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  1. Ask HN: Is GitHub preparing to go behind a login wall?
    ×0.96 1 #33 | 5 points by reconnecting 22 minutes ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Where are the good search engines for mathematical formulas?
    ×0.61 1 #50 | 38 points by lo0dot0 5 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: How do I setup SSO and SLO on my two WP websites with separate databases
    ×0.98 | 2 points by anitroves 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What is your AI harness that lets you switch LLM models easily?
    ×1.05 | 2 points by hbarka 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: Who wants to be hired" posts outpace "Who's hiring" 2 to 1
    ×1.36 3 #70 | 40 points by santiagobasulto 6 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Tell HN: Fable 5 promotion extended through July 12, 2026 at 11:59:59 PM PT
    ×3.97 67 | 13 points by theanonymousone 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Are LLMs slowly making companies dysfunctional?
    ×1.08 22 | 4 points by haute_cuisine 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Make good open-source products, but how to get user?
    ×0.94 48 | 3 points by Loerei 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Tell HN: Fable is now credits only
    ×0.52 90 | 9 points by teruakohatu 11 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What are alternative to Upwork for side gig?
    ×0.32 85 | 4 points by user7878 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How to find businesses running their operations on spreadsheets?
    ×0.60 | 2 points by jainvivek 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Tell HN: I managed to unsubscribe from Adobe CC without being charged
    ×0.60 103 | 23 points by frereubu 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?
    ×1.20 111 | 201 points by yehiaabdelm 4 days ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Fable 5 promo ends today – is anyone keeping it once it's usage-billed?
    ×1.14 62 | 7 points by franze 6 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Are systems ready for the first negative leap second?
    ×0.48 118 | 9 points by Asmod4n 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Claude has the worst pricing – but people want it
    ×0.64 110 | 10 points by amukbils 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: How do I find startups hiring developers for low pay and equity?
    ×1.00 82 | 4 points by Kathan2651 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)
    ×1.08 123 | 244 points by whoishiring 6 days ago | 366 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What cool stuff have you all been using Fable 5 for?
    ×0.47 109 | 11 points by Tsarp 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Is anyone using Jujutsu version control (JJ) exclusively?
    ×0.47 124 | 7 points by cabyambo 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Are there good security benchmarks for LLMs?
    ×0.27 127 | 7 points by melvinroest 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)
    ×0.82 130 | 151 points by whoishiring 6 days ago | 498 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. The Hard Parts of Streaming Audio in Voice Agents
    ×0.20 128 | 3 points by gokuljs 18 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. How are you measuring Claude Code and Codex performance?
    ×0.27 134 | 3 points by achalpandey 21 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Since when does Craigslist's front page have emojis?
    ×0.33 141 | 39 points by argee 6 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Protecting Exploration in an Efficient System
    ×0.33 | 2 points by rando77 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Why about a third of the submissions become dead in mere minutes?
    ×0.45 129 | 13 points by g-b-r 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: I use coding agents daily, but how do real engineers use them?
    ×0.29 140 | 3 points by getlawgdon 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Prospects of DNA nanotechnology in stroke repair and regeneration (nature.com)
    ×1.17 25 #57 | 3 points by bookofjoe 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Almost all coders at Id Software have been fired, following Xbox reset (xcancel.com)
    ×3.40 44 #79 | 36 points by LucidLynx 4 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Mechanized type inference for record concatenation (haskellforall.com)
    ×1.42 | 2 points by g0xA52A2A 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Half-Naked Guy (halopedia.org)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by joebig 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: A notepad that turns meeting-full days into shareable memory (pitara.ai)
    ×0.99 | 2 points by chayanvinayak 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Char-width – final answer to measure terminal text width (npmjs.com)
    ×1.28 139 | 3 points by dawson0 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Chat Control passed first round in EU Parliament (heise.de)
    ×5.02 10 #12 | 365 points by miroljub 3 hours ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Treasury Has an Internal Report Warning About the Dangers of an AI Bubble (notus.org)
    ×2.47 18 #55 | 36 points by petethomas 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. CS2 Fog Of War: Server-sided anti-wallhack occlusion culling for CS2 servers (github.com/karola3vax)
    ×1.55 61 | 100 points by LorenDB 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Resetting Xbox (xbox.com)
    ×3.95 13 #78 | 719 points by dijksterhuis 1 day ago | 872 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. The Sneakerweb (sneakerweb.org)
    ×1.36 91 | 103 points by GalaxyNova 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Reins – let coding agents drive your real, logged-in browser (karnstack.com)
    ×1.08 63 | 3 points by karngyan 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: orzma – a terminal emulator that renders webviews inside the terminal (github.com/not-elm)
    ×1.49 115 | 8 points by notelm 23 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Pros and Cons of Solo Development (johnjeffers.com)
    ×2.05 43 | 108 points by johnj-hn 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. YC CEO says he ships 37K LoC AI code per day. A developer looked under the hood (fastcompany.com)
    ×10.20 31 | 104 points by theanonymousone 10 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Fast, native Mac file manager (filters, fuzzy find, 9 MB, no Electron) (whimfiles.com)
    ×1.24 40 #41 | 72 points by whimbyte 10 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Do I prefer Linux now? (baty.net)
    ×3.26 39 | 3 points by speckx 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Small Penis Rule (wikipedia.org)
