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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2026)

×1.63 4 #9 | 51 points by whoishiring 2 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)

×2.46 14 #12 | 19 points by whoishiring 1 hour ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The AI cost is going to create a new excuse for mass layoffs

×0.74 11 | 7 points by user2132141 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2026)

×1.92 48 | 8 points by jon_north 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
$100 to a Debian Developer who can get Fresh Editor into Trixie

×0.41 57 | 25 points by jph 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What Is the State of App Development in 2026?

×0.96 62 | 93 points by karakoram 2 days ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Recruiters, How do you vet resume in 2026?

×0.47 74 | 13 points by CoffeeSky 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What are your worst war stories bringing agentic applications into prod

×0.47 86 | 11 points by yaoke259 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Donating AI credits to open source projects

×0.25 88 | 5 points by happyPersonR 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Meta's AI support feature allows Instagram accounts to be stolen

×1.95 43 | 31 points by parable 19 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Corporate Disconnect Between "Tokenmaxxing" and Token Optimization

×0.33 90 | 5 points by mc-0 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How you pass legacy to others?

×0.43 98 | 7 points by jojwong 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I made an free unlimited captcha alternative

×0.66 99 | 7 points by david3289 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Any advice on how to learn good software architecture practices?

×0.24 113 | 16 points by jimsojim 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Does Claude Code remove the need for so many front-end frameworks?

×0.31 129 | 11 points by ex-aws-dude 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What Is an "AI Engineer"?

×0.27 118 | 19 points by seattle_spring 3 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: If I cancel Codex today whats the next best local inference agent?

×0.28 117 | 11 points by Bulbasaur2015 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro?

×1.12 96 | 153 points by widenrun 6 days ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Students, What Impact Is AI Having on Your Education?

×0.74 104 | 8 points by ciwolex 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid (torrentfreak.com)

×4.30 3 #8 | 253 points by speckx 2 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tracing HTTP Requests with Go's net/HTTP/httptrace (blainsmith.com)

×1.19 9 #22 | 138 points by speckx 9 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Restartable Sequences (justine.lol)

×1.66 29 #60 | 246 points by grappler 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cracking the Whoop 5.0 over Bluetooth (judes.club)

×0.50 | 1 points by alechash 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
An Elephant Who Demonstrated That Her Species Might Be Self-Aware, Dies at 55 (smithsonianmag.com)

×1.98 64 | 60 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: CakeML-based self-verifying, self-improving system (emberian.github.io)

×1.08 85 | 4 points by cmrx64 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI Dark Output: The Visible Cost of Invisible Output (semianalysis.com)

×0.55 | 1 points by kjhughes 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: LiteParse v2, now in Rust 100x faster (github.com/run-llama)

×2.78 128 | 14 points by pierre 4 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Repolog, website audit for SEO, performance, security, and AI readiness (repolog.io)

×1.07 138 | 6 points by petersas 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nvidia Cosmos 3 (nvidia.com)

×2.17 16 #28 | 108 points by tosh 3 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I Turned Off My Phone for a Month and Used a Landline (nymag.com)

×0.46 | 1 points by mrjaeger 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Shift from a leader-follower to a leader-leader approach (practicalengineering.management)

×1.40 | 76 points by Alupis 15 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: TypistStories, new Gothic novel released (typiststories.com)

×0.51 | 2 points by afonsosoares 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software (github.com/RsyncProject)

×10.12 1 | 505 points by justdotJS 1 day ago | 460 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: UN Condemnation Statistics (boxed.github.io)

×1.05 126 | 4 points by boxed 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anthropic Files to Go Public, Setting Stage for Huge I.P.O. (nytimes.com)

×4.60 31 #50 | 14 points by jbegley 46 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The four programming questions from my 1994 Microsoft internship interview (2023) (computerenhance.com)

×1.46 30 #52 | 185 points by tosh 21 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Automate pattern discovery with Topics, now generally available (braintrust.dev)

×0.71 | 1 points by mooreds 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Futurelock and You [video] (youtube.com)

×0.46 | 1 points by smklein 43 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
You weren't meant to have a boss (2008) (paulgraham.com)

×2.04 17 | 140 points by downbad_ 1 day ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Asserts in Zig (kristoff.it)

×1.12 6 #30 | 38 points by signa11 5 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Rift: Better Alternative to Git Worktrees (github.com/anomalyco)

×1.42 4 #80 | 50 points by f4n4tiX 10 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: TUI to keep track of local GSD (get-shit-done) projects (github.com/bitcreed)

×1.59 152 | 12 points by _blk 5 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Inkfeed – RSS Reader for Kindle (inkfeed.xyz)

×1.21 148 | 4 points by adhamsalama 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Streambed – Stream Postgres to Iceberg on S3, Supports Postgres Wire (github.com/viggy28)

×0.94 34 #68 | 112 points by vira28 22 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
London's Free Roof Terraces (diamondgeezer.blogspot.com)

×1.69 7 #89 | 321 points by zeristor 1 day ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sergey Brin told Google staff that working 60 hours a week is the 'sweet spot' (2025) (fortune.com)

×8.12 29 | 70 points by randycupertino 23 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ahoy, DECmate II the little PDP-8 that could (oldvcr.blogspot.com)

×0.58 58 | 56 points by TMWNN 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Compile-time model-id validation with declared capability (github.com/yujonglee)

×0.23 140 | 6 points by yujonglee 6 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Infosec Phrasebook (nesbitt.io)

