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  1. Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated
    ×7.60 10 #18 | 1432 points by CliffStoll 16 hours ago | 222 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...
    ×3.11 5 #30 | 265 points by mittermayr 13 hours ago | 226 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Can NPM, pnpm etc. use frontier models to check packages for malware?
    ×0.47 50 | 3 points by VikRubenfeld 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Novel macro signals for AI-related job loss?
    ×0.60 54 | 3 points by sfmz 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How do you find good personal blogs on Google nowadays?
    ×1.18 7 | 3 points by xapet 1 hour ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. 0ctx – Local-first project memory for AI workflows
    ×0.19 87 | 3 points by som3on3 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How do we handle the rise of low quality "This is LLM" comments?
    ×0.61 55 | 6 points by shantnutiwari 8 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Reflections on NetBSD 11
    ×0.33 75 | 3 points by morpheos137 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How are you handling QA being bottlenecked with more AI-generated PRs?
    ×0.24 90 | 3 points by softneon 15 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What is your go-to solution for a personal wiki in 2026?
    ×0.48 83 | 14 points by ex-aws-dude 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Claude Flags Hantavirus Vaccine Questions as Security Risk
    ×1.02 62 | 10 points by pell 13 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What will happen as AI costs increase?
    ×0.51 81 | 13 points by MetaWhirledPeas 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. "Surface" a Governed AI-Agentic Surface
    ×0.10 109 | 3 points by paulbernard 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Are we gonna back less powerful local LLMs
    ×0.33 92 | 9 points by omertt27 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What do you still do manually in 2026 that should be automated?
    ×0.29 94 | 16 points by lishunsheng 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How to start up as an individual developer?
    ×0.46 121 | 12 points by alexyan0431 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Who got hired with Who wants to be hired? (On 2026)
    ×0.30 110 | 17 points by Gooblebrai 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad?
    ×1.75 107 | 132 points by idontwantthis 6 days ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Is there a term for feeling sad about forced AI adoption?
    ×0.90 112 | 25 points by ge96 3 days ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Is the future everyone having 100 MCP processes running on their PC?
    ×0.25 145 | 7 points by ex-aws-dude 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Is anyone seriously considering a career change?
    ×0.84 88 | 31 points by zeven7 2 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Best Embedding Models?
    ×0.37 141 | 17 points by devstein 3 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Terafab – Smart move or insane financial risk?
    ×0.08 155 | 3 points by imheretolearn 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: The death of software development as a job?
    ×1.55 119 | 18 points by piratesAndSons 2 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Agents need control flow, not more prompts (bearblog.dev)
    ×2.47 7 #78 | 567 points by bsuh 1 day ago | 282 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Permacomputing Principles (permacomputing.net)
    ×1.53 32 | 266 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 207 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: tltv – Federation protocol for 24/7 TV channels (timelooptv.org)
    ×1.06 36 | 3 points by tltv 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Free chatbot that monitors changes on any website and sends alerts (apple.com)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by kamilms21 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Kill-The-Backlog, self-hosted background agents (github.com/jvaill)
    ×0.66 104 | 4 points by jvaill 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE (github.com/V4bel)
    ×0.90 27 #14 | 13 points by unbeli 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. QBE – Compiler Back End (c9x.me)
    ×1.03 46 #47 | 81 points by smartmic 15 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Disappearing Polymorph (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.27 | 2 points by ZeljkoS 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. The Self-Cancelling Subscription (predr.ag)
    ×1.20 28 #88 | 177 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format (sqlite.org)
    ×3.41 13 | 648 points by whatisabcdefgh 2 days ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Sandboxing AIOps and Agentic AI Security (cosmonic.com)
    ×0.52 53 #69 | 9 points by mendyberger 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Roadside Attraction (theoffingmag.com)
    ×0.35 38 #24 | 12 points by aways 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. pg_flight_recorder: Continuously sample PostgreSQL system state via pg_cron (github.com/dventimisupabase)
    ×0.22 57 #42 | 8 points by tanelpoder 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. ASML to invest $1.5B in Mistral at over $11B valuation (calcalistech.com)
    ×3.13 14 #51 | 8 points by tcp_handshaker 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal (github.com/antirez)
    ×2.42 12 #90 | 473 points by tamnd 1 day ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Gulp – We have been made aware of a potential incident and are shutting down all (reddit.com)
    ×1.07 | 2 points by newsoftheday 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: I indexed 8,643 BSides talks across 227 chapters and 6 continents (allbsides.com)
    ×1.80 133 | 25 points by Parkado 4 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Gpu.fund, live GPU cloud rental prices (gpu.fund)
    ×1.15 146 | 4 points by justacatbot 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Naval Strike – simultaneous turn-based fleet combat in the browser (navalstrike.app)
    ×0.32 148 | 4 points by pinchydev 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Claude Code CVE-2026-39861:sandbox escape via symlink (github.com/advisories)
    ×1.20 49 #79 | 47 points by Armor1AI 20 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Teaching Claude Why (anthropic.com)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by cebert 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Kstack – Skill pack for monitoring/troubleshooting K8s in Claude Code (github.com/kubetail-org)
    ×0.50 74 | 22 points by andres 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Dreamwork – a job search site I made after Indeed fired my pregnant wif (dreamworkhq.com)
    ×1.67 126 | 6 points by cojj25 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit (xeiaso.net)
