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  1. Ask HN: How are you finding the job market in 2026?
    ×0.58 88 | 5 points by dzonga 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: In your experience, what are sound conventions for e-ink UI development?
    ×1.01 108 | 212 points by BoxOfRain 5 days ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Is AI code verification becoming your main bottleneck?
    ×0.26 93 | 5 points by ochidaniel4 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN:Why do websites today refuse to work on EDGE/2G?
    ×0.34 112 | 6 points by DenisDolya 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Are there any production LLM pipeline setups to learn from?
    ×0.68 132 | 4 points by atif089 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Why Connected Home Appliances?
    ×0.43 109 | 4 points by ripe 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
    ×1.43 114 | 315 points by david927 3 days ago | 1155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Responsible/trustable background check companies?
    ×0.27 122 | 5 points by levinb 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What do you think of this novel slider puzzle? [video, full rules, beta]
    ×0.27 147 | 3 points by amichail 14 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: How's Everyone Feeling Today?
    ×1.68 104 | 11 points by arm32 14 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How do you envision the AI Software Factory?
    ×0.28 | 2 points by DavidHaerer 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Human task board for my agents
    ×0.29 | 2 points by jbdamask 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. We built a job board where the employers aren't human. Here's what broke
    ×1.17 135 | 4 points by Taskpoolai 14 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Remind HN: Perseid meteor shower peaks tonight
    ×1.39 105 | 10 points by cjbarber 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: GitHub project that showed all edits (somewhat proving human authorship)
    ×0.25 162 | 3 points by 4d66ba06 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Bitbucket CLI
    ×0.50 149 | 4 points by scr2em 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What are GitHub's push-farm botnets for?
    ×0.74 153 | 4 points by ghspamwatch 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ed Zitron on CNBC Squawk Box Talking Nvidia, Unprofitable AI Labs
    ×0.83 120 | 7 points by johnbarron 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. SETI@Home was the coolest thing
    ×0.79 163 | 27 points by b112 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813
    ×0.73 123 | 5 points by uneven9434 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Could DNA be represented as "an embedding" in an AI model?
    ×0.15 164 | 3 points by greenmoonx 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Bigos (Polish Hunter's Stew) Recipe Builder (chefsbinge.com)
    ×1.05 52 #48 | 96 points by doublepg23 17 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Cursor Design Mode (cursor.com)
    ×1.57 77 #71 | 8 points by indigodaddy 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. How do I self-host a good-looking AI generated website
    ×0.69 | 1 points by pcblues 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Making holograms with a pen plotter (matelsky.com)
    ×1.27 62 | 182 points by DemiGuru 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: Ballet – Workflow automation that writes integrations against any API (ballet.dev)
    ×0.62 32 #21 | 28 points by danielkimber 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Reflex (YC W23) Is hiring Growth and GTM Roles (ycombinator.com)
    12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. My Homelab Got Hacked – A Postmortem (phunky.cafe)
    ×5.23 20 #88 | 18 points by birdculture 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. The US tried to stop cartel money-laundering; devastated mom-and-pop businesses (theguardian.com)
    ×3.13 92 | 122 points by hedora 1 day ago | 203 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: FEDERaiDE, a TUI harness with P2P multi-agent routing and built in IDE (rocklab.in)
    ×0.42 | 2 points by petrokitty 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: OpenMicroKbd: $40 open source alternative to Codex Micro Keyboard (openmicrokbd.org)
    ×0.70 | 2 points by greatony 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Why Target Common Lisp for Code Generation? (funcall.blogspot.com)
    ×1.21 12 #9 | 69 points by oumua_don17 7 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Aperture – Proxy Auto-Tracking (npmjs.com)
    ×1.98 | 2 points by oyeappu 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard (nvidia.com)
    ×1.27 40 | 258 points by droidjj 1 day ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. The Essential Question: “What should I read next?” (thenewcuriosityshop.substack.com)
    ×1.00 40 #53 | 59 points by benbreen 12 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (artificialanalysis.ai)
    ×3.35 65 #75 | 323 points by wertyk 12 hours ago | 355 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. AI Hype Is Running into Reality (nytimes.com)
    ×3.38 19 | 6 points by ripe 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Flock wanted to tap dashcams in rideshare vechicles to add to surveillance data (flowingdata.com)
    ×3.57 107 | 80 points by skadamat 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: NYC's 349 CCTV feeds as a live crowd map (somodus.com)
    ×0.48 | 2 points by eric2025 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: MintPDF – HTML/Markdown to PDF API with an MCP Server (mintpdf.dev)
    ×1.62 159 | 3 points by Stackedboost 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Tim King, AmigaDOS developer, has died (amiga-news.de)
    ×1.31 19 #11 | 249 points by doener 15 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Anything Could Become a Battleground (lareviewofbooks.org)
    ×0.61 77 #87 | 8 points by lermontov 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. New Study Shows Hiking with an Engineer Has No Effect on Daily Enjoyment (thetrek.co)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by theanonymousone 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Grok 4.6 (x.ai)
    ×4.83 6 #13 | 481 points by iLuddite 14 hours ago | 444 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Debugging Information for Inlined Functions (lwn.net)
    ×0.52 80 #34 | 24 points by pykello 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Felix and I (jacobfilipp.com)
    ×1.08 42 #39 | 97 points by surprisetalk 14 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Anthropic in Talks to Buy World Model AI Startup Decart for $6B (bloomberg.com)
