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  1. I built a tool to get comments in CSV format from YouTube videos
    ×0.26 | 2 points by cristyg0101 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?
    ×1.70 12 | 112 points by kadhirvelm 17 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
    ×1.17 107 | 279 points by david927 3 days ago | 1080 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Are AWS Certs worth getting for experienced Devs?
    ×0.54 94 | 9 points by Gold-Ask-lx 13 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles
    ×5.94 37 | 1083 points by levkk 3 days ago | 456 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Tell HN: Fable Credits Are 150x More Expensive
    ×1.31 96 | 8 points by yesitcan 12 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Is page 2 HN better?
    ×1.58 75 | 7 points by Towaway69 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Who build production apps with out seeing code?
    ×0.39 | 2 points by amukbils 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Revised Polish Alphabet
    ×0.53 127 | 3 points by poloniaco 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Should I do a CS masters at Cambridge or start as a new grad at Amazon?
    ×0.60 145 | 27 points by sspehr 2 days ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Are the heaviest AI users of your team blowing past everyone else?
    ×2.27 110 | 6 points by ex-aws-dude 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Anyone Else Burnt Out?
    ×1.88 122 | 12 points by lmpdev 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Do YC companies get preference on the homepage?
    ×0.41 | 2 points by e_i_pi_2 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. ChatGPT now defaults to Codex instead of chat:(
    ×0.57 131 | 4 points by amukbils 15 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Making something on your own(without any LLM) feels so good
    ×0.50 143 | 3 points by RajX_dev 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What company could create an iOS/Android competitor worth adopting?
    ×0.32 139 | 4 points by pwython 17 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. GitHub is starting to lockdown some of the previously public data
    ×1.03 117 | 9 points by punkpeye 18 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Does language complexity affect reasoning?
    ×0.64 142 | 4 points by zecice 18 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. I reverse-engineered the three biggest agent-memory tools
    ×0.19 | 2 points by pauliusztin 20 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. High-Bandwidth Flash offers efficient storage for model weights (ieee.org)
    ×0.92 15 #15 | 33 points by Gaishan 5 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Show HN: Capn-hook for coding agents – don't grep the same mystery twice (github.com/cyrusNuevoDia)
    ×0.61 44 #83 | 28 points by knrz 13 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Show HN: Heard for iOS: ePub reader with on-device text to speech (heard.quest)
    ×1.45 108 | 5 points by alana314 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Show HN: Tarit – a hypervisor which is 2x faster than firecracker (github.com/instavm)
    ×0.53 | 2 points by mkagenius 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. I also filed the corners off my MacBook (brt.fyi)
    ×2.55 13 #14 | 148 points by maxbrt 12 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. OpenAI loses trademark dispute at EU court (dpa-international.com)
    ×3.13 17 #60 | 233 points by hermanzegerman 17 hours ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Sheetz Chooses StorMagic SvHCI to Replace VMware Across 830 Retail Stores (yahoo.com)
    ×0.98 | 2 points by gnabgib 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. S&P Global has lowered Oracle’s creditworthiness from BBB to BBB- (heise.de)
    ×6.26 17 | 334 points by gepeto42 1 day ago | 362 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Starlink unlimited aviation plan to rise from $10k/month to $20k (corporatejetinvestor.com)
    ×3.88 25 | 115 points by r2sk5t 15 hours ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Coding agents think ahead of time (arxiv.org)
    ×1.23 93 | 95 points by andre15silva 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Limits, an on-device iOS app for tracking AI usage limits (getlimits.app)
    ×0.41 | 2 points by treexs 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Homer's Odyssey Tree Viewer (github.com/pettijohn)
    ×1.79 103 | 4 points by pettijohn 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023) (oup.com)
    ×3.33 26 #40 | 687 points by bilsbie 19 hours ago | 361 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ex-Fed advisor gets over three years in prison for lying about China ties (cnbc.com)
    ×2.23 1 | 4 points by shinryudbz 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Punch yourself in the face with reality (adi.bio)
    ×1.66 52 | 238 points by AdityaAnand1 1 day ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: I RL-trained an agent that trains models with RL (for ~$1.3k) (github.com/Danau5tin)
    ×0.88 85 | 106 points by Danau5tin 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Microsoft Confirms Windows GDID Device Identifier That Cannot Be Disabled (ghacks.net)
    ×3.11 8 | 103 points by robtherobber 18 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: 18KB ls alternative in no_std rust and Libc (crates.io)
    ×0.56 78 | 22 points by tracyspacy 17 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: A web based VistaPro clone (toby.github.io)
    ×1.36 104 | 10 points by tobypadilla 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. The kids with phones are alright (heatherburns.tech)
    ×1.80 57 #75 | 261 points by JumpCrisscross 1 day ago | 365 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: I made ts-node alternative, ttsc/ttsx, a TypeScript-go toolchain (github.com/samchon)
    ×1.74 37 | 3 points by autobe 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. AI That Never Forgets – Dendritron Transformer Explained [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.11 20 | 5 points by ilaksh 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. WSJ: The AI Backlash Has Tech Executives Fearing for Their Lives (wsj.com)
    ×3.81 58 | 16 points by testfoobar 3 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. How I use HTMX with Go (alexedwards.net)
    ×2.37 15 | 306 points by gnabgib 1 day ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Building a Financial Exchange from first principles (harshiyer.in)
    ×2.40 42 | 3 points by proximuz 22 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Building This Blog: Jekyll on GitHub Pages from Zero to 130 Posts (mcgarrah.org)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by ankitg12 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Designing APIs for Agents (freestyle.sh)
    ×1.08 29 #41 | 66 points by benswerd 12 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Precociality and Altriciality (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.62 21 | 3 points by num42 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Gate.cat – block an AI coding agent's rm -RF before it runs (gate.cat)
