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  1. Ask HN: Do you know what data your AI coding agent sends to the cloud?
    ×0.12 52 | 3 points by lbrauer 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: How to be SOC2 Type 2 compliant as a solo-entreprenuer?
    ×0.85 71 | 166 points by sochix 3 days ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: When did computers stop being fun?
    ×1.80 66 | 67 points by klez 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...
    ×2.20 85 | 477 points by mittermayr 1 week ago | 345 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: Mindie.dev is scraping emails from profiles to send spam
    ×0.91 75 | 22 points by stackghost 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Tell HN: Dont use Claude Design, lost access to my projects after unsubscribing
    ×2.14 74 | 298 points by pycassa 4 days ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated
    ×7.14 73 | 1676 points by CliffStoll 1 week ago | 258 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
    ×1.17 84 | 289 points by david927 1 week ago | 1104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. SlothDB is an OLAP DB ahead of DuckDB on Clickbench SQL database in C++20
    ×0.16 92 | 5 points by souravroy78 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What LLM models are you using and why?
    ×0.41 87 | 8 points by rubyn00bie 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Viable open source Claude Design alternative?
    ×0.48 108 | 24 points by splatzone 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Note-taking software,Novel ideas
    ×0.23 120 | 5 points by huaqing 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Which country will be the first to pass laws limiting Meta Ray-Ban glasses?
    ×0.40 103 | 29 points by nothrowaways 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. The foundations of a provably secure operating system (PSOS) (1979) [pdf] (sri.com)
    ×0.67 9 #29 | 94 points by rurban 8 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Meta deletes popular 1M follower account after Kuwaiti request (twitter.com/ryangrim)
    ×4.12 2 | 203 points by bhouston 1 day ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model (github.com/cactus-compute)
    ×2.95 68 | 773 points by HenryNdubuaku 6 days ago | 211 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Show HN: VisiSign – $0.10 per envelope e-signatures with no monthly fee (visisign.app)
    ×1.61 118 | 7 points by rdoneill 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Russia Claims Ukraine Is Using AI Drones That Lock onto Faces and Heat Signature (united24media.com)
    ×1.35 | 2 points by jawiggins 18 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ebola outbreak with uncommon strain erupts in Congo and Uganda; 65 deaths (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.48 17 #77 | 22 points by rbanffy 8 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Real-Time Order Flow and Whale Tracking (cryptoflowdata.com)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by santys 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Starchild-1: The First Real-Time Multimodal World Model (odyssey.ml)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by olivercameron 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. OpenHamClock – Amateur Radio Dashboard (openhamclock.com)
    ×1.37 | 2 points by smartmic 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. AI tools make it easier for scammers to defraud consumers (detroitnews.com)
    ×1.34 | 2 points by speckx 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Math Jokes in Alice in Wonderland (storica.club)
    ×1.28 8 #51 | 98 points by yekbun123 9 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Jury Rejects Musk's Claim Against OpenAI (nytimes.com)
    ×1.98 28 | 3 points by jaredwiener 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning (github.com/imtomt)
    ×2.17 79 | 430 points by imtomt 1 week ago | 228 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Jank now has its own custom IR (jank-lang.org)
    ×1.59 41 #34 | 206 points by DASD 20 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: An index of indie web/blog indexes (theindex.fyi)
    ×1.15 100 | 154 points by rocketpastsix 1 week ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. America Needs to Build More Housing (nytimes.com)
    ×1.82 11 #75 | 3 points by rafaelc 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS (jvns.ca)
    ×3.36 23 #87 | 682 points by mpweiher 2 days ago | 379 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Nintendo trying to obtain touchscreen-specific patent on monster capturing (gamesfray.com)
    ×1.35 | 2 points by haunter 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Canada’s Bill C-22 would weaken protections on private messages (opencivics-labs.github.io)
    ×2.76 28 | 97 points by laurex 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Statewright – Visual state machines that make AI agents reliable (github.com/statewright)
    ×1.00 88 | 126 points by azurewraith 6 days ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: CADara – I made an open-source in-browser CAD (cadara.app)
    ×0.78 139 | 37 points by ttouch 1 week ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: A modern Music Player Daemon based on Rockbox firmware (github.com/tsirysndr)
    ×1.00 95 | 122 points by tsiry 1 week ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. The Rage of the Billionaires Is Coming (thebignewsletter.com)
    ×2.98 35 #72 | 24 points by aworks 3 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Why trust is a big question at the Elon Musk-OpenAI trial (techcrunch.com)
    ×1.33 | 2 points by drob518 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. XS: A programming language. Anywhere, anytime, by anyone (xslang.org)
    ×1.22 48 | 60 points by yacin 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. AI license plate cameras tore this town apart and led to a state of emergency (washingtonpost.com)
    ×3.03 50 | 51 points by greenburger 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Burn, baby, burn (those tokens) (github.com/dtnewman)
    ×3.02 70 | 133 points by dtnewman 3 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Marlin-2B: a tiny VLM to extract structured information from videos (huggingface.co)
    ×0.86 | 1 points by HappyPablo 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. NextEra, Dominion announce merger to create U.S. power behemoth (axios.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by Brajeshwar 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. NASA still maintains some of the Voyager spacecraft code from the 70s era (spacedaily.com)
    ×1.60 1 #35 | 84 points by redbell 7 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. I'm a Normie. Can Normies Vibe Code? (wired.com)
    ×1.42 2 #44 | 20 points by ent101 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. C++26 Shipped a SIMD Library Nobody Asked For (lucisqr.substack.com)
    ×1.70 70 #59 | 203 points by signa11 1 day ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. AI is a technology not a product (daringfireball.net)
    ×3.73 8 #64 | 446 points by ch_sm 1 day ago | 195 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Illusions of understanding in the sciences (springer.com)
