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  1. Has the hallucination problem in AI been solved?
    ×1.11 18 #42 | 8 points by spl757 3 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What is your favorite lightweight tool or CLI utility in 2026?
    ×0.94 5 #84 | 16 points by pranav_tech26 7 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: How would you market this service?
    ×0.64 | 2 points by dmzxnico 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Privacy is an underrated advantage in Slack apps
    ×0.33 | 2 points by alance 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?
    ×1.18 34 | 78 points by simonebrunozzi 23 hours ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Alternative to Internet Archive
    ×0.72 91 | 17 points by earworms 20 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: In your experience, what are sound conventions for e-ink UI development?
    ×0.98 120 | 214 points by BoxOfRain 1 week ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: When you sell your company, do you receive the money with a normal wire?
    ×0.42 110 | 5 points by supergilbert 15 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Great music selection without overthinking
    ×0.28 125 | 3 points by cr34t1ve 16 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Should hard-tech founders join a problem or technology-first PhD lab?
    ×0.25 126 | 13 points by misterballer 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
    ×1.43 118 | 320 points by david927 6 days ago | 1186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. How does an ARP Spoofing Attack work?
    ×0.21 140 | 6 points by emn4tor 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Does a human still review your code?
    ×0.49 135 | 10 points by stikit 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What physical publication do you still buy?
    ×0.38 124 | 8 points by sergiotapia 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. OpenAI updates its Privacy Policy to include ads
    ×0.27 139 | 3 points by 1equalsequals1 21 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Live Experiment of the Veblen Effect
    ×0.44 152 | 5 points by henryfudgeoffic 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Tell HN: In 2021, there were 4.5 jobs per job seeker vs. 2.5 job seekers/job now
    ×0.60 153 | 11 points by ed_balls 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Do you know how much head hunters cost?
    ×0.52 160 | 5 points by mojomark 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Why don't we see ARM laptops from China?
    ×1.04 101 | 5 points by znpy 12 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: How much money do you spend monthly on subscriptions for AI models?
    ×0.37 144 | 14 points by marko-djuric 2 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. New DeepSeek Pricing Published (Peak and Off-Peak)
    ×0.27 166 | 5 points by mittermayr 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: What are you building with Mojo lang?
    ×0.22 | 2 points by maxchisto 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Show HN: Bluetooth keyboard and Windows 95 cursor on reMarkable (twitter.com/martino_piaggi)
    ×1.18 116 | 3 points by martinopiaggi 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Practical Introduction to Vim-Fugitive (quillet.org)
    ×0.77 | 1 points by auraham 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Study links coffee consumption to metabolic health and sex hormones (oulu.fi)
    ×1.85 72 | 68 points by _____k 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Dear people who work at the airport (bearblog.dev)
    ×8.08 43 | 207 points by nivethan 1 day ago | 262 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: OJCP – an open protocol for agent-consumable job data (ojcp.dev)
    ×0.89 121 | 38 points by fraywing 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Banquish – Take other websites apart and build your own (banquish.space)
    ×2.34 130 | 9 points by ghboo0927 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Axiotron Modbook (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.86 | 2 points by RattlesnakeJake 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Qwen3.8-27B (twitter.com/alibaba_qwen)
    ×5.19 13 | 297 points by mfiguiere 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. BriskDB (github.com/schapman1974)
    ×1.12 2 #69 | 46 points by schapman1974 11 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Racket v9.3 (racket-lang.org)
    ×1.65 62 #75 | 134 points by privong 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Visually Precise AI Tutoring on iOS (useknowable.ai)
    ×4.03 94 | 10 points by samuelzxu 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: At 16K features, flat autoencoders break. Curved space doesn't (github.com/vishal-dehurdle)
    ×0.70 163 | 10 points by visha1v 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Bede Liu, a digital signal processing pioneer, has died (ieee.org)
    ×1.02 10 #33 | 67 points by Jimmc414 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Humazon (hughhowey.com)
    ×1.05 21 #56 | 28 points by herbertl 9 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: I evaluated file, vector, graph and RL based memory frameworks (pinglin.tw)
    ×1.60 80 | 13 points by pinglin 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: E3d-pilot – a repo-improving agent harness, SHA-gated merges (github.com/spacepacket1)
    ×1.69 155 | 4 points by spacepacket 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Biasly.ai – Bias detection with historical context (biasly.ai)
    ×0.83 | 2 points by jayubba1 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. I checked 30 frontier model cards. Here are the benchmarks labs report (is-a.dev)
    ×0.72 59 | 7 points by ktwu01 1 hour ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Theory of Constraints (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.20 55 | 3 points by diatone 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Fixing optical computing jitter via fluid dynamics in GPU registers (github.com/PJHkorea)
    ×0.14 66 #24 | 3 points by PJHkorea 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Dots3-Note Preview (huggingface.co)
    ×0.81 | 2 points by handfuloflight 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Just shared my experience building a full marketplace with Claude (oyakoo.store)
    ×0.81 | 2 points by zooboole 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. An Idiot's Guide to Winning Elections (outlookzen.com)
    ×1.28 73 | 3 points by whack 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Ruby 4.0 Universal RCE Deserialization Gadget Chain (elttam.com)
    ×0.87 99 | 78 points by pentestercrab 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. The quirky personal homepages of programming language creators (breck.lol)
