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  1. Best way to avoid bloat and AI – selfcontaining OS
    ×0.47 1 #54 | 6 points by bialamusic 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What's Your BHAG?
    ×0.79 8 | 4 points by sudo_cowsay 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. What is the downside of coaching that I may not be seeing yet?
    ×0.38 | 2 points by ikut3hva 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Anyone still do work on Intel Macs?
    ×0.65 39 | 19 points by senor_digimon 14 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: When will ChatGPT Voice be able to control my phone?
    ×0.35 | 2 points by spapas82 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. What if we learned languages like we acquired our first?
    ×1.82 28 | 6 points by Salim_wariz 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Created a network that combines Hacker News and geniuses at one place
    ×0.67 | 2 points by silisleek 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. ask HN: How do I run Android 15 on a system with Andr 12 vendors?
    ×0.84 81 | 3 points by KinetiNode 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: I still don't understand why AI agents need "skills"
    ×1.52 58 | 13 points by skeptic_ai 14 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Tell HN: Amazonbot aggressively scraping my website and ignoring robots.txt
    ×1.05 70 | 18 points by pera 19 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How are you using AI to learn?
    ×0.54 95 | 7 points by mfalcon 17 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Am I the only one getting so many cursor ads?
    ×1.32 49 | 3 points by alexander2002 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. AI will always find a difference
    ×0.47 109 | 3 points by ghassenfaidi 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. A daily estimation game where the crowd's answer fights an AI
    ×0.85 | 2 points by holdthelineworl 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Tell HN: HackerOne Announces Mandatory identity verification
    ×0.42 121 | 17 points by 0xmattf 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Best Blogging Platform?
    ×1.06 103 | 5 points by asxndu 18 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: How do you make people notice the cameras watching them?
    ×1.39 76 | 3 points by bogomil 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Which web browser has no AI?
    ×0.77 92 | 10 points by lilerjee 18 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What did you learn last month? (July 2026)
    ×0.44 114 | 14 points by bhu1st 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Should organizations be allowed to have all types of personl data(X.com)
    ×0.64 125 | 4 points by dfps 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: When did we go from agentic loops to graphs?
    ×0.56 126 | 4 points by grandimam 21 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Strategic Oil Reserves Down to a Record Low Two-Week Supply
    ×0.56 140 | 19 points by megamike 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: How did your boss's behavior change with the rise of AI?
    ×0.45 124 | 8 points by aredirect 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Everything that happens in a US airport is under duress
    ×0.53 129 | 16 points by dfps 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Wyro – Draw a backend on a canvas, export TypeScript with no lock-in
    ×0.29 128 | 5 points by Paaul01 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: When a post of yours does well, do you know why?
    ×0.32 148 | 5 points by john_builds 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. OpenAI Usage Reset 4th time in 7d
    ×0.24 | 2 points by bavovna 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: What's the Point of Your Startup?
    ×0.46 144 | 9 points by sawyers 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. What's Happening with IT Hiring?
    ×0.39 149 | 3 points by hannibalevit 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. The Art of 64-bit Assembly (nostarch.com)
    ×1.33 18 #75 | 226 points by 0x54MUR41 1 day ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: I worked on a new browser for 2 years, today it passed Acid 3 (intellios.ai)
    ×2.67 56 #77 | 142 points by coolwulf 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Check technical fit for B2B prospects without questionnaires (tryscoped.com)
    ×0.35 | 2 points by ininew 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Galda – Come back to Claude Code/Codex without digging through Git (galda.app)
    ×1.01 | 2 points by masa1992 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Sizeof is surprisingly difficult to parse in C (sebsite.pw)
    ×2.00 49 #35 | 16 points by jandeboevrie 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. OpenAI Lost Its AI Crown–and the Fight to Win It Back (wsj.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by tosh 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. AI doesn't generate working products, that's still your job (weeraman.com)
    ×3.22 18 | 257 points by smckk 1 day ago | 286 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Handoff is await human() for AI agents (github.com/OmegaAgent)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by LivingGlitcher 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. A week in Matrix (piegames.de)
    ×1.81 55 | 88 points by Kesseki 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. GPUs could explode to multiple TB with new storage-inspired memory tech (theregister.com)
    ×2.95 11 #38 | 11 points by jacquesm 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Terminal Trove Talks with Miguel de Icaza (terminaltrove.com)
    ×0.97 | 1 points by aghuang 44 seconds ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. The Wikimedians of the Year 2026 (wikimedia.org)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by altilunium 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Severance (lcamtuf.substack.com)
    ×2.99 19 | 264 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Demystifying DRAM Read Disturbance: RowHammer and RowPress Phenomena (arxiv.org)
    ×0.56 78 | 61 points by Jimmc414 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: I get 25 deep researched ideas with one single prompt (github.com/ringlochid)
    ×2.87 50 | 9 points by ringlochid 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. When random.bytes() runs but doesn't work (btcpp.dev)
    ×1.09 21 #25 | 72 points by Funes- 12 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Sagrada – a linter for instruction files' belief state (cruxia.dev)
    ×1.54 | 2 points by mars-ausili 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. AI Images Are Everywhere. Here's What They Do to Our Brains, and What We Can Do (wsj.com)
    ×1.53 | 2 points by fortran77 29 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio reaches 123% (stlouisfed.org)
    ×4.65 68 | 122 points by johnbarron 2 days ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. New Defcon Badges Pack a Unique Open-Source Chip That Doubles as a Security Key (wired.com)
