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  1. Ask HN: How are you preventing brainrot?
    ×0.36 16 | 4 points by flyingcoder 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Is HTTPS://status.claude.com loading for you all?
    ×1.77 41 | 6 points by soorajsanker 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: In your experience, what are sound conventions for e-ink UI development?
    ×0.98 74 | 212 points by BoxOfRain 6 days ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: How much money do you spend monthly on subscriptions for AI models?
    ×0.25 51 | 9 points by marko-djuric 12 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: In 2021, there were 4.5 jobs per job seeker vs. 2.5 job seekers/job now
    ×0.55 62 | 7 points by ed_balls 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: How can you tell a site/app is vibe coded?
    ×0.38 66 | 6 points by gkolli 12 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
    ×1.43 79 | 317 points by david927 4 days ago | 1170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What browser do you use?
    ×0.29 80 | 7 points by Pieczasz 17 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Small team devs – how do you collab with UI/UX designers in the AI era?
    ×0.26 96 | 4 points by cameronnimmo 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Weekly VSCode Grumbling
    ×0.22 115 | 3 points by azatom 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Cmux SSH Lagging
    ×0.33 117 | 3 points by 217 18 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: How are you finding the job market in 2026?
    ×0.66 93 | 13 points by dzonga 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Is AI code verification becoming your main bottleneck?
    ×0.28 123 | 7 points by ochidaniel4 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Gemini API removes postpay billing
    ×0.35 103 | 6 points by alex14fr 23 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How's Everyone Feeling Today?
    ×1.57 104 | 16 points by arm32 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Are there any production LLM pipeline setups to learn from?
    ×0.45 128 | 5 points by atif089 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN:Why do websites today refuse to work on EDGE/2G?
    ×0.32 125 | 7 points by DenisDolya 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: New Reddit also requiring login?
    ×1.30 75 | 5 points by 7402 13 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Tether Clears First Full Audit from KPMG Without Publishing the Statements (thedefiant.io)
    ×1.69 | 2 points by negura 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Show HN: Needle2: 14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, smart home and robots (cactuscompute.com)
    ×2.41 44 | 527 points by HenryNdubuaku 3 days ago | 182 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. German Tank Problem (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by jxmorris12 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Someone is running mass vulnerability scans, spoofing AI bots like ClaudeBot (knownagents.com)
    ×1.61 7 | 301 points by gavinhking 1 day ago | 225 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Show HN: I asked Claude to write DDIA as a live comic (systemscomic.com)
    ×2.46 108 | 7 points by samuelxing 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Show HN: A tiny LLM running at 21,000 tok/s on a $250 FPGA (Live Demo) (mikeayles.com)
    ×2.29 109 | 79 points by mikeayles 3 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. We Reduced API Requests in the Hetzner Cloud Controller Manager (hetzner.com)
    ×1.48 | 2 points by lukasmetzner 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. The Body Remembers but the Doctor Cannot- Experiments with AI in Personal Health (karankurani.com)
    ×1.27 | 2 points by BIackSwan 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Agent Safety Should Be a Runtime Contract (arxiv.org)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by sbulaev 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Anthropic's Agent Tests Turned Shared Work into a Turf War (ai-updates.net)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by ashurandi 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. AI Stock Research Assistant · Streamlit (streamlit.app)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by KiaanKothari 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. What's New in SuperMemo 20? (supermemo.org)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by Tomte 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Mistral OCR 4.1 (mistral.ai)
    ×1.82 3 #10 | 322 points by spelk 14 hours ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Aiseesoft Mac Video Converter Ultimate (aiseesoft.com)
    ×0.78 | 1 points by aiseesoft 22 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. GitHub has another tough day (surfingcomplexity.blog)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by azhenley 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Build Wide, Ship Narrow (adapt.com)
    ×1.19 30 | 103 points by ashumz 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: I made a tool that rebuilds editable slides from images (sliderebuild.org)
    ×1.12 | 2 points by Graxi 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: I built an MCP that gives DeepSeek V4 Flash eyes (bad ones) (github.com/theJian)
    ×0.90 124 | 3 points by theJian 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: I spent almost 2 years collecting website design inspiration (withfudge.com)
    ×0.53 | 2 points by sim04ful 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Nine PBS sues Iron Mountain over blocked access to archival data (current.org)
    ×2.74 13 #16 | 299 points by vinayakborkar 18 hours ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Crown 0.64 – Native and cross-platform game engine (crownengine.org)
    ×0.18 64 #53 | 7 points by dbartolini 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. PenguinHarness, Harness for Recursive Self-Improvement (github.com/Prism-Shadow)
    ×0.90 | 1 points by jinqueeny 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: WinCore – Open-Source Windows Utilities for AI and PyTorch (github.com/FWKMultiverse)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by FWK_Multiverse 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Cadre.rocks A local-first board for orchestrating coding agents (cadre.rocks)
    ×2.28 71 | 5 points by l-crispr 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. JDK 27 G1/Parallel/Serial GC Changes (tschatzl.github.io)
    ×1.05 30 #47 | 57 points by 0x54MUR41 14 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Loss Curves Lie: Building a Deterministic Linter for ML Training Runs (bedvibe.studio)
    ×0.79 | 1 points by BedVibe_Studios 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: MCP-stama – An ultra-fast Rust MCP server with no dependencies (github.com/StamManif)
    ×21.59 58 | 71 points by stammanif 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: MCP-uplift – run legacy MCP servers behind the new stateless protocol (github.com/MohibShaikh)
