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  1. Ask HN: In your experience, what are sound conventions for e-ink UI development?
    ×1.17 14 #34 | 177 points by BoxOfRain 16 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
    ×1.45 9 | 305 points by david927 1 day ago | 1108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. SETI@Home was the coolest thing
    ×1.21 55 | 20 points by b112 18 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tell HN: Old.reddit.com Requires Login
    ×2.92 10 | 21 points by comprev 10 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How do you learn with LLMs?
    ×0.24 87 | 3 points by py4 13 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Is there a marketable "skill" to using AI?
    ×0.39 96 | 3 points by purplemoonx 16 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What Project are you the most proud of?
    ×0.82 93 | 9 points by emn4tor 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Is Traditional SaaS Dying?
    ×0.55 97 | 4 points by vibe_that_works 20 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Did Apple Search engine bot enter the security LLM fuzzing gauntlet
    ×0.42 110 | 3 points by duttonw 21 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: How do you set comp at an early stage startup?
    ×0.29 124 | 4 points by jeffreyfate 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How do you go from writing code to deploying with agents?
    ×0.48 108 | 16 points by sakuraiben 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: My dev blog has 11k followers. I stopped writing it. What would you do?
    ×0.56 117 | 8 points by zlatkov 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Recommended Merchant of Record and Affliate Setup
    ×0.24 131 | 4 points by tisdadd 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Is Ask HN Shrinking?
    ×0.54 119 | 20 points by keiferski 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. The State of Google
    ×1.01 114 | 14 points by 3dedb728-3f77 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. The Systemic Collapse of the AI Industry: Ideology, Hardware, and CapEx Crisis
    ×0.53 122 | 7 points by impartial2602 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Why is Open POWER Foundation a wasteland?
    ×0.74 130 | 10 points by climate_denier_ 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Anyone that has built a marketplace, what has been your experience?
    ×0.87 136 | 7 points by mfisc_019 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What is your database size
    ×0.35 135 | 8 points by kureikain 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Should a coding client import another client's rules by default?
    ×0.21 | 2 points by ryanmerket 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Anger over Data Centers Is Fueling a New Political Movementtca
    ×0.89 73 | 8 points by doener 17 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. DeepSeek announced to raise its API price tremendously
    ×0.47 137 | 32 points by alexwwang 5 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Should AI's tell you they're AI?
    ×0.57 118 | 9 points by logicallee 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ocean heat records broken as hottest July temperature recorded (bbc.com)
    ×3.53 11 | 73 points by blondie9x 20 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Choral: Choreographic Programming for Java (choral-lang.org)
    ×0.66 39 #24 | 21 points by dplyukhin 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. AI is approving our pull requests (intercom.com)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by LexSiga 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. LLVM: Estimating Branch Probabilities (maskray.me)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by signa11 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Nitpicler. I was quoted $1M for AI PR review – so I bulit it myself (nitpicker.dev)
    ×2.09 84 | 4 points by sagivo 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Run your GitHub Actions locally or self-hosted in isolated microvms (preloop.dev)
    ×1.40 133 | 4 points by Bnjoroge 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. The Psychedelic Toad of the Sonoran Desert (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.95 24 #40 | 91 points by simonebrunozzi 13 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. AI Slop Backlash Is Starting to Change Platform Policy (ai-updates.net)
    ×0.76 | 1 points by ashurandi 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ransomware gangs skip the CEO, head straight for the 40-something IT manager (theregister.com)
    ×1.90 58 | 72 points by joebuckwilliams 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Open-source playground to red-team AI agents against public prompts (fabraix.com)
    ×4.28 94 | 13 points by zachdotai 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Bow Windshield (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.50 1 #53 | 6 points by CalChris 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Moving integer division to floating-point is trivial (marc-b-reynolds.github.io)
    ×1.69 6 | 3 points by matt_d 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Working on gym weight progress calculator (gymcalc.no)
    ×1.02 105 | 3 points by xtremi 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: NiceShot AI – The analytics layer competitive games forgot to add (github.com/karimm-ai)
    ×0.95 | 2 points by niceshot-ai 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Graph2agent; Mermaid diagrams, explained for agents (graph2agent.github.io)
    ×1.78 71 | 4 points by alexandroskyr 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Design Engineering, as a Service (designshippers.com)
    ×1.05 67 | 13 points by krm01 18 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Sonic Pi v5 (patreon.com)
    ×2.08 12 #13 | 359 points by samaaron 15 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. How Blackwing Pencils are Made [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.08 36 #67 | 98 points by NaOH 23 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Building a Persistent Browser Terminal for Sanbox Computers (sanbox.cloud)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by oryx1729 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. H3-metal – Native MiniMax-H3 inference for Apple Silicon (github.com/antirez)
    ×1.84 2 #1 | 204 points by swyx 6 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Findphone: Locate a nearby Bluetooth device by signal strength (github.com/ben-z)
    ×0.93 50 #69 | 63 points by helsinkiandrew 21 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Sign language translation with smart glasses (github.com/aadisang)
    ×0.66 109 | 26 points by aadisang 6 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: A Project Oberon System version running on RISC-V instead of RISC-5 (github.com/rochus-keller)
    ×0.73 54 | 119 points by Rochus 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: A replayable A2A jury for tracing how agents influence decisions (github.com/nMaroulis)
