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  1. Ask HN: Anyone else tired of brands discontinuing your favorite everyday items?
    ×1.08 7 #90 | 37 points by GreenPencil7 7 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Belkin killed my smart switch. I got it working again without their app
    ×0.89 9 | 10 points by gaborme 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Experience with MSFT Security Copilot and the new response capabilities?
    ×0.64 42 | 3 points by tty46 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. A disturbing thought. A world where the marginal cost of software is free
    ×0.60 | 2 points by toddh 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How would you learn AI-assisted development from the ground up?
    ×0.48 | 2 points by SMAAART 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Four Competing AIs Answer 1 Classic Question
    ×0.46 | 2 points by notsydonia 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Do you think Opus 5 will improve?
    ×1.24 53 | 4 points by logicallee 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: My domain registrar (Hover) rug-pulled me for $3000
    ×2.13 79 | 57 points by shrinks99 2 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Robotics development made dead simple (open source)
    ×0.29 129 | 20 points by Ekami 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask/Tell HN: use the flag button instead of complaining about AI slop articles
    ×3.72 22 | 9 points by rglullis 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Agent and RAG for Obsidian, Need Feedback
    ×0.38 | 2 points by athrv_shrn 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Crazy as a Service – does it exist?
    ×0.40 122 | 3 points by Towaway69 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Fund Momentum MCP: Live VC Fund Data for AI Agents
    ×0.57 123 | 3 points by darius88 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Is paying for a BIMI certificate useful?
    ×0.43 125 | 4 points by gojkoa 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Crooked Timber showed showed me a virus captcha, What now?
    ×0.84 118 | 43 points by Jgoauh 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Im 14 and I want to create AI for students
    ×0.95 124 | 5 points by grgnend 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Im 18 building AI proposal SaaS for agency what are best ways to market
    ×1.32 83 | 3 points by sahil423 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: What percentage of your tech is out of curiosity not requirements
    ×1.51 87 | 3 points by sahil423 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Tell HN: Our paid Claude AI subscription unavailable >1 week and no support
    ×1.26 131 | 45 points by KellyCriterion 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Cavdo AI – Fast, minimal AI assistant with no signup or login
    ×0.48 | 2 points by Cavdo-Ai 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Protecting My Server and Knowing What It Does with Tailscale and Beszel
    ×0.55 135 | 5 points by SyedFazil 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Why I prefer Opus 5 to Fable 5
    ×0.82 134 | 22 points by novlrdotcom 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. BMWs shows in-car ads for Spiderman
    ×1.45 136 | 38 points by bigmattystyles 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: What agentic AI ad optimization tool do you use?
    ×0.34 139 | 3 points by smb06 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Semi lucrative careers after tech?
    ×1.91 133 | 17 points by hnthrow10282910 22 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Sectors that are inherently resistant to AI-ification?
    ×0.57 140 | 4 points by player_piano 23 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: How many AI agents do you actively use?
    ×0.59 137 | 4 points by rjpruitt16 16 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Can't we think out of the box to kill the tumor?
    ×0.93 138 | 7 points by kinj28 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: A Persistent AI RPG Engine Built with React SPA and Supabase (vampirolife.com)
    ×0.62 74 #84 | 6 points by mansueli 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Where the Rain Fell – Monthly Precipitation Explorer (visquill.com)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by thunderbong 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. A $500 RL fine-tune of a 9B open model beat frontier models on catalog review (fermisense.com)
    ×1.86 45 | 328 points by ilreb 1 day ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: A one-click install company brain Chrome extension built ontop of Box (google.com)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by yoeven 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Professor's invisible prompt trap catches 32/35 students cheating with AI (techspot.com)
    ×5.26 128 | 105 points by leephillips 1 day ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Vimgolf.ai – Learn Vim by playing through a map of levels (vimgolf.ai)
    ×0.76 11 | 32 points by nickandbro 9 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Reverse Engineering Google's Proprietary Hypervisor (alexhulbert.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by dongcarl 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Donate to GrapheneOS (grapheneos.org)
    ×4.53 3 | 250 points by charliebwrites 23 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: How far do I have to go to run into 100k people? (imjasonh.github.io)
    ×0.89 73 | 71 points by ImJasonH 5 days ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. KOReader (koreader.rocks)
    ×2.82 1 #4 | 546 points by Cider9986 7 hours ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Cooking for Engineers (cookingforengineers.com)
    ×1.55 41 #45 | 15 points by simonpure 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. 7.1 Earthquake in Japan (jma.go.jp)
    ×3.37 8 #81 | 803 points by krembo 1 day ago | 225 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Armada: Open-Source, Encrypted, Discord Alternative Officially in Beta (soapbox.pub)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by mkfain 29 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Judge blocks first state law that would have banned prediction markets (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.06 21 | 3 points by pseudolus 33 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. San Francisco: Don't Fall for Industry Defense of Surveillance Pricing (eff.org)
    ×3.20 15 #35 | 116 points by hn_acker 5 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Default model enablement for Copilot Business and Enterprise (github.blog)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by smokeeaasd 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Yap – OSS on-device voice dictation for macOS with no model to download (github.com/FrigadeHQ)
    ×1.02 115 | 103 points by pancomplex 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: I linked genes, diseases, and environmental exposures by US County (genarch.org)
    ×1.41 77 | 5 points by kiaansaraiya 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac (github.com/drumih)
