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  1. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2026)
    ×1.04 44 #86 | 230 points by whoishiring 1 day ago | 348 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)
    ×0.83 46 | 140 points by whoishiring 1 day ago | 441 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Anyone seen a CC- serial prefix on legacy networking hardware?
    ×0.90 54 | 65 points by Throwaway_sys 3 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: A Brief History of LLMs
    ×0.60 62 | 4 points by menomatter 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Why Fossil DVCS is so awesome for the lone developer; A podcast
    ×0.99 63 | 5 points by techman001 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What is your opinion on index rule changes to accommodate Mega-Cap IPOs?
    ×1.23 81 | 11 points by figmert 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel
    ×7.92 80 | 932 points by IliaLitviak 21 hours ago | 260 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. I'm Done Using AI
    ×2.59 67 | 25 points by nyxtom 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. AI Goal: Senior Software Engineer
    ×0.15 | 2 points by oryocyph 17 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What Is the State of App Development in 2026?
    ×0.96 91 | 100 points by karakoram 3 days ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Why is AI use decried if it has been used without attribution?
    ×0.50 98 | 5 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. $100 to a Debian Developer who can get Fresh Editor into Trixie
    ×0.41 102 | 28 points by jph 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Tell HN: In the old days, computers used to get constantly faster and cheaper
    ×1.73 80 | 14 points by wewewedxfgdf 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Recruiters, How do you vet resume in 2026?
    ×0.43 116 | 15 points by CoffeeSky 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What are your worst war stories bringing agentic applications into prod
    ×0.42 129 | 12 points by yaoke259 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What are your digital end-of-life plans?
    ×1.07 84 | 6 points by trogdor 19 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. The AI tool discovery problem
    ×0.50 110 | 7 points by meenabhagvat 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Architect MCP and TUI
    ×0.48 114 | 6 points by tonycdr 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. AI Won't Replace Your DevOps Pipeline – But It Will Expose How Fragile It Is (theaileverageweekly.com)
    ×1.12 | 2 points by talvardi7 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. AI Agent Guidelines for CS336 at Stanford (github.com/stanford-cs336)
    ×2.20 6 | 492 points by prakashqwerty 1 day ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Roughly a quarter of American professionals hit a wall in their careers (wsj.com)
    ×3.84 42 | 178 points by charliebwrites 1 day ago | 226 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Show HN: A crowdsourced map of surveillance camera's based on OSM (mapcomplete.org)
    ×1.22 64 | 4 points by pietervdvn 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Show HN: AI-Powered PDF to Markdown Converter (pdftomdconverter.com)
    ×1.17 68 | 3 points by QingWu 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Show HN: Viveka: filter LLM output against a Lean-verified Advaita Vedanta model (github.com/SpecStudio-net)
    ×1.18 97 | 7 points by adyashakti 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: NUA an agent that tests for product correctness (trynua.dev)
    ×1.72 100 | 8 points by Paster335 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: Llmff v1.0 FFmpeg for Inference (github.com/syndicalt)
    ×0.64 142 | 3 points by syndicalt 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. AI outperforms law professors in Stanford Law study (stanford.edu)
    ×2.60 3 #9 | 280 points by berlianta 11 hours ago | 221 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. How we index images for RAG (kapa.ai)
    ×1.29 39 #26 | 150 points by mooreds 17 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Bringing Up DeepSeek-V4-Flash on AMD MI300X (fergusfinn.com)
    ×1.18 38 #42 | 111 points by kkm 17 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. BQN: What Is a Primitive? (mlochbaum.github.io)
    ×0.61 61 #66 | 39 points by tosh 18 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. The empty field that wasn't (mydigitalpublication.com)
    ×1.15 | 2 points by robinhouston 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Meta repeatedly snubs EU body over Facebook and Instagram user bans (bbc.com)
    ×1.65 12 | 89 points by dijksterhuis 20 hours ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: I built an Android OS in the browser (mobilegym.dev)
    ×1.78 121 | 28 points by haozaz 4 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Metaprogramming for Madmen (2012) (wordpress.com)
    ×1.12 | 2 points by tosh 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Identity is not enough for autonomous agents (andrebyrd.substack.com)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by manofstyle04 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: DepsGuard – One command to harden NPM/pnpm/yarn/bun/uv configs (github.com/arnica)
    ×0.75 69 | 38 points by eranation 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Open Envelope – an open schema for defining AI agent teams (openenvelope.org)
    ×0.73 101 | 51 points by ashconway 5 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Dataroom – a Pi and self-hosted research harness on low-budget GPU (github.com/hanxiao)
    ×1.98 104 | 7 points by artex_xh 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Ant-design/CLI – Offline CLI for Ant Design docs, lint and migration (github.com/ant-design)
    ×1.67 | 2 points by afc163 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra (windowslatest.com)
    ×1.88 28 | 284 points by jbk 1 day ago | 627 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Paseo – Beautiful open-source coding agent interface (github.com/getpaseo)
    ×1.28 19 | 71 points by timhigins 13 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: I built a way to find and install Claude skills (claudinho.xyz)
    ×2.32 76 | 7 points by patrickmds 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Tiny-vLLM – high performance LLM inference engine in C++ and CUDA (github.com/jmaczan)
    ×1.28 85 | 203 points by yu3zhou4 4 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Hallucinate – Massively Multiplayer Online Rave (hallucinate.site)
    ×2.21 83 | 442 points by stagas 6 days ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Pluto.jl 1.0 release – reactive notebook for Julia (julialang.org)
    ×2.11 13 #13 | 149 points by fons-p 12 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. My thoughts after using Clojure for about a month (acdw.net)
    ×1.95 10 #17 | 231 points by speckx 15 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. U of T researchers demonstrate AI worm could target any online device (utoronto.ca)
