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  1. Claude Code weekly rate limits
    ×3.28 11 #27 | 562 points by thebestmoshe 18 hours ago | 640 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: How will the OSA affect small Mastadon instances?
    ×3.50 68 | 5 points by Digit-Al 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Does Claude AI run locally?
    ×0.73 | 2 points by kvthweatt 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)
    ×1.31 11 | 251 points by david927 1 day ago | 813 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Have We Stopped Inventing Futures Worth Predicting?
    ×0.85 17 | 4 points by squarekernels 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. How do I get a paid internship as a 16yo developer?
    ×0.98 37 | 8 points by uint23 11 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Drafting Software Recommendation
    ×0.30 67 | 15 points by morpheos137 4 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Warp.dev Terminal – Overpriced, Buggy, and AI-Sabotaged My Code
    ×1.39 50 | 53 points by MistermanX 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How many of you are working in tech without a STEM degree?
    ×0.63 111 | 51 points by zebproj 6 days ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. My Theory: Advertising is a lot like capitalism itself
    ×0.94 55 | 8 points by cm2012 17 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Has your opinion on AI changed over the past year?
    ×0.64 70 | 4 points by atleastoptimal 15 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Is there any LLM provider that is GDPR compliant?
    ×0.71 60 | 6 points by pera 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Are we building AI coding assistants wrong?
    ×0.23 | 2 points by anaempromptu 18 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How do you handle audit logs in your systems?
    ×1.07 83 | 16 points by efeoge 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Have you ever waited for a project to be launched but it never did?
    ×0.53 113 | 3 points by alganet 19 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. How to prioritize marketing when attribution is broken and AI is changing rules?
    ×0.31 156 | 3 points by ivanmarketingua 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What is Lex Fridman's association with MIT?
    ×3.14 19 | 10 points by chirau 9 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Do You Block DigitalOcean?
    ×1.33 94 | 10 points by sugarpimpdorsey 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Will I get left behind if I don't jump on AI train?
    ×1.18 93 | 21 points by LLcolD 2 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: How do you build B2B software that pays living expenses?
    ×1.20 105 | 10 points by architectofsw 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Why do Cursor, Windsurf and Claude Code dominate the conversation?
    ×0.97 198 | 28 points by bluelightning2k 1 week ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: What is so good about MCP servers?
    ×0.66 144 | 43 points by metadat 4 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. FreeToolSuite – 200 growing collection of genuinely useful free online tools
    ×1.58 125 | 25 points by mviradia 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Are we pretending RAG is ready, when it's barely out of demo phase?
    ×0.75 126 | 11 points by TXTOS 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Discrete Mathematics Preriquisites for Data Structures?
    ×0.37 189 | 3 points by shivajikobardan 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: What's your uv exit strategy?
    ×1.49 97 | 12 points by ctoth 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
    ×0.84 169 | 164 points by proberts 1 week ago | 266 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Engineers deserve better recognition. Can a protocol change that?
    ×0.85 130 | 7 points by mzk_pi 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Why is virtualization still not solved?
    ×0.39 165 | 16 points by prmph 3 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Who is looking for a cofounder in London?
    ×0.48 168 | 10 points by warthog 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: PolyglotGPT – Conversational AI for Learning 40 Languages (polyglotgpt.com)
    ×0.91 | 1 points by rajeshabishek 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Pine64 ALPHA-ONE is now available (Fanless RISC-V PC with a 20 TOPS NPU) (liliputing.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by PaulHoule 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Vision for W3C: a manifesto for our operations and decision making (w3.org)
    ×1.20 | 2 points by pentagrama 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. OpenAI claims gold-medal performance at IMO 2025 (twitter.com/alexwei_)
    ×2.52 112 | 478 points by Davidzheng 1 week ago | 698 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Detached Point Arithmetic (github.com/Pedantic-Research-Limited)
    ×1.42 33 #5 | 3 points by HappySweeney 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Representing Mastodon at Global Policy Tables (patreon.com)
    ×0.81 | 1 points by doener 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Determinants of Anxiety, Depression and Subjective Wellbeing Among Musicians (wiley.com)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by tokai 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share in USA (ostechnix.com)
    ×5.95 99 | 1020 points by marcodiego 1 week ago | 614 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.79 48 | 753 points by jonbaer 5 days ago | 841 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. XMLUI (jonudell.net)
    ×2.58 89 | 619 points by mpweiher 1 week ago | 333 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. LLM architecture comparison (sebastianraschka.com)
    ×2.53 107 | 418 points by mdp2021 1 week ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Font Awesome 7 launches with new icon packs (fontawesome.com)
    ×0.91 118 | 3 points by claviska 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Samsung Removes Bootloader Unlocking with One UI 8 (sammyguru.com)
    ×2.33 45 #42 | 249 points by 1una 1 day ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: AI debates between different personas (nimroboai.com)
    ×0.82 | 1 points by moltenice 6 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. John McCarthy's 1964 proposal for the definition of product and sum types in A (acm.org)
    ×1.89 19 | 3 points by fanf2 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Am-I-vibing, detect agentic coding environments (github.com/ascorbic)
    ×0.65 190 | 60 points by ascorbic 1 week ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Félix Nadar: the first celebrity photographer (2019) (bbc.com)
    ×0.30 55 #38 | 6 points by lordleft 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: I added webhook response support for MCP tool calls in asyncmcp (github.com/bh-rat)
