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  1. Ask HN: Is anyone using the A2A protocol?
    ×0.85 25 #47 | 76 points by asim 13 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What tools are you using for AI-assisted code review?
    ×0.62 70 #84 | 18 points by agos 15 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?
    ×4.78 36 | 1300 points by cloudking 3 days ago | 552 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Anthropic confident of re-enabling Mythos, Fable 5 access 'in coming days'
    ×0.81 76 | 8 points by getbowtied 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: I'm lost. How can I define ICP (Ideal Customer Profile)?
    ×0.22 110 | 3 points by snowhy 13 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Is there a way to stop the animated Google Doodles?
    ×0.60 77 | 10 points by arnejenssen 15 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Conflicted about founding engineer role
    ×0.53 91 | 5 points by gondolin1683 13 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Do you find vibe coding / agentic engineering to be fulfilling?
    ×1.71 79 | 8 points by uejfiweun 14 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How are thinking efforts implemented?
    ×0.54 178 | 103 points by simianwords 1 week ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. I indexed 669 GB of my GoPro videos using my M1 Max computer and local ML models
    ×2.34 86 | 436 points by iliashad 4 days ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How do you find new books to read?
    ×1.39 90 | 4 points by ahmedfromtunis 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: How do you effectively communicate or present?
    ×1.16 82 | 6 points by hnthrow10282910 12 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)
    ×1.45 92 | 310 points by david927 4 days ago | 1131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Opus and regression with patterns not included in trainng data
    ×0.23 | 2 points by dleech 14 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Do we even need code anymore?
    ×0.63 120 | 3 points by lasky 15 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. How much $ you spend for AI to code?
    ×0.37 104 | 4 points by raghuu 15 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What's a prompt you've written that you're genuinely proud of?
    ×0.94 102 | 10 points by akashwadhwani35 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?
    ×1.34 152 | 264 points by mdni007 1 week ago | 240 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Best resources for learning how to build a forum back end?
    ×0.61 130 | 3 points by jupr 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Whats the best and small open source model?
    ×0.67 131 | 3 points by hairymouse 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Has anyone had success with SBIR grants and what is the process like?
    ×0.32 115 | 10 points by lyfeninja 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Looking for a CI/CD project for my local lab
    ×0.18 126 | 4 points by q8zd3 20 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Favorite text heavy blogs that are a joy to read?
    ×0.87 158 | 120 points by joshmarinacci 1 week ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models
    ×2.36 133 | 427 points by TomAnthony 1 week ago | 255 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Are other people seeing a spike in IT problems with businesses?
    ×0.29 125 | 14 points by PaulHoule 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. AI Tokenmaxxing and Hypomania
    ×0.51 108 | 6 points by karthikeyankc 21 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Want to build something open source on nights and weekends together?
    ×0.52 180 | 39 points by vira28 1 week ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Notes on DeepSeek
    ×1.86 146 | 211 points by vinhnx 1 week ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Reviews have become expensive, rewrites have become cheap
    ×1.15 109 | 82 points by arzh2 3 days ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Would it be useful to have a slop button in addition to flag?
    ×0.96 179 | 41 points by BugsJustFindMe 1 week ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Anthropic pauses credit change for Claude Code
    ×1.17 141 | 35 points by fabianlindfors 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
    ×2.32 137 | 444 points by aryamaan 1 week ago | 786 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Are most corporate SWE jobs performative?
    ×2.31 143 | 249 points by hnthrow10282910 1 week ago | 283 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: How close to profitability did companies get before dot com burst?
    ×1.89 151 | 5 points by AbstractH24 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Successful entrepreneurs and indie hackers, enlighten me
    ×0.16 173 | 3 points by markosn 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: TypeMorph – Browser-local JSON schema converter (80 formats, no server) (typemorph.dev)
    ×1.10 127 | 3 points by jop00004 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. The Competitive Moat That AI Can't Replicate (ghostinthedata.info)
    ×1.55 59 | 139 points by speckx 1 day ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: We built an 8-bit CPU as 2nd year EE students (github.com/c0rRupT9)
    ×0.87 60 #89 | 101 points by CorRupT9 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Midjourney Full Body Ultrasonic CT Scanner (midjourney.com)
    ×3.50 57 | 82 points by lnyan 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28 (jvm-weekly.com)
    ×1.73 53 #11 | 3 points by philonoist 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Fable Converted Pylint to Rust (pypi.org)
    ×1.93 52 #43 | 5 points by adamraudonis 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Dutch Railways offers unlimited off-peak train travel nationwide for €49/month (ns.nl)
    ×2.95 32 #53 | 219 points by felipevb 12 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. AI DevKit – The control plane for AI coding agents (ai-devkit.com)
    ×1.07 | 2 points by hoangnnguyen 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. RFC 10008: The new HTTP Query Method (rfc-editor.org)
    ×1.85 22 | 406 points by schappim 1 day ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Clojure Hosted on Go (github.com/glojurelang)
    ×1.43 24 | 194 points by dnlo 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Pagecast – Publish Markdown/HTML Reports to Cloudflare Pages (github.com/Amal-David)
    ×1.11 96 | 3 points by amaldavid 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Generative AI Is Having Its Herbalife Moment (whatwelo.st)
    ×4.00 11 #6 | 14 points by watermelon0 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS (ui.com)
