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  1. Why is music so much easier for AI than code?
    ×0.46 | 2 points by htlemur_bobby 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Thoughts on AI in Personal Finance?
    ×0.24 53 | 3 points by foxtrot8672 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What are you running locally on your machine with LLMs?
    ×0.45 62 | 3 points by agcat 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Fable July 12th disclaimer disappears from Claude Code
    ×0.31 58 | 6 points by gorgmah 9 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: I am not able to find a job. Should I switch stacks?
    ×0.25 68 | 11 points by need_a_work23 15 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Who has been caught out by this anti-pattern from Google?
    ×0.20 82 | 4 points by Monotoko 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Where'd Codex Go?
    ×0.65 57 | 6 points by aleshh 8 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: HN frontpage feels boring now?
    ×0.96 64 | 43 points by xeonmc 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Reality of Commercial AI World from a 16 Year Old's Perspective
    ×0.17 | 2 points by VanshAgenticAI 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Ubuntu 24.04 now force-automounts any plugged-in MMC card or USB key
    ×0.33 | 2 points by everybodyknows 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: I hate coding agents. Is this skill issue?
    ×1.51 78 | 9 points by cmar00 18 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?
    ×1.17 124 | 204 points by yehiaabdelm 6 days ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Where are the good search engines for mathematical formulas?
    ×0.51 104 | 56 points by lo0dot0 5 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. How to feel safe delegating to AI agents?
    ×0.06 | 2 points by danicuki 15 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Is GitHub preparing to go behind a login wall?
    ×0.66 98 | 55 points by reconnecting 2 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Any good replacements for "Refined Hacker News?"
    ×0.09 | 2 points by gwbas1c 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Is Google NERFing AI Mode?
    ×0.19 118 | 3 points by PaulHoule 16 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: What's the Fuzz about Taste?
    ×0.19 | 2 points by pls-dnt-deploy 16 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Who is running the abusive scrapers?
    ×0.84 77 | 9 points by jonatron 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Tell HN: Who wants to be hired" posts outpace "Who's hiring" 2 to 1
    ×1.05 105 | 55 points by santiagobasulto 2 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: How long has it been since you last opened Stack Overflow?
    ×0.47 123 | 3 points by novoreorx 18 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Asker: A Socratic AI auditing agent using 3D cross-verification
    ×0.20 | 2 points by tygerlee 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: How you manage local long lived research projects and LLM's?
    ×0.22 127 | 6 points by ripplefringe 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Dev Jr Developer
    ×0.54 126 | 3 points by edoschenone 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. CashFlow – Open-source debt minimization using graph algorithms and WASM
    ×0.26 | 2 points by SanishKumar 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)
    ×1.08 128 | 246 points by whoishiring 1 week ago | 399 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Are systems ready for the first negative leap second?
    ×0.45 129 | 11 points by Asmod4n 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Teller.io shuts down at the end of the week
    ×1.46 106 | 7 points by dmonn 23 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Life with Hazard Ratios (dynomight.net)
    ×0.79 23 #12 | 21 points by surprisetalk 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. How to Start a Ruby Meetup (rubyevents.org)
    ×0.88 12 #42 | 62 points by mooreds 11 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: I built a web tool to see and edit what an AI thinks before it answers (earthpilot.ai)
    ×0.79 29 #52 | 25 points by ada1981 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. I wrote about how we used Conway's Law to fix legacy architecture (one2n.io)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by chinmay185 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Microsoft's emissions surged 25% in 2025 during data center boom (fortune.com)
    ×1.08 13 | 3 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. A software engineering interview question I like: computing the median (krisshamloo.com)
    ×1.42 50 | 69 points by speckx 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: LinguaGuessr – GeoGuessr for the Ear (levelbrook.com)
    ×0.98 111 | 3 points by entaroadun123 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives (howtogeek.com)
    ×3.13 39 #77 | 349 points by Gedxx 21 hours ago | 245 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. LKML-reader: a Rust-based interactive reader for Linux Kernel Mailing Lists (github.com/RinHizakura)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by RinHizakura 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. EU now one step away from reviving private message scanning rules (cyberinsider.com)
    ×3.56 19 | 450 points by ggirelli 1 day ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Can you run every line of code in Super Mario Bros.? (youtube.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by badc0ffee 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Virena, a minimal vision-language-action robot model you can read (github.com/BuceaGeorgia)
    ×0.91 | 2 points by georgia_bucea 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ingit – Git GUI that runs in the browsers (github.com/capaj)
    ×0.80 52 #84 | 5 points by Capaj 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Think you can win on prediction markets? Here's why you're more likely to lose (cbc.ca)
    ×1.16 | 2 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. InternNav – Navigation Toolbox (github.com/InternRobotics)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by rickcarlino 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Windows Drops Under 60% in Global Desktop OS Share for the First Time in Years (linuxiac.com)
    ×4.56 56 | 105 points by hkmaxpro 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Exit Chat Control (exitchatcontrol.org)
    ×18.93 76 | 32 points by mparramon 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break in the next war (westpoint.edu)
    ×2.29 8 #14 | 343 points by baud147258 16 hours ago | 422 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Focus (boz.com)
    ×1.88 29 #36 | 87 points by iacguy 5 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Promising inference software, written in Zig (zml.ai)
