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  1. I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
    ×0.99 58 #52 | 198 points by proberts 1 day ago | 241 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)
    ×0.84 37 #86 | 135 points by whoishiring 1 day ago | 320 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad?
    ×2.25 41 #90 | 92 points by idontwantthis 13 hours ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)
    ×1.27 3 | 284 points by whoishiring 1 day ago | 316 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: An update from the new Tindie team
    ×0.73 77 | 80 points by altairprime 3 days ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Tell HN: VS Code v1.117.0 automatically adds GitHub Copilot as your co author
    ×1.28 66 | 105 points by adithyassekhar 3 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day
    ×2.47 69 | 588 points by _-x-_ 1 week ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What Happened to the CS153 Videos
    ×0.52 81 | 5 points by mapleleaf1921 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. SlothDB a 5X Faster Alternative to DuckDB, ClickHouse DB
    ×0.40 94 | 11 points by souravroy78 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Claude Code dies with ANTHROPIC_API_KEY in cloud environment
    ×0.27 101 | 13 points by sroussey 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Hyperscalers are buying all the chips to then rent them to us later
    ×0.70 80 | 6 points by adelks 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Tell HN: Happy May Day
    ×0.78 90 | 8 points by chrishill89 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Does Claude use 'prior' in a Bayesian sense more than English?
    ×0.15 131 | 4 points by slake 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Is there any good open-source alternative to MinIO?
    ×0.29 124 | 3 points by embedding-shape 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Tell HN: Claude account suspension after flagging duplicate billing
    ×1.51 89 | 8 points by areoform 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: GitHub flagged my org two weeks ago. No reason given, no appeal response
    ×0.77 95 | 7 points by dohyun-ko 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Tell HN: Claude Opus 4.7 quota suddenly changed to 0 TPM in Bedrock
    ×1.77 79 | 12 points by sarathyweb 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Claude Pro expired and my $40 in prepaid Extra Usage credits vanished
    ×0.39 108 | 12 points by Aldipower 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Tell HN: Claude 4.7 is ignoring stop hooks
    ×0.98 114 | 109 points by LatencyKills 1 week ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Anyone feel like they're just opting out of tech these days?
    ×0.83 102 | 22 points by moomoo11 3 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Claude.ai down again?
    ×0.71 88 | 34 points by zh_code 3 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. What do you think of people buying Mac mini's to run AI?
    ×0.43 122 | 5 points by namegulf 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Meta faces New Mexico trial that could force change to Facebook, other platforms (reuters.com)
    ×1.63 2 #73 | 21 points by 1659447091 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Show HN: Hangman Game (threej.in)
    ×0.91 | 2 points by threejin 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Reaching for the stars: enduring symbols of Soviet science in pictures (theguardian.com)
    ×0.36 | 1 points by andsoitis 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Inventions for battery reuse and recycling increase seven-fold in last decade (epo.org)
    ×1.26 18 #14 | 181 points by JeanKage 14 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. A more efficient implementation of Shor's algorithm (lwn.net)
    ×1.07 11 #19 | 54 points by signa11 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Waymo Drives Off with South Bay Man's Luggage (sfist.com)
    ×2.61 37 #56 | 81 points by toss1 7 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Spirit Airlines canceled all flights and is going out of business (cnn.com)
    ×3.64 8 | 75 points by teleforce 18 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Aide-memory – persistent memory for AI coding agents and teams (aide-memory.dev)
    ×1.28 103 | 4 points by ahmedmeky 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. This Month in Ladybird - April 2026 (ladybird.org)
    ×1.95 7 #4 | 248 points by richardboegli 9 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. MX Script: a scripting language for one file web APIs (mxscript.com)
    ×1.17 | 2 points by jlkdevelop 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. The Irreducible Skill (vinniefalco.com)
    ×0.36 | 1 points by ibobev 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Omar – A TUI for managing 100 coding agents (omar.tech)
    ×5.23 72 | 15 points by karim7 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. 55M Smartphones Run on the HarmonyOS (scmp.com)
    ×1.84 19 | 3 points by hemc4 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. I built a free SEO/AEO/security scanner for websites (visrank.org)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by Drages 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: AgInTiFlow, a local web and CLI agent workspace using DeepSeek (npmjs.com)
    ×1.04 78 | 3 points by lachlanchen 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Sanishne – Rust based bookmark boards (sanishne.org)
    ×0.58 | 2 points by flamestro 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. The Reality of Being a Man in Your 50s in South Korea (indignified.com)
    ×1.85 44 #12 | 3 points by ZguideZ 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: State of the Art of Coding Models, According to Hacker News Commenters (hnup.date)
    ×1.04 5 #20 | 86 points by yunusabd 8 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws (bbc.com)
    ×2.97 19 #32 | 287 points by geox 12 hours ago | 288 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Updated – A dual crossword puzzle where two crosswords share one grid (forkle.co.uk)
    ×0.79 132 | 3 points by daveoshawrus 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Zugzwang (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.69 23 #78 | 102 points by Qem 14 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Fun, open-source AI transparency project (github.com/realalonw)
    ×0.38 | 1 points by walon 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Running Shoes Have Evolved – From Ancient Greece to Record-Breaking Marathons (nytimes.com)
    ×0.35 | 1 points by y1n0 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Your website is not for you (websmith.studio)
    ×1.45 18 | 259 points by pumbaa 1 day ago | 182 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down (theregister.com)
