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  1. Ask HN: How to be SOC2 Type 2 compliant as a solo-entreprenuer?
    ×0.87 63 | 159 points by sochix 2 days ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: When did computers stop being fun?
    ×2.91 43 | 65 points by klez 1 day ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. SlothDB is an OLAP DB ahead of DuckDB on Clickbench SQL database in C++20
    ×0.16 76 | 4 points by souravroy78 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tell HN: Mindie.dev is scraping emails from profiles to send spam
    ×1.08 65 | 20 points by stackghost 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...
    ×2.21 84 | 475 points by mittermayr 1 week ago | 342 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What LLM models are you using and why?
    ×0.48 73 | 8 points by rubyn00bie 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Tell HN: Dont use Claude Design, lost access to my projects after unsubscribing
    ×2.16 67 | 297 points by pycassa 4 days ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated
    ×7.16 68 | 1675 points by CliffStoll 1 week ago | 258 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
    ×1.16 82 | 288 points by david927 1 week ago | 1101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Viable open source Claude Design alternative?
    ×0.50 104 | 24 points by splatzone 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Note-taking software,Novel ideas
    ×0.25 109 | 5 points by huaqing 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Which country will be the first to pass laws limiting Meta Ray-Ban glasses?
    ×0.41 97 | 29 points by nothrowaways 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Do you still spend time maintaining Claude.md / AGENTS.md files?
    ×1.76 88 | 9 points by david_d8912 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Can I take Meta to court for banning business Insta or FB account?
    ×0.59 103 | 13 points by milanspeaks 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What happened to the movie "Pirates of the Silicon Valley"
    ×0.76 105 | 12 points by acossta 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. AI May, Paradoxically, Increase Demand for Higher Ed (jimmyalfonsolicon.substack.com)
    ×1.50 | 2 points by NomNew 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Show HN: Built a verifiable, open-source SoC 2 readiness scanner (loxeai.com)
    ×0.30 | 2 points by arjavmehta 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Japan Team Successfully Test Engine for Mach 5 Aircraft, Eyeing 2HR Trip to US (mainichi.jp)
    ×3.17 10 #66 | 24 points by karakoram 7 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Turn inbound call recordings into structured JSON (gensail.com)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by vartana 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Saturn V Haynes Manual (amazon.com)
    ×1.49 | 2 points by bilegeek 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Terms of (Ab)Use: An Analysis of GenAI Services [pdf] (arxiv.org)
    ×0.97 | 2 points by droidjj 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. A Meta employee gets real about the horror of working there (sfstandard.com)
    ×6.57 48 | 101 points by forrestbrazeal 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Mistral's CEO: Europe has 2 years to stop becoming America's AI 'vassal state' (businessinsider.com)
    ×4.21 49 | 98 points by LelouBil 13 hours ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Show HN: WolfSPDM a embedded focused requester SPDM 1.2 Stack built on WolfSSL (github.com/aidangarske)
    ×0.96 144 | 3 points by aidangarske 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: I built an open-source email builder, alternative to Beefree/Unlayer (templatical.com)
    ×1.11 116 | 169 points by oahmadov 1 week ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. GenCAD (gencad.github.io)
    ×1.68 1 #1 | 191 points by dagenix 7 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Scientists “bottle the sun” with a liquid battery that stores solar energy (sciencedaily.com)
    ×1.37 7 #56 | 51 points by ndr42 10 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. A digital billboard company has the technology to make 3D ads on moving trucks (thedrive.com)
    ×2.83 42 #76 | 92 points by cf100clunk 11 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model (github.com/cactus-compute)
    ×2.93 61 #89 | 767 points by HenryNdubuaku 5 days ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Gaining control of every projector and camera on campus (edna.land)
    ×1.12 56 #87 | 125 points by ednaordinary 2 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. The two oldest printing presses (museumplantinmoretus.be)
