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Ask HN: Best Embedding Models?

×0.98 12 #86 | 12 points by devstein 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why Does a Single Firefox Tab Take Almost 1.5GB RAM?

×0.47 1 | 5 points by syeare 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

×0.88 73 | 206 points by proberts 3 days ago | 247 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Where are you getting your AI news from?

×0.41 46 | 7 points by baetylus 9 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)

×0.81 78 | 146 points by whoishiring 3 days ago | 425 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)

×1.32 68 | 303 points by whoishiring 3 days ago | 413 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: When did you move from AI agentic loops to simpler deterministic system?

×0.43 61 | 6 points by laxmena 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Is a hands-off, family-friendly, de-Googled "home lab" feasible?

×0.35 70 | 9 points by strix_varius 17 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: The saddest irony of my/our craft

×1.26 45 | 12 points by dakiol 12 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad?

×1.98 69 | 125 points by idontwantthis 2 days ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Can anyone point me to a ShowHN first post policy documentation?

×0.36 66 | 9 points by upwindchange 16 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Those building Swift apps without touching Xcode, what is your workflow?

×0.51 87 | 18 points by p5v 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: An update from the new Tindie team

×0.73 120 | 85 points by altairprime 5 days ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day

×2.48 94 | 593 points by _-x-_ 1 week ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Building a Web Framework from Scratch

×0.50 111 | 7 points by NewSmoke38 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What's the best way to handle large file P2P transfer in the browser?

×0.53 91 | 4 points by feixiangfly 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude Code dies with ANTHROPIC_API_KEY in cloud environment

×0.30 143 | 16 points by sroussey 4 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Happy May Day

×0.85 140 | 13 points by chrishill89 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Constraint Programming (google.com)

×1.38 | 2 points by wolfi1 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I Built a Museum Exhibit (knhash.in)

×0.61 46 #42 | 28 points by kn81198 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Pulitzer Prize Winner in International Reporting (pulitzer.org)

×1.50 48 #65 | 79 points by jay_kyburz 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Cuqueclicker (Cookieclicker Inspired Game) (flipbit03.github.io)

×1.08 131 | 4 points by fb03 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Kids bypass age verification with fake moustaches (theregister.com)

×3.51 10 #17 | 70 points by dreadsword 3 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Agentic Coding Is a Trap (larsfaye.com)

×5.06 18 | 432 points by ayoisaiah 1 day ago | 338 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Buffon's needle problem visualized (ivanludvig.dev)

×0.70 46 #50 | 19 points by IvanLudvig 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Remodex: Control Codex from Your iPhone (github.com/Emanuele-web04)

×0.57 | 1 points by steveharing1 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: AI CAD Harness (adam.new)

×0.90 86 | 98 points by zachdive 3 days ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: SimDrive – a browser racing game with your phone as the controller:D (simdrive.xyz)

×0.72 118 | 21 points by 1000xcat 5 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A terminal spreadsheet editor with Vim keybindings (github.com/garritfra)

×1.08 124 | 126 points by garritfra 1 week ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Biscuit (github.com/yattsu)

×2.32 20 #20 | 26 points by unixfg 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused (twitter.com/L1v1ng0ffTh3L4N)

×3.95 14 #25 | 518 points by cft 13 hours ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Make your own microforest (2025) (ambrook.com)

×1.23 40 | 112 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Securing a DoD contractor: Finding a multi-tenant authorization vulnerability (strix.ai)

×1.06 19 #15 | 194 points by bearsyankees 14 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay (bbc.co.uk)

×2.94 8 #33 | 673 points by n1b0m 22 hours ago | 643 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Agent-evals – Claude skill to build your own evals (github.com/fsilavong)

×1.38 63 | 7 points by sauercrowd 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Pytest plugin that classifies why your CI failed (github.com/ahmad212o)

×0.61 90 | 4 points by ahmad212o 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Using Agent-Browser in Claude Code to Automate Zoho Books Workflows (youtube.com)

×1.48 | 2 points by miteshashar 29 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Distributed Counters in NATS JetStream (synadia.com)

×0.38 | 1 points by latchkey 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Pollen – distributed WASM runtime, no control plane, single binary (github.com/sambigeara)

×1.16 71 | 133 points by sambigeara 4 days ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Auto-Architecture: Karpathy's Loop, pointed at a CPU (github.com/FeSens)

×1.27 96 | 240 points by fesens 6 days ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Clipmon is a macOS clipboard manager on steroids (github.com/c9-labs)

×1.33 144 | 5 points by vednig 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: FusionCore: ROS 2 sensor fusion that outperforms robot_localization (github.com/manankharwar)

×0.26 148 | 11 points by kharwarm 6 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving' (electrek.co)

×1.33 29 #24 | 164 points by Brajeshwar 16 hours ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Using “underdrawings” for accurate text and numbers (samcollins.blog)

×1.73 7 #75 | 367 points by samcollins 1 day ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
All left of center parties in Germany are advising their members to leave X (table.media)

×2.35 48 | 3 points by doener 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What's Inside a Kubernetes Service? (kubesimplify.com)

×1.33 | 2 points by saiyampathak 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Brockman Says Musk Vowed on Trial's Eve to Make Him 'Hated' (bloomberg.com)

×0.39 | 1 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released (nytimes.com)

×5.70 37 | 93 points by jbegley 12 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Agent Skills (addyosmani.com)

×2.27 3 #12 | 235 points by BOOSTERHIDROGEN 10 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A tiny C program where an LLM rewires its DAG while running (github.com/kouhxp)

