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  1. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2026)
    ×1.09 64 #71 | 228 points by whoishiring 1 day ago | 329 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)
    ×0.84 58 #89 | 136 points by whoishiring 1 day ago | 416 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Anyone seen a CC- serial prefix on legacy networking hardware?
    ×0.96 57 | 63 points by Throwaway_sys 2 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. AI Goal: Senior Software Engineer
    ×0.23 | 2 points by oryocyph 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel
    ×7.68 87 | 865 points by IliaLitviak 8 hours ago | 247 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Why is AI use decried if it has been used without attribution?
    ×0.51 98 | 4 points by bookofjoe 10 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. I'm Done Using AI
    ×2.49 84 | 18 points by nyxtom 16 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What is your opinion on index rule changes to accommodate Mega-Cap IPOs?
    ×1.21 93 | 7 points by figmert 12 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What are your digital end-of-life plans?
    ×1.45 64 | 6 points by trogdor 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What Is the State of App Development in 2026?
    ×0.95 112 | 98 points by karakoram 3 days ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Tell HN: In the old days, computers used to get constantly faster and cheaper
    ×1.68 91 | 11 points by wewewedxfgdf 15 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. $100 to a Debian Developer who can get Fresh Editor into Trixie
    ×0.40 117 | 27 points by jph 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Recruiters, How do you vet resume in 2026?
    ×0.41 128 | 14 points by CoffeeSky 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. The AI tool discovery problem
    ×0.46 120 | 6 points by meenabhagvat 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Architect MCP and TUI
    ×0.43 123 | 5 points by tonycdr 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What are your worst war stories bringing agentic applications into prod
    ×0.39 140 | 11 points by yaoke259 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Donating AI credits to open source projects
    ×0.25 146 | 6 points by happyPersonR 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Corporate Disconnect Between "Tokenmaxxing" and Token Optimization
    ×0.26 148 | 5 points by mc-0 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What Hacker News comments have you bookmarked?
    ×2.08 94 | 7 points by chistev 12 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Tell HN: Meta's AI support feature allows Instagram accounts to be stolen
    ×2.18 108 | 42 points by parable 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Any advice on how to learn good software architecture practices?
    ×0.25 147 | 17 points by jimsojim 4 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. AI Vulnerability Intelligence Agent Converts CVEs to Actionable Security Reports (github.com/gtamir02-png)
    ×0.71 60 #77 | 7 points by gtamir02 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Company Manufactures Stamped-Steel Classic Replica Bodies for Mustang, FJ40 (youtube.com)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by benfrancom 9 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Real-time map of when the world is horny (masturbate.now)
    ×0.71 | 1 points by untitled-now 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Skillhound: Give your AI access to every public SKILL.md (skillhound.ai)
    ×2.26 27 | 4 points by mfkhalil 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Open Repair Data Standard – Open Repair Alliance (openrepair.org)
    ×1.06 7 #4 | 61 points by cassepipe 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. The S in Interoperability (frederikbraun.de)
    ×0.54 59 #73 | 13 points by conslit 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: skills-for-humanity – 171 structured reasoning skills for Claude Code (github.com/human-avatar)
    ×4.95 166 | 28 points by finnworks 1 week ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. MAI-Thinking-1 (microsoft.ai)
    ×2.27 18 #25 | 147 points by LER0ever 3 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Stop Ruining It (seths.blog)
    ×2.32 10 #31 | 230 points by herbertl 12 hours ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Three Ways to Get Paid (2018) (jasonzweig.com)
    ×2.14 24 #33 | 194 points by nate 4 hours ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Muxcard, a DIY credit card size computer (github.com/krauseler)
    ×2.02 22 #34 | 226 points by sargstuff 15 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Fooling around with encrypted reasoning blobs (cryptographyengineering.com)
    ×1.36 44 #66 | 152 points by supermatou 20 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Chipotlai Max (github.com/cyberpapiii)
    ×2.41 4 #80 | 367 points by nigelgutzmann 23 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. The Next Era of Knowledge Work [pdf] (openai.com)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by iooi 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Uber caps staff use of AI coding tools after blowing its budget (latimes.com)
    ×2.90 24 | 5 points by vrganj 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Should you normalize RGB values by 255 or 256? (30fps.net)
    ×1.72 14 | 319 points by pplanu 1 day ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Promptloop – create, run, and improve prompt evals from the terminal (github.com/Bella3202019)
    ×0.89 152 | 13 points by velapod 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Live, system-wide USB transfer sniffer in eBPF (github.com/yeet-src)
    ×2.36 143 | 9 points by r3tr0 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle (2020) (coveillance.org)
    ×1.84 6 #7 | 349 points by eustoria 8 hours ago | 211 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Gold replaces US Treasuries as top reserve asset, ECB says (ft.com)
    ×2.51 14 #54 | 19 points by petethomas 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Using Git's rerere feature to escape recurring conflict hell (github.com/skipcloud)
    ×1.08 86 | 96 points by ankitg12 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: I built an on-chain economy where AI agents transact autonomously (agtchain.io)
    ×1.15 72 | 9 points by winewarrior 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Wikigraph – an interactive visualization of all of English Wikipedia (tobypenner.com)
    ×1.81 70 | 8 points by tfpgh 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Tracing Rays with Jank (jank-lang.org)
    ×1.08 | 2 points by yogthos 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Michael Burry says neither SpaceX nor Anthropic is worth $1T (businessinsider.com)
    ×6.09 25 | 121 points by mgh2 12 hours ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Can You Stop a Hypersonic Missile? (protortyp.github.io)
    ×2.24 81 | 63 points by protortyp 1 day ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release (davidedmundson.co.uk)
    ×1.48 12 #23 | 121 points by jandeboevrie 7 hours ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. AI Coding Tips for 2026 (medium.com)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by dbgrman 10 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Flag Mates, A two-player flag guessing game I built as a wedding gift (flagmates4.life)
    ×1.17 | 2 points by risquer 35 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Roughly a quarter of American professionals hit a wall in their careers (wsj.com)
    ×3.92 49 | 177 points by charliebwrites 1 day ago | 226 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Eyeball (rory.codes)
    ×2.20 10 #35 | 220 points by mrroryflint 13 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. On the nature of autobiographical memory (theamericanscholar.org)
    ×0.67 23 #49 | 20 points by prismatic 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Games, imagination, & creative experimentation shape identity and culture (bigthink.com)
    ×1.03 | 2 points by wewewedxfgdf 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Free Pascal – Advanced open source Pascal compiler (freepascal.org)
    ×2.58 11 | 6 points by reconnecting 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Sysadmining Like It's 2009 (lambdacreate.com)
    ×0.74 74 | 103 points by yacin 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Opstan, a decentralized social network on a PoW blockchain (github.com/OpstanGit)
    ×12.06 40 | 60 points by opstan 7 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Zaxy v1.0 (zaxy.io)
    ×0.63 159 | 3 points by syndicalt 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. RICO Suits and Restraining Orders: The Bricks and Minifigs Chaos Just Got Worse [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.95 | 2 points by pinkmuffinere 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Ask HN: Will Ontology become the new paradigm for AI Coding?