    ×1.82 119 | 3 points by bazmou 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. A simple fix for LLM tail latency (myhoai.com)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by oskrim 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Text AI watermarks will always be trivial to remove (seangoedecke.com)
    ×2.28 24 #33 | 119 points by pseudolus 16 hours ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Rsync 3.5.0: a huge number of security fixes (samba.org)
    ×2.41 21 #72 | 18 points by zdkaster 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: NanoRL – RL training for LLMs in ~1,800 lines (github.com/alex000kim)
    ×4.83 68 | 10 points by alex000kim 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Modern Alternative to Plausible (getopen.so)
    ×3.44 84 | 6 points by rahulbridge 17 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Mistral AI wants to build 1 gigawatt of European compute by 2030 (venturebeat.com)
    ×4.03 66 | 6 points by tosh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: NotABot – A game to help train human-vs-bot detection models (notabot-five.vercel.app)
    ×1.15 | 2 points by zefparis 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Shade Map (shademap.app)
    ×1.63 18 | 244 points by fredley 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Delphi – Build your own AI trading agent in seconds (tradewithdelphi.com)
    ×1.72 118 | 3 points by ariavikram 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: A walkable 3D tour of a feedforward neural net (ffnn.vercel.app)
    ×2.87 89 | 5 points by aithena 18 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: ChatGPT SEO for Shopify Merchants (shopify.com)
    ×0.78 | 2 points by rahular1 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. GoAccess – Open-source real-time log analyzer and interactive viewer (goaccess.io)
    ×0.98 31 #49 | 58 points by gregsadetsky 15 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Thanks to social media, canned sardines are a scarcity on the supermarket shelf (corneroffifth.studio)
    ×1.90 22 #81 | 183 points by carabiner 1 day ago | 299 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. History of Flagellation (1926) (gutenberg.org)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by petethomas 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. The Natural Hierarchy of Money (2018) (bu.edu)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by lostnfound8778 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Bsdkrun – Instant MicroVMs/Unikernels for macOS and Linux (github.com/tsirysndr)
    ×1.34 78 | 4 points by tsiry 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: TasmoShelf – local-first iOS/Android app for Tasmota devices (tasmoshelf.app)
    ×0.41 94 | 3 points by itsmueller 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: C# Game Engine with its own scripting language and IDE (github.com/ArcadeMakerSources)
    ×1.68 11 #8 | 16 points by am-gm 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Better Gaussian Splatting in Julia (pxl-th.github.io)
    ×1.10 28 #48 | 118 points by pxl-th 20 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. People who grew up with high economic connectedness earn more (julienreszka.com)
    ×2.19 33 | 130 points by julienreszka 1 day ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. DeepSeek Harness developer preview (deepseek.com)
    ×2.81 2 #7 | 639 points by bjin 18 hours ago | 263 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. The lattice of sets of natural numbers is rich (2021) (hamkins.org)
    ×0.80 34 #56 | 104 points by benmandrew 23 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Auto-train the harness, not the LLM. cross-model, cross-benchmark gains (github.com/workofart)
    ×1.01 55 | 4 points by megadragon9 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Choose Boring Technology (2015) (mcfunley.com)
    ×2.25 2 #13 | 326 points by tosh 14 hours ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Ha.mr – short URLs using compression (ha.mr)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by matan-h 53 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Can I use my Outputs to train an AI model? (claude.com)
    ×8.68 4 | 89 points by DarenWatson 22 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Ballet – Workflow automation that writes integrations against any API (ballet.dev)
    ×0.53 63 | 36 points by danielkimber 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS (textlog.cc)
    ×1.36 121 | 206 points by stagas 6 days ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Blog about things you don't understand yet (seangoedecke.com)
    ×1.89 4 #17 | 86 points by gfysfm 8 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: UTC Time - live clock, ISO 8601, Unix timestamp (utctime.app)
    ×2.34 67 | 24 points by nadermx 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. AI-driven surge in bond yields could be next risk for markets and growth (reuters.com)
    ×1.08 | 2 points by petethomas 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: WikiZipf – Guess the most frequent words of a Wikipedia article (wikizipf.com)
    ×1.00 116 | 3 points by Madki 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Choosing an AI model: one prompt, 11 models, different results (netlify.com)
    ×1.46 19 #30 | 199 points by toddmorey 18 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Launch HN: Bullet (YC S26) – A Faster Coding Agent (codewithbullet.com)
    ×0.98 40 #31 | 97 points by adi1 17 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Ghostglyph – Turn photos into cyberpunk ASCII art in the browser (ghostglyph.net)
    ×2.31 101 | 4 points by pj3677 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Understanding is the new bottleneck (geoffreylitt.com)
    ×2.42 2 #12 | 298 points by sebg 13 hours ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. OpenAI's Rogue-Agent Incident Has Become a Test of Its Safety Culture (ai-updates.net)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by ashurandi 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Gloomberb (gloom.sh)
    ×2.67 17 #35 | 410 points by rbanffy 18 hours ago | 213 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. The Oldest Bar in Every US State (businessinsider.com)
    ×1.15 40 #73 | 22 points by NaOH 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Modelio 6.2 ported to native Apple Silicon ARM64 with Codex (github.com/sertitech)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by rvlsnjk 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: A website for exploring historical photographs of my city (maprva.org)
    ×1.55 129 | 4 points by uneekname 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: A Free Cloud Container (usebench.dev)
    ×0.97 99 | 3 points by saucepoint 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. GLM-5.3: Frontier Coding with Emergent Cyber Capabilities (z.ai)
    ×4.41 #1 | 315 points by pella 2 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. The Legend of the Novell NE2000 [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.93 6 #24 | 40 points by voxadam 6 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???