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  1. Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI? (artfish.ai)
    ×3.08 1 | 38 points by yenniejun111 32 minutes ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Show HN: Opening lines of famous literary works (verbaprima.com)
    ×0.99 5 | 19 points by plicerin 26 minutes ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Agnes Callard’s theory of the uni-context (derekthompson.org)
    ×1.18 3 | 52 points by FinnLobsien 1 hour ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you) (danq.me)
    ×3.35 4 | 240 points by MrVandemar 5 hours ago | 205 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Beautiful Type Erasure with C++26 Reflection (ryanjk5.github.io)
    ×0.95 10 | 63 points by RyanJK5 3 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Show HN: Juggler – an open-source GUI coding agent, by the creator of JUCE (github.com/juggler-ai)
    ×1.72 8 | 47 points by julesrms 2 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. New York becomes the first state to impose a data center moratorium (reuters.com)
    ×4.37 4 | 77 points by granfalloon 1 hour ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Paxos Made Simple (2001)[pdf] (lamport.azurewebsites.net)
    ×0.81 28 | 18 points by grep_it 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing (jola.dev)
    ×2.91 11 | 68 points by shintoist 4 hours ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Punch yourself in the face with reality (adi.bio)
    ×1.75 6 | 95 points by AdityaAnand1 4 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Demis Hassabis has a plan to harness AI safely (twitter.com/demishassabis)
    ×1.97 2 | 68 points by asiergoni 2 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. How the FSF sysadmins block botnets with reaction (fsf.org)
    ×3.65 | 83 points by pseudolus 3 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Show HN: I RL-trained an agent that trains models with RL (for –$1.3k) (github.com/Danau5tin)
    ×0.89 8 | 45 points by Danau5tin 3 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Differentiable Fortran with LFortran and Enzyme (pasteurlabs.ai)
    ×0.98 16 | 31 points by dionhaefner 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. A tiny cell that broke a big rule of biology (grist.org)
    ×0.93 33 | 10 points by gumby 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Alternative(s) to run CUDA on non-Nvidia hardware (hpcwire.com)
    ×1.00 15 | 100 points by alok-g 7 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Coding agents think ahead of time (arxiv.org)
    ×1.25 | 66 points by andre15silva 3 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Australian energy retailers must provide three hours of free daytime electricity (lenergy.com.au)
    ×2.16 16 | 195 points by i2oc 11 hours ago | 295 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. European "age verification" "app" forcing everyone to use Android or iOS (github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet)
    ×9.32 6 | 159 points by roundabout-host 4 hours ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Germany set to restrict its Freedom of Information Act (dw.com)
    ×4.19 15 | 178 points by robtherobber 4 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Tensor Is the Might (zserge.com)
    ×0.77 5 | 30 points by eatonphil 2 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Our Amish Language (thedial.world)
    ×1.14 29 | 67 points by NaOH 8 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Codex starts encrypting sub-agent prompts (github.com/openai)
    ×2.56 22 | 352 points by embedding-shape 4 hours ago | 217 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. A metallurgist's doubts about self-replicating probes (centauri-dreams.org)
    ×1.48 8 | 90 points by EA-3167 7 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. No Spanish reading crisis? (commonreader.co.uk)
    ×1.15 4 | 43 points by jruohonen 4 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Indian scientists produce most detailed 3D atlas of the human brainstem (bbc.com)
    ×1.90 7 | 139 points by BaudouinVH 9 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Actegories (bartoszmilewski.com)
    ×0.57 16 | 35 points by ibobev 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Proof of care in the age of AI (jacobfilipp.com)
    ×2.68 24 | 129 points by jfil 2 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. What did SFFA vs. Harvard reveal about admissions? (sorting-machine.pages.dev)
    ×1.38 50 | 39 points by StrageMusik 7 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Satellite Tracker – Live Map of Starlink and 30k Satellites (satellitemap.space)
    ×1.45 25 | 136 points by rolph 12 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. The git history command (lalitm.com)
