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  1. Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
    ×1.14 19 #18 | 196 points by david927 18 hours ago | 720 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Do you know the ethics of Developers?
    ×0.76 6 | 4 points by eropatori 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Best static site generator for a docs site in 2026?
    ×1.27 8 | 5 points by agenttestjekuqz 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...
    ×2.47 40 | 451 points by mittermayr 3 days ago | 331 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated
    ×7.44 6 | 1647 points by CliffStoll 4 days ago | 252 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What Wintel/AMD (Laptop) Harware are you liking?
    ×0.35 74 | 3 points by aagha 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Will low quality AI customer support be the new normal?
    ×0.99 36 | 20 points by 0-bad-sectors 15 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Remind HN: Today is Mother's Day, call your moms
    ×5.39 68 | 361 points by rationalist 19 hours ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Which LLM are you using to evaluate your ideas?
    ×0.82 75 | 5 points by Marius77 14 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Is this the SWE workflow of the future?
    ×0.74 70 | 11 points by mc-0 22 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Tell HN: Claude claims the AGPLv3 license violates it's content policy
    ×2.50 59 | 10 points by freedomben 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Can a tinnitus be triggered by high frequency noises?
    ×0.24 104 | 6 points by tinnitus_crazy 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Cancelling Claude subscription renewal immediately revokes Design access
    ×0.32 98 | 4 points by o10449366 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Best AI coding plan alternative to Claude and ChatGPT
    ×1.83 81 | 15 points by Jsttan 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Former master-tech building AI systems – how to break into software?
    ×0.29 129 | 4 points by nicku711 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Before Open Source took over the server, what was the discourse like?
    ×0.68 105 | 7 points by mbgerring 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. How are folks affordably self-training in AI?
    ×0.42 110 | 7 points by macartain 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. LLM generated parsers and compliance checkers for Sparrow DSL
    ×0.22 143 | 3 points by melezhik 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What is your go-to solution for a personal wiki in 2026?
    ×0.41 131 | 15 points by ex-aws-dude 3 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What is the underlying stack behind multi-agent platforms?
    ×0.24 150 | 3 points by throwaw12 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: What do you still do manually in 2026 that should be automated?
    ×0.34 133 | 20 points by lishunsheng 4 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Reflections on NetBSD 11
    ×0.39 132 | 9 points by morpheos137 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad?
    ×1.73 124 | 136 points by idontwantthis 1 week ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: What will happen as AI costs increase?
    ×0.48 128 | 15 points by MetaWhirledPeas 3 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: How are you handling QA being bottlenecked with more AI-generated PRs?
    ×0.27 159 | 5 points by softneon 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Taxpayers May Be Eligible for Significant Tax Refunds – If They Act by July 10 (irs.gov)
    ×1.64 23 | 60 points by goldfishgold 21 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. "openai.com" was once the personal homepage of a guy named glenn (bsky.app)
    ×2.30 44 | 44 points by ndr42 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Notes on using GNU Emacs' Tramp system in an unusual shell environment (utoronto.ca)
    ×1.27 62 | 29 points by susam 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Piruetas – A self-hosted diary app I built for my girlfriend (piruet.app)
    ×1.37 141 | 71 points by patillacode 1 week ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school (theguardian.com)
    ×2.18 80 #74 | 389 points by rustoo 4 days ago | 627 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Concurrent, atomic MSI hash tables (nullprogram.com)
    ×0.84 | 1 points by ibobev 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Notes on the Hantavirus Outbreak (borretti.me)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by ibobev 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. SpaceX wants to launch a million satellites (cbc.ca)
    ×1.77 5 | 51 points by billybuckwheat 16 hours ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: State of the Art of Coding Models, According to Hacker News Commenters (hnup.date)
    ×1.27 115 | 168 points by yunusabd 1 week ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Local AI needs to be the norm (unix.foo)
    ×5.93 3 #3 | 1274 points by cylo 18 hours ago | 534 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. I’ve banned query strings (chrismorgan.info)
    ×2.81 3 #71 | 555 points by susam 1 day ago | 289 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Local AI search for your video library (local, open source) (edit-mind.com)
    ×0.35 | 2 points by iliashad 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. I'm going back to writing code by hand (k10s.dev)
    ×3.71 #4 | 471 points by dropbox_miner 10 hours ago | 228 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Writers are fleeing the Substack Tax (theverge.com)
    ×1.68 12 #52 | 14 points by articsputnik 4 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Cyber-crime increasingly coming with threats of physical violence (bbc.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by dabinat 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Plex's price hikes prove I was right to switch to Jellyfin (androidauthority.com)
    ×3.41 | 43 points by Brajeshwar 14 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Airbyte Agents – context for agents across multiple data sources
    ×0.80 100 | 150 points by mtricot 5 days ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Codeberg (Forgejo) CLI, built with Xclif (codeberg.org)
    ×1.08 162 | 16 points by thatxliner 5 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. OpenPrinter: A repairable, compact, and robust printer designed to last (opentools.studio)
    ×1.44 | 2 points by mchan 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Local privilege escalation via execve() (freebsd.org)
    ×1.61 21 | 220 points by Deeg9rie9usi 1 day ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Mochi.js: bun-native high-fidelity browser automation library (mochijs.com)
