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  1. Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?
    ×1.64 43 #37 | 149 points by yehiaabdelm 23 hours ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Fable 5. Safety Taken to an Extreme
    ×1.46 9 | 4 points by sergeysmirnov 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Where can I find or get in contact with farmers specifically in the US?
    ×0.44 | 2 points by strapchay 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)
    ×1.08 62 | 240 points by whoishiring 2 days ago | 301 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Since when does Craigslist's front page have emojis?
    ×0.35 82 | 39 points by argee 3 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)
    ×0.82 75 | 147 points by whoishiring 2 days ago | 431 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. How many failed startups have you launched?
    ×0.59 63 | 17 points by steelebillings 19 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Tell HN: Fewer PRs done with proper prompting, review, and refinement wins
    ×0.78 84 | 6 points by tomerbd 14 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. AI Is Boring
    ×1.10 66 | 8 points by sverp 13 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. SponsorBlock Critical Security Vulnerabilities
    ×0.56 107 | 3 points by IDIRIS 13 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Why are so many "AI evangelists" posting such insufferable content?
    ×1.80 72 | 55 points by seattle_spring 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Claude Fable is useless for bioinformaticians
    ×1.58 83 | 6 points by iqbal1980 14 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Well it's been 3 years of unemployment and $250k in debt
    ×1.70 102 | 5 points by buffer_overlord 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Cadreen – memory, governance, self-healing, and execution as one system
    ×1.14 77 | 5 points by ope_john 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. An AI Koan
    ×0.52 | 2 points by rcanand2025 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What did you fail at and what did you learn from it?
    ×1.90 69 | 7 points by basilikum 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Tell HN: Old Reddit now requires login
    ×3.04 92 | 85 points by jay_kyburz 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Tell HN: Installing Cursor on iOS irreversibly changes your privacy settings
    ×1.91 78 | 247 points by zkldi 3 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. How do you test institutional (or algo) trades under real market conditions?
    ×0.35 | 2 points by TradingReality 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Procrastination with AI?
    ×0.84 117 | 3 points by caprock 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Getting Rid of Scrolling
    ×0.50 | 2 points by matteosaporiti 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Possible issue impacting AWS Cloudwatch logs availability?
    ×0.45 | 2 points by merek 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Seattle Just Had an Earthquake
    ×0.57 130 | 13 points by tobinfekkes 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. I'm opening VSCode less and less every day
    ×1.49 127 | 21 points by othmanosx 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Once you make your money from vibe coding innumerable products, then?
    ×0.38 137 | 3 points by keepamovin 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: How do you get your open-source product good traction?
    ×0.78 131 | 5 points by akarshhegde18 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Where is the programming profession going?
    ×1.06 136 | 165 points by syntaxbush 1 week ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Secure wrapper for coding agents?
    ×0.32 138 | 20 points by rjzzleep 3 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Burned out, how do I get out of the rut?
    ×0.77 129 | 7 points by brandgefahr 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Rust sort_unstable_by with more complex closure unexpectedly shrunk binary
    ×0.36 135 | 6 points by tracyspacy 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: ChatGPT Go Plan
    ×0.67 | 2 points by czeizel 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. AskHN: Using 'claude -p' for running Mr.Jassy - AWS butler agent
    ×0.18 | 2 points by anoop_kumar 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Reducing AI costs with smart pricing
    ×0.26 | 2 points by millereffect 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Diseconomies of scale in fraud, spam, support, and moderation (danluu.com)
    ×1.60 | 2 points by Liriel 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies (clashreport.com)
    ×5.76 26 | 725 points by mgh2 1 day ago | 296 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: I measured the half-life of 41,301 Show HN launches. It's 7 hours (jonno.nz)
    ×2.00 101 | 34 points by jonnonz 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Emra – A workspace where every app you build shares one db (emra.app)
    ×1.52 114 | 3 points by thejarren 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: BlackStork – render cybersecurity reports directly from structured data (blackstork.io)
    ×0.39 | 2 points by Traut 15 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Vublox Agent Tools, MCP server for live football scores and players (github.com/Vublox)
    ×0.45 | 2 points by whoopidi 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: An assertion library for E2E testing and real user monitoring (github.com/Faultsense)
    ×3.44 96 | 8 points by mitchm 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Applied Category Theory Course (2018) (ucr.edu)
    ×1.18 11 #23 | 109 points by measurablefunc 12 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Instagram running ads promoting child sexual abuse material in India, BBC finds (bbc.co.uk)
    ×0.78 | 1 points by shrikant 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. LiteOne V3 – A 12KB Zero-Build framework aiming for strict CSP security (github.com/reflexmanofficial)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by RelfexMan 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Yep, we're using OpenClaw to date now (techcrunch.com)
    ×1.84 14 | 3 points by TMWNN 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. The bottleneck might be the air in the room (mikebowler.ca)
    ×3.10 #1 | 201 points by gslin 3 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Performance per dollar is getting faster and cheaper (wafer.ai)
    ×1.88 6 #3 | 241 points by latchkey 11 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Windows Auto Profiles – WinGet wrapper that adds app profiles (github.com/lahcim)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by lahcim2000 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. U.S. officials believed Israel was plotting to kill Iranian negotiators (nytimes.com)
