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  1. Ask HN: Are systems ready for the first negative leap second?
    ×0.61 28 #34 | 69 points by Asmod4n 14 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: How do you use Vim in the era of AI?
    ×1.35 41 #73 | 39 points by rstagi 18 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. One Wikipedia page costs your AI agent 68,000 tokens
    ×1.23 11 | 10 points by arhamislam5766 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tell HN: I De-Googled Myself
    ×1.48 26 | 32 points by degoogled 17 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What was the last task where only a frontier model could do it?
    ×0.87 21 | 23 points by thedebuglife 13 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Burned Tokens scented candle ideas
    ×0.31 70 | 5 points by Tade0 18 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?
    ×1.18 106 | 208 points by yehiaabdelm 1 week ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: HN frontpage feels boring now?
    ×0.92 69 | 47 points by xeonmc 2 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Where are the good search engines for mathematical formulas?
    ×0.50 98 | 56 points by lo0dot0 6 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: I hate coding agents. Is this skill issue?
    ×1.62 84 | 17 points by cmar00 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: I am not able to find a job. Should I switch stacks?
    ×0.25 95 | 12 points by need_a_work23 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Is GitHub preparing to go behind a login wall?
    ×0.66 91 | 56 points by reconnecting 3 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)
    ×1.08 113 | 246 points by whoishiring 1 week ago | 403 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Tell HN: Who wants to be hired" posts outpace "Who's hiring" 2 to 1
    ×1.02 100 | 55 points by santiagobasulto 3 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Fable July 12th disclaimer disappears from Claude Code
    ×0.28 103 | 7 points by gorgmah 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Ubuntu 24.04 now force-automounts any plugged-in MMC card or USB key
    ×0.35 128 | 3 points by everybodyknows 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What data have the frontier AI companies not ingested yet?
    ×0.40 | 2 points by lysace 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Who has been caught out by this anti-pattern from Google?
    ×0.17 122 | 4 points by Monotoko 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Audar-ASR-V1:Arabic-first speech recognition foundation models with open weights
    ×0.12 | 2 points by AudarAI 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Is Google NERFing AI Mode?
    ×0.23 127 | 4 points by PaulHoule 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Thoughts on AI in Personal Finance?
    ×0.32 101 | 6 points by foxtrot8672 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: What are you running locally on your machine with LLMs?
    ×0.28 124 | 3 points by agcat 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: How long has it been since you last opened Stack Overflow?
    ×0.93 119 | 6 points by novoreorx 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break in the next war (westpoint.edu)
    ×2.42 16 | 456 points by baud147258 1 day ago | 644 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: Docx-CLI: agents read/edit Word docs using 1/2 the time and tokens (github.com/kklimuk)
    ×0.79 83 | 70 points by kirillklimuk 3 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Big Tech Doubles Debt Load to $350B in AI Spending Spree (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.82 28 #88 | 10 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. The crypto billionaires building a world where money buys you a vote (bbc.co.uk)
    ×3.92 20 | 7 points by mindracer 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Follow London Trains in 3D (nexttrain.london)
    ×1.13 58 | 154 points by mgranados 6 days ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Silo Terminal – a dark terminal profile inspired by Silo (github.com/onehorizonai)
    ×1.40 130 | 3 points by gusnewman 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. The footgun of right-to-left decorative characters (alexbeals.com)
    ×0.86 7 #23 | 34 points by dado3212 6 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Wall Street's booming $1T 'synthetic risk transfer' phenomenon (ft.com)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by JumpCrisscross 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: I built a YouTube for generative videos in 50 prompts (samsar.one)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by proy24 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. How version control will evolve for the agent boom (entire.io)
    ×0.72 60 | 55 points by tapanjk 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0 (patrick-breyer.de)
    ×6.11 17 #45 | 1591 points by rapnie 1 day ago | 817 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: KRNL – a quieter browser for the essence of the web
    ×0.48 | 1 points by keepamovin 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. EPA to open habitats of endangered species to logging and mining (theguardian.com)
    ×1.20 | 2 points by Jimmc414 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives (howtogeek.com)
    ×3.12 9 | 363 points by Gedxx 1 day ago | 254 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. PostHog FOSS (github.com/PostHog)
    ×1.63 47 | 93 points by thatxliner 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Unified Memory, Explained: Why Mini PCs Can Run 70B Models a Big GPU Can't (vettedconsumer.com)
    ×1.96 3 | 71 points by ermantrout 21 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Making a Contribution: The Story of EBR-II [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by mpweiher 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. How to Write an Email (dannycastonguay.com)
    ×1.70 46 | 94 points by speckx 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Halo – open-source, tamper-evident runtime evidence for AI agents (github.com/bkuan001)
    ×0.61 105 | 37 points by brian_kuan 3 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Debloat Slack – Get rid of Slackbot, AI upsells and other annoyances (github.com/benri-ai)
    ×0.77 | 2 points by ed_mercer 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: your website as a TUI, over SSH right now
    ×0.62 134 | 11 points by keepamovin 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Silent speech with ultrasound (alephneuro.com)
    ×1.29 19 #12 | 41 points by chrwn 7 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. LazyCamHUD – daily video logs with a sci‑fi HUD, like in The Martian (github.com/hieuha)
    ×0.85 | 1 points by hieuha 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. SAP concedes to EU, freeing CIOs from expensive support shackles (cio.com)
