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  1. Is surveillance risk chilling your online speech?
    ×2.17 77 #85 | 59 points by Webstir 3 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
    ×4.70 46 | 1307 points by nprateem 3 days ago | 754 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work
    ×3.70 56 | 823 points by nicholasjbs 3 days ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Is there a Moore's Law equivalent for compute/energy use?
    ×0.19 94 | 6 points by cwmoore 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: If you're running LLM bots on HN, can you at least report results?
    ×0.43 85 | 6 points by shtack 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: How are you interviewing engineers in this agentic era?
    ×1.33 55 | 6 points by jcgr 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
    ×1.17 142 | 289 points by david927 1 week ago | 1135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Favourite science history book of the 20th century?
    ×0.40 86 | 9 points by bawis 13 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Tell HN: TIL accessing old.reddit.com now requires accounts
    ×2.72 39 | 13 points by nanis 8 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Is OpenCode and Kimi K3 better than Claude Code?
    ×0.38 | 2 points by vijayst 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Are Rust migrations delivering any benefits?
    ×0.42 107 | 4 points by grandimam 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Has anyone here used YC's Paxel?
    ×0.28 | 2 points by voxleone 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. What is LLMs and why is it so important?
    ×0.54 111 | 4 points by anitroves 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Is anyone using MCP notifications?
    ×0.39 130 | 3 points by ilbert 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: I stopped fighting AI over-reliance and built a workflow around it
    ×0.42 137 | 3 points by dimonb19a 15 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. I Forgot to Get Excited
    ×0.71 124 | 4 points by bkaae 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Help: Using reflection to discovery and invoke methods
    ×0.61 | 2 points by ddddazed 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Claude's Unexpected Blind Test: Users = Data = Value?
    ×0.21 | 2 points by Leewen 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What are your favorite blogs not about AI?
    ×1.97 59 | 88 points by azhenley 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Apple should let us schedule work-hours notifications for specific apps
    ×0.27 140 | 3 points by hellowastaken 17 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Turning the NES into a thermometer using the PPU's $2002 open-bus decay
    ×0.07 | 2 points by erspicu 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. LG ThinQ Terms of Use
    ×1.27 118 | 64 points by tedggh 2 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles
    ×5.81 106 | 1095 points by levkk 1 week ago | 458 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Tell HN: Old Reddit Now Requires Login
    ×14.51 2 | 33 points by quincepie 10 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?
    ×1.48 141 | 136 points by kadhirvelm 5 days ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: Whetuu – a zero-config cross-shell prompt written in Zig (github.com/yamafaktory)
    ×1.52 112 | 4 points by yamafaktory 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: A canvas-based note taking and organizer app (passinote.app)
    ×1.01 83 | 60 points by passiflora96 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Modula-3 History Collection on Computer History Museum (computerhistory.org)
    ×1.52 | 2 points by pjmlp 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Vertically Works – UI components built on writing-mode: vertical-RL (vertically.works)
    ×0.76 | 2 points by jihoons 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. The Trump administration's Threat to Scientific Research (marginalrevolution.com)
    ×6.09 7 | 81 points by surprisetalk 18 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. LEDs’ potential to save our night skies (ieee.org)
    ×1.26 13 #56 | 230 points by defrost 17 hours ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: DeepSQL – A self-hostable AI DBA agent for Postgres and MySQL (deepsql.ai)
    ×1.08 132 | 3 points by venkat971 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. The CCS2 Attack Surface on EV Chargers (SSH Root:Root) (saiflow.com)
    ×0.92 | 1 points by denysvitali 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Taipan: Run .py Without CPython (github.com/FarhanAliRaza)
    ×1.30 | 2 points by sts153 30 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Oracle Credit Risk Hits Near 18-Year High on AI Debt Load Angst (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.16 | 2 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 57 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Looking for contributors – trie based memory efficient LLM runner (github.com/oteomamo)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by omamo 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: An open database of 1,355 global problems with a zero-auth API (worldsolve.org)
    ×2.21 123 | 4 points by pep-6067 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Jelly UI: Soft-body physics for native HTML form controls (jelly-ui.com)
    ×2.41 4 #8 | 426 points by baldvinmar 13 hours ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Mythologizing AI makes it more likely that we’ll fail to operate it well (2023) (newyorker.com)
    ×1.04 40 #43 | 68 points by simonebrunozzi 14 hours ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. New York blocks large data centers for a year (apnews.com)
    ×2.21 28 #67 | 18 points by gmays 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. How to Abandon Your Climate Commitments and Get Away with It (nytimes.com)
    ×2.46 78 | 69 points by littlexsparkee 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: AI meeting notes – no bot, insights and answers from your files (BYOK) (getaiassist.app)
    ×0.89 | 2 points by rfigueror1 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Inertia.js Adapter for WordPress and PHP (github.com/webkul)
    ×1.27 | 2 points by himanshu-here 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. AI advice made people less accurate but more confident – sudy (thenextweb.com)
    ×3.45 10 | 359 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 207 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Terence McKenna's Mega Bad Trip (2025) (psychedelics.community)
    ×1.39 72 | 120 points by Dimmiwoah 1 day ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: HyCanvas, a free self-hostable Canva alternative (github.com/hyscaler)
