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  1. Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?
    ×1.23 62 | 197 points by yehiaabdelm 3 days ago | 197 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Why about a third of the submissions become dead in mere minutes?
    ×0.28 56 | 7 points by g-b-r 10 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: How are you staying productive using LLMs?
    ×0.30 79 | 3 points by thallavajhula 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)
    ×1.08 86 | 243 points by whoishiring 4 days ago | 330 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What do you do with the user guide of the universe?
    ×0.21 | 2 points by KenographerPrim 11 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: How to get a non-technical friend into tech?
    ×0.41 77 | 4 points by yesitcan 12 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Would you trust encryption at the mobile keyboard layer?
    ×0.61 90 | 3 points by dkatsura 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)
    ×0.82 100 | 150 points by whoishiring 4 days ago | 468 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. LongCat-2.0
    ×0.58 108 | 6 points by rika321 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Why are the upvote arrows so small?
    ×0.50 98 | 3 points by guilhermeasper 14 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What metrics do you track when building agents?
    ×0.14 | 2 points by rstagi 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Since when does Craigslist's front page have emojis?
    ×0.33 133 | 39 points by argee 5 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: How Do You "Not Write Any Code by Hand" with a Token Budget?
    ×0.53 106 | 3 points by mc-0 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Happy Independence Day
    ×1.46 82 | 34 points by GauntletWizard 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Good fast IDE for reading and navigating code in multiple languages
    ×0.43 104 | 6 points by akkad33 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Blog with AI Auto Poster
    ×0.66 125 | 3 points by david3289 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Tell HN: FileVault does not protect Wi-Fi passwords on macOS 26
    ×0.17 129 | 3 points by turbidimeter 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: America turns 250 today. What does it mean to you?
    ×1.12 116 | 12 points by abixb 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Why are so many "AI evangelists" posting such insufferable content?
    ×1.90 112 | 66 points by seattle_spring 3 days ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. I can build anything, but only the void sees it
    ×1.03 127 | 9 points by urbanogt5 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Tell HN: Installing Cursor on iOS irreversibly changes your privacy settings
    ×1.89 94 | 248 points by zkldi 5 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Tell HN: Megalodon.jp is faster than archive.today and doesn't require reCAPTCHA
    ×0.57 141 | 5 points by Cider9986 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: What is the next step after Nora Sandler's "Writing a C compiler"?
    ×1.87 64 | 5 points by xqb64 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Tell HN: Old Reddit now requires login
    ×2.85 119 | 87 points by jay_kyburz 4 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: How Do You Connect OpenAI Secure MCP Tunnel with Claude Desktop
    ×0.34 145 | 3 points by mcpzero 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. How many failed startups have you launched?
    ×0.54 139 | 18 points by steelebillings 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Where can I find or get in contact with farmers specifically in the US?
    ×0.70 151 | 6 points by strapchay 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Fable 5. Safety Taken to an Extreme
    ×1.02 140 | 10 points by sergeysmirnov 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. I built a environment reloader for Windows Shells
    ×0.19 152 | 3 points by byjonas 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Retrieval is not the future of AI – if it was, Google would have won already
    ×0.72 150 | 4 points by lamprouge 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Tell HN: Fewer PRs done with proper prompting, review, and refinement wins
    ×0.62 153 | 7 points by tomerbd 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. UN chief warns AI is developing faster than rules can keep up (reuters.com)
    ×1.52 8 | 3 points by adithyaharish 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Plan your multi-day hut hikes in the alps (getcabinfever.com)
    ×1.05 118 | 3 points by felixdoerp 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra will be in Codex (twitter.com/thsottiaux)
    ×1.95 2 #1 | 285 points by mfiguiere 8 hours ago | 217 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Prism: An Impure Functional Language With Typed Effects (stephendiehl.com)
    ×1.34 46 #47 | 28 points by azkalam 12 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Understanding Postgres 19 Property Graphs (neovintage.org)
    ×2.47 40 #84 | 7 points by craigkerstiens 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Europe's new climate in seven charts (bbc.com)
    ×5.93 21 | 152 points by saikatsg 23 hours ago | 238 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Is The Economist Always Wrong? (economist.com)
    ×2.85 44 | 52 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Grade your code's post-quantum crypto exposure A–F, free, in-browser (throndar.ai)
    ×0.98 148 | 4 points by algo26 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. The Sneakerweb (sneakerweb.org)
    ×1.19 4 #27 | 58 points by GalaxyNova 8 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Android is almost dead – OSnews (osnews.com)
    ×4.21 33 #46 | 27 points by abdelhousni 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. On Writing (Code) (unpredictabletokens.substack.com)
    ×1.32 | 2 points by jac08h 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Sidenote – comment on your rendered blog, an LLM writes the Git diff (github.com/bharadwaj-pendyala)
    ×0.96 57 | 9 points by bharadwajp 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Goldseam – heal broken Cypress selectors with a local LLM (github.com/adam-s)
    ×0.52 | 2 points by dataviz1000 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. OpenWiki: CLI that writes and maintains agent documentation for your codebase (github.com/langchain-ai)
    ×1.00 46 #50 | 90 points by handfuloflight 23 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. TinyRetroPad: A working, Notepad-style Windows text editor in roughly 2.5 KB (github.com/plummersSoftwareLLC)
    ×1.69 7 | 3 points by doener 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. sqlite-utils 4.0rc2, mostly written by Claude Fable (for about $149.25) (simonwillison.net)
