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  1. Ask HN: Since when does Craigslist's front page have emojis?
    ×0.30 18 #23 | 11 points by argee 1 hour ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Why are so many "AI evangelists" posting such insufferable content?
    ×0.90 25 #82 | 8 points by seattle_spring 2 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)
    ×1.08 26 | 232 points by whoishiring 1 day ago | 261 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)
    ×0.83 43 | 144 points by whoishiring 1 day ago | 378 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Rust sort_unstable_by with more complex closure unexpectedly shrunk binary
    ×0.41 72 | 5 points by tracyspacy 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Tell HN: Old Reddit now requires login
    ×3.81 48 | 80 points by jay_kyburz 23 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Seattle Just Had an Earthquake
    ×0.62 80 | 11 points by tobinfekkes 13 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: First day using Fable – how was it?
    ×1.21 23 | 3 points by akashwadhwani35 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Why aren't companies hoarding AI talent?
    ×0.49 97 | 3 points by playorizaya 7 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. I'm opening VSCode less and less every day
    ×1.69 93 | 18 points by othmanosx 21 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Tell HN: Installing Cursor on iOS irreversibly changes your privacy settings
    ×1.94 69 | 245 points by zkldi 2 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What's the simplest way for me to get my AMEX data agentically?
    ×0.61 | 2 points by artur_makly 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Are Claude models broken with the Fable 5 update?
    ×0.91 110 | 7 points by jackjd 22 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What things might help me to become inference engineer?
    ×0.62 115 | 4 points by chalshik 16 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Secure wrapper for coding agents?
    ×0.31 126 | 19 points by rjzzleep 2 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Line by Line Agentic Coding
    ×0.72 114 | 6 points by notshore 21 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Tell HN: I'm not excited for Fable and am disappointed in Karpathy
    ×0.98 121 | 6 points by behnamoh 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: What do you use computer mode for?
    ×0.77 120 | 4 points by aryamaan 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Is anyone running local LLMs in their organization?
    ×1.13 113 | 5 points by harry8 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Where is the programming profession going?
    ×1.07 142 | 165 points by syntaxbush 1 week ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Fable 5 Is Downgraded
    ×2.16 76 | 7 points by RIshabh235 9 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Who is quitting? (July 2026)
    ×5.66 66 | 163 points by ethanwillis 8 hours ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. What Can't Fable Do?
    ×0.62 134 | 3 points by alimhaq 22 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Who is this Steve T.?
    ×0.42 140 | 3 points by jacobreddy 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. 0/6 major aerospace documentation portals are AI Agent-ready
    ×0.28 | 2 points by priyanshu-j 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Does anybody still FEEL improvements between latest LLMs for coding?
    ×0.28 139 | 4 points by sspehr 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. The open source DOCX editor submitted to HN a few weeks ago has been deleted
    ×0.77 135 | 108 points by gcanyon 5 days ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Is "no source code was copied" still a sufficient copyright defense?
    ×0.64 151 | 67 points by oscgam1 6 days ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Margarita - Programming language for Agents using Markdown-ish syntax (margarita.run)
    ×1.50 106 | 6 points by margarita_dev 15 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Model Y L is live (tesla.com)
    ×1.67 21 | 3 points by adamqureshi 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. JEP 539: Strict Field Initialization in the JVM moved to preview (openjdk.org)
    ×0.85 9 #9 | 18 points by za3faran 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. HN: Words on Repeat – AI vocabulary extraction and FSRS spaced repetition (wordsonrepeat.com)
    ×0.92 | 1 points by palachdigital 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Why Don't Frontlights Use Standard Warm and Cool Light Temperatures? (the-ebook-reader.com)
    ×1.23 | 2 points by DavideNL 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: PurRDF-High performance, cross platform RDF1.2 (github.com/Blackcat-Informatics)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by paudley 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Enola-A deterministic architecture graph for developers and AI agents (github.com/enola-labs)
    ×0.77 40 | 8 points by GertLH 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Bring back crappy forums (tedium.co)
    ×3.46 5 #38 | 514 points by pentagrama 17 hours ago | 323 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. New – TV Volume Stabilizer (github.com/AdBusterOfficial)
    ×1.24 | 2 points by Bo_Amigo_910 19 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. California bans 'sell by' food labels to cut food waste (apnews.com)
    ×1.82 17 | 3 points by ChrisArchitect 47 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Seven Levels of RAG (martimchaves.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by martimchaves 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Meta loses bid to dismiss US states' claims that FB, Instagram addict children (reuters.com)
    ×4.50 37 | 170 points by tartoran 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers (2013) (escapepod.org)
    ×1.89 33 | 115 points by rbanffy 23 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Comparing Fable and 10 other LLMs on refactoring a LangGraph god node (korridzy.com)
    ×1.15 3 #55 | 43 points by Korridzy 7 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. A Third Party Breached the Intercept's Signal Tip Line (dropsitenews.com)
    ×1.51 | 2 points by MallocVoidstar 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. AI content flood: why the web's signal is dying (psyll.com)
    ×1.19 | 2 points by lucasfletcher 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. A retrospective of my time on the internet (cleberg.net)
    ×2.49 31 | 267 points by felixdoerp 1 day ago | 296 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: A lightweight CLI tool to track and purge temporary packages in Linux (github.com/hermetic-code)
    ×0.87 95 | 3 points by joyalgeorgekj 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Asahi Linux 7.1 Progress Report (asahilinux.org)
