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  1. Tell HN: Happy Fathers Day
    ×3.72 24 #41 | 293 points by consumer451 13 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Do you have an unusual income source
    ×2.05 28 #57 | 11 points by xupybd 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Are you being "529 Overloaded" by Anthropic too?
    ×0.63 32 | 6 points by hmokiguess 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. My Opinion on RL
    ×0.32 | 2 points by umjunsik132 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. GitHub Banned All CI for Our (OSS) Org Because of Bad Drive-By Contributors
    ×1.59 3 | 7 points by BlueMatt 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What would justify writting an OS kernel in 2026?
    ×1.29 57 | 4 points by alonsovm44 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?
    ×1.17 68 | 148 points by amichail 2 days ago | 239 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How should I convert Microsoft Word documents to Markdown?
    ×0.44 75 | 4 points by lkrubner 10 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Is anyone using the A2A protocol?
    ×0.72 93 | 94 points by asim 3 days ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Are You a Workaholic?
    ×0.59 90 | 5 points by julienreszka 18 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Norrin – Git/ diff control in Claude Code
    ×0.21 103 | 3 points by gagewoodard 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What tools are you using for AI-assisted code review?
    ×0.44 125 | 23 points by agos 3 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: After you ship a feature, what happens to what you learned?
    ×0.43 98 | 10 points by gaggle_dk 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Favorite aspects of Cocoa/NeXTSTEP for app dev?
    ×0.26 105 | 5 points by elcritch 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What are your favourite Hacker News comments?
    ×0.37 110 | 4 points by Imustaskforhelp 23 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How to get ideas for space startups?
    ×0.28 111 | 5 points by asxndu 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What technique do you use to make Claude Code deterministic?
    ×0.59 121 | 6 points by hbarka 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: What do you care about? What is your joy and purpose?
    ×0.52 117 | 9 points by bix6 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What is your #1 practical lesson or "aha" moment from coding with AI?
    ×0.58 107 | 9 points by johndavid9991 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Do you use Claude Code, Codex, or something else?
    ×0.64 109 | 8 points by JohnDSDev 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Forked CozoDB to give agents cognitive primitives
    ×0.20 159 | 3 points by shanrizvi 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Do you give AI coding agents their own GitHub account?
    ×0.51 86 | 5 points by ahmd 16 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: How to handle kernel struct changes (e.g. iov_iter) in eBPF?
    ×0.40 136 | 4 points by morolis 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Need advice on distributing and testing what I build
    ×0.40 131 | 5 points by darth-pixit 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Tell HN: Happy Father's Day
    ×1.92 77 | 10 points by atestu 19 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Is anyone else leaving AUR?
    ×0.66 145 | 8 points by lordkrandel 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: What is the coolest tech progress outside AI?
    ×0.59 120 | 15 points by vantareed 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: I'm lost. How can I define ICP (Ideal Customer Profile)?
    ×0.26 164 | 5 points by snowhy 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Do you find vibe coding / agentic engineering to be fulfilling?
    ×1.33 139 | 12 points by uejfiweun 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Is there a way to stop the animated Google Doodles?
    ×0.54 142 | 12 points by arnejenssen 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: If AI didn't exist, what would you be building today?
    ×1.28 95 | 7 points by akashwadhwani35 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Are other people seeing a spike in IT problems with businesses?
    ×0.30 150 | 15 points by PaulHoule 4 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Is Claude Code with Fable 5 worth switching back from Codex?
    ×0.80 108 | 6 points by vantareed 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: How do you effectively communicate or present?
    ×1.06 148 | 10 points by hnthrow10282910 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: What's a prompt you've written that you're genuinely proud of?
    ×0.72 152 | 11 points by akashwadhwani35 4 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Has anyone had success with SBIR grants and what is the process like?
    ×0.32 155 | 11 points by lyfeninja 4 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Conflicted about founding engineer role
    ×0.59 154 | 8 points by gondolin1683 3 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. How much $ you spend for AI to code?
    ×0.62 161 | 6 points by raghuu 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: Open-Source Intelligence
    ×0.15 166 | 3 points by silent_butagrim 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: Is there a recognized standard for swarm intelligence benchmarking?
    ×0.37 153 | 5 points by stephanieriggs 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Self-adapting and mutating LLM based viruses/worms
    ×0.23 168 | 3 points by rozumbrada 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Trillions of dollars spent just to work on customer services?
    ×0.76 141 | 8 points by YihaoZhang 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: Due to spam on GitHub, what platforms can I move my projects?
