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  1. Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?
    ×2.73 11 #11 | 402 points by andrehacker 20 hours ago | 729 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?
    ×3.45 21 #34 | 208 points by Ekami 11 hours ago | 385 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow?
    ×1.93 25 | 140 points by dv35z 22 hours ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: So what happened to Facebook "localhost" tracking?
    ×0.75 53 | 101 points by juliusceasar 2 days ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Does robotics capabilities research accelerate AGI timelines?
    ×0.64 38 | 6 points by themasterchief 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: My competitors have flawed products but I can't get traction
    ×0.61 61 | 10 points by saveitincork 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Bad MCP design costs your agent 5x more tokens
    ×0.68 63 | 10 points by JohnnyZhang483 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How do you find deep technical content?
    ×1.13 73 | 36 points by f311a 2 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Are orbital data centers possible / a good idea?
    ×1.08 48 | 23 points by aronowb14 21 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2026)
    ×1.01 74 | 239 points by whoishiring 4 days ago | 428 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How did you discover Hacker News?
    ×1.04 41 | 9 points by chistev 23 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Is the web for machines (/llm.txt) the one we wished we had as humans?
    ×0.93 49 | 36 points by sunshine-o 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Gin rummy strategies
    ×0.58 75 | 24 points by bix6 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)
    ×0.80 84 | 149 points by whoishiring 4 days ago | 529 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: For non-hackers/nerds, why do you read HN?
    ×1.66 42 | 4 points by throwaway2037 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Why isn't AI image generation closely linked with graphics code gen?
    ×0.17 | 2 points by amichail 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Is Azure capacity this constraind or am I doing it wrong?
    ×0.79 71 | 11 points by lanycrost 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How do you stay up to date without information overload?
    ×0.47 100 | 3 points by bohdanstefaniuk 21 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Is Everyone an Engineer Now?
    ×2.13 107 | 6 points by piratesAndSons 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. I'm tired of LLM skill slop, so I built mine with regression tests
    ×0.51 111 | 6 points by iliaov 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Life saving / first aid posters
    ×0.44 82 | 36 points by cpu_ 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Supply chain attack alert: .github/setup.js
    ×5.24 65 | 21 points by antihero 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Being privacy-conscious comes with some downsides
    ×1.24 103 | 8 points by wqtz 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Google killed my $1M ARR startup overnight
    ×3.50 96 | 15 points by vadumo 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Do you know any company that's making money with LLMs?
    ×1.08 108 | 4 points by camillomiller 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. I underestimated how hard audio waveforms are in the browser
    ×0.89 112 | 5 points by syncara 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Hey, you, tech worker–how are you feeling?
    ×0.62 120 | 5 points by arm32 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Good books/resources for learning SQL?
    ×0.69 122 | 5 points by CobaltFire 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: A Brief History of LLMs
    ×0.44 141 | 9 points by menomatter 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: AI efficiency in the workplace
    ×0.40 146 | 3 points by localhoster 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Is Claude Code down, or its just my region?
    ×0.79 109 | 4 points by codetiger 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: What is your opinion on index rule changes to accommodate Mega-Cap IPOs?
    ×0.95 133 | 18 points by figmert 4 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Angular jasmine unit tests are harder to code/maintain than the actual feature
    ×0.61 152 | 5 points by GamingAtWork 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. India's surprise baby bust (economist.com)
    ×1.85 15 #37 | 205 points by hakonbogen 22 hours ago | 887 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Entanglement Builds Space-Time. Now "Magic" Gives It Gravity (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.16 29 #54 | 182 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. AI Can't Care (mooreds.com)
    ×1.89 18 | 3 points by mooreds 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. The Ownership Trap (velocitycurve.substack.com)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by mooreds 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Do the Hardest Thing (justinjackson.ca)
    ×1.70 7 | 85 points by levhawk 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: NoiR Code – because QR sounds similar to "noir" (suncake.xyz)
    ×0.67 90 | 12 points by Sunkek 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: I embedded 685M public texts in 32 minutes (on 8x A100, Rust, TensorRT) (github.com/Artain-AI)
    ×1.01 104 | 7 points by ddayanov 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs (twitter.com/lemire)
    ×1.71 3 #1 | 22 points by tosh 52 minutes ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without waste (rochester.edu)
    ×2.49 18 #7 | 424 points by speckx 22 hours ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes (dailycal.org)
    ×3.98 2 #88 | 816 points by littlexsparkee 2 days ago | 783 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Donut Lab's Manufacturing Is Different (cleantechnica.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by tromp 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Hacker News, Sans AI (elijahpotter.dev)
    ×3.75 52 | 173 points by chilipepperhott 17 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Omni – Local-first multimodal file search on macOS (hanxiao.io)
    ×0.58 67 | 5 points by artex_xh 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: A searchable archive of declassified UAP/UFO files, news, and analysis (didyousee.xyz)
    ×2.25 139 | 13 points by sonjaqql 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. The new bibliomaniacs (engelsbergideas.com)