    ×2.54 40 | 4 points by thibautg 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Crypto Criminal Accused of Crypto Crimes Again, While in Jail (bloomberg.com)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Europe's Largest Unions Demand Right to Cancel Work on Days Above 30C (novaramedia.com)
    ×4.11 17 | 89 points by robtherobber 18 hours ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Frog bacterium wiped out cancer tumors in mice with a single dose (sciencedaily.com)
    ×2.05 13 #83 | 17 points by dcyfr 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. The allergy culprit histamine also boosts our memory (newscientist.com)
    ×1.29 | 2 points by XzetaU8 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Agentic FC – a football management SIM played by AI agents over MCP (github.com/gaemi)
    ×1.58 133 | 4 points by gaemi 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Obsidian Aside (obsidian.md)
    ×0.76 | 2 points by wl1973 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. The Lindy effect in software (clemsau.com)
    ×0.77 25 #17 | 13 points by ankitg12 4 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. In Emacs, everything looks like a service (yummymelon.com)
    ×1.68 4 #48 | 239 points by kickingvegas 21 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: isitsecure - 1-command SAST & DAST & LLM security scanner for web apps (github.com/jaurakunal)
    ×1.15 | 2 points by kunaljaura 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Microsoft releases Flint, a visualization language for AI agents (microsoft.github.io)
    ×1.73 34 | 344 points by chenglong-hn 2 days ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Real-time n-body tree code in CUDA (github.com/lechebs)
    ×1.49 71 | 4 points by lechebs 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Mojave Paint for macOS, edit images like it's 1999 (mojavepaint.app)
    ×1.24 99 | 3 points by jpsimons 19 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Pylon Sync, an agent-first full-stack realtime framework (pylonsync.com)
    ×0.44 81 | 12 points by ericc59 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. An iroh powered smart fan (iroh.computer)
    ×1.38 3 #5 | 88 points by surprisetalk 8 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. AI 2040: Plan A (ai-2040.com)
    ×3.27 30 #10 | 234 points by kschaul 20 hours ago | 235 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Competitive Programming in the Era of AI (vibhaas.net)
    ×0.71 | 1 points by m-novikov 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. OpenAI faked inability to search training data, hid billions of logs, NYT says (arstechnica.com)
    ×4.66 52 | 64 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Anyone else get a vague GitHub shakedown notice? (osgeo.org)
    ×1.96 10 | 48 points by jjgreen 14 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Sighthound - open-source vulnerability scanner for source code (github.com/Corgea)
    ×0.88 67 | 19 points by asadeddin 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Materials innovation has a scale-up problem, not discovery (atomscale.ai)
    ×0.58 41 #54 | 26 points by groznyj 12 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Zeal 8-Bit Computer (zeal8bit.com)
    ×1.79 47 #74 | 11 points by gregsadetsky 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Yamanote.fun – A complete soundscape for Tokyo's Yamanote line (yamanote.fun)
    ×1.70 42 | 236 points by madebymagnolia 3 days ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Rubber Duck (greg.technology)
    ×1.29 102 | 10 points by gregsadetsky 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Weak hands and blurry vision: Is your tech giving you 'phone body'? (bbc.com)
    ×1.47 | 2 points by breve 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. This Week in Plasma: Audio Recording in Spectacle (kde.org)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by HieronymusBosch 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Vermont becomes first US state to ban paraquat herbicide over Parkinson's fears (theguardian.com)
    ×2.54 19 | 4 points by xoa 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. TLS certificates for internal services done right (tuxnet.dev)
    ×1.12 47 #72 | 178 points by mrl5 1 day ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Muse Spark 1.1 (meta.com)
    ×2.34 11 | 403 points by ot 1 day ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. A road to Lisp: Why Lisp (scotto.me)
    ×1.89 2 | 289 points by silcoon 1 day ago | 297 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Selvedge – long-term memory for AI-coded codebases (selvedge.sh)
    ×1.74 111 | 4 points by masondelan 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Strata – guess the city from its real 3D terrain and bathymetry (flightq.app)
    ×3.36 109 | 7 points by skyq 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Einstein's relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows (brown.edu)
    ×1.36 5 #1 | 206 points by hhs 9 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Postgres locks do not scale (recall.ai)
    ×0.71 55 #56 | 15 points by timetoogo 10 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Parental device use and the adolescent-caregiver attachment bond (frontiersin.org)
    ×1.82 17 #75 | 168 points by hbcondo714 1 day ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. MuseAir hash: new fastest high-quality portable hashing algorithm (github.com/eternal-io)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by eternal-io 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Inferock-bench – per-call billing receipts for OpenAI and Anthropic (github.com/inferock)
    ×1.59 36 | 3 points by DreyGreatness 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Apple sues OpenAI, accusing it of stealing company secrets (nytimes.com)
    ×8.56 77 | 111 points by jbegley 10 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf] (openai.com)
    ×2.93 8 #13 | 434 points by scrlk 13 hours ago | 349 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. SimPolitics: America’s quest to solve politics with computers (mit.edu)
    ×0.79 51 #84 | 104 points by mckelveyf 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Perforce and Unreal Lore's alternative, another way to use Git (github.com/zhuzhonghua)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by zhonghua 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: PostgreSQL performance and cost across 23 EC2 instance types (saneengineer.com)
    ×0.93 75 | 97 points by anivan_ 3 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. What's the best way to do authentication in modern applications (neciudan.dev)
    ×2.12 3 #6 | 25 points by freediver 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Numbergram – Make 10 from 4 numbers (numbergram.app)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by zmilou 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???