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  1. Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
    ×1.17 54 | 273 points by david927 2 days ago | 1034 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...
    ×2.37 86 | 464 points by mittermayr 4 days ago | 335 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated
    ×7.34 50 | 1659 points by CliffStoll 6 days ago | 255 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Spotify Is Down
    ×1.25 16 | 11 points by circadian 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How to get started in electronic music
    ×0.65 85 | 12 points by A_Random_Nerd 17 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: How are you preparing for interviews nowadays?
    ×0.48 94 | 8 points by holden_nelson 21 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Best static site generator for a docs site in 2026?
    ×0.76 101 | 14 points by agenttestjekuqz 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How often do you investigate issues in production vs. looking at logs?
    ×0.19 127 | 4 points by aspectrr 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How do you choose a model for a task?
    ×0.58 105 | 8 points by bix6 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What happens when eventually all E2E mess. apps removed from app stores?
    ×0.39 113 | 4 points by kingleopold 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Will low quality AI customer support be the new normal?
    ×0.83 107 | 22 points by 0-bad-sectors 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Our keyboards are tracking us
    ×0.95 108 | 10 points by tukunjil 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Do you know the ethics of Developers?
    ×0.42 119 | 8 points by eropatori 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Remind HN: Today is Mother's Day, call your moms
    ×4.92 44 | 375 points by rationalist 2 days ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What Wintel/AMD (Laptop) Harware are you liking?
    ×0.29 150 | 4 points by aagha 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What would you like to be working on?
    ×0.68 112 | 8 points by DDerTyp 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Can a tinnitus be triggered by high frequency noises?
    ×0.25 153 | 7 points by tinnitus_crazy 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Is this the SWE workflow of the future?
    ×0.86 122 | 16 points by mc-0 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Cloudflare Is Down
    ×2.67 82 | 11 points by sammy2255 16 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Which LLM are you using to evaluate your ideas?
    ×0.50 148 | 5 points by Marius77 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Former master-tech building AI systems – how to break into software?
    ×0.40 159 | 6 points by nicku711 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Books you wish you had read earlier?
    ×2.83 53 | 9 points by chistev 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Tell HN: Claude claims the AGPLv3 license violates it's content policy
    ×2.21 116 | 16 points by freedomben 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. AI isn't paying off in the way companies think according to Gartner study (fortune.com)
    ×2.82 35 | 4 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 48 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. The PSP feels surprisingly present right now (gardinerbryant.com)
    ×2.80 30 | 50 points by Kate0CoolLibby 17 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: Mosaic – arrange iOS icons by color using an evolutionary algorithm (github.com/RTiK)
    ×0.72 161 | 3 points by artkh 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. What a Japanese cooking principle taught me about overcoming AI fatigue (devas.life)
    ×1.49 72 #87 | 80 points by marksully 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. 590k buyers paid $59M for Trump's gold phone, but not one has shipped (yahoo.com)
    ×8.80 12 | 155 points by surprisetalk 23 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: I mage GhosttyFX, a JavaFX terminal view that uses libghostty (github.com/vlaaad)
    ×1.15 88 | 3 points by vlaaad 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Sentencia – A daily Wikipedia word puzzle
    ×0.59 | 1 points by Pawnef 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Symphony: Every open task gets a running Codex agent (twitter.com/odysseus0z)
    ×1.26 | 2 points by pretext 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. AI Agents Under EU Law (arxiv.org)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by tanelpoder 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. GitHub Copilot introduces flex allotments in Pro and Pro+, and a new Max plan (github.blog)
    ×0.95 | 1 points by theanonymousone 47 seconds ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Nullsoft, 1997-2004 (2004) (slate.com)
    ×1.50 45 #50 | 316 points by downbad_ 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. US Bank CEO on AI Popularity in the Workforce (wsj.com)
    ×1.35 | 2 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 32 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Dependencies Are Someone Else's Attack Surface (quodeq.ai)
    ×2.52 22 | 4 points by VictorPurMar 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Do people still pay for simple utility tools, or use ChatGPT/Claude now?
