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  1. Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
    ×1.44 17 #24 | 285 points by david927 21 hours ago | 986 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Anger over Data Centers Is Fueling a New Political Movementtca
    ×1.71 39 #66 | 4 points by doener 36 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. SETI@Home was the coolest thing
    ×1.58 56 | 8 points by b112 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: How do you set comp at an early stage startup?
    ×0.39 59 | 4 points by jeffreyfate 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Recommended Merchant of Record and Affliate Setup
    ×0.29 68 | 4 points by tisdadd 18 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What Project are you the most proud of?
    ×0.48 60 | 4 points by emn4tor 14 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: My dev blog has 11k followers. I stopped writing it. What would you do?
    ×0.69 65 | 8 points by zlatkov 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How do you go from writing code to deploying with agents?
    ×0.45 74 | 14 points by sakuraiben 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Should a coding client import another client's rules by default?
    ×0.25 | 2 points by ryanmerket 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. The State of Google
    ×1.15 69 | 14 points by 3dedb728-3f77 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Is Ask HN Shrinking?
    ×0.57 79 | 19 points by keiferski 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Anyone that has built a marketplace, what has been your experience?
    ×1.09 87 | 7 points by mfisc_019 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What is your database size
    ×0.37 84 | 8 points by kureikain 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. The Systemic Collapse of the AI Industry: Ideology, Hardware, and CapEx Crisis
    ×0.51 70 | 6 points by impartial2602 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Why is Open POWER Foundation a wasteland?
    ×0.66 91 | 8 points by climate_denier_ 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Is this normal HN ranking?
    ×0.95 55 | 4 points by unclebucknasty 10 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Should AI's tell you they're AI?
    ×0.61 67 | 9 points by logicallee 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Agentcn – Installable AI Agents
    ×0.28 107 | 4 points by anayat 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Mossad accicentally injected data to a French lawyer phone instead of extracting
    ×2.04 58 | 23 points by 0x54MUR41 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. DeepSeek announced to raise its API price tremendously
    ×0.48 114 | 32 points by alexwwang 4 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: In your experience, what are sound conventions for e-ink UI development?
    ×1.10 133 | 6 points by BoxOfRain 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: What can I do with a single R9700?
    ×0.18 126 | 4 points by scott01 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Is there a mobile operating system with (wasi) container support?
    ×0.39 93 | 3 points by wseqyrku 23 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Laguna S 2.1:118B-a9B better than Qwen3.5:122B-a10B? So far, yes
    ×0.15 144 | 4 points by spottedmarley 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Did GitHub remove the stargazers list?
    ×0.67 123 | 29 points by reconnecting 5 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Read HN twice a day for the last decade. Here's my list of S-Tier HN links
    ×2.45 82 | 114 points by vivzkestrel 5 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code (claude.com)
    ×2.73 23 #40 | 261 points by sbehere 11 hours ago | 272 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Every fast write moves work somewhere else (shayon.dev)
    ×0.87 15 | 68 points by shayonj 23 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. An Interesting Fourier Transform – 1/F Noise (dsprelated.com)
    ×1.09 14 #15 | 86 points by q7m 9 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Hosting my blog from my apartment (zkanda.io)
    ×0.78 | 1 points by zkanda 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Zuckerberg spokesperson says his yacht did not hear call for maritime assist (apnews.com)
    ×2.29 57 | 3 points by darod 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Rogue AI agent hacks gym to get its user a spot in a popular class (the-independent.com)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by mellosouls 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Faaah – Filesystem as an AI Handler (github.com/sebastiancarlos)
    ×1.35 111 | 5 points by httbs 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM (notebookcheck.net)
    ×5.50 19 #42 | 594 points by akyuu 23 hours ago | 536 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. New rail link reconnects Finland and Sweden (yle.fi)
    ×0.93 | 1 points by robtherobber 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: TickClip – An AI shopping agent that can recommend not buying (tickclip.ai)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by tickclip 17 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Achieving Local AI Inference with Go 1.27's SIMD Package (devgenius.io)
    ×1.36 | 2 points by darccio 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: An AI agent that trades inside limits you set, starting on paper (quantsignals.xyz)
    ×0.92 134 | 17 points by henryzhangpku 5 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: I spent 2 years designing a mechanical Magic Keyboard (electronicmaterialsoffice.com)
    ×4.53 54 | 301 points by aemerson_ 4 days ago | 242 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Tail-call optimization in C is relatively recent (lwn.net)
    ×1.12 7 #5 | 65 points by prakashqwerty 3 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Analyzing data from Silicon Valley ventures and founders prosecuted for fraud (informs.org)
    ×2.12 27 | 194 points by iamnothere 23 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Picophysics: Single file physics for games on platforms like N64, PSX, DC (gitlab.com)
    ×0.86 38 #30 | 78 points by klaussilveira 15 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment (openchamber.dev)
    ×1.33 26 #36 | 166 points by hexomancer 21 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. How Golden Is Silence, Actually? (newyorker.com)
    ×0.79 38 #60 | 70 points by tintinnabula 3 days ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978) (kibotronics.net)
    ×1.12 7 #87 | 145 points by Kiboneu 1 day ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. EGA and Me: A Complicated Relationship (reanthsoft.com)
    ×0.81 48 #89 | 8 points by doener 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. The Philippines' big offshoring industry is growing despite AI (economist.com)
    ×1.78 30 #73 | 66 points by nlpnerd 10 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Ask HN: Is there a marketable "skill" to using AI?
