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  1. Ask HN: Is GitHub preparing to go behind a login wall?
    ×0.85 17 #75 | 43 points by reconnecting 6 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Where are the good search engines for mathematical formulas?
    ×0.65 8 | 50 points by lo0dot0 3 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Please give us an option to hide our username in the upper right corner
    ×1.16 28 | 3 points by swingandamiss 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: How do you keep documentation up to date with AI generated code?
    ×1.34 33 | 3 points by ghosts_ 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: Who wants to be hired" posts outpace "Who's hiring" 2 to 1
    ×1.35 17 | 50 points by santiagobasulto 13 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: How do I setup SSO and SLO on my two WP websites with separate databases
    ×0.27 | 2 points by anitroves 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What is your AI harness that lets you switch LLM models easily?
    ×0.54 105 | 3 points by hbarka 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Tell HN: Fable 5 promotion extended through July 12, 2026 at 11:59:59 PM PT
    ×2.56 29 | 15 points by theanonymousone 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?
    ×1.20 136 | 202 points by yehiaabdelm 4 days ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Tell HN: Fable is now credits only
    ×0.48 113 | 9 points by teruakohatu 17 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Are LLMs slowly making companies dysfunctional?
    ×1.05 95 | 6 points by haute_cuisine 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Make good open-source products, but how to get user?
    ×0.59 119 | 3 points by Loerei 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Tell HN: I managed to unsubscribe from Adobe CC without being charged
    ×0.61 126 | 24 points by frereubu 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What are alternative to Upwork for side gig?
    ×0.37 115 | 5 points by user7878 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Are systems ready for the first negative leap second?
    ×0.52 144 | 10 points by Asmod4n 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)
    ×1.08 148 | 245 points by whoishiring 6 days ago | 369 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Fable 5 promo ends today – is anyone keeping it once it's usage-billed?
    ×1.42 98 | 10 points by franze 13 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Claude has the worst pricing – but people want it
    ×0.61 140 | 10 points by amukbils 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What cool stuff have you all been using Fable 5 for?
    ×0.50 138 | 12 points by Tsarp 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)
    ×0.82 152 | 151 points by whoishiring 6 days ago | 504 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Is anyone using Jujutsu version control (JJ) exclusively?
    ×0.45 154 | 7 points by cabyambo 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: How to find businesses running their operations on spreadsheets?
    ×0.47 | 2 points by jainvivek 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Are there good security benchmarks for LLMs?
    ×0.27 157 | 7 points by melvinroest 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Since when does Craigslist's front page have emojis?
    ×0.32 164 | 39 points by argee 1 week ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. The Hard Parts of Streaming Audio in Voice Agents
    ×0.20 162 | 3 points by gokuljs 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. J-Space: Where Claude silently performs reasoning steps (twitter.com/AnthropicAI)
    ×2.67 4 | 5 points by jhatax 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Constructing a lower-bound estimate of the global number of insect species (pnas.org)
    ×1.07 | 2 points by rdmuser 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Building relationships with customers through support didn't turn out as hoped (uncommonapps.nyc)
    ×2.32 65 | 338 points by dabluck 1 day ago | 193 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Nimbus - open-source AI agent that operates your AWS and GCP (github.com/hritvikgupta)
    ×0.77 | 2 points by hritvik29 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. SmolMail: An AI agent for Gmail that answers in visuals, not walls of text (smolmail.com)
    ×1.14 | 2 points by narinluangrath 39 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Traceval
    ×0.25 | 2 points by ramkm 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Homegames. An open-source game platform I've been making for 8 years (homegames.io)
    ×1.38 88 | 226 points by homegamesjoseph 2 days ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Descent – EGA point-and-click game set inside a neural network's hidden layers (itch.io)
    ×1.49 12 | 3 points by schwarzarno 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Odin 1.0 Announcement (youtube.com)
    ×6.10 34 | 92 points by jhack 20 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Top researchers leave USA for the Netherlands (in Dutch) (nwo.nl)
    ×2.87 57 | 308 points by 28304283409234 14 hours ago | 249 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. How Kalshi Infects the News (publicnotice.co)
    ×2.66 61 | 197 points by everybodyknows 1 day ago | 195 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. AI Meets Cryptography 1: What AI Found in Cloudflare's Circl (zksecurity.xyz)
    ×0.85 9 #23 | 78 points by duha 7 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Automating AI Away (replicated.live)
    ×1.23 21 #30 | 103 points by gritzko 10 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Europe's company websites are mostly served by US vendors (ciphercue.com)
    ×1.75 21 #57 | 238 points by adulion 13 hours ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. From classroom to lab: Introducing turnkey lab exercises in IEEE 5G/6G Testbed (ieee.org)
    ×0.86 | 2 points by teleforce 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Muse Image and Muse Video, the first media generation models developed by Meta (twitter.com/AIatMeta)
    ×2.17 14 | 4 points by jeudesprits 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: mip – the missing package manager for MATLAB + MEX (mip.sh)
    ×1.67 106 | 4 points by jmagland 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Reins – let coding agents drive your real, logged-in browser (karnstack.com)
    ×1.04 128 | 3 points by karngyan 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Turn commodity WiFi signals into real-time spatial intelligence (github.com/ruvnet)
    ×2.59 111 | 6 points by adithyaharish 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Shadow Web – Cut 64–97% of web page tokens for LLM agents (github.com/ulinycoin)
    ×0.46 | 2 points by ulinycoin 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. 30papers.com – Ilya's 30 essential ML papers, in a beginner friendly format (30papers.com)
