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  1. I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
    ×0.97 59 #54 | 200 points by proberts 1 day ago | 241 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)
    ×0.83 39 #87 | 136 points by whoishiring 1 day ago | 331 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad?
    ×2.33 29 | 106 points by idontwantthis 19 hours ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)
    ×1.28 5 | 286 points by whoishiring 1 day ago | 318 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Making Postman load 60% Faster
    ×0.41 | 2 points by vedkribhu 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Tell HN: An update from the new Tindie team
    ×0.74 81 | 81 points by altairprime 4 days ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day
    ×2.47 71 | 588 points by _-x-_ 1 week ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Tell HN: VS Code v1.117.0 automatically adds GitHub Copilot as your co author
    ×1.28 68 | 106 points by adithyassekhar 3 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. SlothDB a 5X Faster Alternative to DuckDB, ClickHouse DB
    ×0.39 98 | 11 points by souravroy78 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Claude Code dies with ANTHROPIC_API_KEY in cloud environment
    ×0.26 105 | 13 points by sroussey 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What Happened to the CS153 Videos
    ×0.49 90 | 5 points by mapleleaf1921 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Tell HN: Happy May Day
    ×0.75 97 | 8 points by chrishill89 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Hyperscalers are buying all the chips to then rent them to us later
    ×0.66 87 | 6 points by adelks 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Does Claude use 'prior' in a Bayesian sense more than English?
    ×0.14 128 | 4 points by slake 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Tell HN: Claude 4.7 is ignoring stop hooks
    ×0.98 116 | 109 points by LatencyKills 1 week ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Claude Pro expired and my $40 in prepaid Extra Usage credits vanished
    ×0.38 111 | 13 points by Aldipower 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Is there any good open-source alternative to MinIO?
    ×0.38 120 | 4 points by embedding-shape 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Tell HN: Claude account suspension after flagging duplicate billing
    ×1.36 95 | 8 points by areoform 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: GitHub flagged my org two weeks ago. No reason given, no appeal response
    ×0.74 102 | 7 points by dohyun-ko 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Tell HN: Claude Opus 4.7 quota suddenly changed to 0 TPM in Bedrock
    ×1.70 83 | 12 points by sarathyweb 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Anyone feel like they're just opting out of tech these days?
    ×0.82 106 | 22 points by moomoo11 3 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Claude.ai down again?
    ×0.71 92 | 34 points by zh_code 3 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Maryland to ban A.I.-driven price increases in grocery stores (nytimes.com)
    ×2.71 14 #28 | 180 points by doener 11 hours ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Flue is a TypeScript framework for building the next generation of agents (flueframework.com)
    ×1.12 16 #50 | 95 points by momentmaker 19 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: I built my product to be right to repair friendly (schueller.net)
    ×1.85 | 2 points by sschueller 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. U.S. to Withdraw 5k Troops from Germany, Pentagon Says (nytimes.com)
    ×5.08 49 | 60 points by mikhael 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Dabbling in Erlang, part 2: A minimal introduction (2013) (agis.io)
    ×0.44 48 #42 | 29 points by pasxizeis 13 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Kirikiri – A mobile IDE for Claude Code (iOS, open source)
    ×1.65 | 2 points by Husena 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Agent-desktop – Native desktop automation CLI for AI agents (github.com/lahfir)
    ×2.27 27 | 93 points by lahfir 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: SimDrive – a browser racing game with your phone as the controller:D (simdrive.xyz)
    ×0.60 62 | 18 points by 1000xcat 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: What happens when you load a webpage (Interactive) (whysonil.dev)
    ×1.23 77 | 31 points by otterwilde2 5 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Turn Docker Compose files into airgap-ready UDS Packages (github.com/defenseunicorns-labs)
    ×0.75 | 2 points by willswire 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontier (simonwillison.net)
    ×4.83 34 #30 | 554 points by indigodaddy 1 day ago | 334 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Where's the New AI Infrastructure? (viewfromtheweb.com)
    ×0.87 | 1 points by rickdg 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Unauthorised [Claude Pro] Gift Purchases Made from My Account (reddit.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by YeGoblynQueenne 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Waymo Drives Off with South Bay Man's Luggage (sfist.com)
    ×2.59 53 | 85 points by toss1 13 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: A (de)compiler and parser/engine for custom Magic: The Gathering cards (chiplis.com)
    ×0.96 70 | 3 points by nicolas-siplis 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Utilyze measures how efficiently your GPU is doing useful work (github.com/systalyze)
    ×1.43 35 #12 | 7 points by nateb2022 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Why does it take so long to release black fan versions? (noctua.at)
    ×3.56 21 #48 | 729 points by buildbot 1 day ago | 294 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Richard Sutton – Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead end [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.31 | 2 points by mpweiher 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Fujian Tulou (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by simonebrunozzi 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Browser Harness – Gives LLM freedom to complete any browser task (github.com/browser-use)
    ×1.10 110 | 134 points by gregpr07 1 week ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine (github.com/nexu-io)
    ×1.59 11 #41 | 203 points by steveharing1 1 day ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Large Scale Article Extract of Newspapers 1730s-1960s (snewpapers.com)
    ×0.74 41 #89 | 46 points by brettnbutter 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. The problem with 'S-curves' (energynetworks.substack.com)
    ×0.81 | 1 points by scrlk 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. The Claude Delusion: Richard Dawkins believes his AI chatbot is conscious (dailygrail.com)
    ×4.42 42 | 70 points by SwellJoe 14 hours ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Unsigned sizes: A five year mistake (c3-lang.org)
