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  1. Ask HN: Who got hired with Who wants to be hired? (On 2026)
    ×0.43 18 | 4 points by Gooblebrai 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Is the future everyone having 100 MCP processes running on their PC?
    ×1.12 18 | 4 points by ex-aws-dude 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. .de TLD Issue Solved
    ×0.37 42 | 12 points by kaltsturm 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
    ×0.85 81 | 206 points by proberts 4 days ago | 249 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Codex's precision and attention to detail is *crazy* when set up correctly
    ×0.20 67 | 4 points by ditchfieldcaleb 10 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)
    ×0.80 87 | 149 points by whoishiring 4 days ago | 457 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)
    ×1.32 73 | 304 points by whoishiring 4 days ago | 451 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Best Embedding Models?
    ×0.40 76 | 15 points by devstein 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Is there a term for feeling sad about forced AI adoption?
    ×0.99 46 | 19 points by ge96 15 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad?
    ×1.85 77 | 125 points by idontwantthis 3 days ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Tell HN: An update from the new Tindie team
    ×0.72 136 | 85 points by altairprime 1 week ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Where are you getting your AI news from?
    ×0.42 93 | 10 points by baetylus 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day
    ×2.47 96 | 593 points by _-x-_ 1 week ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Why Does a Single Firefox Tab Take Almost 1.5GB RAM?
    ×0.30 101 | 6 points by syeare 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Tell HN: Archive.ph Is Gone
    ×0.51 84 | 6 points by _tk_ 21 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Why would we care about "extended time horizons" and LLMs?
    ×0.91 123 | 4 points by ozozozd 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Is a hands-off, family-friendly, de-Googled "home lab" feasible?
    ×0.34 113 | 10 points by strix_varius 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Those building Swift apps without touching Xcode, what is your workflow?
    ×0.48 122 | 18 points by p5v 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: When did you move from AI agentic loops to simpler deterministic system?
    ×0.39 116 | 7 points by laxmena 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Tell HN: The saddest irony of my/our craft
    ×1.57 80 | 20 points by dakiol 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Can anyone point me to a ShowHN first post policy documentation?
    ×0.37 109 | 10 points by upwindchange 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Urban Birds Are Rising Earlier Because of Traffic Noise (2013) (audubon.org)
    ×0.93 41 #51 | 39 points by thunderbong 12 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.96 14 | 510 points by ZeidJ 1 day ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Show HN: A Mutating Webhook to automatically strip PII from K8s logs (github.com/aragossa)
    ×0.47 50 | 24 points by aragoss 18 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: Site Mogging (sitemogging.com)
    ×1.09 119 | 69 points by jilles 4 days ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: Muesli – If Granola and Wisprflow had an open source on device baby (freedspeech.xyz)
    ×1.38 92 | 14 points by pHequals7 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Reverse-engineering the 1998 Ultima Online demo server (draxinar.github.io)
    ×1.74 2 #9 | 34 points by notsentient 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet (alen.ro)
    ×2.16 5 #36 | 405 points by alentodorov 21 hours ago | 304 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Days without GitHub incidents (dayswithoutgithubincident.com)
    ×4.08 4 | 382 points by goalieca 1 day ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing (robert-glaser.de)
    ×2.17 2 #48 | 362 points by youngbrioche 1 day ago | 241 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Let's talk about LLMs (b-list.org)
    ×1.68 48 #78 | 185 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Visualize Any Hugging Face Model (hfviewer.com)
    ×2.02 | 2 points by rippeltippel 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: I built a RISC-V emulator that runs DOOM (github.com/lalitshankarch)
    ×0.95 88 | 49 points by Flex247A 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Node-Vmm – Linux MicroVMs in Pure Node.js for Mac/Windows/Linux in ~1s (github.com/misaelzapata)
    ×1.98 105 | 8 points by misaelzapata 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Utilyze – an open source GPU monitoring tool more accurate than nvtop (systalyze.com)
    ×1.10 137 | 128 points by ManyaGhobadi 1 week ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Mark Cuban: OpenAI Will Never Return the $1T It's Investing [video] (youtube.com)
    ×3.68 31 #37 | 25 points by operatingthetan 2 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Palo Alto Networks warns of firewall RCE zero-day exploited in attacks (bleepingcomputer.com)
    ×1.54 | 2 points by defrost 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. How the Lobsters front page works – nilenso blog (nilenso.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by fagnerbrack 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Retroguard – Verifiably secure AI guardrails (retroguard.ai)
    ×1.59 99 | 6 points by ttttonyhe 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: InSpec – A standalone CSS editor for live web pages (bendansby.com)
    ×1.30 106 | 3 points by webwielder2 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Biscuit (github.com/yattsu)
    ×1.43 48 #75 | 117 points by unixfg 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. The Faster You Go, the Wronger You Get (hagakure.substack.com)
    ×1.41 | 2 points by alper 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: How I solved my network state corruption in my Linux Tor proxy (github.com/onyks-os)
    ×1.44 | 2 points by onyks 42 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. The fun has been optimized out of the Internet (jprs.me)
    ×3.92 57 | 306 points by jprs 19 hours ago | 272 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Better Design – 28 Shadcn design systems (OSS, MCP: Cursor/Claude Code) (github.com/marvkr)
    ×2.21 53 | 8 points by marvinkr 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Octopus Code Review is now free for OSI-licensed repos (octopus-review.ai)
    ×1.55 78 | 6 points by redoh 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Mljar Studio – local AI data analyst that saves analysis as notebooks (mljar.com)
