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  1. Ask HN: Fda.gov Down for You?
    ×0.32 | 2 points by jmount 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: Happy Fathers Day
    ×2.64 13 | 326 points by consumer451 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Do you have an unusual income source
    ×1.20 29 | 36 points by xupybd 15 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: How close are we to local LLMs being useful? What's the impact?
    ×0.45 32 | 6 points by AbstractH24 5 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What is your opinion on TUI applications
    ×0.24 83 | 4 points by po1nt 9 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Are you being "529 Overloaded" by Anthropic too?
    ×0.43 93 | 8 points by hmokiguess 19 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?
    ×1.13 87 | 148 points by amichail 2 days ago | 239 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Is anyone using the A2A protocol?
    ×0.71 103 | 94 points by asim 4 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. My Opinion on RL
    ×0.26 111 | 3 points by umjunsik132 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Are people optimistic about the future?
    ×1.63 98 | 36 points by JohnDSDev 2 days ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. GitHub Banned All CI for Our (OSS) Org Because of Bad Drive-By Contributors
    ×0.91 91 | 8 points by BlueMatt 18 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What tools are you using for AI-assisted code review?
    ×0.46 147 | 25 points by agos 4 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What would justify writting an OS kernel in 2026?
    ×0.62 107 | 4 points by alonsovm44 20 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Norrin – Git/ diff control in Claude Code
    ×0.30 131 | 4 points by gagewoodard 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Are You a Workaholic?
    ×0.46 127 | 5 points by julienreszka 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How should I convert Microsoft Word documents to Markdown?
    ×0.35 114 | 4 points by lkrubner 23 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Any AI native Anki alternatives?
    ×0.89 75 | 5 points by shadag 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: After you ship a feature, what happens to what you learned?
    ×0.40 123 | 10 points by gaggle_dk 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: I'm lost. How can I define ICP (Ideal Customer Profile)?
    ×0.37 171 | 7 points by snowhy 4 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Favorite aspects of Cocoa/NeXTSTEP for app dev?
    ×0.24 135 | 5 points by elcritch 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: What are your favourite Hacker News comments?
    ×0.33 143 | 4 points by Imustaskforhelp 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: What technique do you use to make Claude Code deterministic?
    ×0.63 146 | 7 points by hbarka 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: What do you care about? What is your joy and purpose?
    ×0.54 138 | 10 points by bix6 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How to get ideas for space startups?
    ×0.27 140 | 5 points by asxndu 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: What is your #1 practical lesson or "aha" moment from coding with AI?
    ×0.55 132 | 9 points by johndavid9991 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Forked CozoDB to give agents cognitive primitives
    ×0.29 169 | 4 points by shanrizvi 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Do you use Claude Code, Codex, or something else?
    ×0.59 136 | 8 points by JohnDSDev 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Do you give AI coding agents their own GitHub account?
    ×0.56 112 | 6 points by ahmd 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Is anyone else leaving AUR?
    ×0.61 166 | 8 points by lordkrandel 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Do you find vibe coding / agentic engineering to be fulfilling?
    ×1.34 158 | 13 points by uejfiweun 4 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: How to handle kernel struct changes (e.g. iov_iter) in eBPF?
    ×0.37 160 | 4 points by morolis 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: What is the coolest tech progress outside AI?
    ×0.61 142 | 16 points by vantareed 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Need advice on distributing and testing what I build
    ×0.37 155 | 5 points by darth-pixit 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Is there a way to stop the animated Google Doodles?
    ×0.53 163 | 12 points by arnejenssen 4 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Are other people seeing a spike in IT problems with businesses?
    ×0.29 167 | 15 points by PaulHoule 5 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Has anyone had success with SBIR grants and what is the process like?
    ×0.32 170 | 11 points by lyfeninja 4 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: What's a prompt you've written that you're genuinely proud of?
    ×0.69 168 | 11 points by akashwadhwani35 4 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Chevron signs 20-year power agreement with Microsoft for West Texas data center (chevron.com)
    ×1.26 1 #27 | 79 points by cdrnsf 6 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Wildlife thrives in solar farm built on restored peatland (newscientist.com)
    ×2.19 3 #71 | 4 points by ceejayoz 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Teach your kids perfect pitch (github.com/paytonjjones)
    ×1.57 10 #88 | 198 points by paytonjjones 1 day ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. AI: Just One Big Trade (wordpress.com)
    ×1.74 | 2 points by cdrnsf 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: I made a social accountability app to make me ship (shipstreak.fyi)
    ×0.40 | 2 points by Cbagenal 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. DisplayMate (displaymate.com)
    ×1.01 4 #14 | 45 points by skibz 3 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Google Hits 50% IPv6 (apnic.net)
    ×2.86 4 #89 | 416 points by barqawiz 1 day ago | 445 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. A New Book on Plagiarism (commentary.org)
    ×0.51 38 #24 | 6 points by promulgate 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Memory crisis is getting so bad that even retro RAM prices are going to the Moon (theregister.com)
    ×2.76 8 #31 | 10 points by speckx 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Rent collections are down in New York (politico.com)
    ×1.33 49 #55 | 116 points by JumpCrisscross 21 hours ago | 488 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. The Optimal Amount of Slop Is Non-Zero (slater.dev)
    ×1.05 9 #58 | 12 points by sltr 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. The brain was not designed for this much bad news (sciencedaily.com)
