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  1. Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)
    ×1.28 15 #11 | 161 points by david927 10 hours ago | 600 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. I indexed 669 GB of my GoPro videos using my M1 Max computer and local ML models
    ×2.64 7 #23 | 290 points by iliashad 11 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Year of Linux Desktop is fun with LLMs
    ×0.62 64 | 3 points by mirekrusin 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: How are thinking efforts implemented?
    ×0.54 148 | 96 points by simianwords 1 week ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA
    ×3.10 75 | 796 points by eries 4 days ago | 575 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Favorite text heavy blogs that are a joy to read?
    ×0.87 108 | 113 points by joshmarinacci 5 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?
    ×1.37 119 | 262 points by mdni007 6 days ago | 239 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models
    ×2.40 92 | 423 points by TomAnthony 4 days ago | 253 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Want to build something open source on nights and weekends together?
    ×0.58 127 | 39 points by vira28 3 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Is there a name for the type of comments agents add where they leak the prompt?
    ×0.46 94 | 17 points by xdennis 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Notes on DeepSeek
    ×1.95 101 | 208 points by vinhnx 4 days ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Would it be useful to have a slop button in addition to flag?
    ×1.04 133 | 36 points by BugsJustFindMe 4 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. FTX's former Anthropic stake would be worth about $75B at today's valuation
    ×1.72 12 | 39 points by adam_rida 9 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Are most corporate SWE jobs performative?
    ×2.41 99 | 247 points by hnthrow10282910 4 days ago | 282 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
    ×2.34 103 | 441 points by aryamaan 6 days ago | 775 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How do you get into a flow state when using AI to code?
    ×1.39 111 | 91 points by kilroy123 3 days ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. I procrastinate by building tools to stop me from procrastinating: A sad story
    ×0.89 144 | 20 points by thisislorenzov 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Story of How Im Running an Unlimited $6/Month AI Provider on 4x RTX 3090s
    ×1.20 104 | 7 points by yolo-auto 21 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Are you still using a Vision Pro?
    ×1.29 120 | 171 points by y1n0 5 days ago | 214 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Is anyone shorting the overspend in AI yet?
    ×1.48 159 | 17 points by ggm 3 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. We should start measuring knowledge debt like the way we do for tech debt
    ×1.96 82 | 7 points by ciwolex 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. What if we legally required politicians to work regular jobs 2 months a year?
    ×1.04 126 | 11 points by ekoeko 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Is there a metric for AI code quality?
    ×0.36 184 | 6 points by fractalf 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Did we witness the "Trinity moment" for AI?
    ×0.54 100 | 18 points by vld_chk 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Tell HN: iOS devs, get back lots of disk space: xcrun simctl delete unavailable
    ×0.48 134 | 5 points by amichail 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Why is the best way to find a job as a Software Engineer in 2026?
    ×1.93 90 | 6 points by Ako03 13 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Which cheap Chinese LLM are you using?
    ×2.76 93 | 15 points by linzhangrun 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: What internal tool did you build that became a product?
    ×0.82 183 | 7 points by nehpets 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: What is the AI adoption approach at your org?
    ×0.43 131 | 6 points by iExploder 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Did anyone went to YC directly from Sri Lanka?
    ×0.83 137 | 4 points by geethikaisuru 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: I Need Help for a Product
    ×0.54 153 | 8 points by memoryleakgame 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Agents get dumber before release of new model version?
    ×0.77 171 | 9 points by sporkland 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Phishing from 646-257-4500
    ×0.60 149 | 7 points by latchkey 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: How to deal with App Store rejections?
    ×0.42 155 | 4 points by high_byte 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Influence of Legend of Zelda in Backrooms Movie?
    ×0.31 164 | 6 points by dieselgate 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: What features do you miss in Google Docs for desktop?
    ×0.44 163 | 4 points by mci 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: What would you do with a trillion dollars
    ×2.62 114 | 12 points by brudgers 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: Are you using Spec Driven Development?
