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  1. Ask HN: Where is our profession (programmer) going?
    ×2.16 5 #24 | 10 points by syntaxbush 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What are the hardest problems AWS Lambda MicroVMs can solve now?
    ×0.41 47 | 4 points by iaziz786 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: How much coding should beginners learn in the AI era?
    ×0.53 43 | 25 points by JohnDSDev 11 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Why don't LLM harnesses enable/expose custom middleware hooks?
    ×0.74 74 | 8 points by fur-tea-laser 8 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: I miss old days of blogging without promotions
    ×0.47 92 | 5 points by throwaw12 10 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Yahoo deleted all my emails. Now what?
    ×0.45 108 | 14 points by neya 22 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Elastic Layoffs?
    ×1.35 58 | 8 points by nunocoracao 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Overfitted a 900KB Transformer to Compress a 100MB CSV into 7MB
    ×0.22 143 | 8 points by spidy__ 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How are you finding work/gigs as a SWE?
    ×0.31 98 | 10 points by mariopt 16 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What home printer do you use/recommend?
    ×0.53 119 | 17 points by niyazpk 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. How to find AI-conservative companies to work for?
    ×0.86 118 | 18 points by tossitawayplz 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Am I missing something with AI
    ×1.08 132 | 13 points by vasko 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Anyone else feels many LLMs are heavily biased towards consumerism these days?
    ×0.26 123 | 6 points by pyeri 19 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?
    ×1.09 134 | 152 points by amichail 5 days ago | 245 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Do you have an unusual income source
    ×0.98 131 | 50 points by xupybd 2 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Anthropic banned me from using Claude Code and I don't know what to do
    ×1.57 97 | 78 points by ayi 1 day ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Is anyone using the A2A protocol?
    ×0.69 155 | 95 points by asim 6 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Tell HN: I never bought anything from clicking on a paid ad
    ×0.98 133 | 22 points by julienreszka 2 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What tools are you using for AI-assisted code review?
    ×0.41 176 | 25 points by agos 6 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Are people generally interested using LLMs for learning purposes?
    ×0.28 139 | 7 points by iknownthing 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. What's the worst thing your AI agent did in production without asking first?
    ×0.38 129 | 3 points by rockingraj 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Are people optimistic about the future?
    ×1.39 153 | 42 points by JohnDSDev 4 days ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: How close are we to local LLMs being useful? What's the impact?
    ×0.32 169 | 7 points by AbstractH24 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Are you being "529 Overloaded" by Anthropic too?
    ×0.39 170 | 10 points by hmokiguess 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Open source, global vs. proprietary but for US in US, which is fundable in SaaS?
    ×0.20 171 | 4 points by avijeetsingh16 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: What is your opinion on TUI applications
    ×0.41 167 | 9 points by po1nt 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: I'm lost. How can I define ICP (Ideal Customer Profile)?
    ×0.35 177 | 8 points by snowhy 6 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Introduction to Making Makefiles (jfranken.de)
    ×1.85 43 #79 | 25 points by pillmillipedes 10 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Connect Dropbox to Claude (dropbox.com)
    ×0.90 | 1 points by dr_pardee 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Gerrymandle - Daily puzzle game where you redraw electoral districts (gerrymandle.cc)
    ×1.58 136 | 241 points by realmofthemad 6 days ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Blogging can just be stating the obvious (jim-nielsen.com)
    ×1.96 1 #5 | 106 points by Curiositry 3 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. What I'm Finding About LLM Code Style and Token Costs (jimmont.com)
    ×1.70 16 #17 | 16 points by jimmont 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. How the Fifth Lateran Council unlocked financial theory (sebastiangarren.com)
    ×0.93 37 #35 | 58 points by momentmaker 10 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Home Feed does not show releases (github.com/orgs)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by oaix 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. A Few Tools for Cyclists (theinstant.cc)
    ×1.39 53 | 3 points by Gshaheen 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Metaspec: The DpANS3R Common Lisp Spec in S-Expr and HTML Format (metaspec.dev)
    ×1.40 109 | 4 points by dlowe-net 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. PR spam today looks like email spam in the early 2000s (greptile.com)
    ×1.32 24 #12 | 189 points by dakshgupta 12 hours ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Genuinely, my all-time favourite image: Mamenchisaurus hochuanensis (svpow.com)
    ×0.92 32 #53 | 83 points by surprisetalk 14 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. GTA 6 will cost $80 (bbc.com)
    ×3.63 49 #71 | 50 points by gulmothrowaway 14 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. You all think it's normal to sit behind a laptop all day
    ×0.72 | 1 points by shoman3003 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Accidental Anonymity (macwright.com)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by maxutility 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Pulse – Dashboard for Claude Code, approve tool calls from your phone (github.com/nikitadoudikov)
    ×0.66 142 | 39 points by nikitadvd 4 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: React Native Boost – swaps RN's Text/View wrappers for native ones (github.com/kuatsu)
    ×1.96 163 | 9 points by mfkrause 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. China's Electric Vehicle Exports Reach Record High in May (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.62 36 | 4 points by xbmcuser 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Do Course Certificates Matter?
