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  1. Google will delete OAuth clients falsely flagged as unused
    ×1.23 46 | 4 points by panstromek 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Reverse engineering Twitter's new WASM-based "X-XP-Forwarded-For" antibot header
    ×2.60 69 | 8 points by dsekz 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
    ×1.47 62 | 334 points by david927 3 days ago | 1036 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?
    ×1.69 25 | 275 points by xeonmc 6 days ago | 282 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How do I start my own cybersecurity related company?
    ×0.25 | 2 points by babuloseo 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Lost in AI-translation
    ×0.17 | 2 points by anonimildo 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Any modern mobile friendly family tree / genealogy builders?
    ×0.66 74 | 4 points by sherdil2022 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Am I old?
    ×0.82 71 | 14 points by zwilderrr 22 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Is anyone using AI conversation partners?
    ×0.91 85 | 21 points by rickcarlino 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Why that many more US-based companies are hiring "US-only" remote?
    ×1.25 111 | 15 points by soneca 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Anyone struggling to get value out of coding LLMs?
    ×4.38 48 | 327 points by bjackman 3 days ago | 271 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Al-LLM powered eBPF based security platform
    ×0.14 | 2 points by gaurav1086 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Tired of all the AI, what other cool tech is out there?
    ×4.69 13 | 88 points by Mariefay 19 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Best Buy is selling a $400 "digital Ethernet" cable for "cleaner, clearer sound"
    ×1.22 92 | 7 points by 34679 20 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Building LLM apps? How are you handling user context?
    ×0.65 124 | 30 points by marcospassos 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Go deep into AI/LLMs or just use them as tools?
    ×2.50 102 | 194 points by pella_may 5 days ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Would you be interested in OpenRouter for MCPs?
    ×0.38 140 | 3 points by subramanya1997 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. What's your "coworker didn't lock screen" procedure?
    ×0.89 138 | 5 points by vonunov 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Is this Tetris variant novel? Would it be fun?
    ×0.19 | 2 points by amichail 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Every wondered how Facebook spoofs Gmail message list snippet text?
    ×1.76 27 | 87 points by chrisjj 2 days ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Merge Request Review Agent?
    ×0.33 162 | 3 points by surrTurr 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: What HN posts inspired or changed your perspective the most?
    ×0.95 149 | 50 points by hungle9 6 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. It Survives Because It Collapsed: Three AIs, One Residue
    ×0.18 | 2 points by Ace__ 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. What's been your biggest technical bottleneck as a small startup lately?
    ×0.56 166 | 8 points by devralcomp 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Why does MCP need to exist?
    ×1.19 135 | 10 points by kostyal 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. OSINTGraph – Map Your Target's Instagram Network and Uncover Hidden Circles
    ×0.37 165 | 4 points by Osintgraph 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: How do you determine if something is a sunk cost VS needing patience?
    ×0.65 160 | 5 points by JSLegendDev 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. O1 Visa Question - Looking for help
    ×0.41 169 | 4 points by emitrranmol 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Can you give tips on writing a README for project?
    ×0.28 177 | 6 points by vseplet 4 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Do you have a side project you're getting tired of?
    ×0.66 167 | 30 points by gdulli 6 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. ESP32 MCP Server
    ×0.31 174 | 12 points by horw 6 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. AgentLink: On-demand AI agents you can assemble into teams
    ×0.54 172 | 4 points by nraychaudhuri 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Weirdest programs you ever made?
    ×1.06 148 | 9 points by 90s_dev 2 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Career Change Confusion
    ×0.83 150 | 17 points by tdnka 3 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. OWASP PTK – browser extension all-in-one for pentesters and bug hunters
    ×0.58 168 | 5 points by DenisPodgurskii 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: What's a tool you use every day that most developers haven't heard of?
    ×2.42 106 | 10 points by Sourabhsss1 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: What did you learn from your recent project failure?
    ×0.86 161 | 8 points by raydenvm 3 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: Openrouter Free Models
    ×0.24 | 2 points by spapas82 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Apollo Lunar Surface Journal (nasa.gov)
    ×0.80 42 #28 | 30 points by Bluestein 10 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Entropy – Sharing screen is scary in SaaS age (entropysec.io)
    ×0.75 32 #37 | 14 points by RazCo 6 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. As a developer, my most important tools are a pen and a notebook (hamatti.org)
    ×3.30 7 #59 | 412 points by ingve 1 day ago | 270 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Victoria's website laid bare for three days after 'security incident' (theregister.com)
    ×1.35 | 2 points by pseudolus 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Tired of overpriced SEO tools? I built SEOzast for the price of coffee (seozast.com)
    ×1.40 133 | 3 points by eliana_jordan 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: GetStack.dev – Track GitHub open-source trends (getstack.dev)
    ×1.02 142 | 49 points by h1fra 6 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: DaedalOS – Desktop Environment in the Browser (github.com/DustinBrett)
    ×1.87 77 | 199 points by DustinBrett 3 days ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Created a POC of escape room game using Salesforce as the back end (fernando-fernandez.github.io)
    ×0.69 | 2 points by felineflock 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Derek Muller Confronts PFAS "Forever Chemicals"–In His Own Blood (scientificamerican.com)
    ×3.17 13 #52 | 18 points by ibobev 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Lossless video compression using Bloom filters (github.com/ross39)
    ×1.58 26 | 343 points by rh3939 2 days ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: DoubleMemory – more efficient local-first read-it-later app (doublememory.com)