    ×0.66 98 | 70 points by pplonski86 3 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Rust library for Undo/Redo using deltas, snapshots or commands (github.com/mikwielgus)
    ×0.95 131 | 25 points by mikolajw 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Agent-desktop – Native desktop automation CLI for AI agents (github.com/lahfir)
    ×2.30 91 | 98 points by lahfir 4 days ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Zig → Rust porting guide (github.com/oven-sh)
    ×3.39 42 #85 | 702 points by SergeAx 1 day ago | 526 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Q8 KV cache lets a 30B model fit 100K context on a 24 GB RTX 5090 (buraak.com)
    ×1.19 | 2 points by bozdemir 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Parrot – a fun, skeuomorphic audio recorder to hear yourself (zkhrv.com)
    ×2.83 124 | 20 points by zkhrv 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Kanban-CLI – a web UI for local Markdown todo lists (github.com/Vochsel)
    ×2.58 94 | 9 points by vochsel 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Auto-Architecture: Karpathy's Loop, pointed at a CPU (github.com/FeSens)
    ×1.27 104 | 241 points by fesens 1 week ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Trupositive – Tag Terraform/CFN Resources with Git Commit SHA (github.com/trupositive-ai)
    ×1.24 | 2 points by simmestd 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Why Almost Everyone Loses–Except a Few Sharks–On Prediction Markets (wsj.com)
    ×2.32 61 | 100 points by JumpCrisscross 1 day ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: SongShift, an advanced, AI-powered song conversion service (reachnick.co)
    ×0.85 120 | 4 points by lobf 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Winpodx – run Windows apps on Linux as native windows (github.com/kernalix7)
    ×1.58 112 | 98 points by kernalix7 5 days ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Playground for the Spectre Programming Language (spectrelang.org)
    ×1.59 155 | 5 points by pizza_man 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. CARA 2.0 – “I Built a Better Robot Dog” (aaedmusa.com)
    ×2.28 1 #3 | 152 points by hakonjdjohnsen 5 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Hell Is Not Having Adequate Gear (medium.com)
    ×1.45 | 2 points by bryanrasmussen 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. The Deletion Test – The Phoenix Architecture (leaflet.pub)
    ×1.26 | 2 points by fagnerbrack 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. AI didn't delete your database, you did (idiallo.com)
    ×4.77 55 #76 | 523 points by Brajeshwar 19 hours ago | 292 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Garmin releases new luxury home audio system globally (notebookcheck.net)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by thunderbong 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Clarification on the Notepad++ Trademark Issue (notepad-plus-plus.org)
    ×3.38 53 | 177 points by minimaxir 15 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Git worktree manager with fuzzy finder (github.com/d-kuro)
    ×1.48 | 2 points by ankitg12 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Banking Malware hiding inside a flashlight app? (BeatBanker / BTMOB) (ostorlab.co)
    ×1.25 | 2 points by Jhonny_doe 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Cornered Rats and Personal Betrayals (1997) (latimes.com)
    ×1.79 5 | 3 points by robtherobber 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Rdprrap – Rust Port of RDPWrap (Multi-Session RDP for Windows Desktop) (github.com/kernalix7)
    ×1.05 | 2 points by kernalix7 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Eyenima – TrueDepth iris portraits, on-device, no cloud (totemc.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by matteosacco 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Alberta voter list leak is a potential public safety disaster (globalnews.ca)
    ×1.57 54 | 121 points by Teever 1 day ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs (reflex.dev)
    ×2.09 9 #14 | 395 points by palashawas 17 hours ago | 227 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused (twitter.com/L1v1ng0ffTh3L4N)
    ×3.93 18 #83 | 615 points by cft 1 day ago | 221 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. How Mobile Ethnography Is Transforming Research from Guesswork (figshare.com)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by aishasajjad 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Car Dealerships Scam America [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by type4 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Code coverage tells you what you didn't test – not whether your tests are good (bubble.ro)
    ×1.27 | 2 points by birdculture 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. The Car That Watches You Back: The Advertising Infrastructure of Modern Cars (nobodyaskedforthis.lol)
    ×1.66 33 | 118 points by cadito 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. IBM didn't want Microsoft to use the Tab key to move between dialog fields (microsoft.com)
    ×2.51 14 #39 | 344 points by SeenNotHeard 16 hours ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Mr_hacker (google.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by deadwin_yt 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Knitting bullshit (katedaviesdesigns.com)
    ×2.78 4 #6 | 55 points by ColinEberhardt 4 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Agents for financial services and insurance (anthropic.com)
    ×1.46 12 #29 | 239 points by louiereederson 18 hours ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. The extended predicative Mahlo universe in Martin-Löf type theory (2023) (oup.com)
    ×0.40 70 #47 | 28 points by danny00 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. E-Bike Fleet Monitoring (marksblogg.com)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by marklit 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Ask Claude (LRB) (lrb.co.uk)
    ×1.30 | 2 points by OZYMANDIASAK 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. ASML's Best Selling Product Isn't What You Think It Is (siliconimist.com)
    ×1.83 63 | 98 points by johncole 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables (github.com/darrylmorley)
    ×2.89 65 | 559 points by sleepingNomad 5 days ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: My Private GitHub on Postgres (github.com/calebwin)
    ×0.79 132 | 42 points by calebhwin 4 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Telus Uses AI to Alter Call-Agent Accents (letsdatascience.com)
    ×1.63 4 #12 | 152 points by debo_ 8 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. The Soul of Maintaining a New Machine (worksinprogress.co)
    ×1.61 54 #46 | 9 points by akkartik 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. What Are the Best MongoDB Database Tools in 2026? (visualeaf.com)
    ×0.53 | 2 points by roxana_haidiner 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???