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  1. ChatGPT Remote Connection Failure
    ×0.57 33 #84 | 3 points by tumidpandora 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Read a book 703 words at a time
    ×0.85 | 2 points by cliniborg 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
    ×1.17 97 | 267 points by david927 2 days ago | 1040 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: How useful is Gemini for Google Apps?
    ×0.47 63 | 3 points by cobbzilla 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How's the idea of creating LinkedIn styled character profiles
    ×0.73 66 | 3 points by anitroves 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles
    ×6.01 3 | 1069 points by levkk 2 days ago | 453 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How can I publish a paid app to Google Play without giving up my privacy
    ×1.07 109 | 3 points by SamCoding 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Should I do a CS masters at Cambridge or start as a new grad at Amazon?
    ×0.67 134 | 26 points by sspehr 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. eBay is down this looks like a global incident 07142026
    ×2.99 45 | 5 points by megamike 57 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Is ChatGPT Down?
    ×4.68 48 | 8 points by behindai 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: A DC Powered Home?
    ×0.46 107 | 4 points by dhosek 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Advice for first-year CS students?
    ×0.62 101 | 7 points by jassembk 8 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: US Equivalent of Anabin?
    ×0.37 | 2 points by xqb64 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Any objective research on which languages are best for AI agents?
    ×0.43 132 | 5 points by mwigdahl 12 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How do you keep up with news in a particular sector?
    ×0.23 | 2 points by doruk101 12 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Using X vs. LinkedIn?
    ×0.63 138 | 4 points by lalithaar 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Can someone build open source Claude tag please?
    ×0.29 | 2 points by lalithaar 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Should I Promote My SaaS to get first 100 Customers without budget
    ×1.28 122 | 7 points by HSK11 13 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Tell HN: Up/downvotes of comments on HN are silently ignored when using Tor
    ×1.46 125 | 7 points by fsflover 13 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. I want to build an OTT app. Where should I start?
    ×0.72 158 | 4 points by ibuld 18 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: How do you use Vim in the era of AI?
    ×0.88 169 | 48 points by rstagi 4 days ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: How do you troubleshoot desktop Linux crashes/freezes?
    ×0.35 170 | 3 points by Curiositry 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: What critical legacy system at work is everyone afraid to touch?
    ×1.39 136 | 10 points by jerrycat101 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: What makes someone good at using Claude Code?
    ×0.80 165 | 5 points by Paarthmj 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: What hardware hobby would you recommend to a software engineer?
    ×0.83 159 | 5 points by merek 23 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Why isn't Google indexing information about the AT Protocol?
    ×0.89 162 | 49 points by iameli 3 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: What are your personal websites?
    ×1.33 151 | 9 points by basilikum 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: How do you use LLMs for private discussions?
    ×0.66 167 | 12 points by emerongi 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: AI Agent and harness containerization/security recommendations
    ×0.48 171 | 3 points by dv35z 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Let's talk about: LinkedIn ghost jobs
    ×0.47 166 | 14 points by xvxvx 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Web Client SDK
    ×0.16 | 2 points by atoapaymentsapp 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Does anyone else find GPT-5.6 Sol in Codex slow?
    ×0.99 145 | 5 points by linzhangrun 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. What's the first thing you look up when evaluating a company?
    ×0.41 172 | 3 points by salleisha 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Claudio? Why we need and open source Claude
    ×0.49 173 | 3 points by torrmal 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Mechacraft.io – Browser Vehicle Builder (mechacraft.io)
    ×1.58 85 | 3 points by nickyvanurk 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: BillAI Bass, an AI-Powered Big Mouth Billy Bass Using Strands Agents (github.com/morganwilliscloud)
    ×0.92 106 | 70 points by mtw14 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Datapoint – API for Human Preference Data (trydatapoint.com)
    ×1.48 131 | 4 points by yoloakki 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Banter (homosabiens.substack.com)
    ×0.81 14 #51 | 16 points by surprisetalk 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Open-sourced a dataset of companies and their detected tech stacks (CSV/JSON) (github.com/leadita)
    ×1.74 8 | 3 points by haynajjar 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Silicon Valley has a science fiction problem (aeon.co)
    ×3.05 21 | 5 points by ohjeez 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Maincode launches Matilda, an AI assistant running on Australian infrastructure (maincode.com)
    ×1.14 | 2 points by huey77 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. What Is "Loop Engineering?" (pragmaticengineer.com)
    ×0.99 | 2 points by Khaine 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Town – Discord in a pixel town where the NPCs have skills (github.com/redplanethq)
    ×1.96 133 | 5 points by harshithmul 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. The zero-cost fallacy: open-source software in the agentic era (thoughtworks.com)
    ×1.14 11 #24 | 105 points by backlit4034 9 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. House Votes for Permanent Daylight Saving Time (nytimes.com)
    ×2.20 14 #61 | 4 points by donohoe 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. YouTrackDB is a general-use object-oriented graph database (github.com/JetBrains)
    ×1.23 29 #82 | 166 points by gjvc 21 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Proton – A pure Go GUI library with zero CGO and API immunity
    ×0.86 148 | 3 points by CzaxTanmay 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. QR-Swastika-Avoider (crates.io)
