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  1. I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
    ×1.00 56 #45 | 190 points by proberts 1 day ago | 236 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad?
    ×2.44 24 #51 | 69 points by idontwantthis 6 hours ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)
    ×1.27 28 #52 | 282 points by whoishiring 1 day ago | 315 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)
    ×0.85 29 #84 | 134 points by whoishiring 1 day ago | 315 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: An update from the new Tindie team
    ×0.74 76 | 80 points by altairprime 3 days ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Tell HN: VS Code v1.117.0 automatically adds GitHub Copilot as your co author
    ×1.23 63 | 100 points by adithyassekhar 2 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What Happened to the CS153 Videos
    ×0.61 69 | 5 points by mapleleaf1921 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day
    ×2.48 67 | 588 points by _-x-_ 6 days ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Hyperscalers are buying all the chips to then rent them to us later
    ×0.79 70 | 6 points by adelks 19 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. SlothDB a 5X Faster Alternative to DuckDB, ClickHouse DB
    ×0.42 87 | 11 points by souravroy78 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Tell HN: Happy May Day
    ×0.85 80 | 8 points by chrishill89 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Claude Code dies with ANTHROPIC_API_KEY in cloud environment
    ×0.27 96 | 13 points by sroussey 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Does Claude use 'prior' in a Bayesian sense more than English?
    ×0.15 126 | 4 points by slake 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How long do you commute by car each day?
    ×0.91 40 | 3 points by roschdal 4 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Is there any good open-source alternative to MinIO?
    ×0.31 112 | 3 points by embedding-shape 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Tell HN: Claude account suspension after flagging duplicate billing
    ×1.45 81 | 7 points by areoform 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: GitHub flagged my org two weeks ago. No reason given, no appeal response
    ×0.83 82 | 7 points by dohyun-ko 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Tell HN: Claude Opus 4.7 quota suddenly changed to 0 TPM in Bedrock
    ×1.90 75 | 12 points by sarathyweb 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Claude Pro expired and my $40 in prepaid Extra Usage credits vanished
    ×0.39 102 | 12 points by Aldipower 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Anyone feel like they're just opting out of tech these days?
    ×0.84 99 | 22 points by moomoo11 3 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Tell HN: Claude 4.7 is ignoring stop hooks
    ×0.98 116 | 109 points by LatencyKills 1 week ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Claude.ai down again?
    ×0.72 86 | 34 points by zh_code 2 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. What do you think of people buying Mac mini's to run AI?
    ×0.45 114 | 5 points by namegulf 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Russia Poisons Wikipedia (bettedangerous.com)
    ×7.79 77 | 241 points by exceptione 10 hours ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Spirit Airlines Is Winding Down All Operations (spiritrestructuring.com)
    ×3.23 | 64 points by CaliforniaKarl 17 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: Coding-Flashcards – Learn Rust, SQLite, or Godot from First Principles (github.com/ad-si)
    ×1.18 85 | 20 points by adius 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Access OPFS from multiple tabs using a fake Shared Worker (github.com/arnold-graf)
    ×0.64 | 2 points by ch_sm 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Canonical Under Attack (canonical.com)
    ×2.08 21 #43 | 48 points by ta988 4 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Disagreeing with Google, Postgres, Future Problems – Mike Stonebraker [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by da02 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Executive Order pushes fixed-price contracting but implementation questions loom (washingtontechnology.com)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by WaitWaitWha 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. DeepSeek V4—almost on the frontier (simonwillison.net)
    ×5.19 26 #32 | 482 points by indigodaddy 1 day ago | 307 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: GhostBox – Borrow a disposable little machine from the Global Free Tier (ghost.charity)
    ×1.67 28 | 121 points by keepamovin 1 day ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Turn Docker Compose files into airgap-ready UDS Packages (github.com/defenseunicorns-labs)
    ×0.76 | 2 points by willswire 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: I built a context layer for our home (rosey.house)
    ×0.50 | 2 points by aloktiagi 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Direct electrochemical black coffee quality appraisal using cyclic voltammetry (nature.com)
    ×0.81 35 #81 | 59 points by bookofjoe 22 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. AWS stops billing Middle East cloud customers as repairs to war damage drag on (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.39 13 | 156 points by johnbarron 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Dynamic Traefik configuration with multiple Docker hosts (vasi.li)
    ×1.00 | 2 points by vsviridov 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Uber torches 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months (briefs.co)
    ×3.45 24 | 396 points by lwhsiao 1 day ago | 467 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. The X-Files has made me nostalgic for a time I never experienced (midnightmurmurations.substack.com)
    ×3.99 1 | 197 points by Teever 1 day ago | 212 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Pixel-Perfect MaterialX in Blender and Three.js (ben3d.ca)
    ×0.39 | 2 points by bhouston 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Browser-based light pollution simulator using real photometric data (iesna.eu)
    ×0.42 44 #58 | 36 points by 14 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. A Letter from Dijkstra on APL (1982) (jsoftware.com)
    ×0.66 53 #88 | 62 points by tosh 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. To Make Orchestras More Diverse, End Blind Auditions (nytimes.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by bilsbie 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. A GitHub for Maintainers (nesbitt.io)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by jamietanna 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Agent with its own computer on the cloud (pulsarbot.cloud)
    ×0.83 | 2 points by akshayballal95 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: State of the Art of Coding Models, According to Hacker News Commenters (hnup.date)
