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  1. I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
    ×1.04 52 #29 | 180 points by proberts 1 day ago | 230 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)
    ×1.30 25 #33 | 281 points by whoishiring 1 day ago | 302 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)
    ×0.88 37 #57 | 133 points by whoishiring 1 day ago | 302 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What Happened to the CS153 Videos
    ×0.88 58 | 5 points by mapleleaf1921 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: An update from the new Tindie team
    ×0.76 82 | 80 points by altairprime 3 days ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Hyperscalers are buying all the chips to then rent them to us later
    ×1.02 62 | 6 points by adelks 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Tell HN: VS Code v1.117.0 automatically adds GitHub Copilot as your co author
    ×0.93 71 | 74 points by adithyassekhar 2 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day
    ×2.48 75 | 588 points by _-x-_ 6 days ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Tell HN: Happy May Day
    ×0.84 83 | 7 points by chrishill89 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. SlothDB a 5X Faster Alternative to DuckDB, ClickHouse DB
    ×0.44 88 | 11 points by souravroy78 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Claude Code dies with ANTHROPIC_API_KEY in cloud environment
    ×0.27 100 | 13 points by sroussey 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Does Claude use 'prior' in a Bayesian sense more than English?
    ×0.15 129 | 4 points by slake 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Is there any good open-source alternative to MinIO?
    ×0.34 108 | 3 points by embedding-shape 23 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Tell HN: Claude account suspension after flagging duplicate billing
    ×1.46 87 | 6 points by areoform 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: GitHub flagged my org two weeks ago. No reason given, no appeal response
    ×0.91 84 | 7 points by dohyun-ko 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Tell HN: Claude Opus 4.7 quota suddenly changed to 0 TPM in Bedrock
    ×2.10 72 | 12 points by sarathyweb 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Claude Pro expired and my $40 in prepaid Extra Usage credits vanished
    ×0.40 107 | 12 points by Aldipower 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Anyone feel like they're just opting out of tech these days?
    ×0.86 102 | 22 points by moomoo11 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. What do you think of people buying Mac mini's to run AI?
    ×0.31 124 | 4 points by namegulf 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Claude.ai down again?
    ×0.72 91 | 34 points by zh_code 2 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Tell HN: Claude 4.7 is ignoring stop hooks
    ×0.98 125 | 109 points by LatencyKills 1 week ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Rant, Am I bad or is this a company with a poor tech culture?
    ×0.58 116 | 6 points by apatheticonion 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Is it still worth it to try to get a job in IT
    ×0.22 140 | 8 points by morpheos137 3 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Is AI resulting in net revenue gain for non-tech companies?
    ×0.63 103 | 10 points by jusonchan81 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: What book have you given as a gift?
    ×2.29 53 | 5 points by chistev 8 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. AI uses less water than the public thinks (californiawaterblog.com)
    ×3.07 34 #69 | 386 points by hirpslop 23 hours ago | 364 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: The Unix Magic poster, annotated (updated) (github.com/drio)
    ×1.51 111 | 74 points by drio 5 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. K3k: Kubernetes in Kubernetes (github.com/rancher)
    ×1.55 8 #39 | 86 points by jzebedee 12 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. The smelly baby problem (worksinprogress.news)
    ×1.77 3 #52 | 194 points by dionysou 19 hours ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Chasing a SharedKey signature mismatch: fix azurerm_storage_table_entity (thecloudtheory.com)
    ×0.32 61 #81 | 13 points by kamilmrzyglod 14 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. 18th-century mechanical volcano roars to life 250 years later (sciencedaily.com)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by samizdis 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Upcoming Blender Development Fund and AI Policies (blender.org)
    ×1.17 | 2 points by sensanaty 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN:Do people configure Claude Code to use other models (openrouter.ai)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by ripvanwinkle 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ubuntu servers taken offline by "sustained, cross-border attack" (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.23 8 | 121 points by RattlesnakeJake 21 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. If I could make my own GitHub (matduggan.com)
    ×2.17 50 | 73 points by vinhnx 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Drive any macOS app in the background without stealing the cursor (github.com/trycua)
    ×1.19 74 | 187 points by frabonacci 4 days ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Mdview.io – online Markdown viewer for software developer (mdview.io)
    ×0.94 137 | 4 points by Igor_Wiwi 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. A preliminary model to establish a digital twin for coffee roasting (nature.com)
    ×1.33 6 #40 | 6 points by bookofjoe 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. New mechanical panoramic film camera from Jeff Bridges (wideluxx.com)
    ×1.62 47 #71 | 215 points by armadsen 1 day ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Palantir Comes to Campus (nymag.com)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by jbegley 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Vibecoded my dream game, GeoGuesser for guns, now its helping with student bills (gunguesser.com)
    ×2.87 59 | 4 points by salad_vr 40 minutes ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Git repositories hosted directly on Freenet (github.com/freenet)
    ×1.01 110 | 5 points by sanity 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. New US phone network for Christians to block porn and gender-related content (technologyreview.com)
    ×5.14 5 #8 | 32 points by thinkingemote 59 minutes ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Screw You Realtek (growse.com)
    ×2.71 26 | 4 points by fanf2 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. 24 Years Ago Today, Bethesda Changed Open World RPG Video Games Forever (mensjournal.com)
    ×1.33 | 2 points by Alupis 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: AgInTiFlow, a local web and CLI agent workspace using DeepSeek (npmjs.com)
    ×1.33 21 | 3 points by lachlanchen 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Agent that refuses to run commands without human approval (github.com/few-sh)
