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  1. Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers
    ×4.99 12 #16 | 154 points by stagas 3 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ianal: Woudl the Supreme Court reexamine right to privacy in public?
    ×1.15 43 | 4 points by Molitor5901 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What LLM subscription/provider to use with pi harness?
    ×0.50 | 2 points by vira28 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What is your favorite lightweight tool or CLI utility in 2026?
    ×0.61 79 | 19 points by pranav_tech26 23 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?
    ×1.14 62 | 82 points by simonebrunozzi 1 day ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. TrueMath – An open-source exact symbolic math tool
    ×0.17 91 | 3 points by SAWANs 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Where to learn software engineering fundamentals?
    ×0.53 76 | 6 points by mstank 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How would you market this service?
    ×0.45 108 | 4 points by dmzxnico 18 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: In your experience, what are sound conventions for e-ink UI development?
    ×0.99 113 | 217 points by BoxOfRain 1 week ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Alternative to Internet Archive
    ×0.64 99 | 17 points by earworms 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Privacy is an underrated advantage in Slack apps
    ×0.21 | 2 points by alance 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
    ×1.44 111 | 321 points by david927 1 week ago | 1190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Should hard-tech founders join a problem or technology-first PhD lab?
    ×0.24 131 | 13 points by misterballer 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Do you know of any company that went back to hand-written code?
    ×6.11 52 | 89 points by antipurist 10 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Does a human still review your code?
    ×0.46 144 | 10 points by stikit 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. How does an ARP Spoofing Attack work?
    ×0.20 149 | 6 points by emn4tor 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: When you sell your company, do you receive the money with a normal wire?
    ×0.37 128 | 5 points by supergilbert 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Great music selection without overthinking
    ×0.33 140 | 4 points by cr34t1ve 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What physical publication do you still buy?
    ×0.36 135 | 8 points by sergiotapia 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Tell HN: In 2021, there were 4.5 jobs per job seeker vs. 2.5 job seekers/job now
    ×0.57 151 | 11 points by ed_balls 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. OpenAI updates its Privacy Policy to include ads
    ×0.51 132 | 6 points by 1equalsequals1 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. AI in drug discovery – what it is, where we stand and the path forward (science.org)
    ×1.24 42 #39 | 178 points by AnodicElegy 1 day ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Show HN: Kadō – open-source habit tracker for iOS (github.com/scastiel)
    ×1.09 55 | 4 points by scastiel 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Show HN: Widen, a native Postgres GUI using Apple's on-device LLM (github.com/betocmn)
    ×2.59 89 | 8 points by thedreammachine 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Guiding Ships with Moire Patterns (2018) (tinkerings.org)
    ×1.07 42 #38 | 106 points by Eridanus2 19 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: Eigendrum - Draw any shape and hear what it sounds like as a drum (baselashraf81.github.io)
    ×1.68 15 #89 | 234 points by BaselAshraf81 1 day ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. The Best pattern is the one you can understand (hank.bond)
    ×2.12 50 | 3 points by hankbond 26 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Mcptoon – Token-efficient MCP CLI client (github.com/activeing123)
    ×0.59 139 | 73 points by mcptokensaver 5 days ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Suspecting court of using AI, man injected prompts in filings to try to win case (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.99 60 | 78 points by jnord 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: AletheionAGI – Grounding enforcement for AI agents (aletheionagi.com)
    ×0.33 153 | 5 points by felipemayamuniz 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Qwen 3.8 27B (huggingface.co)
    ×5.13 6 #54 | 1403 points by erdaltoprak 2 days ago | 783 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist (conic.al)
    ×1.97 4 #88 | 385 points by rdl 1 day ago | 182 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: GitFC – Turn your GitHub profile into a football card (gitfc.vercel.app)
    ×0.87 | 1 points by Shreyashh15 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Congress Might Give ICE the Power to Go After Shoplifters (theintercept.com)
    ×1.28 | 2 points by Jimmc414 31 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. AI Stock Research Assistant · Streamlit (streamlit.app)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by KiaanKothari 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. The Iran War Is a Whole New Level of Quagmire for the US (politico.com)
    ×13.29 20 | 82 points by hebelehubele 15 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Needle2: 14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, smart home and robots (cactuscompute.com)
    ×2.42 93 | 531 points by HenryNdubuaku 6 days ago | 182 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Protobuf has LSP support. You're welcome (buf.build)
    ×1.55 4 #4 | 53 points by theanonymousone 2 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. The deep history behind the Road to Nowhere inside the Great Smoky Mountains (wunc.org)
    ×0.59 30 #24 | 17 points by yareally 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. BriskDB (github.com/schapman1974)
    ×1.13 52 | 47 points by schapman1974 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Flynt.js – 2.2kb, zero-build, CSP-safe reactivity library for MPAs (github.com/marsbos)
    ×0.57 | 2 points by bosmarcel 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Silent Shark – tactical map-based WWII submarine sim (silentshark.app)
    ×1.17 69 | 77 points by epaga 4 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Mininote: Instant, plain-text note taking without tracking or lock-in (mininote.ink)
    ×2.90 114 | 23 points by helba-ai 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: HN Without AI Stories (readpipe.org)
    ×3.13 116 | 9 points by zorked 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 control rods drop into core (wptv.com)
    ×1.56 5 #10 | 125 points by toomuchtodo 6 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Deltix – AI Driven Testing (deltix.ai)
    ×0.81 82 | 52 points by oneounceman 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Brazilian election filter in X For You timeline (github.com/xai-org)
