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  1. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)
    ×1.30 13 #7 | 81 points by whoishiring 3 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)
    ×1.14 17 #11 | 57 points by whoishiring 3 hours ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Tell HN: Installing Cursor on iOS irreversibly changes your privacy settings
    ×2.02 1 | 241 points by zkldi 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Has anyone had success finding freelance gigs from HN
    ×0.96 | 2 points by mr_o47 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Does anybody still FEEL improvements between latest LLMs for coding?
    ×0.28 64 | 3 points by sspehr 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Secure wrapper for coding agents?
    ×0.33 89 | 19 points by rjzzleep 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2026)
    ×0.98 32 | 4 points by jon_north 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Will AI LLMs for coding get smarter and cheaper in the future?
    ×1.48 | 2 points by roschdal 17 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Where is the programming profession going?
    ×1.08 122 | 165 points by syntaxbush 6 days ago | 182 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Email from Reddit for age verification on a deleted account
    ×0.93 75 | 9 points by SurprisedTiger 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. The open source DOCX editor submitted to HN a few weeks ago has been deleted
    ×0.78 116 | 108 points by gcanyon 4 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Should I buy mac studio M4 max or macbook M5 pro?
    ×0.17 123 | 4 points by akarshhegde18 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Is "no source code was copied" still a sufficient copyright defense?
    ×0.65 132 | 67 points by oscgam1 5 days ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Is Codex with GPT 5.5 Extra High being dumbed down?
    ×0.22 113 | 6 points by setnone 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. From Slop to Determinism – Shifting the Narrative Space
    ×0.16 | 2 points by pyeri 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Is aerc better than neomutt now?
    ×0.12 153 | 5 points by hardikxk 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: How much coding should beginners learn in the AI era?
    ×0.52 154 | 41 points by JohnDSDev 1 week ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Homeless, Former Software Developer, What Now?
    ×0.51 121 | 15 points by current_robot 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What do SRE do at your company?
    ×0.45 147 | 11 points by petemc_ 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: MacBook vs. Dedicated GPU for LLM
    ×1.19 140 | 37 points by mzubairtahir 4 days ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Hey GLM 5.2, build me a hypervisor (technotes.substack.com)
    ×2.75 22 | 5 points by mkagenius 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Show HN: Coding Agent Survey – Which coding agents do you use? (codingagentsurvey.org)
    ×2.70 12 | 5 points by jacobgold 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. NanoShell: A preemptively multi-tasked 32-bit OS with a windowed GUI (github.com/iProgramMC)
    ×0.94 47 #48 | 4 points by mrunix 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Tech giants lose $2T in SpaceX's IPO month (elpais.com)
    ×2.33 13 #66 | 8 points by 01-_- 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Japan plans sovereign AI model and 10M robots (japantimes.co.jp)
    ×1.36 | 2 points by geox 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. The Doomsday Organism (noemamag.com)
    ×1.00 | 2 points by johanam 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Trump made more than $1B on crypto deals, part of 2025 windfall (wsj.com)
    ×14.20 11 | 192 points by fortran77 18 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Pinch-to-zoom tree navigation (delopsu.com)
    ×0.44 72 | 3 points by delopsu 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Keep It Slow Stupid (keepitslowstupid.com)
    ×0.93 | 1 points by mdmourao 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. PowerFuzz: Power-Based Black-Box Firmware Fuzzing (arxiv.org)
    ×1.71 | 2 points by Jimmc414 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Norman Rockwell Paintings of the West Wing in the White House on Public View (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by thunderbong 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Meta's Un-Stable Signature (hackerfactor.com)
    ×0.99 | 2 points by ementally 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Tokyo has only two barley tea makers, we visited one to see how mugicha is made (soranews24.com)
    ×1.19 22 | 156 points by zdw 23 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Scientists find molecular-level evidence for two structures in liquid water (phys.org)
    ×1.27 81 | 109 points by wglb 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Antares achieves criticality of Mark-0 reactor (antaresindustries.com)
    ×0.93 76 | 76 points by clarionbell 1 day ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Openleetcode – LeetCode runner where tests live in the repo (github.com/therepanic)
    ×1.14 102 | 6 points by therepanic 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Classify mechanical faults using Contrastive Language-Audio Pretraining (github.com/adam-s)
    ×0.77 59 #37 | 4 points by dataviz1000 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Valve Explains Why It Doesn't Subsidize Its Hardware Platforms (daringfireball.net)
    ×1.58 | 2 points by Tomte 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: NanoEuler – GPT-2 scale model in pure C/CUDA from scratch (github.com/JustVugg)
    ×0.62 106 | 55 points by vforno 2 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. The Website Is Down (thewebsiteisdown.com)
    ×1.60 13 | 5 points by kretaceous 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Reading the internals of Postgres: Database cluster, databases, and tables (buraksen.dev)
    ×0.75 61 #83 | 87 points by buraksen 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Krafton Agrees to Pay 'Subnautica 2' Bonuses as Developer's CEO Resigns (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.91 | 2 points by healsdata 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Are readers generating fiction with AI models? (arxiv.org)
    ×0.98 20 #21 | 12 points by ilamont 1 hour ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Reminal – A zero-config SSH alternative that's also mobile friendly (github.com/harshalgajjar)
    ×1.39 65 #70 | 5 points by harshalgajjar 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Nano Banana 2 Lite (deepmind.google)
    ×1.90 13 #88 | 424 points by minimaxir 1 day ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Open-Source Interview Platform (github.com/CoderScreen)
    ×1.38 8 | 3 points by rogutkuba 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Memory Safe Context Switching (fil-c.org)