    ×2.64 6 #90 | 564 points by pantalaimon 1 day ago | 224 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. ScyllaDB's Trie-Based Index Delivers Up to 3X More Throughput (scylladb.com)
    ×1.30 | 2 points by eatonphil 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Wireless LAN SD (sdcard.org)
    ×1.14 | 2 points by sharpshadow 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Will betting on wildfires lead to arson? (hcn.org)
    ×1.21 | 2 points by megamike 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Randomify – stumble onto niche music at random (randomify.net)
    ×0.82 | 2 points by s_e__a___n 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: DBOSify – Drop-in Temporal replacement built on Postgres (github.com/dbos-inc)
    ×0.97 141 | 91 points by KraftyOne 1 week ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Inkwell – An RSS reader for e-ink devices (kendal.codeberg.page)
    ×1.03 58 #62 | 8 points by imkendal 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Burned out creating public software (mkagenius.substack.com)
    ×1.13 12 | 3 points by mkagenius 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Insights on Software Engineering, AI and DevOps Job Openings – July 2026 (corvi.careers)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by sp1982 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Simulate API traffic directly from your IDE with .http files (gopherglide.dev)
    ×1.03 | 2 points by maniac00 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Forgejo Appliance, a private Git server based on OrbStack and Tailscale (github.com/highpost)
    ×1.20 117 | 6 points by highpost 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Toolnexus for Python – MCP, agent skills,a2a for any LLM (pypi.org)
    ×0.96 129 | 3 points by muthuishere 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. How to ask for help from people who don't know you (pradyuprasad.com)
    ×2.27 1 #8 | 263 points by FigurativeVoid 7 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. The Egg Bandits Made a Thousand Times the Fine They Just Paid for Price Fixing (thebignewsletter.com)
    ×4.50 17 #22 | 352 points by toomuchtodo 7 hours ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Immich v3.0.0 Released (github.com/immich-app)
    ×3.68 13 #33 | 45 points by hashier 6 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Europe's top court upholds Google's record $4.7B antitrust fine (neowin.net)
    ×1.27 6 #77 | 12 points by bundie 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. See What the Browser Reveals About You (medium.com)
    ×0.93 | 1 points by mssblogs 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Google hit with $2B antitrust judgment for skewing shopping searches (latimes.com)
    ×2.50 22 | 4 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Collapsing Towers of Interpreters [pdf] (purdue.edu)
    ×0.67 | 2 points by rbanffy 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. EFF and Allies: X's FTC Petition to Waive Privacy Violation Should Be Rejected (eff.org)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by ChrisArchitect 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Agents as Webs of Beliefs (lesswrong.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by gmays 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: LIBR tracing with source ledger rows and byte-exact PDF verification (exitprotocols.com)
    ×0.21 131 | 4 points by cd_mkdir 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. How VictoriaLogs Stores Your Logs in a Columnar Layout (victoriametrics.com)
    ×0.83 16 #27 | 25 points by eatonphil 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. NSA tries to weaken mlkem standardisation (yp.to)
    ×2.92 3 #43 | 81 points by SuperSandro2000 7 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Google caps Meta's Gemini use as AI demand strains capacity (ft.com)
    ×0.90 | 1 points by achow 2 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. U.S. babies born this year to receive Social Security cards w 'Freedom 250' logo (washingtonpost.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by bookofjoe 28 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Open-source sandbox for your product team
    ×5.32 107 | 15 points by spacspade 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: CLI that helps AI agents avoid vulnerable dependencies (github.com/clidey)
    ×1.49 125 | 4 points by modelorona 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Decomp Academy – Learn to decompile GameCube games into matching C (decomp-academy.dev)
    ×1.22 112 | 196 points by jackpriceburns 4 days ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Lightning Memory-Mapped Database Manager (LMDB) 1.0 (lmdb.tech)
    ×0.67 24 #3 | 7 points by radiator 24 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Launch HN: Manufact (YC S25) – MCP Cloud (manufact.com)
    ×0.58 9 #12 | 84 points by pzullo 5 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Kimi K2.7 Code is generally available in GitHub Copilot (github.blog)
    ×1.89 17 #18 | 382 points by unliftedq 15 hours ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Gas giants use AI to raise prices, lawsuit says, another algorithmic hit to COL (latimes.com)
    ×1.17 | 2 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Swedish court says Google is to pay $1.5B to Klarna in antitrust damages (reuters.com)
    ×2.51 55 | 129 points by giuliomagnifico 1 day ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Kubelens-If kubectl works, you're ready. A browser UI for your cluster (github.com/jialinhuang00)
    ×1.76 56 | 4 points by jiaLin1014 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Hacker News on a train station-style flip board (quickish.space)
    ×0.96 130 | 114 points by PaybackTony 5 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Why jet engines aren't made in China (aakash.substack.com)
    ×2.35 41 #41 | 278 points by paulpauper 23 hours ago | 244 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Hanami 3.0: In Full Bloom (hanakai.org)
    ×1.09 51 | 99 points by PuercoPop 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Agentic Orchestrator, a TUI for long-running coding agents (github.com/doordash-oss)
    ×1.36 138 | 19 points by ivrr 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: QueryDrift fail CI when a PR turns 1 query into N (github.com/AALXX)
    ×0.96 148 | 3 points by S3RBVN 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Zig: Package Management Moved from Compiler to Build System (ziglang.org)
    ×0.72 75 #65 | 8 points by olzhasar 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Railway: Peace (railway.com)
    ×2.24 41 | 3 points by gk1 10 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. The "empathy paradox" of LTR vs. RTL readers (google.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by mobileturdfctry 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. A Push on Tactile Data, and a Warning That the Benchmark Was Leaking (topicqueue.substack.com)
    ×1.13 | 2 points by DISCURSIVE 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???