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  1. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2026)
    ×1.07 44 | 230 points by whoishiring 1 day ago | 344 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)
    ×0.83 55 | 137 points by whoishiring 1 day ago | 431 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: A Brief History of LLMs
    ×1.02 45 | 3 points by menomatter 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Anyone seen a CC- serial prefix on legacy networking hardware?
    ×0.92 62 | 64 points by Throwaway_sys 3 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Why Fossil DVCS is so awesome for the lone developer; A podcast
    ×0.68 | 2 points by techman001 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel
    ×7.85 84 | 907 points by IliaLitviak 15 hours ago | 257 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. AI Goal: Senior Software Engineer
    ×0.17 | 2 points by oryocyph 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What is your opinion on index rule changes to accommodate Mega-Cap IPOs?
    ×1.10 92 | 8 points by figmert 19 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. I'm Done Using AI
    ×2.54 80 | 22 points by nyxtom 23 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Why is AI use decried if it has been used without attribution?
    ×0.55 100 | 5 points by bookofjoe 17 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What Is the State of App Development in 2026?
    ×0.95 104 | 99 points by karakoram 3 days ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Tell HN: In the old days, computers used to get constantly faster and cheaper
    ×1.75 90 | 13 points by wewewedxfgdf 22 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. $100 to a Debian Developer who can get Fresh Editor into Trixie
    ×0.40 111 | 27 points by jph 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What are your digital end-of-life plans?
    ×1.18 86 | 6 points by trogdor 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Recruiters, How do you vet resume in 2026?
    ×0.41 122 | 14 points by CoffeeSky 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What are your worst war stories bringing agentic applications into prod
    ×0.39 135 | 11 points by yaoke259 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. The AI tool discovery problem
    ×0.44 116 | 6 points by meenabhagvat 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Architect MCP and TUI
    ×0.41 121 | 5 points by tonycdr 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Donating AI credits to open source projects
    ×0.24 141 | 6 points by happyPersonR 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Corporate Disconnect Between "Tokenmaxxing" and Token Optimization
    ×0.26 142 | 5 points by mc-0 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Should you normalize RGB values by 255 or 256? (30fps.net)
    ×1.74 18 | 322 points by pplanu 1 day ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Show HN: Rapel – chunked resumable downloads in unstable networks (github.com/redraw)
    ×0.59 157 | 21 points by autorun 1 week ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Nvidia to spend $150B a year in Taiwan, 'epicentre' of AI revolution (reuters.com)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by JumpCrisscross 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid (torrentfreak.com)
    ×4.17 7 | 617 points by speckx 1 day ago | 321 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Look Who Just Crashed OpenAI and SoftBank's IPO Party (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.59 8 | 6 points by petethomas 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: Live, system-wide USB transfer sniffer in eBPF (github.com/yeet-src)
    ×2.35 139 | 9 points by r3tr0 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Love systemd timers (tjll.net)
    ×2.40 16 #61 | 362 points by yacin 19 hours ago | 236 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Microsoft says new quantum chip 1k times more reliable than predecessor (bbc.com)
    ×1.36 49 #88 | 8 points by neversaydie 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. AI Corporate Governance and Ben & Jerry's Risk (harvard.edu)
    ×1.12 | 2 points by ChrisArchitect 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. What appear to be biochemical processes may be a natural feature of geology (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.29 48 #80 | 266 points by speckx 1 day ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. C64 OS – Ready for Internet Action – C64 OS steps it up [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by amichail 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. The Four Signals of AI Observability (thoughtbot.com)
    ×1.13 | 2 points by iroha1203 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. More harmful than helpful': young people sour on AI (ft.com)
    ×2.45 4 | 4 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Tiny-vLLM – high performance LLM inference engine in C++ and CUDA (github.com/jmaczan)
    ×1.28 96 | 203 points by yu3zhou4 4 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. The American Missile Crisis (contrary.com)
    ×1.38 3 #2 | 27 points by JumpCrisscross 1 hour ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Adafruit receives demand letter from Fenwick legal counsel on behalf of Flux.ai (adafruit.com)
    ×3.04 15 #39 | 640 points by semanser 18 hours ago | 258 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. 'Dumbass' criminal breaks the 'first rule of ransomware club' (theregister.com)
    ×0.91 | 1 points by Cider9986 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Global EV Outlook 2026: Growing sales amid an energy crisis [pdf] (windows.net)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by toomuchtodo 45 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Google's $80B equity raise adds to that giant AI sucking sound (ft.com)
    ×1.14 | 2 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: SeaTicket – AI agent that resolve issues from GitHub, email and forums
    ×0.46 | 1 points by Daniel-Pan 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Alphabet announces $80B equity capital raise to expand AI infra and compute (abc.xyz)
    ×2.33 22 | 248 points by gregschlom 1 day ago | 225 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. 4K years ago, Mohenjo-daro grew more equal over time (archaeologymag.com)
    ×1.12 17 #18 | 65 points by marojejian 6 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. User-Replaceable Batteries Are Coming Back in a Big Way (theverge.com)
    ×1.95 6 #75 | 5 points by m463 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. The New Internet Era (newardassociates.com)
    ×1.08 | 2 points by damowangcy 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. CS336: Language Modeling from Scratch (stanford.edu)
    ×2.48 3 | 545 points by kristianpaul 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now available on AWS (openai.com)
