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  1. OpenAI updates its Privacy Policy to include ads
    ×0.72 33 | 3 points by 1equalsequals1 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What physical publication do you still buy?
    ×0.29 60 | 5 points by sergiotapia 8 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. How does an ARP Spoofing Attack work?
    ×0.23 80 | 6 points by emn4tor 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Should hard-tech founders join a problem or technology-first PhD lab?
    ×0.23 77 | 11 points by misterballer 18 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?
    ×1.80 82 | 31 points by simonebrunozzi 3 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Does a human still review your code?
    ×0.51 83 | 9 points by stikit 19 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Be honest: When was the last time you cleaned up obsolete code from your repos?
    ×0.25 90 | 4 points by PangeaRocks 13 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: In your experience, what are sound conventions for e-ink UI development?
    ×0.98 103 | 214 points by BoxOfRain 1 week ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Live Experiment of the Veblen Effect
    ×0.54 96 | 5 points by henryfudgeoffic 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Do you know how much head hunters cost?
    ×0.65 108 | 5 points by mojomark 19 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What are you building with Mojo lang?
    ×0.27 | 2 points by maxchisto 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Need Help Learning Assembly
    ×0.43 118 | 3 points by kilyo 15 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What should I know before hosting eprints?
    ×0.47 119 | 3 points by logicallee 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
    ×1.43 99 | 318 points by david927 5 days ago | 1180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. New DeepSeek Pricing Published (Peak and Off-Peak)
    ×0.30 123 | 5 points by mittermayr 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What are your unfinished projects?
    ×0.27 126 | 3 points by adam_gyroscope 17 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Tell HN: In 2021, there were 4.5 jobs per job seeker vs. 2.5 job seekers/job now
    ×0.66 128 | 11 points by ed_balls 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Kakehashi Update: Running Apple Clang build and lowering overhead to 1.24x
    ×0.35 130 | 3 points by vlad_kalinkin 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Why not expand accessibility laws to include the right to use AI?
    ×0.25 | 2 points by amichail 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What's the AI Revolution "Model T Ford"?
    ×0.49 137 | 3 points by ComputerPerson 19 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Does AI watermarking present a new attack vector?
    ×0.31 129 | 4 points by nathanfig 22 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: How much money do you spend monthly on subscriptions for AI models?
    ×0.35 120 | 13 points by marko-djuric 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Move AI news from Hacker News to somewhere else?
    ×1.44 102 | 9 points by thomasfl 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How are you preventing brainrot?
    ×0.43 121 | 8 points by flyingcoder 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Qwen3.8 27B Coming to Cerebras (twitter.com/cerebras)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by Moduke 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Spain extends largest nuclear plant in policy U-turn (yahoo.com)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by mpweiher 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. DeepSeek peak/off-peak pricing update (deepseek.com)
    ×1.55 36 | 237 points by fagnerbrack 23 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: PasteDaemon – Automatically remove tracking from URLs and more (pastedaemon.app)
    ×2.14 85 | 5 points by ahalbert4 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Maximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions (claude.com)
    ×1.79 17 #17 | 217 points by twapi 17 hours ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. The Conceptual Reasoning Index (anthropic.com)
    ×1.32 66 | 78 points by optimalsolver 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Agentic Task Management (github.com/myaa2913)
    ×1.68 92 | 4 points by mcorrito 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ruby 4.0 Universal RCE Deserialization Gadget Chain (elttam.com)
    ×0.85 58 #69 | 74 points by pentestercrab 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Secondhand UK and Irish booksellers suspect AI firms behind strange bulk orders (theguardian.com)
    ×1.38 | 2 points by mellosouls 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: I spent 3 months making desktop automation stop lying to AI agents (github.com/lahfir)
    ×1.69 25 | 4 points by lahfir 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Racket v9.3 (racket-lang.org)
    ×1.82 33 #24 | 85 points by privong 15 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: LuaCAD – Parametric CAD Scripted in Lua (ad-si.com)
    ×0.96 31 #34 | 91 points by adius 16 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Alternative to Internet Archive
    ×0.90 | 1 points by earworms 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Eclipse: The Xiaomi 17 Ultra Confuses the Moon and the Sun (frandroid.com)
    ×3.80 27 | 85 points by n_plus_1_acc 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Game Developers Conference – Royalty Free Sound Effects (sonniss.com)
    ×1.22 34 #59 | 24 points by hyperific 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Chemistry AI – step-by-step chemistry solver (chemistryai.chat)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by realisticaigen 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Online SNMP MIB database - upload/view your own MIBs (mib-viewer.com)
    ×0.41 65 | 13 points by beefstew123 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Artifex - Graph Based GPU Harness for AI Agents (gatewai.studio)
    ×0.99 98 | 7 points by oknaslnkn 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Open-source and AI native web analytics (github.com/OpenLabs-so)
    ×2.16 87 | 5 points by rahulbridge 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Jobs to Be Done (stratnotes.substack.com)
    ×1.51 51 | 3 points by swastikanayak 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. DX12.0 and Vulkan 1.0 were designed for ~15 year old GPUs (twitter.com/SebAaltonen)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by ksec 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. High-performance single-GPU inference for selected model checkpoints and GPUs (github.com/Neroued)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by davedx 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. DeepSeek API Pricing Update (deepseek.com)
    ×2.68 55 | 127 points by mfiguiere 1 day ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: We mapped AI patterns before watermark removal became a mainstream (founderstoday.org)
