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Ask HN: Is Ask HN Shrinking?

×1.60 66 | 4 points by keiferski 39 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)

×0.73 93 | 159 points by whoishiring 4 days ago | 509 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)

×1.00 84 | 232 points by whoishiring 4 days ago | 300 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DeepSeek announced to raise its API price tremendously

×0.48 100 | 29 points by alexwwang 2 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What is a good advice for someone looking to fractional hire a team?

×0.09 113 | 4 points by vanessa1211 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Laguna S 2.1:118B-a9B better than Qwen3.5:122B-a10B? So far, yes

×0.14 146 | 3 points by spottedmarley 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Did GitHub remove the stargazers list?

×0.66 124 | 26 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

×2.51 79 | 108 points by vivzkestrel 2 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What art would you like to express?

×0.25 83 | 5 points by d4ng 16 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac (github.com/drumih)

×3.59 88 | 916 points by gitpusher42 1 week ago | 345 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
SupererDuperer (shirtpocket.com)

×1.75 14 #16 | 130 points by zdw 13 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
São Paulo resident transforms degraded area into urban forest (saopaulosecreto.com)

×2.02 18 #62 | 345 points by rmason 1 day ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Diamond-Square Algorithm (diatone.net)

×0.49 | 1 points by diatone 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Compactdiff – see what compaction dropped from an agent session (github.com/mkmkkkkk)

×0.86 9 | 3 points by mileskoldin 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Kalshi and Polymarket bets on clinical trials criticized as 'ghastly' (npr.org)

×2.67 35 | 57 points by 1659447091 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Humor Arena – Which frontier model is funniest? (laugh.so)

×2.17 133 | 10 points by killiandunne1 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf] (wpi.edu)

×2.11 74 #87 | 452 points by pmg101 4 days ago | 442 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Git, CRDT, Markdown (replicated.live)

×0.58 | 1 points by gritzko 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Milankovitch Cycles (wikipedia.org)

×1.09 | 2 points by cl3misch 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI is not your biggest cyber threat. Your shitty patching process is (0ut3r.space)

×0.46 | 1 points by h0ek 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Federal Communications Commission scraps limit on broadcast TV ownership (nbcnews.com)

×2.16 29 | 176 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Zaivern Code – a Rust cockpit for parallel AI coding agents (github.com/tacyan)

×0.56 | 2 points by tacyan 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mario Meets Pareto (mayerowitz.io)

×3.46 2 #45 | 1162 points by theanonymousone 2 days ago | 165 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
New Orleans is testing Carbyne’s AI-powered Emergency Call Triage software (shreveporttimes.com)

×0.90 57 #88 | 72 points by champagnepapi 1 day ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Sane casual family co-op game on mobile?

×2.43 55 | 4 points by minusf 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Diffing Binary Files (withkord.com)

×1.35 127 | 19 points by wennyyustalim 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Building community out of strangers (2023) (tracydurnell.com)

×0.50 64 #64 | 39 points by surprisetalk 22 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Gateway 2000's hilariously bad ads in the 90s (Part II) (buttondown.com)

×1.66 40 | 3 points by rfarley04 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I made a game where you build a CPU from logic gates (select.supply)

×1.30 141 | 102 points by laurentiurad 1 week ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A passing star: our Sun's near miss (nasa.gov)

×0.50 | 1 points by thunderbong 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: AI Tutoring with Visual Grounding (useknowable.ai)

×1.36 111 | 8 points by samuelzxu 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
U.S. Lost 23,000 Jobs in July, While Unemployment Ticked Lower (wsj.com)

×2.17 15 | 72 points by JumpCrisscross 23 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
California Town Says Flock Cameras Misread License Plates 71% of the Time (techdirt.com)

×3.34 69 | 67 points by hn_acker 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I spent 2 years designing a mechanical Magic Keyboard (electronicmaterialsoffice.com)

×4.40 17 | 294 points by aemerson_ 1 day ago | 239 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Unions Can Save Tech Workers and Tech Work (jacobin.com)

×4.55 57 | 90 points by ughitsaaron 1 day ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Facing 474 GW of interconnection requests, Texas hits pause on data centers (utilitydive.com)

×1.69 12 #79 | 16 points by geox 9 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Mail Attachment Lens: A Browser extension to manage Gmail attachments (github.com/kshk123)

×0.48 | 1 points by kshk123 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hardware-Rooted Control for Alternative App Stores (zenodo.org)

×1.03 | 2 points by sangamdas 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The DOS Operating System (chebucto.ns.ca)

×1.20 | 2 points by AlexeyBrin 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I built AI at Amazon, then got laid off (youtube.com)

×3.49 45 | 6 points by tcp_handshaker 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Modern C++ Build Tools for Module Feature (github.com/mcpp-community)

×0.56 65 | 7 points by sunrisepeak 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face (simonwillison.net)

×2.92 7 #11 | 75 points by 882542F3884314B 2 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A domain can now say it is for sale, in DNS (specification.website)

×0.76 | 1 points by shaunpud 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Guarded Methods in OCaml (2025) (xvw.lol)

×0.80 47 #34 | 74 points by birdculture 18 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Translating the Renaissance: 17,000+ historical source texts (sourcelibrary.org)

×0.37 88 #83 | 3 points by dr_dshiv 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Software development with AI is starting to feel like cooking steak (sydorets.com)

×2.23 5 | 411 points by yusyd 1 day ago | 416 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Oans – fast deduplication for btrfs and XFS (github.com/martinus)

