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  1. Ask HN: What are your favorite blogs not about AI?
    ×2.15 63 #70 | 67 points by azhenley 4 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
    ×4.69 2 #77 | 1298 points by nprateem 2 days ago | 747 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Freeact – undetectable browser automation CLI for AI agents via real browsers
    ×0.73 | 2 points by xuviga 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work
    ×3.74 2 | 817 points by nicholasjbs 2 days ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How are you doing threat modeling for Terraform/IaC?
    ×0.15 | 2 points by PotatoFy 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
    ×1.17 91 | 289 points by david927 1 week ago | 1123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. LG ThinQ Terms of Use
    ×1.37 58 | 62 points by tedggh 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Would you rent M3 Ultra from me?
    ×0.33 83 | 4 points by realaccfromPL 17 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Did Fable disappear from your Claude usage and requires credits now?
    ×3.40 67 | 91 points by cromka 2 days ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Is float divergence/drift a real issue in many industries?
    ×0.68 68 | 8 points by Swapnopam 18 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles
    ×5.83 65 | 1093 points by levkk 1 week ago | 458 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: USB-to-WiFi print server for old printers – do you want it?
    ×0.80 73 | 6 points by ValdikSS 19 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?
    ×1.49 87 | 134 points by kadhirvelm 4 days ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Is anyone else facing login issues on Facebook?
    ×0.82 82 | 5 points by wasi0013 20 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Are you building agents? What do they need access to?
    ×0.36 | 2 points by asim 20 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Prodigy – AI Workforce for professional teams
    ×0.41 106 | 3 points by samayashar 21 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: How do you as a normal swe use AI?
    ×0.67 95 | 4 points by atworkc 22 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. I procrastinated so hard I built a proxy to stop myself from procrastinating
    ×0.88 102 | 9 points by thisislorenzov 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Having a child before career has taken off
    ×0.52 126 | 6 points by lassearpe 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Should I do a CS masters at Cambridge or start as a new grad at Amazon?
    ×0.55 142 | 29 points by sspehr 6 days ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: I built it and nobody came. What got you your first users?
    ×0.66 136 | 11 points by deadcatfound 3 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Are AWS Certs worth getting for experienced Devs?
    ×0.50 143 | 13 points by Gold-Ask-lx 4 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Show HN: Instrumation a PYPI library for Instruments (github.com/abduznik)
    ×0.43 120 | 10 points by abduznik 1 week ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Show HN: A modern port of Linux to a ten-year-old QWERTY phone
    ×0.93 100 | 48 points by tmzt 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s
    ×8.49 1 #1 | 1815 points by section33 14 hours ago | 195 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Delete Your Data with Drop (ca.gov)
    ×2.39 23 #42 | 14 points by mooreds 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. If You Build It, They Will Come (benlandautaylor.com)
    ×2.73 1 #71 | 449 points by barry-cotter 1 day ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. WhaleTrack I track the biggest Polymarket bettors and grade them by consistency (whaletrack.app)
    ×1.21 | 2 points by whaletrack 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent (videocardz.com)
    ×6.98 52 | 1194 points by baranul 1 day ago | 602 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Clx – Compile Lua to Native Executables Through C++20 (github.com/samyeyo)
    ×1.41 70 | 143 points by _samt_ 1 week ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Libretto PR agents – Automatically fix failing playwright scripts (libretto.sh)
    ×0.47 123 | 22 points by muchael 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Knowledge graph skill for Claude/Kimi Code (org-edge.com)
    ×0.33 84 | 3 points by org-edge 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. HMD Touch 4G (hmd.com)
    ×0.62 33 #18 | 63 points by thisislife2 11 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Cagire: Live Coding in Forth (raphaelforment.fr)
    ×0.79 38 #21 | 83 points by surprisetalk 14 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Big Tech Needs to Justify AI Spending as Investors Dump Stocks (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.89 | 2 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 7 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Pkgxray (github.com/adamsjack711-ux)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by jadamsl 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. White Sands National Park and the Birth of the Atomic Bomb [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.96 | 2 points by fortran77 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Our Approach to Bioresilience: Isomorphic Labs and Google DeepMind (deepmind.google)
    ×0.68 46 | 80 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: A zoomable timeline of 4M Wikipedia events (diena.co)
    ×0.98 63 | 115 points by lortex 2 days ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: OpenClawMachines – Extending OpenClaw to the Enterprise (github.com/mathaix)
    ×0.57 141 | 41 points by mathaix 6 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Dupes took over the world (vox.com)
    ×1.25 44 #23 | 74 points by gumby 14 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ollama: All Aboard Open Models (ollama.com)
    ×2.43 48 #26 | 126 points by inferhaven 20 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Fayetteville officers fired for misusing license plate system (fox5atlanta.com)
    ×1.99 20 #84 | 21 points by pir8life4me 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. How far would hostile distributions go to hurt application developers? (tesk.page)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by uneven9434 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Regularly, hand-picked daily logic and number puzzles, no ads (regularly.co)
    ×0.81 93 | 3 points by deepakrb 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Open Source DDI Solution (DHCP, DNS, IPAM) (github.com/spatiumddi)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by mzac 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Mindwalk – Replay coding-agent sessions on a 3D map of your codebase (github.com/cosmtrek)
    ×1.08 119 | 162 points by cosmtrek 1 week ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. 11,700 Free Photos from John Margolies' Archive of Americana Architecture (openculture.com)
