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  1. Ask HN: Is there a website that tracks excessive writes to SSDs in OS/app betas?
    ×0.66 11 #39 | 22 points by amichail 2 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Does anyone have an old Goodreads API key?
    ×1.24 15 #53 | 19 points by bwb 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: If OpenAI hacked HuggingFace, why aren't OpenAI prosecuted?
    ×0.91 6 | 20 points by sam_lowry_ 6 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Why are US tech workers so pro open borders?
    ×1.59 9 | 8 points by TorontoTheGood 3 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Hosted PaddleOCR-VL-1.6 API
    ×1.61 18 | 5 points by TimurKramar 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Share Your Eccentric Hobby
    ×0.77 74 | 3 points by jimnotgym 3 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
    ×4.70 90 | 1314 points by nprateem 6 days ago | 755 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What changed in your life when you started meditating (and how)?
    ×0.54 82 | 29 points by dondraper36 21 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: US Equivalent of Anabin?
    ×0.12 117 | 14 points by xqb64 1 week ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work
    ×3.67 95 | 833 points by nicholasjbs 6 days ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
    ×1.17 138 | 292 points by david927 1 week ago | 1143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. New Inference Server for DGX Spark: large model C4:55-90 tok/s no spec decode
    ×0.33 121 | 4 points by medicis123 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Will AI assistants become photorealistic video?
    ×0.18 122 | 3 points by general_reveal 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How to make AI better at writing prose?
    ×0.29 123 | 3 points by remywang 16 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How do people keep track of organizational knowledge?
    ×0.47 113 | 27 points by kadhirvelm 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Why can't Google create monopolies anymore?
    ×0.69 115 | 5 points by BeForce 19 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Build a website for AI pics for dating apps in 20 hours, launched ads, failed
    ×0.48 133 | 3 points by MaximTsyg 20 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Alternative Careers in the Age of AI
    ×0.77 110 | 12 points by helpfulmandrill 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. I Reported on Flock's Cameras. Now I'm One of the System's Mistakes (thedrive.com)
    ×3.09 15 #34 | 12 points by CharlesW 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs (codeberg.org)
    ×2.49 10 #68 | 171 points by acmnrs 16 hours ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Firefox 153 contains itself while Thunderbird 153 fixes almost everything (theregister.com)
    ×1.44 | 2 points by Bender 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Gemini last models: temperature, top_p, and top_k are deprecated and ignored (google.dev)
    ×1.08 83 | 132 points by greatgib 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Show HN: USB AI Agent – portable uncensored AI with 13 tools, runs from USB (github.com/pusucip25)
    ×0.55 | 2 points by pucucip 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Show HN: Millwright – Rust-based, self-hosted LLM router (github.com/Northwood-Systems)
    ×2.95 107 | 9 points by AndrewLiu96 22 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: Whetuu – a zero-config cross-shell prompt written in Zig (yamafaktory.github.io)
    ×0.64 11 #21 | 26 points by yamafaktory 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Hologram Works. Sponsor What Comes Next (hologram.page)
    ×1.27 61 | 94 points by lawik 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: NextBest – See what skincare people recommend (nextbest.one)
    ×1.01 116 | 5 points by kalila855 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Making ASCII Art in Vim (alexyang.dev)
    ×1.14 32 #62 | 108 points by evakhoury 15 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Kimi K3 exploited the latest Redis server (twitter.com/fried_rice)
    ×2.85 41 | 4 points by Alifatisk 20 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Stop Using Media Bias/Fact Check in Research (arxiv.org)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by hn_acker 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. What Nonprofit CEOs Earn (charitysense.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by mtweak 45 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude (apnews.com)
    ×3.49 33 | 557 points by BeetleB 1 day ago | 601 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Plox – Lox compiler in ~600 LOC from the 'Crafting Interpreters' book (github.com/eliasdejong)
    ×1.24 | 2 points by eliasdejong 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Shayan Oveis Gharan Wins 2026 IMU Abacus Medal (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.12 | 2 points by MaysonL 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: PDF tools that run in the browser, no upload (pdfcdf.com)
    ×0.89 127 | 6 points by sofiurrr 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. git's –end-of-options Flag (nesbitt.io)
    ×1.22 3 #73 | 178 points by Erenay09 14 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Casberi – Your apps, one feed. Private, on-device, no servers (paragraph.com)
    ×0.81 | 1 points by alexchopan 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. US eyes ban on Chinese humanoid robots as US-China tech rivalry intensifies (scmp.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by theanonymousone 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Researchers let AI models run a simulated society (fortune.com)
    ×1.16 | 2 points by CharlesW 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. OpenAI says its AI went rogue and launched 'unprecedented' cyber-attack (bbc.com)
    ×2.64 76 | 76 points by vinni2 1 day ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat tour of grace cathedral, San Francisco (vincentwoo.com)
    ×1.64 88 | 259 points by akanet 2 days ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Palmier Pro – open-source macOS video editor built for AI (github.com/palmier-io)
    ×1.22 25 #14 | 17 points by hchtin 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Encryption and Globalization 15 Years Later: E2EE and the "Going Dark" Debate (ssrn.com)
    ×0.53 12 #17 | 26 points by iamnothere 2 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. OpenAI’s accidental attack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened (simonwillison.net)
    ×5.09 40 #29 | 232 points by abhisek 16 hours ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Medici family mystery may be solved after more than 400 years (cnn.com)
    ×0.89 39 #64 | 146 points by effects 19 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt (futurism.com)
