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  1. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)
    ×0.83 85 | 156 points by whoishiring 3 days ago | 477 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Anybody tried Laguna S 2.1 (by Poolside)?
    ×0.28 51 | 5 points by spottedmarley 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. DeepSeek announced to raise its API price tremendously
    ×0.75 70 | 24 points by alexwwang 20 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Poker and Liar's Dice over Bluetooth Low Energy
    ×0.28 82 | 3 points by yincrash 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask GitHub SRE: How serious is the situation there?
    ×1.29 25 | 19 points by laxk 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)
    ×1.01 78 | 225 points by whoishiring 3 days ago | 284 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. US and China race to be first to build Skynet. Either way we're F'ed
    ×0.76 41 | 16 points by spottedmarley 11 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Did GitHub remove the stargazers list?
    ×0.71 103 | 23 points by reconnecting 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Read HN twice a day for the last decade. Here's my list of S-Tier HN links
    ×2.22 67 | 78 points by vivzkestrel 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Empower the people not the AI – self containing OS
    ×0.58 120 | 8 points by OnemanBSD 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Show your micro-SaaS / MRR updates (August 2026)
    ×1.15 114 | 10 points by genekrapivin 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Dear Anthropic, can we please have thought traces back?
    ×0.67 133 | 10 points by exabrial 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What would make you list your AI product on a new marketplace?
    ×0.43 138 | 4 points by Achrima 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Anyone interested in building a harness-only benchmark?
    ×0.28 141 | 5 points by GodelNumbering 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Why mobile software infrastructure never belongs to its owner?
    ×0.09 | 2 points by rezvovmobile 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Developers–How Did You Get Your First Paying Customers?
    ×0.45 121 | 6 points by HSK11 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Who Has This Pain?
    ×0.18 143 | 3 points by swk-phil 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Why Fireworks doesn't support Voice AI
    ×0.45 128 | 5 points by kushalpatil07 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Show HN: Greenlight – Preflight Scanner for App Store and Google Play (github.com/RevylAI)
    ×0.59 | 2 points by ethanzhoucool 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Show HN: Summarize any page into a pod episode (thedaily.fm)
    ×0.84 145 | 3 points by carimura 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Official: Ford's $29,945 Small EV Truck Is Called Fathom (motortrend.com)
    ×2.00 24 #67 | 3 points by thehoff 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. How the U.S. Squandered Its Strategic Advantage (theatlantic.com)
    ×0.62 | 2 points by petethomas 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Fediverse Sovereignty and Patentable Experiences (future-secured.com)
    ×1.47 15 | 3 points by adrianwaj 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy (naomibashkansky.com)
    ×3.12 38 | 133 points by devanshp 1 day ago | 216 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Qwen Image 3.0 Pro (qwencloud.com)
    ×1.41 33 | 191 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones (toneyalexander.github.io)
    ×2.23 28 | 617 points by automatoney 2 days ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Microsoft Redesigns the Windows Webpage (microsoft.com)
    ×0.93 | 1 points by tech234a 3 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. List of Edible Salts (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.43 | 2 points by Chaseraph 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a Pretextual Weed Search (404media.co)
    ×4.93 5 | 324 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Pareto Front (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.41 17 #28 | 219 points by binyu 16 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux (runarcn.no)
    ×2.99 6 #58 | 436 points by speckx 1 day ago | 479 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Plan Review – independent review for Claude Code plans (github.com/dachev)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by blago 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. What an Improv Stage Can Teach You About Leading Cross-Cultural Teams in Tokyo (tokyodev.com)
    ×1.31 | 2 points by pwim 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 (meta.ai)
    ×1.65 2 #81 | 321 points by paulkrush 1 day ago | 250 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. ArenaAllocators don't play nicely with ArrayLists (openmymind.net)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by ibobev 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: SIMD Viterbi Decoder in Rust (github.com/brian-armstrong)
    ×0.78 86 | 63 points by brian-armstrong 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Federal Communications Commission scraps limit on broadcast TV ownership (nbcnews.com)
    ×2.22 17 #35 | 131 points by pseudolus 7 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. OpenAI's latest math breakthroughs commit research misconduct, experts say (scientificamerican.com)
    ×2.73 15 #51 | 22 points by beardyw 3 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: What should the GUI for AI agents look like? (marbleos.com)
    ×1.24 130 | 137 points by akbabu 6 days ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Gander, an Android file viewer that asks for no permissions (github.com/mokshablr)
    ×1.56 117 | 210 points by mokshablr 6 days ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Obviously, DOGE Did Not Save Money (nationalreview.com)
    ×2.92 1 #53 | 4 points by petethomas 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Romania blasts rock to divert water from drought-hit Danube to nuclear reactor (theguardian.com)
    ×2.05 | 2 points by wslh 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Zero-Mem: Zero-Token Memory Operations for LLM Agents (arxiv.org)
    ×0.95 74 | 98 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Webklip – ephemeral online clipboard with live sync and E2E encryption (webklip.com)
    ×0.53 152 | 3 points by vsergione 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: How will the Aug 12 eclipse look like from your address? (eclipse2026times.com)
    ×0.86 83 | 5 points by cpcdoy 12 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Tiny black holes may be exploding stars across the Milky Way (sciencedaily.com)
