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  1. AI coding is a nightmare. Am I the only one experiencing this?
    ×1.89 36 #71 | 28 points by sollawen 5 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Since when does Craigslist's front page have emojis?
    ×0.37 32 #88 | 35 points by argee 14 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)
    ×1.09 41 | 238 points by whoishiring 1 day ago | 280 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Why are so many "AI evangelists" posting such insufferable content?
    ×1.82 19 | 43 points by seattle_spring 14 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)
    ×0.83 62 | 145 points by whoishiring 1 day ago | 400 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. AskHN: Using 'claude -p' for running Mr.Jassy - AWS butler agent
    ×0.33 | 2 points by anoop_kumar 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Reducing AI costs with smart pricing
    ×0.50 | 2 points by millereffect 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Once you make your money from vibe coding innumerable products, then?
    ×0.36 | 2 points by keepamovin 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How do you get your open-source product good traction?
    ×0.70 81 | 3 points by akarshhegde18 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Tell HN: Old Reddit now requires login
    ×3.46 68 | 81 points by jay_kyburz 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Burned out, how do I get out of the rut?
    ×0.91 83 | 6 points by brandgefahr 11 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Best Local LLM Setup for a 128GB M4 Max Mac Studio?
    ×1.26 74 | 4 points by linzhangrun 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Tell HN: Installing Cursor on iOS irreversibly changes your privacy settings
    ×1.94 72 | 246 points by zkldi 2 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Rust sort_unstable_by with more complex closure unexpectedly shrunk binary
    ×0.33 112 | 5 points by tracyspacy 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Seattle Just Had an Earthquake
    ×0.56 107 | 11 points by tobinfekkes 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?
    ×1.55 86 | 31 points by yehiaabdelm 2 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. I'm opening VSCode less and less every day
    ×1.59 104 | 19 points by othmanosx 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Stopping token burn because of agents sticking in a loop
    ×0.18 | 2 points by driftguard 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Will AI force CS to focus on what to build instead of how to build it?
    ×0.21 | 2 points by amichail 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Should I go open-source or give free trial and then charge the users?
    ×0.51 118 | 3 points by akarshhegde18 14 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Fire and Coast Fire Tracker · Streamlit
    ×0.98 75 | 3 points by Rossklot 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Secure wrapper for coding agents?
    ×0.33 139 | 20 points by rjzzleep 2 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Are Claude models broken with the Fable 5 update?
    ×0.80 134 | 7 points by jackjd 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Why aren't companies hoarding AI talent?
    ×0.70 115 | 5 points by playorizaya 19 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: What does a good day at work look like in the AI era?
    ×0.80 | 2 points by akashwadhwani35 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Where is the programming profession going?
    ×1.07 144 | 165 points by syntaxbush 1 week ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: What things might help me to become inference engineer?
    ×0.54 141 | 4 points by chalshik 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Line by Line Agentic Coding
    ×0.66 138 | 6 points by notshore 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Tell HN: I'm not excited for Fable and am disappointed in Karpathy
    ×0.87 140 | 6 points by behnamoh 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: What do you use computer mode for?
    ×0.67 142 | 4 points by aryamaan 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: What books did you enjoy reading recently?
    ×1.76 93 | 5 points by JeanMeche 13 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Is anyone running local LLMs in their organization?
    ×1.37 128 | 7 points by harry8 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't (schueller.net)
    ×4.23 27 #28 | 470 points by talonx 4 hours ago | 321 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: AnythingLLM Fork as NPM Package (github.com/fred-terzi)
    ×0.83 | 2 points by fred_terzi 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as protection (f-droid.org)
    ×6.53 21 #32 | 1613 points by drewfax 1 day ago | 689 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 (twitter.com/AnthropicAI)
    ×4.44 7 #87 | 964 points by Pragmata 2 days ago | 683 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Editorial: It's time to step up and have your say for science (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.38 | 2 points by rbanffy 57 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. DConf '26 Schedule (dconf.org)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by pjmlp 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Speculative pre-positioning: off-path decode for stateful inference sessions (arxiv.org)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by logotype 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Claude Fable 5 Promotional Access (claude.com)
    ×3.04 64 | 102 points by zbikowski 1 day ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. German button maker searched rivers of American Midwest for valuable shells (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×1.03 35 #39 | 151 points by bookofjoe 20 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Visualizing Contrastive Language-Audio Pretraining (Clap) (adamsohn.com)
    ×1.00 102 | 3 points by dataviz1000 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. crustc: entirety of `rustc`, translated to C (github.com/FractalFir)
    ×1.94 2 #4 | 265 points by Philpax 9 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. The short leash AI coding method for beating Fable (okturtles.org)
    ×1.51 22 #16 | 128 points by Riseed 13 hours ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Why jet engines aren't made in China (aakash.substack.com)
    ×2.32 41 #66 | 293 points by paulpauper 1 day ago | 272 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. The Law of Leaky Abstractions (2002) (joelonsoftware.com)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by SmartHypercube 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Three Hundred Fifty-Four Fireworks per Second. Is it a good idea? (chadtopaz.com)
    ×0.35 | 1 points by mattoxic 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. ZCode: Claude Code from the Makers of GLM (z.ai)
