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  1. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)
    ×1.09 39 #11 | 187 points by whoishiring 15 hours ago | 197 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)
    ×0.90 41 #25 | 123 points by whoishiring 15 hours ago | 295 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Seattle Just Had an Earthquake
    ×1.57 29 | 3 points by tobinfekkes 48 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Fable 5 is insanely good
    ×2.13 40 | 4 points by vuphanse 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: Old Reddit now requires login
    ×4.58 28 #85 | 66 points by jay_kyburz 10 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What things might help me to become inference engineer?
    ×0.87 45 | 3 points by chalshik 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. I'm opening VSCode less and less every day
    ×2.20 21 | 15 points by othmanosx 8 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Are Claude models broken with the Fable 5 update?
    ×1.16 67 | 6 points by jackjd 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What do you use computer mode for?
    ×0.88 64 | 3 points by aryamaan 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Line by Line Agentic Coding
    ×0.94 61 | 6 points by notshore 8 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Tell HN: Installing Cursor on iOS irreversibly changes your privacy settings
    ×1.99 27 | 245 points by zkldi 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Is anyone running local LLMs in their organization?
    ×1.00 72 | 3 points by harry8 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. What Can't Fable Do?
    ×0.86 84 | 3 points by alimhaq 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Secure wrapper for coding agents?
    ×0.32 105 | 19 points by rjzzleep 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Who is this Steve T.?
    ×0.51 91 | 3 points by jacobreddy 11 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Tell HN: I'm not excited for Fable and am disappointed in Karpathy
    ×1.07 81 | 5 points by behnamoh 11 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. 0/6 major aerospace documentation portals are AI Agent-ready
    ×0.33 | 2 points by priyanshu-j 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Does anybody still FEEL improvements between latest LLMs for coding?
    ×0.30 98 | 4 points by sspehr 16 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Where is the programming profession going?
    ×1.07 130 | 165 points by syntaxbush 1 week ago | 182 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What are you building first with Fable?
    ×2.42 7 | 5 points by akashwadhwani35 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Do pull requests have value?
    ×0.68 | 2 points by _RPM 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. The open source DOCX editor submitted to HN a few weeks ago has been deleted
    ×0.77 123 | 108 points by gcanyon 5 days ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Is Codex with GPT 5.5 Extra High being dumbed down?
    ×0.25 134 | 7 points by setnone 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Is "no source code was copied" still a sufficient copyright defense?
    ×0.65 139 | 67 points by oscgam1 5 days ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Has anyone had success finding freelance gigs from HN
    ×0.43 | 2 points by mr_o47 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2026)
    ×0.69 95 | 4 points by jon_north 15 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Should I buy mac studio M4 max or macbook M5 pro?
    ×0.16 143 | 4 points by akarshhegde18 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. From Slop to Determinism – Shifting the Narrative Space
    ×0.24 137 | 3 points by pyeri 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: How much coding should beginners learn in the AI era?
    ×0.52 157 | 41 points by JohnDSDev 1 week ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Searchable directory of HN Job postings (gethnjobs.com)
    ×1.06 | 2 points by hboon 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. US reportedly mulls pulling troops from Saudi Arabia as ties sour over Iran war (timesofisrael.com)
    ×1.07 | 2 points by koolhead17 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Hanami 3.0: In Full Bloom (hanakai.org)
    ×1.15 23 #41 | 90 points by PuercoPop 13 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Unobin compiles Infrastructure as Code to one binary (cloudboss.co)
    ×0.42 55 #52 | 9 points by joseph 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Apple 'Hide My Email' vulnerability reveals peoples' real email addresses (easyoptouts.com)
    ×3.62 22 #61 | 265 points by sashk 16 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Client-side load balancing at a million requests per second (zalando.com)
    ×1.01 16 #83 | 23 points by cjbooms 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Words Are a Byproduct of Consciousness. For LLMs, It's Backwards (ranpara.net)
    ×2.50 75 | 94 points by DevarshRanpara 1 day ago | 193 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: AnalystAIPack – 118 runnable agent skills for malware analysis and RE (github.com/meltedinhex)
    ×1.21 101 | 3 points by sdkhere 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Thumbprint – A network fingerprint observatory (thumbprint.me)
    ×0.71 113 | 3 points by elpy1 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Solid and Clean Code never felt solid or clean to me (devz.cl)
    ×1.68 49 #56 | 54 points by DanielVZ 15 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Pasqal exceeds 1k Atoms in Quantum Processor (pasqal.com)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by fofoz 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Section 194J of Income Tax Act: Meaning, Rules and Examples – SMFG India Credit (smfgindiacredit.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by saumyaraut11 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Google copybara: moving code between repositories (github.com/google)
    ×1.50 3 | 295 points by reconnecting 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Amazon seller reveals glimpse of shadow bribery market (latimes.com)
    ×2.00 48 | 149 points by petethomas 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments (hackernewstrends.com)
    ×4.02 85 | 816 points by ytkimirti 6 days ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Adrafinil – keep a lid-closed Mac awake only while agents work (github.com/kageroumado)
    ×1.23 108 | 124 points by kageroumado 4 days ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. The gauge broke: devs felt 20% faster with AI, measured 19% slower (intrepidkarthi.com)
    ×3.14 #1 | 43 points by intrepidkarthi 39 minutes ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. The Socialist Wave Reaches the Heartland (wsj.com)
