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  1. Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers
    ×4.10 19 #27 | 322 points by stagas 10 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. old.reddit.com Now Requires a Login
    ×2.57 29 #57 | 5 points by chucksmash 51 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What tools are you using for human code review of AI-assisted code?
    ×1.14 63 | 6 points by dafelst 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What LLM subscription/provider to use with pi harness?
    ×0.39 80 | 3 points by vira28 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?
    ×1.14 64 | 84 points by simonebrunozzi 1 day ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Where to learn software engineering fundamentals?
    ×0.73 82 | 9 points by mstank 18 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What is your favorite lightweight tool or CLI utility in 2026?
    ×0.57 87 | 19 points by pranav_tech26 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: In your experience, what are sound conventions for e-ink UI development?
    ×0.99 116 | 218 points by BoxOfRain 1 week ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Alternative to Internet Archive
    ×0.65 104 | 18 points by earworms 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. TrueMath – An open-source exact symbolic math tool
    ×0.16 112 | 3 points by SAWANs 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How would you market this service?
    ×0.41 125 | 4 points by dmzxnico 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
    ×1.45 113 | 324 points by david927 1 week ago | 1192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Claude Seems Down
    ×3.11 66 | 49 points by zhan_eg 5 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Privacy is an underrated advantage in Slack apps
    ×0.31 138 | 3 points by alance 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Should hard-tech founders join a problem or technology-first PhD lab?
    ×0.24 135 | 13 points by misterballer 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Does a human still review your code?
    ×0.45 151 | 10 points by stikit 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. How does an ARP Spoofing Attack work?
    ×0.19 154 | 6 points by emn4tor 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: What physical publication do you still buy?
    ×0.35 142 | 8 points by sergiotapia 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: When you sell your company, do you receive the money with a normal wire?
    ×0.43 134 | 6 points by supergilbert 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Great music selection without overthinking
    ×0.32 153 | 4 points by cr34t1ve 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Tell HN: In 2021, there were 4.5 jobs per job seeker vs. 2.5 job seekers/job now
    ×0.56 156 | 11 points by ed_balls 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Secondhand book sales are booming. Is it because of AI? (bbc.co.uk)
    ×2.12 57 | 69 points by m-i-l 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. BriskDB (github.com/schapman1974)
    ×1.13 62 | 47 points by schapman1974 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. The AI Credit Resale Economy (vectoral.com)
    ×1.68 7 #13 | 245 points by mlenhard 13 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker (mozilla.org)
    ×4.47 13 #23 | 566 points by pentagrama 14 hours ago | 237 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Treasury Orders Erasure of Domestic Ownership Records (treasury.gov)
    ×2.66 29 #79 | 39 points by Jimmc414 9 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: built my 15-year-old game idea
    ×3.27 36 | 9 points by ashitlerferad 10 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Protecting water systems from cyberattacks: 5 steps cities can take now (smartcitiesdive.com)
    ×1.50 4 | 3 points by mooreds 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Ember – Redshift safe color palettes (github.com/carpdiem)
    ×1.13 71 | 113 points by carpdiem 1 week ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: PLC Lint – static analysis for CODESYS/PLCopenXML (plc-linter.com)
    ×1.25 98 | 4 points by caspershes 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: OJCP – an open protocol for agent-consumable job data (ojcp.dev)
    ×0.89 127 | 38 points by fraywing 4 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Online SNMP MIB database - upload/view your own MIBs (mib-viewer.com)
    ×0.47 132 | 15 points by beefstew123 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. PawPause: Mac app that pauses the keyboard when your cat walks on it (miladsafarzadeh1.github.io)
    ×0.83 | 1 points by LouisLazaris 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Design of the HTTPS Layer for AI Governance (zenodo.org)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by sangamdas1982 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Harvestman Spider with a 'Black Bunny' Head Captured on Video (allthatsinteresting.com)
    ×0.90 | 2 points by thunderbong 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: A visual ping utility that is pretty (source.tube)
    ×0.66 | 2 points by _ache_ 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. The Metabase SQLi: Exploited in the Wild (wiz.io)
    ×0.90 | 2 points by ghiculescu 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Lumabri – Run Moe Models on a P2P Swarm with Colibri (github.com/JustVugg)
    ×0.54 106 | 47 points by vforno 3 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. BanProof – AI that scans TikTok Shop videos for violation points before you post (banproof.io)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by Pratham3690 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. A True Telnet BBS on a Casio Calculator (ei3lh.eu)
    ×0.94 25 #29 | 91 points by austinallegro 15 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Continuum – Financial simulations for DIY multimillionaires (continuum-app.xyz)
    ×0.72 19 #59 | 4 points by charleswcho 2 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. AI-Assisted GPU Porting of a 250k Line Legacy Weather Simulation Code (arxiv.org)
    ×0.83 67 #70 | 52 points by Jimmc414 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Anthropic revenue jumps 14x to more than $11.5B in second quarter (bloomberg.com)
    ×0.76 | 1 points by ukuina 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. A friend would not stop talking stocks; wrote stock program for engagement (amfile.org)
    ×1.51 | 2 points by pagetelegram 34 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Convertix – Fast, 100% in-browser media and QR tools (convertix-fast-imager-co.blogspot.com)
    ×0.52 | 2 points by convertix123 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 control rods drop into core (wptv.com)
    ×1.53 6 #33 | 165 points by toomuchtodo 12 hours ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: PageSieve, a web scraping browser extension (julius383.github.io)
