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  1. Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?
    ×2.73 5 #8 | 43 points by modelcroissant 2 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. I built a real-time AR plane spotter, here's the math that makes it work
    ×0.49 5 | 3 points by ananddhruv29 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?
    ×1.97 46 | 335 points by misterchocolat 3 days ago | 383 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Building a solo business is impossible?
    ×0.76 65 | 56 points by fnoef 2 days ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: Fiverr left customer files public and searchable
    ×4.61 34 | 824 points by morpheuskafka 4 days ago | 231 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Why don't we just ask AI to write assembler?
    ×0.44 81 | 7 points by canterburry 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Anyone know of that "levels of AI programming" blog post?
    ×0.17 74 | 4 points by tuvix 17 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Does magic link authentication use HTML canvassing?
    ×0.18 | 2 points by trinsic2 18 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: ChatAi web-based session notation?
    ×0.12 | 2 points by xtiansimon 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Tell HN: 48 absurd web projects – one every month
    ×0.81 70 | 78 points by absurdwebsite 2 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Getting depressed day by day, how to cope?
    ×1.10 79 | 21 points by throwaw12 2 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: How did you get your first users with zero audience?
    ×1.39 93 | 16 points by arikusi 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: How do you maintain flow when vibe coding?
    ×0.60 83 | 31 points by fny 2 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Do I Stop Learning Coding? DSA?
    ×0.51 90 | 6 points by s_u_d_o 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How do you find motivation to do stuff?
    ×0.85 106 | 25 points by RockstarSprain 3 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Aliens.gov Resolves – To a WordPress "Site Not Found" Error
    ×0.97 101 | 12 points by ascarola 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Tell HN: Security Incident at Porter (YC S20)
    ×0.54 95 | 6 points by leetrout 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How do you search the web programmatically these days?
    ×0.73 107 | 5 points by coreyp_1 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Teaching life skills through games, am I crazy?
    ×0.11 | 2 points by shivaniShimpi_ 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: How are you using LLMs in production?
    ×0.71 111 | 13 points by Anon84 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Advice for tracking down a listening device?
    ×0.43 121 | 8 points by comrade1234 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Durable Object alarm loop: $34k in 8 days, zero users, no platform warning
    ×2.36 96 | 29 points by thewillmoss 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Who is your favourite Entrepreneur/Visionary?
    ×0.61 114 | 13 points by wasimsk 3 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How can I support the AI resistance movement financially?
    ×3.50 39 | 12 points by roschdal 15 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allows you to fix to specific model version
    ×0.89 110 | 27 points by baobabKoodaa 4 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Is Claude Getting Worse?
    ×0.88 128 | 9 points by sahli 3 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: How are you actively keeping your thinking sharp while using LLMs daily?
    ×1.38 104 | 16 points by smonk108 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Opus 4.7 is horrible at writing
    ×0.60 87 | 18 points by limalabs 2 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: How to highlight talent from untraditional backgrounds?
    ×0.50 130 | 6 points by etherus 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. GitHub gave webhook secrets away in webhook call
    ×0.62 129 | 12 points by time4tea 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: As an Australian, is it possible to get a remote US role?
    ×0.27 149 | 4 points by apatheticonion 4 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Tell HN: GitHub might have been leaking your webhook secrets. Check your emails.
    ×3.10 103 | 43 points by ssiddharth 4 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: SeedLegals Partnerships in London, worth it?
    ×0.14 | 2 points by pain_perdu 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Scientists Capture Superconductivity's 'Dancing Pairs' for First Time (simonsfoundation.org)
    ×1.68 | 2 points by ganitam 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Libretto – Making AI browser automations deterministic (github.com/saffron-health)
    ×0.84 71 | 132 points by muchael 3 days ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: External admission gate for GitHub Actions before execution (ai-admissibility.com)
    ×0.68 | 2 points by pinfloyd 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: German Abitur: More good grades, fewer bad grades (camminady.dev)
    ×1.49 119 | 8 points by k1next 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Skillgrab – scan any project, auto-install matching AI skills (briascoi.github.io)
    ×1.64 133 | 8 points by ismaelb 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. My first impressions on ROCm and Strix Halo (marcoinacio.com)
    ×1.08 36 #30 | 50 points by random_ 13 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. America wakes up to AI's dangerous power (economist.com)
    ×0.86 | 1 points by runeks 9 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Formally speaking, "Transpiler" is a useless word (mit.edu)
    ×3.11 59 | 4 points by ganitam 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Monitor your Pi / OMP sessions (github.com/BlackBeltTechnology)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by ankitg12 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Casus Belli Engineering (marcosmagueta.com)
    ×1.07 40 #80 | 74 points by b-man 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Connie Converse was a folk-music genius. Then she vanished (bbc.com)
    ×1.14 38 #86 | 107 points by mellosouls 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Fakecloud – Free, open-source AWS emulator (github.com/faiscadev)
    ×1.24 94 | 36 points by lucas_vieira 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Fuck Facebook, Again (visualgui.com)
    ×4.18 58 | 44 points by speckx 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Monadic Networking Library for Go (github.com/philip-peterson)