    ×0.88 | 1 points by purplemoonx 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. What Ethiopian Running Says About the Limits of Human Ability (aeon.co)
    ×1.38 | 2 points by geneticdrifts 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy (techcrunch.com)
    ×4.01 32 #82 | 281 points by evo_9 23 hours ago | 243 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Why can't Chinese AI companies raise more money? (the-substrate.net)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by surprisetalk 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: VD – TUI Password Manager and OTP Authenticator for Unix (github.com/ahmedhosssam)
    ×1.98 100 | 7 points by ahmedhosssam 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Maple-Preview – Ternary 20B MoE running at 120 tok/s on a iPhone (deepgrove.ai)
    ×1.38 78 | 172 points by edwardbzhang 5 days ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Why MySpace fans want it back as relaunch hinted (bbc.com)
    ×1.42 50 #86 | 55 points by 1659447091 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Beyond Senior – Creating Hope (baweaver.com)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by birdculture 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. FlyPath: QGIS plugin for planning drone mapping missions (github.com/dronnix-io)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by marklit 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. How to Use Podman for Home Lab Setup (oneuptime.com)
    ×2.46 46 | 4 points by speckx 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Make a Fake MySpace Profile (allthedamn.tools)
    ×0.88 | 2 points by kilroy123 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Modern Browsers Don't Need the Cookie Anymore (kuber.studio)
    ×3.53 124 | 26 points by kuberwastaken 5 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Squeak/Smalltalk 6.1 Release Notes (squeak.org)
    ×1.26 4 #2 | 66 points by fniephaus 2 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. The Future Is for Everyone – The Path to a Positive AI Future (meta.com)
    ×2.27 27 #21 | 15 points by insumanth 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. An alias-based formulation of the borrow checker (2018) (smallcultfollowing.com)
    ×0.43 41 #26 | 23 points by parksb 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: I made alchemical-cosmological PCB badges (github.com/KaiPereira)
    ×0.39 42 #44 | 18 points by kaipereira 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Apple Testing Chinese Memory Chips in iPhones and MacBooks (macrumors.com)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by ilamont 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Wardline, a Go proxy that auto-blocks compromised AI agents (github.com/kabirnarang39)
    ×0.56 | 2 points by kabirnarang39 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Octopus Energy: use less electricity during solar eclipse (theguardian.com)
    ×1.14 2 #55 | 6 points by DamonHD 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Meta releases Muse Glimmer, 30B parameter open-weight edge model (twitter.com/finkd)
    ×2.07 16 #58 | 17 points by tejus_vignesh 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Mea Culpa – Dark Hours (terrygodier.com)
    ×2.79 49 #77 | 590 points by satvikpendem 1 day ago | 270 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Palworld Breeding Calculator – Find Breeding Combinations Fast (palworldhub.best)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by bitvvip 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Nearest Pint (knowwhereconsulting.co.uk)
    ×0.67 37 #32 | 46 points by bookofjoe 12 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Gemini for Go Developers – Part 1: The Gemini Model Family (danicat.dev)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by eigenBasis 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. We removed ALL fees from our AI gateway (concentrate.ai)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by concentrate-cto 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Idun Guardian 4: The evolution of human-computer interaction (iduntechnologies.com)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by debo_ 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: My WHOOP has no screen. My Kindle had no job. So I put them together (github.com/kaibuildsai)
    ×3.82 61 | 11 points by kaibuidsai 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: StoneBuild – a build tool in Go for your projects in any languages (github.com/tigerlang)
    ×1.34 101 | 3 points by tiger-langer 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: FAIth – a syntax-free JVM language, compiled by an LLM front-end (github.com/krossovochkin)
    ×1.65 86 | 4 points by krossovochkin 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Parametron: 50s Japanese computer that uses neither transistors nor vacuum tubes (ethw.org)
    ×1.65 9 #6 | 70 points by xeonmc 4 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: GlyPho – Generate editable SVG families from prompts (glypho.app)
    ×2.25 53 | 3 points by shenyi 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Crown 0.64 – Native and cross-platform game engine (crownengine.org)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by dbartolini 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. “Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers (senko.net)
    ×6.27 28 | 912 points by senko 2 days ago | 559 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Alphabet Soup, a multiplayer game, build the longest word to win (alphabetsoup.club)
    ×0.62 28 | 33 points by johnchinjew 18 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Turn satellite imagery into a paper globe you fold yourself (foldingglobes.com)
    ×0.98 8 #39 | 75 points by dango2506 12 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. U.S. Citizens in Cuba for New Breakthrough Alzheimer's Treatment [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by thelastgallon 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Letters and Liquor (lettersandliquor.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by kergonath 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Web Design for Terminal Browsers (andros.dev)
    ×1.14 | 2 points by andros 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Algebruh - Cross-check arithmetic claims with Z3, cvc5, and Lean (github.com/skorotkiewicz)
    ×0.63 81 | 14 points by modinfo 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. How Blackwing Pencils are Made [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.23 10 #16 | 57 points by NaOH 7 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Judge rules Meta caused "public nuisance" and must fund mental health treatment (arstechnica.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by rbanffy 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Don't use your phone while you poop (nate.spot)
    ×4.16 34 | 213 points by ExMachina73 2 days ago | 222 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: An app to dump notes during the day and plan todos without distraction (spqrk.net)
    ×1.64 145 | 5 points by SPQRK 5 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???