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  1. Ask HN: Why about a third of the submissions become dead in mere minutes?
    ×0.41 29 | 6 points by g-b-r 4 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: How are you staying productive using LLMs?
    ×0.49 66 | 3 points by thallavajhula 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?
    ×1.27 96 | 196 points by yehiaabdelm 2 days ago | 195 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tell HN: don't trust Bigco AI agents with AI research IP
    ×1.66 24 | 17 points by botencat 5 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What do you do with the user guide of the universe?
    ×0.28 | 2 points by KenographerPrim 5 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: How to get a non-technical friend into tech?
    ×0.50 74 | 4 points by yesitcan 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Would you trust encryption at the mobile keyboard layer?
    ×0.85 101 | 3 points by dkatsura 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Why are the upvote arrows so small?
    ×0.68 106 | 3 points by guilhermeasper 8 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What metrics do you track when building agents?
    ×0.15 | 2 points by rstagi 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: How Do You "Not Write Any Code by Hand" with a Token Budget?
    ×0.67 111 | 3 points by mc-0 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)
    ×1.08 116 | 243 points by whoishiring 4 days ago | 326 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Good fast IDE for reading and navigating code in multiple languages
    ×0.37 126 | 5 points by akkad33 18 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Blog with AI Auto Poster
    ×0.78 131 | 3 points by david3289 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. LongCat-2.0
    ×0.51 132 | 5 points by rika321 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)
    ×0.82 139 | 150 points by whoishiring 4 days ago | 463 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What is the next step after Nora Sandler's "Writing a C compiler"?
    ×2.14 51 | 5 points by xqb64 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Since when does Craigslist's front page have emojis?
    ×0.33 155 | 39 points by argee 5 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Tell HN: FileVault does not protect Wi-Fi passwords on macOS 26
    ×0.17 142 | 3 points by turbidimeter 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Happy Independence Day
    ×1.44 112 | 33 points by GauntletWizard 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: America turns 250 today. What does it mean to you?
    ×1.16 144 | 12 points by abixb 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. I can build anything, but only the void sees it
    ×1.07 148 | 9 points by urbanogt5 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Tell HN: Megalodon.jp is faster than archive.today and doesn't require reCAPTCHA
    ×0.59 156 | 5 points by Cider9986 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Why are so many "AI evangelists" posting such insufferable content?
    ×1.91 145 | 66 points by seattle_spring 3 days ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How Do You Connect OpenAI Secure MCP Tunnel with Claude Desktop
    ×0.36 159 | 3 points by mcpzero 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Tell HN: Installing Cursor on iOS irreversibly changes your privacy settings
    ×1.89 134 | 248 points by zkldi 5 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Tell HN: Old Reddit now requires login
    ×2.87 149 | 87 points by jay_kyburz 4 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. How many failed startups have you launched?
    ×0.54 161 | 18 points by steelebillings 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Where can I find or get in contact with farmers specifically in the US?
    ×0.73 169 | 6 points by strapchay 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. I built a environment reloader for Windows Shells
    ×0.20 170 | 3 points by byjonas 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Retrieval is not the future of AI – if it was, Google would have won already
    ×0.76 167 | 4 points by lamprouge 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Fable 5. Safety Taken to an Extreme
    ×1.04 158 | 10 points by sergeysmirnov 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Where are the good search engines for mathematical formulas?
    ×0.28 171 | 3 points by lo0dot0 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Tell HN: Fewer PRs done with proper prompting, review, and refinement wins
    ×0.64 172 | 7 points by tomerbd 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: ctx – Search the coding agent history already on your machine (github.com/ctxrs)
    ×1.03 119 | 65 points by luca-ctx 3 days ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Fable created novel 4D splat format (adamraudonis.github.io)
    ×2.82 58 | 149 points by adamraudonis 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Windows CE Dreamcast Community Edition (wince-dc) (github.com/maximqaxd)
    ×0.93 72 | 110 points by msephton 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Egg consumption inversely correlated with Alzheimer's (nih.gov)
    ×2.64 68 | 68 points by natbennett 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Is The Economist Always Wrong? (economist.com)
    ×2.91 54 | 52 points by andsoitis 20 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. The mask that compiles to nothing: how HotSpots JIT learned to reason about bits (questdb.com)
    ×0.66 94 #46 | 5 points by rowbin 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Artful Cats: Feline-Inspired Art and Artifacts (si.edu)
    ×0.88 65 #71 | 83 points by jruohonen 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Tracking how much of the HN front page is AI-generated (salahadawi.com)
    ×1.43 154 | 3 points by salahadawi 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Tinysandbox – An ultra-minimal sandbox with QuickJS WASM isolates (github.com/danthegoodman1)
    ×0.45 120 | 3 points by dangoodmanUT 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: TeXposit – LaTeX and Markdown Editor (texposit.com)
    ×1.33 166 | 4 points by danielszabo 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Omar M. Yaghi joins Tsinghua University full-time (tsinghua.edu.cn)
    ×2.80 46 | 4 points by osnium123 58 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Three small browser primitives – identity, handoff, durable local (sarwagya.wtf)
    ×0.75 | 2 points by 0xsarwagya 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Mr. Baby Paint and accidentally discovering a new cellular automata (aalto.fi)
    ×1.53 3 #17 | 122 points by jfil 9 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. DNSGlobe – Rust TUI to watch DNS propagate around the world (github.com/514-labs)
