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  1. Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
    ×1.20 19 #69 | 261 points by david927 1 day ago | 975 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: How are you preparing for interviews nowadays?
    ×0.53 4 | 5 points by holden_nelson 3 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...
    ×2.45 68 | 459 points by mittermayr 3 days ago | 334 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated
    ×7.42 26 | 1654 points by CliffStoll 5 days ago | 254 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How often do you investigate issues in production vs. looking at logs?
    ×0.18 84 | 3 points by aspectrr 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: How do you choose a model for a task?
    ×0.62 64 | 6 points by bix6 9 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Best static site generator for a docs site in 2026?
    ×0.69 78 | 9 points by agenttestjekuqz 16 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Do you know the ethics of Developers?
    ×0.43 85 | 7 points by eropatori 16 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What would you like to be working on?
    ×0.61 77 | 6 points by DDerTyp 12 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Will low quality AI customer support be the new normal?
    ×0.93 81 | 22 points by 0-bad-sectors 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Our keyboards are tracking us
    ×0.76 88 | 6 points by tukunjil 15 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Remind HN: Today is Mother's Day, call your moms
    ×5.14 11 | 370 points by rationalist 1 day ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What Wintel/AMD (Laptop) Harware are you liking?
    ×0.25 119 | 3 points by aagha 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Is this the SWE workflow of the future?
    ×0.88 99 | 15 points by mc-0 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Can a tinnitus be triggered by high frequency noises?
    ×0.22 132 | 6 points by tinnitus_crazy 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Which LLM are you using to evaluate your ideas?
    ×0.59 112 | 5 points by Marius77 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Tell HN: Claude claims the AGPLv3 license violates it's content policy
    ×2.00 97 | 12 points by freedomben 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Cancelling Claude subscription renewal immediately revokes Design access
    ×0.36 123 | 5 points by o10449366 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Best AI coding plan alternative to Claude and ChatGPT
    ×1.55 106 | 15 points by Jsttan 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Former master-tech building AI systems – how to break into software?
    ×0.26 151 | 4 points by nicku711 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Before Open Source took over the server, what was the discourse like?
    ×0.70 125 | 8 points by mbgerring 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career (seangoedecke.com)
    ×3.96 16 #27 | 359 points by movis 10 hours ago | 597 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Show HN: Compare Similar Audio Tracks (merkoba.com)
    ×0.91 | 1 points by madprops 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Open-source endpoint detection engine for Windows and Linux (github.com/Karib0u)
    ×1.61 15 | 3 points by nhatcher 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: An addictive phone game about phone addiction (partridge.works)
    ×0.81 96 | 4 points by urbandw311er 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Met Introduces Hi-Def 3D Scans of Dozens of Historical Art Objects (thisiscolossal.com)
    ×1.57 14 | 3 points by bookofjoe 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Cash register makers seek 1% food tax rate, citing extra time needed for 0% rate (japantimes.co.jp)
    ×1.23 9 #55 | 13 points by PaulHoule 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Linux bitten by second vulnerability in as many weeks (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.67 16 #57 | 4 points by jnord 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Brain scans reveal how people with autistic traits connect differently (psypost.org)
    ×0.95 | 2 points by 1317 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Scientists warn Atlantic current at risk of shutting down (yale.edu)
    ×3.84 33 | 168 points by ambigious7777 1 day ago | 221 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: My AI agents bully each other to prevent context drift (wuphf.team)
    ×4.14 131 | 9 points by najmuzzaman 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Filling PDF forms with AI using client-side tool calling (simplepdf.com)
    ×0.67 154 | 60 points by nip 1 week ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Darkest Dungeon devs will "never, ever" use GenAI to replace narrator Wayne June (rockpapershotgun.com)
    ×0.84 | 1 points by latexr 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Devon (grimfandango.substack.com)
    ×0.90 | 2 points by lastdong 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Debian must ship reproducible packages (debian.org)
    ×4.13 21 | 366 points by robalni 1 day ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. SpaceX wants to launch a million satellites (cbc.ca)
    ×1.97 55 | 60 points by billybuckwheat 1 day ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Wall Street lawyers aided insider trading ring, say US prosecutors (ft.com)
    ×1.99 73 | 42 points by johnbarron 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: AnamDB – An AI-native, differentiable Datalog engine written in Rust (github.com/jam5991)
    ×1.01 147 | 11 points by jam5991 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Spain has become one of Europe’s cheapest power markets (janrosenow.substack.com)
    ×2.14 28 | 181 points by marc__1 1 day ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: I Built a Museum Exhibit (knhash.in)
    ×0.65 146 | 39 points by kn81198 1 week ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: New Benchmark from SWE-bench team is 0% solved (programbench.com)
    ×4.13 156 | 23 points by lieret 6 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability (haxx.se)
    ×4.81 17 #37 | 615 points by TangerineDream 18 hours ago | 252 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Space Cadet Pinball on Linux (brennan.io)
    ×1.76 17 #79 | 347 points by jandeboevrie 1 day ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Db-fortress – Scanner for the 4 vibe-coded auth bugs Wiz documents
    ×0.66 | 1 points by omji-krypto 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Scaffold a 1990s Geocities-themed static website (pypi.org)
    ×0.80 8 | 45 points by whatsupdog 12 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: I built Tokenyst to stop getting shocked by Claude Code API bills (github.com/jher7)
    ×1.22 70 | 7 points by herrj 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. If AI writes your code, why use Python? (medium.com)
    ×3.68 1 #3 | 123 points by indigodaddy 4 hours ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Oxide private cloud rack 3D explorer (oxide.computer)
