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  1. Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
    ×1.19 6 #6 | 99 points by david927 5 hours ago | 348 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Will low quality AI customer support be the new normal?
    ×0.74 2 #52 | 7 points by 0-bad-sectors 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Remind HN: Today is Mother's Day, call your moms
    ×5.45 86 | 339 points by rationalist 6 hours ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...
    ×2.48 48 | 444 points by mittermayr 2 days ago | 325 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated
    ×7.44 13 | 1638 points by CliffStoll 4 days ago | 251 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Is this the SWE workflow of the future?
    ×0.71 51 | 9 points by mc-0 9 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Cancelling Claude subscription renewal immediately revokes Design access
    ×0.38 83 | 4 points by o10449366 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Can a tinnitus be triggered by high frequency noises?
    ×0.21 101 | 5 points by tinnitus_crazy 20 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Best AI coding plan alternative to Claude and ChatGPT
    ×1.95 72 | 13 points by Jsttan 17 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Former master-tech building AI systems – how to break into software?
    ×0.22 135 | 3 points by nicku711 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Before Open Source took over the server, what was the discourse like?
    ×0.66 103 | 6 points by mbgerring 23 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. How are folks affordably self-training in AI?
    ×0.46 110 | 7 points by macartain 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. LLM generated parsers and compliance checkers for Sparrow DSL
    ×0.24 138 | 3 points by melezhik 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What is the underlying stack behind multi-agent platforms?
    ×0.26 143 | 3 points by throwaw12 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What is your go-to solution for a personal wiki in 2026?
    ×0.41 136 | 15 points by ex-aws-dude 3 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Reflections on NetBSD 11
    ×0.40 132 | 9 points by morpheos137 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What do you still do manually in 2026 that should be automated?
    ×0.34 139 | 20 points by lishunsheng 3 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: What will happen as AI costs increase?
    ×0.49 133 | 15 points by MetaWhirledPeas 3 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How are you handling QA being bottlenecked with more AI-generated PRs?
    ×0.28 166 | 5 points by softneon 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad?
    ×1.73 130 | 135 points by idontwantthis 1 week ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Can NPM, pnpm etc. use frontier models to check packages for malware?
    ×0.27 146 | 5 points by VikRubenfeld 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Novel macro signals for AI-related job loss?
    ×0.34 147 | 5 points by sfmz 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: How to start up as an individual developer?
    ×0.48 161 | 14 points by alexyan0431 4 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How do we handle the rise of low quality "This is LLM" comments?
    ×0.53 131 | 9 points by shantnutiwari 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Are we gonna back less powerful local LLMs
    ×0.32 151 | 10 points by omertt27 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: nocal is a calendar that turns your week into a workspace (nocal.app)
    ×2.12 111 | 8 points by bcmuse 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Codeberg (Forgejo) CLI, built with Xclif (codeberg.org)
    ×1.08 170 | 16 points by thatxliner 5 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Surfel-based global illumination on the web (juretriglav.si)
    ×0.95 65 #65 | 71 points by vmg12 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Fluiq – LLM observability, evals and optimization in two lines of Python (getfluiq.com)
    ×0.78 | 2 points by SaurabhKumbhar 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Engineering Strategy and Planning (yusufaytas.com)
    ×3.83 41 | 12 points by london_safari 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. I caught the car (undecidability.net)
    ×0.70 62 | 50 points by holden_nelson 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: NanoCorp – Create autonomous companies run by AI (nanocorp.so)
    ×2.17 120 | 14 points by AdrienBA 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Internet Archive Switzerland (archive.org)
    ×2.70 10 #48 | 677 points by hggh 1 day ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. TrackMoose, a music discovery tool that blends up to 100 artists (trackmoose.com)
    ×1.26 29 | 3 points by vikdean 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: nfsdiag – A NFS diagnostic application (github.com/lsferreira42)
    ×0.80 129 | 83 points by lsferreira42 1 week ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Walking slower? Your ears, not your knees, might be the problem (wsj.com)
    ×0.75 15 #19 | 74 points by marc__1 8 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. The hypocrisy of cyberlibertarianism (matduggan.com)
    ×2.91 13 #90 | 401 points by ColinWright 1 day ago | 359 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Misplaced Panic over AI Progress (garymarcus.substack.com)
    ×1.57 18 | 4 points by agluszak 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Kstack – Skill pack for monitoring/troubleshooting K8s in Claude Code (github.com/kubetail-org)
    ×0.56 118 | 25 points by andres 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Stop playing my matchstick puzzles, start building your own in seconds (mathstick.github.io)
    ×0.73 173 | 37 points by trangram 1 week ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Replacing a 3 GB SQLite db with a 10 MB FST (finite state transducer) binary (andrew-quinn.me)
    ×2.41 17 #47 | 155 points by hiAndrewQuinn 12 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Prpack – Pack a pull request into one Markdown file for LLM code review (github.com/Lucas2944)
    ×0.75 | 2 points by claudetester89 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Doctors Just Staged the Quietest Coup in American History (thegrimhistorian.substack.com)
    ×7.20 12 | 33 points by s4i 12 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: A search engine for deleted YouTube videos (1.5B+ indexed since 2005) (archivarix.net)
    ×4.08 99 | 13 points by archivarix 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Ovlt – Lightweight Auth Server That Runs in ~20MB RAM (ovlt.tech)
    ×1.18 137 | 5 points by Shrpp 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Forza Horizon 6 just leaked on Steam, letting pirates play it (neowin.net)
    ×2.50 25 | 6 points by bundie 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Hair Maths: Curl Geometry and Braids [pdf] (tomrocksmaths.com)
