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  1. AI Tokenmaxxing and Hypomania
    ×1.13 44 | 3 points by karthikeyankc 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Am I being advertised an ARG via user agent logs?
    ×0.30 36 #73 | 3 points by SpecialistK 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?
    ×4.77 3 | 1288 points by cloudking 2 days ago | 549 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Has anyone had success with SBIR grants and what is the process like?
    ×0.34 40 | 9 points by lyfeninja 9 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. I indexed 669 GB of my GoPro videos using my M1 Max computer and local ML models
    ×2.35 62 | 434 points by iliashad 3 days ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: How are thinking efforts implemented?
    ×0.54 157 | 102 points by simianwords 1 week ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Are other people seeing a spike in IT problems with businesses?
    ×0.31 65 | 14 points by PaulHoule 20 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)
    ×1.45 66 | 310 points by david927 3 days ago | 1126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What's a prompt you've written that you're genuinely proud of?
    ×1.09 26 | 5 points by akashwadhwani35 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA
    ×3.12 82 | 806 points by eries 1 week ago | 577 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?
    ×1.34 127 | 263 points by mdni007 1 week ago | 239 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Successful entrepreneurs and indie hackers, enlighten me
    ×0.18 103 | 3 points by markosn 17 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What Are the Trade-Offs of Working Fully Remotely?
    ×0.74 78 | 7 points by karakoram 17 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What are your best Claude hacks?
    ×0.79 85 | 15 points by akashwadhwani35 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Reviews have become expensive, rewrites have become cheap
    ×1.16 75 | 81 points by arzh2 2 days ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Favorite text heavy blogs that are a joy to read?
    ×0.86 130 | 119 points by joshmarinacci 1 week ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models
    ×2.37 100 | 427 points by TomAnthony 1 week ago | 254 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How have you gotten burned by coding agents?
    ×0.93 58 | 4 points by baddash 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Anthropic pauses credit change for Claude Code
    ×1.23 101 | 35 points by fabianlindfors 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Want to build something open source on nights and weekends together?
    ×0.52 154 | 39 points by vira28 1 week ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Notes on DeepSeek
    ×1.87 119 | 210 points by vinhnx 1 week ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Would it be useful to have a slop button in addition to flag?
    ×0.99 155 | 41 points by BugsJustFindMe 1 week ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Are most corporate SWE jobs performative?
    ×2.33 113 | 249 points by hnthrow10282910 1 week ago | 283 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
    ×2.32 109 | 444 points by aryamaan 1 week ago | 782 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: How do you stay at the bleeding edge of AI tooling?
    ×0.60 126 | 7 points by otekengineering 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Nanogram – Private social media from your Raspberry Pi
    ×0.60 118 | 9 points by smalltorch 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Newer macOS runs slower on Intel (undeniably) – on purpose or "accident"?
    ×1.08 132 | 15 points by srevenant 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Would you want to know when and how you die?
    ×0.48 108 | 8 points by JohnDSDev 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. UK government built an AI tool to digitise historic planning records
    ×0.45 | 2 points by brokebroadbeat 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: How do you get into a flow state when using AI to code?
    ×1.40 137 | 98 points by kilroy123 6 days ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Are you still using a Vision Pro?
    ×1.26 135 | 171 points by y1n0 1 week ago | 215 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. I procrastinate by building tools to stop me from procrastinating: A sad story
    ×0.73 160 | 21 points by thisislorenzov 6 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Inkwash, a watercolor sketching app and explanation (johnowhitaker.github.io)
    ×1.48 29 #32 | 231 points by Yenrabbit 22 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Stack Overflow for Agents (stackoverflow.com)
    ×2.68 47 | 3 points by nsoonhui 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. The 14-point US-Iran pact as read by US official (reuters.com)
    ×1.17 | 2 points by TechTechTech 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Criterion Closet as a website – pull any of 1,247 films off the shelf (the-criterion-closet.vercel.app)
    ×1.85 61 | 7 points by olievans 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Zero Browser (github.com/nz366)
    ×0.79 133 | 12 points by zeron0a 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Microlearning apps with a TikTok-style feed to beat doomscrolling (usescroll.app)
    ×1.18 143 | 5 points by maclinz 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Jemalloc cut our production memory by 47% (refine.ink)
    ×1.27 | 2 points by pedromsantos 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Sabela – A Reactive Notebook for Haskell (datahaskell.com)
    ×0.56 71 | 45 points by mchav 4 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Local Qwen isn't a worse Opus, it's a different tool (alexellis.io)
    ×2.46 1 #4 | 231 points by alphabettsy 7 hours ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Non-humanoid home robot suggestion
    ×0.78 | 1 points by linton_de 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Correlated randomness in Slay the Spire 2 (tck.mn)
    ×1.52 20 | 305 points by rdmuser 2 days ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Agenthatch – Compile any skill into a standalone Python agent (github.com/agenthatch)
    ×3.04 84 | 8 points by EternalRights 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Putt.day a daily mini golf game (putt.day)
    ×1.66 90 | 318 points by ellg 5 days ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Dual YOLOv8n UAV Detection on RK3588S at 42 FPS Using NPU (github.com/alebal123bal)
    ×1.09 102 | 71 points by alebal123bal 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: AWF – run parallel AI coding agents, each in its own Docker workspace (github.com/dimileeh)
    ×0.62 148 | 5 points by dimileeh 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. A Potential Client Almost Cost Me My Google Account (maxschmitt.me)