    ×1.53 74 #83 | 8 points by kajm 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Open Source App for HT203U Thermal Camera (USB-C) (github.com/cfbird)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by Ruthalas 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Code Is the Byproduct (yagmin.com)
    ×0.38 | 2 points by lubujackson 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Snafu: Agentic flow to help you with "naming things" in source code (github.com/sebastiancarlos)
    ×0.99 141 | 3 points by httbs 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Feature-packed 6MB Rust+Tauri free bookmarking app
    ×4.86 109 | 13 points by freakynit 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Talent Distribution (microcapclub.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by gmays 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Brazilian election filter in X For You timeline (github.com/xai-org)
    ×1.18 72 | 48 points by LorenDB 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Mocktail – Free, open-source mock API server with a built-in dashboard (getmocktail.com)
    ×2.07 117 | 22 points by hhaluk 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Git-knife – Edit commit messages, authors, and dates like a spreadsheet (github.com/TheRealYT)
    ×1.04 114 | 166 points by YonathanTesfaye 5 days ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: I evaluated file, vector, graph and RL based memory frameworks (pinglin.tw)
    ×1.58 108 | 13 points by pinglin 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Applying a photosynthetic process to treat "dry eye" (science.org)
    ×1.09 54 #19 | 5 points by gumby 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: PyScrappy, self-healing web scraping selectors plus an MCP server (github.com/mldsveda)
    ×0.92 58 | 19 points by vedaant00 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Macsomnia – close your MacBook lid while keeping long jobs alive (github.com/iamdadzilla)
    ×0.33 159 | 3 points by dadzilla 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. SugarTrack – an offline Android logbook for blood sugar (no account, no cloud) (sugartrack-beta.vercel.app)
    ×0.80 44 | 54 points by hunzaboy 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Laptop is the last place your secrets are still in plaintext (github.com/jitpass)
    ×2.00 15 | 51 points by bukershok 20 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose (w4g1.dev)
    ×3.14 22 #28 | 286 points by hruvhwe 8 hours ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Tracking down a Zsh history data loss bug (stapelberg.ch)
    ×1.20 43 #60 | 121 points by ingve 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Qwen 3.8 27B (huggingface.co)
    ×5.15 6 #66 | 1411 points by erdaltoprak 2 days ago | 785 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Zapping Rocks Unlocks Stimulated Geologic Hydrogen (ieee.org)
    ×0.44 67 #84 | 28 points by adm4 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Level1Techs Can't Disprove Google's GDPR AI Studio Violation (level1techs.com)
    ×1.48 | 2 points by Bitu79 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Context for Claude – give eyes and ears to your agents (contextforclaude.com)
    ×1.98 11 | 4 points by Archit_lal_ 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Bribes.fyi – Compare bribes statistics department wise (bribes.fyi)
    ×1.60 48 | 50 points by neverenderr 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Mininote: Instant, plain-text note taking without tracking or lock-in (mininote.ink)
    ×2.90 123 | 23 points by helba-ai 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Every MUNI, BART and Caltrain in SF on a Live Map (github.com/UtpalJayNadiger)
    ×2.69 103 | 11 points by iacguy 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born (2023) (henrikkarlsson.xyz)
    ×1.56 3 #74 | 264 points by felixbraun 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Visually Precise AI Tutoring on iOS (useknowable.ai)
    ×3.95 118 | 10 points by samuelzxu 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Plastic mechanical computer from 1963: The Digi-Comp 1 [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.69 27 #21 | 54 points by tobr 11 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better (dmitry.gr)
    ×2.28 16 #86 | 379 points by dmitrygr 1 day ago | 434 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. A Structural Explanation of the Undecidability of the Halting Problem in TM (bfzhao.substack.com)
    ×0.88 | 1 points by bingfeng 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Yadda 3.0.0: BDD in the Age of AI Agents (stephen-cresswell.com)
    ×0.71 61 | 63 points by scresswell 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Stratum – Rate books, films, and music to find users with similar taste (joinstratum.app)
    ×1.18 143 | 3 points by jeffreyjinyang 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: LuaCAD – Parametric CAD Scripted in Lua (ad-si.com)
    ×0.98 77 | 104 points by adius 2 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: C# Game Engine with its own scripting language and IDE (github.com/ArcadeMakerSources)
    ×1.09 85 | 118 points by am-gm 5 days ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: A simple, powerful, and cheaper email verification API (emailverifier.dev)
    ×1.04 158 | 4 points by usamaejaz 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Red queen hypothesis – a new way forward for self-improving AI (cam.ac.uk)
    ×1.31 43 #22 | 21 points by hardlianotion 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Cursor earns AIUC-1 certification for agent security and reliability (cursor.com)
    ×0.83 | 1 points by dhruv3006 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Widen, a native Postgres GUI using Apple's on-device LLM (github.com/betocmn)
    ×2.80 97 | 9 points by thedreammachine 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Banquish – Take other websites apart and build your own (banquish.space)
    ×2.32 144 | 9 points by ghboo0927 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. US oil reserves are so low, the caverns holding them could be damaged (independent.co.uk)
    ×6.11 29 | 73 points by NordStreamYacht 15 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Ballet – Workflow automation that writes integrations against any API (ballet.dev)
    ×0.52 136 | 36 points by danielkimber 4 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Dancing with friends and enemies: boids' swarm intelligence (wolfram.com)
    ×1.01 21 #11 | 27 points by surprisetalk 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Anton Chekhov played at love most of his life (wustl.edu)
    ×0.74 25 #20 | 70 points by lermontov 12 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Asynchronous I/O in DuckDB: Work, Thread, Work (duckdb.org)
    ×1.66 23 #32 | 274 points by pdet 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. how the internet makes us bad at watching stuff [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.88 | 1 points by striking 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???