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  1. Ask HN: US Equivalent of Anabin?
    ×0.16 52 #78 | 13 points by xqb64 10 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Alternative Careers in the Age of AI
    ×0.83 23 | 6 points by helpfulmandrill 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
    ×4.70 59 | 1312 points by nprateem 5 days ago | 754 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: How do people keep track of organizational knowledge?
    ×0.48 65 | 25 points by kadhirvelm 20 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Can I come to your Chinese office?
    ×0.15 | 2 points by weli 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work
    ×3.69 70 | 831 points by nicholasjbs 4 days ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
    ×1.17 135 | 292 points by david927 1 week ago | 1139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What's your experience with GPT-Live been like?
    ×0.33 105 | 7 points by caveman23 21 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: GitHub CVE Delays?
    ×0.43 108 | 4 points by ioseph 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Apple Is Broken?
    ×0.70 103 | 5 points by dogomatic 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Post active but comments got flagged
    ×0.16 | 2 points by spirosoik 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Claude Code or Codex?
    ×0.45 111 | 13 points by czeizel 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Personal Goal Setting Method (Jim Rohn)
    ×0.21 | 2 points by urnicus 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. We're (Skyfall AI) acquiring SaaS startups and running them with AI as CEO
    ×0.53 131 | 3 points by anousha_606 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED WITHOUT WARRANTY – does this do anything?
    ×0.24 132 | 3 points by fkdk 20 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Halo v2.7: Unified MCP Tool Engine for AI Security
    ×0.22 | 2 points by automajicly 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: I am building a app to deep search bookmarks from browser, X etc.
    ×0.34 134 | 5 points by shafkathullah 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. If HF was breached, should we expect OpenAI to face criminal charges?
    ×0.80 87 | 6 points by arm32 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Why 1Password extension pushing debug logs in the browser console?
    ×0.28 | 2 points by pixelpanic360 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Claude Blind Test Results: Bug or Feature?
    ×0.28 | 2 points by Leewen 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. When Is NVLink Worth It? (platform-fools.com)
    ×1.19 | 2 points by ak_t 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. The Dispensable Nation (crookedtimber.org)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by ravenical 45 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Gemini last models: temperature, top_p, and top_k are deprecated and ignored (google.dev)
    ×1.11 43 #38 | 119 points by greatgib 17 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Record of Human Migration Hiding in the DNA of a Musky Rodent (nautil.us)
    ×1.23 | 2 points by Brajeshwar 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA (fireworks.ai)
    ×3.60 8 #7 | 793 points by piotrgrabowski 16 hours ago | 405 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Libx11-Compat Is Working to Implement Xlib Atop SDL for Wayland, macOS, Android (phoronix.com)
    ×1.47 | 2 points by arto 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Dejavu – stop showing coding agents the same command output twice (github.com/Salnika)
    ×1.09 | 2 points by salnika 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Flock Credibility Lost as It Repeatedly Lies to City Councils, Police, & Public (aclu.org)
    ×6.06 3 | 464 points by StatsAreFun 1 day ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Agent swarms and the new model economics (cursor.com)
    ×1.65 33 | 271 points by jlaneve 1 day ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. VTubing: How a Japanese Phenomenon Is Going Worldwide (tokyodev.com)
    ×1.46 53 | 107 points by pwim 1 day ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Why Are There No Empires in Age of Empires? (2019) (acoup.blog)
    ×1.88 42 #67 | 121 points by jkly 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Slater – Low-memory graphdb designed for read-heavy graphs (github.com/Hikari-Systems)
    ×0.60 48 #85 | 43 points by rickkjp 20 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Imagin Raw – A 9MB Open-Source Alternative to Adobe Bridge for Mac (github.com/cristibaluta)
    ×0.94 34 #86 | 67 points by cristi_baluta 21 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. The Light Flip Is the Stylish Dumb Flip Phone of Your Dreams (wired.com)
    ×0.78 | 1 points by notpachet 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Instancez – Open-Source Declarative Single-Binary Supabase Alternative (github.com/instancez)
    ×3.21 112 | 8 points by saedx1 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: IKEA Complexity Index (greg.technology)
    ×1.72 110 | 178 points by gregsadetsky 4 days ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: RockCode an unofficial vibe-coded macOS client for Grok CLI (github.com/natanavra)
    ×0.42 | 2 points by natanavra 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Photos: 50 Years Since Viking 1 Landed on Mars (theatlantic.com)
    ×0.85 5 #62 | 5 points by Anon84 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. I wrote an bash enumerator because I was sick of xargs (numerlab.org)
    ×1.39 51 #80 | 203 points by wallach-game 1 day ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Perfection is not over-engineering (var0.xyz)
    ×1.47 38 | 285 points by var0xyz 2 days ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Linux kernel will support $ORIGIN, sort of (fzakaria.com)
    ×1.71 54 | 90 points by ingve 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Language Model Builder (an app to learn about and build models) (languagemodelbuilder.com)
    ×1.10 79 | 17 points by felixrieseberg 21 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Juggling for Blind People (jugglingforblindpeople.com)
    ×0.51 64 #83 | 17 points by pipnonsense 14 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Ernst's Paradox (futilitycloset.com)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by surprisetalk 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Gemini 3.6 Flash (google.com)
    ×7.29 36 | 69 points by marrf 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Redential – open-source CLI that proves what you can build, NDA safe (github.com/redential)
    ×0.93 | 2 points by Jperalbelmont 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Faceblind – In-browser only video face blurring (kmcheung12.github.io)