×1.92 28 #40 | 20 points by progval 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A pictorial introduction to differential geometry (2017) (arxiv.org)

×1.23 38 #90 | 134 points by ricudis 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion (consumerrights.wiki)

×5.39 25 | 999 points by antipurist 1 day ago | 369 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Zig ELF Linker Improvements Devlog (ziglang.org)

×1.29 41 | 223 points by kristoff_it 1 day ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microcode inside the Intel 8087 floating-point chip: register exchange (righto.com)

×0.97 53 | 129 points by pwg 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Open-source private home security camera system (end-to-end encryption) (github.com/secluso)

×1.27 69 | 130 points by arrdalan 2 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Erin Brockovich takes aim at data center secrecy (techcrunch.com)

×1.68 24 | 3 points by Brajeshwar 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A multi-carrier shipping rate aggregator for the EU (jetsend.eu)

×0.47 | 1 points by jetsend 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Promptloop – create, run, and improve prompt evals from the terminal (github.com/Bella3202019)

×0.90 116 | 13 points by velapod 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Virtual File Tree VSCode Extension for Developers (codeberg.org)

×0.61 | 1 points by hdell49 15 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A desktop app for manual QA testing and evidence gathering (github.com/adriandomc)

×0.95 | 2 points by adriandomc 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Live, system-wide USB transfer sniffer in eBPF (github.com/yeet-src)

×2.10 95 | 8 points by r3tr0 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Community Ninja – Find customers searching for your product (communityninja.ai)

×1.61 119 | 5 points by shashanoid 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Get a webhook the moment a webpage changes (firecrawl.dev)

×0.65 155 | 3 points by ericciarla 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Komi-learn – continuous memory and self-improvement for coding agents (github.com/kurikomi-labs)

×0.70 75 | 24 points by rainxchzed 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Entropic — information-driven variable-rate media playback (github.com/patrickxia)

×1.35 97 | 4 points by pxx 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A 10 year old Xeon is all you need (point.free)

×3.10 4 #10 | 526 points by cafkafk 10 hours ago | 232 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Benchmarking SurrealDB 3.x vs. Postgres, Mongo, Neo4j and Redis (With Fsync) (surrealdb.com)

×0.83 10 #36 | 67 points by itsezc 8 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AMD Wants You to Keep Using Your Old Hardware for a Lot Longer (gamespot.com)

×1.85 34 | 3 points by speckx 30 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Red Hat Cloud Services Publish Pipeline Compromised, Shipped Malicious NPM (safedep.io)

×0.48 | 1 points by birdculture 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cheese Paper: a text editor specifically designed for writing (brie.gay)

×1.29 46 | 147 points by sohkamyung 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Posthorn, self-hosted mail gateway (github.com/craigmccaskill)

×1.04 105 | 83 points by craigmccaskill 5 days ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Automating Human Connection (tonyrice.me)

×0.63 | 1 points by tonyrice 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Soybean oil linked to metabolic and neurological changes in mice (ucr.edu)

×0.45 | 1 points by bilsbie 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Helios – what plug-in solar could generate for any address in Britain (southlondonscientific.com)

×0.86 60 | 122 points by ruaraidh 2 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Blorp Language (blorp-lang.org)

×1.23 16 #44 | 59 points by croottree 9 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
EY Canada published a cybersecurity report and most citations were hallucinated (gptzero.me)

×4.19 23 | 321 points by smartmic 1 day ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
LLMs Are Closer to Religion Than They Appear (theregister.com)

×3.54 63 | 73 points by sbulaev 6 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The History of "Prisencolinensinainciusol" (dirkdeklein.net)

×1.20 30 | 55 points by NaOH 22 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Vibewarz – bot vs bot arena for vibecoders (vibewarz.com)

×0.63 147 | 4 points by gaomri 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Let's talk about EU Sovereignty (2025) (martyn.berlin)

×1.52 70 | 60 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Open-source Workspace (mail,docs,spreadsheet,drive) web/iOS (tinycld.org)

×1.01 89 | 110 points by nathanstitt 5 days ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Malicious npm packages detected across Red Hat Cloud Services (github.com/RedHatInsights)

×4.22 2 #5 | 613 points by kurmiashish 3 hours ago | 316 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC (anthropic.com)

×5.43 15 #19 | 159 points by surprisetalk 1 hour ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The TfL Cupboard Filled with Lost Tube Moquettes (londonist.com)

×0.34 31 #32 | 6 points by zeristor 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
1-Bit Bonsai Image 4B Image Generation for Local Devices (prismml.com)

×2.01 18 #41 | 441 points by modinfo 1 day ago | 187 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Websites have a new way to spy on visitors: analyzing their SSD activity (arstechnica.com)

×2.09 37 #51 | 249 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
UA flight – 'turn Bluetooth off or we're turning around' (reddit.com)

×4.16 54 | 86 points by slackpad 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Movwin: My (Unpublished) TUI Framework (movq.de)

×0.60 8 #34 | 42 points by zdw 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Decades of Effort Restore Steelhead and Salmon Passage on Alameda Creek (noaa.gov)

×1.60 17 #35 | 216 points by rawgabbit 17 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Domain expertise has always been the real moat (brethorsting.com)

×3.62 11 #73 | 852 points by aaronbrethorst 1 day ago | 536 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Lean, Not Backpressure (entropicthoughts.com)

×0.90 34 #79 | 16 points by kqr 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???