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  1. Wyro – Draw a backend on a canvas, export TypeScript with no lock-in
    ×0.26 | 2 points by Paaul01 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What did you learn last month? (July 2026)
    ×0.44 47 | 12 points by bhu1st 15 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: How did your boss's behavior change with the rise of AI?
    ×0.41 31 | 6 points by aredirect 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tell HN: HackerOne Announces Mandatory identity verification
    ×0.45 55 | 16 points by 0xmattf 21 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. OpenAI Usage Reset 4th time in 7d
    ×0.36 | 2 points by bavovna 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Everything that happens in a US airport is under duress
    ×0.58 61 | 16 points by dfps 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Upgraded melly, our agent on sleek
    ×0.24 | 2 points by silisleek 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Strategic Oil Reserves Down to a Record Low Two-Week Supply
    ×0.56 74 | 18 points by megamike 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. What's Happening with IT Hiring?
    ×0.32 | 2 points by hannibalevit 14 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Tell HN: System76 has critical firmware issues unresolved for over 3 years
    ×1.05 62 | 6 points by jaime-ez 14 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: When a post of yours does well, do you know why?
    ×0.41 88 | 5 points by john_builds 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Random Thoughts of Lineage and Death
    ×0.78 79 | 3 points by kooi 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What's the Point of Your Startup?
    ×0.43 70 | 8 points by sawyers 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. MiniMax H3: Open weights Omni-modal model
    ×1.29 60 | 5 points by ignoramous 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What's your monthly personal AI budget?
    ×0.79 95 | 3 points by thatgloomyguy 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. DeepSeek API service will soon adopt a peak-valley pricing strategy
    ×0.12 | 2 points by sschueller 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Has Claude Code been (mostly) usable for you?
    ×0.35 101 | 3 points by mark_l_watson 22 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: What E-Reader to Buy?
    ×0.43 85 | 6 points by conor_f 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Can Apple Ever Be Disrputed?
    ×0.33 104 | 6 points by Taikhoom2010 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Anyone got DeepSeek-v4-flash-0731 running using antirez/ds4?
    ×0.66 | 2 points by freakynit 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: What are you using for LLM inference in production?
    ×0.45 83 | 8 points by chrislim 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Navigating Source Code (especially on large projects)
    ×0.37 115 | 7 points by thekey 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: What former "must-have" AI agent skills have you deprecated?
    ×0.23 116 | 5 points by lpjstack 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Charlie Stross – On the non-use of AI in my writing process (antipope.org)
    ×2.78 12 #4 | 19 points by jwx48 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Genshin Impact 7.0 Adds a TPS Mode and the Eye of Graeae in Snezhnaya (notebookcheck.net)
    ×1.81 10 #46 | 6 points by DarrylLinington 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Predictive Speculative KV Replication for Bursty LLM Inference (jwlabs.vercel.app)
    ×0.82 44 #68 | 40 points by shreybirmiwal 19 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both were accepted as orals (geospatialml.com)
    ×1.64 3 | 266 points by volumes94 1 day ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Prompt-scrub – local-first PII redaction for LLM prompts and responses (nanocollective.org)
    ×1.43 93 | 4 points by mrspence 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: A Back End You Can Call Directly from React – No API Required (linkedrecords.com)
    ×1.20 98 | 3 points by WolfOliver 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Authorize, don't authenticate (marcua.net)
    ×1.29 13 #57 | 97 points by marcua 19 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. A GTK4 SSH-askpass in Zig (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)
    ×0.71 15 #89 | 67 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. SupererDuperer (shirtpocket.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by zdw 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Fidelity Is Not Safety: Compressed LLMs Pass Quality Guards yet Invent (arxiv.org)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by sbulaev 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: I built a gallery for my pen plots, algorithmic art, and ESP32 work (adamfuhrer.com)
    ×3.13 82 | 6 points by adamfuhrer 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Schema-backed, Git-based structured state for agentic systems
    ×0.87 | 2 points by advancingu 21 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: A second pair of eyes for electrical schematic review (bvcircuits.com)
    ×1.73 94 | 4 points by MidavEE 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. June in Servo: real world compat, media queries, SharedWorker, and more (servo.org)
    ×1.40 24 #29 | 184 points by iamnothere 21 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Arch Linux disables AUR package adoption (lwn.net)
    ×2.00 14 #87 | 152 points by database64128 1 day ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. What Luxury Housing Does to Homelessness [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by felineflock 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Making Postgres queues scale (dbos.dev)
    ×1.16 41 | 126 points by KraftyOne 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. "the very foundation of modern academia has been blown to bits" (twitter.com/lemire)
    ×2.66 49 | 55 points by telotortium 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Elevators (john.fun)
    ×5.36 #7 | 1486 points by Jrh0203 1 day ago | 373 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Moonshot’s Kimi uses 20k Nvidia chip cluster from Alibaba (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.87 | 113 points by gk1 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Slope remade in HTML5 to load instantly on any browser, any device (hurtle.site)
    ×1.79 36 | 38 points by novlrdotcom 22 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: I built a Python obfuscator that keeps production traces debuggable (github.com/zhurong2020)
    ×0.69 | 2 points by znhskzj 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Dubious research tied to Red Bull has shaped energy drink policy (theexamination.org)
