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  1. Tell HN: Namecheap gave my account to an unverified third party
    ×5.53 33 #34 | 356 points by Thrashed 4 hours ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What Linux distro do you daily drive?
    ×1.63 22 #65 | 10 points by addajones 2 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Is there a website that tracks excessive writes to SSDs in OS/app betas?
    ×0.49 26 | 29 points by amichail 10 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: If OpenAI hacked HuggingFace, why aren't OpenAI prosecuted?
    ×0.85 64 | 24 points by sam_lowry_ 14 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask: Why does everything Microsoft create lately feel fragile and half-baked?
    ×0.92 54 | 5 points by nothrowaways 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Have you noticed an improvement in AI responses with memory disabled?
    ×0.40 81 | 3 points by zbikowski 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
    ×4.70 94 | 1315 points by nprateem 6 days ago | 755 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Does anyone have an old Goodreads API key?
    ×0.84 50 | 20 points by bwb 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What changed in your life when you started meditating (and how)?
    ×0.54 97 | 30 points by dondraper36 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: US Equivalent of Anabin?
    ×0.12 137 | 14 points by xqb64 1 week ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Share Your Eccentric Hobby
    ×0.77 102 | 5 points by jimnotgym 11 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work
    ×3.67 105 | 834 points by nicholasjbs 6 days ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
    ×1.17 148 | 292 points by david927 1 week ago | 1149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. OpenAI API Is Down
    ×0.92 86 | 4 points by whyage 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Are we in the era of AI slop landing pages?
    ×1.37 83 | 5 points by aashir-saas 8 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How do people keep track of organizational knowledge?
    ×0.46 132 | 27 points by kadhirvelm 2 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. New Inference Server for DGX Spark: large model C4:55-90 tok/s no spec decode
    ×0.30 143 | 4 points by medicis123 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. GigaToken: ~1000x faster Language model tokenization (github.com/marcelroed)
    ×2.61 13 | 600 points by syrusakbary 1 day ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Show HN: An MCP server that turns async-work practices into tools (github.com/open-and-async)
    ×0.48 133 | 21 points by benbalter 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Show HN: OSS Cross-Harness self hosted registry and analytics for AI Agents (github.com/Observal)
    ×1.12 138 | 22 points by haz3-jolt 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Kimi K3 exploited the latest Redis server (twitter.com/fried_rice)
    ×2.91 44 #45 | 31 points by Alifatisk 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Show HN: MinkNote – Native macOS notes and journaling using Markdown files (muse23.com)
    ×0.79 | 2 points by demianturner 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Show HN: Browser-based Link Graph (osint) analysis tool (webvetted.com)
    ×0.54 | 2 points by hienyimba 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Petals: Run LLMs at home, BitTorrent-style (petals.dev)
    ×1.63 32 | 132 points by snorbleck 23 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: Kalvir Clock (kalvir.life)
    ×1.25 142 | 5 points by kalv 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: STT-MCP – local STT for agents (github.com/sm18lr88)
    ×1.40 112 | 3 points by hereme888 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Remux – an open-source tmux workspace designed for iPhone (github.com/h3nock)
    ×0.99 23 #37 | 87 points by bitwise42 10 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ghost Cut – Or why Cut and Paste is broken everywhere (textualize.io)
    ×1.28 61 #86 | 185 points by willm 1 day ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Log is non-monotonic in PHP and Lua (purplesyringa.moe)
    ×0.80 60 #90 | 18 points by ibobev 11 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Teorema Combina: El Combinador Lógico Del Observador (zenodo.org)
    ×0.84 | 1 points by Javiercombina 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: NextBest – See what skincare people recommend (nextbest.one)
    ×1.00 140 | 5 points by kalila855 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Word in Web – Near MS Word Parity Docx Editor in Web (word-in-web.com)
    ×1.36 128 | 36 points by theRealestAEP 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: OneCLI – OSS credential gateway that keeps secrets out of AI agents (github.com/onecli)
    ×0.93 26 #25 | 80 points by Jonathanfishner 9 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Szr: A safer command output reduction for coding agents (github.com/devr-tools)
    ×1.41 149 | 3 points by alxxjohn 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. CodeCrafters – Build Your Own <X> repo (github.com/codecrafters-io)
    ×1.54 35 | 3 points by matthberg 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. John C. Dvorak has died (twitter.com/na_announce)
    ×5.29 51 | 910 points by coleca 1 day ago | 305 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Safari Technology Preview 248 Released (webkit.org)
    ×1.04 66 | 91 points by Erenay09 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Meta Garbage Collection: Using OCaml's GC to GC Rust (soteria-tools.com)
    ×0.84 37 #28 | 49 points by annieversary 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Letterpaths: Or how LLMs can be good even when they're bad (robinlinacre.com)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by rzk 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Sherlock Search – find anyone by photo (sherlocksearch.net)
    ×1.51 34 | 3 points by thefirstname322 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: I made YAFL – a E2EE file handoff for AI agents (yafl.dev)
    ×0.26 107 | 4 points by marcushorndt 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. A Taxonomy of Omnicidal Futures Involving Artificial Intelligence (arxiv.org)
    ×1.22 3 #8 | 44 points by amelius 2 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Does creatine make you smarter? (dynomight.net)
    ×3.13 25 | 326 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 264 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Q3Edit – Edit and play Quake 3 maps in the browser (q3edit.com)
    ×0.82 141 | 105 points by drdator 5 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. When AI Attacks AI: Why Every System Needs a Guard (medium.com)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by encinas88 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Everyone should know SIMD (mitchellh.com)
    ×3.32 15 #89 | 615 points by WadeGrimridge 1 day ago | 230 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. The $100M Market of Popcorn Buckets (nytimes.com)
