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  1. Ask HN: Is Spam getting worse or is Gmail getting worse?
    ×0.76 17 | 4 points by adamtaylor_13 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
    ×1.17 59 | 275 points by david927 2 days ago | 1036 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...
    ×2.37 84 | 466 points by mittermayr 4 days ago | 335 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated
    ×7.34 55 | 1660 points by CliffStoll 6 days ago | 255 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How to get started in electronic music
    ×0.68 83 | 13 points by A_Random_Nerd 19 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Spotify Is Down
    ×1.12 8 | 11 points by circadian 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How are you preparing for interviews nowadays?
    ×0.46 91 | 8 points by holden_nelson 23 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Best static site generator for a docs site in 2026?
    ×0.74 97 | 14 points by agenttestjekuqz 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How often do you investigate issues in production vs. looking at logs?
    ×0.18 125 | 4 points by aspectrr 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: How do you choose a model for a task?
    ×0.57 101 | 8 points by bix6 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What happens when eventually all E2E mess. apps removed from app stores?
    ×0.37 112 | 4 points by kingleopold 22 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Will low quality AI customer support be the new normal?
    ×0.82 100 | 22 points by 0-bad-sectors 2 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Our keyboards are tracking us
    ×1.03 105 | 11 points by tukunjil 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Do you know the ethics of Developers?
    ×0.42 116 | 8 points by eropatori 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Remind HN: Today is Mother's Day, call your moms
    ×4.91 51 | 375 points by rationalist 2 days ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What Wintel/AMD (Laptop) Harware are you liking?
    ×0.36 139 | 5 points by aagha 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What would you like to be working on?
    ×0.67 109 | 8 points by DDerTyp 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Can a tinnitus be triggered by high frequency noises?
    ×0.25 148 | 7 points by tinnitus_crazy 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Is this the SWE workflow of the future?
    ×0.85 117 | 16 points by mc-0 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. US inflation jumps to 3.8% as energy costs surge from Iran war (bbc.com)
    ×10.10 73 | 219 points by tartoran 7 hours ago | 364 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×6.09 11 #13 | 920 points by rubenbe 6 hours ago | 321 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Instructure pays ransom to Canvas hackers (insidehighered.com)
    ×2.04 15 #26 | 185 points by Cider9986 5 hours ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Meta employees protest against mouse tracking tech at US offices (reuters.com)
    ×3.04 12 #35 | 7 points by delichon 18 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Google says criminal hackers used AI to find a major software flaw (nytimes.com)
    ×1.41 45 #50 | 234 points by donohoe 1 day ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Intercom Becomes Fin (intercom.com)
    ×1.65 | 2 points by tjwds 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. SpaceX backs Anthropic with data centre deal amidst Musk's OpenAI lawsuit (aljazeera.com)
    ×2.06 28 | 3 points by billybuckwheat 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Android Auto home screen widgets look nearly ready (androidauthority.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by 1970-01-01 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. The Adventure Family Tree (2024) (mipmip.org)
    ×0.56 80 | 54 points by exvi 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Affordable Survey Software (survser.com)
    ×1.21 90 | 3 points by pkundr 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: nfsdiag – A NFS diagnostic application (github.com/lsferreira42)
    ×0.80 146 | 83 points by lsferreira42 1 week ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. HDMI 2.1 Display Stream Compression (DSC) Ready for Amdgpu Linux Driver (phoronix.com)
    ×1.98 2 | 62 points by WithinReason 12 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. FairyFuse: Multiplication-Free LLM Inference on CPUs via Fused Ternary Kernels (arxiv.org)
    ×0.64 73 #45 | 5 points by PaulHoule 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. I hate soldering (bearblog.dev)
    ×2.01 52 #46 | 226 points by James72689 1 day ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Interfaze: A new model architecture built for high accuracy at scale (interfaze.ai)
    ×1.07 50 #75 | 158 points by yoeven 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Parents say ChatGPT got their son killed with bad advice on party drugs (theverge.com)
    ×1.86 15 #84 | 16 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 4 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Smart Goals Are Overrated (arrowcoaching.net)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by Joboman555 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. The EU signals that VPNs are the next target following its age verification app (techradar.com)
    ×3.21 39 | 6 points by nickslaughter02 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. European Money Pours into Palantir (elpais.com)
    ×2.37 56 | 126 points by robtherobber 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. AMÁLIA and the future of European Portuguese LLMs (duarteocarmo.com)
    ×0.90 52 #82 | 140 points by johnbarron 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Gea: A Compile-Time Reactive UI Framework That's Just JavaScript (coyotiv.com)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by arbayi 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. ICE Agents Have List of 20M People on Their iPhones Thanks to Palantir (404media.co)
    ×5.65 46 | 68 points by cdrnsf 8 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model (github.com/cactus-compute)
    ×2.52 2 #4 | 134 points by HenryNdubuaku 3 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Snitches Get 202'd (github.com/agudulin)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by sagod 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. PyBlackwell (domezsolt.substack.com)
    ×2.70 30 | 5 points by ashby_r 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Can someone please explain whether Cloudflare blackmailed Canonical? (flyingpenguin.com)
    ×2.90 6 | 277 points by speckx 1 day ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: How Scaleway brought the first RISC-V servers to the cloud (scaleway.com)
    ×0.96 82 | 4 points by enthusaist 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Mljar Studio – local AI data analyst that saves analysis as notebooks (mljar.com)
