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  1. Ask HN: Why isn't Google indexing information about the AT Protocol?
    ×1.16 29 | 42 points by iameli 9 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Are systems ready for the first negative leap second?
    ×0.57 74 | 80 points by Asmod4n 5 days ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Bring seamless PQC encryption into every messenger you already use
    ×1.87 9 | 4 points by kvasilev 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Google deleting all recently inactive accounts without phone number
    ×2.32 6 | 42 points by superkuh 12 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How do you use Vim in the era of AI?
    ×1.07 102 | 45 points by rstagi 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Bitemporal provenance in agent memory: What did we believe, when, and why
    ×0.51 | 2 points by shanrizvi 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Map of All Known Knowledge
    ×0.52 97 | 4 points by Abhishek000001 9 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Tell HN: I De-Googled Myself
    ×1.22 107 | 35 points by degoogled 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: My father died and I need to find my path
    ×0.52 112 | 4 points by c4kar 12 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. One Wikipedia page costs your AI agent 68,000 tokens
    ×1.11 115 | 14 points by arhamislam5766 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What was the last task where only a frontier model could do it?
    ×0.77 111 | 24 points by thedebuglife 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?
    ×1.19 146 | 212 points by yehiaabdelm 1 week ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Burned Tokens scented candle ideas
    ×0.26 152 | 5 points by Tade0 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: HN frontpage feels boring now?
    ×0.92 129 | 49 points by xeonmc 3 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Where are the good search engines for mathematical formulas?
    ×0.49 143 | 56 points by lo0dot0 1 week ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)
    ×1.08 157 | 246 points by whoishiring 1 week ago | 404 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: How has the internet devolved in recent years?
    ×0.79 153 | 3 points by fridayblunt 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Is GitHub preparing to go behind a login wall?
    ×0.65 141 | 56 points by reconnecting 4 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: I hate coding agents. Is this skill issue?
    ×1.45 142 | 18 points by cmar00 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Tell HN: Who wants to be hired" posts outpace "Who's hiring" 2 to 1
    ×1.02 144 | 56 points by santiagobasulto 4 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: I am not able to find a job. Should I switch stacks?
    ×0.24 156 | 12 points by need_a_work23 2 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Does anyone let AI agents play games just for fun?
    ×0.38 | 2 points by nodivbyzero 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Show HN: FormGrid – Forms that can look like CLIs, pixel art, GeoCities and more (formgrid.com)
    ×0.92 151 | 13 points by bjoernm 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Modern decor may be straining people's brains (studyfinds.com)
    ×1.83 53 #74 | 171 points by downwithdisease 10 hours ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: Levee – a self-tuning circuit breaker and concurrency limiter for Go (github.com/codemartial)
    ×1.59 3 | 3 points by code_martial 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Pokémon Soul Society – Zanka No Tachi ( Bleach X Hoenn) (pokejumpermanga.blogspot.com)
    ×1.61 42 | 3 points by MyBoyGreen 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Software Engineer's Firing Ruled Illegal in a Rare Win for a Tech Worker (nytimes.com)
    ×3.55 72 | 68 points by ytpete 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. ActivityPub over ATProto (2023) (berjon.com)
    ×1.52 91 | 59 points by albuic 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Code Airlock: Run Claude Code and Codex in Disposable MicroVMs (github.com/Trivo25)
    ×0.60 | 2 points by zkTrivo 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: SpeechCompass – speaker direction for captioning group conversations (github.com/google-deepmind)
    ×1.03 165 | 3 points by olwal 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. UPI: Anatomy of a Payment Transaction (timeseriesofindia.com)
    ×1.52 20 #14 | 111 points by prtk25 10 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. America Changed Me and Europe Was Wrong [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.77 12 #71 | 4 points by keepamovin 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. A love letter to flashcards (lesleylai.info)
    ×1.25 54 #73 | 188 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Computation as a universal and fundamental concept (ergo.org)
    ×1.20 58 #79 | 165 points by simonpure 1 day ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Osint tool that finds exposed files on domains (cerast-intelligence.com)
    ×0.81 162 | 58 points by PatchRequest 6 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Forms of life, forms of mind by Dr. Michael Levin (thoughtforms.life)
    ×1.15 90 #67 | 5 points by plucafs 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Cops Say Waymo Snitched on Teens for Allegedly Drinking and Shooting a Toy Gun (404media.co)
    ×2.24 32 | 4 points by doener 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: OpenThomas – weather trader agent for prediction markets (github.com/PredictionMarketTrader)
    ×0.43 | 2 points by thomaslwang 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Follow London Trains in 3D (nexttrain.london)
    ×1.14 118 | 155 points by mgranados 1 week ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source, local-first alternative to Claude Desktop (github.com/rowboatlabs)
    ×1.41 119 | 217 points by segmenta 4 days ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Learn by rebuilding Redis, Git, a database from scratch (shipthatcode.com)
    ×1.74 19 #23 | 133 points by acley 13 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Einstein's relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows (brown.edu)
    ×1.68 4 #61 | 385 points by hhs 1 day ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets (9to5mac.com)
    ×8.29 64 #84 | 1584 points by stock_toaster 1 day ago | 888 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. The tech of 'Terminator 2' – an oral history (2017) (vfxblog.com)
    ×1.36 14 | 254 points by markus_zhang 1 day ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Document Scanner for Freight Verification (cipherandrow.com)
    ×1.12 80 | 3 points by jnowlan21 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: RandoFont – A browser for Google Fonts (alesh.com)
    ×0.98 128 | 25 points by aleshh 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Google Search lets creators know more about their reach (theverge.com)
