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  1. Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...
    ×2.38 7 #16 | 31 points by mittermayr 2 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated
    ×5.11 32 #33 | 304 points by CliffStoll 3 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. 0ctx – Local-first project memory for AI workflows
    ×0.70 | 2 points by som3on3 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: How are you handling QA being bottlenecked with more AI-generated PRs?
    ×0.56 31 | 3 points by softneon 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Claude Flags Hantavirus Vaccine Questions as Security Risk
    ×2.41 62 | 6 points by pell 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. "Surface" a Governed AI-Agentic Surface
    ×0.07 | 2 points by paulbernard 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What is your go-to solution for a personal wiki in 2026?
    ×0.39 74 | 10 points by ex-aws-dude 15 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What will happen as AI costs increase?
    ×0.41 65 | 9 points by MetaWhirledPeas 12 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Are we gonna back less powerful local LLMs
    ×0.32 84 | 8 points by omertt27 19 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What do you still do manually in 2026 that should be automated?
    ×0.30 86 | 16 points by lishunsheng 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What is the most exciting development in your field?
    ×0.84 | 2 points by chistev 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Who got hired with Who wants to be hired? (On 2026)
    ×0.29 102 | 16 points by Gooblebrai 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: How to start up as an individual developer?
    ×0.45 111 | 11 points by alexyan0431 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad?
    ×1.73 103 | 128 points by idontwantthis 5 days ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Is anyone seriously considering a career change?
    ×0.81 87 | 29 points by zeven7 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Terafab – Smart move or insane financial risk?
    ×0.09 144 | 3 points by imheretolearn 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Is the future everyone having 100 MCP processes running on their PC?
    ×0.26 135 | 7 points by ex-aws-dude 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Is there a term for feeling sad about forced AI adoption?
    ×0.88 106 | 23 points by ge96 2 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Best Embedding Models?
    ×0.38 131 | 17 points by devstein 3 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: The death of software development as a job?
    ×1.63 112 | 17 points by piratesAndSons 2 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Reviewing in the Age of AI
    ×0.41 120 | 8 points by maxalbarello 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: How do I get freelance developer jobs?
    ×0.99 116 | 8 points by downbad_ 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Why would we care about "extended time horizons" and LLMs?
    ×0.40 158 | 5 points by ozozozd 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. As NASA eyes lunar base, there's still much to learn about landing on the Moon (arstechnica.com)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by rbanffy 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Coinbase AWS Service Disruption (coinbase.com)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by aghuang 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. RAM prices are forcing companies to choose higher prices, worse specs, or both (gizmodo.com)
    ×2.07 59 | 143 points by cainxinth 1 day ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: TubeLens – Critical analysis of YouTube (4 dimensions, 28 signals) (tubelens.app)
    ×0.32 | 2 points by mamflux 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Indian matchbox labels as a visual archive (itsnicethat.com)
    ×1.14 23 #58 | 159 points by sahar_builds 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Stage CLI – An easier way of reading your AI generated changes locally (github.com/ReviewStage)
    ×0.62 53 #79 | 39 points by cpan22 17 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: AnamDB – An AI-native, differentiable Datalog engine written in Rust (github.com/jam5991)
    ×0.77 68 #78 | 6 points by jam5991 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Diagrammer: Tell the model, get the diagram or the graphical map (github.com/IdraDev)
    ×0.36 | 1 points by idradev 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Mozilla says 271 vulnerabilities found by Mythos and "almost no false positives" (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.91 44 | 122 points by epistasis 14 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: PHP-fts – Full-text search engine in pure PHP, no extensions (github.com/olivier-ls)
    ×0.93 63 | 83 points by asmodios 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data (theverge.com)
    ×2.96 1 #1 | 656 points by stefanpie 12 hours ago | 402 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Child marriages plunged when girls stayed in school in Nigeria (nature.com)
    ×2.39 28 #61 | 357 points by surprisetalk 20 hours ago | 285 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. San Fran: We Buried a $10k Treasure Chest (buriedtreasuresf.com)
    ×0.99 | 2 points by vinnyglennon 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. DeepSeek V4 Pro at 75% off until 31 May (deepseek.com)
    ×4.07 58 | 85 points by nateb2022 1 day ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Blaise – A modern self-hosting zero-legacy Object Pascal compiler targeting QBE (github.com/graemeg)
    ×0.95 7 #13 | 49 points by peter_d_sherman 5 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: I built a dead simple App Store screenshot maker (ezscreenshots.com)
    ×1.46 33 | 3 points by abrowniejr 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. GPT-5.5 Price Increase: What It Costs (openrouter.ai)
    ×2.25 21 #32 | 44 points by gmays 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. The IT Productivity Paradox (stanford.edu)
    ×1.11 47 #56 | 19 points by simonpure 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb (theregister.com)
    ×3.02 29 | 216 points by robin_reala 23 hours ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. What British people mean when they say 'sorry' (bbc.com)
    ×1.91 50 | 114 points by BiraIgnacio 1 day ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Two Home Affairs officials suspended after AI 'hallucinations' found (citizen.co.za)
    ×1.19 27 #27 | 101 points by jruohonen 14 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Guten – Android ereader for Project Gutenberg's 70k+ free books (google.com)
    ×2.02 136 | 5 points by bethanyhunt 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Bilig – a headless spreadsheet engine for Node services and agents (github.com/proompteng)
    ×0.70 95 | 3 points by GregKonush 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Monocurl – Interactive STEM animation language and IDE (monocurl.com)
