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  1. I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
    ×0.91 68 #71 | 203 points by proberts 2 days ago | 247 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)
    ×0.81 62 | 140 points by whoishiring 2 days ago | 367 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)
    ×1.29 35 | 291 points by whoishiring 2 days ago | 353 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad?
    ×2.11 27 | 116 points by idontwantthis 1 day ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Those building Swift apps without touching Xcode, what is your workflow?
    ×0.44 42 | 13 points by p5v 16 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Building a Web Framework from Scratch
    ×0.43 67 | 4 points by NewSmoke38 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Tell HN: An update from the new Tindie team
    ×0.73 102 | 83 points by altairprime 5 days ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day
    ×2.48 90 | 591 points by _-x-_ 1 week ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Tell HN: VS Code v1.117.0 automatically adds GitHub Copilot as your co author
    ×1.28 93 | 109 points by adithyassekhar 4 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Making Postman load 60% Faster
    ×0.11 | 2 points by vedkribhu 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Why hasn't someone built a decentralized compute network?
    ×1.04 78 | 6 points by buffer_overlord 18 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Claude Code dies with ANTHROPIC_API_KEY in cloud environment
    ×0.27 124 | 14 points by sroussey 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Tell HN: Happy May Day
    ×0.77 117 | 10 points by chrishill89 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. SlothDB a 5X Faster Alternative to DuckDB, ClickHouse DB
    ×0.40 119 | 12 points by souravroy78 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Tell HN: Claude 4.7 is ignoring stop hooks
    ×0.97 127 | 109 points by LatencyKills 1 week ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Does Claude use 'prior' in a Bayesian sense more than English?
    ×0.17 138 | 5 points by slake 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What Happened to the CS153 Videos
    ×0.41 126 | 5 points by mapleleaf1921 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Roblox shares plummet 18% as child safety measures weigh on bookings (cnbc.com)
    ×2.56 4 | 246 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 day ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Show HN: Hello, World in many different languages (jdunn.dev)
    ×2.36 68 | 9 points by jdironman 19 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Show HN: Clipmon is a macOS clipboard manager on steroids (github.com/c9-labs)
    ×1.07 115 | 4 points by vednig 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Tar Files Created on macOS Display Errors When Extracting on Linux (2024) (aruljohn.com)
    ×1.38 12 #12 | 102 points by heresie-dabord 11 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Stitch together lots of little HTML pages with navigations for interactions (jim-nielsen.com)
    ×1.83 5 #17 | 38 points by OuterVale 4 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Little magazines are back (wsjfreeexpression.substack.com)
    ×0.93 31 #88 | 109 points by prismatic 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Mitochondria can spawn new 'organelles' – hinting at how modern cells evolved (nature.com)
    ×1.30 | 2 points by zeristor 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Package and distribute Electron apps with "auto update" support (electron.build)
    ×1.08 | 2 points by ankitg12 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Buckets and objects are not enough (sagi.org)
    ×0.44 61 #48 | 11 points by sagiba 11 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. JSXGraph – Web-Based Interactive Mathematics Visualisation (uni-bayreuth.de)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by the-mitr 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Welcome to Hell Developer (noahclements.com)
    ×1.09 45 | 73 points by denysvitali 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Filling PDF forms with AI using client-side tool calling (simplepdf.com)
    ×0.60 69 | 53 points by nip 2 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. OpenAI’s o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors (theguardian.com)
    ×3.00 1 #13 | 388 points by donsupreme 17 hours ago | 331 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Clojurists Together – Q2 2026 Open Source Funding Announcement (clojuriststogether.org)
    ×1.02 42 #58 | 135 points by dragandj 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Barman – Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL (github.com/EnterpriseDB)
    ×1.15 40 #66 | 180 points by nateb2022 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Embedded Rust or C firmware? Lessons from an industrial microcontroller use case (arxiv.org)
    ×1.41 35 #87 | 152 points by mrtz 21 hours ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Zugzwang (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.73 32 | 112 points by Qem 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. AI, Intimacy, and the Data You Never Meant to Share (fshot.org)
    ×1.29 40 #72 | 75 points by victorkulla 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Because it doesn't have to (computationalcomplexity.org)
    ×0.71 39 #75 | 75 points by zdw 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. The piracy paradox at Udemy (2015) (troyhunt.com)
    ×0.78 | 1 points by downbad_ 18 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Modern C++ Programming: Busato (github.com/federico-busato)
    ×1.41 38 | 94 points by KnuthIsGod 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: 1990s Game Dev Algorithms for Distributed Systems (merca.earth)
    ×2.67 137 | 12 points by cremer 4 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Brain scans reveal 3 ADHD subtypes (washingtonpost.com)
    ×2.71 4 #55 | 109 points by brandonb 18 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Uncle Bob: It's Over (reddit.com)
    ×4.52 23 | 58 points by lopespm 16 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Playground for the Spectre Programming Language (spectrelang.org)
    ×1.94 55 | 5 points by pizza_man 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: I built my site as a Windows 95 experience (2025) (wes.dev)
    ×3.68 72 | 9 points by WesSouza 20 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Open source does not imply open community (feld.me)
    ×2.99 16 | 185 points by RohanAdwankar 1 day ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Craig Venter of Human Genome Project Dies at 79 (economist.com)
    ×1.05 64 | 58 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Winpodx – run Windows apps on Linux as native windows (github.com/kernalix7)
    ×1.58 80 | 98 points by kernalix7 3 days ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro (github.com/aattaran)