    ×4.40 8 | 438 points by colinprince 1 day ago | 328 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Renting a sewing machine from the library (bbc.com)
    ×1.68 28 | 343 points by sohkamyung 1 day ago | 219 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: GraphCompose – Declarative Java engine for structured business PDFs (github.com/DemchaAV)
    ×1.53 128 | 5 points by demchaav 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Oak – Git replacement designed for agents (oak.space)
    ×1.22 11 #5 | 83 points by zdgeier 4 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Rive, Fast and reliable background jobs in Go (github.com/riverqueue)
    ×0.86 51 #43 | 28 points by mountainview 9 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. One Year with Codeberg (gnu.org)
    ×1.36 32 | 3 points by iamnothere 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Domvault – self-hostable second brain with consent-based note sharing (github.com/dys5315)
    ×1.41 144 | 4 points by quietdrift_04 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Blogger defeats photographer's copyright claim (ericgoldman.org)
    ×0.89 9 #11 | 35 points by speckx 2 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Recall – Local project memory for Claude Code (github.com/raiyanyahya)
    ×1.12 42 #63 | 125 points by mateenah 22 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Memory Safe Inline Assembly (fil-c.org)
    ×1.17 2 #72 | 167 points by pizlonator 19 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. A self-hosted auditor that tells you if your portfolio thesis still holds (gumroad.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by dgomloz 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. CTOs Agree: Cognitive Debt Is the New Technical Debt (shiftmag.dev)
    ×3.35 62 | 74 points by sxx0 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Mullvad to China: Block This. We Dare You (michael-dev-tech.github.io)
    ×3.78 1 | 48 points by f0r3st 12 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Smolsonic – A Subsonic-compatible music server written in Rust (github.com/tsirysndr)
    ×1.03 33 | 3 points by tsiry 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Ember, a native iOS Hacker News reader I built around accessibility (github.com/DatanoiseTV)
    ×1.21 80 | 101 points by sylwester 2 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Canada is looking to build up to 10 new nuclear reactors over the next 15 years (cbc.ca)
    ×5.14 21 #32 | 15 points by geox 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Pagecast – Publish Markdown/HTML Reports to Cloudflare Pages (github.com/Amal-David)
    ×0.52 118 | 35 points by amaldavid 4 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: I rebuilt the only parts of my IDE I use, in Rust, over a weekend (github.com/kyle-ssg)
    ×1.31 23 #37 | 34 points by kyle-ssg 7 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. São Paulo State governor cracks math behind World Cup Sticker Album [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by danielt3 14 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Andrew Cuomo to lead joint venture between NYSE parent and crypto exchange OKX (ft.com)
    ×1.40 | 2 points by JumpCrisscross 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Building reliable agentic AI systems (martinfowler.com)
    ×1.85 40 | 194 points by sarangk90 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. The 100k whys of AI (lcamtuf.substack.com)
    ×2.49 34 | 191 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Petition against Meta's employee training data collection for ML models (mcipetition.com)
    ×2.12 22 | 75 points by reasonableklout 20 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Granularity comes at a cost (sidhantbansal.com)
    ×0.64 15 #28 | 42 points by sidhantbansal 6 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Music from every single country on Earth, generated in Esperanto (elevenexperiments.com)
    ×0.77 150 | 13 points by ktoyame 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Who owns your ATProto identity? (kevinak.se)
    ×2.31 21 | 167 points by kevinak 1 day ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Socket to Me, a static file server that runs in the browser (socket2.me)
    ×2.23 36 | 8 points by markjivko 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Are You in the Weights? (intheweights.com)
    ×3.49 74 | 464 points by turtlesoup 3 days ago | 244 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Interstellar comet may be oldest object seen in our solar system, scientists say (theguardian.com)
    ×1.93 11 | 3 points by monkey_monkey 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. I make good money. Why do I still feel like this? (yourbrainonmoney.substack.com)
    ×4.86 46 | 65 points by momentmaker 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: TermType – a terminal typing game where words fall like Space Invaders (github.com/GiovanniCst)
    ×2.34 126 | 5 points by J_cst 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: A local rig to test if AI social simulation predicts reality (github.com/zzvimercm-git)
    ×0.91 | 1 points by zzvimercm 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Wolves are reconquering Europe. Can people learn to live with them? (science.org)
    ×1.27 | 2 points by stared 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Pulse – Dashboard for Claude Code, approve tool calls from your phone (github.com/nikitadoudikov)
    ×0.65 70 | 38 points by nikitadvd 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: MemoryOps – governed memory infrastructure for AI assistants (github.com/patibandlavenkatamanideep)
    ×1.51 92 | 5 points by pvmanideep20 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Die analysis of the 8087 math coprocessor's fast bit shifter (2020) (righto.com)
    ×0.69 22 #16 | 59 points by Jimmc414 6 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Japanese verb conjugation the simple hard way (leaflet.pub)
    ×1.33 29 #59 | 146 points by valzevul 20 hours ago | 239 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. AI-Native Firms [pdf] (hbs.edu)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by mooreds 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: TownSquare, a tiny presence layer for websites (cauenapier.com)
    ×1.61 38 | 264 points by cauenapier 2 days ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Chainstack Self-Hosted, hosting your own blockchain nodes made simple (chainstack.com)
    ×4.01 105 | 9 points by loshaaaa 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: NanoEuler – GPT-2 scale model in pure C/CUDA from scratch (github.com/JustVugg)
    ×1.24 165 | 6 points by vforno 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Pledging another $400k to the Zig software foundation (mitchellh.com)
    ×3.56 6 #9 | 607 points by tosh 6 hours ago | 197 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???