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  1. TrueMath – An open-source exact symbolic math tool
    ×0.52 | 2 points by SAWANs 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Where to learn software engineering fundamentals?
    ×0.63 45 | 4 points by mstank 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What is your favorite lightweight tool or CLI utility in 2026?
    ×0.80 74 | 18 points by pranav_tech26 15 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Do you know of any company that went back to hand-written code?
    ×4.88 87 | 60 points by antipurist 2 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?
    ×1.19 69 | 81 points by simonebrunozzi 1 day ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: How would you market this service?
    ×0.47 114 | 3 points by dmzxnico 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Alternative to Internet Archive
    ×0.68 109 | 17 points by earworms 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Privacy is an underrated advantage in Slack apps
    ×0.25 | 2 points by alance 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: In your experience, what are sound conventions for e-ink UI development?
    ×0.98 133 | 214 points by BoxOfRain 1 week ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
    ×1.43 131 | 320 points by david927 6 days ago | 1187 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Should hard-tech founders join a problem or technology-first PhD lab?
    ×0.25 143 | 13 points by misterballer 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: When you sell your company, do you receive the money with a normal wire?
    ×0.39 134 | 5 points by supergilbert 23 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Great music selection without overthinking
    ×0.26 154 | 3 points by cr34t1ve 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Does a human still review your code?
    ×0.48 152 | 10 points by stikit 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. How does an ARP Spoofing Attack work?
    ×0.20 161 | 6 points by emn4tor 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What physical publication do you still buy?
    ×0.37 144 | 8 points by sergiotapia 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. OpenAI updates its Privacy Policy to include ads
    ×0.44 146 | 5 points by 1equalsequals1 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Tell HN: In 2021, there were 4.5 jobs per job seeker vs. 2.5 job seekers/job now
    ×0.59 168 | 11 points by ed_balls 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Live Experiment of the Veblen Effect
    ×0.42 169 | 5 points by henryfudgeoffic 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Do you know how much head hunters cost?
    ×0.50 172 | 5 points by mojomark 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: How much money do you spend monthly on subscriptions for AI models?
    ×0.36 162 | 14 points by marko-djuric 2 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Using GCC's Nested Functions with Wide Pointers and No Trampolines II (uecker.codeberg.page)
    ×0.84 96 #51 | 95 points by uecker 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. X1 First Flight – Largest Electric Aircraft [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.03 18 | 3 points by mpweiher 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. How Claude's text watermarking works (anthropic.com)
    ×3.16 93 | 69 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Tea5767-Radio-Tuner (github.com/turtushig22-blip)
    ×0.74 55 #38 | 50 points by turtushig22 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Built a clicker game for my classroom – need honest opinions about it (buttonblam.com)
    ×0.80 | 1 points by useful-warlock 6 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Wordle for Metro Stations (dailymetro.live)
    ×5.02 70 | 7 points by platipouf 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Guiding Ships with Moire Patterns (tinkerings.org)
    ×1.18 42 #16 | 79 points by Eridanus2 12 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. A spectre is haunting Unicode (dampfkraft.com)
    ×1.93 38 #26 | 241 points by sensanaty 23 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. AGCX: Why AI Agents aren't assistants (agcx.org)
    ×1.94 28 | 3 points by Daviddstewartt 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. When Genius Fails: The Intellectual Arrogance of the AI Labs (weightythoughts.com)
    ×2.23 73 | 175 points by gmays 1 day ago | 199 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: C# Game Engine with its own scripting language and IDE (github.com/ArcadeMakerSources)
    ×1.09 95 | 118 points by am-gm 5 days ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. A recipe for drone racing with reinforcement learning (mrandri19.github.io)
    ×1.29 | 2 points by daww 28 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. The price of a Costco hot dog has gone up (sina.bio)
    ×4.71 34 | 70 points by sinab 21 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Racket v9.3 (racket-lang.org)
    ×1.61 93 #74 | 136 points by privong 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Leave your screen unlocked, meet developers paypal.com (profullstack.com)
    ×3.39 80 | 20 points by buffer_overlord 2 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with? (mun-logadan.github.io)
    ×4.55 16 #64 | 952 points by numeri 2 days ago | 843 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. AI-Prepped Paper Passed Peer Review. Now What? (acm.org)
    ×2.05 19 | 3 points by pseudolus 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Multi-Mailbox for Developer Inbox (Resend)
    ×1.34 | 2 points by ricky300300 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Apple proposes to take a 15% cut of purchases made outside the App Store (techcrunch.com)
    ×3.96 90 | 79 points by sbulaev 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Ember – Redshift safe color palettes (github.com/carpdiem)
    ×1.10 80 | 109 points by carpdiem 6 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Procedural Generated Grafitti Wall (procgrafprot.vercel.app)
    ×2.33 156 | 7 points by whtspc64 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Kvcachescope – Why Nvidia-smi is blind to vLLM KV cache leaks (github.com/brian-mwirigi)
    ×1.28 167 | 4 points by nesh23 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better (dmitry.gr)
    ×2.23 24 #22 | 339 points by dmitrygr 22 hours ago | 386 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Site removes all the clutter from recipe videos and gives just the recipe (cutrecipe.com)
    ×1.76 86 #65 | 35 points by susanvilleula1 18 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Earth.nullschool.net (nullschool.net)
    ×1.10 94 | 81 points by TremendousJudge 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Silent Shark – tactical map-based WWII submarine sim (silentshark.app)
    ×1.17 75 | 77 points by epaga 3 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI (acc.org)