    ×2.32 3 | 387 points by turbocon 14 hours ago | 272 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Codex scraped the ICM website and discovered 2026 Fields Medal winner list (phemex.com)
    ×1.49 21 | 135 points by zaikunzhang 4 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. OpenAI mandates hardware-backed passkeys for Trusted Access Cyber members (yubico.com)
    ×1.92 23 | 41 points by speckx 1 hour ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Just Let Me Write Digits (gendx.dev)
    ×2.29 8 | 125 points by brandon_bot 9 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. The Future Worth Building Is Human (thinkingmachines.ai)
    ×1.26 16 | 92 points by bilsbie 4 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. The Agentic Loop: Three loops in a trench coat (bobbytables.io)
    ×2.68 41 | 4 points by btables 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Notable Knot Index (2016) (neocities.org)
    ×1.04 12 | 53 points by surprisetalk 6 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. YouTrackDB is a general-use object-oriented graph database (github.com/JetBrains)
    ×1.32 8 | 161 points by gjvc 12 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. SalesPatriot (YC W25) Is Hiring Full Stack Engineers (SF) (ashbyhq.com)
    18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Fundamentals of Wireless Communication (2005) (stanford.edu)
    ×1.20 18 | 162 points by teleforce 13 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. An Englishwoman who sketched India before photography took hold (bbc.com)
    ×1.70 25 | 209 points by 1659447091 16 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. How to build a circular LCD clock (blinry.org)
    ×1.30 26 | 127 points by birdculture 13 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Rejourney – Open-source revenue leak prediction for web and mobile apps (github.com/rejourneyco)
    ×0.79 11 | 27 points by mrr7337 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. The Economics of Recursive Self-Improvement [pdf] (elasticity.institute)
    ×1.22 27 | 130 points by apsec112 14 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Is x86 ready to ACE it? (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×1.11 38 | 100 points by mfiguiere 14 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. The infinite scroll may become endangered if controversial Calif. law passes (sfgate.com)
    ×1.95 38 | 209 points by Stratoscope 20 hours ago | 391 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Nokia’s years of mobile-phone supremacy ended in an afternoon (ieee.org)
    ×1.90 55 | 158 points by jruohonen 23 hours ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. MorphoHDL: A minimalistic language for growing circuits (paradigms-of-intelligence.github.io)
    ×1.00 39 | 92 points by jacktang 14 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Japan develops a method to recover up to 90% of lithium from used EV batteries (supercarblondie.com)
    ×3.52 31 | 677 points by donohoe 13 hours ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. World-First 'Super Alloy' Could Transform the Way Metals Are Made (sciencealert.com)
    ×1.06 42 | 86 points by tejohnso 15 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Linux 0.11 rewritten in idiomatic Rust, boots in QEMU (github.com/Poseidon-fan)
    ×1.53 47 | 119 points by arto 19 hours ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. U of Chicago law school bans laptops from classes amid AI backlash (the-independent.com)
    ×2.67 12 | 20 points by smurda 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Two Case Studies of NaN (sebsite.pw)
    ×0.63 56 | 30 points by ryantsuji 10 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. What are Forward Deployed Engineers, and why are they so in demand? (2025) (pragmaticengineer.com)
    ×1.64 40 | 87 points by saisrirampur 16 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Zero Knowledge Tolstoyan Art (max-amb.github.io)
    ×0.76 33 | 35 points by max-amb 8 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Writing a bindless GPU abstraction layer (kevin-gibson.com)
    ×1.10 29 | 67 points by surprisetalk 12 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Hating AI in 2026 (eamoncaddigan.net)
    ×3.03 30 | 14 points by HotGarbage 1 hour ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Clawk – Give coding agents a disposable Linux VM, not your laptop (github.com/clawkwork)
    ×1.60 38 | 211 points by celrenheit 1 day ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. We need a PIT Crew for news (werd.io)
    ×0.85 69 | 4 points by benwerd 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Linux on the Sega 32X. Who needs hardware synchronization primitives anyway? (cakehonolulu.github.io)