    ×1.57 7 | 3 points by kamscruz 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Music has scales / raagas. What about storytelling in movies and prestige shows? (quanten.co)
    ×1.29 9 | 42 points by phaedrus044 11 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: I built Tokenyst to stop getting shocked by Claude Code API bills (github.com/jher7)
    ×1.51 106 | 9 points by herrj 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Akmon, a Rust AI coding agent for regulated engineering (github.com/radotsvetkov)
    ×1.32 155 | 5 points by radotsvetkov 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Where Are All the Data Centers? (wheresyoured.at)
    ×1.60 19 #62 | 18 points by MattRogish 3 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Best Old School UFO Website (ufoevidence.org)
    ×1.78 156 | 11 points by techteach00 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Free tool to mark points and polygon regions (tack.pics)
    ×0.49 138 | 21 points by magikMaker 5 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. What Is RTSP Streaming and Why It Is Still Relevant in 2026 (red5.net)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by mondainx 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Sports Illustrated Cover Jinx (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.96 | 1 points by f_kai 55 seconds ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Mozilla: The Greatest Tech Company Left Behind (prosetech.com)
    ×1.99 | 2 points by droppedasbaby 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Do more and have more fun with the next generation of Android in the car (blog.google)
    ×2.66 43 | 4 points by pretext 36 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Cyber-attacks: Council extends listings until May 2027 (europa.eu)
    ×1.32 | 2 points by jruohonen 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. 7 lines of code, 3 minutes: Implement a programming language (2010) (might.net)
    ×0.77 69 | 106 points by azhenley 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. ICE Agents Have List of 20M People on Their iPhones Thanks to Palantir (404media.co)
    ×5.49 56 | 65 points by cdrnsf 6 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Tessera – Turn coding agent sessions into structured work (github.com/horang-labs)
    ×1.08 95 | 4 points by horanglabs 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. When semiconductor materials misbehave (semiengineering.com)
    ×0.37 70 #80 | 20 points by PaulHoule 14 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Create flashcards with Space CLI (getspace.app)
    ×0.65 133 | 22 points by friebetill 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: adamsreview – better multi-agent PR reviews for Claude Code (github.com/adamjgmiller)
    ×0.62 73 | 81 points by adamthegoalie 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Doomscroll the Goverment's UFO Files as One Gigantic Microfilm (hypergrid.systems)
    ×1.15 70 | 15 points by keepamovin 15 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: TikTok but for scientific papers (andreaturchet.github.io)
    ×1.23 58 #53 | 172 points by ciwrl 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Qxotic.ai – AI Sovereignty for the JVM (qxotic.ai)
    ×1.93 | 2 points by sgammon 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability (haxx.se)
    ×4.77 3 | 673 points by TangerineDream 1 day ago | 280 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: OpenClaw OS – OSS Claude Cowork Built on Top of OpenClaw (github.com/thesysdev)
    ×0.89 | 2 points by zahlekhan 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro (wordpress.com)
    ×2.85 67 #89 | 719 points by _alternator_ 3 days ago | 524 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. SpaceX wants to launch a million satellites (cbc.ca)
    ×1.86 89 | 60 points by billybuckwheat 1 day ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: An addictive phone game about phone addiction (partridge.works)
    ×0.99 131 | 5 points by urbandw311er 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Launch HN: Voker (YC S24) – Analytics for AI Agents (voker.ai)
    ×0.41 16 #21 | 29 points by ttpost 4 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Local AI needs to be the norm (unix.foo)
    ×7.09 2 #64 | 1836 points by cylo 2 days ago | 729 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. A Caddy Cert Expired Because Systemd-Resolved Was Selectively Broken (mvh.dev)
    ×1.61 68 #83 | 39 points by PaulHoule 21 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Unitree GD01: China's $537k rideable transformer robot is now in production (gagadget.com)
    ×2.28 42 | 90 points by rguiscard 9 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Mimik – open-source local-first alternative to Scribe and Tango (github.com/westpoint-io)
    ×1.21 125 | 4 points by max-roma 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. The Rise of the Bullshittery (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)
    ×2.11 3 #23 | 7 points by dxs 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Rapunzel – a tree-style tab terminal emulator for Codex Claude Gemini (github.com/salmanjavaid)
    ×0.93 121 | 4 points by WasimBhai 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Modeling the US-Europe Paradox (paulkrugman.substack.com)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by vquemener 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Claude Platform on AWS (claude.com)
    ×1.37 29 #41 | 212 points by matrixhelix 18 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Best Distributed Systems Talks of All Time (techtalksweekly.io)
    ×1.44 | 2 points by davidwa4141 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Americans love their iPhones (though some wish they could live without them) (apnews.com)
    ×2.74 49 | 5 points by devonnull 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. U.S. inflation jumps to 3.8% YoY (7.2% MoM, annualized) (bls.gov)
    ×1.16 | 2 points by JumpCrisscross 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Trump says US FDA Commissioner Makary is out (reuters.com)
    ×1.17 | 2 points by randycupertino 57 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. French Defenestration (darkomulej.substack.com)
    ×1.51 6 | 3 points by Darius-BC 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. High-Quality Chaos (haxx.se)
    ×1.04 | 2 points by akyuu 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model (github.com/cactus-compute)
    ×2.86 6 #6 | 48 points by HenryNdubuaku 1 hour ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: It's like Fiverr but for AI agents – Platform and Open-source kit (streetai.org)
    ×1.90 98 | 7 points by degutemesgen 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: State of the Art of Coding Models, According to Hacker News Commenters (hnup.date)
    ×1.27 144 | 168 points by yunusabd 1 week ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. European Money Pours into Palantir (elpais.com)
    ×2.38 47 | 126 points by robtherobber 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Paperclip The human control plane for AI labor (paperclip.ing)
    ×2.78 37 | 4 points by swazzy 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. After Deaths, Lawsuits Against A.I. Companies Test a New Strategy (nytimes.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: AnamDB – An AI-native, differentiable Datalog engine written in Rust (github.com/jam5991)
    ×1.01 166 | 11 points by jam5991 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. A Hackers Guide to Circumventing Internet Shutdowns (eff.org)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by worik 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Profiling.sampling – Statistical Profiler (python.org)
    ×0.79 10 #29 | 77 points by djoldman 7 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. CC-Ledger: Claude Code Cost Tracker (Per-Session and Per-PR) (github.com/delta-hq)
    ×2.52 32 | 4 points by tsv650 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Is Spring Boot Becoming Obsolete? (codecentric.de)
    ×1.34 33 | 3 points by jbarop 24 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Why the Future of College Could Look Like OnlyFans (newyorker.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by paulpauper 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Curl and Mythos (anderegg.ca)
    ×2.17 26 | 3 points by Brajeshwar 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???