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  1. Tell HN: I managed to unsubscribe from Adobe CC without being charged
    ×0.71 35 | 19 points by frereubu 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. The Hard Parts of Streaming Audio in Voice Agents
    ×0.16 | 2 points by gokuljs 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Claude has the worst pricing – but people want it
    ×0.84 60 | 9 points by amukbils 11 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Are systems ready for the first negative leap second?
    ×0.59 73 | 8 points by Asmod4n 12 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?
    ×1.21 95 | 200 points by yehiaabdelm 3 days ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What cool stuff have you all been using Fable 5 for?
    ×0.38 68 | 8 points by Tsarp 12 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. How are you measuring Claude Code and Codex performance?
    ×0.33 79 | 3 points by achalpandey 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Protecting Exploration in an Efficient System
    ×0.47 | 2 points by rando77 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Is anyone using Jujutsu version control (JJ) exclusively?
    ×0.46 94 | 6 points by cabyambo 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Are there good security benchmarks for LLMs?
    ×0.29 96 | 7 points by melvinroest 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ripple Calculator: Complete Guide to XRP Profit and Conversion
    ×0.57 104 | 3 points by blockyyr 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)
    ×1.08 114 | 244 points by whoishiring 5 days ago | 353 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: I use coding agents daily, but how do real engineers use them?
    ×0.16 | 2 points by getlawgdon 13 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Opinion: Agents > Unix Shell
    ×0.44 112 | 3 points by akiarie 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Why submit your AI-written article?
    ×1.56 87 | 6 points by blinkbat 14 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What should I verify before releasing a P2P messenger?
    ×0.39 88 | 6 points by Realman78 14 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What are some programming languages you wish you could use more?
    ×0.42 | 2 points by mghackerlady 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Why about a third of the submissions become dead in mere minutes?
    ×0.43 111 | 12 points by g-b-r 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)
    ×0.82 125 | 151 points by whoishiring 5 days ago | 489 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Are you emotionally attached to AI code?
    ×0.37 124 | 3 points by CurleighBraces 16 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. I built a local-first replacement for TV Time before it shuts down July 15
    ×0.30 | 2 points by continuitytv 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: What internal tools/SASS replacements are you building?
    ×0.22 | 2 points by kostarelo 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Tools/approach to pentest my own framework/SaaS?
    ×0.28 | 2 points by shinobi-apps 18 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Open-source website builders for animated sites like Higgsfield?
    ×0.70 121 | 4 points by adithyaharish 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Since when does Craigslist's front page have emojis?
    ×0.33 129 | 39 points by argee 6 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Tell HN: Error: Claude-fable-5 is temporarily unavailable
    ×0.63 126 | 3 points by throwaw12 19 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Claude Code deletes conversations after 30 days
    ×0.44 | 2 points by mieubrisse 20 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: What is your go-to prompt to prove AI can be wrong?
    ×0.20 | 2 points by throwaway_887 20 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Do you guys struggle with finding a right person for your FDE role?
    ×0.47 127 | 3 points by getelementbyiq 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: What browser extensions or front ends do you use for reading HN, if any?
    ×3.14 50 | 7 points by GaryBluto 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Happy Independence Day
    ×1.47 123 | 36 points by GauntletWizard 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Where are the good search engines for mathematical formulas?
    ×0.26 130 | 3 points by lo0dot0 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Why are the upvote arrows so small?
    ×0.79 128 | 5 points by guilhermeasper 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: What is the best version of full Linux in the browser?
    ×0.43 | 2 points by smalltorch 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Tool for Auditing Embedded Linux Hosts (github.com/nstarke)
    ×1.52 119 | 3 points by bootbloopers 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. An independent evaluation of TabFM, Google's tabular foundation model (yashrajpandey.com)
    ×0.88 55 #88 | 16 points by yashrajpandey 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Learning another language appears to slow brain ageing by up to 13 years (theguardian.com)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by giuliomagnifico 17 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. GPTBot is the most blocked crawler among websites that get organic traffic (sitestatsdb.com)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by keywordian 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Silicon Physics Sandbox (bergkv.ist)
    ×2.15 86 | 5 points by bergkvist 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Full Writeup of the Windows GDID (github.com/SmtimesIWndr)
    ×1.03 7 #20 | 57 points by typeofhuman 7 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. China built a 40-story tower that stores wind power by stacking concrete (boingboing.net)
    ×1.31 | 2 points by eric_h 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Al Vigier: Canada's AI strategy shouldn't include secret Palantir bills (readtheline.ca)
    ×1.96 17 | 163 points by ClearwayLaw 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: A strategy game about the AI race where you can't verify alignment (criticalwindow.org)
    ×3.33 98 | 6 points by micstradev 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Introduction to Genomics for Engineers (learngenomics.dev)
    ×1.71 23 #37 | 236 points by yreg 21 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.20 25 #82 | 144 points by bookofjoe 16 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Cindy – Managing infrastructure at breakneck speed (cindy.rs)
    ×0.65 | 2 points by martinkroner 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: JWT Lens – decode and verify JWTs offline, provably no network (github.com/milovance23)
