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  1. Strategic Oil Reserves Down to a Record Low Two-Week Supply
    ×0.54 31 | 10 points by megamike 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Can Apple Ever Be Disrputed?
    ×0.38 57 | 4 points by Taikhoom2010 6 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: After 8 Years of Failed Apps, Should I Give Up?
    ×0.45 78 | 3 points by asoomi07 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What former "must-have" AI agent skills have you deprecated?
    ×0.18 90 | 3 points by lpjstack 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Can LLMs have an "accent" like second language speakers?
    ×0.26 | 2 points by hmokiguess 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Stripe's opt-out Radar price increase dressed up as a free trial
    ×0.35 75 | 9 points by rapind 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. I built an independent peptide testing lab that accepts mailed samples
    ×0.30 89 | 5 points by peptidelabs 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Do older programmers/CS academics view AI safety as a form of arrogance?
    ×0.17 104 | 4 points by amichail 17 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Robotics development made dead simple (open source)
    ×0.28 129 | 22 points by Ekami 4 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Navigating Source Code (especially on large projects)
    ×0.48 103 | 5 points by thekey 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. YC startup offers interviews to people who get their name permanently tattooed
    ×1.69 100 | 18 points by codexon 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Should authors disclose if they are paid to write a blog post?
    ×0.35 131 | 4 points by wseqyrku 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Tell HN: Airbnb updated "necessary" cookies aren't
    ×0.33 118 | 7 points by janalsncm 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Crooked Timber showed showed me a virus captcha, What now?
    ×0.80 116 | 43 points by Jgoauh 2 days ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Belkin killed my smart switch. I got it working again without their app
    ×0.61 124 | 13 points by gaborme 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Which one do you use for planning and coding between sonnet and Opus?
    ×0.16 132 | 3 points by neverenderr 23 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. How to get more coding productivity with LLMs
    ×0.91 125 | 8 points by DaveParkCity 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Is Cloudflare classifying opencode.ai as malware?
    ×0.20 133 | 3 points by _raz 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Show HN: Full stack development from one codebase web, Android, and iOS (github.com/usedowe)
    ×1.59 99 | 14 points by victorriba 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Show HN: ApeiroCraft – see when clients open your proposals
    ×0.95 | 2 points by lolllll 18 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. The American Grilled Cheese Sandwich Essay (2024) (buttondown.com)
    ×0.68 24 #23 | 47 points by NaOH 9 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Azulejo (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.78 9 #56 | 182 points by Amorymeltzer 23 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Show HN: Dissecting the automation of a newspaper (Claude routine, GitHub Pages) (github.com/Lywald)
    ×1.00 | 2 points by ycosynot 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Medieval Ideas About Food (lithub.com)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by simplegeek 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: Logan Basic v2.1 - An online BASIC interpreter. (sinusoft.com)
    ×0.88 | 2 points by Sinusoid314 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript (github.com/twalichiewicz)
    ×2.40 39 | 425 points by twalichiewicz 2 days ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update (deepseek.com)
    ×5.36 3 #4 | 199 points by dnhkng 2 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Cubic Doggo 06R: 12-DOF 4-Legged Robot with IMU (github.com/SphericalCowww)
    ×0.46 40 #39 | 4 points by SphericalCowww 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. CosmosEscape: Taking over Every Database in Azure Cosmos DB (wiz.io)
    ×1.18 27 #83 | 68 points by uvuv 20 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Lionel Messi Is Impossible (2014) (archive.org)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by chistev 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Slaide, open-source Markdown slides AI writes and PowerPoint opens (getslaide.com)
    ×0.98 | 2 points by ppiper 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. SodaSlim Natural Weight Management Supplement for Wellness (yahoo.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by Ikerphan 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: HimitsuObfuscator – a lightweight LLVM-17 obfuscator for any Linux (github.com/HimitsuShell)
    ×0.57 | 2 points by mushstory 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Claude Opus 5 jailbreak with a 3-word prompt (twitter.com/i)
    ×2.40 41 #68 | 19 points by gck1 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. The Role of Rigor in Artificial Intelligence (twitter.com/iamtimnguyen)
    ×0.80 | 1 points by Emerson1 9 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Russia is ramping up mass production of drone motors (theins.press)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by sirpilade 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Teen hackers tell BBC how police are helping them use their skills for good (bbc.co.uk)
    ×1.14 | 2 points by mmarian 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Stash – native Mac Markdown notes (staunchapps.com)
    ×1.54 69 | 4 points by andrewjk 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Launch HN: Prized (YC S26) – Let non-engineer staff build secure internal tools (prized.dev)
    ×0.53 54 #42 | 70 points by marinoseliades 19 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Anthropic says Claude AI hacked three organisations during cyber tests (bbc.co.uk)
    ×2.41 25 #58 | 16 points by ColinEberhardt 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Gpiozero Flow (bennuttall.com)
    ×0.83 25 #59 | 121 points by benn_88 22 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: A Handwritten Blogging Platform (handwritten.blog)
    ×2.77 33 | 5 points by emilesilvis 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. The AI trade now runs on borrowed money, and the lenders are repricing it (greyswansignals.com)
    ×2.21 87 | 130 points by haipothetical 4 hours ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. So you want to use plants to reduce CO₂ (dynomight.net)
    ×1.76 50 | 120 points by surprisetalk 14 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: State of the Feed – TikTok usage analyzed (vantezzen.io)
    ×1.42 110 | 3 points by bennett_dev 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. CodePen 2.0 (chriscoyier.net)
