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  1. Ask HN: Where are the good search engines for mathematical formulas?
    ×0.57 27 | 55 points by lo0dot0 3 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Is GitHub preparing to go behind a login wall?
    ×0.67 17 | 50 points by reconnecting 21 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Does Apple not care about fake apps in the App Store?
    ×1.97 19 | 4 points by pentacent_hq 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tell HN: Who wants to be hired" posts outpace "Who's hiring" 2 to 1
    ×1.18 34 | 53 points by santiagobasulto 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2026 [So Far]
    ×0.61 30 | 15 points by AbstractH24 14 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?
    ×1.19 75 | 203 points by yehiaabdelm 5 days ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. What if users start cloning SaaS using AI
    ×0.54 61 | 5 points by mzubairtahir 14 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How do you keep documentation up to date with AI generated code?
    ×0.71 69 | 5 points by ghosts_ 16 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. I coded a shoot 'em up alone at 18 after learning Lua in a single week
    ×1.65 60 | 9 points by DamixLord 18 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Tell HN: I managed to unsubscribe from Adobe CC without being charged
    ×0.60 74 | 25 points by frereubu 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What is your AI harness that lets you switch LLM models easily?
    ×1.01 65 | 8 points by hbarka 22 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Tell HN: Fable is now credits only
    ×0.43 87 | 9 points by teruakohatu 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Please give us an option to hide our username in the upper right corner
    ×0.73 67 | 5 points by swingandamiss 16 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)
    ×1.08 94 | 246 points by whoishiring 1 week ago | 377 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Do you have more or less than 1Mb text of your own writing?
    ×0.72 84 | 4 points by cwmoore 19 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)
    ×0.82 109 | 151 points by whoishiring 1 week ago | 515 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: How do I setup SSO and SLO on my two WP websites with separate databases
    ×0.21 | 2 points by anitroves 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Are systems ready for the first negative leap second?
    ×0.49 112 | 10 points by Asmod4n 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Tell HN: Fable 5 promotion extended through July 12, 2026 at 11:59:59 PM PT
    ×2.02 57 | 15 points by theanonymousone 22 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Claude has the worst pricing – but people want it
    ×0.58 108 | 10 points by amukbils 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Are LLMs slowly making companies dysfunctional?
    ×0.85 80 | 6 points by haute_cuisine 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Make good open-source products, but how to get user?
    ×0.81 89 | 5 points by Loerei 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Since when does Craigslist's front page have emojis?
    ×0.32 133 | 39 points by argee 1 week ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: What are alternative to Upwork for side gig?
    ×0.41 91 | 6 points by user7878 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: What cool stuff have you all been using Fable 5 for?
    ×0.48 101 | 12 points by Tsarp 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Is anyone using Jujutsu version control (JJ) exclusively?
    ×0.43 132 | 7 points by cabyambo 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Brown Professor Suspects Majority of His Class Used AI to Cheat (insidehighered.com)
    ×1.23 11 #89 | 6 points by cdrnsf 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ubiquiti warns of new max severity UniFi OS vulnerability (bleepingcomputer.com)
    ×1.67 | 2 points by Brajeshwar 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. The Conversation Isn't Real (lonriesberg.com)
    ×1.59 | 2 points by lriesberg 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Any Quantum Computer people who knows how to run a benchmark here?
    ×0.69 | 1 points by KenographerPrim 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Pulpie – Models for Cleaning the Web (usefeyn.com)
    ×0.93 49 | 101 points by snyy 2 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Otari: your open-source LLM control plane (github.com/mozilla-ai)
    ×0.86 76 | 20 points by angpt 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: InstantVideos.org – short documentaries in ~30 seconds (instantvideos.org)
    ×0.85 70 | 25 points by pw 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Herdr: One terminal to rule them all (herdr.dev)
    ×2.39 9 #30 | 369 points by handfuloflight 21 hours ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Microsoft dashes game developer dreams (axios.com)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Paint the Earth on a live, interactive globe (collaborative art.) (earth.tattoo)
    ×0.46 95 | 20 points by earth-tattoo 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Vault-cortex – Access your Obsidian vault from any device via MCP (github.com/aliasunder)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by aliascity 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Bike4Mind – open-core AI workbench; any model, agents, RAG, self-host (github.com/Bike4Mind)
    ×1.18 102 | 3 points by erikbethke 21 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Halo – open-source, tamper-evident runtime evidence for AI agents (github.com/bkuan001)
    ×0.63 30 #87 | 37 points by brian_kuan 21 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: I built a $90 terminal to find where locals eat via spatial gravity (hungrybutnotstupid.com)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by kingchesco 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. EVE Online's Carbon engine is now open source: Fenris Creations explains why (gamesindustry.biz)
    ×2.57 6 #9 | 247 points by Stevvo 10 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Free Mermaid Diagram Editor (moxiedocs.com)
    ×1.06 31 #66 | 48 points by ghosts_ 17 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Top 10 Prompts for Your Monitoring Tool (appsignal.com)
    ×0.78 | 1 points by andreigaspar 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. French Watchdog Orders Meta Negotiations over News Copyright (bloomberg.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. AOLs Instant Messenger was the unsung hero of the early-aughts (wholelottanothing.org)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by gaws 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Small AI Models Gain Traction In places with unreliable networks (ieee.org)
    ×1.85 8 | 272 points by sscaryterry 1 day ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Backlog – tasks and contexts manager for AI coding agents (github.com/mazen160)
