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  1. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)
    ×0.75 86 | 158 points by whoishiring 4 days ago | 502 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)
    ×1.01 77 | 232 points by whoishiring 4 days ago | 300 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. DeepSeek announced to raise its API price tremendously
    ×0.49 88 | 28 points by alexwwang 2 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What is a good advice for someone looking to fractional hire a team?
    ×0.09 93 | 4 points by vanessa1211 18 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What art would you like to express?
    ×0.28 55 | 5 points by d4ng 9 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Laguna S 2.1:118B-a9B better than Qwen3.5:122B-a10B? So far, yes
    ×0.16 136 | 3 points by spottedmarley 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Did GitHub remove the stargazers list?
    ×0.62 117 | 24 points by reconnecting 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Read HN twice a day for the last decade. Here's my list of S-Tier HN links
    ×2.55 69 | 107 points by vivzkestrel 2 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Anybody tried Laguna S 2.1 (by Poolside)?
    ×0.22 111 | 7 points by spottedmarley 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Poker and Liar's Dice over Bluetooth Low Energy
    ×0.30 123 | 5 points by yincrash 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Four simple rules behind Japan's most liveable cities (bbc.com)
    ×1.30 57 #72 | 128 points by tchalla 1 day ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. cpuscout.com Is Down (cpuscout.com)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by RemingtonDavies 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Show HN: Wallfacer – A terminal session manager for Claude Code, and more (github.com/pradipta)
    ×0.78 82 | 35 points by pradiptasarma 2 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Psychological Warfare in Reverse Engineering (2015) (github.com/xoreaxeaxeax)
    ×0.84 20 #22 | 61 points by theanonymousone 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. DEF Con 34 (defcon.org)
    ×0.95 | 1 points by Alien1Being 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Signal: Optional registration without a phone number requires a one-time payment (aboutsignal.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by moelf 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Anthropic CEO reportedly worried new hires only care about money (yahoo.com)
    ×5.12 20 | 64 points by frays 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Show HN: Certo – An open source platform to deliver Open Badges (github.com/schroedinger-Hat)
    ×0.50 65 | 15 points by thejoin95 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Show HN: Sidebar – a private ESP32 intercom for five kids, no accounts (sundaradnus.ca)
    ×3.66 78 | 13 points by nonstopnonsense 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Show HN: I made a game where you build a CPU from logic gates (select.supply)
    ×1.30 137 | 102 points by laurentiurad 1 week ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Carl's Required Reading (carlkolon.com)
    ×1.80 7 #17 | 137 points by cckolon 12 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Show HN: Utter – Turn your voice to automatic To-dos. No sign-up (google.com)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by Vellan77 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Wrangling Evals (sackfield.substack.com)
    ×0.37 | 1 points by sackfield 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Towards a Risk Assessment of Malicious Skill Files in Coding Agents (arxiv.org)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by sbulaev 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off” (gamedev.place)
    ×1.24 7 | 192 points by luu 1 day ago | 336 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. DeepSeek planning to significantly raise prices (deepseek.com)
    ×5.24 52 | 85 points by miroljub 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Kedge – Full-stack cloud with forkable VM snapshots and global SQLite (kedge.dev)
    ×1.13 132 | 141 points by wgjordan 1 week ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Distilling DeepSeek into GPT-OSS doesn't transfer censorship. Try it (ctgt.ai)
    ×1.24 125 | 169 points by cgorlla 1 week ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded (nixos.org)
    ×2.85 1 #2 | 245 points by Meleagris 5 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities (openai.com)
    ×1.18 8 #14 | 173 points by artninja1988 13 hours ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. The Life of Public Safety Communications Signals: A Comparative Security (arxiv.org)
    ×0.81 | 1 points by sbulaev 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: ssh ssh.place (ssh.place)
    ×1.21 94 | 184 points by jeninh 5 days ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Fuse – statically typed functional programming language (fuselang.org)
    ×1.09 112 | 120 points by the_unproven 5 days ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. NASA to keep its 48-year-old Voyager 2 probe running for yet another year (space.com)
    ×2.35 1 #1 | 165 points by wglb 4 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Inside vLLM: Anatomy of a High-Throughput LLM Inference System (2025) (aleksagordic.com)
    ×1.15 32 #74 | 143 points by sebg 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Oans – fast deduplication for btrfs and XFS (github.com/martinus)
    ×1.03 99 | 3 points by sunitram 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: HUD, an open-source minimal terminal UI for ClaudeCode, Codex, OpenCode (github.com/adrida)
    ×1.55 107 | 26 points by adam_rida 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. New Orleans is testing Carbyne’s AI-powered Emergency Call Triage software (shreveporttimes.com)
    ×0.94 50 #76 | 72 points by champagnepapi 1 day ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Intel just matched Apple Silicon [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.84 | 2 points by thelastgallon 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. The Hat and the Spectre – Recent Groundbreaking Discoveries in Mathematics (momath.org)
    ×0.95 | 2 points by vismit2000 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Homade OS Also PLS Comment
    ×1.00 | 2 points by TACOCODER 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. France is banning unsolicited telemarketing calls starting next week (apnews.com)
    ×4.52 51 | 130 points by geox 2 days ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers (noemamag.com)
    ×4.68 7 #7 | 535 points by RickJWagner 17 hours ago | 623 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Etherpad – the editor for documents that matter (etherpad.org)
    ×2.01 27 | 4 points by treetalker 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Buddy – An iOS browser with an AI agent inside (apple.com)
