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  1. Which country will be the first to pass laws limiting Meta Ray-Ban glasses?
    ×0.57 12 #57 | 16 points by nothrowaways 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Viable open source Claude Design alternative?
    ×1.65 6 | 4 points by splatzone 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Tell HN: Dont use Claude Design, lost access to my projects after unsubscribing
    ×2.66 10 | 287 points by pycassa 1 day ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What's the hardest part of building a SaaS that users keep paying for?
    ×0.44 64 | 8 points by specwiseai 7 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...
    ×2.27 105 | 472 points by mittermayr 6 days ago | 340 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
    ×1.15 99 | 281 points by david927 4 days ago | 1081 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated
    ×7.23 86 | 1668 points by CliffStoll 1 week ago | 257 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What are you working on (non-AI)?
    ×0.79 94 | 32 points by BrunoBernardino 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Is Anthropic doing too much vibe coding?
    ×0.34 113 | 7 points by terabytest 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Tell HN: Starting June 15, claude -p usage will change
    ×0.40 107 | 6 points by andersonmvd 19 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. agent-dash: TUI for managing Claude Code and OpenCode in tmux
    ×0.08 164 | 3 points by fdarian 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: How to get started in electronic music
    ×0.52 144 | 16 points by A_Random_Nerd 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Will low quality AI customer support be the new normal?
    ×0.78 147 | 26 points by 0-bad-sectors 4 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Is Spam getting worse or is Gmail getting worse?
    ×0.33 136 | 10 points by adamtaylor_13 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How are you preparing for interviews nowadays?
    ×0.46 153 | 12 points by holden_nelson 2 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. C++26: Standard Library Hardening – Sandor Dargo's Blog (sandordargo.com)
    ×1.42 | 2 points by rbanffy 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Localmaxxing (tomtunguz.com)
    ×1.19 | 2 points by gmays 37 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. SecurityBaseline.eu (internetcleanup.foundation)
    ×2.34 57 | 227 points by aequitas 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. OVMS: Open source electric vehicle remote monitoring, diagnosis and control (openvehicles.com)
    ×0.99 | 1 points by BHSPitMonkey 1 minute ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Meta employees protest against mouse tracking tech at US offices (reuters.com)
    ×5.03 96 | 72 points by delichon 2 days ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Show HN: Vim file browser that runs in separate terminal (github.com/hoffa)
    ×1.35 128 | 5 points by crehn 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Anti-Aliasing Filter (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by tzury 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. A sentimental tour of late 1990s and early 2000s hacking tools (andreafortuna.org)
    ×0.75 71 | 73 points by speckx 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Computer Hobby Movement in Canada (yorku.ca)
    ×0.95 18 #15 | 164 points by rbanffy 8 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. The Emacsification of Software (sockpuppet.org)
    ×2.24 62 #41 | 408 points by rdslw 1 day ago | 259 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Pipes, Forks, and Zombies (harvard.edu)
    ×0.59 72 #49 | 38 points by tosh 11 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Avoiding and reducing microplastic false positives from dry glove contact (rsc.org)
    ×1.01 68 #63 | 97 points by efavdb 20 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Godot WebGPU (godotwebgpu.com)
    ×2.02 32 | 3 points by astlouis44 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. The Missing Manual: Digital Sovereignty (berjon.com)
    ×1.80 9 | 3 points by doener 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Residents furious as Utah approves datacenter twice the size of Manhattan (theguardian.com)
    ×3.54 79 | 68 points by pzxc 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Statewright – Visual state machines that make AI agents reliable (github.com/statewright)
    ×0.98 89 | 121 points by azurewraith 2 days ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Technical Dimensions of Live Feedback in Programming Systems (joshuahhh.com)
    ×0.65 57 #72 | 48 points by tobr 14 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. A History of IDEs at Google (le-brun.eu)
    ×2.20 15 #87 | 445 points by laurentlb 1 day ago | 294 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Clinics scramble for experimental Revolution Medicines pancreatic cancer drug (reuters.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by JumpCrisscross 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Dragos Documents First LLM-Assisted Strike on Water Infrastructure in Mexico (smallwarsjournal.com)
    ×1.63 13 | 4 points by jethronethro 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. I moved my digital stack to Europe (monokai.com)
    ×4.74 17 | 1005 points by monokai_nl 1 day ago | 597 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Kickstarter is forced to ban adult content by payment processors (kotaku.com)
    ×5.39 20 | 391 points by stalfosknight 1 day ago | 278 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: MerryDiv – Track dividends across all your brokerage accounts (merrydiv.com)
    ×0.44 | 2 points by zouko 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. What happens when you post a real Monet and say it's AI? (twitter.com/jediwolf)
    ×8.69 20 | 79 points by nailer 9 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: PandoCast: open-source Pandora player to solve an annoyance I had (github.com/lennyxc)
    ×0.73 | 2 points by lxchase 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. RISC-V Router (start9.com)
    ×1.38 11 #10 | 24 points by janandonly 1 hour ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Parents don't want their kids to use tech at school., districts pushing back (apnews.com)
    ×2.27 15 #77 | 19 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Elon Musk Announces xAI Will Become SpaceXAI Division (notateslaapp.com)
    ×2.43 21 | 3 points by gmays 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Build your extension once and now it can run cross IDEs, VSCode – jetbrain (oxp.sh)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by aldgar 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. "Not Medically Necessary": Helping America's Health Insurers Deny Coverage (propublica.org)
