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  1. Time to add option in Hacker News "AI excluded Show HN"
    ×0.59 8 | 15 points by tukunjil 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Is anyone seriously considering a career change?
    ×0.97 2 | 22 points by zeven7 7 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Reviewing in the Age of AI
    ×0.69 49 | 7 points by maxalbarello 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: How to start up as an individual developer?
    ×0.45 77 | 4 points by alexyan0431 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated
    ×1.82 3 | 27 points by CliffStoll 8 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Who got hired with Who wants to be hired? (On 2026)
    ×0.31 72 | 11 points by Gooblebrai 16 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Is the future everyone having 100 MCP processes running on their PC?
    ×0.30 85 | 6 points by ex-aws-dude 17 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How do I get freelance developer jobs?
    ×1.19 56 | 5 points by downbad_ 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: The death of software development as a job?
    ×3.51 76 | 14 points by piratesAndSons 23 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Is there a term for feeling sad about forced AI adoption?
    ×0.90 78 | 20 points by ge96 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Best Embedding Models?
    ×0.42 93 | 17 points by devstein 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad?
    ×1.81 90 | 126 points by idontwantthis 4 days ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Where are you getting your AI news from?
    ×0.39 109 | 10 points by baetylus 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Is a hands-off, family-friendly, de-Googled "home lab" feasible?
    ×0.32 121 | 10 points by strix_varius 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Those building Swift apps without touching Xcode, what is your workflow?
    ×0.46 123 | 18 points by p5v 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Why Does a Single Firefox Tab Take Almost 1.5GB RAM?
    ×0.27 120 | 6 points by syeare 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Why would we care about "extended time horizons" and LLMs?
    ×0.49 131 | 4 points by ozozozd 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: When did you move from AI agentic loops to simpler deterministic system?
    ×0.38 124 | 7 points by laxmena 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Tell HN: The saddest irony of my/our craft
    ×1.57 95 | 21 points by dakiol 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Can anyone point me to a ShowHN first post policy documentation?
    ×0.36 119 | 10 points by upwindchange 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. This Month in Redox – April 2026 (redox-os.org)
    ×1.13 | 2 points by ladyanita22 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. GLM-5V-Turbo: Toward a Native Foundation Model for Multimodal Agents (arxiv.org)
    ×1.06 34 | 158 points by gmays 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Show HN: Mac Juice Monitor – Bluetooth battery levels in the macOS menu bar (github.com/p32929)
    ×1.13 47 | 4 points by heliskyr2 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Show HN: Octopus Code Review is now free for OSI-licensed repos (octopus-review.ai)
    ×1.49 104 | 6 points by redoh 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: Kanban-CLI – a web UI for local Markdown todo lists (github.com/Vochsel)
    ×2.91 107 | 10 points by vochsel 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: Tyche: An experimental distributed trading pipeline in Go Java (github.com/ItsArnavSh)
    ×0.59 144 | 5 points by itsarnavsh 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. NPR finds "no sign" of Polymarket at its Panama HQ address (npr.org)
    ×5.47 6 | 259 points by ilamont 1 day ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Upskill – skill to find skills for your AI agents (github.com/Autoloops)
    ×1.33 62 | 4 points by kushalpatil07 6 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Agent-evals – Claude skill to build your own evals (github.com/fsilavong)
    ×2.05 117 | 9 points by sauercrowd 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Playground for the Spectre Programming Language (spectrelang.org)
    ×1.59 143 | 5 points by pizza_man 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: I built an open-source email builder, alternative to Beefree/Unlayer (templatical.com)
    ×0.86 13 #16 | 88 points by oahmadov 7 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. SoundOff: Low-Cost Passive Ultrasound Tags (yibo-fu.com)
    ×0.78 51 #24 | 24 points by jonbaer 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Revisiting the 2015 Open Source Census (nesbitt.io)
    ×0.53 66 #85 | 8 points by whit537 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Furwall – macOS menu bar app that blocks keys when your cat sits down (olliewagner.com)
    ×2.08 99 | 8 points by olliewagner 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Replacing spec-driven development with just facts (github.com/av)
    ×1.31 128 | 7 points by everlier 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Going Full Time on Open Source (jdx.dev)
    ×2.90 17 #30 | 159 points by thunderbong 6 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs (reflex.dev)
    ×2.19 7 #66 | 472 points by palashawas 1 day ago | 262 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. What British people mean when they say 'sorry' (bbc.com)
    ×2.07 28 | 3 points by BiraIgnacio 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Pathetic – Java pathfinding: 10k concurrent paths in ~7ms (github.com/bsommerfeld)
    ×2.36 94 | 8 points by bsommerfeld 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: I made a local proxy for AI tool calls to keep my API keys safe (github.com/factorly-dev)
    ×1.89 108 | 5 points by jsherer 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Virtual violin produces realistic sounds (mit.edu)
    ×0.78 69 #27 | 71 points by gmays 14 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Mass Deportation and American Jobs (wsj.com)
    ×2.06 | 2 points by petethomas 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Lessons for Agentic Coding: What should we do when code is cheap? (dbreunig.com)
    ×1.57 54 #77 | 255 points by ingve 1 day ago | 232 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: I built a native macOS audio player and it changed my life (github.com/chrisallick)
    ×1.35 97 | 15 points by chrisallick 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.57 26 #74 | 322 points by brudgers 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. It's time to test all adults for lipoprotein(a) (lipidjournal.com)
    ×0.94 | 2 points by brandonb 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Simple Meta-Harness on Islo.dev (zozo123.github.io)
    ×0.43 71 | 50 points by zozo123-IB 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken (openrss.org)