    ×3.25 27 #56 | 22 points by htrp 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Fab Friends a crowdfunding site for Rwandan college students (joinfabfriends.org)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by muramira 22 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: LinkShip – Turn any file into a trackable, shareable link (linkship.net)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by sunpy 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. LinkedIn CringeBot 3000 (cringebot3000.com)
    ×3.63 51 | 467 points by theanonymousone 23 hours ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Slnmap – Roslyn-based code graph MCP server for .NET codebases (github.com/EMahmoudNabil)
    ×0.49 | 2 points by emahmoudnabil 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Research on LLM Disagreement on Factual Claims (zenodo.org)
    ×0.50 | 2 points by kostaj 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: NoCrap – Gamifying porn addiction recovery (nocrap.vercel.app)
    ×1.07 138 | 4 points by uioio 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai)
    ×2.32 4 | 4 points by theanonymousone 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Why must a socialist also be woke? (ft.com)
    ×2.90 6 | 8 points by alephnerd 3 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. WorldClaw Agentic 3D open-world generation at scale (tencent-hunyuan.github.io)
    ×1.45 25 | 270 points by EwanG 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Seisin – a desktop app that turns your job search into analytics (getseisin.com)
    ×0.65 124 | 5 points by LudbaSH 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Rekall – an Ableton Live project management companion application (machinelies.eu)
    ×2.79 133 | 5 points by iamsaitam 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Antiqua–Fraktur dispute (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.77 3 #6 | 40 points by buzzy_hacker 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Breaking the WAL (antithesis.com)
    ×1.64 16 #29 | 81 points by wwilson 9 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Apple in Talks to Pay Publishers for News Content to Power Siri AI (macrumors.com)
    ×1.85 | 2 points by mgh2 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. My First Post
    ×3.40 43 | 5 points by VimalRB 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Greenland issues "strong warning" as American oil firm illegally drills wells (theguardian.com)
    ×5.07 106 | 81 points by ck2 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: A tiny LLM running at 21,000 tok/s on a $250 FPGA (Live Demo) (mikeayles.com)
    ×2.23 130 | 77 points by mikeayles 2 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. White House Authorizes Private U.S. Companies to Hack Foreign Cybercrime Groups (whitehouse.gov)
    ×4.56 15 #52 | 39 points by iamronaldo 6 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: I asked Claude to write DDIA as a live comic (systemscomic.com)
    ×3.08 31 | 6 points by samuelxing 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Terabytes of credentials leaked in supply-chain attack (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.67 59 | 3 points by Bender 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: iPhone app takes simultaneous images from 2 lenses, fuses into 1 photo (photosynthesis.camera)
    ×1.92 42 | 323 points by sajomes 4 days ago | 300 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Crabsoup, a Liquidsoap-inspired audio streaming engine in Rust. (crabsoup.vercel.app)
    ×0.81 | 2 points by sonyarianto 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Bluesky's active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app (techcrunch.com)
    ×1.64 94 #62 | 110 points by newusertoday 1 day ago | 217 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Watermarks-remover: Strip multi-vendor AI provenance marks (github.com/guillaumemeyer)
    ×2.69 42 | 3 points by thunderbong 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Who invented the great numerical algorithms? [pdf] (pku.edu.cn)
    ×2.70 22 | 4 points by nill0 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Program images and portable Scheme back ends for Jolt (yogthos.net)
    ×0.58 94 #42 | 9 points by yogthos 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs (stolen-thoughts.com)
    ×3.11 | 684 points by quantumgarbage 1 day ago | 301 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. The lifesaving secret hidden inside a horseshoe crab's blue blood (whdh.com)
    ×0.92 67 | 103 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Embench – playground for comparing embeddings and retrieval stacks (embench.ai)
    ×0.48 | 2 points by a3tgg 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Building Security Agents That Cannot Escape Their Trust Boundary (cynative.com)
    ×0.63 102 #84 | 8 points by szin 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Why Did OpenAI's Head of Ethics Chloé Bakalar Leave? (aimagazine.com)
    ×1.56 103 | 87 points by ashurandi 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: /show-me: agent skill for compact visual representations (humanlayer.com)
    ×0.89 115 | 7 points by dhorthy 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Pixel Watch 5 (blog.google)
    ×1.49 35 #22 | 122 points by ortusdux 13 hours ago | 238 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. How much memory is needed to render a TrueType font to bitmap (nothings.org)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by anitil 35 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Find the jobs that fit your resume in 60 seconds (seekerscore.com)
    ×2.08 18 | 3 points by not_wowinter14 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Clamiga: Common Lisp for the Amiga (nnamgreb.de)
    ×1.59 55 | 3 points by emptybits 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Toposonico, a Music Map and Recommender (toposonico.com)
    ×0.37 | 2 points by deppep 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. SHOW HN: Why.com – a curiosity engine back from 1999 (why.com)
    ×0.48 | 2 points by rasheed106 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Tailscale Traces Database Corruption to 16y/o SQLite WAL-Reset Bug (tailscale.com)
    ×4.01 #2 | 918 points by ropbear 15 hours ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. General Dynamics Failed to Build Artillery Shells for the Army (propublica.org)
    ×3.65 40 | 6 points by colinprince 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Why your LLM ignores what you asked for (github.com/CamjamPNG)
    ×1.57 79 | 3 points by camjampng 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Facebook ads are so hard to block that uBlock Origin stopped filtering them (neowin.net)
    ×5.23 24 | 190 points by bundie 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. US hires over 2k video gamers as air traffic controllers (cbsnews.com)
    ×2.38 73 #61 | 199 points by shagie 1 day ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???