×1.51 49 #66 | 8 points by mrkn1 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
SprintiQ – open-source sprint planning for Claude Code (github.com/SprintiQ-Incorporated)

×0.67 59 #63 | 11 points by sprintiq 9 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Tyche: An experimental distributed trading pipeline in Go Java (github.com/ItsArnavSh)

×0.59 122 | 5 points by itsarnavsh 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: GhostBox – Borrow a disposable little machine from the Global Free Tier (ghost.charity)

×1.71 81 | 126 points by keepamovin 3 days ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Retrospective on Black and White and it's connection to Google DeepMind (eurogamer.net)

×1.22 | 2 points by MrDresden 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Days without GitHub incidents (dayswithoutgithubincident.com)

×4.11 71 | 371 points by goalieca 14 hours ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Turn geopolitical buzz into concrete risk alerts (github.com/vassiliylakhonin)

×1.09 | 2 points by vassilbek 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
SEC and Elon Musk agree to settle lawsuit over Twitter buyout in 2022 (cnbc.com)

×3.77 40 | 6 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Testing macOS on the Apple Network Server 2.0 ROMs (oldvcr.blogspot.com)

×0.90 25 #23 | 85 points by zdw 10 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GameStop offers $56B for eBay, struggles to explain how it'll pay for it (arstechnica.com)

×1.33 | 2 points by joozio 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: TRiP – a complete transformer engine in C built from scratch just by me (github.com/carlovalenti)

×0.66 126 | 38 points by carlovalenti 4 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale (openai.com)

×1.97 4 #8 | 390 points by Sean-Der 12 hours ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer Source Code for Command and Lunar Module (github.com/chrislgarry)

×1.67 54 #48 | 6 points by tjek 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How do I inform Windows that I'm writing a binary file? (microsoft.com)

×2.45 14 | 4 points by ingve 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why TUIs are back (alcidesfonseca.com)

×2.69 | 412 points by rickcarlino 1 day ago | 411 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Someone allegedly used a hairdryer to rig Polymarket weather bets (engadget.com)

×2.12 4 | 108 points by cdrnsf 18 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DAG Workflow Engine (github.com/vivekg13186)

×0.77 23 | 59 points by blobmty 19 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: nfsdiag – A NFS diagnostic application (github.com/lsferreira42)

×0.77 41 #40 | 68 points by lsferreira42 13 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Meta, TikTok Recv Personal Data from Health Exchanges Alarming Privacy Experts (bloomberg.com)

×1.23 3 #82 | 12 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: OSS Agent I built topped the TerminalBench on Gemini-3-flash-preview (github.com/dirac-run)

×1.85 95 | 392 points by GodelNumbering 1 week ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A complete Llama2 inference engine that fits in 1356 bytes of x86 assembly (github.com/rdmsr)

×2.72 35 | 4 points by monax 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
LLMs Are Not a Higher Level of Abstraction (lelanthran.com)

×2.59 36 | 161 points by lelanthran 1 day ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Agent-desktop – Native desktop automation CLI for AI agents (github.com/lahfir)

×2.30 80 | 98 points by lahfir 3 days ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ace Template: create and deploy a Rails app in < 5 minutes (self-hosted or PaaS) (github.com/jeromedalbert)

×0.53 | 1 points by jdalbert 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Is making IRL friends are hard

×0.37 | 1 points by sumanrani 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Digital quantum magnetism on a trapped-ion quantum computer (nature.com)

×0.68 | 1 points by thinkingemote 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Free textbook on engineering thermodynamics (thermodynamicsbook.com)

×1.33 121 | 191 points by 2DcAf 1 week ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
18th-century mechanical volcano roars to life 250 years later (sciencedaily.com)

×0.45 49 #37 | 8 points by samizdis 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Road to a Billion-Token Context (acm.org)

×0.87 54 #74 | 61 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bad Connection: Global telecom exploitation by covert surveillance actors (citizenlab.ca)

×1.32 29 | 208 points by miohtama 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Alberta voter list leak is a potential public safety disaster (globalnews.ca)

×1.59 27 | 119 points by Teever 16 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bun is being ported from Zig to Rust (github.com/oven-sh)

×3.34 2 #4 | 452 points by SergeAx 7 hours ago | 319 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anonymous hacked Chinese satellite systems to protest against age check laws (reddit.com)

×1.22 | 2 points by mostcallmeyt 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Shelley: Mobile-friendly, web-based, multi-modal, single-user coding agent (github.com/boldsoftware)

×0.60 70 #71 | 7 points by indigodaddy 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Replayable traces of Claude Code runs on ARC-AGI-3 public demo games (arc-agi-runs.web.app)

×0.94 | 1 points by dextersjab 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Adaptive CLI framework for Go – interactive input, structured output, themes (github.com/nabat-dev)

×1.53 | 2 points by atkrad 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Brainio – Markdown notepad that turns notes into visual mind maps (brainio.com)

×2.58 53 | 4 points by havlenao 42 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cleveland Clinic, Riken, and IBM Model a 12,635-Atom Protein (ibm.com)

×0.58 | 1 points by sokols 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why is event discovery still so fragmented? (sochely.com)

×1.37 | 2 points by godimittry90 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A little comparison between R and Kap (dhsdevelopments.com)

×0.50 56 #56 | 28 points by tosh 12 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A man who blew up a nuclear power station and disappeared (theguardian.com)

×2.83 4 #64 | 5 points by sam-cop-vimes 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???