×0.98 125 | 3 points by sunitram 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: What should the GUI for AI agents look like? (marbleos.com)

×1.25 131 | 138 points by akbabu 1 week ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: La Vieja Contra El Dibu – Penalty Shootout Game vs. Dibu Martínez (laviejacontraeldibu.app)

×0.29 | 2 points by alanzhan 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it (ancientlibrary.net)

×1.47 22 #12 | 224 points by aagha 18 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out (ign.com)

×3.66 27 #15 | 411 points by inigyou 1 day ago | 395 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I built a Calendr clone for KDE Plasma (github.com/hparadiz)

×0.54 | 2 points by hparadiz 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: S-Bahn Seat Picker (welidev.github.io)

×1.11 87 | 7 points by weli 23 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tiny black holes may be exploding stars across the Milky Way (sciencedaily.com)

×0.90 65 #89 | 96 points by jandrewrogers 2 days ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
xAI, SpaceX, and the Race for AI Buildout (illegal.solutions)

×4.41 34 | 145 points by speckx 1 day ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S. (nytimes.com)

×4.38 16 #18 | 134 points by sbulaev 3 hours ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: If you don't read books, what do you read?

×1.11 | 2 points by kamphey 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Apple Introduces Leasing Program for iPhones and Other Devices (nytimes.com)

×1.13 74 | 21 points by Korwell 3 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI psychosis is the new leadership blind spot (fastcompany.com)

×5.27 25 | 170 points by rwmj 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: The Channels SDK – Bring Any Agent to Any Channel (Slack, MS Teams) (github.com/CopilotKit)

×0.66 51 | 117 points by davidmckayv 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Another Corner of the Internet Has Been Ruined (freeformatter.com)

×3.92 12 | 66 points by eappleby 22 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Bor – Open-source policy management for Linux desktops (getbor.dev)

×1.26 104 | 196 points by eniac111 6 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Akintu – AI agents trained on custom knowledge bases using RAG (akintu.ai)

×0.85 128 | 3 points by Sharanxxxx 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
From One Seed to a Thousand Leaves – Merkle's Authentication Tree (0xkrt26.github.io)

×0.64 42 #20 | 27 points by denismenace 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
China is gaining ground in AI. But the U.S. still has a major advantage (cnbc.com)

×1.10 | 2 points by makerdiety 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident [video] (youtube.com)

×10.57 58 | 74 points by milkshakes 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Certo – An open source platform to deliver Open Badges (github.com/schroedinger-Hat)

×0.52 77 | 16 points by thejoin95 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Check if any of the $656M in unclaimed royalties at The MLC is yours (doub.ly)

×0.36 | 2 points by knaught 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Distilling DeepSeek into GPT-OSS doesn't transfer censorship. Try it (ctgt.ai)

×1.24 130 | 169 points by cgorlla 1 week ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: My AI agent built and shipped a browser game on its own (itch.io)

×1.42 | 2 points by yoopla_dev 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ex-Amazon VP on What Gets You Promoted (youtube.com)

×0.59 | 1 points by tcp_handshaker 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Isopolis – Isometric pixel map of SF (isopolis.city)

×1.96 82 | 348 points by nuwandavek 5 days ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I'm a 15 Year Old Wannabe Engineer, This Is a Cycloidal Gearbox I Built (github.com/tom-ilan)

×2.16 89 | 337 points by tomilan 6 days ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: GreatArrow.ai – Shared memory for Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and Cursor (greatarrow.ai)

×1.19 143 | 3 points by clapptastic 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Japanese Govt Asks US Govt to Stop Using Mario, Pokemono, Naruto Meme Postings (mainichi.jp)

×3.53 61 | 78 points by m463 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones (toneyalexander.github.io)

×2.25 44 | 621 points by automatoney 3 days ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours (daringfireball.net)

×5.52 68 | 325 points by _da_ 18 hours ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Remembrane – agent memory in one SQLite file, zero dependencies (github.com/satyasairay)

×1.35 91 | 10 points by satyasairay 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Which devtools win when LLMs plan real web apps (preseason.ai)

×1.37 112 | 4 points by thedreammachine 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates (cloudflare.com)

×1.33 39 #29 | 200 points by m3h 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability (githubstatus.com)

×2.45 6 #71 | 499 points by Footkerchief 1 day ago | 409 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: NixOS-DGX-Spark – Nix and NixOS on the DGX Spark (github.com/graham33)

×0.90 110 | 131 points by graham33 5 days ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: demake – one source project compiles to any retro game console ROM (geosona.com)

×1.13 85 | 40 points by gste 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Civilians under siege by Mexican cartel fight back with AK-47s, grenades (pbs.org)

×4.17 39 | 113 points by starkparker 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Möbius-Strip Crosswords (quuxplusone.github.io)

×0.69 57 #40 | 74 points by ibobev 22 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: We Fixed UniFi's Slow PPPoE Performance with PPPoE Half-Bridge (arcbox.dev)

×0.79 123 | 72 points by uneven9434 5 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Voyager 1 FDS Computer Emulator (zaneham.github.io)

×1.88 | 2 points by rahen 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The world is full of marble. Most of it is fake [video] (youtube.com)

×0.50 | 1 points by skibz 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Arxid – keyed, non-enumerable ID obfuscation (github.com/lucasolopes)

×1.74 145 | 8 points by byolopes 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Rotating torus in terminal (but with kitty graphics protocol) (andreadimatteo.com)

×0.53 42 #14 | 6 points by deotman 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???