    ×1.64 14 #54 | 150 points by Jimmc414 23 hours ago | 222 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. docs: Add AI Section to CONTRIBUTING.md (github.com/thelounge)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by MaxLeiter 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: SmokeVPN – All-in-One WireGuard VPN Hub – Switch Exits in Realtime (smokevpn.com)
    ×1.51 57 | 8 points by lobito25 15 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. AI doesn't generate working products, that's still your job (weeraman.com)
    ×3.00 39 #44 | 227 points by smckk 8 hours ago | 223 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Unearthing my 1996 windowed OS in machine code for Am29000 homebrew computer (nanochess.org)
    ×1.72 39 #74 | 32 points by nanochess 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. List of Style Guides (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by dredmorbius 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Saber-toothed cats became inbred–and struggled to move–before they went extinct (science.org)
    ×0.82 51 | 69 points by gmays 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: How I built Remembered checkout for Voice (ringup.dev)
    ×0.96 | 2 points by atifnayeem 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Tally – check a spreadsheet's numbers against their source, in-browser (jiegou.ai)
    ×0.67 111 | 7 points by smperng 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub (github.blog)
    ×3.46 18 #81 | 769 points by tomzorz 1 day ago | 290 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. How to Stop Procrastinating (economist.com)
    ×1.34 | 2 points by bookofjoe 39 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Fuse Programming Language (fuselang.org)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by the_unproven 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Supply and Demand Is Not What Most People Think (shonczinner.substack.com)
    ×1.17 | 2 points by kjshsh123 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Shellphone, an MCP Extension to Link Claude Chat and Claude Code (npmjs.com)
    ×1.64 100 | 3 points by geoffitect 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Dreeve, a self-hosted dashboard for your sports and fitness data (github.com/dreeveapp)
    ×1.02 109 | 17 points by frogfuhrer 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Neural_tilde – Run neural amplifier captures in Max and Ableton Live (github.com/apresta)
    ×0.45 | 2 points by apresta 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. The mean means nothing: data visualization to debug a latency problem (fzakaria.com)
    ×1.11 32 #84 | 112 points by fanf2 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Toasts pose significant accessibility concerns and are not recommended for use (primer.style)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by plucafs 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Man seeks millions after being shot by police in game-related swatting incident (tucsonsentinel.com)
    ×3.56 50 | 73 points by anigbrowl 1 day ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Sanitizer – Strip sensitive data from documents locally before an LLM (provexar.ai)
    ×0.73 | 2 points by MVKozyrev 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. TV Pickup (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.95 #77 | 5 points by EndXA 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick (krebsonsecurity.com)
    ×3.28 31 | 802 points by speckx 1 day ago | 540 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: A little physical breakout clone (brontosaurusrex.github.io)
    ×1.39 73 | 8 points by brontosaurusrex 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: XQL, a query language for screening market data (xcreener.com)
    ×1.08 120 | 4 points by guzzul 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Echologue – the private AI voice journal I built for myself (echologue.com)
    ×0.64 99 | 29 points by arisAlexis 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: A Handwritten Blogging Platform (handwritten.blog)
    ×3.67 87 | 9 points by emilesilvis 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. RipGrep musl binaries occasionally segfault during very-large searches (github.com/BurntSushi)
    ×1.65 #2 | 135 points by throwaway2037 3 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. "Bettering Myself" by Ottessa Moshfegh (electricliterature.com)
    ×2.19 47 | 3 points by js2 54 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Reviewing finished tasks from last week in org-agenda and Emacs (ashishpanigrahi.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by meysamazad 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Grok: Imagine Video 1.5 (twitter.com/grok)
    ×0.49 | 2 points by tosh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Exploring the "Dario and Amanda" Prompt (alec.is)
    ×4.79 46 | 74 points by arm32 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Is AI reasoning right for the wrong reasons? (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.65 24 #40 | 185 points by retupmoc01 1 day ago | 211 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: TUFHub – Autosync TakeUForward DSA Solutions to GitHub Accepted Verdict (github.com/Arora-Sir)
    ×1.26 | 2 points by arora-sir 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. A low-latency sandbox for untrusted Python execution (abstra.io)
    ×2.61 32 | 4 points by brunovcosta 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Reclip – AI Video Clipper, Voiceover and Creator Tools (reclip.io)
    ×1.70 117 | 4 points by qwikhost 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: tale.fyi, we deserve a home for fiction (tale.fyi)
    ×0.86 90 | 72 points by samuelcole 4 days ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Archaeologists Find Ancient Glyphs in the Amazon (nytimes.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by wglb 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: CSP Validator and Generator (dmarcguard.io)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by meysamazad 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Lightweight, S3-compatible object storage server (vaults3.com)
    ×1.36 59 | 3 points by open_source_new 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Spryly – Track outdated dependencies across every repo and registry (spryly.io)
    ×0.48 | 2 points by aquamulier 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. A tiny holdout building in the middle of Macy’s is back in view (wordpress.com)
    ×1.88 6 #15 | 132 points by donohoe 11 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Morten Linderud resigning from Arch Linux development team (archlinux.org)
    ×2.29 28 #39 | 33 points by datakan 3 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Wienerdog – memory and self-improving skills for Claude Code/Codex (github.com/wienerdog-ai)
    ×2.51 29 | 4 points by thegyula 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac (github.com/drumih)
    ×3.54 4 | 903 points by gitpusher42 3 days ago | 339 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Startup Game
    ×0.51 | 1 points by FDX2018 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???