    ×1.18 | 2 points by devadattas 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. How to Build the ChatGPT Typing Effect in Modern JavaScript (jsdev.space)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by javatuts 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. 9 months building an advanced StarCraft reporting tool with Go and Claude (marianogappa.github.io)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by maloga 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. AI's solution to 87-year-old riddle takes mathematicians by surprise (newscientist.com)
    ×1.18 4 | 3 points by vismit2000 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. A Mathematical Tribute to the Soccer Ball (nytimes.com)
    ×0.51 23 #45 | 9 points by igonvalue 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Take a photo of a menu, get a website (eatfoodnow.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by t-van 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Insightix – when Polymarket and Deribit price the same event differently (insightix.io)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by chriswolff 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: CheapStack – affordable dev starter kits and boilerplates (cheapstack.dev)
    ×0.78 101 | 3 points by makbar890 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: CodeTrain – an AI tutor that refuses to write code for you (codetrain.ai)
    ×1.39 139 | 3 points by inferhaven 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Ramp Router (ramp.com)
    ×1.48 9 #68 | 14 points by handfuloflight 4 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. I found a WordPress RCEs with GPT5.6 and $25 (slcyber.io)
    ×1.95 33 #74 | 388 points by infosecau 22 hours ago | 213 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. The death and rebirth of my home server (hootr.club)
    ×1.12 74 | 139 points by steinuil 1 day ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: I built a WASM-based spreadsheet engine that's pretty fast (podraven.github.io)
    ×1.48 129 | 3 points by deathg0d 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Shinjuku Station in 3D (satoshi7190.github.io)
    ×1.57 22 #29 | 194 points by Gecko4072 16 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. 1-Bit LLM in the Browser (huggingface.co)
    ×1.26 21 #89 | 114 points by simonebrunozzi 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. We want Texans to know their rights (eff.org)
    ×3.54 16 | 211 points by amarcheschi 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Salami Slicing Tactics (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.55 26 | 3 points by num42 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: cbxy – A format for creating guided comic book experiences (github.com/ngafar)
    ×1.18 77 | 9 points by nawazgafar 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Stop Blaming QA and Start Diagnosing the Hidden Inefficiencies (acm.org)
    ×0.75 68 #84 | 7 points by andrewdutton 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. AI's Next Big Breakthrough Is Looking Pretty Scary (bloomberg.com)
    ×3.38 47 | 5 points by petethomas 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. X (Formerly Twitter) Is Going Open Source (twitter.com/elonmusk)
    ×4.97 53 | 9 points by LopRabbit 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. A new Intel Itanium (IA-64) emulator that boots Windows (raymii.org)
    ×0.73 73 | 83 points by jandeboevrie 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Take a break, play some puzzles (gridmino.com)
    ×1.06 128 | 3 points by marko-projects 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Claude Fable produced a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture (xcancel.com)
    ×6.29 1 #32 | 722 points by loubbrad 1 day ago | 462 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Sealed tomb filled with paintings and inscriptions discovered in Egypt (labrujulaverde.com)
    ×0.91 51 #60 | 122 points by isaacfrond 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Eliminating Conda/CUDA dependency hell in computational biology pipelines (github.com/evo-design)
    ×0.99 | 2 points by LionTurtle13 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Codex is wearing out our devices (reddit.com)
    ×2.08 11 | 62 points by spenvo 17 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Firefox 153.0 Beta (firefox.com)
    ×3.11 6 | 77 points by Erenay09 16 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Introduce a memory safe compilation mode inspired by Fil-C (codeberg.org)
    ×3.31 29 | 71 points by mpweiher 20 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: IKEA Complexity Index (greg.technology)
    ×1.72 99 | 178 points by gregsadetsky 3 days ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: A free lever-based puzzle game (materwelon.dev)
    ×0.81 | 2 points by materwelon 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Repolink – Turn any GitHub repo into a tool for any of your projects (github.com/imjszhang)
    ×0.84 | 2 points by imjszhang 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Writers need new strategies to stand up to AI (thedial.world)
    ×2.90 16 | 6 points by colinprince 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. HMD Touch 4G (hmd.com)
    ×0.61 76 | 90 points by thisislife2 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Linguin, a live multilingual dictionary for 120 languages (linguin.xyz)
    ×1.26 98 | 4 points by astroscout 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. China weighs tighter export controls on AI models and chips (ft.com)
    ×4.22 68 | 7 points by JumpCrisscross 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Mevion: Low-Cost Open-Source Data Collection System for Dual-Arm Manipulation (haraduka.github.io)
    ×0.93 | 2 points by ilreb 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. The Last MPEG-4 Visual Patent Has Expired (phoronix.com)
    ×2.59 38 | 224 points by LorenDB 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. My falling-out with the rationalist community (lcamtuf.substack.com)
    ×3.75 61 | 80 points by surprisetalk 8 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Forall – OpenSpec but with actual machine-checkable verification (github.com/astrio-labs)
    ×0.47 | 2 points by Nolan_Lwin 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Dedupe Tabs Pro – Chromium Based Browser Extension (iam.mt)
    ×0.79 | 2 points by thallavajhula 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Free FIRE calculators that run entirely in the browser (firecalculatorhq.com)
    ×0.52 | 2 points by jonaseriksen 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: We let Muse Spark 1.1 vibe code itself to produce 2048 (github.com/awesoftsolutions)
    ×1.79 134 | 3 points by favurdev 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Scientists Visualize the Complex, Dynamic World Inside a Human Cell (mymodernmet.com)
    ×0.90 | 2 points by o4c 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Clever hacker fits 537,000 domains in a $5 ESP32 ad-blocking dongle (tomshardware.com)
    ×1.97 82 | 94 points by sbulaev 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???