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  1. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026)
    ×1.12 5 #19 | 176 points by whoishiring 8 hours ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2026)
    ×0.96 25 #28 | 66 points by whoishiring 8 hours ago | 227 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Does HN block mobile browsers?
    ×0.96 11 | 3 points by pbohun 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Asked Reddit support to give me API key so I can delete my data. They refused
    ×0.70 41 | 13 points by leoriq 10 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What would happen if your company stopped using all AI tomorrow?
    ×0.67 80 | 37 points by jc_811 1 day ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Dropbox Data Breach
    ×1.43 68 | 39 points by hmate9 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Claude Code now appends a link to a Claude session in every commit
    ×0.47 97 | 9 points by codexon 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Is it just me, or has Claude Opus gotten worse recently?
    ×0.49 71 | 11 points by de6u99er 14 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Old.reddit.com no longer works for logged out users
    ×2.54 70 | 29 points by kradeelav 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Dwarf Fortress creator: industry in shambles over AI and layoffs
    ×0.70 | 2 points by 01-_- 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Tell HN: PayPal blocks GrapheneOS
    ×2.85 88 | 516 points by leumon 5 days ago | 325 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What do your job interviews look like?
    ×0.70 98 | 27 points by Hixon10 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Tell HN: Remember to Change Your Filters
    ×0.31 104 | 5 points by surprisetalk 21 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Hotline Telegram Support and Sales Hub (hotline.tg)
    ×0.31 120 | 3 points by hotline 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Native Apps Why?
    ×0.37 118 | 7 points by dmvjs 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Why is Founder Mode not working for Airbnb?
    ×0.41 127 | 6 points by jorisboris 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Claude 20x usage is only for the 5 hour window, not for the weekly limit
    ×0.51 100 | 15 points by vmg12 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Which self-hosted Docker UIs support rootless mode?
    ×0.22 149 | 3 points by vsilent 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What are your biggest problems and fixes with multisession engineering?
    ×0.23 150 | 5 points by top_rooster 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. DeepSeek-V3: From Roofline to Reality (ezyang.com)
    ×0.35 81 #57 | 3 points by wavelander 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Wendell Berry, Kentucky-born author who advocated a simpler life, has died at 92 (nbcnews.com)
    ×1.55 72 #70 | 14 points by mooreds 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Where do you announce your projects?
    ×1.03 | 2 points by lennart-rth 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Yen weakens past ¥160 per dollar, eroding intervention gains (japantimes.co.jp)
    ×4.18 83 | 64 points by rguiscard 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. My local model setup on an M4 Pro Mac Mini (lws.io)
    ×1.75 5 #10 | 18 points by raybb 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Fractal Jittered Voronoi Partitions (boristhebrave.com)
    ×0.85 24 #53 | 71 points by jp3141 12 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. You Rename My Lake – I Move My Hosting (olafalders.com)
    ×7.76 43 | 95 points by oalders 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 (anthropic.com)
    ×10.92 63 | 69 points by meetpateltech 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: PearPie – Private AI chat that syncs peer-to-peer, no accounts needed (pearpie.ai)
    ×0.71 87 | 3 points by cheesetoast 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. I Want a Wife (1971) [pdf] (sevanoland.com)
    ×1.08 | 2 points by NaOH 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. SKILL.state: Scalable Long-Horizon Agent Skills (arxiv.org)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by Hoefner 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Laser Graffiti (consti.de)
    ×1.37 8 | 247 points by con 3 days ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: I Built the AI command center that runs all local models in one place (generativeide.com)
    ×0.81 115 | 3 points by rohangnaneshjh 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Restroom Archive (restroomarchive.com)
    ×2.21 9 #40 | 362 points by jcalx 20 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Python Software Foundation News: 2026-psf-board-election-candidate-interview (pyfound.blogspot.com)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by rbanffy 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Rust Function Overloading – Call for Experimentation (rust-lang.org)
    ×1.05 | 2 points by birdculture 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. ChatGPT Work Tool and Skill Reference (chatgpt.site)
    ×1.31 23 | 238 points by ijidak 1 day ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Nos4, new nostalgic internet toy. A complete IOS4 right on the browser (nos4.fun)
    ×1.87 111 | 5 points by 1etu 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS (mozilla.org)
    ×2.73 7 #11 | 271 points by HieronymusBosch 10 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: I rebuilt tank game with new style (battle-tank.com)
    ×1.06 123 | 3 points by dutay05 22 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses (krebsonsecurity.com)
    ×2.14 28 | 3 points by tatersolid 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Decompiler Explorer (dogbolt.org)
    ×1.69 3 | 3 points by tripdout 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. The State of Django 2026: Boring is so back – The JetBrains Blog (jetbrains.com)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by rbanffy 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude (louisabraham.github.io)
    ×4.24 81 | 700 points by Labo333 5 days ago | 326 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Guess the AI model from its web design (raq.com)
    ×2.84 107 | 7 points by hawke 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Delete yourself from data brokers without a subscription (github.com/k7cfo)
    ×6.16 124 | 26 points by k7peak 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: HN Match Maker – Matching "Who Wants to Be Hired?" With "Who's Hiring?" (hnmatchmaker.com)
    ×0.90 11 #14 | 27 points by all2 2 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. American Airlines mechanic Azriel “Al” Blackman has died (simpleflying.com)
    ×2.24 10 #26 | 365 points by NaOH 17 hours ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Nvidia's Anthropic Deal: Just Don't Call It 'Circular Financing' (barrons.com)
