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  1. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)
    ×1.39 2 #5 | 55 points by whoishiring 1 hour ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)
    ×1.08 22 #8 | 20 points by whoishiring 2 hours ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Who is firing? (August 2026)
    ×2.23 66 | 13 points by ethanwillis 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Who is quitting? (August 2026)
    ×3.42 64 | 13 points by ethanwillis 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: ReAct vs. Planning Pattern
    ×0.31 41 | 7 points by hairymouse 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Local, Open source AI meeting recorder that sees and hears everything
    ×0.18 99 | 6 points by puremetrics 19 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Have LLMs Plateaued?
    ×0.30 92 | 8 points by leandrobon 21 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Tell HN: Pretending not to use AI has made me a better developer
    ×1.03 22 | 11 points by throwaway260803 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Anyone still do work on Intel Macs?
    ×0.44 104 | 21 points by senor_digimon 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. New open sourced eval tool for building agents
    ×0.08 | 2 points by Thomeras 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Early Feedback on Dez?
    ×0.47 80 | 3 points by alexander2002 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Tips for Landing a YC Internship?
    ×0.22 105 | 6 points by cnnadozi 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Tell HN: Amazonbot aggressively scraping my website and ignoring robots.txt
    ×0.81 111 | 20 points by pera 2 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What's Next for LLMs?
    ×0.47 108 | 5 points by apatheticonion 23 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Best way to avoid bloat and AI – selfcontaining OS
    ×0.26 107 | 11 points by bialamusic 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. What is the downside of coaching that I may not be seeing yet?
    ×0.44 120 | 6 points by ikut3hva 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: I still don't understand why AI agents need "skills"
    ×1.03 113 | 15 points by skeptic_ai 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How are you using AI to learn?
    ×0.52 121 | 9 points by mfalcon 2 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Strategic Oil Reserves Down to a Record Low Two-Week Supply
    ×0.63 123 | 23 points by megamike 3 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Tell HN: HackerOne Announces Mandatory identity verification
    ×0.39 122 | 17 points by 0xmattf 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. ESP32-C3 SuperMini antenna modification (wordpress.com)
    ×1.26 70 | 87 points by ta988 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Twenty Years of Pandoc (pandoc.org)
    ×3.61 21 #28 | 69 points by fiddlosopher 8 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. The Potomac River Midair Collision (medium.com)
    ×3.57 19 #39 | 59 points by mplanchard 4 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Debugging Stuck Node.js Processes (myhoai.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by zhixuan 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Rust All Hands 2026 Retrospective (rust-lang.org)
    ×1.55 63 | 106 points by dcminter 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: Do Codex skills save tokens? A six-run task-size benchmark (chatgpt.site)
    ×0.83 91 | 7 points by phelannguyen164 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. The AI Productivity Gap (bjornroche.com)
    ×1.99 30 #46 | 102 points by kiyanwang 16 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: We Fixed UniFi's Slow PPPoE Performance with PPPoE Half-Bridge (arcbox.dev)
    ×0.80 23 #63 | 68 points by uneven9434 14 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Linux desktop market share has hit over 10% in North America (reddit.com)
    ×5.40 58 | 179 points by dviola 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Make your Framework 12 sound like a creaky door (github.com/ArcaEge)
    ×0.93 43 | 92 points by arcaege 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: CCo – Go-style coroutines in C (github.com/gtutino)
    ×1.43 81 | 3 points by gtutino 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. SQLite Critical CVEs or LLM Slop? (jfrog.com)
    ×3.23 25 #35 | 694 points by ymir_e 11 hours ago | 345 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ant teams beat gravity-based puzzle solvers (phys.org)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by geox 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Syncular – offline-first SQL sync with TypeScript and Rust cores (github.com/syncular)
    ×0.79 68 | 77 points by quambo 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Popkorn – A CSS based alternative for Lottie animations (github.com/ayarse)
    ×0.97 | 2 points by ayarseus 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Hype League, Fantasy Football for pre-season player news (hypeleaguefootball.com)
    ×0.38 | 2 points by AlatAnmoku 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. US regulators cite 'circular' risk in investments used by KKR and Apollo (ft.com)
    ×1.20 | 2 points by petethomas 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. MkLinux and the pimped-out Apple Workgroup Server 9150 (oldvcr.blogspot.com)
    ×0.78 69 | 105 points by goldenskye 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: ApeiroCraft – Proposals that track views, e-sign and invoice
    ×0.84 | 2 points by lolllll 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: TokenMaxxer – track every AI token you spend across your coding tools (tokenmaxxer.xyz)
    ×2.61 62 | 5 points by SYeomans 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. I don't recommend Tailwind CSS (andros.dev)
    ×3.42 56 | 158 points by andros 1 day ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. A Rant About “Technology” (2005) (ursulakleguin.com)
    ×2.47 37 | 147 points by jamesgill 1 day ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Walk on Decomposed Subdomains (clementjambon.github.io)
    ×0.63 22 #61 | 42 points by E-Reverance 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Convergence is not enough (inkandswitch.com)
    ×0.80 35 #84 | 58 points by zdw 19 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: I built a Neovim plugin to answer questions about your config (github.com/michtesar)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by neuropacabra 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. UI8 Forge (ui8.ai)
    ×1.95 11 | 3 points by handfuloflight 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. ZX Spectrum System Tour: Sound (wordpress.com)
    ×0.81 27 #25 | 28 points by ibobev 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. SwiftUI After 7 Years (ykvm.com)
