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  1. Ask HN: What changed in your life when you started meditating (and how)?
    ×1.20 53 | 6 points by dondraper36 35 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: US Equivalent of Anabin?
    ×0.12 91 | 13 points by xqb64 1 week ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. IMDB now automatically creating user accounts when you are signed into Amazon
    ×0.36 58 | 5 points by terminalbraid 5 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
    ×4.70 76 | 1313 points by nprateem 5 days ago | 754 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How to you optimize output while not burning out?
    ×0.30 96 | 3 points by gszr 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Alternative Careers in the Age of AI
    ×0.60 60 | 8 points by helpfulmandrill 8 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How do people keep track of organizational knowledge?
    ×0.48 100 | 26 points by kadhirvelm 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work
    ×3.68 92 | 832 points by nicholasjbs 5 days ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
    ×1.17 126 | 292 points by david927 1 week ago | 1141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Can I come to your Chinese office?
    ×0.52 82 | 5 points by weli 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Old Reddit no longer working without log in?
    ×1.06 83 | 4 points by 6stringronin 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What's your experience with GPT-Live been like?
    ×0.30 119 | 7 points by caveman23 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. It's not a "rogue AI" when a badly made security harness executes scripts (hachyderm.io)
    ×2.37 27 #75 | 26 points by doener 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. The Computer That Helped Win World War II (ieee.org)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by baruchel 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Laguna S 2.1 (poolside.ai)
    ×2.65 7 | 394 points by rexledesma 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. White House used keywords to kill billions worth of California research grants (apnews.com)
    ×4.12 5 | 72 points by petethomas 12 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Launch HN: Unlayer (YC W22) – Add email and document builders to your app (unlayer.com)
    ×0.41 35 #16 | 33 points by adeelraza 4 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. I Built a Private Genomics Study with Stoffel MPC (vishakh.blog)
    ×0.33 35 #50 | 23 points by vishakh82 6 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. VTubing: How a Japanese Phenomenon Is Going Worldwide (tokyodev.com)
    ×1.46 79 | 108 points by pwim 1 day ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Show HN: OSS Cross-Harness self hosted registry and analytics for AI Agents (github.com/Observal)
    ×1.12 105 | 22 points by haz3-jolt 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. GigaToken: ~1000x faster Language model tokenization (github.com/marcelroed)
    ×2.31 1 #3 | 239 points by syrusakbary 3 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. PyPI Blog: Releases now reject new files after 14 days (pypi.org)
    ×1.08 58 #67 | 10 points by miketheman 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Show HN: PDF tools that run in the browser, no upload (pdfcdf.com)
    ×0.76 57 | 5 points by sofiurrr 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Show HN: Fund an agent once – prepaid USDC key for HTTP 402 tools (Solana) (vibes-coded.com)
    ×1.29 89 | 3 points by b_radford 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: Explore 6048 YC companies as an interactive galaxy (artifacta.io)
    ×0.49 102 | 36 points by jnakano89 3 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D Review: 3D V-Cache Gaming Performance for Less (hothardware.com)
    ×0.62 42 #65 | 41 points by rbanffy 11 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Emails Reveal Why a Town Put Bags over Its Flock Cameras (404media.co)
    ×1.86 10 #80 | 17 points by Jimmc414 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Netmon – self-hosted LAN monitor with sarcastic AI reports to Telegram (github.com/Role1776)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by OymInIRole 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Why care about programming languages (ebellani.github.io)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by b-man 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Fairphone 6 wide camera experimental Linux support (nondescriptpointer.com)
    ×1.09 | 2 points by helonaut 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Szr: A safer command output reduction for coding agents (github.com/devr-tools)
    ×1.10 | 2 points by alxxjohn 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Can a MUD evaluate LLMs? A $99 proof of concept (cruciblebench.ai)
    ×1.00 10 #12 | 75 points by Davisb135 5 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Zero roadkill as Amazon canopy bridges secure 15,000 crossings (mongabay.com)
    ×2.47 8 #83 | 25 points by hn_acker 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Computable – Buy, sell, and redeem GPU for the exact weeks you want (getcomputable.com)
    ×0.60 66 | 45 points by yuansong98 23 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Are AI Labs Pelicanmaxxing? (dylancastillo.co)
    ×3.65 #5 | 220 points by dcastm 3 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Agent in 9 Lines Python (github.com/tosh)
    ×1.31 37 #74 | 16 points by tosh 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Character.ai: The Technical Story of What Keeps Users Hooked (manish.sh)
    ×0.79 | 1 points by ms7892 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. What is loop engineering for teams? (augmentcode.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by knes 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Most "self-improving" AI agents don't improve (loadbearingtech.substack.com)
    ×1.79 9 | 3 points by kamselig 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Over 400 Linux CVEs published in the last 24 hours alone (kernel.org)
    ×4.49 69 | 76 points by aghuang 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Flakiness.io – Test Analytics for GitHub (flakiness.io)
    ×0.54 | 2 points by aslushnikov 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: DocCharm – The help center that keeps itself up to date (doccharm.com)
    ×0.57 120 | 7 points by yakshaving_jgt 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: PMG, open source package firewall (github.com/safedep)
    ×0.73 125 | 4 points by abhisek 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Spring Boot Inspired Java Selenium Open Source Framework (github.com/seleniumboot)
    ×0.80 | 2 points by mdsddmhossain 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Google revenue surges on AI-driven boom in Cloud unit (ft.com)
    ×2.33 22 #53 | 7 points by alephnerd 38 minutes ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. A digestion of the Jacobian conjecture counterexample (wordpress.com)
