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  1. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
    ×1.23 83 #45 | 245 points by david927 1 day ago | 953 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Should I do a CS masters at Cambridge or start as a new grad at Amazon?
    ×0.55 69 #84 | 13 points by sspehr 8 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles
    ×6.08 61 | 1012 points by levkk 1 day ago | 438 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Why does Chrome use 100+ mb of memory per tab?
    ×2.36 21 | 4 points by Uptrenda 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How has the software industry changed for you personally?
    ×3.35 52 | 5 points by brindidrip 31 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: How do you troubleshoot desktop Linux crashes/freezes?
    ×0.74 79 | 3 points by Curiositry 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What are your personal websites?
    ×2.14 26 | 8 points by basilikum 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What is the one YouTube channel you recommend I subscribe to?
    ×1.84 2 | 3 points by chirau 54 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: AI Agent and harness containerization/security recommendations
    ×0.56 | 2 points by dv35z 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What are the best free ePub books to read?
    ×1.74 44 | 4 points by smalltorch 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Web Client SDK
    ×0.31 | 2 points by atoapaymentsapp 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. What's the first thing you look up when evaluating a company?
    ×0.33 | 2 points by salleisha 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Claudio? Why we need and open source Claude
    ×0.96 102 | 3 points by torrmal 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What makes someone good at using Claude Code?
    ×0.43 106 | 3 points by Paarthmj 7 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Finitude of Knowledge
    ×0.27 | 2 points by Abhishek000001 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How do you see 3D Gaussian Splats could be used in industry?
    ×0.68 105 | 4 points by jesseandringa 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Tell HN: Staged NPM publishing is awful
    ×0.32 130 | 3 points by electrovir 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How do you use Vim in the era of AI?
    ×0.92 140 | 48 points by rstagi 3 days ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How do you use LLMs for private discussions?
    ×0.66 134 | 11 points by emerongi 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Does appearance matter more than we admit as founders?
    ×1.20 78 | 5 points by jmaha 6 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Let's talk about: LinkedIn ghost jobs
    ×0.49 129 | 14 points by xvxvx 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Why isn't Google indexing information about the AT Protocol?
    ×0.91 131 | 49 points by iameli 2 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Anthropic extends Fable 5 access through July 19
    ×0.34 144 | 4 points by dboreham 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Agave runs simulateTransaction synchronously on its shared RPC executor pool
    ×0.46 | 2 points by simonmorley 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. What's the best Roblox scrpit Delta or others
    ×0.50 | 2 points by uussbblbigbois 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. How does a Dev's job look like in a few years?
    ×0.66 139 | 11 points by korrak 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Omarchy 4 concerns, am I the only one?
    ×0.60 123 | 4 points by shivc 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Resources for non-web software architecture?
    ×0.72 148 | 4 points by xqb64 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Tell HN: I De-Googled Myself
    ×1.10 142 | 37 points by degoogled 3 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: What Did You Work On? (June 2026)
    ×0.49 132 | 3 points by adithyaharish 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Would filesystem bookmarks be useful in your shell workflow?
    ×0.38 145 | 4 points by manux81 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Has AI changed the quality of HN posts?
    ×0.79 138 | 7 points by codingbuddy 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Tell HN: Fable guardrails trigger on random questions
    ×0.83 146 | 7 points by nocoder 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. AI and the Fall of Writing
    ×0.27 149 | 3 points by Flundstrom2 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Whats the Hardest Challenges in AI?
    ×0.59 147 | 4 points by debpalash 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: How do you review AI code?
    ×0.40 143 | 6 points by wonderfuly 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Skillscript – A declarative, sandboxed language for tool orchestration (github.com/sshwarts)
    ×0.47 135 | 17 points by sshwarts 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Scams Were Awful. Then They Got AI (rstreet.org)
    ×1.59 87 #61 | 3 points by antondd 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Unauthenticated RCE in Motorola's MR2600 Router (mrbruh.com)
    ×0.86 94 | 82 points by MrBruh 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: GrindProof – accountability app that roasts your plan-vs-reality gap (grindproof.co)
    ×0.40 | 2 points by Codefred 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: We are giving away $100K > over the next 12 months to hack AI agents (fabraix.com)
    ×1.81 109 | 4 points by ibrahim_abdu777 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Woman in Brazil enslaved for 55 years by 3 generations of the same family (elpais.com)
    ×5.49 75 | 160 points by RetroTechie 1 day ago | 237 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Why are US consumers so angry? It's not just high prices (theguardian.com)
    ×5.52 95 | 124 points by dilawar 1 day ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. World-First 'Super Alloy' Could Transform the Way Metals Are Made (sciencealert.com)
    ×1.74 35 #9 | 18 points by tejohnso 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Former NOAA employees built Climate.us to preserve climate data and resources (19thnews.org)
    ×4.62 33 #35 | 455 points by benwerd 6 hours ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Mechanistic interpretability researchers applying causality theory to LLMs (acm.org)
    ×0.98 71 | 113 points by adunk 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Go-Flavored Concurrency in C (antonz.org)
    ×1.41 | 60 points by ibobev 10 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Web App Uses RTL-SDR to Align HDTV Antenna (tunerscope.com)
