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  1. Tell HN: Happy Fathers Day
    ×3.02 25 #62 | 311 points by consumer451 20 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Do you have an unusual income source
    ×1.49 25 | 32 points by xupybd 9 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What is your opinion on TUI applications
    ×0.42 25 | 3 points by po1nt 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Are you being "529 Overloaded" by Anthropic too?
    ×0.48 74 | 7 points by hmokiguess 13 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?
    ×1.15 77 | 148 points by amichail 2 days ago | 239 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Any AI native Anki alternatives?
    ×1.29 3 | 5 points by shadag 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. My Opinion on RL
    ×0.33 96 | 3 points by umjunsik132 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. GitHub Banned All CI for Our (OSS) Org Because of Bad Drive-By Contributors
    ×1.19 66 | 8 points by BlueMatt 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What would justify writting an OS kernel in 2026?
    ×0.81 94 | 4 points by alonsovm44 14 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Is anyone using the A2A protocol?
    ×0.72 107 | 94 points by asim 4 days ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Are people optimistic about the future?
    ×1.74 91 | 35 points by JohnDSDev 1 day ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Norrin – Git/ diff control in Claude Code
    ×0.37 126 | 4 points by gagewoodard 23 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: How should I convert Microsoft Word documents to Markdown?
    ×0.39 106 | 4 points by lkrubner 17 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What tools are you using for AI-assisted code review?
    ×0.47 142 | 25 points by agos 3 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Are You a Workaholic?
    ×0.51 117 | 5 points by julienreszka 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: After you ship a feature, what happens to what you learned?
    ×0.41 122 | 10 points by gaggle_dk 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Favorite aspects of Cocoa/NeXTSTEP for app dev?
    ×0.25 130 | 5 points by elcritch 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: What are your favourite Hacker News comments?
    ×0.35 136 | 4 points by Imustaskforhelp 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: I'm lost. How can I define ICP (Ideal Customer Profile)?
    ×0.39 173 | 7 points by snowhy 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What technique do you use to make Claude Code deterministic?
    ×0.67 141 | 7 points by hbarka 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: How to get ideas for space startups?
    ×0.27 134 | 5 points by asxndu 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: What do you care about? What is your joy and purpose?
    ×0.56 132 | 10 points by bix6 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Do you give AI coding agents their own GitHub account?
    ×0.59 108 | 6 points by ahmd 23 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: What is your #1 practical lesson or "aha" moment from coding with AI?
    ×0.56 128 | 9 points by johndavid9991 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Do you use Claude Code, Codex, or something else?
    ×0.62 131 | 8 points by JohnDSDev 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Forked CozoDB to give agents cognitive primitives
    ×0.30 166 | 4 points by shanrizvi 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: How to handle kernel struct changes (e.g. iov_iter) in eBPF?
    ×0.38 157 | 4 points by morolis 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Is anyone else leaving AUR?
    ×0.63 163 | 8 points by lordkrandel 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Do you find vibe coding / agentic engineering to be fulfilling?
    ×1.41 159 | 13 points by uejfiweun 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: What is the coolest tech progress outside AI?
    ×0.62 140 | 16 points by vantareed 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Need advice on distributing and testing what I build
    ×0.39 151 | 5 points by darth-pixit 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Is there a way to stop the animated Google Doodles?
    ×0.53 161 | 12 points by arnejenssen 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Tell HN: Happy Father's Day
    ×1.80 97 | 10 points by atestu 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Are other people seeing a spike in IT problems with businesses?
    ×0.29 167 | 15 points by PaulHoule 4 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: What's a prompt you've written that you're genuinely proud of?
    ×0.70 169 | 11 points by akashwadhwani35 4 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Has anyone had success with SBIR grants and what is the process like?
    ×0.32 171 | 11 points by lyfeninja 4 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: How do you effectively communicate or present?
    ×1.03 164 | 10 points by hnthrow10282910 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: Conflicted about founding engineer role
    ×0.58 170 | 8 points by gondolin1683 3 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. How much $ you spend for AI to code?
    ×0.60 175 | 6 points by raghuu 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: If AI didn't exist, what would you be building today?
    ×1.22 125 | 7 points by akashwadhwani35 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: Open-Source Intelligence
    ×0.15 176 | 3 points by silent_butagrim 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ask HN: Is there a recognized standard for swarm intelligence benchmarking?
