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Ask HN: Hiring in the age of AI-assisted coding: what works?

×0.42 49 | 13 points by nitramm 8 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?

×1.95 70 | 463 points by e-topy 5 days ago | 708 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Why Databases Instead of Filesystem?

×0.24 100 | 7 points by uticus 13 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Open Source card game cuttle.cards has its world championship Saturday at 1pm ET

×0.19 94 | 3 points by aleph_one 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?

×1.56 85 | 132 points by meander_water 1 day ago | 179 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Any Open Source projects in need of documentation writer?

×0.42 108 | 20 points by tree666 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How do you handle marketing as a solo technical founder?

×1.25 127 | 142 points by lazarkap 4 days ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Are you encountering AI-related questions in the hiring market?

×0.27 118 | 6 points by somthingwrong 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Should AI credits be refunded on mistakes?

×0.22 149 | 17 points by ed_elliott_asc 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Yuku – A fast, spec-compliant JavaScript parser written in Zig

×0.45 135 | 6 points by arshadyaseen 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Zooming UIs in 2026: Prezi, impress.js, and why I built something different

×1.04 136 | 100 points by tinchox6 4 days ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What would you do with an AI model capable of continuous learning?

×0.30 147 | 4 points by jballanc 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How do you manage your digital legacy for after you die?

×0.47 156 | 13 points by orbanlevi 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
IMDB created my account for merely visiting the site

×1.25 126 | 11 points by astr0n0m3r 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hybrid Attention

×0.38 145 | 40 points by JohannaAlmeida 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Local-first meetings recorder and transcriber?

×0.21 169 | 3 points by dandaka 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Founders/investors, what AI bet you made in 2022 and how it is going?

×0.15 167 | 6 points by kjok 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GPT 5.4 in practice – Stinks?

×0.44 170 | 9 points by sjt-at-rev 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Druids – Build your own software factory (github.com/fulcrumresearch)

×0.66 87 | 60 points by etherio 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Airwave synced music streaming from YouTube/Spotify links (github.com/76696265636f646572)

×0.58 | 2 points by Vibecoder_ 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: LLM-Wiki but for Early Founders (github.com/himanshusaleria)

×0.61 158 | 4 points by ashed96 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How Pizza Tycoon simulated traffic on a 25 MHz CPU (pizzalegacy.nl)

×2.23 36 | 297 points by FinnKuhn 1 day ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Vercel plugin on Claude Code wants to read your prompts (akshaychugh.xyz)

×2.05 33 | 269 points by akshay2603 1 day ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Unicode Steganography (patrickvuscan.com)

×0.54 119 | 55 points by PatrickVuscan 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Undocumented Qualcomm mesh topology 802.11 frames (weekly.org)

×0.37 | 2 points by dweekly 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident (samaltman.com)

×4.55 12 #15 | 197 points by jack_hanford 3 hours ago | 375 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers (gadgetreview.com)

×2.87 9 | 297 points by rmason 1 day ago | 429 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Palmier – Dispatch and schedule AI agents from your phone (palmier.me)

×1.53 | 2 points by caihongxu 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead (aywren.com)

×3.55 13 | 253 points by speckx 1 day ago | 271 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: QVAC SDK, a universal JavaScript SDK for building local AI applications

×0.53 58 | 28 points by qvac 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Generative art over the years (veitheller.de)

×1.41 13 #83 | 227 points by evakhoury 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I built a Cargo-like build tool for C/C++ (github.com/randerson112)

×0.92 62 #89 | 166 points by randerson_112 1 day ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I run AI background removal in the browser–no upload,no server (allplix.com)

×1.14 92 | 5 points by shadoxise 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A tool to manage a swarm of coding agents on Linux (github.com/penberg)

×1.27 123 | 5 points by penberg 18 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bevy game development tutorials and in-depth resources (taintedcoders.com)

×1.76 22 #9 | 12 points by GenericCanadian 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Session is shutting down in 90 days (getsession.org)

×1.61 74 | 145 points by balamatom 1 day ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
New Kodak Film – Verita 200D Colour Negative (kodak.com)

×1.04 | 1 points by coolandsmartrr 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
[STORY] Watching Abandoned Toddlers as the End Approaches (tumblr.com)

×1.03 | 2 points by barry-cotter 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Research-Driven Agents: When an agent reads before it codes (skypilot.co)

×1.16 47 | 206 points by hopechong 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Study found that young adults have grown less hopeful and more angry about AI (nytimes.com)

×6.84 72 | 136 points by elsewhen 1 day ago | 179 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: SmolVM – open-source sandbox for coding and computer-use agents (github.com/CelestoAI)

×1.92 138 | 6 points by theaniketmaurya 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: FluidCAD – Parametric CAD with JavaScript (fluidcad.io)

×1.08 4 #21 | 112 points by maouida 8 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Simulating a 2D Quadcopter from Scratch (mrandri19.github.io)

×0.49 48 #33 | 22 points by daww 6 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: BrokenClaw Part 5: GPT-5.4 Edition (Prompt Injection) (veganmosfet.codeberg.page)

×0.87 139 | 9 points by veganmosfet 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: AgentMint – Open-source OWASP compliance for AI agent tool calls (github.com/aniketh-maddipati)

×1.65 151 | 5 points by keertahacker 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Jonathan Ive, Designer, Apple – "A computer can be sexy." (slate.com)

×0.70 | 1 points by goekjclo 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
There are limited benefits when parents hold back their child in kindergarten (latimes.com)

×1.11 53 | 3 points by PaulHoule 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Use Claude Max subscription with OpenClaw again (github.com/zeulewan)

×0.30 | 1 points by zeulewan 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Is VC the new PMF strategy?

