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  1. Ask HN: Are systems ready for the first negative leap second?
    ×0.55 66 | 80 points by Asmod4n 5 days ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Why isn't Google indexing information about the AT Protocol?
    ×0.96 13 | 43 points by iameli 15 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Google deleting all recently inactive accounts without phone number
    ×2.21 27 | 47 points by superkuh 19 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: How do you use Vim in the era of AI?
    ×1.05 92 | 46 points by rstagi 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Bring seamless PQC encryption into every messenger you already use
    ×0.88 74 | 4 points by kvasilev 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Bitemporal provenance in agent memory: What did we believe, when, and why
    ×0.26 | 2 points by shanrizvi 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Tell HN: I De-Googled Myself
    ×1.18 96 | 35 points by degoogled 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Map of All Known Knowledge
    ×0.46 107 | 4 points by Abhishek000001 16 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. One Wikipedia page costs your AI agent 68,000 tokens
    ×1.05 108 | 14 points by arhamislam5766 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?
    ×1.19 136 | 212 points by yehiaabdelm 1 week ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What was the last task where only a frontier model could do it?
    ×0.76 102 | 24 points by thedebuglife 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: My father died and I need to find my path
    ×0.34 112 | 4 points by c4kar 18 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: HN frontpage feels boring now?
    ×0.93 119 | 50 points by xeonmc 3 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Burned Tokens scented candle ideas
    ×0.25 149 | 5 points by Tade0 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Where are the good search engines for mathematical formulas?
    ×0.49 134 | 56 points by lo0dot0 1 week ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)
    ×1.08 143 | 246 points by whoishiring 1 week ago | 405 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Is GitHub preparing to go behind a login wall?
    ×0.65 132 | 56 points by reconnecting 4 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Tell HN: Who wants to be hired" posts outpace "Who's hiring" 2 to 1
    ×1.03 135 | 57 points by santiagobasulto 4 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: I hate coding agents. Is this skill issue?
    ×1.42 138 | 18 points by cmar00 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: How has the internet devolved in recent years?
    ×0.69 150 | 3 points by fridayblunt 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: I am not able to find a job. Should I switch stacks?
    ×0.24 146 | 12 points by need_a_work23 2 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Does anyone let AI agents play games just for fun?
    ×0.34 | 2 points by nodivbyzero 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Auburn California Flock Surveillance Cameras Stolen and Dumped in a Canal (gadgetreview.com)
    ×2.86 81 | 50 points by 01-_- 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Show HN: Follow London Trains in 3D (nexttrain.london)
    ×1.14 100 | 155 points by mgranados 1 week ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Digital Deli, 1984 book by early PC hackers and enthusiasts (atariarchives.org)
    ×0.94 70 #47 | 65 points by achairapart 22 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. I needed one feature for my SaaS. 6 hours later I had launched another SaaS (floatingvideo.com)
    ×0.87 | 1 points by astonfred 10 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Atomic Physics in Pure Anglo-Saxon (upenn.edu)
    ×1.89 19 | 3 points by xelxebar 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Zero Trust Boundary for Agents (github.com/Open-AGS)
    ×1.61 18 | 3 points by Oxlamarr 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. An open letter to the Medici of intelligence (sov.vc)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by abreckle 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Why are US consumers so angry? It's not just high prices (theguardian.com)
    ×5.54 88 | 97 points by dilawar 6 hours ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Make images render brighter than white by abusing Rec.2100 PQ profiles (superwhite.app)
    ×1.04 129 | 3 points by nimrodyar 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Code Airlock: Run Claude Code and Codex in Disposable MicroVMs (github.com/Trivo25)
    ×0.60 | 2 points by zkTrivo 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Computation as a universal and fundamental concept (ergo.org)
    ×1.22 74 #64 | 170 points by simonpure 1 day ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Successful companies go blind (ianreppel.org)
    ×1.68 45 #77 | 237 points by speckx 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. To Build More Believable Bots, Simulate the Neurochemistry (github.com/smithandrewjohn)
    ×1.23 | 2 points by beardyw 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Reimplementing pf as an eBPF/XDP dataplane on Linux (nfsensei.org)
    ×0.94 77 #84 | 17 points by 882542F3884314B 20 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Political Neutrality Benchmark of popular AI models (neutralityproject.org)
    ×2.62 53 | 4 points by ryzvonusef 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. AI found a Linux root bug that was missed for 15 years (wired.com)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by crowd51 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. In Praise of Exhaustive Destructuring (vandecreme.net)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by avandecreme 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: InLie – See manipulation tactics in political videos, live (google.com)
    ×1.75 22 | 3 points by ivan_holovach 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Leaded gas was a known poison the day it was invented (2016) (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×3.47 58 | 184 points by downbad_ 15 hours ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: OpenThomas – weather trader agent for prediction markets (github.com/PredictionMarketTrader)
    ×0.39 | 2 points by thomaslwang 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. The early History of the Singular Value Decomposition (1993) [pdf] (ucdavis.edu)
    ×0.89 43 #20 | 116 points by wolfi1 17 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Networking and the Internet, from First Principles (fazamhd.com)
    ×2.21 43 | 199 points by faza 20 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: SubjectiveZero, an open-source agentic node editor for creative coding (sxp.studio)
    ×0.80 99 | 24 points by tasoeur 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. EF Core 11 makes your split queries faster (steven-giesel.com)