    ×1.47 14 #20 | 55 points by shscs911 7 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. In a surprise launch, China debuts another big rocket designed for reusability (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.29 | 2 points by rbanffy 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Coreutils for Windows (github.com/microsoft)
    ×2.38 40 | 212 points by gigel82 18 hours ago | 229 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Hacking your PC using your speaker without ever touching it (nns.ee)
    ×2.38 #1 | 58 points by xx_ns 45 minutes ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. OpenFOV – Webcam head tracking for iRacing (openfov.com)
    ×0.97 62 #30 | 131 points by mwit2023 21 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Strace-ui, Bonsai_term, and the TUI renaissance (janestreet.com)
    ×1.37 41 #76 | 151 points by matt_d 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Mapping AI-enabled cyber threats: Insights from the LLM ATT&CK Navigator (anthropic.com)
    ×1.28 | 2 points by berlianta 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Vivix – See inside JavaScript as it executes (open source) (vivix.dev)
    ×0.97 | 2 points by hlude 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Wikigraph – an interactive visualization of all of English Wikipedia (tobypenner.com)
    ×2.47 73 | 11 points by tfpgh 21 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Apple rejected my dictation app for using the accessibility API (mitmllc.com)
    ×2.57 23 #84 | 303 points by RZelaya 23 hours ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. GPT-4.1 Deprecated (github.blog)
    ×1.50 | 2 points by prakashqwerty 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: CPU-only fast OCR for screenshots, images, PDFs, webpages (github.com/kouhxp)
    ×2.67 131 | 9 points by mrkn1 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen (0xsid.com)
    ×7.75 31 #50 | 2156 points by ssiddharth 1 day ago | 474 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. What Ooxml Transitional Tells Us About Format Sovereignty (documentfoundation.org)
    ×3.52 8 #83 | 6 points by ptx 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. RIP 2000-2015 Sensors. Silicon Labs Incident Proves It. Don't Be Surprised (cambridge.org)
    ×1.40 | 2 points by openrockets 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Ask HN: Playlist – Hit the Road
    ×0.56 | 1 points by systemkwiat 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Flipper Zero Zig Template (github.com/NishantJoshi00)
    ×0.87 47 | 155 points by Nars088 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release (davidedmundson.co.uk)
    ×1.50 41 #29 | 202 points by jandeboevrie 21 hours ago | 268 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Posthorn, self-hosted mail gateway (github.com/craigmccaskill)
    ×1.03 125 | 83 points by craigmccaskill 1 week ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: A desktop app for manual QA testing and evidence gathering (github.com/adriandomc)
    ×1.01 112 | 7 points by adriandomc 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Multicore suppport for DOS is real – partly (vogons.org)
    ×0.92 50 #36 | 89 points by beebix 16 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Windows GOG DOS Games on M-Series Macs (f055.net)
    ×0.95 43 | 167 points by f055 1 day ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: I reverse-engineered the world maps of Test Drive III (1990 DOS game) (github.com/s-macke)
    ×1.42 2 #6 | 122 points by s-macke 7 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. CT scans of BYD car parts (lumafield.com)
    ×2.46 1 #14 | 403 points by viasfo 15 hours ago | 249 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. MP3s from Google Drive in Music Assistant on Home Assistant (tomayac.com)
    ×0.59 66 #59 | 24 points by tomayac 13 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Letting publishers opt-out will not fix AI Overviews (doi.org)
    ×1.62 | 2 points by todd-davies 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: OpenSkynet Your AI Terminator (github.com/sediman-agent)
    ×4.15 75 | 5 points by jasonEinstien 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. How long will it take to rebuild Blue Origin's launch pad? (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.02 38 | 3 points by rbanffy 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. AI and the Psychology of Cognitive Surrender (psychologytoday.com)
    ×2.69 46 | 4 points by xenophonf 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: A searchable archive of declassified UAP/UFO files, news, and analysis (didyousee.xyz)
    ×2.33 70 | 12 points by sonjaqql 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Oort – A prompt library where every listing has a shipped project (oortstack.com)
    ×1.48 147 | 6 points by Wesearchpress 4 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. It is an amazing time for programmers (46elks.com)
    ×3.14 14 #18 | 98 points by jlundberg 3 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Japan declines to join movement to ban youth from social media (asahi.com)
    ×2.71 24 #41 | 12 points by BaudouinVH 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Scientists Create Tiny Chip That Uses Light Instead of Electricity (scitechdaily.com)
    ×1.31 | 2 points by 01-_- 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. anonymous voice rooms (bekkett.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by whatis1215 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Future Dutch EU ID app to require Apple or Google account (github.com/MinBZK)
    ×2.51 60 | 3 points by drapado 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Different attitudes towards AI in California's university system (nytimes.com)
    ×2.37 36 | 106 points by jeffwass 1 day ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Junco, turn newsletters into short audio episodes (tryjunco.com)
    ×1.30 86 | 3 points by alex-onecard 12 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Komi-learn – continuous memory and self-improvement for coding agents (github.com/kurikomi-labs)
    ×0.74 111 | 26 points by rainxchzed 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Promptloop – create, run, and improve prompt evals from the terminal (github.com/Bella3202019)
    ×0.89 135 | 13 points by velapod 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: I indexed 21,509 Shopify App Store listings (appstorepulse.com)
    ×0.46 103 | 3 points by matdesousa 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Gleam v1.17.0 (gleam.run)
    ×2.52 23 #63 | 122 points by figbert 13 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Nvidia Cosmos 3 (nvidia.com)
    ×1.79 48 | 149 points by tosh 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Claude wrote me a language, now I don't know what to do with it (github.com/kmcnally5)
    ×0.83 96 | 3 points by froglang 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???