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  1. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)
    ×1.10 54 #21 | 219 points by whoishiring 21 hours ago | 224 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)
    ×0.85 59 #33 | 134 points by whoishiring 21 hours ago | 339 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Who is quitting? (July 2026)
    ×5.24 35 #37 | 126 points by ethanwillis 1 hour ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Liberty and Absurdity in 2026
    ×0.75 | 2 points by dranimalz 1 hour ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Seattle Just Had an Earthquake
    ×0.71 14 | 10 points by tobinfekkes 6 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Tell HN: Old Reddit now requires login
    ×4.41 | 76 points by jay_kyburz 16 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Fable 5 is insanely good
    ×1.63 24 | 9 points by vuphanse 6 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. I'm opening VSCode less and less every day
    ×2.01 54 | 17 points by othmanosx 14 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What things might help me to become inference engineer?
    ×0.60 86 | 3 points by chalshik 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Tell HN: Installing Cursor on iOS irreversibly changes your privacy settings
    ×1.97 35 | 245 points by zkldi 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Fable 5 Is Downgraded
    ×2.20 5 | 5 points by RIshabh235 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Are Claude models broken with the Fable 5 update?
    ×0.95 83 | 6 points by jackjd 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Am I the only who misses Nights and Weekends?
    ×0.93 | 2 points by dhruv3006 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Line by Line Agentic Coding
    ×0.83 81 | 6 points by notshore 14 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What do you use computer mode for?
    ×0.70 92 | 3 points by aryamaan 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Secure wrapper for coding agents?
    ×0.32 110 | 19 points by rjzzleep 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Is anyone running local LLMs in their organization?
    ×1.09 84 | 4 points by harry8 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Tell HN: I'm not excited for Fable and am disappointed in Karpathy
    ×1.14 91 | 6 points by behnamoh 17 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. What Can't Fable Do?
    ×0.73 101 | 3 points by alimhaq 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Who is this Steve T.?
    ×0.46 111 | 3 points by jacobreddy 17 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. 0/6 major aerospace documentation portals are AI Agent-ready
    ×0.30 | 2 points by priyanshu-j 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Where is the programming profession going?
    ×1.07 136 | 165 points by syntaxbush 1 week ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Does anybody still FEEL improvements between latest LLMs for coding?
    ×0.29 114 | 4 points by sspehr 22 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. The open source DOCX editor submitted to HN a few weeks ago has been deleted
    ×0.77 128 | 108 points by gcanyon 5 days ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Is "no source code was copied" still a sufficient copyright defense?
    ×0.64 145 | 67 points by oscgam1 5 days ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Is Codex with GPT 5.5 Extra High being dumbed down?
    ×0.25 144 | 7 points by setnone 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Do pull requests have value?
    ×0.94 102 | 3 points by _RPM 15 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: How much coding should beginners learn in the AI era?
    ×0.52 161 | 41 points by JohnDSDev 1 week ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. This blog is written in en-GB (shkspr.mobi)
    ×4.65 #1 | 137 points by mritzmann 59 minutes ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: A lightweight CLI tool to track and purge temporary packages in Linux (github.com/hermetic-code)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by joyalgeorgekj 9 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Cua Desktop: Router Learning System self-improves from past tasks (github.com/ChrisLamDev)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by ChrisLamDev118 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. SAP Restricts Hiring, Travel to Fund 'Significant' AI Push (bloomberg.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by root-parent 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Claude Science (claude.com)
    ×2.42 2 | 559 points by lebovic 1 day ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: C++, Java and C# light-weight-logger (github.com/PenguineDavid)
    ×0.55 106 | 12 points by PenguineDavid 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Xtree Fan Page (xtreefanpage.org)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by razodactyl 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. The proper way to verify age & other attributes without revealing identity [pdf] (magarshak.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by EGreg 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Trump's court win reignites fight to sink €1.7T data deal with Europe (politico.eu)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by ndsipa_pomu 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Is the iPhone birth control? Causal evidence from AT&T's 2007-2011 monopoly [pdf] (nber.org)
    ×1.30 | 2 points by Terretta 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Buy or wait on local LLM hardware during the memory crunch (thefrontierlab.ai)
    ×2.27 | 2 points by thefrontierlab 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. We moved a whole codebase onto TypeScript with a fleet of subagents (cirrcl.es)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by alikatyc 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Kage, verification and freshness for Google's OKF agent memory (kage-core.com)
    ×0.61 154 | 3 points by kage18 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Hatari – Online Atari ST/STE/TT/Falcon Emulator (frama.io)
    ×0.66 70 | 84 points by gregsadetsky 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Asahi Linux 7.1 Progress Report (asahilinux.org)
    ×2.63 2 #51 | 551 points by pantalaimon 1 day ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Techno Kick (technokick.com)
    ×1.31 90 | 3 points by stagas 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass (google.com)
    ×5.57 8 #13 | 114 points by vrganj 3 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Qualcomm Linux 2.0 (qualcomm.com)
    ×1.05 46 #28 | 119 points by gilgamesh3 16 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Fedora: 2FA, or not 2FA, that is the question (lwn.net)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by infinet 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Database Traffic Control (planetscale.com)