    ×1.85 97 | 6 points by a_c 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Justif – Knuth-Plass justification and microtypography for the web (lyall.co)
    ×1.55 31 #42 | 185 points by lyall 19 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Who's afraid of Chinese models? (stratechery.com)
    ×4.01 2 #73 | 970 points by mfiguiere 1 day ago | 872 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Running Doom on Our Custom CPU and Going Viral (armaangomes.com)
    ×0.85 55 #81 | 129 points by arghunter 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Not just development, distribution of software may change as well (antirez.com)
    ×3.02 51 | 3 points by sibellavia 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Trovio for Brands (gotrovio.com)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by derrickshowers 16 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Towards a Theory of Bugs: The Ruliology of the Unexpected (stephenwolfram.com)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by Brajeshwar 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Oracle could face $7B collateral bill for Wisconsin data centre (ft.com)
    ×2.70 12 | 124 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 23 hours ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D Review: 3D V-Cache Gaming Performance for Less – HotHardware (hothardware.com)
    ×0.70 12 #22 | 39 points by rbanffy 5 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled (wordpress.com)
    ×2.30 43 #57 | 487 points by artninja1988 1 day ago | 249 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. ICE to Pay Thomson Reuters $125M to Find Voter Fraud (404media.co)
    ×6.02 12 | 234 points by Jimmc414 23 hours ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Agent in 9 Lines Python (github.com/tosh)
    ×1.34 11 | 3 points by tosh 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: BlastRadar GitHub Action, automatic production risk scoring on every PR (github.com/Blast-radar)
    ×0.82 | 2 points by M_Carpenter 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Introduction to Formal Verification with Lean Part 1 (hashcloak.com)
    ×1.50 7 #5 | 155 points by badcryptobitch 6 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Businesses with ugly AI menu redesigns (fiddery.com)
    ×2.78 23 #26 | 110 points by speckx 2 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. My USB Drive Has a Hidden Encrypted Vault (rootkitlabs.com)
    ×2.01 32 #40 | 277 points by machinehum 23 hours ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Monte Kali (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.72 1 #71 | 15 points by yread 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Securing AI Using Zero Trust Principles (ciscopress.com)
    ×1.97 25 | 3 points by teleforce 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. The First European Search API (staan.ai)
    ×1.29 | 2 points by maelito 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Launch HN: Bloomy (YC S26) – AI-powered mastery learning for K-12
    ×0.59 76 | 99 points by alexsouthmayd 1 day ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Meltbox – where your agents send you briefs (meltbox.ai)
    ×1.24 123 | 3 points by flysonic10 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Over 400 Linux CVEs published in the last 24 hours alone (kernel.org)
    ×4.58 35 | 74 points by aghuang 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. France's Anssi Will Block PQC-Free Products from Certification Starting 2027 (postquantum.com)
    ×0.77 54 #54 | 101 points by Sami_Lehtinen 22 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Can Chinese AI (Kimi K3) file American tax returns (TaxCalcBench)? (github.com/column-tax)
    ×1.21 20 #65 | 8 points by michaelrbock 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Design the Wave. Don't Just Ride It (alexoppenheimer.substack.com)
    ×0.88 | 1 points by crescit_eundo 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Which streaming service was that on again (timwehrle.de)
    ×2.43 40 | 3 points by weetii 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Non-performant software and its incentives (iainschmitt.com)
    ×1.16 | 2 points by surprisetalk 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. The drivers behind software delivery inefficiency (acm.org)
    ×0.98 77 | 91 points by qaprof 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Controlling Reasoning Effort in LLMs (sebastianraschka.com)
    ×0.92 82 | 83 points by ibobev 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: IMAX Analysis throughout the years (1994 – 2026) (github.com/omarirfa)
    ×0.85 | 2 points by fl4res 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Intel Starts Shipping High-NA EUV Silicon (morethanmoore.substack.com)
    ×1.45 11 #10 | 173 points by zdw 9 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Incremental – A library for incremental computations (github.com/janestreet)
    ×1.61 39 #55 | 339 points by handfuloflight 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: I walk-forward tested classic trading setups. Several have no real edge (edgestacker.com)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by thepromptgenius 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Hyprland 0.55 announced the switch to Lua for its config files (hypr.land)
    ×1.17 64 | 140 points by matesz 1 day ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Kimi Work (kimi.com)
    ×2.82 2 | 670 points by ms7892 1 day ago | 275 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. The Voice of Google (newyorker.com)
    ×1.76 49 | 227 points by littlexsparkee 1 day ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Firefox Containers Preview (mozilla.org)
    ×4.06 7 | 150 points by twapi 21 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. A Koi Pond Mosaic Made from 10 Pounds of 3D Printer Waste (instructables.com)
    ×0.54 67 | 69 points by sudo_cowsay 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Anypost – transactional and broadcast email API, 8¢ per 1k (anypost.com)
    ×1.54 62 | 24 points by dancablam 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Free Desktop OrcaBot for macOS (orcabot.com)
    ×0.85 | 2 points by robbomacrae 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Adversarial code review setup with herdr, Claude and GPT-5.6-sol (github.com/overflowy)
    ×1.11 128 | 4 points by overflowy 23 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: PMG, open source package firewall (github.com/safedep)
    ×0.73 124 | 4 points by abhisek 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. I Built a Private Genomics Study with Stoffel MPC (vishakh.blog)
    ×0.72 10 #3 | 10 points by vishakh82 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. OSS-SEC: 432 Linux kernel CVEs (in less than 32 hours) (seclists.org)
    ×1.05 51 #87 | 22 points by refp 14 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???