    ×1.07 81 | 4 points by mazen160 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: A statically typed, cross-platform, easily bootstrappable build system (github.com/rochus-keller)
    ×0.65 129 | 46 points by Rochus 1 week ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. 2026 World Cup – Simulated Matches by AI Agent (surge.sh)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by gangtao 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: I wrote a 1-bit WebGPU runtime to run a 1.7B LLM in the browser (aidekin.com)
    ×1.69 86 | 5 points by stfurkan 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: I built a free website that makes LLM prompting easier in 40 languages (enlive.inc)
    ×1.54 118 | 3 points by connerBown 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Action-locker: pin, verify, and vendor GHAs (github.com/steph-owl)
    ×1.06 125 | 3 points by sudosteph 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Workflowy but Open Source (twitter.com/CameronPak)
    ×2.57 66 | 6 points by campak 18 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: VESlocker – stop offline brute-force of PIN-protected local data (github.com/vesvault)
    ×0.65 | 2 points by VESvault 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Pure-Python symbolic regression that rediscovered Kepler's law from 8 data point (github.com/ariel95500-create)
    ×0.87 13 #75 | 42 points by sade_95 14 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Pneumatic Line Launching Systems (2016) (antennalaunchers.com)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by xk3 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Joan Stark's ASCII Art Gallery (oldcompcz.github.io)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by Bondi_Blue 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. M/PC – A Concatenative OS (xxiivv.com)
    ×1.00 48 | 84 points by caminanteblanco 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. IEEE Rolls Out Large Language Models Training Course (ieee.org)
    ×0.92 44 #37 | 100 points by JeanKage 19 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Chat Control passed first round in EU Parliament (heise.de)
    ×4.52 30 #64 | 601 points by miroljub 1 day ago | 254 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Surprisingly large number of people may have marker for tick-linked meat allergy (arstechnica.com)
    ×0.90 | 1 points by pseudolus 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Fenzo AI – Interactive Micro-courses on any topic (fenzo.ai)
    ×1.03 105 | 3 points by fahimulhaq 21 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Two concerns I have with AI right now
    ×0.72 | 1 points by ramoz 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Aerohud – Grid Overview for AeroSpace (macOS) (github.com/nikhilmwarrier)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by niksystems 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Evolution X – Custom Android ROM (evolution-x.org)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by omblivion 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Amazon without the knockoffs (knockoff.shopping)
    ×3.07 35 | 323 points by plurby 1 day ago | 254 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. l: A new runtime for k and q (lv1.sh)
    ×1.05 35 #38 | 164 points by skruger 22 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Microsoft Can Track Users via a Windows Device ID (pcmag.com)
    ×3.28 19 | 343 points by ifh-hn 1 day ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Kani: A Model Checker for Rust (arxiv.org)
    ×1.09 36 | 160 points by Jimmc414 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. GAO: DOE Is Prematurely Excluding Less Expensive Options for Nuclear Cleanup (gao.gov)
    ×1.32 19 #23 | 249 points by Jimmc414 18 hours ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Chiptune Radio (alephvoid.com)
    ×0.74 34 #46 | 66 points by bootbloopers 15 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. MacSurf 1.68 – NetSurf on OS 9 Released (github.com/mplsllc)
    ×0.74 37 #65 | 81 points by mplsllc 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Fast, native Mac file manager (filters, fuzzy find, 9 MB, no Electron) (whimfiles.com)
    ×1.21 22 #90 | 95 points by whimbyte 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. The Price of Palantir's Politics (ft.com)
    ×1.77 | 2 points by JumpCrisscross 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Odin 1.0 Announcement (youtube.com)
    ×5.81 29 | 95 points by jhack 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Traceval
    ×0.24 | 2 points by ramkm 23 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Focal Harvest – CLI research pipeline to search, scrape and notify (github.com/techno-neighbour)
    ×1.14 116 | 9 points by xlr8_track 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Tiny data centre used to heat public swimming pool (bbc.com)
    ×1.94 75 #83 | 66 points by breitling 3 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. OfficeCLI: Office suite for AI agents to read and edit Microsoft Office files (github.com/iOfficeAI)
    ×1.53 22 | 214 points by maxloh 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Is The Economist Always Wrong? (economist.com)
    ×1.46 41 | 133 points by nreece 14 hours ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Mondael.com – Institutional Intelligence for Prediction Markets (mondael.com)
    ×1.69 97 | 5 points by 16th_hop 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. An interactive explorer for Benford's Law across real datasets (vatsalbakshi.com)
    ×0.67 37 #63 | 41 points by dingobabies 16 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Kentik Acquired by Infoblox (kentik.com)
    ×0.77 | 1 points by i314159 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Natural-language text calculator with TUI/CLI in Rust (github.com/nasedkinpv)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by wilsonfiifi 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Silent Speech with Ultrasound (alephneuro.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by semiquaver 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. AI: The ROI Runway Could Be Long Outside the Tech Sector (apollo.com)
    ×1.39 53 | 69 points by u1hcw9nx 1 day ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Prizmi – a proactive AI assistant for everyday life (prizmi.ai)
    ×0.88 | 2 points by hramezani 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS (2024) (neil.computer)
    ×1.54 3 #15 | 281 points by 4diii 12 hours ago | 197 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Stop agents from taking irreversible actions without approval (github.com/christopherkarani)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by christkarani 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: CLRK, an open-source agent runtime with gVisor and MitM guardrails (github.com/apoxy-dev)
    ×1.52 88 | 4 points by dilyevsky 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???