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  1. Ask HN: I am not able to find a job. Should I switch stacks?
    ×0.31 14 #88 | 9 points by need_a_work23 3 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. How to feel safe delegating to AI agents?
    ×0.13 | 2 points by danicuki 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Any good replacements for "Refined Hacker News?"
    ×0.18 | 2 points by gwbas1c 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Is Google NERFing AI Mode?
    ×0.24 79 | 3 points by PaulHoule 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What's the Fuzz about Taste?
    ×0.26 | 2 points by pls-dnt-deploy 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: HN frontpage feels boring now?
    ×0.99 63 | 40 points by xeonmc 18 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Who is running the abusive scrapers?
    ×1.09 37 | 9 points by jonatron 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: I hate coding agents. Is this skill issue?
    ×1.35 85 | 4 points by cmar00 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How long has it been since you last opened Stack Overflow?
    ×0.86 107 | 3 points by novoreorx 6 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Asker: A Socratic AI auditing agent using 3D cross-verification
    ×0.35 | 2 points by tygerlee 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Dev Jr Developer
    ×0.91 112 | 3 points by edoschenone 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What would you do if you had coded a better web browser than Firefox?
    ×1.84 40 | 4 points by roschdal 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. CashFlow – Open-source debt minimization using graph algorithms and WASM
    ×0.44 | 2 points by SanishKumar 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Where are the good search engines for mathematical formulas?
    ×0.51 119 | 56 points by lo0dot0 4 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Teller.io shuts down at the end of the week
    ×0.75 118 | 4 points by dmonn 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?
    ×1.17 127 | 204 points by yehiaabdelm 6 days ago | 203 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Is GitHub preparing to go behind a login wall?
    ×0.66 117 | 55 points by reconnecting 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How you manage local long lived research projects and LLM's?
    ×0.23 125 | 6 points by ripplefringe 22 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Tell HN: Who wants to be hired" posts outpace "Who's hiring" 2 to 1
    ×1.07 120 | 55 points by santiagobasulto 2 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. non-tech founder + choosing between buying ClaudeCode or CodeX
    ×0.15 124 | 3 points by virtuallymundo 14 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: How to recover from thin content or de-indexing penalty on Google
    ×0.36 121 | 4 points by anitroves 14 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Would you pay to discuss a book with an official AI clone of its author?
    ×0.50 122 | 4 points by briangao 15 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)
    ×1.08 128 | 246 points by whoishiring 1 week ago | 396 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Are systems ready for the first negative leap second?
    ×0.47 132 | 11 points by Asmod4n 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2026 [So Far]
    ×0.69 123 | 20 points by AbstractH24 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. VentureBeat Events in San Francisco?
    ×0.09 | 2 points by BriStoller 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Opinionated Agent Setup?
    ×0.19 130 | 3 points by lookACamel 22 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Tell HN: I managed to unsubscribe from Adobe CC without being charged
    ×0.59 129 | 26 points by frereubu 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: What are agent sandboxes missing?
    ×0.24 126 | 5 points by oryx1729 23 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Nginx Vulnerabilities
    ×0.16 | 2 points by finbot 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)
    ×0.81 131 | 151 points by whoishiring 1 week ago | 533 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. The classifiers Anthropic puts in front of Fable are too zealous (combine-lab.github.io)
    ×2.66 3 | 212 points by karrot-kake 21 hours ago | 189 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: CashFlow (cashflow-phi-amber.vercel.app)
    ×1.68 49 | 3 points by SanishKumar 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: EvenKeel – a free financial planning chatbot (c6e.me)
    ×2.32 41 | 5 points by daave 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Internationalizationstack – Fix AI Localization Bugs in Claude Code (github.com/i18n-agent)
    ×0.47 | 2 points by lokinkl 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ecological Succession (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.99 | 1 points by rolph 33 seconds ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Cargo-nextest: 3x faster than cargo test, per-test isolation, first-class CI (nexte.st)
    ×1.21 28 #51 | 161 points by nateb2022 15 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Files over tools: how we built our agent with a virtual filesystem and bash (knock.app)
    ×0.65 33 #55 | 15 points by cjbell 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. The internet does not want readers. It wants livestock (grumpywelshman.com)
    ×1.74 46 #57 | 24 points by toofy 7 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Zero2Robot – A free, from-scratch course on how robots learn (zero2robot.com)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by kaushikbokka 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Design a distributed unique id generator (danwald.me)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by danwald 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. FDA rejects petition to set PFAS limits in food (theguardian.com)
    ×5.01 32 | 216 points by randycupertino 1 day ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. AI Meets Cryptography 1: What AI Found in Cloudflare's Circl (zksecurity.xyz)
    ×0.84 103 | 111 points by duha 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Auditory and spontaneous movement responses to music over first postnatal year (elifesciences.org)
    ×0.38 41 #25 | 8 points by bookofjoe 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Men's average testosterone levels have halved in last 50 years (theguardian.com)
    ×3.78 109 | 79 points by samizdis 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. What is a token and why does it cost so much? [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by linggen 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: I replaced Whisper with Parakeet TDT on a $55/month CPU server (vidclean.net)
