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  1. Ask HN: Bypass smartphone call apps? Silent VoLTE via RTP extension
    ×0.68 | 2 points by sigureitimonnji 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Is looking at the code slowing us down?
    ×2.08 36 | 4 points by rstagi 1 hour ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. An new try: C++ like program with the same characteristics as rust
    ×1.11 | 2 points by juntz 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Latest Debian 12 update opens MariaDB server to the internet
    ×2.34 3 | 4 points by babuskov 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Concerned about how companies will manage their cloud bill once agents dominate
    ×1.26 | 2 points by abhijeet_gupte 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Are systems ready for the first negative leap second?
    ×0.53 81 | 80 points by Asmod4n 5 days ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. How does a Dev's job look like in a few years?
    ×0.74 29 | 9 points by korrak 6 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Why isn't Google indexing information about the AT Protocol?
    ×0.94 52 | 46 points by iameli 22 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How do you use Vim in the era of AI?
    ×1.00 98 | 46 points by rstagi 2 days ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Tell HN: Fable guardrails trigger on random questions
    ×0.99 76 | 5 points by nocoder 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Bring seamless PQC encryption into every messenger you already use
    ×0.65 106 | 4 points by kvasilev 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Tell HN: I De-Googled Myself
    ×1.13 104 | 35 points by degoogled 2 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: My father died and I need to find my path
    ×0.97 113 | 6 points by c4kar 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?
    ×1.19 141 | 212 points by yehiaabdelm 1 week ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Bitemporal provenance in agent memory: What did we believe, when, and why
    ×0.19 | 2 points by shanrizvi 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. One Wikipedia page costs your AI agent 68,000 tokens
    ×0.99 112 | 14 points by arhamislam5766 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What was the last task where only a frontier model could do it?
    ×0.75 110 | 24 points by thedebuglife 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Map of All Known Knowledge
    ×0.54 114 | 5 points by Abhishek000001 23 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Google deleting all recently inactive accounts without phone number
    ×2.16 62 | 52 points by superkuh 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: HN frontpage feels boring now?
    ×0.93 126 | 50 points by xeonmc 3 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Where are the good search engines for mathematical formulas?
    ×0.50 142 | 57 points by lo0dot0 1 week ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)
    ×1.08 146 | 246 points by whoishiring 1 week ago | 405 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Burned Tokens scented candle ideas
    ×0.25 152 | 5 points by Tade0 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Is GitHub preparing to go behind a login wall?
    ×0.64 139 | 56 points by reconnecting 4 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Tell HN: Who wants to be hired" posts outpace "Who's hiring" 2 to 1
    ×1.03 144 | 57 points by santiagobasulto 5 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: I hate coding agents. Is this skill issue?
    ×1.38 145 | 18 points by cmar00 3 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. ZeroFS vs. Amazon S3 Files (zerofs.net)
    ×1.42 48 #67 | 87 points by cbrewster 22 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. How AWS S3 Is Built (youtube.com)
    ×2.24 51 | 3 points by tcp_handshaker 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. A Review of the Wyze 5070 Thin Client (cheapskatesguide.org)
    ×2.42 43 | 3 points by worldofmatthew 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. The vintage beauty of Soviet control rooms (2018) (designyoutrust.com)
    ×2.24 27 | 210 points by mvdtnz 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: I built a web tool to see and edit what an AI thinks before it answers (earthpilot.ai)
    ×0.83 123 | 33 points by ada1981 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Nvidia, CoreWeave, and Nebius: Inside the Circular Financing of the GPU Boom (io-fund.com)
    ×2.17 19 #20 | 338 points by adletbalzhanov 23 hours ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Vigil – open-source TimeTracker with steroids (github.com/Brokenwatch24)
    ×1.32 | 2 points by jjaramillor 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Majority of U.S..Majority of U.S. workers support an AI wealth fund (cnbc.com)
    ×2.14 24 | 3 points by cramer4next 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Perfectly Hitting the Wrong Target: The Story of an AI Code Review Benchmark (hexmos.com)
    ×2.62 5 #65 | 5 points by atomicnature 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. I connected my net worth tracker to Claude via MCP (getvalyou.co)
    ×0.82 | 1 points by amandafranc 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: TrialPilot – clinical trials from your phone, built by a patient
    ×1.37 | 2 points by thenerdhead 54 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. The Reverse Information Paradox (twitter.com/satyanadella)
    ×2.14 29 | 3 points by tosh 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Why Ballads Still Dominate Chinese Pop Music (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.29 | 2 points by coloneltcb 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Agent Legibility Analyzer see if AI shopping agents can read your store (agentmint.net)
    ×1.33 | 2 points by Abdalsalaam 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Confessor – replay what private info Claude Code accessed on your PC (github.com/ninjahawk)
    ×2.20 78 | 8 points by ninjahawk1 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Autoresearch, Claude and Constrained Optimization (elliotcsmith.com)
    ×0.69 85 #23 | 3 points by gmays 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Relm – local LLMs as base-R objects, with interpretability (github.com/Vadale)
    ×0.24 80 #29 | 4 points by grauk 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Do cathedral glasses flow? [pdf] (researchgate.net)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by thunderbong 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. A timing glitch was behind Telstra's nationwide outage (theconversation.com)
    ×1.40 | 2 points by throw0101a 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. War Atlas: An interactive cartography of every named war in human history (waratlas.org)
    ×1.37 56 | 185 points by NaOH 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Meta pulls new AI image feature after days of backlash (bbc.com)
