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  1. Ask HN: Am I getting old, or is working with AI juniors becoming a nightmare?
    ×1.36 23 #83 | 14 points by MichaelRazum 4 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Scaling a targeted web crawler beyond 500M pages/day
    ×0.49 | 2 points by honungsburk 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Tell HN: Codex macOS app switches to Fast speed after update without asking
    ×0.21 51 | 4 points by mfi 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Chrome, Brave, Firefox or Something Else?
    ×0.94 12 | 7 points by wasimsk 5 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How do solo devs protect their work in the age of vibe coding?
    ×0.49 37 | 13 points by langs 13 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Why are companies so distrustful of remote employees?
    ×1.66 57 | 9 points by lyfeninja 13 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. GPT-5.5 – No ARC-AGI-3 scores
    ×0.43 67 | 10 points by AG25 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Is possible a language easy as py, fast as C, more secure than Rust?
    ×0.67 65 | 5 points by jerryzhang66 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Tell HN: YouTube RSS feeds no longer work
    ×0.50 70 | 32 points by 019 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: How to solve the cold start problem for a two-sided marketplace?
    ×0.86 77 | 148 points by alegd 4 days ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Can non-developer build commercial products with AI
    ×0.69 98 | 3 points by rkorlimarla 19 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Hey, it's Earth Day today
    ×0.52 82 | 20 points by burnt-resistor 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Dear astronomers, what are the most interesting things in space lately?
    ×0.88 50 | 14 points by simonebrunozzi 16 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Would you take a job programming VMS?
    ×0.59 80 | 11 points by smackeyacky 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How are you handling data retention across your stack?
    ×0.18 117 | 4 points by preston-kwei 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How many tabs do you have open in the browser(s) and why?
    ×1.05 75 | 4 points by juujian 14 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Anthropic bans orgs without warning
    ×2.16 93 | 35 points by alpinisme 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Need advice: Back end engineer → infrastructure: how do you make the transition?
    ×0.34 108 | 7 points by gokuljs 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Tell HN: My open-source project hit 5k registered users
    ×0.78 104 | 18 points by darkhorse13 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What skills are future proof in an AI driven job market?
    ×0.77 100 | 35 points by sunny678 3 days ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Are cloud coding agents useful in real workflows yet?
    ×0.15 121 | 5 points by Rperry2174 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Opus 4.7 vs. 4.6 after 3 days of real coding side by side from my actual session
    ×0.37 140 | 15 points by agentseal 4 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. My file access workaround for cron in Tahoe
    ×0.21 146 | 5 points by noduerme 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. OpenClaw stats don't add up
    ×0.46 109 | 11 points by iliaov 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: What's your favorite Emacs package?
    ×0.63 89 | 6 points by blenderob 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: What Would Make Stack Overflow Great Again?
    ×0.54 113 | 10 points by nnurmanov 2 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Are there any engineering orgs that use incentives?
    ×0.17 151 | 3 points by jppope 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask Anthropic: Requesting clarity on Claude -p situation
    ×0.52 143 | 5 points by andai 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: leaf – a terminal Markdown previewer with a GUI-like experience (github.com/RivoLink)
    ×1.27 71 #35 | 4 points by RivoLink 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. A Renaissance gambling dispute spawned probability theory (scientificamerican.com)
    ×0.81 54 #51 | 114 points by sohkamyung 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Why Meta is laying off 10% of its workforce (latimes.com)
    ×3.11 63 | 4 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 22 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Cloud Computers for Agents: Exe.dev vs. Sprites vs. Shellbox vs. E2B vs. Blaxel (techstackups.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by sixhobbits 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. What is a passkey, how does it work and why is it better than a password? (theguardian.com)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by charlieirish 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Basins with Tentacles (aps.org)
    ×1.31 | 2 points by wslh 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. A Boy That Cried Mythos: Verification Is Collapsing Trust in Anthropic (flyingpenguin.com)
    ×6.20 36 | 88 points by taejavu 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Mediator.ai – Using Nash bargaining and LLMs to systematize fairness (mediator.ai)
    ×1.04 72 | 160 points by sanity 3 days ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Wikipedia's AI Policy (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.38 26 #90 | 13 points by Antibabelic 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. U.S. Soldier Charged with Using Classified Intel to Profit from Polymarket Bets (justice.gov)
    ×1.21 | 2 points by nstj 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. P&G warns of $1B profit hit in fiscal 2027 from higher oil prices (reuters.com)
    ×1.21 | 2 points by geox 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Norway Set to Become Latest Country to Ban Social Media for Under 16s (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.16 | 2 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Community Votes to Deny Water to Nuclear Weapons Data Center (404media.co)
    ×1.24 | 2 points by Brajeshwar 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Building the Agentic State in Estonia: What is taking shape (luukasilves.substack.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by atlasunshrugged 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: VidStudio, a browser based video editor that doesn't upload your files (vidstudio.app)
    ×1.44 54 | 297 points by kolx 3 days ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones (techcrunch.com)
    ×3.49 24 #42 | 866 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 187 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Learn conflict resolution through a 90-second interactive story (questly.academy)
    ×1.72 47 | 5 points by danish00111 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Agent Brain Trust, customisable expert panels for AI agents (github.com/bahulneel)
    ×1.29 135 | 5 points by bahulneel 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Atomic – Local-first, AI-augmented personal knowledge base (atomicapp.ai)
