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  1. Ask HN: What should I verify before releasing a P2P messenger?
    ×0.78 47 | 5 points by Realman78 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Are there good security benchmarks for LLMs?
    ×0.27 41 #80 | 5 points by melvinroest 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Is anyone using Jujutsu version control (JJ) exclusively?
    ×0.42 1 | 4 points by cabyambo 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Are you emotionally attached to AI code?
    ×0.57 43 | 3 points by CurleighBraces 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. I built a local-first replacement for TV Time before it shuts down July 15
    ×0.48 | 2 points by continuitytv 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What internal tools/SASS replacements are you building?
    ×0.30 | 2 points by kostarelo 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Tools/approach to pentest my own framework/SaaS?
    ×0.37 | 2 points by shinobi-apps 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Open-source website builders for animated sites like Higgsfield?
    ×0.69 84 | 3 points by adithyaharish 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?
    ×1.22 111 | 200 points by yehiaabdelm 3 days ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Tell HN: Error: Claude-fable-5 is temporarily unavailable
    ×0.87 94 | 3 points by throwaw12 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Claude Code deletes conversations after 30 days
    ×0.60 | 2 points by mieubrisse 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What is your go-to prompt to prove AI can be wrong?
    ×0.28 | 2 points by throwaway_887 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Do you guys struggle with finding a right person for your FDE role?
    ×0.27 | 2 points by getelementbyiq 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Why about a third of the submissions become dead in mere minutes?
    ×0.37 109 | 10 points by g-b-r 16 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)
    ×1.08 119 | 243 points by whoishiring 5 days ago | 337 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)
    ×0.82 136 | 151 points by whoishiring 5 days ago | 476 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. SW Agent – an outbound-only connector for browser-based PostgreSQL IDEs
    ×1.25 101 | 3 points by Vivek-KY 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How are you staying productive using LLMs?
    ×0.44 117 | 5 points by thallavajhula 16 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Since when does Craigslist's front page have emojis?
    ×0.33 157 | 39 points by argee 5 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What do you do with the user guide of the universe?
    ×0.18 | 2 points by KenographerPrim 18 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. LongCat-2.0
    ×0.54 148 | 6 points by rika321 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Happy Independence Day
    ×1.47 120 | 35 points by GauntletWizard 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: How to get a non-technical friend into tech?
    ×0.48 122 | 5 points by yesitcan 18 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Would you trust encryption at the mobile keyboard layer?
    ×0.53 147 | 3 points by dkatsura 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Why are the upvote arrows so small?
    ×0.43 151 | 3 points by guilhermeasper 21 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: What metrics do you track when building agents?
    ×0.14 | 2 points by rstagi 21 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: How Do You "Not Write Any Code by Hand" with a Token Budget?
    ×0.46 156 | 3 points by mc-0 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Good fast IDE for reading and navigating code in multiple languages
    ×0.42 146 | 6 points by akkad33 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Why are so many "AI evangelists" posting such insufferable content?
    ×1.91 143 | 67 points by seattle_spring 3 days ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: America turns 250 today. What does it mean to you?
    ×1.07 155 | 12 points by abixb 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Tell HN: Installing Cursor on iOS irreversibly changes your privacy settings
    ×1.89 131 | 248 points by zkldi 5 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Tell HN: FileVault does not protect Wi-Fi passwords on macOS 26
    ×0.17 160 | 3 points by turbidimeter 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. I can build anything, but only the void sees it
    ×0.98 158 | 9 points by urbanogt5 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Tell HN: Old Reddit now requires login
    ×2.83 149 | 87 points by jay_kyburz 4 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Tell HN: Megalodon.jp is faster than archive.today and doesn't require reCAPTCHA
    ×0.55 162 | 5 points by Cider9986 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership (bearblog.dev)
    ×3.74 5 #41 | 623 points by popcar2 1 day ago | 477 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Kotlin Multiplatform AI pipeline – a reality? (medium.com)
    ×1.88 49 | 3 points by kkaramazov 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Handoff – a verified context bridge between Claude Code sessions (github.com/ostikwhy-blip)
    ×1.21 121 | 7 points by ostik 22 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: A faithful MUMPS 76 anniversary implementation – the original NoSQL DB (github.com/rochus-keller)
    ×0.54 | 2 points by Rochus 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Build offline-first web apps in pure Go and HTML (mills.io)
    ×1.94 145 | 5 points by prologic 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Apricot Computers: An underrated British brand (dfarq.homeip.net)
    ×0.63 27 #16 | 46 points by giuliomagnifico 5 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Don't Let Them Hook You (medium.com)
    ×1.98 37 | 3 points by umenokin 30 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. If you're a button, you have one job (aresluna.org)
    ×3.22 3 | 570 points by nozzlegear 1 day ago | 266 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Aletheia – The Uncertainty Loop Agent for Claude Code and Codex (github.com/nsankar)
    ×0.36 | 2 points by sankarn_ai 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Has_not_been_viewed_much (iamwillwang.com)
    ×2.50 9 #21 | 418 points by wxw 16 hours ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Behind the scenes with the Midjourney scanner [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.17 24 #36 | 71 points by Semkas 10 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Ditching Vagrant: VMs with KVM and Virsh on Debian (benjamintoll.com)
    ×1.22 4 #46 | 5 points by fanf2 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Completing a computer science degree on Coursera (notesbylex.com)
