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  1. I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
    ×0.93 69 | 203 points by proberts 2 days ago | 247 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Building a Web Framework from Scratch
    ×0.70 14 | 4 points by NewSmoke38 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Those building Swift apps without touching Xcode, what is your workflow?
    ×0.46 24 | 12 points by p5v 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)
    ×0.82 83 | 139 points by whoishiring 2 days ago | 349 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)
    ×1.28 56 | 288 points by whoishiring 2 days ago | 337 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad?
    ×2.19 39 | 115 points by idontwantthis 1 day ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Tell HN: An update from the new Tindie team
    ×0.73 113 | 82 points by altairprime 4 days ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Why hasn't someone built a decentralized compute network?
    ×1.27 76 | 6 points by buffer_overlord 10 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Making Postman load 60% Faster
    ×0.14 | 2 points by vedkribhu 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day
    ×2.48 105 | 590 points by _-x-_ 1 week ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Tell HN: VS Code v1.117.0 automatically adds GitHub Copilot as your co author
    ×1.27 107 | 108 points by adithyassekhar 3 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Tell HN: Happy May Day
    ×0.73 130 | 9 points by chrishill89 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Claude Code dies with ANTHROPIC_API_KEY in cloud environment
    ×0.28 136 | 14 points by sroussey 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. SlothDB a 5X Faster Alternative to DuckDB, ClickHouse DB
    ×0.41 132 | 12 points by souravroy78 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Does Claude use 'prior' in a Bayesian sense more than English?
    ×0.17 150 | 5 points by slake 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What Happened to the CS153 Videos
    ×0.42 133 | 5 points by mapleleaf1921 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Tell HN: Claude 4.7 is ignoring stop hooks
    ×0.97 142 | 109 points by LatencyKills 1 week ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Hyperscalers are buying all the chips to then rent them to us later
    ×0.68 126 | 7 points by adelks 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. ASU Using AI Tool to Create Courses from Professors' Work Without Their (azfreenews.com)
    ×1.56 2 #70 | 17 points by abdelhousni 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Said it couldn't see her eyes. The car then automatically disabled (twitter.com/WallStreetApes)
    ×2.39 60 | 6 points by bilsbie 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Good developers learn to program. Most courses teach a language (evilgeniuslabs.ca)
    ×2.47 71 | 128 points by andsoitis 2 days ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Show HN: Rip.so – a graveyard for dead internet things (rip.so)
    ×1.36 104 | 184 points by bozdemir 4 days ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Show HN: AgInTiFlow, a local web and CLI agent workspace using DeepSeek (npmjs.com)
    ×1.01 141 | 3 points by lachlanchen 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Show HN: My retired dad and I made a daily, somewhat difficult, quiz (kviss.eu)
    ×1.02 128 | 38 points by steinvakt2 4 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. ProteinView (github.com/001TMF)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by ray__ 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Early and Late-Stage Hypergrowth (lethain.com)
    ×0.39 | 1 points by milkglass 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Rust library for Undo/Redo using deltas, snapshots or commands (github.com/mikwielgus)
    ×0.81 93 | 21 points by mikolajw 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Tiao, A two-player turn-based board game (playtiao.com)
    ×1.38 137 | 75 points by trebeljahr 1 week ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Pu.sh – a full coding-agent harness in 400 lines of shell (pu.dev)
    ×1.41 99 | 90 points by nahimn 3 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. A couple million lines of Haskell: Production engineering at Mercury (haskell.org)
    ×1.91 #49 | 405 points by unignorant 1 day ago | 199 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Breaking up with WordPress after two decades (yusufaytas.com)
    ×1.40 29 #86 | 65 points by owenbuilds 10 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Want to Watch button missing for movie searches (google.com)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by chatmasta 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. HN Signal (Last 24 hours) | Curated top stories from HN in the last 24 hrs (heydebrief.com)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by baetylus 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Sato – AI desktop companion for macOS with multi-provider support (sato.host)
    ×0.93 | 2 points by vitalune 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Live Sun and Moon Dashboard with NASA Footage (lumara-space.app)
    ×1.06 109 | 222 points by beeswaxpat 5 days ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Why should a Trace-ID be 128 bits? (A Surprisingly Long Answer) (signoz.io)
    ×1.62 22 | 3 points by birdculture 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Voice-AI-for-Beginners – A curated learning path for developers (github.com/mahimairaja)
    ×1.41 37 | 82 points by mahimai 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Systemd-manager-TUI: A TUI application for managing systemd services (github.com/Matheus-git)
    ×1.75 17 | 77 points by thunderbong 14 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: A new benchmark for testing LLMs for deterministic outputs (interfaze.ai)
    ×0.47 118 | 59 points by khurdula 4 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Tesla is facing up to $14.5B in lawsuits and it's only getting worse (electrek.co)
    ×2.49 49 | 3 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. (not) using "cryptographic hashes" for hash table keys (runxiyu.org)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by runxiyu 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Can a quantum sensor detect your heartbeat from 60 km away? [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by areoform 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Building a smartphone powered by nuclear decay: the power engineering
    ×1.13 152 | 3 points by joshuashelvin 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Diatom (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.76 | 1 points by lucaslazarus 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Optical Design and Simulation in Matlab (mathworks.com)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by ashishuthama 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Theseus: Reverse-engineered reconstruction of the original Xbox 5960 dashboard (github.com/MrMilenko)