    ×1.21 21 | 3 points by marysminefnuf 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Crit – local review tool for agent plans and code diffs (crit.md)
    ×1.52 127 | 12 points by tomasz-tomczyk 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Taxpayers May Be Eligible for Significant Tax Refunds – If They Act by July 10 (irs.gov)
    ×1.61 36 #83 | 56 points by goldfishgold 8 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. France moves to break encrypted messaging (reclaimthenet.org)
    ×4.58 21 #89 | 268 points by Cider9986 1 day ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. The Flickr Commons (flickr.com)
    ×1.25 | 3 points by gone35 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. GrapheneOS isn't vulnerable to the 3 recent Linux memory logic vulnerabilities (grapheneos.org)
    ×3.52 91 | 42 points by Cider9986 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. The locals don't know (quarter--mile.com)
    ×1.51 5 #15 | 73 points by herbertl 7 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning (github.com/imtomt)
    ×2.05 10 #41 | 385 points by imtomt 20 hours ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: UAP Archive – a Rust CLI to archive war.gov/UFO Release 01 (github.com/Pym)
    ×0.37 | 1 points by Pym 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: State of the Art of Coding Models, According to Hacker News Commenters (hnup.date)
    ×1.27 124 | 168 points by yunusabd 1 week ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Vladimir Putin is losing his grip on Russia (economist.com)
    ×6.54 69 | 58 points by bazzmt 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Notion-to-site – sync any Notion database to local Markdown/MDX/JSON (github.com/rashidazarang)
    ×0.40 150 | 5 points by rashidae 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: A Mutating Webhook to automatically strip PII from K8s logs (github.com/aragossa)
    ×0.48 154 | 25 points by aragoss 5 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Guy Goma's Accidental BBC Interview Lives on After 20 Years (nytimes.com)
    ×0.88 20 #13 | 9 points by nxobject 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Wall Street lawyers aided insider trading ring, say US prosecutors (ft.com)
    ×1.90 2 #57 | 28 points by johnbarron 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Freediving, Embodiment and Humanity (tracesofhumanity.org)
    ×0.74 | 2 points by nathanh 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. sixos: a nix os without systemd [video] (ccc.de)
    ×0.80 | 2 points by bmacho 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Music for Mushrooms – Award-Winning Documentary [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.76 | 2 points by momentmaker 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. The first microcomputer: The transfluxor-powered Arma Micro Computer from 1962 (righto.com)
    ×0.83 72 #63 | 69 points by rsecora 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Hustler Bingo – a tiny bingo game about startup Twitter clichés (hustlerbingo.app)
    ×1.14 26 | 3 points by lackoftactics 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Canada's unemployment rate rises to 6.9% as economy sheds more jobs (financialpost.com)
    ×1.93 19 #60 | 13 points by geox 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Scientists warn Atlantic current at risk of shutting down (yale.edu)
    ×3.82 76 | 153 points by ambigious7777 7 hours ago | 199 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. "openai.com" was once the personal homepage of a guy named glenn (bsky.app)
    ×2.36 6 | 43 points by ndr42 12 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Getting arrested in Japan (sundaicity.com)
    ×4.63 21 | 242 points by bane 1 day ago | 289 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Nvidia Goes to Zero. – By JA Westenberg – Selfonomics (selfonomics.com)
    ×3.48 73 | 42 points by tambourine_man 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Nuke All Routers (github.com/maxbrito500)
    ×1.24 17 | 3 points by nunobrito 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Airbyte Agents – context for agents across multiple data sources
    ×0.80 107 | 150 points by mtricot 5 days ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler (grapheneos.social)
    ×4.24 #1 | 693 points by ChuckMcM 5 hours ago | 259 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. I'm writing a history of Visual Basic, Chapter 1 is up (evilgeniuslabs.ca)
    ×1.46 55 #43 | 152 points by speckx 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Meta's embrace of AI is making its employees miserable (nytimes.com)
    ×4.76 17 #76 | 427 points by JumpCrisscross 1 day ago | 507 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Is it still all about the people? (lisacrispin.com)
    ×0.83 | 2 points by adrianhoward 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Is this a bad moment for a math career? (mathoverflow.net)
    ×0.78 | 2 points by bananaflag 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Remind – schedule Claude Code on your Mac (olliewagner.com)
    ×3.18 94 | 7 points by olliewagner 21 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Software Engineer to Novelist: Writing a Book Like Coding (frequal.com)
    ×1.09 175 | 22 points by TeaVMFan 1 week ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Making your own programming language is easier than you think (but also harder) (lisyarus.github.io)
    ×1.11 55 #56 | 125 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Canada admits bill C-22 would allow govt to secretly order microphone activation (xcancel.com)
    ×2.25 45 #84 | 3 points by CGMthrowaway 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. After USDA request, Indiana plant biologist locked out of lab by school (science.org)
    ×1.43 10 | 3 points by doener 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: A lie detector game that reads your pulse through your phone camera (kouh.me)
    ×1.84 123 | 11 points by mrkn1 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Orch8 – Durable workflow engine in Rust, one binary, Postgres or SQLite (github.com/orch8-io)
    ×1.81 155 | 26 points by _alphageek 5 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. SpaceX wants to launch a million satellites (cbc.ca)
    ×1.75 14 #31 | 31 points by billybuckwheat 3 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Web-REPL "skred" : my OSS sound engine w/retro C64 appearance (octetta.github.io)
    ×2.14 9 | 5 points by octetta 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: My AI agents bully each other to prevent context drift (wuphf.team)
    ×3.23 108 | 7 points by najmuzzaman 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Runs AI coding agents inside isolated Docker containers (github.com/marvincaspar)
    ×0.94 145 | 7 points by matt_callmann 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Gen Z Resentment Toward AI Grows as Adoption Stagnates and Workplace Fears Mount (waltonfamilyfoundation.org)
    ×6.30 22 | 91 points by mgh2 15 hours ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???