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  1. Ask HN: What was the last task where only a frontier model could do it?
    ×1.57 16 #31 | 13 points by thedebuglife 53 minutes ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: I De-Googled Myself
    ×1.21 13 #73 | 17 points by degoogled 4 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Burned Tokens scented candle ideas
    ×0.26 55 | 3 points by Tade0 5 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Do we need a support group for developers alienated by LLMs?
    ×1.59 14 | 25 points by sph 10 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: HN frontpage feels boring now?
    ×0.95 83 | 46 points by xeonmc 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: I hate coding agents. Is this skill issue?
    ×2.00 92 | 16 points by cmar00 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Why is music so much easier for AI than code?
    ×0.21 93 | 4 points by htlemur_bobby 14 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?
    ×1.18 125 | 207 points by yehiaabdelm 1 week ago | 203 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: I am not able to find a job. Should I switch stacks?
    ×0.23 100 | 11 points by need_a_work23 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Audar-ASR-V1:Arabic-first speech recognition foundation models with open weights
    ×0.16 | 2 points by AudarAI 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Fable July 12th disclaimer disappears from Claude Code
    ×0.30 98 | 7 points by gorgmah 22 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Ubuntu 24.04 now force-automounts any plugged-in MMC card or USB key
    ×0.48 132 | 3 points by everybodyknows 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Where are the good search engines for mathematical formulas?
    ×0.50 113 | 56 points by lo0dot0 5 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Who has been caught out by this anti-pattern from Google?
    ×0.18 122 | 4 points by Monotoko 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Thoughts on AI in Personal Finance?
    ×0.33 89 | 6 points by foxtrot8672 17 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What are you running locally on your machine with LLMs?
    ×0.31 120 | 3 points by agcat 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Is GitHub preparing to go behind a login wall?
    ×0.66 109 | 56 points by reconnecting 3 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Is Google NERFing AI Mode?
    ×0.25 137 | 4 points by PaulHoule 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Tell HN: Who wants to be hired" posts outpace "Who's hiring" 2 to 1
    ×1.04 114 | 55 points by santiagobasulto 3 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Where'd Codex Go?
    ×0.75 94 | 8 points by aleshh 21 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Reality of Commercial AI World from a 16 Year Old's Perspective
    ×0.31 129 | 3 points by VanshAgenticAI 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)
    ×1.08 136 | 246 points by whoishiring 1 week ago | 402 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: How long has it been since you last opened Stack Overflow?
    ×0.85 131 | 5 points by novoreorx 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Are systems ready for the first negative leap second?
    ×0.44 149 | 11 points by Asmod4n 4 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. How to feel safe delegating to AI agents?
    ×0.06 | 2 points by danicuki 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Commenting on the semi-annual reporting comment letters (businesslawprofessors.com)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by petethomas 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. What is momentum?(joke video) (2021) (youtube.com)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by num42 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. The Difference Between Watercolor and Gouache Paints (jetpens.com)
    ×1.33 | 2 points by ynac 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Frugon – Find which LLM calls a cheaper model could handle (local, MIT) (github.com/Rodiun)
    ×0.50 76 #85 | 38 points by jarodrh 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. My Story of 3D Realms / Apogee Part I (2020) (joesiegler.blog)
    ×0.91 44 #54 | 92 points by Michelangelo11 20 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Analog Watch (analog.watch)
    ×0.87 30 #87 | 98 points by ezekg 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. How to think about span of control (rubick.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by sciurus 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. I think I have LLM burnout (alecscollon.com)
    ×4.56 8 | 399 points by sosodev 1 day ago | 352 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: FableCut – A browser video editor AI agents can drive (zero deps) (github.com/ronak-create)
    ×0.89 35 | 95 points by ronak_parmar 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Maxwell's Equations Were Discovered [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.79 59 | 52 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Late Bronze Age Collapse (acoup.blog)
    ×1.87 1 #6 | 247 points by dmonay 6 hours ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Sticky notes that disappear from screen sharing (noticky.app)
    ×1.97 130 | 4 points by leotryhard 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. AI-generated videos to maximally drive a target brain region (epfl.ch)
    ×3.07 10 #33 | 243 points by smusamashah 11 hours ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Successful Companies Go Blind (ianreppel.org)
    ×1.85 1 #10 | 131 points by speckx 5 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Bringing Nebula connectivity to everyone with free managed lighthouses (defined.net)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by radlad 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Cloudflare Drop (cloudflare.com)
    ×2.85 10 | 522 points by coloneltcb 1 day ago | 280 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Syria's solar boom is redefining Middle East's energy model (thenationalnews.com)
    ×1.63 44 | 82 points by littlexsparkee 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Oneko (github.com/glreno)
    ×0.88 | 1 points by soupspaces 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. AI Cameras on Garbage Trucks to Scan Properties for Code Violations (gadgetreview.com)
    ×2.33 5 #67 | 12 points by deadonarrival 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Navigating the 47-Day SSL/TLS Certificate Validity Era (globalsign.com)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by mooreds 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Why Stone-Faced Fascists Keep Getting Antiquity Wrong (thebulwark.com)