    ×0.86 | 1 points by janpot 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Is the Weight-Loss Drug Revolution Causing a Frailty Epidemic? (wsj.com)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by 0in 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Carbonara Before the Rules [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by gadtfly 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. AI Leak Watch: 435,608 potential AI API key matches in public GitHub code (begimher.com)
    ×2.88 34 | 5 points by dan_l2 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Fecal transplants for autism deliver success in clinical trials (2019) (refractor.io)
    ×3.18 10 | 320 points by breve 1 day ago | 225 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. DeepSeek-V4-Flash means LLM steering is interesting again (seangoedecke.com)
    ×2.96 4 | 265 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: A modern Music Player Daemon based on Rockbox firmware (github.com/tsirysndr)
    ×1.00 95 | 122 points by tsiry 1 week ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: SwarmWright, structured multi-agent AI defined in markdowns (swarmwright.com)
    ×1.06 132 | 4 points by ralphbarendse 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Agent-skills-eval – Test whether Agent Skills improve outputs (github.com/darkrishabh)
    ×0.83 140 | 79 points by darkrishabh 1 week ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Semble – Code search for agents that uses 98% fewer tokens than grep (github.com/MinishLab)
    ×2.79 6 #8 | 243 points by Bibabomas 13 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Canada’s Bill C-22 would weaken protections on private messages (opencivics-labs.github.io)
    ×2.79 48 | 94 points by laurex 12 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Running the second public ODoH relay (numa.rs)
    ×0.70 72 | 124 points by rdme 3 days ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: I solved my study problems by talking to a goose (professorgoose.com)
    ×2.11 98 | 21 points by polaritymaking 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: CADara – I made an open-source in-browser CAD (cadara.app)
    ×0.78 151 | 37 points by ttouch 1 week ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Blogr – for developers who never blog consistently (blogr.dev)
    ×1.77 146 | 4 points by Blogrdev 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: AnyFrame – Sandboxes for AI Agents (anyfrm.com)
    ×1.17 | 2 points by inishchith 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Trials on veterans suggest ibogaine could provide a new treatment for PTSD (bbc.com)
    ×0.93 44 #25 | 86 points by bushwart 17 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. WHO declares Ebola outbreak a global health emergency (nytimes.com)
    ×3.34 33 #54 | 292 points by zzzeek 15 hours ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. AnyFrame – Sandboxes for Your AI Agents (github.com/tinyhq)
    ×2.29 38 | 3 points by inishchith 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Eric Schmidt booed at University of Arizona after praising AI (bsky.app)
    ×13.42 45 | 49 points by poisonfountain 9 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: TikTok but for scientific papers (andreaturchet.github.io)
    ×1.24 83 | 196 points by ciwrl 6 days ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: GridTravel – A community based travel app for users to share routes (gridtravel.app)
    ×0.85 78 | 60 points by 3 days ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Prolog Basics Explained with Pokémon (unplannedobsolescence.com)
    ×1.53 26 #21 | 223 points by birdculture 21 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Hindenburg’s Smoking Room (airships.net)
    ×1.35 16 #22 | 171 points by crescit_eundo 15 hours ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. I went inside OpenAI's secretive San Francisco headquarters (sfgate.com)
    ×0.90 | 2 points by bryan0 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. OpenClaw Creator Spent $1.3M on OpenAI Tokens in 30 Days (twitter.com/steipete)
    ×4.55 31 | 157 points by eamag 1 day ago | 199 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. EDR vendors: source code access (3), staged updates (8), SBoM rare (av-comparatives.org)
    ×0.37 | 1 points by YorkiRima 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: OpenGravity – A zero-install, BYOK vanilla JS clone of Antigravity (github.com/ab-613)
    ×1.05 99 | 105 points by ab613 6 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning (github.com/imtomt)
    ×2.16 80 | 429 points by imtomt 1 week ago | 228 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt Fails to Read Room on AI, Gets Booed into Oblivion (gizmodo.com)
    ×1.53 | 2 points by imichael 45 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Academia, startups, big tech, and back again (austinhenley.com)
