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  1. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)
    ×1.16 6 #25 | 194 points by whoishiring 14 hours ago | 179 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. How did Wikipedia layout become so bloated?
    ×1.87 10 #31 | 5 points by countWSS 30 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)
    ×1.17 19 #33 | 132 points by whoishiring 15 hours ago | 312 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Has anyone solved P2P routing at 100B+ nodes without DHT degradation?
    ×1.08 2 #51 | 6 points by ikhrabry 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: In post AI world, who is responsible if the code break?
    ×0.92 28 | 4 points by pranshuchittora 4 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Show CVBoosta:Resume Optimizer that tailors your resume to every job
    ×0.28 | 2 points by cvboosta 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What has your personal website/blog done for you?
    ×0.92 34 | 3 points by chistev 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Does AI research need "world models" more than bigger LLMs?
    ×0.28 | 2 points by unjuno 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Who is quitting? (August 2026)
    ×3.37 29 | 24 points by ethanwillis 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Base Power raises another $1B
    ×0.24 | 2 points by daveorzach 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Who is firing? (August 2026)
    ×1.71 46 | 17 points by ethanwillis 14 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Local, Open source AI meeting recorder that sees and hears everything
    ×0.22 104 | 8 points by puremetrics 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Have LLMs Plateaued?
    ×0.32 102 | 9 points by leandrobon 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: ReAct vs. Planning Pattern
    ×0.28 79 | 7 points by hairymouse 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Anyone still do work on Intel Macs?
    ×0.43 111 | 21 points by senor_digimon 2 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Tips for Landing a YC Internship?
    ×0.21 121 | 6 points by cnnadozi 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Tell HN: Amazonbot aggressively scraping my website and ignoring robots.txt
    ×0.78 116 | 20 points by pera 2 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. New open sourced eval tool for building agents
    ×0.07 | 2 points by Thomeras 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Best way to avoid bloat and AI – selfcontaining OS
    ×0.25 117 | 11 points by bialamusic 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Strategic Oil Reserves Down to a Record Low Two-Week Supply
    ×0.62 124 | 23 points by megamike 4 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. What is the downside of coaching that I may not be seeing yet?
    ×0.42 123 | 6 points by ikut3hva 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: I still don't understand why AI agents need "skills"
    ×1.12 115 | 17 points by skeptic_ai 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: What's Next for LLMs?
    ×0.43 122 | 5 points by apatheticonion 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. DeepSeek V4 Flash 2.98x faster, lossless (runinfra.ai)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by OsamaJaber 53 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc (birchtree.me)
    ×3.59 6 #8 | 58 points by surprisetalk 33 minutes ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: Paranoia – Get a cold, adversarial review of your code (github.com/subvertnormality)
    ×1.83 1 | 3 points by Grahf 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Java MultiTool – How I Replaced 6 browser tabs with a Single Program (github.com/ShiningPr1sm)
    ×1.16 103 | 3 points by shiningpr0xsm 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Find the perfect name for your startup, app or domain (howdowesay.com)
    ×1.34 109 | 3 points by wowinter15 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Why etymologies matter: How tracing words can illuminate history (2024) (resobscura.substack.com)
    ×0.85 38 #17 | 8 points by benbreen 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. What's the largest software project AI can complete on its own? (epoch.ai)
    ×1.51 28 #57 | 93 points by yusufozkan 20 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Apple TV+: Prestige Darling, Streaming Loser (statsignificant.com)
    ×0.88 | 1 points by speckx 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Is "Agentic" Programming a Flop?
    ×1.34 | 2 points by cyanregiment 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. MiniMax H3 Day-0 Support in ComfyUI: Open Weights, Native Audio, and 2K Video (comfy.org)
    ×1.52 16 #32 | 310 points by vblanco 22 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Travel Chaos Follows E.U.'S New Passport Controls (nytimes.com)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by rawgabbit 19 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: I built InvoRec – extract invoices to Excel/Sheets and verify charges (invorec.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by dinoze 42 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. I Spent 2B Tokens Writing a C++ Compiler So You Don't Have To (medium.com)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by lemming 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Real-Time Level-of-Detail Rendering with ReSTIR (nvidia.com)
    ×1.36 | 2 points by ibobev 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Svelte-rs – a Svelte compiler in Rust (github.com/MrWaip)
    ×0.90 84 | 4 points by mrwaip 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Devtools must be open source (exe.dev)
    ×2.69 9 #14 | 637 points by bryanmikaelian 22 hours ago | 212 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. KisakCOD – Open-source reimplementation of Call of Duty 4 Multiplayer (github.com/SwagSoftware)
    ×1.23 26 #55 | 74 points by skibz 17 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Important Null Results in Development Economics (voxdev.org)
    ×0.85 | 1 points by barry-cotter 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Will AI change how we evaluate the NIH syndrome? (nunodonato.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by nunodonato 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Kakehashi – Experimental userspace to run macOS binaries on Linux ARM (github.com/wie-project)
    ×1.26 24 | 251 points by vlad_kalinkin 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Xkcd: Earth Temperature Timeline (2016) (xkcd.com)
    ×7.08 7 | 98 points by thunderbong 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Pushyourthing. Everyone mashes one button to push links up (pushyourthing.com)
    ×1.88 96 | 4 points by canerbo 19 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: I'm a 15 Year Old Wannabe Engineer, This Is a Cycloidal Gearbox I Built (github.com/tom-ilan)
    ×2.14 41 | 332 points by tomilan 2 days ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Roame (YC S23) Is Hiring Lead Engineer (ycombinator.com)
