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  1. Ask HN: How do you obtain software development contracts?
    ×0.82 27 #87 | 18 points by codingclaws 5 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What career will you switch to when AI replaces developers?
    ×1.27 29 | 7 points by DGAP 2 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Has AI breathed new life into Semantic (web) Technologies?
    ×0.56 36 | 4 points by rottyguy 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Getting tired of Helm – any better way to handle deployments in Kubernetes?
    ×0.40 62 | 20 points by DeborahEmeni_ 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. I built a pixel art editor after playing Octopath Traveler II
    ×0.87 96 | 114 points by Kobayashiii 5 days ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Have you used Claude Code? Is it any good?
    ×0.48 89 | 7 points by mbm 20 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Did Aliexpress stop shipping to US?
    ×0.71 84 | 26 points by olalonde 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Advice wanted – director distrusting of our team?
    ×0.17 118 | 4 points by golly_ned 18 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2025)
    ×0.76 134 | 129 points by whoishiring 6 days ago | 373 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Hackathons feel fake now
    ×2.11 49 | 199 points by sepidy 2 days ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. I made 4000 agent calls in Cursor last month. Each model has a personality
    ×0.91 76 | 5 points by mike210 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Jaded with AI – Alternatives?
    ×0.56 86 | 9 points by career_question 22 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2025)
    ×1.22 111 | 258 points by whoishiring 6 days ago | 389 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Can you exclude ~/Library except for your iCloud Drive in macOS backups?
    ×0.17 | 2 points by amichail 18 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Cloi – Local debugging agent that runs in your terminal
    ×0.44 140 | 3 points by gcha 21 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Canadian Startup Options Tax Planning
    ×0.16 | 2 points by gillyuv2 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. What I discovered after months of professional use of custom GPTs
    ×0.86 115 | 10 points by anammana 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Has anyone managed to pass Meta's Access Verification?
    ×0.52 121 | 24 points by hipgrave 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How are you using MCP when coding?
    ×0.38 136 | 4 points by mbm 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: How have you spent time outside work for the past couple of weeks?
    ×1.07 133 | 7 points by alex77456 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Sds vs. GB: C string libs, copy or coincidence?
    ×0.30 168 | 3 points by nephewtom 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Tell HN: Incorporated my software company today
    ×0.84 150 | 25 points by namanyayg 4 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Best underrated way to get a job in tech during a hiring slowdown?
    ×0.91 160 | 15 points by tolarewaju3 3 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Given a sufficiently complex argument, people deduce anything they like
    ×0.29 162 | 4 points by ricardo81 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Is archive.today/is/md/etc. compromised?
    ×0.53 152 | 6 points by ementally 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Does anyone know the the chan-style website that used postcards?
    ×0.13 | 2 points by PonDiDancefloor 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Why Apple still lets malformed media files reach decoders – and how to stop it
    ×0.23 174 | 3 points by jamweba 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Looking for an official extension of Temporal Prolog
    ×0.64 158 | 6 points by youio 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Anyone else roll eyes at startups that went from "X" to "AI-powered X"?
    ×3.11 130 | 72 points by ronbenton 3 days ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. LeetCode for Front End Engineers
    ×0.71 178 | 10 points by CGamble26 5 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Old Timey Code and Old Timey Mono Fonts (github.com/dse)
    ×1.48 21 #44 | 172 points by dsevil 21 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Decarbonize Your State (decarbmystate.com)
    ×1.59 | 2 points by indigodaddy 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Apple violated antitrust ruling, judge finds (wsj.com)
    ×5.17 55 | 1164 points by shayneo 6 days ago | 597 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: ProcASM – A general purpose, visual programming lanugage (temware.site)
    ×0.45 125 | 10 points by Temdog007 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. The Inchtuthil Nail Hoard (scottishhistory.org)
    ×0.84 37 #75 | 77 points by Luc 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Magical Moiré Materials [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by danilor 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Low Fidelity Wireframe Powered by AI for Dashboard and UI Mockups (wireframes.org)
    ×0.75 | 2 points by njx 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Lurnall – A website to learn anything efficiently (lurnall.com)
    ×1.63 | 2 points by hoodlsin 19 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: DistilKitPlus, a distillation framework between any LLMs (github.com/agokrani)
    ×4.42 145 | 10 points by ayushnangia16 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. A brief history of four-wheel steering (arstechnica.com)
    ×0.78 | 1 points by coloneltcb 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Trump Pressures Powell to Cut Rates Amid Tariff Concerns (newscvg.com)
    ×1.51 | 2 points by phupt26 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Time saved by AI offset by new work created, study suggests (arstechnica.com)
    ×4.25 52 | 442 points by amichail 4 days ago | 442 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: The World's Worst Factoring Algorithm – It Kind of Works (worldsworstfactoringalgorithm.com)
    ×0.78 | 2 points by wwfa 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: McPoogle: Search Engine for MCP Servers (mcpoogle.com)
    ×1.48 153 | 4 points by kirkmarple 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: I built a game where you guess which startup idea succeeded (startuporflop.com)
    ×3.03 173 | 8 points by Belsonsan 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Design and evaluation of a parrot-to-parrot video-calling system (2023) (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×0.89 36 #61 | 133 points by michalpleban 1 day ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Price Lists Aren't Copyrightable–Rapaport vs. Nivoda (ericgoldman.org)
    ×1.51 | 1 points by hn_acker 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Google searches are falling in Safari for the first time ever (theverge.com)
    ×3.34 48 | 4 points by mfiguiere 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. On Not Carrying a Camera – Cultivating memories instead of snapshots (hedgehogreview.com)
    ×1.99 35 | 293 points by pseudolus 2 days ago | 312 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Hyperparam: OSS tools for exploring datasets locally in the browser (hyperparam.app)
    ×0.65 148 | 76 points by platypii 6 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Claity AI – An AI Aggregator with Smart Prompt Routing (Join Waitlist) (claity.netlify.app)
    ×0.71 | 2 points by founderpratham 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Ridvay Code – An AI Coding Assistant for VS Code (ridvay.com)
    ×1.14 172 | 3 points by Tom-G 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. ACE-Step: A step towards music generation foundation model (github.com/ace-step)
    ×0.78 43 #41 | 101 points by wertyk 21 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Sneakers (1992) – 4K makeover sourced from the original camera negative (blu-ray.com)
    ×2.17 5 #76 | 398 points by bredren 1 day ago | 277 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Data-hungry browsers: the choice of 90% of users worldwide? (surfshark.com)
    ×0.79 | 1 points by rntn 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Ask HN: How does structured output from LLMs work under the hood?