    ×4.17 88 | 165 points by chistev 1 day ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Union Busters Coming After Me (nlrbedge.com)
    ×5.96 39 | 140 points by anothermathbozo 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. How did we make DeepSeek outperform Opus (twitter.com/MrAhmadAwais)
    ×2.29 21 #66 | 14 points by ahmadawais 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. TRCR – Time tracking, projects, CRM and invoicing in one tool (trcr.pro)
    ×1.18 | 2 points by mihailshumilov 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Jim Keller's startup is building a factory to mass-produce small chip fabs (tomshardware.com)
    ×2.79 94 | 131 points by logickkk1 2 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source, local-first alternative to Claude Desktop (github.com/rowboatlabs)
    ×3.86 1 | 6 points by segmenta 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: 99 Business Ideas (jaksa.me)
    ×1.05 108 | 3 points by jaksa 11 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. NSA and IETF: Fairness (yp.to)
    ×1.95 10 #83 | 135 points by WatchDog 19 hours ago | 161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Decrypting View State Messages (zeroed.tech)
    ×1.24 | 2 points by speckx 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Access to Claude Fable 5 on all paid plans extended through July 12 (xcancel.com)
    ×4.13 58 | 6 points by mike97 38 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.24 45 | 155 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Court tosses Microsoft's appeal in pre-owned software licenses battle (theregister.com)
    ×1.75 1 #45 | 16 points by mywacaday 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Pruning RAG context down to what the answer actually needs (kapa.ai)
    ×1.04 14 #90 | 140 points by emil_sorensen 21 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. The Supreme Court Just Lit a Fuse Under Flock's License Plate Camera Empire (yahoo.com)
    ×3.45 51 | 104 points by bilsbie 1 day ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Nectar, a Rust-like React that compiles to WebAssembly (buildnectar.com)
    ×3.67 117 | 10 points by blakeburnette 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. You shouldn't trust Trusted Publishing (yossarian.net)
    ×0.87 82 #46 | 8 points by woodruffw 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Cfswitch – Switch between multiple Cloudflare accounts in Wrangler (github.com/dukeeagle)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by lukeigel 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Tracking GenAI cost and endpoint fragility so app teams don't have to (llmintel.ai)
    ×0.83 | 2 points by ATsimbalistov 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software (gamefromscratch.com)
    ×4.20 10 #11 | 346 points by bauc 3 hours ago | 329 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Automating AI Away (replicated.live)
    ×1.40 7 #18 | 43 points by gritzko 3 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Reducing Doom Loops with Final Token Preference Optimization (liquid.ai)
    ×0.41 16 #26 | 15 points by dataminer 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Better Auth is joining Vercel (better-auth.com)
    ×1.77 25 #36 | 100 points by sync 3 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Threes with Bot Game (crates.io)
    ×2.79 35 | 4 points by alfanick 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: HN-client – A fast, minimalist Hacker News terminal client in Go (github.com/aeon022)
    ×0.45 | 2 points by aeon022 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Footage Shows Cop Stalking Woman After Surveilling Her with a LPR (404media.co)
    ×4.81 59 | 114 points by Tasseographer 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: FlowHook – a file watcher that knows if your build passed or failed (github.com/etcoder-642)
    ×0.91 | 2 points by mnsrealx 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Aestheticscience.net – A website for rating academic papers (aestheticscience.net)
    ×1.08 133 | 3 points by pswjt 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained (fightchatcontrol.eu)
    ×3.86 8 #6 | 142 points by gasull 4 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. New Literalism Comes for Museums (jaymollica.com)
    ×0.48 50 #38 | 5 points by thebigship 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. A global workspace in language models (anthropic.com)
    ×2.38 2 #75 | 435 points by in-silico 1 day ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. We will happily disempower ourselves: Go edition (jcx.au)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by speckx 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Linux on the Atari Jaguar (cakehonolulu.github.io)
    ×1.21 12 | 182 points by cakehonolulu 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Odin 1.0 Announcement (youtube.com)
    ×5.90 4 | 85 points by jhack 13 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: PostgreSQL performance and cost across 23 EC2 instance types (saneengineer.com)
    ×1.12 8 #23 | 71 points by anivan_ 6 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. GitHub Freno: cooperative, highly available throttler service (github.com/github)
    ×0.61 23 #27 | 18 points by nateb2022 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Midtown Manhattan blocks evacuated after beams buckling at construction site (abcnews.com)
    ×1.87 25 #82 | 19 points by danso 3 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Fork – Let users build features on top of existing applications (withfork.co)
    ×1.15 | 2 points by realdjpaulyd 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Aluminum foil (2021) (dernocua.github.io)
    ×1.39 10 | 279 points by firephox 1 day ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Mark Zuckerberg's biggest legal nightmare yet could cost Meta $1.4T (the-independent.com)
    ×6.01 70 | 127 points by wrxd 6 hours ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: DemandMap – Memory Mapping S3 into Polars on macOS Without FUSE (github.com/sonthonaxrk)
    ×0.88 | 2 points by sonthonax 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. How to sequence your own DNA at home (bradleywoolf.com)
    ×2.12 5 #53 | 352 points by bilsbie 18 hours ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Ukraine has won the war against Russia, Finnish president tells CNBC (cnbc.com)
    ×1.95 11 | 3 points by root-parent 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Scan any website for AI design patterns (adriankrebs.ch)
    ×1.13 | 2 points by hubraumhugo 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. FOMO-Driven Development (estuary.dev)
    ×1.23 | 2 points by danthelion 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. The future of Flipper Zero development (flipper.net)
    ×2.56 50 | 391 points by croes 2 days ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???