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  1. Ask HN: cybersecurity refusal for turning a jailbroken kindle into a monitor
    ×2.09 41 | 3 points by areoform 10 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Who gets credits on big math questions solved by LLMs?
    ×0.94 17 | 3 points by silentmafia 36 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. How do you guys keep up with AI news?
    ×0.36 41 #84 | 3 points by anirudhc2005 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Learn by Building
    ×0.28 59 | 7 points by csacademy 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
    ×1.17 118 | 282 points by david927 4 days ago | 1092 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. X permanently banned my 15-year-old account for sharing my own open-source lib
    ×2.32 10 | 10 points by rifmj 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Why people chasing after useless token saving plugins and ignoring real solution
    ×0.36 | 2 points by yohji1984 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?
    ×1.61 60 | 124 points by kadhirvelm 1 day ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How do you manage too many open tabs?
    ×0.40 76 | 6 points by NarcisMirandes 8 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Are we there yet? Can I create a human analogue using AI?
    ×0.17 | 2 points by JoeAltmaier 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: As LLMs progress, how do you stay sharp and productive?
    ×0.51 77 | 7 points by spiresofagartha 9 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Best meeting transcription daemon for macOS?
    ×0.71 82 | 4 points by tomelliot 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Assistive Tech Ideas for Dementia
    ×0.24 113 | 3 points by thanksd 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles
    ×5.91 63 | 1084 points by levkk 3 days ago | 457 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Thinking: Alternate Distribution for Filmmakers
    ×0.28 137 | 3 points by phaedrus044 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Are AWS Certs worth getting for experienced Devs?
    ×0.49 135 | 10 points by Gold-Ask-lx 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Help me be accountable with my time
    ×0.38 116 | 4 points by atomiomi 10 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How about a "Merge Stories" feature?
    ×0.27 | 2 points by RetroTechie 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What are you using for authn/authz and payments?
    ×0.56 128 | 3 points by jftuga 11 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Are there any startups looking for a developer on contract base?
    ×0.58 | 2 points by need_a_work23 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. OTPme Testers Wanted
    ×2.16 123 | 4 points by otpme 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. On-device AI that respects your privacy
    ×0.57 | 2 points by fujidevv 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: How do you handle OSS project with private artifacts?
    ×0.55 | 2 points by mrsalty 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. The Missed Reality: Code Review Wasn't Built for the AI Era
    ×0.53 | 2 points by axsdrizz 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Best way to buy second hand compute (in a future AI crash)
    ×1.69 131 | 4 points by lifeisstillgood 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Should I do a CS masters at Cambridge or start as a new grad at Amazon?
    ×0.60 138 | 28 points by sspehr 3 days ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. I built a tool to get comments in CSV format from YouTube videos
    ×0.16 | 2 points by cristyg0101 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. I'd prefer to avoid AI comments on Reddit and HN
    ×1.69 79 | 5 points by alance 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Laptop touchpad stopped registering clicks? try this
    ×2.39 132 | 5 points by LandOfMightDev 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: I've built a words game based on binary search (hilogame.cc)
    ×0.79 35 #48 | 44 points by ludovicianul 9 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Elfuse: Run ARM64/x86-64 Linux ELF Binaries on macOS Apple Silicon (github.com/sysprog21)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by birdculture 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: One More Letter (playonemoreletter.com)
    ×1.09 48 | 83 points by hmate9 23 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Termaxa – I found my AI-agent gate had silently stopped gating Cursor (github.com/termaxa)
    ×0.49 | 2 points by devdoc83 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: A modern port of Linux to a ten-year-old QWERTY phone
    ×0.76 16 #47 | 32 points by tmzt 6 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. BYO NOS: Building a maintainable, SRE-friendly switch (rezero.org)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by mrngm 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ring-Zero: Scaling Zero RL to a Trillion Parameters for Emergent Reasoning (arxiv.org)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by binyu 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. The AI Backlash Has Tech Executives Fearing for Their Lives (wsj.com)
    ×3.08 30 | 5 points by justswim 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: I RL-trained an agent that trains models with RL (for ~$1.3k) (github.com/Danau5tin)
    ×0.87 111 | 106 points by Danau5tin 2 days ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Helium escaping from atmosphere of nearby rocky exoplanet in a habitable zone (science.org)
    ×1.32 3 #7 | 38 points by anyonecancode 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Duskers, the scary command line game, is getting a sequel (elbowgreasegames.substack.com)
    ×1.06 44 #82 | 147 points by spacemarine1 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. EU will force Google to share search data and open up AI on Android (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.00 | 2 points by EspadaV9 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Blood in the Datacenter (seangoedecke.com)
    ×4.07 63 | 6 points by gfysfm 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. America's Russia sanctions bill hits 60 co-sponsors (axios.com)
    ×1.10 | 2 points by MilnerRoute 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Guide to data tools landscape for developers (sinja.io)
    ×1.26 3 #23 | 104 points by OlegWock 7 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. 56,000 lines of DOOM, in a language I made up (betlang.dev)
    ×0.61 8 #50 | 33 points by ghuntley 5 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Weathergotchi – an E-Paper Climate Logger (github.com/Michael-Manning)
    ×1.01 66 | 120 points by luanmuniz 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Quatuor – Kick back and watch 4 agents LLM talk to each other (FOSS) (github.com/yeme-oss)
    ×2.56 104 | 4 points by ycosynot 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: For 10 World Cups, my model's 2 favorites had the champion every time (ssrn.com)