    33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: I made a private self-destructing image hosting site in Golang (picburn.xyz)
    ×0.57 26 #34 | 10 points by shelldweller 3 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library (github.com/janestreet)
    ×1.94 16 #42 | 368 points by KolmogorovComp 1 day ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Norway became a global salmon behemoth. Now it's facing the consequences (abc.net.au)
    ×1.87 62 #74 | 208 points by CHB0403085482 2 days ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. JSON Is Lying to You (gaborkoos.com)
    ×1.54 | 2 points by birdculture 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Arm's Cortex A55 – By Chester Lam (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×1.39 | 2 points by rbanffy 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Trawl – a self-hosted engine for scraping sites behind challenge walls (germondai.com)
    ×1.96 97 | 4 points by germondai 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Amazonian civilization had estimated 3M people in 3% of forest area (science.org)
    ×1.37 13 #11 | 182 points by marojejian 12 hours ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Servitor – simplest way to run local dev containers (sndsabin.github.io)
    ×0.48 | 2 points by havu12 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Harness Engineering for Self-Improvement (lilianweng.github.io)
    ×1.64 10 #6 | 102 points by tosh 6 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science (openai.com)
    ×2.53 8 #12 | 564 points by milkshakes 20 hours ago | 850 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. C++ float-to-int conversion can be undefined behavior (kttnr.net)
    ×0.83 27 #79 | 58 points by signa11 20 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Elevators (john.fun)
    ×5.78 6 | 1653 points by Jrh0203 3 days ago | 411 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Nightcrawler – A local AI pentesting agent running on a smartphone (github.com/garagehq)
    ×0.84 19 #76 | 112 points by NickySlicks 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. LLM-Shield-Proxy - Zero-Egress PII Proxy for LLM SoC 2 (24MB RAM) (github.com/ninadphalak)
    ×1.42 | 2 points by ninadphalak 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Twenty Years of RISC OS Open (riscosopen.org)
    ×0.94 53 | 164 points by AlexeyBrin 2 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Bitcoin cold-wallet attack spreads to 4,500 addresses as losses near $89M (coindesk.com)
    ×3.36 64 | 68 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Product analytics (and evals) for agent sessions on your MCP (armature.tech)
    ×0.49 34 | 41 points by screm 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Texpile, an open-source desktop LaTeX editor with a visual mode (github.com/texpile)
    ×0.40 93 | 3 points by asyncfun 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: SaaS payment integration in ~10 lines of code (github.com/paycan-app)
    ×2.70 98 | 7 points by mehraban 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Apple is getting this wrong (openai.com)
    ×6.94 51 #62 | 223 points by meetpateltech 7 hours ago | 217 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. 57,000 times lighter than Loom – no round video bubble, but who cares? (deckdownload.netlify.app)
    ×1.24 | 2 points by astonfred 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: A speed reading test you can fail (readkinetic.com)
    ×1.15 | 2 points by SamuraiLion 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. F*: A general-purpose proof-oriented programming language (fstar-lang.org)
    ×1.30 48 | 183 points by ducktective 2 days ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: I built a tool to find your first users before they find you (agenmatic.ai)
    ×1.84 11 | 3 points by Nancylily 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Golars (Go Equivalent of Polars) (guywaldman.com)
    ×0.80 86 | 4 points by guywald 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Popkorn – A CSS based alternative for Lottie animations (github.com/ayarse)
    ×0.93 | 2 points by ayarseus 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Prolog for Verification, Analysis and Transformation Tools Michael Leuschel [pdf] (arxiv.org)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by jnpnj 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Utah produced more power from solar than any other source in May, a new first (sltrib.com)
    ×2.85 7 | 118 points by toomuchtodo 22 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Syncular – offline-first SQL sync with TypeScript and Rust cores (github.com/syncular)
    ×0.81 71 | 79 points by quambo 2 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. US company's AI lets Ukraine's cheap kamikaze drones track targets on their own (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.39 | 2 points by rbanffy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Fuse – statically typed functional programming language (fuselang.org)
    ×1.06 66 | 115 points by the_unproven 2 days ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Every plaintext HTTP request on your Linux box captured via eBPF (github.com/yeet-src)
    ×1.21 77 | 3 points by r3tr0 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: HostBlock – A menu bar app that blocks ads and malware (for my grandma) (hostblock.app)
    ×0.93 | 2 points by dotspencer 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Trembling Photons in Non-Abelian Electric Fields (aps.org)
    ×0.46 28 #43 | 11 points by bookofjoe 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. DDoS against Norwegian government IT infrastructure – status (digdir.no)
    ×1.84 22 | 93 points by e12e 16 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Vinyl – Animated vinyl record wallpaper for Mac, synced to Spotify (vinylformac.com)
    ×3.14 75 | 8 points by sxhivs 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: An AI wrote and illustrated a book of fables about threads and packets (booyaka101.github.io)
    ×0.99 113 | 6 points by Booyaka101 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog (nelson.cloud)
    ×5.59 3 #1 | 69 points by meysamazad 1 hour ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Nobel Disease (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.63 8 #20 | 23 points by num42 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. The AI Productivity Gap (bjornroche.com)
    ×1.94 36 #67 | 127 points by kiyanwang 1 day ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Privacy Not Included (mozillafoundation.org)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by RMPR 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. One Man's Quest to Fix Every Deadly Guardrail (newyorker.com)
    ×1.29 | 2 points by mhb 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Shitty – fast terminal. Memory-unsafe and faster than yours (github.com/pg83)
    ×2.14 26 | 170 points by pshirshov 1 day ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???