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Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)

×0.87 49 #86 | 142 points by whoishiring 1 day ago | 401 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Did GitHub remove the stargazers list?

×0.45 3 | 4 points by reconnecting 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)

×1.03 25 | 220 points by whoishiring 1 day ago | 238 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Dear Anthropic, can we please have thought traces back?

×0.62 83 | 6 points by exabrial 12 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What is a good format for a tool to report data to a LLM?

×0.52 82 | 5 points by michaelmure 11 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ArXiv

×0.30 114 | 4 points by fred123123 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What was your big failure? How did you get around it?

×0.56 91 | 6 points by jspann 14 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How to Pivot?

×0.46 102 | 5 points by noreplydev 16 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Can we direct AI on our personal projects during work hours?

×0.42 126 | 3 points by rpnx 17 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why remote roles are region specific and not 100% remote?

×0.38 127 | 3 points by moizrocky1 18 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
An agent built for Mobile

×0.18 | 2 points by technicalbot 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Seedance 2.5 API Pricing

×0.48 119 | 4 points by JimsonYang 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The LLMs Problems

×0.23 | 2 points by noreplydev 20 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What if there was an 8th day of the week?

×1.07 67 | 9 points by cyanregiment 13 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How did Wikipedia layout become so bloated?

×1.05 73 | 22 points by countWSS 22 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Does AI research need "world models" more than bigger LLMs?

×0.24 136 | 3 points by unjuno 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Affordable and automated EU AI Act compliance (scanara.io)

×1.99 | 2 points by scanara 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Rust-lang/rust is adopting an LLM policy (rust-lang.org)

×4.72 88 | 68 points by afdbcreid 4 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I'm a 15 Year Old Wannabe Engineer, This Is a Cycloidal Gearbox I Built (github.com/tom-ilan)

×2.14 72 | 332 points by tomilan 3 days ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
New Bios Update Reportedly Bricking Lenovo Legion Go Devices (steamdeckhq.com)

×1.54 57 #85 | 10 points by speckx 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Making difficulty curves in games (davetech.co.uk)

×0.80 | 1 points by hakkikonu 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Systematic reporting in under an hour, not months (octigen.com)

×4.85 81 | 7 points by m_mueller 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Helios: Decentralized Autonomous Collision Avoidance for Megaconstellations (github.com/kamilprochazka27-art)

×1.53 | 2 points by HELIOSDecentral 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Warp Agent CLI (warp.dev)

×0.85 15 #51 | 98 points by emschwartz 17 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Bitbead – Photo to printable bead pattern, in the browser (bitbead.app)

×1.36 | 2 points by shouqing_qiao 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code (ankursethi.com)

×2.76 6 | 531 points by mpweiher 2 days ago | 436 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
TikTok Withheld a Safety Feature from Millions. One Died by Suicide (bloomberg.com)

×2.06 13 | 3 points by iamacyborg 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war (cnbc.com)

×7.88 49 | 368 points by tcp_handshaker 23 hours ago | 663 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AirLLM 70B inference with single 4GB GPU (github.com/lyogavin)

×1.38 43 | 230 points by Anon84 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why some people mow a lawn better than others (pudding.cool)

×1.52 22 #63 | 181 points by carlos-menezes 16 hours ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Depths She'll Reach (2021) (longlead.com)

×0.78 | 1 points by Thunder_rumbles 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Economist Problem and AI (pithandpip.com)

×0.71 | 1 points by maguay 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenAI and Anthropic models 'went rogue' during UK cybersecurity test (theguardian.com)

×2.49 39 | 3 points by ablation 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ferrari's Controversial Luce EV Has Reportedly Sold Out (robbreport.com)

×0.60 | 1 points by ZeljkoS 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Outage of Denic Services (denic.de)

×0.57 | 1 points by seb4433 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog (nelson.cloud)

×6.43 76 | 759 points by meysamazad 22 hours ago | 442 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Misalignments when using AI for hacking (vulnetic.ai)

×0.69 96 | 3 points by danieltk76 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI (techcrunch.com)

×3.21 17 #41 | 367 points by thewebguyd 18 hours ago | 262 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Run full-blown macOS on iPadOS 16 (github.com/nfzerox)

×0.82 | 1 points by 71bw 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: TickerNotch: Live tickers and news in the MacBook notch (bitvibelabs.com)

×1.47 | 2 points by BitVibeLabs 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenAI pays $3.2M to settle claims it discriminated against US workers (theguardian.com)

×4.16 69 | 5 points by igortru 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I-have-ADHD – A skill for coding assistant that stops it from burying the answer (github.com/ayghri)

×0.61 | 1 points by vismit2000 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: cctap – see and reach the Claude Code session that needs you (github.com/chipmates)

×0.97 135 | 3 points by micstradev 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Will Codex Reset – Predict Codex reset timing to maximize your quota (willcodexreset.com)

×0.55 | 2 points by zizheruan 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Zigbee vs. Matter over Thread:Understanding IoT Protocol Performance in Practice (arxiv.org)

×1.36 5 #27 | 91 points by teleforce 10 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How Cops Are Trying to Hide Their Use of Flock (404media.co)

×4.49 29 #82 | 134 points by cdrnsf 16 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Archaeologists Find Ancient Glyphs in the Amazon (nytimes.com)

×0.51 61 #83 | 47 points by wglb 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The workers caught in the AI transition (bbc.com)

