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  1. Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?
    ×2.76 4 #13 | 296 points by andrehacker 14 hours ago | 562 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?
    ×3.86 18 #21 | 119 points by Ekami 5 hours ago | 215 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Does robotics capabilities research accelerate AGI timelines?
    ×0.51 46 #70 | 3 points by themasterchief 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow?
    ×1.90 36 #87 | 129 points by dv35z 16 hours ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Been trying to post and I am getting flagged for it
    ×0.86 | 2 points by Neobecomer 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: So what happened to Facebook "localhost" tracking?
    ×0.76 55 | 101 points by juliusceasar 1 day ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How did you discover Hacker News?
    ×1.04 17 | 8 points by chistev 17 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Bad MCP design costs your agent 5x more tokens
    ×0.73 54 | 10 points by JohnnyZhang483 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: My competitors have flawed products but I can't get traction
    ×0.59 57 | 9 points by saveitincork 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Are orbital data centers possible / a good idea?
    ×1.12 38 | 23 points by aronowb14 15 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Is the web for machines (/llm.txt) the one we wished we had as humans?
    ×0.95 44 | 36 points by sunshine-o 21 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: How do you find deep technical content?
    ×1.15 75 | 36 points by f311a 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Gin rummy strategies
    ×0.59 74 | 24 points by bix6 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2026)
    ×1.01 77 | 239 points by whoishiring 4 days ago | 424 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)
    ×0.81 85 | 149 points by whoishiring 4 days ago | 525 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Why isn't AI image generation closely linked with graphics code gen?
    ×0.19 | 2 points by amichail 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Is Azure capacity this constraind or am I doing it wrong?
    ×0.82 71 | 11 points by lanycrost 21 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How do you stay up to date without information overload?
    ×0.49 88 | 3 points by bohdanstefaniuk 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Is Everyone an Engineer Now?
    ×2.41 105 | 6 points by piratesAndSons 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. I'm tired of LLM skill slop, so I built mine with regression tests
    ×0.44 113 | 5 points by iliaov 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Life saving / first aid posters
    ×0.45 81 | 36 points by cpu_ 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Supply chain attack alert: .github/setup.js
    ×5.36 61 | 20 points by antihero 22 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Do you know any company that's making money with LLMs?
    ×1.19 100 | 4 points by camillomiller 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Google killed my $1M ARR startup overnight
    ×3.74 94 | 15 points by vadumo 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. I underestimated how hard audio waveforms are in the browser
    ×0.93 107 | 5 points by syncara 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Hey, you, tech worker–how are you feeling?
    ×0.65 112 | 5 points by arm32 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Being privacy-conscious comes with some downsides
    ×1.11 103 | 7 points by wqtz 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Good books/resources for learning SQL?
    ×0.72 118 | 5 points by CobaltFire 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Is Claude Code down, or its just my region?
    ×0.84 102 | 4 points by codetiger 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: A Brief History of LLMs
    ×0.45 140 | 9 points by menomatter 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: AI efficiency in the workplace
    ×0.42 142 | 3 points by localhoster 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: What is your opinion on index rule changes to accommodate Mega-Cap IPOs?
    ×0.96 133 | 18 points by figmert 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Angular jasmine unit tests are harder to code/maintain than the actual feature
    ×0.62 153 | 5 points by GamingAtWork 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. WSL 2 is getting faster Windows file system access (boxofcables.dev)
    ×2.88 28 | 179 points by haydenbarnes 1 day ago | 165 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Let's celebrate work that is 100% human-made (human-made.work)
    ×3.47 11 | 65 points by supryan 15 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Lessons learned from running Claude Code swarms at scale
    ×3.51 80 | 10 points by sermakarevich 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. ESP32 Bit Pirate, a Hardware Hacking Tool with WebCLI That Speaks Every Protocol (github.com/geo-tp)
    ×1.58 21 #47 | 189 points by geotp 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Fixing "unfixable" 41TB BTRFS by Claude's one-shot (mloduchowski.com)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by qdotme 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. How to Build an AI Agent for Slack with Chat SDK and AI SDK (vercel.com)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by flashbrew 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: OpenPaper - No algorithm, no account, just your sources as a newspaper (github.com/falense)
    ×0.89 130 | 3 points by falense 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Amazon Vinyl, a TypeScript streaming engine for HTML5 media (amazonmusic.github.io)
    ×0.37 | 1 points by nbilyk 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. How should we teach digital research workflows to undergrad philosophy students?