    ×0.84 13 #22 | 32 points by Callicles 5 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. People Who Will Thrive in the AI Age (theatlantic.com)
    ×2.48 11 #68 | 4 points by longhaul 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Taphonomic analysis reveals behavioral & tech capabilities of Homo floresiensis (science.org)
    ×0.23 85 #81 | 8 points by bushwart 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Cewsco – a multimodal AI assistant powered by Dravik (cewsco.com)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by kalkalka 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. YouTube urges creators to fight proposed UK algorithm changes (dexerto.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by thesmtsolver2 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Aletheia – The Uncertainty Loop Agent for Claude Code and Codex (github.com/nsankar)
    ×0.37 | 2 points by sankarn_ai 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Isthistechdead.com got a full UI revamp (isthistechdead.com)
    ×2.11 152 | 6 points by jobehi 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: CLI that helps AI agents avoid vulnerable dependencies (github.com/clidey)
    ×0.64 150 | 26 points by modelorona 4 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Declaration of Independence (google.com)
    ×1.37 48 | 3 points by golgolgikdhdue 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Trump admin banned Differential Privacy in Census. How to report privately [pdf] (magarshak.com)
    ×0.91 | 2 points by EGreg 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Synthesis is harder than analysis (surfingcomplexity.blog)
    ×1.09 83 | 151 points by azhenley 2 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. How working memory could give rise to consciousness (scientificamerican.com)
    ×1.70 99 | 54 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Meon – declarative flat-parsing engine (SoA, no AST) (github.com/vgnapuga)
    ×1.19 95 | 5 points by vgnapuga 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: EdgeRunner – run GGUF models with Swift and Metal (github.com/christopherkarani)
    ×0.66 | 2 points by karc14 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Al Vigier: Canada's AI strategy shouldn't include secret Palantir bills (readtheline.ca)
    ×1.94 #3 | 113 points by ClearwayLaw 3 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Sidenote – comment on your rendered blog, an LLM writes the Git diff (github.com/bharadwaj-pendyala)
    ×0.99 43 #89 | 9 points by bharadwajp 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Vitruvius' de Architectura (colorado.edu)
    ×0.92 | 2 points by andsoitis 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Reactive Resume v5 – free, private, self-hostable resume builder (github.com/amruthpillai)
    ×0.86 | 2 points by AmruthPillai 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Lord of the Roths (propublica.org)
    ×2.96 26 #47 | 9 points by Anon84 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. The GNU Emacs Architecture: Unlocking the Core [pdf] (diva-portal.org)
    ×1.47 14 #52 | 176 points by cenazoic 19 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Zero-copy in Go: sendfile, splice, and the cost of io.Copy (segflow.github.io)
    ×1.65 13 #42 | 64 points by mrngm 7 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Pandoc Lua Filters (pandoc.org)
    ×0.88 47 #56 | 133 points by ankitg12 22 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Autonomous flying umbrella follows and shields users from rain and sunlight (designboom.com)
    ×2.01 30 #76 | 95 points by amichail 11 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Return of the Nigerian Prince Redux: Beware Book Club and Book Review Scams (2025) (writerbeware.blog)
    ×0.84 65 #90 | 75 points by Anon84 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Programmers need to start meditating (jacob.gold)
    ×3.19 | 127 points by enz 19 hours ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Classify mechanical faults using Contrastive Language-Audio Pretraining (github.com/adam-s)
    ×0.50 122 | 35 points by dataviz1000 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Pieces – Social network for people (piecesof.me)
    ×0.64 130 | 62 points by domo__knows 4 days ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Delta flight hit by firework while landing at Midway Airport on Fourth of July (nbcchicago.com)
    ×2.18 3 #21 | 85 points by randycupertino 8 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Bench Press: Leaking Text Nodes with CSS (2024) (pspaul.de)
    ×0.78 86 #75 | 4 points by gslin 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Review: IodéOS offers a frictionless de-Googled Android experience – OSnews (osnews.com)
    ×0.94 | 2 points by abdelhousni 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. NASA Leader Flew His Vintage Jet at DC Air Show over FAA Objections (wsj.com)
    ×1.53 39 | 3 points by impish9208 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025) (annas-archive.gl)
    ×2.82 15 | 513 points by Cider9986 1 day ago | 324 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. EV Batteries Are Defying Expectations After Miles (wsj.com)
    ×3.37 37 | 74 points by apparent 21 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Neil the Seal Game (neiltheseal.app)
    ×1.72 141 | 3 points by dalemhurley 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. The final voyage of USS Nimitz (usni.org)
    ×0.96 | 1 points by Gaishan 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. NASA's newest invention could solve a major space exploration problem (2022) (inverse.com)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by ike_usawa 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Len Sassaman Forensic Dead Ends at Black Hat – USA – 2002 [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.39 | 1 points by binyu 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Scientists reverse brain aging, with a nasal spray (tamu.edu)
    ×2.33 14 | 196 points by cybermango 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Finland's last analogue landline phones go silent after 150 years (euronews.com)
    ×1.76 69 | 116 points by ohjeez 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Rob Pike – 'Concurrency Is Not Parallelism' [video] (2012) (vimeo.com)
    ×1.87 88 | 63 points by jruohonen 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. The Age of Personalized Hardware Is Coming (geastack.com)
    ×0.93 18 #10 | 11 points by arbayi 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Code-Manager (maguowei.github.io)
    ×0.40 | 2 points by maguowei 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Open-source phone calling infra for AI agents (github.com/AgentLineHQ)
    ×1.46 135 | 4 points by sameersri2004 16 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Prism: An Impure Functional Language With Typed Effects (stephendiehl.com)
    ×1.28 50 #33 | 15 points by azkalam 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???