    ×3.48 3 #4 | 432 points by alattaran 10 hours ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Fun with polynomials and linear algebra; or, slight abstract nonsense (guille.site)
    ×0.70 11 #29 | 11 points by LolWolf 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Apple's SHARP running in the browser via ONNX runtime web (github.com/bring-shrubbery)
    ×1.00 29 #32 | 171 points by bring-shrubbery 23 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. How far behind is each major Chromium browser? (chromium-drift.pages.dev)
    ×1.53 12 #40 | 180 points by skaul 15 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. The Back-end for Front-end Pattern (BFF) (2015) (philcalcado.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by locknitpicker 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Rocky – Rust SQL engine with branches, replay, column lineage (github.com/rocky-data)
    ×0.70 99 | 120 points by hugocorreia90 5 days ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: A (de)compiler and parser/engine for custom Magic: The Gathering cards (chiplis.com)
    ×0.90 118 | 3 points by nicolas-siplis 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Agent that refuses to run commands without human approval (github.com/few-sh)
    ×0.68 136 | 12 points by hexer303 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontier (simonwillison.net)
    ×4.55 46 #46 | 635 points by indigodaddy 2 days ago | 374 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Unverified Evaluations in Dusk's PLONK (osec.io)
    ×0.43 50 #82 | 34 points by deut-erium 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. When did stories become so centred on good battling evil? And why? [video] (aeon.co)
    ×0.93 | 1 points by mblome 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. The Download: the North Pole's future and humanoid data (technologyreview.com)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by joozio 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Investors pile into clean energy as Iran war drives push for energy security (ft.com)
    ×4.05 25 | 122 points by JumpCrisscross 23 hours ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. DSPy – Programming – not prompting – LMs (dspy.ai)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by sakompella 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Rust library for Undo/Redo using deltas, snapshots or commands (github.com/mikwielgus)
    ×0.81 81 | 21 points by mikolajw 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. US–Indian space mission maps extreme subsidence in Mexico City (phys.org)
    ×1.23 15 #14 | 149 points by leopoldj 14 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. K3sup – bootstrap K3s over SSH in < 60s (github.com/alexellis)
    ×0.97 17 #15 | 51 points by rickcarlino 9 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. To fsync or not, that is a question (fractalbits.com)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by zzsheng 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. NetHack 5.0.0 Released (nethack.org)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by isaacfrond 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. AI Coding Models You Can Run Locally on Consumer Hardware (firethering.com)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by steveharing1 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Free textbook on engineering thermodynamics (thermodynamicsbook.com)
    ×1.33 105 | 191 points by 2DcAf 1 week ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Spirit Airlines canceled all flights and is going out of business (cnn.com)
    ×3.66 50 | 83 points by teleforce 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Rip.so – a graveyard for dead internet things (rip.so)
    ×1.36 91 | 184 points by bozdemir 4 days ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. The text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for accessibility (xogium.me)
    ×2.72 19 #24 | 215 points by SpyCoder77 8 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Modern jet engine turbines: each blade a single crystal (2015) (americanscientist.org)
    ×1.03 40 #39 | 58 points by whycome 17 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Supercollider (supercollider.github.io)
    ×1.16 55 #49 | 21 points by andyjohnson0 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Talking to Transformers (miraos.org)
    ×0.81 32 #52 | 36 points by taylorsatula 14 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Broadcasting GPS on the Local Network (evertpot.com)
    ×1.57 68 #70 | 6 points by treve 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Personal AI Health and Therapy Companion (hanahealth.co.uk)
    ×0.78 | 1 points by jamesawallner 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Code Orange: Fail Small is complete. The result is a stronger Cloudflare network (cloudflare.com)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by boarush 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Postgres by Example (github.com/boringcollege)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by dariubs 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Oil tanker hijacked off Yemen, steers toward Somalia (yahoo.com)
    ×2.38 58 | 58 points by delichon 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Becoming a father shrinks your cerebrum (2022) (economist.com)
    ×1.99 65 | 59 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Meta's Pyrefly sabotages competing Python extensions without telling you (github.com/facebook)
    ×2.18 56 | 51 points by FossAndFurious 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: What happens when you load a webpage (Interactive) (whysonil.dev)
    ×1.23 103 | 31 points by otterwilde2 6 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Humanoid Robot Actuators (firgelli.com)
    ×1.26 2 #1 | 119 points by ofrzeta 5 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons (drive.com.au)
    ×4.13 15 #22 | 696 points by teleforce 18 hours ago | 390 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Dav2d (videolan.org)
    ×2.67 9 #54 | 605 points by dabinat 1 day ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Do_not_track (donottrack.sh)
    ×2.71 5 #59 | 519 points by RubyGuy 1 day ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Replit: Turn ideas into apps in minutes – no coding needed (replit.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by doener 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: DAC – open-source dashboard as code tool for agents and humans (github.com/bruin-data)
    ×0.84 46 | 110 points by karakanb 4 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: GhostBox – Borrow a disposable little machine from the Global Free Tier (ghost.charity)
    ×1.71 66 | 126 points by keepamovin 2 days ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Generate SKILL.md files from URLs, in the browser (getskillify.dev)
    ×3.71 69 | 5 points by lukyvj 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Typography vs. Terrorism: Germany's FE-Schrift Font (core77.com)
    ×3.49 58 | 5 points by Markoff 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???