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  1. Ask HN: Buy Me a Coffee Alternative
    ×1.31 | 2 points by sudo_cowsay 20 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. How are you measuring Claude Code and Codex performance?
    ×0.58 11 | 3 points by achalpandey 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Tell HN: I managed to unsubscribe from Adobe CC without being charged
    ×0.75 25 | 13 points by frereubu 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Are systems ready for the first negative leap second?
    ×0.64 48 | 7 points by Asmod4n 6 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Claude has the worst pricing – but people want it
    ×0.97 36 | 7 points by amukbils 5 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Protecting Exploration in an Efficient System
    ×0.72 | 2 points by rando77 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What cool stuff have you all been using Fable 5 for?
    ×0.41 37 | 8 points by Tsarp 5 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ripple Calculator: Complete Guide to XRP Profit and Conversion
    ×0.44 | 2 points by blockyyr 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?
    ×1.22 108 | 200 points by yehiaabdelm 3 days ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Are there good security benchmarks for LLMs?
    ×0.30 87 | 7 points by melvinroest 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: I use coding agents daily, but how do real engineers use them?
    ×0.18 | 2 points by getlawgdon 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Opinion: Agents > Unix Shell
    ×0.51 99 | 3 points by akiarie 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What should I verify before releasing a P2P messenger?
    ×0.40 74 | 6 points by Realman78 8 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What browser extensions or front ends do you use for reading HN, if any?
    ×3.21 2 | 6 points by GaryBluto 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Is anyone using Jujutsu version control (JJ) exclusively?
    ×0.32 95 | 4 points by cabyambo 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Are you emotionally attached to AI code?
    ×0.39 119 | 3 points by CurleighBraces 10 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. I built a local-first replacement for TV Time before it shuts down July 15
    ×0.32 | 2 points by continuitytv 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: What internal tools/SASS replacements are you building?
    ×0.23 | 2 points by kostarelo 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Tools/approach to pentest my own framework/SaaS?
    ×0.29 | 2 points by shinobi-apps 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Why about a third of the submissions become dead in mere minutes?
    ×0.43 117 | 12 points by g-b-r 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Open-source website builders for animated sites like Higgsfield?
    ×0.73 113 | 4 points by adithyaharish 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)
    ×1.08 130 | 244 points by whoishiring 5 days ago | 348 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Tell HN: Error: Claude-fable-5 is temporarily unavailable
    ×0.66 131 | 3 points by throwaw12 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Claude Code deletes conversations after 30 days
    ×0.46 | 2 points by mieubrisse 14 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: What is your go-to prompt to prove AI can be wrong?
    ×0.21 | 2 points by throwaway_887 14 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Do you guys struggle with finding a right person for your FDE role?
    ×0.50 133 | 3 points by getelementbyiq 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)
    ×0.82 141 | 151 points by whoishiring 5 days ago | 487 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Since when does Craigslist's front page have emojis?
    ×0.33 148 | 39 points by argee 6 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Why are the upvote arrows so small?
    ×0.82 145 | 5 points by guilhermeasper 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Happy Independence Day
    ×1.49 134 | 36 points by GauntletWizard 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Where are the good search engines for mathematical formulas?
    ×0.27 149 | 3 points by lo0dot0 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. LongCat-2.0
    ×0.52 147 | 6 points by rika321 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: How are you staying productive using LLMs?
    ×0.42 140 | 5 points by thallavajhula 23 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: What do you do with the user guide of the universe?
    ×0.17 | 2 points by KenographerPrim 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: How to get a non-technical friend into tech?
    ×0.55 139 | 6 points by yesitcan 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Good fast IDE for reading and navigating code in multiple languages
    ×0.41 146 | 6 points by akkad33 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Even banks and hyperscalers are now sounding the alarm about the AI bubble (theregister.com)
    ×3.69 18 #47 | 17 points by andsoitis 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Proton now using 100% Chinese LLM's – drops European and US (reddit.com)
    ×3.03 32 | 4 points by doener 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Shift: Sustainable Technology. With Love. From Germany (shift.eco)
    ×1.59 28 | 3 points by doener 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Peek-CLI: Let Claude Code See the Browser (github.com/puffinsoft)
    ×2.51 120 | 11 points by ReactRocks 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. The White Crip - Tyler Corcoran (video) (youtube.com)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by mellosouls 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Current ListenBrainz server issues/high load, Part 2 (metabrainz.org)
    ×1.08 | 2 points by max-m 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. How Kalshi Infects the News (publicnotice.co)
    ×2.66 61 | 188 points by everybodyknows 10 hours ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: The ocean in Final Fantasy IX is made of Wang tiles (jawnston.com)
    ×1.19 76 | 3 points by jawnston 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. The Junior Developer Extinction: 67% Hiring Collapse Reshaping Tech Careers (hakia.com)
    ×1.79 10 #61 | 5 points by panny 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Silicon Physics Sandbox (bergkv.ist)
    ×2.16 66 | 5 points by bergkvist 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Agent Draw: An agent draws while you talk, built on TLDraw (techstackups.com)
