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  1. AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
    ×4.66 6 #9 | 1246 points by nprateem 1 day ago | 722 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work
    ×3.95 1 #12 | 722 points by nicholasjbs 19 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. LG ThinQ Terms of Use
    ×2.20 12 #20 | 26 points by tedggh 1 hour ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. I procrastinated so hard I built a proxy to stop myself from procrastinating
    ×1.80 39 | 3 points by thisislorenzov 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Having a child before career has taken off
    ×0.52 46 | 3 points by lassearpe 5 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
    ×1.18 88 | 287 points by david927 5 days ago | 1114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Did Fable disappear from your Claude usage and requires credits now?
    ×5.29 | 89 points by cromka 21 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: I've told everyone about my startup and its been harder than I thought
    ×0.76 61 | 4 points by bunnybomb2 8 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?
    ×1.54 76 | 132 points by kadhirvelm 3 days ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles
    ×5.87 57 | 1091 points by levkk 5 days ago | 456 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Is AI sycophancy a way to reduce compute rather than make users happier?
    ×0.13 | 2 points by amichail 20 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: I built it and nobody came. What got you your first users?
    ×0.65 113 | 9 points by deadcatfound 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Should I do a CS masters at Cambridge or start as a new grad at Amazon?
    ×0.57 145 | 28 points by sspehr 4 days ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Who gets credits on big math questions solved by LLMs?
    ×0.39 119 | 9 points by silentmafia 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Fable 5 dropped from subscriptions before the promised July 19 date
    ×2.67 56 | 22 points by Ryan_Li 21 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Is GPT-5.6 Sol Max Worth It?
    ×0.18 | 2 points by yohji1984 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: How do you handle the actual situation with so much AI noises
    ×0.49 117 | 4 points by ThierryRkt 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. How do you guys keep up with AI news?
    ×0.76 104 | 13 points by anirudhc2005 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Are AWS Certs worth getting for experienced Devs?
    ×0.51 139 | 12 points by Gold-Ask-lx 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Tell HN: Codex may have reached 10M active users; usage limits reset again
    ×1.26 71 | 5 points by linzhangrun 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: What are you working on(2026)?
    ×0.45 127 | 4 points by adithyaharish 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Trump Media to sell instant access to 'market-moving' social posts (bbc.com)
    ×13.77 8 | 170 points by NikxDa 1 day ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Run all your sites SEO on autopilot (boldpilot.club)
    ×2.28 64 | 3 points by Utopyasz 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook (blog.google)
    ×1.92 15 | 366 points by xnx 1 day ago | 182 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: Instrumation a PYPI library for Instruments (github.com/abduznik)
    ×0.44 66 | 10 points by abduznik 6 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent (videocardz.com)
    ×6.32 4 #5 | 578 points by baranul 5 hours ago | 309 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. British runner Josh Kerr breaks world record for mile which stood for 27 years (sky.com)
    ×2.64 4 #15 | 8 points by austinallegro 33 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Leenar – Tell us what you're building, we deploy your infra (leenar.net)
    ×1.03 | 2 points by Leenar_AI 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. MoonBASIC: A modern BASIC for building 2D and 3D games (github.com/CharmingBlaze)
    ×0.89 46 #61 | 70 points by klaussilveira 21 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. If You Build It, They Will Come (benlandautaylor.com)
    ×0.87 | 1 points by barry-cotter 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. The Fermi Paradox, Percolation, and Inbreeding (reactormag.com)
    ×1.96 | 2 points by bryanrasmussen 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. A Companion Robot Company Just Landed a Classroom (jgcarpenter.com)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by MaysonL 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. How can a dugnad save the web? (vivaldi.com)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by filippoalbertin 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Stacks – an hourly card solitaire about building four gardens (plan9.kr)
    ×3.01 148 | 6 points by sungchi 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Frank Lloyd Wright’s first home (architecturaldigest.com)
    ×0.90 49 #46 | 106 points by NaOH 23 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Kaiser nurses say AI, surveillance are making their jobs and patient care worse (localnewsmatters.org)
    ×2.96 35 #49 | 530 points by gnabgib 17 hours ago | 356 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Japan and Korea Parliament Members Archive (eastasiainsights.com)
    ×1.31 48 | 4 points by cksmct 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Enterprise Haskell at H-E-B (haskell.org)
    ×1.64 6 | 3 points by birdculture 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. GrapheneOS recommended for domestic abuse victims (privacypros.com.au)
    ×2.66 20 | 176 points by aussieguy1234 1 day ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Guide to data tools landscape for developers (sinja.io)
    ×1.21 53 | 128 points by OlegWock 2 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. I started a “dirt notebook” (bearblog.dev)
    ×1.01 29 #25 | 91 points by herbertl 14 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Build: Mobile-First AI Creation on Roblox (roblox.com)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by nyku 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. US data center protests go national as backlash grows (reuters.com)
    ×0.84 | 1 points by vrganj 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Revisiting Yliluoma's ordered dither algorithm (30fps.net)
    ×0.58 32 #30 | 24 points by ibobev 8 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Ente – Opening Our Books (ente.com)
    ×1.83 43 #80 | 286 points by Sherex 2 days ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. SpaceX stock drops to a new low and loses $1T in value in a month (businessinsider.com)
    ×5.03 10 | 70 points by 01-_- 21 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: OpenClawMachines – Extending OpenClaw to the Enterprise (github.com/mathaix)
