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  1. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)
    ×1.12 19 #17 | 153 points by whoishiring 9 hours ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)
    ×0.96 26 #27 | 104 points by whoishiring 9 hours ago | 243 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Tell HN: Old Reddit now requires login
    ×6.48 32 #63 | 39 points by jay_kyburz 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. I'm opening VSCode less and less every day
    ×1.88 1 #70 | 6 points by othmanosx 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Line by Line Agentic Coding
    ×1.10 10 #83 | 5 points by notshore 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Are Claude models broken with the Fable 5 update?
    ×1.61 14 #85 | 5 points by jackjd 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. What Can't Fable Do?
    ×1.31 46 | 3 points by alimhaq 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Tell HN: Installing Cursor on iOS irreversibly changes your privacy settings
    ×1.99 26 | 242 points by zkldi 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Who is this Steve T.?
    ×0.60 83 | 3 points by jacobreddy 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Tell HN: I'm not excited for Fable and am disappointed in Karpathy
    ×1.29 57 | 5 points by behnamoh 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. 0/6 major aerospace documentation portals are AI Agent-ready
    ×0.38 | 2 points by priyanshu-j 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Secure wrapper for coding agents?
    ×0.33 118 | 19 points by rjzzleep 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Do pull requests have value?
    ×0.85 | 2 points by _RPM 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Does anybody still FEEL improvements between latest LLMs for coding?
    ×0.23 108 | 3 points by sspehr 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Has anyone had success finding freelance gigs from HN
    ×0.49 | 2 points by mr_o47 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Where is the programming profession going?
    ×1.08 144 | 165 points by syntaxbush 6 days ago | 182 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2026)
    ×0.74 98 | 4 points by jon_north 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. The open source DOCX editor submitted to HN a few weeks ago has been deleted
    ×0.77 138 | 108 points by gcanyon 5 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Is "no source code was copied" still a sufficient copyright defense?
    ×0.65 149 | 67 points by oscgam1 5 days ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. From Slop to Determinism – Shifting the Narrative Space
    ×0.24 139 | 3 points by pyeri 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Should I buy mac studio M4 max or macbook M5 pro?
    ×0.16 151 | 4 points by akarshhegde18 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Is Codex with GPT 5.5 Extra High being dumbed down?
    ×0.22 143 | 6 points by setnone 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Email from Reddit for age verification on a deleted account
    ×0.98 102 | 10 points by SurprisedTiger 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Will AI LLMs for coding get smarter and cheaper in the future?
    ×0.69 | 2 points by roschdal 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: How much coding should beginners learn in the AI era?
    ×0.52 169 | 41 points by JohnDSDev 1 week ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Is aerc better than neomutt now?
    ×0.12 168 | 5 points by hardikxk 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Agent Sessions – A model agnostic Claude managed agents alternative (agentsessions.dev)
    ×1.41 | 2 points by iacguy 34 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. From brain waves to words: a new path to communication without surgery (meta.com)
    ×1.22 29 | 183 points by alok-g 1 day ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Obfuscation: Building the final boss of cryptography (Part I) (eth.limo)
    ×0.77 36 #67 | 77 points by fbrusch 14 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation (playstation.com)
    ×3.35 4 #8 | 576 points by Tiberium 12 hours ago | 607 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Salt – a systems language with Z3 theorem proving in the compiler (salt-lang.dev)
    ×1.09 62 #36 | 24 points by bneb-dev 7 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Cboe Seeks to List Prediction Market Type Options on Earnings Metrics (bloomberg.com)
    ×0.92 | 2 points by petethomas 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. What to learn to be a graphics programmer (demofox.org)
    ×1.61 7 #4 | 218 points by atan2 6 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Chip Off the Old Block (astralcodexten.com)
    ×1.25 21 #7 | 31 points by paulpauper 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Democrats Pick Up the Global Digital ID Agenda in Project 2029 (reclaimthenet.org)
    ×9.60 54 | 60 points by bilsbie 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: AMA2, messenger built for AI agent (ama2.me)
    ×0.53 163 | 5 points by ejhooooon 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Google copybara: moving code between repositories (github.com/google)
    ×1.47 7 | 290 points by reconnecting 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. TabFM: A zero-shot foundation model for tabular data (research.google)
    ×1.09 65 | 90 points by brandonb 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Shark Tank but you pitch your idea to indie hackers (indiesharktank.vercel.app)
    ×0.82 | 2 points by roozka10 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Building Gin: Simple over Easy (manualmeida.dev)
    ×1.01 5 #50 | 57 points by manucorporat 6 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Because It Speaks in Words (brianschrader.com)
    ×0.50 53 #73 | 16 points by sonicrocketman 8 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Tidesman: Native MCP server for Apple Container's Linux container workflows (tidesman.dev)
    ×1.04 | 2 points by JeronimoColon 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Antares achieves criticality of Mark-0 reactor (antaresindustries.com)
    ×0.92 96 | 76 points by clarionbell 1 day ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: CLI that helps AI agents avoid vulnerable dependencies (github.com/clidey)
    ×1.24 76 | 3 points by modelorona 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: WebBase-III – dBASE III rebuilt in the browser with its own interpreter (github.com/DDecoene)
    ×0.71 146 | 96 points by ddecoene 1 week ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Coding agent that compiles intent into deterministic DAG before running (github.com/arman-jalili)
    ×1.86 107 | 13 points by arman-w-jalili 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Making Optimization Work When Labels Are Scarce (gnosyslabs.com:443)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by imkodying 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: XSDR – Real-time event monitoring infrastructure for agents (xsdr.app)
