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  1. Ask HN: How are you doing technical interviews in the age of Claude/ChatGPT?
    ×0.58 | 2 points by jonjou 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What is it like being in a CS major program these days?
    ×1.38 4 | 187 points by tathagatadg 1 day ago | 187 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?
    ×2.88 10 | 413 points by svara 2 days ago | 593 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tell HN: AI tools are making me lose interest in CS fundamentals
    ×1.44 39 | 91 points by Tim25659 1 day ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: We need to learn algorithm when there are Claude Code etc.
    ×0.56 28 | 9 points by JasonHEIN 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Tell HN: Godaddy DNS resolution down for 2+ hours
    ×0.65 63 | 9 points by codegeek 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Have you successfully treated forward head posture ("nerd neck")?
    ×1.06 84 | 54 points by trashymctrash 3 days ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Did GitHub remove Opus and Sonnet from their Copilot Pro subscription?
    ×0.73 77 | 12 points by lgl 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. I'm 60 years old. Claude Code killed a passion
    ×4.83 32 | 236 points by fred1268 2 days ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Winstwaker – automated bookkeeping with a real accountant attached
    ×0.08 | 2 points by kyliandegroot 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What signals do you look for when hiring?
    ×1.01 42 | 6 points by kathir05 10 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Manifesto on Symbiosis: A New Paradigm for Civilization Part III
    ×0.27 | 2 points by acehs 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: How to Learn C++ in 2026?
    ×0.53 92 | 12 points by creatorcoder 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. I traced $2B in nonprofit grants for Meta and Age Verification lobbying
    ×2.50 86 | 96 points by theseusares 4 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What breaks first when your team grows from 10 to 50 people?
    ×0.80 96 | 14 points by hariprasadr 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Who is using Ollama day-to-day?
    ×0.27 119 | 3 points by brauhaus 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Got cancer, a new job,new boss in less than a year What do I do now?
    ×0.40 123 | 21 points by Goleniewski 4 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How is your team collaborating while working with coding agents?
    ×0.26 129 | 3 points by wek 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What was it like for programmers when spreadsheets became ubiquitous?
    ×0.48 115 | 12 points by yodaiken 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Why can't we just make more RAM?
    ×0.60 111 | 26 points by chatmasta 3 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Do you really need an agent?
    ×0.53 133 | 3 points by g_br_l 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Tell HN: iPhone 6s still getting security updates
    ×0.31 127 | 7 points by uticus 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Tons of new LLM bot accounts here
    ×0.97 89 | 15 points by koolala 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. MiniMax M2.5 is trained by Claude Opus 4.6?
    ×0.57 130 | 12 points by Orellius 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Built a 1.3M-line agent-native OS in Rust while homeless. What now?
    ×0.70 103 | 10 points by jamieoglindsey 2 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: What's your biggest pain point when joining a new developer team?
    ×0.30 136 | 8 points by KevStatic 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: 100k/year individual token usage?
    ×0.50 134 | 8 points by alecsmart1 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. AI coding agents accidentally introduced vulnerable dependencies
    ×1.17 120 | 6 points by hsin003 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. How not to fork an open source project
    ×0.51 132 | 7 points by jsattler 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Why have co-ops never played a major role in tech?
    ×0.86 131 | 14 points by AbstractH24 4 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: How do you use Coding Agents/CLIs out of coding?
    ×0.39 137 | 5 points by arbayi 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Med student interested in bci startups..where do I start?
    ×0.11 | 2 points by Sxouterred 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Messier nanoparticles may deliver drugs more effectively (phys.org)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by PaulHoule 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Lux – Drop-in Redis replacement in Rust. 5.6x faster, ~1MB Docker image (github.com/lux-db)
    ×2.92 56 | 59 points by mattyhogan 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Free OpenAI API Access with ChatGPT Account (github.com/EvanZhouDev)
    ×1.17 62 | 47 points by EvanZhouDev 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Graft – Your local environment, everywhere (graft.run)
    ×0.95 116 | 5 points by erdaniels 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Building a Shell (healeycodes.com)
    ×1.02 9 #14 | 119 points by ingve 7 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Nvidia Launches Vera CPU, Purpose-Built for Agentic AI (nvidia.com)
    ×1.84 17 #83 | 166 points by lewismenelaws 21 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. My Self-Driving Car Crash – The Tesla was driving perfectly–until it wasn't (theatlantic.com)
    ×1.86 34 #86 | 20 points by ForHackernews 5 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Are AI agents slowing us down? (pragmaticengineer.com)
    ×0.99 | 1 points by guillego 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: GhostVM – macOS containers on Apple Silicon (ghostvm.org)
    ×3.16 72 | 7 points by CarolineWang 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: HypergraphZ – A Hypergraph Implementation in Zig (github.com/yamafaktory)
    ×0.43 | 2 points by yamafaktory 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Share and edit Markdown files with instant sync and comments (with.md)
    ×0.83 | 1 points by sarbak 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. 'Another internet is possible': Norway rails against 'enshittification' (theguardian.com)
    ×4.80 40 | 45 points by voxleone 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Seasalt Cove, iPhone access to your Mac (seasalt.app)
    ×1.39 80 | 4 points by jerrodcodes 18 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Open-source playground to red-team AI agents with exploits published (github.com/fabraix)
    ×0.83 67 | 29 points by zachdotai 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Do LLMs Follow Benford's Law? (medium.com)
