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  1. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2026)
    ×1.11 16 #19 | 190 points by whoishiring 17 hours ago | 262 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)
    ×0.92 21 #26 | 118 points by whoishiring 16 hours ago | 323 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Anyone seen a CC- serial prefix on legacy networking hardware?
    ×1.11 3 #30 | 48 points by Throwaway_sys 7 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tell HN: In the old days, computers used to get constantly faster and cheaper
    ×2.38 54 | 5 points by wewewedxfgdf 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. I'm Done Using AI
    ×2.90 46 | 8 points by nyxtom 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. The AI tool discovery problem
    ×0.48 70 | 5 points by meenabhagvat 13 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What Is the State of App Development in 2026?
    ×0.96 76 | 97 points by karakoram 2 days ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Architect MCP and TUI
    ×0.54 77 | 5 points by tonycdr 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. $100 to a Debian Developer who can get Fresh Editor into Trixie
    ×0.42 81 | 27 points by jph 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Recruiters, How do you vet resume in 2026?
    ×0.41 87 | 13 points by CoffeeSky 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What are your worst war stories bringing agentic applications into prod
    ×0.42 99 | 11 points by yaoke259 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Donating AI credits to open source projects
    ×0.22 104 | 5 points by happyPersonR 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Corporate Disconnect Between "Tokenmaxxing" and Token Optimization
    ×0.29 107 | 5 points by mc-0 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Tell HN: Meta's AI support feature allows Instagram accounts to be stolen
    ×2.23 65 | 40 points by parable 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2026)
    ×1.33 62 | 11 points by jon_north 16 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Any advice on how to learn good software architecture practices?
    ×0.25 113 | 17 points by jimsojim 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Does Claude Code remove the need for so many front-end frameworks?
    ×0.33 132 | 12 points by ex-aws-dude 4 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How you pass legacy to others?
    ×0.39 108 | 7 points by jojwong 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. I made an free unlimited captcha alternative
    ×0.65 102 | 8 points by david3289 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What Is an "AI Engineer"?
    ×0.28 123 | 20 points by seattle_spring 4 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Side-Channel Information Disclosure (Error Oracle). Maravel/Lumen Users Beware (medium.com)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by marius-ciclistu 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Safe, LeSS and Nexus don't work (leadinginproduct.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by benkan 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People (2016) (idlewords.com)
    ×1.84 16 #50 | 138 points by thoughtpeddler 14 hours ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Benchmarking SurrealDB 3.x vs. Postgres, Mongo, Neo4j and Redis (With Fsync) (surrealdb.com)
    ×0.74 48 #67 | 73 points by itsezc 23 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Contentful (salesforce.com)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by taubek 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: Open-source private home security camera system (end-to-end encryption) (github.com/secluso)
    ×1.28 78 | 131 points by arrdalan 3 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Open-Source AI Racing Harness (elodin.systems)
    ×0.59 93 | 76 points by danAtElodin 5 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Oort – A prompt library where every listing has a shipped project (oortstack.com)
    ×1.49 143 | 6 points by Wesearchpress 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: leaf – one month later: website, releases and lots of improvements (rivolink.mg)
    ×1.39 134 | 4 points by RivoLink 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. The Genius of the Barn Owl's Feathers (mit.edu)
    ×0.87 66 #60 | 89 points by EA-3167 4 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. The Messy Reality of Building an Empire in Space (wsj.com)
    ×0.71 | 1 points by ironyman 13 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Reducing Instagram's basic video compute time by 94 percent (2022) (fb.com)
    ×1.42 | 2 points by tzury 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. The LLM Job Paradox (nilesh.io)
    ×1.16 | 2 points by MisterKent 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Free activity calendar for schools, sports clubs, and organizations (freecal.eu)
    ×0.50 125 | 9 points by glenn_vc 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. The people who actually want AI to replace humanity (vox.com)
    ×4.04 58 | 80 points by plastic-enjoyer 1 day ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Decades of Effort Restore Steelhead and Salmon Passage on Alameda Creek (noaa.gov)
    ×1.51 41 #44 | 231 points by rawgabbit 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Having your insulin pump die while you're on vacation (lauramichet.com)
    ×1.48 59 #73 | 190 points by speckx 1 day ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Texas adds another solar farm as ERCOT grid demand soars (electrek.co)
    ×2.02 9 #78 | 13 points by Bender 6 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Florida sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over alleged safety lapses (npr.org)
    ×1.79 | 2 points by isaacfrond 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Viveka: filter LLM output against a Lean-verified Advaita Vedanta model (github.com/SpecStudio-net)
    ×0.96 21 | 4 points by adyashakti 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Atherton spent $145K to delay train electrification. The rest of us paid $400M (peninsulaforeveryone.org)
    ×4.61 4 | 209 points by mslate 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Iran stops negotiations with U.S., vows to 'completely' block Strait of Hormuz (cnbc.com)
    ×9.77 25 | 93 points by dgellow 17 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Volt – front end tooling for Phoenix that runs inside the BEAM (github.com/elixir-volt)
    ×1.31 144 | 25 points by dannote 1 week ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Florida sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over AI risks (politico.com)
    ×2.19 5 #24 | 222 points by cyunker 13 hours ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. The four programming questions from my 1994 Microsoft internship interview (2023) (computerenhance.com)
    ×1.42 47 #61 | 193 points by tosh 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Brazil Banned Addictive Design. The Crucial Regulatory Choices Are Still Ahead (techpolicy.press)
