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  1. Gemini models increasingly stucking in thinking loop
    ×1.02 18 #20 | 3 points by StizzurpXDD 21 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. PDFWix Free online PDF and document conversion Tool
    ×1.30 | 2 points by PDFWix 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Open source, global vs. proprietary but for US in US, which is fundable in SaaS?
    ×0.50 19 | 3 points by avijeetsingh16 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tell HN: Happy Fathers Day
    ×2.36 8 | 334 points by consumer451 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: I never bought anything from clicking on a paid ad
    ×0.90 12 | 11 points by julienreszka 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Do you have an unusual income source
    ×1.10 57 | 42 points by xupybd 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Anthropic banned me from using Claude Code and I don't know what to do
    ×3.72 86 | 51 points by ayi 2 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?
    ×0.22 72 | 5 points by blahaj 13 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?
    ×1.12 76 | 149 points by amichail 3 days ago | 243 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Fda.gov Down for You?
    ×0.12 | 2 points by jmount 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Has Codex gotten slower recently?
    ×1.25 33 | 6 points by aurenvale 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What is your opinion on TUI applications
    ×0.34 86 | 6 points by po1nt 22 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Is anyone using the A2A protocol?
    ×0.70 100 | 94 points by asim 5 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How close are we to local LLMs being useful? What's the impact?
    ×0.33 81 | 6 points by AbstractH24 19 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Are you being "529 Overloaded" by Anthropic too?
    ×0.37 99 | 8 points by hmokiguess 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What tools are you using for AI-assisted code review?
    ×0.45 139 | 25 points by agos 4 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Are people optimistic about the future?
    ×1.55 90 | 38 points by JohnDSDev 2 days ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Norrin – Git/ diff control in Claude Code
    ×0.24 138 | 4 points by gagewoodard 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. My Opinion on RL
    ×0.22 124 | 3 points by umjunsik132 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. GitHub Banned All CI for Our (OSS) Org Because of Bad Drive-By Contributors
    ×0.87 92 | 9 points by BlueMatt 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Are You a Workaholic?
    ×0.40 129 | 5 points by julienreszka 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: What would justify writting an OS kernel in 2026?
    ×0.51 113 | 4 points by alonsovm44 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: I'm lost. How can I define ICP (Ideal Customer Profile)?
    ×0.41 159 | 8 points by snowhy 4 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How should I convert Microsoft Word documents to Markdown?
    ×0.41 111 | 5 points by lkrubner 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: After you ship a feature, what happens to what you learned?
    ×0.38 116 | 10 points by gaggle_dk 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: What technique do you use to make Claude Code deterministic?
    ×0.57 146 | 7 points by hbarka 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: What do you care about? What is your joy and purpose?
    ×0.52 133 | 10 points by bix6 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Favorite aspects of Cocoa/NeXTSTEP for app dev?
    ×0.28 128 | 6 points by elcritch 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: What are your favourite Hacker News comments?
    ×0.31 148 | 4 points by Imustaskforhelp 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: How to get ideas for space startups?
    ×0.26 145 | 5 points by asxndu 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Any AI native Anki alternatives?
    ×0.75 95 | 5 points by shadag 23 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Forked CozoDB to give agents cognitive primitives
    ×0.37 157 | 5 points by shanrizvi 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Do you find vibe coding / agentic engineering to be fulfilling?
    ×1.34 150 | 14 points by uejfiweun 4 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: What is your #1 practical lesson or "aha" moment from coding with AI?
    ×0.52 123 | 9 points by johndavid9991 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Is anyone else leaving AUR?
    ×0.57 156 | 8 points by lordkrandel 4 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Do you use Claude Code, Codex, or something else?
    ×0.65 125 | 9 points by JohnDSDev 2 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: What is the coolest tech progress outside AI?
    ×0.59 136 | 16 points by vantareed 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: How to handle kernel struct changes (e.g. iov_iter) in eBPF?
    ×0.35 155 | 4 points by morolis 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: Is there a way to stop the animated Google Doodles?
