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Router ARP/NAT contradict after reload. Client ghost or firmware bug?

×0.33 | 2 points by asdem 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)

×1.17 100 | 282 points by david927 4 days ago | 1095 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Who gets credits on big math questions solved by LLMs?

×0.48 38 | 8 points by silentmafia 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: I built it and nobody came. What got you your first users?

×0.46 43 | 4 points by deadcatfound 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How do you guys keep up with AI news?

×0.72 53 | 9 points by anirudhc2005 9 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
X permanently banned my 15-year-old account for sharing my own open-source lib

×1.87 44 | 13 points by rifmj 10 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?

×1.60 62 | 126 points by kadhirvelm 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles

×5.91 59 | 1086 points by levkk 4 days ago | 457 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How do you manage too many open tabs?

×0.43 91 | 7 points by NarcisMirandes 15 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: As LLMs progress, how do you stay sharp and productive?

×0.47 96 | 7 points by spiresofagartha 15 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why people chasing after useless token saving plugins and ignoring real solution

×0.22 | 2 points by yohji1984 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Are we there yet? Can I create a human analogue using AI?

×0.15 | 2 points by JoeAltmaier 12 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Are AWS Certs worth getting for experienced Devs?

×0.48 130 | 10 points by Gold-Ask-lx 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Best meeting transcription daemon for macOS?

×0.62 103 | 4 points by tomelliot 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Thinking: Alternate Distribution for Filmmakers

×0.26 136 | 3 points by phaedrus044 21 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Assistive Tech Ideas for Dementia

×0.46 112 | 4 points by thanksd 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Should I do a CS masters at Cambridge or start as a new grad at Amazon?

×0.60 137 | 28 points by sspehr 3 days ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Help me be accountable with my time

×0.36 120 | 4 points by atomiomi 17 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How about a "Merge Stories" feature?

×0.25 | 2 points by RetroTechie 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What are you using for authn/authz and payments?

×0.51 134 | 3 points by jftuga 17 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Are there any startups looking for a developer on contract base?

×0.44 | 2 points by need_a_work23 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OTPme Testers Wanted

×1.66 125 | 4 points by otpme 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
On-device AI that respects your privacy

×1.04 135 | 3 points by fujidevv 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How do you handle OSS project with private artifacts?

×0.44 | 2 points by mrsalty 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Missed Reality: Code Review Wasn't Built for the AI Era

×0.43 | 2 points by axsdrizz 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Best way to buy second hand compute (in a future AI crash)

×1.43 132 | 4 points by lifeisstillgood 21 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Free 30-second score of your website's traffic-to-sales path (signalroute.live)

×0.52 | 2 points by DeniCJ 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Immersive Linear Algebra Book with Interactive Figures (2015) (immersivemath.com)

×1.68 8 #21 | 189 points by srean 13 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Levity, an open-source logo studio that runs as a single local binary (logodesignxperts.com)

×0.54 | 1 points by abratabia 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A LeetCode alternative - learn DSA through visual jigsaw puzzles (pqdsa.com)

×0.56 | 1 points by _dragonguy 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I implemented a neural network in SQL (github.com/xqlsystems)

×1.10 109 | 118 points by alxmrs 3 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Estratos – stacked memory system for AI assistants

×1.17 122 | 3 points by cpinto 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Xi pitches China as leader of new global AI order, challenging US dominance (reuters.com)

×1.87 | 2 points by chvid 11 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
People in Many Countries Now View China More Positively Than the U.S. (pewresearch.org)

×6.89 71 | 10 points by giuliomagnifico 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
42% of adults rely on their parents for financial support (cnbc.com)

×6.29 56 | 142 points by root-parent 12 hours ago | 246 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Country Draw (country-draw.vercel.app)

×0.63 | 1 points by imbobbytables 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI Censorship Tested Across India, China, US, and Europe (reddit.com)

×2.50 28 | 4 points by omrajguru 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI's real bottleneck is data delivery (techcrunch.com)

×1.13 | 2 points by adithyaharish 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why do people hate the tech industry? (2023) (sevarg.net)

×2.24 83 | 77 points by dsego 1 day ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: AgentReady – MCP server that makes any docs site queryable by AI agents (it.com)

×1.27 124 | 3 points by AshHackerNews 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Maurice Wilkes: changing hardware problems into software problems (nirmalutwani.substack.com)

×0.85 | 1 points by nutwani91 5 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
As a musician, I prefer illegal downloading over Spotify (2011) (tumblr.com)

×2.91 24 #73 | 63 points by teach 9 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Scribe, a CLI that builds AI agent memory from your repos and sessions (getscribe.dev)

×1.24 | 2 points by quatermain 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Notebooker – Save now, understand later (notebooker.ai)

×1.38 | 2 points by vismit2000 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Databricks Set to Hit $188B Valuation with New Investment from Coatue (wsj.com)

×1.77 7 | 4 points by jgalt212 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Jacquard, a programming language for AI-written, human-reviewed code (github.com/jbwinters)

×1.11 113 | 102 points by jbwinters 3 days ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Let's Build PlanetScale from Scratch: Infrastructure (onatm.dev)

×0.95 18 #44 | 136 points by onatm 17 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Your Eye Health: It's Time to Talk About It (codedynasty.dev)

×0.61 | 1 points by 66yatman 38 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: 1board for the Whole World (1board.org)

