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  1. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)
    ×0.86 90 | 151 points by whoishiring 2 days ago | 446 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)
    ×1.03 77 | 224 points by whoishiring 2 days ago | 259 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Read HN twice a day for the last decade. Here's my list of S-Tier HN links
    ×1.98 5 | 59 points by vivzkestrel 13 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Did GitHub remove the stargazers list?
    ×0.87 88 | 22 points by reconnecting 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Why mobile software infrastructure never belongs to its owner?
    ×0.11 | 2 points by rezvovmobile 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Developers–How Did You Get Your First Paying Customers?
    ×0.35 93 | 4 points by HSK11 9 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Who Has This Pain?
    ×0.23 103 | 3 points by swk-phil 9 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Why Fireworks doesn't support Voice AI
    ×0.63 94 | 4 points by kushalpatil07 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Empower the people not the AI – self containing OS
    ×0.67 95 | 7 points by OnemanBSD 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What would make you list your AI product on a new marketplace?
    ×0.42 116 | 3 points by Achrima 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Show your micro-SaaS / MRR updates (August 2026)
    ×1.19 105 | 6 points by genekrapivin 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Anyone interested in building a harness-only benchmark?
    ×0.35 138 | 4 points by GodelNumbering 17 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What paid tools have you now replaced with personalized AI-coded tools?
    ×0.21 131 | 3 points by gtbcb 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Dear Anthropic, can we please have thought traces back?
    ×0.85 140 | 10 points by exabrial 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What Happened to Spec-Driven Development?
    ×0.51 141 | 3 points by vivekyyy 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Blitz Agent Your specialized agent -> https://blitzagent.studio
    ×0.29 | 2 points by rvey 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: How do you correct spatial reasoning of LLMs?
    ×1.56 125 | 5 points by mstaoru 16 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: I built bribes.fyi, now I am stuck what to with it
    ×0.72 142 | 3 points by neverenderr 16 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. AI Agents for Logistics, Pitfall?
    ×0.35 | 2 points by srguarapo 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. RNet lets users use one AI credit balance across multiple apps [demo]
    ×0.38 | 2 points by rNetAi 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: How can I improve my products? Which one to keep working on?
    ×0.38 | 2 points by bchhabra2490 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. ArXiv
    ×0.34 145 | 5 points by fred123123 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Compliant Mechanisms Lecture Series [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by o4c 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Most tech revolutions made work worse for employees (thisandthat.chat)
    ×2.01 68 | 120 points by jreynar 1 day ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: Modern Browsers Don't Need the Cookie Anymore (kuber.studio)
    ×2.52 82 | 15 points by kuberwastaken 14 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: ZeroCloudPDF Sign (zerocloudpdf.com)
    ×0.94 112 | 3 points by HozeKan 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. A Gallery of Installing from .dmg (aresluna.org)
    ×1.75 48 #51 | 14 points by colinprince 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. DeepSeek Plans 'Significant' Price Increase for Its AI Services (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.71 43 | 3 points by petethomas 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. You only have 3B heartbeats (twitter.com/anishthite)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by aquajet 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Diffing Binary Files (withkord.com)
    ×1.14 59 | 15 points by wennyyustalim 11 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: DotDoctor – Interactive CLI tool to diagnose dev env and update system (github.com/m11tya)
    ×0.49 | 2 points by m1tya 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Python Concurrency Testing with Frontrun (github.com/lucaswiman)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by lucaswiman 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Prompt Chains, Tool Calling, and MCP: How AI Agents Do Things (brandanthonymcdonald.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by aweful 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Better Founder Vishal Garg Exits CEO Role; Daniel Lewis Named Interim CEO (nationalmortgageprofessional.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by doppp 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Shadow Blocker Blocklist – DNS blocklist from per-platform research (github.com/CorleoneSalute)
    ×0.49 | 2 points by Corleone612 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Pinal County Sheriff Announces Plan to End Flock, Citing Fourth Amendment (jens2cents.com)
    ×1.77 | 2 points by sssilver 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Jido Assembly; Slack Clone in Pure Elixir with Integrated Agents (jido.run)
    ×1.27 126 | 22 points by mikehostetler 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls (promptarmor.com)
    ×1.61 8 #15 | 193 points by hackerBanana 10 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects (github.com/denoland)
    ×1.63 8 #19 | 166 points by calvinfo 11 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Open source tools for Quantum resistance security Post Quantum Protection (github.com/SCDcomputing)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by CyberSpin 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. All of Winona Police Department's Flock cameras cut down and stolen (valleynewslive.com)
    ×6.25 6 | 385 points by NDlurker 1 day ago | 245 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Apple is getting this wrong (openai.com)
    ×6.83 50 | 286 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 293 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. DuckDB – Data power tools for your laptop, now in Clojure (2023) (techascent.com)
    ×0.99 39 | 142 points by sourdecor 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models (neon.com)
    ×1.89 3 #10 | 249 points by moonikakiss 9 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. IP and DNS Leaks in WebKit Affecting Proxy Browsers and iCloud Private Relay (mysk.blog)
    ×1.11 48 #63 | 173 points by lapcat 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Truemetrics (YC S23) Is Hiring in Berlin – GTM Lead (ycombinator.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Alwide – An Open-Source Lightweight TUI IDE in C with Mouse, LSP and Tree-sitter (github.com/arnauda-gh)
