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  1. Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
    ×1.16 39 #30 | 242 points by david927 1 day ago | 910 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: How often do you investigate issues in production vs. looking at logs?
    ×0.47 13 | 3 points by aspectrr 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: How do you choose a model for a task?
    ×1.06 20 | 6 points by bix6 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...
    ×2.46 48 | 456 points by mittermayr 3 days ago | 334 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Best static site generator for a docs site in 2026?
    ×0.83 43 | 9 points by agenttestjekuqz 10 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated
    ×7.44 8 | 1652 points by CliffStoll 5 days ago | 252 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What would you like to be working on?
    ×0.45 45 | 4 points by DDerTyp 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Do you know the ethics of Developers?
    ×0.48 49 | 7 points by eropatori 10 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Our keyboards are tracking us
    ×0.93 47 | 6 points by tukunjil 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Will low quality AI customer support be the new normal?
    ×0.98 58 | 22 points by 0-bad-sectors 22 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What Wintel/AMD (Laptop) Harware are you liking?
    ×0.28 92 | 3 points by aagha 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Remind HN: Today is Mother's Day, call your moms
    ×5.25 36 | 368 points by rationalist 1 day ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Is this the SWE workflow of the future?
    ×0.86 78 | 14 points by mc-0 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Which LLM are you using to evaluate your ideas?
    ×0.65 86 | 5 points by Marius77 21 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Can a tinnitus be triggered by high frequency noises?
    ×0.23 111 | 6 points by tinnitus_crazy 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Tell HN: Claude claims the AGPLv3 license violates it's content policy
    ×2.27 73 | 12 points by freedomben 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Cancelling Claude subscription renewal immediately revokes Design access
    ×0.38 101 | 5 points by o10449366 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Best AI coding plan alternative to Claude and ChatGPT
    ×1.64 85 | 15 points by Jsttan 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Former master-tech building AI systems – how to break into software?
    ×0.27 135 | 4 points by nicku711 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Before Open Source took over the server, what was the discourse like?
    ×0.63 110 | 7 points by mbgerring 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: What is your go-to solution for a personal wiki in 2026?
    ×0.43 130 | 16 points by ex-aws-dude 4 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. How are folks affordably self-training in AI?
    ×0.41 119 | 7 points by macartain 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. LLM generated parsers and compliance checkers for Sparrow DSL
    ×0.21 150 | 3 points by melezhik 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: What do you still do manually in 2026 that should be automated?
    ×0.34 133 | 20 points by lishunsheng 4 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad?
    ×1.72 124 | 136 points by idontwantthis 1 week ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: What is the underlying stack behind multi-agent platforms?
    ×0.22 153 | 3 points by throwaw12 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: What will happen as AI costs increase?
    ×0.47 131 | 15 points by MetaWhirledPeas 3 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Guy Goma's Accidental BBC Interview Lives on After 20 Years (nytimes.com)
    ×1.21 41 #31 | 163 points by nxobject 21 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Sipsa Inference – lossless serving at 50% off (sipsalabs.com)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by mounnar 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Bugbot Switches to Usage Based Pricing (cursor.com)
    ×2.04 38 | 3 points by cameroncairns 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Why 157,000 developers are hedging against Anthropic with OpenCode (thenewstack.io)
    ×4.61 65 | 7 points by Brajeshwar 50 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. YC's Biggest Scandals (ycombinator.fyi)
    ×4.57 21 | 263 points by laserduck 1 day ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Groxy – a Go library for building forward proxy servers (github.com/SalzDevs)
    ×0.76 68 | 4 points by SalzDevs 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: TRUST – Coding Rust like it's 1989 (github.com/wojtczyk)
    ×1.02 83 | 164 points by wojtczyk 4 days ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Apple's SHARP running in the browser via ONNX runtime web (github.com/bring-shrubbery)
    ×0.96 109 | 184 points by bring-shrubbery 1 week ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Hosting an Open Alternative to Google Docs for Digital Sovereignty (heltweg.org)
    ×0.61 69 #61 | 7 points by rhazn 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Internet Archive Switzerland (archive.org)
    ×2.72 14 #81 | 692 points by hggh 2 days ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Building a Redis Clone in Zig–Part 5 (charlesfonseca.substack.com)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by barddoo 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Minimizing and Finding Satisifaction with Less (chuck.is)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by janandonly 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Tahoe's UI Issues Have Nothing to Do with Display Technology (daringfireball.net)
    ×1.29 | 2 points by vitosartori 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Mljar Studio – local AI data analyst that saves analysis as notebooks (mljar.com)
    ×0.68 138 | 72 points by pplonski86 1 week ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Local AI needs to be the norm (unix.foo)
    ×6.77 3 #23 | 1676 points by cylo 1 day ago | 661 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. The Adventure Family Tree (2024) (mipmip.org)
    ×0.61 33 #33 | 46 points by exvi 10 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. AI-powered hacking has exploded into industrial-scale threat, Google says (theguardian.com)
    ×1.23 6 #48 | 13 points by chrisjj 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Louis Rossmann offers to pay legal fees for a threatened OrcaSlicer developer (tomshardware.com)
    ×4.10 13 #63 | 582 points by iancmceachern 1 day ago | 312 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Transform articles into LinkedIn and Twitter posts with AI (google.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by chandanjha_dev 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning (github.com/imtomt)
