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  1. Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?
    ×1.89 53 #60 | 36 points by amichail 1 hour ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: How do you separate intentional test boilerplate from real duplication?
    ×0.26 25 #64 | 8 points by rafaepta 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Is anyone using the A2A protocol?
    ×0.77 48 | 89 points by asim 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What tools are you using for AI-assisted code review?
    ×0.51 95 | 21 points by agos 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?
    ×4.78 49 | 1304 points by cloudking 4 days ago | 558 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What is the coolest tech progress outside AI?
    ×0.43 29 | 9 points by vantareed 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Open-Source Intelligence
    ×0.19 96 | 3 points by silent_butagrim 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Is there a recognized standard for swarm intelligence benchmarking?
    ×0.59 85 | 5 points by stephanieriggs 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How are thinking efforts implemented?
    ×0.54 179 | 104 points by simianwords 1 week ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. I indexed 669 GB of my GoPro videos using my M1 Max computer and local ML models
    ×2.32 93 | 436 points by iliashad 5 days ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Is anyone else leaving AUR?
    ×0.70 103 | 5 points by lordkrandel 18 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Self-adapting and mutating LLM based viruses/worms
    ×0.31 105 | 3 points by rozumbrada 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Trillions of dollars spent just to work on customer services?
    ×0.99 88 | 8 points by YihaoZhang 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)
    ×1.44 100 | 310 points by david927 5 days ago | 1137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: I'm lost. How can I define ICP (Ideal Customer Profile)?
    ×0.26 146 | 4 points by snowhy 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?
    ×1.34 154 | 265 points by mdni007 1 week ago | 240 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Is there a way to stop the animated Google Doodles?
    ×0.53 113 | 10 points by arnejenssen 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How do you effectively communicate or present?
    ×1.06 117 | 7 points by hnthrow10282910 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Conflicted about founding engineer role
    ×0.63 122 | 7 points by gondolin1683 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Do you find vibe coding / agentic engineering to be fulfilling?
    ×1.23 115 | 8 points by uejfiweun 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Favorite text heavy blogs that are a joy to read?
    ×0.86 163 | 120 points by joshmarinacci 1 week ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models
    ×2.35 127 | 427 points by TomAnthony 1 week ago | 255 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: What's a prompt you've written that you're genuinely proud of?
    ×0.81 134 | 10 points by akashwadhwani35 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How do you find new books to read?
    ×1.16 130 | 5 points by ahmedfromtunis 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Notes on DeepSeek
    ×1.85 148 | 211 points by vinhnx 1 week ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Has anyone had success with SBIR grants and what is the process like?
    ×0.34 135 | 11 points by lyfeninja 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Want to build something open source on nights and weekends together?
    ×0.51 181 | 39 points by vira28 1 week ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Are other people seeing a spike in IT problems with businesses?
    ×0.29 142 | 14 points by PaulHoule 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Would it be useful to have a slop button in addition to flag?
    ×0.95 180 | 41 points by BugsJustFindMe 1 week ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Opus and regression with patterns not included in trainng data
    ×0.18 | 2 points by dleech 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Reviews have become expensive, rewrites have become cheap
    ×1.15 116 | 82 points by arzh2 4 days ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
    ×2.32 137 | 445 points by aryamaan 1 week ago | 788 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Do we even need code anymore?
    ×1.00 138 | 5 points by lasky 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Are most corporate SWE jobs performative?
    ×2.31 144 | 249 points by hnthrow10282910 1 week ago | 283 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. How much $ you spend for AI to code?
    ×0.26 150 | 4 points by raghuu 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Best resources for learning how to build a forum back end?
    ×0.48 170 | 3 points by jupr 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Whats the best and small open source model?
    ×0.52 171 | 3 points by hairymouse 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Anthropic pauses credit change for Claude Code
    ×1.16 149 | 35 points by fabianlindfors 4 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Zen and the Art of Machine Learning Research (jxmo.io)
    ×1.49 22 #23 | 232 points by jxmorris12 19 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Russell Vought is going to destroy American Science (elizabethginexi.substack.com)
    ×1.80 36 | 3 points by tacomonstrous 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Trust Identity Protocol v1.0, an open post-quantum standard for human identity (theailab.org)
    ×1.33 24 | 3 points by dineshmendhe 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Liberalism in the Age of Weaponized Interdependence (liberalism.org)
    ×1.09 20 #67 | 8 points by paulpauper 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ice water drowning survival of young patient (2025) (jacc.org)
    ×1.84 22 #84 | 195 points by js2 20 hours ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle (mameworld.info)
    ×1.13 55 #86 | 142 points by ingve 1 day ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS (ui.com)
    ×1.88 44 #39 | 401 points by ksec 1 day ago | 339 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Fable Converted Pylint to Rust (pypi.org)
    ×2.96 20 | 84 points by adamraudonis 19 hours ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Vpod – Tiny Linux sandbox running in WASM (github.com/capsulerun)
    ×2.03 145 | 12 points by mavdol04 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. A Perceptron in Age of Empires II (adewynter.github.io)
