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  1. Ask HN: What Is the State of App Development in 2026?
    ×1.06 3 | 87 points by karakoram 22 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What are your worst war stories bringing agentic applications into prod
    ×0.60 53 | 8 points by yaoke259 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: How you pass legacy to others?
    ×0.53 57 | 5 points by jojwong 9 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. I made an free unlimited captcha alternative
    ×0.80 65 | 4 points by david3289 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Any advice on how to learn good software architecture practices?
    ×0.22 90 | 14 points by jimsojim 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: If I cancel Codex today whats the next best local inference agent?
    ×0.28 97 | 10 points by Bulbasaur2015 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What Is an "AI Engineer"?
    ×0.27 100 | 18 points by seattle_spring 2 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Does Claude Code remove the need for so many front-end frameworks?
    ×0.31 111 | 10 points by ex-aws-dude 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Students, What Impact Is AI Having on Your Education?
    ×0.69 77 | 5 points by ciwolex 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: How is your org managing PR review load as AI multiplies code output?
    ×0.32 94 | 9 points by meteor333 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. FYI: Dreamina is shady; do not use
    ×0.24 108 | 5 points by ronyeh 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro?
    ×1.14 86 | 153 points by widenrun 5 days ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: How do you feel about posts about GenAI taking over the HN front page?
    ×0.35 112 | 13 points by blenderob 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HK: How are you building AI apps today?
    ×0.26 102 | 7 points by Mnexium 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: I found out that I'm about to be laid off. How do people find jobs?
    ×0.97 95 | 25 points by wwwthrowaway256 2 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Garnix, the Nix CI, is shutting down
    ×0.34 113 | 12 points by cinericius 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Train 1T parameter LLM with 8 GPUs?
    ×0.13 159 | 3 points by kendy1992 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Why not have an EU browser?
    ×0.25 138 | 7 points by osigurdson 3 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Sqlit – A lazygit-style TUI for SQL databases
    ×0.30 137 | 20 points by MaxTeabag 5 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. A disk-first C++ vector engine
    ×0.15 146 | 4 points by saeedq 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Parallel Reconstruction of Lawful TLS Wiretapping (remyhax.xyz)
    ×1.03 26 #30 | 114 points by jerrythegerbil 18 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. The Self-Evolving Model Router (vdf.ai)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by suhaselcuk 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Openrsync: An implementation of rsync, by the OpenBSD team (github.com/kristapsdz)
    ×2.42 14 #21 | 443 points by sph 1 day ago | 161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Telli (YC F24) is hiring in engineering, design, and GTM [Berlin, on-site] (telli.com)
    6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Werner Herzog in conversation with Paul Cronin (2014) (fsgworkinprogress.com)
    ×0.79 40 #53 | 83 points by Michelangelo11 21 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. An Elephant Who Demonstrated That Her Species Might Be Self-Aware, Dies at 55 (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×2.15 49 #54 | 34 points by pseudolus 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Desire for privacy is slowly killing this symbol of the American Dream (washingtonpost.com)
    ×0.83 | 1 points by wallflower 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Gaia Atlas – Local Stellar Map (valhovey.github.io)
    ×1.19 103 | 6 points by speleo 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Mechanical Pencil: An illustrated celebration of the engineering around us (mechanical-pencil.com)
    ×2.16 14 #18 | 120 points by Muhammad523 13 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Microsoft 0-day feud escalates as researcher threatens another exploit dump (theregister.com)
    ×4.21 14 | 270 points by Cider9986 1 day ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: I brought back Airbnb categories (vibebnb.fyi)
    ×1.79 101 | 6 points by giulioco 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Bootstrap a team of coding agents from a template, OSS (github.com/awebai)
    ×0.24 156 | 3 points by juanre 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. UA flight – 'turn Bluetooth off or we're turning around' (reddit.com)
    ×4.72 21 #69 | 79 points by slackpad 12 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Let's compile Quake like it's 1997 (fabiensanglard.net)
    ×1.72 57 #83 | 223 points by goranmoomin 2 days ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12 (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×2.09 8 | 387 points by watermelon0 1 day ago | 630 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Cheese Paper: a text editor specifically designed for writing (brie.gay)
    ×1.45 8 #28 | 130 points by sohkamyung 15 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. AI job grief: A psychological crisis hitting tech workers (jackmaguire.org)
    ×3.71 11 #55 | 169 points by LilBytes 23 hours ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Macsurf, "modern" web browser for macOS 9 (github.com/mplsllc)
    ×1.47 43 #68 | 125 points by gattilorenz 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Dynamic Workflows in Claude Code (claude.com)
    ×1.41 79 #74 | 189 points by mil22 2 days ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. What It Takes to Preserve Floppy Disks (ieee.org)
    ×0.83 50 #85 | 93 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Mid-size local models are now competitive for AI Agents (medium.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by sfifs 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Hey Database Go Ffffine tune yourself (maxdemarzi.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by maxdemarzi 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. A Gentle Introduction to Lattice-Based Cryptography [pdf] (cryptography101.ca)
    ×1.07 19 #8 | 115 points by jayhoon 11 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. The S in Interoperability (frederikbraun.de)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by conslit 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Free WordPress plugin that removes unused CSS (wordpress.org)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by hamzamairaj 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Algebraic Effects for the Rest of Us (overreacted.io)