×0.76 | 1 points by networkOne 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
CLínica Bíblica: From Mission Hospital to Modern Medical Leader in Costa Rica (johnquam.substack.com)

×0.81 | 2 points by headmonkey 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why do we tell ourselves scary stories about AI? (quantamagazine.org)

×1.29 63 #52 | 36 points by lschueller 12 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Yout.com Hopes Supreme Court's Cox Ruling Helps Its Case; RIAA Disagrees (torrentfreak.com)

×1.19 | 2 points by Cider9986 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: TUI-use: Let AI agents control interactive terminal programs (github.com/onesuper)

×0.60 121 | 52 points by dreamsome 2 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bluesky April 2026 Outage Post-Mortem (pckt.blog)

×1.17 7 #44 | 132 points by jcalabro 11 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
HBO Obtains DMCA Subpoena to Unmask 'Euphoria' Spoiler Account on X (torrentfreak.com)

×1.89 8 #47 | 95 points by speckx 9 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A WYSIWYG word processor in Python (codeberg.org)

×0.93 14 #31 | 66 points by chrisecker 8 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ChatGPT Pro now starts at $100/month (chatgpt.com)

×3.74 39 | 209 points by strongpigeon 1 day ago | 248 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
BunnyCDN has been silently losing our production files for 15 months (reddit.com)

×4.27 34 | 172 points by speckx 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters (playlists.at)

×1.67 115 | 323 points by nevernothing 5 days ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech (techcrunch.com)

×6.22 52 #60 | 456 points by Teever 11 hours ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Top laptops to use with FreeBSD (freebsdfoundation.github.io)

×1.76 44 | 328 points by fork-bomber 1 day ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers (colaptop.pages.dev)

×2.52 1 | 388 points by argentum47 1 day ago | 233 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Figma for Coding Agents (getdesign.md)

×1.36 84 | 10 points by omeraplak 11 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: See what your employees are prompting LLMs (without network proxies) (privent.ai)

×1.06 164 | 3 points by asilozyildirim 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI assistance when contributing to the Linux kernel (github.com/torvalds)

×2.32 4 #10 | 178 points by hmokiguess 8 hours ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How NASA built Artemis II’s fault-tolerant computer (acm.org)

×2.47 3 #51 | 604 points by speckx 1 day ago | 218 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
You're Looking at the Wrong Pretext Demo (denodell.com)

×0.52 105 #68 | 11 points by speckx 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
FBI Extracts Suspect's Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Data (slashdot.org)

×1.78 5 #71 | 11 points by jnord 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I built a site that shows every world event you lived through (youdidntnotice.com)

×2.10 78 | 6 points by lip404 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
CPU-Z and HWMonitor compromised (theregister.com)

×2.04 13 #14 | 276 points by pashadee 13 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Iran Unable to Find Mines in Strait of Hormuz, U.S. Says (nytimes.com)

×2.38 10 #54 | 13 points by tyleo 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Relics of an ancient sandstorm on Mars point to Earth-like winds (science.org)

×0.49 | 1 points by gmays 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Molotov Coctail Thrown at Sam Altman's House (nbcnews.com)

×2.43 17 | 5 points by jellyotsiro 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Raft consensus algorithm explained through "Mean Girls" (2019) (cockroachlabs.com)

×1.23 28 | 127 points by vermilingua 23 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Hindsight Simulator – Go back in time and get rich (chrispattle.com)

×2.06 103 | 10 points by pattle 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Last Year I wrote a (Sci)fictional story where the EFF was a player [pdf] (github.com/jaronilan)

×0.32 | 2 points by jaronilan 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Native Instant Space Switching on macOS (arhan.sh)

×2.53 #62 | 622 points by PaulHoule 1 day ago | 305 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
"Negative" views of Broadcom driving VMware migrations, rival says (arstechnica.com)

×1.59 8 #90 | 68 points by breve 12 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Maki – the efficient coder (AI agent) (maki.sh)

×1.89 45 | 4 points by simjnd 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Open source security at Astral (astral.sh)

×1.75 54 | 363 points by vinhnx 1 day ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: An interactive map of Tolkien's Middle-earth (middle-earth-interactive-map.web.app)

×1.61 96 | 289 points by frasermarlow 3 days ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Finalrun – Spec-driven testing using English and vision for mobile apps (github.com/final-run)

×0.41 154 | 28 points by ashish004 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Git commands I run before reading any code (piechowski.io)

×6.38 4 #76 | 2273 points by grepsedawk 2 days ago | 492 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hegel, a universal property-based testing protocol and family of PBT libraries (hegel.dev)

×0.76 78 #77 | 131 points by PaulHoule 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
To Fill Air Traffic Controller Shortage, FAA Turns to Gamers (nytimes.com)

×0.77 | 1 points by bookofjoe 10 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Families Spent Decades on Louisiana's Bayous. The Power Company Pulled the Plug (wsj.com)

×1.41 | 2 points by bookofjoe 38 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hormuz, an MCP-first forecasting engine for reproducible modeling (github.com/farukalpay)

×3.46 38 | 7 points by festafin 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Filing the corners off my MacBooks (kentwalters.com)

×3.20 1 #1 | 426 points by normanvalentine 4 hours ago | 238 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Let Us Learn to Show Friendship for a Man When He Is Alive, Not After He Is Dead (daringfireball.net)

×2.78 18 #87 | 9 points by cratermoon 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Request Camel Numbering

×1.24 12 | 3 points by earksiinni 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???