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  1. Tell HN: Happy Fathers Day to all the fathers, uncles, anyone in that role!
    ×2.17 8 #19 | 3 points by consumer451 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?
    ×1.25 51 | 147 points by amichail 1 day ago | 239 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Favorite aspects of Cocoa/NeXTSTEP for app dev?
    ×0.19 80 | 3 points by elcritch 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What are your favourite Hacker News comments?
    ×0.41 82 | 3 points by Imustaskforhelp 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Do you give AI coding agents their own GitHub account?
    ×0.51 15 | 4 points by ahmd 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Is anyone using the A2A protocol?
    ×0.73 87 | 92 points by asim 3 days ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: After you ship a feature, what happens to what you learned?
    ×0.42 76 | 9 points by gaggle_dk 17 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How to get ideas for space startups?
    ×0.32 78 | 5 points by asxndu 12 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What tools are you using for AI-assisted code review?
    ×0.46 114 | 23 points by agos 3 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Tell HN: Happy Father's Day
    ×2.06 11 | 8 points by atestu 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What technique do you use to make Claude Code deterministic?
    ×0.73 97 | 6 points by hbarka 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What do you care about? What is your joy and purpose?
    ×0.56 93 | 9 points by bix6 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What is your #1 practical lesson or "aha" moment from coding with AI?
    ×0.49 88 | 7 points by johndavid9991 19 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Do you use Claude Code, Codex, or something else?
    ×0.61 90 | 7 points by JohnDSDev 20 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How to handle kernel struct changes (e.g. iov_iter) in eBPF?
    ×0.32 118 | 3 points by morolis 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: If AI didn't exist, what would you be building today?
    ×1.07 73 | 5 points by akashwadhwani35 11 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Forked CozoDB to give agents cognitive primitives
    ×0.23 140 | 3 points by shanrizvi 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Need advice on distributing and testing what I build
    ×0.43 109 | 5 points by darth-pixit 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Is Claude Code with Fable 5 worth switching back from Codex?
    ×0.94 74 | 6 points by vantareed 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What is the coolest tech progress outside AI?
    ×0.61 104 | 15 points by vantareed 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Is anyone else leaving AUR?
    ×0.72 130 | 8 points by lordkrandel 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: I'm lost. How can I define ICP (Ideal Customer Profile)?
    ×0.27 159 | 5 points by snowhy 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Due to spam on GitHub, what platforms can I move my projects?
    ×1.90 38 | 60 points by ciwolex 23 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Do you find vibe coding / agentic engineering to be fulfilling?
    ×1.44 129 | 12 points by uejfiweun 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Is there a way to stop the animated Google Doodles?
    ×0.56 131 | 12 points by arnejenssen 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Anthropic pauses credit change for Claude Code
    ×1.14 139 | 36 points by fabianlindfors 5 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Reviews have become expensive, rewrites have become cheap
    ×1.12 117 | 82 points by arzh2 5 days ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: How do you effectively communicate or present?
    ×1.12 133 | 10 points by hnthrow10282910 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Open-Source Intelligence
    ×0.15 158 | 3 points by silent_butagrim 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Is there a recognized standard for swarm intelligence benchmarking?
    ×0.38 137 | 5 points by stephanieriggs 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Conflicted about founding engineer role
    ×0.61 142 | 8 points by gondolin1683 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Are other people seeing a spike in IT problems with businesses?
    ×0.30 145 | 15 points by PaulHoule 4 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: What's a prompt you've written that you're genuinely proud of?
    ×0.75 143 | 11 points by akashwadhwani35 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Has anyone had success with SBIR grants and what is the process like?
    ×0.33 146 | 11 points by lyfeninja 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. How much $ you spend for AI to code?
    ×0.66 151 | 6 points by raghuu 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Self-adapting and mutating LLM based viruses/worms
    ×0.24 161 | 3 points by rozumbrada 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Trillions of dollars spent just to work on customer services?
    ×0.77 126 | 8 points by YihaoZhang 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: What's a simple app you'd build if you had a weekend?