    ×1.60 6 | 3 points by guribe94 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face (simonwillison.net)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by bonsai_spool 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index (artificialanalysis.ai)
    ×3.40 40 | 536 points by apitman 1 day ago | 343 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: GreatArrow.ai – Shared memory for Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and Cursor (greatarrow.ai)
    ×1.20 135 | 3 points by clapptastic 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours (daringfireball.net)
    ×5.42 58 #66 | 309 points by _da_ 11 hours ago | 179 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: NoCrap – Gamifying porn addiction recovery (nocrap.vercel.app)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by uioio 54 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Universality and diversity in human song (2019) (science.org)
    ×0.98 | 2 points by Ariarule 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Zaivern Code – a Rust cockpit for parallel AI coding agents (github.com/tacyan)
    ×0.61 | 2 points by tacyan 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Product analytics (and evals) for agent sessions on your MCP (armature.tech)
    ×0.49 128 | 42 points by screm 4 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Wyzer Programming Language (github.com/Wyzer-Lang)
    ×1.19 5 #29 | 187 points by v0id_isgood 17 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Samsung debuts three new memory technologies – zHBM, zNAND-O, and BV-NAND (tomshardware.com)
    ×1.61 16 #55 | 5 points by peter_d_sherman 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Gemini is Cooked but GCP is Cooking (semianalysis.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by theanonymousone 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. xAI launches Imagine Image 2.0 for production image workflows (runtimewire.com)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by ryanmerket 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Diffing Binary Files (withkord.com)
    ×1.35 115 | 19 points by wennyyustalim 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. As a Windows user, it's a surreal way to install a program (aresluna.org)
    ×4.33 3 #10 | 64 points by allenc 5 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: ReadMyStatement – Where did the money go? (readmystatement.com)
    ×0.46 | 2 points by nadermx 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. 2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out (ign.com)
    ×3.77 19 #13 | 309 points by inigyou 22 hours ago | 287 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Curlese, Five Years Later (hypertesto.me)
    ×0.56 41 #40 | 16 points by rovr138 8 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026 (phoboslab.org)
    ×1.99 7 #87 | 487 points by atan2 1 day ago | 248 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Trumpists' assault on science isn't just harming America – it's harming them (theguardian.com)
    ×6.42 53 | 12 points by devonnull 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: An AI agent that trades inside limits you set, starting on paper (quantsignals.xyz)
    ×0.92 122 | 17 points by henryzhangpku 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. TypeStax: A type scale generator with vintage audio hardware interface (typestax.com)
    ×0.57 52 #47 | 57 points by jasim 20 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. DIY SLorq Speaker (stanford.edu)
    ×1.83 | 2 points by sans_souse 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Googie Architecture (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by userbinator 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. The Free Money AI Bond Buildout Is Gone (bloomberg.com)
    ×0.92 | 2 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. US beef prices have soared but farmers aren't making more money (bbc.com)
    ×3.31 57 | 73 points by tartoran 1 day ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: La Vieja Contra El Dibu – Penalty Shootout Game vs. Dibu Martínez (laviejacontraeldibu.app)
    ×0.29 | 2 points by alanzhan 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Can you reverse engineer an ASIC? (janestreet.com)
    ×1.04 52 #68 | 110 points by bschne 1 day ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Iceberg Collapses and Flips over in Ilulissat, Greenland (July 25, 2026) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×3.24 68 | 204 points by Bender 15 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Line9 - a Mermaid rendering engine with its own layout (line9.ai)
    ×0.74 | 2 points by jumpalongjim 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice (sciencealert.com)
    ×1.45 27 #23 | 127 points by jnord 17 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. A quine in Piet – a GIF image that prints itself [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.68 38 #58 | 76 points by surprisetalk 22 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Bulldozers Plow Through Big Bend National Park, Sparking Fury in Texas (newsweek.com)
    ×3.08 3 | 70 points by almog 19 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Photo to Video AI – Animate a photo with a motion prompt (phototovideo-ai.net)
    ×0.64 | 2 points by zduoduo 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Assembly Hall of Shame (github.com/xoreaxeaxeax)
    ×1.93 5 #6 | 301 points by piotrgrabowski 12 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK (dealroom.co)
    ×3.03 8 #15 | 441 points by delduca 12 hours ago | 303 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. STV: A full-motion video codec for the Atari ST (medium.com)
    ×0.69 65 #57 | 88 points by indyjo 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Cuban government open to the idea of an Arab investor to develop 'Trump Island' (elpais.com)
    ×1.53 16 | 3 points by SilentM68 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. xAI, SpaceX, and the Race for AI Buildout (illegal.solutions)
    ×4.50 18 | 145 points by speckx 1 day ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Microfeed – RSS+10GB media files on your own domain, no hosting fees (microfeed.org)
    ×1.03 | 2 points by wenbin 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Germany's gas gamble puts Europe's winter at risk (politico.eu)
    ×1.50 9 #35 | 3 points by leonidasrup 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Quake – 30th Anniversary Update (bethesda.net)
    ×2.88 6 #63 | 403 points by dsubburam 1 day ago | 193 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Executable Emoji (martypc.blogspot.com)
    ×1.69 52 #82 | 45 points by MBCook 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. How to Not Write Parsers (crtschin.com)
    ×1.19 65 #90 | 13 points by Thom2503 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Looking down on London's straw-coloured parks (bbc.com)
    ×1.06 | 2 points by andsoitis 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, a sudden reversal (nbcnews.com)
    ×4.37 73 | 343 points by ceejayoz 17 hours ago | 342 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???