    ×0.68 118 | 12 points by hexer303 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Whohas – Command-line utility for cross-distro, cross-repository package search (github.com/whohas)
    ×0.84 49 #41 | 147 points by peter_d_sherman 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Open source ballistic simulator with NASA SRTM terrain masking (Python/C#) (github.com/InsaneInfinity)
    ×0.62 64 #58 | 9 points by insane_infinity 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. CPanel and WHM Authentication Bypass – CVE-2026-41940 (watchtowr.com)
    ×1.14 54 #73 | 153 points by zikani_03 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Agent-desktop – Native desktop automation CLI for AI agents (github.com/lahfir)
    ×2.38 24 #78 | 89 points by lahfir 14 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Notes on a non-profit indicted for bank fraud (bitsaboutmoney.com)
    ×1.44 42 #89 | 21 points by Redoubts 16 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Did I photograph the Aurora or was it something else? (2016) (lancs.ac.uk)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by susam 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Making Your Writing Work Harder for You (kalzumeus.com)
    ×1.07 | 2 points by eigenBasis 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions (openwall.com)
    ×2.76 4 | 591 points by ori_b 2 days ago | 536 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Why does it take so long to release black fan versions? (noctua.at)
    ×3.35 2 #5 | 524 points by buildbot 12 hours ago | 239 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Herald – Local-first terminal email client (herald-mail.app)
    ×1.64 96 | 5 points by zoomacode 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Free textbook on engineering thermodynamics (thermodynamicsbook.com)
    ×1.31 92 | 189 points by 2DcAf 6 days ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Flock cameras keep telling police a man who doesn't have a warrant has a warrant (youtube.com)
    ×3.91 23 | 185 points by johnbarron 23 hours ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. American Dads Became the Parents Their Fathers Never Were (derekthompson.org)
    ×2.46 48 | 152 points by ozozozd 2 days ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Disneyland Now Uses Face Recognition on Visitors (wired.com)
    ×1.24 | 2 points by Brajeshwar 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma dissolves after judge approves criminal sentence (apnews.com)
    ×2.86 65 | 54 points by embedding-shape 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. What did you love about VB6? (evilgeniuslabs.ca)
    ×2.96 5 | 54 points by andsoitis 16 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Tim Cook, the interview: Running Apple 'is sort of a lonely job' (2016) (washingtonpost.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by downbad_ 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Things I Think I Think About Data Privacy (newardassociates.com)
    ×1.27 | 2 points by mooreds 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Claude Code, Copilot and Codex got hacked. Attackers went for the credentials (venturebeat.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by mooreds 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. After dissing Anthropic for limiting Mythos, OpenAI restricts access to Cyber (techcrunch.com)
    ×3.10 15 | 139 points by gbourne1 1 day ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Apple reports second quarter results (apple.com)
    ×2.38 56 | 96 points by mfiguiere 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Integer Overflow Checking Cost (danluu.com)
    ×1.14 23 #62 | 37 points by iwsk 12 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Sanishne – Rust based bookmark boards (sanishne.org)
    ×0.75 | 2 points by flamestro 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Startup Equity Adventure Game (options-game-polymathrobotics.pythonanywhere.com)
    ×0.67 136 | 36 points by iliabara 5 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Artemis II fault tolerance (alearningaday.blog)
    ×0.98 19 | 74 points by speckx 23 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Fast, privacy-first macOS configuration bootstrapper for (MDM) Macs (olegkoval.com)
    ×0.34 | 2 points by orthodoz 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: N=1 – iOS app for structured longevity self-protocols (apple.com)
    ×1.42 98 | 4 points by middleastbeast 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Gova – The declarative GUI framework for Go (github.com/NV404)
    ×1.12 120 | 143 points by aliezsid 1 week ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. The X-Files has made me nostalgic for a time I never experienced (midnightmurmurations.substack.com)
    ×3.95 25 | 191 points by Teever 23 hours ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. I made an Mobile-Coding Companion, seeking your reviews (remoot.dev)
    ×0.81 | 1 points by xporpy 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt] (mit.edu)
    ×2.66 13 | 695 points by the-mitr 2 days ago | 248 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Agent with its own computer on the cloud (pulsarbot.cloud)
    ×0.90 | 2 points by akshayballal95 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Mljar Studio – local AI data analyst that saves analysis as notebooks (mljar.com)
    ×0.77 8 #20 | 47 points by pplonski86 6 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Predicting the 2026 Kentucky Derby with 1T Monte Carlo Sims on Burla (burla-cloud.github.io)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by Jack_at_Burla 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Browser-based light pollution simulator using real photometric data (iesna.eu)
    ×0.47 28 #23 | 31 points by 7 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Santa Cruz restaurant changes logo after flurry of negative reviews for AI art (sfgate.com)
    ×2.04 12 #36 | 7 points by randycupertino 1 hour ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Full-Text Search with DuckDB (peterdohertys.website)
    ×1.43 41 #85 | 194 points by ethagnawl 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. MCP-ratchet: Go package for enforcing tool call order in MCP servers (github.com/hexxla)
    ×0.77 | 1 points by sploitzberg 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. I moved my blog from Jekyll to Emacs Lisp (martinsos.com)
    ×0.89 | 2 points by Martinsos 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: A terminal spreadsheet editor with Vim keybindings (github.com/garritfra)
    ×1.08 95 | 125 points by garritfra 5 days ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction (arxiv.org)
    ×0.90 12 #6 | 28 points by fagnerbrack 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Reverse Engineering SimTower (phulin.me)
    ×1.78 34 #82 | 253 points by patrickhulin 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Grok 4.3 is way cheaper and better than before (felloai.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by LV14 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???