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  1. Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles
    ×6.53 2 #3 | 240 points by levkk 3 hours ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
    ×1.51 8 #8 | 101 points by david927 7 hours ago | 306 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Let's talk about: LinkedIn ghost jobs
    ×0.53 26 | 11 points by xvxvx 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: How do you use LLMs for private discussions?
    ×0.72 41 | 6 points by emerongi 6 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Anthropic extends Fable 5 access through July 19
    ×0.46 84 | 3 points by dboreham 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Would filesystem bookmarks be useful in your shell workflow?
    ×0.44 91 | 3 points by manux81 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Has AI changed the quality of HN posts?
    ×0.88 75 | 5 points by codingbuddy 9 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How do you use Vim in the era of AI?
    ×0.99 119 | 47 points by rstagi 2 days ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. AI and the Fall of Writing
    ×0.24 | 2 points by Flundstrom2 10 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Recommended technographic API?
    ×0.55 100 | 3 points by Poomba 10 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Why isn't Google indexing information about the AT Protocol?
    ×0.93 83 | 47 points by iameli 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Whats the Hardest Challenges in AI?
    ×0.67 103 | 3 points by debpalash 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: How do you review AI code?
    ×0.31 98 | 4 points by wonderfuly 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. How does a Dev's job look like in a few years?
    ×0.64 95 | 9 points by korrak 19 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: List of functional institutions fighting towards a free internet
    ×0.71 | 2 points by ronfriedhaber 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. An new try: C++ like program with the same characteristics as rust
    ×0.32 | 2 points by juntz 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Latest Debian 12 update opens MariaDB server to the internet
    ×0.85 104 | 4 points by babuskov 14 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Resources for non-web software architecture?
    ×0.81 123 | 3 points by xqb64 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Tell HN: Fable guardrails trigger on random questions
    ×0.94 120 | 6 points by nocoder 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Tell HN: I De-Googled Myself
    ×1.13 122 | 36 points by degoogled 2 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Map of All Known Knowledge
    ×0.69 127 | 7 points by Abhishek000001 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Concerned about how companies will manage their cloud bill once agents dominate
    ×0.55 | 2 points by abhijeet_gupte 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. One Wikipedia page costs your AI agent 68,000 tokens
    ×0.94 128 | 14 points by arhamislam5766 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: My father died and I need to find my path
    ×1.28 126 | 8 points by c4kar 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: What was the last task where only a frontier model could do it?
    ×0.73 125 | 24 points by thedebuglife 2 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Bring seamless PQC encryption into every messenger you already use
    ×0.56 130 | 4 points by kvasilev 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: HN frontpage feels boring now?
    ×0.92 129 | 50 points by xeonmc 4 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Bitemporal provenance in agent memory: What did we believe, when, and why
    ×0.16 | 2 points by shanrizvi 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Google deleting all recently inactive accounts without phone number
    ×2.05 87 | 52 points by superkuh 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Burned Tokens scented candle ideas
    ×0.24 133 | 5 points by Tade0 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: I hate coding agents. Is this skill issue?
    ×1.36 131 | 18 points by cmar00 3 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: I am not able to find a job. Should I switch stacks?
    ×0.24 132 | 12 points by need_a_work23 3 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Life among the garbage mountains of the biggest city (theguardian.com)
    ×1.63 9 | 3 points by prawn 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. The Philosophical and Technical Legacy of Bernard Stiegler (2021) (acm.org)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by nativeit 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Itara – Distributed system topology as an explicit, executable layer (github.com/itara-project)
    ×1.69 117 | 3 points by gkiss0001 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. So you want to learn physics (second edition, 2021) (susanrigetti.com)
    ×1.59 8 #5 | 135 points by azhenley 8 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. The four horsemen behind Postgres outages (malisper.me)
    ×1.19 3 #25 | 27 points by craigkerstiens 4 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Lessons from the Vasa Shipwreck (ft.com)
    ×0.49 71 #65 | 29 points by bookofjoe 17 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. A Metallurgist's Doubts About Self-Replicating Probes (centauri-dreams.org)
    ×3.00 60 | 4 points by EA-3167 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Why recruiters can't find workers and new grads can't find jobs (it's not AI) (seattletimes.com)
    ×1.81 28 | 3 points by WalterBright 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Confessor – replay what private info Claude Code accessed on your PC (github.com/ninjahawk)
    ×2.74 113 | 10 points by ninjahawk1 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Cardspark_UI – React UI for TCG Builders (cardspark.dev)
    ×0.75 68 #85 | 7 points by reb 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Maps, Smaps and Memory Stats (jameshunt.us)
    ×1.05 | 2 points by snihalani 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Networking and the Internet, from First Principles (fazamhd.com)
    ×2.18 32 | 201 points by faza 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Billion Dollar PDFs (billiondollarpdf.com)
    ×3.57 77 | 61 points by rafaepta 5 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Tropical forests facing increasing risks of exposure to critical temp thresholds (pnas.org)
    ×1.69 80 | 57 points by littlexsparkee 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Broll – an MCP server that gives coding agents a content studio (github.com/luke-fairbanks)