    ×2.89 49 | 80 points by ndsipa_pomu 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Dabbling in Erlang, part 2: A minimal introduction (2013) (agis.io)
    ×0.45 32 #29 | 23 points by pasxizeis 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. AI Self-preferencing in Algorithmic Hiring: Empirical Evidence and Insights (arxiv.org)
    ×2.97 59 #76 | 320 points by laurex 14 hours ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Can a Hand‑Built EV Change Mobility in East Africa? [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.39 | 1 points by thelastgallon 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Large Scale Article Extract of Newspapers 1730s-1960s (snewpapers.com)
    ×0.75 38 #81 | 45 points by brettnbutter 21 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Site Mogging (sitemogging.com)
    ×1.07 55 | 66 points by jilles 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: CD-DA Reader, Rust library to read audio CD data (github.com/Bloomca)
    ×0.33 | 2 points by bloomca 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Building a smartphone powered by nuclear decay: the power engineering
    ×1.14 117 | 3 points by joshuashelvin 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Little Magazines Are Back (wsjfreeexpression.substack.com)
    ×0.90 22 #28 | 80 points by prismatic 12 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. America's Expanding Domestic Surveillance (wsj.com)
    ×3.42 24 #53 | 234 points by Brajeshwar 15 hours ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Browser-based light pollution simulator using real photometric data (iesna.eu)
    ×0.40 55 #70 | 37 points by 21 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. AWS stops billing Middle East cloud customers as repairs to war damage drag on (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.37 23 | 156 points by johnbarron 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Loopsy, a way for terminals and AI agents on different machines to talk (github.com/leox255)
    ×0.70 59 | 54 points by todience 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Agent with its own computer on the cloud (pulsarbot.cloud)
    ×0.82 | 2 points by akshayballal95 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Piruetas – A self-hosted diary app I built for my girlfriend (piruet.app)
    ×1.35 27 #72 | 60 points by patillacode 19 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Running Adobe's 1991 PostScript Interpreter in the Browser (pagetable.com)
    ×0.86 50 #77 | 149 points by ingve 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Germany claims it has the best bread (economist.com)
    ×0.38 | 1 points by andsoitis 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. CollectWise (YC F24) Is Hiring (ycombinator.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Chinese EVs Can Now Project Movies from Their Headlights (insideevs.com)
    ×1.93 20 #61 | 43 points by mooreds 2 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. The 2-Hour Marathon Barrier Gets Smashed. Is It the Shoes–Or the Sugar? (wsj.com)
    ×0.35 | 1 points by canucker2016 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine (github.com/nexu-io)
    ×1.60 5 #37 | 197 points by steveharing1 18 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Modern C++ Programming: Busato (github.com/federico-busato)
    ×1.40 23 #40 | 74 points by KnuthIsGod 13 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Pollen – distributed WASM runtime, no control plane, single binary (github.com/sambigeara)
    ×1.11 29 #45 | 112 points by sambigeara 19 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Gemini free tier is all you need (juanpabloaj.com)
    ×1.86 115 | 7 points by juanpabloaj 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: High perfomance database - Graph, vector, array, columnar, KV (github.com/nodedb-lab)
    ×1.01 67 | 3 points by fs90 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Git repositories hosted directly on Freenet (github.com/freenet)
    ×1.01 121 | 5 points by sanity 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. How to prepare to be a startup founder (2021) (letterstoanewdeveloper.com)
    ×0.38 | 1 points by mooreds 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Police Have Used License Plate Readers at Least 14x to Stalk Romantic Interests (ij.org)
    ×5.98 5 | 262 points by loteck 1 day ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Windows API Is Successful Cross-Platform API (retrocoding.net)
    ×1.43 3 #10 | 55 points by phendrenad2 3 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Pgxbackup: Continuity Support for PgBackRest (thebuild.com)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by thunderbong 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. The AI workflow I use to build apps (juanmanuelalloron.com)
    ×0.37 | 1 points by juan_allo 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Whimsical Animations Course Open House (joshwcomeau.com)
    ×0.92 33 | 103 points by SpyCoder77 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: I built a context layer for our home (rosey.house)
    ×1.16 133 | 3 points by aloktiagi 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Why sugarcane bagasse tableware is eco friendly?
    ×0.41 | 1 points by merakipack 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Carrier – AI-first back end compiler (Rust/Java/Node) (github.com/nikoma)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by nikoma777 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: GhostBox – Borrow a disposable little machine from the Global Free Tier (ghost.charity)
    ×1.69 38 | 123 points by keepamovin 1 day ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Our agent found a bug with WireGuard in Google Kubernetes Engine (lovable.dev)
    ×1.12 62 | 66 points by vikeri 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Adblock-rust Manager – Firefox extension to enable the Brave ad blocker (github.com/electricant)
    ×0.77 75 | 94 points by electricant 3 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Maryland Is First to Ban A.I.-Driven Price Increases in Grocery Stores (nytimes.com)
    ×3.00 8 #13 | 115 points by doener 4 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Care Homes and Hotels in Japan Shut as Expansion Strategy Unravels (newsonjapan.com)
    ×1.50 18 #18 | 20 points by mikhael 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Stay Lean – Calorie Navigation (apple.com)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by janpmz 32 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Herald – Local-first terminal email client (herald-mail.app)
    ×1.63 104 | 5 points by zoomacode 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming (newyorker.com)
    ×2.15 5 #68 | 443 points by XzetaU8 1 day ago | 259 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Good developers learn to program. Most courses teach a language (evilgeniuslabs.ca)
    ×2.51 15 | 126 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???