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  1. Reverse Engineering Apple Wallet
    ×0.36 31 #80 | 3 points by asxeem 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?
    ×1.89 38 #86 | 102 points by kadhirvelm 10 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Are AWS Certs worth getting for experienced Devs?
    ×0.58 69 | 8 points by Gold-Ask-lx 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Is page 2 HN better?
    ×2.32 16 | 6 points by Towaway69 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
    ×1.18 117 | 279 points by david927 3 days ago | 1078 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Who build production apps with out seeing code?
    ×0.56 | 2 points by amukbils 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Revised Polish Alphabet
    ×0.34 | 2 points by poloniaco 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Tell HN: Fable Credits Are 150x More Expensive
    ×1.45 68 | 7 points by yesitcan 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles
    ×5.96 63 | 1083 points by levkk 2 days ago | 455 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. ChatGPT now defaults to Codex instead of chat:(
    ×0.47 133 | 3 points by amukbils 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Making something on your own(without any LLM) feels so good
    ×0.56 136 | 3 points by RajX_dev 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Anyone Else Burnt Out?
    ×1.91 129 | 11 points by lmpdev 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Should I do a CS masters at Cambridge or start as a new grad at Amazon?
    ×0.61 150 | 27 points by sspehr 2 days ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What company could create an iOS/Android competitor worth adopting?
    ×0.33 134 | 4 points by pwython 10 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. GitHub is starting to lockdown some of the previously public data
    ×1.10 108 | 9 points by punkpeye 11 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Does language complexity affect reasoning?
    ×0.70 139 | 4 points by zecice 11 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. TermShepherd- AI that audits your SaaS legal pages for free
    ×0.42 | 2 points by termshepherd 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. I reverse-engineered the three biggest agent-memory tools
    ×0.20 | 2 points by pauliusztin 13 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Question regarding personal knowledge management
    ×0.39 148 | 3 points by diarrheaasmr 15 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: How are you productive with GPT 5.6 Sol?
    ×0.70 149 | 3 points by hk__2 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: What Are You Building with AI?
    ×1.03 147 | 4 points by fraXis 16 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Evidence for JavaScript ecosystem being more vulnerable than Rust's?
    ×0.30 | 2 points by pascahousut 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Should a smartwatch track the user's emotions?
    ×0.76 151 | 3 points by accofrisk 16 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Insightful research or longreads on core teams in IT?
    ×0.31 | 2 points by sam_lowry_ 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. ChatGPT Remote Connection Failure
    ×0.19 153 | 3 points by tumidpandora 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Do y'all sit here just looking at each url pop up to engage?
    ×0.79 152 | 3 points by vanessa1211 17 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: How do you do marketing in the age of slop?
    ×1.91 125 | 9 points by probst 15 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: How do you use Vim in the era of AI?
    ×0.88 154 | 49 points by rstagi 5 days ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: US Equivalent of Anabin?
    ×0.16 | 2 points by xqb64 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Intel Makes Chipmaking History with High-NA EUV Panther Lake Production (hothardware.com)
    ×1.12 | 2 points by kristianp 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Will AI Fix Prior Authorization – Or Make It Worse? (undark.org)
    ×1.64 30 | 3 points by EA-3167 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Hillnote – local first Markdown workspace, AI via CLI, Ollama, MCP (hillnote.com)
    ×1.67 142 | 3 points by rajathbail 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Test-time training 3D reconstruction (github.com/Inception3D)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by soupspaces 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. SQLite: The Advantages of Flexible Typing (sqlite.org)
    ×0.81 | 1 points by notRobot 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: CloudDM 4.0 – open-source database development platform (github.com/ClouGence)
    ×1.24 | 2 points by cloudcanalx 56 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Mathematical texts from a Maya site in Guatemala identify an ancient astronomer (nature.com)
    ×1.15 71 | 114 points by homarp 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Redis Rubix Bridge a HTTP API Redis Gateway (github.com/rubix-studios-pty-ltd)
    ×0.97 | 2 points by rubixvi 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Running a Website Inside a Website (nonogra.ph)
    ×2.22 111 | 5 points by smalltorch 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Fork – Customize the web, just by asking (withfork.co)
    ×1.92 115 | 4 points by dhanaway518 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Ty-extended – a Ty fork with plugin support (github.com/regularkevvv)
    ×0.95 | 2 points by demoonkevin 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. US Interconnection Queues by Region, State, and County (lbl.gov)
    ×1.86 67 #72 | 5 points by toomuchtodo 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Telegram Serverless (telegram.org)
    ×2.13 5 #45 | 174 points by soheilpro 14 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. FreeBSD 16 Retires the Last of Its GPL Code from Its Base System (phoronix.com)
    ×2.80 38 #78 | 85 points by lr0 8 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. The FCC's Spam Call Proposal Is Just a Data Collection Scheme (eff.org)
    ×2.29 19 #89 | 8 points by Jimmc414 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. EBAE: A protocol for bounding the real-world authority of autonomous agents (zenodo.org)
    ×1.08 | 2 points by Akumaskills 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: An incremental build cache for Rust on GHA (github.com/clipper-registry)
    ×1.13 93 | 3 points by a_t48 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Brainless: Shadcn components that look like Claude Code, Codex and Grok (swerdlow.dev)
