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  1. Tell HN: Pretending not to use AI has made me a better developer
    ×1.14 48 | 5 points by throwaway260803 44 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Early Feedback on Dez?
    ×0.86 | 2 points by alexander2002 31 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Local, Open source AI meeting recorder that sees and hears everything
    ×0.21 88 | 6 points by puremetrics 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Have LLMs Plateaued?
    ×0.26 93 | 6 points by leandrobon 14 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. New open sourced eval tool for building agents
    ×0.08 | 2 points by Thomeras 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Tips for Landing a YC Internship?
    ×0.23 99 | 6 points by cnnadozi 18 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Anyone still do work on Intel Macs?
    ×0.46 102 | 21 points by senor_digimon 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What's Next for LLMs?
    ×0.42 103 | 4 points by apatheticonion 17 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Tell HN: Amazonbot aggressively scraping my website and ignoring robots.txt
    ×0.85 104 | 20 points by pera 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Best way to avoid bloat and AI – selfcontaining OS
    ×0.26 100 | 11 points by bialamusic 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. What is the downside of coaching that I may not be seeing yet?
    ×0.48 116 | 6 points by ikut3hva 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: I still don't understand why AI agents need "skills"
    ×1.02 110 | 14 points by skeptic_ai 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: How are you using AI to learn?
    ×0.54 120 | 9 points by mfalcon 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Tell HN: HackerOne Announces Mandatory identity verification
    ×0.40 124 | 17 points by 0xmattf 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What's Your BHAG?
    ×0.47 113 | 7 points by sudo_cowsay 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo?
    ×1.81 59 | 28 points by ldng 3 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Strategic Oil Reserves Down to a Record Low Two-Week Supply
    ×0.61 125 | 22 points by megamike 3 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: When will ChatGPT Voice be able to control my phone?
    ×0.18 | 2 points by spapas82 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. What if we learned languages like we acquired our first?
    ×0.96 117 | 7 points by Salim_wariz 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What did you learn last month? (July 2026)
    ×0.44 123 | 15 points by bhu1st 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. ask HN: How do I run Android 15 on a system with Andr 12 vendors?
    ×0.35 126 | 3 points by KinetiNode 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Octane – React’s programming model, compiled (octanejs.dev)
    ×1.11 7 #30 | 105 points by nnx 8 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. US Schools Are Ditching Chromebooks for MacBooks by the Thousands (yahoo.com)
    ×2.90 10 #40 | 7 points by thunderbong 47 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. The Abandoned Fish Sauce Terrorizing a Small Canadian Town (defector.com)
    ×2.07 7 #22 | 150 points by ohjeez 6 hours ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Celebrating 45 Years of Kermit with the First New C-Kermit Release in 15 Years (complete.org)
    ×0.83 | 1 points by roryirvine 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: A MicroVM Launcher for BSD and Linux Guests on macOS/Linux (libkrun) (github.com/tsirysndr)
    ×0.86 | 2 points by tsiry 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. The true power of regular expressions (2012) (npopov.com)
    ×0.85 15 #38 | 67 points by uneven9434 8 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. EU enforces labeling AI generated content (euronews.com)
    ×2.18 2 #62 | 43 points by nucatus 7 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Help Wanted (lake.computer)
    ×3.05 52 | 4 points by whwhyb 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Authoryze- payment controls for AI agents (authoryze.ai)
    ×1.19 118 | 3 points by kevinfee 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Product analytics (and evals) for agent sessions on your MCP (armature.tech)
    ×0.92 14 #12 | 8 points by screm 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Why Book Corners won't sync contributions back to OpenStreetMap (andreagrandi.it)
    ×1.14 43 #43 | 134 points by pizzaiolo 16 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: ApeiroCraft – Proposals that track views, e-sign and invoice
    ×1.16 | 2 points by lolllll 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Quantum Fidelity-per-Cost: A Metric for Evaluation of Quantum Computing Systems (arxiv.org)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by refezs 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Bankruptcy rates among NFL players with short-lived income spikes (2015)[pdf] (nber.org)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by EndXA 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Explanation of INT8 ConvRot (FP8 is no longer needed) (note.com)
    ×0.67 20 #15 | 7 points by peter_d_sherman 56 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Meshdiff – visually compare two STL versions in the browser, client-side (meshdiff.com)
    ×1.26 46 #66 | 198 points by projscope 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. The Race to Build an American Alternative to Cheap AI from China (wsj.com)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by fortran77 11 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Seedance 2.5 (bytedance.com)
    ×2.37 29 | 436 points by njaremko 1 day ago | 250 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Karpathy’s Pelican (twitter.com/karpathy)
    ×2.77 1 #53 | 598 points by delichon 1 day ago | 413 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. FCC Restricts Imports of New Foreign Power Inverters and Robotic Devices (covingtonblogs.com)
    ×1.54 | 2 points by atlasunshrugged 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. AI financial advice is surprisingly good, especially if you ask right questions (mit.edu)
    ×2.59 37 | 344 points by foxtrot8672 1 day ago | 392 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Rubiks Cube Solver (github.com/punnerud)
    ×1.48 106 | 4 points by punnerud 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Techie lured out of retirement to support software only he remembered (theregister.com)
    ×2.81 5 #79 | 10 points by YeGoblynQueenne 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Find the perfect name for your startup, app or domain (howdowesay.com)
    ×1.20 | 2 points by wowinter15 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Romania blasts rock to divert water from drought-hit Danube to nuclear reactor (theguardian.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by howard941 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Slope remade in HTML5 to load instantly on any browser, any device (hurtle.site)