    ×0.64 | 1 points by dcreater 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Judge said Meta illegally used books to build its AI (wired.com)
    ×5.45 11 | 394 points by mekpro 2 days ago | 335 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. New Ryan Serhant Profile (readtheprofile.com)
    ×3.04 41 | 4 points by polinapompliano 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Removal of Deepin Desktop from OpenSUSE Due to Packaging Policy Violation (opensuse.org)
    ×2.97 18 #52 | 27 points by milliams 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. (ab?)using Node module hooks to speed up development (immaculata.dev)
    ×0.67 25 #65 | 35 points by sbjs 14 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Loving 21st century gaming like an 18th century furniture expert (kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com)
    ×0.76 23 #73 | 25 points by outrunner 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement (federalreserve.gov)
    ×1.91 | 2 points by impish9208 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. EPA Plans to Shut Down the Energy Star Program (nytimes.com)
    ×5.04 28 #69 | 231 points by danso 16 hours ago | 252 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Netflix debuts its generative AI-powered search tool (techcrunch.com)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by mfiguiere 35 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Figma releases new AI-powered tools for creating sites, app prototypes (techcrunch.com)
    ×1.58 | 2 points by thm 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Evolving OpenAI's Structure (openai.com)
    ×2.51 13 | 595 points by rohitpaulk 2 days ago | 663 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Sycophancy in GPT-4o (openai.com)
    ×2.59 101 | 555 points by dsr12 1 week ago | 444 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Pipask – safer pip without compromising convenience (github.com/feynmanix)
    ×0.62 141 | 52 points by Feynmanix 4 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Sheet Music in Smart Glasses
    ×1.59 18 #56 | 194 points by kevinlinxc 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs (felixrieseberg.github.io)
    ×3.93 20 #43 | 1063 points by felixrieseberg 1 day ago | 258 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Suno v4.5 (suno.com)
    ×3.42 78 | 389 points by platers 5 days ago | 279 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Live Air Quality Monitor (github.com/benb0jangles)
    ×1.22 155 | 19 points by benbojangles 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: GoVisual – lightweight, zero-config HTTP request visualizer for Go (github.com/doganarif)
    ×2.07 176 | 6 points by arifliftos 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Understanding JavaScript Prototypes. (2010) (wordpress.com)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by Tomte 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Create and edit images with Gemini 2.0 in preview (googleblog.com)
    ×2.20 5 #5 | 39 points by meetpateltech 2 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Analyzing Modern Nvidia GPU Cores (arxiv.org)
    ×1.34 23 #90 | 174 points by mfiguiere 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. A faster way to copy SQLite databases between computers (alexwlchan.net)
    ×2.13 85 | 504 points by ingve 6 days ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. New Study: Waymo is reducing serious crashes and making streets safer (waymo.com)
    ×3.34 90 | 383 points by prossercj 5 days ago | 402 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Stringly Typed (stefanjudis.com)
    ×0.92 28 #18 | 7 points by todsacerdoti 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. The curse of knowing how, or; fixing everything (notashelf.dev)
    ×4.99 18 #60 | 1087 points by Lunar5227 1 day ago | 422 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. We built our startup in C# (microsoft.com)
    ×2.06 | 2 points by mikece 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Californians Can Sue Out-of-State Corporations That Violate State Privacy Laws (eff.org)
    ×1.63 | 2 points by rbanffy 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Cloi – free local debugging agent in your terminal (github.com/cloi-ai)
    ×4.28 64 | 5 points by mingyk 44 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Accountability Sinks (250bpm.substack.com)
    ×3.30 46 | 611 points by msustrik 4 days ago | 390 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Simulating, Detecting and Responding to S3 Ransomware Attacks (raphabot.com)
    ×0.49 36 #67 | 14 points by pavanyara 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. 'Forever' molecules arrange themselves into cell-like structures (nature.com)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by rolph 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. How to live an intellectually rich life (utsavmamoria.substack.com)
    ×3.29 61 | 577 points by TheLadyParadox 5 days ago | 318 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Third party cookies must be removed (w3ctag.github.io)
    ×2.62 79 | 449 points by pabs3 5 days ago | 227 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Getting things “done” in large tech companies (seangoedecke.com)
    ×3.26 22 | 304 points by swah 1 day ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Linkwarden: FOSS self-hostable bookmarking with AI-tagging and page archival (linkwarden.app)
    ×1.52 109 | 301 points by FireInsight 6 days ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???