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  1. Ask HN: What did you learn last month? (July 2026)
    ×0.78 | 2 points by bhu1st 39 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: HackerOne Announces Mandatory identity verification
    ×0.59 22 | 16 points by 0xmattf 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Everything that happens in a US airport is under duress
    ×0.59 57 | 14 points by dfps 9 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What's the Point of Your Startup?
    ×0.50 76 | 8 points by sawyers 8 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: When a post of yours does well, do you know why?
    ×0.61 106 | 4 points by john_builds 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. DeepSeek API service will soon adopt a peak-valley pricing strategy
    ×0.16 | 2 points by sschueller 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Has Claude Code been (mostly) usable for you?
    ×0.20 | 2 points by mark_l_watson 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Strategic Oil Reserves Down to a Record Low Two-Week Supply
    ×0.53 113 | 16 points by megamike 23 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What E-Reader to Buy?
    ×0.39 105 | 5 points by conor_f 11 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Time for OpenAI and Anthropic to take a leaf from Microsoft's book?
    ×1.03 72 | 3 points by chrisjj 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What are you using for LLM inference in production?
    ×0.35 118 | 6 points by chrislim 14 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Can Apple Ever Be Disrputed?
    ×0.35 136 | 6 points by Taikhoom2010 21 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Robotics development made dead simple (open source)
    ×0.27 159 | 22 points by Ekami 5 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What former "must-have" AI agent skills have you deprecated?
    ×0.24 145 | 5 points by lpjstack 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Give Me Your Earworm
    ×0.72 110 | 3 points by t-3 8 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Navigating Source Code (especially on large projects)
    ×0.40 155 | 6 points by thekey 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Stripe's opt-out Radar price increase dressed up as a free trial
    ×0.32 140 | 9 points by rapind 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. I built an independent peptide testing lab that accepts mailed samples
    ×0.32 149 | 6 points by peptidelabs 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What are some promising fields in computer science in the next 5 yrs?
    ×0.25 117 | 3 points by anonymoosestdnt 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: After 8 Years of Failed Apps, Should I Give Up?
    ×0.61 137 | 6 points by asoomi07 23 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Do older programmers/CS academics view AI safety as a form of arrogance?
    ×0.24 152 | 6 points by amichail 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Can LLMs have an "accent" like second language speakers?
    ×0.30 157 | 3 points by hmokiguess 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Show HN: Sail to Ithaca, a playable Homer’s Odyssey with hidden Easter eggs (sail-to-ithaca.vercel.app)
    ×2.00 101 | 3 points by mayilian 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Run Kimi K3 using 29 GB of RAM at 0.50 tok/s (github.com/sqliteai)
    ×1.92 17 #14 | 138 points by marcobambini 10 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots (deepmind.google)
    ×2.56 11 | 609 points by ai2027 1 day ago | 511 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. A Safe Path to Open Weights (thinkingmachines.ai)
    ×1.63 | 2 points by stokedmartin 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Global temperature changes from 12,000 weather stations (1850-2026) (github.com/reflex-dev)
    ×5.57 74 | 7 points by palashawas 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Yahoo just redesigned its weather app for the 'weather geek' in us all (fastcompany.com)
    ×1.87 19 | 3 points by apparent 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. The Economic Benefit of Refactoring (martinfowler.com)
    ×1.56 30 | 278 points by javaeeeee 1 day ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Exploring the "Dario and Amanda" Prompt (alec.is)
    ×4.93 61 | 71 points by arm32 23 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Orca-Bench: How Ready Are Language Model Agents for Oncall? (arxiv.org)
    ×0.58 43 #35 | 24 points by yruzin 6 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Winding Down Artichoke Ruby (hyperbo.la)
    ×0.81 45 #59 | 57 points by ksec 13 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Is Stripe the Internet?
    ×1.20 | 2 points by Taikhoom2010 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. A giddy Patti Smith meets fellow Chicago legend, Pope Leo XIV (apnews.com)
    ×3.11 39 | 5 points by petethomas 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. The CIA Found a Soviet Ghost Station Full of Cold War Secrets (popularmechanics.com)
    ×3.60 28 | 7 points by RickJWagner 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. SDL_GPU minimal, single-header, high-performance 2D graphics painting library (github.com/n67094)
    ×0.62 90 | 65 points by n67094 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai)
    ×2.63 9 #9 | 526 points by theanonymousone 16 hours ago | 288 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Readable ad-hoc commands agent skill (github.com/a-b)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by a-b 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Tanstack Charts (tanstack.com)
    ×1.17 | 2 points by geophph 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. ChatGPT, Roblox to fall under strictest EU rules for platforms (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.75 93 | 73 points by ch_sm 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Axioma – Stream and data compression engine for low-bandwidth links (github.com/axmstandart1-beep)
    ×0.45 | 2 points by abbasov_murad 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Stash – native Mac Markdown notes (staunchapps.com)
    ×1.48 147 | 4 points by andrewjk 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Termixer (TUI DJ Mixer) (github.com/l00sed)
    ×0.72 22 #16 | 49 points by l00sed 6 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Algorithms on billion-scale graph using 10GB RAM: I love DataFusion (semyonsinchenko.github.io)
    ×0.96 7 #28 | 94 points by speckx 8 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Shellphone, an MCP Extension to Link Claude Chat and Claude Code (npmjs.com)
    ×1.12 | 2 points by geoffitect 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Reclip – AI Video Clipper, Voiceover and Creator Tools (reclip.io)
