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  1. Valgrind-3.27.1 Is Available
    ×0.23 23 | 3 points by paulf38 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 21)
    ×1.12 33 | 3 points by Armonsrer 2 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Shouldn't Google need to give a public statement about Railway incident?
    ×1.51 4 | 166 points by srameshc 21 hours ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Alternatives to HN for "tech outside of AI" discussion?
    ×0.88 73 | 49 points by summonerOS 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Are there any serious efforts to organize tech labor now?
    ×0.83 74 | 22 points by 0rganize 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: How to be SOC2 Type 2 compliant as a solo-entreprenuer?
    ×0.79 98 | 172 points by sochix 6 days ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Tell HN: Google banned Railway's account. Everything down
    ×0.59 81 | 29 points by sergiotapia 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Can one run AI on source code with the prompt "Find below-avg swear rate files"?
    ×0.17 94 | 3 points by pcwir 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Do you enjoy reading any type of AI written text?
    ×0.37 68 | 4 points by reed1234 7 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Suggest Google Antigravity Alternative
    ×0.20 93 | 6 points by Pallavimdb 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How to manage AI APIs for SaaS application?
    ×0.30 118 | 4 points by sbinnee 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: How to make a mono-repo AI-Ready?
    ×0.13 | 2 points by kasnaka 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Sorry, what Was FiveThirtyEight?
    ×0.86 92 | 9 points by gagdiez 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Does root have to be uid 0? Does uid 0 have to be root?
    ×0.42 129 | 5 points by axismundi 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How does everyone talk about their work when they've used AI?
    ×0.32 117 | 4 points by deku2099 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Tell HN: Dont use Claude Design, lost access to my projects after unsubscribing
    ×2.06 97 | 300 points by pycassa 1 week ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What are Stainless users doing now that Anthropic has killed it?
    ×0.42 111 | 5 points by ubutler 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Did moving to new place have intended effect?
    ×0.43 105 | 12 points by Jeff2Serve 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: When did computers stop being fun?
    ×1.43 101 | 76 points by klez 4 days ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Anthropic is killing stainless, so we built our own SDK/MCP generator
    ×0.31 114 | 6 points by iiviie 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Antigravity 2.0 installer breaks existing Antigravity IDEs
    ×0.21 140 | 3 points by jdw64 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Is grpcurl home page compromised?
    ×0.20 131 | 4 points by jicea 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: How do word docs, slides, excel, and PDFs generate value?
    ×0.63 123 | 6 points by FailMore 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Go all in on startup idea, or stay W2
    ×0.05 | 2 points by Mnexium 2 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: How often do you code the expected way instead of a better one?
    ×0.15 139 | 4 points by recycling 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Windows on Mobile Screen
    ×0.19 148 | 3 points by tukunjil 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Rmux – A programmable terminal multiplexer with a Playwright-style SDK (github.com/helvesec)
    ×1.08 5 #9 | 122 points by shideneyu 5 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. The famous O3 "GeoGuessr" prompt did not work (seangoedecke.com)
    ×1.84 19 #61 | 39 points by ingve 5 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. ArkDisk – Self-hosted Nextcloud as a service (don't hack too fast) (arkdisk.com)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by ChristopherArk 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: My custom Statusline for Claude Code (Python wrapper around claudeline) (github.com/Reebz)
    ×0.70 90 | 3 points by Reebz 13 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Closed Rings – A CLI-first time tracker for developers (closedrings.sh)
    ×1.54 133 | 6 points by samacs 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. 70% of Faculty Vote to Overhaul Harvard Grading with A Cap (thecrimson.com)
    ×1.53 16 #40 | 4 points by divbzero 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Comparing Objective Caml and Standard ML (chlipala.net)
    ×1.05 55 #65 | 12 points by lambertsimnel 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ex-Apple engineer says Apple deliberately slows older phones via updates (macobserver.com)
    ×4.68 54 | 87 points by neya 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: I Dedicated 4 Years to Mastering Offline Password Cracking
    ×0.92 | 2 points by bojta-lepenye 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Hating AI Is Good (thehandbasket.co)
    ×5.41 11 #13 | 200 points by cdrnsf 1 hour ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers (github.com/kageroumado)
    ×2.14 3 #20 | 355 points by kageroumado 14 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Numexpr: Fast numerical array expression evaluator for Python, NumPy, Pandas (github.com/pydata)
    ×0.70 49 #47 | 17 points by tosh 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. No query strings here either from (furrer.life)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by speckx 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Gemini 3.5 Flash: frontier intelligence with action (blog.google)
    ×5.30 51 | 180 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026 (googleblog.com)
    ×2.75 30 | 393 points by primaprashant 1 day ago | 199 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Google I/O (io.google)
    ×2.89 52 | 185 points by thanhhaimai 1 day ago | 262 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: A self-balancing skip-list (a.k.a. "splay-list") library in C (codeberg.org)
    ×0.55 | 2 points by gregburd 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. What Do Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems Mean? (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.01 9 #17 | 46 points by baruchel 4 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. New features in GCC 16: Improved error messages and SARIF output (redhat.com)
    ×0.99 30 #27 | 114 points by siteshwar 12 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200 (twitter.com/nottombrown)
    ×2.12 11 #28 | 254 points by aurareturn 15 hours ago | 283 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Google’s AI is being manipulated. The search giant is quietly fighting back (bbc.com)
