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  1. Ask HN: What are you working on (non-AI)?
    ×0.66 19 #77 | 12 points by BrunoBernardino 3 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
    ×1.15 68 | 279 points by david927 3 days ago | 1065 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...
    ×2.32 81 | 469 points by mittermayr 5 days ago | 335 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. agent-dash: TUI for managing Claude Code and OpenCode in tmux
    ×0.11 90 | 3 points by fdarian 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated
    ×7.28 54 | 1664 points by CliffStoll 1 week ago | 256 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: If HTML supersedes Markdown fr AI, Will it be versatile enough for devs?
    ×0.31 78 | 6 points by zameermfm 12 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Is Spam getting worse or is Gmail getting worse?
    ×0.27 89 | 7 points by adamtaylor_13 21 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How to get started in electronic music
    ×0.62 91 | 16 points by A_Random_Nerd 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How are you preparing for interviews nowadays?
    ×0.44 105 | 10 points by holden_nelson 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Will low quality AI customer support be the new normal?
    ×0.80 106 | 24 points by 0-bad-sectors 2 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Best static site generator for a docs site in 2026?
    ×0.65 110 | 15 points by agenttestjekuqz 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What happens when eventually all E2E mess. apps removed from app stores?
    ×0.46 118 | 6 points by kingleopold 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Our keyboards are tracking us
    ×1.15 109 | 15 points by tukunjil 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How often do you investigate issues in production vs. looking at logs?
    ×0.15 143 | 4 points by aspectrr 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How do you choose a model for a task?
    ×0.59 113 | 10 points by bix6 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Can a tinnitus be triggered by high frequency noises?
    ×0.31 146 | 9 points by tinnitus_crazy 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Remind HN: Today is Mother's Day, call your moms
    ×4.84 63 | 377 points by rationalist 3 days ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: What Wintel/AMD (Laptop) Harware are you liking?
    ×0.39 144 | 6 points by aagha 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Do you know the ethics of Developers?
    ×0.38 133 | 8 points by eropatori 2 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. SecurityBaseline.eu (internetcleanup.foundation)
    ×2.47 19 #43 | 214 points by aequitas 10 hours ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Redis and the Cost of Ambition (charlesleifer.com)
    ×1.77 54 #48 | 26 points by maxloh 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. I made Rust’s cargo copy but for CPP (github.com/user-with-username)
    ×0.52 53 #63 | 23 points by anybodyy 11 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Billionaire solipsism, dictator solipsism, AI, and the fascist paradigm (pluralistic.net)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by hn_acker 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. A HN post with negative points – how?
    ×1.41 49 | 89 points by donohoe 1 day ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: Chrome extension that blocks API keys from being pasted into AI tools (github.com/carlgaopapi-png)
    ×0.57 56 | 3 points by shiqingao 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Software Internals Book Club (eatonphil.com)
    ×1.51 37 #84 | 222 points by aragonite 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. If AI writes your code, why use Python? (medium.com)
    ×4.34 9 #89 | 893 points by indigodaddy 1 day ago | 949 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. HuggingFace #1 Paper of the Day by Solo Researcher (huggingface.co)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by huani 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Advanced Protection Mode for Android (android.com)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by andrewzeno 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Sony A7R VI (dpreview.com)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by picture 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Hollow – A local multi-agent OS that builds its own tools (github.com/ninjahawk)
    ×0.95 | 2 points by ninjahawk1 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: I mage GhosttyFX, a JavaFX terminal view that uses libghostty (github.com/vlaaad)
    ×1.00 128 | 3 points by vlaaad 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. My graduation cap runs Rust (ericswpark.com)
    ×1.46 10 #39 | 201 points by ericswpark 17 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Profine – Automated profiling and code rewrites for ML training loops (github.com/ProfineAI)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by aisinghal 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Flagordle.com (flagordle.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by recursive_toast 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Tyr for first place at RustWeek 2026 (collabora.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by losgehts 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: OpenGravity – A zero-install, BYOK vanilla JS clone of Antigravity (github.com/ab-613)
    ×1.04 69 | 102 points by ab613 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Preserving Fisher-Price Pixter (dmitry.gr)
    ×1.37 7 #14 | 161 points by dmitrygr 8 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. As researchers age, they produce less disruptive work (nautil.us)
    ×1.22 54 #37 | 132 points by Brajeshwar 21 hours ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Beyond Semantic Similarity (arxiv.org)
    ×0.89 35 | 60 points by 44za12 21 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: I spent $100 in Claude tokens and 1k battles training my AI tank (agentank.ai)
    ×1.04 88 | 4 points by mazzystar 15 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Doomscroll the Goverment's UFO Files as One Gigantic Microfilm (hypergrid.systems)
    ×1.50 87 | 21 points by keepamovin 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (fredchan.org)
    ×2.36 1 #1 | 251 points by speckx 2 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Web Server on a Nintendo Wii (sjmulder.nl)
    ×1.06 8 #23 | 78 points by adunk 7 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Canada’s Bill C-22 Is a Repackaged Version of Last Year’s Surveillance Nightmare (eff.org)
    ×3.71 22 #79 | 360 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Red Hot Chili Peppers ink $300M deal with Warner Music to sell catalog (hollywoodreporter.com)