    ×0.70 73 | 44 points by ccheshirecat 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Down with Meritocracy (2001) (theguardian.com)
    ×1.37 | 2 points by robtherobber 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Hustler Bingo – a tiny bingo game about startup Twitter clichés (hustlerbingo.app)
    ×0.93 90 | 3 points by lackoftactics 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: DiffCAD, a FreeCAD workbench to review model changes like code (github.com/eblanshey)
    ×1.58 156 | 7 points by eblanshey 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: DoodleMate: Animate Your Child's Hand Drawings Without Generative AI (doodlemate.com)
    ×4.74 152 | 14 points by hjessmith 4 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability (haxx.se)
    ×5.44 9 #11 | 239 points by TangerineDream 5 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. What's a mathematician to do? (2010) (mathoverflow.net)
    ×1.01 34 #41 | 165 points by ipnon 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: New Benchmark from SWE-bench team is 0% solved (programbench.com)
    ×4.14 149 | 23 points by lieret 5 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Open Agent Memory Protocol 1.2 ships; 1.3 (draft) adds governed memory (dthink.ai)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by jaikoo 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. How Fast Does Claude, Acting as a User Space IP Stack, Respond to Pings? (dunkels.com)
    ×1.38 15 #19 | 102 points by adunk 13 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Seeing Birdsong (lucioarese.net)
    ×0.71 23 #27 | 29 points by carabiner 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Debian must ship reproducible packages (debian.org)
    ×4.12 29 #87 | 354 points by robalni 1 day ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: HeatSpectra: Realtime 3D Surface Heat Simulation (github.com/tsun3doku)
    ×1.60 157 | 6 points by tsun3doku 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing" (cyberinsider.com)
    ×5.62 13 #81 | 643 points by muse900 2 days ago | 437 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Try, even if they have you cold (lesswrong.com)
    ×1.71 12 | 3 points by mefengl 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: I indexed 8,643 BSides talks across 227 chapters and 6 continents (allbsides.com)
    ×1.79 155 | 25 points by Parkado 6 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: TRUST – Coding Rust like it's 1989 (github.com/wojtczyk)
    ×1.01 82 | 162 points by wojtczyk 4 days ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Free tool to mark points and polygon regions (tack.pics)
    ×0.47 93 | 20 points by magikMaker 4 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Stage CLI – An easier way of reading your AI generated changes locally (github.com/ReviewStage)
    ×0.68 106 | 46 points by cpan22 3 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Training AI (wired.com)
    ×2.20 16 #23 | 15 points by joozio 59 minutes ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. An idiot's guide to lead optimisation for proteins (magnusross.github.io)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by magni121 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: I built a new word game, Wordtrak (wordtrak.com)
    ×0.84 111 | 79 points by qrush 5 days ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Free C course called "C Systems Lab" (csystemslab.com)
    ×1.44 123 | 5 points by vhcosta 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Ant – A from-scratch JavaScript runtime in 9 MB (github.com/themackabu)
    ×2.06 126 | 8 points by theMackabu 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: PHP-fts – Full-text search engine in pure PHP, no extensions (github.com/olivier-ls)
    ×0.96 101 | 88 points by asmodios 4 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users (reclaimthenet.org)
    ×5.78 7 #57 | 1530 points by anonymousiam 2 days ago | 574 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Iran mulls taking control of all 7 cables passing through Strait of Hormuz (wionews.com)
    ×2.63 45 | 27 points by jonah 7 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Modafinil - Let agents continue running while MacBook lid is closed (github.com/narcotic-sh)
    ×1.00 84 | 14 points by hamza_q_ 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: GETadb.com – every GET request creates a DB (getadb.com)
    ×0.43 94 | 38 points by nezaj 2 days ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES (nesbitt.io)
    ×2.93 1 #10 | 566 points by miniBill 18 hours ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. How AI mania is disguising big companies' hit from Iran war (ft.com)
    ×2.20 62 | 3 points by JumpCrisscross 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. American Agriculture Is Broken (ft.com)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by JumpCrisscross 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Robot Dogs Are a Security Nightmare [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by pet_the_bird 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Browser-based light pollution simulator using real photometric data (iesna.eu)
    ×0.45 158 | 44 points by 1 week ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: adamsreview – better multi-agent PR reviews for Claude Code (github.com/adamjgmiller)
    ×0.60 23 #16 | 44 points by adamthegoalie 8 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Aids Creeps Back in Parts of Zambia, a Year After U.S. Cuts to HIV Assistance (nytimes.com)
    ×3.71 71 | 55 points by susiecambria 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Wall Street lawyers aided insider trading ring, say US prosecutors (ft.com)
    ×1.99 30 | 39 points by johnbarron 19 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. I have seen the dystopian future of elderly care (telegraph.co.uk)
    ×1.32 31 | 38 points by thm 19 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Ableton Live MCP (github.com/bschoepke)
    ×1.16 118 | 122 points by bschoepke 1 week ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. A Database Without Dynamic Memory Allocation (tigerbeetle.com)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by ibobev 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Forking the Web (dillo-browser.org)
    ×1.40 57 #83 | 143 points by wrxd 2 days ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Gibraltar dumping all of its raw sewage into Mediterranean (theguardian.com)
    ×3.28 79 | 28 points by akyuu 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: ASCII pixel art editor for the terminal (github.com/Mr-Robot-err-404)
    ×2.88 83 | 9 points by doctor_schultz 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Eight More '8-Bit Era' Microprocessors (thechipletter.substack.com)
    ×0.68 62 #30 | 78 points by klelatti 19 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels (kronis.dev)
    ×2.61 10 #90 | 388 points by LorenDB 1 day ago | 275 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???