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  1. Ask HN: How much money do you spend monthly on subscriptions for AI models?
    ×0.25 31 | 6 points by marko-djuric 5 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: In 2021, there were 4.5 jobs per job seeker vs. 2.5 job seekers/job now
    ×0.82 42 | 6 points by ed_balls 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: How can you tell a site/app is vibe coded?
    ×0.53 36 | 6 points by gkolli 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: In your experience, what are sound conventions for e-ink UI development?
    ×0.99 100 | 212 points by BoxOfRain 6 days ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What browser do you use?
    ×0.13 107 | 3 points by Pieczasz 10 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Small team devs – how do you collab with UI/UX designers in the AI era?
    ×0.33 98 | 4 points by cameronnimmo 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Weekly VSCode Grumbling
    ×0.24 111 | 3 points by azatom 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Cmux SSH Lagging
    ×0.38 113 | 3 points by 217 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
    ×1.43 104 | 317 points by david927 4 days ago | 1169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: New Reddit also requiring login?
    ×1.57 52 | 5 points by 7402 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How are you finding the job market in 2026?
    ×0.69 109 | 13 points by dzonga 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Is AI code verification becoming your main bottleneck?
    ×0.29 126 | 7 points by ochidaniel4 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Gemini API removes postpay billing
    ×0.37 108 | 6 points by alex14fr 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How's Everyone Feeling Today?
    ×1.70 121 | 16 points by arm32 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Are there any production LLM pipeline setups to learn from?
    ×0.48 133 | 5 points by atif089 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN:Why do websites today refuse to work on EDGE/2G?
    ×0.33 129 | 7 points by DenisDolya 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Show HN: Programmable timer web app (for gym workouts or stretching sessions) (jotaen.net)
    ×1.01 84 | 29 points by jotaen 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Single log line is 49KB+ (ext4) / 110KB+ (btrfs) of systemd-journald disk writes (github.com/systemd)
    ×2.50 2 #17 | 138 points by ValdikSS 5 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Deutsche Bank becomes first foreign yuan clearing bank in Europe (tradersunion.com)
    ×2.69 25 #42 | 378 points by Markoff 12 hours ago | 407 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Tracking down the 16-year-old WAL-reset SQLite bug (tailscale.com)
    ×4.47 22 #63 | 1174 points by ropbear 1 day ago | 227 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Technological breakthroughs are easy to miss (johnjdavis.io)
    ×0.71 | 1 points by jcdavis 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Does Codex's Computer History plugin seem like a misstep to anyone else?
    ×0.43 | 2 points by joshcsimmons 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. German advocacy group lodges criminal complaint over Meta AI glasses (reuters.com)
    ×2.15 49 | 117 points by tartoran 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Can I use my Outputs to train an AI model? (claude.com)
    ×8.74 8 | 85 points by DarenWatson 15 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: At 16K features, flat autoencoders break. Curved space doesn't (github.com/vishal-dehurdle)
    ×0.67 44 | 9 points by visha1v 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: ChatGPT SEO for Shopify Merchants (shopify.com)
    ×0.79 | 2 points by rahular1 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. How Compaction Works in Pi (earendil.com)
    ×1.96 5 #18 | 89 points by tosh 6 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Tim King, AmigaDOS developer, has died (amiga-news.de)
    ×1.37 12 | 295 points by doener 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Shade Map (shademap.app)
    ×1.62 23 | 241 points by fredley 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: iPhone app takes simultaneous images from 2 lenses, fuses into 1 photo (photosynthesis.camera)
    ×1.94 53 | 327 points by sajomes 5 days ago | 302 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: I built an MCP that gives DeepSeek V4 Flash eyes (bad ones) (github.com/theJian)
    ×0.90 122 | 3 points by theJian 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Seisin – a desktop app that turns your job search into analytics (getseisin.com)
    ×0.64 132 | 5 points by LudbaSH 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. The Oldest Bar in Every US State (businessinsider.com)
    ×1.07 52 #44 | 13 points by NaOH 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Build a Stratum 1 PTP Grandmaster on a Budget (opscode.io)
    ×1.03 32 #83 | 21 points by malcolmfrazier 10 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Gitmon Cards – Generate Pokemon-style TCG cards from real GitHub data (github.com/mcsscalabrin)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by Jojokujo404 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. CFTC declares market emergency, orders Kalshi to continue to operate in New York (cftc.gov)
    ×2.44 54 | 224 points by michaefe 2 days ago | 193 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: WikiZipf – Guess the most frequent words of a Wikipedia article (wikizipf.com)
    ×1.01 112 | 3 points by Madki 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Mcptoon – Token-efficient MCP CLI client (github.com/activeing123)
    ×0.59 120 | 73 points by mcptokensaver 2 days ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. ATG (YC F25) Is Hiring Member of Technical Staff (Data Platform) (atg.science)
    12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Terabytes of credentials leaked in supply-chain attack (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.72 14 #39 | 32 points by RattlesnakeJake 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. SparrowMap – Cameras that watch government vehicles (sparrowmap.com)
    ×1.72 55 | 4 points by paulnpace 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Toast 1 (mixedbread.com)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by breadislove 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Dropbox is an obvious PE Target? (s-1.vercel.app)
    ×1.70 95 | 63 points by Taikhoom10 1 day ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Airbnb Eval-driven development: Lessons from evaluating GenAI at scale (medium.com)
    ×0.81 29 #65 | 10 points by sebg 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Further Developments About Internal AI Models Hacking Things (thezvi.substack.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by gmays 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. 'Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive over time'? (bsky.app)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by doener 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. The Human Is the Loop (brentfitzgerald.com)
