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  1. Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
    ×1.17 58 | 277 points by david927 2 days ago | 1054 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...
    ×2.36 78 | 468 points by mittermayr 4 days ago | 335 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Is Spam getting worse or is Gmail getting worse?
    ×0.28 62 | 6 points by adamtaylor_13 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated
    ×7.32 45 | 1662 points by CliffStoll 6 days ago | 255 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How to get started in electronic music
    ×0.64 85 | 14 points by A_Random_Nerd 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: How are you preparing for interviews nowadays?
    ×0.41 93 | 8 points by holden_nelson 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Best static site generator for a docs site in 2026?
    ×0.68 98 | 14 points by agenttestjekuqz 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Will low quality AI customer support be the new normal?
    ×0.83 97 | 23 points by 0-bad-sectors 2 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Spotify Is Down
    ×0.94 60 | 11 points by circadian 12 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: How often do you investigate issues in production vs. looking at logs?
    ×0.17 133 | 4 points by aspectrr 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How do you choose a model for a task?
    ×0.53 108 | 8 points by bix6 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What happens when eventually all E2E mess. apps removed from app stores?
    ×0.45 113 | 5 points by kingleopold 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Our keyboards are tracking us
    ×1.14 99 | 13 points by tukunjil 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Remind HN: Today is Mother's Day, call your moms
    ×4.88 46 | 375 points by rationalist 2 days ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Do you know the ethics of Developers?
    ×0.40 119 | 8 points by eropatori 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What Wintel/AMD (Laptop) Harware are you liking?
    ×0.35 145 | 5 points by aagha 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What would you like to be working on?
    ×0.63 114 | 8 points by DDerTyp 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Can a tinnitus be triggered by high frequency noises?
    ×0.29 150 | 8 points by tinnitus_crazy 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Is this the SWE workflow of the future?
    ×0.88 117 | 17 points by mc-0 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Show HN: I made a Clojure-like language in Go, boots in 7ms (github.com/nooga)
    ×1.72 71 | 272 points by marcingas 3 days ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Show HN: Grunden – Frontier AI inference hosted in Sweden, OpenAI-compatible (grunden.ai)
    ×3.10 72 | 7 points by fsrc 13 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Show HN: NanoCorp – Create autonomous companies run by AI (nanocorp.so)
    ×2.11 151 | 14 points by AdrienBA 4 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. The Surprisingly Long Life of the Vacuum Tube (construction-physics.com)
    ×0.66 49 #38 | 66 points by surprisetalk 15 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Extremely Low Frequencies (computer.rip)
    ×1.60 26 #46 | 209 points by pinewurst 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: Mp4 or mov to detailed design spec MCP (github.com/Meliwat)
    ×0.83 | 2 points by Meliwat93 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. The identity join problem: Linking SSO profiles to directory users (workos.com)
    ×0.78 | 2 points by jamilbk 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. [PATCH linux] README: Don't organize the README by arbitrary "roles" (kernel.org)
    ×0.36 | 1 points by runxiyu 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: GIF Pile. a site to make piles of GIFs (gifpile.com)
    ×0.66 | 2 points by FatCat1979 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Agentic interface for mainframes and COBOL (hypercubic.ai)
    ×0.61 37 #22 | 64 points by sai18 10 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.96 32 #81 | 28 points by jnord 6 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Cortical Cloud – Code to Real Neurons (corticallabs.com)
    ×0.85 | 1 points by oldfuture 8 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Hallucinopedia (halupedia.com)
    ×1.99 90 | 306 points by bstrama 6 days ago | 267 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks (paletteinspiration.com)
    ×1.38 110 | 214 points by ouli 1 week ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. The Cost of Doing Business: How SF's Tax Structure Constrains Economic Growth [pdf] (bayareaeconomy.org)
    ×0.86 61 #42 | 8 points by littlexsparkee 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Temu is advertising filet mignon on X (twitter.com/shoptemu)
    ×6.05 48 #52 | 47 points by noleary 1 hour ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. You Don't Look Like a Gamer: On Toxicity, Gatekeeping, & Women Who Share Gaming (gardinerbryant.com)
    ×2.04 2 #57 | 16 points by Kate0CoolLibby 4 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Why Is Latin America So Violent? (richardhanania.com)
    ×1.35 43 | 3 points by paulpauper 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Red Hot Chili Peppers ink $300M deal with Warner Music to sell catalog (hollywoodreporter.com)
    ×1.80 53 | 89 points by randycupertino 1 day ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. The Future of Obsidian Plugins (obsidian.md)
    ×2.20 #18 | 328 points by xz18r 12 hours ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Starship V3 (spacex.com)
    ×3.56 18 #19 | 154 points by fprog 3 hours ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Launch HN: Voker (YC S24) – Analytics for AI Agents (voker.ai)
    ×0.36 41 #21 | 45 points by ttpost 9 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Testing UPS Output Waveforms (lttlabs.com)
    ×1.48 27 | 56 points by LabsLucas 11 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Is Github Online? (isgithub.online)
    ×1.32 87 | 5 points by vednig 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Rapunzel – a tree-style tab terminal emulator for Codex Claude Gemini (github.com/salmanjavaid)
    ×0.93 130 | 4 points by WasimBhai 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. The Moth Story Map (themoth.org)
    ×0.45 53 #47 | 27 points by jxmorris12 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. US inflation jumps to 3.8% as energy costs surge from Iran war (bbc.com)
    ×10.55 56 | 241 points by tartoran 14 hours ago | 409 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. ICE Agents Have List of 20M People on Their iPhones Thanks to Palantir (404media.co)