    ×1.15 | 2 points by RichardOdds 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. The Ploopy A+ Trackball Is Here (ploopy.co)
    ×1.22 2 #18 | 101 points by big_toast 8 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. An Inside Look at the NYC Subway's Archaic Signal System (nytimes.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by thunderbong 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. An Anti-Sceptical Metaphysics and Epistemology of Perception (cambridge.org)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by XzetaU8 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election (bbc.com)
    ×4.48 80 | 442 points by tcp_handshaker 16 hours ago | 361 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. AI agents lie, cheat and steal. That is putting off users (economist.com)
    ×2.86 45 | 164 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. ATG (YC F25) Is Hiring Member of Technical Staff (Data Platform) (atg.science)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. I want extern "fil-C" (domenkozar.com)
    ×1.60 54 | 70 points by domenkozar 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Banquish – Take other websites apart and build your own (banquish.space)
    ×2.01 75 | 7 points by ghboo0927 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Tamron Lens Utility Alternative on Linux (github.com/yikerman)
    ×0.87 112 | 82 points by xiaoyu2006 1 week ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Ante, a coding agent in a single binary that runs offline (github.com/AntigmaLabs)
    ×1.13 111 | 167 points by ubermon 4 days ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Beeb, a daily Blokus-inspired block puzzle game (georgemike.com)
    ×0.87 | 2 points by haberdasher 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Woxi - Open-source Mathematica / Wolfram Language reimplementation (ad-si.com)
    ×1.62 58 | 313 points by adius 2 days ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. The Ad Tech Industry Is a Mess, and DecryptAds Aims to Do Something About It (decryptads.com)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by classified 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Ukraine Finds Nvidia AI Chip in New Russian Missile (kyivpost.com)
    ×3.68 53 | 6 points by jnord 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Riffn. An instant voice link with your AI agents and local models (riffn.io)
    ×0.98 | 2 points by riffn 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Nine PBS sues Iron Mountain over blocked access to archival data (current.org)
    ×2.63 6 | 380 points by vinayakborkar 1 day ago | 220 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Can I use my Outputs to train an AI model? (claude.com)
    ×6.67 68 | 92 points by DarenWatson 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: RAGless – similar to RAG, but $0 LLM API costs at runtime (github.com/EmilResearch)
    ×2.30 116 | 6 points by emilianoc 23 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Git-knife – Edit commit messages, authors, and dates like a spreadsheet (github.com/TheRealYT)
    ×1.04 88 | 165 points by YonathanTesfaye 3 days ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: ApplyWise – I built an AI layer for the job application process (applywise.eu)
    ×0.51 | 2 points by peter_nemec 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Going Dark, and the era of law enforcement hacking (cryptographyengineering.com)
    ×2.14 5 #3 | 337 points by vslira 12 hours ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. I turned my split-screen extension into a browser (splitser.org)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by ruusvuu 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. How to ship a database every day (turbopuffer.com)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by samuel246 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Single log line is 49KB+ (ext4) / 110KB+ (btrfs) of systemd-journald disk writes (github.com/systemd)
    ×2.08 16 | 254 points by ValdikSS 1 day ago | 219 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. How AI text watermarking works (declaude.org)
    ×3.23 33 | 131 points by padolsey 1 day ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Private prisons announce $1.4B in revenue as immigration detentions climb (npr.org)
    ×3.68 5 | 74 points by speckx 18 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Bernstein – run 44 CLI coding agents from one deterministic scheduler (github.com/sipyourdrink-ltd)
    ×0.38 | 1 points by alex_chernysh 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Google Opens the Gates of AI Slop Hell (gizmodo.com)
    ×3.08 21 | 6 points by ochrist 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin (pcworld.com)
    ×10.65 10 #11 | 991 points by DemiGuru 14 hours ago | 378 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. The Soviets Drilled the Deepest Hole Ever (nautil.us)
    ×1.58 53 #84 | 18 points by anarbadalov 15 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. How Gödel's Proof Works (2020) (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.06 44 | 119 points by tzury 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: MCP Memory – Fast Agent Memory Using Google's OKF and SQLite FTS5 (github.com/fellowgeek)
    ×0.57 76 | 62 points by pcbmaker20 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. AI agents aren't legally responsible for harm they cause. So who is? (theguardian.com)
    ×1.93 13 | 3 points by theanonymousone 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. The Embedder's Dilemma: LLMs Are Better, but at What Cost? (arxiv.org)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by sbulaev 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Streambench – Native Mac Client for Kafka and NATS (streambench.app)
    ×0.80 | 2 points by valentinprgnd 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Needle2: 14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, smart home and robots (cactuscompute.com)
    ×2.41 71 | 527 points by HenryNdubuaku 4 days ago | 182 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Shoehorn, a library to quantize an LLM to fit your Mac's VRAM (github.com/notactuallytreyanastasio)
    ×3.38 95 | 6 points by rhgraysonii 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: I serve my website with a swarm of ESP32 microcontrollers on a shelf (github.com/Novotarskyi)
    ×1.01 62 | 3 points by disco_jack 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: iPhone app takes simultaneous images from 2 lenses, fuses into 1 photo (photosynthesis.camera)
    ×1.94 74 | 328 points by sajomes 6 days ago | 304 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Seven books I keep close because I love them (plover.com)
    ×1.82 11 #33 | 349 points by surprisetalk 18 hours ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. WhatCable: Know what your USB-C cable can do (whatcable.uk)
    ×1.34 40 #50 | 97 points by mikecarlton 21 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Don't classify, hallucinate (softwaredoug.com)
    ×1.48 16 #66 | 233 points by softwaredoug 22 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???