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  1. Ask HN: Responsible/trustable background check companies?
    ×0.86 35 | 4 points by levinb 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Remind HN: Perseid meteor shower peaks tonight
    ×1.68 27 | 5 points by cjbarber 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: In your experience, what are sound conventions for e-ink UI development?
    ×1.02 72 | 211 points by BoxOfRain 4 days ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813
    ×0.90 15 | 4 points by uneven9434 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ed Zitron on CNBC Squawk Box Talking Nvidia, Unprofitable AI Labs
    ×1.09 8 | 7 points by johnbarron 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: GitHub project that showed all edits (somewhat proving human authorship)
    ×0.35 80 | 3 points by 4d66ba06 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Bitbucket CLI
    ×0.47 83 | 3 points by scr2em 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What are GitHub's push-farm botnets for?
    ×0.77 93 | 3 points by ghspamwatch 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
    ×1.43 86 | 315 points by david927 2 days ago | 1150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. How do you keep PM tools in sync with what happens in WhatsApp/Slack?
    ×0.26 | 2 points by Harish_0089 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Could DNA be represented as "an embedding" in an AI model?
    ×0.16 106 | 3 points by greenmoonx 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. SETI@Home was the coolest thing
    ×0.81 109 | 27 points by b112 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: How did you teach analog electronics to your kids?
    ×0.29 113 | 7 points by felooboolooomba 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Anyone have solution to Opus verbosity in Claude Code?
    ×0.28 128 | 5 points by firemelt 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How do you learn with LLMs?
    ×0.37 134 | 7 points by py4 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. FDA Admitted in Print That Nothing It Knows of Will Wash Cyclospora Off Lettuce (marlerblog.com)
    ×1.34 45 #43 | 19 points by speckx 5 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Show HN: Meteor shower, planet alignment, eclipse kit (lifesprites.com)
    ×0.24 50 #48 | 8 points by jmtrevarton 3 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Show HN: Lucky Dangle – a lucky charm for your Mac (luckydangle.app)
    ×1.09 53 | 3 points by kar-ma 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Show HN: Graph2agent; Mermaid diagrams, explained for agents (graph2agent.github.io)
    ×2.59 130 | 7 points by alexandroskyr 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Show HN: drawtonomy – Draw and run driving scenarios in the browser (github.com/kosuke55)
    ×1.03 133 | 3 points by kosuke55 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. European scientists developed a tactile sensor capable of 100 μm resolution (ieee.org)
    ×1.07 40 #46 | 18 points by sohkamyung 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Solar Eclipse ESA Livestream (sciencedaily.com)
    ×1.83 | 2 points by dolibasija 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Show HN: C# Game Engine with its own scripting language and IDE (github.com/ArcadeMakerSources)
    ×2.31 121 | 5 points by am-gm 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Solving the Shortest Vector Problem in $2^{0.6039n}$ Time via Mid-Point Hessian (arxiv.org)
    ×0.59 18 #21 | 22 points by sbulaev 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: AI 3D pop-out videos for Reels, Shorts and ads (videopopy.com)
    ×0.26 81 #81 | 3 points by wowinter15 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Live: Total Solar Eclipse – August 12, 2026 [Live Stream] [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.16 | 2 points by andai 27 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Make your bio link worth clicking, even for agents
    ×2.10 37 | 4 points by czeizel 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: SHTM – 60 Seconds Random Chat (shtm.vercel.app)
    ×1.71 65 | 3 points by Emirhan123 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. My Agent Setup (chad.cm)
    ×1.11 1 #22 | 67 points by carimura 3 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: What US households pay for electricity and gas, by state, since 2001 (energy-maps.com)
    ×1.15 59 #76 | 5 points by ebaumer 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces (btp.police.uk)
    ×3.33 9 | 371 points by BlueBerry2001 1 day ago | 490 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Emergent Introspective Awareness in Large Language Models (arxiv.org)
    ×1.13 41 | 66 points by doener 19 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Crabsoup, a Liquidsoap-inspired audio streaming engine in Rust. (crabsoup.vercel.app)
    ×0.85 | 2 points by sonyarianto 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Federal vendor with $50M in contracts leaves portal broken for a month (propublica.org)
    ×2.18 52 | 99 points by ams1 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Talkform.org, Turn voice inputs into structured data using front end AI (talkform.org)
    ×2.19 50 | 4 points by pankajunk 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Eight Books to Read If You're Still Thinking About the Roman Empire (lithub.com)
    ×1.11 35 #82 | 10 points by theanonymousone 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Why Did OpenAI's Head of Ethics Chloé Bakalar Leave? (aimagazine.com)
    ×1.59 58 | 87 points by ashurandi 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Harbofly, reclaim the 20–100GB of dev caches on your Mac (harbofly.app)
    ×1.04 | 2 points by buildcomcarlos 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Illinois just passed a law that puts Linux on the hook for age verification (linuxstans.com)
    ×3.70 46 | 341 points by speckx 1 day ago | 517 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Turbo Pascal on CP/M, MSX-DOS and MS-DOS – Pascal for Small Machines (hansotten.com)
    ×0.71 65 #62 | 12 points by rbanffy 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Development Mindset for AI Programming
    ×0.78 | 1 points by kva 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Stop being skeptical about AI for development (pragmaticengineer.com)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by duck 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Rust is the largest beneficiary (among programming languages) of coding agents (twitter.com/peterjliu)
    ×1.47 | 2 points by peterjliu 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. We tested six $24 Linode VMs in Los Angeles: CPU stayed flat, storage varied 76% (webbynode.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by gsgreen 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Alphabet Soup, a multiplayer game, build the longest word to win (alphabetsoup.club)
