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  1. Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
    ×1.25 7 #5 | 173 points by david927 8 hours ago | 650 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: How do you set comp at an early stage startup?
    ×0.82 | 2 points by jeffreyfate 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What Project are you the most proud of?
    ×0.66 | 2 points by emn4tor 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Recommended Merchant of Record and Affliate Setup
    ×0.38 53 | 3 points by tisdadd 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Are functional programmers more upset about how good AI is at coding?
    ×1.19 30 | 8 points by amichail 6 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Should a coding client import another client's rules by default?
    ×0.39 | 2 points by ryanmerket 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: My dev blog has 11k followers. I stopped writing it. What would you do?
    ×0.65 69 | 6 points by zlatkov 12 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How do you go from writing code to deploying with agents?
    ×0.48 76 | 14 points by sakuraiben 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. The Systemic Collapse of the AI Industry: Ideology, Hardware, and CapEx Crisis
    ×0.47 68 | 5 points by impartial2602 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. The State of Google
    ×1.14 78 | 12 points by 3dedb728-3f77 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What is your database size
    ×0.34 92 | 7 points by kureikain 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Should AI's tell you they're AI?
    ×0.51 71 | 7 points by logicallee 15 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Is Ask HN Shrinking?
    ×0.56 89 | 18 points by keiferski 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Why is Open POWER Foundation a wasteland?
    ×0.72 94 | 8 points by climate_denier_ 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Anyone that has built a marketplace, what has been your experience?
    ×1.11 96 | 6 points by mfisc_019 23 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Agentcn – Installable AI Agents
    ×0.30 101 | 4 points by anayat 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Mossad accicentally injected data to a French lawyer phone instead of extracting
    ×2.00 65 | 21 points by 0x54MUR41 22 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Is there a mobile operating system with (wasi) container support?
    ×0.43 75 | 3 points by wseqyrku 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. DeepSeek announced to raise its API price tremendously
    ×0.46 119 | 31 points by alexwwang 3 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: In your experience, what are sound conventions for e-ink UI development?
    ×1.30 134 | 6 points by BoxOfRain 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: What can I do with a single R9700?
    ×0.19 122 | 4 points by scott01 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Laguna S 2.1:118B-a9B better than Qwen3.5:122B-a10B? So far, yes
    ×0.16 147 | 4 points by spottedmarley 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Did GitHub remove the stargazers list?
    ×0.65 129 | 28 points by reconnecting 4 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Read HN twice a day for the last decade. Here's my list of S-Tier HN links
    ×2.40 103 | 111 points by vivzkestrel 4 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. How AI is breaking the British State
    ×1.06 108 | 5 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Georgia police officers fired after Flock camera misuse (wtoc.com)
    ×4.02 22 #25 | 99 points by chirau 4 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Why Wall Street is ignoring big tech's debt [video] (youtube.com)
    ×3.44 24 #44 | 75 points by johnbarron 13 hours ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. GitHub issues as long-term memory for coding agents (meshintelligence.substack.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by meshintel 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Modern C++ Build Tools for Module Feature (github.com/mcpp-community)
    ×0.52 123 | 7 points by sunrisepeak 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: SIMD Viterbi Decoder in Rust (github.com/brian-armstrong)
    ×0.79 116 | 64 points by brian-armstrong 5 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Picophysics: Single file physics for games on platforms like N64, PSX, DC (gitlab.com)
    ×0.87 29 #10 | 12 points by klaussilveira 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Everything you do is being recorded (theatlantic.com)
    ×3.22 18 #14 | 214 points by ike_usawa 14 hours ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. When Compilers Disagree About UTF‑8 (nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com)
    ×0.89 28 #26 | 35 points by rbanffy 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Iran Is Rewiring Its Proxy Network (nationalreview.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by petethomas 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S. (nytimes.com)
    ×4.84 32 | 231 points by sbulaev 1 day ago | 321 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS (textlog.cc)
    ×1.32 61 | 199 points by stagas 2 days ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Sift – Fast local file organizer CLI with 1-click transaction undo (github.com/taevel02)
    ×1.02 88 | 3 points by taevel02 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Defcon and HN, the only two audiences I might find
    ×1.24 105 | 5 points by ycombiredd 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Clef – spaced repetition for piano over MIDI (playclef.com)
    ×1.77 132 | 7 points by danieldratschuk 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. The Anatomy of a Pass (davidorban.substack.com)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by mayukh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. 3G at Last (nickvsnetworking.com)
    ×0.91 | 2 points by birdculture 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Pacific Slate: a self-hosted, model-agnostic multi-agent AI assistant (pacslate.com)
    ×1.52 34 | 5 points by badwx 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: A tool to auto-generate .vscode/settings.json and extensions.json (github.com/RKasai127)
    ×1.55 85 | 3 points by rkasai 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. A partial digestion of the HRT counterexample (wordpress.com)
    ×0.62 65 #36 | 28 points by ijustlovemath 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386 (os8088.com)
    ×1.50 16 #60 | 244 points by jggonz 1 day ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Popular WPForms Lite put a backdoor in their plugin (twitter.com/SybreWaaijer)
    ×1.95 4 #66 | 7 points by hackerbeat 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. “Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers (senko.net)
