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Ask HN: What physical publication do you still buy?

×0.36 44 | 3 points by sergiotapia 2 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How does an ARP Spoofing Attack work?

×0.30 76 | 6 points by emn4tor 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Should hard-tech founders join a problem or technology-first PhD lab?

×0.24 83 | 11 points by misterballer 12 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Does a human still review your code?

×0.50 104 | 8 points by stikit 13 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Be honest: When was the last time you cleaned up obsolete code from your repos?

×0.21 108 | 3 points by PangeaRocks 7 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Live Experiment of the Veblen Effect

×0.63 110 | 5 points by henryfudgeoffic 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What are you building with Mojo lang?

×0.32 | 2 points by maxchisto 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Need Help Learning Assembly

×0.22 | 2 points by kilyo 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What should I know before hosting eprints?

×0.56 120 | 3 points by logicallee 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: In your experience, what are sound conventions for e-ink UI development?

×0.98 133 | 213 points by BoxOfRain 1 week ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Do you know how much head hunters cost?

×0.73 121 | 5 points by mojomark 13 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What are your unfinished projects?

×0.29 129 | 3 points by adam_gyroscope 11 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Kakehashi Update: Running Apple Clang build and lowering overhead to 1.24x

×0.37 134 | 3 points by vlad_kalinkin 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
New DeepSeek Pricing Published (Peak and Off-Peak)

×0.31 140 | 5 points by mittermayr 18 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Why not expand accessibility laws to include the right to use AI?

×0.27 | 2 points by amichail 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What's the AI Revolution "Model T Ford"?

×0.53 142 | 3 points by ComputerPerson 12 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: In 2021, there were 4.5 jobs per job seeker vs. 2.5 job seekers/job now

×0.67 155 | 11 points by ed_balls 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

×1.43 132 | 318 points by david927 5 days ago | 1179 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Does AI watermarking present a new attack vector?

×0.32 145 | 4 points by nathanfig 16 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How much money do you spend monthly on subscriptions for AI models?

×0.35 148 | 13 points by marko-djuric 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Move AI news from Hacker News to somewhere else?

×1.52 118 | 9 points by thomasfl 19 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How are you preventing brainrot?

×0.44 138 | 8 points by flyingcoder 23 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Has anyone been fired because of an AI-driven DDoS attack?

×1.31 113 | 4 points by novateg 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How are you finding the job market in 2026?

×0.81 159 | 17 points by dzonga 2 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI by Hand (byhand.ai)

×1.93 11 #12 | 223 points by sans_souse 11 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Spaceship Service Outage Update (spaceship.com)

×0.83 | 2 points by anonu 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Flock (Again) Activates a Camera System a Town Had Voted to Shut Down (techdirt.com)

×3.74 87 | 64 points by hn_acker 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bundesliga's 50+1 ownership rule permissible under antitrust laws (reuters.com)

×1.79 18 | 5 points by starkparker 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why Aging May Be a Program, Not a Breakdown (quantamagazine.org)

×1.70 37 | 4 points by jnord 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We eliminated 1,400 CVEs in NanoClaw's container images (echo.ai)

×0.85 97 | 69 points by omrimaya 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Omegle with (full-duplex) Voice Bots (aimegle.xyz)

×1.60 141 | 3 points by MichelBartels 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Opensourcing APH Engine and Servers in Rust and N Lang (github.com/squillo)

×3.02 117 | 5 points by scott-b 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Can LLMs work in the wet lab? (benchling.com)

×0.86 | 2 points by geneticdrifts 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Kvcachescope – Why Nvidia-smi is blind to vLLM KV cache leaks (github.com/brian-mwirigi)

×0.84 | 2 points by nesh23 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Shoehorn, a library to quantize an LLM to fit your Mac's VRAM (github.com/notactuallytreyanastasio)

×3.39 111 | 6 points by rhgraysonii 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A painting engine that lets you sculpt drawings (tech demo) (jign.workers.dev)

×1.01 | 2 points by jignb 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
HashAgent – Share an AI agent as a URL, runs locally via WebGPU (hashagent.pages.dev)

×0.56 59 #51 | 48 points by masonhsu 14 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The case for overhauling American science (economist.com)

×1.12 42 #56 | 51 points by andsoitis 4 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Soviets Drilled the Deepest Hole Ever (nautil.us)

×1.76 66 #65 | 15 points by anarbadalov 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Dictata – Local Whisper dictation with LLM cleanup (github.com/AntoineChatry)

×1.06 30 | 3 points by AntoineC_ 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OT Manual Operations Plan: What Manual Operation Buys You (emberot.com)

×1.98 51 | 4 points by TheWiggles 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Online SNMP MIB database - upload/view your own MIBs (mib-viewer.com)

×0.38 72 | 12 points by beefstew123 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Safe TensorBoard Trace Reducer(90%+ Footprint Cut) with Fail-Safe Guide (github.com/PastToFuture-Whisperer)

×1.19 | 2 points by PTF-W 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: OxiSH, a modern, memory-safe SSH server (ochtman.nl)

×2.64 124 | 25 points by dochtman 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin (pcworld.com)

×9.08 8 #10 | 517 points by DemiGuru 8 hours ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: LuaCAD – Parametric CAD Scripted in Lua (ad-si.com)

×0.99 20 #28 | 81 points by adius 10 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: C# Game Engine with its own scripting language and IDE (github.com/ArcadeMakerSources)

×1.03 54 #61 | 105 points by am-gm 22 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Made a business license hub search tool (fernway.io)

