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  1. New open sourced eval tool for building agents
    ×0.21 | 2 points by Thomeras 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Local, Open source AI meeting recorder that sees and hears everything
    ×0.26 79 | 3 points by puremetrics 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Tips for Landing a YC Internship?
    ×0.28 82 | 6 points by cnnadozi 12 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Have LLMs Plateaued?
    ×0.25 75 | 4 points by leandrobon 8 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
    ×1.36 43 | 16 points by sarreph 12 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What's Next for LLMs?
    ×0.56 87 | 4 points by apatheticonion 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Anyone still do work on Intel Macs?
    ×0.46 94 | 20 points by senor_digimon 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Best way to avoid bloat and AI – selfcontaining OS
    ×0.27 90 | 11 points by bialamusic 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Tell HN: Amazonbot aggressively scraping my website and ignoring robots.txt
    ×0.92 96 | 20 points by pera 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. What is the downside of coaching that I may not be seeing yet?
    ×0.44 110 | 5 points by ikut3hva 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: I still don't understand why AI agents need "skills"
    ×1.12 100 | 14 points by skeptic_ai 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: How are you using AI to learn?
    ×0.58 113 | 9 points by mfalcon 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What's Your BHAG?
    ×0.51 98 | 7 points by sudo_cowsay 23 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Do you ever think about the environmental impacts of the AI datacenters?
    ×1.14 39 | 3 points by roschdal 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: When will ChatGPT Voice be able to control my phone?
    ×0.19 | 2 points by spapas82 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Tell HN: HackerOne Announces Mandatory identity verification
    ×0.41 117 | 17 points by 0xmattf 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. What if we learned languages like we acquired our first?
    ×1.07 107 | 7 points by Salim_wariz 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Strategic Oil Reserves Down to a Record Low Two-Week Supply
    ×0.60 119 | 21 points by megamike 3 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. ask HN: How do I run Android 15 on a system with Andr 12 vendors?
    ×0.40 121 | 3 points by KinetiNode 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What did you learn last month? (July 2026)
    ×0.45 116 | 15 points by bhu1st 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. AI will always find a difference
    ×0.36 123 | 3 points by ghassenfaidi 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: How did your boss's behavior change with the rise of AI?
    ×0.42 122 | 8 points by aredirect 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Don't be a meat proxy (gruhn.me)
    ×5.54 1 #2 | 646 points by ngruhn 4 hours ago | 284 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Spider-Man: Brand New Day leak racks up millions of views (theverge.com)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by thm 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: AQ – a from-scratch 1B academic LLM by a 2-person team in India (huggingface.co)
    ×1.18 | 2 points by zyoraclub 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. I created a playground for 110 database systems (clickhouse.com)
    ×0.36 | 2 points by soheilpro 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. AI Is a Race Car, Not Autopilot (ryansouthgate.com)
    ×0.96 | 2 points by ry8806 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Testimonials.Free ~1 KB embed widget, zero layout shift (testimonials.free)
    ×0.37 | 2 points by nadermx 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Isopolis – Isometric pixel map of SF (isopolis.city)
    ×1.84 3 #9 | 227 points by nuwandavek 10 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. TinyNES Review – A Super Niche NES Console (lon.tv)
    ×0.86 46 #50 | 55 points by throwoutway 14 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Enshittification Relies on Broken Economic Math (hamiltonnolan.com)
    ×1.88 13 | 3 points by karakoram 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. On the non-use of AI in my writing process (antipope.org)
    ×2.69 63 | 130 points by jwx48 1 day ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: TamedTable, AI ETL in Natural Language (tamedtable.com)
    ×1.58 102 | 8 points by ZeljkoS 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library (github.com/janestreet)
    ×1.59 1 #4 | 52 points by KolmogorovComp 2 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. EU enforces labeling AI generated content (euronews.com)
    ×1.82 22 #39 | 6 points by nucatus 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Holocloth (holocloth.vercel.app)
    ×2.06 44 #54 | 188 points by ingve 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: New Parts for Old Computers (newold.computer)
    ×0.85 77 #72 | 4 points by joshu 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: An update to the random OS (windogeOS) (github.com/NoTheIdiot)
    ×0.34 | 2 points by notheidiot 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Why Book Corners won't sync contributions back to OpenStreetMap (andreagrandi.it)
    ×1.15 3 #22 | 103 points by pizzaiolo 10 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Developers are attached to tools because tools encode trust (stackoverflow.blog)
    ×1.51 12 #26 | 215 points by HieronymusBosch 18 hours ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: DeepFocus – A quiet digital workspace for doing one thing at a time (deepfocus.space)
    ×0.81 | 1 points by mike_watson 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Kuvu AI – Your All-in-One AI Creative Studio and Marketing Studio (kuvu.ai)
    ×1.01 | 2 points by longyuanpro 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. GitHub has alternatives, but no replacement (lalitm.com)
    ×2.37 73 | 87 points by lalitmaganti 1 day ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Social Hiking App (losttrail.app)
    ×1.10 108 | 3 points by lpeancovschi 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. How do you rewrite C/C++ projects to Rust? (jetbrains.com)
    ×0.85 5 #27 | 16 points by smokeeaasd 3 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Flock – Chilling Effects: Long Island's Emerging Open-Air Prison (11971.com)
    ×2.38 18 #57 | 60 points by mediaeater 13 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Implementing a Funding Rate Arbitrage Strategy with Minute-Level Backtesting (medium.com)
    ×0.89 9 | 3 points by yiweileng 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Plug-in solar is coming. Plug-in batteries should follow (regen.co.uk)
    ×2.19 42 | 99 points by thelastgallon 1 day ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Legionlinuxtui – Control Lenovo legion laptops in the terminal (github.com/nooneknowspeter)
    ×0.50 99 | 16 points by nooneknowspeter 4 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Aevros .... A kernel that explains itself (github.com/Mobeen0119)
    ×1.53 111 | 6 points by Mobeen0119 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Seedance 2.5 (bytedance.com)
    ×2.36 1 | 432 points by njaremko 1 day ago | 248 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. How the words we teach English language learners changed (pudding.cool)
    ×1.55 9 #35 | 221 points by c-oreills 19 hours ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Meshdiff – visually compare two STL versions in the browser, client-side (meshdiff.com)
    ×1.27 24 #47 | 191 points by projscope 23 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Ask HN: How do you call the "-" on a keyboard?