    ×1.30 14 #18 | 166 points by robin_reala 15 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Distilling DeepSeek into GPT-OSS doesn't transfer censorship. Try it (ctgt.ai)
    ×1.23 17 #27 | 123 points by cgorlla 14 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. How to Mount a Balcony Awning (2025) (lowtechmagazine.com)
    ×0.85 36 #55 | 61 points by karakoram 17 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Kuna: Decompiler Development in the Age of Coding Agents (noelo.org)
    ×1.06 48 | 77 points by matt_d 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Port Zero – How I learned to stop worrying and love PORT=0 (portzero.net)
    ×0.52 28 | 19 points by octopoc 4 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Darktable (darktable.org)
    ×2.49 12 | 356 points by siatko 1 day ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Dreeve, a self-hosted dashboard for your sports and fitness data (github.com/dreeveapp)
    ×0.90 113 | 15 points by frogfuhrer 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: A self-hostable, distributed, S3-compatible object store on the BEAM (github.com/wizenink)
    ×0.54 | 2 points by wizenink 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Homebutler – Homelab CLI that gives agents commands, not a shell (github.com/Higangssh)
    ×1.42 105 | 5 points by swq115 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Trusted URLs via Cryptographic Signatures (certisfy.com)
    ×0.48 49 #88 | 29 points by Edmond 18 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Free Etsy Fee and Profit Calculator (thesellermind.com)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by haimo 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Use Twenty Questions Game to Benchmark LLMs (mindalyze-com.github.io)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by p-heusser 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Forgotten memories can leave silent traces in the brain (fmi.ch)
    ×1.13 | 2 points by XzetaU8 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Superlogical (mitchellh.com)
    ×3.51 47 | 150 points by tambourine_man 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: An online Live face swap app, no GPU need (livefaceswap.ai)
    ×1.53 112 | 3 points by mixfox 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Ukraine's Kill Zone (reuters.com)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by dirtyaura 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Turning a dumb AC unit smart (without losing my security deposit) (prilik.com)
    ×1.65 35 | 205 points by austinallegro 1 day ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Some thoughts about Anthropic's new cryptanalysis results (cryptographyengineering.com)
    ×1.47 40 | 185 points by supermatou 1 day ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Shipping Godot VR and Porting to PSVR2: A Partial Post Mortem (claire-blackshaw.com)
    ×0.91 65 | 117 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. The session you cannot take with you (earendil.com)
    ×2.78 1 #1 | 272 points by apitman 5 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Why is everyone trying to build a solid-state battery? (construction-physics.com)
    ×1.32 22 #30 | 192 points by crescit_eundo 20 hours ago | 239 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Japan is launching its first centralized intelligence agency since WWII (cnn.com)
    ×1.38 | 2 points by 1659447091 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. A Trampoline (dogdogfish.com)
    ×1.24 45 | 120 points by matthewsharpe3 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Leia – a CLI to oneshot playlists onto Yoto MYO cards (github.com/nsokin)
    ×1.28 108 | 3 points by nsokin 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. AI's top startups are barely publishing their research (science.org)
    ×2.63 11 #65 | 604 points by YeGoblynQueenne 1 day ago | 315 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Apple's genius play – MacBook Neo (monkeylike.substack.com)
    ×0.97 | 2 points by TIJ 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. The bond market isn’t buying what Fed Chair Warsh is selling (reuters.com)
    ×4.38 84 | 117 points by kaycebasques 5 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Skytrace – Self-hosted 3D ADS-B viewer with receiver coverage domes (luftaquila.io)
    ×0.50 | 2 points by luftaquila 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: SwiftNet 0.6.0 – Lightweight l2 C networking lib (pcap and early DPDK)
    ×0.72 | 2 points by morcules 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both were accepted as orals (geospatialml.com)
    ×1.59 10 #8 | 185 points by volumes94 10 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Are We Stuck with Lean? (mathoverflow.net)
    ×1.52 28 #45 | 139 points by jjgreen 21 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. System Administrator Appreciation Day July 31, 2026 – 27th Annual (sysadminday.com)
    ×1.33 | 2 points by electrosphere 50 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran (digitaldigging.org)
    ×3.62 40 | 6 points by LordAtlas 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. KOReader (koreader.rocks)
    ×3.12 23 | 741 points by Cider9986 1 day ago | 241 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Local text, image, video, music and 3D from one CLI, no Python (github.com/sawfwair)
    ×0.66 49 | 13 points by sawfwair 19 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. What 20M Bans Reveal About the Stress on Wikipedia's Volunteers (techdirt.com)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by beardyw 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. At the end of the day, my slaves are just a tool (lesswrong.com)
    ×1.03 | 2 points by jesseduffield 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. 1,741 "informed" consents with one click? GDPR complaint filed (noyb.eu)
    ×7.19 2 | 163 points by dotcoma 1 day ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Collie – a local AI harness that runs the browser, desktop and code (github.com/colliehq)
    ×1.20 97 | 3 points by wudmaing00 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Saber-toothed cats became inbred–and struggled to move–before they went extinct (science.org)
    ×0.81 32 #28 | 51 points by gmays 11 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Toot.community is shutting down (jorijn.com)
    ×1.03 30 #78 | 43 points by speckx 16 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Decode resistor color bands instantly (pockeng.com)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by levario 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. After the AI Crash (potsandpansbyccg.com)
    ×3.50 61 | 126 points by sysoleg 1 day ago | 234 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Eloqra - Live Chat with Telegram integration (eloqra.app)
    ×1.82 41 | 4 points by sev_tinker 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: nBases – off-market monthly rentals for nomads, direct with the host (nbases.com)
    ×1.15 115 | 4 points by antoinechstr 19 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???