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  1. Does average person understand that all disc media dies too?
    ×0.52 6 #32 | 7 points by kingleopold 1 hour ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?
    ×1.56 48 #55 | 166 points by yehiaabdelm 1 day ago | 179 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Happy Independence Day
    ×1.19 54 | 5 points by GauntletWizard 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tell HN: Check your subscription renewals (VPNs, etc.). They cost too much
    ×0.92 | 2 points by simonebrunozzi 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)
    ×1.08 68 | 241 points by whoishiring 3 days ago | 306 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Since when does Craigslist's front page have emojis?
    ×0.35 87 | 39 points by argee 3 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)
    ×0.81 80 | 147 points by whoishiring 3 days ago | 436 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Fable 5. Safety Taken to an Extreme
    ×0.59 70 | 4 points by sergeysmirnov 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. How many failed startups have you launched?
    ×0.60 76 | 18 points by steelebillings 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Why are so many "AI evangelists" posting such insufferable content?
    ×1.79 78 | 56 points by seattle_spring 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Where can I find or get in contact with farmers specifically in the US?
    ×0.24 | 2 points by strapchay 11 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Tell HN: Fewer PRs done with proper prompting, review, and refinement wins
    ×0.70 102 | 6 points by tomerbd 21 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. AI Is Boring
    ×1.35 79 | 10 points by sverp 19 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. SponsorBlock Critical Security Vulnerabilities
    ×0.50 124 | 3 points by IDIRIS 19 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Claude Fable is useless for bioinformaticians
    ×1.33 101 | 6 points by iqbal1980 21 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Well it's been 3 years of unemployment and $250k in debt
    ×2.12 100 | 7 points by buffer_overlord 22 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Tell HN: Installing Cursor on iOS irreversibly changes your privacy settings
    ×1.91 81 | 247 points by zkldi 3 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Tell HN: Old Reddit now requires login
    ×3.04 90 | 86 points by jay_kyburz 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Cadreen – memory, governance, self-healing, and execution as one system
    ×1.03 98 | 5 points by ope_john 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What did you fail at and what did you learn from it?
    ×2.01 84 | 8 points by basilikum 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. How do you test institutional (or algo) trades under real market conditions?
    ×0.30 | 2 points by TradingReality 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Procrastination with AI?
    ×0.73 132 | 3 points by caprock 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Seattle Just Had an Earthquake
    ×0.56 141 | 13 points by tobinfekkes 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Getting Rid of Scrolling
    ×0.41 | 2 points by matteosaporiti 23 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Where is the programming profession going?
    ×1.07 146 | 166 points by syntaxbush 1 week ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Possible issue impacting AWS Cloudwatch logs availability?
    ×0.39 | 2 points by merek 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. I'm opening VSCode less and less every day
    ×1.46 130 | 21 points by othmanosx 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Secure wrapper for coding agents?
    ×0.32 148 | 20 points by rjzzleep 4 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Once you make your money from vibe coding innumerable products, then?
    ×0.36 149 | 3 points by keepamovin 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: How do you get your open-source product good traction?
    ×0.75 143 | 5 points by akarshhegde18 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Rust sort_unstable_by with more complex closure unexpectedly shrunk binary
    ×0.36 147 | 6 points by tracyspacy 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Burned out, how do I get out of the rut?
    ×0.86 133 | 8 points by brandgefahr 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. I found a malware hiding in my TailwindCSS config file (infosecwriteups.com)
    ×3.05 77 | 8 points by donohoe 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. The Life and Times of Maxis, Part 1: SimEverything (filfre.net)
    ×1.30 4 | 120 points by doppp 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Durable AI agents without the workflow engine (noworkflows.dev)
    ×1.83 105 | 4 points by iacguy 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Verbum Vitae – Bible memorization with spaced repetition (vvitae.com)
    ×1.10 134 | 3 points by pseudocharles 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. The short leash AI coding method for beating Fable (okturtles.org)
    ×1.45 37 | 194 points by Riseed 1 day ago | 242 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. US residents angry datacenters 'shoved down our throats' are recalling officials (theguardian.com)
    ×5.65 14 | 103 points by beardyw 23 hours ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: A graph paper generator that renders vector PDFs in the browser (freegraphpaper.net)
    ×1.16 69 | 106 points by lam_hg94 2 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Leanstral 1.5: Proof abundance for all (mistral.ai)
    ×1.66 9 #11 | 309 points by programLyrique 17 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. The Common Lisp Cookbook – LispWorks Review (lispcookbook.github.io)
    ×19.35 30 #41 | 40 points by AlexeyBrin 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Bramble – Local-first password manager (github.com/flythenimbus)
    ×2.11 76 #54 | 123 points by MegagramEnjoyer 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. The Trans-America Trail Guide (transamtrail.com)
    ×0.67 71 #81 | 14 points by e-dant 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Static Types Come to the Beam – Annette Bieniusa and Guillaume Duboc [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by markoutso 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Gavio: open-source interceptor pipeline for production LLM applications (github.com/manojmallick)
    ×0.73 112 | 3 points by cees007 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Farmer, marketer at odds over sales of white nectarines (apnews.com)
    ×1.99 46 #37 | 122 points by djoldman 21 hours ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. The Fall and Rise of Screwworm (construction-physics.com)
