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  1. Looking for Technical Co-Founder
    ×0.79 30 | 3 points by pinarsaas 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
    ×0.87 79 | 206 points by proberts 4 days ago | 247 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Best Embedding Models?
    ×0.49 37 | 14 points by devstein 11 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tell HN: Archive.ph Is Gone
    ×0.58 1 | 4 points by _tk_ 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)
    ×0.81 86 | 147 points by whoishiring 4 days ago | 438 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Why Does a Single Firefox Tab Take Almost 1.5GB RAM?
    ×0.31 64 | 5 points by syeare 10 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)
    ×1.32 71 | 303 points by whoishiring 4 days ago | 427 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Where are you getting your AI news from?
    ×0.35 74 | 7 points by baetylus 16 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad?
    ×1.94 76 | 125 points by idontwantthis 2 days ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Is a hands-off, family-friendly, de-Googled "home lab" feasible?
    ×0.37 84 | 10 points by strix_varius 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: When did you move from AI agentic loops to simpler deterministic system?
    ×0.39 82 | 6 points by laxmena 18 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Tell HN: The saddest irony of my/our craft
    ×1.22 69 | 13 points by dakiol 19 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Tell HN: An update from the new Tindie team
    ×0.73 129 | 85 points by altairprime 6 days ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Can anyone point me to a ShowHN first post policy documentation?
    ×0.35 83 | 9 points by upwindchange 23 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Those building Swift apps without touching Xcode, what is your workflow?
    ×0.50 101 | 18 points by p5v 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day
    ×2.48 99 | 593 points by _-x-_ 1 week ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Building a Web Framework from Scratch
    ×0.47 124 | 7 points by NewSmoke38 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Claude Code dies with ANTHROPIC_API_KEY in cloud environment
    ×0.29 149 | 16 points by sroussey 4 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Show HN: Playground for the Spectre Programming Language (spectrelang.org)
    ×1.59 132 | 5 points by pizza_man 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Let's talk about LLMs (b-list.org)
    ×1.77 37 #42 | 171 points by cdrnsf 21 hours ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontier (simonwillison.net)
    ×4.27 54 #88 | 663 points by indigodaddy 3 days ago | 386 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. The Lopsided Economics of Vulnerabilities (opensourcesecurity.io)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by Tomte 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. DHS demanded Google surrender data on a Canadian man over anti-ICE posts (wired.com)
    ×3.69 4 | 117 points by HotGarbage 20 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Show HN: Site Mogging (sitemogging.com)
    ×1.08 111 | 68 points by jilles 4 days ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: Stop playing my matchstick puzzles, start building your own in seconds (mathstick.github.io)
    ×0.71 115 | 36 points by trangram 3 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Powers-of-Funbenius (zksecurity.xyz)
    ×5.14 63 | 7 points by rot256 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale (openai.com)
    ×2.06 14 #18 | 455 points by Sean-Der 19 hours ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. London Is Still Paying Rent to the Queen on a Property Leased in 1211 (atlasobscura.com)
    ×0.86 | 1 points by thunderbong 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: I've built a nice home server OS (asklandd.dk)
    ×1.66 137 | 194 points by Zta77 1 week ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: I indexed 8,643 BSides talks across 227 chapters and 6 continents (allbsides.com)
    ×1.33 65 #84 | 16 points by Parkado 16 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Tyche: An experimental distributed trading pipeline in Go Java (github.com/ItsArnavSh)
    ×0.59 135 | 5 points by itsarnavsh 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. 1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving' (electrek.co)
    ×1.33 48 #36 | 190 points by Brajeshwar 23 hours ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: State of the Art of Coding Models, According to Hacker News Commenters (hnup.date)
    ×1.20 68 | 158 points by yunusabd 2 days ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. ASML's Best Selling Product Isn't What You Think It Is (siliconimist.com)
    ×1.85 29 | 96 points by johncole 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: What happens when you load a webpage (Interactive) (whysonil.dev)
    ×1.22 136 | 31 points by otterwilde2 1 week ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. The 'Hidden' Costs of Great Abstractions (jdgr.net)
    ×1.45 36 #81 | 219 points by jdgr 1 day ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Pricing Is a Product Surface (arnon.dk)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by arnon 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Offenders sentenced up to 10 years for spying on TSMC (taipeitimes.com)
    ×1.56 | 121 points by ironyman 21 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. CloudZ Malware Abuses Microsoft Phone Link to Steal SMS and OTPs (bleepingcomputer.com)
    ×1.36 | 2 points by Brajeshwar 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Surfacing a 60% performance bug in cuBLAS (kernelspace.substack.com)
    ×4.52 66 | 6 points by gkapur 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Introduction to Atom (w3.org)
    ×1.03 47 | 132 points by susam 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: I built a native macOS audio player and it changed my life (github.com/chrisallick)
    ×1.33 57 | 13 points by chrisallick 15 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Agent-evals – Claude skill to build your own evals (github.com/fsilavong)
    ×1.71 78 | 8 points by sauercrowd 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. AI Product Graveyard (tooldirectory.ai)
    ×2.44 3 #7 | 139 points by StriverGuy 2 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Transformers Are Inherently Succinct (2025) (arxiv.org)
    ×0.82 51 #59 | 59 points by bearseascape 19 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: DAC – open-source dashboard as code tool for agents and humans (github.com/bruin-data)
    ×0.87 81 | 115 points by karakanb 6 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: SimDrive – a browser racing game with your phone as the controller:D (simdrive.xyz)
