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  1. Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?
    ×4.83 14 #61 | 1237 points by cloudking 1 day ago | 530 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Would you want to know when and how you die?
    ×0.67 15 | 4 points by JohnDSDev 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. I indexed 669 GB of my GoPro videos using my M1 Max computer and local ML models
    ×2.46 66 | 433 points by iliashad 2 days ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)
    ×1.45 81 | 304 points by david927 2 days ago | 1097 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How are thinking efforts implemented?
    ×0.55 182 | 101 points by simianwords 1 week ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: How do you stay at the bleeding edge of AI tooling?
    ×0.15 | 2 points by otekengineering 7 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Nanogram – Private social media from your Raspberry Pi
    ×0.47 90 | 5 points by smalltorch 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Anthropic pauses credit change for Claude Code
    ×1.42 96 | 32 points by fabianlindfors 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA
    ×3.12 103 | 804 points by eries 6 days ago | 577 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?
    ×1.35 145 | 263 points by mdni007 1 week ago | 239 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What do people think of Apple's Siri?
    ×0.46 105 | 5 points by hireshbrem 13 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Favorite text heavy blogs that are a joy to read?
    ×0.87 138 | 118 points by joshmarinacci 1 week ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models
    ×2.38 120 | 426 points by TomAnthony 6 days ago | 254 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Newer macOS runs slower on Intel (undeniably) – on purpose or "accident"?
    ×1.30 115 | 15 points by srevenant 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Want to build something open source on nights and weekends together?
    ×0.54 175 | 39 points by vira28 5 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Notes on DeepSeek
    ×1.89 131 | 209 points by vinhnx 6 days ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Would it be useful to have a slop button in addition to flag?
    ×1.00 178 | 39 points by BugsJustFindMe 6 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Are most corporate SWE jobs performative?
    ×2.35 128 | 248 points by hnthrow10282910 6 days ago | 283 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What do you think about blockchain's current trajectory
    ×1.02 92 | 5 points by mobear 9 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
    ×2.33 127 | 443 points by aryamaan 1 week ago | 780 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: How long have you been looking for a job?
    ×1.59 113 | 11 points by baddash 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: How do you get into a flow state when using AI to code?
    ×1.39 148 | 95 points by kilroy123 5 days ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Tell HN: Claude is completely unusable for biology
    ×1.63 123 | 16 points by Protostome 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. I procrastinate by building tools to stop me from procrastinating: A sad story
    ×0.80 185 | 21 points by thisislorenzov 5 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Why does LLMs love the usage of –?
    ×0.78 153 | 5 points by reimertz 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Do you remember when you gained consciousness? What was it like?
    ×1.91 116 | 11 points by kelseyfrog 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Are you still using a Vision Pro?
    ×1.27 155 | 171 points by y1n0 1 week ago | 215 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Is there a name for the type of comments agents add where they leak the prompt?
    ×0.44 168 | 18 points by xdennis 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: What agentic directory structure do you use?
    ×0.62 146 | 7 points by dominiek 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Is anyone shorting the overspend in AI yet?
    ×1.32 187 | 19 points by ggm 5 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Year of Linux Desktop is fun with LLMs
    ×0.49 174 | 6 points by mirekrusin 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. AskHN:How do you handle skill atrophy from using coding agents?
    ×0.72 51 | 30 points by javhu 13 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. How to make small models punch way above their weight with DeepClause (deepclause.substack.com)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by schmuhblaster 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. San Francisco Weighs PG&E Takeover Amid Soaring Utility Costs (kqed.org)
    ×3.54 74 | 78 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Dev-friendly native OTel: only OSS stateful, on-the-wire Observability
    ×1.66 80 | 5 points by jratkevic 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Stop Using JWTs (github.com/samsch)
    ×2.53 7 #9 | 246 points by dzonga 8 hours ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. SubQ 1.1 Small (subq.ai)
    ×0.76 16 #33 | 106 points by EDM115 10 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. The Rain Spell (grod.es)
    ×0.91 81 #45 | 6 points by grodes 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Purge the Heretek from Our Daemonic Swarm (gamecult.org)
    ×1.17 | 2 points by pixelbro 51 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. But yak shaving is fun (2019) (parksb.github.io)
    ×1.55 16 #14 | 208 points by parksb 11 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Game Engine White Papers: Commander Keen (forgottenbytes.net)
    ×1.41 59 #72 | 230 points by mfiguiere 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: AppointMe – open-source .NET SaaS template (modular monolith, DDD) (github.com/bravodev-hub)
    ×1.09 111 | 4 points by eugene-maksak 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Can Europe train a frontier AI model on the compute it owns? (github.com/sammysltd)
    ×1.33 73 | 137 points by smashini 1 day ago | 286 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Getting Creative with Perlin Noise Fields (sighack.com)
    ×1.03 43 #32 | 170 points by 0x000xca0xfe 17 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Please, Use a Link (idiallo.com)
    ×2.08 14 #58 | 21 points by firefoxd 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Silicon Motion exec: Retail SSD market has almost disappeared (tomshardware.com)
    ×1.03 9 #86 | 10 points by Lihh27 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. HN comments with links to HN