    ×3.44 7 #29 | 806 points by psxuaw 23 hours ago | 426 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Defeating Works by Design's Unpickable Lock [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.54 38 #46 | 15 points by zdw 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Digging into Drama at the Document Foundation (lwn.net)
    ×0.82 34 #85 | 54 points by signa11 19 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Obsidian-Semantic, a CLI that lets agents search your vault by meaning (github.com/ravila4)
    ×1.01 | 2 points by ravila4 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Gambling ads on social media reach more than twice as many men as women: study (cam.ac.uk)
    ×1.06 22 | 95 points by hhs 23 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Apple's SHARP running in the browser via ONNX runtime web (github.com/bring-shrubbery)
    ×0.95 93 | 182 points by bring-shrubbery 5 days ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: HeatSpectra: Realtime 3D Surface Heat Simulation (github.com/tsun3doku)
    ×0.87 105 | 3 points by tsun3doku 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Local-first long-term memory engine for AI agents·MCP/CLI· 100% local (github.com/misaelzapata)
    ×0.83 116 | 4 points by misaelzapata 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off (theverge.com)
    ×4.15 68 | 195 points by droidjj 8 hours ago | 243 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. US will start revoking passports for parents who owe child support (apnews.com)
    ×2.90 18 | 70 points by OutOfHere 19 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Vanilla-scroll-sky: CSS-only modern scroll-driven storytelling sections (github.com/ulrischa)
    ×1.95 130 | 7 points by ulrischa 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Browser-based light pollution simulator using real photometric data (iesna.eu)
    ×0.45 144 | 44 points by 6 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. You gave me a u32. I gave you root. (io_uring ZCRX freelist LPE) (ze3tar.github.io)
    ×1.46 6 #3 | 85 points by MrBruh 3 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos (war.gov)
    ×2.13 10 #21 | 202 points by david-gpu 10 hours ago | 314 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Wi is Fi: Understanding Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7/8 (802.11 n/AC/ax/be/bn) (wiisfi.com)
    ×0.77 46 #27 | 6 points by homebrewer 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school (theguardian.com)
    ×2.30 72 #45 | 321 points by rustoo 1 day ago | 508 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. AI slop is killing online communities (rmoff.net)
    ×4.91 10 #61 | 795 points by thm 1 day ago | 691 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Korea Surpasses Canada as Seventh-Largest Stock Market (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.49 9 #68 | 20 points by carabiner 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Ask HN: What kind of computer language will LLM use?
    ×1.20 | 2 points by folderquestion 51 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Claude Conference 2026 Videos (youtube.com)
    ×1.14 | 2 points by rmason 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Mozilla says 271 vulnerabilities found by Mythos and "almost no false positives" (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.74 23 | 124 points by epistasis 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. DeepSeek V4 Pro at 75% off until 31 May (deepseek.com)
    ×3.87 70 | 87 points by nateb2022 1 day ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. My first in-prod corrupted hard drive problem (pavementlink.ch)
    ×0.66 11 #15 | 32 points by r1chk1t 3 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. What we lost the last time code got cheap (poppastring.com)
    ×1.86 57 #71 | 103 points by speckx 3 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Motherboard sales 'collapse' amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI (tomshardware.com)
    ×2.95 11 | 288 points by speckx 1 day ago | 339 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Airbyte Agents – context for agents across multiple data sources
    ×0.79 79 | 148 points by mtricot 3 days ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: DiffCAD, a FreeCAD workbench to review model changes like code (github.com/eblanshey)
    ×1.46 95 | 6 points by eblanshey 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: nfsdiag – A NFS diagnostic application (github.com/lsferreira42)
    ×0.80 97 | 83 points by lsferreira42 6 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Two Home Affairs officials suspended after AI 'hallucinations' found (citizen.co.za)
    ×1.12 44 #67 | 134 points by jruohonen 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. When life gives you lemons, write better error messages (wix-ux.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by luispa 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Bowbuilds, a configurator and tuning toolkit for compound archers (bowbuilds.com)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by whereismyreleas 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Inventing Cyrillic (2024) (historytoday.com)
    ×0.56 63 #49 | 42 points by lermontov 15 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. GNU IFUNC is the real culprit behind CVE-2024-3094 (github.com/robertdfrench)
    ×0.95 43 #63 | 118 points by foltik 22 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense (paulkrugman.substack.com)
    ×6.17 6 | 503 points by Qem 1 day ago | 324 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. ProgramBench: Can language models rebuild programs from scratch? (arxiv.org)
    ×1.16 49 | 149 points by jonbaer 1 day ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Bookstoread.ai – Discover non-fiction books using AI (bookstoread.ai)
    ×2.66 91 | 8 points by yotc 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Orch8 – Durable workflow engine in Rust, one binary, Postgres or SQLite (github.com/orch8-io)
    ×1.81 118 | 26 points by _alphageek 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Cartoon Network Flash Games (webdesignmuseum.org)
    ×1.70 7 #4 | 245 points by willmeyers 6 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. AI makes weak engineers less harmful (seangoedecke.com)
    ×0.55 | 2 points by bsgada 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Sam Altman of OpenAI responds to murder accusations (2025) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.78 2 | 3 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE (openwall.com)
    ×3.16 17 #32 | 790 points by flipped 1 day ago | 310 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Hackers breach JDownloader's website to serve malware-laced downloads (neowin.net)
    ×1.32 19 #72 | 102 points by bundie 10 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Don Quixote was an unexpected hit (storica.club)
    ×0.50 | 2 points by cemsakarya 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???