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  1. Ask HN: What Is the State of App Development in 2026?
    ×1.17 3 #83 | 81 points by karakoram 15 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: How you pass legacy to others?
    ×0.55 32 | 3 points by jojwong 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. I made an free unlimited captcha alternative
    ×1.42 34 | 3 points by david3289 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What are your worst war stories bringing agentic applications into prod
    ×0.72 52 | 5 points by yaoke259 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Any advice on how to learn good software architecture practices?
    ×0.23 121 | 14 points by jimsojim 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Students, What Impact Is AI Having on Your Education?
    ×0.68 100 | 4 points by ciwolex 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: If I cancel Codex today whats the next best local inference agent?
    ×0.29 128 | 10 points by Bulbasaur2015 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What Is an "AI Engineer"?
    ×0.27 131 | 18 points by seattle_spring 2 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Does Claude Code remove the need for so many front-end frameworks?
    ×0.32 144 | 10 points by ex-aws-dude 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: How is your org managing PR review load as AI multiplies code output?
    ×0.33 126 | 9 points by meteor333 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. FYI: Dreamina is shady; do not use
    ×0.25 139 | 5 points by ronyeh 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro?
    ×1.14 122 | 153 points by widenrun 5 days ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HK: How are you building AI apps today?
    ×0.26 134 | 7 points by Mnexium 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Garnix, the Nix CI, is shutting down
    ×0.35 146 | 12 points by cinericius 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: I found out that I'm about to be laid off. How do people find jobs?
    ×0.90 129 | 23 points by wwwthrowaway256 2 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How do you feel about posts about GenAI taking over the HN front page?
    ×0.32 149 | 12 points by blenderob 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Train 1T parameter LLM with 8 GPUs?
    ×0.14 194 | 3 points by kendy1992 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Why not have an EU browser?
    ×0.25 172 | 7 points by osigurdson 3 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. A disk-first C++ vector engine
    ×0.15 177 | 4 points by saeedq 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Sqlit – A lazygit-style TUI for SQL databases
    ×0.30 178 | 20 points by MaxTeabag 5 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Do not use Cloudflare DNS regsitrar
    ×0.53 140 | 11 points by talkingtab 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: What Are You Thankful For?
    ×1.55 114 | 9 points by chistev 21 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: What's the hardest problem you've ever solved?
    ×1.70 108 | 12 points by chistev 22 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. To have a moral stance on AI is to be an outcast, and it sucks (martyn.berlin)
    ×5.87 38 | 129 points by mooreds 15 hours ago | 285 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Cheese Paper: a text editor specifically designed for writing (brie.gay)
    ×1.50 3 #15 | 98 points by sohkamyung 8 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Meta is reportedly developing an AI pendant (techcrunch.com)
    ×1.56 53 #52 | 34 points by rishikeshs 12 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. We should be more tired than the model (vickiboykis.com)
    ×1.15 81 #75 | 187 points by tosh 1 day ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Enhancing Multi-Agent Communication Through Attention Steering (arxiv.org)
    ×0.99 | 1 points by ankitg12 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. How to Build a Shitty Robot (mariozechner.at)
    ×1.15 72 | 3 points by zdw 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Fungible – A local personal finance app in the terminal (github.com/tomfunk)
    ×1.09 161 | 29 points by tomfunk 5 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance' (bloomberg.com)
    ×4.89 39 | 266 points by leopoldj 1 day ago | 497 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: React-Rewrite – A visual editor for React that writes code, no LLM (github.com/donghaxkim)
    ×0.86 116 | 3 points by donghaxkim 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ahoy, DECmate II the little PDP-8 that could (oldvcr.blogspot.com)
    ×0.68 6 #4 | 26 points by TMWNN 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. If Windows were designed today, would the Registry exist? [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.15 22 #67 | 12 points by LelouBil 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. How thread locals work on macOS (yuraiz.github.io)
    ×1.77 | 2 points by yuraiz 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. EV Stupidity Checklist (hypercritical.co)
    ×4.67 64 | 112 points by pchristensen 1 day ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Lite-Harness – Self-Hosted Cursor Agents (Use Claude Code/OpenCode) (github.com/LiteLLM-Labs)
    ×1.67 71 | 6 points by detente18 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Teleport-env – <500ms stateful rollbacks for AI agents via CRIU (github.com/JaiCode08)
    ×1.41 167 | 9 points by Jainish08 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Jef Raskin, the Visionary Behind the Mac (2013) (lowendmac.com)
    ×0.90 20 #21 | 99 points by tylerdane 11 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Pandoc Templates (pandoc-templates.org)
    ×2.01 4 #25 | 390 points by ankitg12 21 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. High Tech Heroes #37: Sherwin Gooch Interviews Jef Raskin (1989?) (youtube.com)
    ×1.63 1 | 3 points by OhMeadhbh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Context-aware Japanese furigana using Sudachi and ModernBERT (ezfurigana.com)
    ×0.75 113 | 37 points by epitrochoid413 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: NvEnvy – A Notational Velocity (NvAlt) Reboot in Swift. OSS (github.com/kenm47)
    ×0.58 159 | 3 points by hank2000 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Py-SQL-cleaner – format SQL embedded in Python strings (github.com/enumura1)
    ×0.52 155 | 7 points by enumura 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Dynamic Workflows in Claude Code (claude.com)
    ×1.42 115 #71 | 187 points by mil22 2 days ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Gradient animation using a WebGL shader (bradwoods.io)
    ×1.32 25 | 3 points by bradwoodsio 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: VT Code – open-source terminal coding agent in Rust (github.com/vinhnx)
