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  1. Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?
    ×1.43 50 | 187 points by yehiaabdelm 1 day ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Instagram blocked my new account what can I do?
    ×0.65 17 | 4 points by coreyp_1 2 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Happy Independence Day
    ×1.82 28 | 31 points by GauntletWizard 14 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. I can build anything, but only the void sees it
    ×1.37 85 | 7 points by urbanogt5 11 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: Megalodon.jp is faster than archive.today and doesn't require reCAPTCHA
    ×0.46 | 2 points by Cider9986 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: America turns 250 today. What does it mean to you?
    ×1.80 74 | 11 points by abixb 13 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)
    ×1.08 106 | 241 points by whoishiring 3 days ago | 310 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. I built a environment reloader for Windows Shells
    ×0.39 108 | 3 points by byjonas 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Retrieval is not the future of AI – if it was, Google would have won already
    ×0.92 110 | 3 points by lamprouge 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Since when does Craigslist's front page have emojis?
    ×0.34 133 | 39 points by argee 4 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)
    ×0.81 122 | 147 points by whoishiring 3 days ago | 449 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Where are the good search engines for mathematical formulas?
    ×0.21 | 2 points by lo0dot0 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: When will the stock market crash?
    ×2.55 11 | 8 points by roschdal 6 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Where can I find or get in contact with farmers specifically in the US?
    ×0.93 139 | 6 points by strapchay 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Why are so many "AI evangelists" posting such insufferable content?
    ×1.82 124 | 60 points by seattle_spring 2 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Fable 5. Safety Taken to an Extreme
    ×1.07 120 | 9 points by sergeysmirnov 22 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. How many failed startups have you launched?
    ×0.57 129 | 18 points by steelebillings 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Tell HN: Installing Cursor on iOS irreversibly changes your privacy settings
    ×1.90 118 | 247 points by zkldi 4 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Tell HN: Fewer PRs done with proper prompting, review, and refinement wins
    ×0.71 153 | 7 points by tomerbd 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Tell HN: Old Reddit now requires login
    ×2.95 127 | 86 points by jay_kyburz 3 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. SponsorBlock Critical Security Vulnerabilities
    ×0.42 175 | 3 points by IDIRIS 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Claude Fable is useless for bioinformaticians
    ×1.05 157 | 6 points by iqbal1980 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Where is the programming profession going?
    ×1.07 174 | 166 points by syntaxbush 1 week ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: New employeer not providing equipment
    ×1.23 34 | 28 points by gl9 8 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Seattle Just Had an Earthquake
    ×0.54 173 | 13 points by tobinfekkes 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Secure wrapper for coding agents?
    ×0.32 181 | 20 points by rjzzleep 4 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. I'm opening VSCode less and less every day
    ×1.40 168 | 21 points by othmanosx 3 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Happy Independence Day
    ×1.97 109 | 5 points by Velocifyer 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Cadreen – memory, governance, self-healing, and execution as one system
    ×0.89 159 | 5 points by ope_john 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Mise – A keyboard-driven Python/Qt6 browser built for fanless laptops (github.com/Rakosn1cek)
    ×1.50 71 | 5 points by Rakosn1cek 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: I built an encrypted BLE dongle for pasting stuff to air-gapped devices (github.com/Brisk4t)
    ×1.78 72 | 5 points by Brisk4t 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. The Reports of Jim Carrey's Death Are a Failure Mode (tane.dev)
    ×1.28 37 #63 | 52 points by taubek 17 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Speck – AI spec-driven agents, inspired by compilers and build tools (github.com/gi-dellav)
    ×0.73 102 #83 | 4 points by gidellav 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. We Scaled PgBouncer to 4× Higher Throughput (clickhouse.com)
    ×1.28 44 | 3 points by saisrirampur 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. The Declaration of Independence (acoup.blog)
    ×1.79 46 | 4 points by colonCapitalDee 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Apple Container 1.0 Released as a Native Docker Alternative for macOS (linuxiac.com)
    ×2.32 40 | 5 points by atkrad 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: I made a tool that prevents websites from tracking you (github.com/alex-w-developer)
    ×1.15 135 | 29 points by sudo_cowsay 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Hacker-News Buddies
    ×1.04 111 | 6 points by freakynit 14 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: WifeBench – My wife vibes LLM rankings (wifebench.com)
    ×1.10 | 2 points by fristovic 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Pull Claude Code transcripts into your Codex session, and vice versa (contextify.sh)
    ×0.93 154 | 7 points by bredren 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Proxying inference requests in 6ms with Pingora, Envoy, and Spanner (modal.com)
    ×0.88 | 2 points by birdculture 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. David Beazley – Programming Courses (dabeaz.com)
    ×2.42 10 | 138 points by gregsadetsky 23 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: ContextCodeCache in Rust (github.com/colwill)
    ×0.46 130 | 12 points by colwont 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: QR code renderer in a TrueType font (jim.sh)
    ×1.77 134 | 81 points by foodevl 1 week ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Homelab Chronicles: A Dusty Gaming PC and a 2AM Basement Spiral (droppedasbaby.com)
    ×0.39 | 1 points by offbyone42 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Damo Academy unveils an AI agent able to discover superconductors (scmp.com)
    ×1.56 13 | 6 points by yogthos 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. FreeBSD ate my RAM (crocidb.com)
    ×1.17 15 | 190 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Best Simple System for Now (2025) (dannorth.net)
