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  1. Ask HN: Has anyone had success with SBIR grants and what is the process like?
    ×0.41 18 #69 | 7 points by lyfeninja 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?
    ×4.77 8 | 1284 points by cloudking 2 days ago | 548 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: How have you gotten burned by coding agents?
    ×0.75 | 2 points by baddash 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Are other people seeing a spike in IT problems with businesses?
    ×0.32 73 | 14 points by PaulHoule 14 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. I indexed 669 GB of my GoPro videos using my M1 Max computer and local ML models
    ×2.36 84 | 434 points by iliashad 3 days ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: How are thinking efforts implemented?
    ×0.54 173 | 102 points by simianwords 1 week ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)
    ×1.45 92 | 309 points by david927 3 days ago | 1125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Successful entrepreneurs and indie hackers, enlighten me
    ×0.19 113 | 3 points by markosn 11 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What Are the Trade-Offs of Working Fully Remotely?
    ×0.82 87 | 7 points by karakoram 11 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What are your best Claude hacks?
    ×0.81 101 | 15 points by akashwadhwani35 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA
    ×3.12 107 | 806 points by eries 1 week ago | 577 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?
    ×1.34 146 | 263 points by mdni007 1 week ago | 239 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Reviews have become expensive, rewrites have become cheap
    ×1.17 97 | 81 points by arzh2 2 days ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Favorite text heavy blogs that are a joy to read?
    ×0.87 148 | 119 points by joshmarinacci 1 week ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models
    ×2.37 122 | 427 points by TomAnthony 1 week ago | 254 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Anthropic pauses credit change for Claude Code
    ×1.24 119 | 35 points by fabianlindfors 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Want to build something open source on nights and weekends together?
    ×0.53 171 | 39 points by vira28 6 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Notes on DeepSeek
    ×1.87 138 | 210 points by vinhnx 1 week ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. UK government built an AI tool to digitise historic planning records
    ×0.49 | 2 points by brokebroadbeat 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Would it be useful to have a slop button in addition to flag?
    ×0.97 172 | 40 points by BugsJustFindMe 1 week ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: How do you stay at the bleeding edge of AI tooling?
    ×0.61 137 | 7 points by otekengineering 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Nanogram – Private social media from your Raspberry Pi
    ×0.61 128 | 9 points by smalltorch 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Are most corporate SWE jobs performative?
    ×2.33 135 | 249 points by hnthrow10282910 1 week ago | 283 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
    ×2.33 129 | 444 points by aryamaan 1 week ago | 780 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Would you want to know when and how you die?
    ×0.49 121 | 8 points by JohnDSDev 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: What is the meaning of life? Why are we here?
    ×2.59 60 | 6 points by chistev 7 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Newer macOS runs slower on Intel (undeniably) – on purpose or "accident"?
    ×1.10 142 | 15 points by srevenant 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: How do you get into a flow state when using AI to code?
    ×1.40 154 | 98 points by kilroy123 6 days ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Are you still using a Vision Pro?
    ×1.27 155 | 171 points by y1n0 1 week ago | 215 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. I procrastinate by building tools to stop me from procrastinating: A sad story
    ×0.74 176 | 21 points by thisislorenzov 6 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Tell HN: Musk doesn't "have" a Trillion, he has the leverage
    ×1.06 109 | 8 points by ggm 20 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: We cut >60% of tokens from agentic tasks by removing repeated context (parcle.ai)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by longtermop 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: HelixDB – A graph database built on object storage (github.com/HelixDB)
    ×1.06 144 | 158 points by GeorgeCurtis 1 week ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Making 'food out of thin air' (2024) (noemamag.com)
    ×0.58 69 #80 | 49 points by muchweight 23 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Windows 11 25H2 – I'm so happy to not be using this (dedoimedo.com)
    ×3.47 31 #85 | 58 points by speckx 9 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: A pure-Ruby X11 terminal (github.com/vidarh)
    ×1.79 163 | 9 points by vidarh 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Fable ban was never about a jailbreak? (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.50 69 | 107 points by amarant 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Now You Don't: When Espionage Meets Magic (politicshome.com)
    ×0.72 72 #84 | 7 points by thinkingemote 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Simpler, older version of Stonehenge found three miles from famous site (bbc.co.uk)
    ×1.52 | 2 points by mellosouls 20 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: GitCredit – Contribution graph outside of GitHub (gitcredit.dev)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by kataqatsi 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. The Israeli Ultra-Hawks Who Feel Betrayed by Trump's Iran Deal (newyorker.com)
    ×2.97 30 | 5 points by goldfishgold 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. With Wall Street’s help, you’re about to be forced to buy stock in SpaceX (paulkrugman.substack.com)
    ×11.87 59 | 95 points by aanet 8 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Trace – Offline Mac meeting transcripts you can flag mid-call (traceapp.info)
    ×1.27 99 | 204 points by AG342 4 days ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff (wpvip.com)
    ×6.36 73 #78 | 1021 points by thm 16 hours ago | 534 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. The Free and Open Web Is Under Attack at the IETF (eff.org)
    ×2.16 22 #86 | 19 points by hn_acker 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. A Kamal wrapper for multiple apps on a single server (singleserver.com)
    ×0.88 | 2 points by DVassallo 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books? (tim.blog)
    ×2.25 8 #89 | 396 points by imakwana 1 day ago | 463 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Specs AR Glasses (Snap Inc.) (specs.com)