    ×10.24 34 | 122 points by MilnerRoute 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: ctx – Search the coding agent history already on your machine (github.com/ctxrs)
    ×1.05 3 | 65 points by luca-ctx 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Since Linux 6.9, LUKS suspend stopped wiping disk-encryption keys from memory (mathstodon.xyz)
    ×2.02 3 #76 | 528 points by IngoBlechschmid 1 day ago | 221 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Forge – A JavaScript runtime built on Mozilla SpiderMonkey (github.com/varadTheDeveloper)
    ×2.47 54 | 3 points by opentestudox 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Pull Claude Code transcripts into your Codex session, and vice versa (contextify.sh)
    ×0.98 79 | 7 points by bredren 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. EOL DR / End-of-Life Disaster Response (github.com/potatoqualitee)
    ×0.85 | 1 points by chris_wot 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. EFF letter to FTC on X consent order [pdf] (eff.org)
    ×1.05 29 | 149 points by Terretta 1 day ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Mlx-serve – LLM inference server for Apple Silicon, written in Zig (mlxserve.com)
    ×0.80 | 2 points by ddalcu 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Static Site Generator (github.com/MTBBK)
    ×0.70 | 2 points by MTBBK 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Borrowed Confidence (zhavaedhaemaed.substack.com)
    ×0.80 | 1 points by vismit2000 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't (schueller.net)
    ×4.44 53 | 531 points by talonx 1 day ago | 428 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Opbox – CRDT based sync for text files on disk (opbox.dev)
    ×0.95 65 | 10 points by sensodine 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Infracost (YC W21) Is Hiring a Marketing Lead to Shift FinOps Left (ycombinator.com)
    12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Origin Myth Map-creation myths of civilizations on a world map (sunnyguha.com)
    ×1.67 104 | 5 points by sol0invictus 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Theta-spec harness agnostic config surface (github.com/tamarillo-ai)
    ×1.52 76 | 5 points by ivanbelenky 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Superpowers 6 (fsck.com)
    ×1.49 24 #80 | 187 points by seahorseemoji 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Most House Mice Tested Now Carry Mutations That Beat Common Rodent Poison (studyfinds.com)
    ×0.54 | 2 points by mdp2021 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Pieces – Social network for people (piecesof.me)
    ×0.62 25 | 60 points by domo__knows 2 days ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Ultracodex – Run Claude Ultracode Dynamic Workflows with Codex Agents (github.com/YuanpingSong)
    ×0.77 121 | 3 points by yuansong 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. From flocks to pyramids: Balancing self-organization and architecture (youtube.com)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by RebootStr 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: WhosBuilt terminal lookup for who built a website (whosbuilt.com)
    ×1.38 | 2 points by hboon 44 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. The primary purpose of code review is to find code that will be hard to maintain (mathstodon.xyz)
    ×2.78 8 | 375 points by ColinWright 1 day ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Farmer, marketer at odds over sales of white nectarines (apnews.com)
    ×2.08 42 | 115 points by djoldman 15 hours ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Inkwell – An RSS reader for e-ink devices (kendal.codeberg.page)
    ×0.93 56 | 72 points by imkendal 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Online Recipe Card Editor (sunnyshorescreative.com)
    ×0.96 | 2 points by bobblywobbles 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Commodore 64 Basic for PostgreSQL (thombrown.blogspot.com)
    ×0.73 51 #59 | 69 points by hans_castorp 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Autosynth – generating synthetic data with strong/weak model filtering (github.com/Ahmad8864)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by ahmadbabdallah 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Reverse-engineering Codemasters' BIGF archive format in Ruby (davidslv.uk)
    ×0.67 46 #22 | 18 points by davidslv 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Bhopal's '90-degree' bridge turns out to bend 118 degrees (2025) (organiser.org)
    ×0.90 | 1 points by Tomte 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle (tailscale.com)
    ×0.70 | 2 points by Quizzical4230 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Topics, Not Feeds (blogsreader.com)
    ×0.69 70 | 8 points by jdeibele 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Pulse v0.2.0
    ×0.80 93 | 4 points by xerrs 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Openleetcode – Run LeetCode solutions locally with open tests (github.com/therepanic)
    ×0.46 | 2 points by therepanic 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Markets are competitive if and only if P != NP (arxiv.org)
    ×2.31 63 | 223 points by kscarlet 17 hours ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. No LLM Code in Dependencies (joeyh.name)
    ×2.42 51 | 120 points by edward 1 day ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: GeoSpoof – your VPN hides your IP, but the browser leaks your location (geospoof.com)
    ×4.52 105 | 16 points by sgro 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Virginia bans sale of precise geolocation data (hunton.com)
    ×3.71 59 | 941 points by toomuchtodo 1 day ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Giant trees have no trouble pumping water to top branches: new research (exeter.ac.uk)
    ×1.27 4 #6 | 195 points by hhs 10 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: A statically typed, cross-platform, easily bootstrappable build system (github.com/rochus-keller)
    ×0.49 25 #32 | 33 points by Rochus 8 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Dispersion loss counteracts embedding condensation in small language models (chenliu-1996.github.io)
    ×0.73 46 #35 | 34 points by E-Reverance 10 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. XMM-Newton helps revise distance to outer spiral arms (esa.int)
    ×1.35 70 #73 | 7 points by layer8 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Kagi Changelog (July 2): Heads, tails, and an AI toggle (kagi.com)
    ×1.49 9 #79 | 62 points by mroche 13 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: I built LibreYOLO, an MIT-licensed YOLO library (github.com/LibreYOLO)
    ×1.34 | 2 points by Xuban 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???