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  1. Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel
    ×7.14 #1 | 652 points by IliaLitviak 1 hour ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2026)
    ×1.10 36 #36 | 215 points by whoishiring 1 day ago | 302 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)
    ×0.89 46 #41 | 132 points by whoishiring 23 hours ago | 384 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Anyone seen a CC- serial prefix on legacy networking hardware?
    ×1.01 16 #65 | 60 points by Throwaway_sys 14 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Why is AI use decried if it has been used without attribution?
    ×0.65 46 | 3 points by bookofjoe 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What is your opinion on index rule changes to accommodate Mega-Cap IPOs?
    ×1.42 33 | 5 points by figmert 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. I'm Done Using AI
    ×2.56 29 | 13 points by nyxtom 10 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Tell HN: In the old days, computers used to get constantly faster and cheaper
    ×2.07 27 | 10 points by wewewedxfgdf 8 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What Is the State of App Development in 2026?
    ×0.96 86 | 98 points by karakoram 2 days ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. $100 to a Debian Developer who can get Fresh Editor into Trixie
    ×0.41 92 | 27 points by jph 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. The AI tool discovery problem
    ×0.42 95 | 5 points by meenabhagvat 20 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Architect MCP and TUI
    ×0.48 97 | 5 points by tonycdr 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Recruiters, How do you vet resume in 2026?
    ×0.39 104 | 13 points by CoffeeSky 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What are your worst war stories bringing agentic applications into prod
    ×0.41 114 | 11 points by yaoke259 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What Hacker News comments have you bookmarked?
    ×2.29 24 | 6 points by chistev 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Donating AI credits to open source projects
    ×0.21 121 | 5 points by happyPersonR 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Corporate Disconnect Between "Tokenmaxxing" and Token Optimization
    ×0.27 122 | 5 points by mc-0 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Tell HN: Meta's AI support feature allows Instagram accounts to be stolen
    ×2.20 78 | 41 points by parable 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Any advice on how to learn good software architecture practices?
    ×0.25 124 | 17 points by jimsojim 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2026)
    ×1.24 85 | 11 points by jon_north 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Does Claude Code remove the need for so many front-end frameworks?
    ×0.32 143 | 12 points by ex-aws-dude 4 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Beyond the Echo – How satellites steer the radar beam (iceye.com)
    ×1.32 | 2 points by mooreds 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Structural Holes and Good Ideas (2004) [pdf] (ufl.edu)
    ×1.39 | 2 points by jruohonen 44 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. A curated list of Next.js and Supabase production failure modes and fixes (github.com/mahdibrr)
    ×1.89 28 | 3 points by mahdibrr 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: Viveka: filter LLM output against a Lean-verified Advaita Vedanta model (github.com/SpecStudio-net)
    ×1.31 59 | 7 points by adyashakti 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. 1-Click GitHub Token Stealing via a VSCode Bug (ammaraskar.com)
    ×1.63 | 2 points by ammar2 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Re: [PATCH] OOM_pardon, a.k.a. don't kill my xlock (2004) (lwn.net)
    ×0.96 69 | 90 points by luu 1 day ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. You Don't Love Systemd Timers Enough (tjll.net)
    ×2.64 5 #9 | 158 points by yacin 6 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. What appear to be biochemical processes may be a natural feature of geology (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.28 35 #33 | 255 points by speckx 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Book Dedications (walzr.com)
    ×0.71 50 #81 | 22 points by walz 15 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Software 3.0 developer guide – principles, methods, and a four-phase framework (github.com/SW3Dev)
    ×1.32 | 2 points by SW3Dev 29 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Upper Management Meeting [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.39 | 2 points by vismit2000 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Legal action forces Facebook whistleblower to sit in silence at Hay festival (theguardian.com)
    ×6.50 7 | 204 points by beardyw 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Build a Basic AI Agent from Scratch: Tools (ruxu.dev)
    ×1.09 68 #80 | 33 points by ruxudev 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Shorebird in Anger: A Production Flutter Code Push Integration (kikoff.com)
    ×1.33 | 2 points by mooreds 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Lite-Harness – Self-Hosted Cursor Agents (Use Claude Code/OpenCode) (github.com/LiteLLM-Labs)
    ×1.43 129 | 6 points by detente18 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Stop Ruining It (seths.blog)
    ×2.35 1 #18 | 89 points by herbertl 5 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. AI Agent Guidelines for CS336 at Stanford (github.com/stanford-cs336)
    ×2.16 9 #28 | 468 points by prakashqwerty 22 hours ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. I rode Elon Musk's Vegas Loop, the worst transit system on Earth (sfgate.com)
    ×6.28 51 #62 | 29 points by doener 1 hour ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Use more DuckDuckGo with a convenient escape to Google in Firefox (github.com/gogrinimish)
    ×2.34 55 | 3 points by stinger 12 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. The Permanent Underclass (ctlamy.com)
    ×1.26 | 2 points by christophelamy 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Dressed/Daily – AI picks your outfit from your wardrobe based on today's weather (dressed-daily.app)
    ×1.31 | 2 points by ricardojst 43 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Alphabet announces $80B equity capital raise to expand AI infra and compute (abc.xyz)
    ×2.41 12 #39 | 232 points by gregschlom 18 hours ago | 212 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. U.S. Midterms Have a Cyber Problem, but It's Not at the Ballot Box (checkpoint.com)
    ×2.52 20 | 63 points by gnabgib 13 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Ego lite – why our browser agent writes JavaScript not CLI commands (github.com/CitroLabs)
    ×4.57 118 | 12 points by Nicole9 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Eyeball (rory.codes)
