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  1. Ask HN: How to be SOC2 Type 2 compliant as a solo-entreprenuer?
    ×0.95 48 | 158 points by sochix 2 days ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. SlothDB is an OLAP DB ahead of DuckDB on Clickbench SQL database in C++20
    ×0.22 31 | 3 points by souravroy78 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Tell HN: Mindie.dev is scraping emails from profiles to send spam
    ×2.05 30 | 18 points by stackghost 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What LLM models are you using and why?
    ×0.66 41 | 7 points by rubyn00bie 10 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...
    ×2.22 84 | 475 points by mittermayr 1 week ago | 342 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Tell HN: Dont use Claude Design, lost access to my projects after unsubscribing
    ×2.18 56 | 295 points by pycassa 3 days ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated
    ×7.17 62 | 1673 points by CliffStoll 1 week ago | 258 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
    ×1.17 80 | 288 points by david927 6 days ago | 1100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Note-taking software,Novel ideas
    ×0.28 95 | 5 points by huaqing 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Do you still spend time maintaining Claude.md / AGENTS.md files?
    ×2.29 76 | 7 points by david_d8912 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Viable open source Claude Design alternative?
    ×0.50 94 | 23 points by splatzone 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Which country will be the first to pass laws limiting Meta Ray-Ban glasses?
    ×0.40 90 | 28 points by nothrowaways 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Can I take Meta to court for banning business Insta or FB account?
    ×0.59 91 | 12 points by milanspeaks 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What happened to the movie "Pirates of the Silicon Valley"
    ×0.75 93 | 11 points by acossta 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What happened to ssh-audit.com?
    ×0.23 108 | 4 points by Bender 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What are you working on (non-AI)?
    ×0.92 98 | 43 points by BrunoBernardino 4 days ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Load testing in your infra, not cloud
    ×0.26 124 | 4 points by vitalicset 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. WHO Declares Ebola Outbreak a Global Health Emergency (nytimes.com)
    ×3.65 5 #8 | 89 points by zzzeek 1 hour ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. RapidFire Lite – Zero-dependency API load tester in pure Python (github.com/arjuninfotechinc)
    ×0.90 | 1 points by hifiarjun 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. A few ways of specifying per-theme colours in only CSS (chrismorgan.info)
    ×0.76 | 1 points by birdculture 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Show HN: Ableton Live MCP (github.com/bschoepke)
    ×1.17 146 | 123 points by bschoepke 1 week ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. GDS weighs in on the NHS's decision to retreat from Open Source (shkspr.mobi)
    ×0.99 15 #62 | 4 points by edent 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. After 8 years, I rewrote my open-source PyTorch curvature library (github.com/noahgolmant)
    ×0.99 43 #65 | 82 points by noahgolmant 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Intel Core i9-14900KF reaches 9.2Ghz setting a new CPU frequency world record (notebookcheck.net)
    ×1.43 12 | 3 points by theanonymousone 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Astronomers produce most detailed map of the cosmic web, across 13.7B years (ucr.edu)
    ×1.59 9 | 3 points by giuliomagnifico 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. A Meta employee gets real about the horror of working there (sfstandard.com)
    ×7.00 12 | 97 points by forrestbrazeal 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust (crates.io)
    ×2.38 2 #9 | 480 points by gidellav 16 hours ago | 254 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. PyPI packages are increasing rapidly (rushter.com)
    ×1.72 51 | 3 points by f311a 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Waymo updates 3,800 robotaxis after they 'drive into standing water' (cnbc.com)
    ×1.87 26 | 212 points by drob518 1 day ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. I don't think AI will make your processes go faster (frederickvanbrabant.com)
    ×2.17 3 #1 | 160 points by TheEdonian 2 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Whisper Large V3 Turbo Stream API (makeform.ai)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by tamnv 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Git Is Not Fine (billjings.com)
    ×1.90 58 | 60 points by steveklabnik 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Agent-skills-eval – Test whether Agent Skills improve outputs (github.com/darkrishabh)
    ×0.83 142 | 79 points by darkrishabh 1 week ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: JDS – a Copilot skill suite for structuring AI coding behavior (github.com/josipmusa)
    ×0.80 128 | 8 points by anaq42 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. CUDA Books (github.com/alternbits)
    ×1.67 10 #12 | 9 points by dariubs 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools (mozilla.org)
    ×4.47 5 #13 | 424 points by WithinReason 8 hours ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Mado: Fast Markdown linter written in Rust (github.com/akiomik)
    ×0.90 19 #22 | 24 points by nateb2022 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. We've made the world too complicated (bearblog.dev)
    ×3.40 28 #27 | 363 points by James72689 1 day ago | 347 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Reddit Is Blocking Some Users from Accessing Its Website from Mobile Devices (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.47 67 | 3 points by Brajeshwar 21 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Technofascism (third-bit.com)
    ×12.94 25 | 144 points by speckx 21 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. A breakthrough in C/C++ dependency management (lcamtuf.substack.com)
    ×1.54 17 | 3 points by birdculture 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Coal Makes a Comeback, Fueled by War in the Middle East (wsj.com)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by melling 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. NYT and vaping: How to lie by saying only true things (2022) (gwern.net)
    ×2.50 36 | 117 points by Ariarule 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Vibe Coding a $20k /Year Enterprise Logistics Platform (trmnl.com)
    ×3.26 75 | 31 points by ryanckulp 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. China's Invisible Hand Is Distorting Global Oil Markets – Oilprice.com (oilprice.com)
    ×2.02 47 | 4 points by xbmcuser 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. 'Once in a lifetime find': Dinosaur tail discovered trapped in amber (2016) (cnn.com)
