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  1. Ask HN: Are systems ready for the first negative leap second?
    ×0.58 32 #28 | 54 points by Asmod4n 8 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. One Wikipedia page costs your AI agent 68,000 tokens
    ×1.84 18 #65 | 7 points by arhamislam5766 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: How do you use Vim in the era of AI?
    ×1.51 40 #79 | 34 points by rstagi 12 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What was the last task where only a frontier model could do it?
    ×0.89 3 | 22 points by thedebuglife 7 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: I De-Googled Myself
    ×1.34 29 | 27 points by degoogled 11 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Burned Tokens scented candle ideas
    ×0.27 84 | 4 points by Tade0 12 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What data have the frontier AI companies not ingested yet?
    ×0.46 | 2 points by lysace 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: HN frontpage feels boring now?
    ×0.91 88 | 46 points by xeonmc 2 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?
    ×1.17 127 | 207 points by yehiaabdelm 1 week ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: I hate coding agents. Is this skill issue?
    ×1.62 104 | 16 points by cmar00 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: I am not able to find a job. Should I switch stacks?
    ×0.22 114 | 11 points by need_a_work23 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Where are the good search engines for mathematical formulas?
    ×0.50 121 | 56 points by lo0dot0 6 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Fable July 12th disclaimer disappears from Claude Code
    ×0.28 118 | 7 points by gorgmah 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Ubuntu 24.04 now force-automounts any plugged-in MMC card or USB key
    ×0.38 146 | 3 points by everybodyknows 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Is GitHub preparing to go behind a login wall?
    ×0.66 115 | 56 points by reconnecting 3 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Audar-ASR-V1:Arabic-first speech recognition foundation models with open weights
    ×0.13 | 2 points by AudarAI 22 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Who has been caught out by this anti-pattern from Google?
    ×0.17 136 | 4 points by Monotoko 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Tell HN: Who wants to be hired" posts outpace "Who's hiring" 2 to 1
    ×1.03 122 | 55 points by santiagobasulto 3 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)
    ×1.08 133 | 246 points by whoishiring 1 week ago | 402 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Thoughts on AI in Personal Finance?
    ×0.32 111 | 6 points by foxtrot8672 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: What are you running locally on your machine with LLMs?
    ×0.29 138 | 3 points by agcat 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Is Google NERFing AI Mode?
    ×0.24 149 | 4 points by PaulHoule 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: How long has it been since you last opened Stack Overflow?
    ×0.77 142 | 5 points by novoreorx 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Where'd Codex Go?
    ×0.72 110 | 8 points by aleshh 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. An iroh powered smart fan (iroh.computer)
    ×1.22 25 #8 | 11 points by surprisetalk 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. The Annotated JEPA (elonlit.com)
    ×1.03 41 #52 | 50 points by surprisetalk 12 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. I think I was part of a model distillation attack (sebastianmarines.com)
    ×1.49 57 #58 | 9 points by marinesebastian 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. UNIGRID's sodium-ion home battery debuts in Europe, US is next (electrek.co)
    ×1.64 10 #74 | 4 points by Bender 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Build your favorite technologies from scratch (github.com/codecrafters-io)
    ×0.99 | 2 points by kamphey 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: LastShelf – an emergency map of your family's documents bills& contacts (lastshelf.ai)
    ×0.96 73 | 47 points by sbrown12 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Android Developer Verification Package blacklisted in Aurora Store
    ×1.48 128 | 7 points by bewilderbeast 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Hannah Montana Linux v26.0 (gitlab.com)
    ×1.11 | 2 points by birdculture 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: ChessFlex – iPhone chess with no server, no accounts (P2P via QR) (apple.com)
    ×1.63 81 | 4 points by yrotsih 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Reviving my 2001 college band with AI (fadingmaize.com)
    ×0.62 18 #33 | 50 points by jacobgraf 7 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Focus (boz.com)
    ×1.72 40 | 99 points by iacguy 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. PostHog FOSS (github.com/PostHog)
    ×1.64 59 | 93 points by thatxliner 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Hacker News book recs as study guides (biteread.ai)
    ×1.20 93 | 3 points by xxbondsxx 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Drag boxes around and watch a layout engine infer the Flexbox (no AI) (wpconverters.com)
    ×2.30 91 | 5 points by drzivil 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: EVconomics – EV vs. gas cost-of-ownership calculator with live prices (evconomics.org)
    ×0.88 | 2 points by DanCharge 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement (apnews.com)
    ×5.15 1 #71 | 1368 points by djoldman 2 days ago | 298 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. What Every Python Developer Should Know About the CPython ABI (quansight.org)
    ×0.79 | 1 points by signa11 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Plain Text Sports (plaintextsports.com)
    ×1.75 16 | 3 points by bwoah 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: your website as a TUI, over SSH right now
    ×0.62 157 | 11 points by keepamovin 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: CashFlow (cashflow-phi-amber.vercel.app)
    ×1.53 155 | 3 points by SanishKumar 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Wyrm – Solve algebra by touch, built on an open-source soundness engine (github.com/dicroce)
    ×0.75 16 #23 | 55 points by dicroce 6 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. What Does a WordPress Development Company Do? (techwrath.com)
    ×1.00 | 2 points by techwrath11 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite (andrewkelley.me)
    ×9.47 14 | 765 points by kristoff_it 1 day ago | 675 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: FormGrid – Forms that can look like CLIs, pixel art, GeoCities and more (formgrid.com)
