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Ask HN: Is Ask HN Shrinking?

×0.53 23 | 12 points by keiferski 8 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What can I do with a single R9700?

×0.25 54 | 4 points by scott01 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)

×0.72 103 | 159 points by whoishiring 5 days ago | 512 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)

×1.00 94 | 233 points by whoishiring 5 days ago | 305 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DeepSeek announced to raise its API price tremendously

×0.44 112 | 29 points by alexwwang 2 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What is a good advice for someone looking to fractional hire a team?

×0.11 123 | 5 points by vanessa1211 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Laguna S 2.1:118B-a9B better than Qwen3.5:122B-a10B? So far, yes

×0.12 158 | 3 points by spottedmarley 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Did GitHub remove the stargazers list?

×0.66 132 | 27 points by reconnecting 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Read HN twice a day for the last decade. Here's my list of S-Tier HN links

×2.47 90 | 110 points by vivzkestrel 3 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Assembly Hall of Shame (github.com/xoreaxeaxeax)

×1.97 28 #31 | 403 points by piotrgrabowski 1 day ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon (theregister.com)

×2.88 23 #54 | 921 points by itvision 2 days ago | 693 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
One of China's Most Powerful AI Models Has Also Escaped Containment (wired.com)

×1.16 | 2 points by gpi 56 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
SNET offline internet Cuba [pdf] (michaelannethomas.com)

×1.52 14 | 3 points by rfmoz 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Compactdiff – see what compaction dropped from an agent session (github.com/mkmkkkkk)

×1.07 69 | 5 points by mileskoldin 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Diffing Binary Files (withkord.com)

×1.35 136 | 19 points by wennyyustalim 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Denmark Requires Oral Defenses for Students' Written Work to Counter AI Cheating (mezha.net)

×3.24 #1 | 344 points by theanonymousone 3 hours ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
From your doorbell to your home network (of0x.cc)

×1.19 5 #24 | 62 points by mmoogle 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Fullscreener // borderless fullscreen for any window (Windows only) (github.com/carlos-menezes)

×0.96 | 1 points by carlos-menezes 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI-written pieces that have won literary awards (twitter.com/jamesjyu)

×1.18 | 2 points by paulpauper 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Divers recover a bottle of Guinness from a 162-year-old shipwreck (washingtonpost.com)

×1.95 23 | 4 points by bookofjoe 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Picking berries is my meditation (tsoon.com)

×2.03 10 | 4 points by mooreds 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, a sudden reversal (nbcnews.com)

×4.36 9 | 350 points by ceejayoz 1 day ago | 349 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Oans – fast deduplication for btrfs and XFS (github.com/martinus)

×0.97 144 | 3 points by sunitram 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Message your other Claude Code sessions (claude.com)

×1.32 31 #29 | 22 points by mfiguiere 5 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
"It's unclear how Sopwith escaped to the general public." (aresluna.org)

×1.72 73 | 68 points by colinprince 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Product analytics (and evals) for agent sessions on your MCP (armature.tech)

×0.49 142 | 42 points by screm 5 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Arxid – keyed, non-enumerable ID obfuscation (github.com/lucasolopes)

×1.74 154 | 8 points by byolopes 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: BitBang – Reach machines behind NAT from a browser, no account (github.com/richlegrand)

×1.16 147 | 97 points by narragansett 1 week ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fastmail offers EU data region (fastmail.com)

×2.42 #2 | 249 points by groomlake 5 hours ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country (newrepublic.com)

×4.06 10 #14 | 135 points by geox 4 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Kim Jong Un Flouted Sanctions to Amass $22B Windfall (bloomberg.com)

×2.49 48 | 4 points by paulpauper 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Dell's Response to the MacBook Neo (jeffgeerling.com)

×2.05 29 | 4 points by indigodaddy 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A terminal glued to the macOS dock (github.com/palamim)

×1.74 95 | 50 points by leopalamim 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: NixOS-DGX-Spark – Nix and NixOS on the DGX Spark (github.com/graham33)

×0.90 118 | 131 points by graham33 6 days ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Kedge – Full-stack cloud with forkable VM snapshots and global SQLite (kedge.dev)

×1.13 143 | 141 points by wgjordan 1 week ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Möbius-Strip Crosswords (quuxplusone.github.io)

×0.65 66 #65 | 75 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse (eclipsefan.org)

×2.19 #7 | 29 points by MarcoDewey 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did (theverge.com)

×3.84 25 #48 | 162 points by eternalreturn 11 hours ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Launch HN: ProvenMetal (YC S26) delivers circuit boards in days instead of weeks (provenmetal.com)

×0.77 74 #60 | 229 points by willcarkner 2 days ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Thoroughly Understanding C++ ABI (2024) (ykiko.me)

×0.85 55 #80 | 80 points by rramadass 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I build the Tinder to choose food (platetale.com)

×0.70 | 1 points by anhyourdream 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Reservation Apps Have Made Getting into a Restaurant a Nightmare (wsj.com)

×1.96 33 | 3 points by pseudolus 48 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Abolish the Top Ten Books List (thewalrus.ca)

×0.51 | 2 points by pseudolus 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Clippy for macOS – retro floating paperclip with computer use (github.com/Ar9av)

×1.09 9 | 5 points by noobcoder 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Elevators (john.fun)

×5.85 78 | 1676 points by Jrh0203 1 week ago | 414 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Seedance 2.5 video API (30s single-take, 50 refs, 4K) on Atlas Cloud (atlascloud.ai)

×1.23 151 | 3 points by qqt 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Workers Drilling in Romania Broke into a Cave Sealed for 5.5M Years (travelandtannins.com)

