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  1. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)
    ×1.03 49 #72 | 140 points by whoishiring 22 hours ago | 361 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. How to Pivot?
    ×0.51 | 2 points by noreplydev 49 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)
    ×1.04 | 214 points by whoishiring 1 day ago | 214 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Can we direct AI on our personal projects during work hours?
    ×1.33 36 | 3 points by rpnx 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. ArXiv
    ×0.42 | 2 points by fred123123 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Why remote roles are region specific and not 100% remote?
    ×0.46 | 2 points by moizrocky1 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. An agent built for Mobile
    ×0.47 | 2 points by technicalbot 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Tell HN: Seedance 2.5 API Pricing
    ×0.55 70 | 3 points by JimsonYang 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. The LLMs Problems
    ×0.58 | 2 points by noreplydev 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. How did Wikipedia layout become so bloated?
    ×1.09 11 | 21 points by countWSS 6 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Are you working 996 hours?
    ×0.55 | 2 points by derwiki 4 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Bibliograph: A Prototypical AppView for Books – Share Your Project – Atmosphere
    ×0.57 | 2 points by _djo_ 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Does AI research need "world models" more than bigger LLMs?
    ×0.27 138 | 3 points by unjuno 18 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Who is firing? (August 2026)
    ×1.45 112 | 19 points by ethanwillis 21 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Local, Open source AI meeting recorder that sees and hears everything
    ×0.22 140 | 9 points by puremetrics 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Who is quitting? (August 2026)
    ×2.76 100 | 26 points by ethanwillis 21 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Have LLMs Plateaued?
    ×0.34 139 | 10 points by leandrobon 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Base Power raises another $1B
    ×0.15 | 2 points by daveorzach 21 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Anyone still do work on Intel Macs?
    ×0.42 142 | 21 points by senor_digimon 2 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: ReAct vs. Planning Pattern
    ×0.27 132 | 7 points by hairymouse 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Rest in Peace, Heinz Stucke, Who Saw the World by Bike (bikepacking.com)
    ×2.21 55 #64 | 6 points by speckx 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Bluetooth High Data Throughput (bluetooth.com)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by ledoge 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. The Catherine Project (catherineproject.org)
    ×1.47 | 2 points by taylorlapeyre 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Show HN: VerusCite, a tool to check for hallucinations in academic articles (veruscite-data.com)
    ×1.17 | 2 points by apwheele 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: Every plaintext HTTP request on your Linux box captured via eBPF (github.com/yeet-src)
    ×1.19 137 | 3 points by r3tr0 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Most tech revolutions made work worse for employees (thisandthat.chat)
    ×1.44 61 #54 | 7 points by jreynar 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Archaeologists Find Ancient Glyphs in the Amazon (nytimes.com)
    ×0.53 66 #47 | 42 points by wglb 10 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Momito – local hold-to-talk dictation for macOS, free and offline (github.com/velvetchief)
    ×1.13 | 2 points by pvd5 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Fraud Squad' at Caltech Will Catch You If You Lie on Your Application (wsj.com)
    ×1.28 | 2 points by root-parent 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war (cnbc.com)
    ×9.35 59 | 143 points by tcp_handshaker 7 hours ago | 223 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Çetele – Open-source notepad calculator (cetele.online)
    ×2.47 98 | 5 points by nurulmac11 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. What's Behind the Sharp Drop in Labor Force Participation? (stlouisfed.org)
    ×0.98 44 #30 | 5 points by toomuchtodo 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. More German than many Germans (mertbulan.com)
    ×5.35 17 #80 | 594 points by mertbio 1 day ago | 451 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Rust project goals: Immobile types and guaranteed destructors (github.com/rust-lang)
    ×1.49 48 | 239 points by paavohtl 1 day ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Truemetrics (YC S23) Is Hiring in Berlin – GTM Lead (ycombinator.com)
    1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Fine-tune an 8B model on a 4 GB laptop GPU (github.com/MakazhanAlpamys)
    ×1.09 8 #28 | 103 points by MakazhanAlpamys 7 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Why etymologies matter: How tracing words can illuminate history (2024) (resobscura.substack.com)
    ×1.06 26 #31 | 84 points by benbreen 8 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Retries don't fix eventual consistency (var0.xyz)
    ×1.01 61 #56 | 5 points by tuxie_ 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. YInMn Blue: The first new blue in two centuries (oregonstate.edu)
    ×1.61 88 #71 | 4 points by zhinit 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Artificial Analysis Endpoint Accuracy Index (twitter.com/ArtificialAnlys)
    ×1.12 | 2 points by tosh 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. EU Age Verification Project Mandates Hardware-Bound Attestation (linuxiac.com)
    ×5.04 76 | 227 points by RobotToaster 1 day ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc (birchtree.me)
    ×3.71 21 #27 | 438 points by surprisetalk 6 hours ago | 505 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Celebrating 45 Years of Kermit with the First New C-Kermit Release in 15 Years (complete.org)
    ×1.06 48 #78 | 174 points by roryirvine 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today (2026-08-04) (short-stories.co)
    ×2.82 80 | 485 points by askvictor 8 hours ago | 224 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: I got tired of sharing files between devices, so I built TapSend (tapsend.app)
    ×0.50 | 2 points by TapSend 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Servitor – simplest way to run local dev containers (sndsabin.github.io)
    ×0.99 116 | 4 points by havu12 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. You don't need React: creating a minimal UI library in Vanilla JavaScript (pedroth.github.io)