    ×2.60 15 | 5 points by ghassenfaidi 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Orchid – Local-first record and replay for AI agent debugging (github.com/mario-guerra)
    ×1.55 117 | 4 points by brightmonkey 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Ember, a native iOS Hacker News reader I built around accessibility (github.com/DatanoiseTV)
    ×1.24 135 | 103 points by sylwester 4 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Big AI labs are hiring philosophers (economist.com)
    ×2.23 14 #51 | 131 points by Brajeshwar 11 hours ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Mistral OCR 4 (mistral.ai)
    ×3.53 2 | 492 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. The war on terror primed America for autocracy (economist.com)
    ×4.77 12 | 283 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 271 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Trains halted across Germany because of communication system problem (apnews.com)
    ×2.07 41 | 183 points by sva_ 1 day ago | 189 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Follow the Thread – a calmer, typographic way to read Wikipedia (filteredctrl.com)
    ×0.75 | 2 points by khaki_pine 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Source-available post-quantum messenger – crypto core on GitHub (github.com/VeilusDigital)
    ×0.76 145 | 3 points by VeilusDigital 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Crawling BitTorrent DHTs for Fun and Profit [pdf] (usenix.org)
    ×1.04 20 #20 | 73 points by dgellow 8 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Journalism is rearranging the deckchairs. It needs to reinvent itself (werd.io)
    ×1.26 42 #66 | 42 points by benwerd 12 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. FPGA-based CNN acceleration using pattern-aware pruning [pdf] (hal.science)
    ×1.51 67 | 3 points by teleforce 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Parsing JSON at compile time with C++26 static reflection (lemire.me)
    ×1.36 4 | 5 points by kristianp 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. F3 (github.com/future-file-format)
    ×3.70 25 | 646 points by tosh 1 day ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Criterion Closet as a website – pull any of 1,247 films off the shelf (the-criterion-closet.vercel.app)
    ×1.65 107 | 191 points by olievans 4 days ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Teach your kids perfect pitch (github.com/paytonjjones)
    ×1.66 105 | 214 points by paytonjjones 3 days ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. "Fix" MacBook Neo Cursor Lag: Record 1 Pixel of the Screen Every 10 Seconds (github.com/retroplasma)
    ×1.67 29 #62 | 214 points by retroplasma 1 day ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Dirty Little Zine – a tool for making an 8 page printable Zine (dirtylittlezine.com)
    ×1.43 54 #86 | 168 points by cianmm 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Duolicious – Open-source dating app (github.com/duolicious)
    ×2.35 9 | 4 points by roger_penrose 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Coal Butter - Butter Made from Coal (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.71 30 | 5 points by gurjeet 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Natural Language Is an Interface Capability, Chat Is Just a Mechanism (robenglander.com)
    ×1.39 60 | 3 points by robenglander 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Venezuela reveals $240B in debt it cannot pay (~$100B more than expected) (euronews.com)
    ×3.37 26 | 82 points by cs702 12 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: CleverCrow: give tokens to your favorite projects (clevercrow.io)
    ×0.52 125 | 65 points by zhubert 3 days ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Snowscroll – I removed addictive feeds from social media (snowscroll.com)
    ×2.21 154 | 5 points by junnam586 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. I taught a bucket to speak Git (tigrisdata.com)
    ×0.83 #59 | 81 points by xena 11 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. François Englert (1932 – 2026) (home.cern)
    ×0.67 59 #74 | 62 points by toomuchtodo 17 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. SystemVerilog (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by handfuloflight 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Scbkr – an owner-signed responsibility-chain workbench for local LLMs (github.com/HIJO790401)
    ×1.09 | 2 points by look888 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Unlimited OCR: One-shot long-horizon parsing (github.com/baidu)
    ×2.16 14 | 487 points by ingve 1 day ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Hacker News Job Salary Trends (hacker-job.com)
    ×2.43 99 | 5 points by timqian 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Qualcomm to Acquire Modular (reuters.com)
    ×1.41 4 #8 | 163 points by timmyd 7 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Why David Levinson Could Hack Aliens Using a PowerBook 5300 in Independence Day (1996) (decodingvibes.com)
    ×0.80 | 1 points by altmanaltman 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Libaui – Tk clone in XCB and C (github.com/onanaxm)
    ×1.09 | 2 points by onuelito 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Commandlinefu.com (commandlinefu.com)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by kordlessagain 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. What we call "age verification" is actually mass surveillance (pluralistic.net)
    ×6.79 34 | 916 points by hn_acker 1 day ago | 497 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. GitHub shouldn't be a dependency for publishing Rust on crates.io (infosec.exchange)
    ×3.16 24 #41 | 158 points by speckx 8 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Hotly anticipated Grand Theft Auto VI will cost more than other AAA games (arstechnica.com)
    ×0.78 | 1 points by Bender 12 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: CUDA Profiler for Production Inference (github.com/graphsignal)
    ×2.11 144 | 6 points by npgraph 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Venezuela earthquake: powerful back-to-back quakes collapse buildings in Caracas (theguardian.com)
    ×2.88 29 #63 | 20 points by teleforce 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: RLM-based local debugger for AI agent traces (github.com/context-labs)
    ×0.48 102 | 25 points by mikepollard_dev 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Block/buzz: a workspace built for teams of humans and agents (github.com/block)
    ×5.37 141 | 20 points by ThomPete 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Bible as RAG Database (crosscanon.com)
    ×2.45 15 #16 | 57 points by jacksonastone 1 hour ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Monolisa v3 – a typeface for developers and creatives (monolisa.dev)
    ×1.31 13 #37 | 165 points by bebraw 15 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: AI Manifesto (danstroot.com)
    ×2.23 106 | 5 points by dstroot 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Spatially distributed complex organic matter detected in Mars crater (science.org)
    ×1.78 57 #54 | 8 points by Jimmc414 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Golden Boot – Club Impact Tracker (golden-boot-club-impact.vercel.app)
    ×1.05 | 2 points by saq7 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???