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  1. I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
    ×1.10 39 #16 | 160 points by proberts 18 hours ago | 216 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)
    ×1.26 12 #20 | 259 points by whoishiring 18 hours ago | 279 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)
    ×0.88 25 #40 | 127 points by whoishiring 18 hours ago | 277 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What Happened to the CS153 Videos
    ×1.61 13 | 4 points by mapleleaf1921 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Who wants to be fired? (May 2026)
    ×3.60 23 | 61 points by evo_9 13 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Hyperscalers are buying all the chips to then rent them to us later
    ×1.36 39 | 5 points by adelks 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Tell HN: Happy May Day
    ×0.84 84 | 6 points by chrishill89 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Tell HN: VS Code v1.117.0 automatically adds GitHub Copilot as your co author
    ×0.93 74 | 73 points by adithyassekhar 2 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. SlothDB a 5X Faster Alternative to DuckDB, ClickHouse DB
    ×0.37 92 | 9 points by souravroy78 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What book have you given as a gift?
    ×2.46 39 | 4 points by chistev 1 hour ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day
    ×2.48 81 | 588 points by _-x-_ 6 days ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Claude Code dies with ANTHROPIC_API_KEY in cloud environment
    ×0.26 98 | 12 points by sroussey 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Is there any good open-source alternative to MinIO?
    ×0.37 97 | 3 points by embedding-shape 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: GitHub flagged my org two weeks ago. No reason given, no appeal response
    ×0.83 86 | 6 points by dohyun-ko 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Tell HN: Claude Opus 4.7 quota suddenly changed to 0 TPM in Bedrock
    ×2.32 67 | 12 points by sarathyweb 17 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Does Claude use 'prior' in a Bayesian sense more than English?
    ×0.16 124 | 4 points by slake 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Claude Pro expired and my $40 in prepaid Extra Usage credits vanished
    ×0.41 108 | 12 points by Aldipower 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. What do you think of people buying Mac mini's to run AI?
    ×0.33 118 | 4 points by namegulf 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Tell HN: An update from the new Tindie team
    ×0.77 87 | 80 points by altairprime 3 days ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Anyone feel like they're just opting out of tech these days?
    ×0.87 104 | 22 points by moomoo11 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Claude.ai down again?
    ×0.73 93 | 34 points by zh_code 2 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Rant, Am I bad or is this a company with a poor tech culture?
    ×0.60 112 | 6 points by apatheticonion 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Tell HN: Claude 4.7 is ignoring stop hooks
    ×0.99 134 | 109 points by LatencyKills 1 week ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Is AI resulting in net revenue gain for non-tech companies?
    ×0.64 102 | 10 points by jusonchan81 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Is it still worth it to try to get a job in IT
    ×0.22 148 | 8 points by morpheos137 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. What do you want to see in a next-generation GitHub in the age of AI?
    ×0.20 143 | 4 points by skeedle 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Is Anybody Using Codex?
    ×0.36 145 | 4 points by cl3misch 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Is it just me or is Claude Code getting worse?
    ×0.57 120 | 32 points by e-nouri 3 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Flock cameras keep telling police a man who doesn't have a warrant has a warrant (youtube.com)
    ×3.95 53 | 184 points by johnbarron 16 hours ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Gova – The declarative GUI framework for Go (github.com/NV404)
    ×1.12 130 | 143 points by aliezsid 1 week ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Whohas – Command-line utility for cross-distro, cross-repository package search (github.com/whohas)
    ×0.84 30 #29 | 142 points by peter_d_sherman 18 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Cyber-Insecurity in the AI Era (technologyreview.com)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by joozio 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. GCC 16 has been released (gnu.org)
    ×2.81 23 | 301 points by HeliumHydride 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. A Gopher Meets a Crab (miren.dev)
    ×1.16 8 #5 | 33 points by radimm 4 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Andrej Karpathy: From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering (youtube.com)
    ×1.73 | 2 points by swolpers 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Aide-memory – persistent memory for AI coding agents and teams (aide-memory.dev)
    ×1.33 82 | 4 points by ahmedmeky 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Golang binaries built for your users depending on their arch and system (goblin.run)
    ×0.46 | 2 points by aliezsid 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Grok 4.3 (x.ai)
    ×3.21 26 #70 | 387 points by simianwords 1 day ago | 517 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Measuring Strategic Work (fullhoffman.com)
    ×1.01 | 2 points by adunk 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Hollow is an open-sourced self-modifying agentic system (github.com/ninjahawk)
    ×1.35 56 | 7 points by ninjahawk1 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: What was your "why didn't I start doing this sooner" moment?
