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  1. Ask HN: Are systems ready for the first negative leap second?
    ×0.43 22 #17 | 11 points by Asmod4n 1 hour ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What was the last task where only a frontier model could do it?
    ×1.48 17 #33 | 14 points by thedebuglife 1 hour ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Tell HN: I De-Googled Myself
    ×1.26 15 #76 | 18 points by degoogled 4 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Burned Tokens scented candle ideas
    ×0.25 60 | 3 points by Tade0 5 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Do we need a support group for developers alienated by LLMs?
    ×1.58 16 | 25 points by sph 11 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: HN frontpage feels boring now?
    ×0.95 84 | 46 points by xeonmc 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: I hate coding agents. Is this skill issue?
    ×1.98 94 | 16 points by cmar00 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?
    ×1.18 125 | 207 points by yehiaabdelm 1 week ago | 203 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: I am not able to find a job. Should I switch stacks?
    ×0.23 101 | 11 points by need_a_work23 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Audar-ASR-V1:Arabic-first speech recognition foundation models with open weights
    ×0.16 | 2 points by AudarAI 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Fable July 12th disclaimer disappears from Claude Code
    ×0.30 99 | 7 points by gorgmah 22 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Ubuntu 24.04 now force-automounts any plugged-in MMC card or USB key
    ×0.48 133 | 3 points by everybodyknows 23 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Where are the good search engines for mathematical formulas?
    ×0.50 113 | 56 points by lo0dot0 6 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Who has been caught out by this anti-pattern from Google?
    ×0.18 123 | 4 points by Monotoko 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Thoughts on AI in Personal Finance?
    ×0.33 91 | 6 points by foxtrot8672 17 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What are you running locally on your machine with LLMs?
    ×0.31 121 | 3 points by agcat 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Is GitHub preparing to go behind a login wall?
    ×0.66 110 | 56 points by reconnecting 3 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Is Google NERFing AI Mode?
    ×0.25 138 | 4 points by PaulHoule 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Tell HN: Who wants to be hired" posts outpace "Who's hiring" 2 to 1
    ×1.04 115 | 55 points by santiagobasulto 3 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Where'd Codex Go?
    ×0.75 95 | 8 points by aleshh 22 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)
    ×1.08 137 | 246 points by whoishiring 1 week ago | 402 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Reality of Commercial AI World from a 16 Year Old's Perspective
    ×0.31 130 | 3 points by VanshAgenticAI 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: How long has it been since you last opened Stack Overflow?
    ×0.85 132 | 5 points by novoreorx 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Show HN: Osint tool that finds exposed files on domains (cerast-intelligence.com)
    ×0.81 140 | 58 points by PatchRequest 4 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt (sherliker.net)
    ×5.65 4 #83 | 1473 points by speerer 2 days ago | 231 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Bluesky Names Toni Schneider CEO (bsky.social)
    ×2.00 13 | 3 points by ilreb 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Pylon Sync, an agent-first full-stack realtime framework (pylonsync.com)
    ×0.39 89 | 11 points by ericc59 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Combustion Engine Web-Based Simulator (combustionlab.net)
    ×1.57 10 #8 | 24 points by mytuny 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. FAANG Simulator (abeyk.com)
    ×3.19 12 | 487 points by nerdbiscuits 1 day ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. We made Grok 4.5, GPT-5.5, and Claude build the same apps (tryai.dev)
    ×2.30 48 | 173 points by hershyb_ 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. New Sweden: the US's long-lost 'secret' colony (bbc.com)
    ×1.51 55 | 166 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Launch HN: Context.dev (YC S26) – API to get structured data from any website (context.dev)
    ×0.66 69 #43 | 108 points by TheYahiaBakour 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Harman and Dr. Sean Olive are reshaping headphone sound (2025) (crutchfield.com)
    ×0.66 24 #90 | 30 points by ledoge 14 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Where teams of AI agents choose, keep and improve the profiles they run (aweb.ai)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by juanre 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: ChessFlex – iPhone chess with no server, no accounts (P2P via QR) (apple.com)
    ×1.46 41 | 3 points by yrotsih 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Cyrinx (36kbps Acoustic Transport) (cyrinx.org)
    ×2.12 144 | 6 points by dweekly 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds (ello.com)
    ×1.34 57 #40 | 132 points by catalinvoss 22 hours ago | 345 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Turning a pile of documents into a searchable useable knowledge base (github.com/linuxrebel)
    ×1.34 51 | 191 points by linuxrebe1 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source, local-first alternative to Claude Desktop (github.com/rowboatlabs)
    ×1.40 78 | 216 points by segmenta 3 days ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Big Tech Doubles Debt Load to $350B in AI Spending Spree (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.34 | 2 points by thm 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Cloudflare Drop (cloudflare.com)
    ×2.85 11 | 522 points by coloneltcb 1 day ago | 280 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. US seeks cheaper hunter-killer drones after Iran destroys $1B worth of Reapers (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.21 | 269 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 329 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Lisp as the Maxwell's Equations of Software (michaelnielsen.org)
    ×21.34 9 | 65 points by andsoitis 13 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf] (openai.com)
    ×6.28 3 #3 | 24 points by scrlk 37 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. EU Commission: addictive design Instagram and Facebook in breach of the DSA (europa.eu)
    ×3.10 12 #26 | 214 points by jeroenhd 8 hours ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Trace: Stripe Radar for autonomous AI agents (Sybil fraud reduced by 86%) (trace-api-ixv6o.ondigitalocean.app)
    ×1.79 | 2 points by nikunjkaushik20 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Bun vs. Deno vs. Node.js 2026: Real Benchmarks Mislead (byteiota.com)