    ×0.92 105 | 13 points by bjoernm 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: OCR-grab: Flameshot clone that adds OCR (github.com/talalalrwas)
    ×2.23 140 | 6 points by tgol 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Onboard-CLI–a fast developer tool built in Go uses AST and LLM (onboard-cli.vercel.app)
    ×0.77 | 2 points by yr_animesh 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Combustion engine web-based simulator (combustionlab.net)
    ×1.19 17 #10 | 118 points by mytuny 9 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Agents of Our Own Illiteracy (royalicing.com)
    ×1.01 | 2 points by burntcaramel 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Dozens rescued in southeastern Missouri as 1-in-1k-year rainfall (cnn.com)
    ×0.39 | 1 points by Bender 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Looks good, feels bad? Review explains why modern design can strain your brain (stir.ac.uk)
    ×1.49 42 | 3 points by hhs 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. A Brief History of the Crazy Old 7-Segment Display (hackaday.com)
    ×1.88 12 | 5 points by kristianp 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. What does a 13-year-old see on Snapchat in a normal week? (afterbabel.com)
    ×3.51 83 | 62 points by dgudkov 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Ilya's 30 papers, explained in audio (listendock.com)
    ×1.93 131 | 4 points by janpmz 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Subagentmaxxing – Orchestrate GPT and Cursor Models with Claude Code (github.com/Kuberwastaken)
    ×0.81 | 2 points by kuberwastaken 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015) (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×1.13 10 #30 | 154 points by simonebrunozzi 9 hours ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. MDN has a page that shows every web API update as it hits each browser (mozilla.org)
    ×1.78 1 #49 | 4 points by luispa 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Disappearing Polymorph (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.76 | 1 points by moralestapia 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Email Verification Protocol – Chrome for Developers (chrome.com)
    ×1.71 8 | 3 points by dmmalam 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. The Persistent Gravity of Cross Platform (allenpike.com)
    ×0.96 | 2 points by ingve 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Apple sues OpenAI, accusing it of stealing company secrets (nytimes.com)
    ×8.53 83 | 107 points by jbegley 4 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Fortress – stealth Chromium + MCP so agents don't get blocked (tilion.dev)
    ×3.10 108 | 7 points by arhamislam5766 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Frugon – Find which LLM calls a cheaper model could handle (local, MIT) (github.com/Rodiun)
    ×0.58 46 #36 | 55 points by jarodrh 11 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Cpp2Rust: Translates C++ to safe Rust automatically (github.com/Cpp2Rust)
    ×1.35 31 #42 | 44 points by signa11 9 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: I built a cold email platform with built-in inbox placement testing (spamcipher.com)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by mainmin8t 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Scutoid Papercraft (patreon.com)
    ×1.26 | 2 points by ry-gr 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. GPT-5.6 Luna outperforms GPT-5.5 on health reasoning, while being 25x cheaper (twitter.com/OpenAI)
    ×0.39 | 1 points by rstagi 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Sighthound - open-source vulnerability scanner for source code (github.com/Corgea)
    ×0.89 85 | 19 points by asadeddin 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Materials innovation has a scale-up problem, not discovery (atomscale.ai)
    ×0.62 35 #41 | 24 points by groznyj 6 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. From Venture Rankings to Venture Decisions (thestateofventure.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by kteare 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. EU Commission: addictive design Instagram and Facebook in breach of the DSA (europa.eu)
    ×2.89 23 #59 | 249 points by jeroenhd 14 hours ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: A pixel pet for your GitHub README that eats your commits (github.com/Nomlings)
    ×1.65 16 | 3 points by franwbu 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Security settings every GitHub maintainer should enable this week (github.blog)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by mooreds 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: My lunch-break transformer in C became a book about my toddlers (github.com/carlovalenti)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by carlovalenti 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Ancient Coins: What About Spartan Coins? (coinweek.com)
    ×0.60 55 #84 | 25 points by thunderbong 13 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Muse Spark 1.1 (meta.com)
    ×2.32 9 | 400 points by ot 1 day ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: PastPage – Find archived versions of dead links (github.com/nabertronic)
    ×0.93 89 | 3 points by nabertronic 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Devthropology – Better Insights for GitHub Repos (devthropology.com)
    ×0.84 78 | 37 points by dpc94 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: The Flint Programming Language (github.com/flint-lang)
    ×1.16 106 | 3 points by zweiler1 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. A love letter to flashcards (lesleylai.info)
    ×1.16 8 #27 | 125 points by surprisetalk 10 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. The Clouds of Hiroshima (doomsdaymachines.net)
    ×0.94 12 #34 | 45 points by handfuloflight 6 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Software Engineer's Firing Ruled Illegal in a Rare Win for a Tech Worker (nytimes.com)
    ×2.65 35 #66 | 41 points by ytpete 5 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. I Like Using Scrollbars (arp242.net)
    ×1.13 | 2 points by ingve 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. ChatGPT Work (openai.com)
    ×2.36 7 | 348 points by Tiberium 1 day ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. GLM 5.2 is nearly as accurate as a human book keeper (toot-books.com)
    ×1.90 26 | 220 points by adamkurkiewicz 1 day ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Blocks.ai – control plane and network layer for agents (blocks.ai)
    ×1.41 154 | 3 points by BlocksAI 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth (zdnet.com)
    ×2.22 27 #11 | 73 points by CrankyBear 7 hours ago | 230 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???