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  1. Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?
    ×2.89 43 #40 | 665 points by andrehacker 2 days ago | 1048 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: How are thinking efforts implemented?
    ×0.79 12 #64 | 10 points by simianwords 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?
    ×3.36 11 | 433 points by Ekami 1 day ago | 713 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: So what happened to Facebook "localhost" tracking?
    ×0.74 91 | 104 points by juliusceasar 3 days ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow?
    ×1.90 58 | 155 points by dv35z 2 days ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Where do you get the latest updates about AI?
    ×0.90 86 | 5 points by d0able 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How to get my contact info off US political party's list
    ×1.27 77 | 9 points by kaycebasques 19 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How do you find deep technical content?
    ×1.02 113 | 37 points by f311a 3 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. New Biochemistry-Based Metabolic Protocol Seeking Alpha Concierge Members
    ×0.42 98 | 3 points by joshwprinceton 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Gin rummy strategies
    ×0.54 119 | 24 points by bix6 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Does anyone know since when we are close to building in space?
    ×0.67 99 | 6 points by kingleopold 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Bad MCP design costs your agent 5x more tokens
    ×0.78 108 | 14 points by JohnnyZhang483 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Is the web for machines (/llm.txt) the one we wished we had as humans?
    ×0.88 97 | 36 points by sunshine-o 2 days ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: My competitors have flawed products but I can't get traction
    ×0.56 118 | 11 points by saveitincork 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What are the best unknown books you have read?
    ×2.85 1 | 7 points by chistev 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Does robotics capabilities research accelerate AGI timelines?
    ×0.60 114 | 8 points by themasterchief 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Were CS profs right to look down on programming in light of modern AI?
    ×0.48 121 | 4 points by amichail 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. I'm tired of LLM skill slop, so I built mine with regression tests
    ×0.53 156 | 7 points by iliaov 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How did you discover Hacker News?
    ×0.93 107 | 10 points by chistev 2 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What would you name your own LLM?
    ×0.61 136 | 4 points by akashwadhwani35 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Life saving / first aid posters
    ×0.45 120 | 37 points by cpu_ 5 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Is Everyone an Engineer Now?
    ×1.59 152 | 7 points by piratesAndSons 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Is Azure capacity this constraind or am I doing it wrong?
    ×0.71 129 | 11 points by lanycrost 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Supply chain attack alert: .github/setup.js
    ×4.57 102 | 24 points by antihero 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Google killed my $1M ARR startup overnight
    ×3.87 131 | 21 points by vadumo 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Why isn't AI image generation closely linked with graphics code gen?
    ×0.30 164 | 3 points by amichail 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: How do you stay up to date without information overload?
    ×0.66 148 | 5 points by bohdanstefaniuk 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Being privacy-conscious comes with some downsides
    ×1.18 150 | 9 points by wqtz 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: What was your best experience with a VC?
    ×0.77 123 | 3 points by krrishd 22 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: A Brief History of LLMs
    ×0.42 168 | 9 points by menomatter 4 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ntsc-rs – open-source video emulation of analog TV and VHS artifacts (ntsc.rs)
    ×1.83 17 #20 | 386 points by gregsadetsky 21 hours ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Gov.uk has replaced Stripe with Dutch provider Adyen (theregister.com)
    ×3.52 21 #74 | 574 points by toomuchtodo 2 days ago | 228 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Free job postings API with 1.8M+ US jobs, 60k companies (bluedoor.sh)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by ahshucks 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. DoD Officially Drops 180 Faiths from Military's Recognized Religion List (military.com)
    ×6.16 8 | 66 points by Balgair 17 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: TakoVM – Isolated model and tool execution used by enterprises (github.com/las7)
    ×0.60 33 | 21 points by sakuraiben 14 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. The new bibliomaniacs (engelsbergideas.com)
    ×0.69 73 #55 | 80 points by RickJWagner 1 day ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Running Python code in a sandbox with MicroPython and WASM (simonwillison.net)
    ×1.02 44 #68 | 102 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Brit maritime agency heralds fresh global rules for crewless cargo ships (theregister.com)
    ×1.63 5 | 3 points by Bender 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. I Love Lisp (medium.com)
    ×1.56 46 | 41 points by tacoda 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: A searchable archive of declassified UAP/UFO files, news, and analysis (didyousee.xyz)
    ×2.25 166 | 13 points by sonjaqql 5 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Trees to Flows and Back: Unifying Decision Trees and Diffusion Models (arxiv.org)
    ×0.65 68 #77 | 50 points by rsn243 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Three of our worst VC stories (twitter.com/eastdakota)
    ×2.21 28 #87 | 273 points by orgonon 1 day ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Things to lighten dependency on web apps (inavoyage.blogspot.com)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by initramfs 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show Show HN: PrivatePulse – Value startup equity using secondary market data (privatepulse.online)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by gbnt 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. French billionaire seeks law change to leave fortune to charity (msn.com)
    ×1.50 | 2 points by paulpauper 46 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. AI Native DevCon, London, June 2026 [YouTube Playlist] (youtube.com)
    ×1.01 | 2 points by doctaj 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Is This Art? (totalnoise.ai)
