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  1. Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones (toneyalexander.github.io)
    ×2.02 | 195 points by automatoney 2 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today (2026-08-04) (short-stories.co)
    ×2.78 6 | 471 points by askvictor 7 hours ago | 212 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. When AI Benchmarks Plateau: A Systematic Study of Benchmark Saturation (arxiv.org)
    ×1.02 9 | 31 points by doppp 1 hour ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X (github.com/ryanzhou)
    ×1.64 9 | 283 points by zhoutong 7 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. First Came the DOGE Cuts, Then Came the Wildfires (outdoorlife.com)
    ×4.30 13 | 10 points by hn_acker 28 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Germany Records Historic 12B KWh Solar Feed-In in July 2026 (solarquarter.com)
    ×1.86 5 | 103 points by johnbarron 3 hours ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Truemetrics (YC S23) Is Hiring in Berlin – GTM Lead (ycombinator.com)
    35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Keyv and friends compromised in active Shai-Hulud supply chain attack (aikido.dev)
    ×1.79 8 | 152 points by cimi_ 6 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. LLMs reward expertise (seangoedecke.com)
    ×4.95 8 | 1259 points by MaxMussio 20 hours ago | 518 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Online ad giant Adform was hacked, proving once again why ad blockers are needed (weekinsecurity.com)
    ×2.95 5 | 105 points by speckx 2 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Buckminster Fuller: everything I know (bfi.org)
    ×0.91 10 | 92 points by simonebrunozzi 6 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Dates That Don't Exist (2015) (yossarian.net)
    ×1.04 8 | 70 points by EndXA 4 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI (techcrunch.com)
    ×4.60 10 | 110 points by thewebguyd 1 hour ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Harness Engineering for Self-Improvement (lilianweng.github.io)
    ×1.83 9 | 228 points by tosh 11 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc (birchtree.me)
    ×3.88 11 | 407 points by surprisetalk 5 hours ago | 473 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Looking inside a 1970s PROM chip that stores data in microscopic fuses (2019) (righto.com)
    ×0.95 23 | 26 points by Jimmc414 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. The AI Demand Bubble (wheresyoured.at)
    ×5.51 11 | 62 points by 7777777phil 1 hour ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Why Large Language Models Fail at Tabular Prediction (arxiv.org)
    ×1.15 15 | 76 points by sbulaev 7 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Show HN: Fine-tune an 8B model on a 4 GB laptop GPU (github.com/MakazhanAlpamys)
    ×1.12 3 | 92 points by MakazhanAlpamys 6 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. RCade: The Arcade Cabinet with CI/CD Deployment, Custom Graphics Card for CRT [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.44 41 | 28 points by evakhoury 5 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Why etymologies matter: How tracing words can illuminate history (2024) (resobscura.substack.com)
    ×1.06 15 | 73 points by benbreen 7 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone (github.com/leonickson1)
    ×1.63 13 | 278 points by leonickson 15 hours ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Rebuilding and analysing 4 years of Wordle stats from WhatsApp chat logs (omgmog.net)
    ×0.37 33 | 17 points by surprisetalk 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science (openai.com)
    ×2.54 18 | 605 points by milkshakes 1 day ago | 888 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Devtools must be open source (exe.dev)
    ×2.76 20 | 694 points by bryanmikaelian 1 day ago | 227 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Homebench – Benchmark local LLMs for speed, memory, and quality (github.com/david-g-3654)
    ×0.80 29 | 48 points by davai-g 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Amazonian civilization had estimated 3M people in 3% of forest area (science.org)
    ×1.50 23 | 249 points by marojejian 17 hours ago | 182 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf] (wpi.edu)
    ×2.37 18 | 291 points by pmg101 18 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Webb telescope finds signs of ancient disaster for Neptune's moons (reuters.com)
    ×1.74 14 | 18 points by Teever 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Learning-Rust.Github.io: Rust Programming Language Tutorials for Everyone (learning-rust.github.io)