    ×1.68 60 | 192 points by burnto 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Tocharian Online (utexas.edu)
    ×0.61 16 #27 | 56 points by Bluestein 7 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. What can we learn from Australia's social media ban for teens? (knowablemagazine.org)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by knowablemag 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. LinkedIn CringeBot 3000 (cringebot3000.com)
    ×3.60 8 | 473 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 203 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: OpenAI network checker using 31 browser and IP signals (getplus.ai)
    ×0.50 | 2 points by lixiaofei 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Meat-O-Meter – the internet most generous ruler (18+) (chatgpt.site)
    ×3.41 64 | 9 points by dmitriyabr 10 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: HypeBESTIE, sincere RLHF-free, em-dash-free image compliment generator (hypebestie.onrender.com)
    ×1.84 116 | 3 points by mcramblett 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: I asked Claude to write DDIA as a live comic (systemscomic.com)
    ×2.46 118 | 7 points by samuelxing 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Inplan – Before Start Coding (github.com/melly-lgtm)
    ×0.87 | 1 points by diane-cis 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Delphi 13 Community Edition Is Now Available (embarcadero.com)
    ×1.37 41 | 178 points by layer8 1 day ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Kubernetes on Oxide: How customer needs shaped our integrations (oxide.computer)
    ×1.26 5 #22 | 152 points by stevehipwell 10 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: MCP Memory – Fast Agent Memory Using Google's OKF and SQLite FTS5 (github.com/fellowgeek)
    ×0.55 35 #41 | 53 points by pcbmaker20 10 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Flock (Again) Activates a Camera System a Town Had Voted to Shut Down (techdirt.com)
    ×3.63 29 #77 | 45 points by hn_acker 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Foothills of the Bay Area house party (astralcodexten.com)
    ×0.78 | 1 points by MattSayar 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Tamron Lens Utility Alternative on Linux (github.com/yikerman)
    ×0.87 97 | 81 points by xiaoyu2006 6 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Qwen3.8-2.4T (huggingface.co)
    ×3.25 #68 | 700 points by Philpax 1 day ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. What garbage collection actually costs (shivanshuag.com)
    ×0.62 49 #76 | 23 points by shivanshuag 12 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Minutes of drawing can reset your nervous system (washingtonpost.com)
    ×2.77 45 | 3 points by malloci 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. AI Can Now Design Functional Viruses (ieee.org)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by rbanffy 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. The End of Mathematics (daniellitt.com)
    ×1.18 | 2 points by rzk 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. DARPA heavy lift challenge ends with winner at a 3.84:1 payload to weight ratio (dronexl.co)
    ×1.54 92 | 71 points by daau 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: SGI ElectroPaint screensaver in 3D CSS (css.graphics)
    ×0.55 | 2 points by rofko 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: How to use Mu – Tools for Agents – with x402 payments (micro.mu)
    ×0.62 | 2 points by asim 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: A walkable 3D tour of a feedforward neural net (ffnn.vercel.app)
    ×2.88 93 | 5 points by aithena 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Ordinary abundance (ordinaryabundance.com)
    ×2.46 1 #25 | 196 points by yen223 10 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Flutter 3.47 (flutter.dev)
    ×1.86 31 #59 | 192 points by gumby271 1 day ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. GitHub adds an ROI section to the Copilot impact dashboard (github.blog)
    ×1.72 | 2 points by jamesfinlayson 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. What We Lost When Computers Became Easier to Use [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by pierres7 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. My skinner box It was made for me (hootr.club)
    ×1.12 | 2 points by steinuil 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Lovable raises $400M Series C (lovable.dev)
    ×1.42 33 | 157 points by thoughtpeddler 1 day ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Posts grew 6x since ChatGPT, but success rate remained relatively flat (orangecrumbs.com)
    ×0.95 119 | 11 points by oyster143 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. My Rules for Using Spreadsheets (leancrew.com)
    ×0.99 24 #56 | 55 points by surprisetalk 11 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Noop – Privacy respecting Whoop replacement (github.com/ryanbr)
    ×1.49 | 2 points by Cider9986 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. The Trump administration's Most Dangerous Attack on Science Yet (realclearscience.com)
    ×3.07 37 | 7 points by rbanffy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Remarc – comment on anything on your screen and send it to your agent (remarc.app)
    ×0.53 | 2 points by young_mete 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Unicasso – image to ASCII art via optimization with CLIP (github.com/jakobrees)
    ×1.85 96 | 4 points by imko_ 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Meteor shower, planet alignment, eclipse kit (lifesprites.com)
    ×0.25 128 | 11 points by jmtrevarton 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. New Bedford police officer accused of using Flock cameras to track ex-partner (newbedfordlight.org)
    ×4.13 57 | 201 points by newsomix9xl 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: TasmoShelf – local-first iOS/Android app for Tasmota devices (tasmoshelf.app)
    ×0.46 82 | 3 points by itsmueller 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: TermDOM – HTML, CSS and JavaScript (With a Real DOM) for TUIs and CLIs (github.com/bikeshaving)
    ×1.77 130 | 17 points by bikeshaving 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Modern Alternative to Plausible (getopen.so)
    ×3.47 79 | 6 points by rahulbridge 10 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. The SvelteKit 3 Release Candidate is here (svelte.dev)
    ×2.15 67 #64 | 9 points by pier25 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Chicago Mercantile Exchange will list futures contracts for GPU costs (cmegroup.com)
    ×0.98 41 #69 | 14 points by p4ul 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Pixel Watch 5 (blog.google)
    ×1.40 39 #84 | 163 points by ortusdux 1 day ago | 369 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???