    ×2.73 #1 | 373 points by gitpusher42 3 hours ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Wired's Kevin Kelly on Why AI Is a 50-Year Overnight Success [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by thm 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. I Designed a Custom PCB to Avoid Pressing a Button Three Times (tymscar.com)
    ×1.44 | 2 points by birdculture 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Free weather map with 25 model layers, live lightning and storm cells (wfy24.com)
    ×1.09 65 | 7 points by weatherfun 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: College application essay inspiration and brainstorm (essaycompass.net)
    ×1.95 21 | 4 points by boveyking 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: AI LeetCode side panel that gives Socratic hints, not solutions (leetcopilot.dev)
    ×1.74 56 | 3 points by alexwang24 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Google shuts down Nobel Prize winning AlphaFold (engadget.com)
    ×3.46 23 #37 | 68 points by NordStreamYacht 3 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. An Android and iOS app from 7 Claude Code commands, every prompt and timing (proandroiddev.com)
    ×0.32 104 #86 | 3 points by thisissadeghi 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Managing Edge Resources Scale a Peer-to-Peer CDN for On-Demand Video Streaming (acm.org)
    ×0.80 | 1 points by DemiGuru 5 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Judge Rejects Google's Attempt to DMCA Its Way Out of Being Scraped (techdirt.com)
    ×3.18 76 | 340 points by cdrnsf 2 days ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. The iPhone Upgrade Program is being replaced by Apple Upgrade (apple.com)
    ×1.42 17 | 202 points by lkurtz 1 day ago | 371 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: I built an MCP server for working with SEO and Search Console data (seomcp.co)
    ×1.56 80 | 3 points by criexe 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. LearnVector – Andrew Ng's AI company building one‑to‑one learning experiences (learnvector.ai)
    ×2.01 2 #55 | 251 points by ajhai 16 hours ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Benchmarking Opus 5 on SlopCodeBench (github.com/humanlayer)
    ×2.33 44 | 400 points by dhorthy 1 day ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. MCP 2026-07-28 Specification: transport going stateless (modelcontextprotocol.io)
    ×1.08 39 | 124 points by Eldodi 23 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Exercise works for depression. So why isn't it treated like real medicine? (bigthink.com)
    ×4.97 130 | 94 points by LouisLazaris 2 days ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: VernLLM – The AI resilience layer for TypeScript (vernllm.vercel.app)
    ×1.52 14 | 3 points by burro 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Building an Affiliation Network for Blog Posts and Tags in Hugo (ohaodha.ie)
    ×0.23 104 #77 | 3 points by ohaodha 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. We've Driven the Ugly Ferrari That Broke the Internet [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by thm 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Inkspan – one API for the PDF/doc plumbing I kept rebuilding (inkspan.dev)
    ×1.93 60 | 3 points by upword 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Envarly – Windows env var GUI that stages changes before applying (iray-tno.github.io)
    ×0.62 | 2 points by tanao 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. I'm 38 and I Can't Support Myself Anymore (itsmevox.substack.com)
    ×6.18 25 | 248 points by speckx 1 day ago | 436 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Sitrep - AI Copilot For Incidents (github.com/dj9889)
    ×2.52 32 | 4 points by davidajackson 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: OnlyVibes – No Fuss Realtime Interviews (onlyvibes.cc)
    ×1.55 70 | 3 points by stagas 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: RepoInPeace – A marketplace to buy and sell abandoned startup IP (repoinpeace.app)
    ×2.12 26 | 4 points by chelski 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: The Federalist Papers, typeset as the 1787 newspapers they ran in (federalistreader.org)
    ×1.63 21 #41 | 19 points by vhwalke 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Say hi to new Ojai in-car experience (waymo.com)
    ×1.38 | 2 points by sdhillon 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Six weeks with Intel's Arc Pro B70 in a production inference fleet (moddogbot.com)
    ×1.18 | 2 points by Hagrun 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Formally verified 3D CSG: Trust 93 lines spec, not 1000 lines AI code (github.com/schildep)
    ×0.90 78 | 112 points by permute 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. GrapheneOS Defends Data-Wiping Function That Blocked US Border Search (pcmag.com)
    ×4.09 34 | 175 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Portable Aruba Central JSON snapshot using a vendor-neutral OSIRIS JSON (osirisjson.org)
    ×0.51 | 2 points by skhell 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Cracking Windows Open: Porting RADV to Win32 (collabora.com)
    ×0.92 38 #54 | 85 points by zdw 13 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Hubble: Open-source notetaking app for you and your agents (hubble.md)
    ×1.37 33 #62 | 140 points by handfuloflight 18 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. The Strain in Your Brain (anirudh.fi)
    ×0.84 56 #66 | 7 points by nerdypepper 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Spiderman to the Rescue (apnews.com)
    ×1.29 | 2 points by ninju 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. How to build good software with untrustworthy agents (treygoff.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by amirhirsch 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Kimi K3 Now Available via Telnyx Inference API (telnyx.com)
    ×1.42 109 | 130 points by fionaattelnyx 1 day ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the Incident (huggingface.co)
    ×11.71 38 | 105 points by artninja1988 21 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Gpuinstances.net, historical tracking for GPU prices across providers (gpuinstances.net)
    ×1.33 | 2 points by vorador 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. First CHERIoT Silicon (cheriot.org)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by kaycebasques 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. London's Most Equidistant Pub (equidistance.io)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by pavel_lishin 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Live ski resorts webcam ranking by snow (whogotsnow.com)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by markznyc 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Open sourced index of 3000 APIs (github.com/mindcloud-inc)
    ×2.49 25 | 4 points by frabjoused 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Delayed Gratification – Proud to Be 'Last to Breaking News' (slow-journalism.com)
    ×1.70 1 | 327 points by speerer 1 day ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???