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  1. Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles
    ×6.51 13 #15 | 718 points by levkk 9 hours ago | 322 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
    ×1.47 8 #16 | 164 points by david927 13 hours ago | 537 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Does anyone let AI agents play games just for fun?
    ×0.57 33 #18 | 4 points by nodivbyzero 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: How long do you use your personal laptop before replacing it?
    ×0.79 23 | 5 points by thallavajhula 6 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How do you use LLMs for private discussions?
    ×0.71 55 | 8 points by emerongi 12 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Let's talk about: LinkedIn ghost jobs
    ×0.57 45 | 13 points by xvxvx 15 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Anthropic extends Fable 5 access through July 19
    ×0.36 89 | 3 points by dboreham 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How do you use Vim in the era of AI?
    ×0.96 99 | 47 points by rstagi 2 days ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Why isn't Google indexing information about the AT Protocol?
    ×0.91 70 | 47 points by iameli 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Would filesystem bookmarks be useful in your shell workflow?
    ×0.37 94 | 3 points by manux81 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Has AI changed the quality of HN posts?
    ×0.75 76 | 5 points by codingbuddy 15 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. AI and the Fall of Writing
    ×0.22 | 2 points by Flundstrom2 16 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Recommended technographic API?
    ×0.48 104 | 3 points by Poomba 17 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Whats the Hardest Challenges in AI?
    ×0.58 107 | 3 points by debpalash 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. How does a Dev's job look like in a few years?
    ×0.61 84 | 9 points by korrak 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How do you review AI code?
    ×0.37 88 | 5 points by wonderfuly 18 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. An new try: C++ like program with the same characteristics as rust
    ×0.30 | 2 points by juntz 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Latest Debian 12 update opens MariaDB server to the internet
    ×1.18 86 | 6 points by babuskov 20 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Tell HN: Fable guardrails trigger on random questions
    ×0.87 112 | 6 points by nocoder 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Resources for non-web software architecture?
    ×0.69 124 | 3 points by xqb64 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Tell HN: I De-Googled Myself
    ×1.12 106 | 36 points by degoogled 2 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: List of functional institutions fighting towards a free internet
    ×0.61 | 2 points by ronfriedhaber 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: My father died and I need to find my path
    ×1.43 125 | 9 points by c4kar 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Map of All Known Knowledge
    ×0.77 126 | 8 points by Abhishek000001 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: What was the last task where only a frontier model could do it?
    ×0.73 122 | 24 points by thedebuglife 2 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. One Wikipedia page costs your AI agent 68,000 tokens
    ×0.92 128 | 14 points by arhamislam5766 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: HN frontpage feels boring now?
    ×0.93 127 | 51 points by xeonmc 4 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Bring seamless PQC encryption into every messenger you already use
    ×0.54 129 | 4 points by kvasilev 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Bitemporal provenance in agent memory: What did we believe, when, and why
    ×0.15 | 2 points by shanrizvi 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Concerned about how companies will manage their cloud bill once agents dominate
    ×0.51 | 2 points by abhijeet_gupte 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Google deleting all recently inactive accounts without phone number
    ×2.03 74 | 52 points by superkuh 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Burned Tokens scented candle ideas
    ×0.24 132 | 5 points by Tade0 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: I hate coding agents. Is this skill issue?
    ×1.33 130 | 18 points by cmar00 3 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: I am not able to find a job. Should I switch stacks?
    ×0.23 131 | 12 points by need_a_work23 3 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: AI Photo Editor – Professional-Grade Image Editing with Text Prompts (aiphotoeditor.ai)
    ×1.61 117 | 3 points by vtoolpro 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Containix – Run Nix flakes as Kubernetes pods without images (containix.dev)
    ×1.21 | 2 points by atmask 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Tiny Emulators (floooh.github.io)
    ×1.56 8 #9 | 271 points by naves 14 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: AgentIndexed – a curated AI agent directory, no pay-to-play rankings (agentindexed.com)
    ×1.02 | 2 points by casbattle 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. You fail to learn if you don't learn to fail (seated.ro)
    ×1.65 6 | 3 points by thm 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Count Binface (countbinface.com)
    ×6.69 62 #66 | 293 points by mooreds 7 hours ago | 224 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. BirdyChat now has an API and MCP support (birdy.chat)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by rmesters 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. If Henry Rollins were a bookkeeper (gyurka.nl)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by the_ed 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Debian: Security support for Bookworm handed over to the LTS team (debian.org)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by tapanjk 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Commodore Amiga 500 Artwork (gibbok.github.io)
    ×1.67 32 | 3 points by doener 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Narada – a browser built for agents, under your control (koley.in)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by arkokoley 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. AI 2040 and the cult of intelligence (geohot.github.io)
    ×4.54 8 | 221 points by rvz 1 day ago | 261 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. EU will seek to limit children's access to social media (rte.ie)