    ×1.81 15 #14 | 320 points by ksec 17 hours ago | 275 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Horizons JPL Solar System Data Demo and NASA DSN Updates: Datastar, Common Lisp (lambda-combine.net)
    ×1.30 1 #27 | 47 points by adityaathalye 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Maven Central introduces publishing limits (sonatype.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by justinblat 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. With Wall Street’s help, you’re about to be forced to buy stock in SpaceX (paulkrugman.substack.com)
    ×10.50 61 | 112 points by aanet 1 day ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. SHOW HN: I built a "living proof-of-work" profile for builders (kritive.com)
    ×1.11 83 | 5 points by sonOfHades 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Kage – Shadow any website to a single binary for offline viewing (github.com/tamnd)
    ×2.76 73 | 703 points by tamnd 4 days ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: SharkClean MCP (github.com/a-funk)
    ×0.35 156 | 16 points by afunk 6 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly (windowslatest.com)
    ×5.32 28 #42 | 655 points by Adam-Hincu 19 hours ago | 435 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks (reuters.com)
    ×2.29 11 #77 | 527 points by giuliomagnifico 1 day ago | 592 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Staarfruit.com (staarfruit.com)
    ×1.87 20 | 4 points by BishrKhan 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Slay The Spire 2 – Major Update #2 – v0.107.1 (steampowered.com)
    ×0.91 | 2 points by j-scott 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: HelixDB – A graph database built on object storage (github.com/HelixDB)
    ×1.06 154 | 158 points by GeorgeCurtis 1 week ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Why do politicians want AI to go faster? (irishtimes.com)
    ×2.08 12 | 4 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: SunCalc v2 – a tiny JavaScript library for sun and moon calculations (github.com/mourner)
    ×0.81 124 | 3 points by mourner 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Building a robotics research setup that lives next to my desk (dfdxlabs.com)
    ×1.38 10 #13 | 65 points by mplappert 6 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. I told them forced consent was unlawful. 5 years later it cost Elkjop €1.8M (thatprivacyguy.com)
    ×3.65 16 #25 | 342 points by speckx 12 hours ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. I hate compilers (xeiaso.net)
    ×1.15 56 #50 | 155 points by xena 1 day ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. "I scratched my own itch" isn't good enough (2025) (asmartbear.com)
    ×2.31 2 | 4 points by ogundipeore 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. What was nice about the UI of Windows 2000 (movq.de)
    ×3.25 28 #70 | 207 points by npongratz 16 hours ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. How Poor People Manifested Billionaire Escape Resorts (katherineruss.substack.com)
    ×0.98 | 2 points by Nakedemperor 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: bote - A fast, modern and low-memory approach to processing a big JSON (github.com/jankdc)
    ×1.74 81 | 5 points by jankdc 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Glassboard – Draw over everything on your Mac, Khan-academy style (stem.ps)
    ×1.21 99 | 6 points by stemps23 19 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: A dbt-first semantic assumption check for SQL changes (github.com/hiteshsundraaa)
    ×0.40 | 2 points by hiteshsundraaa 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Chatty Lingo – A language practicing app (chattylingo.com)
    ×1.03 166 | 3 points by farstill 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: FusionHarness – An Open-source Mixture-of-Agents compound-model server (github.com/jackulau)
    ×1.05 167 | 4 points by jackxlau 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Notes from tired Egyptian whose job is explaining that humans built the pyramids (mcsweeneys.net)
    ×3.37 32 #65 | 184 points by Geekette 14 hours ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Stop making swap partitions–use swap files instead (github.com/joshenders)
    ×1.98 59 #85 | 15 points by jenders 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. I asked an online tracking company for my data and here's what I found (2018) (privacyinternational.org)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by downbad_ 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. The AirPods Effect (theescapenewsletter.com)
    ×2.87 59 | 72 points by herbertl 8 hours ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Amazon S3 annotations: attach rich, queryable context directly to objects (amazon.com)
    ×1.98 31 | 7 points by firasd 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Talos – Open-source WASM interpreter for Lean (github.com/cajal-technologies)
    ×1.08 13 #21 | 42 points by mfornet 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Apple A12 and A13 Chips: New Unpatchable Exploit (macrumors.com)
    ×2.78 25 #55 | 8 points by tosh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD (github.com/Adam-CAD)
    ×0.99 68 #66 | 208 points by zachdive 1 day ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News (2019) (newyorker.com)
    ×2.14 22 | 3 points by andsoitis 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Nim Conf 2026 (Online, Sat June 20) (nim-lang.org)
    ×0.93 55 | 78 points by pietroppeter 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: I built a daily flag quiz in honor of the World Cup (orbisearth.web.app)
    ×1.28 88 | 4 points by sestarkman 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Building Cursor for Traders (runhalcyon.com)
    ×0.82 | 2 points by chips2011 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Inkwash, a watercolor sketching app and explanation (johnowhitaker.github.io)
    ×1.47 48 | 243 points by Yenrabbit 5 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Vinyl Cache and Varnish Cache (vinyl-cache.org)
    ×0.76 66 #57 | 79 points by embedding-shape 21 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Microsoft discovers new lightweight backdoor that steals cryptocurrency (arstechnica.com)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by joozio 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Mark Warren's favorite novels about a child's immersion into wilderness (bookdna.com)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by bwb 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. DNI does press release on Covid-19 origins and coverup (odni.gov)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by anonymousiam 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. MicroUI – A tiny, portable, immediate-mode UI library written in ANSI C (github.com/rxi)
    ×1.40 45 | 250 points by peter_d_sherman 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???