    ×1.02 48 | 6 points by h1696UOuk 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Chiptune Radio (alephvoid.com)
    ×0.77 92 | 77 points by bootbloopers 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: PostgreSQL performance and cost across 23 EC2 instance types (saneengineer.com)
    ×0.94 97 | 97 points by anivan_ 3 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Runloom – Go-style coroutines for Python free-threaded (github.com/robertsdotpm)
    ×0.73 22 #23 | 36 points by Uptrenda 5 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. LinkedIn and X Are Flooded with AI Spam, Browsing Data Suggests (404media.co)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by 01-_- 29 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. What Does a 13-Year-Old See on Snapchat in a Normal Week? (afterbabel.com)
    ×3.59 79 | 61 points by dgudkov 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Train the Agent, Then Replace It (allthesethings.substack.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by taubek 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. MagicView Advertising for Startups (magicview.com)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by wesley-zheng 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. PQC Readiness and Migration Tool (postq.dev)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by PallabPaul 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. The Difference Between Watercolor and Gouache Paints (jetpens.com)
    ×1.31 | 2 points by ynac 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. SimPolitics: America’s quest to solve politics with computers (mit.edu)
    ×0.80 56 #60 | 101 points by mckelveyf 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Bacteria turn dissolved uranium into stable compound in 130 days (phys.org)
    ×2.29 34 | 3 points by ivell 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Sodas with a Doctorate (bsky.app)
    ×1.42 | 2 points by Tomte 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Burning the 3:40 AM Window (kevinlondon.com)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by Kaedon 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. I think I have LLM burnout (alecscollon.com)
    ×4.56 9 | 399 points by sosodev 1 day ago | 352 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Fortress – Give your agents unlimited access to the web
    ×4.03 83 | 9 points by armanluthra_ 18 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Parental device use and the adolescent-caregiver attachment bond (frontiersin.org)
    ×1.93 28 #46 | 163 points by hbcondo714 18 hours ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: FormGrid – Forms that can look like CLIs, pixel art, GeoCities and more (formgrid.com)
    ×0.93 93 | 13 points by bjoernm 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: 0-A.D. A free, open-source game of ancient warfare (play0ad.com)
    ×1.60 147 | 3 points by smalltorch 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Ancient Coins: What About Spartan Coins? (coinweek.com)
    ×0.50 52 #38 | 17 points by thunderbong 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Meta reuses old RAM in new servers with custom bridge chip (theregister.com)
    ×1.81 27 #71 | 324 points by ihsw 1 day ago | 227 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Typocalypse – A free online game I made (typocalypse.fun)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by Aurelius101 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Android Developer Verification Package blacklisted in Aurora Store
    ×1.48 118 | 7 points by bewilderbeast 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. How should group chats work in decentralized systems? (marindedic.com)
    ×1.13 39 | 70 points by Realman78 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Flock Cameras Wrongly Tracked Me for Days over 'Stolen' Plates (thedrive.com)
    ×4.83 85 | 56 points by xup 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Late Bronze Age Collapse (acoup.blog)
    ×1.87 1 #7 | 251 points by dmonay 7 hours ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Laylo (YC S20) Is Hiring a Head of Finance (ycombinator.com)
    7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. A road to Lisp: Why Lisp (scotto.me)
    ×1.87 8 #75 | 283 points by silcoon 1 day ago | 283 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. How to Start a Ruby Meetup (rubyevents.org)
    ×0.86 29 | 70 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. How to Write an Email (dannycastonguay.com)
    ×1.70 28 | 91 points by speckx 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. China's public QR codes are being hijacked to redirect users to porn and scams (sixthtone.com)
    ×13.45 3 | 58 points by whiteblossom 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. AI Cameras on Garbage Trucks to Scan Properties for Code Violations (gadgetreview.com)
    ×2.27 6 #73 | 12 points by deadonarrival 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Native SDK – Toolkit for building native desktop apps (native-sdk.dev)
    ×1.45 | 2 points by gempir 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Soulless – List of AI Artists Hiding on Spotify (soullessmusic.com)
    ×1.37 | 2 points by ChrisArchitect 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. The Future Worth Building Is Human (thinkingmachines.ai)
    ×1.39 | 2 points by ot 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. What are the AI folks up to these days? (12gramsofcarbon.com)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by theahura 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Voicebox: The Open-Source AI Voice Studio (github.com/jamiepine)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by idleplant 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Harness Handbook (ruhan-wang.github.io)
    ×3.15 36 | 4 points by handfuloflight 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. The 2025–2026 Evolution of Generative Spatial AI (hal9.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by javierluraschi 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Debloat Slack – Get rid of Slackbot, AI upsells and other annoyances (github.com/benri-ai)
    ×0.78 | 2 points by ed_mercer 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Agentic FC – a football management SIM played by AI agents over MCP (github.com/gaemi)
    ×1.59 143 | 4 points by gaemi 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Homegames. An open-source game platform I've been making for 8 years (homegames.io)
    ×1.39 98 | 229 points by homegamesjoseph 4 days ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Analog Watch (analog.watch)
    ×0.87 30 #88 | 98 points by ezekg 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. The Upgrade That Made My AI Agent Worse (medium.com)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by encinas88 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???