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  1. Ask HN: HN frontpage feels boring now?
    ×1.37 30 | 21 points by xeonmc 5 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. non-tech founder + choosing between buying ClaudeCode or CodeX
    ×0.27 | 2 points by virtuallymundo 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: How to recover from thin content or de-indexing penalty on Google
    ×0.80 21 | 3 points by anitroves 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Would you pay to discuss a book with an official AI clone of its author?
    ×1.03 39 | 3 points by briangao 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How you manage local long lived research projects and LLM's?
    ×0.23 90 | 5 points by ripplefringe 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Where are the good search engines for mathematical formulas?
    ×0.53 92 | 56 points by lo0dot0 4 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. VentureBeat Events in San Francisco?
    ×0.10 | 2 points by BriStoller 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Is GitHub preparing to go behind a login wall?
    ×0.67 88 | 54 points by reconnecting 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Opinionated Agent Setup?
    ×0.23 108 | 3 points by lookACamel 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Tell HN: Who wants to be hired" posts outpace "Who's hiring" 2 to 1
    ×1.07 98 | 53 points by santiagobasulto 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?
    ×1.18 120 | 203 points by yehiaabdelm 5 days ago | 203 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What are agent sandboxes missing?
    ×0.26 95 | 5 points by oryx1729 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Nginx Vulnerabilities
    ×0.18 | 2 points by finbot 11 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Why is not using AI considered a form of arrogance?
    ×1.05 77 | 6 points by amichail 8 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2026 [So Far]
    ×0.65 104 | 18 points by AbstractH24 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Are systems ready for the first negative leap second?
    ×0.45 150 | 10 points by Asmod4n 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Does Apple not care about fake apps in the App Store?
    ×0.96 109 | 7 points by pentacent_hq 18 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)
    ×1.08 131 | 246 points by whoishiring 1 week ago | 386 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Tell HN: I managed to unsubscribe from Adobe CC without being charged
    ×0.58 126 | 25 points by frereubu 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. What if users start cloning SaaS using AI
    ×0.60 117 | 7 points by mzubairtahir 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: How do you keep documentation up to date with AI generated code?
    ×0.55 132 | 5 points by ghosts_ 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. I coded a shoot 'em up alone at 18 after learning Lua in a single week
    ×1.36 115 | 10 points by DamixLord 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)
    ×0.81 139 | 151 points by whoishiring 1 week ago | 520 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Tell HN: Fable is now credits only
    ×0.41 136 | 9 points by teruakohatu 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: What is your AI harness that lets you switch LLM models easily?
    ×1.08 123 | 10 points by hbarka 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Another "Hacker News" with less AI and more human-focused hacking news?
    ×3.84 39 | 81 points by weird_trousers 11 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Since when does Craigslist's front page have emojis?
    ×0.33 154 | 40 points by argee 1 week ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Claude has the worst pricing – but people want it
    ×0.60 145 | 11 points by amukbils 2 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Do you have more or less than 1Mb text of your own writing?
    ×0.56 143 | 4 points by cwmoore 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. The AI Policy That Never Shipped (mendelevium.github.io)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by bobbybidon 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Counterfeit Air-Bags Are Killing U.S. Drivers–and the Government Can't Stop It (wsj.com)
    ×1.61 22 | 3 points by fortran77 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Dua Lipa opens library for banned and censored books in Portugal (euronews.com)
    ×3.28 28 | 304 points by pax 1 day ago | 254 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. GPT-5.6 Sol, along with Terra and Luna, will launch publicly this Thursday (twitter.com/OpenAI)
    ×4.43 11 | 235 points by jfrbfbreudh 1 day ago | 203 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Copy That Floppy – Cambridge guide for preserving data from fragile floppy disks (digipres.org)
    ×1.13 4 | 178 points by whiteblossom 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Handsum: An LQIP Image File Format (nigeltao.github.io)
    ×1.69 85 | 5 points by nigeltao 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. NoiseLang: Where N = 5 is a Dirac delta (manualmeida.dev)
    ×0.91 36 #53 | 110 points by manucorporat 19 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Creatine doesn't just build muscle. It may also help fight cancer (sciencedaily.com)
    ×2.43 31 #87 | 29 points by Jimmc414 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Hover over your UI element to get its exact location in code (loerei.github.io)
    ×1.58 105 | 4 points by Loerei 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Bramble – Local-first password manager (github.com/flythenimbus)
    ×2.09 130 | 152 points by MegagramEnjoyer 6 days ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. NPM 12 makes install scripts, Git, and remote-url dependencies opt-in by default (github.blog)
    ×0.87 | 2 points by slymax 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. MacSurf 1.68 – NetSurf on OS 9 Released (github.com/mplsllc)
    ×0.73 79 | 83 points by mplsllc 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Turning a pile of documents into a searchable useable knowledge base (github.com/linuxrebel)
    ×1.19 13 #16 | 107 points by linuxrebe1 8 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Japan's Hayabusa2 probe to conduct flyby of Torifune asteroid (nhk.or.jp)
    ×1.42 23 #49 | 162 points by dvh 19 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Amazon without the knockoffs (knockoff.shopping)
    ×3.05 15 | 326 points by plurby 1 day ago | 260 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Homegames. An open-source game platform I've been making for 8 years (homegames.io)
    ×1.40 96 | 228 points by homegamesjoseph 3 days ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Embeddable visual HTML/CSS page editor (neikiri.dev)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by neikiri 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Grudge: Stochastic data structure for holding multi-tenant grudges (github.com/satmihir)