    ×1.10 | 2 points by peter_d_sherman 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Hop.earth – OpenStreetMap based car racing game (hop.earth)
    ×0.67 75 | 88 points by faebi 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo (costar.com)
    ×3.12 #1 | 97 points by mapping365 1 hour ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Zed DeltaDB (zed.dev)
    ×1.77 1 #4 | 335 points by ahamez 9 hours ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Branchless Rust: Making a Filter 4x Faster by Removing an If (greyblake.com)
    ×2.43 1 #11 | 52 points by greyblake 3 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. TIME Is Serving AI Bots a Different Website, with Ads Built In (vincentschmalbach.com)
    ×2.29 36 #71 | 232 points by vincent_s 15 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Demis Hassabis is moving from CEO to Chairman at Google DeepMind (axios.com)
    ×4.68 80 | 369 points by ot 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Germany Records Historic 12B KWh Solar Feed-In in July 2026 (solarquarter.com)
    ×1.79 63 | 139 points by johnbarron 1 day ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. The Entropy of a Markov Chain (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)
    ×0.81 25 #31 | 112 points by surprisetalk 14 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Multi-GPU Kernels, Intelligence per Watt, Heterogeneous Inference, and More [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by gmays 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Offline 180.9M-parameter LLM and Agent inference on ESP32-P4 (github.com/cyfrit)
    ×0.53 | 2 points by Cyfrit 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. When online commenters detect my art as AI (davidrevoy.com)
    ×2.08 56 #38 | 18 points by Jare 7 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Month on Vegan Diet Shifts Epigenetic Patterns Assoc with Aging and Inflammation (ucsd.edu)
    ×1.91 74 #83 | 7 points by littlexsparkee 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. QoD: Is Lucid in the early stages of failure? (thetruthaboutcars.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by RickJWagner 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. I am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch Guardian Angel (twitter.com/gwern)
    ×2.62 1 | 308 points by mattsterett 1 day ago | 226 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Web Security is Too Hard (textslashplain.com)
    ×2.85 28 | 222 points by kevincox 1 day ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Zigbee vs. Matter over Thread:Understanding IoT Protocol Performance in Practice (arxiv.org)
    ×1.34 47 | 105 points by teleforce 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Ship Safe, an open source security scanner for coding agents (github.com/asamassekou10)
    ×0.91 | 1 points by asamassekou 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Atlantic hurricane season is looking like a dud (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.84 46 | 3 points by susiecambria 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI (acm.org)
    ×1.83 2 | 281 points by tchalla 1 day ago | 243 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: CityEdit – Open-source map for voting on NYC street changes (cityedit.org)
    ×1.33 62 | 3 points by edbltn 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Spltty – a Markdown-based personal finance CLI built with Claude (tdiniz.dev)
    ×2.32 80 | 7 points by thiagovsdiniz 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Voca – Most AI tutors wander. I built one that follows a curriculum (vocalessons.com)
    ×1.06 | 2 points by amreldessoukiad 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Governments are making a dangerous bet on the AI boom (economist.com)
    ×3.22 6 #2 | 11 points by andsoitis 25 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs (blog.google)
    ×3.01 1 #5 | 534 points by colesantiago 11 hours ago | 619 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work (cloudflare.com)
    ×2.56 #14 | 492 points by speckx 14 hours ago | 252 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. The Origins of Vintage Comics Part 1 (truegrittexturesupply.com)
    ×0.82 22 #28 | 19 points by Michelangelo11 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. OpenAI models shared hacking tips on a messaging board before HuggingFace breach (politico.com)
    ×1.24 | 2 points by 0in 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. The "Disability Dongle": Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and You (sightlessscribbles.com)
    ×3.53 59 | 191 points by calcifer 13 hours ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Nikita Bier steps down as X's head of product (techcrunch.com)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by firasd 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Ocean – All your team's agent sessions in one place (mosaic.inc)
    ×2.18 91 | 5 points by electrodisk 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Mvn-lite – I taught Maven to be an introvert for coding agents (pvrlabs.xyz)
    ×1.49 133 | 3 points by ejboy 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: GetPageSpeed Amplify, a compatible replacement for Nginx Amplify (getpagespeed.com)
    ×0.96 104 | 3 points by dvershinin 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Colophon:Show HN: Colophon: Google Docs Writing Process Log (firl.nl)
    ×0.50 | 2 points by normanbell 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage (fogus.me)
    ×2.18 7 #12 | 168 points by lladnar 9 hours ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Iran threatens to hit Gulf states if US launches new strikes (reuters.com)
    ×3.95 37 #73 | 33 points by mapping365 5 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. China's EV Boom Is Quietly Undermining Oil's Biggest Chokepoint (oilprice.com)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by toomuchtodo 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Country and State Maps in LOTR Style (lordofmaps.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by silver92bullet 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Not hiring junior engineers won't solve the problem you think you have (franciscotrindade.me)
    ×1.38 18 | 86 points by gpi 14 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: ClickBench Playground – a playground for 110 database systems (clickhouse.com)
    ×0.84 40 #78 | 20 points by zX41ZdbW 9 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Bananas aren't supposed to be tingly?
    ×0.52 | 1 points by danhon 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. The Aviation Herald was sued (avherald.com)
    ×4.12 4 | 6 points by gilthelander 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Qwen Image 3.0 Pro (qwencloud.com)
    ×1.43 60 | 191 points by theanonymousone 13 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Maple-Preview – Ternary 20B MoE running at 120 tok/s on a iPhone (deepgrove.ai)
    ×1.35 31 | 165 points by edwardbzhang 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???