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  1. Ask HN: What changed in your life when you started meditating (and how)?
    ×0.77 7 | 23 points by dondraper36 7 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Will AI assistants become photorealistic video?
    ×0.35 47 | 3 points by general_reveal 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: How to make AI better at writing prose?
    ×0.39 | 2 points by remywang 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. New Inference Server for DGX Spark: large model C4:55-90 tok/s no spec decode
    ×0.61 84 | 4 points by medicis123 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: US Equivalent of Anabin?
    ×0.12 121 | 13 points by xqb64 1 week ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Why can't Google create monopolies anymore?
    ×0.85 87 | 4 points by BeForce 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Build a website for AI pics for dating apps in 20 hours, launched ads, failed
    ×0.49 | 2 points by MaximTsyg 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What new technologies are you excited about besides AI?
    ×0.59 | 2 points by yellow_lead 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What websites do you visit every day?
    ×1.22 33 | 5 points by b8 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
    ×4.70 93 | 1313 points by nprateem 5 days ago | 755 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How to get started with a sustainable bootstrapped business of your own?
    ×0.31 | 2 points by romanovtexas 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work
    ×3.68 103 | 832 points by nicholasjbs 5 days ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Anyone working on practical robotics (cobots) for the home?
    ×0.33 125 | 3 points by bredren 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Grok is a surprisingly good automated theorem prover
    ×0.35 | 2 points by henryrobbins00 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How do people keep track of organizational knowledge?
    ×0.47 119 | 26 points by kadhirvelm 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Building an AI-orchestrated publishing workflow for a long-form writing project
    ×0.33 | 2 points by tmuhlestein 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
    ×1.17 134 | 292 points by david927 1 week ago | 1142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. IMDB now automatically creating user accounts when you are signed into Amazon
    ×0.36 108 | 6 points by terminalbraid 12 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How to you optimize output while not burning out?
    ×0.23 133 | 3 points by gszr 14 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Alternative Careers in the Age of AI
    ×0.62 105 | 9 points by helpfulmandrill 15 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. The Son of Tom Cruise Speaks (medium.com)
    ×1.01 | 2 points by raynchad 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Does It Take 4k API Calls to Score a Long Essay? (willpenman.com)
    ×1.54 54 | 3 points by wpenman 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. The Raw Reality of China's Gen-Z Freelancers [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.09 | 2 points by nickandbro 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. AI makes programming differently difficult (acm.org)
    ×3.02 56 | 161 points by tchalla 1 day ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Back to Kagi (melashri.net)
    ×2.44 10 #26 | 218 points by speckx 15 hours ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. It's a shame what's happened to radio (jimgrey.net)
    ×1.87 33 #82 | 216 points by sonicrocketman 1 day ago | 269 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Amazon cuts jobs in its AI unit (cnbc.com)
    ×0.87 | 1 points by kadhirvelm 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. AI Companies Hiring CS Professors (theatlantic.com)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by vinodc 23 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Most Americans say "not in my backyard" to AI data centers (redfin.com)
    ×2.37 46 | 133 points by toomuchtodo 13 hours ago | 282 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: An MCP server that gives AI assistants live weather and hazard data (pixelgust.com)
    ×0.50 126 | 3 points by pixelgust 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: EcoTrace – Lightweight carbon footprint and energy tracker for Python (github.com/Zwony)
    ×0.76 | 2 points by Zwony 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: An MCP server that turns async-work practices into tools (github.com/open-and-async)
    ×0.48 115 | 21 points by benbalter 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Does creatine make you smarter? (dynomight.net)
    ×3.07 27 #45 | 278 points by surprisetalk 12 hours ago | 231 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: A self-running space economy SIM in Rust and Bevy (github.com/Kalcode)
    ×0.96 72 | 106 points by kalcode 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Chrome Extension Claude Token Usage Bar and Context Use for Claude.ai (github.com/disi910)
    ×0.50 | 2 points by didi2121 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: blackbar-nano – local PII detection and redaction on CPU (github.com/safetype)
    ×0.80 | 2 points by My24HR 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. "Drawing" the Mona Lisa with GPT-5.6, Claude, Gemini, and Grok (tryai.dev)
    ×1.62 26 | 246 points by hershyb_ 1 day ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Claude Is Not a Compiler (exe.dev)
    ×2.25 66 | 155 points by bryanmikaelian 1 day ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe (cole-k.com)
    ×5.02 9 #16 | 325 points by montroser 15 hours ago | 329 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Museum of the Human Web (parallel.ai)
    ×0.42 30 #41 | 19 points by ohjeez 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Justif – Knuth-Plass justification and microtypography for the web (lyall.co)
    ×1.57 45 | 190 points by lyall 5 days ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Sambaudit, a secrets scanner for SMB shares with a web UI (github.com/d-woosley)
    ×0.87 | 2 points by dwoosley 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude (apnews.com)
    ×3.51 25 | 550 points by BeetleB 1 day ago | 566 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models (tracerml.ai)
    ×0.97 | 2 points by adam_rida 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: A new kind of FPS aim trainer (pramit.gg)
    ×1.09 49 | 81 points by pmazumder 22 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: SlapMetrics – Mac menu bar app that monitors Stripe/GA4 metrics (slapmetrics.com)
