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  1. Ask HN: New employeer not providing equipment
    ×1.31 16 #39 | 12 points by gl9 2 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?
    ×1.47 44 #73 | 182 points by yehiaabdelm 1 day ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Happy Independence Day
    ×2.14 28 | 30 points by GauntletWizard 8 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Where are the good search engines for mathematical formulas?
    ×0.24 | 2 points by lo0dot0 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: America turns 250 today. What does it mean to you?
    ×2.41 13 | 10 points by abixb 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. I can build anything, but only the void sees it
    ×1.13 34 | 4 points by urbanogt5 4 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)
    ×1.08 72 | 241 points by whoishiring 3 days ago | 309 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Since when does Craigslist's front page have emojis?
    ×0.34 94 | 39 points by argee 4 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)
    ×0.81 86 | 147 points by whoishiring 3 days ago | 445 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Where can I find or get in contact with farmers specifically in the US?
    ×0.83 98 | 5 points by strapchay 18 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. How many failed startups have you launched?
    ×0.57 90 | 18 points by steelebillings 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Why are so many "AI evangelists" posting such insufferable content?
    ×1.79 87 | 58 points by seattle_spring 2 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Fable 5. Safety Taken to an Extreme
    ×0.88 82 | 7 points by sergeysmirnov 15 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Happy Independence Day
    ×1.71 55 | 4 points by Velocifyer 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Tell HN: Fewer PRs done with proper prompting, review, and refinement wins
    ×0.74 108 | 7 points by tomerbd 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Tell HN: Installing Cursor on iOS irreversibly changes your privacy settings
    ×1.90 85 | 247 points by zkldi 4 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. SponsorBlock Critical Security Vulnerabilities
    ×0.44 137 | 3 points by IDIRIS 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Tell HN: Old Reddit now requires login
    ×2.98 92 | 86 points by jay_kyburz 3 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Tell HN: Check your subscription renewals (VPNs, etc.). They cost too much
    ×0.71 73 | 3 points by simonebrunozzi 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Claude Fable is useless for bioinformaticians
    ×1.12 114 | 6 points by iqbal1980 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Well it's been 3 years of unemployment and $250k in debt
    ×1.75 112 | 7 points by buffer_overlord 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Where is the programming profession going?
    ×1.07 149 | 166 points by syntaxbush 1 week ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Cadreen – memory, governance, self-healing, and execution as one system
    ×0.93 115 | 5 points by ope_john 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Seattle Just Had an Earthquake
    ×0.55 141 | 13 points by tobinfekkes 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Secure wrapper for coding agents?
    ×0.32 157 | 20 points by rjzzleep 4 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. I'm opening VSCode less and less every day
    ×1.42 135 | 21 points by othmanosx 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. How do you test institutional (or algo) trades under real market conditions?
    ×0.26 | 2 points by TradingReality 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Procrastination with AI?
    ×0.63 145 | 3 points by caprock 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Getting Rid of Scrolling
    ×0.35 | 2 points by matteosaporiti 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: What did you fail at and what did you learn from it?
    ×2.40 91 | 10 points by basilikum 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Possible issue impacting AWS Cloudwatch logs availability?
    ×0.33 | 2 points by merek 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Once you make your money from vibe coding innumerable products, then?
    ×0.48 156 | 4 points by keepamovin 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: How do you get your open-source product good traction?
    ×0.72 151 | 5 points by akarshhegde18 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Microsoft GDID telemetry includes full browsing and gaming history (reddit.com)
    ×2.75 22 #57 | 24 points by jjbinx007 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Living subscription-free in my brain (mapwriting.substack.com)
    ×1.36 | 2 points by doitLP 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. U.S. officials believed Israel was plotting to kill Iranian negotiators (nytimes.com)
    ×9.41 63 | 124 points by MilnerRoute 2 days ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Gun Mistakes in Fiction Writing: Handgun Edition (swiftsilentdeadly.com)
    ×1.95 65 | 61 points by bushwart 1 day ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: OM Core – multidimensional models without spreadsheet cell formulas (github.com/cloudcell)
    ×0.59 102 | 14 points by cloudcell 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Software, from First Principles (fazamhd.com)
    ×1.98 14 #84 | 130 points by faza 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Debian 13 to ISO and Back (github.com/AtmanActive)
    ×1.49 132 | 4 points by atmanactive 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. How working memory could give rise to consciousness (scientificamerican.com)
    ×1.74 16 #59 | 46 points by bookofjoe 8 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Mystery of India's red-haired child unlocks hidden colour genes (nature.com)
    ×0.85 | 1 points by cybermango 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: WifeBench – My wife vibes LLM rankings (wifebench.com)
    ×1.73 | 1 points by fristovic 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Rust Coreutils cp Ended Up Breaking Ubuntu Image Builds with Incompatibility (phoronix.com)
    ×14.62 49 | 66 points by Bender 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Sharing LLM Artifacts with your team (github.com/danielpang)
    ×0.29 | 2 points by d_pang 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Ship traces journey Spanish Armada sailors made in 1588 (irishtimes.com)
    ×0.50 59 #61 | 22 points by austinallegro 13 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Cells, boundaries, and the emergence of biological order (embl.org)
    ×0.86 | 1 points by hhs 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: I built an encrypted BLE dongle for pasting stuff to air-gapped devices (github.com/Brisk4t)
