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  1. Ask HN: Is anyone using the A2A protocol?
    ×0.82 10 #90 | 86 points by asim 22 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Open-Source Intelligence
    ×0.19 | 2 points by silent_butagrim 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Is there a recognized standard for swarm intelligence benchmarking?
    ×1.28 10 | 5 points by stephanieriggs 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What tools are you using for AI-assisted code review?
    ×0.59 66 | 21 points by agos 23 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?
    ×4.79 26 | 1304 points by cloudking 4 days ago | 554 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Self-adapting and mutating LLM based viruses/worms
    ×0.41 50 | 3 points by rozumbrada 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Trillions of dollars spent just to work on customer services?
    ×1.28 32 | 8 points by YihaoZhang 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Every independent nation should work on three things
    ×0.84 69 | 4 points by manishtiwari09 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How are thinking efforts implemented?
    ×0.54 170 | 104 points by simianwords 1 week ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Is anyone else leaving AUR?
    ×0.67 73 | 4 points by lordkrandel 10 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Anthropic confident of re-enabling Mythos, Fable 5 access 'in coming days'
    ×1.03 77 | 12 points by getbowtied 22 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. I indexed 669 GB of my GoPro videos using my M1 Max computer and local ML models
    ×2.33 76 | 436 points by iliashad 5 days ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: I'm lost. How can I define ICP (Ideal Customer Profile)?
    ×0.29 115 | 4 points by snowhy 22 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Is there a way to stop the animated Google Doodles?
    ×0.56 83 | 10 points by arnejenssen 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)
    ×1.45 82 | 310 points by david927 5 days ago | 1133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Conflicted about founding engineer role
    ×0.58 95 | 6 points by gondolin1683 22 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Do you find vibe coding / agentic engineering to be fulfilling?
    ×1.41 85 | 8 points by uejfiweun 22 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?
    ×1.33 145 | 264 points by mdni007 1 week ago | 240 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How do you find new books to read?
    ×1.04 106 | 4 points by ahmedfromtunis 20 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: How do you effectively communicate or present?
    ×1.03 89 | 6 points by hnthrow10282910 21 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: What's a prompt you've written that you're genuinely proud of?
    ×0.87 110 | 10 points by akashwadhwani35 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Favorite text heavy blogs that are a joy to read?
    ×0.86 152 | 120 points by joshmarinacci 1 week ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models
    ×2.35 117 | 427 points by TomAnthony 1 week ago | 255 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Please recommend sci-fi books similar to "children of time" or "anathem"
    ×1.59 68 | 4 points by rishabhpoddar 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Opus and regression with patterns not included in trainng data
    ×0.20 | 2 points by dleech 23 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Has anyone had success with SBIR grants and what is the process like?
    ×0.35 113 | 11 points by lyfeninja 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Do we even need code anymore?
    ×1.15 109 | 5 points by lasky 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. How much $ you spend for AI to code?
    ×0.31 122 | 4 points by raghuu 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Are other people seeing a spike in IT problems with businesses?
    ×0.29 123 | 14 points by PaulHoule 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Best resources for learning how to build a forum back end?
    ×0.54 141 | 3 points by jupr 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Whats the best and small open source model?
    ×0.58 142 | 3 points by hairymouse 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Notes on DeepSeek
    ×1.86 136 | 211 points by vinhnx 1 week ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Want to build something open source on nights and weekends together?
    ×0.51 172 | 39 points by vira28 1 week ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Reviews have become expensive, rewrites have become cheap
    ×1.15 99 | 82 points by arzh2 3 days ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Would it be useful to have a slop button in addition to flag?
    ×0.96 171 | 41 points by BugsJustFindMe 1 week ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Looking for a CI/CD project for my local lab
    ×0.23 125 | 5 points by q8zd3 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. AI Tokenmaxxing and Hypomania
    ×0.58 111 | 7 points by karthikeyankc 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
    ×2.32 128 | 444 points by aryamaan 1 week ago | 788 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: Are most corporate SWE jobs performative?
