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  1. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
    ×1.27 66 #28 | 235 points by david927 23 hours ago | 862 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles
    ×6.09 29 #56 | 979 points by levkk 19 hours ago | 429 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Finitude of Knowledge
    ×0.44 | 2 points by Abhishek000001 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: How do you see 3D Gaussian Splats could be used in industry?
    ×1.02 25 | 4 points by jesseandringa 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Does appearance matter more than we admit as founders?
    ×0.79 | 2 points by jmaha 42 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Tell HN: Staged NPM publishing is awful
    ×0.37 83 | 3 points by electrovir 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How do you use LLMs for private discussions?
    ×0.70 93 | 11 points by emerongi 22 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Let's talk about: LinkedIn ghost jobs
    ×0.50 91 | 14 points by xvxvx 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How do you use Vim in the era of AI?
    ×0.93 118 | 48 points by rstagi 3 days ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Omarchy 4 concerns, am I the only one?
    ×0.67 66 | 4 points by shivc 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Why isn't Google indexing information about the AT Protocol?
    ×0.91 97 | 49 points by iameli 2 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What Did You Work On? (June 2026)
    ×0.54 85 | 3 points by adithyaharish 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Anthropic extends Fable 5 access through July 19
    ×0.36 122 | 4 points by dboreham 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. How does a Dev's job look like in a few years?
    ×0.68 114 | 11 points by korrak 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Would filesystem bookmarks be useful in your shell workflow?
    ×0.40 126 | 4 points by manux81 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Has AI changed the quality of HN posts?
    ×0.83 110 | 7 points by codingbuddy 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. AI and the Fall of Writing
    ×0.28 140 | 3 points by Flundstrom2 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Tell HN: I De-Googled Myself
    ×1.12 124 | 37 points by degoogled 3 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Whats the Hardest Challenges in AI?
    ×0.62 131 | 4 points by debpalash 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Tell HN: Fable guardrails trigger on random questions
    ×0.88 132 | 7 points by nocoder 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: How do you review AI code?
    ×0.41 121 | 6 points by wonderfuly 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. An new try: C++ like program with the same characteristics as rust
    ×0.40 146 | 3 points by juntz 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Latest Debian 12 update opens MariaDB server to the internet
    ×1.34 115 | 8 points by babuskov 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Resources for non-web software architecture?
    ×0.51 148 | 3 points by xqb64 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: My father died and I need to find my path
    ×1.19 141 | 9 points by c4kar 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: What was the last task where only a frontier model could do it?
    ×0.71 133 | 24 points by thedebuglife 3 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: HN frontpage feels boring now?
    ×0.96 139 | 53 points by xeonmc 4 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. One Wikipedia page costs your AI agent 68,000 tokens
    ×0.88 144 | 14 points by arhamislam5766 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Map of All Known Knowledge
    ×0.72 143 | 8 points by Abhishek000001 2 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: List of functional institutions fighting towards a free internet
    ×0.48 | 2 points by ronfriedhaber 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Google deleting all recently inactive accounts without phone number
    ×2.01 100 | 53 points by superkuh 2 days ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Bring seamless PQC encryption into every messenger you already use
    ×0.49 150 | 4 points by kvasilev 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Sqlsure – deterministic semantic checks for AI-generated SQL (github.com/sqlsure)
    ×0.93 98 | 43 points by tejusarora 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor (get-inscribe.com)
    ×2.04 3 #1 | 325 points by get-inscribe 4 hours ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. MacKenzie Scott's giving, in quality-adjusted life years (maxghenis.com)
    ×2.30 30 | 69 points by 383toast 20 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Why write code in 2026 (softwaredoug.com)
    ×1.50 46 #63 | 205 points by softwaredoug 1 day ago | 277 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Yt-Dlp Sequence Diagrams (ilograph.com)
    ×1.62 59 | 105 points by billyp-rva 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes Reality of Urban Surveillance (wired.com)
    ×4.67 44 | 101 points by nozzlegear 8 hours ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: 18 Words (18words.com)
    ×4.24 63 | 1151 points by pompomsheep 4 days ago | 361 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Free Community Radio Player (PWA) (radiodock.app)
    ×0.58 123 | 4 points by bitmancer 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire (techcrunch.com)
    ×3.68 8 #13 | 376 points by forks 5 hours ago | 280 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Interrail: 6,379Km and 13 Countries over 7 weeks (shkspr.mobi)
    ×1.26 9 #42 | 187 points by coinfused 12 hours ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Crawlie Search – Rust powered 12x cheaper site search than Algolia (crawlie.co)
    ×0.74 | 2 points by seandotexe 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: How old is someone named Gertrude? SSA data says 80 (namestrace.com)
    ×1.54 138 | 3 points by willbuilds 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Unexpected Solidlike Fracture in Simple Liquids (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.89 76 | 98 points by Anon84 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Loot Raiders – an ARC Raiders-inspired inventory game in Svelte (loot-raiders.vercel.app)
    ×0.38 77 | 10 points by refrigerator-12 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. The Origins of Heikki's Garden of Flowers (heikkilotvonen.com)
    ×0.44 43 #18 | 9 points by panic 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Tiny Emulators (floooh.github.io)