    ×0.50 165 | 9 points by wcrann3 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Supreme Court takes sledgehammer to federal regulatory structure (npr.org)
    ×3.51 82 | 82 points by marojejian 1 day ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. SpudCell: The first synthetic cell with a complete cell cycle (biotic.org)
    ×1.60 27 | 81 points by godwinson__4-8 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. The end of my AArch64 desktop experiment (juszkiewicz.com.pl)
    ×1.23 95 | 96 points by signa11 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. 1-Bit Pixel Art Emojis (hypertalking.com)
    ×1.60 11 #33 | 146 points by surprisetalk 10 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Carmakers Say They'll Leave CA over New Car Privacy Law [video][12 Mins] (youtube.com)
    ×2.53 23 | 4 points by Bender 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. I have a theory about AI fake news site The Editorial (werd.io)
    ×0.84 | 1 points by benwerd 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Exploring PDP-1 Lisp (1960) (obsolescence.dev)
    ×0.76 97 | 110 points by ozymandiax 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Red teamers turned Claude Desktop into a double agent to do their evil bidding (theregister.com)
    ×0.89 | 2 points by Bender 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Claude Science (claude.com)
    ×2.39 11 | 552 points by lebovic 1 day ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Hacker News on a train station-style flip board (quickish.space)
    ×0.96 135 | 114 points by PaybackTony 5 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Apple 'Hide My Email' vulnerability reveals peoples' real email addresses (easyoptouts.com)
    ×3.70 22 #48 | 240 points by sashk 10 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Your Site, your rules: new AI traffic options for all customers (cloudflare.com)
    ×0.87 52 #61 | 4 points by tcp_handshaker 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10% (mynintendonews.com)
    ×4.08 32 #49 | 492 points by _tk_ 13 hours ago | 306 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: PMB – local memory for coding agents that shows if it is used (pmbai.dev)
    ×0.55 46 #77 | 20 points by oleksiibond 9 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Punch Card Wreath (princessleia.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by debo_ 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Onda, an internet radio TUI with stream quality selection (github.com/pedrosousa13)
    ×1.09 116 | 3 points by pedrosousa 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: PDFMergely – In-browser PDF tools that never upload your files (pdfmergely.com)
    ×0.98 125 | 17 points by pdfmergely 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Monetization Gateway: Charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402 (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.84 11 #18 | 245 points by soheilpro 10 hours ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Fixing a kubelet memory leak in Kubernetes 1.36 (heyoncall.com)
    ×0.95 14 #46 | 70 points by compumike 8 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Hanami 3.0: In Full Bloom (hanakai.org)
    ×1.14 9 #32 | 76 points by PuercoPop 7 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. CyberWatch – Cybersecurity news and learning for everyone (cyberwatch-fc59b5.netlify.app)
    ×1.03 | 2 points by KrishnaBozza 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Autofit2 – End-to-end pipeline for multilingual text classification (github.com/neospe)
    ×0.36 166 | 28 points by leschak 6 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Running Gemma-4 26B at 124 tokens/SEC on a CPU, no GPU (apeg.dev)
    ×1.62 132 | 10 points by arun-prasath 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Pglayers – PostgreSQL extensions as stackable Docker layers (github.com/pglayers)
    ×0.79 17 #65 | 33 points by iemejia 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Thinking in Ecosystems: From Climate to Planetary Resilience Tech (yanirseroussi.com)
    ×1.41 9 | 3 points by yanir 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Claude Fable 5 was banned for 18 days – what happened (freemalta.com)
    ×2.55 26 | 3 points by ilhaniremyuce 20 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Best Investments over the Last 100 Years? Almost All Are Tech Companies. (nytimes.com)
    ×1.44 43 | 3 points by bookofjoe 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. The Underhanded C Contest (underhanded-c.org)
    ×1.04 15 #6 | 25 points by ccabraldev 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Newly discovered spider builds spring loaded snare to catch ants (phys.org)
    ×1.55 23 #40 | 240 points by chimpanzee 16 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Most rewrites serve the engineer, not the business (anatoliybabushka.com)
    ×1.79 5 #53 | 56 points by bbsnly 6 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Building a custom octocopter from scratch with no prior hardware experience (mgdubiel.com)
    ×1.74 47 #74 | 402 points by noleary 1 day ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: AnalystAIPack – 118 runnable agent skills for malware analysis and RE (github.com/meltedinhex)
    ×1.26 100 | 3 points by sdkhere 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Shot-scraper video tool for recording YAML-defined webapp feature demos (simonwillison.net)
    ×0.80 137 | 7 points by simonw 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Live face swap and outfit try-on in the browser (vivify.video)
    ×2.14 131 | 5 points by mixfox 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Qualcomm Linux 2.0 (qualcomm.com)
    ×1.16 18 #9 | 42 points by gilgamesh3 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Curvytron 2, I rewrote my browser party game, 10 years later (curvytron2.com)
    ×1.94 63 #20 | 5 points by tom32i 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: NodePad – AI agent on a canvas instead of a linear chat (node-pad.com)
    ×1.39 150 | 5 points by palazski 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. I put Claude Code on my Garmin running watch (github.com/fashton28)
    ×0.89 | 2 points by fashton28 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Coding Agent Survey – Which coding agents do you use? (codingagentsurvey.org)
    ×2.52 88 | 5 points by jacobgold 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: I made a heatmap of 3400 VCs who are open to cold emails (apparent.social)
    ×0.96 105 | 24 points by west_subject 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Oracle outlines all the ways it could lose the farm it bet on AI (theregister.com)
    ×0.88 | 2 points by Bender 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: HackerNows – Native iOS HN Client (hackernows.app)
    ×1.07 61 | 27 points by maguszin 13 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???