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  1. Ask HN: Are systems ready for the first negative leap second?
    ×0.60 50 #43 | 76 points by Asmod4n 20 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: How do you use Vim in the era of AI?
    ×1.14 44 | 41 points by rstagi 1 day ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Tell HN: I De-Googled Myself
    ×1.34 49 | 33 points by degoogled 23 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What was the last task where only a frontier model could do it?
    ×0.82 51 | 23 points by thedebuglife 20 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. One Wikipedia page costs your AI agent 68,000 tokens
    ×1.20 50 | 12 points by arhamislam5766 14 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Burned Tokens scented candle ideas
    ×0.29 88 | 5 points by Tade0 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?
    ×1.17 112 | 208 points by yehiaabdelm 1 week ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: HN frontpage feels boring now?
    ×0.93 82 | 48 points by xeonmc 2 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Where are the good search engines for mathematical formulas?
    ×0.49 102 | 56 points by lo0dot0 6 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: I hate coding agents. Is this skill issue?
    ×1.52 93 | 17 points by cmar00 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)
    ×1.08 120 | 246 points by whoishiring 1 week ago | 403 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: I am not able to find a job. Should I switch stacks?
    ×0.24 107 | 12 points by need_a_work23 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Is GitHub preparing to go behind a login wall?
    ×0.65 100 | 56 points by reconnecting 3 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Tell HN: Who wants to be hired" posts outpace "Who's hiring" 2 to 1
    ×1.02 106 | 55 points by santiagobasulto 4 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Fable July 12th disclaimer disappears from Claude Code
    ×0.27 117 | 7 points by gorgmah 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Ubuntu 24.04 now force-automounts any plugged-in MMC card or USB key
    ×0.33 137 | 3 points by everybodyknows 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Who has been caught out by this anti-pattern from Google?
    ×0.17 133 | 4 points by Monotoko 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Audar-ASR-V1:Arabic-first speech recognition foundation models with open weights
    ×0.12 | 2 points by AudarAI 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Show HN: Find introduction path between you and someone you want to reach (reloadium.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by julienreszka 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Show HN: Chiptune Radio (alephvoid.com)
    ×0.76 85 | 77 points by bootbloopers 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Lost city discovered beneath Egypt's desert with ancient church (dailymail.com)
    ×1.43 25 #41 | 199 points by Bender 1 day ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. New How 3 Years of Experimenting Helped Me Build a Powerful Morning Routine (it.com)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by oibbb 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. New dinosaur species as long as cricket pitch discovered in Thailand (bbc.com)
    ×1.15 | 2 points by zdkaster 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. pgrust passes 100% of the Postgres regression tests (malisper.me)
    ×4.09 74 | 17 points by tosh 3 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: 18 Words (18words.com)
    ×4.13 12 #34 | 1110 points by pompomsheep 2 days ago | 352 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Fixed-Point Combinator (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.80 71 | 3 points by tosh 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Soofi: European sovereign LLM trained in 2 months (huggingface.co)
    ×5.36 51 | 8 points by hibijibies 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: LastShelf – an emergency map of your family's documents bills& contacts (lastshelf.ai)
    ×0.96 76 | 47 points by sbrown12 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. The mask that compiles to nothing: how HotSpots JIT learned to reason about bits (questdb.com)
    ×1.26 24 #11 | 47 points by rowbin 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Successful companies go blind (ianreppel.org)
    ×1.67 20 #32 | 221 points by speckx 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Why American ambulance rides are so expensive (davidoks.blog)
    ×3.14 4 #83 | 318 points by jyunwai 1 day ago | 472 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: A Figma file viewer for the 333 MHz Sony PSP (pocketjs.dev)
    ×1.61 22 | 3 points by doodlewind 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Tinyreplay – lightweight session replay without analytics/cloud (github.com/kzekiue)
    ×0.75 | 2 points by kzekiue 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Microsoft latest report shows 25% emissions raised due to AI data centers (windowscentral.com)
    ×3.28 17 #42 | 22 points by pjmlp 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Launch HN: Context.dev (YC S26) – API to get structured data from any website (context.dev)
    ×0.68 78 #67 | 116 points by TheYahiaBakour 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. A possible future for Damn Interesting (damninteresting.com)
    ×1.89 13 | 316 points by mzur 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Computation as a universal and fundamental concept (ergo.org)
    ×1.17 43 #29 | 149 points by simonpure 22 hours ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. In Emacs, everything looks like a service (yummymelon.com)
    ×1.69 #61 | 246 points by kickingvegas 1 day ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: I turned my quote collection into a walkable 3D library (desktop-only) (jakubhalmes.com)
    ×1.16 | 2 points by jac08h 31 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Hidetext.sh – encrypted pastebin where the server never sees the key (hidetext.sh)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by hidetext 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Foreman, a self-hosted LLM gateway for cost aware model routing (github.com/Northwood-Systems)
    ×0.61 121 | 15 points by AndrewLiu96 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. AI 2040: Plan A (ai-2040.com)
    ×3.13 28 #16 | 319 points by kschaul 1 day ago | 354 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. TLS certificates for internal services done right (tuxnet.dev)
    ×1.12 53 #75 | 180 points by mrl5 1 day ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. China recovered its first reusable rocket and showed a new way to do it (arstechnica.com)
    ×5.93 63 #77 | 16 points by pseudolus 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Disappearing Polymorph (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.86 | 1 points by hliyan 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. If You Want Taste, You're Gonna Have to Eat (jxnl.co)