    ×1.47 12 | 3 points by wmf 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Scholr – search 200M+ academic papers with citation-grounded synthesis (tryscholr.com)
    ×0.98 | 2 points by JosephB07 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. UCLA discovers first stroke rehabilitation drug to repair brain damage (2025) (ucla.edu)
    ×2.13 6 #2 | 220 points by bookofjoe 7 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Obsidian plugin was abused to deploy a remote access trojan (netsecops.io)
    ×1.87 15 #50 | 349 points by cmbailey 1 day ago | 213 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Could This Fish Be a Notebook? (reasonstobecheerful.world)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by cainxinth 53 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. The Inference Shift – Stratechery (stratechery.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by chermanowicz 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Today-dsa – a local-first engine that tells me what to study today (github.com/rasha-hantash)
    ×1.12 | 2 points by rasha1 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Hermes Agent Background Computer Use on macOS via SkyLight Private SPIs (nousresearch.com)
    ×1.05 | 2 points by simonpure 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. LinkLens: Protect Yourself from Clickbait (google.com)
    ×0.94 | 2 points by philstahlfeld 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Should you leave red herrings about yourself online? (alcazarsec.com)
    ×1.42 22 | 42 points by alcazar 9 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Doctors Just Staged the Quietest Coup in American History (thegrimhistorian.substack.com)
    ×4.73 87 | 34 points by s4i 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Red Hot Chili Peppers ink $300M deal with Warner Music to sell catalog (hollywoodreporter.com)
    ×2.04 14 #33 | 73 points by randycupertino 5 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Palantir to be granted "unlimited access" to UK NHS patient data (digitalhealth.net)
    ×5.35 51 #80 | 70 points by ck2 6 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler (grapheneos.social)
    ×7.47 9 #26 | 2077 points by ChuckMcM 1 day ago | 703 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Bliss (Photograph) (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.18 33 #38 | 119 points by cainxinth 17 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Maryland citizens hit with $2B power grid upgrade for out-of-state AI (tomshardware.com)
    ×2.80 3 #71 | 311 points by lemonberry 1 day ago | 195 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Lakebase architecture delivers faster Postgres writes (databricks.com)
    ×0.92 62 #73 | 121 points by sp_from_db 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Route optimization API that solves fleet planning as a single problem (vepathos.com)
    ×0.97 | 2 points by pantherolive 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. The people preserving the scientific practice of bird banding (thenarwhal.ca)
    ×0.53 80 #62 | 66 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians (nytimes.com)
    ×4.95 42 #65 | 5 points by lorecore 14 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Months long delays for Firefox extension submission reviews (reddit.com)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by kholdstayr 42 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. An Ice Cold Take on CI Config Systems (chriskrycho.com)
    ×1.44 34 | 3 points by mooreds 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: GETadb.com – every GET request creates a DB (getadb.com)
    ×0.44 111 | 39 points by nezaj 3 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: nfsdiag – A NFS diagnostic application (github.com/lsferreira42)
    ×0.80 135 | 83 points by lsferreira42 1 week ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: An index of indie web/blog indexes (theindex.fyi)
    ×1.05 64 #72 | 134 points by rocketpastsix 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Scientists Gave 'Aggressive' Fish Psychedelic Drugs. A Breakthrough Came Next (404media.co)
    ×0.83 | 1 points by gmays 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. A Wild Ghost Blog Appears (allenc.com)
    ×1.10 | 2 points by allenc 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Agent-skills-eval – Test whether Agent Skills improve outputs (github.com/darkrishabh)
    ×0.83 116 | 79 points by darkrishabh 4 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Mljar Studio – local AI data analyst that saves analysis as notebooks (mljar.com)
    ×0.68 148 | 72 points by pplonski86 1 week ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Origami – A simple workspace-oriented terminal manager (tryorigami.app)
    ×0.97 | 2 points by uniqid 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Shunting-Yard Animation (somethingorotherwhatever.com)
    ×0.68 63 | 70 points by s1291 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Plex's price hikes prove I was right to switch to Jellyfin (androidauthority.com)
    ×3.30 62 | 47 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Rapunzel – a tree-style tab terminal emulator for Codex Claude Gemini (github.com/salmanjavaid)
    ×0.78 72 | 3 points by WasimBhai 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Ratty – A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics (ratty-term.org)
    ×2.55 5 #8 | 610 points by orhunp_ 15 hours ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. I let AI build a tool to help me figure out what was waking me up at night (martin.sh)
    ×1.55 6 #9 | 59 points by showmypost 4 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Internet Archive Switzerland (archive.org)
    ×2.72 28 #90 | 693 points by hggh 2 days ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Ask HN: What happens when eventually all E2E mess. apps removed from app stores?
    ×1.00 | 2 points by kingleopold 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Linux Terminal Memory Usage (gilesorr.com)
    ×1.04 57 | 46 points by speckx 5 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Kstack – Skill pack for monitoring/troubleshooting K8s in Claude Code (github.com/kubetail-org)
    ×0.56 136 | 25 points by andres 4 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Louis Rossmann offers to pay legal fees for a threatened OrcaSlicer developer (tomshardware.com)
    ×4.09 11 #74 | 596 points by iancmceachern 1 day ago | 318 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. 'Not normal': one April day, planet's 50 hottest cities were in a single country (cnn.com)
    ×1.02 | 2 points by littlexsparkee 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Students Boo Commencement Speaker After She Calls AI Next Industrial Revolution (404media.co)
    ×5.90 65 | 153 points by cdrnsf 9 hours ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Why LLMs Make Learning to Code More Important, Not Less (learntosolveit.com)
    ×1.05 | 2 points by orsenthil 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???