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  1. Ask HN: Is anyone seriously considering a career change?
    ×1.45 37 #64 | 8 points by zeven7 47 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated
    ×1.47 61 | 14 points by CliffStoll 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: How to start up as an individual developer?
    ×0.48 | 2 points by alexyan0431 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Who got hired with Who wants to be hired? (On 2026)
    ×0.27 59 | 9 points by Gooblebrai 9 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
    ×0.85 98 | 206 points by proberts 5 days ago | 249 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Is the future everyone having 100 MCP processes running on their PC?
    ×0.35 78 | 6 points by ex-aws-dude 11 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)
    ×0.80 104 | 149 points by whoishiring 5 days ago | 472 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)
    ×1.31 93 | 304 points by whoishiring 5 days ago | 460 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Is there a term for feeling sad about forced AI adoption?
    ×0.95 79 | 20 points by ge96 23 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Best Embedding Models?
    ×0.40 100 | 16 points by devstein 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad?
    ×1.83 97 | 126 points by idontwantthis 4 days ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Tell HN: An update from the new Tindie team
    ×0.71 150 | 85 points by altairprime 1 week ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day
    ×2.47 110 | 593 points by _-x-_ 1 week ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Where are you getting your AI news from?
    ×0.40 120 | 10 points by baetylus 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Why Does a Single Firefox Tab Take Almost 1.5GB RAM?
    ×0.28 131 | 6 points by syeare 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Why would we care about "extended time horizons" and LLMs?
    ×0.60 148 | 4 points by ozozozd 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Is a hands-off, family-friendly, de-Googled "home lab" feasible?
    ×0.33 137 | 10 points by strix_varius 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Those building Swift apps without touching Xcode, what is your workflow?
    ×0.47 141 | 18 points by p5v 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Show HN: Upskill – skill to find skills for your AI agents (github.com/Autoloops)
    ×0.92 | 1 points by kushalpatil07 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. For a Fistful of Dollars: CVE-2026-23918 – Pre-auth RCE in Apache httpd (striga.ai)
    ×2.09 23 | 3 points by mparadys 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Gavel: Towards Rule-Based Safety Through Activation Monitoring (arxiv.org)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by wslh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. The Reliability Race (twitter.com/jdroege)
    ×1.17 | 2 points by pretext 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused (twitter.com/L1v1ng0ffTh3L4N)
    ×3.93 22 | 627 points by cft 1 day ago | 224 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Show HN: Node-Vmm – Linux MicroVMs in Pure Node.js for Mac/Windows/Linux in ~1s (github.com/misaelzapata)
    ×1.97 132 | 8 points by misaelzapata 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions (cian.lol)
    ×3.98 35 #38 | 708 points by cianmm 6 hours ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: A terminal spreadsheet editor with Vim keybindings (github.com/garritfra)
    ×1.08 154 | 126 points by garritfra 1 week ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Researchers are giving salmon cocaine. Don't worry, it's for science (cbc.ca)
    ×1.85 | 2 points by Brajeshwar 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Stop playing my matchstick puzzles, start building your own in seconds (mathstick.github.io)
    ×0.71 143 | 36 points by trangram 4 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Gova – The declarative GUI framework for Go (github.com/NV404)
    ×1.11 164 | 143 points by aliezsid 1 week ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Dogfooding Is the New Code Review (alexfurrier.dev)
    ×0.84 | 1 points by lgty 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. 'RAMageddon': is the era of cheap phones and laptops over? (theguardian.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by Brajeshwar 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Silent Jungles (suziepetryk.com)
    ×2.79 32 | 4 points by tancik 41 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. AI didn't delete your database, you did (idiallo.com)
    ×4.70 22 | 531 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | 294 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Trillions in Retirement Dollars Flow into Opaque Trusts (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.59 74 | 117 points by koolhead17 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Pulitzer Prize Winners 2026 (pulitzer.org)
    ×1.67 76 | 91 points by brightbeige 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: 1xBTS – Run your own CDMA network on an SDR (1xbts.org)
    ×0.83 | 1 points by chrismoos 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. DNSSEC disruption affecting .de domains – Resolved (denic.de)
    ×3.07 4 #33 | 724 points by warpspin 21 hours ago | 383 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Yames – A distraction-free desktop metronome built with Rust and Tauri (turutupa.github.io)
    ×1.57 146 | 5 points by turutupa 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Winpodx – run Windows apps on Linux as native windows (github.com/kernalix7)
    ×1.58 126 | 98 points by kernalix7 5 days ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. StarFighter 16-Inch (starlabs.systems)
    ×3.05 10 #9 | 583 points by signa11 15 hours ago | 312 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Batteries Not Included, or Required, for These Smart Home Sensors (gatech.edu)
    ×1.39 13 #20 | 148 points by gnabgib 9 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Behavior-Oriented Concurrency for Python (microsoft.github.io)
    ×1.32 58 #40 | 57 points by mpweiher 11 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Make some art with your phone sensors (tautme.github.io)
    ×1.06 45 #47 | 84 points by adm4 13 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Judge: Nvidia's Shadow Library Scripts 'Have No Other Purpose' Than Infringement (torrentfreak.com)
    ×1.83 | 2 points by speckx 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Zuckerberg 'personally authorized' Meta's copyright infringement, publishers say (apnews.com)
    ×4.47 5 | 152 points by jethronethro 19 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Xbox CEO ends Copilot AI development and overhauls leadership (dexerto.com)
    ×3.26 17 | 107 points by gmays 18 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Rip.so – a graveyard for dead internet things (rip.so)
