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  1. Ask HN: Is the web for machines (/llm.txt) the one we wished we had as humans?
    ×1.41 9 #14 | 11 points by sunshine-o 40 minutes ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: So what happened to Facebook "localhost" tracking?
    ×0.84 60 #47 | 96 points by juliusceasar 22 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: How do you find deep technical content?
    ×1.24 64 | 31 points by f311a 23 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Gin rummy strategies
    ×0.61 49 | 22 points by bix6 21 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2026)
    ×1.01 92 | 238 points by whoishiring 3 days ago | 420 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. I'm tired of LLM skill slop, so I built mine with regression tests
    ×0.46 97 | 4 points by iliaov 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)
    ×0.81 104 | 148 points by whoishiring 3 days ago | 504 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. I underestimated how hard audio waveforms are in the browser
    ×0.61 | 2 points by syncara 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Is Claude Code down, or its just my region?
    ×0.67 | 2 points by codetiger 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Life saving / first aid posters
    ×0.41 89 | 33 points by cpu_ 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Hey, you, tech worker–how are you feeling?
    ×1.16 91 | 5 points by arm32 12 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Being privacy-conscious comes with some downsides
    ×1.31 90 | 6 points by wqtz 13 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Good books/resources for learning SQL?
    ×0.73 108 | 4 points by CobaltFire 15 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: AI efficiency in the workplace
    ×0.62 132 | 3 points by localhoster 22 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Google killed my $1M ARR startup overnight
    ×3.84 103 | 10 points by vadumo 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: A Brief History of LLMs
    ×0.48 143 | 9 points by menomatter 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What are all the ways to punch through NAT?
    ×0.85 117 | 5 points by jupr 22 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Tell HN: Max messenger app removed from App Store
    ×0.56 123 | 8 points by secondary_op 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Laid off. Broke. Depressed. & idk how to market my SaaS
    ×1.31 116 | 14 points by touseefbuilds 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Angular jasmine unit tests are harder to code/maintain than the actual feature
    ×0.77 160 | 5 points by GamingAtWork 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: What is your opinion on index rule changes to accommodate Mega-Cap IPOs?
    ×0.91 140 | 16 points by figmert 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Why are so many Show HNs being flagged?
    ×0.46 153 | 4 points by 866-RON-0-FEZ 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Why Ask HN has only 14 questions now?
    ×1.13 124 | 11 points by throwaw12 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. I'm Done Using AI
    ×2.01 130 | 32 points by nyxtom 3 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. $100 to a Debian Developer who can get Fresh Editor into Trixie
    ×0.39 148 | 28 points by jph 4 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Recruiters, How do you vet resume in 2026?
    ×0.38 164 | 15 points by CoffeeSky 4 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel
    ×7.45 24 | 963 points by IliaLitviak 2 days ago | 271 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Dumbphone 2 (dumb.co)
    ×1.51 65 | 71 points by skogstokig 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore Story (historytoday.com)
    ×1.65 20 #12 | 19 points by pepys 4 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. WiFi Time (mitxela.com)
    ×1.63 5 #19 | 90 points by surprisetalk 8 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. DNS is for people, not for IT infrastructure (louwrentius.com)
    ×1.01 82 #56 | 58 points by louwrentius 1 day ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Semantic reification: how to generate UB-free code with arbitrary control flow? (github.com/connglli)
    ×0.61 63 #64 | 15 points by zsu 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Memory Still Matters in the Age of ChatGPT (dcaulfield.com)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by cauliflower99 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Debris with telemetry: cybersecurity and Kessler syndrome (thespacereview.com)
    ×1.11 | 2 points by fanf2 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Tracing a powerful GNSS interference source over Europe (arxiv.org)
    ×2.45 #2 | 83 points by mimorigasaka 2 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Uruky (EU-based Kagi alternative) now has Image Search and URL Rewrites (uruky.com)
    ×1.58 7 #72 | 224 points by BrunoBernardino 1 day ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Claude Code and Codex can have real-time conversation via Git (medium.com)
    ×1.32 33 #87 | 110 points by syumei 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Why I Left Corporate Media [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.40 | 2 points by scns 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Short videos may hinder learning by fragmenting attention and memory, study (phys.org)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by pseudolus 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Should I choose v1 or v2? [AutoHotkey Wiki] (autohotkey.wiki)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by ankitg12 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: I created a React alternative using web componnents (createthirdplaces.org)
    ×2.05 135 | 7 points by gulugawa 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Launch HN: Hyper (YC P26) – Company brain to power agentic development
    ×0.48 80 | 77 points by shalinshah 1 day ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. The Pentagon is running an AI propaganda mill targeting Latin America (theintercept.com)
    ×4.16 74 | 73 points by Fricken 6 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P (bloomberg.com)
    ×9.00 19 #22 | 625 points by tristanj 12 hours ago | 308 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model (blog.google)
    ×3.91 1 #55 | 1035 points by rvz 1 day ago | 384 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. thunderbolt-ibverbs: We have InfiniBand at home (hellas.ai)
    ×1.21 55 #67 | 119 points by zdw 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Ask HN: Is Azure capacity this constraind or am I doing it wrong?
