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  1. .de TLD Issue Solved
    ×1.58 39 | 3 points by kaltsturm 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Looking for Technical Co-Founder
    ×0.30 45 | 10 points by pinarsaas 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Is there a term for feeling sad about forced AI adoption?
    ×0.86 7 | 13 points by ge96 4 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
    ×0.86 88 | 206 points by proberts 4 days ago | 249 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Best Embedding Models?
    ×0.42 75 | 15 points by devstein 19 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)
    ×0.80 95 | 148 points by whoishiring 4 days ago | 450 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)
    ×1.32 82 | 304 points by whoishiring 4 days ago | 445 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Where are you getting your AI news from?
    ×0.36 91 | 8 points by baetylus 23 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Tell HN: Archive.ph Is Gone
    ×0.49 73 | 5 points by _tk_ 9 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Why Does a Single Firefox Tab Take Almost 1.5GB RAM?
    ×0.32 85 | 6 points by syeare 17 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad?
    ×1.89 83 | 125 points by idontwantthis 3 days ago | 199 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Is a hands-off, family-friendly, de-Googled "home lab" feasible?
    ×0.35 100 | 10 points by strix_varius 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Tell HN: An update from the new Tindie team
    ×0.72 138 | 85 points by altairprime 6 days ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: When did you move from AI agentic loops to simpler deterministic system?
    ×0.42 99 | 7 points by laxmena 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day
    ×2.47 106 | 593 points by _-x-_ 1 week ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Tell HN: The saddest irony of my/our craft
    ×1.50 81 | 18 points by dakiol 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Those building Swift apps without touching Xcode, what is your workflow?
    ×0.49 116 | 18 points by p5v 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Can anyone point me to a ShowHN first post policy documentation?
    ×0.34 101 | 9 points by upwindchange 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters (blog.google)
    ×2.31 1 #2 | 386 points by amrrs 6 hours ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Farewell to a Giant of Botany (nautil.us)
    ×0.87 60 #38 | 92 points by Brajeshwar 16 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Treat your coding agents like developers (finbarr.site)
    ×1.45 44 #53 | 14 points by Finbarr 5 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Transfigure – AI That Makes Physical Stuff – Image to Step or Nothing at All (xfgr.ai)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by itstransfigure 46 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Train Your Own LLM from Scratch (github.com/angelos-p)
    ×2.80 1 #44 | 413 points by kristianpaul 18 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Locality of Reference (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.78 | 1 points by Brysonbw 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Before You Score the Model, Score the Benchmark (centre-for-software-excellence.github.io)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by keheliya 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Models hallucinate more than you think (arxiv.org)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by axelriet 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Bonsai 1.7B ternary model at 442T/s on M4 Max (agents2agents.ai)
    ×1.70 92 | 13 points by hhuytho 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.51 11 #7 | 186 points by brudgers 6 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Let's not fool ourselves about AI taking jobs. It's humans, laying humans off (circuitbored.com)
    ×4.42 55 #81 | 22 points by winternett 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Hong Kong's Secret City: A Labyrinth for 50,000 People (1989) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by exvi 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: nfsdiag – A NFS diagnostic application (github.com/lsferreira42)
    ×0.77 54 | 78 points by lsferreira42 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Zig → Rust porting guide (github.com/oven-sh)
    ×3.40 29 #68 | 695 points by SergeAx 21 hours ago | 514 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Let's talk about LLMs (b-list.org)
    ×1.69 40 #78 | 179 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. They Called It LISP For A Reason (2005) (gigamonkeys.com)
    ×4.85 3 #86 | 35 points by optimalsolver 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Introducing Svelte (2016) (svelte.dev)
    ×2.05 26 | 3 points by downbad_ 35 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Stop big tech from making users behave in ways they don't want to (economist.com)
    ×2.08 5 | 299 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: I indexed 8,643 BSides talks across 227 chapters and 6 continents (allbsides.com)
    ×1.49 77 | 19 points by Parkado 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy (sfgate.com)
    ×3.48 8 #12 | 207 points by littlexsparkee 4 hours ago | 265 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Clarification on the Notepad++ Trademark Issue (notepad-plus-plus.org)
    ×3.34 31 #42 | 150 points by minimaxir 4 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Airborne Microplastics May Be Warming the Planet (yale.edu)
    ×0.92 64 #47 | 17 points by speckx 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Pomiferous: The most extensive apples (pommes) database (pomiferous.com)
    ×0.86 61 #77 | 133 points by Ariarule 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. SEC Proposes Amendments to Permit Semiannual Reporting by Public Companies (sec.gov)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by divbzero 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. "Great Refactor" FRO to secure key OSS by rewriting C/C++ into memory-safe Rust (ifp.org)
    ×1.18 | 2 points by thoughtpeddler 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: A tiny C program where an LLM rewires its DAG while running (github.com/kouhxp)
    ×1.53 80 | 11 points by mrkn1 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Kula – a family health platform that makes sense of your data
    ×1.29 136 | 6 points by samuraikmc 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. A virtual copy of your brain? Scientists say it's closer than you think (medicalxpress.com)
    ×1.16 | 2 points by PaulHoule 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. OpenAI Sells Statsig to Amplitude (amplitude.com)