    ×1.99 16 #69 | 123 points by pedro_movai 10 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Topological Horizon – Zero-allocation Rust engine for predictive telemetry (github.com/aboofx41-sys)
    ×0.98 90 #82 | 3 points by aboofx 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. AI data-centre race builds $1T lease burden for Big Tech (reuters.com)
    ×2.07 42 | 4 points by mapping365 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Bourdon – one shared memory file for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor (bourdon.ai)
    ×0.95 117 | 3 points by RADLAB 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. The Practice of Programming (princeton.edu)
    ×1.49 51 #73 | 6 points by siberianbot 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. AirLLM 70B inference with single 4GB GPU (github.com/lyogavin)
    ×1.37 41 | 228 points by Anon84 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. The Shape of Things to Come (yegge.ai)
    ×1.60 103 | 72 points by tosh 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Bean Network Tester – open-source bad network simulator (github.com/donislawdev)
    ×0.55 | 2 points by donislawdev 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: cctap – see and reach the Claude Code session that needs you (github.com/chipmates)
    ×0.99 122 | 3 points by micstradev 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Isopolis – Isometric pixel map of SF (isopolis.city)
    ×1.94 46 | 342 points by nuwandavek 1 day ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. SearXNG in Rust (github.com/MikeLuu99)
    ×0.97 71 | 73 points by dluuuu 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Harness Engineering for Self-Improvement (lilianweng.github.io)
    ×1.82 20 #19 | 251 points by tosh 12 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. FFmpeg 9.0 (github.com/FFmpeg)
    ×3.50 56 #68 | 401 points by gyan 9 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Simple self-hosted LLM assistant with user-steered compounding context (github.com/kol3x)
    ×0.76 90 #83 | 3 points by kol3x 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X (github.com/ryanzhou)
    ×1.64 8 #9 | 312 points by zhoutong 8 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. When AI Benchmarks Plateau: A Systematic Study of Benchmark Saturation (arxiv.org)
    ×1.02 66 #90 | 35 points by doppp 2 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. The New Shape of Search: How Conversational AI Recomposes Information Seeking (arxiv.org)
    ×1.71 7 | 3 points by wslh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Fuse – statically typed functional programming language (fuselang.org)
    ×1.07 118 | 116 points by the_unproven 2 days ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. The Knowledge Chipper: An Agentic Coding Story (jg.gg)
    ×0.85 45 #26 | 8 points by jgbbrd 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Kiro Crew (github.com/kirodotdev)
    ×3.41 33 | 6 points by Philpax 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Macrocyclic peptides: a new goldilocks drug class? (empirical.health)
    ×1.28 | 2 points by brandonb 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Moorage – a better way to mount and view MTP devices in macOS (github.com/skuthus)
    ×1.26 56 | 3 points by widowlark 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation (mistral.ai)
    ×2.40 22 #11 | 22 points by riadsila 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Kopi: A CLI Coffee Journal (github.com/mrusme)
    ×0.87 | 1 points by rishikeshs 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. AI News for Vibe Coders – Daily Brief (August 4, 2026) (ddsboston.com)
    ×1.23 | 2 points by robert_dds 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. What's the largest software project AI can complete on its own? (epoch.ai)
    ×1.41 52 | 98 points by yusufozkan 1 day ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: We Fixed UniFi's Slow PPPoE Performance with PPPoE Half-Bridge (arcbox.dev)
    ×0.78 99 | 71 points by uneven9434 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Gantt resource planning vs. event scheduling in RevoGrid (rv-grid.com)
    ×0.52 | 2 points by kumakint 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Salary Ticker – a macOS menu bar app that ticks up your pay (steveharrison.dev)
    ×2.00 93 | 5 points by steveharrison 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. All of Winona Police Department's Flock cameras cut down and stolen (valleynewslive.com)
    ×4.84 #1 | 219 points by NDlurker 1 hour ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Waymo – Dallas Open to All (waymo.com)
    ×2.12 41 | 4 points by xnx 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Why Sheep Need Pigs in Sheepdog's Clothing (overcomingbias.com)
    ×1.33 | 2 points by paulpauper 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. What DMARC Protects You From, and What It Does Not (senderledger.com)
    ×0.95 62 | 132 points by adulion 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Product analytics (and evals) for agent sessions on your MCP (armature.tech)
    ×0.48 101 | 41 points by screm 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Silico: a platform for AI research (goodfire.com)
    ×1.14 | 2 points by johmathe 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Devtools must be open source (exe.dev)
    ×2.77 12 #77 | 698 points by bryanmikaelian 1 day ago | 228 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Beauty in my backyard (worksinprogress.co)
    ×0.62 41 #84 | 46 points by footest 13 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Why does Mail app contact iCloud when sending a non-iCloud email? (lapcatsoftware.com)
    ×2.59 72 | 84 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: I built a Buffer alternative that also generates the videos (videoai.me)
    ×1.15 | 2 points by Paul_Grsl 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: BubbleHub - a local runtime and hosting for LLM agents (github.com/bublhub)
    ×0.56 | 2 points by danielsbubblee 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Clayrune – Run Claude Code agents in parallel without losing context (github.com/ronle)
    ×0.51 | 2 points by Clayrune 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Mosh in a Lift (2012) (mosh.org)
    ×0.89 29 #46 | 42 points by gavide 7 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: LarpIn – LinkedIn, but everyone admits they're larping, one global feed (larpin.io)
    ×3.85 120 | 12 points by joeamroo 18 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Mux Chooses a CDN in 9.9ms (mux.com)
    ×1.13 | 2 points by mmcclure 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???