    ×0.47 | 2 points by bgmlai 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Guerrilla London bus ads mock Kylie Jenner’s Meta glasses campaign (hyperallergic.com)
    ×3.75 89 | 164 points by decimalenough 4 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. SQLite should have (Rust-style) editions (mort.coffee)
    ×1.82 2 #5 | 232 points by gnyeki 8 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Towards a harness that can do anything (eardatasci.github.io)
    ×1.48 20 #37 | 190 points by evakhoury 17 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. CatchCat – Pokémon Go for Cats, IRL (catchcat.lol)
    ×1.14 9 #43 | 41 points by marojejian 6 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. When A.I. is a member of the family (newyorker.com)
    ×1.20 22 #67 | 72 points by fortran77 16 hours ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Uber moves to acquire Delivery Hero for €12.5B (reuters.com)
    ×1.36 | 2 points by ProjectBarks 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. How AI Slop Is Killing World War II History (video) (youtube.com)
    ×1.01 | 2 points by MichaelMoser123 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. How TypeScript devs can avoid getting pwned by malicious packages (builtbystef.com)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by builtbystef 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. 1,300 Beautiful Wildlife Illustrations from the 19th Century Now Restored (openculture.com)
    ×1.90 3 #6 | 61 points by gslin 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Briar is in maintenance mode (briarproject.org)
    ×1.46 24 #45 | 159 points by ristello 19 hours ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets (ayush.digital)
    ×6.19 62 | 631 points by macleginn 1 day ago | 285 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. The Memory Heist (ayush.digital)
    ×1.02 29 #52 | 93 points by eieio 17 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Republic of letters (2024) a first social network? (bigthink.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by czw2 29 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. European "age verification" "app" forcing everyone to use Android or iOS (github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet)
    ×5.29 3 | 562 points by roundabout-host 1 day ago | 420 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Stripe and Advent have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal – sources (reuters.com)
    ×2.60 3 #12 | 425 points by rvz 16 hours ago | 229 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. 11,700 Free Photos from John Margolies' Archive of Americana Architecture (openculture.com)
    ×1.81 50 #46 | 18 points by gslin 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Looking for a remote internship (Fall/Winter/Spring 2026)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by cnnadozi 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: SirixDB 1.0 Beta – Git-Like Versioning, Diffs, Time-Travel Queries (github.com/sirixdb)
    ×1.23 81 | 12 points by lichtenberger 15 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Linus Torvalds tells AI haters to fork off (theregister.com)
    ×4.93 71 | 8 points by galaxyLogic 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Mirage – fast and simple GTK+ image viewer (gitlab.com)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by Mr_Minderbinder 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Crystal ML Library: Autograd, Tensors, Neural Networks, Optimizers (github.com/skuznetsov)
    ×1.42 56 | 3 points by zX41ZdbW 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Cursor 0day: When Full Disclosure Becomes the Only Protection Left (mindgard.ai)
    ×2.70 6 | 443 points by Synthetic7346 1 day ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Solving 20 Erdős Problems with 20 Codex Accounts Running in Parallel (starfleetmath.com)
    ×1.82 34 | 164 points by colin7snyder 1 day ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Financing the AI boom: from cash flows to debt [pdf] (bis.org)
    ×1.51 39 | 164 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. 20-20-20 Rule: Are These Numbers Justified? (nih.gov)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by ankitg12 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Celebrity influencers paid up to £1M to advertise deodorant on Instagram (bbc.co.uk)
    ×1.03 | 2 points by mmarian 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Linus Torvalds on AI usage in Linux development (kernel.org)
    ×3.01 35 | 6 points by tosh 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. SpaceX bond worth 10% less than issue price – heading for junk bond status (ft.com)
    ×6.72 73 | 536 points by youngtaff 18 hours ago | 552 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. The Future Worth Building Is Human (thinkingmachines.ai)
    ×1.26 89 | 112 points by bilsbie 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Fast NF4 dequantization Triton kernel (1.41x faster than bitsandbytes) (github.com/Griffith-7)
    ×0.69 133 | 5 points by Griffith-7 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: One More Letter (playonemoreletter.com)
    ×1.12 10 #29 | 66 points by hmate9 8 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK (marco-nett.de)
    ×2.39 12 | 395 points by hoechst 1 day ago | 285 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Web App Uses RTL-SDR to Align HDTV Antenna (tunerscope.com)
    ×1.00 95 | 26 points by robotastic 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Dropper (dropper.page)
    ×2.88 86 | 6 points by johnwheeler 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Chariot – Elastic Claw Compute (chariots.sh)
    ×2.23 101 | 5 points by benmax 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: OpenMarkdown – A Markdown editor you and your agent co-edit (openmarkdown.dev)
    ×1.65 140 | 4 points by XUEYANZ 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Bonsai 27B: A 27B-Class model that runs on a phone (prismml.com)
    ×2.93 23 #90 | 683 points by xenova 1 day ago | 242 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: KindScan – product safety checker for your whole family (kindscan.com)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by trulayer 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Browser Fingerprint Test–20 Signals your Browser Reveals Each Website You Visit (mysysinfo.com)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by hackstar 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: A Lightweight, open-source always-on-top local AI desktop companion (github.com/Rupak182)
    ×0.95 | 2 points by Rupak182 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. I'm a USB-C Maximalist (shkspr.mobi)
    ×2.63 24 | 334 points by speckx 1 day ago | 435 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Agnes Callard’s theory of the uni-context (derekthompson.org)
    ×0.88 87 | 97 points by FinnLobsien 1 day ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???