    ×6.20 37 #78 | 869 points by senko 1 day ago | 533 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. NOVC: Venture Capital Free (novc.fyi)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by xyzzy_plugh 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Yahtzee – Ballpark Figures (ballparkfigures.substack.com)
    ×1.13 | 2 points by cptroot 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. A Brief History of the U.S. Trying to Add Backdoors into Encrypted Data (2016) (atlasobscura.com)
    ×1.07 | 2 points by downbad_ 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: SynapsCLI – lightweight agent runtime in Rust, control an agent swarm (github.com/HaseebKhalid1507)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by 0x04am 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Idol Mahjong Final Romance: A Slideshow Disguised as a Video Game (nicole.express)
    ×0.99 | 2 points by nicole_express 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: VD – TUI Password Manager and OTP Authenticator for Unix (github.com/ahmedhosssam)
    ×2.01 99 | 7 points by ahmedhosssam 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Anything Could Become a Battleground (lareviewofbooks.org)
    ×1.07 | 2 points by lermontov 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Open-source binaural-beats engine (github.com/txus)
    ×0.81 93 | 4 points by txus 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Tom Stanton's supersonic trebuchet breaks sound barrier with gravity alone (techeblog.com)
    ×3.67 18 #34 | 222 points by Thorondor 10 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. The original URL for this prediction will no longer be available in 11 years (2011) (longbets.org)
    ×1.66 7 #67 | 200 points by doubletwoyou 21 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Tearable UI (pushmatrix.github.io)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by yen223 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Meme factories: Indonesians trade political outrage clicks for Facebook cash (theguardian.com)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by Barbing 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Tuxedo No. 2 – Cocktail recipes (tuxedono2.com)
    ×1.12 14 #8 | 48 points by smartmic 5 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: A Project Oberon System version running on RISC-V instead of RISC-5 (github.com/rochus-keller)
    ×0.77 31 #20 | 105 points by Rochus 13 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Human vs. AI – Diff-based line-level provenance for text under agentic editing (github.com/eighttrigrams)
    ×0.64 39 #32 | 44 points by eighttrigrams 10 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Two wheels, a few tradeoffs, and gas prices (raed.dev)
    ×0.94 23 #40 | 20 points by Raed667 6 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Nixpkgs-multiverse: every version that ever existed (fzakaria.com)
    ×1.64 25 | 3 points by domenkozar 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU (getutm.app)
    ×1.55 23 | 210 points by electricant 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Make a Fake MySpace Profile (allthedamn.tools)
    ×0.92 | 2 points by kilroy123 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: A Discord bot running in a 4MiB microVM (github.com/IanSeyler)
    ×0.65 125 | 3 points by ianseyler 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Andrew Wiles on proving Fermat’s Last Theorem (1995) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.81 26 #12 | 34 points by jackdoe 5 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM (notebookcheck.net)
    ×5.41 13 #19 | 371 points by akyuu 10 hours ago | 303 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Black lung rates in Appalachia are high as the 1970s (npr.org)
    ×1.76 12 #58 | 14 points by mooreds 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. LinkedIn Feed Blocker (github.com/andrewpollack)
    ×1.59 20 | 180 points by andrewpollack 1 day ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: A free DOCX editor with MCP server for editing (revise.io)
    ×2.89 97 | 14 points by artursapek 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: File-based HTTP endpoints for Python with its own isolated dependencies (github.com/tanrax)
    ×0.38 141 | 5 points by andros 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Mea Culpa – Dark Hours (terrygodier.com)
    ×2.78 1 #3 | 561 points by satvikpendem 12 hours ago | 253 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: 35k+ paper psychedelic library that knows LSD from Lumpy Skin Disease (consciousnesslibrary.org)
    ×1.47 37 #43 | 12 points by elliotec 5 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Simple, multi-key sorting algorithm for 2D+ points gridification (github.com/ArmanddeCacqueray)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by adec314 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. A startup is able to detect fires within minutes using satellites and AI (netbajura.blogspot.com)
    ×0.37 | 2 points by AllForAll 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. The Hacker's Renaissance (2025) (phrack.org)
    ×1.59 19 #29 | 96 points by yu3zhou4 5 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. The Alpha 21264 CPU: NT's Greatest RISC (1998) (halfhill.com)
    ×0.82 47 #31 | 85 points by Lammy 15 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Albedo – single-file listenable document database in Zig (github.com/klirix)
    ×1.32 28 | 3 points by askhatsaiapov 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. The phone book that led us to Assad's spy chief in hiding (bbc.com)
    ×1.51 49 | 45 points by cwwc 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Open-source pixel art editor with animation and auto-tiling tilesets (simplepixelart.com)
    ×2.54 136 | 8 points by lam_hg94 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face (simonwillison.net)
    ×2.82 #89 | 419 points by 882542F3884314B 1 day ago | 405 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Why the Kaggle API Gave Me the Wrong Private Leaderboard (medium.com)
    ×0.81 | 1 points by encinas88 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Avoid "Eatslop" (soups.vercel.app)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by convolutedsoup 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.51 13 | 304 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 494 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Oans – fast deduplication for btrfs and XFS (github.com/martinus)
    ×0.96 145 | 3 points by sunitram 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. The Ambition Project (betonit.ai)
    ×0.89 61 #24 | 4 points by herbertl 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.11 73 #49 | 81 points by Eloissssss 23 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country (newrepublic.com)
    ×4.24 3 | 253 points by geox 1 day ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???