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  1. Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?
    ×2.67 23 #46 | 47 points by kadhirvelm 3 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Does it still make sense to write code by hand?
    ×0.80 6 #48 | 7 points by fnoef 1 hour ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. ChatGPT now defaults to Codex instead of chat:(
    ×1.48 3 | 3 points by amukbils 34 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. As a dev, would you use a form backend tool?
    ×0.75 | 2 points by danilovilhena 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Making something on your own(without any LLM) feels so good
    ×1.28 19 | 3 points by RajX_dev 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
    ×1.17 110 | 276 points by david927 2 days ago | 1070 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What company could create an iOS/Android competitor worth adopting?
    ×0.40 49 | 4 points by pwython 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. GitHub is starting to lockdown some of the previously public data
    ×0.91 32 | 6 points by punkpeye 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Does language complexity affect reasoning?
    ×0.95 66 | 4 points by zecice 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Anyone Else Burnt Out?
    ×2.40 94 | 10 points by lmpdev 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. I reverse-engineered the three biggest agent-memory tools
    ×0.23 | 2 points by pauliusztin 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles
    ×5.97 38 | 1080 points by levkk 2 days ago | 454 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Question regarding personal knowledge management
    ×0.21 | 2 points by diarrheaasmr 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How are you productive with GPT 5.6 Sol?
    ×0.47 | 2 points by hk__2 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Should I do a CS masters at Cambridge or start as a new grad at Amazon?
    ×0.63 131 | 27 points by sspehr 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What Are You Building with AI?
    ×0.40 | 2 points by fraXis 9 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Evidence for JavaScript ecosystem being more vulnerable than Rust's?
    ×0.42 | 2 points by pascahousut 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Should a smartwatch track the user's emotions?
    ×1.08 127 | 3 points by accofrisk 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How do you do marketing in the age of slop?
    ×1.93 86 | 8 points by probst 7 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Insightful research or longreads on core teams in IT?
    ×0.43 | 2 points by sam_lowry_ 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Do y'all sit here just looking at each url pop up to engage?
    ×1.09 128 | 3 points by vanessa1211 10 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. ChatGPT Remote Connection Failure
    ×0.20 133 | 3 points by tumidpandora 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Does disposable or temp accounts hurt the business of SaaS or app? How?
    ×0.93 99 | 3 points by YPANDAR 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: US Equivalent of Anabin?
    ×0.17 | 2 points by xqb64 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: How useful is Gemini for Google Apps?
    ×0.27 135 | 3 points by cobbzilla 18 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: How do you keep up with news in a particular sector?
    ×0.42 136 | 4 points by doruk101 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: How can I publish a paid app to Google Play without giving up my privacy
    ×0.87 132 | 5 points by SamCoding 20 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: How do you use Vim in the era of AI?
    ×0.86 138 | 48 points by rstagi 5 days ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Is HN comments used to train AI models?
    ×1.99 50 | 4 points by roschdal 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: A DC Powered Home?
    ×0.36 134 | 4 points by dhosek 21 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Advice for first-year CS students?
    ×0.70 130 | 9 points by jassembk 23 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. I want to build an OTT app. Where should I start?
    ×0.56 137 | 4 points by ibuld 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Update on my media editor in browser no back end (masterselects.com)
    ×2.29 95 | 4 points by Sportinger 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: ZeroGate – A Fuzzy CSV Reconciler (zerogate.cloud)
    ×0.93 129 | 3 points by ngarner 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. DEA to Temporarily Schedule 7-Oh and Related Substances to Protect Public Safety (dea.gov)
    ×1.63 11 #19 | 53 points by gnabgib 1 hour ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ray Kurzweil and Hans Moravec: Spiritual Machines, Transcendent Minds (medium.com)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by timventura 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Former NOAA employees built Climate.us to preserve climate data and resources (19thnews.org)
    ×4.68 33 | 545 points by benwerd 1 day ago | 211 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Proof of care in the age of AI (jacobfilipp.com)
    ×2.84 40 | 185 points by jfil 1 day ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Sign in with your ChatGPT account for free AI (openai-oauth.vercel.app)
    ×1.26 | 2 points by EvanZhouDev 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Data centers have hiked electricity prices on the public by $23B (fortune.com)
    ×3.95 11 | 191 points by measurablefunc 16 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: OpenMarkdown – A Markdown editor you and your agent co-edit (openmarkdown.dev)
    ×1.67 72 | 3 points by XUEYANZ 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: A TypeScript repo where AI agents can't break the architecture (github.com/lucasgodt)
    ×1.18 | 2 points by lucasgodt 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Building and shipping Mac and iOS apps without opening Xcode (scottwillsey.com)
    ×2.55 41 | 542 points by speckx 1 day ago | 230 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Coding agents think ahead of time (arxiv.org)
    ×1.24 81 | 94 points by andre15silva 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Mozdmp – Firefox profile decryption tool and master password cracker (github.com/asaix)
    ×1.26 98 | 3 points by asaix 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Guardian Angels: LLM Personalization for Productivity and Security (gwern.net)
    ×0.96 53 | 91 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023) (oup.com)
    ×3.05 8 #10 | 523 points by bilsbie 5 hours ago | 259 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. What Every Python Developer Should Know About the CPython ABI (quansight.org)