    ×1.19 | 2 points by d3ron 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Continue has been acquired by Cursor (continue.dev)
    ×2.32 31 | 5 points by joshstrange 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Rust port of transformers (1M lines of code) (github.com/cool-japan)
    ×1.82 26 | 4 points by hardwaresofton 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Lightweight Task queue on Erlang/OTP, SQLite-backed, no overengineering (github.com/entGriff)
    ×0.72 141 | 74 points by ent1c3d 1 week ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Inkwash, a watercolor sketching app and explanation (johnowhitaker.github.io)
    ×1.33 31 #21 | 186 points by Yenrabbit 16 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Language Courses in the Public Domain (yojik.eu)
    ×1.26 69 #44 | 36 points by hggh 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Russian artist and Putin critic shot dead in Poland (bbc.com)
    ×4.89 61 | 149 points by 2OEH8eoCRo0 1 day ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Relaymux, a tmux-based meta-harness for local coding agents (github.com/mupt-ai)
    ×1.21 85 | 7 points by byhong03 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Zkit – Go libraries for building agents, not a framework (zarldev.github.io)
    ×2.09 93 | 6 points by zarldev 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Agentic coding and persistent returns to expertise (anthropic.com)
    ×1.44 74 #72 | 9 points by droidjj 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Nim Conf 2026 (Online, Sat June 20) (nim-lang.org)
    ×1.16 | 2 points by pietroppeter 57 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. U.S. pulling ocean sensors a 'shock' for Canadian research as El Niño nears (timescolonist.com)
    ×4.86 12 | 447 points by ResearchAtPlay 1 day ago | 272 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Mantyx – Batteries included managed agent runtime (mantyx.io)
    ×1.37 102 | 4 points by mantyx 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Calvin and Hobbes and the price of integrity (therepublicofletters.substack.com)
    ×2.58 11 #88 | 534 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 241 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Miuse: Agents for Guidance with Physical Tasks (miuse.tech)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by pratt3000 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Tabia – The first free, open-source chess opening trainer (github.com/daxaur)
    ×0.43 | 2 points by daxaur 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Pen and paper resource development game with an emergent world (jameshylands.co.uk)
    ×0.74 98 | 33 points by jhylands 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Loreline – Tools for writing interactive fiction (loreline.app)
    ×1.34 19 #10 | 100 points by smartmic 8 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Trinket.io shutting down, so we saved it and hosted it a trinket.strivemath.org (strivemath.org)
    ×0.80 86 | 97 points by apulkit6 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Chess bot based on the transformer architecture (github.com/tchauffi)
    ×1.74 116 | 3 points by tchauffi 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: SharkClean MCP (github.com/a-funk)
    ×0.36 126 | 16 points by afunk 5 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: GentleOS – A pair of hobby OSes for vintage 32-bit and 16-bit PCs (github.com/luke8086)
    ×0.95 164 | 130 points by luke8086 1 week ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Tesco moving 40k server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's abusive conduct (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.49 12 #18 | 223 points by Bender 7 hours ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. A brief tour of the PDP-11, the most influential minicomputer of all time (2022) (arstechnica.com)
    ×0.85 65 #75 | 114 points by jensgk 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. BrandScreen Launch – Screen brand before build (brandscreen.ai)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by emoney21 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Tim Cook warns Apple may raise prices as memory costs surge (businessinsider.com)
    ×1.51 43 | 3 points by mgh2 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. The Competitive Moat That AI Can't Replicate (ghostinthedata.info)
    ×1.56 51 | 136 points by speckx 11 hours ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Biological evolution and information acquisition (construction-physics.com)
    ×0.69 20 #16 | 24 points by chmaynard 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. EPFL launches the first open medical LLMs (epfl.ch)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by ponsfrilus 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Scaling opencomputer from 1 VM to 1 million sandboxes (opencomputer.dev)
    ×1.53 17 | 3 points by iacguy 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Garden of Flowers – an archive of pictorial typography before ASCII art (heikkilotvonen.com)
    ×0.91 76 | 156 points by california-og 2 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. GenDB – LLM-Powered Generative Query Engine (solidlao.github.io)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by matt_d 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Making ast.walk 220x Faster (reflex.dev)
    ×0.78 67 | 110 points by palashawas 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: When Will AI? – A timeline of top AI predictions (whenwill.ai)
    ×1.54 166 | 7 points by jaymeh13 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Local personal data redaction for any AI tools (github.com/sophia486)
    ×2.33 58 #36 | 5 points by unusual_typo 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. The Capitoline Wolf (thehappytraveler.ca)
    ×0.25 78 #66 | 13 points by jruohonen 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Noam Shazeer is joining OpenAI (reuters.com)
    ×4.64 41 #68 | 33 points by devanshp 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Gloat compiles Clojure and YAMLScript to Go code, native binaries and WASM (gloathub.org)
    ×3.54 44 | 6 points by adityaathalye 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Open-source React UI and D-pad focus engine for Meta Ray-Ban Display (glasskit.app)
    ×0.25 84 #81 | 13 points by Jeries 13 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Gptbased – LLM leaderboard that emails you when to switch (gptbased.com)
    ×0.38 | 1 points by gptbased 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. After AI takes everything (ursb.me)
    ×1.84 72 | 101 points by speckx 1 day ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: FusionHarness – An Open-source Mixture-of-Agents compound-model server (github.com/jackulau)
    ×1.10 111 | 4 points by jackxlau 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai)
    ×3.45 7 #23 | 820 points by himata4113 19 hours ago | 394 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???