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  1. AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
    ×4.69 2 #71 | 1294 points by nprateem 2 days ago | 745 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work
    ×3.74 6 | 812 points by nicholasjbs 2 days ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
    ×1.18 111 | 289 points by david927 6 days ago | 1121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. LG ThinQ Terms of Use
    ×1.46 60 | 62 points by tedggh 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Would you rent M3 Ultra from me?
    ×0.29 93 | 3 points by realaccfromPL 10 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Is float divergence/drift a real issue in many industries?
    ×0.69 65 | 7 points by Swapnopam 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: USB-to-WiFi print server for old printers – do you want it?
    ×0.82 81 | 5 points by ValdikSS 12 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Is anyone else facing login issues on Facebook?
    ×1.03 85 | 5 points by wasi0013 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Are you building agents? What do they need access to?
    ×0.45 | 2 points by asim 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Prodigy – AI Workforce for professional teams
    ×0.51 100 | 3 points by samayashar 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How do you as a normal swe use AI?
    ×0.52 103 | 3 points by atworkc 14 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Did Fable disappear from your Claude usage and requires credits now?
    ×3.53 78 | 91 points by cromka 2 days ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Looking for a Fall 2026 / Winter-Spring 2027 Internship
    ×0.53 108 | 3 points by cnnadozi 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles
    ×5.84 80 | 1093 points by levkk 6 days ago | 458 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?
    ×1.50 102 | 134 points by kadhirvelm 4 days ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. I procrastinated so hard I built a proxy to stop myself from procrastinating
    ×0.94 106 | 9 points by thisislorenzov 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Having a child before career has taken off
    ×0.55 127 | 6 points by lassearpe 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Should I do a CS masters at Cambridge or start as a new grad at Amazon?
    ×0.56 155 | 29 points by sspehr 6 days ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: I built it and nobody came. What got you your first users?
    ×0.68 144 | 11 points by deadcatfound 2 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Are AWS Certs worth getting for experienced Devs?
    ×0.51 154 | 13 points by Gold-Ask-lx 4 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: I've told everyone about my startup and its been harder than I thought
    ×0.56 138 | 5 points by bunnybomb2 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: How do you handle the actual situation with so much AI noises
    ×0.57 151 | 6 points by ThierryRkt 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Show HN: A modern port of Linux to a ten-year-old QWERTY phone
    ×0.91 113 | 47 points by tmzt 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Russian drones spotted using screwed-on magnetic compasses as navigation aids (tomshardware.com)
    ×1.80 36 | 3 points by rmason 43 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Designing a 4D Digital Archive for Ikebana (ishiguro-lab.org)
    ×0.95 | 2 points by ohjeez 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. On Claude's Clotted Writing Style (kierangill.xyz)
    ×1.34 9 | 3 points by kierangill 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. A Tribute to Lorenzo Kristov: Designing the Grid from the Community Up (energyempirepodcast.substack.com)
    ×0.39 | 1 points by mooreds 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. curl can be used to send emails with SMTP (mastodon.social)
    ×2.58 52 | 43 points by 21sys 23 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Use the document. Not the personal data (dokmine.com)
    ×0.94 | 2 points by not_wowinter13 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. I joined the IndieWeb, here's what I learned (andros.dev)
    ×1.65 8 #19 | 117 points by andros 10 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Z80 turns 50 as an open-source drop-in replacement nears DIP40 silicon (tomshardware.com)
    ×1.53 4 #48 | 11 points by logickkk1 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Web App Uses RTL-SDR to Align HDTV Antenna (tunerscope.com)
    ×1.03 145 | 27 points by robotastic 6 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Moonstone: Modern, cross-platform Lua runtime and package manager written in Zig (moonstone.sh)
    ×0.97 79 | 66 points by ksymph 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Heresy (2022] (paulgraham.com)
    ×3.57 68 | 40 points by appreciatorBus 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: QBasic Gorillas (Repeeled) (gameswithtony.com)
    ×1.04 128 | 30 points by TonyAlicea10 3 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Self-hosted voice AI agent for Asterisk/FreePBX (github.com/hkjarral)
    ×1.29 150 | 31 points by hkjarral 6 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Wigolo: Local first web search agent (knockoutez.github.io)
    ×0.88 | 2 points by handfuloflight 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Bothread, multiple AI coding agents talk, share one repo, no collisions (github.com/AdamACE9)
    ×0.37 | 1 points by AdamACE9 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: misa77 - a codec that decodes 2x faster than LZ4 (at better ratios) (github.com/welcome-to-the-sunny-side)
    ×1.12 97 | 164 points by nonadhocproblem 4 days ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Moore's Law for Everything (samaltman.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by dtj1123 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. The CIA Operative Who Spied on the U.A.E.–and Played a Role in Its AI Win (wsj.com)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by NN88 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. How to Sell a Kettle (economist.com)
    ×1.35 12 | 3 points by bazzmt 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Local-first, turn-based threads for most things (github.com/research-farm)
    ×0.36 | 1 points by nocam 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: My Fable 5 Project Was a Multiraft Database and Blob Store (meetthecluster.github.io)
    ×0.39 | 1 points by SamInTheShell 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: How much profit does your employer make per employee? (yourfairshare.info)
    ×2.53 60 | 13 points by IESAI_ski 2 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Anthropic's newest ad is creeping people out (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.90 43 | 41 points by gnabgib 21 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Same castle prompt, 8 LLMs, 24 procedural Three.js worlds (castle-bakeoff.pages.dev)
