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  1. Apple should let us schedule work-hours notifications for specific apps
    ×1.34 56 | 3 points by hellowastaken 36 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Turning the NES into a thermometer using the PPU's $2002 open-bus decay
    ×0.10 | 2 points by erspicu 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
    ×4.70 10 #77 | 1304 points by nprateem 3 days ago | 748 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work
    ×3.72 10 | 819 points by nicholasjbs 2 days ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What are your favorite blogs not about AI?
    ×2.07 38 | 83 points by azhenley 13 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
    ×1.17 84 | 289 points by david927 1 week ago | 1127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. LG ThinQ Terms of Use
    ×1.29 61 | 63 points by tedggh 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How are you doing threat modeling for Terraform/IaC?
    ×0.12 | 2 points by PotatoFy 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Would you rent M3 Ultra from me?
    ×0.36 88 | 5 points by realaccfromPL 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles
    ×5.81 62 | 1093 points by levkk 1 week ago | 458 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Did Fable disappear from your Claude usage and requires credits now?
    ×3.25 67 | 91 points by cromka 2 days ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?
    ×1.49 81 | 136 points by kadhirvelm 5 days ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Freeact – undetectable browser automation CLI for AI agents via real browsers
    ×0.15 | 2 points by xuviga 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Which blog have you recently found to be your favorite?
    ×0.89 66 | 3 points by vinhnx 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Is float divergence/drift a real issue in many industries?
    ×0.63 75 | 8 points by Swapnopam 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: USB-to-WiFi print server for old printers – do you want it?
    ×0.84 80 | 7 points by ValdikSS 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Is anyone else facing login issues on Facebook?
    ×0.72 93 | 5 points by wasi0013 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Are you building agents? What do they need access to?
    ×0.49 123 | 3 points by asim 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Prodigy – AI Workforce for professional teams
    ×0.35 126 | 3 points by samayashar 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: How do you as a normal swe use AI?
    ×0.58 108 | 4 points by atworkc 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Should I do a CS masters at Cambridge or start as a new grad at Amazon?
    ×0.55 144 | 29 points by sspehr 6 days ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. I procrastinated so hard I built a proxy to stop myself from procrastinating
    ×0.83 102 | 10 points by thisislorenzov 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Having a child before career has taken off
    ×0.50 134 | 6 points by lassearpe 2 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Are AWS Certs worth getting for experienced Devs?
    ×0.53 143 | 14 points by Gold-Ask-lx 4 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: AI Buddy – Free STT and Screenshot Tool for Mac (Requires Gemini) (claudete.co)
    ×0.62 | 2 points by morion4000 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Stop Using OpenCode (wren.wtf)
    ×3.51 2 #4 | 89 points by alekq 1 hour ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Blender 5.2 LTS (blender.org)
    ×2.42 2 #46 | 406 points by makizar 1 day ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Datasette-plot – Datasette Plugin for building data visualizations (datasette.cloud)
    ×1.76 58 | 4 points by ankitg12 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: PostgreSQL course with database running in your browser (learnpg.xyz)
    ×1.24 77 | 6 points by Serpant 23 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. The Zen of Parallel Programming (smolnero.com)
    ×1.04 25 #25 | 180 points by edgar_ortega 20 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. DrDroid (YC W23) Is Hiring (ycombinator.com)
    2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. 'Synthetic insider' attacks raise stakes for corporate cyber defence (ft.com)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by thm 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Land Atlas – soil, farmability, and crop analysis for land listings (railway.app)
    ×0.66 60 #51 | 68 points by L3dge 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Where B2B Buyers Ask on Reddit: 30 Days of Scan Data (cuescout.com)
    ×1.80 51 | 3 points by tgdaimov 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. I'm Done with Mullvad (moonwriting.blog)
    ×12.73 70 | 52 points by lylo 6 hours ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: CodeKitHub – Free browser-based tools, files never leave your device (codekithub.com)
    ×0.37 | 2 points by qiaobax 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Clx – Compile Lua to Native Executables Through C++20 (github.com/samyeyo)
    ×1.40 70 | 143 points by _samt_ 1 week ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Galois connections for composable numeric casts in Rust (github.com/cmk)
    ×0.62 111 | 31 points by partialsolve 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Building an Arch Linux Aarch64 Port for Holo Core (collabora.com)
    ×0.44 49 #67 | 37 points by losgehts 19 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. How the Apple Watch water lock feature works (engadget.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by bookofjoe 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. FDA approves new kind of cholesterol pill (fda.gov)
    ×1.78 28 | 104 points by mgh2 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Neither GCC nor Clang are compliant with standard C++ (sebsite.pw)
    ×1.28 19 | 46 points by birdculture 20 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel (edri.org)
    ×4.51 4 #5 | 142 points by rapnie 1 hour ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: One More Letter (playonemoreletter.com)
    ×1.14 86 | 90 points by hmate9 4 days ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN:MinIO-dash – MinIO admin panel after they removed the Console in 2025 (github.com/MarceliRacis)
    ×0.90 96 | 4 points by marceliracis 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: I implemented a neural network in SQL (github.com/xqlsystems)
    ×1.11 106 | 119 points by alxmrs 6 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Xiaomi-Robotics-1 (xiaomi.com)
    ×3.29 13 #22 | 325 points by ilreb 9 hours ago | 221 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Moonshot AI suspends new subscriptions due to Kimi K3 demand (twitter.com/kimi_moonshot)