    ×1.55 67 | 3 points by TheBuciyo 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Microsoft releases Flint, a visualization language for AI agents (microsoft.github.io)
    ×1.71 1 #85 | 336 points by chenglong-hn 1 day ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. How to Write an Email (dannycastonguay.com)
    ×1.49 3 #15 | 49 points by speckx 2 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. NASA SpaceWASM – A flight-compliant WebAssembly interpreter (github.com/nasa)
    ×1.16 32 #46 | 14 points by eqrion 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives (howtogeek.com)
    ×3.16 30 #52 | 324 points by Gedxx 9 hours ago | 235 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Inviting Hard Questions (anthropic.com)
    ×1.34 | 2 points by surprisetalk 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. OpenCode MCP Integration Guide (arcade.dev)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by manveerc 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Wildcard (YC W25) Is Hiring a Founding Engineer (ycombinator.com)
    47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. LineageOS Statistics (lineageos.org)
    ×1.55 68 | 189 points by pentagrama 1 day ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Snowscroll – remove reels, shorts, short-form (snowscroll.com)
    ×1.07 59 | 3 points by junnam586 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Plain – a Git-native CMS in vanilla JavaScript, no database (github.com/plain-cms)
    ×0.53 | 2 points by victorbuilds 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. 1X unveils new 25 DoF tendon-driven robotic hand (twitter.com/AGkorthos)
    ×1.84 | 2 points by saucesaft 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. How I use coding agents for reproducible DS/ML workflows (github.com/tkpratardan)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by tkpratardan 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. GPT‑Live (openai.com)
    ×3.92 37 | 732 points by logickkk1 1 day ago | 506 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. OpenMandriva: Statement regarding attempted distribution sabotage (openmandriva.org)
    ×1.02 50 #79 | 125 points by workethics 23 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Spine: A physical display for your music collection (spinemusic.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by xbryanx 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Arcaide – Explore code with multi-level call graphs (arcaide.foo)
    ×0.49 15 | 21 points by aqula 4 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Coordination Without Consolidation: On Systems of States [pdf] (isonomiaquarterly.com)
    ×0.44 27 #29 | 13 points by brandonlc 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. You paid me, a long-time Linux user, to use Windows 11 exclusively for a month (osnews.com)
    ×2.51 19 #62 | 15 points by speckx 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Programming versus Writing with LLMs. Different Beasts (hexaray.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by gatinsama 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Ben Bernanke Appointed to Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust (anthropic.com)
    ×1.26 | 2 points by surprisetalk 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. It seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history (theatlantic.com)
    ×3.11 43 | 182 points by 0in 1 day ago | 333 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Virena, a minimal vision-language-action robot model you can read (github.com/BuceaGeorgia)
    ×0.92 | 2 points by georgia_bucea 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. What is Bending Spoons? The little-known AOL and Vimeo owner that's now public (techcrunch.com)
    ×0.92 11 #20 | 33 points by jack1689 3 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. A Roadmap to Finding, Onboarding, and Training a Virtual Assistant (gumroad.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by mooreds 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera (allaboutcookies.org)
    ×4.87 17 | 774 points by nickslaughter02 1 day ago | 1045 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. I think I have LLM burnout (alecscollon.com)
    ×4.45 51 | 375 points by sosodev 15 hours ago | 323 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. We made Grok 4.5, GPT-5.5, and Claude build the same apps (tryai.dev)
    ×2.28 2 | 166 points by hershyb_ 18 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Say hello to Claude Wrapped (theverge.com)
    ×1.11 | 2 points by Brajeshwar 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Docx-CLI: agents read/edit Word docs using 1/2 the time and tokens (github.com/kklimuk)
    ×0.79 111 | 69 points by kirillklimuk 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Analog Watch (analog.watch)
    ×0.97 7 #16 | 53 points by ezekg 3 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement (apnews.com)
    ×4.85 15 #36 | 1239 points by djoldman 18 hours ago | 261 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt (sherliker.net)
    ×5.56 13 #64 | 1432 points by speerer 1 day ago | 227 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Using GPT-5.6 (openai.com)
    ×1.14 2 | 3 points by minimaxir 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Cyclists Are Using a New Fueling Solution That Could Blow Endurance Racing Apart (outsideonline.com)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by haunter 46 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS (2024) (neil.computer)
    ×1.65 39 | 338 points by 4diii 1 day ago | 241 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Notes on Software Quality (anthonyhobday.com)
    ×1.21 89 | 163 points by speckx 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Opinionated and Easy Pi.dev Configuration (lazypi.org)
    ×1.07 6 #13 | 50 points by lwhsiao 2 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Use MacBook Pro in outdoor sun by unlocking higher brightness (apple.com)
    ×1.22 104 | 4 points by steinvakt2 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Muse Spark 1.1 (meta.com)
    ×2.86 2 #9 | 197 points by ot 3 hours ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break in the next war (westpoint.edu)
    ×2.04 1 #14 | 139 points by baud147258 4 hours ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. DeepSeek aims to make its own AI chip (proactiveinvestors.com)
    ×0.86 45 #45 | 9 points by FinnLobsien 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Apache Shiro security framework releases 3.0.0 (apache.org)
    ×0.55 63 #76 | 47 points by lprimak 16 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Can banks skirt the Durbin Amendment by owning a debit network? (americanbanker.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by petethomas 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???