    ×0.52 | 2 points by milovance 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. You need a webring (shub.club)
    ×0.95 47 | 98 points by forthwall 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Pulpie – Models for Cleaning the Web (usefeyn.com)
    ×0.96 24 #41 | 85 points by snyy 13 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Every AI Company Needs a Context Graph. None of Them Need the Same One (hydradb.com)
    ×1.68 | 2 points by manveerc 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Agent-Assisted SGLang Development: An Initial Exploration (lmsys.org)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by gmays 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Introduction to Compilers and Language Design (2021) (dthain.github.io)
    ×1.94 19 | 318 points by AlexeyBrin 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Noriento – Train your sense of direction (noriento.com)
    ×1.03 77 | 3 points by markoberkes 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. X509-limbo: testvectors and tooling for evaluating X.509 path validation (x509-limbo.com)
    ×0.69 59 #61 | 8 points by sscaryterry 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: orzma – a terminal emulator that renders webviews inside the terminal (github.com/not-elm)
    ×1.73 54 | 8 points by notelm 10 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Xbox 'OG' Adventures (mamoniem.com)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by davikr 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Shadcn/UI now defaults to Base UI instead of Radix (shadcn.com)
    ×1.43 37 | 279 points by dabinat 2 days ago | 161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Google Chrome Installed a 4GB AI Model on Your PC (oztalking.com)
    ×3.57 13 | 77 points by haebom 14 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. The AI Marketing Backlash: Why 'AI-First' Brands Are Starting to Fall Flat (breef.com)
    ×2.60 2 | 77 points by hasudon7171 17 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. M/PC – A Concatenative OS (xxiivv.com)
    ×1.23 29 #25 | 52 points by caminanteblanco 9 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Januscape: Guest-to-Host Escape in KVM/x86 [CVE-2026-53359] (github.com/V4bel)
    ×1.05 22 #27 | 89 points by Imustaskforhelp 12 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Microsoft PhotoDNA flags users child sexual abusers on images containing a grid (twitter.com/tallcowyt)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by miohtama 18 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Cursed circuits #5: capacitance multiplier (lcamtuf.substack.com)
    ×1.20 40 | 115 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Ternlight – 7 MB embedding model that runs in browser (WASM) (ternlight-demo.vercel.app)
    ×2.36 2 #7 | 151 points by soycaporal 6 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Geocentric Orrery (navlist.net)
    ×1.37 64 #60 | 9 points by helterskelter 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Maestro: Agentic Mobile UI Testing (maestro.dev)
    ×1.70 | 2 points by handfuloflight 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Sel – macOS screen sharing that shows only the windows you pick (toron.dev)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by ariaghora 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Autonomous flying umbrella follows and shields users from rain and sunlight (designboom.com)
    ×1.93 55 | 99 points by amichail 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Capsule – E2E encrypted file sharing (withcapsule.dev)
    ×0.89 | 2 points by seanathan 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Evaluation order and nontermination in query languages (rntz.net)
    ×0.60 44 #29 | 29 points by luu 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Taiganet.com, Home of the WS4000 Simulator (taiganet.com)
    ×0.75 50 #38 | 21 points by Aloha 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Not everything should cost a token: the case for deterministic AI (vybe.build)
    ×1.08 49 #46 | 14 points by marwann 7 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Craig Mod built his own Good Reads (craigmod.com)
    ×1.20 #48 | 19 points by natbennett 4 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Using the secure enclave in a pass/password-store iOS client (modiot.com)
    ×0.48 | 2 points by floathub 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Linux on the Atari Jaguar (cakehonolulu.github.io)
    ×1.22 8 #11 | 126 points by cakehonolulu 11 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership (bearblog.dev)
    ×3.76 1 #73 | 658 points by popcar2 1 day ago | 505 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Supreme Court won't block Texas enforcing age verification law for app downloads (apnews.com)
    ×1.38 | 2 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 57 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Sculpt a Vase (killedbyapixel.github.io)
    ×1.10 | 2 points by memalign 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: A Wordle game that insults you as you play (trydoff.dev)
    ×0.96 | 2 points by shreyasjk 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Giving a domain a hill to climb: benchmarking as data activation (sparsethought.com)
    ×0.60 25 #31 | 8 points by galsapir 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. How to Design a Cancer Vaccine (owlposting.com)
    ×2.58 1 | 4 points by iskander 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: A little cat that counts your tokens (Claude and codex) (jpthecat.com)
    ×0.92 | 2 points by saddington 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Small AI Models Gain Traction In places with unreliable networks (ieee.org)
    ×2.05 3 #6 | 75 points by sscaryterry 5 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Pruning RAG context down to what the answer actually needs (kapa.ai)
    ×1.02 8 #9 | 76 points by emil_sorensen 8 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Zuckerberg's Increasingly Bizarre War on Whistleblowers (pluralistic.net)
    ×4.76 44 | 125 points by deely3 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Autoops – Multi-region data and service mesh operated by a Makefile (github.com/neospe)
    ×1.34 76 | 3 points by leschak 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Dike is a compliance gateway for AI products in the EU (d1k3.com)
    ×0.98 | 2 points by orbanlevi 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. DARPA program to make 30 yr batteries for drones from nuclear waste (defenseone.com)
    ×2.22 8 #90 | 4 points by Gaishan 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. When AI Costs More Than the Engineer (tomtunguz.com)
    ×2.28 5 | 124 points by kiyanwang 22 hours ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Code Review Enviornment for the Modern Era (plannotator.ai)
    ×1.22 84 | 4 points by ramoz 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???