    ×0.90 | 2 points by azhenley 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Someone Shared a Real Monet Painting as AI and Asked for Critiques (petapixel.com)
    ×3.88 64 | 56 points by ZeljkoS 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Revos – architecture checks for AI-generated code (github.com/mattykry)
    ×0.95 142 | 4 points by Mattykry 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Tesla Solar Roof is on life support as it pivot to panels (electrek.co)
    ×2.93 44 #19 | 204 points by celsoazevedo 1 day ago | 203 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Don’t Outsource the Learning (addyosmani.com)
    ×1.52 18 #41 | 60 points by korecodes 13 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. The CEO Agenda 2025 (oliverwymanforum.com)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Multiple commencement speakers booed for AI comments during graduation speeches [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by mgh2 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Forgot about the processors (theregister.com)
    ×3.99 42 | 120 points by beardyw 1 day ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Countries where you can leave your MacBook at a random coffee shop (vouchatlas.com)
    ×1.32 117 | 76 points by canergl 1 week ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: MIT OSS LinkedIn DMs for Agents (CLI and Example TUI) (allman.sh)
    ×1.02 120 | 5 points by toobulkeh 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: SiteRows – Query Websites with SQL (siterows.com)
    ×1.03 152 | 3 points by mozersky 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. C++26 Shipped a SIMD Library Nobody Asked For (lucisqr.substack.com)
    ×1.83 53 #34 | 185 points by signa11 1 day ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS (jvns.ca)
    ×3.34 9 #55 | 663 points by mpweiher 1 day ago | 374 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Futhark by example (2020) (futhark-lang.org)
    ×0.82 62 #74 | 123 points by tosh 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Freelang – a Libc-free, direct sys/kernel call language with weird concurrency (freelang.dev)
    ×1.53 86 | 10 points by keepamovin 39 minutes ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. LLM Performance by Programming Language (gertlabs.com)
    ×2.15 15 | 4 points by gertlabs 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. δ-mem: Efficient Online Memory for Large Language Models (arxiv.org)
    ×1.15 24 | 235 points by 44za12 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. How to buy cheap Claude tokens in China (chinatalk.media)
    ×3.14 55 | 33 points by RyanShook 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. The Aussie gov just screwed startup founders. my musings (ghuntley.com)
    ×2.37 51 | 3 points by ghuntley 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. How to Write to SSDs (arxiv.org)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by eigenBasis 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. At least 25 Flock cameras have been destroyed in five states since April 2025 (stateofsurveillance.org)
    ×4.12 88 | 420 points by rolph 12 hours ago | 313 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Meta to cut 8000 employees despite $26B Q1 net income (moneywise.com)
    ×5.97 66 | 33 points by stackghost 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Infinite Swap – Trade a bottle cap up to a house (infiniteswap.app)
    ×2.15 91 | 8 points by dansquizsoft 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: My time has come – let Claude Code wrap up before 5-hour usage runs out (github.com/JinBa1)
    ×1.06 155 | 3 points by BuyG1n 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Mercurial, 20 years and counting: how are we still alive and kicking? [video] (fosdem.org)
    ×1.31 1 #26 | 176 points by ibobev 12 hours ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Reverse engineering Android malware from popular Chinese projectors (zanestjohn.com)
    ×2.87 #45 | 15 points by 3abiton 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. What A.I. Did to My College Class (nytimes.com)
    ×4.62 54 | 8 points by mmooss 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Mode collapse has a name, and he's selling cancer treatment advice on Amazon (danielmay.co.uk)
    ×3.66 70 | 26 points by danielrmay 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Sx – an open-source package manager for AI skills, MCPs, and commands (github.com/sleuth-io)
    ×0.82 74 | 49 points by detkin 2 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Pdf2md – 10MB Rust PDF-to-Markdown Tool with a Free API (deepdiy.net)
    ×2.05 39 | 3 points by johnson_nie 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???