    ×1.16 4 #21 | 14 points by EvgeniyZh 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. The Productivity J-Curve [pdf] (2018) (mit.edu)
    ×0.46 29 #41 | 48 points by kioku 10 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Launch HN: TesterArmy (YC P26) – Agents that test web and mobile apps (tester.army)
    ×0.68 71 #63 | 123 points by okwasniewski 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI (twitter.com/NoamShazeer)
    ×2.15 10 #69 | 349 points by lukasgross 1 day ago | 375 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Evaluating Local LLMs as language translators for my app (lector.dev)
    ×2.08 45 | 4 points by 3stacks 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. What happens if the EU loses the AI race [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.85 | 2 points by SpyCoder77 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Kage – Shadow any website to a single binary for offline viewing (github.com/tamnd)
    ×2.78 86 | 707 points by tamnd 5 days ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Agentic Loops: Why the Best AI Coding Workflows Are Loops, Not Prompts (skilldb.dev)
    ×0.35 | 2 points by dev_chad 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Book Review: Where's My Flying Car? (astralcodexten.com)
    ×1.76 1 | 4 points by zetalyrae 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Building Cursor for Traders (runhalcyon.com)
    ×2.00 104 | 6 points by chips2011 20 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: HelixDB – A graph database built on object storage (github.com/HelixDB)
    ×1.06 160 | 158 points by GeorgeCurtis 1 week ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Pagecast – Publish Markdown/HTML Reports to Cloudflare Pages (github.com/Amal-David)
    ×0.45 58 #40 | 24 points by amaldavid 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Google Is Using Nvidia's Playbook to Build a Rival AI Chip Business (wsj.com)
    ×1.77 13 | 4 points by Brajeshwar 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Everything Is BOM: Bill of Materials Encyclopedia (bomwiki.com)
    ×1.72 62 | 56 points by sebg 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: I am building a map of people who lived in the Roman Empire (roman-names.com)
    ×1.50 123 | 210 points by metiscus 1 week ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Hide Secrets from AI Agents and NPM install using Airgap (sauleau.com)
    ×0.77 37 #32 | 9 points by netgusto 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. APT28, an Evolution of Tradecraft (sekoia.io)
    ×0.68 74 #71 | 5 points by mooreds 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Eerie landscape of 100.000 monoliths made with fable 5(when it was available) (railway.app)
    ×0.87 | 2 points by echohive42 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in – and they're not good (nature.com)
    ×4.73 78 | 197 points by Michelangelo11 6 hours ago | 266 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Wages in America Are Too Low for the 30% Rule to Work for Renters Anymore (realtor.com)
    ×5.41 38 | 173 points by littlexsparkee 1 day ago | 506 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Generative AI Is Having Its Herbalife Moment (whatwelo.st)
    ×4.09 26 | 65 points by watermelon0 18 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Sudoku Word Search," hidden words required to solve letter-sudoku (sudokuwordsearch.com)
    ×0.70 169 | 3 points by bahbahbahbah 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Zenzizenzizenzic (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.00 3 #13 | 52 points by gyosifov 2 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Amateur may have cracked Linear A (aiclambake.com)
    ×3.07 23 #31 | 398 points by Kosturdistan 8 hours ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Algae clouded Trump's vision for the Reflecting Pool. scientists not surprised (npr.org)
    ×3.12 60 | 5 points by rolph 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Stem cells banish autoimmune disease for 15 years (nature.com)
    ×2.08 12 #47 | 19 points by Brajeshwar 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly (windowslatest.com)
    ×5.15 18 #74 | 717 points by Adam-Hincu 1 day ago | 506 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Tell HN: Adding congestion control and retry tokens to a reliable UDP transport
    ×0.77 | 1 points by x1colegal 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Aikido Code Audit (aikido.dev)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by ilreb 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Seven Perfect Shuffles Randomize a Deck of Cards. But How Many Sloppy Ones? (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.97 72 | 97 points by layer8 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. The founder of Craigslist has given away half a billion dollars (independent.co.uk)
    ×3.71 22 #90 | 407 points by Tomte 1 day ago | 311 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Glassblowing #2: Making a tungsten lamp and (bad) vacuum diode (maurycyz.com)
    ×2.32 24 | 5 points by thomasjb 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. OCaml 5.5.0 (ocaml.org)
    ×2.22 9 | 5 points by cod1r 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Spin Lab (srijanshukla.com)
    ×0.60 97 | 42 points by srijanshukla18 3 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Paca – Lightweight Jira alternative for human-AI collaboration (github.com/Paca-AI)
    ×1.10 131 | 173 points by pikann22 6 days ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Exploiting Slack's video embeds to achieve E2EE communication (v1c.rocks)
    ×0.34 157 | 31 points by victorio 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Knowledge workers don't need frontier models (mukulsingh105.github.io)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by azhenley 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. There are no instances in ATProto (overreacted.io)
    ×1.88 12 #3 | 320 points by danabramov 9 hours ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Making Sense of Data from Wearable Health Trackers (undark.org)
    ×0.97 | 2 points by EA-3167 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Need guidance on Go-To-Market strategy
    ×1.48 11 | 3 points by brainstorm23 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Waved Studio – browser-native wavetable editor (wavedstudio.online)
    ×1.58 6 | 3 points by sp8m8 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Comparison of simulation environments for robot training data (humanoidsdata.com)
    ×0.98 | 2 points by torayeff 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. The data black hole at the center of AI (dwarkesh.com)
    ×1.37 27 | 3 points by jedixit 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???