    ×0.44 85 | 19 points by nmaroulis21 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. The Tragedy of the Cognitive Commons (arxiv.org)
    ×1.39 8 #62 | 101 points by jmintz 15 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. An oil field became California's first carbon vault (calmatters.org)
    ×0.89 | 1 points by geox 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Mychart-CLI, a local-first exporter for records you can view (github.com/lifan-builds)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by lifan-builds 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. There is no “done”: Reflections on a completed Appalachian Trail thru-hike (2022) (thetrek.co)
    ×1.09 34 #65 | 57 points by mooreds 16 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2 (oskrim.github.io)
    ×1.17 50 | 157 points by tremguy 1 day ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. OpenAI wraps $7B share sale ahead of potential IPO (cnbc.com)
    ×2.54 21 #43 | 12 points by kristianp 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Self-hosted universal context layer for Mac (github.com/Rafaelpta)
    ×0.74 | 2 points by rafaepta 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Plug-In Solar Panels Starting to Sprout in U.S. Backyards (nytimes.com)
    ×2.86 52 | 92 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: DocSift convert a PDF once, give the model only the passages it needs (github.com/anishmoncivarghese)
    ×0.89 99 | 3 points by anishvarghese 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Edgi – Letterboxd or Strava for your brain (edgi.tv)
    ×1.03 88 | 4 points by jshapiro 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Exploiting System Management Mode with a very long interrupt (github.com/xoreaxeaxeax)
    ×1.07 19 #28 | 152 points by WhiteDawn 15 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents (docker.com)
    ×3.18 13 #44 | 649 points by etoxin 1 day ago | 361 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Northstar Browser 1.0.7
    ×2.11 100 | 4 points by roschdal 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Algebruh - Cross-check arithmetic claims with Z3, cvc5, and Lean (github.com/skorotkiewicz)
    ×0.63 125 | 14 points by modinfo 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Local models will not win (seangoedecke.com)
    ×2.71 56 | 3 points by sylvainkalache 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Japanese court overturns Red RAW video patent (dpreview.com)
    ×2.39 32 | 119 points by anigbrowl 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: The Channels SDK – Bring Any Agent to Any Channel (Slack, MS Teams) (github.com/CopilotKit)
    ×0.69 95 | 121 points by davidmckayv 4 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Back to the Future of Handwriting Recognition (2016) (jackschaedler.github.io)
    ×0.57 42 #63 | 41 points by at1as 15 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. AI Fortunes Are Reviving an Old Debate About Private Power (ai-updates.net)
    ×1.26 43 #74 | 44 points by ashurandi 17 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Tail-Call Interpreters in Rust – Jimmy Ostler (lordgoati.us)
    ×0.82 39 #79 | 78 points by amatheus 23 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Trump Said to Have Used Military Jet to Leave Turkey Amid Threats (nytimes.com)
    ×1.07 | 2 points by blltprfmnk 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Checkly: Metabase Security Incident (checklyhq.com)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by sangeeth96 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Analyzing data from Silicon Valley ventures and founders prosecuted for fraud (informs.org)
    ×2.11 34 | 197 points by iamnothere 1 day ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Mcptoon – Token-efficient MCP CLI client (github.com/activeing123)
    ×0.73 2 #2 | 27 points by mcptokensaver 1 hour ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. We Got Better at Keeping You Alive. Not at Keeping You Healthy (julienreszka.com)
    ×2.16 64 #47 | 38 points by julienreszka 15 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Sober – New Open-Source Code Reviewer (sober-dev.app)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by marmai 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Saying No (rozumem.xyz)
    ×1.92 45 | 124 points by rozumem 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Half of Europe's towns and villages have fewer residents than 60 years ago (correctiv.org)
    ×2.30 62 #64 | 43 points by Pamar 1 hour ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. OpenSSH 10.5 Released (openssh.org)
    ×1.44 | 2 points by djmdjm 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Superintelligence is a dragon: What Mark Zuckerberg misunderstands about AI (platformer.news)
    ×1.34 | 2 points by swolpers 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. MP3 piracy was born August 10, 1996 (dfarq.homeip.net)
    ×1.65 1 | 3 points by giuliomagnifico 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Turn satellite imagery into a paper globe you fold yourself (foldingglobes.com)
    ×0.94 42 | 78 points by dango2506 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: filebouncer - npm package for detecting suspicious uploads. (github.com/Ramzi-Abidi)
    ×0.73 | 2 points by ramzi-abidi 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Illinois just passed a law that puts Linux on the hook for age verification (linuxstans.com)
    ×3.67 60 #68 | 314 points by speckx 11 hours ago | 441 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. eBay scammer took $600 from me; eBay suggests cotton-candy flavor energy drinks (reddit.com)
    ×3.09 6 #84 | 14 points by rogerrogerr 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Ask HN: Anyone have solution to Opus verbosity in Claude Code?
    ×0.75 | 1 points by firemelt 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Langkast – One workspace for every AI model, agents, and your files (langkast.com)
    ×1.55 | 2 points by edwn_mnl 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video] (mynoise.net)
    ×2.25 19 | 222 points by gregsadetsky 1 day ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. FCC moves to ban Lidar-equipped foreign drones from US (tomshardware.com)
    ×2.54 51 | 118 points by f-serif 1 day ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Recycle – Floppydisks (floppydisk.com)
    ×0.89 14 #10 | 51 points by calvinmorrison 5 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Australian Wealth Tracker (auravest.ai)
    ×0.91 | 1 points by mozzinator 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. helppeer.ai (helppeer.ai)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by tosh 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Tlbic Supplement v11.0: Added Question for Readers in Other Languages (google.com)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by michikawa59 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???