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  1. Ask HN: Is anyone using the A2A protocol?
    ×0.94 5 #35 | 64 points by asim 6 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What tools are you using for AI-assisted code review?
    ×0.59 58 #65 | 12 points by agos 8 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Anthropic confident of re-enabling Mythos, Fable 5 access 'in coming days'
    ×1.04 41 | 7 points by getbowtied 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: I'm lost. How can I define ICP (Ideal Customer Profile)?
    ×0.29 72 | 3 points by snowhy 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?
    ×4.77 28 | 1296 points by cloudking 3 days ago | 550 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Is there a way to stop the animated Google Doodles?
    ×0.59 49 | 9 points by arnejenssen 8 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Conflicted about founding engineer role
    ×0.62 63 | 5 points by gondolin1683 6 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How do you effectively communicate or present?
    ×1.39 39 | 6 points by hnthrow10282910 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Do you find vibe coding / agentic engineering to be fulfilling?
    ×2.00 47 | 7 points by uejfiweun 7 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Opus and regression with patterns not included in trainng data
    ×0.29 | 2 points by dleech 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Do we even need code anymore?
    ×0.79 82 | 3 points by lasky 8 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. How much $ you spend for AI to code?
    ×0.49 74 | 4 points by raghuu 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: How are thinking efforts implemented?
    ×0.54 168 | 103 points by simianwords 1 week ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. I indexed 669 GB of my GoPro videos using my M1 Max computer and local ML models
    ×2.33 78 | 435 points by iliashad 4 days ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Best resources for learning how to build a forum back end?
    ×0.71 93 | 3 points by jupr 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Whats the best and small open source model?
    ×0.78 95 | 3 points by hairymouse 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What's a prompt you've written that you're genuinely proud of?
    ×1.01 85 | 10 points by akashwadhwani35 19 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)
    ×1.45 86 | 310 points by david927 4 days ago | 1130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Has anyone had success with SBIR grants and what is the process like?
    ×0.32 96 | 10 points by lyfeninja 23 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Looking for a CI/CD project for my local lab
    ×0.18 99 | 4 points by q8zd3 14 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. AI Tokenmaxxing and Hypomania
    ×0.52 84 | 6 points by karthikeyankc 14 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?
    ×1.34 143 | 264 points by mdni007 1 week ago | 240 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Are other people seeing a spike in IT problems with businesses?
    ×0.29 109 | 14 points by PaulHoule 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Favorite text heavy blogs that are a joy to read?
    ×0.86 150 | 119 points by joshmarinacci 1 week ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models
    ×2.36 120 | 427 points by TomAnthony 1 week ago | 255 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: What is the job market like?
    ×2.77 47 | 48 points by gardnr 6 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Reviews have become expensive, rewrites have become cheap
    ×1.16 102 | 82 points by arzh2 3 days ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Want to build something open source on nights and weekends together?
    ×0.52 169 | 39 points by vira28 1 week ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Notes on DeepSeek
    ×1.87 136 | 211 points by vinhnx 1 week ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Anthropic pauses credit change for Claude Code
    ×1.18 125 | 35 points by fabianlindfors 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Would it be useful to have a slop button in addition to flag?
    ×0.97 170 | 41 points by BugsJustFindMe 1 week ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
    ×2.32 126 | 444 points by aryamaan 1 week ago | 785 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Are most corporate SWE jobs performative?
    ×2.31 131 | 249 points by hnthrow10282910 1 week ago | 283 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: How close to profitability did companies get before dot com burst?
    ×2.05 132 | 5 points by AbstractH24 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Successful entrepreneurs and indie hackers, enlighten me
    ×0.16 157 | 3 points by markosn 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: What Are the Trade-Offs of Working Fully Remotely?
    ×0.76 119 | 8 points by karakoram 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. AI Holdouts in Tech Face 3 Times Higher Layoff Odds, Gallup Finds (yahoo.com)
    ×1.63 | 2 points by littlexsparkee 14 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Writing Postcards with a 3D Printer (severinbucher.com)
    ×2.24 35 | 3 points by typesafeJ 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: PinLeads (pinleads.org)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by jrh89 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Profiler and Runtime Reporter for eBPF programs (brr) (github.com/tanelpoder)
    ×0.41 | 2 points by tanelpoder 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Sogen – High-performance Windows and Linux userspace emulator (sogen.dev)
    ×0.79 51 #59 | 79 points by fratellobigio 18 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. All Tomorrow's Parties (ethanmarcotte.com)
    ×1.07 | 2 points by wassimans 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Criterion Closet as a website – pull any of 1,247 films off the shelf (the-criterion-closet.vercel.app)
    ×1.67 114 | 7 points by olievans 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Smashed Toilet Phone Web Server (offthebricks.com)
    ×0.64 58 #70 | 48 points by mircerlancerous 18 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Gencup 2026. World Cup Posters Using Data of Each Game (gencup.art)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by aliparlakci 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Sudoku Word Search," hidden words required to solve letter-sudoku (sudokuwordsearch.com)
    ×0.73 92 | 3 points by bahbahbahbah 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Veterinarian turned founder, AI lawn diagnosis (grassdx.com)
    ×0.71 107 | 76 points by andrewbr 3 days ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Gerrymandle - Daily puzzle game where you redraw electoral districts (gerrymandle.cc)