    ×0.66 115 | 35 points by johnchinjew 2 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: A replayable A2A jury for tracing how agents influence decisions (github.com/nMaroulis)
    ×0.44 129 | 19 points by nmaroulis21 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Scroll through all 43252003274489856000 Rubik's Cube states (alen.is)
    ×1.53 49 | 288 points by Alen123 1 day ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Facebook ads are so hard to block that uBlock Origin stopped filtering them (neowin.net)
    ×5.26 75 | 162 points by bundie 5 hours ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. What sort of maths are LLMs good at? (wordpress.com)
    ×1.23 9 #15 | 192 points by ColinWright 7 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. ArenaAllocators don't play nicely with ArrayLists (openmymind.net)
    ×0.38 32 #30 | 17 points by ibobev 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. US hires over 2k video gamers as air traffic controllers (cbsnews.com)
    ×2.65 39 #44 | 178 points by shagie 17 hours ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Google Pixel Tag (blog.google)
    ×2.60 18 | 4 points by ortusdux 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Chicken Scheme 6.0 (call-cc.org)
    ×1.47 39 | 297 points by eatonphil 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Company Offering '100% Human-Written, Never AI' Medical Research Is 100% AI (404media.co)
    ×4.76 34 | 188 points by Anon84 15 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Toxic underground fires spreading at California landfills (newstribune.com)
    ×1.61 95 | 74 points by tapper 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript (andros.dev)
    ×0.60 36 #27 | 3 points by redbell 21 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Performance Impact of Alignment (eme64.github.io)
    ×1.25 | 2 points by signa11 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Kernelspace- interactive course on systems programming for LLM Serving (naigap.com)
    ×0.74 | 2 points by praveer13 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (openrouter.ai)
    ×3.98 1 #1 | 136 points by explosion-s 1 hour ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Neutrinos from Deep Inside Earth Provide a New Picture of the Mantle (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.85 38 #86 | 53 points by rbanffy 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. The 108-Degree Eviction (theatlantic.com)
    ×1.23 | 2 points by rafram 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Fail Faster (derickrethans.nl)
    ×1.23 | 2 points by speckx 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. The little-known winstart.bat batch file (microsoft.com)
    ×0.41 67 #59 | 6 points by ibobev 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. NASA Wants to Toss 10k Tiny Probes Directly into Saturn's Rings (universetoday.com)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by bookofjoe 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Dynobox – A test runner for AI agent skills and workflows (github.com/dynobox)
    ×1.21 | 2 points by bhkdotdev 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: I benchmarked my memory graph against Memora (0.831 vs. 0.801) (github.com/corbym)
    ×2.04 38 | 4 points by colourclash 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Insect species in 3D, generated from code (no model files) (insect-world.pages.dev)
    ×1.73 74 | 3 points by XR843 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Eigshow Interactive Web App (eigshow-app.web.app)
    ×2.43 76 | 3 points by cecinuga 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Higher-dimensional lattices unfolded into the 2D plane (number-garden.com)
    ×0.60 111 | 18 points by unitX 5 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: 3D-printed marble-maze-blind-box solved by tilt and sound [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.16 | 2 points by belforn 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Controversial creators are benefiting from monetization programs run by Meta (abc.net.au)
    ×4.77 26 #39 | 443 points by robtherobber 7 hours ago | 290 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining (ft.com)
    ×3.16 11 #70 | 496 points by ilamont 1 day ago | 461 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Buildings Calculate Forces. Software Must Calculate Meaning (iroha1203.dev)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by iroha1203 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. The UK's war on anonymity has come to America (effort.news)
    ×3.61 10 | 656 points by slowin 1 day ago | 751 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Making holograms with a pen plotter (matelsky.com)
    ×1.24 11 | 177 points by DemiGuru 22 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: MintPDF – HTML/Markdown to PDF API with an MCP Server (mintpdf.dev)
    ×1.65 75 | 3 points by Stackedboost 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Play Chess. Earn coins. Build an army (chesspoly.com)
    ×1.90 81 | 3 points by skyfantom 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Rekall – an Ableton Live project management companion application (machinelies.eu)
    ×2.86 43 | 5 points by iamsaitam 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Launch HN: Discovered Materials (YC P26) – AI agents to discover new materials (discoveredmaterials.com)
    ×0.65 48 #32 | 54 points by advaith08 9 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering (googleblog.com)
    ×3.20 #71 | 412 points by 0xedb 1 day ago | 482 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. What good requirements look like (and how to write them) (projan.ai)
    ×0.49 68 #74 | 6 points by davec271 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls (lemonde.fr)
    ×5.43 39 | 1042 points by aziaziazi 1 day ago | 490 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. H3-metal – Native MiniMax-H3 inference for Apple Silicon (github.com/antirez)
    ×1.87 17 | 434 points by swyx 1 day ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Amazon backs power plant that may become top source of US climate pollution (arstechnica.com)
    ×4.70 66 | 191 points by pjmlp 1 day ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. GPT 5.6 Cyber (openai.com)
    ×2.89 88 | 129 points by gizmodo59 2 days ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Supply-Wizard; Start Selling Data with an Easy Vendor Checklist (brickroad.network)
    ×1.15 118 | 3 points by dataranger 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS (textlog.cc)
    ×1.36 105 | 206 points by stagas 5 days ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. German advocacy group lodges criminal complaint over Meta AI glasses (reuters.com)
    ×2.16 17 #34 | 78 points by tartoran 3 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. DeepSeek just dropped official V4 Pro GA benchmarks (twitter.com/i)
    ×1.21 | 2 points by binyu 56 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Rust SIMD on the GPU (vectorware.com)
    ×1.23 67 | 219 points by sagacity 1 day ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???