    ×2.11 3 | 415 points by imtomt 1 day ago | 218 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Python Is Weird (kowal.dev)
    ×0.71 | 1 points by zggf 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Apple rolls out encrypted RCS messaging in beta (sixcolors.com)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by Doches 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Replacing a 3 GB SQLite db with a 10 MB FST (finite state transducer) binary (andrew-quinn.me)
    ×2.44 14 | 181 points by hiAndrewQuinn 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Data center drains 30M gals of water — until residents complained of pressure (politico.com)
    ×3.45 75 | 37 points by thehoff 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Piruetas – A self-hosted diary app I built for my girlfriend (piruet.app)
    ×1.37 139 | 71 points by patillacode 1 week ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Training an LLM in Swift, Part 1: Taking matrix mult from Gflop/s to Tflop/s (cocoawithlove.com)
    ×1.36 6 #5 | 164 points by zdw 5 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Interfaze: A new model architecture built for high accuracy at scale (interfaze.ai)
    ×1.08 11 #7 | 34 points by yoeven 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. American Agriculture Is Broken (ft.com)
    ×1.17 1 #87 | 16 points by JumpCrisscross 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. AI versus Microservices (michaelnygard.com)
    ×0.79 | 1 points by matrix 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. State-as-Files: A Manifesto for Multi-Session Agent Work (github.com/socaseinpoint)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by nocaseinpoint 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Scientists Prolong Life of Mice with Invisible Energy Fields, New Study Shows (nmn.com)
    ×0.46 78 #69 | 4 points by inglor_cz 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Suspend broken for Nvidia on latest Linux kernel (github.com/NVIDIA)
    ×1.34 | 2 points by br0wnr1c3 37 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Students Boo Commencement Speaker After She Calls AI Next Industrial Revolution (404media.co)
    ×5.82 18 #24 | 109 points by cdrnsf 3 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. UK firefighters called to one lithium-ion battery fire every five hours (theguardian.com)
    ×2.58 48 | 4 points by e12e 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Canada's unemployment rate rises to 6.9% as economy sheds more jobs (financialpost.com)
    ×2.01 53 | 29 points by geox 22 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. I'm going back to writing code by hand (k10s.dev)
    ×4.35 5 #12 | 833 points by dropbox_miner 17 hours ago | 495 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Why we lose our friends as we age (2023) (theatlantic.com)
    ×2.37 70 #82 | 56 points by paulpauper 2 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Left and right shifts are pseudoinverses (johndcook.com)
    ×1.44 | 2 points by ibobev 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Getting arrested in Japan (sundaicity.com)
    ×4.60 24 | 253 points by bane 1 day ago | 308 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Akmon, a Rust AI coding agent for regulated engineering (github.com/radotsvetkov)
    ×1.35 105 | 5 points by radotsvetkov 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Kstack – Skill pack for monitoring/troubleshooting K8s in Claude Code (github.com/kubetail-org)
    ×0.56 117 | 25 points by andres 4 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Bild AI (YC W25) Is Hiring Founding Product Engineers (bild.ai)
    1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. London's Smallest Public Sculptures (lookup.london)
    ×0.90 | 1 points by susam 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Academic Research Skills for Claude Code (github.com/Imbad0202)
    ×1.02 33 | 81 points by arnon 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Agent-harness-kit scaffolding for multi-agent workflows (cardor.dev)
    ×0.67 96 | 82 points by enmanuelmag 4 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Ovlt – Lightweight Auth Server That Runs in ~20MB RAM (ovlt.tech)
    ×1.17 140 | 5 points by Shrpp 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Nullsoft, 1997-2004 (2004) (slate.com)
    ×1.45 5 #3 | 113 points by downbad_ 4 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Out with the JavaScript, in with the HTML (jim-nielsen.com)
    ×1.45 18 #55 | 26 points by Brajeshwar 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Plex's price hikes prove I was right to switch to Jellyfin (androidauthority.com)
    ×3.46 29 | 47 points by Brajeshwar 21 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Free tool to mark points and polygon regions (tack.pics)
    ×0.46 97 | 20 points by magikMaker 4 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Free C course called "C Systems Lab" (csystemslab.com)
    ×1.41 128 | 5 points by vhcosta 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Chindogu: Weird and Useless Japanese Inventions (rarehistoricalphotos.com)
    ×1.62 31 | 79 points by ethanpil 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Wall Street lawyers aided insider trading ring, say US prosecutors (ft.com)
    ×1.95 50 | 40 points by johnbarron 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Browser-based light pollution simulator using real photometric data (iesna.eu)
    ×0.45 154 | 44 points by 1 week ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: I built a new word game, Wordtrak (wordtrak.com)
    ×0.84 113 | 79 points by qrush 6 days ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career (seangoedecke.com)
    ×3.94 10 #15 | 187 points by movis 4 hours ago | 335 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Do we absorb information better on paper, rather than screens? (rnz.co.nz)
    ×0.76 56 | 3 points by billybuckwheat 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. EMO: Pretraining mixture of experts for emergent modularity (allenai.org)
    ×1.18 | 2 points by gmays 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. I work in Hollywood. Everyone who used to make TV is now training AI (wired.com)
    ×3.01 64 | 96 points by joozio 8 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Free Google Places API alternative using OpenStreetMap (no API key) (bizdata-web.vercel.app)
    ×2.64 95 | 9 points by johnleslie_pm 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: nocal is a calendar that turns your week into a workspace (nocal.app)
    ×2.08 120 | 8 points by bcmuse 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES (nesbitt.io)
    ×3.08 7 #40 | 667 points by miniBill 1 day ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. What's a mathematician to do? (2010) (mathoverflow.net)
    ×1.00 50 #56 | 170 points by ipnon 1 day ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???