    ×1.74 6 #87 | 311 points by jeremyscanvic 23 hours ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: SlapMetrics – Mac menu bar app that monitors Stripe/GA4 metrics (slapmetrics.com)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by devtanna 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. FCC votes to bar sales of devices with parts from Chinese firms posing risks (reuters.com)
    ×1.71 10 | 3 points by tartoran 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Five US tech giants' hidden debts soar to $1.65T on opaque AI funding (nikkei.com)
    ×5.23 29 | 364 points by NordStreamYacht 1 day ago | 260 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Non-performant software and its incentives (iainschmitt.com)
    ×0.68 47 #77 | 10 points by surprisetalk 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Daniel Radcliffe to Narrate Comedian Kyle Gordon's Third Album (variety.com)
    ×0.82 | 1 points by firasd 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Moody's Upgrades Argentina Credit Rating, Citing Milei's Economic Overhaul (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.72 12 | 3 points by bilsbie 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Talking to a PayPal scammer for 20 minutes [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.77 14 | 3 points by doener 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. "Drawing" the Mona Lisa with GPT-5.6, Claude, Gemini, and Grok (tryai.dev)
    ×1.62 3 | 244 points by hershyb_ 23 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. OpenAI says its AI went rogue and launched 'unprecedented' cyber-attack (bbc.com)
    ×2.78 29 | 75 points by vinni2 8 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: AI resume spam ruined hiring so I built a tool to keep the bots out (permanym.com)
    ×0.74 | 2 points by romanhn 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Cosyra – run cloud coding agents from your phone (cosyra.com)
    ×0.74 | 2 points by adamisnotroman 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Fairphone 6 with /e/OS 4.0 – Results, results, results (dedoimedo.com)
    ×2.02 2 #69 | 5 points by speckx 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. MG risks their cars becoming a rolling pirate copy (table.media)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by fh973 12 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Musk's anti-Odyssey campaign backfires over threat to make AI version of epic (euronews.com)
    ×1.10 4 | 4 points by devonnull 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: TLS Radar – Independent SSL/TLS Monitoring, Web and CLI and Claude (tlsradar.com)
    ×0.57 | 2 points by tlsradar 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Advertise in ChatGPT (openai.com)
    ×5.35 21 #60 | 1046 points by montecarl 1 day ago | 817 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Alphabet Announces Second Quarter 2026 Results [pdf] (q4cdn.com)
    ×6.44 59 #76 | 15 points by mfiguiere 55 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. The 4-Hour-Work-Week is over (joanwestenberg.com)
    ×1.42 | 2 points by spking 17 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Knowledge and the Record (krezl.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by prad_r 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. ICE to Pay Thomson Reuters $125M to Find Voter Fraud (404media.co)
    ×5.81 21 | 234 points by Jimmc414 1 day ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. My falling-out with the rationalist community (lcamtuf.substack.com)
    ×3.55 101 | 90 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Datalevin – a simple, fast, and versatile Datalog database (github.com/datalevin)
    ×3.17 116 | 7 points by huahaiy 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Introduction to Formal Verification with Lean Part 1 (hashcloak.com)
    ×1.37 18 #24 | 215 points by badcryptobitch 12 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. 'The Odyssey' Proves It: Audiences Want Movies Made the Hard Way (hollywoodreporter.com)
    ×2.63 16 #52 | 22 points by randycupertino 2 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM (ericgoldman.org)
    ×2.24 1 | 444 points by speckx 1 day ago | 508 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe (cole-k.com)
    ×7.08 66 | 153 points by montroser 8 hours ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: MutexCam – Global Camera and Mic Control on Mac for Zoom, Teams, Meet (mutex.cam)
    ×0.85 | 2 points by superquizonline 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Terrence Tao's ChatGPT Conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture Counterexample (chatgpt.com)
    ×2.80 1 #2 | 391 points by gmays 3 hours ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation (openai.com)
    ×5.61 22 #42 | 1518 points by mfiguiere 1 day ago | 1076 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Most Americans say "not in my backyard" to AI data centers (redfin.com)
    ×2.39 25 #44 | 118 points by toomuchtodo 6 hours ago | 258 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Puffin: Scheme-like language with self-hosting compiler and gradual types (kmicinski.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by azhenley 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. TopTierClass – AI that responds to Google reviews for local businesses (toptierclass.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by aboutdavidkim 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. New US homeownership measure puts people first (minneapolisfed.org)
    ×2.52 35 | 207 points by throw0101a 1 day ago | 368 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Linux kernel will support $ORIGIN, sort of (fzakaria.com)
    ×1.69 81 | 90 points by ingve 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: I walk-forward tested classic trading setups. Several have no real edge (edgestacker.com)
    ×0.53 | 2 points by thepromptgenius 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps (krebsonsecurity.com)
    ×3.14 22 #33 | 375 points by DemiGuru 19 hours ago | 389 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Long presumed dead, a thriving coral reef is discovered in West Africa (yale.edu)
    ×1.66 2 #90 | 386 points by speckx 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Flare Redact – zero-dependency secret and PII redaction for Node.js (github.com/umudhasanli)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by umudhasanli 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Why 'narcissistic' bosses don't want you working from home (rte.ie)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by austinallegro 15 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: How to Automate Newsletter Based on SecondBrain and Bluesky Changes (ssp.sh)
    ×1.41 | 2 points by zazuke 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. The startup's Postgres survival guide (hatchet.run)
    ×1.91 2 #10 | 254 points by abelanger 6 hours ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: DeepSQL – A self-hostable DBA agent for Postgres and MySQL (deepsql.ai)
    ×0.65 27 #22 | 36 points by venkat971 4 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Physical Media vs. Digital Media (bearblog.dev)
    ×0.53 35 #84 | 10 points by speckx 6 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Digitizing Canada's Weather History Boosts Climate Science (mcgill.ca)
    ×1.17 | 2 points by gnabgib 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???