×0.61 | 1 points by geox 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenAI and Anthropic models went rogue in cyber tests, UK watchdog says (ft.com)

×2.89 43 | 5 points by tdsone3 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why did we wait so long for the bicycle? (2019) (rootsofprogress.org)

×1.59 57 | 71 points by frozenseven 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
An SLM trained on $8 ESP32-S3 (github.com/Carloscodix)

×1.07 18 #22 | 31 points by pavelai 6 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MariaDB: Promote getting to 10k GitHub stars in server log and client prompt (github.com/MariaDB)

×0.85 54 #55 | 57 points by petecooper 17 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why Large Language Models Fail at Tabular Prediction (arxiv.org)

×1.11 50 #56 | 108 points by sbulaev 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A creature that the internet is raising together (canwecooperate.com)

×0.71 | 1 points by sheepyellow 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch Guardian Angel (twitter.com/gwern)

×2.49 37 #46 | 278 points by mattsterett 12 hours ago | 195 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Building a Rust Inference Engine That Matches Llama.cpp (fratepietro.com)

×1.36 | 2 points by antonellof 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hackers' AI chat logs reveal evolving tactics (axios.com)

×2.11 26 | 3 points by laacz 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
SearXNG in Rust (github.com/MikeLuu99)

×0.99 77 | 75 points by dluuuu 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: What should the GUI for AI agents look like? (marbleos.com)

×1.24 125 | 136 points by akbabu 5 days ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I created a new Deep Learning Framework (picodl.vercel.app)

×0.60 | 1 points by alight 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: HN: Sandbox Your Agent with Runeward (github.com/Runewardd)

×0.57 | 1 points by tha_infra_guy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
kkrepo – an open-source artifact repository (github.com/klboke)

×0.56 | 1 points by gjvc 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Agent skills that bring team coding standards to Claude Code and Codex (github.com/tikalk)

×1.38 11 | 75 points by kanfilior 19 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Man arrested for Grim Reaper costume on hospital roof and staring at patients (mirror.co.uk)

×0.95 | 1 points by chistev 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Out-of-control SpaceX rocket believed to have smashed into the Moon (independent.co.uk)

×0.61 | 1 points by emot 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
China's tech giants race to put AI on delivery riders' heads (scmp.com)

×1.37 | 2 points by 01-_- 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today (2026-08-04) (short-stories.co)

×2.86 58 | 497 points by askvictor 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: TormentNexus – Local-first Go control plane with persistent memory (tormentnexus.site)

×0.72 | 2 points by TormentNexusAI 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The software group Palantir paid just £2M in corporation tax in the UK in 2024 (theguardian.com)

×3.19 8 #15 | 9 points by igortru 39 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Zanzlanz released a game that has no assets (youtube.com)

×0.59 | 1 points by birdculture 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Most tech revolutions made work worse for employees (thisandthat.chat)

×1.87 13 | 109 points by jreynar 19 hours ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: AI gateway open source integrated with cursor and open router (routerfuel.com)

×0.74 | 2 points by U_Zargar 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I worked on a new browser for 2 years, today it passed Acid 3 (intellios.ai)

×2.73 110 | 158 points by coolwulf 4 days ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Celebrating 45 Years of Kermit with the First New C-Kermit Release in 15 Years (complete.org)

×1.06 53 #78 | 180 points by roryirvine 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Utah produced more power from solar than any other source in May, a new first (sltrib.com)

×2.70 58 | 118 points by toomuchtodo 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
9front "This Was Supposed to Be Fun" Released (9front.org)

×1.70 78 | 90 points by birdculture 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The AI bubble is popping; we just don't know it yet (theregister.com)

×4.02 80 | 81 points by Bender 1 day ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: OpenEdit – Your coding agent can now edit videos (github.com/veedstudio)

×1.63 86 | 11 points by sabbakeynejad 19 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
“Gravity is worth asking about” (aresluna.org)

×1.50 2 #2 | 85 points by nozzlegear 5 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Devtools must be open source (exe.dev)

×2.80 10 #72 | 712 points by bryanmikaelian 1 day ago | 231 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Pentect: Let agents use secrets without seeing them (pentect.dev)

×1.52 | 2 points by kozika 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What DMARC Protects You From, and What It Does Not (senderledger.com)

×0.96 61 | 133 points by adulion 2 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Germany Records Historic 12B KWh Solar Feed-In in July 2026 (solarquarter.com)

×1.81 22 | 137 points by johnbarron 20 hours ago | 193 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Gander, an Android file viewer that asks for no permissions (github.com/mokshablr)

×1.56 111 | 209 points by mokshablr 5 days ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Dates That Don't Exist (2015) (yossarian.net)

×0.92 42 #43 | 119 points by EndXA 21 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Online ad giant Adform was hacked, proving once again why ad blockers are needed (weekinsecurity.com)

×2.26 12 #57 | 231 points by speckx 19 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Under the Hood of Codex Security (twitter.com/GustavHartz)

×2.90 41 | 4 points by GustavHartz 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Soppo – A language that compiles to Go, with the features it's missing (github.com/halcyonnouveau)

×0.59 | 1 points by aghuang 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Don't stop early: Case-folding source code at memory speed (github.blog)

×0.71 42 #32 | 71 points by sbulaev 15 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
"Clean" Code, Horrible Performance (2023) (computerenhance.com)

×1.63 54 #38 | 136 points by FrojoS 1 day ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???