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  1. Ask HN: Failing interviews for mid-level SWE in UK, advice please
    ×0.56 4 #90 | 9 points by mjb8086 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Is HN Blocking Mullvad VPN?
    ×0.20 52 | 3 points by burger_moon 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Anyone else struggling with AI and work?
    ×0.65 20 | 7 points by carlgreene 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Valgrind-3.27.1 Is Available
    ×0.22 62 | 7 points by paulf38 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Shouldn't Google need to give a public statement about Railway incident?
    ×1.51 33 | 173 points by srameshc 1 day ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 21)
    ×0.59 63 | 7 points by Armonsrer 8 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Are there any serious efforts to organize tech labor now?
    ×0.90 81 | 27 points by 0rganize 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Alternatives to HN for "tech outside of AI" discussion?
    ×0.92 79 | 54 points by summonerOS 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How to be SOC2 Type 2 compliant as a solo-entreprenuer?
    ×0.79 106 | 172 points by sochix 6 days ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Tell HN: Google banned Railway's account. Everything down
    ×0.59 90 | 30 points by sergiotapia 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Can one run AI on source code with the prompt "Find below-avg swear rate files"?
    ×0.14 111 | 3 points by pcwir 22 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: How does everyone talk about their work when they've used AI?
    ×0.37 120 | 5 points by deku2099 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: How to manage AI APIs for SaaS application?
    ×0.27 127 | 4 points by sbinnee 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Suggest Google Antigravity Alternative
    ×0.19 105 | 6 points by Pallavimdb 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Do you enjoy reading any type of AI written text?
    ×0.20 86 | 4 points by reed1234 13 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How to make a mono-repo AI-Ready?
    ×0.12 | 2 points by kasnaka 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Sorry, what Was FiveThirtyEight?
    ×0.77 102 | 9 points by gagdiez 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Tell HN: Dont use Claude Design, lost access to my projects after unsubscribing
    ×2.05 104 | 300 points by pycassa 1 week ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Does root have to be uid 0? Does uid 0 have to be root?
    ×0.38 135 | 5 points by axismundi 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: When did computers stop being fun?
    ×1.41 110 | 76 points by klez 4 days ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: What are Stainless users doing now that Anthropic has killed it?
    ×0.40 121 | 5 points by ubutler 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Did moving to new place have intended effect?
    ×0.42 116 | 12 points by Jeff2Serve 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Israel's High-Tech Campaign to Kill or Capture Every Oct. 7 Attacker (wsj.com)
    ×2.06 9 #79 | 4 points by Cider9986 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. A open-source graph database that lives in your S3 bucket (github.com/namidb)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by matonseca 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Chromium publishes fixed exploit 4 years later, turns out it's unfixed (infosec.exchange)
    ×1.54 | 2 points by birdculture 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Meta to lay off 350 staff from its Irish offices – The Irish Times (irishtimes.com)
    ×1.01 | 2 points by rbanffy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Japan is gripped by mass allergies. A 1950s project is to blame (bbc.com)
    ×2.28 42 | 356 points by ranit 1 day ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Why I don’t vibe code (jacobharr.is)
    ×3.10 55 | 96 points by birdculture 1 day ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt booed at Arizona U commencement speech (theguardian.com)
    ×3.25 73 | 67 points by simonebrunozzi 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Resilient, A composable async resilience toolkit for rust (github.com/resilient-rs)
    ×0.53 | 2 points by yofabr 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Recreate famous water profiles using supermarket bottled water (waterdictionary.net)
    ×1.27 42 #58 | 110 points by smugglerFlynn 17 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Web Serial Support in Firefox (mozilla.org)
    ×2.05 18 #72 | 10 points by tech234a 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Trump calls off AI executive order over concern it could weaken US tech edge (apnews.com)
    ×3.73 40 | 6 points by geox 51 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Fred Wilson – Create Your Own Currency with FlipCash (avc.xyz)
    ×1.01 | 2 points by rmason 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Open source platform for automating sandboxed coding agents (github.com/mistlehq)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by mickuehl 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police (prismreports.org)
    ×2.90 5 #6 | 348 points by root-parent 3 hours ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Flipper One Tech Specs (flipper.net)
    ×2.33 2 #71 | 495 points by gregsadetsky 1 day ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier (qwen.ai)
    ×2.94 5 #80 | 688 points by kevinsimper 1 day ago | 282 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Why banning the recycling logo is progress in the fight against plastic waste (washingtonpost.com)
    ×0.74 | 2 points by cainxinth 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. What My Livewire Honeypot Caught in Its First 60 Hours (helgesver.re)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by speckx 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Using Kagi Search with Low Vision (veroniiiica.com)
    ×1.39 20 #8 | 17 points by speckx 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans (hollywoodreporter.com)
    ×1.33 13 #11 | 51 points by elffjs 2 hours ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Open Access to Standards Documents (llvm.org)
    ×0.86 | 1 points by vitaut 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Open-source .docx editor library for building document apps (github.com/eigenpal)
    ×1.68 18 | 3 points by thisisjedr 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. GitHub Compromised (twitter.com/github)
    ×4.96 48 | 262 points by claaams 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian (github.com/zakirullin)
    ×2.99 59 | 712 points by zakirullin 3 days ago | 349 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. IBM invented semiconductor manufacturing automation (ieee.org)