    ×1.02 | 2 points by chistev 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. I Do Not Recommend Bitwarden (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)
    ×5.18 41 | 11 points by HotGarbage 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Your App Should Ship an MCP Server (poehnelt.com)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by justinwp 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Uber torches 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months (briefs.co)
    ×3.35 73 | 380 points by lwhsiao 17 hours ago | 452 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Winpodx – run Windows apps on Linux as native windows (github.com/kernalix7)
    ×1.60 44 | 96 points by kernalix7 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Mdview.io – online Markdown viewer for software developer (mdview.io)
    ×0.94 141 | 4 points by Igor_Wiwi 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: SigMap – 81.1% retrieval hit 5, 96.9% token reduce,zero deps (github.com/manojmallick)
    ×3.46 116 | 14 points by manoj079 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Hexlock – Replace PII in text with fake data that has the same format (github.com/ttarvis)
    ×1.15 136 | 5 points by lemaudit 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Spirit Airlines Is Winding Down All Operations (spiritrestructuring.com)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by KoftaBob 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Intel Inside the Micro Revolution: 8008 Origins (thechipletter.substack.com)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by klelatti 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. It's a Weird Time to Be Named Claude (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.59 12 | 3 points by helsinkiandrew 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Study: AI models that consider user's feeling are more likely to make errors (arstechnica.com)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by rbanffy 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Who's the First Person in History Whose Name We Know? (2015) (nationalgeographic.com)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by downbad_ 31 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. I built a Game Boy emulator in F# (nickkossolapov.github.io)
    ×1.72 4 | 337 points by elvis70 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Rip.so – a graveyard for dead internet things (rip.so)
    ×1.35 72 | 182 points by bozdemir 3 days ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: A Karpathy-style LLM wiki your agents maintain (Markdown and Git) (github.com/nex-crm)
    ×1.97 101 | 259 points by najmuzzaman 1 week ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Dabbling in Erlang, part 2: A minimal introduction (2013) (agis.io)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by pasxizeis 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: MemHub, Turn Your GPT/Claude/Gemini History into LLM-Wiki Mindmap (github.com/XTraceAI)
    ×1.58 65 | 4 points by TristanX 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases (github.com/refactoringhq)
    ×1.81 105 | 316 points by lucaronin 1 week ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. I tell about my blog to anyone willing to listen (hamatti.org)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by Tomte 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Vercel’s pricing page (theupsellgame.com)
    ×2.32 26 | 188 points by bartoindahouse 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Live Sun and Moon Dashboard with NASA Footage (lumara-space.app)
    ×1.06 76 | 220 points by beeswaxpat 3 days ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Herald – Local-first terminal email client (herald-mail.app)
    ×1.65 88 | 5 points by zoomacode 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Free no-signup site auditor – secrets, subdomain takeover, CVEs (theionproject.com)
    ×0.73 138 | 4 points by TheIOn-Project 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Startup Equity Adventure Game (options-game-polymathrobotics.pythonanywhere.com)
    ×0.67 146 | 36 points by iliabara 5 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Lib0xc: A set of C standard library-adjacent APIs for safer systems programming (github.com/microsoft)
    ×1.67 19 #17 | 149 points by wooster 14 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Apple Stops Selling Mac Mini with 256GB of Storage (macrumors.com)
    ×1.43 28 | 3 points by tosh 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Japan is building cardboard suicide drones (404media.co)
    ×3.37 60 | 96 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Coding-Flashcards – Learn Rust, SQLite, or Godot from First Principles (github.com/ad-si)
    ×1.18 91 | 20 points by adius 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Exploding Hamsters (explodinghamsters.com)
    ×3.71 94 | 15 points by pompomsheep 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. K3k: Kubernetes in Kubernetes (github.com/rancher)
    ×1.50 #12 | 51 points by jzebedee 5 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Ask HN: Should AI agents have their own legal entities?
    ×1.22 | 2 points by LRG-H 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. The Java 21 virtual threads and AI hype is half-true (reddit.com)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by Tomte 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. LinkedIn is scanning browser extensions (404privacy.com)
    ×3.86 11 | 432 points by un-nf 1 day ago | 212 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. If I could make my own GitHub (matduggan.com)
    ×1.48 2 | 128 points by matricaria 1 day ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Your biggest vulnerability is your shitty compensation (spacedino.net)
    ×5.73 36 | 101 points by jfil 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Omar – A TUI for managing 100 coding agents (omar.tech)
    ×5.49 56 | 14 points by karim7 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: TRiP – a complete transformer engine in C built from scratch just by me (github.com/carlovalenti)
    ×0.66 77 | 38 points by carlovalenti 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. City Learns Flock Accessed Cameras in Children's Gymnastics Room as a Sales Demo (404media.co)
    ×3.83 29 #36 | 404 points by joshcsimmons 15 hours ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. What is Apache Kafka and how does it work? (medium.com)
    ×3.15 21 #43 | 8 points by filipyonov 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: TurnZero – Persistent Expert for LLMs
    ×0.52 | 1 points by dmilicev2 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Flocklist, minimalist graph-based task tracker (flocklist.app)
    ×1.69 129 | 6 points by ilqr_jb 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Tvheadend: Self-Hosted IPTV Server (tvheadend.org)
    ×0.83 25 #52 | 30 points by hyperific 9 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Ubuntu servers taken offline by "sustained, cross-border attack" (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.26 24 #69 | 119 points by RattlesnakeJake 14 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. SpaceX rocket set for unintentional moon landing – well, a piece of it anyway (theregister.com)
    ×1.05 3 #75 | 61 points by beardyw 13 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. CPanel CVE-2026-41940 Exploitation from a Honeypot Perspective (defusedcyber.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by waihtis 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Trump says it's 'treasonous' to say US not winning war in Iran (independent.co.uk)
    ×4.20 31 | 8 points by 9dev 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Police Have Used License Plate Readers at Least 14x to Stalk Romantic Interests (ij.org)
    ×6.21 64 | 255 points by loteck 17 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. The More Young People Use AI, the More They Hate It (theverge.com)
    ×4.78 53 | 125 points by karakoram 1 day ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. For the first time in history, more Americans are moving to EU than vice versa (twitter.com/benbawan)
    ×4.78 59 | 115 points by akyuu 1 day ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???