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  1. Ask HN: How much AI is in your writing?
    ×0.28 16 | 4 points by js98 3 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. "Subligence" – proposed coinage for LLM "intelligence"
    ×0.43 48 | 3 points by akiarie 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. What I learned from tinkering with programming languages in the last 34 days
    ×0.14 92 | 3 points by alonsovm44 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Failing interviews for mid-level SWE in UK, advice please
    ×0.44 88 | 14 points by mjb8086 22 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Shouldn't Google need to give a public statement about Railway incident?
    ×1.46 63 | 175 points by srameshc 1 day ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Why does it look like LLMs consistently overestimate implementation time?
    ×0.14 106 | 3 points by bridgettegraham 14 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Tell HN: Gemini 3.5 Flash breaks in stupid ways
    ×0.68 85 | 8 points by XCSme 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Are there any serious efforts to organize tech labor now?
    ×1.04 98 | 34 points by 0rganize 2 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Valgrind-3.27.1 Is Available
    ×0.24 103 | 9 points by paulf38 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Alternatives to HN for "tech outside of AI" discussion?
    ×0.90 97 | 55 points by summonerOS 2 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Debatable but likely not insane: there MAY be an issue with SpaceX' hiring
    ×0.17 117 | 3 points by adinhitlore 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Is HN Blocking Mullvad VPN?
    ×0.14 127 | 3 points by burger_moon 22 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Anyone else struggling with AI and work?
    ×0.48 101 | 7 points by carlgreene 22 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Tell HN: I'm tired of AI-generated answers
    ×6.59 12 | 112 points by theorchid 16 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Tell HN: Google banned Railway's account. Everything down
    ×0.57 114 | 30 points by sergiotapia 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Are there any social media sites that are AI positive?
    ×1.63 108 | 7 points by amichail 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Can one run AI on source code with the prompt "Find below-avg swear rate files"?
    ×0.12 141 | 3 points by pcwir 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How does everyone talk about their work when they've used AI?
    ×0.33 143 | 5 points by deku2099 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How to manage AI APIs for SaaS application?
    ×0.24 149 | 4 points by sbinnee 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Suggest Google Antigravity Alternative
    ×0.22 133 | 7 points by Pallavimdb 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Does root have to be uid 0? Does uid 0 have to be root?
    ×0.34 153 | 5 points by axismundi 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: How to make a mono-repo AI-Ready?
    ×0.11 | 2 points by kasnaka 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Sorry, what Was FiveThirtyEight?
    ×0.69 131 | 9 points by gagdiez 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Did moving to new place have intended effect?
    ×0.40 136 | 12 points by Jeff2Serve 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: Open-source .docx editor library for building document apps (github.com/eigenpal)
    ×1.98 44 #58 | 89 points by thisisjedr 19 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Museum of Pocket Calculating Devices (calculators.de)
    ×0.91 60 #67 | 84 points by ohjeez 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Six legendary marketers walk into a workflow (github.com/conductor-oss)
    ×1.28 121 | 4 points by opiniateddev 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. The surprising story behind the first British person in space (bbc.com)
    ×0.91 42 #21 | 88 points by xoxxala 12 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: IgniteMS – batch text embeddings at 253K msg/s on 8x A100 (github.com/Artain-AI)
    ×0.62 145 | 3 points by ddayanov 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: LibreOffice-rs – I built a pure-Rust LibreOffice using autoresearch (github.com/clark-labs-inc)
    ×2.46 139 | 9 points by stan_kirdey 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Was my $48K GPU server worth it? (rosmine.ai)
    ×2.92 20 #19 | 514 points by apwheele 23 hours ago | 395 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Antigravity 2.0 Tops the OpenSCAD Architectural 3D LLM Benchmark (modelrift.com)
    ×1.74 4 #4 | 206 points by jetter 5 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Don't put aria-label on generic elements like divs (matuzo.at)
    ×1.30 | 2 points by cyanbane 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: I made a 3D pose maker for artists (setpose.com)
    ×0.69 95 | 87 points by augustvdv 3 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Agent.email – sign up via curl, claim with a human OTP
    ×0.75 66 #55 | 79 points by adisingh13 21 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Bournegol??? (2014) (schmorp.de)
    ×0.54 66 #90 | 35 points by greyface- 22 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: I built a native macOS Markdown viewer 100% with AI coding agents (github.com/rajatarya)
    ×1.69 142 | 6 points by rajatarya 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Search 67K .AI domains by AI-extracted tags and descriptions (ratemyaisite.com)
    ×1.02 162 | 3 points by prolly97 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics (davidoks.blog)
    ×3.03 19 #14 | 348 points by d0ks 17 hours ago | 412 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Tracking Starbucks' 'widely recyclable' cups: none ended up at recycling (beyondplastics.org)
    ×2.87 52 | 213 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Why is Inkwell stuck in review (manton.org)
    ×0.95 67 | 151 points by speckx 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Datasette Agent (simonwillison.net)
    ×1.27 104 | 5 points by simonw 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Learnings from 100K lines of Rust with AI (2025) (zfhuang99.github.io)
    ×1.23 82 #82 | 182 points by pramodbiligiri 2 days ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. When Code Is Cheap, Does Quality Still Matter? (yusufaytas.com)
    ×8.08 77 | 13 points by yusufaytas 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Software Defaults Create Emotionally Flat Spaces (neocities.org)
    ×1.18 | 2 points by speckx 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.70 33 | 255 points by wapasta 1 day ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Node.js 26.0.0 (Now with Temporal) (nodejs.org)
