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Ask HN: In your experience, what are sound conventions for e-ink UI development?

×1.03 25 #86 | 207 points by BoxOfRain 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

×1.43 38 | 313 points by david927 2 days ago | 1144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Could DNA be represented as "an embedding" in an AI model?

×0.21 56 | 3 points by greenmoonx 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
SETI@Home was the coolest thing

×0.78 72 | 24 points by b112 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How did you teach analog electronics to your kids?

×0.27 73 | 6 points by felooboolooomba 23 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Anyone have solution to Opus verbosity in Claude Code?

×0.25 91 | 4 points by firemelt 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How do you learn with LLMs?

×0.27 106 | 5 points by py4 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What Project are you the most proud of?

×0.58 103 | 10 points by emn4tor 2 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Old.reddit.com Requires Login

×1.92 59 | 30 points by comprev 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How do you go from writing code to deploying with agents?

×0.45 109 | 17 points by sakuraiben 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Is Ask HN Shrinking?

×0.50 113 | 20 points by keiferski 3 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Why is Open POWER Foundation a wasteland?

×0.80 122 | 13 points by climate_denier_ 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: My dev blog has 11k followers. I stopped writing it. What would you do?

×0.51 120 | 9 points by zlatkov 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How do you set comp at an early stage startup?

×0.40 116 | 7 points by jeffreyfate 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The State of Google

×0.92 111 | 15 points by 3dedb728-3f77 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Dangers of Postgres Subtransactions (planetscale.com)

×0.60 | 1 points by birdculture 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I will pay $ for your code (intentic.dev)

×0.53 | 1 points by radarsu 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Parley – your coding agent can talk to a teammate's agent (weldra.dev)

×2.86 63 | 9 points by tyagivivek 21 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DeepSeek: What They Invented (claude.ai)

×0.67 | 1 points by _continuation 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GPT 5.6 Cyber (openai.com)

×2.97 35 | 129 points by gizmodo59 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Design Engineering, as a Service (designshippers.com)

×1.17 84 | 15 points by krm01 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
All Your Projects Are Now Brownfield (psyonik.tech)

×0.60 | 1 points by pSYoniK 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
One Changelog – Changelog Aggregator for Engineers (onechangelog.com)

×0.60 | 1 points by adderling 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tail-call optimization in C is relatively recent (2025) (lwn.net)

×0.96 36 | 168 points by prakashqwerty 1 day ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Working on gym weight progress calculator (gymcalc.no)

×1.00 130 | 3 points by xtremi 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Facebook is paying controversial creators to produce rage-bait content (abc.net.au)

×6.02 4 #5 | 90 points by robtherobber 1 hour ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Write.md – A free, open-source, themeable Markdown editor for macOS (writemd.app)

×1.16 43 #44 | 95 points by danielbilekq 21 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenSSH 10.5/10.5p1 (openssh.org)

×1.18 8 #49 | 114 points by voxadam 17 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A declarative, SwiftUI toolkit that renders to <canvas> (pixdeo.github.io)

×0.94 | 1 points by mromanuk 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: 35k+ paper psychedelic library that knows LSD from Lumpy Skin Disease (consciousnesslibrary.org)

×1.61 80 | 31 points by elliotec 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Woxi - Open-source Mathematica / Wolfram Language reimplementation (ad-si.com)

×1.99 3 #2 | 34 points by adius 47 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
To save C, we must save ABI (2022) (thephd.dev)

×1.16 47 #50 | 124 points by gurjeet 1 day ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Computer Science Themed Typing Game (superthread.com)

×1.63 | 2 points by russellvaughan 14 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Finding Metrics That Matter (octoshark.net)

×0.58 | 1 points by akexl 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Launch HN: Stoa Markets (YC S26) – A Marketplace for GPUs and AI Servers (stoaexchange.com)

×0.50 49 | 77 points by erenberke 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Higher-dimensional lattices unfolded into the 2D plane (number-garden.com)

×0.60 70 | 18 points by unitX 5 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Pyrig – A tool that automates project setup and maintenance (github.com/Winipedia)

×1.99 95 | 6 points by Winipedia 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How Claude marks AI-generated content (claude.com)

×3.35 26 #47 | 434 points by mfiguiere 1 day ago | 396 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Manic Inventor – web utilities that don't need to see your data (manicinventor.com)

×0.64 | 1 points by ManicInventor 23 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
An author-impersonation warning about BookReach Collective (thesmh.com.au)

×0.56 | 1 points by joshuawithers 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We're fighting over the wrong wire: WebSockets vs. SSE for HTML over the wire (andros.dev)

×0.61 | 1 points by andros 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Study links GLP-1 drugs to bigger jump in women's employment than a degree (yahoo.com)

×3.40 37 | 130 points by metadat 1 day ago | 193 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Tragedy of the Cognitive Commons (arxiv.org)

×1.39 43 | 110 points by jmintz 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Midlife Vascular Risk Burden and Dementia-Free Survival Years (neurology.org)

×1.30 48 | 83 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A tiny LLM running at 21,000 tok/s on a $250 FPGA (Live Demo) (mikeayles.com)

×2.20 53 | 75 points by mikeayles 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Compare Wikipedia articles between languages in the Middle East (wikicompare.app)

×1.87 79 | 5 points by idonov 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
World Train Map – 1247 train routes around the world (worldtrainmap.com)

×1.64 15 | 148 points by Flightmussy 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Worms: The Future of Yesterday's Worms Today (worm.net)