    ×0.87 51 #40 | 97 points by herbertl 18 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. The Annotated JEPA (elonlit.com)
    ×1.12 83 | 70 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Axletic – a local-first workout tracker for iPhone (axletic.app)
    ×2.06 116 | 5 points by bjar2 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Mtg – Arcade games for the terminal, in Rust with Ratatui (github.com/modern-terminal-games)
    ×1.51 120 | 4 points by funnyfoobar 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Docx-CLI: agents read/edit Word docs using 1/2 the time and tokens (github.com/kklimuk)
    ×0.79 136 | 70 points by kirillklimuk 4 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. A Hundred Years Dry: The U.S. Navy's End of Alcohol at Sea (usni.org)
    ×1.26 31 #48 | 3 points by keepamovin 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Survival guide: Key advice for what to do if you find yourself in a wildfire (euronews.com)
    ×1.35 | 2 points by rawgabbit 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Confessor – replay what private info Claude Code accessed on your PC (github.com/ninjahawk)
    ×2.46 50 | 4 points by ninjahawk1 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Hitting $125k MRR as a solo founder by doubling down on the right segment (indiehackers.com)
    ×1.12 | 2 points by jason_zig 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Exit Chat Control (exitchatcontrol.org)
    ×4.93 92 | 103 points by mparramon 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Ryanair passenger sucked toward broken window after midair engine failure (simpleflying.com)
    ×2.42 81 | 77 points by amelius 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×2.79 7 #58 | 727 points by speckx 1 day ago | 231 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Agentifying your software development lifecycle (ykdojo.github.io)
    ×1.78 48 | 3 points by ykev 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Auburn California Flock Surveillance Cameras Stolen and Dumped in a Canal (gadgetreview.com)
    ×2.93 85 | 50 points by 01-_- 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Onboard-CLI, a LLM powered and AST-based tool to visualize codebase (github.com/animesh-94)
    ×0.43 150 | 24 points by yr_animesh 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Hnwork.app – UI for Who is hiring posts (hnwork.app)
    ×0.61 148 | 25 points by scottilee 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. I made a horror game that's IMPOSSIBLE to SCREENSHOT [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.09 | 2 points by goodmythical 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Meta pulls new AI image feature after days of backlash (bbc.com)
    ×3.45 69 | 56 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. I used to love Claude, but the latest models are slowly ruining it (androidauthority.com)
    ×4.39 55 | 44 points by Brajeshwar 6 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. El Nino forms, expected to strengthen, say NOAA forecasters (noaa.gov)
    ×2.48 34 #90 | 7 points by andsoitis 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. GPT-5.6, Grok 4.5, Claude, and Muse Spark build the same 4 apps (tryai.dev)
    ×2.53 22 | 153 points by hershyb_ 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. RTX 5070 Ti throttles at 107C; Blackwell hotspot sensor readable via MODS tool (tomshardware.com)
    ×1.30 10 #80 | 3 points by sbulaev 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Harmonic Contour Integration: Compact, distributed edge detection algorithm (github.com/RenderBear)
    ×0.49 88 #85 | 3 points by RenderBear 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Like a cheat code for your car: We investigate ECU tuning (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.02 | 2 points by martincmartin 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: BoundFlow – an open-source control plane for AI agents (github.com/boundflow)
    ×0.46 | 2 points by alama24 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Hidetext.sh – encrypted pastebin where the server never sees the key (hidetext.sh)
    ×1.79 114 | 5 points by hidetext 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: TargetBridge – Use an Intel iMac as a Thunderbolt Display Apple Macs (github.com/swellweb)
    ×0.51 | 2 points by targetbridge 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Jellyfish Undersea Roundabout (visitfaroeislands.com)
    ×1.04 41 #13 | 6 points by hydrogen7800 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. OpenAI Engineer's 'LOL' Moment Set Stage for Legal Fight with Apple (bloomberg.com)
    ×0.77 | 1 points by sbulaev 8 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Thoughts on the 1989 Film the Abyss (2024) (sffchronicles.com)
    ×1.20 | 2 points by andsoitis 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Firefox 12.58% for Desktop Browser Market Share in North America June 2026 (statcounter.com)
    ×7.42 84 | 32 points by speckx 1 hour ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Search for isRecord on any open source codebase (reddit.com)
    ×1.16 | 2 points by fernando-ram 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. The Population Bust Is Coming Sooner Than Anyone Is Prepared For (nytimes.com)
    ×5.46 43 | 10 points by toomuchtodo 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Starlink from 1984 (nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com)
    ×2.29 21 | 4 points by ingve 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Apple sues OpenAI, accusing it of stealing company secrets (nytimes.com)
    ×7.57 45 | 113 points by jbegley 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Clojure FFI layer for libgdx-core (github.com/damn)
    ×16.43 75 | 63 points by resatori 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI (davit.app)
    ×2.13 104 | 388 points by xinit 4 days ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem (antjs.org)
    ×1.69 3 #5 | 192 points by theMackabu 6 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: ChessFlex – iPhone chess with no server, no accounts (P2P via QR) (apple.com)
    ×1.55 159 | 4 points by yrotsih 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Reverse centaurs are the answer to the AI paradox (2025) (pluralistic.net)
    ×2.13 18 #51 | 95 points by jason_s 9 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. AI-generated videos to maximally drive a target brain region (epfl.ch)
    ×2.92 37 | 288 points by smusamashah 1 day ago | 236 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Using PowerShell over SSH, Twenty Years Later (mattmichie.com)
    ×1.92 68 #43 | 4 points by influx 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Never Built: Lockheed CL-1201 (foundandexplained.com)
    ×1.53 84 #62 | 4 points by yubblegum 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Odyssey Linux (odysseylinux.org)
    ×1.84 52 | 13 points by Gualdrapo 3 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???