    ×4.38 13 #16 | 357 points by technewssss 4 hours ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: A zero-lag, scriptable video filter (RVM,Python,OpenCV,OpenGL,Spout2) (perfunct.com)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by tcdoe 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Fleet – drive a fleet of Claude Code/Codex agents from Telegram (github.com/sand0vvv)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by sand0vvv 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Most Americans say "not in my backyard" to AI data centers (redfin.com)
    ×2.47 44 | 142 points by toomuchtodo 1 day ago | 298 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Private healthcare makes industries less innovative. It's time for change (werd.io)
    ×3.00 82 | 133 points by benwerd 3 hours ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: A new kind of FPS aim trainer (pramit.gg)
    ×1.08 85 | 82 points by pmazumder 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Floating Companion: Exploring Design Space for Soft Floating Robots in Indoor (acm.org)
    ×0.27 36 #28 | 9 points by hopelessluca 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Log is non-monotonic in PHP and Lua (purplesyringa.moe)
    ×0.47 71 #44 | 6 points by ibobev 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. I Inspected My Take-Home Interview Project. It Was a Whole Operation (citizendot.github.io)
    ×4.54 28 | 432 points by CITIZENDOT 20 hours ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Perlin's Noise Algorithm (2023) (jaysmito.dev)
    ×0.76 68 | 75 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: ValuePair – a friendship app that cares about values first (valuepair.app)
    ×0.66 106 | 8 points by zloy88 19 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. What happened to TheNumbers.com (stephenfollows.com)
    ×4.03 4 #2 | 30 points by nickthegreek 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Alphabet's cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spending climbs (reuters.com)
    ×2.97 46 #51 | 233 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 4 hours ago | 234 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Why Linus Is Right and AI Is Wrong (raymyers.org)
    ×2.10 17 #88 | 5 points by mender-ai 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Google burning through cash with spiralling AI costs (bbc.com)
    ×1.37 | 2 points by achow 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Sambaudit, a secrets scanner for SMB shares with a web UI (github.com/d-woosley)
    ×0.65 | 2 points by dwoosley 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Tesla's Founders Are Backing the Anti-Cybertruck (forbes.com)
    ×0.49 | 2 points by rawgabbit 54 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. A Claude skill that grills you so hard. Within a nice clean interface (github.com/rizzdev)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by rizzdev 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Getting Started with Loops (twitter.com/ClaudeDevs)
    ×1.04 | 2 points by gmays 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Hosted PaddleOCR-VL-1.6 API (openparser.dev)
    ×3.08 14 | 5 points by TimurKramar 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Fields Medals 2026 (mathunion.org)
    ×1.70 10 #27 | 25 points by nill0 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Escape IntelliJ: Scala and Kotlin LSPs on Emacs Eglot (jointhefreeworld.org)
    ×0.89 20 #47 | 125 points by jjba23 11 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. DeepSeek CEO Wenfeng Liang's Four-Hour Investor Meeting Transcript (elsewhere.news)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by shenli3514 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: A satellite control room from 100% open data, self-hosted in Europe (confinia.io)
    ×1.20 102 | 4 points by clement_igonet 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Stele – A self-maintaining knowledge graph for AI coding agents (stele-ai.dev)
    ×1.63 132 | 4 points by serkanyersen 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: IKEA Complexity Index (greg.technology)
    ×1.73 125 | 179 points by gregsadetsky 5 days ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe (cole-k.com)
    ×4.70 4 #81 | 574 points by montroser 1 day ago | 595 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Paper Things I Use (aartaka.me)
    ×1.18 | 2 points by Brajeshwar 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Ask HN: Solo devs / small teams, how do you do SEO for any projects you launch?
    ×0.42 | 1 points by shvilesh-logen 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. LLMs break down in funny ways when told the Jacobian Conjecture counterargument (minimaxir.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by minimaxir 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. White House used keywords to kill billions worth of California research grants (apnews.com)
    ×4.14 80 | 80 points by petethomas 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: AgentNest, self-hosted sandboxes for AI agents (github.com/mihirahuja1)
    ×1.15 92 | 11 points by mihir_ahuja 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. US Government targets Cop City protester over phone operating system (theguardian.com)
    ×3.88 21 #37 | 15 points by pastemato 51 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Nobody knows what a used GPU cluster is worth (ciphertalk.substack.com)
    ×1.73 35 #60 | 274 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 245 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Historic adobe buildings mapped across America (adobepueblo.com)
    ×1.26 | 2 points by not_wowinter13 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. ECB reveals shortlisted designs for new banknotes and launches public survey (europa.eu)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by N19PEDL2 24 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. EU fines Google €890M for competition breaches over search and apps (theguardian.com)
    ×3.52 67 | 155 points by Stevvo 7 hours ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Fourth Circuit: Border Agents Can Search Your Phone by Hand, No Suspicion Needed (eff.org)
    ×2.92 20 #40 | 27 points by leephillips 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. John C. Dvorak has died (twitter.com/na_announce)
    ×5.29 21 #55 | 887 points by coleca 22 hours ago | 296 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. FreeBSD Ports Currently Frozen Due to a Large Commit (phoronix.com)
    ×2.76 37 | 4 points by Erenay09 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: ArXivMax – video explainers for any research paper (arxivmax.com)
    ×0.50 | 2 points by rwu1997 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Browser-based Link Graph (osint) analysis tool (webvetted.com)
    ×0.56 | 2 points by hienyimba 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Local-first archive of your ChatGPT/Claude chats (google.com)
    ×1.14 | 2 points by mdrzn 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. The Founder Market Fit (veradiverdict.com)
    ×1.34 | 2 points by wslh 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Are we in the era of AI slop landing pages?
    ×1.39 | 2 points by aashir-saas 29 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???