    ×0.69 154 | 73 points by pplonski86 1 week ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Text Blaze (YC W21) Is Hiring for a No-AI Summer Internship (ycombinator.com)
    9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values (gitlab.com)
    ×4.38 22 #62 | 660 points by AnonGitLabEmpl 1 day ago | 642 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Fast, reliable MCP for LinkedIn, Uber, Venmo (r/w) (candle.fi)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by liambl 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: I mage GhosttyFX, a JavaFX terminal view that uses libghostty (github.com/vlaaad)
    ×1.11 87 | 3 points by vlaaad 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Free Google Places API alternative using OpenStreetMap (no API key) (bizdata-web.vercel.app)
    ×2.60 141 | 9 points by johnleslie_pm 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Obsidian plugin was abused to deploy a remote access trojan (netsecops.io)
    ×1.88 39 | 362 points by cmbailey 1 day ago | 225 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Toxicity on Social Media (thenoisyroom.com)
    ×2.43 38 | 150 points by skm 13 hours ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Doomscroll the Goverment's UFO Files as One Gigantic Microfilm (hypergrid.systems)
    ×1.14 73 | 15 points by keepamovin 16 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: I trained a chess engine to play like humans
    ×2.31 114 | 14 points by hazard 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: I Built a Museum Exhibit (knhash.in)
    ×0.65 156 | 39 points by kn81198 1 week ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Piruetas – A self-hosted diary app I built for my girlfriend (piruet.app)
    ×1.37 155 | 71 points by patillacode 1 week ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Ranking every disease (the unmet needs index) (convoke.bio)
    ×2.12 26 | 3 points by snats 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: ASCII pixel art editor for the terminal (github.com/Mr-Robot-err-404)
    ×2.72 138 | 9 points by doctor_schultz 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. CUDA-oxide: Nvidia's official Rust to CUDA compiler (nvlabs.github.io)
    ×2.29 6 #90 | 415 points by adamnemecek 1 day ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Shame them, shun them, ban them, beat them (experimental-history.com)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by pavel_lishin 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. 2 Mistakes, 1 weird trick, 27 years: an explainer of the OpenBSD SACK bug (studiodemby.com)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by shrimplectic 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Alzheimer's drugs offer little benefit, major review finds (theconversation.com)
    ×1.59 5 | 3 points by PaulHoule 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Maker Monday: Some of the best RP2350-based boards (raspberrypi.com)
    ×1.02 | 2 points by Brajeshwar 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: CADara – I made an open-source in-browser CAD (cadara.app)
    ×0.76 126 | 36 points by ttouch 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Swatch Internet Time (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.55 | 2 points by florianmari 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Don't hijack my mouse pointer (ruky.me)
    ×2.28 27 | 57 points by rukshn 9 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: A search engine for deleted YouTube videos (1.5B+ indexed since 2005) (archivarix.net)
    ×4.01 143 | 14 points by archivarix 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Countries where you can leave your MacBook at a random coffee shop (vouchatlas.com)
    ×1.27 92 | 71 points by canergl 2 days ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: A modern Music Player Daemon based on Rockbox firmware (github.com/tsirysndr)
    ×0.97 39 #69 | 113 points by tsiry 20 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Golden Speakers: Building a native-like accent in your 2nd/3rd/4th+ language (loxai.tech)
    ×0.78 | 1 points by audreyfei 7 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Three things in AI to watch, according to a Nobel-winning economist (technologyreview.com)
    ×1.32 | 2 points by Brajeshwar 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Markdown, the WD-40 of Digital Information (hoeijmakers.net)
    ×1.75 12 | 3 points by speckx 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. OpenAI Sued over ChatGPT Medical Advice That Allegedly Killed College Student (futurism.com)
    ×1.70 6 | 4 points by dryadin 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise (tanstack.com)
    ×4.07 12 #39 | 1048 points by varunsharma07 1 day ago | 435 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Curl and Mythos (anderegg.ca)
    ×3.07 6 #74 | 6 points by Brajeshwar 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Where Are All the Data Centers? (wheresyoured.at)
    ×1.89 24 #78 | 24 points by MattRogish 4 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. JP Morgan to scrap £3B London HQ if Starmer is replaced by PM 'hostile to banks' (theguardian.com)
    ×1.01 | 2 points by pera 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: I've implemented multi-repo workspace support in Agent of Empires (github.com/njbrake)
    ×1.71 104 | 6 points by seluj78 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: DAG-based Kanji learning through components (mykanji.app)
    ×1.19 163 | 5 points by barisozmen 5 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. We accidentally recreated old Facebook (amrshawky.com)
    ×1.05 6 #23 | 25 points by amr_shawky 2 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Railway which inspired Thomas the Tank Engine marks 75 years (of Presevation) (bbc.co.uk)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by rb2e 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Common lab tests reveal 16 blood biomarkers associated with PTSD (medicalxpress.com)
    ×1.64 11 | 3 points by PaulHoule 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. The Surprisingly Long Life of the Vacuum Tube (construction-physics.com)
    ×0.64 24 #31 | 53 points by surprisetalk 8 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. VGA Memory Access Is Complicated (os2museum.com)
    ×0.83 58 #73 | 70 points by ingve 21 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. A Tribute to the Windows 3.1 "Hot Dog Stand" Color Scheme (2005) (codinghorror.com)
    ×0.91 8 #83 | 12 points by washingupliquid 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: I built a fair-price checker App for home repairs using BLS wage data (apple.com)
    ×1.25 89 | 4 points by manojtrek 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Airbyte Agents – context for agents across multiple data sources
    ×0.81 124 | 153 points by mtricot 1 week ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Learn2Burp – Surgery-free solution for R-CPD (learn2burp.com)
    ×0.72 142 | 3 points by mmanthey 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???