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  1. Ask HN: So what happened to Facebook "localhost" tracking?
    ×0.96 34 #28 | 68 points by juliusceasar 9 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. I'm tired of LLM skill slop, so I built mine with regression tests
    ×0.85 | 2 points by iliaov 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Gin rummy strategies
    ×0.55 70 #31 | 4 points by bix6 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Time loop and partial blackhole?
    ×0.81 49 #33 | 5 points by kashyapPI 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Spent thousands, got no customers. What's wrong with my site?
    ×0.90 55 #41 | 4 points by petebay 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Why is it still so hard for LLMs to query NoSQL databases?
    ×1.17 71 #48 | 3 points by cammasmith 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How do you find deep technical content?
    ×0.97 75 #62 | 14 points by f311a 10 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Being privacy-conscious comes with some downsides
    ×1.75 12 | 3 points by wqtz 53 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Good books/resources for learning SQL?
    ×1.04 37 | 3 points by CobaltFire 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2026)
    ×1.01 90 | 238 points by whoishiring 3 days ago | 415 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)
    ×0.81 100 | 147 points by whoishiring 3 days ago | 494 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Life saving / first aid posters
    ×0.42 55 | 33 points by cpu_ 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Heavy coding-agent users what's your context plumbing? Where it fails?
    ×0.48 96 | 4 points by srbsa 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: AI efficiency in the workplace
    ×0.58 | 2 points by localhoster 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Google killed my $1M ARR startup overnight
    ×0.82 | 2 points by vadumo 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What are all the ways to punch through NAT?
    ×0.85 88 | 4 points by jupr 9 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Tell HN: Max messenger app removed from App Store
    ×0.61 99 | 8 points by secondary_op 18 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: A Brief History of LLMs
    ×0.50 122 | 9 points by menomatter 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Laid off. Broke. Depressed. & idk how to market my SaaS
    ×1.44 98 | 14 points by touseefbuilds 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Why Ask HN has only 14 questions now?
    ×1.23 104 | 11 points by throwaw12 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: What is your opinion on index rule changes to accommodate Mega-Cap IPOs?
    ×0.95 124 | 16 points by figmert 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Why are so many Show HNs being flagged?
    ×0.33 140 | 3 points by 866-RON-0-FEZ 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Angular jasmine unit tests are harder to code/maintain than the actual feature
    ×0.68 149 | 4 points by GamingAtWork 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. I'm Done Using AI
    ×2.03 114 | 31 points by nyxtom 2 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. $100 to a Debian Developer who can get Fresh Editor into Trixie
    ×0.39 137 | 28 points by jph 4 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel
    ×7.44 17 | 960 points by IliaLitviak 2 days ago | 271 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Recruiters, How do you vet resume in 2026?
    ×0.39 150 | 15 points by CoffeeSky 4 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. AI Goal: Senior Software Engineer
    ×0.24 152 | 4 points by oryocyph 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Why is AI use decried if it has been used without attribution?
    ×0.52 143 | 7 points by bookofjoe 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. South Atlantic Anomaly (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.43 28 | 3 points by mooreds 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Millennials Are Set to Inherit Trillions–But for Most, It Will Come Too Late (realtor.com)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by littlexsparkee 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: DepsGuard – One command to harden NPM/pnpm/yarn/bun/uv configs (github.com/arnica)
    ×0.76 113 | 39 points by eranation 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: NoSleepAgent – keep your MacBook awake until your agents finish (github.com/gergomiklos)
    ×1.94 156 | 6 points by garymiklos 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Kiki – a tiny homepage construction kit with a small footprint (tomotama.com)
    ×1.32 20 #40 | 116 points by tobr 12 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Fidelity lowers SpaceX IPO entry requirement from $500,000 to just $2,000 (yahoo.com)
    ×4.12 46 | 7 points by tcp_handshaker 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Rsync and outrage (medium.com)
    ×8.03 63 | 177 points by st3fan 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Textile – A desktop app for weaving together bits of text (gettextile.app)
    ×0.73 117 | 36 points by stack_framer 3 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: AI-Powered PDF to Markdown Converter (pdftomdconverter.com)
    ×1.35 144 | 4 points by QingWu 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. AI, Ashby Engineering, and the future (ashbyhq.com)
    ×0.95 24 #19 | 29 points by fredley 4 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. May Job Cuts Rise 16% from April; Highest May Total Since 2020 (challengergray.com)
    ×1.34 | 2 points by mooreds 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Mathematicians issue warning as AI rapidly gains ground (science.org)
    ×1.95 26 | 286 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 329 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Gaussian Point Splatting (momentsingraphics.de)
    ×1.06 18 #23 | 168 points by ibobev 11 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Consciousness in AI: Insights from the Science of Consciousness (2023) (arxiv.org)
    ×2.30 23 | 3 points by i5heu 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Claude Code plugin for deep multi-agent code reviews (github.com/Farfield-Dev)
    ×0.42 | 2 points by hemezh 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. The Networking Workgroup (swift.org)
    ×1.41 | 2 points by frizlab 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Synaptic high-frequency jumping synchronises vision to high-speed behaviour (nature.com)
    ×1.43 | 2 points by PaulHoule 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. I built a ceiling projection mapping of the planes flying over my house (reddit.com)
