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  1. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
    ×1.22 83 #43 | 254 points by david927 1 day ago | 985 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Does anyone else find GPT-5.6 Sol in Codex slow?
    ×1.59 47 | 3 points by linzhangrun 24 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Should I do a CS masters at Cambridge or start as a new grad at Amazon?
    ×0.52 85 | 16 points by sspehr 14 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Anthropic banned my thirteen 20x accounts, what now?
    ×2.25 3 | 4 points by flipdin 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. I want to build an OTT app. Where should I start?
    ×1.11 | 2 points by ibuld 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles
    ×6.11 59 | 1032 points by levkk 1 day ago | 443 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What critical legacy system at work is everyone afraid to touch?
    ×0.93 33 | 4 points by jerrycat101 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What hardware hobby would you recommend to a software engineer?
    ×0.80 96 | 3 points by merek 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How do you troubleshoot desktop Linux crashes/freezes?
    ×0.51 111 | 3 points by Curiositry 10 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Why does Chrome use 100+ mb of memory per tab?
    ×1.55 67 | 6 points by Uptrenda 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What are your personal websites?
    ×1.85 76 | 9 points by basilikum 9 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: AI Agent and harness containerization/security recommendations
    ×0.43 | 2 points by dv35z 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: How has the software industry changed for you personally?
    ×1.76 65 | 6 points by brindidrip 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Web Client SDK
    ×0.24 | 2 points by atoapaymentsapp 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What is the one YouTube channel you recommend I subscribe to?
    ×2.19 68 | 6 points by chirau 6 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. What's the first thing you look up when evaluating a company?
    ×0.26 | 2 points by salleisha 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Claudio? Why we need and open source Claude
    ×0.74 128 | 3 points by torrmal 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: What makes someone good at using Claude Code?
    ×0.34 129 | 3 points by Paarthmj 13 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Finitude of Knowledge
    ×0.54 120 | 4 points by Abhishek000001 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What are the best free ePub books to read?
    ×1.36 101 | 4 points by smalltorch 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: How do you see 3D Gaussian Splats could be used in industry?
    ×0.63 122 | 4 points by jesseandringa 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: How do you use Vim in the era of AI?
    ×0.91 143 | 48 points by rstagi 3 days ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: How do you use LLMs for private discussions?
    ×0.64 140 | 11 points by emerongi 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Tell HN: Staged NPM publishing is awful
    ×0.31 142 | 3 points by electrovir 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Let's talk about: LinkedIn ghost jobs
    ×0.48 137 | 14 points by xvxvx 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Why isn't Google indexing information about the AT Protocol?
    ×0.90 131 | 49 points by iameli 2 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Anthropic extends Fable 5 access through July 19
    ×0.33 146 | 4 points by dboreham 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Does appearance matter more than we admit as founders?
    ×1.12 107 | 5 points by jmaha 12 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. How does a Dev's job look like in a few years?
    ×0.65 144 | 11 points by korrak 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Tell HN: I De-Googled Myself
    ×1.10 145 | 37 points by degoogled 3 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Resources for non-web software architecture?
    ×0.68 147 | 4 points by xqb64 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Agave runs simulateTransaction synchronously on its shared RPC executor pool
    ×0.40 | 2 points by simonmorley 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: The New Cyborgs Don't Have Implants (bulaev.net)
    ×2.15 102 | 4 points by sbulaev 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Codebase Posters – turn any Git repo into generative poster art (github.com/unable12)
    ×0.79 108 | 28 points by unable0 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Alternative(s) to run CUDA on non-Nvidia hardware (hpcwire.com)
    ×1.56 4 #2 | 8 points by alok-g 14 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. What are Forward Deployed Engineers, and why are they so in demand? (2025) (pragmaticengineer.com)
    ×1.80 24 #27 | 53 points by saisrirampur 9 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Two Case Studies of NaN (sebsite.pw)
    ×1.57 | 2 points by theanonymousone 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. AI coding agents should optimize for less owned code (openenergytransition.org)
    ×1.37 | 2 points by lyoncy 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Weakening copyright to benefit AI would betray Australian Labor party's ethos (theguardian.com)
    ×1.88 25 | 3 points by ggm 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Don't you mean extinct? (fabiensanglard.net)
    ×1.70 64 | 216 points by zdw 1 day ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. AI is a bad tool (bytecode.news)
    ×4.78 20 | 77 points by shtgnwrng 12 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Made a Free LLM Router (flexinference.com)
    ×0.97 | 2 points by Aperswal 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Our Amish Language (thedial.world)
    ×1.15 12 #21 | 42 points by NaOH 5 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. In defense of not understanding your codebase (seangoedecke.com)
    ×1.31 | 2 points by ingve 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. How to read more books (scotto.me)
    ×3.09 13 | 544 points by silcoon 1 day ago | 287 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: I built a one-prompt hackathon platform, free entry, sponsored prizes (1shotchallenge.ai)
    ×0.66 72 | 11 points by lucasmartinic 10 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: 18 Words (18words.com)
    ×4.25 87 | 1154 points by pompomsheep 4 days ago | 363 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. The 4-Bitter Lesson: Balancing Stability and Performance in NVFP4 RL (humansand.ai)
    ×0.57 61 #67 | 29 points by Areibman 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese (jivx.com)