    ×1.06 48 #75 | 103 points by satvikpendem 1 day ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. I found a seashell in the middle of the desert (github.com/Hawzen)
    ×2.13 16 #9 | 364 points by Hawzen 19 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Open-Source AI Racing Harness (elodin.systems)
    ×0.58 81 | 75 points by danAtElodin 3 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Ego lite – why our browser agent writes JavaScript not CLI commands (github.com/CitroLabs)
    ×4.81 73 | 12 points by Nicole9 21 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: An update to our long-turn FreeCiv experience (andrewmcgrath.info)
    ×0.75 154 | 5 points by verelo 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Dav2d (jbkempf.com)
    ×3.14 #1 | 172 points by captain_bender 2 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. 86Box v6.0 (86box.net)
    ×2.17 23 #36 | 35 points by chungy 9 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. AI is causing a crisis of agency (theatlantic.com)
    ×0.84 | 1 points by fortran77 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. The Impact of AI-Assisted Development on Software Security (arxiv.org)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by lucamark 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Liquid AI reveals 8B-A1B MoE trained on 38T (liquid.ai)
    ×1.61 26 | 242 points by simjnd 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: I made an emergency page for my family (delduca.org)
    ×0.71 85 | 82 points by delduca 3 days ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Fungible – A local personal finance app in the terminal (github.com/tomfunk)
    ×1.09 123 | 29 points by tomfunk 5 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. United Airlines 767 Returns to Newark After Bluetooth Name Sparks Alert (simpleflying.com)
    ×3.83 9 #14 | 25 points by Eridanus2 1 hour ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Beacon CLI for self-hosted monitoring, remote access and deployments (github.com/Bajusz15)
    ×1.04 130 | 7 points by matebajusz 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Sweetpad – VS Code extension for building iOS/Swift apps (github.com/sweetpad-dev)
    ×2.02 149 | 7 points by hyzyla 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Rotary GPU: Exploring Local Execution for Large MoE Models Under Limited VRAM (arxiv.org)
    ×0.87 51 #56 | 39 points by dryarzeg 16 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Zig: Build System Reworked (ziglang.org)
    ×1.88 16 #35 | 355 points by tosh 1 day ago | 239 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Design Engineering Magazine (interfaces.dev)
    ×1.33 16 #52 | 91 points by hnhsh 17 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. China and EU on brink of trade war (brusselstimes.com)
    ×3.77 71 | 5 points by vrganj 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. wolfSSL releases a new product; wolfCOSE a zero alloc C embbedded COSE stack (github.com/wolfSSL)
    ×0.84 29 #32 | 100 points by aidangarske 17 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. TaskPaper Reference (taskpaper.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by ankitg12 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Reassign – a 24-hour dial for planning your day (reassign.app)
    ×2.01 127 | 8 points by smuk3c 3 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. The Kaiser and a "Mediocre Man" Theory of History (deadcarl.com)
    ×1.27 45 #73 | 88 points by baud147258 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: I found a prompt injection in my own IDs triage tool – what stopped it (triagewall.io)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by aaronphifer 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Zot – Yet another coding agent harness (zot.sh)
    ×1.15 54 | 98 points by patriceckhart 2 days ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Volt – front end tooling for Phoenix that runs inside the BEAM (github.com/elixir-volt)
    ×1.31 136 | 25 points by dannote 6 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Commodore OS Basic V2 – Introduction (commodoreos.net)
    ×1.40 | 2 points by amichail 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: NvEnvy – A Notational Velocity (NvAlt) Reboot in Swift. OSS (github.com/kenm47)
    ×0.58 133 | 3 points by hank2000 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Tunnel.to – dead simple localhost reverse tunnels (tunnel.to)
    ×2.40 128 | 7 points by StuntPope 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Octopus Energy meter and billing dashboard with EV charging (github.com/macsmax)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by macsmax 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Ask HN: Corporate Disconnect Between "Tokenmaxxing" and Token Optimization
    ×0.82 | 1 points by mc-0 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Researchers teach brain cells to play 'Doom' (phys.org)
    ×0.82 | 1 points by shikaan 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. EV Stupidity Checklist (hypercritical.co)
    ×4.57 46 | 112 points by pchristensen 1 day ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Rsync 3.4.3 has hundreds of Claude commits (gamedev.place)
    ×6.86 21 | 108 points by fooker 1 day ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Libfyaml adds a YAML/JSON parse cache; 427 MB reloads in 36 ms (github.com/pantoniou)
    ×0.97 158 | 3 points by fypanto 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Jef Raskin, the Visionary Behind the Mac (2013) (lowendmac.com)
    ×0.86 28 #34 | 110 points by tylerdane 18 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance' (bloomberg.com)
    ×4.94 23 | 272 points by leopoldj 1 day ago | 506 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. The California state assembly has passed the 'Protect Our Games Act' (invenglobal.com)
    ×2.25 17 | 256 points by TechTechTech 1 day ago | 268 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: I built an Android OS in the browser (mobilegym.dev)
    ×1.81 72 | 27 points by haozaz 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Game Boy pixel pipeline explorer (pixelpipeline.xyz)
    ×2.22 124 | 14 points by blueblazin 4 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. The 2026-07-28 MCP Specification Release Candidate (modelcontextprotocol.io)
    ×1.20 | 2 points by gmays 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. On Rendering Diffs (pierre.computer)
    ×1.42 38 #81 | 205 points by amadeus 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. The Last Technical Interview (medium.com)
    ×2.07 15 | 256 points by headalgorithm 1 day ago | 258 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. White House's Aliens.gov Site Brags That ICE Arrested More Than 700 US Citizens (wired.com)
    ×8.41 18 | 51 points by hydrolox 19 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: VT Code – open-source terminal coding agent in Rust (github.com/vinhnx)
    ×0.83 80 | 16 points by vinhnx 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???