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Ask HN: How do you go from writing code to deploying with agents?

×0.49 2 | 7 points by sakuraiben 5 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What is your database size

×0.23 | 2 points by kureikain 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The State of Google

×0.42 | 2 points by 3dedb728-3f77 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Why is Open POWER Foundation a wasteland?

×0.69 37 | 5 points by climate_denier_ 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Is Ask HN Shrinking?

×0.51 55 | 15 points by keiferski 16 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)

×0.72 100 | 159 points by whoishiring 5 days ago | 517 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What can I do with a single R9700?

×0.21 86 | 4 points by scott01 15 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How AI is breaking the British State

×1.67 36 | 5 points by andsoitis 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)

×0.99 92 | 233 points by whoishiring 5 days ago | 308 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: In your experience, what are sound conventions for e-ink UI development?

×0.43 | 2 points by BoxOfRain 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DeepSeek announced to raise its API price tremendously

×0.45 110 | 30 points by alexwwang 3 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Laguna S 2.1:118B-a9B better than Qwen3.5:122B-a10B? So far, yes

×0.17 150 | 4 points by spottedmarley 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Did GitHub remove the stargazers list?

×0.64 130 | 27 points by reconnecting 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What is a good advice for someone looking to fractional hire a team?

×0.10 134 | 5 points by vanessa1211 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Read HN twice a day for the last decade. Here's my list of S-Tier HN links

×2.43 90 | 110 points by vivzkestrel 3 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours (daringfireball.net)

×5.58 23 | 340 points by _da_ 1 day ago | 219 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The web server deployment model breaks at hobby scale (on-t.work)

×1.34 67 | 63 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded (nixos.org)

×2.75 19 #71 | 389 points by Meleagris 1 day ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Proxy-or-Not, Proxy Detector (arcades.click)

×0.46 | 1 points by jwally 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Pokémon Emerald Ported to Raspberry Pi Pico 2 (github.com/mattdeeds)

×0.79 83 | 55 points by mdeeds 2 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Modern Browsers Don't Need the Cookie Anymore (kuber.studio)

×3.06 131 | 23 points by kuberwastaken 3 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Switzerland is a neutral nation but has more nuclear bunkers than any country (npr.org)

×2.36 13 | 16 points by andsoitis 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Flesh Eating Bacteria Kills 5 in Louisiana (nytimes.com)

×2.66 11 #81 | 12 points by jihadjihad 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
SSI says that they are going to come out with their model in August (twitter.com/zephyr_z9)

×1.28 10 #86 | 5 points by nsoonhui 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ms. Tippi Hedren – The Godmother of the Vietnamese Nail Industry (vietnamesemuseum.org)

×1.14 | 2 points by thunderbong 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Waits: Arthur Samuel's Checkers (timereshared.com)

×0.91 | 2 points by abrax3141 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I won't read LLM authored fiction (mccormick.cx)

×3.39 69 | 72 points by chr15m 1 day ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
USA Today Co., partners with Palantir to analyze audience data (niemanlab.org)

×2.30 21 | 191 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
“Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers (senko.net)

×5.78 24 #31 | 650 points by senko 14 hours ago | 402 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments (mezha.net)

×3.33 30 #33 | 548 points by theanonymousone 11 hours ago | 249 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Europe's free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires (arstechnica.com)

×1.96 10 #69 | 153 points by 01-_- 19 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
UV printer copies 3D objects (Strange Parts) [video] (youtube.com)

×0.48 | 1 points by consumer451 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Amphorae Found at 2,100-Year-Old Roman Shipwreck Off Sicily (ancientist.com)

×0.95 | 2 points by inatreecrown2 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Finding zombies in our systems: A real-world story of CPU bottlenecks (medium.com)

×0.48 20 #17 | 36 points by fagnerbrack 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Six Little Lines of Fail [video] (youtube.com)

×1.91 1 | 4 points by ruckfool 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Mermaid flowcharts you don't have to redraw in a diagram editor (line9.ai)

×0.71 144 | 3 points by jumpalongjim 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Pomona, offline small AI reasoners for agricultural sensors (github.com/okyanu)

×0.50 | 1 points by okyanu 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ready set march: Researchers use math to explain sudden activity bursts in ants (nyu.edu)

×1.45 40 | 3 points by hhs 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Maryland Closes More of Cunningham Falls State Park After Second Beaver Attack (maryland.gov)

×1.49 72 | 103 points by bookofjoe 8 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The phone book that led us to Assad's spy chief in hiding (bbc.com)

×1.48 12 #22 | 41 points by cwwc 3 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Voyager 1 FDS Computer Emulator (zaneham.github.io)

×0.75 28 #37 | 81 points by rahen 15 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
NASA Wildfire Tracker – Real-time satellite feeds and microclimate risk modeling (streamlit.app)

×0.75 | 1 points by ClimateDev 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MRMS Renderer – Open-Source NOAA MRMS Radar Renderer for Python (github.com/Taylor-Creative-Development)

×0.47 | 1 points by davidtaylorjr 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Qwen3.8-Max – Use Qwen Studio and MCP to Code Locally for Free (github.com/tohid4n)

×1.10 | 2 points by tohid4n 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Clippy for macOS – retro floating paperclip with computer use (github.com/Ar9av)

×1.53 56 | 8 points by noobcoder 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Artificial Intelligence used to design new viruses (bbc.co.uk)

×2.01 80 | 55 points by CaRDiaK 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Modern C++ Build Tools for Module Feature (github.com/mcpp-community)

