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  1. Show HN: Pollresults.org – free US election opinion poll API (pollresults.org)

    Not sure if this is even allowed here because of politics, but I made an API for US election poll results. NYT publishes cumulative CSV files with results on their site here…

    1 points 0
  2. Ask HN: Anyone increasingly worried after Hugging Face and now collusion.wiki?

    Or can anyone talk me down from being concerned that “goal seeking behavior at all costs” will not spiral catastrophically?

    2 points 4
  3. The Life and Death of Direct File [pdf] (ischool.berkeley.edu)
    200 points 27
  4. The Life and Death of Direct File (ischool.berkeley.edu)
    2 points 0
  5. Ask HN: Is it normal ChatGPT told me it was "literally smiling" for me?
    4 points 11
  6. Elastic layoff translation (June 24, 2026) (layofftranslator.com)
    4 points 1
  7. 2026-06-16 Robinhood Layoff Translation (layoff-translator.pages.dev)
    60 points 9
  8. Ask HN: How much is fully agentic coding costing you per month?

    I get unlimited cursor usage at work but am planning on starting a side project. I have no idea how far various pricing plans will get you. What is your experience with this?

    2 points 1
  9. Show HN: Easy Locality Domain Lookup (locality-domains.pages.dev)

    A nice article about setting up personal locality domains was posted yesterday (https://fredchan.org/blog/locality-domains-guide/). However, I and many other people found it challenging to look up their locality domain…

    2 points 0
  10. Ask HN: Has your company implemented agentic coding?
    2 points 0
  11. Ask HN: Are we going to see more job postings asking for only agentic coding?

    Was perusing job postings today and saw this on a Zapier listing: "You work through AI agents, not alongside them. Your daily development workflow is built around directing and reviewing agent-written code, not writing…

    6 points 11
  12. IRS tax withholding estimator has been open sourced (github.com)
    7 points 0
  13. Ask HN: Are a lot of the companies turning the screws?

    I and some of my developer friends are having common experiences at work right now where expectations are going up and staffing is stagnating or going down. I am feeling burnt out from it. Are you feeling this right now…

    2 points 1
  14. Quality is a hard sell in big tech (pcloadletter.dev)
    7 points 2
  15. Ask HN: What are some good unintuitive statistics problems?

    I am compiling some statistics problems that are interesting due to their unintuitive nature. some basic/well known examples are the monty hall problem and the birthday problem. What are some others I should add to my…

    6 points 7
  16. The Birthday Paradox, Simulated (pcloadletter.dev)
    2 points 0
  17. Pre-Agent Nostalgia (pcloadletter.dev)
    12 points 5
  18. Ask HN: Are you having existential questions about being a software engineer?
    3 points 2
  19. Features for no one (AI edition) (pcloadletter.dev)
    1 points 0
  20. We might have been slower to abandon StackOverflow if it wasn't a toxic hellhole (pcloadletter.dev)
    100 points 56
  21. Ask HN: Do you feel an obvious "uncanny valley" when reading AI-generated text?

    This is something I sense when I read AI-generated text, but I don't actually know the distinct characteristics that my brain is catching on to. It reminds me of the uncanny valley sense I feel when looking at something…

    3 points 1
  22. Cool project, will you actually maintain it? (pcloadletter.dev)
    4 points 1
  23. Software Craftsmanship Is Dead (pcloadletter.dev)
    44 points 24
  24. The Monty Hall Problem, a side-by-side simulation (pcloadletter.dev)
    7 points 1
  25. I hope generative AI does away with SEO (pcloadletter.dev)
    2 points 1