    ×1.12 | 2 points by doener 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Designing a factory-safety agent (model reasons, code routes) (github.com/HumphreySun98)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by humphreysun98 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Limine: Modern, secure, portable, multiprotocol bootloader and boot manager (github.com/Limine-Bootloader)
    ×1.13 | 2 points by noteness 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Supreme Court upholds broad conception of birthright citizenship (apnews.com)
    ×4.17 40 | 221 points by toomuchtodo 1 day ago | 615 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Understanding Why Language Models Hallucinate: Testing Reasoning Against Priors (neohughus.github.io)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by ilreb 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. County with 37 Data Centers Asks Schools to 'Conserve Electricity' (404media.co)
    ×3.92 6 | 420 points by 01-_- 1 day ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Have you restarted your computer this week? (taonaw.com)
    ×1.70 41 | 219 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 394 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: PMB – local memory for coding agents that shows if it is used (pmbai.dev)
    ×0.62 51 | 23 points by oleksiibond 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: DBOSify – Drop-in Temporal replacement built on Postgres (github.com/dbos-inc)
    ×0.97 128 | 91 points by KraftyOne 1 week ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Understanding the Linux Kernel: The Scheduler (internals-for-interns.com)
    ×0.75 42 #77 | 29 points by valyala 12 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Claude Fable 5 Promotional Access (claude.com)
    ×3.33 28 #80 | 97 points by zbikowski 11 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Techno Kick (technokick.com)
    ×0.96 | 2 points by stagas 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Open-Source Interview Platform (github.com/CoderScreen)
    ×2.27 82 | 6 points by rogutkuba 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Turn native language audio into flashcards and shadowing practice (lingochunk.com)
    ×0.59 140 | 92 points by alder 6 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Ray Tracer in SQL (github.com/ClickHouse)
    ×0.83 42 #71 | 51 points by kbumsik 16 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: QR code renderer in a TrueType font (jim.sh)
    ×1.82 6 #78 | 78 points by foodevl 14 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: A complete AI agency at your fingertips (github.com/msitarzewski)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by adithyaharish 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: GONK – Lightweight Edge-Native API Gateway in Go (github.com/JustVugg)
    ×0.86 83 | 3 points by vforno 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Age Checks That Do NOT Leak Identity: Privacy-Preserving Attribute Verification [pdf] (magarshak.com)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by EGreg 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. The US ambassador had Belgian police stop our reporting (europeancorrespondent.com)
    ×5.00 6 | 689 points by robtherobber 1 day ago | 327 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Nano Banana 2 Lite (deepmind.google)
    ×1.93 4 | 432 points by minimaxir 1 day ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10% (mynintendonews.com)
    ×4.05 32 #59 | 514 points by _tk_ 19 hours ago | 314 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Meta caps internal AI token spending (mlq.ai)
    ×3.36 61 #74 | 136 points by typeofhuman 7 hours ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. A Machine-Verified Proof of a Quantum-Optimization Conjecture (arxiv.org)
    ×1.41 | 2 points by ilaysat 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. What Happened to the Fight for the Internet? (dustycloud.org)
    ×1.15 | 2 points by signa11 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Nomenclator (Nomenclature) (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by thunderbong 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1852) (gutenberg.org)
    ×0.97 49 | 190 points by lstodd 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Trigora – A hosted runtime for event-driven TypeScript workflows (trigora.dev)
    ×0.75 | 2 points by hypervs 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: NanoEuler – GPT-2 scale model in pure C/CUDA from scratch (github.com/JustVugg)
    ×0.62 117 | 55 points by vforno 3 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. A new Android malware from Google (f-droid.org)
    ×5.89 1 #5 | 133 points by drewfax 4 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 (twitter.com/AnthropicAI)
    ×4.70 8 #36 | 933 points by Pragmata 1 day ago | 648 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Database Traffic Control (planetscale.com)
    ×1.41 24 #46 | 33 points by religio 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. I don't maintain my homelab, it maintains itself (cleberg.net)
    ×2.11 35 #79 | 89 points by surprisetalk 22 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. BioShocking AI: "Gaming" the AI Browser and Escaping Its Guardrails (layerxsecurity.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by croes 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Salt – a systems language with Z3 theorem proving in the compiler (salt-lang.dev)
    ×0.92 69 #53 | 32 points by bneb-dev 14 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Herdr: One terminal to rule them all (herdr.dev)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by handfuloflight 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Banto – Turn any topic into a live game room in minutes (banto.tv)
    ×0.68 | 2 points by douglaspham 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: WebBase-III – dBASE III rebuilt in the browser with its own interpreter (github.com/DDecoene)
    ×0.71 135 | 96 points by ddecoene 1 week ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Shoaku – Your Coding Navigator (github.com/seachicken)
    ×0.63 146 | 4 points by seachicken 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Smoothie – compile a folder of data into a cited artifact agents can query (github.com/4tyone)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by MelsHakobyan 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Readit, a read-it-later app I built because the others keep dying (wereadit.com)
    ×1.87 88 | 8 points by mahmoudalwadia 18 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Chemurgy (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.13 | 2 points by petethomas 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Senior SWE-Bench: open-source benchmark that assesses agents as senior engineers (snorkel.ai)
    ×1.13 3 #15 | 64 points by matt_d 4 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. The first early human eggs from stem cells (conception.bio)
    ×1.38 35 #65 | 170 points by dsr12 1 day ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???