×0.53 102 | 7 points by sunrisepeak 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Kakehashi – Experimental userspace to run macOS binaries on Linux ARM (github.com/wie-project)

×1.27 99 | 253 points by vlad_kalinkin 6 days ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Building a local positioning system to track runners using Ultra-Wideband (ugent.be)

×0.88 25 #21 | 56 points by robinpdev 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones (deepmind.google)

×2.32 9 #35 | 403 points by bhavansig 20 hours ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Sqnc.run – a live cipher stream inspired by number stations (sqnc.run)

×0.47 | 1 points by nee_oo_ru 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Zohran Mamdani's NYC Tech Team Is What DOGE Should Have Been (wired.com)

×7.52 58 | 71 points by gorbachev 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Akintu – AI agents trained on custom knowledge bases using RAG (akintu.ai)

×0.84 149 | 3 points by Sharanxxxx 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK (dealroom.co)

×3.01 15 #75 | 524 points by delduca 1 day ago | 379 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
LA Freeway (Long's to Arapaho Traverse) (mountainproject.com)

×0.47 | 1 points by mooreds 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Anyone that has built a marketplace, what has been your experience?

×1.02 | 2 points by mfisc_019 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Model Genome: Fingerprinting Whether an LLM Was Trained from Scratch or Derived (huggingface.co)

×0.95 | 2 points by prof_ai_cn 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Open-source pixel art editor with animation and auto-tiling tilesets (simplepixelart.com)

×2.55 128 | 8 points by lam_hg94 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
_for-sale DNS records (specification.website)

×2.00 7 #11 | 373 points by shaunpud 15 hours ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Should you stop cracking your knuckles? (bbc.com)

×1.61 5 #30 | 35 points by tchalla 6 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Monitors for Work (coker.com.au)

×1.38 36 #84 | 80 points by edward 12 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Aftermath of Catastrophic Fires in Spokane (kuow.org)

×2.21 9 | 4 points by andsoitis 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Adults over 65 will outnumber children by 2029 (eco3min.fr)

×4.53 49 | 92 points by brandonb 1 day ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: VD – TUI Password Manager and OTP Authenticator for Unix (github.com/ahmedhosssam)

×1.13 60 | 3 points by ahmedhosssam 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones (toneyalexander.github.io)

×2.25 63 | 623 points by automatoney 4 days ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Check if any of the $656M in unclaimed royalties at The MLC is yours (doub.ly)

×0.34 | 2 points by knaught 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled (shopify.engineering)

×2.57 4 #5 | 120 points by adletbalzhanov 6 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Making difficulty curves in games (davetech.co.uk)

×1.43 9 #13 | 88 points by hakkikonu 8 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Iceberg Collapses and Flips over in Ilulissat, Greenland (July 25, 2026) [video] (youtube.com)

×3.24 11 | 212 points by Bender 1 day ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sensitive Info Goes into 'No Reply' Emails Constantly. This Guy Sees It All (wired.com)

×1.63 | 41 points by sbulaev 15 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Generative "AI": The Guitar Hero of Creativity (scalzi.com)

×2.60 82 | 36 points by cheeaun 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
China overtakes US to lead global R&D spending, hitting $615B (nikkei.com)

×4.46 33 | 12 points by yogthos 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
8 Out of 10 Banks in Belgium Hate This One Weird EID RCE (amibeingpwned.com)

×0.96 64 #57 | 13 points by Doohickey-d 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: OpsCart – Read-only Kubernetes triage with incident history (github.com/opscart)

×0.43 | 2 points by opscart 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Comprehensive Guide to InnoDB Locking (jahfer.com)

×0.86 | 2 points by shay_ker 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI psychosis is the new leadership blind spot (fastcompany.com)

×5.06 31 | 172 points by rwmj 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: File-based HTTP endpoints for Python with its own isolated dependencies (github.com/tanrax)

×0.38 136 | 5 points by andros 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Sign language translation with smart glasses (github.com/aadisang)

×0.65 52 | 25 points by aadisang 4 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Remembrane – agent memory in one SQLite file, zero dependencies (github.com/satyasairay)

×1.42 112 | 11 points by satyasairay 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face (simonwillison.net)

×2.80 15 #38 | 380 points by 882542F3884314B 18 hours ago | 368 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ao486: x86-compatible Verilog core implementing all features of a 486 SX (2014) (github.com/alfikpl)

×0.71 67 #46 | 69 points by csmantle 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Guarded Methods in OCaml (2025) (xvw.lol)

×0.80 56 #80 | 84 points by birdculture 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mythos social engineering AISI INC-2026-07-28-01 (archive.org)

×2.18 18 | 81 points by dnnehgf 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Depression has tripled in the last 15 years. Arthur Brooks about the cause (bigthink.com)

×3.27 62 | 35 points by lschueller 6 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Which devtools win when LLMs plan real web apps (preseason.ai)

×1.35 141 | 4 points by thedreammachine 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did (theverge.com)

×3.75 40 #90 | 179 points by eternalreturn 19 hours ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Termdom: Build terminal apps with HTML, CSS and the DOM (github.com/bikeshaving)

×1.71 | 2 points by thunderbong 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Kalshi and Polymarket bets on clinical trials criticized as 'ghastly' (npr.org)

×2.53 76 | 57 points by 1659447091 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: ClickBench Playground – a playground for 110 database systems (clickhouse.com)

×0.80 129 | 21 points by zX41ZdbW 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Moscow Is Speaking [video] (youtube.com)

×0.47 | 1 points by consumer451 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???