    ×2.18 4 #57 | 319 points by veeti 22 hours ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Egg Intake and the Incidence of Alzheimer's Disease in Adventist Health Study-2 (sciencedirect.com)
    ×1.07 6 #68 | 30 points by Stratoscope 6 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Zig → Rust porting guide (github.com/oven-sh)
    ×3.38 10 | 708 points by SergeAx 1 day ago | 534 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: NeuralScript – A pure-Rust AOT compiler (github.com/bwiemz)
    ×1.14 132 | 5 points by AkaiNa 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. IBM didn't want Microsoft to use the Tab key to move between dialog fields (microsoft.com)
    ×2.50 6 #88 | 374 points by SeenNotHeard 1 day ago | 226 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Grok Imagine Quality Mode API (x.ai)
    ×1.78 7 | 3 points by surprisetalk 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Why most product tours get skipped (productonboarding.com)
    ×1.47 11 | 201 points by pancomplex 1 day ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Appearing productive in the workplace (nooneshappy.com)
    ×3.66 2 #2 | 620 points by diebillionaires 7 hours ago | 246 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Coverage Cat (YC S22) Seeks Fractional Engineer to Build AI Growth Toolkit (coveragecat.com)
    11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. RFK Jr. clears path for minors to use tanning beds, much to dermatologist dismay (latimes.com)
    ×3.27 14 #48 | 40 points by randycupertino 5 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Number of tokens shouldn't be the only metric (johnjwang.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by johnjwang 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. CrustAI – Private local AI assistant (github.com/DaveSimoes)
    ×0.96 | 2 points by DaveHN_2026 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet (alen.ro)
    ×2.13 22 #75 | 418 points by alentodorov 1 day ago | 315 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Async Rust never left the MVP state (tweedegolf.nl)
    ×1.99 14 | 438 points by pjmlp 1 day ago | 253 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Pay.sh – Discover, access, and pay for any API autonomously (github.com/solana-foundation)
    ×1.61 24 | 4 points by fmerian 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: BattleClaws – A battle arena where AI agents fight autonomously (battleclaws.ai)
    ×2.72 67 | 7 points by bryhaw 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. The bottleneck was never the code (thetypicalset.com)
    ×2.42 9 #7 | 480 points by Anon84 13 hours ago | 312 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions (cian.lol)
    ×3.98 74 #84 | 732 points by cianmm 13 hours ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Hokusai's erotic art on display at a Kabukicho noh theater (japantimes.co.jp)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by PaulHoule 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Why is Cloudflare protecting the DDoS'er (beamed.st) attacking Ubuntu servers? (infosec.exchange)
    ×2.96 59 | 87 points by mystraline 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Interpretable AutoResearch – Legible Agent Workflows (github.com/BarishNamazov)
    ×1.28 149 | 4 points by barishnamazov 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Over 3k Datacentres planned for 2026 global map (roboticforce.io)
    ×1.56 28 | 3 points by cdnsteve 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: InSpec – A standalone CSS editor for live web pages (bendansby.com)
    ×1.30 127 | 3 points by webwielder2 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Empty Screenings – Finds AMC movie screenings with few or no tickets sold (walzr.com)
    ×1.78 35 | 327 points by MrBuddyCasino 1 day ago | 264 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. GPT‑5.5 Instant (openai.com)
    ×3.23 58 | 86 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Large Scale Article Extract of Newspapers 1730s-1960s (snewpapers.com)
    ×0.86 110 | 55 points by brettnbutter 4 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent (thatprivacyguy.com)
    ×7.42 1 #40 | 1643 points by john-doe 1 day ago | 1089 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. DNSSEC disruption affecting .de domains – Resolved (denic.de)
    ×3.04 13 #53 | 731 points by warpspin 1 day ago | 402 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Kicking the Tires: A Voluntary Path to Pre-Deployment AI Vetting (lawfaremedia.org)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by paulpauper 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Screen Adapt – auto-scaffolds responsive CSS and Tailwind variants (visualstudio.com)
    ×1.72 21 | 3 points by Shawn_Something 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Audio-only minimal pair trainer using ABX methodology for language acquisition (minimalpairs.co)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by michealbingham 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: New Benchmark from SWE-bench team is 0% solved (programbench.com)
    ×4.40 81 | 22 points by lieret 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. A Theory of Deep Learning (elonlit.com)
    ×1.42 5 #12 | 107 points by elonlit 6 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Unmonitored Agents and a Local AI
    ×0.51 | 1 points by jay_kyburz 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. PawModel – Per-pet LoRA training for AI portraits that look acurate (pawmodel.com)
    ×1.17 | 2 points by cmackay 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. The Car That Watches You Back: The Advertising Infrastructure of Modern Cars (nobodyaskedforthis.lol)
    ×1.69 66 | 122 points by cadito 1 day ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: I built an API for agents visiting my personal website (mczaykowski.com)
    ×1.59 101 | 6 points by selvmvde 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. QUIC will soon be as important as TCP – but it's vastly different (theregister.com)
    ×1.71 | 2 points by Bender 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. VCV Tower Vertical Construction Starts, Virginia's Tallest Building (constructionreviewonline.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by eatonphil 48 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. The Disappearance of the Public Bench (placesjournal.org)
    ×1.10 2 | 3 points by cainxinth 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Designing AI for Strategy Games Through Modding (anbeeld.com)
    ×1.07 | 2 points by nateberkopec 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Omega-3 supplements may be linked to faster cognitive decline in seniors (medicalxpress.com)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by brandonb 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. UI Hostility
    ×1.01 | 2 points by morpheos137 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???