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  1. Ask HN: What metrics do you track when building agents?
    ×0.35 | 2 points by rstagi 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?
    ×1.28 63 | 194 points by yehiaabdelm 2 days ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Tell HN: FileVault does not protect Wi-Fi passwords on macOS 26
    ×0.20 70 | 3 points by turbidimeter 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Good fast IDE for reading and navigating code in multiple languages
    ×0.43 72 | 5 points by akkad33 10 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. LongCat-2.0
    ×0.60 77 | 5 points by rika321 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)
    ×1.08 91 | 243 points by whoishiring 4 days ago | 324 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Happy Independence Day
    ×1.50 74 | 33 points by GauntletWizard 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)
    ×0.82 99 | 150 points by whoishiring 4 days ago | 461 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Since when does Craigslist's front page have emojis?
    ×0.33 116 | 39 points by argee 4 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: America turns 250 today. What does it mean to you?
    ×1.27 94 | 12 points by abixb 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How Do You Connect OpenAI Secure MCP Tunnel with Claude Desktop
    ×0.41 104 | 3 points by mcpzero 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Tell HN: Megalodon.jp is faster than archive.today and doesn't require reCAPTCHA
    ×0.64 106 | 5 points by Cider9986 21 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. I can build anything, but only the void sees it
    ×1.16 100 | 9 points by urbanogt5 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Why are so many "AI evangelists" posting such insufferable content?
    ×1.94 103 | 66 points by seattle_spring 3 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Tell HN: Installing Cursor on iOS irreversibly changes your privacy settings
    ×1.90 96 | 248 points by zkldi 5 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. How many failed startups have you launched?
    ×0.55 117 | 18 points by steelebillings 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Where can I find or get in contact with farmers specifically in the US?
    ×0.77 143 | 6 points by strapchay 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. I built a environment reloader for Windows Shells
    ×0.22 137 | 3 points by byjonas 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Retrieval is not the future of AI – if it was, Google would have won already
    ×0.84 119 | 4 points by lamprouge 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Tell HN: Old Reddit now requires login
    ×2.91 109 | 87 points by jay_kyburz 3 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Where are the good search engines for mathematical formulas?
    ×0.29 141 | 3 points by lo0dot0 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Fable 5. Safety Taken to an Extreme
    ×1.08 113 | 10 points by sergeysmirnov 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Where is the programming profession going?
    ×1.07 154 | 166 points by syntaxbush 1 week ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: When will the stock market crash?
    ×2.92 84 | 12 points by roschdal 21 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Tell HN: Fewer PRs done with proper prompting, review, and refinement wins
    ×0.66 153 | 7 points by tomerbd 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: Topics, Not Feeds (blogsreader.com)
    ×0.74 142 | 9 points by jdeibele 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. TabFont – guitar tabs rendered as you type (philatype.com)
    ×0.71 66 #64 | 6 points by ChrisArchitect 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Raylib 6.x gamejam – Make a 720x720 wasm game with raylib in 6 days (itch.io)
    ×1.32 | 2 points by vyrotek 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Paint the Earth on a live interactive globe (earth.tattoo)
    ×1.14 | 2 points by earth-tattoo 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Gitstock–Transform you GitHub commit history into K-line and animations (gitstock.org)
    ×0.54 123 | 27 points by dares2573 5 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: CAVS – Open-source content-addressable updates for game assets (github.com/orelvis15)
    ×0.98 71 | 3 points by orelvis15 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Classify mechanical faults using Contrastive Language-Audio Pretraining (github.com/adam-s)
    ×0.50 90 | 35 points by dataviz1000 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Record-breaking solo rower Kelsey Pfendler arrives in Hawaii (hawaiinewsnow.com)
    ×1.65 39 #56 | 84 points by MaysonL 18 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Contributor Visualization for Superset: top contributors own 90% of lines (twitter.com/Principal_ADE)
    ×2.46 52 | 3 points by fernando-ram 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Why are the upvote arrows so small?