    ×3.13 14 #52 | 271 points by serialx 21 hours ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Kevin O'Leary Is Happy Playing the Villain (readtheprofile.com)
    ×1.99 | 2 points by polina09 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Proof of Fermat Last Theorem from Scratch [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by surprisetalk 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Free car spec db to defeat the paywalls (openlaborproject.com)
    ×0.78 136 | 3 points by chackleman 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Fake food delivery site for the dopamine (reddit.com)
    ×2.03 43 | 108 points by guerrilla 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: misa77 - a codec that decodes 2x faster than LZ4 (at better ratios) (github.com/welcome-to-the-sunny-side)
    ×1.12 76 | 164 points by nonadhocproblem 4 days ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: A self-correcting algebraic agent swarm (github.com/Michael-Ax64)
    ×0.51 98 | 3 points by michael-ax 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Inertia, Physics in a Terminal (inertia-web.github.io)
    ×1.36 101 | 4 points by aclfe 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Americans are angry about data centers. Politicians are feeling the pressure (reuters.com)
    ×4.58 19 | 85 points by baranul 17 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Opening lines of famous literary works (verbaprima.com)
    ×1.03 83 | 179 points by plicerin 5 days ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Be the ChatBOT (bethechatbot.com)
    ×2.46 89 | 55 points by keito 3 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Make senders work to get into your inbox (captchainbox.com)
    ×1.42 122 | 44 points by felixdoerp 5 days ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: AI mock interview tool that scores your answers – free, no signup (interviewpracticeai.com)
    ×0.68 | 2 points by BenGallagh 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: 18KB ls alternative in no_std rust and Libc (crates.io)
    ×0.57 140 | 23 points by tracyspacy 5 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. The Return (2024 Film) (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by BiraIgnacio 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Clever hacker fits 537,000 domains in a $5 ESP32 ad-blocking dongle (tomshardware.com)
    ×1.99 11 | 90 points by sbulaev 23 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Half a Second – a book about the XZ backdoor (half-second.com)
    ×1.29 40 | 45 points by zvr 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly (puter.com)
    ×2.43 68 | 271 points by coolelectronics 4 days ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Underwater Kites Harvest Power from Slow-Moving Tides (ieee.org)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by speckx 38 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. DeKalb deputy charged with Flock camera misuse; more Georgia officers fired (ajc.com)
    ×3.47 42 | 76 points by pir8life4me 13 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Textcaster – social networking where RSS is the protocol (textcaster.app)
    ×2.31 72 | 11 points by rmdes 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Codex is wearing out our devices (reddit.com)
    ×3.25 7 #18 | 9 points by spenvo 44 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. The Aspirations of HPE and Dell in the Quantum-Classical HPC Datacenter (nextplatform.com)
    ×0.53 | 2 points by rbanffy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: The BUSY build system now generates CMake so you can easily use LeanQt (github.com/rochus-keller)
    ×0.41 | 2 points by Rochus 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Libretto PR agents – Automatically fix failing playwright scripts (libretto.sh)
    ×0.47 125 | 22 points by muchael 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Talk: The Art of Braiding Algorithms (pgadey.ca)
    ×0.49 52 #40 | 49 points by surprisetalk 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: We ran 79 MCP servers in microVMs, only 31 passed (usethrone.dev)
    ×0.76 118 | 3 points by imtaimoorkhan 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Mindwalk – Replay coding-agent sessions on a 3D map of your codebase (github.com/cosmtrek)
    ×1.08 113 | 162 points by cosmtrek 1 week ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Bananas sprout in Rayleigh Garden UK after 15 years (bbc.com)
    ×0.98 49 #26 | 173 points by teleforce 1 day ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Scrying the AMD GFX1250 LLVM Tea Leaves (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×0.64 57 #69 | 66 points by mfiguiere 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Chinese AI model Kimi K3 halts new signups amid skyrocketing demand (euronews.com)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by teleforce 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Mojibake – A low-level Unicode library written in C (zaerl.com)
    ×1.06 79 | 77 points by program 3 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. The Anti-Palantir Manifesto (nonogra.ph)
    ×4.32 38 #90 | 71 points by arkhiver 12 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. The asymmetry problem: AI safeguards are mainly annoying to the good guys (cephalosec.com)
    ×1.17 | 2 points by Versipelle 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Grading Is Easy, Feedback Is Hard: Evaluating LLMs for OOP Assessment [pdf] (github.com/elipcs)
    ×1.09 | 2 points by lucis 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Harness Engineering (github.com/lopopolo)
    ×1.98 42 | 78 points by handfuloflight 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: iMessage is the best interface, so I built TypeScript SDK for it (github.com/jmisilo)
    ×1.13 129 | 6 points by misilojakub 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Dupes took over the world (vox.com)
    ×1.05 60 #37 | 103 points by gumby 23 hours ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Transcribe.cpp (cjpais.com)
    ×3.33 11 #53 | 747 points by sebjones 1 day ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Q3Edit – Edit and play Quake 3 maps in the browser (q3edit.com)
    ×0.78 47 | 99 points by drdator 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Shikigami, run AI coding agents in parallel, each in a Git worktree (shikigami.dev)
    ×2.91 82 | 7 points by igor_nast 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Programming the Amiga and Atari ST in C: Reading Keyboard Input (retrogamecoders.com)
    ×1.97 33 | 3 points by ibobev 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Researchers copy NASA climate data to Swiss supercomputer amid US funding cuts (rfi.fr)
    ×1.18 | 2 points by giuliomagnifico 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???