    ×0.88 106 | 3 points by devtanna 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. The Human Kintsugi (0xff.nu)
    ×1.17 63 #51 | 10 points by hxii 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Chinese AI's role in stopping rogue OpenAI agent shows cost of US guardrails (reuters.com)
    ×3.12 44 | 7 points by LittleCat38 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: SyncLite – An embedded synchronization layer for SQLite and DuckDB (github.com/syncliteio)
    ×0.54 | 2 points by mahcha 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Gemini 3.6 Flash (google.com)
    ×6.57 97 | 72 points by marrf 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Everyone should know SIMD (mitchellh.com)
    ×2.72 4 #7 | 307 points by WadeGrimridge 10 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Fairphone 6 wide camera experimental Linux support (nondescriptpointer.com)
    ×1.32 12 #17 | 83 points by helonaut 7 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. 10 REM"_(C2SLFF4 (beej.us)
    ×1.15 10 #39 | 163 points by ingve 16 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Doomsday AI? (gjmveloso.dev)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by gjmveloso 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Aurora – Tiny Linux RGB Daemon for Legion Laptops (github.com/HughScott2002)
    ×0.52 | 2 points by hughscott2002 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Nvidia DGX Spark as a daily driver (lawrence.lu)
    ×1.32 20 #55 | 88 points by plun9 9 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Hologram Works. Sponsor What Comes Next (hologram.page)
    ×1.32 7 #71 | 90 points by lawik 13 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. OpenNode – Bitcoin Payment Processor (opennode.com)
    ×1.12 19 #74 | 108 points by gurjeet 13 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Running Doom on Our Custom CPU and Going Viral (armaangomes.com)
    ×0.85 95 | 130 points by arghunter 2 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. JavaScript Date Is Lying to You (gaborkoos.com)
    ×1.46 25 | 3 points by thunderbong 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Roblox Officially Supports GrapheneOS (roblox.com)
    ×2.36 42 | 245 points by Cider9986 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: JSON to Md(gfm) (rajnandan.com)
    ×1.81 112 | 4 points by rajnandan1 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: I Made Shadertoy 2.0 (fibertoy.dev)
    ×0.48 | 2 points by NabilNYMansour 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Grimoire – Best Practices for Everyone Installed for Your AI Agents (github.com/jeffreytse)
    ×0.84 | 2 points by jeffreytse 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Map of the world's great castles and fortresses (thecastlemap.com)
    ×1.90 30 | 308 points by marklit 1 day ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Infinite Programmer ASMR (specr.net)
    ×1.11 129 | 3 points by vunderba 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: ROMbug Earth – a browser that shows where websites connect (rombugearth.com)
    ×0.47 | 2 points by chainbuilder 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. git's –end-of-options Flag (nesbitt.io)
    ×1.29 51 #6 | 6 points by Erenay09 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Nobody knows what a used GPU cluster is worth (ciphertalk.substack.com)
    ×1.61 5 #18 | 188 points by rbanffy 11 hours ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Perlin's Noise Algorithm (2023) (jaysmito.dev)
    ×0.71 26 #56 | 63 points by ibobev 13 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Why Stanford Students Walked Out on Sundar Pichai's Commencement Speech (wired.com)
    ×1.93 2 | 5 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Cornell's Interactive Wall of Birds (allaboutbirds.org)
    ×0.93 11 #77 | 95 points by yareally 16 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. TripLite Travel (apple.com)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by allanallanallan 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Stele – A self-maintaining knowledge graph for AI coding agents (stele-ai.dev)
    ×1.68 114 | 4 points by serkanyersen 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Pacwich, Monorepo tooling for Bun/NPM/pnpm (try the browser CLI demo) (pacwich.dev)
    ×0.39 | 2 points by smorsic 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Launch HN: Unlayer (YC W22) – Add email and document builders to your app (unlayer.com)
    ×0.38 50 #25 | 47 points by adeelraza 10 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Bloomy (YC S26) is hiring a founding engineer
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Why Are There No Empires in Age of Empires? (2019) (acoup.blog)
    ×1.83 77 | 123 points by jkly 1 day ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Paste a job description, get a broken Kubernetes cluster to fix (prepme.io)
    ×0.96 110 | 3 points by ilyasubach 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Readmer is a compiler for building READMEs from Liquid/Jinja2 templates (github.com/artob)
    ×0.44 | 2 points by arto 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: We added x402 so AI agents can pay to use our cloud simulation API (cloudworldmodel.ai)
    ×1.20 124 | 3 points by CanvasCloudAI 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. All 253 Patterns from Christopher Alexander's a Pattern Language Summarized (claytondorge.com)
    ×1.44 12 #31 | 35 points by toomuchtodo 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Product Hunt is dead. Not the same anymore (twitter.com/askOkara)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by adithyaharish 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Wikipedia for Mundane People and Events (minipedia.org)
    ×1.66 57 | 3 points by eastoeast 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Cumulative multi layered genomic precision reporting (genomenarrator.com)
    ×0.51 | 2 points by ayanddddd 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Mirror-Mirror: Mirror your PC screen to your phone over your local network (github.com/maco30001)
    ×0.80 | 1 points by maco3000 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Open Hardware and Free Software: Teufel Mynd, a Case Study (fsfe.org)
    ×1.17 | 2 points by Tomte 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Over 400 Linux CVEs published in the last 24 hours alone (kernel.org)
    ×4.32 96 | 76 points by aghuang 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing? (dylancastillo.co)
    ×3.19 1 #8 | 425 points by dcastm 10 hours ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain (twitter.com/nikitabier)
    ×5.42 48 #60 | 468 points by ksec 13 hours ago | 634 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???