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  1. Ask HN: If you're running LLM bots on HN, can you at least report results?
    ×0.39 | 2 points by shtack 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Is there a Moore's Law equivalent for compute/energy use?
    ×0.37 14 | 5 points by cwmoore 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Favourite science history book of the 20th century?
    ×0.43 9 | 8 points by bawis 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
    ×4.70 32 | 1306 points by nprateem 3 days ago | 754 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Are Rust migrations delivering any benefits?
    ×0.41 61 | 3 points by grandimam 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Has anyone here used YC's Paxel?
    ×0.38 | 2 points by voxleone 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. What is LLMs and why is it so important?
    ×0.50 71 | 3 points by anitroves 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work
    ×3.72 52 | 822 points by nicholasjbs 3 days ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Is anyone using MCP notifications?
    ×0.47 87 | 3 points by ilbert 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Why am I getting the error that I can't submit to ShowHN?
    ×0.19 | 2 points by anoop_kumar 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: I stopped fighting AI over-reliance and built a workflow around it
    ×0.50 95 | 3 points by dimonb19a 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. I Forgot to Get Excited
    ×0.40 | 2 points by bkaae 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Help: Using reflection to discovery and invoke methods
    ×0.76 | 2 points by ddddazed 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Claude's Unexpected Blind Test: Users = Data = Value?
    ×0.27 | 2 points by Leewen 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Apple should let us schedule work-hours notifications for specific apps
    ×0.29 103 | 3 points by hellowastaken 8 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
    ×1.17 124 | 289 points by david927 1 week ago | 1131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Turning the NES into a thermometer using the PPU's $2002 open-bus decay
    ×0.07 | 2 points by erspicu 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Tell HN: Old Reddit Now Requires Login
    ×10.58 65 | 18 points by quincepie 1 hour ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What are your favorite blogs not about AI?
    ×2.02 26 | 87 points by azhenley 21 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. LG ThinQ Terms of Use
    ×1.28 108 | 64 points by tedggh 2 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles
    ×5.80 107 | 1093 points by levkk 1 week ago | 458 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?
    ×1.48 122 | 136 points by kadhirvelm 5 days ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Did Fable disappear from your Claude usage and requires credits now?
    ×3.16 111 | 91 points by cromka 3 days ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How are you doing threat modeling for Terraform/IaC?
    ×0.11 | 2 points by PotatoFy 23 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Would you rent M3 Ultra from me?
    ×0.34 136 | 5 points by realaccfromPL 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: Sidereon: GNSS and Astrodynamics (Python, Rust, JavaScript, C, Elixir) (sidereon.dev)
    ×0.54 | 2 points by nberkman 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: CodeTrain – an AI tutor that refuses to write code for you (codetrain.ai)
    ×0.61 | 2 points by inferhaven 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Jelly UI: Soft-body physics for native HTML form controls (jelly-ui.com)
    ×2.35 #3 | 217 points by baldvinmar 4 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Fable is now included on Max plans (up to 50% of weekly limit) (claude.com)
    ×1.31 26 #87 | 17 points by dudalev 4 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Codex Micro on Your Phone (github.com/maxxspotter)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by cvaman 44 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Provena: Open-Source Library for AI Agent Context Governance (github.com/rajfirke)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by rfirke 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Dedupe Tabs Pro – Chromium Based Browser Extension (iam.mt)
    ×0.83 | 2 points by thallavajhula 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Transcribe.cpp (cjpais.com)
    ×3.35 3 | 758 points by sebjones 1 day ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. OpenAI reduces Codex Model Context Size from 372k to 272k (github.com/openai)
    ×2.30 16 | 363 points by AmazingTurtle 1 day ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. I wrote an bash enumerator because I was sick of xargs (numerlab.org)
    ×1.55 44 #34 | 4 points by wallach-game 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Moonshine: Lets you stream games from your PC to any device running Moonlight (github.com/hgaiser)
    ×1.77 20 #39 | 318 points by wertyk 21 hours ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. What does the Riemann zeta function have to do with the distribution of primes? (hidden-phenomena.com)
    ×1.10 24 #41 | 110 points by mb1699 13 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Introduce a memory safe compilation mode inspired by Fil-C (codeberg.org)
    ×3.11 20 #72 | 55 points by mpweiher 12 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Hitchcock and Herrmann: The Friendship and Film Scores That Changed Cinema (lrb.co.uk)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by mitchbob 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. AI Voice Phishing Performs on Par with Human Scammers at a Fraction of the Cost (fredheiding.substack.com)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by DalasNoin 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. AI Could Shrink Income Tax Revenue and Threaten Economies (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.24 | 2 points by littlexsparkee 39 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Better and Cheaper Than IPTV (github.com/stupside)
    ×2.08 37 | 343 points by xonery 1 day ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled (wordpress.com)
    ×2.17 1 #4 | 78 points by artninja1988 2 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. AI, Vim, and the Illusion of Flow (rosipov.com)
    ×1.60 24 #40 | 13 points by speckx 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Kimi K3: The open-weights escalation (interconnects.ai)
    ×1.45 47 #43 | 15 points by pretext 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: GPU Accelerated Desktop Screen Flash Filter (Photosensitive Epilepsy) (flashfilter.app)
    ×0.72 50 #53 | 6 points by flashfilter 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. South Korean SMR-powered container ship design certified (world-nuclear-news.org)
    ×0.89 4 #64 | 4 points by eatonphil 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Compare public holidays across countries side by side (worldholidays.me)