    ×2.44 10 | 4 points by babelfish 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Furwall – macOS menu bar app that blocks keys when your cat sits down (olliewagner.com)
    ×2.31 65 | 8 points by olliewagner 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: AI CAD Harness (adam.new)
    ×0.90 105 | 98 points by zachdive 4 days ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Site Mogging (sitemogging.com)
    ×1.10 121 | 69 points by jilles 4 days ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Rust library for Undo/Redo using deltas, snapshots or commands (github.com/mikwielgus)
    ×0.95 129 | 25 points by mikolajw 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Gova – The declarative GUI framework for Go (github.com/NV404)
    ×1.11 151 | 143 points by aliezsid 1 week ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: I've built a nice home server OS (asklandd.dk)
    ×1.66 146 | 194 points by Zta77 1 week ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. My data eng secret weapon: sns and firehose and snowflake (gigatexal.blog)
    ×1.66 | 2 points by gigatexal 22 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Sovereign AI: Control, Choice, and Why It Goes Beyond Geopolitics (mozilla.ai)
    ×1.93 8 | 3 points by benbreen 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. 1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving' (electrek.co)
    ×1.29 32 | 194 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Brainio – Markdown notepad that turns notes into visual mind maps (brainio.com)
    ×3.12 60 | 19 points by havlenao 15 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: SimDrive – a browser racing game with your phone as the controller:D (simdrive.xyz)
    ×0.72 139 | 21 points by 1000xcat 6 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. .de TLD offline due to DNSSEC? (verisignlabs.com)
    ×4.74 #1 | 418 points by warpspin 2 hours ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused (twitter.com/L1v1ng0ffTh3L4N)
    ×3.99 22 #79 | 609 points by cft 1 day ago | 216 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. RadixArk's $100M Seed Round (radixark.com)
    ×0.79 | 1 points by shenli3514 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Newton's law of gravity passes its biggest test (science.org)
    ×0.99 44 | 157 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Stop playing my matchstick puzzles, start building your own in seconds (mathstick.github.io)
    ×0.71 128 | 36 points by trangram 3 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Underwater robot tracks sperm whale conversations in real time (reuters.com)
    ×0.57 25 #19 | 45 points by thedebuglife 5 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. How the Emerging Indian Middle Handles Money (ehdata.org)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by gmays 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Agentic Coding Is a Trap (larsfaye.com)
    ×5.01 34 | 440 points by ayoisaiah 1 day ago | 347 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: I built a RISC-V emulator that runs DOOM (github.com/lalitshankarch)
    ×0.93 94 | 48 points by Flex247A 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: A new benchmark for testing LLMs for deterministic outputs (interfaze.ai)
    ×0.48 144 | 60 points by khurdula 6 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Auto-Architecture: Karpathy's Loop, pointed at a CPU (github.com/FeSens)
    ×1.27 111 | 240 points by fesens 1 week ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Airbyte Agents – context for agents across multiple data sources
    ×0.92 27 #14 | 83 points by mtricot 6 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. FDA Blocked Publication of Research Finding Covid and Shingles Vaccines Safe (nytimes.com)
    ×6.47 51 #85 | 27 points by pseudolus 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. AI Tools Directory and Comparison Platform (ai-explorer.io)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by LaVoixDuFutur 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. UK's National Health Service to close-source 100+ repos over security concerns (theregister.com)
    ×2.67 29 | 4 points by maxloh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. It's official: Utah is the U.S. state closest to banning VPNs (yahoo.com)
    ×5.43 64 | 146 points by giantg2 7 hours ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Alberta voter list leak is a potential public safety disaster (globalnews.ca)
    ×1.57 50 | 120 points by Teever 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Pulitzer Prize Winners 2026 (pulitzer.org)
    ×1.71 42 | 91 points by brightbeige 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. A website ranking judges by elo for the cases they dismiss in SF (sfcrime.pages.dev)
    ×2.62 30 | 4 points by grand_larsony 54 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Krabby: Making a Fast Rust Compiler (bal-e.org)
    ×0.71 | 1 points by aw1621107 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. SPEC CPU: The Next Generation (arxiv.org)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by matt_d 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Character.ai sued over chatbot that claims to be a real doctor with a license (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.37 37 | 6 points by Gedxx 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Playground for the Spectre Programming Language (spectrelang.org)
    ×1.59 148 | 5 points by pizza_man 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Browser Harness – Gives LLM freedom to complete any browser task (github.com/browser-use)
    ×1.10 150 | 134 points by gregpr07 1 week ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. SubQ: Sub-quadratic LLM built for 12M-token context (subq.ai)
    ×1.67 24 #64 | 12 points by gagan2020 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Claude Code: use cases and tips to get the most out of Claude (ai-explorer.io)
    ×1.28 | 2 points by LaVoixDuFutur 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Being Truthful and Precise About Revenue – YC's Official Advice (twitter.com/garrytan)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by nowflux 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks (paletteinspiration.com)
    ×1.10 15 #8 | 71 points by ouli 4 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Formatting a 25M-line codebase overnight (stripe.dev)
    ×1.48 39 #67 | 194 points by r00k 1 day ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Codeberg (Forgejo) CLI, built with Xclif (codeberg.org)
    ×0.93 59 #71 | 10 points by thatxliner 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Open Claw Had a Rough Week (openclaw.ai)
    ×1.40 | 2 points by rmason 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027 (ecopv-eu.com)
    ×3.67 16 | 568 points by rdeboo 1 day ago | 524 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???