    ×2.57 29 | 221 points by frereubu 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. U of T researchers demonstrate AI worm could target any online device (utoronto.ca)
    ×1.28 70 | 148 points by shscs911 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: LocalSheets, a single-file spreadsheet with a local-only AI panel (github.com/zohaibus)
    ×2.04 162 | 3 points by zpusmani 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: MCP Registry – NPM-style install for MCP servers (mcp-registry-dh5.pages.dev)
    ×0.84 164 | 3 points by PengSpirit 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. The desperation of NYTimes (rozumem.xyz)
    ×4.23 26 #29 | 289 points by rozumem 4 hours ago | 263 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. A Man Who Reads Books for a Living (lithub.com)
    ×1.25 48 #64 | 168 points by gmays 1 day ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: xxUTF – SIMD Unicode Normalization (github.com/dzfrias)
    ×1.06 155 | 13 points by dzfrias 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Getjobber-CLI – Python CLI for the Jobber GraphQL API (github.com/acaracappa)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by antman1911 57 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Knotch – a hub-and-spoke voice agent (github.com/akshatvasisht)
    ×1.29 165 | 4 points by akshatvasisht 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Documentary, "C++: The Most Consequential Programming Language" (youtube.com)
    ×1.85 13 #52 | 13 points by pjmlp 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. 4.1 magnitude earthquake in Las Vegas (usgs.gov)
    ×1.50 6 | 3 points by jameslk 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. 4K years ago, Mohenjo-daro grew more equal over time (archaeologymag.com)
    ×1.10 81 | 116 points by marojejian 2 days ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Samurai City (worksinprogress.co)
    ×1.42 9 #12 | 65 points by zdw 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. The ways we contain Claude across products (anthropic.com)
    ×1.35 42 #42 | 219 points by jbredeche 22 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: FFmpeg WebCLI – Full FFmpeg in Browser, Offline PWA, No Uploads(WASM) (github.com/tejaswigowda)
    ×1.56 5 #13 | 48 points by tejaswigowda 1 hour ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. SpaceX's IPO is a disaster waiting to happen for your pension fund (irishtimes.com)
    ×4.10 59 | 88 points by anonymousDan 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Amazon Has Axed Its New Stargate Series (gateworld.net)
    ×3.84 92 | 69 points by Kye 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Ideogram 4.0 – open-weight 9.3B text-to-image model (github.com/ideogram-oss)
    ×1.77 82 | 44 points by pigcat 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Build Your Own AI Agent CLI in 150 Lines (go-micro.dev)
    ×1.71 109 | 33 points by asim 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: 100cc - Roll your own Claude in 100 lines (github.com/yujqiao)
    ×1.15 128 | 10 points by rapiz 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Ouijit, an open-source task and terminal manager for coding agents (ouijit.com)
    ×0.84 154 | 13 points by pbjerkeseth 4 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Sum-product, unit distances, and number fields (erdosproblems.com)
    ×0.68 35 #16 | 47 points by robinhouston 6 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Wind and solar generated more power than gas globally in April 2026 (electrek.co)
    ×4.02 27 #36 | 350 points by speckx 7 hours ago | 312 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Most men lie about how tall they are (newyorker.com)
    ×4.90 71 | 19 points by bookofjoe 1 hour ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: RePlaya – self-hosted browser session replay with live tailing (github.com/s2-streamstore)
    ×0.68 103 | 50 points by shikhar 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Taliesin – bit-exact KV-cache restore, 21x faster, cross-GPU verified (medium.com)
    ×4.09 43 | 8 points by Wetime 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. PlayStation Architecture (copetti.org)
    ×1.79 42 #69 | 333 points by gregsadetsky 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. I was recently diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis (burntsushi.net)
    ×3.19 14 #73 | 729 points by Tomte 1 day ago | 239 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Anthropic warns AI could soon help build its own successors (axios.com)
    ×4.95 63 | 7 points by devonnull 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Hop – JSX for Rust (hoplang.com)
    ×2.79 129 | 10 points by lyxell 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Learn SQL Once, Use It for 30 Years (fagnerbrack.com)
    ×2.31 20 #49 | 255 points by karakoram 20 hours ago | 189 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Only 3% of traders drive prediction markets' accuracy, not the crowd (coindesk.com)
    ×2.08 9 #57 | 11 points by PaulHoule 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. AI Agent Craves Curation. Here's the Fademem Memory Architecture (medium.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by vektormemory 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Why AI Agents Need Agile, Not Just Better Prompts (medium.com)
    ×0.44 | 2 points by sukhpinder0804 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. My Students Can't Read (chronicle.com)
    ×4.77 78 | 132 points by computerliker 1 day ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Nutrepedia – Nutrition info in 29 locales built with Clojure and Htmx (nutrepedia.com)
    ×1.30 42 | 128 points by llovan 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. I don't want my search engine to think for me (searchzee.com)
    ×1.94 93 | 68 points by rajkverma123 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. This Month in Ladybird – May 2026 (ladybird.org)
    ×1.51 95 | 61 points by bactobene 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Zettascale (YC S24) Is Hiring Founding FPGA Engineers (ycombinator.com)
    5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang (theatlantic.com)
    ×3.87 2 #58 | 724 points by lordleft 1 day ago | 1239 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Viveka: filter LLM output against a Lean-verified Advaita Vedanta model (github.com/SpecStudio-net)
    ×1.15 146 | 7 points by adyashakti 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Aura, an LLM coding harness that dogfooded itself (github.com/CarpseDeam)
    ×0.55 142 | 3 points by ConfusedData89 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Making Our Days Longer (weather.com)
    ×0.81 | 1 points by 01-_- 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Ordinary People Can Invest in SpaceX IPO (forbes.com)
    ×0.81 | 1 points by 01-_- 12 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???