    ×1.70 11 #74 | 328 points by tigerlily 1 day ago | 207 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. AI chief of staff framework with invisible shadow predictions (github.com/jaroslavsoucek-art)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by JarSou 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Haystack – Review the PRs that need human attention (haystackeditor.com)
    ×0.44 80 | 43 points by akshaysg 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Watch a neural net learn to play Snake (gradexp.xyz)
    ×1.20 95 | 204 points by c1b 6 days ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Recreate famous water profiles using supermarket bottled water (waterdictionary.net)
    ×1.32 30 #31 | 91 points by smugglerFlynn 11 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon (wsj.com)
    ×2.15 71 #32 | 145 points by louiereederson 22 hours ago | 315 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.79 15 #50 | 217 points by wapasta 14 hours ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Why micropayments can't save news (werd.io)
    ×0.79 | 1 points by benwerd 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. America's Greatest Strategic Blunder: The Imprisonment of Qian Xuesen (weblog.lol)
    ×1.32 41 | 92 points by danieltanfh95 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Autodidact – Self-evolving local-first AI agent (github.com/BuffaloTechRider)
    ×1.61 124 | 6 points by waterbuffaloai 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Mistral AI acquires Emmi AI (emmi.ai)
    ×1.70 35 | 334 points by doener 1 day ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. OpenAI to confidentially file for IPO as soon as Friday (cnbc.com)
    ×2.98 42 | 134 points by doppp 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Noxu DB, a Rust Port of Berkeley DB Java Edition (codeberg.org)
    ×0.78 147 | 3 points by gregburd 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Two Researchers Are Rebuilding Mathematics from the Ground Up (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.81 | 1 points by Brajeshwar 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Get your passwords out of Bitwarden while you still can (osnews.com)
    ×3.49 63 | 4 points by speckx 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Bevy Game Engine Explained Visually (aibodh.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by febin 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. AI is killing All About Berlin (twitter.com/aboutberlin)
    ×1.56 15 | 3 points by mohsen1 48 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: SubTrack – Find forgotten subscriptions via bank transaction scanning (thesubtrack.com)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by svnk123 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Dari-docs – Optimize your docs using parallel coding agents (github.com/mupt-ai)
    ×0.40 60 | 21 points by byhong03 21 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: MyUUIDshop, Generate UUIDs and never worry about duplicates (myuuid.shop)
    ×1.50 137 | 5 points by scrygl 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Lance – image/video generation and understanding in one model (github.com/bytedance)
    ×0.75 43 | 62 points by cleardusk 22 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: IgniteMS – batch text embeddings at 253K msg/s on 8x A100 (github.com/Artain-AI)
    ×0.64 104 | 3 points by ddayanov 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Eploring for Now
    ×0.67 | 1 points by S_G_tech 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Another Book Giveaway on LaTeX.org: Win the LaTeX Beginner's Guide 2026 Edition (latex.org)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by idle 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. I’ve joined Anthropic (twitter.com/karpathy)
    ×6.55 23 | 1414 points by dmarcos 1 day ago | 606 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: SharpSkill – A LeetCode Alternative with real interview outcomes (sharpskill.dev)
    ×1.61 120 | 5 points by GiornoJojo 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Declining America (tbray.org)
    ×9.59 30 #78 | 279 points by AndrewDucker 17 hours ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Google changes its search box (blog.google)
    ×2.90 6 | 681 points by berkeleyjunk 1 day ago | 917 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Anna's Archive hit with $19.5M default judgment and global domain takedown order (torrentfreak.com)
    ×2.88 1 | 269 points by iamnothere 1 day ago | 218 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: I made a 3D pose maker for artists (setpose.com)
    ×0.69 75 | 87 points by augustvdv 2 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins settlement after lawsuit (fire.org)
    ×6.01 59 #88 | 745 points by ceejayoz 1 day ago | 490 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Copy Fail, Dirty Frag, and Fragnesia kernel vulnerabilities (gentoo.org)
    ×0.74 66 | 133 points by akhuettel 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Agent Chat Bridge – give AI IDE agents an async callback (github.com/sathvikc)
    ×0.34 | 2 points by sathvikchinnu 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Vecdb – local-first hybrid vector database in Rust (HNSW and BM25) (github.com/zaydmulani09)
    ×0.58 149 | 4 points by zaydmulani 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. The TTY Demystified (2008) (linusakesson.net)
    ×1.04 70 | 92 points by 20after4 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension (railway.com)
    ×2.32 2 #54 | 438 points by 0xedb 22 hours ago | 248 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. A Markdown-based test suite (blogsystem5.substack.com)
    ×0.81 47 #58 | 49 points by zdw 13 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Highest Random Weight in Elixir (jola.dev)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by shintoist 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: I built a native macOS Markdown viewer 100% with AI coding agents (github.com/rajatarya)
    ×1.71 115 | 6 points by rajatarya 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. What Is Driving US/White House Policy? Neo-Royalism [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by nickwalker 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Setting Up OpenClaw with Slack in a Sandbox (superserve.ai)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by nirnejak 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Node.js 26.0.0 (Now with Temporal) (nodejs.org)
    ×1.98 2 | 143 points by aarestad 19 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Bevel – Guess the book from its opening passage (bevel.ink)
    ×0.87 141 | 3 points by knotalegend 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Qian Xuesen: The missile genius America lost and China gained (2025) (usni.org)
    ×1.32 38 #46 | 187 points by thnaks 20 hours ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???