    ×1.35 | 2 points by lanycrost 50 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Ultra fast cross-platform multiple screenshots module in pure Python (python-mss.readthedocs.io)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by ankitg12 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: CLI for crawling documentation sites into Markdown with defuddle (github.com/artemnistuley)
    ×0.75 138 | 5 points by nistuley 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. The Kyle Kingsbury Podcast Podcast – Episode 1 – Alex Dripchak (aphyr.com)
    ×0.90 77 #62 | 11 points by yurivish 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. I built an AI code reviewer that reads the room before commenting (codemouse.ai)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by pro_methe5 42 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Tony Gilroy Accepts Award for Andor: "Fuck the Empire " (kottke.org)
    ×3.44 75 | 63 points by jay_kyburz 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Bit-banged 10BASE-T Ethernet and Wi-Fi router in Rust on the Pico 2 W (github.com/mattdeeds)
    ×1.37 113 | 5 points by mdeeds 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Delacroix's Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople Restored (louvre.fr)
    ×0.76 39 #23 | 37 points by rawgabbit 8 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. There's no escaping it: an exploration of ANSI codes (safia.rocks)
    ×0.34 65 #28 | 7 points by ankitg12 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Zettascale (YC S24) Is Hiring Founding FPGA Engineers (ycombinator.com)
    18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Disco Demolition Night (Chicago, 1979) (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.91 | 1 points by RetroTechie 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Researcher uses Opus 4.8 to find critical counterfeiting vulnerability in Zcash (twitter.com/zooko)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by bryantwolf 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Wd-41, hot-reload webserver for static sites (github.com/baalimago)
    ×0.33 | 2 points by baalimago 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. The desperation of NYTimes (rozumem.xyz)
    ×4.35 43 #66 | 364 points by rozumem 17 hours ago | 298 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. I was recently diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis (burntsushi.net)
    ×3.20 13 #84 | 738 points by Tomte 1 day ago | 248 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. A Mathematician's Lament (2002) [pdf] (worrydream.com)
    ×1.10 55 | 107 points by xeonmc 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. SpaceX's IPO is a disaster waiting to happen for your pension fund (irishtimes.com)
    ×4.00 76 | 90 points by anonymousDan 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Local-first fast CPU OCR for images, PDFs, webpages (github.com/kouhxp)
    ×0.85 | 1 points by mrkn1 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. A Fleet of Ghost Ships Is Hiding in Plain Sight on the Potomac River (popularmechanics.com)
    ×1.99 37 | 3 points by bookofjoe 48 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Intencion – Product analytics that improves your AI agents continuously (intencion.io)
    ×0.45 | 2 points by sakuraiben 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: A crowdsourced map of surveillance camera's based on OSM (mapcomplete.org)
    ×1.69 149 | 7 points by pietervdvn 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Changing How We Develop Ladybird (ladybird.org)
    ×4.52 #1 | 363 points by EdwinHoksberg 3 hours ago | 230 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Job Match Pro – Aggregating and matching job boards to your resume (google.com)
    ×0.86 | 1 points by padhakku18 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Reinforcement Learning and Optimal Control Book (RIP Dimitri Bertsekas) (mit.edu)
    ×1.96 19 | 3 points by sebzuddas 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Atomic Editor – Obsidian-style live preview for CodeMirror 6 (kenforthewin.github.io)
    ×0.76 136 | 67 points by kenforthewin 4 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Taliesin – bit-exact KV-cache restore, 21x faster, cross-GPU verified (medium.com)
    ×4.54 96 | 9 points by Wetime 19 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. WSL 2 is getting faster Windows file system access (boxofcables.dev)
    ×2.86 12 #35 | 151 points by haydenbarnes 16 hours ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Hertaler – Modernise archaic language in ePub, HTML private (thejanmanshow.github.io)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by janandonly 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Unicode Cyrillic Letter Multiocular O (wikipedia.org)
    ×4.07 49 | 7 points by s3tz 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Tesla retroactively added 'supervised' to FSD contracts owners signed years ago (electrek.co)
    ×3.98 88 | 72 points by breve 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Vlags, small vector flags. Less than 900 bytes each (vlags.com)
    ×1.01 122 | 3 points by ryancanzo 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. JLink JTAG Access on the Pinecil (danielmangum.com)
    ×0.58 63 #40 | 59 points by hasheddan 16 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Mangrove forests are healing after decades of human destruction (bbc.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by geox 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Shopify outage [resolved] (shopifystatus.com)
    ×1.59 72 | 101 points by harrouet 1 day ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: DepsGuard – One command to harden NPM/pnpm/yarn/bun/uv configs (github.com/arnica)
    ×0.78 129 | 40 points by eranation 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Bot or Not – Spot AI-generated randomness (play-bot-or-not.vercel.app)
    ×1.49 107 | 4 points by EvanZhouDev 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: TidyPress – Git-native CLI from Markdown to a static site you own (github.com/Raphjacksun7)
    ×0.61 | 2 points by raphjacksun 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. South Korean Forums Will Need to Scan Every Images with AI Censorship Tools (privacyguides.net)
    ×2.85 16 #43 | 137 points by Cider9986 11 hours ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Doom on ONNX (huggingface.co)
    ×1.32 | 2 points by mariuz 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: A native port of Skate 3 for Windows & Linux via static recompilation (github.com/mchughalex)
    ×2.05 98 | 4 points by turingfeel 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Mnemo – local-first AI memory layer for any LLM (Rust, SQLite,petgraph) (github.com/zaydmulani09)
    ×0.67 87 | 55 points by zaydmulani 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Wallflower.app – A Combined Mastodon and Bluesky Client (thewallflower.app)
    ×1.59 112 | 3 points by tldrthelaw 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Samurai City (worksinprogress.co)
    ×1.53 19 #29 | 173 points by zdw 17 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. The Causes of Long Covid (science.org)
    ×2.84 55 #68 | 123 points by maxall4 8 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???