    ×2.16 65 | 4 points by rbanffy 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. The placeholder name for the Windows 8 experience was "modern" (microsoft.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by paulmooreparks 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. show hn: leave an anonymous voice message for strangers (justvoiceit.com)
    ×1.12 | 2 points by whatis1215 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: A website that tracks every stock trade Congress makes (kadoa.com)
    ×1.96 112 | 63 points by hubraumhugo 6 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. CQL: Categorical Databases (categoricaldata.net)
    ×1.75 2 #3 | 26 points by noworriesnate 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Book about AI and truth shipped with fake AI-generated quotes (vibegraveyard.ai)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by jruohonen 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: webrtcforthestreamer.com – How WHIP makes streaming more connected (webrtcforthestreamer.com)
    ×0.93 96 | 4 points by Sean-Der 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. AI Agent Guidelines for CS336 at Stanford (github.com/stanford-cs336)
    ×2.06 3 #9 | 402 points by prakashqwerty 15 hours ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Dav2d (jbkempf.com)
    ×2.29 16 #90 | 540 points by captain_bender 1 day ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: NUA an agent that tests for product correctness (trynua.dev)
    ×1.99 25 | 8 points by Paster335 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Surface Laptop Ultra (windows.com)
    ×1.92 29 | 96 points by berlianta 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. “The Apple Boogie“ 1987 Mac Promo Album Cassette Tape [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.56 58 #55 | 50 points by 1970-01-01 19 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Constant Q Transform – A Visual Guide (brendanjameslynskey.github.io)
    ×0.66 36 #57 | 14 points by hyperific 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Build a Basic AI Agent from Scratch: Tools (ruxu.dev)
    ×1.04 63 #58 | 26 points by ruxudev 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Angry devs vow to flee GitHub Copilot as metered billing takes hold (theregister.com)
    ×2.29 2 #59 | 19 points by jay_kyburz 6 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Unix in East Germany (GDR) (1990) (google.com)
    ×1.02 59 #75 | 109 points by downbad_ 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. The Speed of Prototyping in the Age of AI (darylcecile.net)
    ×1.26 42 #80 | 192 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. What the Meat Industry Doesn't Want You to Know (nytimes.com)
    ×1.11 | 2 points by NoRagrets 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. FROST: Fingerprinting Remotely using OPFS-based SSD Timing [pdf] (hannesweissteiner.com)
    ×0.71 61 | 69 points by simjnd 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Hackers Used Meta's AI Support Bot to Seize Instagram Accounts (krebsonsecurity.com)
    ×2.78 24 | 52 points by panarky 13 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Ktx – Open-source executable context layer for data agents (github.com/Kaelio)
    ×0.60 89 | 90 points by lucamrtl 4 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Posthorn, self-hosted mail gateway (github.com/craigmccaskill)
    ×1.04 100 | 83 points by craigmccaskill 6 days ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Ego lite – why our browser agent writes JavaScript not CLI commands (github.com/CitroLabs)
    ×4.58 103 | 12 points by Nicole9 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Deflock hits 100k ALPRs Mapped in USA (deflock.org)
    ×2.86 12 | 233 points by pilingual 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: CPU-only fast OCR for screenshots, images, PDFs, webpages (github.com/kouhxp)
    ×2.72 97 | 9 points by mrkn1 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: I made an emergency page for my family (delduca.org)
    ×0.71 98 | 82 points by delduca 5 days ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. New Evidence for Early Pleistocene Use of Fire at Wonderwerk Cave (South Africa) (plos.org)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by fodmap 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: SnapToCode – Screenshot any UI and get clean Tailwind code (google.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by adithagrawaal 47 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Thoughts on Intel's Unified Core Project (clamtech.org)
    ×1.21 | 2 points by weiran 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Helios – what plug-in solar could generate for any address in Britain (southlondonscientific.com)
    ×0.87 72 | 124 points by ruaraidh 2 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Angry security researcher declares Bitskrieg on Microsoft (deadeclipse666.blogspot.com)
    ×1.63 10 | 3 points by doener 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Mqtt Broker for 10 Years (github.com/skittleson)
    ×2.74 50 | 11 points by skittleson 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Live, system-wide USB transfer sniffer in eBPF (github.com/yeet-src)
    ×2.39 101 | 9 points by r3tr0 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Tunnel.to – dead simple localhost reverse tunnels (tunnel.to)
    ×2.37 148 | 7 points by StuntPope 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Strace-ui, Bonsai_term, and the TUI renaissance (janestreet.com)
    ×1.35 12 #8 | 31 points by matt_d 4 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid (torrentfreak.com)
    ×4.30 23 #33 | 569 points by speckx 18 hours ago | 264 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. We Reined In AI Agents With pre-commit (merrilin.ai)
    ×1.74 7 | 3 points by stonecharioteer 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Opus, Sonnet, Haiku: Stop Optimizing the Wrong Number (medium.com)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by nitishagar 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Hegseth Blocks Eight Navy Senior Officer Promotions (wsj.com)
    ×1.08 13 | 3 points by petethomas 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Malaysia enforces ban on social media accounts for children younger than 16 (apnews.com)
    ×3.09 1 | 130 points by 01-_- 1 day ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Graph-Based Firebase Alternative with Real-Time Sync (linkedrecords.com)
    ×0.32 126 | 3 points by WolfOliver 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Chipotlai Max (github.com/cyberpapiii)
    ×2.64 1 #5 | 204 points by nigelgutzmann 9 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC (anthropic.com)
    ×4.22 22 #31 | 486 points by surprisetalk 16 hours ago | 390 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. The Frame Problem (2004) (stanford.edu)
    ×0.65 33 #42 | 22 points by rzk 9 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Install web apps with the new HTML install element (chrome.com)
    ×1.93 46 #68 | 27 points by pentagrama 14 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???