    ×0.96 | 1 points by guilhermeasper 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Zuckerberg's Increasingly Bizarre War on Whistleblowers (pluralistic.net)
    ×5.35 85 | 119 points by deely3 3 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: A home for short stories generated from 5 random emojis (moon-zine.net)
    ×0.81 145 | 3 points by riedhes 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Introduction to Compilers and Language Design (2021) (dthain.github.io)
    ×1.99 6 #6 | 235 points by AlexeyBrin 8 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: GameFork – AI agents publish and fork browser games via MCP (gamefork.io)
    ×1.01 | 2 points by TakayukiKomada 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. The circuit that lets your brain think and see (columbia.edu)
    ×1.07 69 | 87 points by hhs 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Open-source phone calling infra for AI agents (github.com/AgentLineHQ)
    ×1.49 76 | 4 points by sameersri2004 9 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Small World – The "Preact" of 3D Web Engines (TypeScript, WebGPU) (rottensteiner-stefan.github.io)
    ×1.78 25 | 6 points by DragonZoul 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Trust your compiler: Modern C++ (categorica.io)
    ×1.24 1 #49 | 61 points by foxhill 10 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Synthesis is harder than analysis (surfingcomplexity.blog)
    ×1.08 47 | 149 points by azhenley 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. David Beazley – Programming Courses (dabeaz.com)
    ×2.49 44 | 144 points by gregsadetsky 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. 2026 Unslop AI-Written Fiction Contest Results (hyperstitionai.com)
    ×1.13 68 | 64 points by networked 1 day ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Moving back home used to be a sign of failure. Now it shows financial savvy (wsj.com)
    ×1.46 17 #37 | 20 points by apparent 2 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Speech and Noise Corpora for Pitch Estimation of Human Speech (zenodo.org)
    ×2.11 | 2 points by q7m 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Video Effects SDK – Face Avatars (effectssdk.ai)
    ×0.85 | 2 points by mda_damico 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025) (annas-archive.gl)
    ×2.82 32 #77 | 510 points by Cider9986 1 day ago | 310 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Diffy – browser extension for faster GitHub PR review experience (github.com/suveshmoza)
    ×1.42 5 | 3 points by suveshmoza 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Claude Code cache guard because Fable 5 tokens are way too precious to waste (github.com/yuliang615)
    ×1.15 | 2 points by yuliang615 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Neoengineers (elijahpotter.dev)
    ×0.94 48 #19 | 6 points by chilipepperhott 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. If you're a button, you have one job (aresluna.org)
    ×3.04 9 #32 | 503 points by nozzlegear 18 hours ago | 247 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. The Log is the Agent (arxiv.org)
    ×1.27 44 #38 | 98 points by iacguy 17 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. GPT-5.5 Codex reasoning-token clustering may be leading to degraded performance (github.com/openai)
    ×2.14 6 #47 | 348 points by maille 22 hours ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Gemma 3 inference in pure C++ with Metal acceleration (github.com/ybubnov)
    ×1.74 114 | 6 points by ybubnov 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Mr. Baby Paint and accidentally discovering a new cellular automata (aalto.fi)
    ×1.03 34 #14 | 6 points by jfil 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. How Bending Spoons built a $23B tech empire from struggling brands (ft.com)
    ×2.29 14 #50 | 11 points by chuckus 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Collision in space is not evidence of dark matter after all? (uni-bonn.de)
    ×1.14 | 2 points by mpweiher 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Egg consumption inversely correlated with Alzheimer's (nih.gov)
    ×2.66 16 | 67 points by natbennett 19 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Explanation of everything you can see in htop/top on Linux (2019) (peteris.rocks)
    ×2.87 10 #70 | 490 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Eclipse Enclave (eclipse.org)
    ×1.57 | 2 points by Tomte 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Odin, Wikipedia and engagement farming (katamari64.se)
    ×2.08 32 | 251 points by stock_toaster 1 day ago | 382 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. President pardons 9 for Clean Air violations for 'fixing their car' (msn.com)
    ×6.31 7 | 87 points by OutOfHere 16 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Driving in China as a Tourist (ian.sh)
    ×2.08 10 #46 | 4 points by appwiz 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. My ASN Journey series (2024) (animmouse.com)
    ×0.67 42 #73 | 39 points by antonalekseev 15 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Espionage Against the European Parliament (citizenlab.ca)
    ×3.00 18 | 422 points by ledoge 1 day ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: GREF – Interactive search and replace for terminal and Vim (github.com/albertize)
    ×0.48 | 2 points by albertize 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Europe's new climate in seven charts (bbc.com)
    ×5.98 66 | 142 points by saikatsg 10 hours ago | 219 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Plot Workshop – A story planning tool for writers (plotworkshop.com)
    ×0.49 | 2 points by calzakk 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Airplane Boneyards List and Map (airplaneboneyards.com)
    ×0.73 15 #12 | 63 points by hyperific 7 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Web-based cryptography is always snake oil (devever.net)
    ×1.59 27 #28 | 78 points by enz 12 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Ancient Greek Technology: The Origins of Robotics and Engineering (kotsanas.com)
    ×1.70 5 | 3 points by andsoitis 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Typocalypse – An Arcade Typing Roguelike (florianrudaj.com)
    ×0.84 121 | 4 points by florianrudaj 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: OM Core – multidimensional models without spreadsheet cell formulas (github.com/cloudcell)
    ×0.59 131 | 14 points by cloudcell 5 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. “Beyond the limit”: Satellites and mirrors in space pose threat to the night sky (eso.org)
    ×1.87 4 #89 | 185 points by Breadmaker 1 day ago | 302 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. I built a weather station that runs machine learning to forecast weather (github.com/Dominic-Muscatella)
    ×0.50 | 2 points by makegreatthings 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Kagi Changelog (July 2): Heads, tails, and an AI toggle (kagi.com)
    ×1.48 83 | 67 points by mroche 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Describing All My Photos (alexwlchan.net)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by Tomte 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Small Penis Rule (wikipedia.org)
    ×4.75 10 #17 | 24 points by chistev 53 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. OpenWiki: CLI that writes and maintains agent documentation for your codebase (github.com/langchain-ai)
    ×0.90 25 #22 | 57 points by handfuloflight 9 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Return of the Nigerian Prince Redux: Beware Book Club and Book Review Scams (2025) (writerbeware.blog)
    ×0.85 53 #52 | 73 points by Anon84 19 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Slow Tuesday Night (1965) (baen.com)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by et1337 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Soatok's Informal Guide to Threat Models (soatok.blog)
    ×1.11 54 | 124 points by zdw 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Programmers need to start meditating (jacob.gold)
    ×3.13 53 | 122 points by enz 12 hours ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Atomic Force Microscope [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.22 43 #42 | 112 points by mhb 18 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. The Strange Locomotion of Spirocuta (chriskiehl.com)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by goostavos 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. RetroPad: A Tiny Notepad-style Windows text editor ~2.5kb (github.com/PlummersSoftwareLLC)
    ×1.10 | 2 points by rishikeshs 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Two nasty surprises in Home Assistant's config (frankel.ch)
    ×1.74 6 | 3 points by edward 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???