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  1. How many failed startups have you launched?
    ×0.65 5 #53 | 7 points by steelebillings 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Since when does Craigslist's front page have emojis?
    ×0.35 54 | 37 points by argee 2 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)
    ×1.08 49 | 239 points by whoishiring 2 days ago | 288 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Why are so many "AI evangelists" posting such insufferable content?
    ×1.78 45 | 50 points by seattle_spring 22 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)
    ×0.82 62 | 145 points by whoishiring 2 days ago | 419 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Tell HN: Old Reddit now requires login
    ×3.19 69 | 81 points by jay_kyburz 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Tell HN: Installing Cursor on iOS irreversibly changes your privacy settings
    ×1.93 67 | 246 points by zkldi 2 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. AskHN: Using 'claude -p' for running Mr.Jassy - AWS butler agent
    ×0.22 | 2 points by anoop_kumar 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Reducing AI costs with smart pricing
    ×0.32 | 2 points by millereffect 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. AI coding is a nightmare. Am I the only one experiencing this?
    ×1.85 7 | 58 points by sollawen 13 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Burned out, how do I get out of the rut?
    ×0.89 85 | 7 points by brandgefahr 19 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Once you make your money from vibe coding innumerable products, then?
    ×0.27 | 2 points by keepamovin 14 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: How do you get your open-source product good traction?
    ×0.71 87 | 4 points by akarshhegde18 14 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Seattle Just Had an Earthquake
    ×0.54 102 | 11 points by tobinfekkes 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Rust sort_unstable_by with more complex closure unexpectedly shrunk binary
    ×0.38 105 | 6 points by tracyspacy 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Best Local LLM Setup for a 128GB M4 Max Mac Studio?
    ×1.75 76 | 7 points by linzhangrun 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. I'm opening VSCode less and less every day
    ×1.50 97 | 19 points by othmanosx 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Secure wrapper for coding agents?
    ×0.33 128 | 20 points by rjzzleep 3 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Where is the programming profession going?
    ×1.07 131 | 165 points by syntaxbush 1 week ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Stopping token burn because of agents sticking in a loop
    ×0.15 | 2 points by driftguard 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Are Claude models broken with the Fable 5 update?
    ×0.75 124 | 7 points by jackjd 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Will AI force CS to focus on what to build instead of how to build it?
    ×0.18 | 2 points by amichail 22 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Should I go open-source or give free trial and then charge the users?
    ×0.70 110 | 4 points by akarshhegde18 22 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: What things might help me to become inference engineer?
    ×0.51 134 | 4 points by chalshik 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Line by Line Agentic Coding
    ×0.63 129 | 6 points by notshore 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. An American Privacy Emergency (scottaaronson.blog)
    ×2.76 17 #42 | 372 points by flowercalled 16 hours ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. 60% Fable cost cut by converting code to images and having the model OCR it (github.com/teamchong)
    ×2.33 23 #51 | 5 points by dimitropoulos 45 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. AI Agent ransomware attack through Langflow instance by exploiting CVE-2025-3248 (sysdig.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by smurda 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. ZCode – Harness for GLM-5.2 (z.ai)
    ×2.07 3 | 503 points by chvid 1 day ago | 350 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Fable 5 is Back (twitter.com/claudeai)
    ×4.13 19 | 407 points by mfiguiere 1 day ago | 415 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Mortality associated with non-optimal ambient temperatures from 2000 to 2019 (researchgate.net)
    ×0.92 75 | 73 points by simonebrunozzi 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Imagent – agentic image/video/speech generation (github.com/unliftedq)
    ×0.32 83 | 4 points by unliftedq 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Commodore 64 Basic for PostgreSQL (thombrown.blogspot.com)
    ×0.76 22 #22 | 43 points by hans_castorp 7 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. The Information Theory Behind Why AI Writing Sucks (pangram.com)
    ×0.83 | 1 points by malshe 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Dial Town (jamiedolan.com)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by rrotaru 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Learn Vim motions with an ice-cream van (thisismodest.com)
    ×1.30 55 | 121 points by marcusmichaels 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers (2013) (escapepod.org)
    ×1.86 61 | 116 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: U.S. Declaration of Independence but as Google Doc Version History (willmeye.rs)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by willmeyers 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Mistral vs. Claude on our onboarding: 4× faster, 30% cheaper (squidler.io)
    ×1.53 1 | 3 points by tidbeck 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: SwiftShrink – compress an image to an exact KB size, in the browser (swiftshrink.com)
    ×1.54 118 | 5 points by Talha_Asjad 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Egaki – create videos with code and MDX files (egaki.org)
    ×0.93 | 2 points by xmorse 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Wordgard: The new in-browser rich-text editor from the creator of ProseMirror (wordgard.net)
    ×1.53 7 #12 | 150 points by indy 7 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Example prompt orchestrations to navigate complicated multi-step workflows (graphthinking.blogspot.com)
    ×1.28 | 2 points by physicsgraph 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Kimi K2.7 Code is generally available in GitHub Copilot (github.blog)
    ×1.97 6 | 415 points by unliftedq 1 day ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Valve open source the Steam Machine e-ink screen so you can make your own (gamingonlinux.com)
    ×3.68 8 #10 | 251 points by ahlCVA 3 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Since Linux 6.9, LUKS suspend stopped wiping disk-encryption keys from memory (mathstodon.xyz)
    ×2.00 18 #21 | 517 points by IngoBlechschmid 1 day ago | 217 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. The Polycentric Production of Global Public Goods [pdf] (isonomiaquarterly.com)
