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  1. Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers
    ×4.58 18 #26 | 510 points by stagas 16 hours ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. old.reddit.com Now Requires a Login
    ×2.28 46 | 28 points by chucksmash 7 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: When do you think LLM capacity will reach its ceiling?
    ×0.47 | 2 points by vincenthsin 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What tools are you using for human code review of AI-assisted code?
    ×0.91 76 | 8 points by dafelst 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?
    ×1.12 67 | 84 points by simonebrunozzi 2 days ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Where to learn software engineering fundamentals?
    ×0.74 87 | 10 points by mstank 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Why is the GitHub trending page weirdly excluding DeepSeek projects?
    ×1.94 47 | 8 points by tianyicui 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What is your favorite lightweight tool or CLI utility in 2026?
    ×0.58 88 | 20 points by pranav_tech26 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What LLM subscription/provider to use with pi harness?
    ×0.32 95 | 3 points by vira28 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: In your experience, what are sound conventions for e-ink UI development?
    ×0.99 109 | 218 points by BoxOfRain 1 week ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Alternative to Internet Archive
    ×0.67 101 | 19 points by earworms 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: How would you market this service?
    ×0.38 128 | 4 points by dmzxnico 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
    ×1.45 105 | 324 points by david927 1 week ago | 1194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. TrueMath – An open-source exact symbolic math tool
    ×0.16 123 | 3 points by SAWANs 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Should hard-tech founders join a problem or technology-first PhD lab?
    ×0.24 137 | 13 points by misterballer 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Privacy is an underrated advantage in Slack apps
    ×0.29 142 | 3 points by alance 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Does a human still review your code?
    ×0.49 140 | 11 points by stikit 2 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. How does an ARP Spoofing Attack work?
    ×0.19 150 | 6 points by emn4tor 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. SAS Rescued Trapped British Diplomats in Albania (mydiplomaticlife.com)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by chipndale 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Handling HTTP 429 errors in LLM APIs (medium.com)
    ×0.53 | 2 points by WavyPeng 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Pi coding agent: config folder is out of place on Linux (github.com/earendil-works)
    ×1.61 | 2 points by joooscha 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. The 7.2 kernel has been released (lwn.net)
    ×2.57 39 | 3 points by nyku 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Best IPTV Services in 2026: Top Providers Reviewed (google.com)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by bansiwebix 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Man Bought a Font (unstory.eu)
    ×1.33 | 2 points by rhabarba 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. HackEurope 2026: A short rant on AI and hackathons (duti.dev)
    ×2.81 5 #10 | 33 points by mindracer 2 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. A True Telnet BBS on a Casio Calculator (ei3lh.eu)
    ×0.97 41 #39 | 104 points by austinallegro 21 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. NIH is ending a key grant for budding clinical researchers (science.org)
    ×1.79 29 #76 | 154 points by brandonb 17 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. 388 years ago, Galileo worked out why human giants can't exist (scientificamerican.com)
    ×1.78 74 | 52 points by beardyw 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Bench on Your Network (vbus.dev)
    ×1.55 98 | 5 points by abu-matterize 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Is AI Dumber Today? An index of AI model experience from user's opinion (isaidumber.today)
    ×0.69 129 | 16 points by schafberg 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Self-hosted monitoring for AI recommendations (MIT License) (lettertrace.com)
    ×2.36 120 | 8 points by mathewpregasen 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Rhombus 1.1 is now available (racket-lang.org)
    ×0.98 11 #13 | 84 points by spdegabrielle 9 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. The weekend is 100 years old (theguardian.com)
    ×2.78 15 #50 | 200 points by lentil_soup 18 hours ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. What I learned securing Sniffnet with the GitHub secure open source fund (sniffnet.app)
    ×0.26 75 #78 | 17 points by dmit 22 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Keeforge – Security audit with Fable 5 (keeforge.com)
    ×1.69 | 2 points by amai 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Epistemic Dependence (wordpress.com)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by rzk 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Convertix – Fast, 100% in-browser media and QR tools (convertix-fast-imager-co.blogspot.com)
    ×0.60 79 | 3 points by convertix123 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Continuum – Financial simulations for DIY multimillionaires (continuum-app.xyz)
    ×0.77 34 | 6 points by charleswcho 9 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Quasicrystals Animation Playground with WebXR (hypnagogic-quasicrystals.github.io)
    ×0.71 82 | 39 points by r34 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Clamiga: Common Lisp for the Amiga (nnamgreb.de)
    ×0.96 33 #32 | 110 points by emptybits 19 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee (reuters.com)
    ×3.03 19 #37 | 208 points by root-parent 12 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: PageSieve, a web scraping browser extension (julius383.github.io)
    ×1.41 72 #89 | 12 points by kajm 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Between Tokens – an interactive piece where you are the language model (chrisjz.github.io)
    ×2.92 119 | 9 points by chrisjz 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Split Image (splitimage.cc)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by artiomyak 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Ukraine says it hit Russian rocket centre linked to Starlink-style network (reuters.com)
    ×3.98 57 | 7 points by vrganj 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Secondhand book sales are booming. Is it because of AI? (bbc.co.uk)
    ×2.10 59 | 69 points by m-i-l 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Archie G. Norcross' Maine Forest Fire Maps (1918–22) (publicdomainreview.org)