    ×0.81 32 #44 | 65 points by rbanffy 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Ten Little Algorithms #8: Miller-Rabin Primality Test (Living with Uncertainty) (embeddedrelated.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by jason_s 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. FatGid: FreeBSD 14.x kernel local privilege escalation (fatgid.io)
    ×0.72 28 #31 | 79 points by WhyNotHugo 8 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. How fast is N tokens per second really? (mikeveerman.github.io)
    ×2.24 3 #83 | 472 points by hexagr 1 day ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Colorado Amended SB051 (Age Verification Bill) to Exclude Open Source Projects (legiscan.com)
    ×1.93 8 | 221 points by ki4jgt 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: DDS Vibe Academy – 31 free AI coding masterclasses, built by AI agents
    ×0.57 | 2 points by robert_ddsbos 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: A sparse, compressed bitmap index in C. Better than Roaring Bitmaps? (codeberg.org)
    ×0.54 | 2 points by gregburd 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Checking the math behind OpenAI and Anthropic's latest headlines (garymarcus.substack.com)
    ×1.12 | 2 points by YeGoblynQueenne 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. US employers spend more than $1.5B a year to fight labor unions, report finds (theguardian.com)
    ×4.64 65 #88 | 221 points by robtherobber 7 hours ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Ruby on Rails is Dead (2026 Edition) (mroczek.dev)
    ×0.86 | 1 points by lackoftactics 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Dependency cooldowns are unfair; we should use phased rollouts instead (illegalcode.net)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by stevehipwell 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry (superspl.at)
    ×2.33 51 | 524 points by danybittel 2 days ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: SharpSkill – A LeetCode Alternative with real interview outcomes (sharpskill.dev)
    ×1.60 129 | 5 points by GiornoJojo 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart (valhovey.github.io)
    ×2.27 2 #2 | 290 points by speleo 4 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Mounting git commits as folders with NFS (2023) (jvns.ca)
    ×0.86 23 #21 | 73 points by pvtmert 6 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. DOS Zone (dos.zone)
    ×1.87 20 #50 | 339 points by rglover 22 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. ACLU Secures $485,000 Settlement for FWC Biologist Fired over Charlie Kirk Post (live-awp-florida.pantheonsite.io)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by ceejayoz 33 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Programmatic Devcontainer Interface (github.com/crunchloop)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by bilby91 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Don't call yourself a Software Engineer, and other Career Advice (idiallo.com)
    ×2.89 16 | 5 points by firefoxd 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Declining America (tbray.org)
    ×9.91 10 | 339 points by AndrewDucker 1 day ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Hocuspocus 4 – self-hosted Yjs collaboration backend (github.com/ueberdosis)
    ×0.87 71 | 38 points by philipisik 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Bevel – Guess the book from its opening passage (bevel.ink)
    ×0.87 143 | 3 points by knotalegend 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Reviving old scanners with an in-browser Linux VM bridged to WebUSB over USB/IP (yes-we-scan.app)
    ×1.07 53 #63 | 112 points by gmac 20 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Even at $5T, Nvidia Is Underappreciated (wsj.com)
    ×1.16 | 2 points by bookofjoe 45 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Inviting the Agent In (codeland.org)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by wapasta 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Incubate This (sylvansmit.com)
    ×1.16 | 2 points by sylvanjsmit 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Inside the unraveling of U.S. diplomacy under Trump (reuters.com)
    ×3.88 39 | 6 points by layer8 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry (openai.com)
    ×4.97 11 #46 | 1364 points by tedsanders 1 day ago | 987 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Simulating Infinity in Conway's Game of Life with Modern C++ (ryanjk5.github.io)
    ×0.69 54 #67 | 63 points by HeliumHydride 16 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. AI Tokenomics: How to Profitably Turn Tokens into Business Value [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by pretext 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. US decennial labor flows and economic opportunity, 1910–2040 (pnas.org)
    ×1.18 21 | 3 points by paulpauper 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: FlashAttention-2 in Cute, from Scratch (echen.io)
    ×1.27 141 | 6 points by echen314 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. CrimsonOS-A bare-metal mobile OS on the Crimson kernel, approaching boot testing (github.com/synchancybersecurity)
    ×0.85 | 1 points by crimsonOS 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Tracking Starbucks' 'widely recyclable' cups: none ended up at recycling (beyondplastics.org)
    ×2.89 18 | 210 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Forge – Guardrails take an 8B model from 53% to 99% on agentic tasks (github.com/antoinezambelli)
    ×3.00 29 | 667 points by zambelli 2 days ago | 242 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: InsForge – Open-source Heroku for coding agents (github.com/InsForge)
    ×0.54 98 | 61 points by mrcoldbrew 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Remote Job Board (remotejobs.place)
    ×2.22 85 | 8 points by beefive 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: I Dedicated 4 Years to Mastering Offline Password Cracking
    ×2.47 8 #30 | 195 points by bojta-lepenye 6 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Ehyeh: The behavioral identity primitive the internet forgot to build (noctaracorp.com)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by coleaalkire 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. The "Megalodon" Campaign: 5718 malicious commits to 5561 GitHub repos (xcancel.com)
    ×0.98 | 2 points by theanonymousone 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. I am not a Software Engineer (mataroa.blog)
    ×3.82 80 | 70 points by l0b0 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Javalamp – A glowing terminal screensaver that keeps your Mac awake (github.com/breschio)
    ×0.96 130 | 4 points by tbreschi 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Getting an old Computer online with Android Ethernet tethering (82mhz.net)
    ×0.96 73 #49 | 4 points by speckx 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: ChangeSpec is an open specification for software change communication (github.com/changespec)
    ×0.68 | 2 points by cdnsteve 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???