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  1. Life saving / first aid posters
    ×0.44 #87 | 29 points by cpu_ 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: How do you find deep technical content?
    ×1.19 34 | 7 points by f311a 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Heavy coding-agent users what's your context plumbing? Where it fails?
    ×0.52 | 2 points by srbsa 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2026)
    ×1.02 63 | 237 points by whoishiring 3 days ago | 398 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)
    ×0.80 70 | 145 points by whoishiring 3 days ago | 486 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: So what happened to Facebook "localhost" tracking?
    ×1.05 81 | 37 points by juliusceasar 2 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What are all the ways to punch through NAT?
    ×0.81 | 2 points by jupr 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. We're temporarily restricting Show HNs because of an influx
    ×0.75 58 | 13 points by cskilbeck 16 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Is it possible to send a message in Morse code by un-following someone on x.com?
    ×0.26 72 | 9 points by savhascelik 19 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Tell HN: Max messenger app removed from App Store
    ×0.71 51 | 8 points by secondary_op 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Anyone seen a CC- serial prefix on legacy networking hardware?
    ×0.81 76 | 68 points by Throwaway_sys 4 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Laid off. Broke. Depressed. & idk how to market my SaaS
    ×1.70 62 | 14 points by touseefbuilds 17 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: A Brief History of LLMs
    ×0.48 98 | 8 points by menomatter 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Why Ask HN has only 14 questions now?
    ×1.43 68 | 11 points by throwaw12 18 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Why are so many Show HNs being flagged?
    ×0.42 108 | 3 points by 866-RON-0-FEZ 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What Is the State of App Development in 2026?
    ×0.93 96 | 101 points by karakoram 4 days ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What is your opinion on index rule changes to accommodate Mega-Cap IPOs?
    ×0.94 102 | 15 points by figmert 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. I'm Done Using AI
    ×2.08 90 | 30 points by nyxtom 2 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel
    ×7.46 22 | 959 points by IliaLitviak 2 days ago | 267 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. $100 to a Debian Developer who can get Fresh Editor into Trixie
    ×0.40 116 | 28 points by jph 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Recruiters, How do you vet resume in 2026?
    ×0.40 126 | 15 points by CoffeeSky 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Angular jasmine unit tests are harder to code/maintain than the actual feature
    ×0.52 135 | 3 points by GamingAtWork 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. AI Goal: Senior Software Engineer
    ×0.25 125 | 4 points by oryocyph 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Why is AI use decried if it has been used without attribution?
    ×0.54 119 | 7 points by bookofjoe 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Tell HN: In the old days, computers used to get constantly faster and cheaper
    ×1.30 107 | 14 points by wewewedxfgdf 2 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Learn SQL Once, Use It for 30 Years (fagnerbrack.com)
    ×2.20 16 #21 | 173 points by karakoram 13 hours ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Fluid Simulation for Dummies (2006) (mikeash.com)
    ×0.66 54 #59 | 62 points by sebg 23 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: MetaBrain – A local document memory for AI agents (metabrain.eu)
    ×1.35 111 | 8 points by acoye 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model (blog.google)
    ×3.71 11 #10 | 938 points by rvz 22 hours ago | 353 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. PlayStation Architecture (copetti.org)
    ×1.85 32 #34 | 331 points by gregsadetsky 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Muxcard, a DIY credit card size computer (github.com/krauseler)
    ×1.92 47 #84 | 282 points by sargstuff 2 days ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Naively Summing an Alternating Series (johndcook.com)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by ibobev 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Good type against all odds (aresluna.org)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by firloop 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Teradata CEO to staff: You're not getting a raise. We're spending on AI instead (businessinsider.com)
    ×2.03 28 | 3 points by healsdata 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Meta repeatedly snubs EU body over Facebook and Instagram user bans (bbc.com)
    ×1.62 64 | 91 points by dijksterhuis 1 day ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. When does fragmentation occur in the CUDA caching allocator? (pytorch.org)
    ×0.44 61 #62 | 14 points by matt_d 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Floating-point error handling in C++: what works? (johnnysswlab.com)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by fanf2 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. The Unreasonable Redundancy of Nature's Protein Folds (ligo.bio)
    ×1.05 35 #76 | 156 points by ray__ 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. What I've learned about the trombone (bryanhu.com)
    ×0.82 59 #49 | 95 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release (davidedmundson.co.uk)
    ×1.47 44 #81 | 233 points by jandeboevrie 2 days ago | 351 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. HP re-releases classic computer science calculator: The HP-16C (hpcalcs.com)
    ×1.39 33 #83 | 210 points by dm319 1 day ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. User Interfaces and "Blandification" (jordanm.co.uk)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by speckx 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Yarle – The ultimate converter of Evernote notes to Markdown (github.com/akosbalasko)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by amai 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Solving complex optimization problems with Google OR-Tools in browser (github.com/Axelwickm)
    ×0.74 73 | 12 points by AxelWickman 23 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Rux – A Programming Language Built Without LLVM (rux-lang.dev)
    ×0.59 149 | 3 points by musicvano 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Live, system-wide USB transfer sniffer in eBPF (github.com/yeet-src)
    ×2.34 146 | 9 points by r3tr0 4 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: webrtcforthestreamer.com – How WHIP makes streaming more connected (webrtcforthestreamer.com)