    ×0.84 34 | 37 points by dumindunuwan 7 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Archaeologists Find Ancient Glyphs in the Amazon (nytimes.com)
    ×0.56 52 | 41 points by wglb 9 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog (nelson.cloud)
    ×6.04 30 | 638 points by meysamazad 6 hours ago | 391 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Mosh in a Lift (2012) (mosh.org)
    ×0.92 11 | 38 points by gavide 5 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Twenty Years of Pandoc (pandoc.org)
    ×3.25 36 | 372 points by fiddlosopher 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. That time when I failed the Microsoft interview (ochagavia.nl)
    ×1.24 36 | 120 points by wofo 15 hours ago | 270 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Smaller, faster, safer: running Kimi and GLM at scale (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.57 44 | 259 points by ascorbic 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)
    ×1.06 31 | 213 points by whoishiring 19 hours ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. No Meat Proxy (nomeatproxy.com)
    ×2.19 67 | 6 points by kamilap 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. MiniMax H3 Day-0 Support in ComfyUI: Open Weights, Native Audio, and 2K Video (comfy.org)
    ×1.50 46 | 318 points by vblanco 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. FFmpeg 9.0 (github.com/FFmpeg)
    ×3.48 31 | 391 points by gyan 8 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. You don't need React: creating a minimal UI library in Vanilla JavaScript (pedroth.github.io)
    ×1.99 9 | 118 points by pedro_movai 9 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Andy Pavlo joins ClickHouse to establish ClickHouse Labs (clickhouse.com)
    ×1.95 39 | 328 points by nikolay_sivko 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)
    ×1.06 47 | 140 points by whoishiring 20 hours ago | 357 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Launch HN: Hoplite (YC S26) – Effortlessly deploy cloud coding agents (hoplite.sh)
    ×0.52 69 | 76 points by BenceRed 23 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. It's not a fear of "AI communism"; it's a fear of competitive market capitalism (observationalepidemiology.blogspot.com)
    ×1.72 39 | 8 points by speckx 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. "Clean" Code, Horrible Performance (2023) (computerenhance.com)
    ×1.88 15 | 84 points by FrojoS 7 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Celebrating 45 Years of Kermit with the First New C-Kermit Release in 15 Years (complete.org)
    ×1.06 46 | 173 points by roryirvine 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Where .env Went Wrong (secretspec.dev)
    ×1.73 34 | 73 points by domenkozar 3 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Beauty in my backyard (worksinprogress.co)
    ×0.59 43 | 42 points by footest 12 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. More German than many Germans (mertbulan.com)
    ×5.41 27 | 591 points by mertbio 1 day ago | 449 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Enabling the next iteration of the borrow checker on nightly (rust-lang.org)
    ×2.01 13 | 15 points by arto 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Spotify just hit 300M Premium subscribers (engadget.com)
    ×1.05 1 | 9 points by ksec 2 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Decades-old fish sauce at abandoned factory in Canada finally being removed (defector.com)
    ×1.91 43 | 261 points by ohjeez 1 day ago | 281 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. 200 Milliseconds (thenodebook.com)
    ×2.63 9 | 316 points by dimitarpanov 22 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. How Hollywood stopped making movies in Hollywood (statsignificant.com)
    ×1.31 39 | 209 points by speckx 1 day ago | 246 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Safe Lock-free Primitives with iceoryx2's ByteAtomic (ekxide.io)
    ×0.33 42 | 14 points by elfenpiff 7 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Windows XP 2002 for the Itanium: Unbridled rage (virtuallyfun.com)
    ×1.14 32 | 123 points by jandeboevrie 19 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Diamond industry misjudged threat of lab-grown gems, says Anglo American CEO (ft.com)
    ×1.74 32 | 10 points by JumpCrisscross 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Replacing the Kobo Libra H2O Battery (ei3lh.eu)
    ×0.87 45 | 90 points by austinallegro 21 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. AirLLM 70B inference with single 4GB GPU (github.com/lyogavin)
    ×1.38 39 | 228 points by Anon84 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Scientists find clearing cholesterol from blood also removes forever chemicals (independent.co.uk)