    ×1.56 3 #14 | 78 points by benswerd 4 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Resultant Engineering Student Tools Site (resultant.tools)
    ×1.66 | 2 points by will2092347 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Too Old for Silicon Valley? Think Again. AI Is Changing the Math (kqed.org)
    ×1.69 15 | 3 points by andsoitis 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Juggler – an open-source GUI coding agent, by the creator of JUCE (github.com/juggler-ai)
    ×1.86 54 | 272 points by julesrms 3 days ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Zoable game. Solve it cheaply (zoable-game.com)
    ×1.13 | 2 points by damaru2 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. What makes soccer so enjoyable to watch? (thomasdhughes.com)
    ×0.85 | 1 points by thomasdhughes2 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Guardian Angels: LLM Personalization for Productivity and Security (gwern.net)
    ×0.95 87 | 91 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: I implemented a neural network in SQL (github.com/xqlsystems)
    ×1.07 121 | 114 points by alxmrs 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. GPT‑Red: Unlocking Self-Improvement for Robustness (openai.com)
    ×2.46 34 #61 | 22 points by alvis 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Designing APIs for Agents (freestyle.sh)
    ×0.98 17 #24 | 40 points by benswerd 5 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Three governments agree on something the AI industry doesn't want to hear (theattachmenteconomy.com)
    ×1.90 37 #57 | 17 points by mikelgan 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Codex scraped the ICM website and discovered 2026 Fields Medal winner list (phemex.com)
    ×1.41 86 | 149 points by zaikunzhang 1 day ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model (thinkingmachines.ai)
    ×3.53 #1 | 616 points by vimarsh6739 6 hours ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. When Bugs Feel Like Sabotage (joeldare.com)
    ×1.23 81 #66 | 4 points by codazoda 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Bonsai 27B: A 27B-Class model that runs on a phone (prismml.com)
    ×2.92 34 #90 | 678 points by xenova 1 day ago | 242 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Eaon (Preview)- Private all in one AI super app (eaon.dev)
    ×1.08 | 2 points by morriszdweck 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. FCC to repeal 39% TV ownership cap in boost for Trump-friendly news orgs (arstechnica.com)
    ×7.48 49 | 13 points by derbOac 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Codex starts encrypting sub-agent prompts (github.com/openai)
    ×2.70 33 | 422 points by embedding-shape 1 day ago | 249 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. What are Forward Deployed Engineers, and why are they so in demand? (2025) (pragmaticengineer.com)
    ×1.64 120 | 103 points by saisrirampur 2 days ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Probably check on your smart appliances (xeiaso.net)
    ×1.29 78 | 95 points by xena 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. When A.I. is a member of the family (newyorker.com)
    ×1.22 1 #51 | 67 points by fortran77 8 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: BibleFollow – Scroll the Bible instead of doomscrolling (biblefollow.com)
    ×2.87 6 | 11 points by timsayshey 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: GitHub Contribution Graph Painter (stupidity.works)
    ×0.97 | 2 points by fabianse 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Greenflash – we read every conversation your AI agent has with users (greenflash.ai)
    ×2.74 113 | 5 points by sailrock 8 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: AI-powered sports analytics and social betting platform (statsniper.com)
    ×0.99 | 2 points by not_wowinter13 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU (neomindlabs.com)
    ×1.49 7 #12 | 222 points by neomindryan 9 hours ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Rzk: A Proof Assistant for Synthetic ∞-Categories (arxiv.org)
    ×0.98 61 #55 | 5 points by Jimmc414 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Homestead – Build apps for you, your family, and your agents (myhomestead.dev)
    ×1.95 137 | 3 points by rambleraptor 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. LLM Networking with MikroTik (greg.technology)
    ×1.86 10 #5 | 32 points by gregsadetsky 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Are my evals lying to me? (hoplabs.substack.com)
    ×1.60 12 | 4 points by joanwestenberg 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Carucate, An Ancient Unit of Land (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.79 45 | 3 points by frikyng 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Hardware Builders Need More Than Text-to-CAD (opuslabs.substack.com)
    ×3.07 1 | 5 points by opuslabs 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: YouTube Guitar Tab Parser (github.com/marcelpanse)
    ×0.93 123 | 108 points by neogenix 2 days ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Launching cdbx.ai with 50% off Pro Plans (cdbx.ai)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by chbutler 24 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Hedy runs its real-time meeting AI on-device (Mac/Windows/iOS) (hedy.ai)
    ×0.68 | 2 points by julp 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly (puter.com)
    ×2.30 12 #17 | 114 points by coolelectronics 3 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. What's the most popular number in Hacker News titles? (omgmog.net)
    ×0.71 39 #79 | 44 points by omgmog 11 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Free Remote Desktop Without Servers (github.com/Teylersf)
    ×0.78 | 2 points by pruufsocial 11 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Japan Builds Intelligence Agency It Hasn't Had Since World War II (nytimes.com)
    ×2.66 12 | 5 points by gmays 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. StubHub, CEO hit with ‘deceptive practices’ class action over mass scalping (cbc.ca)
    ×3.02 65 | 148 points by b112 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Dropper (dropper.page)
    ×1.96 40 | 4 points by johnwheeler 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Making 768 servers look like 1 (planetscale.com)
    ×1.58 47 #67 | 13 points by aarvin_roshin 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Spellsurf – Create words from words (spellsurf.com)
    ×1.10 68 #83 | 5 points by alexakten 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. I created S8sskills.com, an open source repo for serverless agent skills (s8sskills.com)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by jasonsmithio 26 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???