    ×0.87 | 1 points by brandonlc 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. I stopped using a split keyboard (parsam.io)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by pzrsa 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Hunting a 16-year-old SQLite WAL bug with TLA+ (ubuntu.com)
    ×1.67 7 #8 | 40 points by peterparker204 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Apricot Computers: An underrated British brand (dfarq.homeip.net)
    ×0.63 43 #85 | 41 points by giuliomagnifico 18 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. CurXecute: When a Slack message rewrites your editor's config and runs code (medium.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by syumei 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Qualcomm Linux 2.0 (qualcomm.com)
    ×1.07 57 | 134 points by gilgamesh3 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: ctx – Search the coding agent history already on your machine (github.com/ctxrs)
    ×1.21 44 | 36 points by luca-ctx 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. My Dad Helped Build North America's Oat Supply Chain: Can It Be Remade? (ambrook.com)
    ×1.37 14 #16 | 10 points by surprisetalk 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Immich 3.0 (github.com/immich-app)
    ×4.09 17 #57 | 558 points by hashier 1 day ago | 271 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: PriceProbe – zero-dependency competitor price tracker in Python (github.com/willylam2222-bot)
    ×1.25 91 | 4 points by l2602591158 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Zuckerberg 'Admits' Meta's Layoffs Were Ineffective (eshumarneedi.com)
    ×4.79 30 #35 | 185 points by ExMachina73 3 hours ago | 161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: ZeroFS – A log-structured filesystem for S3 (zerofs.net)
    ×1.04 24 | 126 points by Eikon 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Drop Flap Boards for All (dropflapboard.com)
    ×0.85 | 2 points by PaybackTony 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Techno Kick (technokick.com)
    ×1.67 130 | 5 points by stagas 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Local Reasoning for Global Properties (tratt.net)
    ×0.46 31 #25 | 21 points by mpweiher 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. US residents angry datacenters 'shoved down our throats' are recalling officials (theguardian.com)
    ×1.56 | 2 points by beardyw 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Anatomy of Persistent Memory's 3 Layers: Comparing ContextNest, Mem0 and Zep (promptowl.ai)
    ×0.71 24 #17 | 8 points by sparkystacey 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Exapunks (2018) (zachtronics.com)
    ×1.43 22 #29 | 316 points by yu3zhou4 21 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Podman v6.0.0 (podman.io)
    ×3.22 19 #56 | 610 points by soheilpro 1 day ago | 240 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Why jet engines aren't made in China (aakash.substack.com)
    ×2.32 36 #84 | 301 points by paulpauper 1 day ago | 286 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. The primary purpose of code review is to find code that will be hard to maintain (mathstodon.xyz)
    ×2.75 23 #89 | 365 points by ColinWright 1 day ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Google loses fight against record €4.1B EU antitrust fine (reuters.com)
    ×0.81 | 1 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Launch HN: Manufact (YC S25) – MCP Cloud (manufact.com)
    ×0.58 53 #65 | 108 points by pzullo 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Perform DFU Restores on Apple Silicon Macs with Macvdmtool (2021) (bkurtz.io)
    ×0.42 53 #79 | 24 points by gregsadetsky 14 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Rust Coreutils cp Ended Up Breaking Ubuntu Image Builds with Incompatibility (phoronix.com)
    ×0.85 | 1 points by Bender 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Iberdrola kicks off its first large-scale battery project in the US (electrek.co)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by Bender 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. H-1B Visas Skyrocket Despite Trump Admin Crackdown (newsweek.com)
    ×1.93 36 | 3 points by pseudolus 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Visualizing Contrastive Language-Audio Pretraining (Clap) (adamsohn.com)
    ×0.99 113 | 3 points by dataviz1000 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. How working with a blind client revealed invisible accessibility gaps (iinteractive.com)
    ×0.75 27 #18 | 68 points by fortyseven 9 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Skillsaw: Lints the files that steer your AI coding agents (skillsaw.org)
    ×1.43 | 2 points by sea-gold 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Notion pulled itself back from the brink of failure (2019) (figma.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by downbad_ 30 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. The Other Kind of Digital Garden (thelinell.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by Linell 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Qwilfight – A Pokémon-themed Battleship-like game (sepia.top)
    ×1.13 | 2 points by simjnd 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Claudoro, Pomodoro timer embedded in the Claude Code statusline (github.com/emson)
    ×0.49 60 | 48 points by emson 2 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Mirrors – test AI agent changes by replaying production traces (runmirrors.com)
    ×2.24 82 | 7 points by aisinghal 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Declaw Arena – a CTF-style challenge to break an AI agent in a microVM (declaw.ai)
    ×2.77 80 | 8 points by ShivamNayak11 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: 4isX – A game to make the target from four digits (akhdan.dev)
    ×1.47 93 | 4 points by akhdanfadh 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: A 155K-param transformer builds a map of a world it's never shown (ankur-chr.github.io)
    ×0.72 | 2 points by ankurchrungoo 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Food for Agile Thought 551: AI Confidence Theater, We Tried Agile; Didn't Work (age-of-product.com)
    ×1.11 | 2 points by swolpers 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Beyond Horizon analysis: Planet Labs – persistent friction (beyondhorizonforesight.substack.com)
    ×1.06 | 2 points by beyondhorizonfs 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Vite+ Beta (voidzero.dev)
    ×1.61 | 230 points by Erenay09 1 day ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. The gauge broke: devs felt 20% faster with AI, measured 19% slower (2025) (intrepidkarthi.com)
    ×3.18 59 | 77 points by intrepidkarthi 1 day ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Curvytron 2, I rewrote my browser party game, 10 years later (curvytron2.com)
    ×0.55 109 | 12 points by tom32i 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Meirro Pro Display, 32" 6K Retina-class, Full Aluminum, anyone heard of them? (meirro.com)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by lisovin 21 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???