    ×1.19 63 | 210 points by modeless 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Zenith: sota harness for normal models to beat Fable on FrontierSWE (ii.inc)
    ×1.20 133 | 8 points by emadm 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Metaspec: The DpANS3R Common Lisp Spec in S-Expr and HTML Format (metaspec.dev)
    ×0.65 146 | 17 points by dlowe-net 1 week ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: macOS Native Markdown Reader with Vim Keybinding Using Swift (intellios.ai)
    ×0.84 143 | 7 points by coolwulf 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Google's New reCAPTCHA Wants Your Camera Access and 21 Points of Your Hand (reclaimthenet.org)
    ×3.38 33 #60 | 96 points by Cider9986 15 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Claude Science (claude.com)
    ×2.39 25 #85 | 550 points by lebovic 1 day ago | 165 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: I built an agent that uses email as a file system (supafax.com)
    ×0.96 151 | 3 points by rohanmahen 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Pixelblock – block email open tracking images in Gmail (google.com)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by ramoq 28 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Looking Ahead to Postgres 19 (snowflake.com)
    ×1.48 27 | 215 points by thinkingemote 1 day ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Amalia – an open-source language model targeting European Portuguese (huggingface.co)
    ×1.54 | 2 points by mt_ 16 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. The Founding Father Who Sought a Last-Minute Deal to Avert the Revolution (nytimes.com)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by bookofjoe 17 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. SpaceX Showed Investors Prototype of Elon Musk's New AI Device (wsj.com)
    ×1.85 6 | 3 points by jaredwiener 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. .self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting (onmy.cloud)
    ×2.69 23 | 670 points by HumanCCF 1 day ago | 379 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. We moved our Bluesky data to Eurosky (waag.org)
    ×1.58 40 | 147 points by dotcoma 1 day ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Supreme Court takes sledgehammer to federal regulatory structure (npr.org)
    ×3.61 57 | 82 points by marojejian 1 day ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. For first time, a cell built from scratch grows and divides (quantamagazine.org)
    ×2.74 #1 | 452 points by defrost 4 hours ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Building Gin: Simple over Easy (manualmeida.dev)
    ×1.54 6 #8 | 22 points by manucorporat 1 hour ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. EU court says private jet manufacturing can be labelled green investment (reuters.com)
    ×1.44 | 2 points by sajithdilshan 28 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. assert() and similar macros in SQLite (sqlite.org)
    ×1.41 | 2 points by chmaynard 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. We Are the Last People Who Know How It Works (unix.foo)
    ×4.31 3 | 317 points by cylo 1 day ago | 265 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Erlangchain – A tiny Erlang client for LLMs (github.com/abhavk)
    ×0.81 95 | 3 points by Abhavk 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. What to Learn to Be a Graphics Programmer (demofox.org)
    ×1.91 2 #2 | 42 points by atan2 55 minutes ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1852) (gutenberg.org)
    ×0.95 48 #79 | 184 points by lstodd 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Single header Parser Combinators for C (github.com/steve-chavez)
    ×1.25 49 #63 | 66 points by steve-chavez 14 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. European digital ID wallets rely on safety services of Google and Apple (waag.org)
    ×3.78 18 | 697 points by donohoe 1 day ago | 303 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Makes local LLMs faster and more reliable by optimizing for your device (autotunellm.com)
    ×0.76 114 | 5 points by tanavc 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Monetization Gateway (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.78 2 #10 | 145 points by soheilpro 4 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: QR code renderer in a TrueType font (jim.sh)
    ×3.37 11 #23 | 22 points by foodevl 1 hour ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Welcome to the Dual State of AI Regulation (thefunsinthefight.com)
    ×0.88 47 #51 | 7 points by m-hodges 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Building a custom octocopter from scratch with no prior hardware experience (mgdubiel.com)
    ×1.73 52 #55 | 397 points by noleary 1 day ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. SpudCell: The first synthetic cell with a complete cell cycle (biotic.org)
    ×1.60 70 | 80 points by godwinson__4-8 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. FFmpeg 9.1's new AAC encoder (hydrogenaudio.org)
    ×2.20 3 #3 | 104 points by ledoge 2 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Launch HN: Parsewise (YC P25) – Reason Across Documents with an API
    ×0.36 39 #13 | 34 points by gergelycsegzi 5 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Hanami 3.0: In Full Bloom (hanakai.org)
    ×1.40 15 #12 | 16 points by PuercoPop 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. The Hidden Harms of CPR (2023) (newyorker.com)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by mitchbob 24 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Claude Fable 5 export control lifted (twitter.com/synthwavedd)
    ×5.26 43 | 66 points by dataking 18 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: PDFMergely – In-browser PDF tools that never upload your files (pdfmergely.com)
    ×0.98 99 | 17 points by pdfmergely 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Privacy policy generator for AI apps (LLM disclosure, EU AI Act) (ai-policy-gen.pages.dev)
    ×0.95 124 | 6 points by wyss0513 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Meta loses bid to dismiss US states' claims that FB, Instagram addict children (reuters.com)
    ×4.39 45 #50 | 129 points by tartoran 3 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. The Stockholm Telephone Tower with Approximately 5,500 Telephone Lines, 1890 (rarehistoricalphotos.com)
    ×1.43 5 #78 | 10 points by thunderbong 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Rewindr – Local shell inside failed GitHub Actions snapshots (github.com/dr-alberto)
    ×2.33 27 | 3 points by __alberto 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: OpenKnowledge – open source AI-first alternative to Obsidian/Notion (github.com/inkeep)
    ×1.90 96 | 381 points by engomez 6 days ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Chasing the OPNsense RCE: The Story Behind My First CVEs (hackerask.com)
    ×1.63 14 #30 | 10 points by HackerAsk 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Hatari – Online Atari ST/STE/TT/Falcon Emulator (frama.io)
    ×0.65 57 #72 | 81 points by gregsadetsky 20 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???