    ×1.82 2 #3 | 39 points by cjlm 1 hour ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain (davidepiffer.com)
    ×3.55 18 #21 | 459 points by rzk 11 hours ago | 396 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Unsloth Qwen3.8-27B GGUF files (huggingface.co)
    ×1.50 88 | 66 points by apitman 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: A Project Oberon System version running on RISC-V instead of RISC-5 (github.com/rochus-keller)
    ×0.74 145 | 121 points by Rochus 6 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Find out what your coding agents cost you (github.com/ACE-Engineering)
    ×1.31 82 | 3 points by flyingfishisme 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Government sponsored study on alcohol doesn't stand up to scrutiny: Nassim Taleb (nntaleb.substack.com)
    ×2.56 25 #31 | 29 points by scoofy 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Taxpayers Funded a $533M Artillery Plant That Made Nothing (propublica.org)
    ×3.15 84 | 70 points by Jimmc414 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Snap Chart AI (snap-chart.ai)
    ×1.27 64 | 3 points by trendyking 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. ChatGPT lost 22 points of web share in a year (grok.me)
    ×2.19 45 | 20 points by echohive42 5 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. RISC-V: They should have known better (dmitry.gr)
    ×2.78 18 | 174 points by kaycebasques 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Ntfy – open-source Push to Mobile (ntfy.sh)
    ×1.72 76 | 115 points by Fake4d 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Every fucking website: 2026 edition (tngl.io)
    ×4.21 54 | 112 points by nerdypepper 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Quasicrystals Animation Playground with WebXR (hypnagogic-quasicrystals.github.io)
    ×0.68 29 | 37 points by r34 15 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. AI in drug discovery – what it is, where we stand and the path forward (science.org)
    ×1.25 8 #12 | 121 points by AnodicElegy 10 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. I built AIM Maps but you play AI (1vs1.xyz)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by mattmerrick 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Keyboard Phones Are Back (markow.dev)
    ×0.88 | 1 points by robowo 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Decentralized Roller Coaster Tracker (aquacoast.net)
    ×1.12 | 2 points by ens0 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. PDC 1996 Keynote with Bill Gates (microsoft.com)
    ×1.92 17 | 4 points by abixb 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. The Government Is Monitoring Anti-Flock TikTok and Instagram Accounts (404media.co)
    ×5.94 82 | 101 points by Jimmc414 7 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. AI-Assisted GPU Porting of a 250k Line Legacy Weather Simulation Code (arxiv.org)
    ×1.09 42 #26 | 19 points by Jimmc414 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Site removes all the clutter from recipe videos and gives just the recipe (cutrecipe.com)
    ×1.74 43 #62 | 23 points by susanvilleula1 10 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election (bbc.com)
    ×4.57 19 | 463 points by tcp_handshaker 1 day ago | 380 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Streambench – Native Mac Client for Kafka and NATS (streambench.app)
    ×0.79 | 2 points by valentinprgnd 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: PasteDaemon – Automatically remove tracking from URLs and more (pastedaemon.app)
    ×2.57 142 | 6 points by ahalbert4 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Xorshift Generators (alanzucconi.com)
    ×0.80 35 #87 | 40 points by tobr 16 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. One Moment – A temporary clipboard that lives only in the browser (onemoment.me)
    ×0.81 | 2 points by diosnelayalag 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Taliban government supporters dance, take selfies in Kabul celebrations (channelnewsasia.com)
    ×2.15 29 | 4 points by Markoff 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Destroying My Homelab with Kubernetes – Linux Society UNSW 2026 [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.86 20 | 5 points by l-mdev 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Introducing Toast 1 (mixedbread.com)
    ×1.16 32 | 216 points by mplappert 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Write.md – A free, open-source, themeable Markdown editor for macOS (writemd.app)
    ×1.18 132 | 106 points by danielbilekq 4 days ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Mininote: Instant, plain-text note taking without tracking or lock-in (mininote.ink)
    ×2.91 111 | 23 points by helba-ai 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Numba in the Browser: Unlocking a New Scientific Python Stack in JupyterLite (notebook.link)
    ×1.17 14 #10 | 21 points by xalfotis 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Neo: A distraction-free word processor for authors, by a wannabe author (github.com/hughhowey)
    ×1.77 76 #74 | 6 points by jasonpeacock 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. An image can overflow (master.dev)
    ×0.96 31 #32 | 35 points by ibobev 9 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. ShieldFont: Bludgeoning AI Scrapers That Disrespect Robots.txt (hackaday.com)
    ×1.36 19 | 3 points by lxm 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Suspecting court of using AI, man injected prompts in filings to try to win case (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.06 27 | 76 points by jnord 22 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Debian has begun voting on the future of AI/LLM contributions (debian.org)
    ×3.14 23 | 66 points by matheusmoreira 20 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Lumabri – Run Moe Models on a P2P Swarm with Colibri (github.com/JustVugg)
    ×0.54 105 | 47 points by vforno 2 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Agentic Task Management (github.com/myaa2913)
    ×1.66 156 | 4 points by mcorrito 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Mole – Deep research agent for your terminal (github.com/lajosdeme)
    ×0.84 63 #88 | 95 points by lajosdeme 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Nested Functions with GCC and Clang (uecker.codeberg.page)
    ×0.71 | 1 points by matt_d 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. When Genius Fails: The Intellectual Arrogance of the AI Labs (weightythoughts.com)
    ×2.24 45 | 174 points by gmays 1 day ago | 197 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Procedural Generated Grafitti Wall (procgrafprot.vercel.app)
    ×2.34 137 | 7 points by whtspc64 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. ProofRun – a local verification receipt for AI coding agents (github.com/yebiguo)
    ×1.08 34 #30 | 5 points by yebiguo 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???