×0.71 | 2 points by leyu00 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Hacker News minus the slop (hnfiltered.com)

×1.42 92 | 4 points by potatopotaro 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Turbo Pascal on CP/M, MSX-DOS and MS-DOS (hansotten.com)

×0.87 37 #19 | 78 points by rbanffy 12 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Annual Summary Report of Coral Reef Condition 2025/26 (aims.gov.au)

×1.53 16 #68 | 5 points by thunderbong 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Deliverance from 27,000 feet (2017) (nytimes.com)

×0.84 | 2 points by ValentineC 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nine PBS sues Iron Mountain over blocked access to archival data (current.org)

×2.60 14 | 376 points by vinayakborkar 1 day ago | 220 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
CEO who fired 900 people on Zoom just before Christmas wants his job back (cnn.com)

×5.39 63 | 96 points by pseudolus 7 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: SVC16 = a specified virtual computer to build compilers for (janneuendorf.github.io)

×1.07 130 | 3 points by JanNeuendorf 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Amazon reinstates binding arbitration, bars class-action lawsuits (reuters.com)

×3.47 12 | 8 points by nmeagent 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Mcptoon – Token-efficient MCP CLI client (github.com/activeing123)

×0.59 157 | 73 points by mcptokensaver 3 days ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cox–Zucker Machine (wikipedia.org)

×2.29 36 | 3 points by rolph 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Qwen 3.8 27B 4-bit designs an animated dolphin riding a bicycle SVG (twitter.com/1littlecoder)

×0.34 | 1 points by amrrs 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Choose Boring Technology (2015) (mcfunley.com)

×2.36 8 | 419 points by tosh 1 day ago | 241 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: PasteDaemon – Automatically remove tracking from URLs and more (pastedaemon.app)

×2.17 90 | 5 points by ahalbert4 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Karma in Menu Bar (github.com/rorz)

×1.03 126 | 3 points by sarreph 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ant teams beat gravity-based puzzle solvers (phys.org)

×0.92 10 #58 | 10 points by wjSgoWPm5bWAhXB 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Production-Ready FastAPI Back End Suite – Advanced RAG and SEO Automation ($8k) (indiehackers.com)

×0.38 | 1 points by dav77 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Where did the old web go? We followed 657,607 links to find out (0.mk)

×1.60 31 | 222 points by tdx 1 day ago | 207 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How Compaction Works in Pi (earendil.com)

×1.66 35 | 202 points by tosh 1 day ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
'Not acceptable': Judge orders Google to make rival app store installs easier (theverge.com)

×4.73 36 | 109 points by Jimmc414 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Biasly.ai – Bias detection with historical context (biasly.ai)

×0.86 | 2 points by jayubba1 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: RAGless – similar to RAG, but $0 LLM API costs at runtime (github.com/EmilResearch)

×1.52 153 | 4 points by emilianoc 17 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Ante, a coding agent in a single binary that runs offline (github.com/AntigmaLabs)

×1.13 150 | 166 points by ubermon 4 days ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hi-Fi Tape Recorder Changed Radio Forever (ieee.org)

×1.09 20 #9 | 20 points by Jimmc414 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Codex in ChatGPT desktop app for Linux is now in preview (openai.com)

×2.41 28 | 463 points by allanrbo 1 day ago | 316 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mistral OCR 4.1 (mistral.ai)

×1.90 5 | 403 points by spelk 1 day ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Captain, AI Travel Agent (moonlight.ng)

×1.60 107 | 4 points by fathermerry 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Woxi - Open-source Mathematica / Wolfram Language reimplementation (ad-si.com)

×1.62 81 | 313 points by adius 2 days ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Going Dark, and the era of law enforcement hacking (cryptographyengineering.com)

×2.17 2 #3 | 235 points by vslira 6 hours ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What I Learned from Playing "Spelling Bee" (mooreds.com)

×0.44 | 1 points by mooreds 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DeepSeek peak/off-peak pricing update (deepseek.com)

×1.55 48 | 237 points by fagnerbrack 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Measure your AI search with BYOK and OSS (free) (github.com/letterstory)

×1.25 135 | 3 points by mathewpregasen 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: ApplyWise – I built an AI layer for the job application process (applywise.eu)

×0.51 | 2 points by peter_nemec 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Voice driven murder mystery, Interview AI suspects with your voice (whodunnitai.com)

×1.36 149 | 213 points by MrRowTheBoat 5 days ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
RustDesk now supports true unattended remote access on Wayland (rustdesk.com)

×1.47 10 #8 | 234 points by rustdesk 11 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ontario Launches Data Centre Playbook (ontario.ca)

×1.89 73 #63 | 11 points by ChrisArchitect 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Lumabri – Run Moe Models on a P2P Swarm with Colibri (github.com/JustVugg)

×0.51 69 #85 | 44 points by vforno 20 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DeepSeek API Pricing Update (deepseek.com)

×2.71 73 | 127 points by mfiguiere 1 day ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Rdio – an open-source internet radio control suite (rdio-docs.vercel.app)

×1.29 74 | 19 points by taqibrahim 15 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The TEMU-Fication of Software, Digital Goods and Services (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)

×1.41 16 #36 | 145 points by surprisetalk 15 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI productivity gains drive net CO₂ increase in global energy–economy model (nature.com)

×2.08 13 #52 | 7 points by littlexsparkee 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mushroom behind 'tiny people' hallucinations identified (phys.org)

×2.52 63 #88 | 294 points by wglb 2 days ago | 278 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Will farm animals always suffer? (worksinprogress.co)

×0.82 | 1 points by paulpauper 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???