    ×2.72 12 | 10 points by thunderbong 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork (qwen.ai)
    ×4.65 3 | 1092 points by ai2027 1 day ago | 595 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Spain to see first total solar eclipse in more than a century (euronews.com)
    ×1.38 4 | 4 points by Markoff 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code (ankursethi.com)
    ×2.72 8 | 518 points by mpweiher 1 day ago | 427 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. ZX Spectrum System Tour: Text Mode (wordpress.com)
    ×0.78 49 | 54 points by rbanffy 19 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Massively Parallel Postgres Backups (planetscale.com)
    ×1.12 36 | 118 points by ksec 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Trembling Photons in Non-Abelian Electric Fields (aps.org)
    ×0.47 49 | 15 points by bookofjoe 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. KisakCOD – Open-source reimplementation of Call of Duty 4 Multiplayer (github.com/SwagSoftware)
    ×1.15 43 | 77 points by skibz 22 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. What's the largest software project AI can complete on its own? (epoch.ai)
    ×1.40 41 | 97 points by yusufozkan 1 day ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Less Protein, Not More, May Lead to Healthier Aging (nautil.us)
    ×2.15 42 | 21 points by Brajeshwar 3 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. This Month in Ladybird – July 2026 (ladybird.org)
    ×1.50 11 | 22 points by exploraz 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. NPM Packages in the Keyv and Cacheable Namespaces Compromised (socket.dev)
    ×1.88 14 | 4 points by tilt 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. ZX Spectrum System Tour: Sound (wordpress.com)
    ×0.70 62 | 49 points by ibobev 23 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Ioskeley Mono (github.com/ahatem)
    ×1.44 64 | 36 points by carlos-menezes 20 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. What DMARC Protects You From, and What It Does Not (senderledger.com)
    ×0.96 42 | 132 points by adulion 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: cctap – see and reach the Claude Code session that needs you (github.com/chipmates)
    ×1.17 94 | 3 points by micstradev 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. The Dunning-Kruger effect may just be a data artefact (2020) (mcgill.ca)
    ×1.89 10 | 160 points by audreyfei 21 hours ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. The AI Productivity Gap (bjornroche.com)
    ×1.90 48 | 132 points by kiyanwang 1 day ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. SQLite Critical CVEs or LLM Slop? (jfrog.com)
    ×3.23 28 | 719 points by ymir_e 1 day ago | 368 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. SwiftUI After 7 Years (ykvm.com)
    ×1.97 44 | 270 points by mpweiher 1 day ago | 301 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Listnr – macOS meeting transcription that never mixes mic and speakers (github.com/rokib16x)
    ×3.26 38 | 7 points by rokib16x 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. The Billable Usage API: programmatic cost visibility for Cloudflare (cloudflare.com)
    ×0.67 54 | 54 points by ashleypeacock 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Norway became a global salmon behemoth. Now it's facing the consequences (abc.net.au)
    ×1.86 72 | 212 points by CHB0403085482 2 days ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. IPC-7351B Electronic Component Zero Orientation [pdf] (2010) (scancad.net)
    ×0.33 66 | 14 points by gregsadetsky 13 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library (github.com/janestreet)
    ×1.91 3 | 373 points by KolmogorovComp 1 day ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Train Simulator Controller (z80.me)
    ×0.99 51 | 105 points by austinallegro 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Cloudflare Workers and Containers now support inbound TCP connections and gRPC (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.58 62 | 56 points by aofeisheng 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Bending Spoons buying Airtable for $2.2B (techcrunch.com)
    ×3.00 23 | 13 points by tonylucas 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Battle of the Beams (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.23 19 | 61 points by petethomas 19 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Paranoia – Get a cold, adversarial review of your code (github.com/subvertnormality)
    ×1.90 72 | 4 points by Grahf 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???