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  1. Tell HN: Happy Fathers Day
    ×4.98 12 #20 | 228 points by consumer451 6 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: How should I convert Microsoft Word documents to Markdown?
    ×0.80 14 | 4 points by lkrubner 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?
    ×1.17 62 | 147 points by amichail 2 days ago | 239 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Are You a Workaholic?
    ×0.62 86 | 4 points by julienreszka 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Norrin – Git/ diff control in Claude Code
    ×0.35 84 | 3 points by gagewoodard 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Is anyone using the A2A protocol?
    ×0.71 102 | 92 points by asim 3 days ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What tools are you using for AI-assisted code review?
    ×0.45 130 | 23 points by agos 3 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Favorite aspects of Cocoa/NeXTSTEP for app dev?
    ×0.27 91 | 5 points by elcritch 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What are your favourite Hacker News comments?
    ×0.41 103 | 4 points by Imustaskforhelp 15 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: After you ship a feature, what happens to what you learned?
    ×0.44 94 | 10 points by gaggle_dk 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How to get ideas for space startups?
    ×0.30 104 | 5 points by asxndu 19 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What technique do you use to make Claude Code deterministic?
    ×0.64 118 | 6 points by hbarka 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Do you give AI coding agents their own GitHub account?
    ×0.53 75 | 5 points by ahmd 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What do you care about? What is your joy and purpose?
    ×0.53 114 | 9 points by bix6 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What is your #1 practical lesson or "aha" moment from coding with AI?
    ×0.53 106 | 8 points by johndavid9991 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Do you use Claude Code, Codex, or something else?
    ×0.67 107 | 8 points by JohnDSDev 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Tell HN: Happy Father's Day
    ×2.10 60 | 10 points by atestu 11 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Forked CozoDB to give agents cognitive primitives
    ×0.21 161 | 3 points by shanrizvi 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How to handle kernel struct changes (e.g. iov_iter) in eBPF?
    ×0.30 138 | 3 points by morolis 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Need advice on distributing and testing what I build
    ×0.41 129 | 5 points by darth-pixit 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: What is the coolest tech progress outside AI?
    ×0.59 120 | 15 points by vantareed 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Is anyone else leaving AUR?
    ×0.68 150 | 8 points by lordkrandel 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: If AI didn't exist, what would you be building today?
    ×1.17 93 | 6 points by akashwadhwani35 17 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Is Claude Code with Fable 5 worth switching back from Codex?
    ×0.85 101 | 6 points by vantareed 19 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: I'm lost. How can I define ICP (Ideal Customer Profile)?
    ×0.27 169 | 5 points by snowhy 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Do you find vibe coding / agentic engineering to be fulfilling?
    ×1.38 147 | 12 points by uejfiweun 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Is there a way to stop the animated Google Doodles?
    ×0.55 148 | 12 points by arnejenssen 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Anthropic pauses credit change for Claude Code
    ×1.13 154 | 36 points by fabianlindfors 6 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Reviews have become expensive, rewrites have become cheap
    ×1.12 131 | 82 points by arzh2 5 days ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: How do you effectively communicate or present?
    ×1.09 151 | 10 points by hnthrow10282910 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Are other people seeing a spike in IT problems with businesses?
    ×0.30 158 | 15 points by PaulHoule 4 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Conflicted about founding engineer role
    ×0.60 160 | 8 points by gondolin1683 3 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: What's a prompt you've written that you're genuinely proud of?
    ×0.73 159 | 11 points by akashwadhwani35 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Has anyone had success with SBIR grants and what is the process like?
    ×0.33 162 | 11 points by lyfeninja 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Due to spam on GitHub, what platforms can I move my projects?
    ×1.86 58 | 60 points by ciwolex 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Open-Source Intelligence
    ×0.15 170 | 3 points by silent_butagrim 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Is there a recognized standard for swarm intelligence benchmarking?
    ×0.37 155 | 5 points by stephanieriggs 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. How much $ you spend for AI to code?
    ×0.63 166 | 6 points by raghuu 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Self-adapting and mutating LLM based viruses/worms
    ×0.23 171 | 3 points by rozumbrada 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Trillions of dollars spent just to work on customer services?