    ×2.00 66 | 149 points by aarestad 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: I made an open-source memory layer for agents (agentrecall.cloud)
    ×1.81 35 | 6 points by MarsB 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Sylph – the open-source company brain behind my YC startup (github.com/getnao)
    ×1.86 77 | 6 points by ClaireGz 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: I made a tool for learning scales, chords, and how to combine them (alesh.com)
    ×1.10 94 | 35 points by aleshh 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Agent Traces: every browser session as a prompt (steel.dev)
    ×1.20 | 2 points by nkko 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Robert X Cringely is back to blogging (cringely.com)
    ×1.79 18 #45 | 8 points by dan_hawkins 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Moss: Self-Evolution Through Source-Level Rewriting in Autonomous Agent Systems (arxiv.org)
    ×1.38 76 #72 | 7 points by Timofeibu 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Everyone is an AI cop now (lithub.com)
    ×2.08 26 | 3 points by zug_zug 41 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: A botless meeting recorder and summarizer that runs in the browser (wocal.app)
    ×1.91 21 | 4 points by dsingh1990 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Swarmsim – Emergent flocking and predator/prey dynamics (github.com/ninjahawk)
    ×1.21 | 2 points by ninjahawk1 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: My custom Statusline for Claude Code (Python wrapper around claudeline) (github.com/Reebz)
    ×0.66 140 | 3 points by Reebz 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Every Lego minifigure ranked, from over 1.3M user votes (brickelo.com)
    ×0.41 151 | 3 points by gpattle 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Noroboto: Lying Fonts and Mitigation in Rust (tritium.legal)
    ×3.41 49 | 5 points by piker 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. It is time to build a new internet (bearblog.dev)
    ×2.46 9 | 73 points by mrmarket 13 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: I built Istanbul live transit map (tarif.ist)
    ×0.64 123 | 10 points by berkaycubuk 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. The current AI pricing was always going to go away (arnon.dk)
    ×2.00 31 #9 | 25 points by arnon 4 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps (freenet.org)
    ×1.96 21 #33 | 326 points by sanity 21 hours ago | 223 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Mounting git commits as folders with NFS (2023) (jvns.ca)
    ×0.77 75 #48 | 107 points by pvtmert 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Luddite Lab (dair-institute.org)
    ×2.23 45 | 3 points by monkaiju 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Supply chain attacks don't wait for CVEs (mendral.com)
    ×1.48 | 2 points by shad42 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: ChangeSpec is an open specification for software change communication (github.com/changespec)
    ×1.01 130 | 3 points by cdnsteve 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: expo-callkit-telecom – easily integrate CallKit/Core-Telecom (github.com/mfairley)
    ×0.94 138 | 4 points by mfairley 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry (openai.com)
    ×5.04 12 #49 | 1396 points by tedsanders 1 day ago | 1021 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Samsung chip workers will get an average $340k bonus as AI profits soar (qz.com)
    ×4.86 61 | 236 points by carabiner 14 hours ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Osint Arena – GeoGuessr for OSINT (osintarena.com)
    ×0.34 | 2 points by jeffery123 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Smithereen – an early-Facebook-style Fediverse server (smithereen.software)
    ×5.28 84 | 10 points by grishka 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Tiny Flies Survive, Even Thrive on Snow (nautil.us)
    ×1.44 | 2 points by Brajeshwar 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Meta released a new Reddit-like app called Forum (engadget.com)
    ×1.26 | 2 points by apparent 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Uv is fantastic, but its package management UX is a mess (loopwerk.io)
    ×2.23 31 #18 | 281 points by nchagnet 18 hours ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. FSFE intervenes against Apple before EUCJ for the second time (fsfe.org)
    ×1.66 23 #46 | 57 points by M95D 5 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. SpaceX S-1 (sec.gov)
    ×3.77 21 #84 | 443 points by cachecow 1 day ago | 358 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Plex's Lifetime Pass is (basically) dead (gardinerbryant.com)
    ×1.40 | 2 points by thunderbong 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. USCIS bombshell forcing green card applicants to file outside the country [pdf] (uscis.gov)
    ×2.77 59 | 4 points by bokchoi 25 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. AI errno(2) values (netmeister.org)
    ×1.28 | 2 points by zdw 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. MCP Specification 2026-07-28 Release Candidate (modelcontextprotocol.io)
    ×1.88 4 | 3 points by disintegrator 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Let agents run any analysis with Mixpanel data, no UI required (mixpanel.com)
    ×5.87 83 | 21 points by ttchen2 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: IResearch – C++ search that beat Lucene and Tantivy on their benchmark (github.com/serenedb)
    ×3.82 126 | 14 points by gnusi 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Google plans to win the AI war (axios.com)
    ×1.78 6 | 3 points by gmays 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Artificial Intelligence and Grade Inflation (escholarship.org)
    ×1.24 | 2 points by geox 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Id-agent – Token efficient UUID alternative for AI agents (github.com/vostride)
    ×0.87 116 | 41 points by pranshuchittora 3 days ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Slumber a TUI HTTP Client (lucaspickering.me)
    ×1.18 21 #15 | 137 points by jicea 11 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Thoughts on People and Blogs (afranca.com.br)
    ×0.74 66 #78 | 40 points by meysamazad 20 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. You Are Optimizing for the Wrong Metric (lucaspauker.com)
    ×2.32 46 | 3 points by lucaspauker 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. China's AI optimism isn't what it seems (asteriskmag.substack.com)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by jimmydoe 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???