    ×0.88 77 | 87 points by daan-k 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Seize the means of production from our agentic overlords (github.com/Xophmeister)
    ×1.25 102 | 3 points by Xophmeister 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Pglayers – PostgreSQL extensions as stackable Docker layers (github.com/pglayers)
    ×0.82 155 | 40 points by iemejia 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. The Common Lisp Cookbook – LispWorks Review (lispcookbook.github.io)
    ×4.14 10 #53 | 101 points by AlexeyBrin 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Give Smart People the Tools to Do Smart Things (superuserdone.com)
    ×1.68 73 | 92 points by SuperUserDone 1 day ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Apple Foundation Model in Xcode-Beta (github.com/voxels)
    ×0.44 | 2 points by edgcumbe 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: CLI that helps AI agents avoid vulnerable dependencies (github.com/clidey)
    ×0.64 117 | 26 points by modelorona 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Leaking YouTube creators' private videos (javoriuski.com)
    ×3.06 1 #6 | 538 points by javxfps 12 hours ago | 306 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. The Log Is the Agent (arxiv.org)
    ×1.51 21 #19 | 7 points by iacguy 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. National Institute of Standards and Technology | NIST | Official US Time (time.gov)
    ×0.95 88 #66 | 11 points by Bender 11 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: AI-powered code review tool (github.com/Kirill89)
    ×0.88 121 | 3 points by k1r111 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Exploiting LLM Agent Supply Chains via Payload-Less Skills (arxiv.org)
    ×0.76 109 #62 | 4 points by _pdp_ 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Drawbridge – Design Editor for Claude Code and Cursor (github.com/breschio)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by javatuts 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Mouse: Precision Editing Tools for AI Coding Agents (hic-ai.com)
    ×0.85 | 1 points by handfuloflight 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. AI has torched the market for junior programmers (seldo.com)
    ×5.99 67 | 88 points by cdrnsf 9 hours ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Return of the Nigerian Prince Redux: Beware Book Club and Book Review Scams (2025) (writerbeware.blog)
    ×0.97 7 #13 | 31 points by Anon84 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Behind the scenes: Seattle Times' World Cup photo team takes the pitch (seattletimes.com)
    ×1.44 5 | 3 points by ynac 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. This Month in Ladybird: June 2026 (ladybird.org)
    ×6.31 60 | 62 points by richardboegli 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Scout.kids – Agents that find activies for families (scout.kids)
    ×1.42 162 | 4 points by davmar 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: PriceProbe – zero-dependency competitor price tracker in Python (github.com/willylam2222-bot)
    ×1.23 180 | 5 points by l2602591158 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: I wrote a Rust book ending with a Redis clone (gumroad.com)
    ×1.79 182 | 8 points by zeeshanali0094 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Backon – Python retry (zero deps, circuit breaker, async native) (github.com/Llucs)
    ×0.94 43 #25 | 4 points by Llucs 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Astrophysicists Puzzle over Webb’s New Universe (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.26 6 #52 | 198 points by jnord 19 hours ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Meta data center water discharges suspended for contaminating water supply (tomshardware.com)
    ×3.77 72 #88 | 220 points by sensanaty 12 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: StayThere.ai - Book directly at over 96k short term rentals (staythere.ai)
    ×1.47 172 | 3 points by wthayer 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Reading Assistant Physical Books Meta RayBans
    ×0.87 | 2 points by roshangill 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: I built a declarative layout engine for SVG, Canvas, WebGL (github.com/carnworkstudios)
    ×1.29 177 | 5 points by bonzai2carn 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show your hands honor for the power they bring you (aresluna.org)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by aua 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Android phones knew Venezuela earthquake was coming (youtube.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by whycome 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: A home for short stories generated from 5 random emojis (moon-zine.net)
    ×0.84 123 | 3 points by riedhes 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Groot – Kubernetes incident evidence in one .tar.gz (github.com/hrodrig)
    ×1.25 128 | 4 points by hejeroaz 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Unobin compiles Infrastructure as Code to one binary (cloudboss.co)
    ×0.66 166 | 20 points by joseph 6 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Using Wake-on-LAN for an AI Project (medium.com)
    ×0.44 | 2 points by guilhermef 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: GeoSpoof – your VPN hides your IP, but the browser leaks your location (geospoof.com)
    ×5.06 151 | 18 points by sgro 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Synthesis is harder than analysis (surfingcomplexity.blog)
    ×1.07 11 #75 | 145 points by azhenley 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Shipping post-quantum cryptography to Python – The Trail of Bits Blog (trailofbits.com)
    ×0.87 80 #80 | 10 points by rbanffy 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Review Frontloading: Do You Love This App? Y/N (functionmouse.com)
    ×0.78 | 2 points by functionmouse 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Soatok's Informal Guide to Threat Models (soatok.blog)
    ×1.10 23 | 122 points by zdw 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Magit 4.6 Released (emacsair.me)
    ×16.57 34 | 70 points by signa11 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Origin Myth Map-creation myths of civilizations on a world map (sunnyguha.com)
    ×1.53 165 | 5 points by sol0invictus 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Theta-spec harness agnostic config surface (github.com/tamarillo-ai)
    ×1.49 158 | 5 points by ivanbelenky 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. BareMetal RAM Dumper – Bare-metal x86 tool for Cold Boot Attack experiments (github.com/pIat0n)
    ×0.75 14 #35 | 59 points by liffik 11 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Binary Coverage the Wrong Way (redvice.org)
    ×1.50 | 2 points by matt_d 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???