    ×0.83 112 | 16 points by vinhnx 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Microcode inside the Intel 8087 floating-point chip: register exchange (righto.com)
    ×1.02 26 #26 | 110 points by pwg 14 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Cache hit rates of Inference are more meaningful than the headline costs (dirac.run)
    ×2.81 59 | 3 points by mellosouls 19 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Zot – Yet another coding agent harness (zot.sh)
    ×1.14 79 | 97 points by patriceckhart 2 days ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: AionOS – self-healing microkernel in Zig (boots on real hardware) (github.com/rodancz)
    ×0.86 141 | 5 points by rodancz 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. How does a Mikrokator work?(2022) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.01 | 2 points by pillars 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. London's Free Roof Terraces (diamondgeezer.blogspot.com)
    ×2.78 64 | 3 points by zeristor 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show Faith by Works – George (untitledsource.substack.com)
    ×1.61 | 2 points by untiledsource 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup (qazinform.com)
    ×3.31 74 | 400 points by Bolat14 17 hours ago | 456 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. UC Berkeley Law blanket AI ban since summer 2026 (berkeley.edu)
    ×1.90 | 2 points by xyzal 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Blackwall – OSINT exposure scanner that pulls from real sources (theblackwall.vercel.app)
    ×0.81 | 2 points by jwallace 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. The Feeling of Control Slipping Away (theatlantic.com)
    ×2.20 29 | 5 points by paulpauper 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Bijou64: A variable-length integer encoding (inkandswitch.com)
    ×1.19 44 | 257 points by justinweiss 1 day ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Ember.js 7.0 (emberjs.com)
    ×1.33 74 | 77 points by satvikpendem 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Evolving FSQ Open Source Places (2025) (foursquare.com)
    ×0.19 75 #28 | 3 points by altilunium 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. AI job grief: A psychological crisis hitting tech workers (jackmaguire.org)
    ×3.74 10 #45 | 142 points by LilBytes 16 hours ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Demographics may be breaking traditional labor market signals (reuters.com)
    ×1.85 37 | 3 points by latentframe 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Vibewarz – bot vs bot arena for vibecoders (vibewarz.com)
    ×0.64 150 | 4 points by gaomri 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: AT4K Launcher - Apple TV inspired Launcher for Android TVs (at4klauncher.com)
    ×1.38 175 | 6 points by avadhesh18 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. High Density Living, 2000 Years Ago: Inside the Roman Apartment Building (commonedge.org)
    ×1.19 78 #74 | 192 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. I am retiring from tech to live offline (openpath.quest)
    ×5.18 29 | 831 points by PinkG 1 day ago | 565 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Racket v9.2 is now available (racket-lang.org)
    ×1.44 1 #13 | 96 points by spdegabrielle 6 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Open-source Workspace (mail,docs,spreadsheet,drive) web/iOS (tinycld.org)
    ×1.01 118 | 109 points by nathanstitt 3 days ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Accenture to acquire Ookla (accenture.com)
    ×1.92 6 #14 | 275 points by Garbage 14 hours ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Scaling Laws Meet Model Architecture: Toward Inference-Efficient LLMs (arxiv.org)
    ×0.78 | 2 points by matt_d 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: I brought back Airbnb categories (vibebnb.fyi)
    ×1.81 133 | 6 points by giulioco 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: OpenBrief – Local-first video downloader/summarizer (github.com/tantara)
    ×0.81 130 | 92 points by tantara 5 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Libfyaml adds a YAML/JSON parse cache; 427 MB reloads in 36 ms (github.com/pantoniou)
    ×0.98 192 | 3 points by fypanto 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: NeuroFlow 55.8x video inference speedup for Vision Transformers PyTorch (github.com/ynnk-research)
    ×1.33 193 | 8 points by ynnk 4 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Someone used my open source project to phish people (andrej.sh)
    ×1.12 89 #90 | 110 points by andrejsshell 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Is AI causing a repeat of frontend’s lost decade? (mastrojs.github.io)
    ×2.39 22 | 399 points by xyzal 1 day ago | 329 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Rothko for your current weather conditions (joonas.wtf)
    ×1.54 59 | 147 points by jxmorris12 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Undisclosed addition in jqwik instructed AI coding agents to delete app output (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.56 107 | 58 points by joozio 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Cross-agent messaging and shared memory over the local filesystem (oacp.dev)
    ×1.35 179 | 14 points by haoranchg 4 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Telli (YC F24) is hiring in engineering, design, and GTM [Berlin, on-site] (telli.com)
    27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Reading The Motley Fool never made anyone rich (researchtesseract.com)
    ×1.76 | 2 points by BenetBani 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Let's talk about EU Sovereignty (2025) (martyn.berlin)
    ×1.60 3 | 59 points by mooreds 13 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Ktx – Open-source executable context layer for data agents (github.com/Kaelio)
    ×0.58 111 | 86 points by lucamrtl 2 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Volt – front end tooling for Phoenix that runs inside the BEAM (github.com/elixir-volt)
    ×1.31 171 | 25 points by dannote 5 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Game Boy pixel pipeline explorer (pixelpipeline.xyz)
    ×2.22 158 | 14 points by blueblazin 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. The Internet Has Become Too American to Trust (thewalrus.ca)
    ×4.58 87 | 82 points by Teever 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Jynx, a matchmaking app to find gaming teammates (jynx.app)
    ×1.07 119 | 4 points by akiro____ 17 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Associative learning turns DEET from aversive to appetitive in Aedes aegypti (biologists.com)
    ×1.36 6 #8 | 24 points by croes 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Algebraic Effects for the Rest of Us (overreacted.io)
    ×1.06 77 #60 | 100 points by satvikpendem 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???