    ×0.46 | 2 points by Brisk4t 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. What I Learned from ROTC (theatlantic.com)
    ×1.05 | 2 points by paulpauper 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. GPT-5.5 Codex reasoning-token clustering may be leading to degraded performance (github.com/openai)
    ×2.95 #2 | 44 points by maille 52 minutes ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Applied Category Theory Course (2018) (ucr.edu)
    ×1.12 5 | 142 points by measurablefunc 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: SmolSignal – signal copilot for Flipper Zero files (github.com/SmolNero)
    ×0.63 | 2 points by edgar_ortega 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Ultracodex – Run Claude Ultracode Dynamic Workflows with Codex Agents (github.com/YuanpingSong)
    ×0.76 148 | 3 points by yuansong 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. No more than 100 000 faint satellites should orbit Earth (eso.org)
    ×2.55 47 #60 | 104 points by Breadmaker 5 hours ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Skatt: How Tax Becomes Treasure in Sweden (quantshah.substack.com)
    ×2.28 10 | 4 points by hibijibies 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. The circuit that lets your brain think and see (columbia.edu)
    ×1.02 22 | 84 points by hhs 23 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: TaskPeace – a task queue my AI coding agents pull work from over MCP (taskpeace.com)
    ×0.32 118 | 7 points by JulianQuinn 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Shipping post-quantum cryptography to Python – The Trail of Bits Blog (trailofbits.com)
    ×1.35 77 #38 | 6 points by rbanffy 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Performance per dollar is getting faster and cheaper (wafer.ai)
    ×1.37 6 #51 | 346 points by latchkey 1 day ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. How to build a full body ultrasound [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.00 | 2 points by Element_ 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: GeoSpoof – your VPN hides your IP, but the browser leaks your location (geospoof.com)
    ×5.09 110 | 18 points by sgro 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Hacker News but as Tweets (hackernews-reader.pages.dev)
    ×0.50 147 | 3 points by ashu1461 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Steam Controller Auto-Charge – pilot to magnetic charging puck using CV (github.com/FossPrime)
    ×1.05 38 #33 | 194 points by zdw 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. The Reports of Jim Carrey's Death Are a Failure Mode (tane.dev)
    ×1.22 37 #35 | 41 points by taubek 11 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Wordgard: In-browser rich-text editor from the creator of ProseMirror (wordgard.net)
    ×1.73 43 #52 | 320 points by indy 1 day ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Counting Until the End of the Universe (essenceia.github.io)
    ×1.34 | 2 points by random__duck 39 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Africans Are Turning to Starlink (economist.com)
    ×2.56 16 | 200 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 245 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. As downtown Seattle offices empty, city facing years of 'zombie' towers (seattletimes.com)
    ×3.24 80 | 69 points by petethomas 4 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Trees are mostly made of air and a generalizable lesson for AI safety (lesswrong.com)
    ×1.00 | 2 points by paulpauper 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Claudoro, Pomodoro timer embedded in the Claude Code statusline (github.com/emson)
    ×0.50 95 | 49 points by emson 3 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: QR code renderer in a TrueType font (jim.sh)
    ×1.77 100 | 81 points by foodevl 6 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Opbox – CRDT based sync for text files on disk (opbox.dev)
    ×1.00 93 | 11 points by sensodine 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Maestro – scaffold Go microservices and keep them in sync (github.com/Zagforge-Org)
    ×0.85 | 2 points by anzedev 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Game Boy Advance Dev: Logging to the Console (mattgreer.dev)
    ×0.88 17 #31 | 20 points by jandeboevrie 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Agentic coding notes from Galapagos Island (danluu.com)
    ×1.11 8 #46 | 160 points by gm678 18 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Rob Pike – 'Concurrency Is Not Parallelism' [video] (2012) (vimeo.com)
    ×1.83 24 #48 | 53 points by jruohonen 6 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Soatok's Informal Guide to Threat Models (soatok.blog)
    ×1.11 10 #78 | 121 points by zdw 22 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Providence AI (providenceai.app)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by j_anderssen 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Mise – A keyboard-driven Python/Qt6 browser built for fanless laptops (github.com/Rakosn1cek)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by Rakosn1cek 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Seize the means of production from our agentic overlords (github.com/Xophmeister)
    ×1.07 | 2 points by Xophmeister 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Speck v1.0 – AI spec-driven agents, inspired by compilers and build tools (crates.io)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by gidellav 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Testing Bitbake on Yocto 6.0.1 (Wrynose) LTS (inavoyage.blogspot.com)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by initramfs 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Mystery identity of 'Green Boots' climber is finally solved after DNA test (dailymail.com)
    ×1.15 62 | 121 points by FireBeyond 2 days ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Mycli 2.0 (github.com/dbcli)
    ×1.38 142 | 3 points by drw 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Origin Myth Map-creation myths of civilizations on a world map (sunnyguha.com)
    ×1.54 126 | 5 points by sol0invictus 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Imagent – agentic image/video/speech generation (github.com/unliftedq)
    ×0.32 154 | 4 points by unliftedq 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Leanstral 1.5: Proof abundance for all (mistral.ai)
    ×1.59 14 #53 | 355 points by programLyrique 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Classify mechanical faults using Contrastive Language-Audio Pretraining (github.com/adam-s)
    ×0.47 48 #79 | 32 points by dataviz1000 18 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Global scammers use US tech to fleece people (apnews.com)
    ×2.67 62 | 5 points by jethronethro 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Markdown to PDF CLI Tool (github.com/leonardosalasd)
    ×1.15 | 2 points by leonardosalasd 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???