    ×1.42 84 | 71 points by hn_acker 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. SHOW HN: Substantial update to UK train mapping (trainmap.co.uk)
    ×2.21 22 | 4 points by optionalltd 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Distilling DeepSeek into GPT-OSS doesn't transfer censorship. Try it (ctgt.ai)
    ×1.22 80 | 166 points by cgorlla 2 days ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: FirstEmployee.ai – Start a Business (firstemployee.ai)
    ×1.01 98 | 3 points by nadermx 11 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. F*: A general-purpose proof-oriented programming language (fstar-lang.org)
    ×1.68 8 #6 | 16 points by ducktective 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. IBM i (OS/400) the Database Operating System (osadmins.com)
    ×1.40 20 #20 | 38 points by naves 7 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. US Treasury undertakes historic intervention in yen market (ft.com)
    ×4.42 16 #21 | 76 points by 23pointsNorth 3 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Created a Drink Journal App, Drinqly (drinqly.io)
    ×0.90 120 | 3 points by haileivera 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: The Federalist Papers, typeset as the 1787 newspapers they ran in (federalistreader.org)
    ×1.97 136 | 55 points by vhwalke 4 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: BugDetect AI – AI-powered code debugging assistant (bugdetectai.com)
    ×0.77 | 2 points by laxmansubedi 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: SteerPlane – Deterministic runtime guardrails for AI agents (github.com/vijaym2k6)
    ×0.93 | 2 points by vijaym2k6 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. RipGrep musl binaries occasionally segfault during very-large searches (github.com/BurntSushi)
    ×1.60 27 #80 | 276 points by throwaway2037 1 day ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Types with AI: Working with LLMs Through Types (alecvo.org)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by Vgoose 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. The $5k tell: AI vendors are selling you human QA for their own AI (okaneland.com)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by ermantrout 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: TamedTable, AI ETL in Natural Language (tamedtable.com)
    ×2.12 81 #64 | 4 points by ZeljkoS 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Documan – AI Powered Requirement Management Workspace (github.com/bbayer)
    ×1.04 | 2 points by bbayer 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Only 8.9% of sites block AI crawlers, but 94.8% are never cited in AI answers (website-auditor.io)
    ×1.50 84 | 39 points by SpikeyCoder 2 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. How to Exist (raptitude.com)
    ×2.55 15 | 385 points by walterbell 1 day ago | 234 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Danube's record low levels force shutdown of Hungary's only nuclear plant (bbc.com)
    ×1.78 69 #83 | 180 points by vrganj 2 days ago | 215 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Designing APIs for Agents (webflow.com)
    ×1.05 | 2 points by msolujic 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Type a formula, watch it become Clique, Hamiltonian Cycle, and Knapsack (aidoctrine.github.io)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by AlekseN 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. First open-source firmware for AM5 launches – Coreboot and openSIL on Zen 4 (tomshardware.com)
    ×2.51 55 | 3 points by sbulaev 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Arch Linux disables AUR package adoption (lwn.net)
    ×2.05 53 | 159 points by database64128 2 days ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Google kills Earth AI generator after one day (twitter.com/newsfromgoogle)
    ×4.41 34 | 62 points by BlueBerry2001 1 day ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Getting 25 Gbps Thunderbolt Ethernet on My Mac Studio (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×1.39 31 | 229 points by speckx 1 day ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Wienerdog – memory and self-improving skills for Claude Code/Codex (github.com/wienerdog-ai)
    ×2.72 107 | 8 points by thegyula 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Syncular – offline-first SQL sync with TypeScript and Rust cores (github.com/syncular)
    ×0.83 6 #9 | 48 points by quambo 4 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Agent-Browser – Browser Automation for AI (agent-browser.dev)
    ×0.95 68 #86 | 5 points by Garbage 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. JavaScript Obfuscator (jstools.space)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by javatuts 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Buğuyu Silmeden Manzarayı Göremezsin (ruhumdan.substack.com)
    ×1.05 | 2 points by Banuche 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: I made a game where you build a CPU from logic gates (select.supply)
    ×1.27 99 | 99 points by laurentiurad 3 days ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Pronto – real‑time wire for AI agents (70k+ feeds connected) (pronto.stream)
    ×1.48 119 | 3 points by MomohNobert 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. ESP32-C3 SuperMini antenna modification (wordpress.com)
    ×1.64 39 #22 | 21 points by ta988 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Commonplace Wiki – A Confluence Alternative Based on Git and OKF (github.com/commonplace-wiki)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by aiobe 19 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Claude Code takes forever, so I filled the waiting with Pokémon (github.com/zamarrowski)
    ×1.58 | 2 points by zamarrowski 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Vein, a minimalist open-source resource management game (d2ykijtrvb890q.cloudfront.net)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by thevahidal 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Websites Were Built Before Flexbox and Grid (jstools.space)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by javatuts 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Tell HN: I hate your fuzzy search
    ×4.51 12 | 96 points by tehwebguy 20 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Legionlinuxtui – Control Lenovo legion laptops in the terminal (github.com/nooneknowspeter)
    ×0.51 62 | 16 points by nooneknowspeter 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Crest, a MacBook notch control room that answers Claude Code prompts (crestnotch.app)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by zack40x 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. See in yourself. Then, evolve at sleek.silisleek.com
    ×0.77 | 2 points by silisleek 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Plug-in solar is coming. Plug-in batteries should follow (regen.co.uk)
    ×2.21 56 | 95 points by thelastgallon 11 hours ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???