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  1. Ask HN: HN frontpage feels boring now?
    ×1.21 13 | 39 points by xeonmc 11 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. non-tech founder + choosing between buying ClaudeCode or CodeX
    ×0.13 | 2 points by virtuallymundo 8 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: How to recover from thin content or de-indexing penalty on Google
    ×0.47 62 | 4 points by anitroves 8 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Would you pay to discuss a book with an official AI clone of its author?
    ×0.65 65 | 4 points by briangao 8 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Where are the good search engines for mathematical formulas?
    ×0.52 79 | 56 points by lo0dot0 4 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Is GitHub preparing to go behind a login wall?
    ×0.68 73 | 55 points by reconnecting 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How you manage local long lived research projects and LLM's?
    ×0.21 86 | 5 points by ripplefringe 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?
    ×1.17 101 | 203 points by yehiaabdelm 6 days ago | 203 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Tell HN: Who wants to be hired" posts outpace "Who's hiring" 2 to 1
    ×1.07 81 | 54 points by santiagobasulto 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. VentureBeat Events in San Francisco?
    ×0.10 | 2 points by BriStoller 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Opinionated Agent Setup?
    ×0.21 100 | 3 points by lookACamel 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2026 [So Far]
    ×0.67 85 | 19 points by AbstractH24 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What are agent sandboxes missing?
    ×0.25 89 | 5 points by oryx1729 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Nginx Vulnerabilities
    ×0.17 | 2 points by finbot 17 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Are systems ready for the first negative leap second?
    ×0.44 135 | 10 points by Asmod4n 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)
    ×1.08 114 | 246 points by whoishiring 1 week ago | 389 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Tell HN: I managed to unsubscribe from Adobe CC without being charged
    ×0.60 113 | 26 points by frereubu 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Why is not using AI considered a form of arrogance?
    ×0.94 80 | 6 points by amichail 14 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)
    ×0.81 122 | 151 points by whoishiring 1 week ago | 521 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. What if users start cloning SaaS using AI
    ×0.58 110 | 7 points by mzubairtahir 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Does Apple not care about fake apps in the App Store?
    ×1.06 91 | 8 points by pentacent_hq 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: How do you keep documentation up to date with AI generated code?
    ×0.53 123 | 5 points by ghosts_ 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Tell HN: Fable is now credits only
    ×0.40 125 | 9 points by teruakohatu 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. I coded a shoot 'em up alone at 18 after learning Lua in a single week
    ×1.45 103 | 11 points by DamixLord 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Since when does Craigslist's front page have emojis?
    ×0.33 139 | 40 points by argee 1 week ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: What is your AI harness that lets you switch LLM models easily?
    ×1.05 112 | 10 points by hbarka 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Another "Hacker News" with less AI and more human-focused hacking news?
    ×3.94 14 | 86 points by weird_trousers 17 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Claude has the worst pricing – but people want it
    ×0.60 131 | 11 points by amukbils 2 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Meta says it's facing $1.4T in penalties in teen mental health case (nypost.com)
    ×3.38 56 | 72 points by NewCzech 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Kinetic – an experimental decentralized naming protocol (github.com/saifmukhtar)
    ×0.96 51 | 3 points by saifmukhtar 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: GolemUI – Declarative Form Engine (golemui.com)
    ×0.80 140 | 53 points by wtfdeveloper 1 week ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Rustify – Stripe and code-signing for native Rust desktop apps (yreh.com)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by ratsimihah 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. The revenge of the philosophy majors (nytimes.com)
    ×1.38 42 | 163 points by benbreen 1 day ago | 263 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. MIRA: Multiplayer Interactive World Models Trained on Rocket League (mira-wm.com)
    ×1.19 13 #32 | 86 points by ethanlipson 11 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Astryx by Facebook: An design system that's customizable and agent ready (github.com/facebook)
    ×0.85 | 1 points by maxloh 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. M64 Controller Review (retrododo.com)
    ×1.24 | 2 points by tosh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: I ran 70 MCP servers in a sandbox and logged what they do (github.com/BhaveshThapar)
    ×2.41 68 | 7 points by bthapar 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Monogram, AI app with on the fly generation (monogram.ai)
    ×2.96 76 | 9 points by edouard1234567 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Close the laptop and Claude keeps going (twitter.com/claudeai)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by kyokoL 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Internationalizationstack – Fix AI Localization Bugs in Claude Code (github.com/i18n-agent)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by lokinkl 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: I built an AI spritesheet generator for game developers (autosprite.io)
    ×1.56 124 | 5 points by autosprite 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Men's average testosterone levels have halved in last 50 years (theguardian.com)
    ×3.79 59 | 76 points by samizdis 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: REST - Living Without Burnout. A manifesto about sustainable discipline (themanifesto.rest)
    ×0.84 | 2 points by dasannikov 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. The UK plans to ban romantic AI chatbots for under-18s (ox.ac.uk)
    ×1.90 12 | 3 points by ilreb 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Maps for e-scooters (hills and battery routing) (battmap.com)
    ×0.74 | 2 points by thepaulthomson 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: SlopWatch - A browser extension to rate webpages with AI content (google.com)
    ×1.88 67 | 4 points by HademLeFashie 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Plagiarism.Free – Free Plagiarism Checker (plagiarism.free)
    ×1.48 126 | 4 points by nadermx 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Ask HN: How long has it been since you last opened Stack Overflow?
    ×0.60 | 1 points by novoreorx 32 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Ask HK: Does it feel like the top models routinely dismiss your opinion/advice?