    ×0.52 154 | 12 points by arnejenssen 4 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: Need advice on distributing and testing what I build
    ×0.36 151 | 5 points by darth-pixit 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. The new HTTP QUERY method explained (kreya.app)
    ×1.66 3 #1 | 77 points by CommonGuy 3 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. OpenAI DayBreak – GPT-5.5-Cyber (openai.com)
    ×2.61 9 #13 | 87 points by AaronO 7 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Who Does What? Team Topologies for the Agentic Platform (owulveryck.info)
    ×1.38 60 #19 | 10 points by owulveryck 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. CoreGLP Denmark (facebook.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by konikathy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Identity verification on Claude (claude.com)
    ×4.88 19 | 850 points by bathory 1 day ago | 709 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. (How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (In Python)) (2010) (norvig.com)
    ×1.12 34 | 193 points by tosh 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. The early hiring funnel is now breaking on both ends (hbr.org)
    ×2.62 52 | 112 points by ChrisArchitect 1 day ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Ultralytics YOLO26: Unified Real-Time End-to-End Vision Models (arxiv.org)
    ×0.90 28 #15 | 39 points by teleforce 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Continuum – an open, local-first memory layer for your Mac (github.com/nikhilkagita04)
    ×1.46 | 2 points by nikhilkagita97 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Everything is logarithms (alexkritchevsky.com)
    ×1.70 4 | 304 points by E-Reverance 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Inventing the Future, One Lisp Machine at a Time (patrickdomanico.com)
    ×14.49 9 | 61 points by pamoroso 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: I rebuilt Jobs To Be Done on scientific foundations and open-sourced it (github.com/zamesin)
    ×6.73 65 | 17 points by zamesin 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: I made a social accountability app to make me ship (shipstreak.fyi)
    ×0.40 | 2 points by Cbagenal 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. The Startup Graveyard – what killed 16 startups (kasspian.com)
    ×1.97 | 2 points by izhonline 7 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. NSA director: 'Mythos "broke into almost all of our classified systems in hours" (economist.com)
    ×3.16 61 | 109 points by ricksunny 1 day ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Tot – instant share links for HTML and Markdown files (github.com/plannotator)
    ×1.42 122 | 4 points by ramoz 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Finding the Best Dog Treat with Statistics (wespiser.com)
    ×1.01 25 #45 | 101 points by wespiser_2018 15 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Efficient C++ Programming for Modern 64-bit CPUs: Chapter 4/part 2 (6it.dev)
    ×1.02 43 #83 | 100 points by birdculture 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Why Bulletproof React Became the Most Popular React Architecture on GitHub (jsdev.space)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by javatuts 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. We Are Witnessing the Slow Death of the Prestige Career (theguardian.com)
    ×1.48 | 2 points by mindcrime 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Three things to watch amid Anthropic's latest feud with the government (technologyreview.com)
    ×2.46 8 | 4 points by joozio 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Best way to integrate your devtool with companies
    ×0.49 | 1 points by deepakcoder 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Make PDFs look scanned (CLI or in the browser via WASM) (github.com/overflowy)
    ×1.42 67 | 152 points by overflowy 2 days ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: A pure ARM64 Assembly web server, now on Linux with CGI for no reason (github.com/imtomt)
    ×1.01 32 #24 | 17 points by imtomt 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Job application asked for my SAT scores (mrmarket.lol)
    ×1.97 7 #41 | 134 points by seltzerboys 12 hours ago | 327 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Ze.sh – a z.sh-derived directory jumper that uses an event clock (github.com/jghub)
    ×1.44 89 | 5 points by jghub 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: lpviz – Interactive linear programming visualization in the browser (lpviz.net)
    ×2.80 107 | 8 points by klamike 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Got sick of ads, so I made my own logic puzzle site (puzzlelair.com)
    ×1.49 39 #28 | 194 points by HaxleRose 20 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. What happens when OKF runs inside an AI tool (tenureai.dev)
    ×3.27 59 | 4 points by jflynt76 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Tiny – An interpeted dynamic langauge with inline Go native functions (github.com/confh)
    ×0.63 87 | 40 points by confis 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Chess-Inspired Roguelike (princechazz.com)
    ×5.79 102 | 16 points by cowboy_henk 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. SHOW HN: I built a social profile for vibecoders to share & store their projects (kritive.com)
    ×1.08 140 | 3 points by sonOfHades 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Self-Harness: Harnesses That Improve Themselves (arxiv.org)
    ×1.33 49 #63 | 25 points by jonnonz 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. AWS Lambda MicroVMs for isolated execution of user and AI-generated code (amazon.com)
    ×2.41 23 #88 | 25 points by leemoore 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Wrst – Build smartwatch apps with React and TypeScript (wrst.dev)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by karolbisztyga 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. AI Coding Traps Every Engineering Team Should Know (jsdevspace.substack.com)
    ×1.18 | 2 points by javatuts 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. 1983 Northern Telecom Commodore Phone (oldtelephoneroom.ca)
    ×0.75 49 | 76 points by arexxbifs 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Trustmux – Lightweight Secure Daemon for Mobile Shell Access (trustmux.dev)
    ×1.49 137 | 4 points by dustinkirkland 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Most of What You Read on the Internet Is Written by Insane People (2018) (reddit.com)
    ×1.20 | 2 points by downbad_ 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. China's CATL bets battery swapping will cut costs for Europe's electric trucks (ft.com)
    ×1.19 | 2 points by JumpCrisscross 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. CTOs Agree: Cognitive Debt Is the New Technical Debt (shiftmag.dev)
    ×3.22 69 | 75 points by sxx0 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Music from every single country on Earth, generated in Esperanto (elevenexperiments.com)
    ×0.77 147 | 13 points by ktoyame 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Semantic Search in Under 3MB (lukesalamone.com)
    ×0.83 | 1 points by salamo 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Ionos warns of acute capacity shortage in Frankfurt, Germany region (imgtree.co)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by nor0x 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Causal Summit (causalsummit.com)
    ×1.21 | 2 points by northlondoner 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: StartupsBR – A map of Brazilian startups (startupsbr.com)
    ×0.83 83 | 17 points by leonagano 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Typevia live LaTeX editing with AI assistance (typevia.com)
    ×0.97 121 | 3 points by Niqht 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Meta Invests $900M in CRED, Taps Founder to Head WhatsApp (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.19 19 #47 | 9 points by thisislife2 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Linux and Secure Boot certificate expiration (2025) (lwn.net)
    ×1.34 2 #59 | 120 points by weaksauce 14 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Sorites Paradox (Paradox of the Heap) (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.08 31 | 3 points by chistev 49 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???