    ×1.14 23 #58 | 39 points by religio 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Reduce GVisor Cold Starts with GPU Snapshotting (cerebrium.ai)
    ×0.57 47 #81 | 49 points by jono_irwin 20 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. The Economy Is K-Shaped (moai.studio)
    ×2.79 54 | 4 points by ionwake 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. How does food get traded around the world? (ourworldindata.org)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by surprisetalk 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Supreme Court takes sledgehammer to federal regulatory structure (npr.org)
    ×3.38 76 | 82 points by marojejian 1 day ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Hacker News on a train station-style flip board (quickish.space)
    ×0.96 124 | 114 points by PaybackTony 5 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: TakoVM – open-source sandboxing for your agent's code (github.com/Tako-Research)
    ×1.14 140 | 6 points by sakuraiben 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Skill Federation – private skill search for AI coding agents (github.com/skill-federation)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by sibmike 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. I visited the infamous HS2 'Bat Tunnel' (martinrobbins.substack.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by rwmj 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Open-Source Interview Platform (github.com/CoderScreen)
    ×2.22 94 | 6 points by rogutkuba 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. CursorBench 3.1 (cursor.com)
    ×1.27 5 #25 | 95 points by handfuloflight 7 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Simulate what AI agents do to an engineering org (no signup) (orgonaut.co)
    ×0.79 | 2 points by orgonaut 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Agentic Orchestrator, a TUI for long-running coding agents (github.com/doordash-oss)
    ×1.36 127 | 19 points by ivrr 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Creating a Personalised Bin Calendar (alexwlchan.net)
    ×0.68 33 #74 | 19 points by surprisetalk 3 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. 1.38 Millimeter Microcontroller (ti.com)
    ×0.92 81 #82 | 166 points by kristianpaul 2 days ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Hackers shoveled snow for company, were rewarded with network admin access (theregister.com)
    ×1.33 | 2 points by geekinchief 26 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: QueryDrift fail CI when a PR turns 1 query into N (github.com/AALXX)
    ×0.96 131 | 3 points by S3RBVN 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Red Programming Language: Static linking support (red-lang.org)
    ×0.77 47 #77 | 75 points by em-bee 23 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Closed class hierarchies in .NET 11 (andrewlock.net)
    ×1.34 | 2 points by ingve 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: SwiftShrink – compress an image to an exact KB size, in the browser (swiftshrink.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by Talha_Asjad 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: DBOSify – Drop-in Temporal replacement built on Postgres (github.com/dbos-inc)
    ×0.97 134 | 91 points by KraftyOne 1 week ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Adrafinil – keep a lid-closed Mac awake only while agents work (github.com/kageroumado)
    ×1.23 107 | 124 points by kageroumado 4 days ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Senior SWE-Bench: open-source benchmark that assesses agents as senior engineers (snorkel.ai)
    ×1.14 4 #31 | 110 points by matt_d 10 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Generating Images with a 2025 Android (duration.ai)
    ×0.59 61 #83 | 27 points by sudb 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Building Gin: Simple over Easy (manualmeida.dev)
    ×0.95 30 #84 | 61 points by manucorporat 19 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Japan study finds coffee taste changes with cup texture (mainichi.jp)
    ×2.00 33 | 3 points by giuliomagnifico 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. LLM Fine-Tuning and Model Iteration Loop: Improve AI Apps in Production (youtube.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by astro_09 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Coding agent that compiles intent into deterministic DAG before running (github.com/arman-jalili)
    ×2.00 99 | 14 points by arman-w-jalili 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Decomp Academy – Learn to decompile GameCube games into matching C (decomp-academy.dev)
    ×1.21 93 | 195 points by jackpriceburns 4 days ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Toolnexus for Python – MCP, agent skills,a2a for any LLM (pypi.org)
    ×0.62 | 2 points by muthuishere 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Flavor Graveyard (benjerry.com)
    ×0.65 54 #64 | 36 points by NaOH 15 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: DevTUI – A Swiss-army app for developers (devtui.com)
    ×1.30 | 2 points by lunaticman 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Open-Source AI Native IDE Cursor Alternative (github.com/neuralinverse)
    ×2.73 51 | 4 points by vakeeshmoorthy 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Vipassana for Hackers (github.com/deobald)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by rishikeshs 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. A Beloved Old-School Tech Brand Is Back, Its New Product Is a $500 Flip Phone (inc.com)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Privacy Magic – a Chrome extension to protect your privacy (privacymagic.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by arthuredelstein 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Trump made more than $1B on crypto deals, part of 2025 windfall (wsj.com)
    ×10.53 28 | 203 points by fortran77 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Erlangchain – A tiny Erlang client for LLMs (github.com/abhavk)
    ×0.78 148 | 3 points by Abhavk 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as Protection (f-droid.org)
    ×6.22 1 #3 | 939 points by drewfax 10 hours ago | 389 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Launch HN: Parsewise (YC P25) – Reason Across Documents with an API
    ×0.33 89 #42 | 53 points by gergelycsegzi 21 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. SIMD Vectors in the HotSpot JVM – Auto Vectorization and the Vector API (youtube.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by pron 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: A free agentic AI security reference (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) (nextkicklabs.com)
    ×1.33 | 2 points by flucktemberg 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. ZCode: Claude Code from the Makers of GLM (z.ai)
    ×2.50 49 | 274 points by handfuloflight 18 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???