    ×2.73 5 #13 | 351 points by notmcrowley 9 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. The Science Behind Why Soccer Players the 26 World Cup Are Cutting Their Socks (wired.com)
    ×2.25 37 | 4 points by susiecambria 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Herdr: One terminal to rule them all (herdr.dev)
    ×1.90 1 #15 | 150 points by handfuloflight 6 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. In Praise of Observational Evidence (asteriskmag.com)
    ×0.91 50 #82 | 73 points by fi-le 19 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Designing Firefox for the Future (mozilla.org)
    ×1.50 32 | 3 points by iBelieve 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. A better way to tie gym shorts (or any drawstring) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.33 4 #12 | 455 points by surprisetalk 12 hours ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Mark Zuckerberg's biggest legal nightmare yet could cost Meta $1.4T (the-independent.com)
    ×6.32 37 | 139 points by wrxd 12 hours ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Paint the Earth on a live, interactive globe (collaborative art.) (earth.tattoo)
    ×0.46 137 | 20 points by earth-tattoo 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Rlm-Workflow (try.works)
    ×2.03 24 | 4 points by handfuloflight 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. EU plan to address the risks and opportunities of advanced AI for cybersecurity (europa.eu)
    ×1.19 | 2 points by rstagi 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Create Your Language (conlang.app)
    ×1.09 | 2 points by natbennett 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. OfficeCLI: Office suite for AI agents to read and edit Microsoft Office files (github.com/iOfficeAI)
    ×1.53 42 | 212 points by maxloh 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Type any business name, get a real website in 60 seconds (fivedaylaunch.com)
    ×1.30 114 | 3 points by nareshclaude 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Book Bounce – Bedtime story helper for parents (bedtimebookhelper.com)
    ×0.86 | 2 points by philajan 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Code Workspace, Everywhere (useboot.co)
    ×1.70 125 | 3 points by dantelex 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: GeoLens – a self-hosted catalog and map builder for spatial data (getgeolens.com)
    ×1.53 153 | 4 points by ishiland 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. An interactive explorer for Benford's Law across real datasets (vatsalbakshi.com)
    ×0.87 18 #7 | 10 points by dingobabies 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. The Supreme Court Just Lit a Fuse Under Flock's License Plate Camera Empire (yahoo.com)
    ×3.37 78 | 104 points by bilsbie 1 day ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Tracking GenAI cost and endpoint fragility so app teams don't have to (llmintel.ai)
    ×0.73 | 2 points by ATsimbalistov 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: A simple random animal generator (randomanimalgen.com)
    ×1.93 134 | 5 points by mark_literacy 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. C++ Details of Asymmetric Fences (nekrozqliphort.github.io)
    ×0.73 37 #55 | 62 points by anon_farmer 12 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Dua Lipa opens library for banned and censored books in Portugal (euronews.com)
    ×3.33 37 #59 | 279 points by pax 12 hours ago | 224 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Better Auth is joining Vercel (better-auth.com)
    ×1.73 45 #84 | 117 points by sync 9 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Turbo – An open-source, fast HTTP server with a real-time config GUI (okzgn.com)
    ×0.93 5 | 3 points by okzgn 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter (github.com/MaximeRivest)
    ×2.98 36 | 608 points by modinfo 1 day ago | 406 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Should DayQuil Be Legal? (theargumentmag.com)
    ×3.12 40 | 236 points by paulpauper 1 day ago | 286 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Pulpie – Models for Cleaning the Web (usefeyn.com)
    ×0.94 82 | 100 points by snyy 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera (allaboutcookies.org)
    ×4.43 10 #11 | 424 points by nickslaughter02 4 hours ago | 558 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. A 13th-Century Enumeration Algorithm, Ignored for 700 Years (klipse.tech)
    ×1.35 22 #21 | 10 points by viebel 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. PixelSat I Software Part 1: Comms System (projectpixelorbital.com)
    ×0.98 | 2 points by aadishv 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. A global workspace in language models (anthropic.com)
    ×2.40 9 | 444 points by in-silico 1 day ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: DoodleMeme – Animate Hand Drawings Without Generative AI (doodlemate.com)
    ×1.67 110 | 4 points by hjessmith 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Tenda firmware (multiple versions) contains hidden authentication backdoor (cert.org)
    ×1.53 48 #18 | 5 points by miniBill 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. APS-CYBER: A state-transition security platform to detect attacks before impact (apslogic.org)
    ×1.62 44 | 3 points by lombardo_e 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Price per 1M tokens is meaningless (janilowski.pl)
    ×3.00 56 | 139 points by janilowski 1 day ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Full Writeup of the Windows GDID (github.com/SmtimesIWndr)
    ×1.02 73 | 85 points by typeofhuman 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Dolosse – a South African invention used over the world (thisbugslife.com)
    ×1.11 42 #62 | 128 points by andsoitis 20 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. OpenSSH 10.4/10.4p1 Released (openssh.org)
    ×1.09 62 #86 | 111 points by throw0101a 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Perks Reminder – open-source tracker for expiring card benefits (github.com/lifan-builds)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by lifan-builds 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. MIL – Moments in Life (mil.now)
    ×1.06 | 2 points by untitled-now 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: FastCRW: 6MB binary self-hosted Firecrawl alternative (github.com/us)
    ×1.64 124 | 3 points by fastcrw 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. GitHub Freno: cooperative, highly available throttler service (github.com/github)
    ×0.60 47 #44 | 37 points by nateb2022 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Docx-CLI: agents read/edit Word docs using 1/2 the time and tokens (github.com/kklimuk)
    ×0.83 15 #37 | 54 points by kirillklimuk 7 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. l: A new runtime for k and q (lv1.sh)
    ×1.06 7 #16 | 103 points by skruger 7 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Lead–Crime Hypothesis (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.51 18 | 3 points by chistev 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???