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  1. Ask HN: Claude Code or Codex?
    ×0.59 | 9 points by czeizel 6 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
    ×4.70 17 | 1308 points by nprateem 4 days ago | 754 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: I am building a app to deep search bookmarks from browser, X etc.
    ×0.43 39 | 4 points by shafkathullah 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work
    ×3.70 28 | 824 points by nicholasjbs 3 days ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Will Anthropic or OpenAI start offering Chinese open source models?
    ×1.02 4 | 3 points by Risse 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Is surveillance risk chilling your online speech?
    ×1.90 45 | 65 points by Webstir 10 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
    ×1.17 126 | 289 points by david927 1 week ago | 1136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Is there a Moore's Law equivalent for compute/energy use?
    ×0.18 95 | 6 points by cwmoore 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: If you're running LLM bots on HN, can you at least report results?
    ×0.39 85 | 6 points by shtack 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: How are you interviewing engineers in this agentic era?
    ×0.98 73 | 6 points by jcgr 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Favourite science history book of the 20th century?
    ×0.38 80 | 9 points by bawis 20 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Tell HN: TIL accessing old.reddit.com now requires accounts
    ×2.46 56 | 14 points by nanis 16 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Are Rust migrations delivering any benefits?
    ×0.39 107 | 4 points by grandimam 19 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Has anyone here used YC's Paxel?
    ×0.25 | 2 points by voxleone 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. What is LLMs and why is it so important?
    ×0.49 111 | 4 points by anitroves 20 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What are your favorite blogs not about AI?
    ×1.98 48 | 90 points by azhenley 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. LG ThinQ Terms of Use
    ×1.26 100 | 64 points by tedggh 2 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Is anyone using MCP notifications?
    ×0.36 129 | 3 points by ilbert 22 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles
    ×5.80 82 | 1095 points by levkk 1 week ago | 458 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: I stopped fighting AI over-reliance and built a workflow around it
    ×0.53 119 | 4 points by dimonb19a 23 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. I Forgot to Get Excited
    ×0.83 108 | 5 points by bkaae 23 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Help: Using reflection to discovery and invoke methods
    ×0.56 | 2 points by ddddazed 23 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Claude's Unexpected Blind Test: Users = Data = Value?
    ×0.19 | 2 points by Leewen 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Apple should let us schedule work-hours notifications for specific apps
    ×0.26 134 | 3 points by hellowastaken 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Is OpenCode and Kimi K3 better than Claude Code?
    ×0.34 | 2 points by vijayst 10 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Turning the NES into a thermometer using the PPU's $2002 open-bus decay
    ×0.15 135 | 3 points by erspicu 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?
    ×1.47 124 | 136 points by kadhirvelm 6 days ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Ex Situ – Open-source spatial index of displaced cultural artifacts (exsitu.app)
    ×0.58 28 #25 | 43 points by hbyel 9 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. GTFO VR Mod Postmortem (dsprtn.dev)
    ×0.53 55 #56 | 12 points by Dsprtn 10 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Soma Cube Forest (oranlooney.com)
    ×0.90 | 1 points by olooney 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Which model do you use with Pi coding agent?
    ×0.71 | 1 points by theaniketmaurya 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: I build a project management platform around .md files (sfora.ai)
    ×1.46 | 2 points by cordenll 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. My husbands suicide shows theres something very wrong with US insurance industry (statnews.com)
    ×6.68 20 | 143 points by Jimmc414 20 hours ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. The Psychology of Software Teams (routledge.com)
    ×1.43 22 #20 | 132 points by dcre 14 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. I Stopped “Creating Content” (refactoringenglish.com)
    ×2.32 33 #24 | 224 points by mtlynch 22 hours ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Linguin, a live multilingual dictionary for 120 languages (linguin.xyz)
    ×1.52 93 | 5 points by astroscout 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Americans hate AI so much that politicians are losing their jobs over it (fortune.com)
    ×4.17 13 | 56 points by arto 14 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Imud – Gpsd, but for IMUs (github.com/richcreations)
    ×0.74 | 2 points by richcreations 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Formal verification might solve AI's review bottleneck (georgwiese.github.io)
    ×3.58 69 | 4 points by georgwiese 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. The Trump administration's Threat to Scientific Research (marginalrevolution.com)
    ×6.05 14 | 84 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Biggest Probabilistic Computer Turns Noise into Answers (ieee.org)
    ×0.82 59 | 83 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Repolink – Turn any GitHub repo into a tool for any of your projects (github.com/imjszhang)
    ×1.09 79 | 3 points by imjszhang 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. OpenCircuitX (github.com/openlab-x)
    ×0.93 64 #67 | 14 points by firetesterlab 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: TZRO – A Free Local AI Task Offloader (github.com/The18thWarrior)
    ×1.63 | 2 points by the18thwarrior 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Sharper – an AI office agent grounded in your knowledge, with citations (sharper-ai.co)
    ×0.88 121 | 3 points by zhiheng_huang 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Kimi Work (kimi.com)
    ×2.77 3 #9 | 613 points by ms7892 20 hours ago | 251 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Hospital Price Watch: Transparent, Shoppable Hospital Prices (hospitalpricewatch.com)