    ×0.53 | 1 points by bridgettegraham 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes (bbc.com)
    ×3.45 10 | 348 points by randycupertino 1 day ago | 475 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. GAO: DOE Is Prematurely Excluding Less Expensive Options for Nuclear Cleanup (gao.gov)
    ×1.34 4 | 274 points by Jimmc414 1 day ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Fast, native Mac file manager (filters, fuzzy find, 9 MB, no Electron) (whimfiles.com)
    ×1.21 72 | 98 points by whimbyte 2 days ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: I built 38-0, a Premier League draft game with a Poisson match engine (38-0.pro)
    ×2.18 66 | 5 points by rankinzheng 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. TypeScript 7 (microsoft.com)
    ×4.92 13 #30 | 641 points by DanRosenwasser 19 hours ago | 256 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Mistral's Robostral Navigate: a state of the art robotics navigation model (mistral.ai)
    ×2.06 8 #37 | 468 points by ottomengis 21 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. GPT-5.6 Sol, along with Terra and Luna, will launch publicly this Thursday (twitter.com/OpenAI)
    ×4.38 6 | 235 points by jfrbfbreudh 1 day ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Tiny data centre used to heat public swimming pool (bbc.com)
    ×1.98 17 | 71 points by breitling 22 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Benchmarking coding agents on Databricks' multi-million line codebase (databricks.com)
    ×1.20 9 #16 | 106 points by tanelpoder 9 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. A bug which affected only left handed users (shkspr.mobi)
    ×1.00 21 #42 | 122 points by sixhobbits 17 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Limiting web server bandwidth the brute force way (utoronto.ca)
    ×1.17 | 2 points by 1317 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Couldn't find a complete Codenames Generator so I make one (codenames-generator-bay.vercel.app)
    ×0.79 | 2 points by tnus 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Unicode's transliteration rules are Turing-complete (seriot.ch)
    ×1.08 18 #21 | 110 points by beefburger 12 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Why some people are more bothered by low-frequency sounds (norwegianscitechnews.com)
    ×0.80 | 1 points by giuliomagnifico 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Mark Zuckerberg's biggest legal nightmare yet could cost Meta $1.4T (the-independent.com)
    ×6.33 45 | 166 points by wrxd 1 day ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Atelier - open source, honest 30% savings on Claude code. (github.com/atelier-ws)
    ×0.78 | 2 points by pankaj4u4m 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Skill-extractor turns coding agent transcripts into reusable skills (github.com/surenode-ai)
    ×1.68 90 | 4 points by chand249 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Parchmint – a Markdown editor that shows what the AI actually reads (parchmint.app)
    ×0.53 | 2 points by mazheru 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Codex-profiles – isolated Codex CLI/Desktop profiles (ducksss.github.io)
    ×1.35 120 | 4 points by chaipinzheng 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Entire police department relieved of duty in West Virginia town (thehill.com)
    ×1.56 | 2 points by robtherobber 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. If Microsoft sold off Xbox, who would even buy it? (theverge.com)
    ×1.27 | 2 points by haunter 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: InstantVideos.org – short documentaries in ~30 seconds (instantvideos.org)
    ×0.88 104 | 26 points by pw 2 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Cloudflare Meerkat - Globally distributed consensus (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.46 12 #68 | 248 points by bobnamob 22 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. What's new in biology: July 2026 (worksinprogress.news)
    ×0.81 | 1 points by duffycommaryan 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: I Built LangGraph for Swift (github.com/christopherkarani)
    ×0.75 117 | 25 points by christkarani 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. XTX Markets Launches UK Dynamism Fund (ukdynamism.fund)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by hendzen 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Free and OSS way to extend client-facing functionality of Linear (linear.gratis)
    ×1.05 74 | 3 points by gvlachos 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. 30papers.com – Ilya's 30 essential ML papers, in a beginner friendly format (30papers.com)
    ×3.27 18 | 629 points by notmcrowley 1 day ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Remote Attestation (liamcvw.com)
    ×0.93 5 #31 | 102 points by lcvw 11 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. TabFont – guitar tabs rendered as you type (philatype.com)
    ×0.92 47 #47 | 91 points by ChrisArchitect 21 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: A LinkedIn / X CLI for your agents (usesocial.dev)
    ×1.53 129 | 4 points by knrz 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: zkGolf – Competitive optimization of formally verified circuits (zk.golf)
    ×0.61 132 | 69 points by rot256 6 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Backlog – tasks and contexts manager for AI coding agents (github.com/mazen160)
    ×1.04 134 | 4 points by mazen160 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time (streetcomplete.app)
    ×3.07 10 #76 | 813 points by kls0e 1 day ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Relm – local LLMs as base-R objects, with interpretability (github.com/Vadale)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by grauk 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. I think I have LLM burnout (alecscollon.com)
    ×4.27 52 #58 | 348 points by sosodev 9 hours ago | 283 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Apple to increase spend with Broadcom to produce billions more U.S. chips (apple.com)
    ×1.79 3 #60 | 289 points by soheilpro 1 day ago | 229 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Cyrinx (36kbps Acoustic Transport) (cyrinx.org)
    ×1.82 70 | 5 points by dweekly 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Cargo-nextest: 3x faster than cargo test, per-test isolation, first-class CI (nexte.st)
    ×1.29 9 #10 | 122 points by nateb2022 9 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Dua Lipa opens library for banned and censored books in Portugal (euronews.com)
    ×3.27 20 | 305 points by pax 1 day ago | 255 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Automate Excel with Python: From manual grind to one-click workflow (nostarch.com)
    ×0.59 56 #89 | 54 points by teleforce 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???