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  1. Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
    ×1.18 9 #12 | 161 points by david927 11 hours ago | 564 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...
    ×2.48 27 | 448 points by mittermayr 2 days ago | 328 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Will low quality AI customer support be the new normal?
    ×1.10 13 | 19 points by 0-bad-sectors 8 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What Wintel/AMD (Laptop) Harware are you liking?
    ×0.30 | 2 points by aagha 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated
    ×7.44 24 | 1642 points by CliffStoll 4 days ago | 251 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Remind HN: Today is Mother's Day, call your moms
    ×5.40 79 | 350 points by rationalist 12 hours ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Which LLM are you using to evaluate your ideas?
    ×1.05 39 | 5 points by Marius77 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Tell HN: Claude claims the AGPLv3 license violates it's content policy
    ×3.18 29 | 9 points by freedomben 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Can a tinnitus be triggered by high frequency noises?
    ×0.25 82 | 6 points by tinnitus_crazy 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Is this the SWE workflow of the future?
    ×0.71 48 | 10 points by mc-0 15 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Cancelling Claude subscription renewal immediately revokes Design access
    ×0.35 73 | 4 points by o10449366 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Best AI coding plan alternative to Claude and ChatGPT
    ×1.86 63 | 14 points by Jsttan 23 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Former master-tech building AI systems – how to break into software?
    ×0.20 119 | 3 points by nicku711 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Before Open Source took over the server, what was the discourse like?
    ×0.62 87 | 6 points by mbgerring 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. How are folks affordably self-training in AI?
    ×0.44 91 | 7 points by macartain 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. LLM generated parsers and compliance checkers for Sparrow DSL
    ×0.23 121 | 3 points by melezhik 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What is the underlying stack behind multi-agent platforms?
    ×0.24 126 | 3 points by throwaw12 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: What is your go-to solution for a personal wiki in 2026?
    ×0.41 114 | 15 points by ex-aws-dude 3 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Reflections on NetBSD 11
    ×0.39 113 | 9 points by morpheos137 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What do you still do manually in 2026 that should be automated?
    ×0.34 116 | 20 points by lishunsheng 4 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: What will happen as AI costs increase?
    ×0.49 112 | 15 points by MetaWhirledPeas 3 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad?
    ×1.72 110 | 135 points by idontwantthis 1 week ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: How are you handling QA being bottlenecked with more AI-generated PRs?
    ×0.28 146 | 5 points by softneon 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Can NPM, pnpm etc. use frontier models to check packages for malware?
    ×0.26 130 | 5 points by VikRubenfeld 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Novel macro signals for AI-related job loss?
    ×0.33 132 | 5 points by sfmz 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: How to start up as an individual developer?
    ×0.47 141 | 14 points by alexyan0431 4 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Oil-price bets ahead of Iran war news totalled $7B, reporting shows (reuters.com)
    ×2.73 4 | 44 points by geox 15 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Browser-based light pollution simulator using real photometric data (iesna.eu)
    ×0.45 147 | 44 points by 1 week ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school (theguardian.com)
    ×2.18 71 #72 | 385 points by rustoo 4 days ago | 621 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. I want to archive but DMCA stopped me
    ×0.45 | 1 points by quanvm0501alt1 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. West Bank settlers forced a Palestinian to dig up the body of his father (bbc.com)
    ×3.41 28 | 9 points by khaledh 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. BSides Austin Is on Hold (bsidesaustin.com)
    ×1.95 38 | 7 points by bean-weevil 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Killswitch: Per-function short-circuit mitigation primitive (lwn.net)
    ×1.00 47 | 85 points by signa11 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Free Google Places API alternative using OpenStreetMap (no API key) (bizdata-web.vercel.app)
    ×2.80 67 | 9 points by johnleslie_pm 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Remind – schedule Claude Code on your Mac (olliewagner.com)
    ×3.00 80 | 7 points by olliewagner 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: A modern Music Player Daemon based on Rockbox firmware (github.com/tsirysndr)
    ×2.21 108 | 5 points by tsiry 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Codeberg (Forgejo) CLI, built with Xclif (codeberg.org)
    ×1.08 149 | 16 points by thatxliner 5 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Typing Is Being Replaced by Whispering–and It's Way More Annoying (wsj.com)
    ×0.89 | 1 points by petethomas 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Make America AI-Ready (dol.gov)
    ×1.09 35 | 3 points by andsoitis 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Stop playing my matchstick puzzles, start building your own in seconds (mathstick.github.io)
    ×0.73 151 | 37 points by trangram 1 week ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Think Linear Algebra (2023) (allendowney.github.io)
    ×1.48 12 #29 | 190 points by tamnd 19 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Gen Z Resentment Toward AI Grows as Adoption Stagnates and Workplace Fears Mount (waltonfamilyfoundation.org)
    ×6.16 2 | 93 points by mgh2 21 hours ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: CADara – I made an open-source in-browser CAD (cadara.app)
    ×0.73 77 | 34 points by ttouch 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Blink – AI Assistant (blink-oi.vercel.app)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by Pascal1997 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. SmartScreen warnings triggered after migration from EOC. EV certs affected too (github.com/Azure)
    ×0.32 | 1 points by polywickstudio 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. France moves to break encrypted messaging (reclaimthenet.org)
    ×4.58 20 | 272 points by Cider9986 1 day ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Concord – Feature rich TUI for discord (github.com/chojs23)
    ×1.67 93 | 8 points by jpellamo 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: DiffCAD, a FreeCAD workbench to review model changes like code (github.com/eblanshey)