    ×0.57 137 | 41 points by mathaix 4 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. FAA lets Boeing sign off on 737 MAX, 787 airworthiness certificates again (cnbc.com)
    ×2.44 10 #58 | 183 points by hmm37 18 hours ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Jacquard, a programming language for AI-written, human-reviewed code (github.com/jbwinters)
    ×1.11 105 | 102 points by jbwinters 4 days ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: IKEA Complexity Index (greg.technology)
    ×1.78 5 #26 | 114 points by gregsadetsky 11 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Starlink from 1984 (nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com)
    ×0.74 54 #87 | 70 points by ingve 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Official Jagex Launcher for Linux (runescape.com)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by Venn1 15 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star (bbc.com)
    ×2.24 12 #14 | 491 points by neversaydie 1 day ago | 290 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. In-toto: A framework to secure the integrity of software supply chains (in-toto.io)
    ×0.74 32 #23 | 52 points by Erenay09 10 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Photos of items from families in different countries with different incomes (gapminder.org)
    ×3.21 55 | 116 points by uneven9434 1 day ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Leaves – A text-UI disk usage treemap visualizer (github.com/patonw)
    ×0.96 67 | 90 points by patonw 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. SPCX is now Wall Street's most shorted new stock (invezz.com)
    ×5.05 68 | 80 points by lbrito 1 day ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: A web based VistaPro clone (toby.github.io)
    ×1.56 141 | 11 points by tobypadilla 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Static search trees: 40x faster than binary search (2024) (curiouscoding.nl)
    ×1.68 24 #29 | 163 points by lalitmaganti 19 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Scaffold a raw idea into something ship-ready in under a minute
    ×0.47 | 1 points by xnslx 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. The human-in-the-loop is tired (pydantic.dev)
    ×4.20 3 | 308 points by haritha1313 1 day ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Senbonzakura – remove the safety guardrails from open AI models (github.com/elementmerc)
    ×0.52 136 | 3 points by ElementMerc 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Testing in Python (mkikta.com)
    ×1.55 24 | 3 points by mkikta 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: An interactive guide to how my spring-mass physics synthesizer works (anukari.com)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by humbledrone 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Decoy Font (mixfont.com)
    ×3.07 3 #77 | 705 points by ray__ 1 day ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. The lost joy of music piracy (pigeonsandplanes.com)
    ×3.78 2 #84 | 827 points by mcgin 2 days ago | 583 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. CO2 overload, detected in human blood, suggests toxic atmosphere within 50 years (springer.com)
    ×7.05 18 | 67 points by OutOfHere 23 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Capn-hook for coding agents – don't grep the same mystery twice (github.com/cyrusNuevoDia)
    ×0.60 111 | 29 points by knrz 5 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Painterly – Turn pictures into digital paintings without generative AI (github.com/jbunke)
    ×1.42 123 | 22 points by flinkerflitzer 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro? (amateurphotographer.com)
    ×1.57 4 #3 | 65 points by aanet 3 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. More Bounce to the Ounce (mceglowski.substack.com)
    ×1.11 43 #50 | 132 points by pavel_lishin 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. DBUF Encoding and Protocol (github.com/bintoca)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by pierogitus 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Health Economics Rust Crate
    ×0.40 | 1 points by jph 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. The Zilog Z80 has turned 50 (goliath32.com)
    ×1.31 17 #17 | 253 points by st_goliath 20 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Homomorphically encrypted CIFAR-10 inference in 200ms (belfortlabs.cloud)
    ×1.37 30 #72 | 83 points by j2kun 23 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. How to Train a Gen AI Kick Drum Model on Your Old Linux Desktop with 6GB VRAM (zhinit.dev)
    ×1.08 60 #76 | 159 points by zhinit 2 days ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Google Gemini launch delayed as tech falls short of internal goals (reuters.com)
    ×3.02 67 | 5 points by sega_sai 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Memetic transfer: ecosystem of information exchange, and the attention economy (suriya.cc)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by subygan 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Ask HN: What Is Best for Marketing YouTube or Other Social Media
    ×0.45 | 1 points by HSK11 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Argument duello game with your friend – AI judge decides who's right (wram.chat)
    ×2.06 90 | 5 points by revolt2tech 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Notvex – encrypted local-first notes with SQLCipher and XChaCha20 (github.com/GFrancV)
    ×0.47 | 2 points by GFrancV 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. EU ban on destruction of unsold clothes and shoes enters into application (europa.eu)
    ×4.78 4 #8 | 56 points by robtherobber 1 hour ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Why is tiny Norway so good at sports? It's more than Erling Haaland (csmonitor.com)
    ×1.65 30 #65 | 12 points by RickJWagner 3 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Learn by rebuilding Redis, Git, a database from scratch (shipthatcode.com)
    ×1.71 114 | 199 points by acley 1 week ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Blockbeam – A block puzzle game built with React Native (google.com)
    ×0.80 | 2 points by makbar890 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Elixir-lang.org has a new design (elixir-lang.org)
    ×1.74 | 2 points by bbg2401 12 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: YouTube Guitar Tab Parser (github.com/marcelpanse)
    ×0.93 101 | 108 points by neogenix 4 days ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Self-hosted voice AI agent for Asterisk/FreePBX (github.com/hkjarral)
    ×1.29 131 | 31 points by hkjarral 5 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Turn your singing voice into printable notes (in the browser) (om-intelligence.ch)
    ×1.05 36 #90 | 90 points by busssard 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Detecting LLM-Generated Texts with “Classical” Machine Learning (lyc8503.net)
    ×1.35 30 | 241 points by uneven9434 1 day ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???