    ×3.29 80 | 56 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Don't let your engineering brain rot in the age of AI (30secondsofknowledge.com)
    ×1.79 116 | 4 points by Chipatama90 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Pirate Site Blocking Is Legally Impossible in Bulgaria, Supreme Court Ruled (torrentfreak.com)
    ×3.50 79 | 68 points by thisislife2 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Microsoft latest report shows 25% emissions raised due to AI data centers (windowscentral.com)
    ×3.33 68 | 52 points by pjmlp 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: OpenThomas – weather trader agent for prediction markets (github.com/PredictionMarketTrader)
    ×0.38 | 2 points by thomaslwang 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Clojure FFI layer for libgdx-core (github.com/damn)
    ×13.37 84 | 63 points by resatori 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Reviving my 2001 college band with AI (fadingmaize.com)
    ×0.57 88 | 56 points by jacobgraf 2 days ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: The Quiet Map – Earth's quietest place, measured by seismometers (thequietmap.org)
    ×2.30 108 | 5 points by theceka 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Sighthound - open-source vulnerability scanner for source code (github.com/Corgea)
    ×0.87 136 | 19 points by asadeddin 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Mystery behind Moana: After 1,700 years, why did Polynesians suddenly sail east? (theconversation.com)
    ×2.45 19 #34 | 35 points by pseudolus 4 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Counterfeit People, Tools, and Kami (goodcomputer.substack.com)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by d9w 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. How to hide from killer drones (economist.com)
    ×1.80 7 | 135 points by pseudolus 22 hours ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Hands-On with the AMD Ryzen AI Halo (microcenter.com)
    ×0.82 94 | 52 points by bdcravens 2 days ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Fenzo – Build an interactive course on any topic (fenzo.ai)
    ×1.26 71 | 3 points by fahimulhaq 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: The Line of Hope – how current teams compare to past champions (titlehopes.com)
    ×0.90 | 1 points by marcreicher 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Theo de Raadt: "You've been smoking something mind altering" (2007) (marc.info)
    ×1.46 | 2 points by turrini 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Itara – Distributed system topology as an explicit, executable layer (github.com/itara-project)
    ×1.20 | 2 points by gkiss0001 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Apple files lawsuit, accuses OpenAI of stealing trade secrets (cbc.ca)
    ×2.00 6 | 3 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: A dark fantasy short story (lawfully.netlify.app)
    ×1.31 | 2 points by darkhorse13 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Reverse centaurs are the answer to the AI paradox (2025) (pluralistic.net)
    ×2.08 22 | 107 points by jason_s 23 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Billions of Sketches Reveal Hidden Cultural Variation in Human Concepts (arxiv.org)
    ×1.28 49 #42 | 123 points by Anon84 20 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Otary – Image and Geometry Python Library Now Has Tutorials (alexandrepoupeau.com)
    ×0.77 74 #74 | 93 points by poupeaua 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Benchmarking Cloudflare Containers vs. AWS MicroVMs (alchemy.run)
    ×1.44 | 2 points by mariuz 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Who manages the agents? (off-policy.com)
    ×1.14 33 | 72 points by GavCo 22 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Software Engineer's Firing Ruled Illegal in a Rare Win for a Tech Worker (nytimes.com)
    ×3.40 82 | 68 points by ytpete 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Sfotty Pie – A browser-based Atari 8-bit emulator in TypeScript (aygun.me)
    ×0.82 | 2 points by cyco130 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Satteri: A Markdown pipeline forged in Rust for the JavaScript world (bruits.org)
    ×1.22 21 #14 | 24 points by nateb2022 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Prefer strict tables in SQLite (evanhahn.com)
    ×2.30 2 #45 | 323 points by ingve 23 hours ago | 165 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Ask HN: How do you review AI code?
    ×1.80 | 2 points by wonderfuly 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Repo-Slopscore: Detecting AI Contributions in Git Repositories via Commit (ava.pet)
    ×2.32 49 | 3 points by birdculture 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. A BCI That Lasts 20 Years Requires Solving 4 Biological Problems (bioniclab.substack.com)
    ×1.30 | 2 points by u1hcw9nx 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Richest people in the world by wealth creation instead of ownership (anti-forbes-list.vercel.app)
    ×3.41 65 | 58 points by sakshyampatro 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: I built a live streaming platform (pairux.com)
    ×1.30 | 2 points by buffer_overlord 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: RandoFont – A browser for Google Fonts (alesh.com)
    ×1.02 129 | 26 points by aleshh 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. The Universal Scalability Law (USL) (perfdynamics.com)
    ×1.00 | 1 points by ksec 51 seconds ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Honeyprompt: LLM-first honeypot that talks back (github.com/alectrocute)
    ×0.90 | 1 points by arm32 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Is vibe coding worth it? What the numbers say (okaneland.com)
    ×1.35 | 2 points by ermantrout 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine (1965) [pdf] (upenn.edu)
    ×1.31 39 | 91 points by zetalyrae 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Ghostel.el: Terminal emulator powered by libghostty (dakra.github.io)
    ×2.08 3 #6 | 136 points by signa11 7 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. My journey to the microwave alternate timeline (malmesbury.substack.com)
    ×1.42 | 2 points by Plasmoid 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. New York City to ban deceptive subscription practices (theguardian.com)
    ×4.20 5 | 634 points by randycupertino 1 day ago | 334 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Fixed three bugs that made Qwen3.5-122B a daily driver on Mac Studio (mrzk.io)
    ×2.03 21 | 65 points by marzukia 17 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Why Write Code in 2026 (softwaredoug.com)
    ×1.90 21 | 62 points by zdw 12 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Unauthenticated RCE in Motorola's MR2600 Router (mrbruh.com)
    ×1.59 3 #7 | 54 points by MrBruh 4 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???