    ×0.58 | 2 points by bharatgel 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Self-updating MCP server for official pip, uv, poetry and conda docs (github.com/KemingHe)
    ×0.54 178 | 30 points by keminghe 5 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Conductor, a Mac app that lets you run a bunch of Claude Codes at once (conductor.build)
    ×1.87 133 | 228 points by Charlieholtz 1 week ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: I built library management app for those who outgrew spreadsheets (librari.io)
    ×0.92 184 | 92 points by hmkoyan 1 week ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Interstellar Comet 3I/Atlas: What We Know Now (skyandtelescope.org)
    ×0.75 38 #44 | 89 points by bikenaga 19 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. NSF plans end to lone U.S. Antarctic research icebreaker (science.org)
    ×2.18 32 #68 | 80 points by trauco 10 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. AI-Doc-Gen: Multi-agent system that analyzes code, generates docs automatically (github.com/divar-ir)
    ×3.78 58 | 6 points by Mahanmmi 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: AllEars – Automate Your Phone Based on Sounds (Offline, No Cloud) (google.com)
    ×0.48 159 | 3 points by sanjeev309 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Amazon's AI Coding Revealed a Dirty Little Secret (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.76 17 #31 | 24 points by quantified 2 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Apache Kafka MCP Server (kafbat.io)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by germanosin 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: MultiDrive – a free app to clone, backup, erase drives (UI/CLI) (multidrive.io)
    ×2.50 29 | 4 points by raydenvm 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: The Montana MiniComputer (montana.edu)
    ×1.25 84 | 110 points by recursivedoubts 3 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: I made a web app for structured podcast summaries (wisdomsnap.com)
    ×1.70 170 | 10 points by bardonadam 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: A WordPress MCP Server – Connect Claude Desktop to WordPress via AI (github.com/docdyhr)
    ×0.30 174 | 3 points by docdyhr 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Improving search ranking with chess Elo scores (zeroentropy.dev)
    ×1.06 176 | 193 points by ghita_ 1 week ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Software Development at 800 Words per Minute (neurrone.com)
    ×1.47 20 #80 | 169 points by ClawsOnPaws 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google (reddit.com)
    ×7.50 47 | 995 points by cft 1 day ago | 657 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Apple's MLX adding CUDA support (github.com/ml-explore)
    ×2.32 149 | 548 points by nsagent 2 weeks ago | 203 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Nothing to watch – Experimental gallery visualizing 50k film posters (port80.ch)
    ×1.24 3 #4 | 69 points by bj-rn 3 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Structural-Demographic Theory (peterturchin.com)
    ×0.78 39 #67 | 26 points by rzk 15 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Inference-Time Techniques for High-Quality, Low-Latency Speech Generation (medium.com)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by ibobev 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Portrait of a Young Doge Coder Dismantling America's Institutions (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.80 48 | 4 points by JumpCrisscross 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Mistral Releases Deep Research, Voice, Projects in Le Chat (mistral.ai)
    ×2.86 115 | 662 points by pember 1 week ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Ozzy Osbourne has died (bbc.co.uk)
    ×8.87 65 | 608 points by fantunes 6 days ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. When we get Komooted (bikepacking.com)
    ×3.18 8 | 454 points by atakan_gurkan 2 days ago | 264 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Graphene OS: a security-enhanced Android build (lwn.net)
    ×3.67 40 | 731 points by madars 4 days ago | 545 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. 4k NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program (kcrw.com)
    ×3.54 5 | 500 points by ProAm 2 days ago | 700 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. The current hype around autonomous agents, and what actually works in production (utkarshkanwat.com)
    ×3.64 103 | 427 points by Dachande663 1 week ago | 256 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Hacker News SPA Mode (resig-js.vercel.app)
    ×1.11 164 | 4 points by revskill 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Trump's AI Action Plan [pdf] (whitehouse.gov)
    ×1.36 | 2 points by Reechik 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Qwen3-Coder: Agentic coding in the world (qwenlm.github.io)
    ×3.42 58 | 762 points by danielhanchen 6 days ago | 364 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Convert from MIDI file to ASCII tablature (and more) (github.com/scottvr)
    ×1.26 181 | 5 points by ycombiredd 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. The Vatican observatory looks to the heavens (newyorker.com)
    ×0.70 44 #34 | 64 points by pseudolus 15 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. What would an efficient and trustworthy meeting culture look like? (abitmighty.com)
    ×1.42 35 #54 | 168 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Code Execution Through Deception: Gemini AI CLI Hijack (tracebit.com)
    ×4.38 71 | 6 points by uponasmile 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Red Flags for Waymo in Boston (marginalrevolution.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by marc__1 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Cant, rust nn lib for learning (github.com/TuckerBMorgan)
    ×0.72 195 | 3 points by TuckerBMorgan 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: WTFfmpeg – Natural Language to FFmpeg Translator (github.com/scottvr)
    ×1.09 147 | 87 points by ycombiredd 6 days ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: RcloneView – A GUI for Rclone to Manage and Sync Cloud Storage
    ×1.40 200 | 13 points by newclone 5 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: 433 – How to make a font that says nothing (sonnet.io)
    ×0.75 34 #52 | 39 points by rpastuszak 13 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Hypernormalization: Systems are crumbling – but daily life continues (theguardian.com)
    ×0.86 | 2 points by tummler 5 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Local LLM Agents – Do they work? (hexeditreality.com)
    ×1.25 | 2 points by llllm 56 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. The UK planning to ban VPN (gbnews.com)
    ×2.90 43 | 4 points by miohtama 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???