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  1. Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?
    ×2.38 4 #14 | 165 points by andrehacker 8 hours ago | 388 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow?
    ×1.83 20 #55 | 115 points by dv35z 10 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Bad MCP design costs your agent 5x more tokens
    ×0.73 39 | 9 points by JohnnyZhang483 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: So what happened to Facebook "localhost" tracking?
    ×0.77 64 | 101 points by juliusceasar 1 day ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: My competitors have flawed products but I can't get traction
    ×0.56 41 | 8 points by saveitincork 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Are orbital data centers possible / a good idea?
    ×1.07 19 | 21 points by aronowb14 9 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Is the web for machines (/llm.txt) the one we wished we had as humans?
    ×0.96 33 | 36 points by sunshine-o 15 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How do you find deep technical content?
    ×1.18 86 | 36 points by f311a 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Gin rummy strategies
    ×0.60 85 | 24 points by bix6 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Why isn't AI image generation closely linked with graphics code gen?
    ×0.21 | 2 points by amichail 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How did you discover Hacker News?
    ×1.23 58 | 6 points by chistev 11 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2026)
    ×1.01 92 | 239 points by whoishiring 4 days ago | 423 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)
    ×0.81 101 | 149 points by whoishiring 4 days ago | 524 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How do you stay up to date without information overload?
    ×0.53 88 | 3 points by bohdanstefaniuk 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Is Azure capacity this constraind or am I doing it wrong?
    ×0.84 75 | 11 points by lanycrost 15 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Is Everyone an Engineer Now?
    ×1.82 125 | 4 points by piratesAndSons 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. I'm tired of LLM skill slop, so I built mine with regression tests
    ×0.45 120 | 5 points by iliaov 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Do you know any company that's making money with LLMs?
    ×1.34 102 | 4 points by camillomiller 18 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Supply chain attack alert: .github/setup.js
    ×5.17 66 | 18 points by antihero 16 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Life saving / first aid posters
    ×0.45 93 | 36 points by cpu_ 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. I underestimated how hard audio waveforms are in the browser
    ×0.97 113 | 5 points by syncara 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Hey, you, tech worker–how are you feeling?
    ×0.69 119 | 5 points by arm32 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Being privacy-conscious comes with some downsides
    ×1.15 109 | 7 points by wqtz 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Google killed my $1M ARR startup overnight
    ×3.68 107 | 14 points by vadumo 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Good books/resources for learning SQL?
    ×0.74 126 | 5 points by CobaltFire 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Is Claude Code down, or its just my region?
    ×0.88 104 | 4 points by codetiger 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: AI efficiency in the workplace
    ×0.44 152 | 3 points by localhoster 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: A Brief History of LLMs
    ×0.45 153 | 9 points by menomatter 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Tell HN: Max messenger app removed from App Store
    ×0.59 131 | 9 points by secondary_op 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: What is your opinion on index rule changes to accommodate Mega-Cap IPOs?
    ×0.97 147 | 18 points by figmert 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Angular jasmine unit tests are harder to code/maintain than the actual feature
    ×0.65 165 | 5 points by GamingAtWork 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: What are all the ways to punch through NAT?
    ×0.72 137 | 5 points by jupr 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Go Experiments Explained (alexedwards.net)
    ×0.94 66 #62 | 80 points by ingve 23 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. US attorney opens investigation into California elections-sends prosecutor to LA (apnews.com)
    ×2.60 45 | 4 points by petethomas 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. ML Bible (arjunvirk.com)
    ×1.29 | 2 points by jdkee 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. WSL 2 is getting faster Windows file system access (boxofcables.dev)
    ×2.87 25 | 177 points by haydenbarnes 1 day ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: SnapToCode – Screenshot any UI and get clean Tailwind code (google.com)
    ×0.29 | 2 points by adithagrawaal 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Launch HN: General Instinct (YC P26) – Frontier models on edge devices
    ×0.54 48 #15 | 46 points by guanming0717 9 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Castor: CERN Advanced STORage Manager (cern.ch)
    ×0.58 63 | 64 points by naves 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Notepad++ v8.9.6.4 Tiananmen Massacre Commemoration (notepad-plus-plus.org)
    ×5.63 73 | 64 points by chao- 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: ABC Classic 100 Rankings visualised (gotski.workers.dev)
    ×1.46 9 #4 | 6 points by gotski 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Mantine-datatable (and others) compromised – owner account suspended (github.com/icflorescu)
    ×0.79 23 #24 | 60 points by justsomehuman 9 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. databow: a Rust CLI to query any database with an ADBC driver (columnar.tech)
    ×0.93 38 #49 | 109 points by hckshr 18 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. eLoran (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.15 | 2 points by jonbaer 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. SpaceX blocked from early US benchmark index entry as S&P reaffirms rules (cnbc.com)
    ×1.23 | 2 points by Quekid5 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Gen Z more disconnected and distrustful of coworkers than their older colleagues (fortune.com)
    ×1.30 26 | 3 points by rustoo 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: NoiR Code – because QR sounds similar to "noir" (suncake.xyz)
    ×0.68 96 | 12 points by Sunkek 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: GoldenMatch – 100M-row dedupe on Ray in 213s, no Spark, Arrow-native (github.com/benseverndev-oss)