    ×1.77 73 | 90 points by randycupertino 1 day ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Removing the Modem and GPS from My 2024 RAV4 Hybrid (arkadiyt.com)
    ×4.40 58 | 7 points by arkadiyt 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. US inflation jumps to 3.8% as energy costs surge from Iran war (bbc.com)
    ×10.15 4 | 256 points by tartoran 1 day ago | 430 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. A consistent pattern of lying': trial exposes what insiders think of Sam Altman (theguardian.com)
    ×2.94 72 | 65 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Googlebook (googlebook.google)
    ×3.47 12 #18 | 888 points by tambourine_man 1 day ago | 1474 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Israel's AI targeting system: how data from a phone become a death sentence (latimes.com)
    ×3.88 46 #62 | 190 points by YeGoblynQueenne 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. More than 170 arrests in facial recognition trial (bbc.com)
    ×0.76 | 1 points by Cider9986 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. The Cold War Bunker That Became Home to a Dark-Web Empire (2020) (newyorker.com)
    ×1.32 | 2 points by zer0tonin 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. AI versus Microservices (michaelnygard.com)
    ×1.28 | 2 points by systems 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. An idiot's guide to lead optimisation for proteins (magnusross.github.io)
    ×1.04 10 #12 | 91 points by magni121 6 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. When Search Becomes Expensive to Improve (searchplex.net)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by eskimo87 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Monghoul – Desktop MongoDB GUI with schema-aware autocomplete and MCP (monghoul.com)
    ×2.63 48 | 6 points by kontsedal 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Rotunda - A browser built for agents with simulated typing (github.com/monkeysee-ai)
    ×1.21 8 | 6 points by icyfox 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Hallucinopedia (halupedia.com)
    ×1.99 94 | 306 points by bstrama 1 week ago | 267 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Ask HN: Why Reddit blocks all automated access but has .json for all URLs?
    ×1.18 | 2 points by ksajadi 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values (gitlab.com)
    ×4.32 2 | 688 points by AnonGitLabEmpl 1 day ago | 660 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Microsoft Israel chief leaves amid ethical controversy (globes.co.il)
    ×4.13 53 | 192 points by bhouston 2 days ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Unitree GD01: China's $537k rideable transformer robot is now in production (gagadget.com)
    ×2.41 45 | 101 points by rguiscard 1 day ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Hashiverse, an open-source decentralized social network in Rust (hashiverse.com)
    ×0.50 | 2 points by jamesjardine 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Starship V3 (spacex.com)
    ×3.35 22 #58 | 290 points by fprog 16 hours ago | 508 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. The Tech Jobs That Are Safe from AI (wsj.com)
    ×3.04 48 | 5 points by fortran77 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×6.69 26 #51 | 1343 points by rubenbe 1 day ago | 416 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. YellowKey Bitlocker Bypass Vulnerability (github.com/Nightmare-Eclipse)
    ×2.96 34 | 52 points by entuno 20 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes (typewritten.org)
    ×3.28 6 #78 | 687 points by adunk 1 day ago | 376 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Extremely Low Frequencies (computer.rip)
    ×1.52 37 #82 | 215 points by pinewurst 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Most U.S. doctors are quietly using this AI tool (nbcnews.com)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by speckx 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Houses are for living, not for speculation (wikipedia.org)
    ×7.82 42 | 103 points by robtherobber 1 day ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Meta employees protest against mouse tracking tech at US offices (reuters.com)
    ×5.82 24 | 68 points by delichon 20 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Ratify Protocol – prove who authorized an AI agent, offline, in <1ms (github.com/identities-ai)
    ×0.65 | 2 points by chuks 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Splice – A programming language with custom VM for embedded systems (github.com/Open-Splice)
    ×0.41 | 2 points by amitabhi 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Grunden – Frontier AI inference hosted in Sweden, OpenAI-compatible (grunden.ai)
    ×2.79 93 | 7 points by fsrc 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise (nair.sh)
    ×3.59 12 #26 | 742 points by nilirl 1 day ago | 314 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Data centers cutting power to homes, driving homeowners to solar and batteries (electrek.co)
    ×1.58 | 2 points by dotcoma 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. 590k buyers paid $59M for Trump's gold phone, but not one has shipped (yahoo.com)
    ×7.84 55 | 159 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Thoughts on Claude Code 2.1.139 Agent View and Background Sessions
    ×0.48 | 1 points by cadl11 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: A modern Music Player Daemon based on Rockbox firmware (github.com/tsirysndr)
    ×0.98 62 | 118 points by tsiry 4 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: HYPD – AI co-pilot for marketers running Google Ads (hypd.ai)
    ×1.81 71 | 4 points by cionut 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Profine - Profile and rewrite your PyTorch training loop on real GPUs (github.com/ProfineAI)
    ×1.46 102 | 4 points by aisinghal 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Promptcellar – capture every Claude Code prompt as JSONL in your repo (github.com/dominiek)
    ×2.43 5 | 6 points by dominiek 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Simplifying our homepage helped increase trial signups by 84% (plausible.io)
    ×1.62 8 #70 | 6 points by gbourne 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Kettle: Attested builds for verifiable software provenance (arxiv.org)
    ×2.56 49 | 3 points by ameanasad 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Toxicity on Social Media (thenoisyroom.com)
    ×2.51 32 | 160 points by skm 1 day ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains (404media.co)
    ×6.20 75 | 74 points by SpyCoder77 4 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise (tanstack.com)
    ×4.11 3 #74 | 1078 points by varunsharma07 1 day ago | 457 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Learning Software Architecture (matklad.github.io)
    ×2.49 9 #76 | 573 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???