    ×2.45 25 | 3 points by chrisaycock 33 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: HN Hall of Fame – browse 3,100 legendary Hacker News links (orangecrumbs.com)
    ×1.64 51 | 205 points by oyster143 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Historic adobe buildings mapped across America (adobepueblo.com)
    ×1.19 104 | 3 points by not_wowinter13 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Sambaudit, a secrets scanner for SMB shares with a web UI (github.com/d-woosley)
    ×0.64 | 2 points by dwoosley 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. OpenAI’s accidental attack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened (simonwillison.net)
    ×4.59 41 #27 | 372 points by abhisek 1 day ago | 312 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. A Minimal IR for RTL (miguel9554.github.io)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by fourier54 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Introducing selfie for sign-in: a new way to access your Google Account (blog.google)
    ×2.62 21 #40 | 77 points by lkurtz 6 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. From Evaluation to Guardrails: What We Brought to ACM FAccT 2026 (mozilla.ai)
    ×0.31 77 #59 | 11 points by royapakzad 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Saying Goodbye to My Office (manilsuri.substack.com)
    ×2.95 25 #64 | 8 points by tzury 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. The Elm Architecture, Without Elm (bichanna.github.io)
    ×1.50 33 | 3 points by theanonymousone 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Recent Modeling Systematically Underestimates Warming from IMO2020 Shipping Regs (copernicus.org)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by littlexsparkee 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: 15 years of hand-curated architecture, art and design as an MCP server (thisispaper.com)
    ×1.77 116 | 3 points by zaxarov 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. The Visual 6502 (visual6502.org)
    ×1.40 6 #3 | 32 points by infiniteregrets 1 hour ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. The Online MBA (theonline.mba)
    ×1.98 14 | 4 points by multiplesauces 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Late.sh – a command-line Clubhouse for computer people (late.sh)
    ×2.23 57 | 322 points by itherseed 1 day ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Life Tile – Passive time tracker that shows your day as a Mondrian grid (apple.com)
    ×1.01 | 2 points by choyongjoon 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Brow6el: A full-featured web browser for the terminal using Chromium (tangled.org)
    ×0.78 58 #56 | 42 points by nerdypepper 11 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample (chatgpt.com)
    ×4.13 27 #63 | 1089 points by gmays 1 day ago | 618 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab) (bento.page)
    ×4.00 38 #88 | 984 points by starfallg 1 day ago | 230 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Fred Wilson – The Clarity Act (avc.xyz)
    ×1.09 | 2 points by rmason 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Patreon Lays Off 20 Percent of Its Workforce (404media.co)
    ×4.28 58 | 9 points by cdrnsf 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Nvidia Puts a 4B World Model on the Robot [Weekly Physical AI Roundup] (topicqueue.substack.com)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by DISCURSIVE 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: WatchMachineGo – A visualizer to show hardware performing LLM inference (watchmachinego.com)
    ×0.97 | 2 points by dev_dan_2 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: ValuePair – a friendship app that cares about values first (valuepair.app)
    ×0.65 129 | 8 points by zloy88 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Emacs Is a Lispboard (andros.dev)
    ×1.27 29 #32 | 93 points by andros 11 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Malleable computing, Emacs, and you (yummymelon.com)
    ×1.01 59 #75 | 155 points by kickingvegas 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. B2B Software Is Still Stuck in the BlackBerry Era. That Is About to Change (attainoutcomes.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by tylerdane 58 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. I Inspected My Take-Home Interview Project. It Was a Whole Operation (citizendot.github.io)
    ×4.62 11 | 445 points by CITIZENDOT 1 day ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Flow Matching model inference in C (github.com/ecrasevvv)
    ×1.51 92 | 4 points by ecrasevvv 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: USB AI Agent – portable uncensored AI with 13 tools, runs from USB (github.com/pusucip25)
    ×0.54 | 2 points by pucucip 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Orate – On-device neural text-to-speech queue for Mac (orate.to)
    ×0.95 139 | 17 points by bherms 2 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop (resobscura.substack.com)
    ×2.30 1 #74 | 478 points by benbreen 1 day ago | 233 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Stripe in talks to buy OpenRouter for ~10B (wsj.com)
    ×3.32 34 #58 | 39 points by htrp 4 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. EU fines Alphabet $1B US for Google Play, search infractions (cbc.ca)
    ×3.95 64 | 4 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. OpenAI's Hugging Face Hack Triggers 'AI Kill Switch' Bill in Congress (cnbc.com)
    ×1.17 | 2 points by pseudolus 55 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. A Startling Glimpse at AI's Ruthless Efficiency (theatlantic.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by paulpauper 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. The Unity CLI: manage Unity from your terminal (unity.com)
    ×0.80 56 #51 | 83 points by nateb2022 15 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Pixel phones getting ad notifications
    ×1.76 12 | 3 points by explodes 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. About 1 in 4 workers keep unwanted jobs for health insurance, poll finds (washingtonpost.com)
    ×2.52 6 | 5 points by bookofjoe 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. ICE shared Medicaid data it wasn't supposed to have with Palantir (npr.org)
    ×6.14 63 | 108 points by Jimmc414 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Hanky – ETL style framework for loading flash cards into Anki (github.com/Haeata-Ash)
    ×0.67 77 | 10 points by funfruit 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Getting Started with Azure SQL Developer on MacBook (marlonribunal.com)
    ×2.14 20 | 3 points by MarlonPro 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Geekbench 7 (geekbench.com)
    ×0.84 7 #54 | 52 points by ilreb 7 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: A factory simulator game built on Spreadsheets (logisheets.com)
    ×1.51 | 2 points by JeremyHe 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???