    ×0.72 128 | 21 points by 1000xcat 5 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Adblock-rust Manager – Firefox extension to enable the Brave ad blocker (github.com/electricant)
    ×0.78 125 | 95 points by electricant 6 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Gap between national food production and food-based dietary guidance (2025) (nature.com)
    ×1.03 23 #51 | 71 points by simonebrunozzi 12 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. A Tale of Three WebAssembly Runtimes (csjh.blog)
    ×1.39 | 2 points by csjh 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Fun with polynomials and linear algebra; or, slight abstract nonsense (guille.site)
    ×0.58 65 #87 | 60 points by LolWolf 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Convergence Engine (github.com/SAIOS-SAMN)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by dem7701 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. How far behind is each major Chromium browser? (chromium-drift.pages.dev)
    ×1.46 42 | 192 points by skaul 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Why Almost Everyone Loses–Except a Few Sharks–On Prediction Markets (wsj.com)
    ×2.37 27 | 98 points by JumpCrisscross 1 day ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: An attempt to grow a mind – building software with an inner life (momentbymoment.app)
    ×0.50 153 | 15 points by shahabebrahimi 5 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks (nber.org)
    ×1.71 30 #27 | 325 points by littlexsparkee 23 hours ago | 332 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Heat pump sales rise across Europe (pv-magazine.com)
    ×2.60 6 #64 | 261 points by doener 21 hours ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: A live counter of human lifetime burned in your meetings (sillyprod.com)
    ×1.35 | 2 points by askos 40 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Perfect Bluetooth MIDI for Windows
    ×0.76 96 | 105 points by mayerwin 4 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Kula – a family health platform that makes sense of your data
    ×1.30 117 | 6 points by samuraikmc 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Lessons for Agentic Coding: What should we do when code is cheap? (dbreunig.com)
    ×1.56 3 #14 | 144 points by ingve 8 hours ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. 2-D Mathematical Curves (2dcurves.com)
    ×1.01 29 #30 | 65 points by the-mitr 10 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Agent-desktop – Native desktop automation CLI for AI agents (github.com/lahfir)
    ×2.30 87 | 98 points by lahfir 3 days ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet (alen.ro)
    ×2.03 #3 | 190 points by alentodorov 2 hours ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Becoming Unblockable (seangoedecke.com)
    ×1.40 | 2 points by fagnerbrack 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027 (ecopv-eu.com)
    ×3.66 49 | 562 points by rdeboo 23 hours ago | 518 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14% (twitter.com/brian_armstrong)
    ×6.99 83 | 62 points by adrianmsmith 3 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Visual SSL TLS Handshake Visualizer (sitesecurityscore.com)
    ×0.48 122 | 3 points by lemax2 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Winpodx – run Windows apps on Linux as native windows (github.com/kernalix7)
    ×1.58 106 | 98 points by kernalix7 4 days ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Why I Created phpc.tv (afilina.com)
    ×0.78 26 #26 | 45 points by luu 8 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. PixelWars, 250k Pixels, 1 World. MMO (pixelwars.app)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by SteveChurch 38 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: NoReporter – AI-only newsroom, $1/year (noreporter.ai)
    ×1.36 102 | 4 points by egberjustin 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Trump spent nearly $2B of taxpayer money to undo wind projects underway (fortune.com)
    ×6.06 76 | 14 points by breve 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. The first photo published in a newspaper (phsne.org)
    ×0.65 27 #17 | 9 points by geuis 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Google, Microsoft and xAI Agree to Share Early AI Models with U.S. (wsj.com)
    ×2.23 12 #19 | 28 points by geox 1 hour ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Alberta voter list leak is a potential public safety disaster (globalnews.ca)
    ×1.59 9 | 120 points by Teever 23 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Hand Drawn QR Codes (2025) (sethmlarson.dev)
    ×1.51 14 #13 | 169 points by jollyjerry 11 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. The Physics Behind the Thumb Trick (practical.engineering)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by crescit_eundo 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Node-Vmm – Linux MicroVMs in Pure Node.js for Mac/Windows/Linux in ~1s (github.com/misaelzapata)
    ×2.08 72 | 8 points by misaelzapata 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Security Scanner for Agent Skills and MCP (github.com/snyk)
    ×1.86 127 | 7 points by lirantal 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Cuqueclicker (Cookieclicker Inspired Game) (flipbit03.github.io)
    ×1.08 140 | 4 points by fb03 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth (partyon.xyz)
    ×1.88 27 #75 | 474 points by nullagent 1 day ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Yet Another GitHub Incident (githubstatus.com)
    ×1.34 | 2 points by pera 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. RSS Feeds Send Me More Traffic Than Google (shkspr.mobi)
    ×2.83 25 #54 | 8 points by Brajeshwar 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Charting the AI perception gap between experts and the public (springer.com)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by i7l 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Gmail Storage Full? Find and Delete Large Emails to Fix It Fast (clearmailapp.com)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by raghukumar 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Airborne Microplastics May Be Warming the Planet (yale.edu)
    ×2.40 46 | 3 points by speckx 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Security through obscurity is not bad (mobeigi.com)
    ×1.47 46 | 199 points by mobeigi 2 days ago | 211 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Furwall – macOS menu bar app that blocks keys when your cat sits down (olliewagner.com)
    ×2.25 16 | 6 points by olliewagner 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing (robert-glaser.de)
    ×2.22 1 #11 | 138 points by youngbrioche 5 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???