    ×2.46 24 | 276 points by handfuloflight 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: C++, Java and C# light-weight-logger (github.com/PenguineDavid)
    ×0.55 143 | 12 points by PenguineDavid 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Superpowers 6 (fsck.com)
    ×1.56 11 #19 | 143 points by seahorseemoji 12 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Salt – a systems language with Z3 theorem proving in the compiler (salt-lang.dev)
    ×0.88 89 | 43 points by bneb-dev 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. An American Privacy Emergency (scottaaronson.blog)
    ×2.79 9 #13 | 297 points by flowercalled 8 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. FBI Seizes NetNut Proxy Platform, Popa Botnet (krebsonsecurity.com)
    ×1.80 48 #44 | 29 points by k1m 10 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Forgejo Appliance, a private Git server based on OrbStack and Tailscale (github.com/highpost)
    ×1.40 135 | 7 points by highpost 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. What to learn to be a graphics programmer (demofox.org)
    ×1.97 5 | 416 points by atan2 1 day ago | 240 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Kubelens-If kubectl works, you're ready. A browser UI for your cluster (github.com/jialinhuang00)
    ×1.70 114 | 4 points by jiaLin1014 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. JEP 539: Strict Field Initialization in the JVM moved to preview (openjdk.org)
    ×0.71 35 #48 | 62 points by za3faran 13 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Small Molecules Have More Information per Atom Than Biologics (corinwagen.github.io)
    ×1.58 61 #73 | 12 points by sebg 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Spanish government 'quietly bans use of Palantir' in critical state systems (lbc.co.uk)
    ×3.45 76 | 93 points by donpott 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Smol Machines (smolmachines.com)
    ×2.33 59 #63 | 18 points by fumplethumb 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Fable 5 is Back (twitter.com/claudeai)
    ×4.15 1 | 405 points by mfiguiere 1 day ago | 413 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. A retrospective of my time on the internet (cleberg.net)
    ×2.46 47 | 267 points by felixdoerp 1 day ago | 297 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Last and First Men (1930) (gutenberg.org)
    ×0.36 | 1 points by petethomas 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation (playstation.com)
    ×3.72 18 | 772 points by Tiberium 1 day ago | 770 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. WinPE as a stateless harness for Windows driver testing and fuzzing (bednars.me)
    ×0.73 56 #68 | 82 points by piotrbednarsalt 22 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: A graph paper generator that renders vector PDFs in the browser (freegraphpaper.net)
    ×1.14 17 #78 | 99 points by lam_hg94 19 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. The Data Recipe for Teaching AI New Skills [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.93 | 2 points by aborovykh 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. AI fake news complaining about how AI fake news is the death of real news (niemanlab.org)
    ×2.44 20 | 156 points by thm 20 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: 4isX – A game to make the target from four digits (akhdan.dev)
    ×1.14 87 | 3 points by akhdanfadh 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Collection of skills to help improve UX and AI Product design (github.com/tommyjepsen)
    ×1.80 96 | 4 points by tommyjepsen 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Fli – 18KB CLI file listing tool in no_std rust and Libc (github.com/tracyspacy)
    ×1.33 121 | 3 points by yulkor 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Classify mechanical faults using Contrastive Language-Audio Pretraining (github.com/adam-s)
    ×0.56 136 | 9 points by dataviz1000 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. A Special Wireless-Free Nikon Camera Is Publicly Available for the First Time (petapixel.com)
    ×0.98 27 #18 | 58 points by HardwareLust 10 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. AI is 'not smart' so what's next in artificial intelligence? (bbc.com)
    ×1.68 22 #26 | 30 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 7 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Lightning Memory-Mapped Database Manager (LMDB) 1.0 (lmdb.tech)
    ×0.68 26 #30 | 81 points by radiator 12 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. What Happened to the Fight for the Internet? (dustycloud.org)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by birdculture 49 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Recordly: A cross-platform OSS alternative to Screen Studio (github.com/webadderallorg)
    ×1.16 | 2 points by kozika 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. First Principles of Model Routing (try.works)
    ×1.23 42 | 3 points by try-working 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Pine64 launch $50 smart speaker for Home Assistant tinkerers (omgubuntu.co.uk)
    ×2.19 71 | 136 points by edward 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Enola-A deterministic architecture graph for developers and AI agents (github.com/enola-labs)
    ×0.86 88 | 9 points by GertLH 17 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Mystery identity of 'Green Boots' climber is finally solved after DNA test (dailymail.com)
    ×1.20 12 #14 | 101 points by FireBeyond 10 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Cowboys, Frontiersmen, Settlers, Townspeople, Cityfolk (huntersoftwareconsulting.com)
    ×0.38 42 #21 | 14 points by mooreds 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. The AI Superforecasters Are Here (astralcodexten.com)
    ×0.95 | 1 points by Michelangelo11 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. The Anti-Palantir Manifesto (nym.com)
    ×5.46 69 | 113 points by eustoria 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: NeuralFit game - Adjust the neural network weights manually (ai201.site)
    ×1.19 85 | 5 points by Gooblebrai 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: UATC – A Closed-Loop Controller to Prevent GPU OOM (github.com/sajjaddoda72-design)
    ×0.95 | 2 points by L_u_u_6 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. FoundationDB's Flow – Bringing Actor-Based Concurrency to C++11 (apple.github.io)
    ×0.81 20 #27 | 62 points by sourdecor 10 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Inkwell – An RSS reader for e-ink devices (kendal.codeberg.page)
    ×0.88 27 #33 | 53 points by imkendal 10 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Amazon's Mechanical Turk to stop accepting new customers (theregister.com)
    ×3.59 32 #45 | 7 points by 50kIters 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Client-side load balancing at a million requests per second (zalando.com)
    ×0.70 74 #53 | 44 points by cjbooms 17 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???