    ×1.30 25 #74 | 146 points by crescit_eundo 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Trace Institute (traceinstitute.org)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by mpartel 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Cosmos DB (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by tosh 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Virginia bans sale of precise geolocation data (hunton.com)
    ×3.71 45 | 942 points by toomuchtodo 1 day ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. 60% Fable cost cut by converting code to images and having the model OCR it (github.com/teamchong)
    ×3.68 48 | 290 points by dimitropoulos 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. A peek into Reddit's anti-spam internals (lyra.horse)
    ×1.65 37 #52 | 179 points by OuterVale 1 day ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Scientists discover guidance system for migratory songbirds (exeter.ac.uk)
    ×0.54 63 #64 | 26 points by bit_economist 16 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform (github.com/Chocobozzz)
    ×3.19 13 #80 | 664 points by doener 2 days ago | 347 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Faster embeddings: how we rebuilt the ONNX path in Manticore (manticoresearch.com)
    ×0.82 57 | 79 points by snikolaev 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: StayThere.ai - Book directly at over 96k short term rentals (staythere.ai)
    ×1.49 118 | 3 points by wthayer 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: PMB – local memory for coding agents that shows if it is used (pmbai.dev)
    ×0.69 131 | 26 points by oleksiibond 5 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Qwilfight – A Pokémon-themed Battleship-like game (sepia.top)
    ×1.09 138 | 3 points by simjnd 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. PostgreSQL and the OOM killer: Why we use strict memory overcommit (ubicloud.com)
    ×1.05 38 #47 | 179 points by furkansahin 1 day ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. How Natural Is Artifical Intelligent? (jotaalvim.github.io)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by jotaalvim 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Simple White Line Is America's Greatest Unsung Innovation (wsj.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by erex78 36 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Language Learning Roguelike Game (aitida.com)
    ×1.10 | 2 points by howthisends 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Ultracodex – Run Claude Ultracode Dynamic Workflows with Codex Agents (github.com/YuanpingSong)
    ×0.76 137 | 3 points by yuansong 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Debian 13 to ISO and Back (github.com/AtmanActive)
    ×1.49 122 | 4 points by atmanactive 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. 2026 Unslop AI-Written Fiction Contest Results (hyperstitionai.com)
    ×0.99 33 #25 | 44 points by networked 9 hours ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. California Bans 'Sell by' Labels, Hoping to Cut Food Waste (nytimes.com)
    ×1.84 19 #43 | 6 points by randycupertino 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Holes (xkcd.com)
    ×4.25 30 #75 | 232 points by caminanteblanco 22 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. The same market is not the same bet (crosswire-api.com)
    ×0.85 | 1 points by NicolasDJ04 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Mycli 2.0 (github.com/dbcli)
    ×1.38 127 | 3 points by drw 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Imagent – agentic image/video/speech generation (github.com/unliftedq)
    ×0.32 145 | 4 points by unliftedq 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: PriceProbe – zero-dependency competitor price tracker in Python (github.com/willylam2222-bot)
    ×1.23 144 | 5 points by l2602591158 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. The firefighting system of the Van der Heyden brothers in 17th century Amsterdam (worksinprogress.co)
    ×1.00 29 #26 | 118 points by zdw 17 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Half-Baked Product (weli.dev)
    ×5.61 34 #49 | 1301 points by weli 1 day ago | 390 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Great Salt Lake Tracker (growtheflowutah.org)
    ×1.05 61 #86 | 129 points by cfowles 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Markets are competitive if and only if P != NP (arxiv.org)
    ×2.32 29 | 225 points by kscarlet 1 day ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Hacker News but as Tweets (hackernews-reader.pages.dev)
    ×0.50 136 | 3 points by ashu1461 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. It's time to go back to the founding text (theguardian.com)
    ×1.31 | 2 points by classified 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Potential session/cache leakage between workspace instances or consumer accounts (github.com/anthropics)
    ×2.35 #1 | 114 points by chatmasta 1 hour ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Reverse-engineering Codemasters' BIGF archive format in Ruby (davidslv.uk)
    ×0.45 71 #46 | 23 points by davidslv 13 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Solitaire.Free - Play Klondike, FreeCell & Spider Solitaire Online (solitaire.free)
    ×1.17 92 | 5 points by nadermx 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Agentic coding notes from Galapagos Island (danluu.com)
    ×1.13 4 #22 | 146 points by gm678 11 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Infracost (YC W21) Is Hiring a Marketing Lead to Shift FinOps Left (ycombinator.com)
    18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Tech Fines Tracker (proton.me)
    ×1.23 | 2 points by democracy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Migo Games, now playable on web (migo.games)
    ×0.44 | 2 points by calflegal 22 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Best Simple System for Now (2025) (dannorth.net)
    ×0.86 35 #78 | 84 points by daan-k 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Quick and dirty inter-agent collaboration (github.com/ovidiuiliescu)
    ×0.68 | 2 points by ovvyblabla 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: U.S. Declaration of Independence but as Google Doc Version History (willmeye.rs)
    ×0.54 | 2 points by willmeyers 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. SearXNG: A free internet metasearch engine (github.com/searxng)
    ×1.30 8 #24 | 249 points by theanonymousone 19 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Africans Are Turning to Starlink (economist.com)
    ×2.63 19 #60 | 195 points by bookofjoe 18 hours ago | 219 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Give Smart People the Tools to Do Smart Things (superuserdone.com)
    ×1.64 51 #63 | 85 points by SuperUserDone 1 day ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???