    ×0.76 146 | 8 points by YihaoZhang 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Pen and paper resource development game with an emergent world (jameshylands.co.uk)
    ×0.78 143 | 35 points by jhylands 5 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Freelance Hiring, Without the Chaos (hight.ai)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by YinkaIyiola 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Migrating from Claude to DeepSeek without breaking everything (firetiger.com)
    ×1.26 | 2 points by eric_khun 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Microcrad – Micrograd Reimplemented in C (github.com/oraziorillo)
    ×0.76 51 | 77 points by oraziorillo 4 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: StartupsBR – A Map of Brazilian Startups (startupsbr.com)
    ×1.50 163 | 4 points by leonagano 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Local personal data redaction for any AI tools (github.com/sophia486)
    ×0.89 157 | 12 points by unusual_typo 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Golomb Coding (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.93 | 2 points by tosh 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Development Dependencies Considered Harmful (bergie.iki.fi)
    ×0.39 | 1 points by bergie 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: HN Game Stories – mini-documentary of games that hit the front page (intellios.ai)
    ×0.58 | 2 points by coolwulf 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: LoopFlow – loop engineering for Claude Code (github.com/faisalishfaq2005)
    ×1.02 134 | 3 points by faisalishfaq 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. I Still Live in the Terminal (tacoda.dev)
    ×2.57 63 #58 | 10 points by tacoda 8 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Project Fetch: Phase Two (anthropic.com)
    ×0.78 39 #81 | 72 points by stopachka 23 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. AI is making answers cheap. Curiosity is priceless (fastcompany.com)
    ×0.84 | 1 points by ohjeez 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. MsgMaster – an AI that turns your chaotic inbox into a prioritized workflow (msgmaster.ca)
    ×1.34 2 | 3 points by isaaclaskine 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Everything Is Logarithms (alexkritchevsky.com)
    ×1.67 2 #3 | 70 points by E-Reverance 2 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Fossil Fuels Are 40% of Freight Shipping Tonnage, but Half Its Fuel Use (cleantechnica.com)
    ×2.49 21 #43 | 141 points by choult 8 hours ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. The Cult of LK99 (youtube.com)
    ×1.64 | 2 points by EwanG 19 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. AI Is Discovering the Doorman Fallacy [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by CHB0403085482 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: We post-trained a model that pen tests instead of refusing (argusred.com)
    ×0.97 37 | 88 points by dk189 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Tiny.Place – AI Social network for orchestration, payments & jobs (github.com/tinyhumansai)
    ×0.73 133 | 4 points by enamakel 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Windows UI evolution: Clicking an unassociated file (movq.de)
    ×1.70 22 #37 | 130 points by jandeboevrie 17 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Tech Workers Are Fighting Against Silicon Valley's AI Push (techpolicy.press)
    ×0.95 | 1 points by reasonableklout 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Give the Baby Peanut Butter (thefp.com)
    ×0.77 | 1 points by mhb 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Annotate.js – Turn anywebsite into Figma style reviewboard (reviewjs.github.io)
    ×0.39 | 1 points by aagosh 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Rent collections are down in New York (politico.com)
    ×2.56 14 #28 | 27 points by JumpCrisscross 1 hour ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Rare medieval bookmark exceeds expectations at auction (thehistoryblog.com)
    ×0.72 30 #70 | 40 points by speckx 14 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Pre-2022 Books (lorenzogravina.com)
    ×2.22 19 | 204 points by trms 1 day ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: A C++ ALNS routing engine for LEO satellite mesh networks [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.48 85 | 3 points by ADARSHLILHARE 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: MiniPCs.zip (charting the pareto frontier of MiniPCs) (minipcs.zip)
    ×0.88 135 | 3 points by yathern 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Spin Lab (srijanshukla.com)
    ×0.62 121 | 44 points by srijanshukla18 5 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. The 100k whys of AI (lcamtuf.substack.com)
    ×2.99 16 #38 | 162 points by surprisetalk 17 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. RestockAlerts: The easiest way to score coveted Hermes handbags (restockalerts.com)
    ×0.39 | 1 points by fqiao 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: lpviz – Interactive linear programming visualization in the browser (lpviz.net)
    ×3.09 48 | 8 points by klamike 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: NanoEuler – GPT-2 scale model in pure C/CUDA from scratch (github.com/JustVugg)
    ×1.24 144 | 6 points by vforno 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Slow breathing modulates brain function and risk behavior (cell.com)
    ×2.44 9 #59 | 380 points by croes 1 day ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. AMD Mini PCs for AI Applications: A Comprehensive 2026 Review (reddit.com)
    ×1.96 3 | 4 points by javaeeeee 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. LHA (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.92 | 2 points by tosh 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. QueryLoL – open-source League of Legends companion built with Tauri (ishtartec.github.io)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by ixen 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Djevops: Self-Host Django Easily (github.com/mherrmann)
    ×0.88 12 #24 | 21 points by mherrmann 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Compass – guardrails and a hard budget cap for AI coding agents (github.com/dshakes)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by chandu1221 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Futuristic Japanese Warship Is on the Market and Winning Fans (wsj.com)
    ×1.72 51 | 3 points by JumpCrisscross 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. 16-year-old SATA II SSD survives 1 petabyte of writes, 25x the drive's rating (tomshardware.com)
    ×1.58 77 | 52 points by giuliomagnifico 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Rundown - Niche Intelligence for YouTube Creators (getrundown.xyz)
    ×1.37 136 | 6 points by razasaad92 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. 15-minute at-home Lyme disease tick test (bostonglobe.com)
    ×1.64 16 #48 | 230 points by bookofjoe 23 hours ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Exhaustive and Definitive Ranking of All NES Games Released in North America (8bitnintendo.science)
    ×1.68 | 2 points by CharlesW 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Street Traffic Regulation (1909) (bts.gov)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by willmeyers 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Ask HN: Is the hard part of adult friendship the second hangout?
    ×1.82 28 | 5 points by thehgz 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Supermarket giant Tesco sues VMware for breach of contract (2025) (theregister.com)
    ×2.52 11 | 130 points by wglb 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: An ASCII 3D Rendering Engine (glyphcss.com)
    ×4.89 99 | 12 points by apresmoi 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: VoiceDraw – Talk system design out loud, the diagrams draw themselves (voicedraw.com)
    ×0.55 137 | 48 points by ajaypanthagani 5 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???