    ×1.81 39 #79 | 365 points by momentmaker 21 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Tiny Minimal Markdown Pastebin (tnypst.xyz)
    ×2.23 44 | 3 points by martinopiaggi 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: My Intel Brief - Rival-intel briefs sm biz, white-lbl for agencies (myintelbrief.com)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by chooklay 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop (anderegg.ca)
    ×4.00 13 | 187 points by ExMachina73 20 hours ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Orbit – AR satellite tracker, watch 15k+ objects (nagylukas.github.io)
    ×1.02 112 | 88 points by lukas9 2 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in all Linux distributions for 15 years (nebusec.ai)
    ×1.48 51 #42 | 397 points by ranger_danger 1 day ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Benchmarking 15 “E-Waste” GPUs with Modern Workloads (esologic.com)
    ×1.29 41 #49 | 130 points by eso_logic 18 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Choice Notes on History from Notes and Queries (1858) (publicdomainreview.org)
    ×1.28 | 2 points by pepys 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. HaikuOS now has Nvidia graphics acceloration (youtube.com)
    ×2.71 12 | 5 points by cable2600 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. A graph that should be front-page news (lyrebirddreaming.com)
    ×5.66 56 | 656 points by rakel_rakel 1 day ago | 408 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Open-source background location tracking SDK for Android and iOS (traccar.org)
    ×1.43 86 | 3 points by tananaev 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Melodusk – AI Music Generator and music tools in the browser (melodusk.ai)
    ×0.97 | 2 points by akseli_ukkonen 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Mindwalk – Replay coding-agent sessions on a 3D map of your codebase (github.com/cosmtrek)
    ×1.08 90 | 161 points by cosmtrek 2 days ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Samsung Health app threatens data deletion if users opt out AI training (neow.in)
    ×3.73 39 #51 | 313 points by bundie 12 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Hermes Agent maker Nous Research in talks for new funding at $1.5B valuation (techcrunch.com)
    ×1.26 | 2 points by thoughtpeddler 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes Reality of Urban Surveillance (wired.com)
    ×4.82 17 | 110 points by nozzlegear 20 hours ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Reverse-engineering web apps into agent tools
    ×0.81 138 | 96 points by pancomplex 4 days ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. OpenAI's Ad Business Is on Pace to Miss Its Own Forecast by 90%, Analyst Says (adweek.com)
    ×3.67 31 #35 | 54 points by EvgeniyZh 3 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. We gave our agent memory: building an LLM Wiki over sources that never sit still (taktile.com)
    ×3.82 66 | 5 points by choboswaggings 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Building and shipping Mac and iOS apps without opening Xcode (scottwillsey.com)
    ×2.37 3 #8 | 455 points by speckx 14 hours ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. The U.S. spent $30B to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets (fortune.com)
    ×2.41 52 | 3 points by 01-_- 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Connect a voice agent to your phone as a Bluetooth headset with a ESP32 (github.com/michaellee8)
    ×2.17 125 | 4 points by michaellee8 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Rqshc – A C++/x64 assembly image compressor with its own RQI format (github.com/Eiryou)
    ×1.07 | 2 points by Hide_AI_Awake 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Psycho – An audio-reactive roller-coaster game in Odin (github.com/skorotkiewicz)
    ×0.55 | 2 points by modinfo 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. I built a functional software platform, but zero support. Here is my tool (bountyclaimer.com)
    ×1.37 | 2 points by Kevan12 40 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail (fabiensanglard.net)
    ×1.24 | 2 points by rcarmo 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. European Parliament MCP Server – Political Intelligence for AI Agents (github.com/Hack23)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by jamespether 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: I created a platform to check which AI models is the best gamer (system-2-arena.vercel.app)
    ×0.46 | 2 points by masterchef2209 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Make Production Ready Videos in After Effects Using Claude Code (OSS) (github.com/Arman-Luthra)
    ×1.86 116 | 4 points by ArmanLuthra 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Hands on tutorial for open source contribution (github.com/firstcontributions)
    ×1.37 130 | 3 points by junior01 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Skillscript – A declarative, sandboxed language for tool orchestration (github.com/sshwarts)
    ×0.47 139 | 18 points by sshwarts 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Jektex 0.2.0 – A Jekyll plugin for LaTeX rendering is now ~10x faster (github.com/yagarea)
    ×0.77 20 #14 | 12 points by yagarea 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Just Let Me Write Digits (gendx.dev)
    ×1.80 68 #44 | 4 points by brandon_bot 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Backtrack-Free Cursive (mmapped.blog)
    ×1.48 38 #54 | 259 points by dmit 1 day ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Netflix accidentally shipped a Claude.md file (reddit.com)
    ×1.78 24 | 3 points by Ozzie_osman 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Tiny Emulators (floooh.github.io)
    ×1.59 23 | 334 points by naves 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Berkshire's $397B Bet Against an Overheated Market (disruptionbanking.com)
    ×3.02 44 | 96 points by emsidisii 1 day ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Signal Analysis – a Claude Skill for reading news like an analyst (github.com/Vadiml1024)
    ×0.49 | 2 points by vadiml 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Sx 2.0 – Share AI skills with your team through a Dropbox folder (sleuth-io.github.io)
    ×0.65 47 #37 | 36 points by detkin 9 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Collaboration Networks in Brazilian Computer Science (ptidej.net)
    ×0.55 66 #81 | 15 points by aliiiimaher 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Swiss Army Breaks with Microsoft: "Cyber Command" Relies on Open Source (heise.de)
    ×1.54 54 | 3 points by vrganj 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Responsive Design Calculator (redblobgames.com)
    ×1.33 | 2 points by ingve 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???