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  1. Ask HN: Instagram blocked my new account what can I do?
    ×0.55 12 | 3 points by coreyp_1 1 hour ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?
    ×1.44 50 #88 | 187 points by yehiaabdelm 1 day ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Happy Independence Day
    ×1.85 18 | 31 points by GauntletWizard 14 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tell HN: Megalodon.jp is faster than archive.today and doesn't require reCAPTCHA
    ×0.48 | 2 points by Cider9986 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. I can build anything, but only the void sees it
    ×1.44 80 | 7 points by urbanogt5 10 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: America turns 250 today. What does it mean to you?
    ×1.85 68 | 11 points by abixb 12 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)
    ×1.08 105 | 241 points by whoishiring 3 days ago | 310 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. I built a environment reloader for Windows Shells
    ×0.41 103 | 3 points by byjonas 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Retrieval is not the future of AI – if it was, Google would have won already
    ×0.95 104 | 3 points by lamprouge 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Since when does Craigslist's front page have emojis?
    ×0.34 129 | 39 points by argee 4 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Where are the good search engines for mathematical formulas?
    ×0.21 | 2 points by lo0dot0 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)
    ×0.81 119 | 147 points by whoishiring 3 days ago | 448 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: When will the stock market crash?
    ×2.58 3 | 8 points by roschdal 5 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Where can I find or get in contact with farmers specifically in the US?
    ×0.94 135 | 6 points by strapchay 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Why are so many "AI evangelists" posting such insufferable content?
    ×1.82 120 | 60 points by seattle_spring 2 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Fable 5. Safety Taken to an Extreme
    ×1.07 116 | 9 points by sergeysmirnov 21 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. How many failed startups have you launched?
    ×0.57 125 | 18 points by steelebillings 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Tell HN: Installing Cursor on iOS irreversibly changes your privacy settings
    ×1.90 117 | 247 points by zkldi 4 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Tell HN: Fewer PRs done with proper prompting, review, and refinement wins
    ×0.71 149 | 7 points by tomerbd 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Tell HN: Old Reddit now requires login
    ×2.95 124 | 86 points by jay_kyburz 3 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. SponsorBlock Critical Security Vulnerabilities
    ×0.42 170 | 3 points by IDIRIS 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Claude Fable is useless for bioinformaticians
    ×1.06 153 | 6 points by iqbal1980 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: New employeer not providing equipment
    ×1.23 40 | 28 points by gl9 7 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Where is the programming profession going?
    ×1.07 171 | 166 points by syntaxbush 1 week ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Seattle Just Had an Earthquake
    ×0.54 169 | 13 points by tobinfekkes 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Secure wrapper for coding agents?
    ×0.32 177 | 20 points by rjzzleep 4 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Happy Independence Day
    ×1.98 106 | 5 points by Velocifyer 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. I'm opening VSCode less and less every day
    ×1.40 164 | 21 points by othmanosx 3 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Cadreen – memory, governance, self-healing, and execution as one system
    ×0.89 155 | 5 points by ope_john 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. My ASN Journey series (2024) (animmouse.com)
    ×0.91 | 1 points by antonalekseev 5 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. 60% Fable cost cut by converting code to images and having the model OCR it (github.com/teamchong)
    ×3.70 5 | 297 points by dimitropoulos 1 day ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Factories are just rooms (interconnected.org)
    ×1.61 5 | 276 points by arbesman 1 day ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Rust Coreutils cp Ended Up Breaking Ubuntu Image Builds with Incompatibility (phoronix.com)
    ×12.47 83 | 66 points by Bender 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Using Wake-on-LAN for an AI Project (medium.com)
    ×0.44 | 2 points by guilhermef 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Dockside – I turned unused space around the macOS Dock into a workspace (hachipoo.com)
    ×0.51 159 | 5 points by prajwalshetty 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: QR code renderer in a TrueType font (jim.sh)
    ×1.77 130 | 81 points by foodevl 1 week ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. How to Enjoy John Ashbery (joshuacorey.substack.com)
    ×0.29 60 #27 | 3 points by Caiero 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Maybe you should learn something (marginalia.nu)
    ×3.08 10 #44 | 430 points by tylerdane 1 day ago | 193 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Wordgard: In-browser rich-text editor from the creator of ProseMirror (wordgard.net)
    ×1.73 41 #65 | 323 points by indy 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Leanstral 1.5: Proof abundance for all (mistral.ai)
    ×1.58 19 #74 | 358 points by programLyrique 1 day ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Reticulum Is Interesting (bergie.iki.fi)
    ×1.84 35 | 4 points by bergie 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. David Beazley – Programming Courses (dabeaz.com)
    ×2.42 14 | 138 points by gregsadetsky 22 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Commodore 64 Basic for PostgreSQL (thombrown.blogspot.com)
    ×0.73 96 | 71 points by hans_castorp 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: TaskPeace – a task queue my AI coding agents pull work from over MCP (taskpeace.com)
    ×0.32 156 | 7 points by JulianQuinn 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Fortress – open-source Chromium that keeps browser agents unblocked (github.com/tiliondev)
    ×0.82 139 | 7 points by arhamislam5766 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Sea Surface Temperature, Live (maps.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by akashwadhwani35 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Zo Computer (zo.computer)