    ×5.43 6 | 69 points by cdrnsf 15 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. eBay rejects $56B GameStop bid as 'neither credible nor attractive' (ft.com)
    ×0.34 | 1 points by petethomas 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Cemu (WiiU emulator) compromised by Russian threat actor (rentry.co)
    ×1.81 23 | 4 points by gassi 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Scaffold a 1990s Geocities-themed static website (pypi.org)
    ×0.77 79 | 45 points by whatsupdog 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: A geocities inspired place for your vibed tools (tinytooltown.com)
    ×1.72 105 | 7 points by shanselman 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: n8n like workflows for AI agents that control a real VM (github.com/aadya940)
    ×1.88 111 | 6 points by aadyachinubhai 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise (nair.sh)
    ×2.86 8 #8 | 443 points by nilirl 13 hours ago | 197 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Reimagining the mouse pointer for the AI era (deepmind.google)
    ×1.74 14 #16 | 170 points by devhouse 10 hours ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Let's Encrypt: Gen Y Cross-Certified Subordinate CAs Missing ServerAuth EKU (mozilla.org)
    ×1.42 13 #78 | 4 points by XYen0n 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: An addictive phone game about phone addiction (partridge.works)
    ×0.99 136 | 5 points by urbandw311er 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Browser-based light pollution simulator using real photometric data (iesna.eu)
    ×0.45 160 | 44 points by 1 week ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Tell NYT, Atlantic, USA Today to keep Wayback Machine (savethearchive.com)
    ×3.87 11 #13 | 228 points by doener 5 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Claude for Legal Launches (artificiallawyer.com)
    ×0.34 | 1 points by msolujic 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Zig vs. Rust, agentic coding, and intellectual control [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.84 | 2 points by alibosworth 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. A.I. note takers are making lawyers nervous (nytimes.com)
    ×2.42 25 | 255 points by JumpCrisscross 1 day ago | 187 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. The Walled Garden of the Surveilled Web (korins.ky)
    ×0.39 87 #69 | 3 points by catap 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: One memory layer across every MCP-compatible AI tool (subvault.ai)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by gavinb-code 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. xkcd: Well 2 (xkcd.com)
    ×1.87 34 | 4 points by ulrikrasmussen 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Facebook is a hub for illegal wildlife trade, and that's by design, report says (mongabay.com)
    ×1.27 37 | 3 points by PaulHoule 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Google users fight for refunds as unauthorized API usage bills soar (theregister.com)
    ×2.59 4 | 6 points by Bender 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Kstack – Skill pack for monitoring/troubleshooting K8s in Claude Code (github.com/kubetail-org)
    ×0.56 149 | 25 points by andres 5 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: OpenGravity – A zero-install, BYOK vanilla JS clone of Antigravity (github.com/ab-613)
    ×1.03 44 | 100 points by ab613 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Filling PDF forms with AI using client-side tool calling (simplepdf.com)
    ×0.67 157 | 60 points by nip 1 week ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Googlebook (googlebook.google)
    ×3.03 4 #2 | 668 points by tambourine_man 10 hours ago | 1135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Income tax calculator for US and Canada (takehome.tax)
    ×0.36 | 1 points by ccnomas 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. London Rooftop Where Beatles Played Last Gig (1969) to Become Museum (nytimes.com)
    ×1.08 24 | 3 points by bookofjoe 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. HDMI 2.1 Display Stream Compression (DSC) Ready for Amdgpu Linux Driver (phoronix.com)
    ×2.01 16 | 64 points by WithinReason 19 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Meta employees protest against mouse tracking tech at US offices (reuters.com)
    ×5.55 51 | 58 points by delichon 7 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Kraftwerk's radical 1976 track (bbc.com)
    ×1.20 8 #4 | 96 points by tcp_handshaker 5 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. EFF to 4th Circuit: Electronic Device Searches at the Border Require a Warrant (eff.org)
    ×3.84 15 #26 | 148 points by hn_acker 6 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. ESR on dropping terminfo and curses from an old Unix game (twitter.com/i)
    ×8.13 78 | 29 points by Ariarule 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: An agent that tunes its own cache
    ×2.62 161 | 7 points by kaliades 4 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. The New York Times Got Caught Using AI Hallucinations in Its Reporting (thewalrus.ca)
    ×1.83 13 | 4 points by ireflect 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability (haxx.se)
    ×4.81 10 | 685 points by TangerineDream 1 day ago | 280 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. A HN post with negative points – how?
    ×1.42 2 | 88 points by donohoe 18 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Library for fast mapping of Java records to native memory (github.com/mamba-studio)
    ×0.87 40 #74 | 159 points by joe_mwangi 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. I Want to Be a von Neumann Probe: Why We Need to Fix AI Safety (justinldew.substack.com)
    ×0.80 | 1 points by jldew93 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Could You Live Without a Computer? I Can. (thefp.com)
    ×0.81 | 2 points by James72689 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: SyncBank – Self-hosted bank sync for EU banks (syncbank.app)
    ×1.82 115 | 6 points by samdsgn 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: SLayer, a semantic layer maintained by your agent (github.com/MotleyAI)
    ×2.74 94 | 12 points by yannranchere 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values (gitlab.com)
    ×4.36 20 #68 | 675 points by AnonGitLabEmpl 1 day ago | 646 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. A HAR Analyser That Stays in the Browser (thelazysre.com)
    ×0.35 | 1 points by meysamazad 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Rectangle Shopping (Almost Anything) (rectangle.so)
    ×0.37 | 1 points by Waseemkhalo 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Toxicity on Social Media (thenoisyroom.com)
    ×2.48 22 | 155 points by skm 21 hours ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???