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Ask HN: Hiring in the age of AI-assisted coding: what works?

×0.43 12 | 5 points by nitramm 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Why Databases Instead of Filesystem?

×0.21 85 | 5 points by uticus 6 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?

×1.96 70 | 461 points by e-topy 4 days ago | 708 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?

×1.61 78 | 132 points by meander_water 1 day ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Any Open Source projects in need of documentation writer?

×0.43 98 | 20 points by tree666 21 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Are you encountering AI-related questions in the hiring market?

×0.25 111 | 5 points by somthingwrong 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How do you handle marketing as a solo technical founder?

×1.25 128 | 140 points by lazarkap 3 days ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Yuku – A fast, spec-compliant JavaScript parser written in Zig

×0.42 132 | 5 points by arshadyaseen 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Should AI credits be refunded on mistakes?

×0.20 150 | 16 points by ed_elliott_asc 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What would you do with an AI model capable of continuous learning?

×0.33 141 | 4 points by jballanc 21 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
IMDB created my account for merely visiting the site

×1.39 118 | 11 points by astr0n0m3r 23 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Zooming UIs in 2026: Prezi, impress.js, and why I built something different

×1.05 136 | 100 points by tinchox6 4 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How do you manage your digital legacy for after you die?

×0.49 156 | 13 points by orbanlevi 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hybrid Attention

×0.38 145 | 40 points by JohannaAlmeida 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Local-first meetings recorder and transcriber?

×0.23 167 | 3 points by dandaka 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Founders/investors, what AI bet you made in 2022 and how it is going?

×0.16 166 | 6 points by kjok 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GPT 5.4 in practice – Stinks?

×0.46 168 | 9 points by sjt-at-rev 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Early precursor signals observed before incidents (RTT/DNS/HTTP telemetry)

×0.11 | 2 points by ravensystems 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anthropic banned Pi, a third party harness

×0.23 170 | 3 points by rapiz 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Time Brings Order to the Universe (nautil.us)

×1.40 | 2 points by rbanffy 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Creating the Futurescape for the Fifth Element (2019) (theasc.com)

×0.87 76 | 127 points by nixass 1 day ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Agent Tuning, using recursion to achieve predictable agent output (github.com/adam-s)

×1.80 139 | 5 points by dataviz1000 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I've Seen a Thousand OpenClaw Deploys. Here's the Truth (nishantsoni.com)

×5.51 11 #35 | 13 points by sonink 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How NASA built Artemis II’s fault-tolerant computer (acm.org)

×2.40 6 #43 | 580 points by speckx 21 hours ago | 217 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
From Coal Tip to Clean Energy: Turning UK Coal Mines into Renewable Powerhouses (bylinetimes.com)

×1.47 | 2 points by DamonHD 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: See what your employees are prompting LLMs (without network proxies) (privent.ai)

×0.46 | 2 points by asilozyildirim 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A social feed with no algo where communities decide what gets seen (veridonia.com)

×2.27 169 | 10 points by smnkgv 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Intel 486 CPU announced April 10, 1989 (dfarq.homeip.net)

×1.10 37 #78 | 125 points by jnord 8 hours ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Django app for email-based learning platforms (github.com/AvaCodeSolutions)

×0.74 | 2 points by payamnj 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Hippo, biologically inspired memory for AI agents (github.com/kitfunso)

×0.95 131 | 128 points by kitfunso 3 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN easier to read (oj-hn.com)

×1.04 93 | 140 points by latchkey 2 days ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Go-Bt: Minimalist Behavior Trees for Go (github.com/rvitorper)

×0.40 116 | 62 points by rvitorper 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: 500k+ events/sec transformations for ClickHouse ingestion (github.com/glassflow)

×0.75 149 | 13 points by super_ar 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Keeper – embedded secret store for Go (help me break it) (github.com/agberohq)

×0.46 68 #46 | 56 points by babawere 11 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hikaru Nakamura Is Not a Chess Player Anymore. He Is Your Boss (worldchess.com)

×1.23 | 2 points by bmmayer1 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: 41 years sea surface temperature anomalies (willhelps.org)

×1.02 68 | 147 points by willmeyers 1 day ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Reverse engineering Gemini's SynthID detection (github.com/aloshdenny)

×1.07 59 #72 | 167 points by _tk_ 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Raft consensus algorithm explained through "Mean Girls" (2019) (cockroachlabs.com)

×1.25 36 #76 | 126 points by vermilingua 17 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Auditing my local Python packages (alexwlchan.net)

×1.23 | 2 points by ingve 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The uncomfortable truth about vibe coding (redhat.com)

×3.35 16 | 6 points by macote 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Open source security at Astral (astral.sh)

×1.75 51 | 362 points by vinhnx 1 day ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages (9to5mac.com)

×3.89 14 #25 | 516 points by 01-_- 9 hours ago | 267 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Art of Risk Management (2017) (bcg.com)

×0.55 91 #49 | 45 points by walterbell 13 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
PicoZ80 – Drop-In Z80 Replacement (eaw.app)

×1.19 61 #60 | 221 points by rickcarlino 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: VigIA – A deterministic FSM in .NET 10 to stop LLM hallucinations (github.com/JordanCT)

×0.74 | 2 points by JordanCT 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Weird Clocks (specr.net)

×1.44 151 | 52 points by vunderba 4 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We're running out of benchmarks to upper bound AI capabilities (lesswrong.com)