    ×1.63 37 | 3 points by JumpCrisscross 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell (avi.press)
    ×1.88 39 #21 | 178 points by aviaviavi 23 hours ago | 219 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf] (openai.com)
    ×2.98 10 #25 | 488 points by scrlk 19 hours ago | 398 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Hands-On with the AMD Ryzen AI Halo (microcenter.com)
    ×0.84 55 #63 | 51 points by bdcravens 22 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds (ello.com)
    ×1.30 57 #69 | 143 points by catalinvoss 1 day ago | 388 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. All Your Favorite Gadgets Are Getting More Expensive Again (wired.com)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by tosh 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. I built a free Wordle × GeoGuessr for the stock market (benginn.github.io)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by obepozdemir 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: R3 – A Local Code Review Tool for You and Your AI Agent (github.com/hyperlogue)
    ×1.37 123 | 4 points by rickye26 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Documentation is still in your Mum's filing cabinet (gerireid.com)
    ×0.98 20 #36 | 27 points by mooreds 8 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Reverse-engineering web apps into agent tools
    ×0.75 67 #44 | 84 points by pancomplex 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Companies are scrambling to curtail soaring AI costs (economist.com)
    ×3.00 51 #70 | 41 points by nlpnerd 5 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Runloom – Go-style coroutines for Python free-threaded (github.com/robertsdotpm)
    ×0.64 49 #80 | 46 points by Uptrenda 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Fdisk and the Importance of Sleep (bearblog.dev)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by vonargo 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Fable 5 made a Fireship Video for GPT 5.6 Sol (youtube.com)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by mesmertech 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Java 27: What's New? (loicmathieu.fr)
    ×1.87 43 | 54 points by loicmathieu 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Code Airlock: Run Claude Code and Codex in Disposable MicroVMs (github.com/Trivo25)
    ×0.65 | 2 points by zkTrivo 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: KiCad in the Browser (pcbjam.com)
    ×1.12 111 | 110 points by ViktorEE 6 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. The Lindy effect in software (clemsau.com)
    ×0.92 22 #52 | 31 points by ankitg12 10 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. I guess most useful extention on Chrome for readers I downloaded (google.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by scionhat 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Page Weight Matters (nh3.dev)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by birdculture 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. DeepSeek aims to make its own AI chip (proactiveinvestors.com)
    ×1.45 69 | 72 points by FinnLobsien 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: @playbykey/theory - Music theory TypeScript engine and MCP server (playbykey.com)
    ×0.86 | 2 points by codewithbre 12 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Latex Diff Viewer (github.com/marketplace)
    ×0.44 142 | 3 points by alpaylan 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Ditching Vagrant: VMs with KVM and Virsh on Debian (benjamintoll.com)
    ×1.05 64 #59 | 94 points by fanf2 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Deep dive into iroh, a peer-to-peer communication layer for your application (kerkour.com)
    ×6.87 85 | 7 points by cold_pizz4 18 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Why we're moving off Cloudflare Durable Objects (usewire.io)
    ×1.03 72 | 59 points by jitpal 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Can we reconstruct a tokenizer using only two oracles from the chat API? (reddit.com)
    ×0.85 | 1 points by bayes-song 11 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. How to Start a Ruby Meetup (rubyevents.org)
    ×0.87 65 | 72 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Pulpie – Models for Cleaning the Web (usefeyn.com)
    ×0.95 94 | 104 points by snyy 4 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Android Developer Verification Package blacklisted in Aurora Store
    ×1.47 125 | 7 points by bewilderbeast 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: UniFi OS Server in Docker (github.com/unihosted)
    ×1.62 132 | 4 points by basquiyacht 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. FCC Approves Test of Space Mirror to Light Night Sky Despite Outcry (nytimes.com)
    ×3.18 4 #6 | 41 points by reaperducer 2 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Frugon – Find which LLM calls a cheaper model could handle (local, MIT) (github.com/Rodiun)
    ×0.59 65 #47 | 63 points by jarodrh 23 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: AI assistant for Google Chat to translate any file preserving layout (google.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by robgehring 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: I mapped 8.5M research papers into an interactive atlas (tomesphere.com)
    ×0.88 64 | 80 points by leonickson 2 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Neil the Seal Game (neiltheseal.app)
    ×1.12 81 | 97 points by dalemhurley 6 days ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Five Foreign Words English Should Steal Immediately (commonplacefacts.com)
    ×1.26 | 2 points by theanonymousone 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Gene-edited babies are now closer. The ethical debate is far from settled (cnn.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by giuliomagnifico 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Halo – open-source, tamper-evident runtime evidence for AI agents (github.com/bkuan001)
    ×0.61 115 | 37 points by brian_kuan 4 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Agentic FC – a football management SIM played by AI agents over MCP (github.com/gaemi)
    ×1.58 139 | 4 points by gaemi 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. How the terrorist group Boko Haram uses frontier AI (casp.ac)
    ×2.31 22 #50 | 215 points by imustachyou 19 hours ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Ofcom Wants American Police to Collect Its Speech Fine (reclaimthenet.org)
    ×2.32 33 #57 | 9 points by delichon 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. EU Commission: addictive design Instagram and Facebook in breach of the DSA (europa.eu)
    ×2.85 20 #73 | 266 points by jeroenhd 1 day ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Apple sues OpenAI, accusing it of stealing company secrets (nytimes.com)
    ×8.40 44 | 113 points by jbegley 16 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Syria's solar boom is redefining Middle East's energy model (thenationalnews.com)
    ×1.59 68 | 82 points by littlexsparkee 2 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???