Future for Let's Encrypt (letsencrypt.org)
    ×1.61 2 #15 | 213 points by SGran 9 hours ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Rscrypto, pure-Rust crypto with industry leading public benches (github.com/loadingalias)
    ×0.50 45 #45 | 24 points by LoadingALIAS 7 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. DNS Is for People – Not for IT Infrastructure (louwrentius.com)
    ×0.83 | 1 points by louwrentius 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Broadcom Slides After AI Chip Outlook Disappoints Investors (bloomberg.com)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by lesbarclays 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. QBE – Compiler Backend – 1.3 (c9x.me)
    ×0.91 59 | 106 points by birdculture 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Reddit user creates DB and MCP to mine Polygon, finds patterns on Polymarket (reddit.com)
    ×4.52 22 | 9 points by consumer451 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Cordium: FOSS sandbox platform that eliminates credential injection (github.com/octelium)
    ×0.88 161 | 3 points by geoctl 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. 4K years ago, Mohenjo-daro grew more equal over time (archaeologymag.com)
    ×1.09 41 | 114 points by marojejian 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Hop – JSX for Rust (hoplang.com)
    ×2.54 101 | 9 points by lyxell 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: NUA an agent that tests for product correctness (trynua.dev)
    ×1.71 117 | 8 points by Paster335 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Fluid Simulation for Dummies (2006) (mikeash.com)
    ×0.67 35 #35 | 52 points by sebg 8 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. A blueprint for democratic governance of frontier AI (openai.com)
    ×0.89 44 #64 | 14 points by tmp10423288442 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Use your Nvidia GPU's VRAM as swap space on Linux (github.com/c0dejedi)
    ×2.14 4 #71 | 453 points by tanelpoder 1 day ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. HP re-releases classic computer science calculator: The HP-16C (hpcalcs.com)
    ×1.41 37 #75 | 206 points by dm319 1 day ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. ADHD: Parallel Divergent Ideation for Coding Agents (adhdstack.github.io)
    ×1.02 | 2 points by pgedge_postgres 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Gooey: A GPU-accelerated UI framework for Zig (github.com/duanebester)
    ×1.18 10 #9 | 129 points by ksec 7 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Breaking Circular Imports in Python Without Losing Type Safety (orcaset.com)
    ×1.42 37 | 3 points by jrdnocs 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: A searchable archive of declassified UAP/UFO files, news, and analysis (didyousee.xyz)
    ×2.33 95 | 13 points by sonjaqql 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: CakeML-based self-verifying, self-improving system (emberian.github.io)
    ×1.02 150 | 4 points by cmrx64 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Uber cuts 23% of people division as new president takes over (bloomberg.com)
    ×3.96 36 | 69 points by heldrida 8 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Helios – what plug-in solar could generate for any address in Britain (southlondonscientific.com)
    ×0.88 99 | 126 points by ruaraidh 4 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Open-source private home security camera system (end-to-end encryption) (github.com/secluso)
    ×1.32 106 | 136 points by arrdalan 5 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Meteor Explodes over Massachusetts (nbcboston.com)
    ×2.00 8 #12 | 25 points by 1970-01-01 2 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Good Teachers Don't Cheat (jasonkena.github.io)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by RevoGen 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Ask HN: How to voice disagreement over S&P500 inclusion rules change for SpaceX?
    ×3.96 14 | 8 points by MakersF 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Michael Burry says neither SpaceX nor Anthropic is worth $1T (businessinsider.com)
    ×5.80 64 | 133 points by mgh2 1 day ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Gleam v1.17.0 (gleam.run)
    ×2.45 36 | 128 points by figbert 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Junco, turn newsletters into short audio episodes (tryjunco.com)
    ×1.26 116 | 3 points by alex-onecard 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Zaxy v1.0 (zaxy.io)
    ×0.62 157 | 3 points by syndicalt 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Polymarket cuts ties with Santos as regulators probe trades on Kalshi (apnews.com)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. We shrank our TimescaleDB chunks from 30 days to 7 (wmg.com)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by yask123 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Building iOS Apps with Doom Emacs (wassimans.com)
    ×3.19 27 #49 | 66 points by wassimans 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Reading MAI's efficiency gain. How to pick architectures like serious people (idlemachines.co.uk)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by smaddrellmander 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Moravec's Paradox (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.87 18 | 4 points by chistev 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. How should we think about Starship? (mceglowski.substack.com)
    ×1.00 | 2 points by PanMan 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. What's gonna happen to software engineers? (yakko.dev)
    ×2.07 79 | 74 points by yakkomajuri 2 days ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. 24. Goulash Programming Night (entropia.de)
    ×0.98 | 2 points by throw_await 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Rockstar fit a city into PlayStation 2 memory [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.05 | 2 points by birdculture 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. macOS needs its grid back (hopefullyuseful.com)
    ×2.03 42 | 396 points by ranebo 1 day ago | 263 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re recording" (techradar.com)
    ×8.40 3 | 335 points by CharlesW 1 day ago | 262 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: 100cc - Roll your own Claude in 100 lines (github.com/yujqiao)
    ×1.19 94 | 10 points by rapiz 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Inside The British Lab Hunting for Dangers Lurking in A.I (nytimes.com)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by bookofjoe 29 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Americans Have Grown Dramatically Anti-Data Center (gizmodo.com)
    ×2.46 16 #67 | 5 points by WarOnPrivacy 49 minutes ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. More than 6 out of 10 people turn to AI for psychological support (axa.com)
    ×1.91 51 | 80 points by mgh2 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min (bbc.com)
    ×4.46 25 #29 | 670 points by reconnecting 11 hours ago | 640 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. What I've learned about the trombone (bryanhu.com)
    ×0.83 44 #37 | 81 points by bookofjoe 12 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. 'Driving like teenagers': Waymo robotaxis run red lights, nearly hit pedestrians (cnn.com)
    ×2.82 23 #72 | 8 points by breve 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Fidonet: Technology, Use, Tools, and History (1993) (fidonet.org)
    ×0.94 57 #82 | 179 points by BruceEel 1 day ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. EU wants households to cut peak time energy use as industry and AI demand soars (politico.eu)
    ×6.53 32 | 12 points by pseudalopex 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Prela – Purely Algebraic Relation Combinators (github.com/remysucre)
    ×0.54 | 2 points by remywang 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Llms.txt is not a docs url dump (docsalot.dev)
    ×0.64 | 2 points by fazkan 47 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Valdr - Valkey/Redis in safe Rust, passes >99% of Valkey test suite (github.com/ianm199)
    ×1.15 139 | 5 points by ianm218 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Free activity calendar for schools, sports clubs, and organizations (freecal.eu)
    ×0.49 151 | 9 points by glenn_vc 5 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Why China got rich and India didn't (davidoks.blog)
    ×4.51 57 | 77 points by rochansinha 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing (simonwillison.net)
    ×3.44 11 #7 | 343 points by pdyc 11 hours ago | 437 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Apple Bringing App Store Age Verification to Texas as SB 2420 Takes Effect (macrumors.com)
    ×1.81 | 2 points by dabinat 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Intel bit off more than it could chew with 18A process node (theregister.com)
    ×0.99 | 2 points by WarOnPrivacy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Know Your Nulls (claytn.dev)
    ×1.05 | 2 points by claytn 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???