    ×1.87 18 #69 | 241 points by lexandstuff 18 hours ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Mullvad funding the far-right and the problem with tech company ownership (kjz.im)
    ×1.24 | 2 points by speckx 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Do you really need separate systems when you already have Postgres? (postgresisenough.dev)
    ×1.66 4 #7 | 28 points by b-man 54 minutes ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Multilingual Experience Linked to Delayed Aging in Populations and Individuals (abstractserver.com)
    ×1.74 26 #11 | 6 points by bookofjoe 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. When 2+2=5 (arstechnica.com)
    ×0.69 19 #13 | 28 points by noashavit 3 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Tau: A minimalist agent that teaches you to create coding agents (github.com/huggingface)
    ×1.24 | 2 points by simonpure 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Instagram running ads promoting child sexual abuse material in India (bbc.com)
    ×1.27 | 2 points by dwa3592 42 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: AI integrated in any terminal that's invisible until you need it (terminai.app)
    ×1.28 123 | 4 points by emosenkis 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Pgconverge – An experimental multi-master PostgreSQL framework in Go
    ×1.15 154 | 3 points by sobowalebukola 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. What security checks should an AI-built SaaS run before launch? (preflightio.com)
    ×0.94 | 1 points by continium 42 seconds ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. There's a Good Reason You Can't Concentrate (nytimes.com)
    ×1.49 | 2 points by zeroonetwothree 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Typo – New CLI tools, Auto-correct mistyped shell commands (github.com/yuluo-yx)
    ×1.31 | 2 points by yuluo-yx 46 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. PasteShape (google.com)
    ×1.31 | 2 points by MediocreCeasarG 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Record-breaking solo rower Kelsey Pfendler arrives in Hawaii (hawaiinewsnow.com)
    ×1.63 89 | 97 points by MaysonL 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. An Interview with Eve Maler (ciamweekly.substack.com)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by mooreds 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Tetris where every pixel is another Tetris (23,040 games in GLSL) (blot.im)
    ×1.11 | 2 points by farcaster 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Keyhole – Share secrets with your AI agents (maferland.com)
    ×1.18 | 2 points by maferland 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Treasury Has an Internal Report Warning About the Dangers of an AI Bubble (notus.org)
    ×1.81 10 | 3 points by dartharva 56 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. An independent evaluation of TabFM, Google's tabular foundation model (yashrajpandey.com)
    ×1.18 | 2 points by yashrajpandey 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra will be in Codex (twitter.com/thsottiaux)
    ×1.92 15 #14 | 378 points by mfiguiere 14 hours ago | 326 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Revised Rules of Engineering Leadership (lethain.com)
    ×1.12 79 #74 | 9 points by kiyanwang 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. The AI Superforecasters Are Here (astralcodexten.com)
    ×1.71 | 2 points by surprisetalk 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: PAI, a Linux-y personal-assistant for Mac (whitematterlabs.ai)
    ×2.01 70 | 4 points by ardatasci 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. New York hasn't built this many apartments since 1965 (wsj.com)
    ×1.78 6 | 3 points by softwaredoug 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. “Beyond the limit”: Satellites and mirrors in space pose threat to the night sky (eso.org)
    ×1.84 74 | 187 points by Breadmaker 1 day ago | 307 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: I made the Chrome Dino Game editable by your AI prompts (vibedino.com)
    ×1.30 112 | 4 points by johnnyapple 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: GameFork – AI agents publish and fork browser games via MCP (gamefork.io)
    ×0.78 | 2 points by TakayukiKomada 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Shrimple – A Simpler, Nicer Markdown (qount25.dev)
    ×0.96 45 #81 | 30 points by usrbinenv 13 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Zero-copy in Go: sendfile, splice, and the cost of io.Copy (segflow.github.io)
    ×1.66 31 | 72 points by mrngm 19 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Victim Outreach (victimoutreach.org)
    ×1.24 | 2 points by mooreds 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. BitTorrent's disastrous, legendary, and controversial story (theverge.com)
    ×1.19 | 2 points by colinprince 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Finland's last analogue landline phones go silent after 150 years (euronews.com)
    ×1.76 95 | 118 points by ohjeez 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Video Effects SDK – Face Avatars (effectssdk.ai)
    ×0.60 | 2 points by mda_damico 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. C programmers commit fresh crimes against readability (theregister.com)
    ×1.81 9 #27 | 94 points by Bender 4 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. LibreHardwareMonitor: FOSS monitor of temps, fan speeds, voltages, load & clocks (github.com/LibreHardwaRemonitor)
    ×1.31 | 2 points by aragonite 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Plato Kills Socrates (x-aken.com)
    ×1.94 30 | 3 points by pauljurgens 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Query Companion (QCP) for your database (v0-qcp.vercel.app)
    ×1.08 | 2 points by sjashwin 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Making difficult decisions doesn't have to be difficult (reloadium.com)
    ×1.56 53 | 4 points by julienreszka 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Open Science, open-source alternative to Claude Science (github.com/ai4s-research)
    ×2.80 93 | 7 points by aiboost 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: TrainSim – a browser train tycoon (aashishh15.github.io)
    ×1.78 139 | 4 points by aashishharishch 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. New AI tutor achieves 0.71-1.30 SD effect size in Dartmouth course [pdf] (uu.nl)
    ×1.09 4 #86 | 173 points by jonahbard 21 hours ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Will California's Wealth Tax Raise $100B or Lose $25B? (everywheremillionaire.substack.com)
    ×0.71 | 1 points by paulpauper 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven't progressed enough (techcrunch.com)
    ×4.59 18 | 133 points by msolujic 22 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???