    ×1.14 17 #12 | 38 points by rellem 6 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. UPI: Anatomy of a Payment Transaction (timeseriesofindia.com)
    ×1.78 26 #13 | 180 points by prtk25 16 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Finetuning a Reasoning LLM with Supervised or Reinforcement Learning? (huggingface.co)
    ×1.42 | 2 points by verdverm 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. GPT-5.6, Grok 4.5, Claude, and Muse Spark build the same 4 apps (tryai.dev)
    ×2.55 36 | 155 points by hershyb_ 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Levee – a self-tuning circuit breaker and concurrency limiter for Go (github.com/codemartial)
    ×1.11 83 | 3 points by code_martial 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Intro to Multiplicative Calculus [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by soupspaces 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Apple sues OpenAI, accusing it of stealing company secrets (nytimes.com)
    ×7.31 50 | 113 points by jbegley 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Europe's Largest Unions Demand Right to Cancel Work on Days Above 30C (novaramedia.com)
    ×4.03 67 | 96 points by robtherobber 1 day ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Fast, native Mac file manager (filters, fuzzy find, 9 MB, no Electron) (whimfiles.com)
    ×1.20 125 | 98 points by whimbyte 5 days ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: An interactive double pendulum "fractal" (doublethe.fun)
    ×0.55 158 | 3 points by teaearlgraycold 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Where did my segfault go? (rmpr.xyz)
    ×0.42 82 #86 | 6 points by RMPR 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Stop Telling Me to Ask an LLM (yaelwrites.com)
    ×3.35 77 | 177 points by theorchid 10 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Apple Sues OpenAI, Alleging It Stole Trade Secrets (wsj.com)
    ×7.24 59 | 77 points by m348e912 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Count Binface, Nigel Farage's space-warrior foe (economist.com)
    ×5.26 56 | 69 points by tagawa 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Atuin AI Proxy bridges Hub AI to an OpenAI-compatible endpoint (github.com/Vlad1mir-D)
    ×1.01 151 | 3 points by Am1G0 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. What xAI's Grok Build CLI Actually Sends to xAI (github.com/cereblab)
    ×5.76 41 #42 | 274 points by jhoho 8 hours ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. DeepSeek developing its own AI chip, sources say (reuters.com)
    ×1.63 33 | 3 points by theanonymousone 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: The Quiet Map – Earth's quietest place, measured by seismometers (thequietmap.org)
    ×2.37 87 | 5 points by theceka 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Rubiks Cube Solver (speedcube.com.br)
    ×0.45 124 | 23 points by wozzp 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Clx – Compile Lua to Native Executables Through C++20 (github.com/samyeyo)
    ×33.65 53 | 32 points by _samt_ 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Chiptune Radio (alephvoid.com)
    ×0.76 122 | 77 points by bootbloopers 4 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. LLMlet: P2P distributed LLM inference on browsers (github.com/ktock)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by mrauha 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Software Engineer's Firing Ruled Illegal in a Rare Win for a Tech Worker (nytimes.com)
    ×3.48 64 | 68 points by ytpete 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Modern decor may be straining people's brains (studyfinds.com)
    ×1.89 22 #14 | 186 points by downwithdisease 16 hours ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Why Write Code in 2026 (softwaredoug.com)
    ×1.86 17 #27 | 53 points by zdw 5 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Fixed three bugs that made Qwen3.5-122B a daily driver on Mac Studio (mrzk.io)
    ×1.94 12 #33 | 56 points by marzukia 10 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Small Inventors Are Being Squeezed by a Convoluted Patent Process (nationalreview.com)
    ×2.14 23 #73 | 23 points by petethomas 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth (zdnet.com)
    ×2.22 13 #89 | 302 points by CrankyBear 1 day ago | 1149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Edge Password Bulk Manager (github.com/marinfrankovic)
    ×1.90 33 | 3 points by taubek 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Docx-CLI: agents read/edit Word docs using 1/2 the time and tokens (github.com/kklimuk)
    ×0.79 126 | 70 points by kirillklimuk 4 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Mesh LLM: distributed AI computing on iroh (iroh.computer)
    ×1.61 2 #2 | 251 points by tionis 10 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Prefer strict tables in SQLite (evanhahn.com)
    ×2.24 5 #24 | 284 points by ingve 15 hours ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. The Oral History of the Dinosaur Input Device (DID) (vfxblog.com)
    ×0.63 77 #79 | 14 points by fabiensanglard 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Vyrai – a travel challenge where your age is your flight budget (vyrai.app)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by Imbryk 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: I built a web tool to see and edit what an AI thinks before it answers (earthpilot.ai)
    ×0.83 114 | 33 points by ada1981 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Tinyreplay – lightweight session replay without analytics/cloud (github.com/kzekiue)
    ×0.70 | 2 points by kzekiue 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. ZeroFS vs. Amazon S3 Files (zerofs.net)
    ×1.43 23 #44 | 77 points by cbrewster 15 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. The Ten Commandments of AI Usage (defragzone.substack.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by frag 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: I mapped 8.5M research papers into an interactive atlas (tomesphere.com)
    ×0.91 97 | 83 points by leonickson 3 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Devthropology – Better Insights for GitHub Repos (devthropology.com)
    ×0.84 115 | 37 points by dpc94 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. 45% of enthusiasts 'seriously considering' leaving Sony for PC (pushsquare.com)
    ×3.49 58 | 87 points by speckx 1 day ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. The Annotated JEPA (elonlit.com)
    ×1.13 75 | 71 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Learn by rebuilding Redis, Git, a database from scratch (shipthatcode.com)
    ×1.74 23 #26 | 171 points by acley 19 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Orbit – AR satellite tracker, watch 15k+ objects (nagylukas.github.io)
    ×1.02 44 #36 | 76 points by lukas9 16 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Vinod Khosla to Buy Seattle Seahawks for $9.6B (sportico.com)
    ×2.22 45 #70 | 19 points by kpw94 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???