    ×4.46 29 | 215 points by ceejayoz 1 day ago | 199 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. When “idle” isn't idle: how a Linux kernel optimization became a QUIC bug (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.17 80 | 161 points by sbulaev 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Can It Game? (scottjg.com)
    ×2.49 1 #4 | 413 points by allenleee 6 hours ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. What's the Ideal Analogy? (alok.github.io)
    ×0.93 | 1 points by yuppiemephisto 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Chinese memory module makers ramp up production as DDR5 breakthrough hits market (scmp.com)
    ×3.27 42 | 5 points by yogthos 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Full Stack HQ – Claude.md and Agent Stack for Claude Code (github.com/sabahattink)
    ×1.74 14 | 3 points by sabahattink 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. My graduation cap runs Rust (ericswpark.com)
    ×1.39 72 | 213 points by ericswpark 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Showing the same info in 248 different UI (infiniwa.com)
    ×0.29 127 | 3 points by ym705 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Micromort Risk Visualizer (boxed.github.io)
    ×1.06 120 | 5 points by boxed 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Splice – A programming language with custom VM for embedded systems (github.com/Open-Splice)
    ×0.26 | 2 points by amitabhi 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Leaving the Physical World (eff.org)
    ×1.70 29 #37 | 184 points by andsoitis 14 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Grok Build (x.ai)
    ×4.11 37 #53 | 75 points by meetpateltech 3 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. A field manual for Deutsche Bahn (hofstede.it)
    ×1.42 6 #85 | 14 points by fanf2 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Steve Yegge's Google Platforms Rant (2011) (github.com/chitchcock)
    ×0.95 | 2 points by nvader 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Meta won't let you block its AI account on Threads (theverge.com)
    ×2.83 31 | 189 points by logickkk1 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Aion a Rust Database (github.com/ayoubnabil)
    ×1.20 87 | 4 points by K9987plus 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Oicana – PDF templating with Typst, 6 server SDKs and browser WASM (oicana.com)
    ×1.08 155 | 3 points by niklasei 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: SwiftUI package for onboarding flows in iOS apps (github.com/Vadimkomis)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by vadimkomis 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: OpenSpec – OpenAPI/Swagger explorer with a contract linter (openspec.vercel.app)
    ×1.13 62 | 3 points by geox 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund Backs KDE with €1.3M (theregister.com)
    ×4.85 44 #51 | 103 points by Lihh27 2 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Cannabis and driving? Studies reveal big risks (cuanschutz.edu)
    ×2.04 71 #64 | 6 points by PaulHoule 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) – Official Trailer (HD) (youtube.com)
    ×0.78 | 1 points by doener 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Pentagon's 'Deal Team Six' Aims to Challenge China's Grip on Rare Earth Power (bloomberg.com)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by cwwc 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Setting the Standard for Agentic Development (lovable.dev)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by erhuve 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Best "Brain" for Agents Is Just Versioned Folders of Markdown Files (extency.com)
    ×2.00 16 | 4 points by murdockq 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Fuse-stripped-notebooks uses FUSE to make .ipynb better for grep (github.com/bm371613)
    ×1.24 101 | 3 points by bm371613 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged (github.com/oven-sh)
    ×9.94 3 #27 | 401 points by Chaoses 13 hours ago | 468 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Countries where you can leave your MacBook at a random coffee shop (vouchatlas.com)
    ×1.32 125 | 75 points by canergl 4 days ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: All 55,256 Slides of the WAR.GOV/UFO Files Searchable and Linkable (hypergrid.systems)
    ×3.00 165 | 16 points by keepamovin 4 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. IC work is the new career flex (elenaverna.com)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by agenticfish 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Torrix, self hosted, LLM Observability,(no Postgres, no Redis) (github.com/torrix-ai)
    ×3.19 92 | 42 points by AdarshRao23 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: FixMyNPM, CLI to fix your insecure npm config (github.com/madhugb)
    ×1.22 115 | 10 points by madospace 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Gox – Strict static analyzer for Go designed for LLM-written code (github.com/mentasystems)
    ×2.06 133 | 5 points by kidandcat 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses (theverge.com)
    ×4.24 48 | 7 points by speckx 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Last minute Birthday gifts for developers (thedevcards.com)
    ×1.68 24 | 3 points by okiki-clickdrop 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. The European Union backs Italy's right to make Meta pay for news (niemanlab.org)
    ×2.44 31 | 106 points by giuliomagnifico 10 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Mainline – a project tool with no backlog, story points or surveillance (mainline.dev)
    ×1.05 138 | 4 points by natyoung 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Pqurp – Quarantine Window for Packages to Prevent Supply Chain Attacks (github.com/melbahja)
    ×1.65 137 | 5 points by exec7 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model (github.com/cactus-compute)
    ×2.88 77 #50 | 726 points by HenryNdubuaku 2 days ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Hollow – A local multi-agent OS that builds its own tools (github.com/ninjahawk)
    ×0.87 | 2 points by ninjahawk1 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. The Power of a Free Popsicle (2018) (stanford.edu)
    ×0.89 10 #13 | 50 points by NaOH 3 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. 60fps Video on a CGA? – The GlyphBlaster (martypc.blogspot.com)
    ×0.77 38 #30 | 62 points by tambourine_man 8 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Overworked AI Agents Turn Marxist, Researchers Find (wired.com)
    ×2.14 7 #68 | 15 points by ceejayoz 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025) (fredchan.org)
    ×2.40 12 #76 | 609 points by speckx 1 day ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble (jdhodges.com)
    ×2.09 20 #88 | 327 points by tosh 1 day ago | 382 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Containarium – self-hosted sandbox for AI agents, MCP-native (github.com/footprintai)
    ×1.34 110 | 5 points by hsin003 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???