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  1. Ask HN: Since when does Craigslist's front page have emojis?
    ×0.41 25 #67 | 35 points by argee 8 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Once you make your money from vibe coding innumerable products, then?
    ×0.85 | 2 points by keepamovin 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: How do you get your open-source product good traction?
    ×0.97 | 2 points by akarshhegde18 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Why are so many "AI evangelists" posting such insufferable content?
    ×1.63 10 | 34 points by seattle_spring 8 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)
    ×1.08 69 | 234 points by whoishiring 1 day ago | 277 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Is this type of writing is compelling, or over rated
    ×2.20 37 | 3 points by Daniel-Pan 19 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Fire and Coast Fire Tracker · Streamlit
    ×2.28 36 | 3 points by Rossklot 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)
    ×0.83 92 | 144 points by whoishiring 1 day ago | 396 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Best Local LLM Setup for a 128GB M4 Max Mac Studio?
    ×1.49 40 | 3 points by linzhangrun 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Burned out, how do I get out of the rut?
    ×0.85 96 | 5 points by brandgefahr 6 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Tell HN: Old Reddit now requires login
    ×3.57 98 | 81 points by jay_kyburz 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Rust sort_unstable_by with more complex closure unexpectedly shrunk binary
    ×0.34 130 | 5 points by tracyspacy 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Stopping token burn because of agents sticking in a loop
    ×0.20 | 2 points by driftguard 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Will AI force CS to focus on what to build instead of how to build it?
    ×0.23 | 2 points by amichail 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Should I go open-source or give free trial and then charge the users?
    ×0.25 | 2 points by akarshhegde18 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Seattle Just Had an Earthquake
    ×0.58 128 | 11 points by tobinfekkes 20 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Tell HN: Installing Cursor on iOS irreversibly changes your privacy settings
    ×1.94 107 | 246 points by zkldi 2 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. I'm opening VSCode less and less every day
    ×1.55 133 | 18 points by othmanosx 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Why aren't companies hoarding AI talent?
    ×0.74 136 | 5 points by playorizaya 14 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Are Claude models broken with the Fable 5 update?
    ×0.83 157 | 7 points by jackjd 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Secure wrapper for coding agents?
    ×0.33 166 | 20 points by rjzzleep 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: What things might help me to become inference engineer?
    ×0.56 162 | 4 points by chalshik 23 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: What books did you enjoy reading recently?
    ×1.95 110 | 5 points by JeanMeche 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Where is the programming profession going?
    ×1.07 170 | 165 points by syntaxbush 1 week ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Line by Line Agentic Coding
    ×0.67 161 | 6 points by notshore 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: First day using Fable – how was it?
    ×0.90 125 | 3 points by akashwadhwani35 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Tell HN: I'm not excited for Fable and am disappointed in Karpathy
    ×0.90 163 | 6 points by behnamoh 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: What's the simplest way for me to get my AMEX data agentically?
    ×0.51 | 2 points by artur_makly 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: What do you use computer mode for?
    ×0.71 164 | 4 points by aryamaan 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Is anyone running local LLMs in their organization?
    ×1.46 154 | 7 points by harry8 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. What Can't Fable Do?
    ×0.78 169 | 4 points by alimhaq 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. The open source DOCX editor submitted to HN a few weeks ago has been deleted
    ×0.77 168 | 108 points by gcanyon 6 days ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Who is this Steve T.?
    ×0.40 174 | 3 points by jacobreddy 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: CLI that helps AI agents avoid vulnerable dependencies (github.com/clidey)
    ×0.80 73 #62 | 9 points by modelorona 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. I vibe coded a programming language, but I'd rather learn C the old way
    ×1.05 | 2 points by alonsovm44 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Claude skills to make anti-AI slop UI (github.com/Vinayak-Shukla-03)
    ×1.77 122 | 4 points by vinayak-shukla 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries (weaverobotics.com)
    ×1.78 57 | 231 points by ryanmerket 1 day ago | 371 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Kubelens-If kubectl works, you're ready. A browser UI for your cluster (github.com/jialinhuang00)
    ×1.70 129 | 4 points by jiaLin1014 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: DRM-Free Books (frequal.com)
    ×0.99 156 | 118 points by TeaVMFan 4 days ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. A New Catalog of Stellar Rotation Periods for over a Million Stars (aasnova.org)
    ×0.84 39 #55 | 30 points by visha1v 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Flexible metaprogramming with Rhombus (lwn.net)
    ×0.94 9 #56 | 23 points by spdegabrielle 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Senior SWE-Bench: open-source benchmark that assesses agents as senior engineers (snorkel.ai)
    ×1.19 69 #64 | 166 points by matt_d 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Lotus: Optimized Agentic and LLM Bulk Processing (github.com/lotus-data)
    ×1.18 | 2 points by handfuloflight 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. The condition that causes people to get lost in their own home (rnz.co.nz)
    ×1.79 4 | 7 points by billybuckwheat 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. The US Government Is Now a Shareholder in 26 Companies (moeonmargin.substack.com)
    ×4.32 46 | 120 points by measurablefunc 10 hours ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. CarPlay Is Additive (caseyliss.com)
    ×3.58 1 #4 | 49 points by sprawl_ 2 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Inkwell – An RSS reader for e-ink devices (kendal.codeberg.page)
    ×0.82 14 #28 | 31 points by imkendal 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Is One Layer Enough? A Single Transformer Layer Matches Full-Parameter RL Train (arxiv.org)