    ×1.43 24 #37 | 91 points by lerno 18 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. An open letter asking NHS England to keep its code open (keepthingsopen.com)
    ×2.52 11 | 253 points by tvararu 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Pixel-Perfect MaterialX in Blender and Three.js (ben3d.ca)
    ×0.38 | 2 points by bhouston 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: A Karpathy-style LLM wiki your agents maintain (Markdown and Git) (github.com/nex-crm)
    ×1.98 85 | 260 points by najmuzzaman 1 week ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Tesla owner won $10k in court for Tesla's FSD lies. Tesla is still fighting him (electrek.co)
    ×4.59 45 #63 | 241 points by breve 14 hours ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. New mechanical panoramic film camera from Jeff Bridges (wideluxx.com)
    ×1.61 48 #90 | 220 points by armadsen 2 days ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Welcoming Nimbus: Event-Driven Development for TypeScript (eventsourcingdb.io)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by goloroden 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Edible Plants Wiki (wikioasis.org)
    ×1.27 | 2 points by altilunium 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Graphene is on track to deliver on its promises (2019) (nature.com)
    ×1.38 | 2 points by simonebrunozzi 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Which public repos are friendliest to an AI coding agent? (agentfriendlycode.com)
    ×2.41 69 | 5 points by hsnice16 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. The USB Situation (randsinrepose.com)
    ×1.26 52 #29 | 135 points by herbertl 1 day ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. The `boring` SSH tunnel manager (alebeck.github.io)
    ×0.80 | 1 points by 0x12A 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Shutt – Turn Strava activities into shareable photo/video posts (shutt.run)
    ×0.87 | 2 points by zzarcon 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Pollen – distributed WASM runtime, no control plane, single binary (github.com/sambigeara)
    ×1.14 36 #51 | 120 points by sambigeara 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. In Defense of AI Slop (reidhoffman.substack.com)
    ×0.94 | 1 points by aworks 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Rocky – Rust SQL engine with branches, replay, column lineage (github.com/rocky-data)
    ×0.70 75 | 120 points by hugocorreia90 4 days ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Wikipedia in the Terminal (github.com/ImpulseDoes)
    ×1.25 2 | 3 points by thximpulse 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Do_not_track (donottrack.sh)
    ×2.46 12 #8 | 385 points by RubyGuy 19 hours ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Roblox shares plummet 18% as child safety measures weigh on bookings (cnbc.com)
    ×2.62 20 #49 | 231 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 19 hours ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: I built a context layer for our home (rosey.house)
    ×1.16 130 | 3 points by aloktiagi 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Omar – A TUI for managing 100 coding agents (omar.tech)
    ×5.19 78 | 15 points by karim7 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. The gay jailbreak technique (2025) (github.com/Exocija)
    ×5.54 24 #79 | 641 points by bobsmooth 1 day ago | 251 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. LFM2-24B-A2B: Scaling Up the LFM2 Architecture (liquid.ai)
    ×0.72 54 #80 | 58 points by nateb2022 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. The extended predicative Mahlo universe in Martin-Löf type theory (oup.com)
    ×0.92 | 1 points by danny00 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Richard Dawkins and the Claude Delusion (flux.community)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by hansmayer 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Lib0xc: A set of C standard library-adjacent APIs for safer systems programming (github.com/microsoft)
    ×1.53 13 | 188 points by wooster 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Perfect Bluetooth MIDI for Windows
    ×0.75 53 | 104 points by mayerwin 2 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: I've built a nice home server OS (asklandd.dk)
    ×1.66 99 | 194 points by Zta77 1 week ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Flop Map – a 3D globe of every known AI compute cluster (flopmap.com)
    ×1.55 | 2 points by kitwebster 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. The Lore of Sam Altman Is Being Tested Like Never Before (wsj.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by JumpCrisscross 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Zugzwang (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.73 23 | 109 points by Qem 21 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. An unknown Sega Saturn project has come to light after 29 years (32bits.substack.com)
    ×2.07 6 | 106 points by bbayles 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. GameStop Preparing Offer for eBay (wsj.com)
    ×3.05 8 | 82 points by voisin 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. SFO Gate Explorer (flysfo.com)
    ×0.63 55 #70 | 44 points by CaliforniaKarl 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Mnemory – Persistent memory for AI agents (github.com/fpytloun)
    ×1.27 | 2 points by genunix64 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Spirit Airlines Is Winding Down All Operations (spiritrestructuring.com)
    ×3.13 29 | 64 points by CaliforniaKarl 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Qumulator – quantum circuit simulator, 1000 qubits, no GPU (github.com/qumulator)
    ×0.32 117 | 14 points by nnoorbakhsh 5 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Dotcl: Common Lisp Implementation on .NET (github.com/dotcl)
    ×1.38 28 #45 | 171 points by reikonomusha 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Running Adobe's 1991 PostScript Interpreter in the Browser (pagetable.com)
    ×0.86 55 #73 | 150 points by ingve 2 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. KarmaRace - Get Users - A reciprocity-based testing network. (karmarace.com)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by vicnas 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Names Are the First Thing You Read and the Last Thing You Remember (fagnerbrack.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by fagnerbrack 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. KMRI: A chunk-based compression format for MRI-style 3D volumes (github.com/Kiamehr5)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by kiamehr 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Drive any macOS app in the background without stealing the cursor (github.com/trycua)
    ×1.20 74 | 189 points by frabonacci 4 days ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Ti-84 Evo (ti.com)
    ×2.52 8 #62 | 583 points by thatxliner 1 day ago | 472 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???