    ×1.28 121 | 162 points by randomor 5 days ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Scholtz – Find customers and users that want your product (scholtz.ai)
    ×1.25 170 | 5 points by ddaniel10 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. A Song of “Full Self-Driving” (thebulwark.com)
    ×6.47 32 #34 | 75 points by latexr 3 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Launch HN: Relace (YC W23) – Models for fast and reliable codegen
    ×0.67 62 #76 | 105 points by eborgnia 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Revisiting the algorithm that changed horse race betting (2023) (actamachina.com)
    ×1.24 50 #84 | 140 points by areoform 2 days ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Trump administration cancels plans to develop a bird flu vaccine (npr.org)
    ×2.18 65 | 3 points by clumsysmurf 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. EasyTier – P2P mesh VPN written in Rust using Tokio (easytier.cn)
    ×0.82 | 1 points by wucke13 6 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Compare the True Size of Countries (truesizeof.org)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by kaitian-dev 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Every problem and solution in Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview
    ×3.64 78 | 8 points by leeny 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. xAI to pay telegram $300M to integrate Grok into the chat app (techcrunch.com)
    ×3.82 21 #63 | 290 points by freetonik 21 hours ago | 374 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. The mysterious Gobi wall uncovered (phys.org)
    ×0.68 10 #80 | 66 points by bikenaga 21 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Internet Phone Book Dial-a-Site (internetphonebook.net)
    ×0.76 | 1 points by xattt 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. At Amazon, some coders say their jobs have begun to resemble warehouse work (nytimes.com)
    ×4.45 45 | 570 points by milkshakes 4 days ago | 850 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Fast Allocations in Ruby 3.5 (railsatscale.com)
    ×1.35 118 | 264 points by tekknolagi 6 days ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Google is burying the web alive (nymag.com)
    ×4.65 57 | 224 points by doener 2 days ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Long live American Science and Surplus (milwaukeerecord.com)
    ×1.92 11 #10 | 309 points by thinkalone 15 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. What If We Had Bigger Brains? Imagining Minds Beyond Ours (stephenwolfram.com)
    ×1.73 29 #22 | 152 points by nsoonhui 18 hours ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Trovio – Creator dashboard to sell expertise (keep 100% of revenue) (squarespace.com)
    ×0.75 | 2 points by derrickshowers 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: SQLite JavaScript - extend your database with JavaScript (github.com/sqliteai)
    ×1.10 125 | 197 points by marcobambini 6 days ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: I built an offline VIN decoder using the NHTSA vPIC dataset (github.com/cardog-ai)
    ×1.44 144 | 4 points by samsullivan 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: I made a free web app security platform (ex-StarCraft pro turned dev) (wraithscan.com)
    ×0.76 157 | 3 points by theognis1002 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: ClipBin; the Simplest, Open Source and Secure Way of Sharing Text/Code (github.com/alight659)
    ×0.37 | 2 points by alight 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Samchika – A Java Library for Fast, Multithreaded File Processing (github.com/MayankPratap)
    ×0.67 139 | 65 points by mprataps 5 days ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. A toy RTOS inside Super Mario Bros. using emulator save states (prettygoodblog.com)
    ×1.34 16 #15 | 216 points by notorious_pgb 16 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Mathematical Fiction (charleston.edu)
    ×1.13 32 #47 | 99 points by the-mitr 21 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Porting Terraria and Celeste to WebAssembly (velzie.rip)
    ×2.34 7 #8 | 247 points by coolelectronics 11 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Iconic – Bubble-style skill icons for GitHub READMEs and portfolios (github.com/YuheshPandian)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by Yuhesh 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Artisinal Pencil Sharpening (artisanalpencilsharpening.com)
    ×1.19 | 2 points by choult 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Lnk – Git-native dotfiles manager (github.com/yarlson)
    ×1.24 129 | 75 points by yar-kravtsov 5 days ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. US cancels funding for Moderna bird flu vaccine (reuters.com)
    ×6.60 44 #53 | 26 points by geox 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. 3D Simulation of the Bombe Machine (virtualcolossus.co.uk)
    ×0.87 18 #64 | 21 points by pncnmnp 10 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Data Science Weekly – Issue 601 (datascienceweekly.substack.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by sebg 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Trump administration halts Harvard's ability to enroll international students (nytimes.com)
    ×10.90 72 | 917 points by S0y 6 days ago | 1027 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Sleep apnea pill shows striking success in large clinical trial (science.org)
    ×3.40 55 | 275 points by pseudolus 3 days ago | 218 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. I salvaged $6k of luxury items discarded by Duke students (indyweek.com)
    ×3.70 9 | 254 points by drvladb 1 day ago | 317 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Deepseek R1-0528 (huggingface.co)
    ×4.04 26 #51 | 374 points by error404x 18 hours ago | 205 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. "The Law Doesn't Work Like a Computer": Exploring Software Licensing Issues (arxiv.org)
    ×1.89 15 | 3 points by Tomte 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: European Accessibility Act – Simple CLI Checker (github.com/be-lenka)
    ×2.41 86 | 6 points by ebod 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Weather2Geo – Geolocate screenshots from weather widgets (github.com/elliott-diy)
    ×1.20 154 | 3 points by Elliott-Diy 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Millau – self-configuring ingress proxy for Docker Swarm (github.com/codelev)
    ×1.27 171 | 4 points by codelev 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. High-quality OLED displays now enabling integrated thin and multichannel audio (sciencedaily.com)
    ×1.18 3 #13 | 62 points by LorenDB 5 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Japan Post launches 'digital address' system (japantimes.co.jp)
    ×2.90 12 #17 | 356 points by jmsflknr 19 hours ago | 244 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???