    ×1.13 6 #45 | 3 points by austinallegro 54 minutes ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: TrialPilot – clinical trials from your phone, built by a patient
    ×1.09 | 2 points by thenerdhead 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: PitchTrail – Perfect Pitch for Kids (pitchtrail.app)
    ×0.81 68 | 6 points by theckel 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Reame – a CPU inference server that gets faster as it runs (github.com/swellweb)
    ×0.88 65 | 56 points by targetbridge 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: JMT – Java Based MultiTool
    ×1.47 113 | 3 points by shiningpr0xsm 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Automate your link building outreach with one tool (autobacklinks.ai)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by welsenesbros 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Call to Control AI Agents via the Web (diffforge.ai)
    ×1.05 | 2 points by Rizzist 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Billion Dollar PDFs (billiondollarpdf.com)
    ×3.71 54 | 65 points by rafaepta 11 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Wisp – open-source private desktop AI overlay with MCP support (github.com/SunnyLich)
    ×1.64 108 | 3 points by WispAIOverlay 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Beavis Ultrasound PnP ISA Sound Card Replica (github.com/schlae)
    ×0.60 8 #5 | 66 points by mariuz 5 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Protobuf-py: Protobuf for Python, without compromises (buf.build)
    ×1.26 41 #52 | 134 points by ming13 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Billions of Sketches Reveal Hidden Cultural Variation in Human Concepts (arxiv.org)
    ×1.25 35 #84 | 130 points by Anon84 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: 18 Words (18words.com)
    ×4.23 23 #85 | 1148 points by pompomsheep 3 days ago | 358 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Fable extended until 19 July (twitter.com/claudeai)
    ×5.48 34 | 87 points by protoman3000 17 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Hologram, photo management and culling built with Tauri (github.com/ThatXliner)
    ×0.63 79 | 3 points by thatxliner 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Artificiety – Agentic society in a fantasy world (artificiety.world)
    ×0.88 | 2 points by Haldt 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k (systima.ai)
    ×3.54 12 #23 | 604 points by systima 16 hours ago | 327 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. How Tech reporting moved into the physical world (theguardian.com)
    ×1.63 7 | 3 points by thm 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Woman in Brazil enslaved for 55 years by 3 generations of the same family (elpais.com)
    ×5.83 33 | 155 points by RetroTechie 23 hours ago | 221 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Weightlifting beats running for blood sugar control, researchers find (2025) (vt.edu)
    ×2.86 18 | 144 points by sublinear 1 day ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Making Crash Bandicoot (2011) (all-things-andy-gavin.com)
    ×4.18 24 | 102 points by alexpls 21 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: VectorSim Tool for Visualizing DSP (dsp-coach.com)
    ×0.45 115 | 3 points by jason_s 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: A subjective AI eval. Arcade games built by AI (ai-arcade.app)
    ×0.78 | 2 points by zapeterson16 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Death of the Status Update: Why 55% of Americans Stopped Posting on Social Media (pcmag.com)
    ×2.44 27 #38 | 136 points by thunderbong 1 day ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Chinese AI models are gaining ground with U.S. companies (cnbc.com)
    ×1.78 44 | 3 points by Alien1Being 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Vakh, a social platform for all things (vakh.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by ajaychl 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine (1965) [pdf] (upenn.edu)
    ×1.28 59 | 91 points by zetalyrae 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Mechanistic interpretability researchers applying causality theory to LLMs (acm.org)
    ×1.02 11 #39 | 102 points by adunk 17 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Architecture Description Languages [pdf] (uci.edu)
    ×0.67 8 #62 | 30 points by ascent817 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. MacKenzie Scott's giving, in quality-adjusted life years (maxghenis.com)
    ×2.34 44 #77 | 67 points by 383toast 10 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Major trial finds healthy behaviors help brain health in older adults (nbcnews.com)
    ×1.67 11 | 3 points by vrganj 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Holos: Turn your device into a Fediverse server (holos.social)
    ×1.10 | 2 points by nogajun 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. How Doctors die. It’s not like the rest of us (2016) (cancerworld.net)
    ×3.64 13 | 243 points by downbad_ 1 day ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Leaded gas was a known poison the day it was invented (2016) (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×3.48 16 | 195 points by downbad_ 1 day ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Why study Diophantine equations? (hidden-phenomena.com)
    ×0.82 17 #54 | 71 points by mb1699 19 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Saws, Sewing Machines and Telescopes: Things on Loan from Your Library (kqed.org)
    ×1.90 | 2 points by agnosticmantis 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. A memory-bounded architecture for bursty HTML-to-PDF workloads (adrianani.com)
    ×1.11 | 2 points by adrianani-com 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. ZeroFS vs. Amazon S3 Files (zerofs.net)
    ×1.40 49 | 90 points by cbrewster 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke (raymyers.org)
    ×4.34 #1 | 318 points by crowdhailer 2 hours ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. The Seed Beneath the Snow (eli.li)
    ×0.52 56 #67 | 19 points by surprisetalk 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Tell HN: The Codex App is replaced by ChatGPT
    ×1.24 | 2 points by vintagedave 54 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Personal Biohacking Lab (selfassay.com)
    ×0.78 | 2 points by ainthusiast 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Designing and assembling my first PCB (vilkeliskis.com)
    ×1.10 13 #12 | 119 points by tadasv 12 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Grok Build CLI uploads your whole repo – Git history+.env secrets – to xAI cloud (reddit.com)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by taubek 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???