    ×2.32 136 | 7 points by robotastic 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Lobste.rs is now running on SQLite (lobste.rs)
    ×3.94 28 | 6 points by y1n0 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Cyberpunk Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels (shellzine.net)
    ×1.49 20 | 292 points by zdw 1 day ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Why study Diophantine equations? (hidden-phenomena.com)
    ×0.78 92 | 75 points by mb1699 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Long term memory cortex for agents that maintains tensions (github.com/mavaali)
    ×1.03 | 2 points by mavaali 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Ghostel.el: Terminal emulator powered by libghostty (dakra.github.io)
    ×1.98 60 | 295 points by signa11 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. A Hitchhiker's Guide on Distributed Training of Deep Neural Networks (2020) (sciencedirect.com)
    ×1.13 | 2 points by measurablefunc 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Satellite Tracker – Live Map of Starlink and 30k Satellites (satellitemap.space)
    ×1.52 56 #12 | 4 points by rolph 51 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Collaboration Networks in Brazilian Computer Science (ptidej.net)
    ×0.49 55 #55 | 11 points by aliiiimaher 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Viability Torus Lab (chatgpt.site)
    ×1.08 | 2 points by CitizenOfEarth 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. The social physics of conversation: Communication patterns matter (andiroberts.com)
    ×1.02 47 #66 | 162 points by kiyanwang 21 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Melodusk – AI Music Generator and music tools in the browser (melodusk.ai)
    ×1.28 | 2 points by akseli_ukkonen 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Turn your singing voice into printable notes (in the browser) (om-intelligence.ch)
    ×1.35 17 #11 | 20 points by busssard 2 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. What did SFFA vs. Harvard reveal about admissions? (sorting-machine.pages.dev)
    ×1.36 1 #20 | 23 points by StrageMusik 2 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Boom? If AI Sales in the US Go South, Let's Not Bail Out Big Money Bettors (nationalmemo.com)
    ×3.99 15 #56 | 7 points by baranul 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. The real prices of frontier models (playcode.io)
    ×1.65 69 | 149 points by ianberdin 8 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. xAI's Grok Build CLI Uploads Git Repositories to a Google Cloud Bucket (internationalcyberdigest.com)
    ×3.84 49 | 96 points by svoice 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. LARP – Revenue infrastructure for serious founders (larp.website)
    ×2.01 41 | 315 points by BerislavLopac 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: 18 Words (18words.com)
    ×4.24 84 | 1152 points by pompomsheep 4 days ago | 363 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Counting ArXiv Delays (fi-le.net)
    ×0.54 54 #83 | 36 points by fi-le 12 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: The New Cyborgs Don't Have Implants (bulaev.net)
    ×1.09 | 2 points by sbulaev 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Count Binface (countbinface.com)
    ×6.97 12 | 332 points by mooreds 22 hours ago | 288 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. AI Model Co-Design: Hardware-Friendly LLM Design (nvidia.com)
    ×1.12 | 2 points by ashvardanian 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. How to read more books (scotto.me)
    ×3.04 10 | 533 points by silcoon 1 day ago | 285 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Don't you mean extinct? (fabiensanglard.net)
    ×1.68 59 | 213 points by zdw 1 day ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. TFTP Honey Pot Results (bruceediger.com)
    ×0.82 35 #24 | 59 points by speckx 7 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Samsung Health app threatens data deletion if users opt out AI training (neow.in)
    ×3.84 30 #33 | 285 points by bundie 6 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Backtrack-Free Cursive (mmapped.blog)
    ×1.47 30 #52 | 252 points by dmit 20 hours ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Zig creator calls Bun's Claude Rust rewrite 'unreviewed slop' (theregister.com)
    ×5.20 7 | 9 points by joebuckwilliams 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Understanding the Odin programming language (odinbook.com)
    ×1.26 72 | 160 points by AlexeyBrin 1 day ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Kode Dot Programmable pocket device for makers, pentesters and geeks (kode.diy)
    ×0.93 64 | 124 points by iNic 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Nihonpost – I parsed Japan Post's KEN_ALL.CSV so you don't have to (github.com/Thiya11)
    ×1.71 81 | 3 points by kitsunechaos 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. A Trip to 90s Kansai: Exploring the XD FirstClass Network BBS (cdrom.ca)
    ×1.31 89 #36 | 3 points by zetamax 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: BillAI Bass, an AI-Powered Big Mouth Billy Bass Using Strands Agents (github.com/morganwilliscloud)
    ×0.92 27 #39 | 61 points by mtw14 8 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. The Political Economy of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (osf.io)
    ×1.66 56 | 3 points by gmays 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Grok CLI uploaded the whole home directory to GCS (twitter.com/a_green_being)
    ×4.04 71 | 381 points by denysvitali 13 hours ago | 392 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Tiny Emulators (floooh.github.io)
    ×1.56 24 | 329 points by naves 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Signal Analysis – a Claude Skill for reading news like an analyst (github.com/Vadiml1024)
    ×0.50 | 2 points by vadiml 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. The AI Whale Fall and Open Source (minor.gripe)
    ×1.40 38 #31 | 14 points by ai_critic 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Every man a VC - On public deep-tech startups (msolom.substack.com)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by msolomentsev 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Meta on course to become America's next big cloud provider (theregister.com)
    ×1.10 | 2 points by galaxyLogic 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Sqlsure – deterministic semantic checks for AI-generated SQL (github.com/sqlsure)
    ×0.93 133 | 43 points by tejusarora 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese (jivx.com)
    ×1.75 2 #34 | 348 points by momentmaker 15 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???