    ×0.83 108 | 38 points by fabioricardo7 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. I also filed the corners off my MacBook (brt.fyi)
    ×2.41 24 #69 | 291 points by maxbrt 1 day ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Roboflow Serverless Inference: A Thousand Models on a Shared GPU Fleet (roboflow.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by yeldarb 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster (theatlantic.com)
    ×4.13 44 #89 | 94 points by latexr 9 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: I kept rewriting scripts for my teams, so I built a visual tool instead (ipek.run)
    ×1.10 | 2 points by limandoc 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: A multi-location vending machine operations portal (github.com/skorotkiewicz)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by modinfo 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: I built an offline PDF editor for Android, 25 tools, no server, no ads (google.com)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by WalkerMod 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. SQLite should have (Rust-style) editions (mort.coffee)
    ×1.99 16 | 348 points by gnyeki 23 hours ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Galois connections for composable numeric casts in Rust (github.com/cmk)
    ×0.56 33 #43 | 24 points by partialsolve 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Governments, companies, nonprofits should invest in free, open source AI [pdf] (siegelendowment.org)
    ×1.81 10 #80 | 286 points by bilsbie 1 day ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. essence: turns paragraphs into sentences. caveman, but for meaning, not words. (github.com/jurassix)
    ×2.23 6 | 4 points by jurassix 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: HeimWall – Catch secrets before you paste them into Claude or Cursor (heimwall.ai)
    ×0.79 | 2 points by ata2gxxx 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: A Python script that parses sheet music and plays it on a drum machine (hankthemason.com)
    ×0.53 | 2 points by hankthemason 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Fireplot – I built a take-home pay map to see if I should leave Belgium (fireplot.app)
    ×0.76 | 2 points by lotsoworks 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. How to Train a Gen AI Kick Drum Model on Your Old Linux Desktop with 6GB VRAM (zhinit.dev)
    ×1.02 15 #19 | 81 points by zhinit 7 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. GC shape stenciling in Go generics (rednafi.com)
    ×0.69 27 #41 | 43 points by ingve 7 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Skyportal SRE – an open-source AI infrastructure engineer (github.com/SkyportalAi)
    ×1.69 5 | 3 points by mattskyportal 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Enterprise Haskell at H-E-B (haskell.org)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by cosmic_quanta 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Real-Time Microphone Quality Scoring Using Web Audio API (howdousound.com)
    ×1.40 119 | 3 points by tdhopper 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. The Act and the Outcome of Creation (ssp.sh)
    ×0.37 53 #67 | 27 points by zazuke 10 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Darby, a Hugo docs theme with in-browser AI Q&A (no back end, no keys) (iamit.in)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by aktech 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. C++ reconstruction of Russian kamikaze drone onboard autonomy stack (github.com/19h)
    ×0.90 | 1 points by 19h 3 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. 42% of adults rely on their parents for financial support (cnbc.com)
    ×5.87 79 | 129 points by root-parent 5 hours ago | 217 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Cybara – An open-source AI agent platform built with Bun (github.com/metaspartan)
    ×1.13 | 2 points by carsenk 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Detecting LLM-Generated Texts with “Classical” Machine Learning (lyc8503.net)
    ×1.20 7 #8 | 124 points by uneven9434 5 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Yann LeCun on AMI Labs, JEPA, and the AI World of 2030 (nebius.science)
    ×1.05 39 #62 | 17 points by natali_gray 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Inkwell: It's a New Kind of Wrapper for Exposing LLVM in Safe Rust (github.com/TheDan64)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by fanf2 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Docs.dev Your Own Hosted Docs Platform in Minutes (docs.dev)
    ×4.31 56 | 8 points by linktothenew 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Microsoft deleted my account and OneDrive (twitter.com/JoshuaKhane)
    ×5.78 101 | 90 points by HelloUsername 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: I open-sourced a macOS native Markdown rendering engine (github.com/nodes-app)
    ×1.80 17 | 4 points by jacobchen7 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Adaptional (YC S25) Is Hiring (ycombinator.com)
    5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Optimizing Lua string literals to save 400 bytes (purplesyringa.moe)
    ×0.65 25 #24 | 27 points by ibobev 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Ferrari Creates a Fake Manual Transmission (core77.com)
    ×1.78 17 #63 | 9 points by sizzle 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Forced to use a Pin in Windows 11, some alternatives (microsoft.com)
    ×1.72 | 2 points by itronitron 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Truth Social to sell Wall Street firms the 'fastest' access to Trump's posts (nbcnews.com)
    ×3.11 48 | 5 points by ceejayoz 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Scaling to 1M concurrent sandboxes in seconds (modal.com)
    ×3.02 26 | 5 points by thundergolfer 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: My design portfolio is a Claude agent (no vector DB, no RAG stack) (blackbook.dk)
    ×1.78 107 | 4 points by jeppesc 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Cottage Computer Programming (1984) (atariarchives.org)
    ×0.77 19 #40 | 29 points by lioeters 5 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. IMAX CEO: We haven't made new IMAX projectors in 50 years (gamesradar.com)
    ×2.06 12 #49 | 12 points by ilamont 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Book prizes don't work how you think (rebeccamakkai.substack.com)
    ×1.77 42 | 121 points by samclemens 2 days ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Nous – give GTM agents one context graph across your tools (github.com/NousC)
    ×5.42 53 | 10 points by sethiaakash04 7 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Rackp – a protocol for deriving fault when AI agents cause incidents (github.com/rackp-io)
    ×0.74 | 2 points by rackp 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Just Do Things (zo.space)
    ×2.00 25 | 3 points by erhuve 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???