    ×0.47 148 | 3 points by benzsevern 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Anthrosevka Mono, an Iosevka Build Inspired by Anthropic Mono (github.com/nanxstats)
    ×0.47 | 2 points by road2stat 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Tracing a powerful GNSS interference source over Europe (arxiv.org)
    ×1.98 5 #22 | 362 points by mimorigasaka 17 hours ago | 197 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare (cloudflare.com)
    ×2.64 3 #70 | 671 points by coloneltcb 1 day ago | 301 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Cumulative average BMI and cognitive decline: a 24-year cohort study (springer.com)
    ×1.94 12 | 3 points by PaulHoule 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Bot or Not – Spot AI-generated randomness (play-bot-or-not.vercel.app)
    ×1.44 132 | 4 points by EvanZhouDev 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: CLI for crawling documentation sites into Markdown with defuddle (github.com/artemnistuley)
    ×0.74 154 | 5 points by nistuley 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Wd-41, hot-reload webserver for static sites (github.com/baalimago)
    ×0.33 | 2 points by baalimago 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: On-device transcriber that's 97% accurate at identifying speakers (mimicscribe.app)
    ×0.70 86 #59 | 8 points by marshalla 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Re: Cache: 0-click SXSS on Next.js via reflected headers (zhero-web-sec.github.io)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by logickkk1 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Apple Maps on the Web (apple.com)
    ×2.42 8 | 4 points by Austin_Conlon 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Private in-browser VNC client with CF Workers (odinglynn.com)
    ×1.26 | 2 points by odig 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Satellite data show trees delay budburst across landscapes to escape herbivores (nature.com)
    ×2.55 17 | 4 points by PaulHoule 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Bash Runtime for AWS Lambda (github.com/interchecks)
    ×0.52 | 2 points by tw1gz 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: DropLock – E2EE secret sharing web app with no backend (apitman.com)
    ×1.35 138 | 24 points by apitman 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Chatcode – Remote Control for Claude Code and Codex (chatcode.dev)
    ×2.42 122 | 9 points by borkasm 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Dear Microsoft, enough is enough (politico.eu)
    ×4.25 30 | 71 points by giuliomagnifico 20 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Lessons learned from running Claude Code swarms at scale
    ×3.17 91 | 9 points by sermakarevich 21 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Simple attributes for spec-driven agentic workflows (C#, Rust) (github.com/doublecouponday)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by dcdgo 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Tell HN: AI software development workflow, stack-ranked from HN discussion (codeberg.org)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by dv35z 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. HiTracio (hitracio.com)
    ×2.72 8 | 4 points by wiratata 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Microsoft wants users to be addicted to Scout, their AI personal assistant (disassociated.com)
    ×2.24 86 | 67 points by berlianta 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Streambed – Stream Postgres to Iceberg on S3, Supports Postgres Wire (github.com/viggy28)
    ×1.01 116 | 129 points by vira28 5 days ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Watching a Z80 from an RP2350 (wordpress.com)
    ×0.57 82 #57 | 49 points by ibobev 20 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Game Theory Text - Thomas Ferguson (archive.org)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by soupspaces 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. AI, Ashby Engineering, and the future (ashbyhq.com)
    ×1.10 71 | 60 points by fredley 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. SVG of a Hamster Playing Table-Tennis (aibenchy.com)
    ×1.61 22 #87 | 19 points by XCSme 8 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Tensor Shapes in Pyrefly – Avik Chaudhuri – PyCon US 2026 Typing Summit [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.82 13 | 3 points by matt_d 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Rscrypto, pure-Rust crypto with industry leading public benches (github.com/loadingalias)
    ×0.59 105 | 33 points by LoadingALIAS 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: 100cc - Roll your own Claude in 100 lines (github.com/yujqiao)
    ×1.15 156 | 10 points by rapiz 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Linear Cosine Palettes(2025) (djnavarro.net)
    ×0.81 70 #73 | 55 points by num42 22 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. First U.S. screwworm case confirmed in South Texas (texastribune.org)
    ×2.92 77 | 63 points by tnorthcutt 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: OWASP VulnerableApp Modern Extensible and Scalable vulnerable app (github.com/SasanLabs)
    ×0.82 68 | 3 points by newaccount12344 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Nutrepedia – Nutrition info in 29 locales built with Clojure and Htmx (nutrepedia.com)
    ×1.33 79 | 134 points by llovan 2 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. The perils of UUID primary keys in SQLite (andersmurphy.com)
    ×1.97 4 #21 | 19 points by emschwartz 2 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpose Linux (boxofcables.dev)
    ×1.43 41 #36 | 194 points by haydenbarnes 22 hours ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses (buchodi.com)
    ×2.68 36 #50 | 310 points by buchodi 1 day ago | 289 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Delacroix's Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople Restored (louvre.fr)
    ×0.73 81 #61 | 61 points by rawgabbit 22 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. IPv6 zones in URLs are a mistake (xeiaso.net)
    ×1.50 54 #65 | 140 points by xena 1 day ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot (fieggen.com)
    ×2.91 12 #90 | 582 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 222 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. My returns have been exponential – no, seriously (ft.com)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by petethomas 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Synapse – 2.9MB Mac app with screenshot, clipboard, Keep Awake and more (synapsemac.com)
    ×1.97 149 | 17 points by harshanacz 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. She won a religious exemption from using AI at work (businessinsider.com)
    ×4.15 33 #47 | 14 points by dgellow 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???