    ×0.96 19 #54 | 137 points by tcp_handshaker 15 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (abortretry.fail)
    ×1.81 | 2 points by BirAdam 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. TurboQuant can reduce vector index size by 10x at 100M Row Scale (github.com/pgvector)
    ×1.09 | 2 points by mxfeinberg 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Point0 – a fullstack TypeScript framework on Bun and React (github.com/1gr14)
    ×1.00 146 | 3 points by 1gr14 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: I turned GitHub contribution history into a driveable 3D city (natrajx.in)
    ×2.64 135 | 5 points by rishabhbhartiya 14 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Germany’s Infineon opens major chip plant as EU seeks tech autonomy (rfi.fr)
    ×2.72 40 #86 | 201 points by giuliomagnifico 14 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Sebastian Mallaby: The AI Race Nobody Can Win, Foreign Affairs Interview [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by verdverm 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Midjourney's Full Body Ultrasound [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.93 | 2 points by mikenew 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. The GNU Emacs Architecture: Unlocking the Core [pdf] (diva-portal.org)
    ×2.00 87 | 108 points by cenazoic 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Postgres transactions are a distributed systems superpower (dbos.dev)
    ×1.41 6 #16 | 125 points by KraftyOne 8 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Seeing and Being Seen (sambish.com)
    ×1.49 89 #43 | 3 points by sambishop 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Thanks but No Thanks (twitter.com/xopzuey)
    ×1.71 27 | 3 points by znort_ 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. "An AI Job Apocalypse?" – Goldman Sachs Report [pdf] (goldmansachs.com)
    ×1.92 66 | 22 points by aanet 3 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. AI fake news complaining about how AI fake news is the death of real news (niemanlab.org)
    ×2.43 32 | 154 points by thm 14 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: GeoSpoof – your VPN hides your IP, but the browser leaks your location (geospoof.com)
    ×1.54 88 | 4 points by sgro 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Four graphs to visualize the unprecedented scale of France's June 2026 heatwave (lemonde.fr)
    ×1.93 | 2 points by pier25 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. The delicious irony of Anthropic bemoaning distillation (twitter.com/ejzim)
    ×1.31 | 2 points by MrBuddyCasino 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. The World's Top Economists Are Sounding the Alarm on AI (wsj.com)
    ×2.42 14 | 5 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: AnythingLLM Fork as NPM Package (github.com/fred-terzi)
    ×0.84 | 2 points by fred_terzi 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Virginia bans sale of geolocation data (hunton.com)
    ×3.42 #1 | 565 points by toomuchtodo 6 hours ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. The Case Against Public Engineering Levels (i0exception.substack.com)
    ×1.36 75 | 3 points by i0exception 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Rent Control: The Ceiling Trap (gmu.edu)
    ×3.42 8 | 7 points by paulpauper 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Searchable directory of 22k+ products from worker-owned co-ops (workerowned.info)
    ×2.16 9 | 388 points by IESAI_ski 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: LIBR tracing with source ledger rows and byte-exact PDF verification (exitprotocols.com)
    ×0.21 171 | 4 points by cd_mkdir 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Coding agent that compiles intent into deterministic DAG before running (github.com/arman-jalili)
    ×1.99 165 | 14 points by arman-w-jalili 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. A Silent Auction (ox.ac.uk)
    ×1.52 79 | 3 points by paulpauper 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass (google.com)
    ×6.28 53 | 327 points by vrganj 17 hours ago | 253 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Opening up 'Zero-Knowledge Proof' technology to promote privacy in age assurance (blog.google)
    ×1.68 45 | 225 points by consumer451 1 day ago | 259 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: PurRDF-High performance, cross platform RDF1.2 (github.com/Blackcat-Informatics)
    ×0.45 | 2 points by paudley 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. JEP 539: Strict Field Initialization in the JVM moved to preview (openjdk.org)
    ×0.73 23 #33 | 58 points by za3faran 8 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. German button maker searched rivers of American Midwest for valuable shells (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×1.01 33 #39 | 143 points by bookofjoe 15 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Private Credit Keeps $14B Trapped in Bid to Outlast Storm (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.09 | 2 points by petethomas 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Box3D, an open source 3D physics engine (box2d.org)
    ×2.74 28 | 509 points by makepanic 1 day ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers (2013) (escapepod.org)
    ×1.89 86 | 116 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. In Defense of AI Mandates (charitydotwtf.substack.com)
    ×1.47 70 | 3 points by cyndunlop 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Nat traversal using ICMP Destination Unreachable packets (github.com/hajoon22)
    ×0.80 173 | 4 points by hajoon22 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Unobin compiles Infrastructure as Code to one binary (cloudboss.co)
    ×0.59 127 | 18 points by joseph 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Supreme Court rules privacy protections apply to cellphone location history (apnews.com)
    ×3.06 49 #75 | 19 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. California votes to ruin 3D printing right after voting to keep killing games [video] (youtube.com)
    ×3.68 61 | 4 points by givemeethekeys 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Drop Flap Boards for All (dropflapboard.com)
    ×1.03 | 2 points by PaybackTony 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10% (mynintendonews.com)
    ×4.04 24 | 554 points by _tk_ 1 day ago | 347 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Apple 'Hide My Email' vulnerability reveals peoples' real email addresses (easyoptouts.com)
    ×3.54 56 | 290 points by sashk 1 day ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Hide an encrypted message inside a photo, in the browser (vajba.com)
    ×0.51 | 2 points by trivsamt 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???