    ×1.16 147 | 5 points by Sean-Der 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare (cloudflare.com)
    ×2.59 #1 | 196 points by coloneltcb 1 hour ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. A Mathematician's Lament (2002) [pdf] (worrydream.com)
    ×1.13 37 #38 | 94 points by xeonmc 17 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: ClearLogo – a logo API that returns usable logos, not raw files (clearlogo.dev)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by ehalim 33 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. MAI-Code-1-Flash (microsoft.ai)
    ×2.16 9 | 536 points by EvanZhouDev 1 day ago | 253 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Build Your Own AI Agent CLI in 150 Lines (go-micro.dev)
    ×1.68 80 | 32 points by asim 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: I built an Android OS in the browser (mobilegym.dev)
    ×1.78 127 | 28 points by haozaz 5 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Stable Audio 3 – one-shot sample generator (110gb download) (github.com/shiehn)
    ×2.68 138 | 10 points by stevehiehn 4 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. How we index images for RAG (kapa.ai)
    ×1.32 42 #78 | 200 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: AI-Powered PDF to Markdown Converter (pdftomdconverter.com)
    ×1.36 118 | 4 points by QingWu 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: NUA an agent that tests for product correctness (trynua.dev)
    ×1.71 122 | 8 points by Paster335 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Ableton Extensions SDK (ableton.com)
    ×1.32 28 #32 | 149 points by bennett_dev 18 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Self-hosted dev sandboxes with preview URLs (Docker, Go, no K8s) (github.com/tastyeffectco)
    ×1.11 38 #41 | 99 points by tastyeffectco 19 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Algorithmic Theming Engines (smashingmagazine.com)
    ×0.41 56 #74 | 17 points by mooreds 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. GitHub Copilot App (github.com/features)
    ×1.23 50 | 122 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Tired of duct-taping access control into agent prompts. Here's the fix (github.com/yaodub)
    ×0.52 69 | 21 points by zwigglers 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Instant DBML Schema to Database Diagram PNG Tool (vibe-schema.com)
    ×0.51 89 | 6 points by SsgMshdPotatoes 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. I was recently diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis (burntsushi.net)
    ×3.16 9 #18 | 677 points by Tomte 22 hours ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. New Texas Instruments 5532 chips are not the 5532s we’ve used for decades (groupdiy.com)
    ×1.72 30 #58 | 116 points by SpikedCola 22 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Top AI CEOs Call for Law Protecting Against Biological Weapons (wsj.com)
    ×1.33 | 2 points by wrsh07 50 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Lint Your Markdown with ESLint (github.com/lumirlumir)
    ×0.60 65 | 13 points by beenzinozino 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: 100cc - Roll your own Claude in 100 lines (github.com/yujqiao)
    ×1.16 103 | 10 points by rapiz 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Kiki – a tiny homepage construction kit with a small footprint (tomotama.com)
    ×1.39 4 #22 | 68 points by tobr 4 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Black-box API bug detection across 7 AI systems (kusho.ai)
    ×6.60 77 | 8 points by riyajoshi 19 minutes ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. DeepSWE: Measuring frontier coding agents on original, long-horizon SWE tasks (datacurve.ai)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by WarmWash 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Reddit Banned Me Without a Goodbye Note. Here's What I Did Wrong (medium.com)
    ×2.94 45 | 4 points by liorlb 49 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. I built a ceiling projection mapping of the planes flying over my house (reddit.com)
    ×2.57 20 | 218 points by frereubu 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. 4K years ago, Mohenjo-daro grew more equal over time (archaeologymag.com)
    ×1.10 47 | 116 points by marojejian 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Junco, turn newsletters into short audio episodes (tryjunco.com)
    ×1.25 129 | 3 points by alex-onecard 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: A "gym" for art value studies using images from your Pinterest boards (valuestudiescoach.com)
    ×0.85 152 | 3 points by sailorganymede 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Uber's commitment to self-driving startup Nuro is close to $500M (reuters.com)
    ×1.34 | 2 points by JumpCrisscross 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Eyeball (rory.codes)
    ×2.15 37 | 284 points by mrroryflint 2 days ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Breathe CLI – Paced resonance breathing in the macOS terminal (github.com/marekkowalczyk)
    ×1.02 84 | 132 points by marekkowalczyk 4 days ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes (dailycal.org)
    ×3.54 1 #16 | 534 points by littlexsparkee 14 hours ago | 476 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Join 30 internet strangers in a group chat, locked forever (isle31.com)
    ×0.78 | 2 points by vincentlenoach 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Now AI agents need what RSS does (julienreszka.com)
    ×1.96 61 | 84 points by julienreszka 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: I created a React alternative using web componnents (createthirdplaces.org)
    ×2.10 75 | 7 points by gulugawa 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Angular v22 (angular.dev)
    ×1.47 8 #72 | 131 points by Klaster_1 22 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Ideogram 4.0 Technical Details: Open model at the forefront of design (ideogram.ai)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by GaggiX 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: EarthGuessr – Guess locations from satellite imagery (earthguessr.com)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by fredrikmoger 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. The simplest proof LLMs are not conscious [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by abtinf 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Agentic Mfw (agenticmotherfucking.website)
    ×3.30 13 | 209 points by elmerland 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Monophobie, a shared ASCII canvas, never draw alone (monophobie.de)
    ×1.41 110 | 4 points by dschu 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen (0xsid.com)
    ×7.77 12 #79 | 2175 points by ssiddharth 2 days ago | 486 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???