    ×1.00 40 | 140 points by cakehonolulu 21 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Building and shipping Mac and iOS apps without opening Xcode (scottwillsey.com)
    ×2.51 16 | 524 points by speckx 21 hours ago | 221 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. The great digital fatigue: How digital burnout is changing social media use (incogni.com)
    ×1.38 39 | 71 points by derbOac 4 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Precursor (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.80 36 | 194 points by AznHisoka 1 day ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in all Linux distributions for 15 years (nebusec.ai)
    ×1.50 48 | 407 points by ranger_danger 1 day ago | 197 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
    ×1.19 78 | 260 points by david927 1 day ago | 1014 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor (get-inscribe.com)
    ×2.39 16 | 548 points by get-inscribe 23 hours ago | 225 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Ancient Roman Board Game (ludus-coriovalli.web.app)
    ×1.13 40 | 134 points by nobody9999 22 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Jektex 0.2.0 – A Jekyll plugin for LaTeX rendering is now ~10x faster (github.com/yagarea)
    ×0.69 35 | 28 points by yagarea 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: I implemented a neural network in SQL (github.com/xqlsystems)
    ×1.05 36 | 106 points by alxmrs 19 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Argentina court recognizes two goldfish as sentient beings with rights (cnn.com)
    ×2.21 17 | 17 points by breve 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Jacquard, a programming language for AI-written, human-reviewed code (github.com/jbwinters)
    ×1.10 39 | 95 points by jbwinters 19 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. TFTP Honey Pot Results (bruceediger.com)
    ×0.88 52 | 89 points by speckx 20 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. A Study of Microsoft's Early 2026 Rollout of Claude Code and GitHub Copilot CLI (arxiv.org)
    ×1.21 53 | 66 points by softwaredoug 18 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. IBM shares down 23% as clients spend more on hardware and memory chips (cnbc.com)
    ×3.30 22 | 15 points by rvz 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. What will be left for us to work on? (normaltech.ai)
    ×2.60 12 | 160 points by randomwalker 14 hours ago | 226 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Building Food Metadata with LLM Juries (careersatdoordash.com)
    ×0.71 45 | 44 points by tie-in 14 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Sx 2.0 – Share AI skills with your team through a Dropbox folder (sleuth-io.github.io)
    ×0.67 60 | 43 points by detkin 16 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Hackney – Compare Uber, Lyft, Waymo, and Robotaxi Prices (hackney.app)
    ×0.85 51 | 56 points by griffinli 17 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Why is LinkedIn enumerating my browser extensions? (bearblog.dev)
    ×1.73 54 | 27 points by snorbleck 11 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Benchmarking 15 “E-Waste” GPUs with Modern Workloads (esologic.com)
    ×1.25 47 | 134 points by eso_logic 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Backtrack-Free Cursive (mmapped.blog)
    ×1.47 36 | 264 points by dmit 1 day ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: YouTube Guitar Tab Parser (github.com/marcelpanse)
    ×0.93 22 | 105 points by neogenix 19 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: DOM-docx – HTML to native, editable Word docs (MIT) (github.com/floodtide)
    ×0.87 47 | 150 points by fishbone 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended (whois.com)
    ×3.18 24 | 338 points by Tiberium 19 hours ago | 266 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Meta used AI to target workers with medical conditions for layoffs (reuters.com)
    ×5.37 63 | 10 points by nlpnerd 41 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. The AI Whale Fall and Open Source (minor.gripe)
    ×1.23 58 | 37 points by ai_critic 16 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. What does "playing politics" mean for software engineers? (seangoedecke.com)
    ×2.81 43 | 25 points by mltvc 3 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Understanding the Go Runtime: Profiling (internals-for-interns.com)
    ×0.65 25 | 17 points by valyala 7 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. The 'absolute magic' of Morse code that still connects people globally (bbc.com)
    ×1.00 51 | 126 points by austinallegro 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Vint Cerf, “father of the Internet”, is retiring (techcrunch.com)
    ×1.83 72 | 371 points by compiler-guy 2 days ago | 205 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???