    ×1.83 70 | 60 points by ciwolex 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Meetup.com login appears to be exceeding its reCAPTCHA Enterprise quota
    ×0.52 163 | 4 points by infl8ed 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Local personal data redaction for any AI tools (github.com/sophia486)
    ×0.89 151 | 12 points by unusual_typo 4 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Shape Suffixes – Good Coding Style (medium.com)
    ×0.82 7 #24 | 11 points by sebg 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: HyperSnatch – local-first evidence workstation for Windows (github.com/Z3r0DayZion-install)
    ×0.34 | 1 points by neuralshell 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Seeing the world in radio waves with the QuadRF (hackaday.com)
    ×2.75 64 | 54 points by ikbdsk 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Vitrus – the company brain that tells you what it doesn't know (github.com/ahmetvural79)
    ×1.02 133 | 3 points by ahvural 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. The rise of South Korea’s weapons business (politico.com)
    ×1.38 36 | 152 points by JumpCrisscross 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: FERNme – agent memory that updates with ~zero LLM calls (github.com/mirkofr)
    ×0.56 132 | 3 points by mirkofr 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Lisp in the Rust Type System (github.com/playX18)
    ×0.93 13 #18 | 35 points by quasigloam 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Recall – Local project memory for Claude Code (github.com/raiyanyahya)
    ×1.23 6 #27 | 99 points by mateenah 9 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. The 100k whys of AI (lcamtuf.substack.com)
    ×2.80 24 #54 | 178 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. A tale of two path separators (alexwlchan.net)
    ×0.86 41 #78 | 64 points by dbaupp 22 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Running MicroVMs in Proxmox VE, the Easy Way (taoofmac.com)
    ×1.86 9 #81 | 218 points by zdw 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Manticore Search 27.1.5 (manticoresearch.com)
    ×0.80 | 2 points by snikolaev 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: TLA+ Process Studio (tlaplus-process-studio.com)
    ×2.12 94 | 12 points by uptodatenews 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. White House delays US voting-machine vulnerability report (reuters.com)
    ×4.72 24 | 121 points by logickkk1 1 day ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Run Agent Skills with mistral.rs v0.8.10: /v1/skills support and more
    ×1.26 127 | 20 points by ericlbuehler 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Alice is impatient (brooker.co.za)
    ×1.14 43 #79 | 141 points by birdculture 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Gen Z earning more than millennials did at the same age (theguardian.com)
    ×1.88 38 | 3 points by sefrost 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Staggering amounts of fentanyl hit streets as the DEA watched and took no action (apnews.com)
    ×1.77 27 | 3 points by petethomas 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Lithuanian startup launches open-source network to detect Shahed-type drones (lrt.lt)
    ×2.37 52 | 126 points by giuliomagnifico 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Pagecast – Publish Markdown/HTML Reports to Cloudflare Pages (github.com/Amal-David)
    ×0.52 106 | 35 points by amaldavid 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Don’t use AI to write things that you present as your own work (satisfice.com)
    ×2.60 57 #64 | 85 points by satisfice 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Notes on the Industry Job Search (alisawuffles.github.io)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by cosmoharrigan 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: 2Flights – Track your flights; delays and stats (iOS/Android) (2flights.io)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by umuslitdinov 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Beyond All Reason (Free Total Annihilation Inspired RTS) (beyondallreason.info)
    ×2.43 9 #16 | 467 points by mosiuerbarso 19 hours ago | 275 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. What Happens to Your Lessons Learned After the Meeting Ends? (projectmanagement.com)
    ×1.10 | 2 points by wmeller 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Tesla allegedly in autopilot mode crashes into Texas house, woman killed (abcnews.com)
    ×6.15 42 | 98 points by malshe 1 day ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. 'We had to get out of the way': The backlash over delivery robots (bbc.com)
    ×3.00 45 | 82 points by higginsniggins 1 day ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Tiny – An interpeted dynamic langauge with inline Go native functions (github.com/confh)
    ×0.63 73 | 40 points by confis 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: TermType – a terminal typing game where words fall like Space Invaders (github.com/GiovanniCst)
    ×2.40 89 | 5 points by J_cst 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. FDA advisors unanimously vote to approve Moderna's mRNA after agency drama (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.85 14 #29 | 170 points by worik 9 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. (How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (In Python)) (2010) (norvig.com)
    ×1.20 9 #30 | 179 points by tosh 15 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. A 3D voxel game engine written in APL (github.com/namgyaaal)
    ×0.96 2 #77 | 151 points by sph 22 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. PostmarketOS v26.06 (Alpen Avocado) released (postmarketos.org)
    ×0.77 53 #87 | 5 points by kokada 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Let agents send/receive SMS using your old Android phone (snaz.cz)
    ×1.32 147 | 5 points by LukBrezina 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Everything is logarithms (alexkritchevsky.com)
    ×1.56 3 #10 | 185 points by E-Reverance 9 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Windows UI evolution: Clicking an unassociated file (movq.de)
    ×1.59 29 #58 | 135 points by jandeboevrie 1 day ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Sharing a Good One
    ×0.40 | 1 points by SharingAGoodOne 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Speculation Is All You Need (modal.com)
    ×0.84 | 2 points by birdculture 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: GraphCompose – Declarative Java engine for structured business PDFs (github.com/DemchaAV)
    ×1.55 92 | 5 points by demchaav 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Make every bug perfectly reproducible (workers.io)
    ×1.74 116 | 13 points by chaitanyya 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. I was wrong about the Midjourney ultra-sound scanner (twitter.com/MattZirwas)
    ×1.71 17 #39 | 76 points by MrBuddyCasino 7 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. NSA director: 'Mythos "broke into almost all of our classified systems in hours" (economist.com)
    ×4.36 40 #59 | 79 points by ricksunny 20 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Consciousness and Orch OR (arizona.edu)
    ×1.52 15 | 3 points by andsoitis 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Lloyd's Lab: Accelerating innovation in the insurance industry (2023) [pdf] (lloyds.com)
    ×0.38 | 1 points by mooreds 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Xiaomi YU7 GT achieves the first autonomous driving lap record of Nürburgring (twitter.com/DriveGreen80167)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by gainsurier 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???