    ×1.08 | 2 points by weijunext 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Codex is wearing out our devices (reddit.com)
    ×2.10 35 | 61 points by spenvo 8 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Nativ: Run frontier open models locally on your Mac (blaizzy.github.io)
    ×1.94 #6 | 97 points by aratahikaru5 3 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Firefox 153 available with support for Vulkan video decoding, JPEG-XL (phoronix.com)
    ×1.86 6 #23 | 213 points by DemiGuru 7 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Mysterious little red dots at the beginning time may have an explanation (livescience.com)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by arto 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. US judge approves Anthropic's $1.5B settlement of copyright lawsuit (reuters.com)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by Anon84 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. What I learned selling 2,500 MIDI recorders: Hardware is not so hard (chipweinberger.com)
    ×2.46 6 | 544 points by chipweinberger 1 day ago | 251 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. New Orleans Cops Published Policy Document Allowing Weaponized Drones (404media.co)
    ×1.71 | 2 points by Jimmc414 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day (neatnik.net)
    ×1.72 63 | 255 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Take a break, play some puzzles (gridmino.com)
    ×1.12 78 | 3 points by marko-projects 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: The BUSY build system now generates CMake so you can easily use LeanQt (github.com/rochus-keller)
    ×0.40 | 2 points by Rochus 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Mark Walter's Insurers, Guggenheim Probed by Prosecutors (bloomberg.com)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by petethomas 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Opening lines of famous literary works (verbaprima.com)
    ×1.03 123 | 179 points by plicerin 6 days ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Airbus Takes Flight from AWS (theregister.com)
    ×3.74 45 #81 | 183 points by bbg2401 11 hours ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Judge a book by its first pages (uncovered.ink)
    ×1.00 101 | 71 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Big tech is now targeting Native American land for data centers (nytimes.com)
    ×3.32 31 | 62 points by reaperducer 19 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: A free lever-based puzzle game (materwelon.dev)
    ×0.90 | 2 points by materwelon 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Newsline – one-line news in your status line while your AI agent works (github.com/itdar)
    ×1.52 73 | 4 points by thesockerr 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Velprium - Time Workspace (velprium.com)
    ×0.76 | 1 points by mjkl7896 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Wrote some thoughts on a passion-project game idea I've been tinkering with (bennorthmore.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by surprisefox 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Dispatch (YC P26) targets 2027 flight for a refurbishable orbital return vehicle (runtimewire.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by ryanmerket 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Terence McKenna's Mega Bad Trip (2025) (psychedelics.community)
    ×1.38 54 | 118 points by Dimmiwoah 1 day ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Heavy TV watching associated with smaller brain structures, study finds (usc.edu)
    ×2.54 33 | 107 points by mashally 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. The ACLU Is Arming Lawyers to Expose State Surveillance Secrets (wired.com)
    ×2.19 17 #71 | 41 points by Brajeshwar 6 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: A Pipeline for Making 10-minute AI Movies with Claude Code and Seedance (github.com/dawndrain)
    ×0.59 46 #89 | 10 points by dawndrain 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Americans are angry about data centers. Politicians are feeling the pressure (reuters.com)
    ×4.62 42 | 93 points by baranul 1 day ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Converting Files into Minecraft Worlds (wuemeli.com)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by wuemeli 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Headroom – measure your GPU's true bandwidth ceiling for local AI (ar5en1c.github.io)
    ×0.93 118 | 4 points by Ar5en1c 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: FlexInference LLM Router (flexinference.com)
    ×0.77 142 | 3 points by Aperswal 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: An open database of 1,355 global problems with a zero-auth API (worldsolve.org)
    ×2.26 82 | 4 points by pep-6067 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Controlling Reasoning Effort in LLMs (sebastianraschka.com)
    ×0.92 16 #31 | 58 points by ibobev 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. The footprints of every building in NYC – updated weekly (beautifulpublicdata.com)
    ×0.63 39 #67 | 22 points by jonathanmkeegan 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Stealth Crawlers Are Not a Threat to the Open Web. Bills Targeting Them Would Be (eff.org)
    ×1.64 | 2 points by hn_acker 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Knowing, Remembering, Exactly, Vaguely: An Agent-Native Database (PlatypusDB) (pentad.ai)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by kendallgclark 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. C64 Basic Dungeon Crawler: Goblin Attack (C64 Basic Part 8) (retrogamecoders.com)
    ×0.64 67 | 86 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Sharper – an AI office agent grounded in your knowledge, with citations (sharper-ai.co)
    ×0.97 59 | 3 points by zhiheng_huang 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: A browser-based canvas for custom physical notepads (theframepad.com)
    ×2.42 79 | 4 points by awahed 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: QUBE Predict – A cloud platform for drug response prediction (streamlit.app)
    ×0.72 | 2 points by gfam999 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Caffeine and Cardiovascular Disease: AHA Scientific Statement (ahajournals.org)
    ×1.75 32 #83 | 43 points by brandonb 6 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Ramp AI Router (router-website-ramp.vercel.app)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by robbiet480 10 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. AT&T loses key ruling in bid to stop offering basic phone service in California (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.29 4 | 3 points by LorenDB 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. How proprietary formats have become Microsoft’s main tool for lock-in (documentfoundation.org)
    ×2.99 17 | 150 points by cube00 16 hours ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. A new Intel Itanium (IA-64) emulator that boots Windows (raymii.org)
    ×0.72 51 | 82 points by jandeboevrie 1 day ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???