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  1. Ask HN: Have LLMs Plateaued?
    ×0.70 8 | 4 points by leandrobon 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tips for Landing a YC Internship?
    ×0.37 41 | 6 points by cnnadozi 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
    ×1.41 1 | 12 points by sarreph 6 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What's Next for LLMs?
    ×0.87 45 | 4 points by apatheticonion 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. What Is Decispher?
    ×0.27 80 | 3 points by cool_coder12 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Anyone still do work on Intel Macs?
    ×0.48 86 | 20 points by senor_digimon 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Best way to avoid bloat and AI – selfcontaining OS
    ×0.28 78 | 11 points by bialamusic 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Tell HN: Amazonbot aggressively scraping my website and ignoring robots.txt
    ×0.92 96 | 19 points by pera 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: I still don't understand why AI agents need "skills"
    ×1.22 94 | 14 points by skeptic_ai 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What's Your BHAG?
    ×0.54 88 | 7 points by sudo_cowsay 16 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. What is the downside of coaching that I may not be seeing yet?
    ×0.39 106 | 4 points by ikut3hva 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: How are you using AI to learn?
    ×0.54 116 | 8 points by mfalcon 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: When will ChatGPT Voice be able to control my phone?
    ×0.21 | 2 points by spapas82 19 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. What if we learned languages like we acquired our first?
    ×1.17 99 | 7 points by Salim_wariz 20 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. ask HN: How do I run Android 15 on a system with Andr 12 vendors?
    ×0.46 125 | 3 points by KinetiNode 21 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Tell HN: HackerOne Announces Mandatory identity verification
    ×0.41 127 | 17 points by 0xmattf 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Strategic Oil Reserves Down to a Record Low Two-Week Supply
    ×0.57 137 | 20 points by megamike 3 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: What did you learn last month? (July 2026)
    ×0.45 121 | 15 points by bhu1st 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. AI will always find a difference
    ×0.38 138 | 3 points by ghassenfaidi 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Best Blogging Platform?
    ×0.82 129 | 5 points by asxndu 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: How did your boss's behavior change with the rise of AI?
    ×0.43 133 | 8 points by aredirect 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Which web browser has no AI?
    ×0.72 112 | 10 points by lilerjee 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Should organizations be allowed to have all types of personl data(X.com)
    ×0.56 139 | 4 points by dfps 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: When did we go from agentic loops to graphs?
    ×0.49 140 | 4 points by grandimam 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Boris Cherny on Trying to Get Claude Code to Rewrite the Claude App (daringfireball.net)
    ×4.49 28 #42 | 36 points by robenkleene 3 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Holocloth (holocloth.vercel.app)
    ×2.11 31 #44 | 176 points by ingve 21 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Gander, an Android file viewer that asks for no permissions (github.com/mokshablr)
    ×1.55 81 | 207 points by mokshablr 2 days ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. TinyNES Review – A Super Niche NES Console (lon.tv)
    ×0.89 30 #24 | 41 points by throwoutway 8 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Connes' Rigidity Theorem: Disproof of Open AI's Counterexample and Proof (philarchive.org)
    ×1.94 18 #43 | 13 points by gone35 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. A Surveillance Treaty in Disguise: Canada Signs UN Cybercrime Convention (michaelgeist.ca)
    ×2.31 16 | 305 points by iamnothere 1 day ago | 161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Legionlinuxtui – Control Lenovo legion laptops in the terminal (github.com/nooneknowspeter)
    ×0.50 95 | 16 points by nooneknowspeter 4 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: 8bit/cnlibs – 8bit Shadcn component library (cnlibs.com)
    ×0.89 | 2 points by samke- 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Has the New Cocaine Arrived? (playboy.substack.com)
    ×5.40 5 | 64 points by bookofjoe 15 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: STB-like zero-dependency O(N) FMM gravity solver (github.com/nihiL7331)
    ×0.89 | 2 points by nihiL7331 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Social Hiking App (losttrail.app)
    ×0.48 | 2 points by lpeancovschi 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Aevros .... A kernel that explains itself (github.com/Mobeen0119)
    ×1.53 101 | 6 points by Mobeen0119 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Print Your Speakers (printyourspeakers.com)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by michael_michael 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. BMW Spider-Man in-car advertising (consumerrights.wiki)
    ×6.27 54 | 244 points by goplayoutside 2 days ago | 165 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Kota – Bring AI agent CLIs into the same room (kota.place)
    ×0.89 | 2 points by chriswunan 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: mlxsh A lightweight CLI to serve multiple local LLMs on Apple (github.com/ansnadeem)
    ×0.94 | 2 points by ansnadeem 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. SwiftUI After 7 Years (ykvm.com)
    ×3.01 4 #14 | 134 points by mpweiher 9 hours ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Fasttracker II clone in C using SDL 2 (16-bits.org)
    ×1.25 32 #30 | 119 points by andsoitis 15 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Apple engineer says he was fired after refusing to send cust. device IDs to AT&T (runtimewire.com)
    ×5.06 37 #39 | 74 points by ryanmerket 1 hour ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. OpenAI’s amazing — but vastly oversold — new model Astra (garymarcus.substack.com)
    ×2.60 12 #67 | 23 points by champagnepapi 6 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Ranking weird pizza cutters [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by ninju 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. I'm (mostly) picking models on speed now, not intelligence (martinalderson.com)
    ×1.18 | 2 points by vinhnx 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Microsoft raises Xbox prices by up to 43% (theverge.com)
    ×6.15 59 | 88 points by BlueBerry2001 9 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: I worked on a new browser for 2 years, today it passed Acid 3 (intellios.ai)
    ×2.66 73 | 153 points by coolwulf 2 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. OpenAI's super PAC is funding AI-generated news site attacking industry critics (modelrepublic.org)
    ×3.38 35 | 5 points by JSR_FDED 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Linux Desktop Market Share Surpasses 10% in North America (linuxiac.com)
    ×7.38 51 | 98 points by leephillips 11 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Qwen 3.8-Max and Qwen3.8-27B are going open weight (twitter.com/Alibaba_Qwen)
    ×1.98 3 | 3 points by ahmadawais 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. AI Can Design Parts but It Can't Do This [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by boringperson 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Rotating torus in terminal (but with kitty graphics protocol) (andreadimatteo.com)
    ×0.99 128 | 3 points by deotman 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Lerobit MMP V1: Transforming AI Marketing-Coming Soon (lerobit.com)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by akliluart 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Situational Awareness got the future right but misread the past (ft.com)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by sbulaev 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Ask HN: What Is Stripe Today?