    ×0.51 46 | 3 points by sillysaurusx 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Tamper-evident audit trail for AI coding agent activity (github.com/Constellation-Labs)
    ×1.40 149 | 4 points by gclaramunt 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Understand and reduce token usage with ContextSpy context profiler (github.com/RimantasZ)
    ×2.19 134 | 6 points by iezhy 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Property Graph Support in PostgreSQL 19 (postgresql.org)
    ×2.84 9 | 4 points by tharakam 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Never Cross a River Four Feet Deep on Average (astralcodexten.com)
    ×1.97 48 | 3 points by paulpauper 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Russian artist and Putin critic shot dead in Poland (bbc.com)
    ×5.23 37 | 141 points by 2OEH8eoCRo0 13 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Google Flight Simulator (google.com)
    ×1.83 71 | 147 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17 (grapheneos.org)
    ×2.97 #1 | 374 points by Cider9986 5 hours ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Lockheed's new drone built in <12 mths via Divergent Adaptive Production System (nextgendefense.com)
    ×1.21 | 2 points by Gaishan 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. 2026-06-16 Robinhood Layoff Translation (layoff-translator.pages.dev)
    ×2.89 40 | 5 points by ronbenton 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Gravitational-wave detections double with new catalog (northwestern.edu)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by wglb 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Ctx, save tokens by loading only the relevant tools (github.com/stevesolun)
    ×0.59 84 | 5 points by stevesolun 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: GentleOS – A pair of hobby OSes for vintage 32-bit and 16-bit PCs (github.com/luke8086)
    ×0.95 165 | 130 points by luke8086 1 week ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Quant Picker – which GGUF file fits your model and machine (vettedconsumer.com)
    ×0.81 170 | 20 points by ermantrout 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Why the President Is Wrong About the Strait of Hormuz [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.10 | 2 points by consumer451 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Curl will not accept vulnerability reports during July 2026 (haxx.se)
    ×5.04 | 779 points by secret-noun 1 day ago | 313 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers (9to5google.com)
    ×4.09 66 | 266 points by speckx 11 hours ago | 337 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. The Technical Realities of Email Privacy (ivpn.net)
    ×1.14 14 | 4 points by jethronethro 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Hetzner increased dedicated server prices 3-4x
    ×3.74 43 | 272 points by enescakir 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, with Spending Hitting $34B (wheresyoured.at)
    ×5.07 20 | 139 points by spking 21 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Google Chrome's Next Update Will Mark the End of Popular Ad Blockers (slashdot.org)
    ×3.56 56 | 133 points by arnejenssen 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Microsoft turns to AWS as GitHub faces AI capacity crunch (runtimewire.com)
    ×2.32 22 | 154 points by ilreb 22 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: I wrote a C++ ray tracer from scratch without AI (github.com/themartiano)
    ×1.35 77 | 150 points by martiano 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Around 200 Stanford students walk out as Google CEO takes stage (sfgate.com)
    ×4.24 58 | 138 points by pera 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: macOS menu bar gauges for your Claude Code quota (github.com/grzegorz-raczek-unit8)
    ×0.75 172 | 67 points by grzracz 6 days ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. W.H. Auden and James Schuyler in life and literature (hedgehogreview.com)
    ×0.29 78 #27 | 11 points by Caiero 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Spin separates giant planets from 'failed stars' (northwestern.edu)
    ×0.66 | 2 points by wglb 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Apple Foundation Models (claude.com)
    ×2.38 39 | 479 points by MehrdadKhnzd 1 day ago | 222 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Openrouter Fusion API (openrouter.ai)
    ×1.32 69 | 214 points by tdchaitanya 1 day ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. KDE Plasma 6.7 Released (kde.org)
    ×5.88 19 | 83 points by jrepinc 16 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: StarScope – Free astronomy dashboard for observers outside the US/UK (starscope.live)
    ×1.75 147 | 5 points by xenophin 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Boo – Screen-style terminal multiplexer built on libghostty (github.com/coder)
    ×0.85 143 | 95 points by kylecarbs 5 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. After AI takes everything (ursb.me)
    ×1.67 32 #89 | 88 points by speckx 10 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Clutter (Radar) (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.21 | 2 points by teleforce 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Humans Still Beat AI in the Long Horizon (joyemang33.github.io)
    ×1.15 | 2 points by mxwsn 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Hex1bThe .NET Terminal Application Stack (hex1b.dev)
    ×1.03 | 2 points by joshka 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: X – A programming language with switchable memory modes (github.com/xdotxxx)
    ×1.27 176 | 4 points by x-xxx 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. What happened to nerds? (mrmarket.lol)
    ×5.04 1 | 739 points by vrnvu 1 day ago | 501 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. The hallucinogenic mushroom that contains no known psychedelic (psychedelics.co.uk)
    ×1.93 97 | 87 points by thunderbong 2 days ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Fox Is Buying Roku (fastcompany.com)
    ×2.42 86 | 79 points by simonebrunozzi 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: HelixDB – A graph database built on object storage (github.com/HelixDB)
    ×1.06 140 | 157 points by GeorgeCurtis 6 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless (arseniyshestakov.com)
    ×3.69 17 #21 | 388 points by SXX 7 hours ago | 237 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Sabela – A Reactive Notebook for Haskell (datahaskell.com)
    ×0.52 39 #35 | 32 points by mchav 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Onward, Friends (eff.org)
    ×0.49 | 2 points by davidmr 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???