    ×1.57 13 #71 | 329 points by naves 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Guy took Jupiter photo with Game Boy Camera, giant telescope, publishes tutorial (engadget.com)
    ×0.94 34 #81 | 68 points by thunderbong 18 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Against Usefulness (motivenotes.ai)
    ×0.98 40 #82 | 120 points by supo 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. How to Get Smart Again (postcardsbyelle.substack.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by FigurativeVoid 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Jacquard, a programming language for AI-written, human-reviewed code (github.com/jbwinters)
    ×1.69 53 | 4 points by jbwinters 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: PitchTrail – Perfect Pitch for Kids (pitchtrail.app)
    ×0.92 109 | 7 points by theckel 23 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Agent-run – Run a coding agent in a sandboxed environment (github.com/sin-ack)
    ×1.06 103 | 8 points by trashburger 23 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: I implemented a neural network in SQL (github.com/xqlsystems)
    ×1.27 12 #8 | 15 points by alxmrs 55 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Counting ArXiv Delays (fi-le.net)
    ×0.56 39 #32 | 33 points by fi-le 6 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Samsung will delete your health data if you don't let them use it to train AI (neow.in)
    ×1.89 1 | 3 points by bundie 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Benchmarking 15 "E-Waste" GPUs with Modern Workloads (esologic.com)
    ×1.19 19 #22 | 80 points by eso_logic 7 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Muse Spark 1.1 Benchmark Results: 8 Intelligence Index points more than 1.0 (artificialanalysis.ai)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by theanonymousone 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Companies turn to Chinese AI models to cut costs (ft.com)
    ×1.18 | 2 points by AnodicElegy 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Anatomy of a Governed Finance-Agent Platform (ar-ti-fi.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by RudchukA 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem (antjs.org)
    ×1.72 43 | 324 points by theMackabu 2 days ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Crucible – your AI wrote the tests, so who tested the tests? (github.com/Jott2121)
    ×0.87 | 2 points by jott2121 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Earth Game – An offline CLI for turning life goals into quests (github.com/skorotkiewicz)
    ×0.89 95 | 55 points by modinfo 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. The bread paradox: why convenience always wins, and why SaaS isn't doomed (joanwestenberg.com)
    ×1.95 3 #51 | 15 points by srijan4 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. I love LLMs, I hate hype (geohot.github.io)
    ×3.61 14 #86 | 471 points by therepanic 1 day ago | 305 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Tenclicker – a WebLLM clicker game about whatever you want (tenclicker.com)
    ×0.85 | 2 points by mattcheston 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Latent Space as a New Medium (kevinkelly.substack.com)
    ×1.03 16 #66 | 8 points by thm 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Rejit – a regex engine that can't be ReDoS'd (Pike VM, pure Python) (github.com/Wasserpuncher)
    ×0.99 | 2 points by Wasserpuncher 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Kurvengefahr – browser CAD/CAM for pen plotters (kurvengefahr.org)
    ×0.60 92 | 20 points by tibordp 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Reviving my 2001 college band with AI (fadingmaize.com)
    ×0.60 111 | 58 points by jacobgraf 4 days ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. It's not AI slop you hate (sidharthkakkar.com)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by sikakkar 10 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. A Erlang style pure Scheme Webserver and further (igropyr.com)
    ×2.27 81 | 96 points by guenchi 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Making Crash Bandicoot (2011) (all-things-andy-gavin.com)
    ×3.98 54 | 103 points by alexpls 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. First look at Quest, the final ship of Antarctic explorer Shackleton (cbc.ca)
    ×0.51 56 #79 | 45 points by curmudgeon22 18 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Under federal rule, colleges must leave grads better off or lose financial aid (npr.org)
    ×3.08 49 | 195 points by nradov 1 day ago | 527 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Apple acquires observability startup SigScalr (9to5mac.com)
    ×1.25 | 2 points by herbertl 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Designing and assembling my first PCB (vilkeliskis.com)
    ×1.01 14 | 155 points by tadasv 22 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Vagal cholinergic denervation of the gastric mucosa in Long-COVID-19 (ijidonline.com)
    ×2.46 78 | 104 points by thenerdhead 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended (whois.com)
    ×3.50 17 #20 | 62 points by Tiberium 1 hour ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. InfiniteDiffusion: Bridging Learned Fidelity and Procedural for Terrain Gen. (xandergos.github.io)
    ×1.19 | 2 points by davikr 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Fixed three bugs that made Qwen3.5-122B a daily driver on Mac Studio (mrzk.io)
    ×1.91 89 | 65 points by marzukia 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Pentaton LP – a music streamer with an LP sleeve sized display (pentaton.app)
    ×0.81 90 | 5 points by interfeco 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Almanac – A self-updating wiki from your files (usealmanac.com)
    ×0.81 | 2 points by reveriedev 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Ask HN: Feedback on my solo, local-LLM-only AI content pipeline (100 posts in) (gladlabs.io)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by gladlabs 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Accidental Anonymity (macwright.com)
    ×1.02 | 2 points by caminanteblanco 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. How early SunOS did diskless workstations before NFS (utoronto.ca)
    ×1.80 10 | 3 points by speckx 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity (theregister.com)
    ×4.31 6 | 243 points by Bender 1 day ago | 293 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Personal Biohacking Lab (selfassay.com)
    ×0.76 | 2 points by ainthusiast 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Kode Dot Programmable pocket device for makers, pentesters and geeks (kode.diy)
    ×0.92 53 #59 | 120 points by iNic 23 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???