    ×2.18 6 #16 | 88 points by mrroryflint 6 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Webcam head tracking, webcam to control in‑game FOV (openfov.com)
    ×0.96 5 #19 | 52 points by mwit2023 5 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet? (mullvad.net)
    ×4.42 29 #55 | 337 points by StrLght 16 hours ago | 241 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Second Foundation to install 307 MW of battery storage in Czechia (pveurope.eu)
    ×0.80 | 1 points by doener 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Unix in East Germany (GDR) (1990) (google.com)
    ×0.99 64 #90 | 109 points by downbad_ 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Anthropic faces AI spending backlash before IPO (axios.com)
    ×1.49 | 2 points by Brajeshwar 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Shift from a leader-follower to a leader-leader approach (practicalengineering.management)
    ×1.37 64 | 77 points by Alupis 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Helios – what plug-in solar could generate for any address in Britain (southlondonscientific.com)
    ×0.87 83 | 124 points by ruaraidh 3 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Ouijit, an open-source task and terminal manager for coding agents (ouijit.com)
    ×0.85 101 | 13 points by pbjerkeseth 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: I built an Android OS in the browser (mobilegym.dev)
    ×1.79 107 | 28 points by haozaz 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Expanding Project Glasswing (anthropic.com)
    ×1.27 15 #24 | 57 points by surprisetalk 2 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Malicious npm packages detected across Red Hat Cloud Services (github.com/RedHatInsights)
    ×3.70 20 #51 | 758 points by kurmiashish 1 day ago | 441 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Unofficial Python Client for the Verge (github.com/adamnfineco)
    ×1.27 | 2 points by mprogano 33 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Fixing Alembic's Multiple Heads Problem with Git (danjou.info)
    ×3.50 64 | 5 points by JulianMaurin1 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Is Python Becoming Pinyin? (lernerpython.com)
    ×1.38 61 | 58 points by reuven 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: A desktop app for manual QA testing and evidence gathering (github.com/adriandomc)
    ×1.03 90 | 7 points by adriandomc 22 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid (torrentfreak.com)
    ×4.24 15 #49 | 603 points by speckx 1 day ago | 301 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Sysadmining Like It's 2009 (lambdacreate.com)
    ×0.75 52 #57 | 102 points by yacin 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Restartable Sequences (justine.lol)
    ×1.61 39 | 250 points by grappler 2 days ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. It's Not Just X. It's Y (cyberneticforests.com)
    ×2.82 38 | 177 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Zot – Yet another coding agent harness (zot.sh)
    ×1.21 93 | 106 points by patriceckhart 4 days ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Cross-agent messaging and shared memory over the local filesystem (oacp.dev)
    ×1.35 157 | 14 points by haoranchg 6 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. “The Apple Boogie“ 1987 Mac Promo Album Cassette Tape [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.55 67 #77 | 52 points by 1970-01-01 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Chuwi Minibook X (tylercipriani.com)
    ×1.88 6 #85 | 394 points by thcipriani 1 day ago | 296 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Iran stops negotiations with U.S., vows to 'completely' block Strait of Hormuz (cnbc.com)
    ×9.82 14 | 102 points by dgellow 1 day ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Trumpstonks – every company Trump's named, backtested vs. the S&P (trumpstonks.com)
    ×3.08 87 | 8 points by racketracer 22 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: leaf – one month later: website, releases and lots of improvements (rivolink.mg)
    ×1.39 152 | 4 points by RivoLink 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: I brought back Airbnb categories (vibebnb.fyi)
    ×2.04 149 | 7 points by giulioco 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Linux Basics for Hackers (2019) (github.com/ahegazy0)
    ×1.29 45 #45 | 161 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Using Git's rerere feature to escape recurring conflict hell (github.com/skipcloud)
    ×1.09 65 #69 | 94 points by ankitg12 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. The Genius of the Barn Owl's Feathers (mit.edu)
    ×0.88 72 #75 | 94 points by EA-3167 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Stop Babysitting Your Agents (github.com/StackOneHQ)
    ×0.86 | 1 points by Hiskias 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Google and Voltus sign agreement for smart energy capacity (blog.google)
    ×1.51 | 2 points by wrlach 15 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: xxUTF – SIMD Unicode Normalization (github.com/dzfrias)
    ×1.07 103 | 13 points by dzfrias 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra (windowslatest.com)
    ×1.86 36 #31 | 257 points by jbk 1 day ago | 539 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Cessation of public development of Kefir C compiler (protopopov.lv)
    ×1.13 47 #64 | 135 points by f311a 1 day ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Atomic Editor – Obsidian-style live preview for CodeMirror 6 (kenforthewin.github.io)
    ×0.77 77 | 67 points by kenforthewin 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: CakeML-based self-verifying, self-improving system (emberian.github.io)
    ×1.02 123 | 4 points by cmrx64 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Fungible – A local personal finance app in the terminal (github.com/tomfunk)
    ×1.12 148 | 30 points by tomfunk 1 week ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. John Deere Faces Second Class Action for Monopolizing Repair (techdirt.com)
    ×2.08 32 | 3 points by speckx 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Deflock hits 100k ALPRs Mapped in USA (deflock.org)
    ×2.86 35 | 236 points by pilingual 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: webrtcforthestreamer.com – How WHIP makes streaming more connected (webrtcforthestreamer.com)
    ×0.92 115 | 4 points by Sean-Der 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Extend MySQL with Rust (github.com/villagesql)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by deesix 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. I built a datasheet-aware PCB review tool to catch respin bugs (promptpcb.ai)
    ×1.35 | 2 points by devingator 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Codex just found a "workaround" of not having sudo on my PC (twitter.com/i)
    ×4.97 13 | 647 points by thunderbong 1 day ago | 307 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???