×2.89 38 | 4 points by gmays 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I built a site that shows every world event you lived through (youdidntnotice.com)

×2.53 13 | 4 points by lip404 53 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
App Store sees 84% surge in new apps as AI coding tools take off (9to5mac.com)

×3.42 102 | 65 points by gardaani 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS (github.com/matthartman)

×1.68 99 | 466 points by MattHart88 4 days ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Voxcode: local speech to text and ripgrep = transcript and code context (github.com/jensneuse)

×3.82 160 | 10 points by jensneuse 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Deterministic Primality Testing for Limited Bit Width (jeremykun.com)

×0.39 76 #29 | 30 points by ibobev 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenAI backs Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable (wired.com)

×4.49 56 #66 | 405 points by smurda 7 hours ago | 298 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: QVAC SDK, a universal JavaScript SDK for building local AI applications

×0.55 39 #71 | 28 points by qvac 7 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Franklin's bad ads for Apple ][ clones and the beloved impersonator they depict (buttondown.com)

×2.46 6 | 4 points by rfarley04 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Top laptops to use with FreeBSD (freebsdfoundation.github.io)

×1.75 47 | 326 points by fork-bomber 1 day ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: SmolVM – open-source sandbox for coding and computer-use agents (github.com/CelestoAI)

×1.92 129 | 6 points by theaniketmaurya 20 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Industrial design files for Keychron keyboards and mice (github.com/Keychron)

×2.02 3 #4 | 188 points by stingraycharles 4 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Generative art over the years (veitheller.de)

×1.39 29 #70 | 221 points by evakhoury 19 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Figma for Coding Agents (getdesign.md)

×0.93 79 #75 | 6 points by omeraplak 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I pipe free sports streams into Jellyfin – no ads, just HLS (github.com/pcruz1905)

×1.05 106 | 114 points by pruz 2 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I made a skill to tell AI on how to use human as Dobby (github.com/LittleLittleCloud)

×1.19 140 | 4 points by BigBigMiao 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI assistance when contributing to the Linux kernel (github.com/torvalds)

×3.25 6 #8 | 51 points by hmokiguess 2 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service (hatchmag.com)

×14.49 72 | 225 points by dxs 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet? (ishormuzopenyet.com)

×3.96 52 | 475 points by anonfunction 1 day ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
CPU-Z and HWMonitor compromised (reddit.com)

×3.27 63 | 120 points by Wingy 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Marimo pair – Reactive Python notebooks as environments for agents (github.com/marimo-team)

×1.39 13 #42 | 113 points by manzt 9 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Apollo 8, Artemis 1 and 2 Orbit Comparison [video] (youtube.com)

×0.88 | 1 points by nixass 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Lemlist Outage Postmortem (lempire.notion.site)

×1.38 | 2 points by warent 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it (ericwbailey.website)

×2.52 8 #24 | 104 points by mooreds 3 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
South African Discussions (marginalrevolution.com)

×1.06 | 2 points by paulpauper 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Hindsight Simulator – Go back in time and get rich (chrispattle.com)

×2.07 87 | 10 points by pattle 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Mnml.page – Minimalist one-page websites for freelancers (mnml.page)

×0.68 | 2 points by yurigokoryan 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DOJ Wants to Scrap Watergate-Era Rule That Makes Presidential Records Public (theintercept.com)

×5.26 14 #23 | 36 points by tlhunter 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii (bryankeller.github.io)

×5.46 27 #67 | 1889 points by blkhp19 2 days ago | 320 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Amnesty International Marks '1,000 Hours' Of Iran's Internet Blackout (twitter.com/amnesty)

×1.16 | 2 points by us321 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Charges filed after fire destroys Kimberly-Clark toilet paper warehouse (bbc.com)

×0.92 | 2 points by achierius 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins (numerique.gouv.fr)

×6.83 83 | 805 points by embedding-shape 9 hours ago | 414 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real (nature.com)

×3.85 4 | 85 points by latexr 11 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Zeroclawed: Secure Agent Gateway (github.com/bglusman)

×1.02 100 | 3 points by bglusman 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Unicode Steganography (patrickvuscan.com)

×0.54 121 | 55 points by PatrickVuscan 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
HBO Obtains DMCA Subpoena to Unmask 'Euphoria' Spoiler Account on X (torrentfreak.com)

×2.15 5 #26 | 65 points by speckx 3 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DRAM has a design flaw from 1966. I bypassed it [video] (youtube.com)

×2.66 4 #64 | 377 points by surprisetalk 19 hours ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AIs diagnose people with obviously fake eye disease "bixonimania" (twitter.com/HedgieMarkets)

×1.48 | 2 points by josephcsible 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude is powerful but the memory issue makes it painful for real projects (gumroad.com)

×2.94 5 | 5 points by ovexro 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Airwave synced music streaming from YouTube/Spotify links (github.com/76696265636f646572)

×0.59 | 2 points by Vibecoder_ 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Reword, a Daily Anagram Game (amolkapoor.com)

×0.78 134 | 3 points by theahura 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Gemma 4 Multimodal Fine-Tuner for Apple Silicon (github.com/mattmireles)

×1.39 101 | 230 points by MediaSquirrel 3 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Newly created Polymarket accounts win big on well-timed Iran ceasefire bets (theguardian.com)

×3.13 83 | 166 points by mitchbob 1 day ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Instant 1.0, a backend for AI-coded apps (instantdb.com)

×1.65 67 #53 | 199 points by stopachka 1 day ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???