    ×1.12 32 #13 | 43 points by gslin 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. C64 Basic Dungeon Crawler: Goblin Attack (C64 Basic Part 8) (retrogamecoders.com)
    ×0.67 46 #17 | 64 points by ibobev 13 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Neural Drive, a SuperTuxKart World Model that runs in the browser (huggingface.co)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by codelion 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Workflow time travel to prevent agent Vision Drift (medium.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by jolaflow 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. British runner Josh Kerr breaks world record for mile which stood for 27 years (sky.com)
    ×2.58 29 | 127 points by austinallegro 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. See inside insects with an electron microscope and a femtosecond laser [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.86 1 | 3 points by pillars 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Fake News: a game
    ×0.47 | 1 points by oldfuture 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. The Most Human Technology Ever Made (a16z.com)
    ×1.04 | 2 points by kaladin-jasnah 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Data center opponents stage 142 protests across 42 US states (reuters.com)
    ×2.50 2 | 40 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 13 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: I've built a words game based on binary search (hilogame.cc)
    ×0.77 103 | 49 points by ludovicianul 3 days ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Restoring and Demoing 1960s Vintage Computers at the Computer History Museum [pdf] (ibm-1401.info)
    ×0.54 57 #60 | 41 points by rbanffy 21 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Using self-hosted Umami for iOS app analytics (hjerpbakk.com)
    ×0.77 49 #61 | 61 points by Sankra 22 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. NoWreck-A deterministic verifier for AI coding assistants (github.com/AstralXVoid)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by AstralXVoid 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Qubes OS Security in the Public Record (arxiv.org)
    ×0.85 55 | 90 points by sciences44 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Talk: The Art of Braiding Algorithms (pgadey.ca)
    ×0.44 33 #16 | 28 points by surprisetalk 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Gmail AI Inbox (google.com)
    ×1.15 | 2 points by thejacenxpress 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Salt: Salience-Aware Lexical Trie for Long-Context Compression (github.com/oteomamo)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by omamo 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: PilotCite – Get your brand cited by ChatGPT, Gemini, and more (pilotcite.com)
    ×0.56 85 | 5 points by standew 21 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Sx 2.0 – Share AI skills with your team through a Dropbox folder (sleuth-io.github.io)
    ×0.67 137 | 44 points by detkin 6 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. HomeLab #1: MikroTik as a Home Router (justsomebody.dev)
    ×1.02 19 #15 | 81 points by rafal_opilowski 9 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Bribes.fyi – Built something to report bribes (bribes.fyi)
    ×1.10 49 #57 | 23 points by neverenderr 13 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Co-evolution of self-replication and function in a digital primordial soup (arxiv.org)
    ×1.07 34 #88 | 86 points by vicgalle_ 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Super Productivity: Focus tools in one open-source app, offline and private (super-productivity.com)
    ×1.20 | 2 points by 1d22a 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Leaves – A text-UI disk usage treemap visualizer (github.com/patonw)
    ×0.95 80 | 90 points by patonw 3 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: CheckRun – a checklist runner for the Chrome side panel (checkrun.co)
    ×1.01 96 | 3 points by gingermanymph 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. DeKalb deputy charged with Flock camera misuse; more Georgia officers fired (ajc.com)
    ×3.51 49 #55 | 66 points by pir8life4me 4 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Study: Single-crystal nanowires of niobium arsenide may replace copper wires (cornell.edu)
    ×0.61 71 #79 | 11 points by giuliomagnifico 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Productivity secrets revealed Smart Sticky Notes (taskloco.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by taskloco_nyc 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. GitHub Outage (githubstatus.com)
    ×7.13 53 | 13 points by rumblefrog 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Real-Time LuaTeX: Recompiling Large Documents in 1ms [pdf] (tug.org)
    ×0.96 39 | 65 points by amichail 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. US health agency says cyclospora finding at produce company was false positive (cbc.ca)
    ×3.05 16 #34 | 15 points by nianderwallace 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. The Anti-Palantir Manifesto (nonogra.ph)
    ×5.44 39 #48 | 34 points by arkhiver 3 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Speech Recognition and TTS in less than 500kb (github.com/moonshine-ai)
    ×2.49 1 #53 | 550 points by petewarden 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Elixir-lang.org has a new design (elixir-lang.org)
    ×1.88 8 | 248 points by bbg2401 1 day ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: A self-hosted AI that turns Hacker News into a daily briefing (github.com/RecNes)
    ×0.76 52 | 3 points by SencerH 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Harness Engineering (github.com/lopopolo)
    ×2.00 27 | 77 points by handfuloflight 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Deepsec (github.com/vercel-labs)
    ×1.30 36 | 57 points by handfuloflight 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Rep Cammack says China has deployed 'digital twins' of every lawmaker (thehill.com)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by gscott 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Ask HN: Which blog have you recently found to be your favorite?
    ×0.49 | 1 points by vinhnx 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. I automated my PC's chores with a tool that's been in Windows for 20 years (makeuseof.com)
    ×1.79 4 | 3 points by ripe 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Satan's 19th-Century Bank Note (historytoday.com)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by Caiero 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. The Computer at the Bottom of a Canal (negroniventurestudios.com)
    ×1.38 32 | 173 points by Kudos 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Land Atlas – soil, farmability, and crop analysis for land listings (railway.app)
    ×0.70 44 #35 | 64 points by L3dge 15 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???