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  1. I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA
    ×2.45 3 #6 | 485 points by eries 8 hours ago | 384 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models
    ×2.64 4 #39 | 390 points by TomAnthony 14 hours ago | 225 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Are most corporate SWE jobs performative?
    ×2.70 15 #46 | 197 points by hnthrow10282910 9 hours ago | 222 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?
    ×1.40 89 | 257 points by mdni007 2 days ago | 230 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Why would someone want to learn code when AI does it better and faster?
    ×1.02 58 | 4 points by manimonji 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Are you still using a Vision Pro?
    ×1.29 56 | 162 points by y1n0 1 day ago | 207 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
    ×2.31 69 | 427 points by aryamaan 2 days ago | 732 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Will the next high value profession be people who can think independently?
    ×1.87 5 | 5 points by ciwolex 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Tell HN: Stack Overflow seems down
    ×0.54 107 | 3 points by tom1337 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: The next evolutionary step in LLM usage?
    ×0.38 | 2 points by tomaytotomato 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Favorite text heavy blogs the are a joy to read
    ×1.02 102 | 36 points by joshmarinacci 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Would it be useful to have a slop button in addition to flag?
    ×1.78 35 | 5 points by BugsJustFindMe 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?
    ×2.86 109 | 732 points by andrehacker 5 days ago | 1109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. AMA: I'm a Random HN User, ask me anything (and I might respond)
    ×4.02 40 | 14 points by SpyCoder77 7 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Those who quit Software Eng. to do something else, what did you do?
    ×1.21 91 | 3 points by trwhite 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Are we all walking into a trap?
    ×0.92 110 | 6 points by skor 13 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Tell HN: Codex once again automatically activates /fast on app update
    ×0.21 | 2 points by mfi 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: So what happened to Facebook "localhost" tracking?
    ×0.71 155 | 107 points by juliusceasar 6 days ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How to escalate a rejected Google extension?
    ×0.65 130 | 23 points by modzu 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Prediction for SpaceX IPO?
    ×0.61 127 | 7 points by bix6 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow?
    ×1.85 128 | 167 points by dv35z 5 days ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: How do you cope when your startup contracts?
    ×0.53 144 | 14 points by jasonephraim 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?
    ×3.18 112 | 458 points by Ekami 4 days ago | 758 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How do you find deep technical content?
    ×0.91 174 | 40 points by f311a 6 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Which companies gained a competitive edge purely via engineering?
    ×0.40 175 | 5 points by j1000 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: What's your favorite HN Recap like podcast?
    ×0.16 173 | 5 points by randomor 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Gin rummy strategies
    ×0.47 176 | 24 points by bix6 6 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: How are thinking efforts implemented?
    ×0.81 156 | 26 points by simianwords 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. LeetCode is the best way to learn a new language
    ×0.06 | 2 points by JasonHEIN 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: How to get your child interested in math?
    ×0.88 172 | 3 points by gitowiec 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Options for critical thinking and learning outside work?
    ×0.63 168 | 6 points by hnthrow10282910 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Where do you like to consume content anymore?
    ×0.68 163 | 6 points by selectedambient 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Were CS profs right to look down on programming in light of modern AI?
    ×0.48 180 | 6 points by amichail 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: What is happening with the Meta Ads dashboard?
    ×0.35 179 | 4 points by ramon156 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Bad MCP design costs your agent 5x more tokens
    ×0.64 177 | 15 points by JohnnyZhang483 5 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Is the web for machines (/llm.txt) the one we wished we had as humans?
    ×0.79 170 | 36 points by sunshine-o 5 days ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. I built a free tool that extracts recipes from YouTube cooking videos (165.14:8080)
    ×1.00 | 2 points by The_Cook 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Startup sci-fi novel that took me 5 years to write (blockchainednovel.com)
    ×1.42 133 | 23 points by mck- 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: RainBreak App – The AI doesn't need a break. But you do (franzai.com)
    ×1.14 169 | 3 points by franze 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Anthropic's model naming, extrapolated (samwilkinson.io)
    ×2.74 15 #19 | 252 points by sammycdubs 4 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. The Dashlane 2FA Breach and What It Means for Cloud Vaults (cloudlesssoftware.com)
    ×1.70 24 | 3 points by presleymarkw 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Meadow Notes – extract and publish microsites from your Markdown graphs (meadow-notes.com)
    ×1.49 26 | 3 points by gmccreight2 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Mercedes‑Benz starts large‑scale production of electric axial flux motor (mercedes-benz.com)
    ×2.31 15 #14 | 495 points by raffael_de 15 hours ago | 315 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: ChromiumFish – Open-source fingerprint-hardened Browser for Scraping (github.com/arman-bd)
    ×2.28 139 | 7 points by armanified 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Courtside – TUI for NBA Games (github.com/NolanFogarty)
    ×0.46 135 | 19 points by nolanfogarty 4 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Live audit log of every command, file, network connection by Claude (github.com/yeet-src)
    ×1.35 146 | 4 points by r3tr0 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know (jonready.com)
    ×6.18 25 #64 | 997 points by mips_avatar 1 day ago | 491 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Is Grep All You Need? How Agent Harnesses Reshape Agentic Search (arxiv.org)