    ×0.78 150 | 3 points by ironmagma 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. EU age verification app: "Worry-free package" with security vulnerabilities (heise.de)
    ×3.45 23 #44 | 16 points by _tk_ 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Amiga Graphics Archive (lychesis.net)
    ×1.61 5 #64 | 250 points by sph 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Vigil (github.com/KultMember6Banger)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by KM6B 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Fastest way to compute the greatest common divisor (2013) (lemire.me)
    ×1.18 | 2 points by tosh 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner (isayeter.com)
    ×4.11 12 #22 | 795 points by yusufusta 22 hours ago | 401 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Amazon is discontinuing Kindle for PC on June 30th (goodereader.com)
    ×3.25 32 #78 | 144 points by tech234a 19 hours ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Send physical postcards from your coding harness (melonpost.com)
    ×1.52 148 | 5 points by thevelop 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Ban the sale of precise geolocation (lawfaremedia.org)
    ×5.05 42 | 745 points by hn_acker 1 day ago | 193 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. The big business of survival bunkers (economist.com)
    ×1.18 63 | 34 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: PodWarden – A catalog of 9k+ self-hosted apps with one-click deploy (podwarden.com)
    ×1.48 105 | 4 points by rayneclarke 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Compile English specs into 22 MB neural functions that run locally
    ×2.69 125 | 10 points by yuntian 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. "cat readme.txt" is not safe if you use iTerm2 (calif.io)
    ×2.65 3 #87 | 299 points by arkadiyt 1 day ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Robot beats humans to win Beijing half-marathon (sky.com)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by austinallegro 45 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Bookmark Tool in Common Lisp (github.com/ediw8311xht)
    ×0.42 | 2 points by landdate 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Hero Engineering: In Defense of Unreasonable Optimizations (deancalver.substack.com)
    ×1.86 17 | 3 points by DeanoC 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Slop Cop (awnist.com)
    ×2.05 10 | 236 points by ericHosick 1 day ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Stop Using LangChain (synapsekit.github.io)
    ×0.95 146 | 3 points by aminau 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Open-source DIY radar that's 95% cheaper than $250k commercial offerings (tomshardware.com)
    ×4.67 71 | 6 points by anjel 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. In the UK, EVs are cheaper than petrol cars, thanks to Chinese competition (electrek.co)
    ×3.43 60 | 5 points by breve 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Every CEO and CFO change at US public companies, live from SEC (tracksuccession.com)
    ×1.44 67 | 189 points by porsche959 3 days ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. What are skiplists good for? (antithesis.com)
    ×1.77 8 #4 | 115 points by mfiguiere 8 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Experiment with ICEYE Open Data (iceye.com)
    ×0.97 34 #89 | 120 points by marklit 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Cannabis criminal law in Germany in 2026 (ferner-alsdorf.com)
    ×0.83 | 1 points by slow_typist 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Cat Me If You Can (steampowered.com)
    ×1.50 | 2 points by doener 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Waputer – The WebAssembly Computer (waputer.app)
    ×1.77 108 | 5 points by marcandrysco 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Ask your AI to start a business for you, resolved.sh (resolved.sh)
    ×0.29 | 2 points by RancheroBeans 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work (sentinelcolorado.com)
    ×2.40 9 #7 | 306 points by gnabgib 16 hours ago | 297 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Wine 11.7 – Run Windows Applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and macOS (winehq.org)
    ×0.84 | 1 points by neustradamus 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. The Seaside Town Trying to Reclaim Its Title as 'Submarine Capital of the World' (wsj.com)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by impish9208 23 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Web Agent Bridge – An Open-Source OS for AI Agents (MIT and Open Core) (webagentbride.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by abokenan444 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Coelanox – auditable inference runtime in Rust (BERT runs today) (coelanox.com)
    ×0.34 | 2 points by Shark1n4Suit 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Ejectify 2 Launched: No More "Disk Not Ejected Properly" notifications (ejectify.app)
    ×0.51 | 2 points by nielsmouthaan 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. William Cecil's Succession Plan (historytoday.com)
    ×0.48 5 #41 | 8 points by Petiver 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Scan your website to see how ready it is for AI agents (isitagentready.com)
    ×1.43 36 | 110 points by WesSouza 1 day ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. The GNU libc atanh is correctly rounded (hal.science)
    ×1.37 37 #82 | 116 points by matt_d 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Reconstructing a Dead USB Protocol: From Unknown Chip to Working Implementation (github.com/coremaze)
    ×1.33 | 2 points by birdculture 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Archive of Byte magazine, starting with issue #1 in 1975 (archive.org)
    ×2.35 #1 | 48 points by DamnInteresting 2 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Dizzying Spiral Staircase with Single Guardrail Once Led to Top of Eiffel Tower (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×0.70 32 #25 | 29 points by bookofjoe 9 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Why is IPv6 so complicated? (github.com/becarpenter)
    ×2.92 47 #56 | 100 points by signa11 1 day ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. The quiet disappearance of the free-range childhood (bigthink.com)
    ×3.80 16 #60 | 228 points by sylvainkalache 23 hours ago | 241 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Ruby Central in 'real financial jeopardy' following RubyGems maintainer ruckus (theregister.com)
    ×0.71 | 1 points by jjgreen 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. SteamOS ARM64 Reaches Nintendo Switch in First Experiment (onejailbreak.com)
    ×18.74 69 | 35 points by SockThief 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker (righto.com)
    ×1.87 9 #9 | 347 points by NelsonMinar 19 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???