    ×0.96 | 2 points by jscrab 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Nicasa – A native macOS image viewer with AI tools, OCR, and annotation (w3cub.com)
    ×0.61 114 | 3 points by terryXyz 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. The Second Derivative: Why No One Understands the AI Boom (groundbrkr.com)
    ×2.02 62 #89 | 33 points by ericwaller 17 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro (ariya.io)
    ×2.24 17 | 508 points by speckx 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Focal Harvest – CLI research pipeline to search, scrape and notify (github.com/techno-neighbour)
    ×1.13 152 | 9 points by xlr8_track 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Jellyfish Undersea Roundabout (visitfaroeislands.com)
    ×1.50 54 | 3 points by hydrogen7800 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI (davit.app)
    ×2.10 7 | 379 points by xinit 1 day ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Pretend to Vibe Code, but Meditate (tomreinert.de)
    ×2.34 100 | 5 points by tom2948329494 12 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. TypeScript 7 (microsoft.com)
    ×4.95 14 #25 | 529 points by DanRosenwasser 13 hours ago | 207 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. LineageOS Statistics (lineageos.org)
    ×1.57 27 #73 | 185 points by pentagrama 1 day ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Looksmaxxing influencer who fled police found dead (thetab.com)
    ×1.00 | 2 points by andsoitis 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Two teens learn the hard way not to do toy gun drive-bys from a Waymo (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.41 30 | 3 points by gbourne1 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: My Approach to HTML Obfuscation (github.com/hirasso)
    ×0.49 | 2 points by rasso 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. OpenBSD has a use-after-free allowing local privilege escalation to root (nist.gov)
    ×1.85 6 #39 | 256 points by linggen 16 hours ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Researchers uncover possible cause of muscle pain from cholesterol medication (medicalxpress.com)
    ×2.54 20 #80 | 6 points by brandonb 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Neil the Seal Game (neiltheseal.app)
    ×1.09 66 #83 | 90 points by dalemhurley 1 day ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. What Scientists Learned by Eavesdropping on Thousands of People (newyorker.com)
    ×1.69 | 2 points by petethomas 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: I solved biggest issue for the mainatiners of GitHub
    ×1.51 56 | 3 points by RajX_dev 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. FDA rejects petition to set PFAS limits in food (theguardian.com)
    ×4.95 51 | 205 points by randycupertino 15 hours ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. AI Meets Cryptography 1: What AI Found in Cloudflare's Circl (zksecurity.xyz)
    ×0.84 70 | 111 points by duha 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Abralo – Free, easy way to run several Claude Code agents in one window (abralo.com)
    ×0.89 47 #71 | 13 points by cwbuilds 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Catastrophe theory; geniuses and maniacs (2011) (glassbottomblog.blogspot.com)
    ×0.58 41 #82 | 34 points by mbustamanter 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Requirements Engineering with Formal Verification (fizzbee.ai)
    ×6.89 50 | 19 points by jayaprabhakar 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. l: A new runtime for k and q (lv1.sh)
    ×1.05 51 | 173 points by skruger 1 day ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Geosql: A Claude/Codex skill for geospatial data (github.com/dekart-xyz)
    ×0.95 38 #50 | 127 points by rzk 20 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Together for a Healthier Clippy (rust-lang.org)
    ×1.44 49 | 3 points by droidjj 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Feds demand autonomous vehicle companies stop interfering with first responders (techcrunch.com)
    ×0.97 | 2 points by rilan 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. The DuckDB ADBC Extension (columnar.tech)
    ×0.95 | 2 points by jonbaer 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. A better way to tie gym shorts (or any drawstring) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.48 6 | 531 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Monogram, AI app with on the fly generation (monogram.ai)
    ×2.98 78 | 9 points by edouard1234567 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: KiCad in the Browser (pcbjam.com)
    ×1.12 113 | 108 points by ViktorEE 3 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Cargo-nextest: 3x faster than cargo test, per-test isolation, first-class CI (nexte.st)
    ×1.11 23 #8 | 23 points by nateb2022 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Onboard-CLI, a LLM powered and AST-based tool to visualize codebase (github.com/animesh-94)
    ×0.41 32 #67 | 22 points by yr_animesh 9 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. The library of lost journals 603 pages novel fiction book (google.com)
    ×0.95 | 2 points by mjbachhav 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source, local-first alternative to Claude Desktop (github.com/rowboatlabs)
    ×1.40 34 | 213 points by segmenta 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: I ran 70 MCP servers in a sandbox and logged what they do (github.com/BhaveshThapar)
    ×1.81 73 | 5 points by bthapar 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Free Mermaid Diagram Editor (moxiedocs.com)
    ×0.98 83 | 49 points by ghosts_ 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Google Earth Pro desktop downloads will end in 2027 (google.com)
    ×3.49 27 #90 | 8 points by linzhangrun 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Global Cancer Observatory – interactive visualization and data explore
    ×0.55 | 1 points by andsoitis 46 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Auto compiles recorded LLM-agent behavior into verified WASM binaries (github.com/RightNow-AI)
    ×0.89 | 2 points by mooreds 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Europe's company websites are mostly served by US vendors (ciphercue.com)
    ×1.75 47 | 251 points by adulion 1 day ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. AI software that generates 'rage bait' developed by Germany's far-right AfD (irishtimes.com)
    ×1.62 | 2 points by giuliomagnifico 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Atelier - open source, honest 30% savings on Claude code. (github.com/atelier-ws)
    ×0.87 | 2 points by pankaj4u4m 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Tenda firmware (multiple versions) contains hidden authentication backdoor (cert.org)
    ×1.78 16 | 347 points by miniBill 1 day ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???