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Ask HN: How often do you code the expected way instead of a better one?

×0.35 7 | 3 points by recycling 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Did moving to new place have intended effect?

×0.47 18 | 3 points by Jeff2Serve 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Windows on Mobile Screen

×0.35 | 2 points by tukunjil 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How to enforce engineers to understand the code they are shipping

×0.53 34 | 4 points by hchua 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How to be SOC2 Type 2 compliant as a solo-entreprenuer?

×0.81 77 | 171 points by sochix 4 days ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Company is rapidly cutting AI tool spend how to prep team?

×0.77 47 | 7 points by Snakes3727 9 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: When did computers stop being fun?

×1.47 73 | 70 points by klez 2 days ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Booking.com and Weaviate

×0.05 | 2 points by CShorten 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Do you know what data your AI coding agent sends to the cloud?

×0.06 97 | 3 points by lbrauer 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Dont use Claude Design, lost access to my projects after unsubscribing

×2.09 79 | 298 points by pycassa 5 days ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Mindie.dev is scraping emails from profiles to send spam

×0.88 87 | 26 points by stackghost 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Could free/low cost LLMs be a momentary thing?

×0.49 94 | 5 points by senda 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
SlothDB is an OLAP DB ahead of DuckDB on Clickbench SQL database in C++20

×0.14 107 | 5 points by souravroy78 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What LLM models are you using and why?

×0.39 100 | 9 points by rubyn00bie 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Viable open source Claude Design alternative?

×0.48 106 | 25 points by splatzone 4 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Which country will be the first to pass laws limiting Meta Ray-Ban glasses?

×0.39 102 | 29 points by nothrowaways 4 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What are you working on (non-AI)?

×0.93 103 | 46 points by BrunoBernardino 5 days ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Note-taking software,Novel ideas

×0.20 116 | 5 points by huaqing 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Software's Centaur Era (twitchard.github.io)

×0.63 | 1 points by speckx 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI coding made us faster. Why did incidents increase? (leaddev.com)

×2.36 24 | 3 points by theanonymousone 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: HypergraphZ – directed hypergraph library in Zig with Python bindings (github.com/yamafaktory)

×0.24 | 2 points by yamafaktory 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I made a printable graph papaer templates website (printablegraphpaper.org)

×0.93 99 | 7 points by atharvtathe 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Hermes-agentmemory, pull-model episodic memory with real deletes (github.com/MukundaKatta)

×1.22 113 | 6 points by mukundakatta 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI (techcrunch.com)

×5.98 21 #32 | 1019 points by nycdatasci 20 hours ago | 517 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
New York to tax luxury second homes in NYC (apnews.com)

×4.83 1 #71 | 153 points by geox 19 hours ago | 221 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Detecting CI/CD supply chain attacks with canary credentials (tracebit.com)

×2.37 50 | 3 points by tracebit 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Got ghosted by tech companies so I built a tool to track ghost jobs (csvfirst.pythonanywhere.com)

×1.18 112 | 6 points by ktmartin 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Agentic product discovery for AI apps and shopping agents (seekon.me)

×1.51 122 | 5 points by mentormentat 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Rocksky – Music scrobbling and discovery on the AT Protocol (tangled.org)

×0.87 67 | 115 points by tsiry 2 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: We automated Portugal visa appointment checks with computer-use agents (getfastvisa.com)

×0.93 90 | 3 points by gsunshinel 20 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: RAG-LCC – config-driven RAG framework for fast experimentation (github.com/HarinezumIgel)

×0.44 | 2 points by HarinezumIgel 4 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Aether: High-performance, formally-verified storage engine written in Rust (codeberg.org)

×1.00 67 #68 | 30 points by dboreham 21 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Science of Cities. 10 Books You Must Read (nautil.us)

×0.62 | 1 points by Tomte 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Kubernetes: Lessons learned from hosting an European alternative to Google Docs (georg-schwarz.com)

×0.63 | 1 points by theanonymousone 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
LLMs: code is just untrusted text until you validate it (hack8s.com)

×0.62 | 1 points by justorius 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical Magnifica humanitas to be published May 25 (vaticannews.va)

×1.93 7 #27 | 260 points by cucho 14 hours ago | 179 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: VibeSchema DBML to PNG – instant diagram PNG from DBML schemas (vibe-schema.com)

×1.46 45 | 3 points by SsgMshdPotatoes 22 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AIllowpages – Free AI tools search engine with 2500 tools, zero ads (aillowpages.com)

×1.44 | 2 points by muralipala 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why GPU compilers are MORE important in the agentic era (scale-lang.com)

×2.40 53 | 3 points by msond 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Browser based sythesizer, drum machine and squencer (github.com/madmonk13)

×1.55 101 | 21 points by madmonk 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Id-agent – Token efficient UUID alternative for AI agents (github.com/vostride)

×1.02 78 | 27 points by pranshuchittora 2 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Domain DMARC Checker (dmarcdefender.io)

×1.84 123 | 6 points by c0nrad 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Agora-1: The Multi-Agent World Model (odyssey.ml)

×0.92 40 #38 | 119 points by olivercameron 19 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Shutterstock to pay $35M over hard-to-cancel subscriptions (ftc.gov)

×2.31 3 #62 | 172 points by Lihh27 18 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Rant on Owning a Modern EV (chuck.is)

×1.73 | 2 points by speckx 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit (techspot.com)

×4.90 | 587 points by nolok 2 days ago | 262 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
At least 100 deaths reported in Ebola outbreak in DR Congo (bbc.com)