    ×0.63 6 #12 | 19 points by yunusabd 2 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Meta's Pyrefly sabotages competing Python extensions without telling you (github.com/facebook)
    ×2.37 22 #64 | 45 points by FossAndFurious 6 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. talkie-coder: From 1930 to SWE-bench (github.com/RicardoDominguez)
    ×0.89 | 2 points by Philpax 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Shigeru Miyamoto: Better Coder Than Most Without Ever Writing Code (indiepixel.de)
    ×0.89 | 2 points by birdculture 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. OpenWarp (zerx.dev)
    ×1.34 34 | 203 points by zero-lab 1 day ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down (theregister.com)
    ×2.95 42 | 80 points by ndsipa_pomu 1 day ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. To Restore an Island Paradise, Add Fungi (yale.edu)
    ×1.12 35 #41 | 132 points by Brajeshwar 22 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Mac browser for a human that also gives coding agents local APIs (github.com/wkdomains)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by fcpguru 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. The Computer Programme Episode 1, 1982 [video] (archive.org)
    ×1.03 | 2 points by petethomas 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Clipmon is a macOS clipboard manager on steroids (github.com/c9-labs)
    ×1.25 2 | 4 points by vednig 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Self hosted video feed for children (github.com/vkolev)
    ×1.11 122 | 4 points by vkolev 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI (bbc.com)
    ×2.31 16 #90 | 267 points by reconnecting 1 day ago | 296 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. I Uploaded VUMC's Open Manual of Surgery in Resource-Limited Settings to GitHub (github.com/onlinecodeuser)
    ×1.36 | 2 points by HNuseraccount 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Apple Says Mac Studio and Mac Mini Will Be in Short Supply for Months (macrumors.com)
    ×2.89 45 | 123 points by tosh 1 day ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. This Month in Ladybird - April 2026 (ladybird.org)
    ×1.93 2 #3 | 83 points by richardboegli 2 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Built this for my civil engineering firm's static site on Cloudflare Pages (github.com/bwengr)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by bwengr 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Martian Glaciers with Drones (nautil.us)
    ×0.37 | 1 points by Brajeshwar 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. VueBuds integrate low-res cameras and visual AI as a smart glasses alternative (ieee.org)
    ×0.77 | 1 points by sohkamyung 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Which public repos are friendliest to an AI coding agent? (agentfriendlycode.com)
    ×2.54 12 | 5 points by hsnice16 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Vibe, a single-header C networking library for Linux (github.com/xtellect)
    ×1.17 125 | 4 points by enduku 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Advanced Quantization Algorithm for LLMs (github.com/intel)
    ×1.18 36 | 131 points by lastdong 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Building a smartphone powered by nuclear decay: the power engineering
    ×0.73 | 2 points by joshuashelvin 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. What Is GStack? Gary Tan's Open-Source Startup Framework for Claude Code (mindstudio.ai)
    ×0.98 | 2 points by evo_9 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Drive any macOS app in the background without stealing the cursor (github.com/trycua)
    ×1.19 68 | 188 points by frabonacci 4 days ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Agent that refuses to run commands without human approval (github.com/few-sh)
    ×0.68 117 | 12 points by hexer303 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Ti-84 Evo (ti.com)
    ×2.52 10 #57 | 571 points by thatxliner 1 day ago | 463 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Debian adds an SPF record to debian.org (debian.org)
    ×1.66 16 #73 | 7 points by susam 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Axios Finish Line: Go start a business (axios.com)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by petethomas 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. A statement about why RightsCon 2026 will not take place in Zambia (rightscon.org)
    ×2.24 23 | 102 points by benbreen 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. It’s Toasted (yadin.com)
    ×1.89 58 | 64 points by dryadin 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Ask.com has closed (ask.com)
    ×3.49 25 #60 | 430 points by supermdguy 19 hours ago | 218 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Spirit Airlines canceled all flights and is going out of business (cnn.com)
    ×3.85 28 #82 | 72 points by teleforce 11 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. NovAST (github.com/sharkkyyy10)
    ×1.29 12 | 3 points by sharkkyyy10 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Site Mogging (sitemogging.com)
    ×1.06 49 | 65 points by jilles 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: A new benchmark for testing LLMs for deterministic outputs (interfaze.ai)
    ×0.47 79 | 59 points by khurdula 3 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage (github.com/microsoft)
    ×5.59 #1 | 514 points by indrora 3 hours ago | 228 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Little Magazines Are Back (wsjfreeexpression.substack.com)
    ×1.13 15 #10 | 59 points by prismatic 5 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be? (eclecticlight.co)
    ×1.19 21 #15 | 216 points by moosia 13 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Live Sun and Moon Dashboard with NASA Footage (lumara-space.app)
    ×1.06 65 | 222 points by beeswaxpat 4 days ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: FusionCore: ROS 2 sensor fusion that outperforms robot_localization (github.com/manankharwar)
    ×0.27 103 | 11 points by kharwarm 4 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Free no-signup site auditor – secrets, subdomain takeover, CVEs (theionproject.com)
    ×0.73 131 | 4 points by TheIOn-Project 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. AWS Lightsail's $0.09/GB Bandwidth Overage Is a Trap for Small Projects (galaxycloudsolutions.com)
    ×2.74 6 #36 | 8 points by rougereaper420 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Stackless coroutines for gamedev in ~200 lines of C++ (vittorioromeo.com)
    ×1.64 51 #83 | 6 points by tzury 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: FundSim – free browser LBO, DCF and IB deal simulator (no signup) (fundsimulate.com)
    ×0.91 | 1 points by Nishkal2010 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. History of QR Code (qrcode.com)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by helloworld 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???