    ×1.19 68 | 48 points by LorenDB 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Ballet – Workflow automation that writes integrations against any API (ballet.dev)
    ×0.52 134 | 36 points by danielkimber 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. At-home test for infected ticks could improve Lyme Disease diagnosis (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×1.44 16 #60 | 288 points by gmays 1 day ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Building scalable back end apps in Swift (theswiftdev.com)
    ×0.83 | 1 points by frizlab 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. RISC-V: They should have known better (dmitry.gr)
    ×2.71 43 | 174 points by kaycebasques 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Could a computer scientist build a brain? (stankerstjens.github.io)
    ×1.20 38 | 84 points by ogundipeore 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Low-Tech Ceramic Water Filter (lowtechlab.org)
    ×1.14 14 #7 | 26 points by Bluestein 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. What I Learned Securing Sniffnet with the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund (sniffnet.app)
    ×0.26 61 #46 | 15 points by dmit 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better (dmitry.gr)
    ×2.23 5 #68 | 368 points by dmitrygr 1 day ago | 422 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Stripe Nears Deal to Buy AI Firm OpenRouter for over $7B (bloomberglaw.com)
    ×5.01 60 | 8 points by kgwgk 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: RAGless – similar to RAG, but $0 LLM API costs at runtime (github.com/EmilResearch)
    ×2.23 154 | 6 points by emilianoc 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. The AI Credit Resale Economy (vectoral.com)
    ×1.70 4 #6 | 188 points by mlenhard 6 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Concise Stock Market Research – Instant Revenue Forecasting (alphaedge.web.app)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by mfh423 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: A pre-execution guard that stops AI agents running destructive commands (github.com/vandith1)
    ×1.88 56 | 5 points by andevandith 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Back In Time 2.0.0 – Release Candidate 1 (github.com/bit-team)
    ×2.90 118 | 7 points by buhtz 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: iPhone app takes simultaneous images from 2 lenses, fuses into 1 photo (photosynthesis.camera)
    ×1.94 95 | 328 points by sajomes 1 week ago | 304 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Genosyn – Automate running of companies with AI (genosyn.com)
    ×1.04 155 | 4 points by ndhandala 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. The Case Against Formal Verification, 50 Years Later (ivan-gavran.github.io)
    ×1.08 5 #1 | 21 points by ghuntley 39 minutes ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. If Apple sends you a push notification about a spyware attack, take it seriously (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.87 49 | 7 points by jethronethro 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Bede Liu, a digital signal processing pioneer, has died (ieee.org)
    ×0.95 18 | 74 points by Jimmc414 23 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Stratum – Rate books, films, and music to find users with similar taste (joinstratum.app)
    ×1.19 129 | 3 points by jeffreyjinyang 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Procedural Generated Grafitti Wall (procgrafprot.vercel.app)
    ×2.33 148 | 7 points by whtspc64 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. The weekend is 100 years old (theguardian.com)
    ×3.02 7 #19 | 149 points by lentil_soup 5 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. The AI store manager fired its first human (thenextweb.com)
    ×1.73 12 #56 | 10 points by datakan 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Zapping Rocks Unlocks Stimulated Geologic Hydrogen (ieee.org)
    ×0.47 72 #59 | 28 points by adm4 18 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Why compute might get 10x+ more expensive in coming years (dwarkesh.com)
    ×1.35 | 2 points by rzk 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. ChatGPT's Computer History tracks your clicks and keystrokes (theverge.com)
    ×1.15 | 2 points by sbulaev 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Fixing optical computing jitter via fluid dynamics in GPU registers (github.com/PJHkorea)
    ×0.15 97 | 5 points by PJHkorea 1 week ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: PyScrappy, self-healing web scraping selectors plus an MCP server (github.com/mldsveda)
    ×1.04 66 #58 | 17 points by vedaant00 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: PageSieve, a web scraping browser extension (julius383.github.io)
    ×1.05 80 | 3 points by kajm 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Artifex - Graph Based GPU Harness for AI Agents (gatewai.studio)
    ×0.94 150 | 7 points by oknaslnkn 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Superconducting monolayer cuprate with a single CuO2 plane (nature.com)
    ×0.62 29 #33 | 60 points by sbulaev 12 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. How wave overhangs work [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.27 | 2 points by hakonjdjohnsen 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. You can just choose how many bugs you want now (nolanlawson.com)
    ×1.08 | 2 points by headalgorithm 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Credit card debt rises to $1.26T, nearing all-time record (abc7.com)
    ×4.55 19 | 63 points by lxm 21 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Ember – Redshift safe color palettes (github.com/carpdiem)
    ×1.12 71 | 112 points by carpdiem 1 week ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Every MUNI, BART and Caltrain in SF on a Live Map (github.com/UtpalJayNadiger)
    ×2.72 96 | 11 points by iacguy 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities (z.ai)
    ×4.45 16 #69 | 1151 points by pella 2 days ago | 570 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. "That's not SOC 2 compliant" (ampcode.com)
    ×2.18 81 | 52 points by tosh 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Harness session memory without transcript hoarding (llm-wiki.net)
    ×1.62 77 | 4 points by nvk 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Ante, a coding agent in a single binary that runs offline (github.com/AntigmaLabs)
    ×1.14 117 | 168 points by ubermon 6 days ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Git-knife – Edit commit messages, authors, and dates like a spreadsheet (github.com/TheRealYT)
    ×1.04 110 | 166 points by YonathanTesfaye 5 days ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Emacs canvas patch is on master (gnu.org)
    ×2.20 38 #81 | 11 points by iLemming 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Wildfire alert backfires as public blocks all government warnings (telegraph.co.uk)
    ×2.39 9 #84 | 10 points by josephcsible 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???