    ×0.37 172 | 5 points by stephanieriggs 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Memory Safe Inline Assembly (fil-c.org)
    ×1.22 17 #15 | 138 points by pizlonator 13 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. The minimum viable unit of saleable software (brandur.org)
    ×1.39 25 #35 | 190 points by brandur 21 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Why European housing politics should be Americanized (worksinprogress.co)
    ×0.94 | 1 points by surprisetalk 56 seconds ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Ember, a native iOS Hacker News reader I built around accessibility (github.com/DatanoiseTV)
    ×1.21 68 | 100 points by sylwester 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: A site where people pay me money for no reason (payfornoreason.com)
    ×3.53 46 | 8 points by qane 2 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Fossil Fuels Are 40% of Freight Shipping Tonnage, but Half Its Fuel Use (cleantechnica.com)
    ×2.26 12 | 153 points by choult 23 hours ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Help I accidentally a wigglegram (lmao.center)
    ×2.29 5 #5 | 364 points by gregsadetsky 11 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Becoming a dad changes men's brains (scientificamerican.com)
    ×2.73 10 #18 | 17 points by momentmaker 1 hour ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Rive, Fast and reliable background jobs in Go (github.com/riverqueue)
    ×1.09 51 #38 | 4 points by mountainview 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Meta Taps New WhatsApp Boss as Part of $900M Investment (bloomberg.com)
    ×3.94 27 #39 | 7 points by ilreb 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Prismag – Per-block model routing for the terminal and any IDE (github.com/rufus-SD)
    ×1.00 90 #55 | 3 points by arthur-G 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: MiniPCs.zip – Charting the Pareto frontier of Mini PCs (minipcs.zip)
    ×0.94 37 #58 | 38 points by yathern 14 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Watch the US Treasury yield curve invert before each recession (eco3min.fr)
    ×2.27 41 | 3 points by latentframe 44 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Bun has an open PR adding shared-memory threads to JavaScriptCore (github.com/oven-sh)
    ×1.24 59 | 144 points by gr4vityWall 1 day ago | 306 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Tot – instant share links for HTML and Markdown files (github.com/plannotator)
    ×1.47 105 | 4 points by ramoz 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Onsight: pay a local to photograph any spot in San Francisco, on demand (onsight.photo)
    ×3.28 127 | 10 points by pro_methe5 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: GitGauge – A Way to Try Tell If a Repo Is Authentic (github.com/Davey2Waveyy)
    ×1.31 147 | 4 points by davey2wavey 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows (waxy.org)
    ×2.75 | 404 points by ridesisapis 1 day ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. SMPTE Makes Its Standards Freely Accessible (smpte.org)
    ×1.37 21 | 291 points by zdw 1 day ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Crawlie – Free open-source SEO audit tool for humans and agents (github.com/spronta)
    ×1.23 143 | 20 points by seandotexe 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Sakana Fugu (sakana.ai)
    ×1.43 12 #12 | 156 points by Finbarr 11 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Lisp in the Rust Type System (github.com/playX18)
    ×0.88 3 #20 | 84 points by quasigloam 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. How One Code Change Reduced CPU Usage by 97% (duolingo.com)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by soheilpro 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: TermType – a terminal typing game where words fall like Space Invaders (github.com/GiovanniCst)
    ×2.36 112 | 5 points by J_cst 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. (How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (In Python)) (2010) (norvig.com)
    ×1.14 22 #43 | 187 points by tosh 22 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. NSA director: 'Mythos "broke into almost all of our classified systems in hours" (economist.com)
    ×3.54 53 #65 | 99 points by ricksunny 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: CleverCrow: give tokens to your favorite projects (clevercrow.io)
    ×0.54 55 #66 | 38 points by zhubert 18 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Ask HN: Is Fable Back?
    ×0.75 | 1 points by taspeotis 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Cody – Voice control for Neovim using its own commands, LSP (github.com/juancgarza)
    ×1.04 150 | 4 points by jcgr 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Epoll vs. io_uring in Linux (sibexi.co)
    ×1.43 15 | 254 points by Sibexico 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. When I reject AI code even if it works (vinibrasil.com)
    ×3.27 18 | 225 points by vnbrs 1 day ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot has died in a plane crash (reuters.com)
    ×3.05 55 | 175 points by drayfield 1 day ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. 'We had to get out of the way': The backlash over delivery robots (bbc.com)
    ×2.94 64 | 82 points by higginsniggins 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. 1983 Northern Telecom Commodore Phone (oldtelephoneroom.ca)
    ×0.77 21 #42 | 69 points by arexxbifs 13 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Chevron signs 20-year power agreement with Microsoft for West Texas data center (chevron.com)
    ×0.90 | 1 points by cdrnsf 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Domain Understanding Is Moat (sohit.substack.com)
    ×0.88 | 1 points by sohitkeshri 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Duckle a drag-and-drop visual pipeline designer (github.com/slothflowlabs)
    ×1.09 9 | 3 points by souravroy78 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Tiny.Place – AI Social network for orchestration, payments & jobs (github.com/tinyhumansai)
    ×0.73 154 | 4 points by enamakel 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Minecraft: Java Edition 26.2, the first version with Vulkan 1.2 (minecraft.net)
    ×1.78 25 #29 | 176 points by ObviouslyFlamer 18 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. PowerFox Browser (jazzzny.me)
    ×1.28 15 #31 | 153 points by thisislife2 16 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. PenTest Toolkit V2 – Open-Source Penetration Testing Toolkit (github.com/mhmmuneef)
    ×0.80 | 1 points by mhmmuneef 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Agent-memory systems admit poisoned facts – a reproducible benchmark (github.com/arsenis-cmd)
    ×1.48 | 2 points by areneu 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. AMD will reinstate memory encryption on Ryzen 9000 CPUs via BIOS update in July (tomshardware.com)
    ×3.43 45 | 169 points by roboror 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Seeing the world in radio waves with the QuadRF (hackaday.com)
    ×2.77 81 | 55 points by ikbdsk 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Notedog – Git-friendly portable Markdown journal, edit from a laptop (notedog.run)
    ×0.93 145 | 3 points by hibariya 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Shape Suffixes – Good Coding Style (medium.com)
    ×0.63 10 #80 | 18 points by sebg 9 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Is Time Slowly Dying? (facebook.com)
    ×0.89 | 1 points by Asheed 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. The Lego Natural History Museum, and the Question of Scale (svpow.com)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by surprisetalk 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???