    ×4.36 74 | 35 points by gregsadetsky 2 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: GitBiased – your team development dashboard (gitbiased.com)
    ×1.13 152 | 3 points by skyfantom 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Same model, same Q4_K_M label: 5.02, 5.07 and 5.27 bits per weight (github.com/logxio)
    ×0.80 40 #48 | 13 points by logickkk1 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. URLs: Uniform Resource Locators or Unreliable Resource Locators [pdf] (semanticscholar.org)
    ×0.79 | 1 points by jambalaya8 11 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. OpenAI and Anthropic warning about a future they're building at breakneck speed (businessinsider.com)
    ×3.02 10 | 4 points by falcor84 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. LLM-as-a-Verifier: A General-Purpose Verification Framework (arxiv.org)
    ×1.50 60 | 3 points by gmays 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Linear is always a lagging indicator (remark.ing)
    ×1.59 37 | 11 points by koch 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Beavis Ultrasound PnP ISA Sound Card Replica (github.com/schlae)
    ×0.59 117 | 101 points by mariuz 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Iodd Viewer a free IODD viewer that runs in the browser (ioddviewer.com)
    ×0.87 | 2 points by bitchanic 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: I built a one-prompt hackathon platform, free entry, sponsored prizes (1shotchallenge.ai)
    ×0.66 146 | 11 points by lucasmartinic 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Self-hosted Minecraft multi-server panel for vanilla and modpacks (github.com/anefzaoui)
    ×1.11 | 2 points by ahmednefzaoui 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. US Congress takes next step to make daylight saving time permanent (bbc.com)
    ×1.46 52 | 3 points by xoxxala 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: An Interactive Guide for Castlevania II: Simon's Quest (theultimatesimonsquestguide.com)
    ×1.31 92 | 5 points by baclap 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire (techcrunch.com)
    ×3.74 15 | 468 points by forks 1 day ago | 409 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Orbit – AR satellite tracker, watch 15k+ objects (nagylukas.github.io)
    ×1.02 150 | 88 points by lukas9 3 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK (marco-nett.de)
    ×2.27 27 #33 | 347 points by hoechst 8 hours ago | 225 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. I Use HTML with Java (frequal.com)
    ×2.09 12 | 3 points by TeaVMFan 46 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Neverswipe – your AI agent dates so you don't swipe (neverswipe.ai)
    ×1.39 161 | 3 points by pro_methe5 17 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. The infinite scroll may become endangered if controversial Calif. law passes (sfgate.com)
    ×1.84 55 #87 | 219 points by Stratoscope 1 day ago | 422 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. How to Spot an El Niño (threetalkingheads.com)
    ×0.78 | 1 points by willmeyers 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Logseq 2.0 Beta (DB version) is here (github.com/logseq)
    ×1.29 94 | 100 points by karencarits 1 day ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. What will be left for us to work on? (normaltech.ai)
    ×2.69 34 | 173 points by randomwalker 23 hours ago | 245 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: DevQuest – live GitHub profile cards and a daily repository battle (github.com/yiaany)
    ×1.48 82 | 3 points by hizyyo 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Sx 2.0 – Share AI skills with your team through a Dropbox folder (sleuth-io.github.io)
    ×0.66 110 | 43 points by detkin 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Financing the AI boom: from cash flows to debt [pdf] (bis.org)
    ×1.42 2 #6 | 81 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 3 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. How the FSF sysadmins block botnets with reaction (fsf.org)
    ×1.64 1 #45 | 155 points by pseudolus 12 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. DOGE is done. What happened to its records? (ms.now)
    ×7.03 38 | 337 points by ndsipa_pomu 1 day ago | 289 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Free-form thermal cloaks in three dimensions (nature.com)
    ×1.77 32 | 3 points by T-A 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Launch HN: Agnost AI (YC S26) – Extract user feedback from agent conversations (agnost.ai)
    ×0.45 58 #28 | 45 points by laalshaitaan 8 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Agnes Callard’s theory of the uni-context (derekthompson.org)
    ×0.95 24 #38 | 90 points by FinnLobsien 11 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Actegories (bartoszmilewski.com)
    ×0.56 58 #86 | 46 points by ibobev 14 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. What to know about 'explosive diarrhoea' parasite outbreak in US (bbc.com)
    ×2.24 46 #70 | 6 points by teleforce 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Grok uploaded my user directory to xAI's servers (twitter.com/a_green_being)
    ×4.99 16 | 508 points by tnolet 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. The real prices of frontier models (playcode.io)
    ×1.68 68 | 155 points by ianberdin 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Data centers have hiked electricity prices on the public by $23B (fortune.com)
    ×5.09 15 #18 | 29 points by measurablefunc 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Why organizing knowledge in the age of AI sucks, and how I solve it (bearblog.dev)
    ×1.27 90 #42 | 3 points by enteigss 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. The 3-degree limit could be exceeded as early as 2050 (dpg-physik.de)
    ×2.14 35 #43 | 11 points by simmerup 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. The art and engineering of Sega CD Silpheed (fabiensanglard.net)
    ×1.25 58 | 252 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Precursor (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.78 67 | 201 points by AznHisoka 1 day ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: I built a deterministic check for fabricated quotes in LLM output (github.com/pierreolivierbonin)
    ×1.54 154 | 3 points by pobonin 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Lo and Co's Duet Collection: Mixing metals in hardware design (design-milk.com)
    ×0.89 | 1 points by whiteblossom 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Vehir – a platform built for AI agents: compiler, microkernel, CAS (github.com/grigoriitropin)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by dewdgi 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. House passes bill to make daylight saving time permanent (cbsnews.com)
    ×1.15 | 2 points by m348e912 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???