    ×2.08 28 #56 | 259 points by mpweiher 1 day ago | 271 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: A MicroVM Launcher for BSD and Linux Guests on macOS/Linux (libkrun) (github.com/tsirysndr)
    ×0.84 | 2 points by tsiry 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. The AI Bailout Could Be Baked into the AI Bubble (prospect.org)
    ×3.19 29 #73 | 28 points by Ambolia 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Codes, Chess and Kubrick: The Life of Jack Good – GCHQ (gchq.gov.uk)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by rbanffy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. AirLLM 70B inference with single 4GB GPU (github.com/lyogavin)
    ×1.39 15 #21 | 179 points by Anon84 12 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. What DMARC Protects You From, and What It Does Not (senderledger.com)
    ×1.02 19 #41 | 125 points by adulion 13 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Towards Bottom-Up Enumeration in miniKanren via Pruning and Memoization (arxiv.org)
    ×1.25 | 2 points by Jimmc414 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Curved Crease Folding (curved-crease-interactive.vercel.app)
    ×0.89 | 2 points by coroush 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: An AI wrote and illustrated a book of fables about threads and packets (booyaka101.github.io)
    ×0.99 94 | 6 points by Booyaka101 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science (openai.com)
    ×2.41 #2 | 380 points by milkshakes 6 hours ago | 671 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Apple's New CEO Taps Retired Hardware Executive Laura Legros for Management Team (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.92 #75 | 3 points by aanet 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. A Dad's Solution to His Son's Difficulty with Watches (nytimes.com)
    ×0.91 | 1 points by bookofjoe 4 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. ASRock BC-250: Building the Budget Steam Machine (plug-world.com)
    ×0.96 71 | 111 points by plug_world 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac (github.com/drumih)
    ×3.58 76 | 912 points by gitpusher42 5 days ago | 343 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Exa says its index serves 80B pages, targets Google scale in 2027 (runtimewire.com)
    ×1.20 | 2 points by ryanmerket 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Critical Coldcard flaw: what happened, who is affected, and what to do (wizardsardine.com)
    ×1.35 | 2 points by crcastle 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. RFC 10015: Deprecating Obsolete Key Exchange Methods in TLS 1.2 and DTLS 1.2 (rfc-editor.org)
    ×0.81 82 | 83 points by Jimmc414 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Pushes to arch AUR are suspendended right now. (archlinux.org)
    ×3.35 66 | 67 points by EbNar 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Taylor Farms has rewritten its cyclospora statement four times in sixteen days (marlerblog.com)
    ×3.45 71 #83 | 278 points by speckx 7 hours ago | 223 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Capital One closed Trump Organization accounts after anti-money laundering probe (reuters.com)
    ×4.68 53 | 7 points by petethomas 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Hacker News with AI stories filtered out (hcker.news)
    ×5.05 43 | 37 points by postalcoder 5 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. FCC Restricts Imports of New Foreign Power Inverters and Robotic Devices (covingtonblogs.com)
    ×2.22 13 #86 | 21 points by atlasunshrugged 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Meat allergy is on the rise – what scientists want to know (nature.com)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by geneticdrifts 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Influencers draw backlash for attending OpenAI's first luxury trip (techcrunch.com)
    ×1.92 2 | 3 points by allenc 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Existential Risk from AI: An Exposition for Mathematicians (alkjash.github.io)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by x312 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. OpenAI's super PAC is funding AI-generated news site attacking industry critics (modelrepublic.org)
    ×6.30 20 | 205 points by JSR_FDED 20 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork (qwen.ai)
    ×4.63 16 #34 | 1045 points by ai2027 21 hours ago | 559 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Gmail support for sending from third-party email addresses ends January 2027 (google.com)
    ×1.37 | 2 points by RagingCactus 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Buildline – one timeline for cargo, ninja, Webpack, tsc, Bazel (github.com/nabsei)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by nabsei 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Ideas over Implementation (boz.com)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by duck 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. AI squad to analyze your iOS app before Apple (apprejectkit.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by jonvolio 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Use same crypto crime-fighting toolset as top law enforcement agencies (caudexcatena.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by caudena 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Project ESPAÑOL: Find level-appropriate Spanish-language poems (dmerullo.github.io)
    ×1.38 112 | 4 points by us-merul 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Add secure widgets on your Windows Desktop or write your own (desktop-dashboard.com)
    ×0.98 | 2 points by Nair0 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Eight: a symbolic, indentation-based programming language (disroot.org)
    ×0.80 | 2 points by Vextoly 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: An AI-Powered Widget for Collecting User Feedback (makethisbetter.dev)
    ×4.09 86 | 10 points by paicha 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. The Dunning-Kruger effect may just be a data artefact (2020) (mcgill.ca)
    ×2.42 6 #15 | 102 points by audreyfei 3 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. CP/M-386 – CP/M for 386 protected mode, derived from CP/M‑68K (github.com/johnsonjh)
    ×0.63 52 #64 | 93 points by TMWNN 22 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Great Question (YC W21) Is Hiring Senior Demand Gen Manager (ycombinator.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Boris Cherny on Trying to Get Claude Code to Rewrite the Claude App (daringfireball.net)
    ×3.75 40 | 68 points by robenkleene 23 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: ssh ssh.place (ssh.place)
    ×1.21 23 #59 | 170 points by jeninh 23 hours ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. MIDI Guide: MIDI CC and NRPN Database (midi.guide)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by gregsadetsky 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: What should the GUI for AI agents look like? (marbleos.com)
    ×1.24 93 | 136 points by akbabu 3 days ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???