    ×1.68 39 | 64 points by ognyankulev 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Kiwi – Run agentic dev loops in the cloud, keep keys on your laptop (github.com/ibreakthecloud)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by harshvkarn 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. AI-powered product photography suite designed specifically for Amazon sellers (loomadesign.ai)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by loomadesignai 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Building Software Is Learning (thorstenball.com)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by kiyanwang 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. How Russia Blackmails Ordinary Ukrainians to Spread Terror in Ukraine [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.12 | 2 points by consumer451 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Revised Rules of Engineering Leadership (lethain.com)
    ×1.13 | 2 points by kiyanwang 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Shrimple – A Simpler, Nicer Markdown (qount25.dev)
    ×0.95 18 #35 | 22 points by usrbinenv 7 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: KiCad in the Browser (pcbjam.com)
    ×1.09 3 #85 | 101 points by ViktorEE 21 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Reliability Issues with Jira and Confluence (atlassian.com)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by amaccuish 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Build offline-first web apps in pure Go and HTML (mills.io)
    ×1.96 97 | 5 points by prologic 21 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Apple Foundation Model in Xcode-Beta (github.com/voxels)
    ×1.29 146 | 4 points by edgcumbe 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Venice AI becomes a unicorn with its privacy-first AI platform takes off (techcrunch.com)
    ×1.29 | 2 points by felixdoerp 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Meta data center water discharges suspended for contaminating water supply (tomshardware.com)
    ×3.82 19 | 236 points by sensanaty 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Looking Forward to Postgres 19: Split Personality (pgedge.com)
    ×1.03 | 2 points by rellem 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Better Models: Worse Tools (pocoo.org)
    ×1.93 13 | 220 points by leemoore 1 day ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. As downtown Seattle offices empty, city facing years of 'zombie' towers (seattletimes.com)
    ×2.74 35 | 152 points by petethomas 1 day ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Moby Dick Workout (2022) (hogbaysoftware.com)
    ×1.08 40 #74 | 104 points by helloplanets 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Bounding the Blast Radius: A Survey of Prompt-Injection Defenses for LLM Agents (fabraix.com)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by ibrahim_abdu777 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. The evidence against "ultra-processed" foods is weaker than you think (vox.com)
    ×1.23 | 2 points by theanonymousone 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. The Common Lisp Cookbook – LispWorks Review (lispcookbook.github.io)
    ×3.33 58 | 107 points by AlexeyBrin 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. BareMetal RAM Dumper – Bare-metal x86 tool for Cold Boot Attack experiments (github.com/pIat0n)
    ×0.77 59 | 71 points by liffik 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Sentiment analysis of Reddit threads using BERT models (sibencedigital.com)
    ×1.55 10 #49 | 4 points by jbarti 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Jetterix Pressure Nozzle ReviEwS (2026) We Tried It My Honest Review (yahoo.com)
    ×1.17 | 2 points by raysdaro 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Zuckerberg's Increasingly Bizarre War on Whistleblowers (pluralistic.net)
    ×5.19 48 | 123 points by deely3 17 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable (github.com/ammaarreshi)
    ×2.96 17 #59 | 667 points by asronline 1 day ago | 281 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Rayfish, Peer-to-peer mesh VPN with no server to trust (rayfish.xyz)
    ×1.75 9 #80 | 114 points by captain_dfx 20 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. India's IT industry is shrinking general hiring while AI roles rose 16% (twitter.com/rohanpaul_ai)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by rustoo 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Shadcn/UI now defaults to Base UI instead of Radix (shadcn.com)
    ×1.43 30 #87 | 276 points by dabinat 1 day ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. List of Humorous Units of Measurement (wikipedia.org)
    ×3.04 74 | 3 points by pchr8 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: WakaWiki, a CLI that maintains agent documentation for your codebase (github.com/sonyarianto)
    ×0.89 | 2 points by sonyarianto 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Explain this – agent skills to create HTML explainer for topics or code (github.com/analyticalmonk)
    ×1.94 | 2 points by akashtndn 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. In the Weights (intheweights.com)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by dash2 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Curveball (mightyburger.net)
    ×0.52 66 | 54 points by toilet 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: I made the Chrome Dino Game editable by your AI prompts (vibedino.com)
    ×0.67 | 2 points by johnnyapple 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Modernizing a 25-year-old minimal C++ unit testing framework (Part 2) (freshsources.com)
    ×0.54 24 #23 | 16 points by chuckallison 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Solar rail could become common in Europe after successful trial in Switzerland (euronews.com)
    ×2.16 44 #33 | 85 points by neilfrndes 18 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. CoCom regulations and GPS receivers for balloons and cubesats (stackexchange.com)
    ×0.43 58 #51 | 21 points by vinnyglennon 12 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Tracking how much of the HN front page is AI-generated (salahadawi.com)
    ×1.25 144 | 3 points by salahadawi 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Keyboard-first Hacker News client with a twist (orangecrumbs.com)
    ×0.38 | 2 points by oyster143 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Web-based cryptography is always snake oil (devever.net)
    ×1.57 32 #67 | 111 points by enz 1 day ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. DJ USB T[ool]kit (github.com/haivala)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by chipheadi 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Claude Design System Prompt (github.com/Trystan-SA)
    ×2.05 1 | 120 points by handfuloflight 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Speech and Noise Corpora for Pitch Estimation of Human Speech (zenodo.org)
    ×0.68 56 #86 | 13 points by q7m 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. How to Download Canvas and Panopto Lecture Videos (scholarshipsads.com)
    ×1.03 | 2 points by behindai 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???