    ×0.78 | 1 points by cloudwithkarl 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Rtty (zhaojh329.github.io)
    ×0.81 | 1 points by kristianpaul 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: SupplementDEX – The Evidence-Based Supplement Database (supplementdex.com)
    ×1.04 121 | 16 points by richarlidad 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Tmux-nvim-navigator – Seamless navigation with zero Neovim config (github.com/sindrip)
    ×1.62 124 | 4 points by Sindrip 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Launch HN: Voygr (YC W26) – A better maps API for agents and AI apps
    ×0.43 48 #57 | 75 points by ymarkov 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. AI's Oppenheimer Moment (a16z.com)
    ×0.94 | 1 points by gmays 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Measuring progress toward AGI: A cognitive framework (blog.google)
    ×0.88 | 1 points by xnx 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. From a Law to an Ethic – a framework for individual digital responsibility (mikegodwin.substack.com)
    ×0.79 | 1 points by zdw 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Sprinklz.io – An RSS reader with powerful algorithmic controls (sprinklz.io)
    ×0.62 65 | 14 points by sammy0910 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Every layer of review makes you 10x slower (apenwarr.ca)
    ×3.47 8 #28 | 440 points by greyface- 13 hours ago | 266 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Qwen3.5-397B at 4.74 tok/s using 5.9GB RAM (xcancel.com)
    ×3.30 46 #63 | 11 points by m-hodges 46 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Intent – Git records what changed, Intent records why
    ×0.79 | 1 points by Deyang 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Port42 – AI companions that build and act on your Mac (v0.5.0) (port42.ai)
    ×2.06 108 | 5 points by gordonmattey 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Cert Authorities Check for DNSSEC from Today (grepular.com)
    ×0.81 41 #59 | 109 points by zdw 1 day ago | 258 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Open Source Projects Need to Adapt to the AI Coding Era (civic.io)
    ×0.88 | 1 points by mjheadd 4 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. How Do You Want to Remember? (zakelfassi.com)
    ×0.79 | 1 points by gmays 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Meta’s renewed commitment to jemalloc (fb.com)
    ×1.88 14 #23 | 485 points by hahahacorn 23 hours ago | 220 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Kaoslabs – My Linux VPS sandbox for self-hosting and AI art/video (kaoslabs.org)
    ×1.76 102 | 4 points by wilhart 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: I built Wool, a lightweight distributed Python runtime (github.com/wool-labs)
    ×1.82 117 | 14 points by bzurak 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act: Dangerous backdoor surveillance risks remain (michaelgeist.ca)
    ×3.81 5 #55 | 989 points by opengrass 1 day ago | 329 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Context Gateway – Compress agent context before it hits the LLM (github.com/Compresr-ai)
    ×0.60 81 | 96 points by ivzak 3 days ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Give Django your time and money, not your tokens (better-simple.com)
    ×2.86 1 #1 | 265 points by dcreager 3 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Spice Data (YC S19) Is Hiring a Product Specialist (ycombinator.com)
    16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Cuba's national electric grid collapses, leaving millions without power (reuters.com)
    ×3.47 6 | 76 points by geox 21 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Stop Sloppypasta (stopsloppypasta.ai)
    ×4.04 12 #87 | 652 points by namnnumbr 1 day ago | 253 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Mastercard's new generative AI model (mastercard.com)
    ×2.17 | 2 points by saikatsg 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. A.I. Chatbots Want Your Health Records. Tread Carefully (nytimes.com)
    ×0.94 | 1 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: CredibilityProfile – bringing reference checks earlier into hiring (credibilityprofile.com)
    ×0.80 | 1 points by nmkalkavan 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. OpenSUSE Kalpa (kalpadesktop.org)
    ×1.04 8 #4 | 73 points by ogogmad 3 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. The unlikely story of Teardown Multiplayer (voxagon.se)
    ×1.40 11 #18 | 186 points by lairv 11 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. DOGE Didn't Cut Government Waste. It Was Government Waste (techdirt.com)
    ×11.59 17 #22 | 35 points by hn_acker 33 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. A photo of Iran's bombed schoolgirl graveyard. Was it real, or AI? (theguardian.com)
    ×1.86 7 #43 | 3 points by stringsandchars 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. JetBrains is shutting down "Code With Me" in all its IDEs (neowin.net)
    ×3.33 20 | 41 points by bundie 19 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Seoul World Model: Grounding World Simulation Models in a Real-World Metropolis (seoul-world-model.github.io)
    ×0.76 | 1 points by benleejamin 12 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. The return-to-the-office trend backfires (thehill.com)
    ×4.63 11 | 132 points by penguin_booze 23 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Smart glasses that tell me when to stop pouring (github.com/RealComputer)
    ×0.81 87 | 4 points by tash_2s 22 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. A proposal to classify happiness as a psychiatric disorder (1992) (nih.gov)
    ×2.69 16 #27 | 122 points by wjSgoWPm5bWAhXB 4 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Droeftoeter, a Terminal Coding Toy (github.com/whtspc)
    ×0.78 26 #62 | 28 points by whtspc64 11 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Garry Tan's thirteen opinionated workflow skills for Claude Code (github.com/garrytan)
    ×0.99 | 1 points by weinzierl 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. OpenClaw on Amazon Lightsail to run your autonomous private AI agents (amazon.com)
    ×0.88 | 1 points by mmarian 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Reverse-engineering Viktor and making it Open Source (matijacniacki.com)
    ×1.13 11 #19 | 102 points by zggf 9 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Gitana 18: the new flying Ultim trimaran (boatnews.com)
    ×0.69 27 #36 | 61 points by divbzero 12 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Memory layer for LLMs that learns what you care about(Claude/GPT) (github.com/Jackfarmer2328)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by sazo1 28 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Lockstep – A data-oriented programming language (github.com/seanwevans)
    ×1.06 99 | 8 points by goosethe 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???