    ×1.90 112 | 42 points by novlrdotcom 2 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. If AI Outputs Aren't Speech, Who Has to Prove They're Human? (lawfaremedia.org)
    ×1.81 9 #47 | 6 points by hn_acker 51 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Convergence is not enough (inkandswitch.com)
    ×0.80 53 #52 | 54 points by zdw 13 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: NixOS-DGX-Spark – Nix and NixOS on the DGX Spark (github.com/graham33)
    ×0.89 55 #61 | 122 points by graham33 23 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Europe enters the Pyrocene age of fire that makes its own weather (intellinews.com)
    ×2.74 44 | 3 points by cybermango 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. ASCII Today (ascii.today)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by andsoitis 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Lunar, a "fast", memory-efficient Lua 5.1 VM written in Go (github.com/mmcdole)
    ×2.97 1 | 6 points by drakenot 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. How Hollywood stopped making movies in Hollywood (statsignificant.com)
    ×1.39 2 #10 | 72 points by speckx 3 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. PISIGuard: Protect your personal and sensitive info when you chat with AI (github.com/mohamed--abdel-maksoud)
    ×0.35 49 #58 | 20 points by mohamed_am83 8 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Prompts for Long Term Thinking (kk.org)
    ×1.42 | 2 points by herbertl 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Mu – Tools for Agents (github.com/micro)
    ×1.00 46 | 51 points by asim 18 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Legionlinuxtui – Control Lenovo legion laptops in the terminal (github.com/nooneknowspeter)
    ×0.50 108 | 16 points by nooneknowspeter 4 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Btfy – a blockchain that uses weather observations (github.com/kotagit75)
    ×1.20 109 | 10 points by yuzu_mikan 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. How the words we teach English language learners changed (pudding.cool)
    ×1.54 50 #51 | 235 points by c-oreills 1 day ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Ten Advances in Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (github.com/openai)
    ×1.23 | 2 points by landonxjames 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Sprocket – The Best AI Agent for Hardware and Software Development (spikonado.com)
    ×25.30 31 | 124 points by amronos 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: The best-paid AI/tech job anyone advertises pays $824k, not $100M (ctaio.dev)
    ×1.47 76 | 4 points by norejisace 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Kwayk – Reimplementing Quake in Qt Quick3D with Jolt Physics (github.com/glazunov999)
    ×0.32 | 2 points by glazunov999 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Logan Basic v2.1 - An online BASIC interpreter. (sinusoft.com)
    ×0.74 94 | 24 points by Sinusoid314 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Make your Framework 12 sound like a creaky door (github.com/ArcaEge)
    ×0.94 48 #67 | 90 points by arcaege 20 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. I don't recommend Tailwind CSS (andros.dev)
    ×3.46 49 | 157 points by andros 1 day ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. CISA Alert: Water Sector PLC Targeting (censys.com)
    ×1.05 82 | 93 points by speckx 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Drop your site, get design feedback based on similar sites (withfudge.com)
    ×0.36 | 2 points by sim04ful 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: I implemented the Kimi K3 paper from scratch in PyTorch (github.com/TimRots)
    ×1.35 92 | 10 points by ENOMEM 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Kraid is a now a real compiler (collabora.com)
    ×0.55 35 #23 | 11 points by losgehts 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Fuse – statically typed functional programming language (fuselang.org)
    ×1.06 60 #84 | 113 points by the_unproven 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. You don't need to be a developer to build a real product today (oyakoo.store)
    ×1.81 | 2 points by zooboole 4 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. It is past time to upgrade to post-quantum encryption (economist.com)
    ×1.53 | 2 points by andsoitis 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: I'm a 15 Year Old Wannabe Engineer, This Is a Cycloidal Gearbox I Built (github.com/tom-ilan)
    ×2.12 30 | 327 points by tomilan 1 day ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. AI poster wins Ohio State Fair contest (ohiostatefair.com)
    ×4.55 3 | 136 points by AlexAplin 18 hours ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. RFC 9851: TLS 1.2 is in Feature Freeze (rfc-editor.org)
    ×0.57 65 #64 | 43 points by Jimmc414 15 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Invelinux – An independent, RAM-based Linux distribution using Toybox and musl (sumtas.codeberg.page)
    ×1.32 21 | 3 points by sumtas 31 minutes ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Go 1.27 Interactive Tour (victoriametrics.com)
    ×1.81 23 | 356 points by Hixon10 1 day ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. NetBSD 11.0 (netbsd.org)
    ×2.31 50 | 315 points by jaypatelani 1 day ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. A Chinese LLM attacked our lab, so we made it work for us (jesta.ai)
    ×0.90 | 1 points by speckx 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Starship Launch 13 Exposed Fatal Achilles Heel: potential mission-ending delays (planetearthandbeyond.co)
    ×1.55 | 2 points by ck2 13 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. RPC across Python and TypeScript with zero dependencies (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.32 | 2 points by brendanib 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Qwen 3.8 Max is on OpenRouter (openrouter.ai)
    ×1.24 | 2 points by theanonymousone 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Changed how I use agent harnesses (github.com/maximhq)
    ×1.36 95 | 3 points by Swapnoneel 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Characterizing Warp Divergence from Pascal to Blackwell (arxiv.org)
    ×0.36 63 #37 | 20 points by matt_d 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. A DNS Record Now Flags Domains for Sale. Adoption Is Up to Registrars (webhosting.today)
    ×1.12 9 #59 | 4 points by speckx 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. My personal AI benchmark: “Generate an SVG of a frog with a Habsburg jaw” (vaguespac.es)
    ×1.49 41 #63 | 149 points by thebigship 21 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. TinyNES Review – A Super Niche NES Console (lon.tv)
    ×0.93 65 #69 | 68 points by throwoutway 21 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Xkcd: Earth Temperature Timeline (xkcd.com)
    ×7.01 59 #82 | 81 points by thunderbong 5 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???