    ×1.36 15 #24 | 129 points by realmofthemad 10 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: MCP tools in one server – pay-as-you-go, no subscription (smithery.ai)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by scotty73 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. New benchmark evaluates AI for everyday patient care (massgeneralbrigham.org)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by hhs 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: High-Res Neural Cellular Automata (cells2pixels.github.io)
    ×1.18 43 | 198 points by esychology 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Vpod – Tiny Linux sandbox running in WASM (github.com/capsulerun)
    ×1.88 112 | 11 points by mavdol04 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Reyn – local-first AI that journals and recalls your work (usereyn.com)
    ×1.99 122 | 5 points by toluwajibodu 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. The Korean telecom giant at the center of Anthropic's Mythos controversy (wired.com)
    ×1.26 12 #8 | 94 points by dstala 6 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Agentic Resource Discovery Specification (agenticresourcediscovery.org)
    ×0.70 26 #21 | 46 points by damick 6 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. AMD silently removes memory encryption from consumer Ryzen CPUs (tomshardware.com)
    ×3.99 30 #55 | 415 points by lompad 16 hours ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Mae vs. MSE: more than just the mean vs. median debate (idlemachines.co.uk)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by smaddrellmander 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. The AirPods Effect (theescapenewsletter.com)
    ×2.96 8 #10 | 59 points by herbertl 1 hour ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Hermzner – Provisioning an Hardened Hermes Agent on Hetzner VPS (github.com/scicco)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by _zendar_ 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. With Wall Street’s help, you’re about to be forced to buy stock in SpaceX (paulkrugman.substack.com)
    ×11.02 38 | 112 points by aanet 1 day ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Made a free macOS menu bar app that fixes typing in the wrong keyboard layout (flickey.site)
    ×1.01 61 | 73 points by tal_alfi 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: machine0 – Persistent NixOS VMs You Control from the CLI (machine0.io)
    ×0.90 105 | 95 points by bwm 3 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. The Australian Government to Require SMS/MMS Sender ID Registraion (acma.gov.au)
    ×1.79 15 #90 | 151 points by anitil 18 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Ask HN: Any VPS / VPN with Dedicated IP Address in Cayman Islands?
    ×0.54 | 1 points by JumpinJack_Cash 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. FlipCTL – our GUI framework for embedded Linux systems (flipper.net)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by avrong 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Don't Be Afraid to Comment (sylvia.studio)
    ×2.45 1 | 4 points by lylo 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Cluely is easily detectable / detector source code (github.com/niravrohra)
    ×1.50 89 | 5 points by nirav_rohra 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Trace – Offline Mac meeting transcripts you can flag mid-call (traceapp.info)
    ×1.28 97 | 205 points by AG342 5 days ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: 2 Weeks of Hallucinate – The Photo Gallery (hallucinate.site)
    ×0.66 138 | 73 points by stagas 5 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: BlitzGraph – Supabase for graphs, built for LLM agents (blitzgraph.com)
    ×0.63 83 | 14 points by lveillard 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Cell-based architecture for resilient payment systems (americanexpress.io)
    ×1.16 11 #4 | 77 points by birdculture 5 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Emacs, how it all started for me (xvw.lol)
    ×1.35 4 #32 | 136 points by nukifw 10 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. How Madrid built its metro cheaply (2024) (worksinprogress.co)
    ×1.89 51 #54 | 208 points by trymas 1 day ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. DOJ claims xAI's gas turbines are a matter of 'national and energy security' (techcrunch.com)
    ×3.00 71 | 90 points by dlgeek 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Bastion – isolated Linux VMs for background coding agents (bastion.computer)
    ×1.37 161 | 32 points by almostlit 4 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Unity vs. Floating Point (aras-p.info)
    ×0.57 44 #52 | 45 points by ibobev 12 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Teen summer employment is headed for its worst year since 1948 (fortune.com)
    ×1.66 | 2 points by cheschire 15 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Hackers Found a Back Door into the American Living Room (wsj.com)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by rawgabbit 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society (techcrunch.com)
    ×4.88 12 | 393 points by karakoram 1 day ago | 484 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. ChatGPT's image generator can be manipulated to produce violent, sexual content (mindgard.ai)
    ×2.92 21 | 120 points by dijksterhuis 1 day ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Cowork/Codex DOCX plugin. Uses 2x fewer tokens than the docx skill (github.com/LegalRabbit-AI)
    ×1.74 118 | 5 points by tanin 23 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. The Oura $400 Ring Is Designed to Die [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by SockThief 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users (grapheneos.org)
    ×4.42 33 | 762 points by microtonal 1 day ago | 454 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Spin Lab (srijanshukla.com)
    ×0.56 64 | 39 points by srijanshukla18 2 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. CS 6120: Advanced Compilers: The Self-Guided Online Course (2020) (cornell.edu)
    ×1.97 12 #11 | 290 points by ibobev 13 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. The 2-Year Apartment Rule (bearblog.dev)
    ×1.14 27 #82 | 74 points by surprisetalk 18 hours ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Writing with AI demands more thought from students, not less (iastate.edu)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by hhs 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Semiclassical Gravity Efficiently Solves NP-Complete Problems (arxiv.org)
    ×0.82 76 | 74 points by ascarshen 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Discover Wikipedia articles popular on Hacker News (orangecrumbs.com)
    ×1.27 110 | 139 points by octopus143 4 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Modos Color Monitor Pushes E-Paper Displays Further (ieee.org)
    ×1.80 13 #20 | 223 points by Vinnl 13 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???