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  1. AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
    ×4.56 2 #2 | 1167 points by nprateem 19 hours ago | 698 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work
    ×3.99 #3 | 561 points by nicholasjbs 12 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: I've told everyone about my startup and its been harder than I thought
    ×1.25 23 | 3 points by bunnybomb2 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Did Fable disappear from your Claude usage and requires credits now?
    ×6.43 42 | 88 points by cromka 14 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
    ×1.18 85 | 287 points by david927 5 days ago | 1113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?
    ×1.56 69 | 132 points by kadhirvelm 2 days ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Is AI sycophancy a way to reduce compute rather than make users happier?
    ×0.16 | 2 points by amichail 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Tell HN: Codex may have reached 10M active users; usage limits reset again
    ×1.25 25 | 4 points by linzhangrun 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles
    ×5.89 57 | 1091 points by levkk 5 days ago | 456 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Fable 5 dropped from subscriptions before the promised July 19 date
    ×2.84 23 | 21 points by Ryan_Li 14 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Is GPT-5.6 Sol Max Worth It?
    ×0.20 | 2 points by yohji1984 18 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: How do you handle the actual situation with so much AI noises
    ×0.53 93 | 4 points by ThierryRkt 18 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: I built it and nobody came. What got you your first users?
    ×0.70 99 | 9 points by deadcatfound 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Who gets credits on big math questions solved by LLMs?
    ×0.40 107 | 9 points by silentmafia 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. How do you guys keep up with AI news?
    ×0.72 96 | 12 points by anirudhc2005 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Should I do a CS masters at Cambridge or start as a new grad at Amazon?
    ×0.57 138 | 28 points by sspehr 4 days ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What are you working on(2026)?
    ×0.47 109 | 4 points by adithyaharish 22 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Are AWS Certs worth getting for experienced Devs?
    ×0.52 132 | 12 points by Gold-Ask-lx 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: I feel like I've lost my identity due to AI
    ×0.90 80 | 12 points by im-not-enjoying 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Router ARP/NAT contradict after reload. Client ghost or firmware bug?
    ×0.14 | 2 points by asdem 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: How do you manage too many open tabs?
    ×0.54 114 | 10 points by NarcisMirandes 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Israeli ministers announce plans for illegal settlements in Gaza and West Bank (theguardian.com)
    ×5.86 48 #54 | 8 points by kubafu 28 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Origami Cat Puppet (ducksters.com)
    ×0.98 | 2 points by jruohonen 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Show HN: Docket (system for active note-taking) now self-hosted after HN asked (withdocket.com)
    ×2.92 63 | 8 points by davnicwil 14 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Regressive JPEGs (maurycyz.com)
    ×4.45 #1 | 272 points by vitaut 5 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. How Has Roman Concrete Lasted for Millennia? 1,900-Year-Old Latrine Offers Clues (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×1.52 10 #55 | 258 points by divbzero 1 day ago | 216 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source (microsoft.com)
    ×3.22 14 #60 | 793 points by jervant 1 day ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Moltshit.com – An Imageboard for AI Agents (moltshit.com)
    ×1.65 130 | 4 points by jetbalsa 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ente – Opening Our Books (ente.com)
    ×1.82 36 #70 | 282 points by Sherex 1 day ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Digital Fauxice – an OSS clean room Nikon Digital Ice with 1:1 results (github.com/rohanpandula)
    ×0.89 | 2 points by peteforde 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: BambooGrid – Open-source web UI for power grid modeling and power flow (kickstage.com)
    ×0.79 71 | 35 points by soaringmonchi 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Play Online HP48G(X) Calculator Games (jmapp.com)
    ×1.22 140 | 3 points by sunhp 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. MoonBASIC: A modern BASIC for building 2D and 3D games (github.com/CharmingBlaze)
    ×0.93 19 #45 | 66 points by klaussilveira 14 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Fosnie – open-source self-hosted AI workspace for regulated teams (fosnie.dev)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by bellapai 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe (oneplus.com)
    ×2.58 14 | 586 points by pilililo2 1 day ago | 362 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: 18KB ls alternative in no_std rust and Libc (crates.io)
    ×0.58 118 | 23 points by tracyspacy 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Web App Uses RTL-SDR to Align HDTV Antenna (tunerscope.com)
    ×1.03 119 | 27 points by robotastic 5 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. The lost joy of music piracy (pigeonsandplanes.com)
    ×3.77 9 #79 | 821 points by mcgin 2 days ago | 582 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Behind the scenes: watching media on the browser (2021) (asyncimpulse.com)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by csmantle 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. The Sandpaper Cover of the Return of the Durutti Column (2014) (redbullmusicacademy.com)
    ×1.21 | 2 points by ravetcofx 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Vörwatch: The VPS Monitoring Tool (medium.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by vektormemory 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Make senders work to get into your inbox (captchainbox.com)
    ×1.42 98 | 44 points by felixdoerp 2 days ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. What Happened to Novell NetWare? Why the King of the Network Disappeared (youtube.com)
    ×0.98 | 2 points by cable2600 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. As a musician, I prefer illegal downloading over Spotify (2011) (tumblr.com)
    ×2.95 59 | 75 points by teach 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: I made a Strava for logging degen trades on WSB (topyolo.com)
    ×0.45 | 2 points by dignaga69 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Learn by rebuilding Redis, Git, a database from scratch (shipthatcode.com)
    ×1.71 111 | 199 points by acley 6 days ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. The Largest Vocabulary in Hip Hop (2017) (pudding.cool)