    ×1.04 | 2 points by downbad_ 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: CADara – I made an open-source in-browser CAD (cadara.app)
    ×0.78 151 | 37 points by ttouch 1 week ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: PHP-fts – Full-text search engine in pure PHP, no extensions (github.com/olivier-ls)
    ×0.97 141 | 89 points by asmodios 1 week ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit (techspot.com)
    ×4.61 3 #4 | 90 points by nolok 1 hour ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. C++26 Shipped a SIMD Library Nobody Asked For (lucisqr.substack.com)
    ×2.23 14 #40 | 167 points by signa11 15 hours ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Points are a weird and inconsistent unit of measure (buttondown.com)
    ×1.26 42 #71 | 80 points by danborn26 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. 100 Best Novels of All Time (theguardian.com)
    ×0.92 | 1 points by bookofjoe 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Optimizing your website for generative AI features on Google Search (google.com)
    ×0.97 | 2 points by tjek 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: TinySearch - Give small LLMs fast web access without context bloat (github.com/MarcellM01)
    ×0.66 134 | 3 points by MarcellM01 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. I designed a nibble-oriented CPU in Verilog to build a scientific calculator (github.com/gdevic)
    ×0.72 61 #76 | 118 points by gdevic 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. EV charging station fire caused by remote technician, report finds (citynews.ca)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by Throwthrowbob 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Hackers have breached tank readers at US gas stations (cnn.com)
    ×2.06 67 | 38 points by berkeleyjunk 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: A modern Music Player Daemon based on Rockbox firmware (github.com/tsirysndr)
    ×1.00 89 | 122 points by tsiry 1 week ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Latencies and BEIR – Typesense, Meilisearch, Elasticsearch, Amgix Now (amgix.io)
    ×0.44 | 2 points by kvasserman 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Prolog Basics Explained with Pokémon (unplannedobsolescence.com)
    ×1.51 5 #7 | 85 points by birdculture 6 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. The Programming Language for Agents (zerolang.ai)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by alex_x 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Pace Layers and AI Integration (leaflet.pub)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by jt2190 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: OrcaSheets, local first analytics engine to process billions of rows (orcasheets.ai)
    ×1.33 129 | 5 points by ydgandhi 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Illusions of understanding in the sciences (springer.com)
    ×1.14 16 #29 | 72 points by sebg 12 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Why did Clovis toolmakers choose difficult quartz crystal? (phys.org)
    ×0.65 36 #35 | 36 points by PaulHoule 11 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Physicists Can't Agree on What Quantum Mechanics Says about Reality (scientificamerican.com)
    ×1.14 | 2 points by rramadass 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Snowflake with Iceberg: Lakekeeper, Dbt, and Some Sparks Flying (medium.com)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by eigenBasis 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Reddit's Original Sin (YouTube) (youtube.com)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by barelythinking 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100k users of car-tinkering app (macdailynews.com)
    ×3.17 7 | 469 points by tencentshill 1 day ago | 334 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Playing Atari ST Music on the Amiga with Zero CPU (arnaud-carre.github.io)
    ×1.29 13 #26 | 79 points by z303 7 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Refactor: Unified Codebase for Better Performance (github.com/thesysdev)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by freakynit 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. WinCE64 – Windows CE 2.11 for N64 (github.com/ThroatyMumbo)
    ×1.08 38 | 137 points by xyru 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Why Spain has the greatest cities (worksinprogress.co)
    ×2.71 61 | 55 points by devitoria 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. A nicer voltmeter clock (lcamtuf.substack.com)
    ×1.91 1 #18 | 256 points by surprisetalk 16 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format (kabir.au)
    ×2.22 22 #32 | 400 points by frays 1 day ago | 421 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. The Third Hard Problem (mmapped.blog)
    ×1.47 17 #34 | 117 points by surprisetalk 16 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Bun Rust rewrite: "codebase fails basic miri checks, allows for UB in safe rust" (github.com/oven-sh)
    ×4.15 3 #82 | 476 points by ndiddy 1 day ago | 340 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: AutoAlert – Android app that announces UPI payments (google.com)
    ×1.05 | 2 points by anithakarri001 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Palantir has hired more than 30 senior UK Government officials (thenational.scot)
    ×3.50 23 | 207 points by Symbiote 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Git for AI Agents (github.com/regent-vcs)
    ×1.03 113 | 129 points by doshay 1 week ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Native all the way, until you need text (justsitandgrin.im)
    ×2.39 #2 | 197 points by dive 3 hours ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid (arkadiyt.com)
    ×3.91 17 #74 | 1075 points by arkadiyt 2 days ago | 578 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. AVX-512 (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by tosh 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Datacenters slurping up so much juice they boosted prices 75% (theregister.com)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by Bender 35 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Epiq – Distributed Git based issue tracker TUI (ljtn.github.io)
    ×0.89 45 | 87 points by jolaflow 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: VisiSign – $0.10 per envelope e-signatures with no monthly fee (visisign.app)
    ×1.65 99 | 7 points by rdoneill 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS (jvns.ca)
    ×3.47 12 #20 | 609 points by mpweiher 1 day ago | 338 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Agentic Trading with Safe Guardrails (github.com/ShurikenTrade)
    ×1.87 43 #24 | 4 points by jgan0978 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. OpenAI is connecting ChatGPT to bank accounts via Plaid (firethering.com)
    ×1.87 57 #81 | 114 points by steveharing1 1 day ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. The shooting stopped. Then came everything else (cnn.com)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by martey 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???