    ×1.34 33 | 11 points by erhuve 4 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Brawndo Plasma Thermos Makes What Plants Crave [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.43 67 | 3 points by westurner 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. I Wasn't Allowed Prompting ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk: This Is Discrimination (2025) (inpreparation.substack.com)
    ×3.53 8 | 224 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Hackers shoveled snow for company, were rewarded with network admin access (theregister.com)
    ×1.93 77 | 92 points by ike_usawa 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: ContextCodeCache in Rust (github.com/colwill)
    ×0.46 126 | 12 points by colwont 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Protocol Prying: Vulnerability Research in AirDrop and Quick Share (arxiv.org)
    ×0.54 44 #25 | 20 points by logickkk1 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Egg consumption inversely correlated with Alzheimer's (nih.gov)
    ×2.68 22 #30 | 54 points by natbennett 3 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Costco's growing cool factor attracts younger audiences (seattletimes.com)
    ×2.40 11 | 5 points by TMWNN 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Applied Category Theory Course (2018) (ucr.edu)
    ×1.14 28 | 144 points by measurablefunc 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Cyclearchive.com – search vintage cycling magazines (cyclearchive.com)
    ×0.35 152 | 22 points by alastairr 1 week ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Mapping with In-Memory Layers to Reduce LLM Overload (ridgetext.com)
    ×0.78 30 #22 | 14 points by Buckwheat469 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. New DNA technology leads to identification of Revolutionary War soldier (cbsnews.com)
    ×1.00 | 2 points by jnord 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Morph Reflexes (morphllm.com)
    ×1.25 50 | 3 points by handfuloflight 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally (github.com/jamesob)
    ×1.70 15 | 398 points by livestyle 1 day ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Software, from First Principles (fazamhd.com)
    ×2.05 29 | 134 points by faza 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Gavio: open-source interceptor pipeline for production LLM applications (github.com/manojmallick)
    ×0.71 165 | 3 points by cees007 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Reading Assistant Physical Books Meta RayBans
    ×0.87 | 2 points by roshangill 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. President pardons 9 for Clean Air violations for 'fixing their car' (msn.com)
    ×5.19 22 #31 | 8 points by OutOfHere 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: WifeBench – My wife vibes LLM rankings (wifebench.com)
    ×1.10 | 2 points by fristovic 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Pixel a Go-Go – GameBoy Camera and retro screenshot upscaling for iOS (cameron.software)
    ×0.35 | 2 points by CameronBanga 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. BareMetal RAM Dumper – Bare-metal x86 tool for Cold Boot Attack experiments (github.com/pIat0n)
    ×0.76 13 #32 | 59 points by liffik 10 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Curveball (mightyburger.net)
    ×0.55 28 #37 | 52 points by toilet 12 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Mama Look a White Dove (extelligence.substack.com)
    ×1.92 17 #61 | 14 points by Aloha 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. MITS - Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (abortretry.fail)
    ×0.48 92 #83 | 7 points by rbanffy 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. If I designed a Commodore Phone (retrogamecoders.com)
    ×1.15 44 | 3 points by ibobev 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. The Declaration of Independence (acoup.blog)
    ×1.81 33 | 4 points by colonCapitalDee 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Heuristics for lab robotics, and where its future may go (owlposting.com)
    ×0.30 76 #45 | 10 points by abhishaike 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. OpenScience: Workbench for scientific research using custom LLMs (github.com/synthetic-sciences)
    ×1.28 76 #75 | 11 points by ignoramous 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. PostgreSQL and the OOM killer: Why we use strict memory overcommit (ubicloud.com)
    ×1.07 47 #85 | 189 points by furkansahin 1 day ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. You Feel Exhausted Without Having "Done" Anything Physically (facilethings.com)
    ×2.25 34 | 5 points by vinhnx 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. French Police Dismantle Operation Behind the Defunct YggTorrent (torrentfreak.com)
    ×0.79 | 2 points by gslin 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Gemma 3 inference in pure C++ with Metal acceleration (github.com/ybubnov)
    ×0.38 122 | 3 points by ybubnov 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Record-breaking solo rower Kelsey Pfendler arrives in Hawaii (hawaiinewsnow.com)
    ×2.40 28 #18 | 8 points by MaysonL 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. CloudsLinker: Move and sync files across 50 cloud services (cloudslinker.com)
    ×0.40 41 #34 | 10 points by janandonly 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Postgres data stored in Parquet on S3: LTAP architecture explained (databricks.com)
    ×1.38 6 #68 | 171 points by andrenotgiant 22 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Nvidia Has Become the Bank Behind the AI Boom (startupfortune.com)
    ×1.10 9 #89 | 7 points by insanetechh 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. The Quest to Make Humanoid Robots Safe Enough for Humans (wsj.com)
    ×0.87 | 2 points by bookofjoe 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: A graph paper generator that renders vector PDFs in the browser (freegraphpaper.net)
    ×1.15 109 | 106 points by lam_hg94 2 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Hacker News but as Tweets (hackernews-reader.pages.dev)
    ×0.50 174 | 3 points by ashu1461 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Verizon is about to break our Gizmo watches (jefftk.com)
    ×1.53 18 #36 | 149 points by jefftk 10 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Obsidian AI Setup – Bootstrap a Personalized Obsidian Vault with AI (github.com/anliberant)
    ×1.35 54 | 3 points by javatuts 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Quick and dirty inter-agent collaboration (github.com/ovidiuiliescu)
    ×0.98 121 | 4 points by ovvyblabla 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Jellyfish can heal wounds in minutes. Scientists want their secrets (mbl.edu)
    ×1.37 7 #4 | 69 points by hhs 5 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Please stop the AI confidence theater (elenaverna.com)
    ×4.81 26 | 232 points by skadamat 1 day ago | 255 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???