    ×1.15 48 #61 | 11 points by cdrnsf 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Macro Lens – a deterministic 11-sensor market regime read, in plain English (getmacrolens.com)
    ×0.83 | 1 points by lindsayhiebert 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part IVa: Leadership (acoup.blog)
    ×0.94 | 2 points by gostsamo 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Minikotlin (minikotlin.run)
    ×1.50 15 | 103 points by frizlab 20 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. The Isomorphic Labs Drug Design Engine unlocks a new frontier beyond AlphaFold (isomorphiclabs.com)
    ×1.05 6 #22 | 72 points by andsoitis 9 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Canada says bridge tolls won't be split with U.S. until $6.4B of debt is repaid (cbc.ca)
    ×4.52 41 | 72 points by geox 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Justif – publication-grade text justification for the web (lyall.co)
    ×1.06 127 | 4 points by lyall 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Lobste.rs is now running on SQLite (lobste.rs)
    ×3.74 26 #40 | 188 points by abetusk 12 hours ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Free image tools that never upload your files (pixoratools.dev)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by umarratra 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Kimi K3 is the best performing model on Next.js evals (twitter.com/rauchg)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by tosh 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Tools Berry – client-side calculators with open-source tax engines (tools-berry.com)
    ×0.91 87 | 3 points by edmonddaher 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: A web based VistaPro clone (toby.github.io)
    ×1.57 134 | 11 points by tobypadilla 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. I started a “dirt notebook” (bearblog.dev)
    ×1.07 12 #12 | 57 points by herbertl 7 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. FAA lets Boeing sign off on 737 MAX, 787 airworthiness certificates again (cnbc.com)
    ×2.62 26 #35 | 173 points by hmm37 11 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Wallflower – A Quiet Social Reader (thewallflower.app)
    ×0.87 121 | 9 points by tldrthelaw 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Scribe, a CLI that builds AI agent memory from your repos and sessions (getscribe.dev)
    ×0.89 131 | 3 points by quatermain 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. At least 105 past YC founders have worked at OpenAI and Anthropic (joinedanthropic.com)
    ×2.72 16 | 302 points by ohong 2 days ago | 217 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: YouTube Guitar Tab Parser (github.com/marcelpanse)
    ×0.93 100 | 108 points by neogenix 4 days ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. The state of open source AI (stateofopensource.ai)
    ×2.51 15 #25 | 431 points by rellem 18 hours ago | 307 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model (thinkingmachines.ai)
    ×4.64 13 #86 | 1211 points by vimarsh6739 2 days ago | 289 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Uruky – The Paid European Search Engine (prose.sh)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by birdculture 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. SigLIP 2 text embedding on CPU with Rust and ONNX (github.com/Hebbian-Robotics)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by kstonekuan 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. FluencyLoop – A lighter, developer-centric SpecKit alternative (github.com/baokhang83)
    ×1.48 12 | 3 points by baokhang83 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: WFHJ.com – Work from Home Jobs (wfhj.com)
    ×0.40 | 2 points by nadermx 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Martin Picard's Mitochondrial Theory of Mind (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.93 | 4 points by nsoonhui 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Scaling to 1M concurrent sandboxes in seconds (modal.com)
    ×2.30 53 | 73 points by thundergolfer 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: IKEA Complexity Index (greg.technology)
    ×1.74 22 #14 | 19 points by gregsadetsky 4 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Lego building instructions through time (lego.com)
    ×1.68 20 #18 | 119 points by NaOH 14 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams (plos.org)
    ×1.31 11 #71 | 250 points by giuliomagnifico 1 day ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. The Secret Math Society Known Simply as Nicolas Bourbaki (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.83 | 1 points by pykello 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Brazil Eyes Film Royalties and Drug Patents in US Tariff Retaliation (riotimesonline.com)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by vrganj 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Be the ChatBOT (bethechatbot.com)
    ×2.22 66 | 48 points by keito 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Nobie – an Excel-compatible runtime for agents and humans (nobie.com)
    ×1.62 108 | 96 points by matthewgapp 4 days ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Reviving a 15-year-old netbook with Arch Linux (parksb.github.io)
    ×1.58 1 #4 | 95 points by parksb 5 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. The Zilog Z80 has turned 50 (goliath32.com)
    ×1.28 6 #6 | 216 points by st_goliath 13 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Frame – Linux X server in Assembly (isene.org)
    ×1.50 15 #59 | 146 points by guybedo 17 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Cicy-code – a local-first multi-agent coding workspace via npx (github.com/cicy-ai)
    ×0.95 | 2 points by cicyai 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: QBasic Gorillas (Repeeled) (gameswithtony.com)
    ×1.06 79 | 30 points by TonyAlicea10 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. An Update on Igalia's Layer Based SVG Engine in WebKit (Reducing Layer Overhead) (igalia.com)
    ×1.08 16 #16 | 43 points by bkardell 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Frank Lloyd Wright’s first home (architecturaldigest.com)
    ×0.94 26 #29 | 100 points by NaOH 16 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. VulnHunter: Capital One's agentic AI code security tool (capitalone.com)
    ×0.80 32 #57 | 68 points by medina 20 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Lific: Issue trackers should be simple, right? (lific.dev)
    ×1.62 82 | 4 points by Void_Null 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Claude Code: Anatomy of a Misfeature (olafalders.com)
    ×2.09 40 | 139 points by oalders 18 hours ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Clawk – Give coding agents a disposable Linux VM, not your laptop (github.com/clawkwork)
    ×1.59 84 | 223 points by celrenheit 4 days ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???