    ×0.74 112 | 6 points by akashwadhwani35 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Meetup.com login appears to be exceeding its reCAPTCHA Enterprise quota
    ×0.54 154 | 4 points by infl8ed 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: I built a daily flag quiz in honor of the World Cup (orbisearth.web.app)
    ×1.17 163 | 4 points by sestarkman 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Developers don't understand CORS (2019) (fosterelli.co)
    ×2.04 2 #24 | 291 points by toilet 15 hours ago | 233 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. I Still Live in the Terminal (tacoda.dev)
    ×2.42 30 | 4 points by tacoda 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: BeamWeaver – LangChain/DeepAgents-style agents and workflows for Elixir (github.com/caudena)
    ×0.67 | 2 points by caudena 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. PostmarketOS v26.06 (Alpen Avocado) released (postmarketos.org)
    ×1.25 | 2 points by fossdd 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Iran says it's closing Strait of Hormuz, accusing Israel, US of violating truce (cnn.com)
    ×7.58 28 | 77 points by MilnerRoute 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Are You in the Weights? (intheweights.com)
    ×3.48 46 | 462 points by turtlesoup 2 days ago | 244 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: An 8-bit live gamecast for baseball (ribbie.tv)
    ×1.40 81 | 257 points by brownrout 4 days ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Code duplication is far cheaper than the wrong abstraction (2016) (sandimetz.com)
    ×3.46 #1 | 68 points by rafaepta 59 minutes ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Running MicroVMs in Proxmox VE, the Easy Way (taoofmac.com)
    ×2.11 8 #13 | 162 points by zdw 11 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. The Disappearance of Japan's Animators (economist.com)
    ×1.59 | 2 points by andsoitis 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Seth Larson on Making Things (digitalseams.com)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by bobbiechen 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: StartupWiki – A Free Alternative to Crunchbase (startupwiki.tech)
    ×1.58 30 #40 | 215 points by shpran 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Askmaps.ai – Like ChatGPT with a Map (askmaps.ai)
    ×2.03 35 | 3 points by fabino 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: LoopFlow – loop engineering for Claude Code (github.com/faisalishfaq2005)
    ×1.04 106 | 3 points by faisalishfaq 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Wolffish – An OS personal desktop AI agent (wolffi.sh)
    ×0.74 160 | 3 points by younes-alturkey 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Millimeter wave technology drills 100 meters into granite (thinkgeoenergy.com)
    ×2.07 68 #56 | 62 points by Jimmc414 22 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Designing Teams for an Agentic World (anup.io)
    ×0.84 | 1 points by zdw 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Companies rein in AI usage as costs strain budgets (ft.com)
    ×2.66 63 | 120 points by fandorin 1 day ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: No-install, end-to-end encrypted HTML artifact sharing for agents (askhuman.app)
    ×0.54 | 2 points by rvcdbn 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Crawlie – Free open-source SEO audit tool for humans and agents (github.com/spronta)
    ×1.17 113 | 19 points by seandotexe 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Local personal data redaction for any AI tools (github.com/sophia486)
    ×0.89 141 | 12 points by unusual_typo 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. What Does OO Afford? (2018) (sandimetz.com)
    ×2.38 55 | 3 points by mooreds 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Onsight: pay a local to photograph any spot in San Francisco, on demand (onsight.photo)
    ×3.15 79 | 9 points by pro_methe5 18 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. SMPTE Makes Its Standards Freely Accessible (smpte.org)
    ×1.35 22 #28 | 281 points by zdw 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Rare medieval bookmark exceeds expectations at auction (thehistoryblog.com)
    ×0.73 23 #30 | 33 points by speckx 8 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Tesla plans to sell modular AI data center hardware called 'Megapod' (electrek.co)
    ×1.79 51 #76 | 5 points by dabinat 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Don't Do That PhD (twitter.com/AI_in_LEO)
    ×1.79 11 | 3 points by gmays 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Cotypist – Smart Autocomplete for Mac (cotypist.app)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by lorenz_li 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Project Fetch: Phase Two (anthropic.com)
    ×0.82 48 #41 | 71 points by stopachka 17 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows (waxy.org)
    ×2.74 11 #48 | 386 points by ridesisapis 23 hours ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. AI is a mass psychotic delusion [video] (youtube.com)
    ×4.75 82 | 12 points by jmount 20 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Whole cross-sectional human ultrasound tomography (nature.com)
    ×1.18 43 #33 | 103 points by lnyan 18 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Spin Lab (srijanshukla.com)
    ×0.62 107 | 44 points by srijanshukla18 5 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Notedog – Git-friendly portable Markdown journal, edit from a laptop (notedog.run)
    ×0.43 | 2 points by hibariya 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: HN Game Stories – mini-documentary of games that hit the front page (intellios.ai)
    ×0.59 | 2 points by coolwulf 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Your brain was never designed for this much bad news (sciencedaily.com)
    ×5.21 55 #70 | 272 points by colinprince 13 hours ago | 246 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics (startupfortune.com)
    ×4.39 15 #78 | 953 points by ck2 2 days ago | 395 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. DokuWiki Markdown Support (patreon.com)
    ×1.66 | 2 points by thunderbong 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: A TypeScript Pokémon Crystal TUI for Agent Benchmarking (github.com/TheCulliganMan)
    ×1.33 | 2 points by theculliganman 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: CommitGate – Automatically scan your commit for vulnerabilities (github.com/ductrl)
    ×1.86 16 | 3 points by ductrl 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Downtown S.F. tower promised a new kind of tech community (sfchronicle.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by iancmceachern 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Codeflowmap – map a codebase's read/write/auth data flows (github.com/man-consult)
    ×1.68 91 | 5 points by brian-m 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Billionaire Tax Officially Heads to Nov. 3 Ballot (ca.gov)
    ×5.09 33 #45 | 16 points by simonpure 1 hour ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. CSSQuake (cssquake.com)
    ×2.55 3 #50 | 519 points by msalsas 1 day ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. CTOs Agree: Cognitive Debt Is the New Technical Debt (shiftmag.dev)
    ×3.74 60 #79 | 73 points by sxx0 7 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: NanoEuler – GPT-2 scale model in pure C/CUDA from scratch (github.com/JustVugg)
    ×1.24 124 | 6 points by vforno 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Ask HN: Why Do AI Credits Expire
    ×2.67 27 | 4 points by kuberwastaken 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. From PGP to Mythos: a brief history of export controls that didn't stop anyone (techcrunch.com)
    ×1.74 10 | 154 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Gerrymandle - Daily puzzle game where you redraw electoral districts (gerrymandle.cc)
    ×1.55 71 | 235 points by realmofthemad 3 days ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Vpod – Tiny Linux sandbox running in WASM (github.com/capsulerun)
    ×2.00 150 | 12 points by mavdol04 4 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???