    ×1.59 142 | 7 points by eblanshey 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Task Paralysis and AI (g5t.de)
    ×1.73 19 #30 | 217 points by MrGilbert 23 hours ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Study Finds iOS Users Have Shorter Relationships as Compared to Android Users (yahoo.com)
    ×0.88 | 1 points by iamkrazy 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Visual Generation Unlocks Human-Like Reasoning Through Multimodal World Models (arxiv.org)
    ×1.47 | 2 points by felineflock 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Notion-to-site – sync any Notion database to local Markdown/MDX/JSON (github.com/rashidazarang)
    ×0.40 136 | 5 points by rashidae 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: I made a vertical-pedalling bike with a novel drivetrain [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.83 104 | 26 points by tonyonodi 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. What causes lightning? The answer keeps getting more interesting (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.66 44 #73 | 229 points by Tomte 2 days ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Why You Actually Want Machines Writing the Code for Your Next Flight (decodingvibes.com)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by altmanaltman 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent sandbox with a transactional, versioned filesystem (tilde.run)
    ×1.07 72 | 200 points by ozkatz 4 days ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Crit – local review tool for agent plans and code diffs (crit.md)
    ×1.52 109 | 12 points by tomasz-tomczyk 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Rep. Crane Introduces Legislation to Pause and Reform the Broken H-1B Visa (house.gov)
    ×2.24 22 #65 | 20 points by rawgabbit 5 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Making cross-platform SIMD code pleasant (bkaradzic.github.io)
    ×0.33 | 1 points by RUI-0517 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Scientists warn Atlantic current at risk of shutting down (yale.edu)
    ×3.87 66 | 158 points by ambigious7777 13 hours ago | 205 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Runs AI coding agents inside isolated Docker containers (github.com/marvincaspar)
    ×0.94 129 | 7 points by matt_callmann 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: tltv – Federation protocol for 24/7 TV channels (timelooptv.org)
    ×1.59 120 | 6 points by tltv 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Traces Of Humanity (tracesofhumanity.org)
    ×0.93 7 #17 | 136 points by alex77456 12 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Clone Yourself into Agents (lorentz.app)
    ×0.88 | 1 points by baalimago 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Copilot Builder enables welding with AI (millerwelds.com)
    ×0.34 | 1 points by DarkContinent 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Kheeper, a registry designed for bootable images (kheeper.com)
    ×0.75 | 2 points by areed 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. University student arrested in Taiwan for radio hack that halted high speed rail (rtl-sdr.com)
    ×1.13 8 | 3 points by bsgamble 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Ask HN: How have you spent time outside work for the past couple of weeks?
    ×1.34 14 | 3 points by alex77456 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. The hypocrisy of cyberlibertarianism (matduggan.com)
    ×2.94 16 | 407 points by ColinWright 1 day ago | 373 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Maryland citizens hit with $2B power grid upgrade for out-of-state AI (tomshardware.com)
    ×3.15 14 #22 | 207 points by lemonberry 8 hours ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Replacing a 3 GB SQLite db with a 10 MB FST (finite state transducer) binary (andrew-quinn.me)
    ×2.48 24 #66 | 173 points by hiAndrewQuinn 18 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. I reverse engineered macOS to disable built-in display (gumroad.com)
    ×0.87 | 2 points by fkusiapp 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: JSLike, a CSP-Safe Interpreter for JS, TS, JSX, TSX in JS (github.com/artpar)
    ×1.91 96 | 6 points by artpar 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: I built a RISC-V emulator that runs DOOM (github.com/lalitshankarch)
    ×0.96 133 | 50 points by Flex247A 1 week ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. I scanned 100 random Supabase projects. 22% leak user data anonymously (perufitlife.github.io)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by renzom13 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Addressing GitHub's recent availability issues (github.blog)
    ×1.08 1 | 3 points by mvdtnz 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. The FCC wants your ID before you get a phone number (reclaimthenet.org)
    ×4.50 43 | 80 points by delichon 1 day ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: A search engine for deleted YouTube videos (1.5B+ indexed since 2005) (archivarix.net)
    ×3.94 81 | 13 points by archivarix 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Academic Research Skills for Claude Code (github.com/Imbad0202)
    ×1.04 9 #53 | 79 points by arnon 15 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Forking the Web (dillo-browser.org)
    ×1.41 48 #76 | 140 points by wrxd 1 day ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Europe Is Losing Its Best Engineers – Not to Emigration, but to Management (andrulis.de)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by taubek 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: nfsdiag – A NFS diagnostic application (github.com/lsferreira42)
    ×0.80 106 | 83 points by lsferreira42 1 week ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: A Mutating Webhook to automatically strip PII from K8s logs (github.com/aragossa)
    ×0.48 131 | 25 points by aragoss 5 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: ChatbotX, an open-source alternative to ManyChat (github.com/ChatbotXIO)
    ×0.89 | 1 points by hunterist 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. The eye in your pocket: digital devices are made to track you (aeon.co)
    ×1.70 32 | 3 points by the-mitr 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Apple's privacy invading tech is likely going mainstream (quickthoughts.ca)
    ×2.42 17 | 5 points by quickthoughts 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: adamsreview – better multi-agent PR reviews for Claude Code (github.com/adamjgmiller)
    ×0.91 6 #10 | 13 points by adamthegoalie 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Microsoft's African data center falters on payment demands, Bloomberg reports (reuters.com)
    ×0.76 | 1 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. When GPT 5.5 flags your chat for possible cybersecurity risk–ask it to help you (wojtczyk.de)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by wojtczyk 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Ableton Live MCP (github.com/bschoepke)
    ×1.16 103 | 122 points by bschoepke 1 week ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???