×2.01 #8 | 60 points by doener 3 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Launch HN: Keet (YC S24) – An app to create video courses on anything (trykeet.com)

×0.43 51 #52 | 46 points by zackashen 20 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
US hires over 2k video gamers as air traffic controllers (cbsnews.com)

×3.77 35 #63 | 118 points by shagie 11 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI Infrastructure Leadership Summit (swoogo.com)

×2.19 19 | 3 points by kikiodazie 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
When the AI Bubble Bursts, Who Will Be Left Holding the Bag? (cepr.net)

×2.92 27 | 4 points by DeepLogin 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: My local climbing gym from photogrammetry (kmcheung12.github.io)

×1.14 62 | 28 points by a_c 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Manus will return to operating as an independent company (manus.im)

×1.12 25 #35 | 164 points by thm 20 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Exploiting System Management Mode with a very long interrupt (github.com/xoreaxeaxeax)

×1.08 35 #79 | 182 points by WhiteDawn 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Project 0 Vaults: Machine Learning Grade Yield (0.xyz)

×0.54 | 1 points by panterafii 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: C# Game Engine with its own scripting language and IDE (github.com/ArcadeMakerSources)

×1.86 81 | 4 points by am-gm 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I made alchemical-cosmological PCB badges (github.com/KaiPereira)

×0.46 77 | 23 points by kaipereira 6 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard (nvidia.com)

×1.23 10 #16 | 234 points by droidjj 15 hours ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models (ft.com)

×2.88 9 #65 | 635 points by root-parent 1 day ago | 598 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mindful Coding: Purpose and Intention (var0.xyz)

×0.70 | 2 points by tuxie_ 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Squeak 6.1 (squeak.org)

×1.43 10 | 288 points by fniephaus 1 day ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Untagged – Find the cloud spend missing required allocation tags (untagged.pages.dev)

×0.46 | 2 points by normanbrigg 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: NiceShot AI – The analytics layer competitive games forgot to add (github.com/karimm-ai)

×1.06 105 | 3 points by niceshot-ai 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: ui.camera – Product photography for software (ui.camera)

×2.32 114 | 5 points by alexakten 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Worms: The Directors Cut (Amiga) – A Playguide and Review – By Lemonamiga.com [video] (youtube.com)

×1.32 | 2 points by doener 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: TickClip – An AI shopping agent that can recommend not buying (tickclip.ai)

×0.38 | 2 points by tickclip 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Human Is the Loop (brentfitzgerald.com)

×1.84 5 #18 | 119 points by burnto 8 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Neutrinos from Deep Inside Earth Provide a New Picture of the Mantle (quantamagazine.org)

×0.91 16 #33 | 48 points by rbanffy 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing (thewalrus.ca)

×4.52 7 #42 | 904 points by awnird 1 day ago | 914 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Learning more about Claude's mathematical capabilities (anthropic.com)

×2.39 32 #64 | 270 points by tosh 1 day ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Xirp (spotify.com)

×1.93 | 2 points by geoffbp 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Archive of Animal Photography Reveals 18,000 Species and Counting (smithsonianmag.com)

×0.56 47 #58 | 39 points by pseudolus 18 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas (openai.com)

×0.94 45 #87 | 124 points by hackerBanana 1 day ago | 229 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Missing Public-Policy Ecosystem Behind Expensive AI Tokens (zrainbow.substack.com)

×0.57 | 1 points by ZRainbow 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Avoiding Digital Productivity Traps (calnewport.com)

×2.22 40 | 3 points by Tomte 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Tesserae, self-hosted dashboards for e-ink panels (tesserae.ink)

×1.38 85 | 4 points by xDaftTurtle 23 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Newfoundland has a hard bread shortage, but why do they eat it? (cbc.ca)

×1.02 17 #20 | 16 points by empressplay 4 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows (meta.ai)

×4.39 2 #54 | 1191 points by riordan 2 days ago | 637 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tl;dv: Over 180k meetings left wide open (bobdahacker.com)

×4.64 14 | 619 points by colesantiago 1 day ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Because It's Not Fun Enough: why languages fail (bytecode.news)

×1.71 50 | 94 points by jottinger 1 day ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A Project Oberon System version running on RISC-V instead of RISC-5 (github.com/rochus-keller)

×0.74 58 | 121 points by Rochus 2 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Supply-Wizard; Start Selling Data with an Easy Vendor Checklist (brickroad.network)

×1.21 68 | 3 points by dataranger 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Slashscore, an open developer graph built from public GitHub activity (slashscore.com)

×0.61 | 2 points by wingravity 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: gbx -- manage a fleet of git repos with a TUI (github.com/deemson)

×0.41 | 2 points by deemson 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Compression is prediction (ngrok.com)

×2.82 #9 | 547 points by nikolay 15 hours ago | 224 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining (ft.com)

×3.24 15 #15 | 447 points by ilamont 22 hours ago | 426 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Congressional Letter to Sam Altman demanding HuggingFace incident transparency [pdf] (house.gov)

×1.80 18 #56 | 11 points by reasonableklout 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microsoft Plugs Nearly 400 Security Holes (krebsonsecurity.com)

×1.59 56 #69 | 13 points by DemiGuru 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
List of Dirty, Naughty, Obscene, and Otherwise Bad Words (github.com/LDNOOBW)

×0.72 | 1 points by Bluestein 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???