    ×1.83 4 | 4 points by kenforthewin 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: We built an OCR server that can process 270 dense images/s on a 5090 (github.com/aiptimizer)
    ×1.43 86 | 8 points by pfdomizer 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: How LLMs Work – Interactive visual guide based on Karpathy's lecture (ynarwal.github.io)
    ×2.02 9 #7 | 164 points by ynarwal__ 7 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad? (derekthompson.org)
    ×4.56 39 #70 | 513 points by momentmaker 22 hours ago | 991 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. A few thoughts on «Using Obsidian with AI» (ssp.sh)
    ×0.89 | 1 points by sspaeti 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Food for Agile Thought #541: GPT-5.5, Product Managers&Trouble, Product on Speed (age-of-product.com)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by swolpers 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Headless terminal - Allow agents to run any interactive TUI or CLI (github.com/montanaflynn)
    ×1.45 | 2 points by anonfunction 28 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Framework Wireless Touchpad Keyboard (frame.work)
    ×1.32 | 2 points by Wingy 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Hands-on x86-64 page table walk:finding a flag in physical RAM with GDB (github.com/jazho76)
    ×1.78 149 | 4 points by jazho76 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Scores decline again for 13-year-old students in reading and mathematics (2023) (nationsreportcard.gov)
    ×2.66 27 | 207 points by u1hcw9nx 1 day ago | 291 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: I built a map of the GeminiNet (rbtms.github.io)
    ×0.56 131 | 3 points by rbtms 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. GitHub Merge Queue Silently Reverted Code (githubstatus.com)
    ×2.33 33 #58 | 72 points by matthewbauer 18 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Arch Linux Now Has a Bit-for-Bit Reproducible Docker Image (antiz.fr)
    ×2.20 21 #69 | 340 points by maxloh 1 day ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Ask HN: Agentic Prompt Compaction Strategies
    ×0.91 | 1 points by davidajackson 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. US saw record high of 5,668 books banned in libraries in 2025, says agency (theguardian.com)
    ×3.01 63 | 63 points by vinni2 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: SQL Protocol – learn SQL by running real queries, with 1v1 PvP (sqlprotocol.com)
    ×0.30 | 2 points by ItaiZeilig 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Endo Familiar, an O-cap based JavaScript agent sandbox (dcfoundation.io)
    ×3.89 58 | 13 points by zmanian 16 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. South Korea police arrest man for posting AI photo of runaway wolf (bbc.com)
    ×1.58 11 #16 | 188 points by giuliomagnifico 5 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. What physical ‘life force’ turns biology’s wheels? (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.38 52 #52 | 207 points by Prof_Sigmund 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Spectrum – Deploy AI Agents to iMessage, WhatsApp, Telegram, and More (photon.codes)
    ×1.25 124 | 8 points by danielsdk 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Parallel agents in Zed (zed.dev)
    ×1.59 23 | 277 points by ajeetdsouza 1 day ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Stash – CLI to search over your team's coding agent sessions (github.com/Fergana-Labs)
    ×2.21 71 | 7 points by samzliu 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Should – Expressive Assertions for Go
    ×2.41 120 | 8 points by andrey-1201 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. An update on recent Claude Code quality reports (anthropic.com)
    ×3.68 12 #8 | 819 points by mfiguiere 20 hours ago | 621 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the bad guys (wired.com)
    ×7.11 50 #67 | 882 points by pavel_lishin 21 hours ago | 650 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. ChatGPT Images 2.0 (openai.com)
    ×3.99 17 #79 | 1038 points by wahnfrieden 2 days ago | 965 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Finishing Things (ratfactor.com)
    ×1.36 | 2 points by ibobev 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Intel Shares Eclipse Dot-Com Peak After Strong Sales Forecast (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.31 | 2 points by mfiguiere 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: MemFactory: Unified Inference and Training Framework for Agent Memory (arxiv.org)
    ×1.98 114 | 8 points by MemTensor 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Extract PDF text in the browser with LiteParse for the web (simonwillison.net)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by pierre 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Ham Radio Brings Teletext Back to Life (ieee.org)
    ×2.15 32 | 3 points by rbanffy 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Google Cloud customer wakes up to $18,000 bill despite $7 budget (tomshardware.com)
    ×3.66 60 | 93 points by speckx 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Anthropic's Claude Desktop App Installs Undisclosed Native Messaging Bridge (letsdatascience.com)
    ×3.36 5 | 92 points by CGMthrowaway 19 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: LocalLLM – Recipes for Running the Local LLM (Need Contributors) (locallllm.fly.dev)
    ×0.59 73 | 11 points by Igor_Wiwi 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Everest Drive – a multiplayer spaceship crew simulator in the browser (everestdrive.io)
    ×2.36 99 | 11 points by jakej256 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Run TRELLIS.2 Image-to-3D generation natively on Apple Silicon (github.com/shivampkumar)
    ×1.38 76 | 202 points by shivampkumar 4 days ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Newsmaps.io a map of how news topics are covered by different countries (newsmaps.io)
    ×1.28 129 | 19 points by mkoh 4 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. MeshCore development team splits over trademark dispute and AI-generated code (meshcore.io)
    ×1.27 40 #17 | 249 points by wielebny 21 hours ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. An amateur historian's favorite books about the Silk Road (bookdna.com)
    ×0.77 58 #65 | 88 points by bwb 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Investigation uncovers two sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.28 20 #72 | 389 points by mentalgear 1 day ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Corpus Christi plans to declare a 'water emergency' (kut.org)
    ×1.37 | 2 points by speckx 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Canonical Releases Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon (ubuntu.com)
    ×2.88 19 | 61 points by l2dy 21 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: One ESLint rule to kill the "ChatGPT em dash" in your codebase (github.com/oleg-koval)
    ×0.38 | 2 points by orthodoz 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Our newsroom AI policy (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.31 51 #49 | 200 points by zdw 1 day ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???