×2.02 15 #72 | 125 points by yk 21 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website (patronview.com)

×3.01 10 #75 | 439 points by petercooper 1 day ago | 408 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I gave Claude complete ownership over a website (freebot.dev)

×1.29 | 2 points by BenediktHolm 31 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The world wants more Canadian-made water bombers. Can they be built fast enough? (cbc.ca)

×2.41 8 #63 | 17 points by Teever 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
São Paulo resident transforms degraded area into urban forest (saopaulosecreto.com)

×2.02 28 #87 | 349 points by rmason 1 day ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Volkswagen plans to win America back with a pickup, report says (arstechnica.com)

×2.26 37 | 4 points by LorenDB 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Probabilistic Estimation for Localizing a Radioactive Source in an Urban Setting (ncsu.edu)

×0.40 | 1 points by toomuchtodo 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
LLM-oriented programming – statistically revealed components

×0.42 | 1 points by hyperpallium2 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tax cuts for the wealthy only benefit the rich (2023) (lse.ac.uk)

×5.44 5 | 186 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac (github.com/drumih)

×3.59 99 | 916 points by gitpusher42 1 week ago | 345 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Recipe Jar, a local-first recipe keeper with no account or ads (recipejar.app)

×2.28 113 | 9 points by sbmagar13 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt? (hackaday.com)

×2.14 1 #8 | 104 points by gumby 5 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Building a local positioning system to track runners using Ultra-Wideband (ugent.be)

×0.94 8 #17 | 14 points by robinpdev 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale (databricks.com)

×2.14 34 #38 | 295 points by moonikakiss 1 day ago | 252 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Use Claude Code to make synced video edits to a song (github.com/ZiadAbdelkarim)

×0.88 | 1 points by iwasastreamer 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Trump-linked oil firm prepares to drill in Greenland but lacks permits (upi.com)

×7.20 75 | 11 points by amarcheschi 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ACM Europe Summer School on MLIR 2026: Streamed Live, August 10-14 (mlir-school.github.io)

×0.36 | 1 points by matt_d 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Should AI labs be treated like the owners of dangerous animals? (economist.com)

×2.36 32 | 50 points by reasonableklout 21 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: demake – one source project compiles to any retro game console ROM (geosona.com)

×1.12 98 | 40 points by gste 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Zero-bloat, client-side utility suite with zero telemetry (summit-side-utilities.pages.dev)

×0.39 | 1 points by james_utils 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Benchmarking LLMs on File System Design and Implementation (arxiv.org)

×0.94 | 2 points by matt_d 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Console.log recursively processes format specifiers introduced by %s (chromium.org)

×0.97 | 2 points by dfranke 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Algebruh - Cross-check arithmetic claims with Z3, cvc5, and Lean (github.com/skorotkiewicz)

×0.88 29 | 3 points by modinfo 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: ssh ssh.place (ssh.place)

×1.21 107 | 185 points by jeninh 5 days ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Mermaid flowcharts you don't have to redraw in a diagram editor (line9.ai)

×0.46 | 2 points by jumpalongjim 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Which devtools win when LLMs plan real web apps (preseason.ai)

×1.35 135 | 4 points by thedreammachine 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The BBC Tetris Companion (leadedsolder.com)

×0.85 68 #82 | 85 points by zdw 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Unearthing my 1996 windowed OS in machine code for Am29000 homebrew computer (nanochess.org)

×1.26 70 #89 | 184 points by nanochess 2 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
how Latin America's city of cycling is breaking gender barriers (theguardian.com)

×1.83 21 | 3 points by raybb 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Bun-boss – Bun-native fork of the pg-boss queue package (npmjs.com)

×0.97 | 2 points by khromov 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GitHub Actions suffers second-longest major outage in its history (githubstatus.com)

×6.31 87 | 43 points by KernelPryanic 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A free mini game that makes you a smarter fly fisherperson (read-the-water.netlify.app)

×0.48 92 | 23 points by mpc75 5 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Maple-Preview – Ternary 20B MoE running at 120 tok/s on a iPhone (deepgrove.ai)

×1.38 89 | 171 points by edwardbzhang 4 days ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Nightcrawler – A local AI pentesting agent running on a smartphone (github.com/garagehq)

×0.85 116 | 119 points by NickySlicks 5 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Water system controllers don't belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief (theregister.com)

×2.69 10 #59 | 241 points by Bender 1 day ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mini Cities – Cato Institute (cato.org)

×1.48 24 #74 | 4 points by danielfetz 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MacGregor the Bridge Builder (astralcodexten.com)

×0.55 | 1 points by Ariarule 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Bor – Open-source policy management for Linux desktops (getbor.dev)

×1.26 114 | 196 points by eniac111 6 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
TinySol, a tiny solitaire game for DOS (classicbits.net)

×0.80 11 #13 | 26 points by skibz 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How and Why Netflix Built a Real-Time Distributed Graph: Part 3 (netflixtechblog.com)

×0.95 | 2 points by dalvrosa 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: The Channels SDK – Bring Any Agent to Any Channel (Slack, MS Teams) (github.com/CopilotKit)

×0.66 70 | 118 points by davidmckayv 2 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: File-based HTTP endpoints for Python with its own isolated dependencies (github.com/tanrax)

×0.38 131 | 5 points by andros 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Zaivern Code – a Rust cockpit for parallel AI coding agents (github.com/tacyan)

×0.53 | 2 points by tacyan 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Akintu – AI agents trained on custom knowledge bases using RAG (akintu.ai)

×0.84 146 | 3 points by Sharanxxxx 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???