    ×0.99 | 1 points by sachamorard 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Omegle for Weed (omeweed.com)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by mmorga71 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: OCR-grab: Flameshot clone that adds OCR (github.com/talalalrwas)
    ×2.29 103 | 6 points by tgol 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Magpie-search, Federated, local-first search for an AI (github.com/xfloukiex-lab)
    ×0.43 | 2 points by VektorGeist 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Best Job Oriented Courses in India: Guide, Rules and Benefits (smfgindiacredit.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by saumyaraut11 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Ukraine's Drones Are Now Reaching Siberia and Imperiling Russian Energy Assets (wsj.com)
    ×1.26 | 2 points by JumpCrisscross 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. GitLost: We Tricked GitHub's AI Agent into Leaking Private Repos (noma.security)
    ×2.49 1 | 534 points by ColinEberhardt 2 days ago | 203 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer (github.com/JustVugg)
    ×2.54 2 #1 | 508 points by vforno 10 hours ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. The ChatGPT browser is dead (theverge.com)
    ×0.96 | 2 points by mattas 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. OpenBSD has a use-after-free allowing local privilege escalation to root (nist.gov)
    ×1.81 15 | 275 points by linggen 1 day ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. OpenMandriva: Statement regarding attempted distribution sabotage (openmandriva.org)
    ×1.03 42 | 129 points by workethics 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Foreman, a self-hosted LLM gateway for cost aware model routing (github.com/Northwood-Systems)
    ×0.61 107 | 15 points by AndrewLiu96 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Gladia CLI: transcribe audio from your terminal in one command (github.com/gladiaio)
    ×1.11 114 | 3 points by jilijeanlouis 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Lisp as the Maxwell's Equations of Software (michaelnielsen.org)
    ×2.32 54 | 3 points by andsoitis 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Cpp2Rust: Automatic Translation of C++ to Safe Rust (github.com/Cpp2Rust)
    ×1.58 28 | 3 points by Jimmc414 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Reform UK leader 'in real trouble' against Count Binface (mirror.co.uk)
    ×2.87 74 | 65 points by jjgreen 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. GLM 5.2 is nearly as accurate as a human book keeper (toot-books.pages.dev)
    ×1.99 11 #30 | 196 points by adamkurkiewicz 11 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. PostHog FOSS (github.com/PostHog)
    ×1.66 26 | 91 points by thatxliner 15 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Self-Hosted AI That Sees, Plays Minecraft, and Reacts (github.com/Alradyin)
    ×1.39 115 | 4 points by Alrady 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source, local-first alternative to Claude Desktop (github.com/rowboatlabs)
    ×1.40 59 | 216 points by segmenta 2 days ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Estimania – Estimation Game (estimania.app)
    ×0.87 | 2 points by vlaad 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Halo – open-source, tamper-evident runtime evidence for AI agents (github.com/bkuan001)
    ×0.61 109 | 37 points by brian_kuan 2 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Spider venom kills varroa mites without harming honeybees (connectsci.au)
    ×1.47 3 #55 | 292 points by Jedd 1 day ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt (sherliker.net)
    ×5.63 17 #60 | 1459 points by speerer 1 day ago | 229 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. China's provinces asked to bail out risk-fraught regional banks (chinabankingnews.com)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by andsoitis 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Florida's OpenAI lawsuit moves to federal court, gets assigned to Aileen Cannon (politico.com)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. SWE-1.7 Reach Near GPT 5.5 and Opus Intelligence (cognition.com)
    ×1.66 10 | 270 points by mekpro 1 day ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. FDA rejects petition to set PFAS limits in food (theguardian.com)
    ×4.85 32 | 217 points by randycupertino 1 day ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Apple Silicon Exec Explains Mac Mini AI Demand and On-Device Future (macrumors.com)
    ×1.92 4 #6 | 42 points by tosh 3 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Netflix Is Exploring Live TV and Bundles as It Struggles to Keep Viewers Hooked (wsj.com)
    ×1.02 | 2 points by mikhael 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Microsoft releases Flint, a visualization language for AI agents (microsoft.github.io)
    ×1.72 8 | 341 points by chenglong-hn 1 day ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Hnwork.app – UI for Who is hiring posts (hnwork.app)
    ×0.58 89 | 24 points by scottilee 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: ContextNest versioned, governed context for AI agents (open-source CLI) (promptowl.ai)
    ×2.06 100 | 4 points by sparkystacey 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Study: "Mommy, do you love your phone more than me?" (frontiersin.org)
    ×2.40 9 #7 | 63 points by hbcondo714 5 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Cargo-nextest: 3x faster than cargo test, per-test isolation, first-class CI (nexte.st)
    ×1.17 37 #56 | 166 points by nateb2022 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Coordination Without Consolidation: On Systems of States [pdf] (isonomiaquarterly.com)
    ×0.39 58 #80 | 20 points by brandonlc 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Publishers Are Preparing to Opt Out of Google Search (adweek.com)
    ×1.40 | 2 points by giuliomagnifico 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Turn off this Meta setting before someone generates AI images of you (malwarebytes.com)
    ×0.90 | 1 points by taubek 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Blocks.ai – control plane and network layer for agents (blocks.ai)
    ×0.91 | 2 points by BlocksAI 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Migrating Code by Proof: From F# to Python (logosresearch.ai)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by peterkelly 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. What Happened to OS/2? (youtube.com)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by cable2600 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Mistral's Robostral Navigate: a state of the art robotics navigation model (mistral.ai)
    ×2.08 15 | 482 points by ottomengis 1 day ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. New Sweden: the US's long-lost 'secret' colony (bbc.com)
    ×1.51 29 | 165 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???