    ×0.78 14 #2 | 12 points by RickJWagner 1 hour ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Meta enables ADB on deprecated Portal devices [video] (fb.watch)
    ×1.44 6 | 299 points by jenders 1 day ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Do we need billionaires? (bjhess.com)
    ×6.04 28 | 70 points by speckx 1 day ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Live breath detection and biofeedback from a phone microphone (github.com/shiihaa-app)
    ×0.78 87 | 67 points by shiihaa 3 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Concord – Discord in Terminal (github.com/chojs23)
    ×3.19 83 | 8 points by n3ozz 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Vlags, small vector flags. Less than 900 bytes each (vlags.com)
    ×0.95 140 | 3 points by ryancanzo 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Instant DBML Schema to Database Diagram PNG Tool (vibe-schema.com)
    ×0.50 144 | 6 points by SsgMshdPotatoes 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Let's celebrate work that is 100% human-made (human-made.work)
    ×3.56 11 | 68 points by supryan 21 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. I built a black-and-white e-ink display to stop checking my phone 60 times a day (reddit.com)
    ×0.85 | 1 points by taubek 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Projections for the Ebola Disease Outbreak Caused by Ebola Virus, 2026 (cdc.gov)
    ×0.83 | 1 points by bookofjoe 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. 120k Lines of Rust: Inside the Nosdesk Backend (kyle.au)
    ×0.80 | 1 points by kylephillipsau 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Microsandbox – local-first programmable micro VMs (github.com/superradcompany)
    ×1.36 | 2 points by appcypher 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Elephant Bird Awareness Day (bsky.app)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by mooreds 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Miz Framework Story
    ×1.21 11 | 3 points by sajjadws 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Using AI for what it should be used for (bozso.dev)
    ×1.10 | 2 points by peterbozso 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Delacroix's Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople Restored (louvre.fr)
    ×0.75 44 | 66 points by rawgabbit 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Digger Solo – Local AI File Explorer (digger.lol)
    ×1.34 123 | 5 points by sean_pedersen 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: A native port of Skate 3 for Windows & Linux via static recompilation (github.com/mchughalex)
    ×1.87 129 | 4 points by turingfeel 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. HISE – Toolkit for building VST plugins (hise.dev)
    ×0.54 19 #21 | 10 points by hyperific 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Ideogram 4.0 – open-weight 9.3B text-to-image model (github.com/ideogram-oss)
    ×1.81 85 | 46 points by pigcat 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Netlora diagnose bufferbloat and why fast internet feels slow (getnetlora.com)
    ×0.43 95 | 4 points by arashfratto 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Do women’s mate preferences change across the ovulatory cycle? (2014) [pdf] (martiehaselton.com)
    ×1.84 81 | 36 points by rzk 3 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Formally verified polygon intersection – Opus 4.8 oneshots, prev failed (github.com/schildep)
    ×1.29 59 #44 | 79 points by permute 23 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore Story (2023) (historytoday.com)
    ×1.69 30 #62 | 158 points by pepys 1 day ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: NEP – Ethereum JSON-RPC transform that beats ZSTD by 12% (github.com/Louw115)
    ×1.17 69 | 3 points by LBWasserman 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Tracing a powerful GNSS interference source over Europe (arxiv.org)
    ×1.99 18 #31 | 404 points by mimorigasaka 1 day ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Licenseal – CI license compatibility checks across 10 ecosystems (github.com/shcherbak-ai)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by sergiishcherbak 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. New York just passed a one-year temporary ban on data centers (scienceaim.com)
    ×3.82 10 | 79 points by binarymax 22 hours ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Prela – Purely Algebraic Relation Combinators (github.com/remysucre)
    ×0.67 59 | 70 points by remywang 5 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: OWASP VulnerableApp Modern Extensible and Scalable vulnerable app (github.com/SasanLabs)
    ×1.25 72 | 5 points by newaccount12344 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: ControllerTest-test gamepads,stick drift and polling rate by browser (controllertestonline.com)
    ×1.57 126 | 4 points by zylics 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: MetaBrain – A local document memory for AI agents (metabrain.eu)
    ×1.33 149 | 8 points by acoye 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Bots have now passed human traffic online (tomshardware.com)
    ×0.61 | 2 points by Willingham 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. The desperation of NYTimes (rozumem.xyz)
    ×4.36 4 | 388 points by rozumem 1 day ago | 317 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Hydron – Hardware-aware coding agent (hydron.sh)
    ×2.94 110 | 9 points by prashantsengar 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Pokemon Emerald Ported to WebAssembly (100k FPS) (pokeemerald.com)
    ×2.69 7 #4 | 28 points by tripplyons 2 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. CodersBud – a terminal-first social network for developers (codersbud.dev)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by ugurabb 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Greece to tax gains from crypto, sources say (reuters.com)
    ×1.37 | 2 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Sports-Related Curses (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.51 | 2 points by thunderbong 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. The MTP sweet spot moves as context fills: full-context benchmarks on Strix Halo (thefrontierlab.ai)
    ×1.42 | 2 points by thefrontierlab 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Emulating an 8080 on an ATtiny85 (hackaday.com)
    ×2.27 31 | 3 points by HardwareLust 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Agents ship diffs. Visr keeps trajectories (visr.dev)
    ×0.84 151 | 4 points by sourishkrout 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. How LLMs work (0xkato.xyz)
    ×3.20 3 #3 | 498 points by 0xkato 11 hours ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???