    ×0.66 | 1 points by Igor_Wiwi 21 minutes ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. GDP growth shows no evidence of AI productivity boom (cepr.net)
    ×2.71 57 | 4 points by konmok 50 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Implementing and Backtesting a Dynamic Grid Trading Strategy for Crypto (medium.com)
    ×2.60 41 | 4 points by napgirllll 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Steam Hardware and Software Survey: July 2026 (steampowered.com)
    ×2.01 17 | 4 points by uneven9434 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Napoleon (1926) (gutenberg.org)
    ×0.96 | 2 points by petethomas 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Microsoft raises Xbox prices by up to 43% (theverge.com)
    ×6.14 23 | 91 points by BlueBerry2001 15 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Bitcoin cold-wallet attack spreads to 4,500 addresses as losses near $89M (coindesk.com)
    ×3.45 31 | 58 points by rbanffy 12 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: MicroCodex Coding Agent – OpenAI/codex reimplemented in C++ <1MB binary (github.com/paoloanzn)
    ×0.73 49 | 19 points by paoloanzn 14 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Project ESPAÑOL: Find level-appropriate Spanish-language poems (dmerullo.github.io)
    ×0.89 88 | 3 points by us-merul 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. The AI Productivity Gap (bjornroche.com)
    ×2.06 7 #16 | 53 points by kiyanwang 3 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Shitty – fast terminal. Memory-unsafe and faster than yours (github.com/pg83)
    ×2.08 30 #52 | 143 points by pshirshov 11 hours ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: AI Visibility: Check whether ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini recommend your brand (aivisibility.pro)
    ×0.90 | 2 points by Baliy 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Fastmail offers EU data region (fastmail.com)
    ×2.93 9 | 6 points by jamesog 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. CISA Alert: Water Sector PLC Targeting (censys.com)
    ×1.06 65 | 93 points by speckx 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Has the New Cocaine Arrived? (playboy.substack.com)
    ×5.27 29 | 65 points by bookofjoe 21 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Distilling DeepSeek into GPT-OSS doesn't transfer censorship. Try it (ctgt.ai)
    ×1.22 92 | 167 points by cgorlla 3 days ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: My public second brain – 660 notes, 15 years, open source (ssp.sh)
    ×1.07 103 | 3 points by zazuke 15 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. AI Mentions in Job Descriptions – August 2026 (corvi.careers)
    ×0.44 90 #73 | 3 points by sp1982 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Street View Live Earth Map (google.com)
    ×1.14 | 2 points by satyampromotion 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Every Rendering Strategy Moves Complexity Somewhere Else [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.20 | 2 points by pierrephpguru 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Faster floating point math with Rust's new API (pythonspeed.com)
    ×0.93 23 | 3 points by birdculture 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Cro – elegant reactive services in Raku (raku.org)
    ×0.56 38 #49 | 22 points by giancarlostoro 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Apply for Small Open Source Sponsorships – Uruky (uruky.com)
    ×1.21 | 2 points by BrunoBernardino 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. True Cost of Cross-Border Payments: Correspondent Banking Myths vs. Reality (paybitz.io)
    ×1.21 | 2 points by PayBitz 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. MPs demand answers on Fujitsu's inclusion in lucrative frameworks (computerweekly.com)
    ×1.53 7 #15 | 18 points by latein 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Kakehashi – Experimental userspace to run macOS binaries on Linux ARM (github.com/wie-project)
    ×1.22 12 #23 | 222 points by vlad_kalinkin 18 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Police Surveillance Technology: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.41 1 | 5 points by jhonovich 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Linux desktop market share has hit over 10% in North America (reddit.com)
    ×5.82 21 | 178 points by dviola 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. YC founder asks desperate job seekers to tattoo themselves for an interview (sfstandard.com)
    ×8.50 54 | 114 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Kota – Bring AI agent CLIs into the same room (kota.place)
    ×0.88 | 2 points by chriswunan 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: We Fixed UniFi's Slow PPPoE Performance with PPPoE Half-Bridge (arcbox.dev)
    ×1.00 4 #20 | 10 points by uneven9434 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Note-Taking and Personal Knowledge Management (unattributed.cc)
    ×1.53 9 #24 | 206 points by surprisetalk 16 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. AI migrated legacy COBOL programs to Java, bugs included (arxiv.org)
    ×1.21 15 #34 | 68 points by felineflock 7 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Deterministic Core, Non-Deterministic Shell (outdata.net)
    ×1.16 | 2 points by LAC-Tech 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. A C++ toolchain from 357 bytes, in Bazel (fzakaria.com)
    ×0.95 | 2 points by ingve 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. PISIGuard: Protect your personal and sensitive info when you chat with AI (github.com/mohamed--abdel-maksoud)
    ×0.55 32 #11 | 6 points by mohamed_am83 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: An AI wrote and illustrated a book of fables about threads and packets (booyaka101.github.io)
    ×1.22 48 #80 | 6 points by Booyaka101 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???