    ×0.35 62 #51 | 27 points by samclemens 18 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. AI-Assisted GPU Porting of a 250k Line Legacy Weather Simulation Code (arxiv.org)
    ×0.83 77 #63 | 55 points by Jimmc414 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. A new 2-3x faster algorithm for computing day-of-week (benjoffe.com)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by benjoffe 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Want to know who Google thinks is evil? (twitter.com/bob_burrough)
    ×2.03 25 | 3 points by frizlab 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Young People Hate AI CEOs So Passionately That It's Almost Hard to Believe (futurism.com)
    ×10.09 61 | 115 points by healsdata 12 hours ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure" (google.com)
    ×4.13 23 #49 | 398 points by Alifatisk 21 hours ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: OxiSH, a modern, memory-safe SSH server (ochtman.nl)
    ×2.61 135 | 25 points by dochtman 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Protobuf has LSP support (buf.build)
    ×1.26 5 #27 | 154 points by theanonymousone 15 hours ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Yadda 3.0.0: BDD in the Age of AI Agents (stephen-cresswell.com)
    ×0.72 65 | 64 points by scresswell 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Brazilian election filter in X For You timeline (github.com/xai-org)
    ×1.17 77 | 48 points by LorenDB 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Columnary, a better experience for reading long articles (google.com)
    ×0.80 | 2 points by exclipy 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Vocal Slice – Cut audio by selecting text, fully on-device (vocalslice.com)
    ×1.13 7 #16 | 44 points by terranivium 6 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. $12B of US ratepayers' money wasted on a modeling mistake in PJM (semianalysis.com)
    ×2.08 23 #36 | 46 points by _delirium 4 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. OpenRaster, format for exchange of layered raster images between image editors (openraster.org)
    ×1.08 | 2 points by mimasama 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. I built TikTok, but instead of videos you scroll through cool GitHub repos (laurentiugabriel.github.io)
    ×1.61 | 2 points by laurentiurad 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Laptop is the last place your secrets are still in plaintext (github.com/jitpass)
    ×2.01 28 | 52 points by bukershok 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Government sponsored study on alcohol doesn't stand up to scrutiny (nntaleb.substack.com)
    ×1.98 42 | 47 points by scoofy 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: built my 15-year-old game idea
    ×3.11 64 | 9 points by ashitlerferad 16 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. The AI Credit Resale Economy (vectoral.com)
    ×1.75 5 #23 | 289 points by mlenhard 19 hours ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. A 3D-printed C7 extension adapter for wall chargers (oxplot.com)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by oxplot 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Why books donʼt work (2019) (andymatuschak.org)
    ×2.58 28 | 4 points by groomlake 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. How to develop your own taste in clothing (twitter.com/i)
    ×1.53 | 2 points by Michelangelo11 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Claude: System Prompts (claude.com)
    ×2.89 8 #8 | 661 points by tosh 21 hours ago | 256 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. The president's second term has involved pardoning more than 1,800 criminals (thetimes.com)
    ×2.89 66 | 3 points by doener 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Are Microsoft's AI plans being held back by a shortage of chips? (theguardian.com)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by colinb 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Protecting the Rust standard library from accidental breakage with cargo-semver (predr.ag)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by fanf2 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Mole – Deep research agent for your terminal (github.com/lajosdeme)
    ×0.87 78 | 100 points by lajosdeme 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Interactive component to map fibre breaks (OTDR) (rackout.net)
    ×1.47 57 | 7 points by matt-p 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: PyScrappy, self-healing web scraping selectors plus an MCP server (github.com/mldsveda)
    ×0.96 69 | 20 points by vedaant00 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. MostroEuropa – A European P2P Bitcoin Coordinator Built on Lightning and Nostr (shadowbip.com)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by shadowbip 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Backgroundcanvas: One-stop free online image background editor
    ×0.67 | 1 points by chgxue 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Every student is cheating with AI (ben.page)
    ×1.26 | 2 points by jer0me 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. The Case Against Formal Verification, 50 Years Later (ivan-gavran.github.io)
    ×1.18 48 | 91 points by ghuntley 13 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. MathCode, Mathematical Coding Agent (math-ai-org.github.io)
    ×0.86 28 #28 | 91 points by homarp 15 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Plastic mechanical computer from 1963: The Digi-Comp 1 [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.68 46 #33 | 68 points by tobr 17 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Taking control of your ATProto account (jola.dev)
    ×0.80 | 1 points by shintoist 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Write.md – A free, open-source, themeable Markdown editor for macOS (writemd.app)
    ×1.19 121 | 107 points by danielbilekq 5 days ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose (w4g1.dev)
    ×3.18 49 #66 | 313 points by hruvhwe 14 hours ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Hacker News Top Stories as Feeds to Use with RSS/Atom with Summaries (textlog.cc)
    ×0.34 | 2 points by stagas 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Beyond the AI Layoff Fear (urnicus.com)
    ×1.93 | 2 points by urnicus 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. The Government Is Monitoring Anti-Flock TikTok and Instagram Accounts (404media.co)
    ×6.50 16 | 131 points by Jimmc414 1 day ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. SugarTrack – an offline Android logbook for blood sugar (no account, no cloud) (sugartrack-beta.vercel.app)
    ×0.81 50 | 55 points by hunzaboy 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: A pre-execution guard that stops AI agents running destructive commands (github.com/vandith1)
    ×1.78 96 | 5 points by andevandith 21 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Design 3D-printable parts by talking (nurb.dev)
    ×0.67 23 #19 | 19 points by mkmk 5 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???