    ×1.08 60 #82 | 110 points by sebg 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Mezz, a curl-able WiFi sandbox for IoT pentesting (github.com/ABGEO)
    ×0.46 74 #53 | 30 points by ABGEO 15 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Why is this site named Antipope? (antipope.org)
    ×2.60 64 | 83 points by turadg 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Trials on veterans suggest ibogaine could provide a new treatment for PTSD (bbc.com)
    ×0.87 37 | 107 points by bushwart 1 day ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: ShaderKit – A browser GLSL editor I built for my own art (shaderkit.com)
    ×1.57 123 | 5 points by scrygl 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: SwarmWright, structured multi-agent AI defined in markdowns (swarmwright.com)
    ×1.05 134 | 4 points by ralphbarendse 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. What “Amazon Supply Chain Services” Tells Us About What Amazon Is (gadallon.substack.com)
    ×1.30 15 #42 | 31 points by JumpCrisscross 3 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. I turned a $80 RK3562 Android tablet into a Debian Linux workstation (github.com/tech4bot)
    ×1.77 28 #46 | 419 points by tech4bot 1 day ago | 217 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring a Founding Marketer (ycombinator.com)
    2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Agencies won't hand over records for an investigation into how DOGE access data (washingtonpost.com)
    ×2.79 44 | 4 points by reaperducer 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. You can predict LLM output sensitivity in closed form (noahgolmant.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by noahgolmant 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Native all the way, until you need text (justsitandgrin.im)
    ×2.47 8 #68 | 440 points by dive 1 day ago | 291 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Decart AI's $300M Round Is a Positive Signal for Israeli AI (vccafe.com)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by vccafe 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Bear generates a compilation database for Clang tooling (github.com/rizsotto)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by fanf2 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag (archestra.ai)
    ×2.15 1 #2 | 235 points by ildari 2 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. 1024000^2 Blocks, 2B2T Minecraft Server World Download Project, and Discoveries (github.com/2b2tplace)
    ×1.20 6 #10 | 97 points by exploraz 3 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. The Aperiodic Table (jgc.org)
    ×0.80 24 #12 | 60 points by jgrahamc 6 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Profunctor Equipment in Haskell (bartoszmilewski.com)
    ×0.55 54 #57 | 37 points by g0xA52A2A 14 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. The US is betting on AI to catch insider trading in prediction markets (wired.com)
    ×0.90 28 #58 | 5 points by Bender 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Curry Paradox: Why a less surprising shot is more impressive than a wilder one (perthirtysix.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by robmoore 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Cheap-IM: Thinking Machines' demo on a CPU laptop (github.com/kouhxp)
    ×0.53 81 | 3 points by mrkn1 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Built a verifiable, open-source SoC 2 readiness scanner (loxeai.com)
    ×0.28 | 2 points by arjavmehta 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Your Most Improbable Life (kevinkelly.substack.com)
    ×0.74 | 2 points by jger15 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Iran will impose fees on subsea internet cables in Strait of Hormuz (cnn.com)
    ×2.52 40 | 3 points by ck2 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Cubic Doggo, a Open-Source 12-DOF 4-Legged Robot Based on ROS2 (github.com/SphericalCowww)
    ×2.06 20 | 3 points by SphericalCowww 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Halt and Catch Fire (unstack.io)
    ×1.79 47 | 206 points by ScottWRobinson 1 day ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. US is starting to see heavy job losses in roles exposed to AI (bloomberg.com)
    ×6.38 53 | 164 points by elsewhen 2 days ago | 274 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: A Dark Cave – Minimalistic Graphics in the Age of AI Slop (a-dark-cave.com)
    ×4.54 98 | 12 points by julez_ 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Agentic product discovery for AI apps and shopping agents (seekon.me)
    ×1.54 127 | 5 points by mentormentat 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust (crates.io)
    ×2.40 29 #67 | 557 points by gidellav 1 day ago | 307 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. SmallCode – A coding agent that gets 87% on benchmarks with a 4B parameter model (reddit.com)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by aagha 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. DSV Limiting Factor (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.71 | 1 points by dtj1123 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Signs That AI-Assisted Vulnerability Discovery Is Reshaping Disclosure Volumes (vulncheck.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by speckx 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: TRUST – Coding Rust like it's 1989 (github.com/wojtczyk)
    ×1.09 113 | 177 points by wojtczyk 1 week ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Steamosaic: Generate a mosaic of your Steam account (steamosaic.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by delduca 37 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Grafana Labs internal source code accessed (twitter.com/grafana)
    ×2.28 58 | 84 points by jschorr 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Agentic Trading with Safe Guardrails (github.com/ShurikenTrade)
    ×0.74 57 | 51 points by jgan0978 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Pdf2md – 10MB Rust PDF-to-Markdown Tool with a Free API (deepdiy.net)
    ×2.01 63 | 8 points by johnson_nie 14 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: LightningTrack – Issue tracker built for AI-assisted development (lightningtrack.io)
    ×0.27 | 2 points by garyeterry 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Magical Realism: “Northern Exposure” 25 Years Later (2015) (rogerebert.com)
    ×1.08 63 #43 | 139 points by walterbell 23 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Applied Discrete Structure (discretemath.org)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by ibobev 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Joule Index – AI benchmark for cost and Energy (blankline.org)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by DarenWatson 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Kioxia and Dell cram 10 PB into slim 2RU server (blocksandfiles.com)
    ×0.93 60 | 137 points by rbanffy 2 days ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Germany goes from labour shortages to hiring freezes (ft.com)
    ×3.53 25 | 50 points by doener 9 hours ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???