×2.75 15 | 69 points by saikatsg 20 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Chronicles of Prydain is the greatest fantasy series ever written (2017) (vox.com)

×0.63 | 1 points by mooreds 57 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Meta deletes popular 1M follower account after Kuwaiti request (twitter.com/ryangrim)

×3.91 37 | 204 points by bhouston 1 day ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Photo GIMP – A Patch for GIMP 3 for Photoshop Users (github.com/Diolinux)

×2.08 1 #5 | 115 points by SockThief 3 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The quiet renovation at Bitwarden (ppb1701.com)

×3.43 14 #40 | 654 points by DaSHacka 1 day ago | 295 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Badger Badger Badger Video Officially Preserved by British Film Institute (petapixel.com)

×2.87 1 #46 | 26 points by petecooper 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: FocusLive – Camera-free 3D body doubling using Supabase Realtime (focuslive.app)

×0.81 | 1 points by coder97 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Noxu DB, a Rust Port of Berkeley DB Java Edition (codeberg.org)

×0.81 | 2 points by gregburd 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Serene Bach – a Go weblog engine that runs as CGI or HTTP (github.com/serendipitynz)

×1.21 108 | 6 points by takkyun 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hyperpolyglot Lisp: Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure, Emacs Lisp (hyperpolyglot.org)

×0.97 33 #28 | 172 points by veqq 18 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Coding on Paper (wickstrom.tech)

×1.39 29 #56 | 82 points by owickstrom 17 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Genesis of TerraMorphz (iryanbell.com)

×0.79 | 1 points by iryanbell 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Hsrs – Type-Safe Haskell Bindings Generator for Rust (github.com/harmont-dev)

×0.75 37 #29 | 45 points by suis_siva 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mocked by a scandal sheet, Kierkegaard endured months of personal attacks (plough.com)

×0.87 35 #77 | 97 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AgentCRM – Headless CRM for Claude Code (github.com/cluster-software)

×1.04 66 #82 | 10 points by samuelstros 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: How to Kill the Dead Internet (google.com)

×2.41 88 | 9 points by bigger_fish 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Neural window manager, neural network moving windows from mouse actions (lusob.github.io)

×1.48 137 | 7 points by lusob 5 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Trump started to decouple America from China (noahpinion.blog)

×1.49 | 2 points by mooreds 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Don Zagier's approximation of Markov's diophantine equation (johndcook.com)

×1.46 | 2 points by ibobev 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Dataset for AI training and fine tuning (neurvance.com)

×0.77 89 | 4 points by Adam_SDDk 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us (cloudflare.com)

×2.27 1 #53 | 349 points by Fysi 1 day ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We cut Claude's token usage 79% by redesigning our CLI for agents (infracost.io)

×8.69 83 | 11 points by glenngillen 22 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Galápagos Syndrome (wikipedia.org)

×1.34 | 2 points by doruk101 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mistral's CEO: Europe has 2 years to stop becoming America's AI 'vassal state' (businessinsider.com)

×4.21 54 | 115 points by LelouBil 1 day ago | 193 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anyone on the Internet Can Ring Your Doorbell (abgeo.dev)

×1.38 14 #57 | 109 points by jrdres 11 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
My domain got abused on GitHub Pages (meertens.dev)

×2.59 41 #69 | 51 points by rmeertens 6 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I turned a $80 RK3562 Android tablet into a Debian Linux workstation (github.com/tech4bot)

×1.80 17 | 434 points by tech4bot 2 days ago | 230 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Beacon - The open-source layer for local AI agent visibility (github.com/Asymptote-Labs)

×4.75 56 | 19 points by jqdsouza 19 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: LFK – A Fast Kubernetes TUI (github.com/janosmiko)

×2.74 119 | 6 points by baskInEminence 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Og-zkp – Prove your Bitcoin OG status in zero-knowledge (og-zkp.com)

×0.62 | 1 points by lukechilds 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I built a linter for undocumented linter warnings. AI hates me now (github.com/BKDDFS)

×0.61 | 1 points by BKDDFS 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS (github.com/stephenlthorn)

×2.22 27 | 322 points by stephenlthorn 1 day ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: drea – podcast ad blocker (drea.fm)

×1.98 69 | 7 points by hamza_q_ 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling (2025) (alexplescan.com)

×1.63 29 #33 | 245 points by ankitg12 22 hours ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Childflow – command-tree network control(proxy/DNS/capture) for Linux (github.com/blacknon)

×1.51 | 1 points by blacknon 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI is a technology not a product (daringfireball.net)

×3.73 13 | 470 points by ch_sm 2 days ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MagnoApi - i built a Memory Context API that gives memory to llms (railway.app)

×0.62 | 1 points by MagnoApi 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Built a verifiable, open-source SoC 2 readiness scanner (loxeai.com)

×0.26 | 2 points by arjavmehta 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry (superspl.at)

×2.67 #3 | 229 points by danybittel 3 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Molecule derived from spinach used to trigger photosynthesis in mouse eyes (nus.edu.sg)

×0.60 | 1 points by gmays 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Who's behind Facebook's hateful AI slop about the UK? They may be in South Asia (theguardian.com)

×1.26 | 2 points by curiousObject 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Standard Chartered to cut more than 7k jobs as it steps up AI use (theguardian.com)

×1.42 | 2 points by Brajeshwar 37 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Enough with the AI FOMO, go slow-mo, says Domo CDO (theregister.com)

×1.63 1 | 152 points by Bender 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Closed Rings – A CLI-first time tracker for developers (closedrings.sh)

×1.20 62 | 4 points by samacs 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???