    ×2.58 6 #29 | 288 points by theanonymousone 16 hours ago | 232 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Snafu: Agentic flow to help you with "naming things" in source code (github.com/sebastiancarlos)
    ×1.01 122 | 3 points by httbs 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Browser-based Autodesk Inventor file viewer – no Autodesk required (jfk-solutions.github.io)
    ×1.00 151 | 3 points by jogibear9988 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. I Analyzed 163K Lines of Kuzu's Codebase. Here's Why Apple Wanted It (medium.com)
    ×1.13 48 #58 | 3 points by zeristor 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Simplifying and Refactoring Introductory Calculus (2018) (arxiv.org)
    ×1.31 67 #85 | 141 points by E-Reverance 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Agent-shell – vendor-neutral chat with AI agents in Emacs (xenodium.com)
    ×2.90 129 | 7 points by xenodium 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. T3X/0 a Minimal Procedural Language (t3x.org)
    ×0.75 89 #81 | 39 points by AlexeyBrin 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Anonsurf for Arch (github.com/quantumcore)
    ×1.23 | 2 points by jhonconnor 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Roundtables: The "Censorship-Industrial Complex" Idea Shaping US Policy (technologyreview.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by joozio 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Maximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions (claude.com)
    ×2.07 38 | 308 points by twapi 1 day ago | 179 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. 2D Gaussian Splatting for Bézier Spline Line Art Vectorization (disneyresearch.com)
    ×0.76 75 #56 | 71 points by Jimmc414 22 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Targeted marine cloud brightening weakens subsequent El Niño (science.org)
    ×1.35 23 #82 | 22 points by musha68k 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Deriving human size from fundamental constants (twitter.com/fermatslibrary)
    ×1.28 | 2 points by MrBuddyCasino 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election (bbc.com)
    ×4.55 12 | 465 points by tcp_handshaker 1 day ago | 383 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Study links coffee consumption to metabolic health and sex hormones (oulu.fi)
    ×1.83 92 | 68 points by _____k 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Debian has begun voting on the future of AI/LLM contributions (debian.org)
    ×3.09 68 | 66 points by matheusmoreira 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Back In Time 2.0.0 – Release Candidate 1 (github.com/bit-team)
    ×2.93 124 | 7 points by buhtz 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Write.md – A free, open-source, themeable Markdown editor for macOS (writemd.app)
    ×1.19 140 | 107 points by danielbilekq 5 days ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Mic Drop, a real-time multiplayer karaoke game (micdrop.gg)
    ×0.81 46 #23 | 69 points by johnsillings 12 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. System design rules I always come back to (thetrueengineer.com)
    ×1.57 | 2 points by adletbalzhanov 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Banned Words List (pen.org)
    ×4.29 90 | 43 points by structuredPizza 50 minutes ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Amazon Can Use Your Twitch Content to Train Its AI–Unless You Opt Out (wired.com)
    ×2.57 7 | 4 points by justworks 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: OpenComplAI – open-source EU AI Act compliance checks in CI/CD (github.com/opencomplai)
    ×1.47 166 | 7 points by ythouma 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Measuring Autonomous AI Research (primeintellect.ai)
    ×1.33 | 2 points by DSemba 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Rdio – an open-source internet radio control suite (rdio-docs.vercel.app)
    ×1.77 123 | 27 points by taqibrahim 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Suspecting court of using AI, man injected prompts in filings to try to win case (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.01 67 | 76 points by jnord 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. The Iran War Is a Whole New Level of Quagmire for the US (politico.com)
    ×12.85 66 | 69 points by hebelehubele 7 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Lumabri – Run Moe Models on a P2P Swarm with Colibri (github.com/JustVugg)
    ×0.54 118 | 47 points by vforno 2 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: RAGless – similar to RAG, but $0 LLM API costs at runtime (github.com/EmilResearch)
    ×2.24 170 | 6 points by emilianoc 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Superconducting monolayer cuprate with a single CuO2 plane (nature.com)
    ×0.61 10 #9 | 31 points by sbulaev 4 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. A fortuitous decade as an indie software developer (lapcatsoftware.com)
    ×1.60 38 #24 | 111 points by frizlab 15 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Court Rejects Fair Use Claim, Orders YouTube to Unmask Anime Recap Channels (torrentfreak.com)
    ×2.13 21 #67 | 11 points by gslin 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Peer to Peer Groceries (antoniosbarotsis.github.io)
    ×1.28 | 2 points by signa11 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. The Ploopy A+ Trackball Is Here (ploopy.co)
    ×1.31 59 | 140 points by big_toast 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Self-hosted monitoring for AI recommendations (MIT License) (lettertrace.com)
    ×2.41 112 | 8 points by mathewpregasen 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: A Project Oberon System version running on RISC-V instead of RISC-5 (github.com/rochus-keller)
    ×0.74 158 | 121 points by Rochus 1 week ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: A tiny LLM running at 21,000 tok/s on a $250 FPGA (Live Demo) (mikeayles.com)
    ×2.29 160 | 79 points by mikeayles 6 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Tracking down a Zsh history data loss bug (stapelberg.ch)
    ×1.21 47 #27 | 95 points by ingve 15 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities (z.ai)
    ×4.45 27 #54 | 1147 points by pella 2 days ago | 569 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Super Mario Derivations (fzakaria.com)
    ×1.19 74 #87 | 134 points by domenkozar 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: PLC Lint – static analysis for CODESYS/PLCopenXML (plc-linter.com)
    ×1.17 8 | 3 points by caspershes 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Turbo Pascal on CP/M, MSX-DOS and MS-DOS (hansotten.com)
    ×0.84 94 #83 | 109 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. The Dutch community where people live on strips of land in a lake (core77.com)
    ×2.38 3 #90 | 128 points by Bowes-Lyon 20 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???