    ×1.23 92 | 3 points by brad12345 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. An evidence-led wiki for a fast-changing Roblox game (anime-expeditions-wiki.org)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by visiohex 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Tokenminning Is the New Tokenmaxxing (kabalangaspard.substack.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by kg363 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Firefox 153.0 Beta (firefox.com)
    ×3.13 7 | 79 points by Erenay09 23 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: pgwd – PostgreSQL connection alerts with cron exit codes (github.com/hrodrig)
    ×1.17 87 | 3 points by hejeroaz 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Crate – Wireless music manager for Android phones (open source) (github.com/ivancernja)
    ×2.04 101 | 5 points by andout_ 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: LectureToBook – Turn Videos into a PDF/ePub (lecturetobook.com)
    ×1.45 130 | 3 points by h02 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Firefox 153 available with support for Vulkan video decoding, JPEG-XL (phoronix.com)
    ×2.07 9 #46 | 281 points by DemiGuru 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. AI, Vim, and the Illusion of Flow (rosipov.com)
    ×1.43 48 #64 | 41 points by speckx 19 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Engineers find a precise way to grow artificial blood vessels (mit.edu)
    ×1.43 | 2 points by gmays 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Cognikernel- Local Memory for AI Coding Assistants (github.com/KanishkNoir)
    ×0.54 | 2 points by KanishkNoir 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Device Hidden in Cars Across US Leaves Them Vulnerable to Hacking and Paralysis (wired.com)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by dylan604 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: GPU Accelerated Desktop Screen Flash Filter (Photosensitive Epilepsy) (flashfilter.app)
    ×0.59 91 | 7 points by flashfilter 19 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Neuron. Turn a SQL query history into a semantic layer (momentaanalytics.com)
    ×0.76 | 2 points by sandrewsmomenta 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. How to pack ternary numbers in 8-bit bytes (compilade.net)
    ×1.08 13 #12 | 53 points by JoshTriplett 7 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Error Handling vs. Hiding Errors (atomicobject.com)
    ×1.59 | 2 points by ingve 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Qwen 3.8 (twitter.com/Alibaba_Qwen)
    ×3.84 #74 | 953 points by nh43215rgb 2 days ago | 710 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. AI physics on vacation turned into real research in quantum mechanics (nutfieldsecurity.com)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by pizzadad 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Codex Micro on Your Phone (github.com/maxxspotter)
    ×0.44 | 2 points by cvaman 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Apollo 11 Tranquility Base Archive with Analyses (ulix.app)
    ×2.93 104 | 4 points by bethanyhunt 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: A Chrome extension that adds an AI side panel to LeetCode problems (leetcopilot.dev)
    ×0.88 | 2 points by alexwang24 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, and Anthropic's (Potential) Unravelling (emergingtrajectories.com)
    ×2.57 2 #36 | 346 points by cl42 22 hours ago | 317 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. A Mathematical Tribute to the Soccer Ball (nytimes.com)
    ×0.70 39 #63 | 17 points by igonvalue 11 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. We want Texans to know their rights (eff.org)
    ×3.54 12 | 214 points by amarcheschi 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. C64 Basic Dungeon Crawler: Goblin Attack (C64 Basic Part 8) (retrogamecoders.com)
    ×0.64 69 | 86 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Terence McKenna's Mega Bad Trip (2025) (psychedelics.community)
    ×1.38 57 | 120 points by Dimmiwoah 1 day ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Fluidic Network Grid – A branchless control plane in Jax (github.com/PJHkorea)
    ×0.72 | 2 points by PJHkorea 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Recallfox – remember everything you learn (recallfox.com)
    ×0.46 | 2 points by manthan1674 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team (jellyfin.org)
    ×2.91 16 #29 | 303 points by swat535 14 hours ago | 264 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Sigrok – portable, cross-platform, Open-Source signal analysis software suite (sigrok.org)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by gregsadetsky 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: A canvas-based note taking and organizer app (passinote.app)
    ×1.01 70 | 60 points by passiflora96 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Shackle – Deterministic runtime governance for AI agents (github.com/Fame510)
    ×1.08 86 | 3 points by shacklepro 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. I asked 6 AIs to pick a database, 430 times – Postgres wins, Oracle is invisible (opinion-radar.com)
    ×2.28 40 | 3 points by mat6661 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Alphabet shares fall on report its AI model Gemini 3.5 Pro is delayed (cnbc.com)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Wispr-clone – offline push-to-talk dictation for Linux (github.com/twinlights)
    ×1.82 | 2 points by twinlights 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Modder Runs GTA III Inside GTA: San Andreas on an In-Game TV (videocardz.com)
    ×1.79 52 | 107 points by croes 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Wheesper – Start an anonymous discussion with a link (wheesper.com)
    ×0.48 45 | 34 points by whatdoyouthink2 22 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Ekko – post-quantum E2EE layer for Instagram, WhatsApp, Telegram Web (useekko.app)
    ×1.60 60 | 9 points by kvasilev 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat tour of grace cathedral, San Francisco (vincentwoo.com)
    ×1.68 17 #15 | 215 points by akanet 17 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. The drivers behind software delivery inefficiency (acm.org)
    ×0.96 36 #47 | 82 points by qaprof 19 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. How to Abandon Your Climate Commitments and Get Away with It (nytimes.com)
    ×2.46 67 | 70 points by littlexsparkee 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Atomic Physics in Pure Anglo-Saxon (upenn.edu)
    ×0.85 39 #53 | 30 points by xelxebar 13 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Five US tech giants' hidden debts soar to $1.65T on opaque AI funding (nikkei.com)
    ×4.84 87 | 311 points by NordStreamYacht 9 hours ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. AI Projects with Raspberry Pi (raspberrypi.com)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by teleforce 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???