    ×2.08 16 | 4 points by LorenDB 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Clojurists Together – Q2 2026 Open Source Funding Announcement (clojuriststogether.org)
    ×1.06 47 #59 | 134 points by dragandj 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Fabrica – A minimal terminal-based coding agent built in Rust (github.com/Endi1)
    ×0.36 | 2 points by PestoDiRucola 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Embedded Rust or C firmware? Lessons from an industrial microcontroller use case (arxiv.org)
    ×1.41 15 #53 | 145 points by mrtz 13 hours ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. A physics engine with incremental rollback for multiplayer games (easel.games)
    ×0.98 50 #69 | 114 points by BSTRhino 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Request for Testers: Personal Planning App (threads.com)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by JustCallMeAl 45 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Ask.com has closed (ask.com)
    ×3.45 3 | 464 points by supermdguy 1 day ago | 235 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: A Karpathy-style LLM wiki your agents maintain (Markdown and Git) (github.com/nex-crm)
    ×1.98 119 | 260 points by najmuzzaman 1 week ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Aide-memory – persistent memory for AI coding agents and teams (aide-memory.dev)
    ×1.28 148 | 4 points by ahmedmeky 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Zuma Portable (google.com)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by zeeeeeebo 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Stop playing my matchstick puzzles, start building your own in seconds (mathstick.github.io)
    ×0.72 95 | 36 points by trangram 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. I built my own hair electrolysis machine (scd31.com)
    ×2.08 3 #23 | 174 points by y1n0 11 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March (windows.com)
    ×1.57 30 #40 | 157 points by jovial_cavalier 19 hours ago | 474 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. March 2026 Top New Cran Packages (rworks.dev)
    ×1.00 | 2 points by ionychal 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. AI Self-preferencing in Algorithmic Hiring: Empirical Evidence and Insights (arxiv.org)
    ×2.96 2 | 327 points by laurex 1 day ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Flue is a TypeScript framework for building the next generation of agents (flueframework.com)
    ×1.09 49 | 101 points by momentmaker 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. OpenAI's o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors (theguardian.com)
    ×3.06 1 #10 | 269 points by donsupreme 9 hours ago | 226 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. This Month in Ladybird – April 2026 (ladybird.org)
    ×2.31 4 #58 | 481 points by richardboegli 1 day ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine (github.com/nexu-io)
    ×1.57 29 #85 | 216 points by steveharing1 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Do AI Detectors Work Well Enough to Trust? (chicagobooth.edu)
    ×1.10 | 2 points by alex000kim 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Fake Notepad++ for Mac (notepad-plus-plus.org)
    ×2.45 45 | 4 points by birdculture 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: I've built a nice home server OS (asklandd.dk)
    ×1.66 127 | 194 points by Zta77 1 week ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Underwater robot tracks sperm whale conversations in real time (reuters.com)
    ×0.68 41 #37 | 29 points by thedebuglife 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Could the X-Bat Stealth Fighter Drone Change the Air Combat Game? (twz.com)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by breve 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. GameStop Preparing Offer for eBay (wsj.com)
    ×2.96 68 | 83 points by voisin 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Canonical Under Attack (canonical.com)
    ×2.00 58 | 66 points by ta988 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: I built my site as a Windows 95 experience (2025) (wes.dev)
    ×3.40 73 | 8 points by WesSouza 12 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: What happens when you load a webpage (Interactive) (whysonil.dev)
    ×1.23 114 | 31 points by otterwilde2 6 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Supercollider (supercollider.github.io)
    ×1.33 60 #43 | 10 points by andyjohnson0 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. New research on analyzing and predicting token consumption of coding agents (arxiv.org)
    ×2.05 17 | 4 points by jiaxinpei 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Uncle Bob: It's Over (reddit.com)
    ×4.45 46 | 55 points by lopespm 8 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Pollen – distributed WASM runtime, no control plane, single binary (github.com/sambigeara)
    ×1.12 54 | 127 points by sambigeara 3 days ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: The Unix Magic poster, annotated (updated) (github.com/drio)
    ×1.51 135 | 74 points by drio 6 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Gova – The declarative GUI framework for Go (github.com/NV404)
    ×1.12 140 | 143 points by aliezsid 1 week ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Apple's SHARP running in the browser via ONNX runtime web (github.com/bring-shrubbery)
    ×1.04 21 #29 | 157 points by bring-shrubbery 15 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. AI, Intimacy, and the Data You Never Meant to Share (fshot.org)
    ×1.30 44 #73 | 71 points by victorkulla 22 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Bluchan.org – Anonymous Free Speech Forum (bluchan.org)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by jjhbhjbj 15 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. California man uses elaborate drone show to help delivery drivers find his house (dexerto.com)
    ×1.54 20 | 3 points by gnabgib 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Scientists Gave Cocaine to Salmon (wired.com)
    ×2.46 | 5 points by ohjeez 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws (bbc.com)
    ×2.83 5 | 316 points by geox 1 day ago | 346 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. A desktop made for one (isene.org)
    ×2.23 4 #9 | 227 points by xngbuilds 9 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Utilyze – an open source GPU monitoring tool more accurate than nvtop (systalyze.com)
    ×1.08 120 | 126 points by ManyaGhobadi 6 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Agentic Coding Is a Trap (larsfaye.com)
    ×3.65 2 #2 | 79 points by ayoisaiah 2 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Every American interacting with chatbot would need to upload a government ID (reclaimthenet.org)
    ×3.75 21 #42 | 13 points by g42gregory 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Neanderthals ran 'fat factories' 125k years ago (2025) (universiteitleiden.nl)
    ×1.71 5 #79 | 279 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???