    ×1.37 124 | 186 points by bozdemir 1 week ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. CARA 2.0 – “I Built a Better Robot Dog” (aaedmusa.com)
    ×2.34 15 #11 | 357 points by hakonjdjohnsen 13 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. GLM-5V-Turbo: Toward a Native Foundation Model for Multimodal Agents (arxiv.org)
    ×1.06 23 #89 | 157 points by gmays 23 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Zero LLM deep codebase analysis built on math engine (codebase.observer)
    ×1.71 | 2 points by devconcierge 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. The first microcomputer: The transfluxor-powered Arma Micro Computer from 1962 (righto.com)
    ×1.32 | 2 points by rsecora 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Migrate your Evernote archive to Google Drive or local files (github.com/meizy)
    ×0.63 | 2 points by meizy 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: TRiP – a complete transformer engine in C built from scratch just by me (github.com/carlovalenti)
    ×0.66 159 | 38 points by carlovalenti 6 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Pytest plugin that classifies why your CI failed (github.com/ahmad212o)
    ×0.60 161 | 4 points by ahmad212o 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Detection of an atmosphere on a trans-Neptunian object beyond Pluto (nature.com)
    ×1.29 70 #77 | 15 points by tobr 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale (openai.com)
    ×2.13 28 | 499 points by Sean-Der 1 day ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables (github.com/darrylmorley)
    ×2.89 85 | 560 points by sleepingNomad 5 days ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Browser-based light pollution simulator using real photometric data (iesna.eu)
    ×0.44 138 | 43 points by 4 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Agent-evals – Claude skill to build your own evals (github.com/fsilavong)
    ×2.06 133 | 9 points by sauercrowd 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Lessons for Agentic Coding: What should we do when code is cheap? (dbreunig.com)
    ×1.57 61 #62 | 250 points by ingve 1 day ago | 231 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Kids can bypass some age checks with a drawn-on mustache (theregister.com)
    ×3.00 37 | 244 points by dreadsword 1 day ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. 'Point of no return': New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level (theguardian.com)
    ×3.41 62 | 171 points by dmm 1 day ago | 214 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Apple Cuts More Mac Studio and Mac Mini RAM Options as Memory Shortage Worsens (macrumors.com)
    ×3.13 40 | 67 points by pixelesque 20 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Claude Managed Agents can engage in a "dreaming" process to preserve memories (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.29 39 | 5 points by thisisauserid 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Rdprrap – Rust Port of RDPWrap (Multi-Session RDP for Windows Desktop) (github.com/kernalix7)
    ×0.91 88 | 3 points by kernalix7 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: OSS Agent I built topped the TerminalBench on Gemini-3-flash-preview (github.com/dirac-run)
    ×1.85 112 | 392 points by GodelNumbering 1 week ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks (paletteinspiration.com)
    ×1.33 16 #83 | 201 points by ouli 23 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Feds Fine Durham Energy Efficiency Co $722M (theassemblync.com)
    ×0.55 69 #75 | 26 points by ChuckMcM 14 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Empty Screenings – Finds AMC movie screenings with few or no tickets sold (walzr.com)
    ×1.76 27 | 323 points by MrBuddyCasino 1 day ago | 264 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Large Scale Article Extract of Newspapers 1730s-1960s (snewpapers.com)
    ×0.86 127 | 55 points by brettnbutter 4 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Site Mogging (sitemogging.com)
    ×1.09 136 | 69 points by jilles 5 days ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. TornadoVM (github.com/beehive-lab)
    ×0.99 #84 | 6 points by Tomte 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Meshcore Is Having a Week (pedaldrivenprogramming.com)
    ×0.87 | 2 points by perfectritone 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Reviewing in the Age of AI
    ×3.27 40 | 5 points by maxalbarello 55 minutes ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Drive any macOS app in the background without stealing the cursor (github.com/trycua)
    ×1.22 130 | 192 points by frabonacci 1 week ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: My Private GitHub on Postgres (github.com/calebwin)
    ×0.79 145 | 42 points by calebhwin 4 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. The bottleneck was never the code (thetypicalset.com)
    ×2.33 4 #4 | 326 points by Anon84 7 hours ago | 222 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. ReactOS Gets Unified BootCD, GUI Installer, and New ATA Storage Driver (phoronix.com)
    ×2.02 26 | 3 points by jeditobe 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Zed for Business (zed.dev)
    ×2.51 24 | 4 points by vquemener 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: AgentBrain – local-first Markdown/JSON vault for AI agents (heroka.xyz)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by pitashi 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Let's talk about LLMs (b-list.org)
    ×1.67 65 | 189 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. GPT‑5.5 Instant (openai.com)
    ×3.25 47 | 84 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: I indexed 8,643 BSides talks across 227 chapters and 6 continents (allbsides.com)
    ×1.78 95 | 24 points by Parkado 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: NFC tags are good material for pranks on Android (mastodon.social)
    ×1.23 13 #69 | 10 points by maxwellito 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Cross-language libraries with Temper [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.84 | 1 points by rhgraysonii 4 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Anthropic has a Red Team page (anthropic.com)
    ×2.00 20 | 3 points by DavidCanHelp 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Rust library for Undo/Redo using deltas, snapshots or commands (github.com/mikwielgus)
    ×0.95 147 | 25 points by mikolajw 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Muesli – If Granola and Wisprflow had an open source on device baby (freedspeech.xyz)
    ×1.38 117 | 14 points by pHequals7 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Why most product tours get skipped (productonboarding.com)
    ×1.50 56 #31 | 197 points by pancomplex 20 hours ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. You Don't Love Systemd Timers Enough (tjll.net)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by leephillips 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???