    ×0.72 | 2 points by jameswhitford 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Generating Dynamic Open Graph Images on Cloudflare Workers (vinayakkulkarni.dev)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by vinayakkulkarni 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Jim's TrueType QR Code Font (github.com/jimparis)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by gpvos 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Small Penis Rule (wikipedia.org)
    ×4.39 35 | 163 points by chistev 1 day ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Autonomous flying umbrella follows and shields users from rain and sunlight (designboom.com)
    ×1.95 58 | 99 points by amichail 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Hobbes – A Language and Embedded JIT Compiler (github.com/morganstanley)
    ×0.56 42 #35 | 24 points by ryan-ca 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. DOJ Closing Abbott Labs Case Spurs Wider Corporate Crime Retreat (bloomberglaw.com)
    ×2.58 29 #66 | 121 points by petethomas 8 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. SOTA genome interpretation with agentic AI: Interstitial lung disease case study (gamowlabs.com)
    ×1.62 36 #81 | 10 points by dmckinno 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Solar rail could become common in Europe after successful trial in Switzerland (euronews.com)
    ×1.76 65 #85 | 104 points by neilfrndes 1 day ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Drone Autonomy (2021) (cggonzalez.com)
    ×1.11 96 | 82 points by cgg1 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Artificiety – Agentic society in a fantasy world (early access) (artificiety.world)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by Haldt 14 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. The AI Marketing Backlash: Why 'AI-First' Brands Are Starting to Fall Flat (breef.com)
    ×2.63 19 | 77 points by hasudon7171 10 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: orzma – a terminal emulator that renders webviews inside the terminal (github.com/not-elm)
    ×0.95 60 | 3 points by notelm 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Char-width – final answer to measure terminal text width (npmjs.com)
    ×0.91 | 2 points by dawson0 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Kennel – Keep Your AI Agents Running Between Tasks (github.com/eranif)
    ×1.12 | 2 points by SableDb 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. The Fourth Root Complexity of Data Movement (arxiv.org)
    ×0.97 | 2 points by Jimmc414 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Google Chrome Installed a 4GB AI Model on Your PC (oztalking.com)
    ×3.63 39 | 77 points by haebom 8 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: DNSskills.md – agentic skills for certain DNS utilities (dnsskills.md)
    ×1.08 | 2 points by StuntPope 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Geocentric Orrery (navlist.net)
    ×1.06 | 2 points by helterskelter 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Workers Cache (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.65 58 | 188 points by ilreb 10 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Kani: A Model Checker for Rust (arxiv.org)
    ×1.26 8 #20 | 120 points by Jimmc414 7 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. When 2+2=5 (arstechnica.com)
    ×0.82 6 #69 | 71 points by noashavit 10 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Union Busters Coming After Me (nlrbedge.com)
    ×5.95 55 #75 | 125 points by anothermathbozo 7 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Behind the scenes with the Midjourney scanner [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.10 39 #79 | 78 points by Semkas 17 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Built a Website for People Who Miss the Old Web (dailicle.com)
    ×0.44 | 2 points by lucky-solanki 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: A strategy game about the AI race where you can't verify alignment (criticalwindow.org)
    ×3.34 85 | 6 points by micstradev 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: A short walking sim based on 3DGS that runs in the browser (itch.io)
    ×1.88 94 | 4 points by osense 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Toward Better Hip Kernel Generation for AMD GPUs (stanford.edu)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by skidrow 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN (vorcigernix.github.io)
    ×0.95 | 2 points by vorcigernix 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Aestheticscience.net – A website for rating academic papers (aestheticscience.net)
    ×1.38 8 | 3 points by pswjt 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. What Emily Bender meant by "stochastic parrots" (ieee.org)
    ×1.87 20 #45 | 157 points by digital55 8 hours ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Organic Maps (organicmaps.app)
    ×4.49 2 #59 | 1126 points by tosh 1 day ago | 356 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Schwifty – quickly find and reuse previously executed commands (github.com/vanesterik)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by bakkerinho 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. The Day Cryptography Changed Forever (21ideas.org)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by kehiy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Life as a State Machine; a Framework for Action-Taking (medium.com)
    ×0.79 | 1 points by sgkey28 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. NASA's request to the private sector for plans for commercial space stations (sam.gov)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by ohjeez 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. JadePuffer ransomware used AI agent to automate attack (bleepingcomputer.com)
    ×2.33 10 | 5 points by devonnull 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Record, replay, and improve AI agents in production (github.com/zenml-io)
    ×0.89 | 2 points by htahir111 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Rotman Lens (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.56 16 #16 | 64 points by thomasjb 5 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Otari: your open-source LLM control plane (github.com/mozilla-ai)
    ×0.93 66 #39 | 4 points by angpt 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Cursed circuits #5: capacitance multiplier (lcamtuf.substack.com)
    ×1.21 47 #86 | 115 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. NASA launches robot to save Swift telescope falling to Earth (bbc.com)
    ×0.84 47 #87 | 26 points by msadowski 13 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: An always-fresh memory that learns your repo, so agents stop re-reading (github.com/shofer-dev)
    ×2.11 122 | 4 points by alsterg 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: DemandMap – Memory Mapping S3 into Polars on macOS Without FUSE (github.com/sonthonaxrk)
    ×0.98 | 2 points by sonthonax 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???