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  1. Ask HN: If HTML supersedes Markdown fr AI, Will it be versatile enough for devs?
    ×0.21 47 | 3 points by zameermfm 6 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
    ×1.16 36 | 278 points by david927 2 days ago | 1059 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...
    ×2.34 58 | 468 points by mittermayr 5 days ago | 335 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated
    ×7.30 25 | 1663 points by CliffStoll 6 days ago | 256 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Is Spam getting worse or is Gmail getting worse?
    ×0.25 61 | 6 points by adamtaylor_13 14 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: How to get started in electronic music
    ×0.68 65 | 16 points by A_Random_Nerd 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How are you preparing for interviews nowadays?
    ×0.48 75 | 10 points by holden_nelson 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Best static site generator for a docs site in 2026?
    ×0.64 81 | 14 points by agenttestjekuqz 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Will low quality AI customer support be the new normal?
    ×0.80 79 | 23 points by 0-bad-sectors 2 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: How often do you investigate issues in production vs. looking at logs?
    ×0.16 120 | 4 points by aspectrr 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How do you choose a model for a task?
    ×0.57 86 | 9 points by bix6 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Remind HN: Today is Mother's Day, call your moms
    ×4.86 28 | 376 points by rationalist 2 days ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Our keyboards are tracking us
    ×1.18 80 | 14 points by tukunjil 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What happens when eventually all E2E mess. apps removed from app stores?
    ×0.42 100 | 5 points by kingleopold 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Do you know the ethics of Developers?
    ×0.39 105 | 8 points by eropatori 2 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Spotify Is Down
    ×0.89 55 | 11 points by circadian 18 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What Wintel/AMD (Laptop) Harware are you liking?
    ×0.34 127 | 5 points by aagha 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: What would you like to be working on?
    ×0.61 98 | 8 points by DDerTyp 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Can a tinnitus be triggered by high frequency noises?
    ×0.28 130 | 8 points by tinnitus_crazy 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Is this the SWE workflow of the future?
    ×0.92 96 | 18 points by mc-0 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. LLMs and Buttondown – Applied Cartography (jmduke.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by rhazn 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. A.I. note takers are making lawyers nervous (nytimes.com)
    ×2.44 18 | 258 points by JumpCrisscross 2 days ago | 189 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Show HN: I've implemented multi-repo workspace support in Agent of Empires (github.com/njbrake)
    ×1.69 94 | 6 points by seluj78 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Berget AI announces Berget Code for European teams powered by Kimi K2.6 (berget.ai)
    ×1.60 | 2 points by marols 55 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. DMARC Fail: 7 Causes and How to Fix Each (dmarcguard.io)
    ×1.14 36 #53 | 14 points by meysamazad 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Local AI needs to be the norm (unix.foo)
    ×7.11 12 #70 | 1849 points by cylo 2 days ago | 737 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Monghoul – Desktop MongoDB GUI with schema-aware autocomplete and MCP (monghoul.com)
    ×2.51 55 | 3 points by kontsedal 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Every service should have a killswitch (seangoedecke.com)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by gautamsomani 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. The price of power – why batteries are starting to look obvious (stromflix.com)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by StromFLIX 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. GM just laid off IT workers to hire those with stronger AI skills (techcrunch.com)
    ×5.18 45 | 66 points by jnord 1 day ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model (github.com/cactus-compute)
    ×2.70 8 #4 | 479 points by HenryNdubuaku 16 hours ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: HYPD – AI co-pilot for marketers running Google Ads (hypd.ai)
    ×1.11 | 2 points by cionut 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Red Hot Chili Peppers ink $300M deal with Warner Music to sell catalog (hollywoodreporter.com)
    ×1.80 40 | 90 points by randycupertino 1 day ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: I Built a Museum Exhibit (knhash.in)
    ×0.65 135 | 39 points by kn81198 1 week ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Local Transformer Language Model Running on GameBoy Color (github.com/maddiedreese)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by redbell 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. AMD DGF SuperCompression (gpuopen.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by ibobev 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. 590k buyers paid $59M for Trump's gold phone, but not one has shipped (yahoo.com)
    ×8.25 17 | 159 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. China is going dark to develop its own Mythos (politico.eu)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by jonbaer 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. When life gives you lemons, write better error messages (wix-ux.com)
    ×1.32 19 #34 | 153 points by luispa 18 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Canada’s Bill C-22 Is a Repackaged Version of Last Year’s Surveillance Nightmare (eff.org)
    ×3.87 22 #40 | 341 points by Brajeshwar 17 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Rtwatch: Watch videos with friends using WebRTC (github.com/pion)
    ×0.87 29 #76 | 91 points by nateb2022 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message (privacyguides.net)
    ×3.21 3 #81 | 623 points by negura 2 days ago | 499 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Hiking by Transit (hikingbytransit.com)
    ×0.76 | 1 points by mooreds 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Temu is advertising filet mignon on X (twitter.com/shoptemu)
    ×5.01 61 | 55 points by noleary 8 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise (nair.sh)
    ×3.31 3 #10 | 597 points by nilirl 19 hours ago | 263 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Fuck You, Bambu Lab. Go Ahead, Sue Us (gamersnexus.net)
    ×11.81 54 | 99 points by pabs3 12 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. The PSP feels surprisingly present right now (gardinerbryant.com)