    ×3.34 42 | 6 points by hasmatt 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Microsoft wants users to be addicted to Scout, their AI personal assistant (disassociated.com)
    ×2.13 69 | 69 points by berlianta 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Russia's new 'Starlink‑Style' Rassvet fleet loses first satellite after weeks (tomshardware.com)
    ×2.27 47 | 3 points by pinewurst 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. AI and the Desire to Destroy the Rival (minervaatdusk.substack.com)
    ×1.02 | 2 points by minervaatdusk 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Resonate – Low-latency, high-resolution spectral analysis (alexandrefrancois.org)
    ×0.77 105 | 4 points by arjf 22 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. The OnlyFans Economy of American AI (leoveanu.com)
    ×2.24 35 #38 | 109 points by futurisold 2 hours ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: AgentCrew – a Markdown-first operating system for AI coding agents (github.com/mlguyYT)
    ×2.55 53 | 3 points by mhjafari92 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Podman 6: machine usability improvements (podman.io)
    ×1.91 2 #7 | 42 points by daesorin 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Win16 Memory Management (os2museum.com)
    ×1.02 16 #10 | 104 points by supermatou 9 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. DeadMRR – Acquisition-Ready SaaS Database (deadmrr.netlify.app)
    ×0.79 | 1 points by JimCharles 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. New U.S. college grads now have higher unemployment than the average worker (randalolson.com)
    ×4.66 34 | 219 points by davidbarker 20 hours ago | 273 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Human-Like Neural Nets by Catapulting (gwern.net)
    ×1.16 6 | 43 points by telotortium 17 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Create and Maintain Filesystem Structures for LLMs [v1.0.11 Out] (pypi.org)
    ×1.62 30 | 4 points by hunterx 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Papernews – self-hosted daily newspaper PDF for your reMarkable (github.com/marcj)
    ×1.64 143 | 11 points by bourbonproof 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Biohub releases a world model of protein biology (biohub.org)
    ×1.52 31 #27 | 132 points by gmays 16 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Benchmarks in Leipzig (arxiv.org)
    ×0.78 45 #60 | 135 points by root-parent 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Trump doesn't rule out giving Jan. 6 rioters who attacked police payouts (nbcnews.com)
    ×4.41 59 | 9 points by tcp_handshaker 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Transformers are inherently succinct (openreview.net)
    ×1.22 52 | 145 points by brandonb 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Meta Keeps Delaying the Release of Its New AI Model to Developers (wsj.com)
    ×1.91 44 | 65 points by mekpro 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Games Between Programs: The Ruliology of Competition (stephenwolfram.com)
    ×0.54 51 #49 | 19 points by surprisetalk 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Scott Pelley on the Bari Weiss Era and His Last Days at '60 Minutes' (nytimes.com)
    ×4.15 50 #67 | 12 points by ohjeez 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: YouTube Roulette – one button, a random video (channelsurfer.tv)
    ×0.98 | 2 points by kilroy123 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. The back cover of C++: The Language raises questions not answered by front cover (microsoft.com)
    ×1.26 31 | 150 points by paulmooreparks 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Arithmetic Without Numbers – How LLMs Do Math (alvaro-videla.com)
    ×1.39 24 #31 | 80 points by old_sound 12 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Social Cache Busting (autodidacts.io)
    ×1.13 51 #69 | 140 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Baseball version of the popular 82-0 game (statgm.com)
    ×0.81 | 1 points by rcar1046 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. The J Programming Language (2014) (infoq.com)
    ×1.74 57 | 3 points by tosh 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: macOS motion design app built for demos and promos (bendansby.com)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by webwielder2 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. When intelligence stops being as slow as we are (andreaturchet.github.io)
    ×1.10 | 2 points by ciwrl 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Launch HN: General Instinct (YC P26) – Frontier models on edge devices
    ×0.52 76 | 60 points by guanming0717 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Typedframes – Pandas/polars column name checking at lint time (github.com/w-martin)
    ×0.81 116 | 3 points by w-martin 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Nutrepedia – Nutrition info in 29 locales built with Clojure and Htmx (nutrepedia.com)
    ×1.34 95 | 135 points by llovan 4 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Documenting an Obscure Japanese Wii Game – and-Kensaku (github.com/TylerJaacks)
    ×2.18 126 | 7 points by TylerJaacks 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Persist – an AI agent that follows up accrued channels till they reply (persist.chat)
    ×0.88 101 | 3 points by Robelk1 16 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Cloning a Sennheiser BA2015 battery pack (brixit.nl)
    ×0.90 9 #3 | 25 points by zdw 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do (bearblog.dev)
    ×4.74 3 #4 | 528 points by poisonfountain 4 hours ago | 491 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Zeroserve: A zero-config web server you can script with eBPF (su3.io)
    ×1.40 31 #39 | 261 points by losfair 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Anticonsumerist Repair Cafes urge you to fix it instead of pitch it (apnews.com)
    ×1.59 | 2 points by rolph 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Petals Around the Rose (oranlooney.com)
    ×1.55 10 | 3 points by olooney 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Cloudflare CEO is lying to you about the bot traffic jump (flyingpenguin.com)
    ×4.36 53 | 149 points by speckx 1 day ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Getjobber-CLI – Python CLI for the Jobber GraphQL API (github.com/acaracappa)
    ×0.45 | 2 points by antman1911 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Corrupting a ZFS File on Purpose (oshogbo.com)
    ×1.46 64 #78 | 33 points by zdw 22 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Conversation in the Womb – A Parable of Life After Delivery (growforhumans.co.uk)
    ×0.81 | 1 points by vickychijwani 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Two Years of Enhanced Weathering in Tropical Cacao Agri-Ecosystems (copernicus.org)
    ×1.02 | 2 points by PaulHoule 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???