    ×0.56 114 | 3 points by enigmurl 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Gpu.fund, live GPU cloud rental prices (gpu.fund)
    ×1.16 130 | 4 points by justacatbot 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Elevated errors across Claude Models (May 8, 09:49 UTC) (claude.com)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by pramodbiligiri 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Kash Patel's Personalized Bourbon Stash (theatlantic.com)
    ×4.88 66 | 61 points by petethomas 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Gulugulu, an old-style client-side search engine for the old weird web (cbrincoveanu.github.io)
    ×0.86 145 | 3 points by cbrincoveanu 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Large Scale Article Extract of Newspapers 1730s-1960s (snewpapers.com)
    ×0.86 137 | 55 points by brettnbutter 6 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Software Engineer to Novelist: Writing a Book Like Coding (frequal.com)
    ×1.10 149 | 22 points by TeaVMFan 4 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. SingleRide: Longest route on NYC Subway without visiting the same station twice (singleride.nyc)
    ×0.95 58 #71 | 91 points by TMWNN 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Rpow2: A tribute to the original RPOW by Hal Finney (github.com/frkrueger)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by janandonly 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Better Design – 28 Shadcn design systems (OSS, MCP: Cursor/Claude Code) (github.com/marvkr)
    ×2.71 124 | 12 points by marvinkr 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: I wrote a flight simulator in my own programming language (github.com/navid-m)
    ×2.61 99 | 9 points by pizza_man 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Vibeguard-dev/local – static AST analysis for AI-generated SQL (github.com/MuddySheep)
    ×0.65 147 | 3 points by MuddySheep 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: AI-DLC-UML (AI-Driven Development Life Cycle with UML Modeling) (github.com/takaakit)
    ×1.36 156 | 5 points by takaakit 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Stop Using Yarn Classic (charpeni.com)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by thunderbong 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. SoundOff: Low-Cost Passive Ultrasound Tags (yibo-fu.com)
    ×0.92 69 | 78 points by jonbaer 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Upskill – skill to find skills for your AI agents (github.com/Autoloops)
    ×1.17 140 | 4 points by kushalpatil07 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school (theguardian.com)
    ×2.39 78 #19 | 189 points by rustoo 1 day ago | 274 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Iran hit more U.S. military targets than has been reported, satellite images (washingtonpost.com)
    ×7.16 34 | 148 points by SanjayMehta 1 day ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Motherboard sales 'collapse' amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI (tomshardware.com)
    ×3.02 29 #65 | 273 points by speckx 19 hours ago | 325 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Apple is enforcing an old App Store rule against a new kind of software (adaptivesoftware.substack.com)
    ×1.86 64 | 78 points by iristenteije 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Ced – C REPL in 50 lines of POSIX shell (codeberg.org)
    ×0.62 98 | 4 points by archargelod 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. I want to live like Costco people (tastecooking.com)
    ×2.22 3 #31 | 296 points by speckx 19 hours ago | 607 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. OpenBSD Stories: The closest thing to cute kittens (OpenBSD/zaurus) (online.fr)
    ×0.72 41 #53 | 72 points by zdw 19 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: A tiny C program where an LLM rewires its DAG while running (github.com/kouhxp)
    ×1.59 143 | 12 points by mrkn1 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields (deepmind.google)
    ×1.44 17 #18 | 295 points by berlianta 19 hours ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent (thatprivacyguy.com)
    ×7.41 5 #87 | 1722 points by john-doe 3 days ago | 1123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Building for the future: Cloudflare lays off 1,100 employees (cloudflare.com)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by pabs3 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Containers Aren't Just Linux Processes (iximiuz.com)
    ×1.46 36 | 3 points by birdculture 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Bookstoread.ai – Discover non-fiction books using AI (bookstoread.ai)
    ×2.95 79 | 8 points by yotc 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. 'Dirty Frag' exploit leaks out, gives root on most Linux machines (tomshardware.com)
    ×3.98 75 | 5 points by lschueller 26 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Build the Shared Memory First (icp0.io)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by gann_ 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. CUDA-oxide an experimental Rust-to-CUDA compiler (github.com/NVlabs)
    ×0.92 | 1 points by tzury 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Orch8 – Durable workflow engine in Rust, one binary, Postgres or SQLite (github.com/orch8-io)
    ×1.68 115 | 24 points by _alphageek 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard (elciudadano.com)
    ×2.44 17 #20 | 205 points by wslh 16 hours ago | 179 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Plasticity and language in the anaesthetized human hippocampus (bcm.edu)
    ×1.09 10 #21 | 108 points by hhs 11 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX (anthropic.com)
    ×4.97 13 | 504 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 472 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Pinocchio is weirder than you remembered (storica.club)
    ×1.66 2 #9 | 157 points by cemsakarya 8 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Global perceptions of US fall below Russia under Trump (reuters.com)
    ×2.61 42 | 5 points by benterix 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Agents need control flow, not more prompts (bearblog.dev)
    ×2.35 4 #11 | 470 points by bsuh 17 hours ago | 230 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Principles for agent-native CLIs (twitter.com/trevin)
    ×0.90 32 #35 | 97 points by blumpy22 16 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license (digitalfoundry.net)
    ×6.07 13 #43 | 1706 points by haunter 1 day ago | 577 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Mathematics Genealogy Project (mathgenealogy.org)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by ipnon 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Hallucinopedia (halupedia.com)
    ×1.96 18 | 297 points by bstrama 1 day ago | 261 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. How David Sacks crashed and burned in the White House (theverge.com)
    ×4.36 62 | 76 points by PhotonHunter 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???