    ×0.68 156 | 6 points by xpn 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. DigitalOcean Ending Student Credit Promotion
    ×0.51 166 | 5 points by thepotatodude 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Turn your name into a tree in an infinite procedural shanshui landscape (bairui.dev)
    ×0.59 107 | 41 points by subairui 4 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: IssunDB – a new embedded graph database with vector and text search (github.com/IssunDB)
    ×1.46 145 | 4 points by habedi0 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: BootProof – Cryptographically prove any GitHub repo boots locally (github.com/bootproof)
    ×1.51 59 | 3 points by Bucko1 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Did Anthropic ask for this? (verysane.ai)
    ×3.95 35 #38 | 159 points by ad8e 3 hours ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. US and Iran reach cease fire agreement (nytimes.com)
    ×1.80 31 | 3 points by koolba 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: I created a simple searchable list of abandoned WordPress Plugins (vimsy.io)
    ×1.56 124 | 4 points by arximughal 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Squishy & Friends – Claude Fabel 5 coded a game and it is good (franzai.com)
    ×1.41 169 | 5 points by franze 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Polypost: Draft once, format for every platform. Made by Mark Russinovich (markrussinovich.github.io)
    ×0.88 | 2 points by annjose 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Measles surge in Utah sparks fears US could undo decades of progress (dailymail.com)
    ×2.97 55 | 126 points by Bender 11 hours ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: ZeroFS – Make S3 your primary storage (zerofs.net)
    ×2.14 162 | 11 points by Eikon 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Putt.day a daily mini golf game (putt.day)
    ×1.63 51 | 312 points by ellg 2 days ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. The state of building user interfaces in Rust (areweguiyet.com)
    ×1.29 53 #83 | 196 points by mahirsaid 1 day ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Argentina Wants to Let AI Own Companies. Here's What That Means (forbes.com)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by pseudolus 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. The redistribution of housing wealth caused by rent control (2023) [pdf] (rhawa.org)
    ×1.52 30 | 82 points by luu 23 hours ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Afterburner – Capability-Sandboxed JavaScript/TS Runtime in Rust (github.com/afterburner-sh)
    ×1.23 89 | 6 points by vertexclique 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Why Your CPU Is Fast but Your Program Is Slow: Understanding the Memory Wall (prawns.dev)
    ×0.82 52 #13 | 5 points by prawns_1205 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. The experience of rendering Arabic typography and its technical debt (lr0.org)
    ×1.75 16 | 273 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Our response to the US ban on Fable 5 and Mythos 5 (isaacus.com)
    ×2.86 81 | 98 points by ubutler 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort (tombedor.dev)
    ×6.62 11 #85 | 1715 points by jjfoooo4 3 days ago | 501 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. AI Has Amnesia. Here's Every System Built to Fix It (medium.com)
    ×0.93 | 1 points by AlanAAG 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Coding agent with algebraic memory (VSA) instead of RAG (github.com/vitaliyfedotovpro-art)
    ×1.07 23 | 3 points by astrumverum 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. The Birth and Death of JavaScript (2014) (destroyallsoftware.com)
    ×1.15 5 #27 | 213 points by subset 13 hours ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Lattice Triangles Are Rare (axiommath.ai)
    ×0.42 42 #57 | 9 points by skogstokig 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Police officer investigated for using AI to 'create evidence' in multiple cases (sky.com)
    ×3.73 1 #79 | 374 points by austinallegro 1 day ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Caddy compatibility for zeroserve: 3x throughput and 70% lower latency (su3.io)
    ×1.16 19 #18 | 157 points by losfair 12 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Linux 7.1 (kernel.org)
    ×3.36 12 #30 | 237 points by berlianta 10 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Vibe Coder vs. Software Engineer (yusufaytas.com)
    ×2.45 12 #41 | 56 points by yusufaytas 6 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Your Database Is the Bottleneck. Not Your Code (howtocenterdiv.com)
    ×0.93 | 2 points by mooreds 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. GameBoy Workboy (tcrf.net)
    ×1.30 14 | 221 points by tosh 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Cortex – Agent-native knowledge OS on Markdown (Karpathy's LLM Wiki) (github.com/synpulse8-opensource)
    ×0.89 181 | 3 points by jiekepan 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. New pancreatic cancer drug might open the door to much longer survival times (economist.com)
    ×1.98 23 #66 | 428 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Solaris the Thinking Ocean Simulator (franzai.com)
    ×2.66 25 | 6 points by franze 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Let Me Repost (github.com/harrisjerico30-dotcom)
    ×0.94 | 2 points by jericoharris 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: macOS menu bar gauges for your Claude Code quota (github.com/grzegorz-raczek-unit8)
    ×0.75 130 | 67 points by grzracz 4 days ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Atlasphere – Live Infrastructure Diagrams
    ×0.49 139 | 31 points by andreygrehov 5 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Can't Stop the Signal. Poison It (digitalgrease.dev)
    ×1.72 33 #62 | 52 points by rmadriz 14 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Beagle: Git, URIs and all the dirty words (replicated.wiki)
    ×0.48 74 #86 | 30 points by gritzko 19 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Image Toolbox (T8RIN) (github.com/T8RIN)
    ×1.32 36 | 3 points by unexpectedVCR 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Bob Dylan (and others) on turning 80 (nytimes.com)
    ×1.51 48 | 3 points by paulpauper 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Meta’s chaotic AI strategy (wired.com)
    ×4.64 46 | 71 points by momentmaker 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Visualize an Obsidian/gbrain vault as an interactive graph and timeline (vladignatyev.github.io)
    ×0.73 172 | 3 points by v_ignatyev 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Free SQL→ER diagram tool, runs in the browser, nothing uploaded (sqltoerdiagram.com)
    ×2.16 8 #59 | 341 points by robhati 22 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. What's Going on with the Web? (iam.mt)
    ×1.80 22 | 4 points by thallavajhula 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0 (brew.sh)
    ×5.32 20 | 1456 points by mikemcquaid 3 days ago | 355 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Geiger – A blast radius triage tool for any credential (github.com/puck-security)
    ×0.61 182 | 3 points by thesubtlety 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Stanford grads walk out on Google CEO Sundar Pichai speech (twitter.com/maattttbrown)
    ×6.08 41 #45 | 125 points by sosomoxie 3 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Swiss voters reject proposal to cap population at 10M (theguardian.com)
    ×0.87 | 2 points by pseudolus 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Carney Says Anthropic Ban Shows Risk of Relying on Big AI Models (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.56 50 | 3 points by root-parent 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Inkwash, a watercolor sketching app and explanation (johnowhitaker.github.io)
    ×1.77 122 | 5 points by Yenrabbit 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Reality Kernel – A causal containment sandbox for autonomous AI agents (realitykernel.dev)
    ×0.72 157 | 3 points by Tabrez416 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Decouple the Agent: Why Prompts, Tools, and Models Don't Belong in Your Client (vivgrid.com)
    ×0.97 | 1 points by fanweixiao 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???