    ×2.18 27 | 3 points by doener 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. AI Coding Agent Skills for Real Engineers (github.com/mattpocock)
    ×1.05 | 2 points by gurjeet 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Rakuten Kobo returns to U.S. retail as sales double (publishersweekly.com)
    ×2.89 46 | 103 points by seam_carver 1 day ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: RealDiff – runtime behavior diffing for pull requests (six languages) (github.com/issacnitin)
    ×0.48 146 | 40 points by issacnitin 5 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC (ersc.io)
    ×1.91 2 #9 | 164 points by steveklabnik 6 hours ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. I used Fable to rewrite 65kLoC of Go in Rust. It cost $400 (iurii.net)
    ×1.96 5 #32 | 39 points by aka-rider 5 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Honor Robot Phone (honor.com)
    ×1.63 16 | 3 points by bookofjoe 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: I built a live stream site where every spot is instantly AI-generated (videoai.me)
    ×1.73 74 | 8 points by Paul_Grsl 13 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Fluorescent lamps (don't) have ears (coredump.cx)
    ×0.99 9 #23 | 18 points by zdw 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Improving our alignment and security efforts (anthropic.com)
    ×1.31 | 2 points by reasonableklout 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. SK Hynix CEO sees memory chip shortage lasting until 2030 (sammyfans.com)
    ×2.92 76 | 66 points by porridgeraisin 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Claude and ChatGPT need a datacenter. This runs on my phone (llmobi.pages.dev)
    ×0.42 | 2 points by 12ziyad 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: No Rush – Free macOS ambient places on their own local time and weather (no-rush.app)
    ×0.96 154 | 3 points by bearjb 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 (anthropic.com)
    ×4.53 #1 | 844 points by denysvitali 5 hours ago | 804 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. How bicycle coaster brakes work (2018) (dougbarnesauthor.com)
    ×0.92 8 #47 | 42 points by Vedor 5 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Keel - A conductor, not an agent loop (daneb.github.io)
    ×1.81 112 | 5 points by danebalia 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. The Future Is Not Tech-Forward (thetechbubble.info)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by doener 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. The AI That Won't Say Who Made It (Unmasking Ox Alpha) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by emk_709 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. AI trolley users rack up higher basket values and spend longer in store (citystgeorges.ac.uk)
    ×1.52 20 | 3 points by geox 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Smooth Game streaming with latency on slow mobile networks ,sktstreamer (github.com/sktguha)
    ×1.61 141 | 4 points by test1072 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Path to Astra: critical capabilities and frontier safeguards (openai.com)
    ×1.98 4 #8 | 69 points by jithinraj 3 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Apple reveals 'shocking evidence' from ex-employee's MacBook in OpenAI suit (9to5mac.com)
    ×5.13 31 #36 | 158 points by colinprince 3 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. I found 5 fake DOIs for a famous ML paper while building a citation checker (strictcite.com)
    ×1.05 | 2 points by Tughan 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Tmp.0ut Volume 5 (tmpout.sh)
    ×1.29 26 #43 | 191 points by ghuntley 18 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system (jasontucker.blog)
    ×2.46 2 #68 | 614 points by speckx 1 day ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Sonic Pi (sonic-pi.net)
    ×1.61 18 #12 | 14 points by Bluestein 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. The ColorChecker, photography's most important 24 squares, turns 50 (dpreview.com)
    ×0.98 | 2 points by sohkamyung 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Transfer files over an Ethernet patch cable (maurycyz.com)
    ×1.69 50 #90 | 187 points by jllyhill 1 day ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Rootkit Evading Elastic Defend Module Load Detection (matheuzsecurity.github.io)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by matheuzsec_ 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Dyson CameraJet electric toothbrush (dyson.com)
    ×2.99 24 #31 | 89 points by noja 3 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Saab has unveiled its A3 collaborative combat aircraft concept (aviationweek.com)
    ×1.54 10 #55 | 89 points by rbanffy 9 hours ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. New Google AI Model Said to Narrow Gap on Coding Ability (Gemini 3.8 Flash) (wsj.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by petilon 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. BallGOAT – Play a whole football career in 5 minutes (theballgoat.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by snowbol 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: What Happens When You Give Your AI Agents a Voice and an Attitude (fellowgeek.github.io)
    ×1.44 105 | 10 points by pcbmaker20 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Build your own theme park (magicpatterns.com)
    ×0.73 142 | 58 points by thealexanderlee 6 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. A browser-based viewer for Office Open XML documents (silurus.dev)
    ×0.78 15 #45 | 49 points by mathiaswp 8 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Roget's Thesaurus (uchicago.edu)
    ×0.62 46 #84 | 46 points by gregsadetsky 19 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. NASA: Fill in a name, and you can have an exclusive coordinate in the universe (nasa.gov)
    ×1.79 1 | 70 points by BearBest 14 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Openheim – a multi-provider LLM agent runtime, written in Rust (openheim.io)
    ×0.68 90 | 3 points by themartto 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. I trained a small transformer in 1.5hrs and it beats many LLMs (mvakde.github.io)
    ×2.91 #17 | 550 points by porridgeraisin 13 hours ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Ubisoft's FOR HONOR will block SteamOS / Linux players starting September 10 (gamingonlinux.com)
    ×4.49 22 #60 | 93 points by haunter 8 hours ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. ReactOS 0.4.16 (reactos.org)
    ×2.39 45 | 154 points by marttt 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Google Maps renames "Lake Ontario" to "Lake America" faster than US Government (arstechnica.com)
    ×5.59 7 | 87 points by Levitating 14 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???