×0.69 | 1 points by Naulian 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Java 2077 (Nicolai Parlog, 2020) (javaadvent.com)

×1.31 | 2 points by luca-sctr 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Moltshit.com – An Imageboard for AI Agents (moltshit.com)

×1.35 79 | 3 points by jetbalsa 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Wallflower – A Quiet Social Reader (thewallflower.app)

×0.69 92 | 7 points by tldrthelaw 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
If you want to create a button from scratch, you must first create the universe (madcampos.dev)

×1.47 20 #56 | 230 points by treve 1 day ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Collection of Digital Clock Designs (clocks.dev)

×1.89 24 #84 | 279 points by levmiseri 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Every junior portfolio I screen now is incredible, and it means nothing (reddit.com)

×0.52 | 1 points by bundie 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Warren Buffett Initiates Berkshire Hathaway's Investment in Alphabet (cnbc.com)

×1.12 | 2 points by mgh2 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Count the Bytes, Not the FLOPs (thepragmaticquant.com)

×0.41 55 #50 | 9 points by sgilda 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Meta data centre in Alberta to start operating before neighbouring power plant (cbc.ca)

×1.75 19 | 3 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Governments, companies, nonprofits should invest in free, open source AI [pdf] (siegelendowment.org)

×1.81 3 | 288 points by bilsbie 1 day ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I built an open source alternative to Workflowy (dotflowy.com)

×1.31 116 | 3 points by campak 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: PokeTokenBar – Raise a Pokémon with your AI token usage (github.com/chattymin)

×0.80 | 2 points by chattymin 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Painterly – Turn pictures into digital paintings without generative AI (github.com/jbunke)

×1.35 110 | 21 points by flinkerflitzer 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Timeline Scan – AI fixes the dates on your scanned photos (timelinescan.com)

×0.59 39 #40 | 28 points by HoserHoser 8 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Docs.dev Your Own Hosted Docs Platform in Minutes (docs.dev)

×4.78 81 | 9 points by linktothenew 13 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU (neomindlabs.com)

×1.65 13 | 320 points by neomindryan 1 day ago | 205 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
An Engineer's Guide to USB Typе-С (2024) (ti.com)

×1.92 2 #3 | 65 points by gregsadetsky 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Selenium Boot – Spring Boot's Conventions, Applied to Selenium (seleniumboot.com)

×0.98 | 2 points by mdsddmhossain 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How do you handle ticket management across Discord, GitHub, and email?

×0.53 | 2 points by Daniel-Pan 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Brainless: Shadcn components that look like Claude Code, Codex and Grok (swerdlow.dev)

×1.38 47 | 127 points by benswerd 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Stop saying that AI is just a tool and it only matters how it is used (frank.computer)

×4.03 25 | 104 points by cratermoon 1 day ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How Has Roman Concrete Lasted for Millennia? 1,900-Year-Old Latrine Offers Clues (smithsonianmag.com)

×2.19 #2 | 28 points by divbzero 1 hour ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Human0 – A template to run an autonomous, self-improving code loop (github.com/human0-ai)

×0.50 | 1 points by moshest 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Piano Shepherd – a piano game for kids (itch.io)

×0.53 | 1 points by zslava88 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Voxatron (lexaloffle.com)

×1.01 58 | 105 points by lsferreira42 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
LLM Networking with MikroTik (greg.technology)

×1.00 49 | 102 points by gregsadetsky 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A cross-platform app for meeting notes and items that don't get lost (github.com/kestermckinney)

×1.34 133 | 6 points by kestermckinney 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GC shape stenciling in Go generics (rednafi.com)

×0.72 25 #70 | 49 points by ingve 14 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Kimi K3 is now #1 in the Front end Code Arena with 1679 pts, surpassing Fable 5 (twitter.com/arena)

×4.79 27 #66 | 86 points by nekofneko 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Lightport – a maintained fork of Portkey AI gateway (github.com/glama-ai)

×0.87 | 1 points by punkpeye 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ente's business metrics are open now (ente.com)

×1.42 | 2 points by mulmen 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Icop – open-source local AI NSFW filter for VLC (no cloud, no telemetry) (github.com/asayed18)

×0.57 | 1 points by asayd18 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
RISC-V Is Inevitable: State of the Union Keynote Argues (eetimes.com)

×1.33 78 | 114 points by signa11 1 day ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Abstracting Effects with Continuations (crowdhailer.me)

×0.92 20 #26 | 53 points by crowdhailer 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Open-source AI app builder you can embed into your own SaaS (github.com/totalumlabs)

×2.78 90 | 6 points by francescjuille 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Mac App to turn your computer into a hands-off coding agent (caider.dev)

×0.50 | 2 points by rajeshbejugam 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I kept rewriting scripts for my teams, so I built a visual tool instead (ipek.run)

×1.10 | 2 points by limandoc 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Opening lines of famous literary works (verbaprima.com)

×1.02 84 | 177 points by plicerin 2 days ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I also filed the corners off my MacBook (brt.fyi)

×2.39 8 #82 | 294 points by maxbrt 1 day ago | 218 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Inkling – Open-Weights 975B Parameter LLM (thinkingmachines.ai)

×3.76 55 | 121 points by htrp 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source (microsoft.com)

×2.93 #4 | 604 points by jervant 13 hours ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???