    ×1.07 34 #33 | 72 points by jandrewrogers 12 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Four simple rules behind Japan's most liveable cities (bbc.com)
    ×1.62 27 #34 | 80 points by tchalla 12 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Aristotle quotes on virtue, knowledge, and happiness (campion.edu.au)
    ×1.07 38 #87 | 187 points by teleforce 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: VS Code Extension – Semantic Code Search (Semble) (github.com/SeanPedersen)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by sean_pedersen 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. The Sylvester–Gallai Theorem (futilitycloset.com)
    ×0.85 26 #15 | 11 points by surprisetalk 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Zapscape (CVE-2026-64561): Guest-to-Host Escape in KVM/x86 (github.com/V4bel)
    ×1.07 13 #36 | 65 points by john_strinlai 9 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: FormLab, a no-signup formulation lab notebook in the browser (formvix.com)
    ×1.19 97 | 3 points by juliu1980 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Lucidos, a local AI OS that keeps the apps you describe running (github.com/lucidos-dev)
    ×0.95 137 | 4 points by kennethtiller 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Meta Ordered to Pay $942M to Address Harm to Kids from Social Media (wsj.com)
    ×3.99 13 #17 | 44 points by boplicity 1 hour ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Dress made of living mycelium can renew and repair itself (dezeen.com)
    ×1.88 19 #57 | 80 points by speckx 8 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work (cloudflare.com)
    ×2.63 16 #78 | 646 points by speckx 1 day ago | 318 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Rubin Observatory's first LSST Camera release: 500k galaxies in the COSMOS field (rubinobservatory.org)
    ×0.81 53 | 105 points by MarcoDewey 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. LLMs won't break symmetric crypto (bfswa.blog)
    ×1.44 53 #75 | 73 points by rowbin 23 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. What I love about Django (buttondown.com)
    ×1.88 17 | 131 points by j4mie 18 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: I worked on a new browser for 2 years, today it passed Acid 3 (intellios.ai)
    ×2.72 119 | 158 points by coolwulf 6 days ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: I rewrote Decap CMS with < $1K in Claude tokens (github.com/laikacms)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by afirus 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. To Understand Language Is to Understand Generalization (2021) (evjang.com)
    ×1.45 | 2 points by rzk 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: My receipt printer prints an original artwork every morning (github.com/matt-w-horn)
    ×0.88 84 | 22 points by spectraldrift 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Bitbead – Photo to printable bead pattern, in the browser (bitbead.app)
    ×3.27 127 | 8 points by shouqing_qiao 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Building an Advanced Agentic Harness (data4sci.com)
    ×0.83 57 #84 | 126 points by Anon84 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Agent Plugins (agent-plugins.org)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by rochansinha 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Stop sending me your errors (kramkow.ski)
    ×1.52 57 | 83 points by speckx 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: demake – one source project compiles to any retro game console ROM (geosona.com)
    ×1.07 21 | 38 points by gste 14 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: LingoForge – AI-powered IELTS writing with instant feedback (lingoforge.net)
    ×1.67 149 | 3 points by chenillen 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Spin audit of SQD/QSCI quantum-chemistry benchmarks on iron–sulfur clusters (zenodo.org)
    ×0.33 48 #30 | 6 points by purestatelabs 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Why Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.13 54 #85 | 148 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Objects That Explain America (nytimes.com)
    ×1.33 | 2 points by mooreds 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls (promptarmor.com)
    ×1.53 4 | 292 points by hackerBanana 1 day ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. TV's 25 best true-crime shows (theguardian.com)
    ×0.85 | 1 points by andsoitis 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. The Three Types of Creative Thought (twitter.com/dioscuri)
    ×1.48 | 2 points by rzk 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Diffing Binary Files (withkord.com)
    ×1.35 94 | 19 points by wennyyustalim 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: ClickBench Playground – a playground for 110 database systems (clickhouse.com)
    ×0.81 87 | 21 points by zX41ZdbW 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Bor – Open-source policy management for Linux desktops (getbor.dev)
    ×1.26 101 | 196 points by eniac111 4 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Capy – A Git-style platform for managing your team's secrets (github.com/capysc)
    ×2.58 99 | 13 points by cvince 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Quake – 30th Anniversary Update (bethesda.net)
    ×2.74 16 #21 | 210 points by dsubburam 5 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage (fogus.me)
    ×2.32 3 #70 | 408 points by lladnar 1 day ago | 482 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: A little physical breakout clone (brontosaurusrex.github.io)
    ×0.54 115 | 18 points by brontosaurusrex 6 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026 (phoboslab.org)
    ×1.98 9 #41 | 461 points by atan2 18 hours ago | 233 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Simon Willison on Technical Blogging (writethatblog.substack.com)
    ×2.48 32 | 3 points by herbertl 48 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Starbucks new powder making people sick [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by Bender 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: I'm a 15 Year Old Wannabe Engineer, This Is a Cycloidal Gearbox I Built (github.com/tom-ilan)
    ×2.16 89 | 336 points by tomilan 4 days ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Wallfacer – A terminal session manager for Claude Code, and more (github.com/pradipta)
    ×0.77 58 | 34 points by pradiptasarma 21 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability (githubstatus.com)
    ×4.50 5 #14 | 318 points by Footkerchief 9 hours ago | 269 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Let's all meet up in the Y2K (gingerbeardman.com)
    ×1.31 44 #44 | 110 points by msephton 18 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Bank of America spends $250M a year on GLP-1 drugs for its employees (cnbc.com)
    ×3.78 2 #72 | 13 points by andrewstetsenko 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???