    ×1.57 26 | 3 points by shoushen 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: VT Code – open-source terminal coding agent in Rust (github.com/vinhnx)
    ×0.82 144 | 16 points by vinhnx 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Self Publish Studio (selfpublishstudio.com)
    ×1.31 163 | 8 points by noahwardlow 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: RePlaya – self-hosted browser session replay with live tailing (github.com/s2-streamstore)
    ×0.70 18 #28 | 33 points by shikhar 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Made a Tool to Streams Changes from Microsoft SQL Server to Apache Kafka (github.com/Niyko)
    ×0.48 33 #30 | 11 points by hyvr_official 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Free-threading vs. the GIL in mod_WSGI 6.0.0 – Graham Dumpleton (grahamdumpleton.me)
    ×1.52 34 | 3 points by rbanffy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Majorana 2: Microsoft's new quantum chip (microsoft.com)
    ×2.80 12 | 6 points by mgh2 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. CS336: Language Modeling from Scratch (stanford.edu)
    ×2.45 1 | 539 points by kristianpaul 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. AI Agent Guidelines for CS336 at Stanford (github.com/stanford-cs336)
    ×2.19 3 | 488 points by prakashqwerty 1 day ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Blorp Language (blorp-lang.org)
    ×1.03 90 | 71 points by croottree 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. GitHub Copilot App (github.com/features)
    ×1.28 5 #22 | 88 points by theanonymousone 4 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Ranking the most undetectable AI agents (usefoil.com)
    ×1.65 15 | 3 points by alainmeier 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. WebSDR (utwente.nl:8901)
    ×2.23 5 | 4 points by andai 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: A CSS 3D Engine (no WebGL) (github.com/LayoutitStudio)
    ×0.69 80 | 74 points by rofko 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Kanji Pairs Explorer (trost.co)
    ×1.82 156 | 6 points by matthewtoast 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Adafruit receives demand letter from Fenwick legal counsel on behalf of Flux.ai (adafruit.com)
    ×2.89 6 #10 | 567 points by semanser 12 hours ago | 235 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Do turmeric and curcumin have any actual health benefits? (newscientist.com)
    ×1.50 2 #61 | 12 points by hilux 2 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Static Devirtualization of Themida (back.engineering)
    ×0.97 | 2 points by homarp 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. African Trypanosomiasis (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.93 | 2 points by OsrsNeedsf2P 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Open-source private home security camera system (end-to-end encryption) (github.com/secluso)
    ×1.30 113 | 134 points by arrdalan 3 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Trump signs downsized AI order after weeks of reversals (politico.com)
    ×2.05 3 #12 | 139 points by _alternator_ 5 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Americans don't know how to fight AI so they're fighting data centers (vox.com)
    ×6.57 66 | 108 points by stalfosknight 6 hours ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: A desktop app for manual QA testing and evidence gathering (github.com/adriandomc)
    ×1.01 121 | 7 points by adriandomc 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Free activity calendar for schools, sports clubs, and organizations (freecal.eu)
    ×0.50 161 | 9 points by glenn_vc 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Launch HN: Rudus (YC P26) – AI for concrete contractors
    ×0.43 25 #13 | 29 points by rishipankhaniya 3 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: 100cc - Roll your own Claude in 100 lines (github.com/yujqiao)
    ×1.48 88 #53 | 4 points by rapiz 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Chuwi Minibook X (tylercipriani.com)
    ×1.90 51 | 399 points by thcipriani 1 day ago | 296 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. U.S. midterms have a cyber problem, but it's not at the ballot box (checkpoint.com)
    ×2.35 48 | 71 points by gnabgib 19 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Postbase – 100% open source Alternative to Firebase and Supabase [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.62 119 | 11 points by harshalone 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Key chemistry question answered, no quantum computer required (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.64 33 #41 | 31 points by defrost 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Top Python Libraries for Large-Scale Data Processing – KDnuggets (kdnuggets.com)
    ×0.92 | 2 points by rbanffy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???