    ×3.68 60 | 4 points by saeedesmaili 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Discriminated unions in C# and .NET 11 (for real this time) (maartenballiauw.be)
    ×0.71 | 1 points by ingve 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: App-it – turn a local web project into a desktop app (no Electron) (github.com/Christian-Katzmann)
    ×0.71 | 1 points by c_katzmann 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: open source llm fusion (github.com/shahar-dagan)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by shadag 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: WaylandClientKit – a Swift Wayland client substrate for Linux (github.com/conxlgtm)
    ×1.13 88 | 3 points by Nocerg 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Tamper-evident audit trail for AI coding agent activity (github.com/Constellation-Labs)
    ×1.36 158 | 4 points by gclaramunt 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. 10Gb/s Ethernet: switching to a Broadcom SFP+ module (gilesthomas.com)
    ×1.14 43 #79 | 183 points by gpjt 1 day ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Kage – Shadow any website to a single binary for offline viewing (github.com/tamnd)
    ×2.75 45 | 700 points by tamnd 3 days ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Nxui – Copy-paste animated UI components for Vue (geoql.in)
    ×0.55 145 | 13 points by vinayakkulkarni 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Sogen – High-performance Windows and Linux userspace emulator (sogen.dev)
    ×0.98 14 #10 | 33 points by fratellobigio 4 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. ChatGPT's image generator can be manipulated to produce violent, sexual content (mindgard.ai)
    ×3.25 9 #42 | 99 points by dijksterhuis 10 hours ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Claude: Elevated errors across many models [resolved] (claude.com)
    ×1.76 29 | 189 points by forks 1 day ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Peter Thiel's 'Dialog' network was super-secret. A data leak changed that (san.com)
    ×4.42 54 | 75 points by lorecore 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Storied Colors – A catalogue of named colors (storiedcolors.com)
    ×1.22 14 #13 | 176 points by susiecambria 12 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. The Australian Government to Require SMS/MMS Sender ID Registraion (acma.gov.au)
    ×1.78 10 #14 | 99 points by anitil 4 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. How Madrid built its metro cheaply (2024) (worksinprogress.co)
    ×2.11 23 #18 | 149 points by trymas 14 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD (github.com/Adam-CAD)
    ×0.96 27 #22 | 184 points by zachdive 18 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. MCP: Why the hype is half right (clarisix.com)
    ×0.80 | 1 points by claudiuclement 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Almost all of MonsterWriter's back end is open source (monsterwriter.com)
    ×0.91 149 | 4 points by WolfOliver 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17 (grapheneos.org)
    ×3.73 4 #49 | 990 points by Cider9986 1 day ago | 580 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. From Chesterton's fence to Chesterton's gap (stephantul.github.io)
    ×0.95 54 #70 | 79 points by stephantul 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Accept payments with your MCP tool (github.com/AIAppsAPI)
    ×0.79 | 1 points by abratabia 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Cannabis commercialisation not decriminalisation drives up usage, study finds (theguardian.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by n1b0m 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Leaked OpenAI financials show $38.5B loss and compute burn (runtimewire.com)
    ×5.10 3 | 220 points by TechApocalypse 1 day ago | 259 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: I built 184 free browser tools – PDF, image, dev, AI tasks, no upload (brevio.pro)
    ×1.42 14 | 87 points by ruimbarreira 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: In-browser Python/Pandas/Git practice with animated Git simulator (lernerpython.com)
    ×1.28 95 | 5 points by reuven 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Clojure Hosted on Go (github.com/glojurelang)
    ×1.55 10 #16 | 144 points by dnlo 11 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Nim Conf 2026 (Online, Sat June 20) (nim-lang.org)
    ×0.93 14 #21 | 48 points by pietroppeter 6 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Spin Lab (srijanshukla.com)
    ×0.59 24 #39 | 35 points by srijanshukla18 9 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Horsewood Reviews the Truth Behind the Hype of This Male Enhancement Supplement (yahoo.com)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by polzsawt 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Midjourney Medical goes from AI image generation to full-body ultrasounds (theverge.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by JeanKage 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Humiliating IIS servers for fun and jail time (mll.sh)
    ×1.72 7 | 354 points by denysvitali 1 day ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Subterranean fungi networks more than 100 quadrillion km in length (theguardian.com)
    ×1.28 48 #53 | 176 points by tosh 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. After AI takes everything (ursb.me)
    ×1.82 57 | 101 points by speckx 1 day ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Dev-friendly native OTel: only OSS stateful, on-the-wire Observability
    ×1.36 139 | 5 points by jratkevic 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: The Dictionary Game (Fictionary/Balderdash) as a Daily Puzzle (dictionarypuzzle.com)
    ×1.40 147 | 5 points by woutervd 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: HelixDB – A graph database built on object storage (github.com/HelixDB)
    ×1.06 128 | 158 points by GeorgeCurtis 1 week ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Taxonomy of the Occlupanida (parasitoids on bread bag tags) (horg.com)
    ×1.20 13 #12 | 150 points by beatthatflight 11 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Deconvolution – a Rust image deconvolution and restoration crate (github.com/pbkx)
    ×0.55 51 #78 | 33 points by rmi0 18 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. The Map Is the App: a workflow map language for building software (github.com/SymbolGroundingFramework)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by jstakelum 35 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. But yak shaving is fun (2019) (parksb.github.io)
    ×1.52 13 | 295 points by parksb 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Midjourney Full Body Ultrasonic CT Scanner (midjourney.com)
    ×3.76 63 | 81 points by lnyan 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. U.S. science is in chaos (scientificamerican.com)
    ×5.21 16 #36 | 815 points by presspot 1 day ago | 980 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???