    ×0.56 | 1 points by Taikhoom2010 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. NetBSD 11.0 (netbsd.org)
    ×2.29 3 | 309 points by jaypatelani 1 day ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. EU will mandate labels on authentic-looking AI content starting August 2 (engadget.com)
    ×6.04 79 | 76 points by vrganj 1 day ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Logan Basic v2.1 - An online BASIC interpreter. (sinusoft.com)
    ×0.74 69 | 24 points by Sinusoid314 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Record Your Accomplishments (accomplishments.app)
    ×0.89 | 2 points by samteeeee 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Why Book Corners won't sync contributions back to OpenStreetMap (andreagrandi.it)
    ×1.14 1 #7 | 65 points by pizzaiolo 4 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Fuse – statically typed functional programming language (fuselang.org)
    ×1.13 37 #41 | 105 points by the_unproven 16 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Twenty Years of RISC OS Open (riscosopen.org)
    ×0.93 5 #50 | 154 points by AlexeyBrin 15 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Schmitt Trigger: Robust Comparator Design with Hysteresis (wevolver.com)
    ×0.46 42 #61 | 18 points by ankitg12 8 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. MiniMax-H3 weights are up (huggingface.co)
    ×1.98 1 | 3 points by dagaci 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: OpenTalking – Privately deployable real-time AI avatar (github.com/datascale-ai)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by xx123122 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Seedance 2.5 (bytedance.com)
    ×2.35 22 | 428 points by njaremko 1 day ago | 250 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Drop your site, get design feedback based on similar sites (withfudge.com)
    ×0.92 | 1 points by sim04ful 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Mapping Jensen Huang's five-layer AI stack to engineering degrees (ai-five-layer-map.pages.dev)
    ×0.50 | 2 points by ithkai92 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Zenith – AI that parses 2D blueprints into instant quote breakdowns (zenithquoting.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by MalikCarey 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. AI doesn't generate working products, that's still your job (weeraman.com)
    ×3.21 42 | 261 points by smckk 1 day ago | 291 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. RamenHaus (ramen.haus)
    ×1.86 47 | 241 points by oler 1 day ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Kaisel – Routes as Values. Dart 3 Native Router for Flutter (kaisel.dev)
    ×0.54 75 | 57 points by TheWiggles 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. How the words we teach English language learners changed (pudding.cool)
    ×1.60 4 #19 | 195 points by c-oreills 12 hours ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Alexander Graham Bell's Tetrahedral Kites (1903–9) (publicdomainreview.org)
    ×1.27 | 2 points by tzury 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Southern California radio station lays off staff switches to all-music format (ktla.com)
    ×1.22 4 | 3 points by Bender 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Ripchaser – Sports card checklist and parallel mapping tool (ripchaser.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by engraveprice 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Why we write our own C and C++ inference engines (localai.io)
    ×1.33 19 #6 | 11 points by eatonphil 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. The Shooter Didn't Expect This [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.19 | 2 points by Bender 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Qwen 3.8 Max Live Now (qwencloud.com)
    ×7.10 79 | 21 points by zkmon 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. RipGrep musl binaries occasionally segfault during very-large searches (github.com/BurntSushi)
    ×1.60 19 | 278 points by throwaway2037 1 day ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Solid Queue 1.6.0 now supports fiber workers (github.com/rails)
    ×0.88 72 | 101 points by earcar 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Tell HN: I hate your fuzzy search
    ×4.28 58 | 97 points by tehwebguy 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: The Goal is simple, there should be an actual free editor (sylixide.com)
    ×1.77 120 | 20 points by Sai-09 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: MovePlaybook – A local-first moving checklist with printable plans (moveplaybook.app)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by lionchain 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Demystifying Deep Learning Compiler Front End Bugs: An LLM-Aided Empirical Study (arxiv.org)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by matt_d 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. OpenUK Wants Britain to Stop Giving Away Open Source Creations (itsfoss.com)
    ×1.76 30 | 3 points by ivewonyoung 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Linux desktop market share has hit over 10% in North America (reddit.com)
    ×5.93 4 | 176 points by dviola 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Google kills Earth AI generator after one day (twitter.com/newsfromgoogle)
    ×4.05 77 | 62 points by BlueBerry2001 1 day ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Isopolis – Isometric pixel map of SF (isopolis.city)
    ×2.31 1 #2 | 99 points by nuwandavek 3 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???