    ×1.01 74 #88 | 158 points by Anon84 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Patch for critical vulnerability in p2pool (Monero) to be released on 2026-06-13 (github.com/SChernykh)
    ×1.50 2 | 3 points by sxde 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. All 9,300 Japanese train station, animated by the year it opened (1872–2026) (jivx.com)
    ×1.21 16 #24 | 178 points by momentmaker 11 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Agent-gate – fail-closed agent gate and tamper-evident receipts as an MCP server (github.com/Jott2121)
    ×0.99 | 1 points by jott2121 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Sum Type and Type Matching in C (github.com/brightprogrammer)
    ×0.61 | 2 points by brightprogramer 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Pick and Place: Carbon Nanotube Nanoassembly Process (c12qe.com)
    ×0.52 28 #28 | 19 points by bpierre 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Did a Chatbot Write a Prize-Winning Story? Does It Matter? (newyorker.com)
    ×2.62 38 | 5 points by petethomas 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Drift – an embedding-model upgrade should be a rotation, not a reindex (github.com/aayush4vedi)
    ×1.23 104 | 6 points by aayush4vedi 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Nontrailing separators do not spark joy (buttondown.com)
    ×1.68 | 2 points by birdculture 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Driving in America Is Headlight Hell (theatlantic.com)
    ×1.11 15 | 3 points by ggm 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. MCP Grow (mcpgrow.com)
    ×1.00 | 2 points by mayosmith 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Tried to benchmark Google's new on-device dictation model and basically couldn't (getonit.ai)
    ×1.09 | 2 points by telenardo 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: HelixDB – A graph database built on object storage (github.com/HelixDB)
    ×0.93 19 #15 | 78 points by GeorgeCurtis 6 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. macOS Container Machines (github.com/apple)
    ×4.73 7 #33 | 1184 points by timsneath 22 hours ago | 416 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Test-case reducers are underappreciated debugging tools (tratt.net)
    ×0.91 72 #80 | 145 points by ltratt 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. OpenAI C2PA Policy (openai.com)
    ×0.74 | 2 points by sarkarghya 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption (reuters.com)
    ×2.52 3 | 426 points by flanged 1 day ago | 681 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. ICE denies having a protester database. A letter to Congress sheds more light (npr.org)
    ×5.85 50 | 137 points by Jimmc414 9 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Mach – A compiled systems language looking for contributions (github.com/octalide)
    ×0.70 121 | 31 points by octalide 2 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Run Gemini & ChatGPT UI with Python (github.com/pseudo-usama)
    ×0.82 167 | 3 points by pseudo-usama 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: I Derived a Pancake (absurdlyoptimized.com)
    ×2.11 98 | 336 points by bkazez 5 days ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Apache Burr: Build reliable AI agents and applications (apache.org)
    ×1.33 7 #20 | 162 points by anhldbk 8 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Nexus Q Revival (mikevoyt.github.io)
    ×1.15 | 2 points by tmp10423288442 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. 'Sloppenheimer:' Amazon employees mock the company's AI on Slack (404media.co)
    ×2.89 57 | 196 points by doener 1 day ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Performative-UI – A react component library of design tropes (vorpus.github.io)
    ×4.44 28 | 1160 points by lizhang 2 days ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. A primer on wide, structured events and observability (alok87.in)
    ×1.48 42 | 3 points by lizthegrey 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. The LD_DEBUG environment variable (2012) (bnikolic.co.uk)
    ×0.59 84 | 80 points by tanelpoder 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Learn from 30 historical figures, open source, nonprofit, self-hosted (github.com/chipmates)
    ×0.61 103 | 43 points by micstradev 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. The Last Evolution, by John W Campbell Jr. (1932) (gutenberg.org)
    ×0.39 56 #48 | 23 points by cf100clunk 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. CEOs who think AI replaces their employees are just bad CEOs (techdirt.com)
    ×5.07 18 #67 | 808 points by speckx 1 day ago | 294 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Gravity – Interactive solar-system simulator, from Newton to Einstein (qunabu.github.io)
    ×1.14 72 #86 | 197 points by qunabu 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Chopped, Stored, Secured – The Story of the Hash Function (0xkrt26.github.io)
    ×1.06 | 2 points by denismenace 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Open-source version of Anthropic's internal analytics engine (github.com/Kaelio)
    ×0.97 120 | 13 points by lucamrtl 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. πFS (github.com/philipl)
    ×3.44 #1 | 404 points by helterskelter 4 hours ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. L'Affaire Siloxane (mceglowski.substack.com)
    ×1.46 13 #9 | 124 points by idlewords 5 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. WWDC 2026: Apple is Folding (cupertinolens.com)
    ×2.07 60 #78 | 248 points by brandonb 1 day ago | 258 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: A terminal writing environment with Git, E2EE sync and temporal search
    ×1.16 161 | 4 points by sys-ronin 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Extend UI – open-source UI kit for modern document apps (extend.ai)
    ×1.54 12 #11 | 117 points by kbyatnal 5 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. GPT-2: Too Dangerous To Release (2019) (naokishibuya.github.io)
    ×4.78 22 | 284 points by AbuAssar 1 day ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. US Consumer Price Index up 4.2% (bls.gov)
    ×5.54 71 | 247 points by ortusdux 8 hours ago | 270 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Widespread attacks on Iran have begun [video][50 mins] (youtube.com)
    ×1.49 2 #54 | 5 points by Bender 58 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Apple Made a Sports App That Does Almost Nothing. It's Incredible (slate.com)
    ×2.14 25 #83 | 16 points by ForHackernews 3 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Defeat the Heap: Zero-Copy Data Movement in AXI4MLIR (arxiv.org)
    ×1.11 | 2 points by matt_d 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???