    ×1.26 107 | 3 points by lukefairbanks 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Pirate.kred – Tipjar DNS for Pirates to pay authors (pirate.kred)
    ×2.30 101 | 4 points by smashah 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Agent Legibility Analyzer see if AI shopping agents can read your store (agentmint.net)
    ×1.24 | 2 points by Abdalsalaam 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Full Emoji List, v17.0 (unicode.org)
    ×1.18 34 #81 | 8 points by mooreds 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Translate – offline translate CLI for Mac (github.com/Arthur-Ficial)
    ×0.96 | 2 points by franze 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Open-source browser mini-game where every level is provably solvable (hooping.io)
    ×1.47 110 | 3 points by douvy 12 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. I love LLMs, I hate hype (geohot.github.io)
    ×3.68 21 #27 | 368 points by therepanic 10 hours ago | 235 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Why study Diophantine equations? (hidden-phenomena.com)
    ×0.86 22 #36 | 67 points by mb1699 12 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. The University in the AI Era (htmx.org)
    ×0.81 | 1 points by vismit2000 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. This summer ski destination in the Andes isn't getting enough snow (cnn.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by mooreds 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: WA State Tolls tool that shows the best time to take it to save money (danielsada.tech)
    ×0.77 | 2 points by dshacker 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Instrumation a PYPI library for Instruments (github.com/abduznik)
    ×1.76 115 | 3 points by abduznik 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Audit.md for UI/UX Audit (typeui.sh)
    ×0.57 | 2 points by elwingo1 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. NyxOS (github.com/kazah-png)
    ×0.90 | 1 points by kazah 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. 1970 Plymouth Hemi 'CUDA (knuckledustchronicles.com)
    ×1.34 59 | 6 points by frobinson47 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. The vintage beauty of Soviet control rooms (2018) (designyoutrust.com)
    ×2.23 50 | 212 points by mvdtnz 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Vagal cholinergic denervation of the gastric mucosa in Long-COVID-19 (ijidonline.com)
    ×2.56 25 | 103 points by thenerdhead 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: I built a live streaming platform (pairux.com)
    ×1.21 | 2 points by buffer_overlord 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Modernizing Property Tax Assessments in Allegheny County (prohousingpgh.org)
    ×1.60 8 #20 | 32 points by mooreds 3 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. The Seed Beneath the Snow (eli.li)
    ×0.57 50 #49 | 17 points by surprisetalk 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Skillscript – A declarative, sandboxed language for tool orchestration (github.com/sshwarts)
    ×0.41 72 #84 | 14 points by sshwarts 15 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Text art tools (hlnet.notion.site)
    ×1.05 22 #88 | 90 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. The Battle of Carrhae (53B.C.E.) [video[ (youtube.com)
    ×0.38 | 1 points by JumpCrisscross 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Found Better Pagerduty Alternative (github.com/FluidifyAI)
    ×0.89 | 2 points by furyman 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Unexpected Solidlike Fracture in Simple Liquids (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.90 22 | 97 points by Anon84 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Sqlsure – deterministic semantic checks for AI-generated SQL (github.com/sqlsure)
    ×0.83 86 | 38 points by tejusarora 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Cyberpunk Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels (shellzine.net)
    ×1.34 6 #2 | 122 points by zdw 6 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Why write code in 2026 (softwaredoug.com)
    ×1.47 12 #15 | 129 points by softwaredoug 11 hours ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. The One-Step Trap (In AI Research) (incompleteideas.net)
    ×0.67 18 #35 | 47 points by jxmorris12 10 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Handsum: An LQIP Image File Format (nigeltao.github.io)
    ×0.65 66 #76 | 44 points by dmit 22 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Is the top song on Australian radio AI-generated? (theguardian.com)
    ×2.02 | 2 points by sbulaev 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Woman in Brazil enslaved for 55 years by 3 generations of the same family (elpais.com)
    ×5.77 42 | 149 points by RetroTechie 17 hours ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. What most histories get wrong about MUMPS's first standard (github.com/rochus-keller)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by Rochus 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Is It Safe to Eat Pink Pork? Here's What You Need to Know (southernliving.com)
    ×0.93 | 2 points by mooreds 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Medical examiner preliminary findings in Sen. Lindsey Graham's cause of death [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.05 | 2 points by Bender 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Under federal rule, colleges must leave grads better off or lose financial aid (npr.org)
    ×3.13 20 | 190 points by nradov 1 day ago | 486 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. The Future Worth Building Is Human (thinkingmachines.ai)
    ×0.82 | 1 points by gmays 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Unintentional information disclosure in LaTex Files submitted to arXiv (ieee.org)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by whym 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Personas agents built from engagement data, scored on predictions (github.com/noashavit)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by noashavit 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. How to hide from killer drones (economist.com)
    ×1.79 39 | 137 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: 2n – write directory based notes in the terminal (github.com/plannotator)
    ×1.01 | 2 points by ramoz 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Wisp – open-source private desktop AI overlay with MCP support (github.com/SunnyLich)
    ×1.65 105 | 3 points by WispAIOverlay 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. How we can reduce traffic congestion (research.google)
    ×1.09 22 #13 | 102 points by raahelb 11 hours ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Tenclicker – a WebLLM clicker game about whatever you want (tenclicker.com)
    ×0.91 | 2 points by mattcheston 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???