    ×2.63 48 | 50 points by Kate0CoolLibby 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: A modern Music Player Daemon based on Rockbox firmware (github.com/tsirysndr)
    ×0.96 21 | 116 points by tsiry 3 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: SLayer, a semantic layer maintained by your agent (github.com/MotleyAI)
    ×2.73 78 | 12 points by yannranchere 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Israel's AI targeting system: how data from a phone become a death sentence (latimes.com)
    ×4.15 29 #41 | 152 points by YeGoblynQueenne 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Ratty – A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics (ratty-term.org)
    ×2.67 21 #87 | 668 points by orhunp_ 2 days ago | 239 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Debux – debug distroless Docker/Kubernetes containers with a Nix shell (github.com/clement-tourriere)
    ×0.99 | 1 points by kelem 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: I made a Clojure-like language in Go, boots in 7ms (github.com/nooga)
    ×1.73 54 | 273 points by marcingas 3 days ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: TRUST – Coding Rust like it's 1989 (github.com/wojtczyk)
    ×1.05 76 | 170 points by wojtczyk 6 days ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Mljar Studio – local AI data analyst that saves analysis as notebooks (mljar.com)
    ×0.69 133 | 73 points by pplonski86 1 week ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. How to make your text look futuristic (2016) (typesetinthefuture.com)
    ×2.23 2 #9 | 365 points by _vaporwave_ 14 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Instructure pays ransom to Canvas hackers (insidehighered.com)
    ×2.11 28 #60 | 257 points by Cider9986 18 hours ago | 241 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. The Moth Story Map (themoth.org)
    ×0.48 35 #72 | 31 points by jxmorris12 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Static Analysis for GitHub Actions (github.com/zizmorcore)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by mooreds 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Security Baseline (securitybaseline.eu)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by TechTechTech 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: OpenGravity – A zero-install, BYOK vanilla JS clone of Antigravity (github.com/ab-613)
    ×1.05 31 | 102 points by ab613 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Launch HN: Voker (YC S24) – Analytics for AI Agents (voker.ai)
    ×0.39 48 #33 | 55 points by ttpost 16 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. UnDUNE II (itch.io)
    ×2.27 31 | 172 points by tosh 22 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: I trained a chess engine to play like humans
    ×2.29 95 | 14 points by hazard 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: It's like Fiverr but for AI agents – Platform and Open-source kit (streetai.org)
    ×1.87 88 | 7 points by degutemesgen 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Stage CLI – An easier way of reading your AI generated changes locally (github.com/ReviewStage)
    ×0.68 117 | 46 points by cpan22 5 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Sam Altman Testifies That Elon Musk Wanted Control of OpenAI (nytimes.com)
    ×1.53 | 2 points by the-mitr 53 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Extremely Low Frequencies (computer.rip)
    ×1.54 29 #50 | 209 points by pinewurst 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. The Surprisingly Long Life of the Vacuum Tube (construction-physics.com)
    ×0.63 42 #58 | 67 points by surprisetalk 21 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Self-hosted CMS AEO SEO automatizados cloud hosting con Ubuntu cloud-init setup (aliothpress.com)
    ×0.91 | 1 points by Strodt 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Peter Norvig's 21 line spelling corrector using probability theory (wordpress.com)
    ×1.62 | 2 points by ibobev 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Operation: Epic Furious (epicfurious.com)
    ×8.88 66 | 357 points by dmschulman 19 hours ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. I made Rust’s cargo copy but for CPP (github.com/user-with-username)
    ×0.53 28 #29 | 14 points by anybodyy 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Before Upload – check files locally before sending them to AI tools (beforeupload.com)
    ×2.51 41 | 3 points by ailef 50 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. What if AI systems weren't chatbots? (arxiv.org)
    ×1.48 | 2 points by jrepinc 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. What can singing mice say about human speech? (phys.org)
    ×0.59 27 #46 | 15 points by gmays 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. A lost ancient script reveals how writing as we know it began (newscientist.com)
    ×1.03 53 #62 | 99 points by emot 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Meta loses court fight over compensation to Italian publishers (reuters.com)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: I mage GhosttyFX, a JavaFX terminal view that uses libghostty (github.com/vlaaad)
    ×1.01 91 | 3 points by vlaaad 23 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Software Internals Book Club (eatonphil.com)
    ×1.50 28 #55 | 214 points by aragonite 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Embedded Spritesheet PNG Standard (mccormick.cx)
    ×1.33 | 2 points by chr15m 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Kstack – Skill pack for monitoring/troubleshooting K8s in Claude Code (github.com/kubetail-org)
    ×0.56 129 | 25 points by andres 6 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Scrcpy v4.0 (github.com/Genymobile)
    ×3.34 5 #15 | 210 points by xnx 14 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Houses are for living, not for speculation (wikipedia.org)
    ×8.20 5 | 100 points by robtherobber 23 hours ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Don't hijack my mouse pointer (ruky.me)
    ×2.31 12 | 60 points by rukshn 22 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Partial static single information form (bernsteinbear.com)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by ibobev 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Interfaze: A new model architecture built for high accuracy at scale (interfaze.ai)
    ×1.05 34 #83 | 159 points by yoeven 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Diversity and functional profile of the "microbial proteome" in fermented foods (rsc.org)
    ×0.52 56 #85 | 4 points by PaulHoule 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Simple, zero overhead way to compress model, KV cache via Low-Rank Decomposition (jeffreywong20.github.io)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by thw20 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Duckflix, an open-source self-hosted media streaming platform (github.com/duckflixapp)
    ×0.29 | 2 points by patakxd 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???