    ×2.06 1 | 360 points by typpo 1 day ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Linux Basics for Hackers (2019) (github.com/ahegazy0)
    ×1.29 51 | 168 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Hop – JSX for Rust (hoplang.com)
    ×2.68 69 | 9 points by lyxell 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: I built an Android OS in the browser (mobilegym.dev)
    ×1.78 128 | 28 points by haozaz 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Stop Ruining It (seths.blog)
    ×2.28 26 #35 | 252 points by herbertl 19 hours ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Lots of people want to try Claude Opus 4.8 (wisgate.ai)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by kevin_wang7 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. CT scans of BYD car parts (lumafield.com)
    ×2.25 4 #5 | 287 points by viasfo 8 hours ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Cessation of public development of Kefir C compiler (protopopov.lv)
    ×1.13 66 | 138 points by f311a 1 day ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. GrapheneOS Speech Services version 2 released (grapheneos.org)
    ×1.43 54 | 123 points by pretext 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: FuguUX – science-backed, AI user testing to identify key web UX issues (fuguux.com)
    ×2.40 133 | 9 points by sdas7 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Stable Audio 3 – one-shot sample generator (110gb download) (github.com/shiehn)
    ×2.69 132 | 10 points by stevehiehn 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. CSS-Native Parallax Effect (dan-webnotes.com)
    ×0.90 39 #46 | 131 points by dandep 18 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. How is Groq raising more money? (zach.be)
    ×1.16 37 #89 | 151 points by hasheddan 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Implicit.js, a way to program 3D models with mathematical functions (implicit.sh)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by softservo 32 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Nvidia RTX Spark (nvidia.com)
    ×3.09 38 | 418 points by shenli3514 1 day ago | 414 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Deliberate – log what your agent rejected, not just what it ran (deliberate.dev)
    ×0.82 145 | 4 points by garysmith1234 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Graph-Based Firebase Alternative with Real-Time Sync (linkedrecords.com)
    ×0.31 159 | 3 points by WolfOliver 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Great Question (YC W21) Is Hiring Applied AI Interns (ycombinator.com)
    16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Scott Pelley fired at CBS News after blowups with Bari Weiss,60 Minutes producer (foxnews.com)
    ×4.18 30 #49 | 22 points by osnium123 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Are blue zones real? Answering that question is harder then ever (statnews.com)
    ×1.07 21 #52 | 48 points by mfld 5 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. The way we treat pigs is a sin (noahpinion.blog)
    ×13.25 28 | 69 points by throw0101a 17 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Clor – give your agent claws (clor.com)
    ×2.34 61 | 8 points by jacobgold 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. SaySynth: A Brief History of Speaking Machines (abelson.live)
    ×0.41 93 #22 | 3 points by evakhoury 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. QBE – Compiler Backend – 1.3 (c9x.me)
    ×0.91 32 #33 | 84 points by birdculture 11 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Americans don't know how to fight AI so they're fighting data centers (vox.com)
    ×6.86 27 | 117 points by stalfosknight 13 hours ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Ask HN: Feedback on an AI-driven "Life RPG" for real-world skill building?
    ×0.45 | 1 points by MixasETH 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Summer Is Prime Time for Account Takeover (securityboulevard.com)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by mooreds 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: 500 years of Joseon court omens as an observability dashboard (ajin.im)
    ×1.12 93 | 155 points by poppypetalmask 3 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. macOS needs its grid back (hopefullyuseful.com)
    ×2.00 12 #85 | 385 points by ranebo 1 day ago | 255 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Microsoft Scout: Your always-on personal agent (microsoft.com)
    ×1.18 | 2 points by Garbage 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People (2016) (idlewords.com)
    ×1.83 47 | 157 points by thoughtpeddler 1 day ago | 230 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Atomic Editor – Obsidian-style live preview for CodeMirror 6 (kenforthewin.github.io)
    ×0.76 97 | 67 points by kenforthewin 2 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Words of Type (wordsoftype.com)
    ×0.96 30 #12 | 12 points by tobr 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Wikiracer–an chess.com style Wikipedia racing website with analysis (wikiracer.com)
    ×1.16 | 2 points by smolyar 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. AI Agent Guidelines for CS336 at Stanford (github.com/stanford-cs336)
    ×2.20 | 491 points by prakashqwerty 1 day ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Legal action forces Facebook whistleblower to sit in silence at Hay festival (theguardian.com)
    ×6.13 56 | 206 points by beardyw 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Ktx – Open-source executable context layer for data agents (github.com/Kaelio)
    ×0.62 118 | 93 points by lucamrtl 5 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Patterns of Structure and Argument: a guide to mathematical thinking(2017) [pdf] (eiu.edu)
    ×0.89 56 #60 | 5 points by nill0 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Microsoft's Project Solara is an Android OS designed for agents instead of apps (arstechnica.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by thunderbong 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: CPU-only fast OCR for screenshots, images, PDFs, webpages (github.com/kouhxp)
    ×2.67 136 | 9 points by mrkn1 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Hallucinate – Massively Multiplayer Online Rave (hallucinate.site)
    ×2.22 95 | 442 points by stagas 6 days ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Agentpack – isolated config layers for Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode (nexo.sh)
    ×0.70 147 | 4 points by nexo-v1 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: OWASP Agent Memory Guard – Stop AI Agent Memory Poisoning (github.com/OWASP)
    ×0.94 156 | 4 points by vgudur297 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Fidonet: Technology, Use, Tools, and History (1993) (fidonet.org)
    ×0.93 32 #30 | 154 points by BruceEel 15 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen (0xsid.com)
    ×7.71 22 #50 | 2140 points by ssiddharth 1 day ago | 474 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???