    ×2.31 131 | 249 points by hnthrow10282910 1 week ago | 283 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Anthropic pauses credit change for Claude Code
    ×1.17 135 | 35 points by fabianlindfors 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Many Let's Encrypt renewals had errors today (status.io)
    ×1.86 36 #59 | 153 points by widdakay 12 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Measuring AI productivity yourself with gh, jq, and Git (getunblocked.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by dennispi 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. P-Tau217 as a Reliable Blood-Based Marker of Alzheimer's Disease (nih.gov)
    ×1.45 | 2 points by brandonb 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Loreline – Tools for writing interactive fiction (loreline.app)
    ×1.59 31 | 216 points by smartmic 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Trump Surrenders to Iran on Virtually Every Point (techdirt.com)
    ×12.18 16 | 68 points by speckx 22 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. The forge we deserve (btao.org)
    ×1.25 49 | 65 points by icy 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS (ui.com)
    ×1.91 34 #16 | 383 points by ksec 1 day ago | 317 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Are You in the Weights? (intheweights.com)
    ×3.67 14 #34 | 417 points by turtlesoup 19 hours ago | 230 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. The road to Unreal Engine 6 (unrealengine.com)
    ×0.78 | 1 points by ezekg 19 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. "These Days I'd Rather Read a Book" (brandons-journal.com)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by speckx 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Agentic coding deserves more than a chat box bolted onto VS Code (github.com/evanklem)
    ×1.34 64 | 93 points by evanklem2004 2 days ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Reyn – local-first AI that journals and recalls your work (usereyn.com)
    ×2.39 143 | 6 points by toluwajibodu 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Azure DevOps TUI Management Style (github.com/elpulgo)
    ×0.54 159 | 10 points by elpulgo 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Appaca – AI Workspace for Operators (appaca.ai)
    ×1.68 57 | 5 points by susros 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: TypeMorph – Browser-local JSON schema converter (80 formats, no server) (typemorph.dev)
    ×1.07 138 | 3 points by jop00004 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Building a robotics research setup that lives next to my desk (dfdxlabs.com)
    ×1.29 30 #35 | 105 points by mplappert 15 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. How to write loops in Claude Code (techstackups.com)
    ×3.07 58 | 4 points by ritzaco 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Using AI to improve a challenging reaction in medicinal chemistry (openai.com)
    ×0.72 75 | 57 points by ilreb 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. SHOW HN: I built a "living proof-of-work" profile for builders (kritive.com)
    ×1.06 94 | 5 points by sonOfHades 20 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Cluely is easily detectable / detector source code (github.com/niravrohra)
    ×1.47 127 | 5 points by nirav_rohra 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Zork name origin got an update on Wikipedia (dpolakovic.space)
    ×1.01 53 #41 | 85 points by dpola 19 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. US getting modern sunscreen formulations (theverge.com)
    ×0.89 | 1 points by ctur 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Steel industry sounds alarm over slow progress on green steel (reuters.com)
    ×0.85 | 1 points by littlexsparkee 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. I restarted a 10 year old Xeon 174 times to delete 12 flags and gain 4 tps (point.free)
    ×2.23 23 | 3 points by zdw 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Why SEO tools show different volumes for keywords?
    ×0.58 | 1 points by knowmygpa 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Modeloop – From visual algorithms to microcontroller C code (modeloop.app)
    ×0.39 38 #10 | 18 points by lucamark 4 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Spotify Killed the Thrill of the Hunt (bearblog.dev)
    ×0.92 | 1 points by speckx 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Host-HTML: an agent-native way of sharing HTML files (host-html.com)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by phanosha 43 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. The Accidental Framework (tacoda.dev)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by tacoda 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Godot 4.7 Release (godotengine.org)
    ×5.99 40 | 55 points by freeCandy 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Glassboard – Draw over everything on your Mac, Khan-academy style (stem.ps)
    ×1.20 112 | 6 points by stemps23 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Image Compression (makingsoftware.com)
    ×1.44 47 #88 | 219 points by vinhnx 2 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Google Said 'Nice Catch' Then Denied Bounty (theregister.com)
    ×3.64 70 | 4 points by olearysec 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. We built a persistent agent memory layer on Elasticsearch with 0.89 recall (elastic.co)
    ×0.92 54 #60 | 109 points by showmypost 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. How Madrid built its metro cheaply (2024) (worksinprogress.co)
    ×1.81 62 #62 | 219 points by trymas 1 day ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: VoiceDraw – Talk system design out loud, the diagrams draw themselves (voicedraw.com)
    ×0.54 100 | 47 points by ajaypanthagani 2 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. "No Feigning Surprise" (wizardzines.com)
    ×1.77 15 #22 | 63 points by evakhoury 4 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Frank Land obituary: programmer of the first business computer (thetimes.com)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by timthorn 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Standout Startups from YC's Demo Day, According to VCs (techcrunch.com)
    ×1.34 | 2 points by evo_9 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: SunCalc v2 – a tiny JavaScript library for sun and moon calculations (github.com/mourner)
    ×0.79 137 | 3 points by mourner 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Otty – a native and beautiful terminal emulator (otty.sh)
    ×4.19 132 | 16 points by ilchenearly 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Trace – Offline Mac meeting transcripts you can flag mid-call (traceapp.info)
    ×1.28 88 | 205 points by AG342 5 days ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Zero Browser (github.com/nz366)
    ×0.79 165 | 12 points by zeron0a 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability (lore.org)
    ×4.48 14 #50 | 1239 points by regnerba 2 days ago | 671 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. The Future of the Con Is Here, It's Just Not Evenly Distributed (manishearth.github.io)
    ×1.92 8 #57 | 5 points by birdculture 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai)
    ×3.56 8 #77 | 886 points by himata4113 2 days ago | 440 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: SEO Audit and Backlink Monitoring. All-in-One Platform (selinkpro.com)
    ×0.74 | 2 points by avldokuchaev 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Gribouille 0.3.0: A Grammar of Graphics for Typst (canouil.fr)
    ×1.57 19 #8 | 160 points by mcanouil 13 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Moving to Portugal: Complete Guide for Americans (relocora.com)
    ×1.50 | 2 points by mooreds 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Inkwash, a watercolor sketching app and explanation (johnowhitaker.github.io)
    ×1.48 39 | 246 points by Yenrabbit 5 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???