    ×1.73 73 | 5 points by valhallarecords 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. OpenAI is breaking Silicon Valley unwritten code. That's why Apple is so angry (businessinsider.com)
    ×2.04 3 #68 | 10 points by RestlessMind 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Developing an Intuitive Sense of Scale (magworld.pw)
    ×0.56 75 #73 | 33 points by vismit2000 21 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: ShipMD.app – Moving things in folders, move things in the real world (shipmd.app)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by bosky101 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Crosswords but using a graph instead of a grid (constellate.day)
    ×0.39 | 1 points by imtoosly 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Harness Engineering (github.com/lopopolo)
    ×2.04 21 | 77 points by handfuloflight 21 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Deepsec (github.com/vercel-labs)
    ×1.31 23 | 57 points by handfuloflight 19 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: A self-correcting algebraic agent swarm (github.com/Michael-Ax64)
    ×0.59 63 | 3 points by michael-ax 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Watch bots interact with an SSH honeypot in real time (honeypotlive.cc)
    ×1.13 64 | 177 points by tusksm 2 days ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Natural experiments prove phytoplankton carbon removal works (onepercentbrighter.com)
    ×1.25 41 #25 | 21 points by getnormality 6 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. FIFA World Cup Triggers a Global Anti-Piracy Crackdown (torrentfreak.com)
    ×2.67 3 #32 | 12 points by gslin 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Textcaster – social networking where RSS is the protocol (textcaster.app)
    ×2.15 45 | 9 points by rmdes 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: RewindCup – explore 23 World Cups on an interactive globe (rewindcup.com)
    ×0.95 118 | 4 points by iamdavidoti 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. The Newest Vegas Loop Stations Will Blow Your Mind [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.86 | 2 points by Topfi 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Static search trees: 40x faster than binary search (2024) (curiouscoding.nl)
    ×1.60 56 | 192 points by lalitmaganti 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. I started a “dirt notebook” (bearblog.dev)
    ×1.04 62 | 119 points by herbertl 1 day ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. The Mighty Big Array of Finn Jensen LA8YB (darc.de)
    ×0.47 52 #52 | 29 points by kalehmann 11 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Forbes Thinks AI Created a New Profession. History Has Seen It Before (futurehangover.substack.com)
    ×1.44 | 2 points by DefNotAiForSure 16 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Trend Has Russian Men Smashing Their iPhones for a Manlier Look (odditycentral.com)
    ×5.56 75 | 12 points by jethronethro 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Zlvox – 25 Free Developer Tools (AI, JSON, PDF) with Zero Tracking (zlvox.com)
    ×1.29 99 | 4 points by team_zlvox 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now (simonwillison.net)
    ×2.56 3 #6 | 330 points by tosh 11 hours ago | 444 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Dupes (product clones) took over the world (vox.com)
    ×0.76 24 #29 | 34 points by gumby 7 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day (neatnik.net)
    ×1.69 33 #34 | 236 points by cdrnsf 23 hours ago | 193 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Chalie – AI peer not employee (github.com/chalie-ai)
    ×1.23 22 | 4 points by dylangrech92 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. JupyDash – turn any Jupyter notebook into a dashboard (plathsoven.github.io)
    ×0.89 18 | 3 points by Entropnt 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Qubes OS Security in the Public Record (arxiv.org)
    ×0.85 59 | 90 points by sciences44 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. The US grocery slowdown is real (bain.com)
    ×4.30 74 | 86 points by toomuchtodo 1 day ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Traders are increasingly betting against SpaceX just weeks after IPO (ft.com)
    ×2.86 61 | 54 points by ethanhawksley 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. AI advice made people 3x less accurate but 2x confident, researchers found (thenextweb.com)
    ×0.98 | 1 points by rbanffy 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Cronstable, a cron replacement with retries, DAGs and a TUI/web dashboard (github.com/ptweezy)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by ptweezy 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Why Argentina Has Almost No Black People [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.63 54 | 6 points by baranul 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Perforce charges $500 for training training videos.. and it's AI narrated (perforce.com)
    ×1.39 2 | 51 points by TZubiri 13 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Opening lines of famous literary works (verbaprima.com)
    ×1.03 105 | 179 points by plicerin 5 days ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Restoring and Demoing 1960s Vintage Computers at the Computer History Museum [pdf] (ibm-1401.info)
    ×0.59 67 #39 | 39 points by rbanffy 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Real-Time LuaTeX: Recompiling Large Documents in 1ms [pdf] (tug.org)
    ×0.95 32 #90 | 64 points by amichail 23 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Data center opponents stage 142 protests across 42 US states (reuters.com)
    ×2.52 9 #60 | 29 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 6 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Everybody's Weirded Out by AI–Except the People Who Foist It on Us (newrepublic.com)
    ×5.66 83 | 67 points by jamesgill 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: One More Letter (playonemoreletter.com)
    ×1.14 109 | 90 points by hmate9 3 days ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. A new Intel Itanium (IA-64) emulator that boots Windows (raymii.org)
    ×1.67 34 #10 | 3 points by jandeboevrie 28 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. From Muon to Gradient Clipping: Some Thoughts on QK Stability (mastergodzilla.github.io)
    ×0.56 26 #14 | 8 points by Eridanus2 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. A grumpy screed about AI in software engineering (sutch.net)
    ×3.47 82 | 60 points by ssutch3 1 day ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Shikigami, run AI coding agents in parallel, each in a Git worktree (shikigami.dev)
    ×2.20 84 | 5 points by igor_nast 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence (kimi.com)
    ×7.42 8 #82 | 2078 points by vincent_s 3 days ago | 1199 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Em dashes are fucking amazing (psychotechnology.substack.com)
    ×3.47 29 | 7 points by lr0 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???