    ×0.63 31 #29 | 23 points by matt_d 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Boss – Dependency Manager for Delphi and Lazarus (github.com/HashLoad)
    ×0.80 69 #66 | 12 points by TheWiggles 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Figmaboy – Tauri Figma Clone with a Built in MCP-Enabled CLI for Codex (0xmiki.github.io)
    ×1.16 | 2 points by mikiyas 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Network routing correctness ≠ distribution completeness [pdf] (squarespace.com)
    ×1.42 | 2 points by siliconmtn 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Super Dario (pawb.de)
    ×4.02 59 | 391 points by thepasch 1 day ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Alternative(s) to run CUDA on non-Nvidia hardware (hpcwire.com)
    ×0.96 71 | 139 points by alok-g 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. No Spanish reading crisis? (commonreader.co.uk)
    ×1.03 88 | 88 points by jruohonen 1 day ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. The real prices of frontier models (playcode.io)
    ×1.67 100 | 156 points by ianberdin 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: A photo editor that develops RAW files in the browser (vajba.com)
    ×1.29 | 2 points by trivsamt 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: InferAll – One API for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Nvidia Nim (inferall.ai)
    ×1.05 | 2 points by TaylorM492 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Rest of the Owl: Completes the full dev cycle given a well defined task (github.com/steph-dove)
    ×1.34 | 2 points by klaussy 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: RazerStream – Reviving the Orphaned Razer Stream Controller on macOS (github.com/ShoelessTim)
    ×1.17 | 2 points by ShoelessTim 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Codex Micro (openai.com)
    ×3.81 27 #30 | 60 points by davidbarker 51 minutes ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. SendLang: A DSL for Email Automation (sendlang.com)
    ×1.85 8 #39 | 10 points by ksajadi 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. The bread paradox: why convenience always wins, and why SaaS isn't doomed (joanwestenberg.com)
    ×1.90 26 #75 | 122 points by srijan4 15 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Garry Tan to Keynote the SF Ruby Startup Conference (evilmartians.com)
    ×3.71 49 | 5 points by camimirabal 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. How do you audit what your autonomous agents did? (github.com/BrightbeamAI)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by arsalanshahid 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. AI Lays Bare the Authoritarianism of Modern Work. Time to Rethink Education (techpolicy.press)
    ×2.34 17 #57 | 23 points by cdrnsf 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Found something better than Klavaro touch typing tutor (monkeytype.com)
    ×1.40 | 2 points by wieczorek1990 46 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Mailberry – an AI-native email platform with The Email Brain (mailberry.ai)
    ×1.16 | 2 points by alecbee 48 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Logseq 2.0 Beta (DB version) is here (github.com/logseq)
    ×1.27 119 | 100 points by karencarits 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Agnes Callard’s theory of the uni-context (derekthompson.org)
    ×0.87 67 | 96 points by FinnLobsien 1 day ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Minvoice – invoicing app that runs on Cloudflare Workers and D1 (github.com/ddyy)
    ×1.07 | 2 points by ddyy 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. The Memory Heist (ayush.digital)
    ×0.87 7 #21 | 28 points by eieio 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Germany maybe found a new source of renewable energy (schweizerbart.de)
    ×1.38 9 #32 | 40 points by janandonly 4 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Microsoft Entra ID Will Retire SMS and Voice Authentication (lazyadmin.nl)
    ×1.86 79 #67 | 6 points by speckx 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. OpenAI's first hardware product is the $230 Codex Micro macropad by Work Louder (thenewstack.io)
    ×1.70 9 #77 | 3 points by thoughtpeddler 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Collection of Digital Clock Designs (clocks.dev)
    ×1.57 2 #18 | 11 points by levmiseri 32 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. A Trip to 90s Kansai: Exploring the XD FirstClass Network BBS (cdrom.ca)
    ×0.76 15 #37 | 49 points by zetamax 6 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. CVE-2026-59208: Cross-Issuer Account Takeover in n8n (strix.ai)
    ×0.77 2 #58 | 14 points by bearsyankees 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Kilo Code has been acquired by Anaconda (twitter.com/kilocode)
    ×2.30 28 #59 | 9 points by tosh 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: misa77 - a codec that decodes 2x faster than LZ4 (at better ratios) (github.com/welcome-to-the-sunny-side)
    ×1.26 8 #4 | 27 points by nonadhocproblem 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Prioritize mental health, and why communication is so important (ramones.dev)
    ×1.62 6 #8 | 172 points by ramon156 5 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Leet Robotics: Learn robotics and ROS2 with hands-on courses (leetrobotics.com)
    ×2.25 74 #65 | 7 points by deepresearch 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. RL post-training on 14 Macs across 4 countries (pluralis.ai)
    ×0.62 | 2 points by erfan_mhi 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. YouTube and X Have Become 'Gateways' to Nudify Apps (wired.com)
    ×1.41 | 2 points by syed_qutub3 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK (marco-nett.de)
    ×2.34 4 | 385 points by hoechst 1 day ago | 273 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: I Am Hosting Amalia – The First Portuguese LLM (iaamalia.com)
    ×1.02 | 2 points by wbemaker 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Open-source memory for coding agents, synced over SSH (github.com/vshulcz)
    ×0.92 10 #9 | 14 points by vshulcz 50 minutes ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. A General Goal-Conditioned Minecraft Model (pantograph.com)
    ×1.99 19 #16 | 6 points by agajews 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. FreeBSD 16 Retires the Last of Its GPL Code from Its Base System (phoronix.com)
    ×3.32 19 #40 | 10 points by lr0 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. TS-2026-009: Insecure argument handling in Tailscale SSH permitted root access (tailscale.com)
    ×1.27 9 #83 | 202 points by jervant 15 hours ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Greenflash – we read every conversation your AI agent has with users (greenflash.ai)
    ×3.37 36 | 5 points by sailrock 43 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???