    ×1.90 12 | 3 points by Tomte 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Big Tech Doubles Debt Load to $350B in AI Spending Spree (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.36 | 2 points by thm 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Common prefix skipping, adaptive sort (smalldatum.blogspot.com)
    ×0.55 59 #50 | 39 points by theanonymousone 15 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Why It's So Hard to Break John Deere's Control over Farming (thebignewsletter.com)
    ×2.18 11 #52 | 10 points by toomuchtodo 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites – for 100x the bandwidth (zdnet.com)
    ×3.15 82 | 22 points by CrankyBear 1 hour ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. FAANG Simulator (abeyk.com)
    ×3.19 11 | 487 points by nerdbiscuits 1 day ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Lisp as the Maxwell's Equations of Software (michaelnielsen.org)
    ×21.47 11 | 65 points by andsoitis 13 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests (github.com/malisper)
    ×4.59 6 #45 | 773 points by SweetSoftPillow 1 day ago | 678 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. The inventor of the outside white stripes on roads (iflscience.com)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by toss1 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. How the Terrorist Group Boko Haram Uses Frontier AI (casp.ac)
    ×0.87 | 1 points by imustachyou 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Feasio – AI that gives brutally honest feasibility reports on business ideas (feasio.co)
    ×1.40 | 2 points by alwgiles 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Hnwork.app – UI for Who is hiring posts (hnwork.app)
    ×0.61 104 | 25 points by scottilee 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Harman and Dr. Sean Olive are reshaping headphone sound (2025) (crutchfield.com)
    ×0.66 23 #90 | 30 points by ledoge 4 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Build your own vulnerability harness (cloudflare.com)
    ×0.94 34 #69 | 62 points by ianrahman 17 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Bramble – Local-first password manager (github.com/flythenimbus)
    ×2.09 139 | 152 points by MegagramEnjoyer 1 week ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Decypher-env, an RL Env for breaking AES encryption (github.com/juansebastianl)
    ×0.46 | 2 points by juansebastianl 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Almost Always Unsigned (graphitemaster.github.io)
    ×0.74 71 #65 | 66 points by gavide 1 day ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered in-person final; scores fell 50% (arstechnica.com)
    ×5.63 54 | 134 points by furcyd 1 day ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. The Work of Helping A.I. Destroy Work (nytimes.com)
    ×1.29 | 2 points by apparent 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. The 2025–2026 Evolution of Generative Spatial AI (hal9.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by javierluraschi 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. New Sweden: the US's long-lost 'secret' colony (bbc.com)
    ×1.51 53 | 166 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Punk, or why I don't stream anymore (geohot.github.io)
    ×3.67 79 | 128 points by surprisetalk 5 hours ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Most slopcode projects are abandoned and deleted within months of release (osnews.com)
    ×2.42 82 | 58 points by MBCook 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: The Flint Programming Language (github.com/flint-lang)
    ×1.23 79 | 3 points by zweiler1 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. No leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2026 (iers.org)
    ×1.48 2 #83 | 305 points by ChrisArchitect 1 day ago | 236 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. In Emacs, Everything Looks Like a Service (yummymelon.com)
    ×1.31 15 #21 | 139 points by kickingvegas 10 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Ditching Vagrant: VMs with KVM and Virsh on Debian (benjamintoll.com)
    ×1.11 37 #30 | 74 points by fanf2 12 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. ActivityPub over ATProto (2023) (berjon.com)
    ×1.62 10 #38 | 51 points by albuic 5 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Blanks – Why do some books contain blank pages? (2016) (wordpress.com)
    ×1.58 | 2 points by gurjeet 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. China recaptures the first stage of a rocket to reuse it (phys.org)
    ×2.73 27 | 4 points by miohtama 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Alternate Clock Designs and Time Systems (serialc.github.io)
    ×1.62 1 #19 | 51 points by ethanpil 4 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Blood Cell 'Nurseries' Upend Understanding of Human Physiology (northwestern.edu)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by gmays 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Self-Hosted AI That Sees, Plays Minecraft, and Reacts (github.com/Alradyin)
    ×1.35 141 | 4 points by Alrady 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: OCR-grab: Flameshot clone that adds OCR (github.com/talalalrwas)
    ×2.25 126 | 6 points by tgol 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: UniFi OS Server in Docker (github.com/unihosted)
    ×1.04 134 | 3 points by basquiyacht 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. My burner email blocklist blocked me (piouffle.com)
    ×1.34 45 #78 | 44 points by betree 5 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Eight facts about air conditioning amid an overheated global debate (carbonbrief.org)
    ×1.17 3 #53 | 7 points by DamonHD 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Meta reuses old RAM in new servers with custom bridge chip (theregister.com)
    ×1.81 26 #71 | 324 points by ihsw 1 day ago | 227 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Write code like a human will maintain it (unstack.io)
    ×2.52 6 #8 | 262 points by ScottWRobinson 5 hours ago | 216 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Sodas with a Doctorate (bsky.app)
    ×1.48 | 2 points by Tomte 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Ben Bernanke Joins Anthropic Oversight Trust (anthropic.com)
    ×1.54 4 | 74 points by Jimmc414 16 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Hacker News book recs as study guides (biteread.ai)
    ×1.36 60 | 3 points by xxbondsxx 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Abralo – Free, easy way to run several Claude Code agents in one window (abralo.com)
    ×0.59 74 | 29 points by cwbuilds 2 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI (davit.app)
    ×2.12 56 | 386 points by xinit 3 days ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: R3 – A Local Code Review Tool for You and Your AI Agent (github.com/hyperlogue)
    ×0.90 108 | 3 points by rickye26 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???