    ×0.83 | 1 points by lebronocta 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. FakeCall: An Open Source App to simulate incoming calls on Android (github.com/DDOneApps)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by thunderbong 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Recommended Mystery Novels (bactra.org)
    ×0.50 | 2 points by mattbit 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Several injured in Boeing 787 nose-gear collapse in Frankfurt (reuters.com)
    ×2.17 60 | 71 points by karakoram 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Entanglement Builds Space-Time. Now "Magic" Gives It Gravity (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.18 25 #42 | 179 points by rbanffy 23 hours ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. How do non-green plants work? (2013) (wordpress.com)
    ×1.27 | 2 points by downbad_ 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. The Ethical Dilemmas of AI (ft.com)
    ×0.90 | 2 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Paseo – Beautiful open-source coding agent interface (github.com/getpaseo)
    ×1.48 82 | 89 points by timhigins 3 days ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Agents ship diffs. Visr keeps trajectories (visr.dev)
    ×0.85 150 | 4 points by sourishkrout 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part I: Why They Fight (acoup.blog)
    ×1.04 4 #3 | 52 points by gostsamo 4 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Getjobber-CLI – Python CLI for the Jobber GraphQL API (github.com/acaracappa)
    ×0.46 | 2 points by antman1911 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: CLI for crawling documentation sites into Markdown with defuddle (github.com/artemnistuley)
    ×0.74 144 | 5 points by nistuley 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. "Bricks & minifigs can stuff it" – Patreon CEO [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.79 | 1 points by ShinyLeftPad 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Wind and solar generated more power than gas globally in April 2026 (electrek.co)
    ×3.94 4 | 399 points by speckx 1 day ago | 382 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Netlora diagnose bufferbloat and why fast internet feels slow (getnetlora.com)
    ×0.45 87 | 4 points by arashfratto 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Ideogram 4.0 – open-weight 9.3B text-to-image model (github.com/ideogram-oss)
    ×1.81 83 | 46 points by pigcat 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. They’re made out of weights (maxleiter.com)
    ×6.10 11 #69 | 1489 points by MaxLeiter 2 days ago | 680 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Anthropic's open-source framework for AI-powered vulnerability discovery (github.com/anthropics)
    ×2.33 15 #75 | 522 points by binyu 1 day ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Bitcoin back above $61,000 after rout leads to $1.6B liquidations (coindesk.com)
    ×1.35 44 | 3 points by Varun-Sakhuja 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Bio Glyph – Turn Your Face into a One-Line Drawing (bairui.dev)
    ×1.12 95 | 21 points by subairui 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: DepsGuard – One command to harden NPM/pnpm/yarn/bun/uv configs (github.com/arnica)
    ×0.78 120 | 40 points by eranation 4 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Vlags, small vector flags. Less than 900 bytes each (vlags.com)
    ×0.96 136 | 3 points by ryancanzo 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Google employees internally share memes about how its AI sucks (404media.co)
    ×6.19 33 | 167 points by elorant 1 day ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Hitoku Draft – Context aware local assistant (hitoku.me)
    ×0.51 76 | 20 points by lostathome 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Papernews – self-hosted daily newspaper PDF for your reMarkable (github.com/marcj)
    ×1.72 86 | 11 points by bourbonproof 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Summarize YT Video by pasting url into AI chat[video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by julienreszka 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Mnemo – local-first AI memory layer for any LLM (Rust, SQLite,petgraph) (github.com/zaydmulani09)
    ×0.71 78 | 59 points by zaydmulani 2 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Download cash counter and help me (google.com)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by bdcashcounter 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Sidekick – The zot coding agent, one click away on macOS (github.com/patriceckhart)
    ×5.15 87 | 10 points by patriceckhart 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Integer Overflow in Postgres (crunchydata.com)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by tosh 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Qtile macOS-Style Screenshot Utility (github.com/cesarleaz)
    ×0.90 | 2 points by gabyword 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Boxes.dev: ditch localhost; run Claude Code and Codex in the cloud (boxes.dev)
    ×2.08 52 | 100 points by nab 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Nango (YC W23, dev infra) is hiring staff back end engineers (nango.dev)
    19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P (bloomberg.com)
    ×8.71 36 #64 | 989 points by tristanj 1 day ago | 498 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Intencion – Product analytics that improves your AI agents continuously (intencion.io)
    ×3.27 96 | 8 points by sakuraiben 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Changing how we develop Ladybird (ladybird.org)
    ×4.64 29 #43 | 833 points by EdwinHoksberg 1 day ago | 527 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Mantine-datatable (and others) compromised – owner account suspended (github.com/icflorescu)
    ×0.77 28 #46 | 66 points by justsomehuman 15 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Using Fedora Silverblue for Compositor Development (bxt.rs)
    ×1.06 | 2 points by JNRowe 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Astronauts told to return to ISS after sheltering over air leak repairs (bbc.com)
    ×1.58 8 #7 | 383 points by janpot 16 hours ago | 248 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Open Code Review – An AI-powered code review CLI tool (github.com/alibaba)
    ×1.70 29 #55 | 263 points by geoffbp 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Accidentally deleted subscriptions for chat integrations (Slack and MS Teams) (githubstatus.com)
    ×1.97 27 #60 | 120 points by SparkyDogs 12 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Lambda or Fargate: a decision built from numbers (medium.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by zero-ground-445 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: What does YC Paxel do with your source code? (github.com/codesoda)
    ×0.94 | 2 points by codesoda 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Microsoft wants users to be addicted to Scout, their AI personal assistant (disassociated.com)
    ×2.22 55 | 67 points by berlianta 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic (arstechnica.com)
    ×8.79 3 #4 | 269 points by maltalex 3 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. My Agent Skill for Test-Driven Development (saturnci.com)
    ×1.40 11 #18 | 167 points by laxmena 14 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. A Starbucks marketing stunt spiralled into mass boycotts in South Korea (theguardian.com)
    ×1.92 25 | 3 points by beardyw 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Getting silly with C, part and((int*)1)[-1] (lcamtuf.substack.com)
    ×2.51 42 #61 | 7 points by surprisetalk 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Ask HN: For non-hackers/nerds, why do you read HN?
    ×1.26 | 2 points by throwaway2037 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???