    ×1.71 144 | 4 points by qwikhost 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Anti-fraud tools can't keep pace with robocall scammers (broadbandbreakfast.com)
    ×1.16 42 #30 | 72 points by dredmorbius 11 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. 13 Models and 4 Agents on SWE Tasks: Go, Java, Python, Rust, TS (swe-rebench.com)
    ×0.71 41 #44 | 42 points by ibragim_bad 9 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Twenty-five years ago it was cryptography, today it's model weights (weeraman.com)
    ×2.43 #4 | 133 points by aweeraman 4 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Hacker Public Radio (hackerpublicradio.org)
    ×1.23 58 | 167 points by bmacho 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. The session you cannot take with you (earendil.com)
    ×3.48 44 #64 | 729 points by apitman 20 hours ago | 212 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Squishword, a word game where meaning, not spelling, matters (squishword.com)
    ×0.38 | 2 points by sbloz 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. qm (github.com/yc-software)
    ×3.31 #3 | 424 points by tosh 6 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. June in Servo: real world compat, media queries, SharedWorker, and more (servo.org)
    ×1.57 9 #6 | 97 points by iamnothere 6 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. We Gave GPT 5.6 Sol a Real Business. It Lied, Spammed, and Lost $447 (bottlenecklabs.com)
    ×2.99 | 391 points by Areibman 1 day ago | 233 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Elevators (john.fun)
    ×3.89 #2 | 839 points by Jrh0203 9 hours ago | 214 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. A past and future of trade secrets (cabinetmagazine.org)
    ×0.59 44 #18 | 11 points by Hooke 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Bend – A high-level language running on GPUs (xcancel.com)
    ×1.18 | 2 points by MrBuddyCasino 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. The Religion of Speed (graybeard.ing)
    ×2.53 12 #75 | 275 points by MobiusHorizons 1 day ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. If you don't know how compilers work, then you don't know how computers work (steve-yegge.blogspot.com)
    ×0.50 | 2 points by lemonberry 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Write in Markdown, serve it dynamic (andros.dev)
    ×0.97 55 #79 | 13 points by andros 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Google will expand age checks on Android worldwide till the end of the year (googleblog.com)
    ×2.85 26 | 414 points by dmantis 1 day ago | 508 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Rune 1.1: adds Python, an Emacs editor, a symbol index and is now free (rune.build)
    ×0.89 59 | 99 points by ernestrc 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Qwen Scribe – local transcription and dictation for Apple Silicon (github.com/VladUZH)
    ×1.02 115 | 94 points by sidclaw 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Tailscale didn't stop the Hugging Face intrusion (tailscale.com)
    ×2.70 #1 | 412 points by bluehatbrit 5 hours ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations (anthropic.com)
    ×2.11 65 #40 | 221 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: ShowTrust – Testimonials Collection Tool and Widget Embed (showtrust.to)
    ×0.76 | 2 points by sev_tinker 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: SmokeVPN – All-in-One WireGuard VPN Hub – Switch Exits in Realtime (smokevpn.com)
    ×2.70 48 | 3 points by lobito25 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Ron Gilbert started production on Thimbleweed Park 2 (grumpygamer.com)
    ×1.76 56 | 253 points by alberto-m 1 day ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Just brute force your embeddings (softwaredoug.com)
    ×0.85 17 #48 | 16 points by JohnBerryman 4 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Situational Awareness down 67% in July in AI stock rout (wsj.com)
    ×2.51 39 #76 | 140 points by pondsider 11 hours ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Texas bans THC cannabinoids except delta-9, except edibles and drinks (khou.com)
    ×2.01 | 2 points by burnt-resistor 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Saber-toothed cats became inbred–and struggled to move–before they went extinct (science.org)
    ×0.80 75 | 67 points by gmays 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Everyone is building LLM routers, we deprecated ours (manifest.build)
    ×1.35 6 #25 | 85 points by brunaxLorax 6 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Nano Banana 2 removed from Google Earth (digitaldigging.org)
    ×1.88 36 #38 | 19 points by taubek 5 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. The Elevator Button Problem (jgc.org)
    ×0.65 72 #87 | 7 points by jgrahamc 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Radar – Your Messages. Your Bitcoin. Together, at Last (radar.chat)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by Cider9986 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick (krebsonsecurity.com)
    ×3.25 40 | 791 points by speckx 1 day ago | 525 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. RFC 8890 – The Internet is for End Users (2020) (mnot.net)
    ×0.91 69 | 128 points by notarobot123 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Why ugly buildings create NIMBYism (worksinprogress.news)
    ×1.30 56 #66 | 24 points by bensouthwood 9 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub (github.blog)
    ×3.46 23 #81 | 760 points by tomzorz 1 day ago | 284 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Ruby Central's Destructive Legacy (arko.net)
    ×2.17 7 | 75 points by 4d66ba06 12 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Cyberattack on water systems in multiple states has US officials on edge (cnn.com)
    ×3.56 61 | 6 points by Teever 51 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Surveillance and Your Soul, or Why Privacy Is Essential (unsigned.io)
    ×1.10 | 2 points by Cider9986 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Gpiozero Flow (bennuttall.com)
    ×0.82 80 | 123 points by benn_88 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Local text, image, video, music and 3D from one CLI, no Python (github.com/sawfwair)
    ×0.70 127 | 14 points by sawfwair 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. A simple clustering algorithm for lists (cassidoo.co)
    ×0.85 26 #42 | 22 points by nreece 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Are We Stuck with Lean? (mathoverflow.net)
    ×1.50 65 | 153 points by jjgreen 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. That Viral Photo of San Francisco NIMBYs Shows Why Housing Is Winning (yimbyaction.org)
    ×6.17 83 | 16 points by pumpkin88 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Digital Surface - Never Lose Work (digitalsurfacelabs.com)
    ×0.47 | 2 points by joenewbry 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???