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  1. Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
    ×1.52 | 2 points by sarreph 14 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Anyone still do work on Intel Macs?
    ×0.48 83 | 19 points by senor_digimon 22 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Best way to avoid bloat and AI – selfcontaining OS
    ×0.30 59 | 11 points by bialamusic 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What's Your BHAG?
    ×0.60 77 | 7 points by sudo_cowsay 10 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: Amazonbot aggressively scraping my website and ignoring robots.txt
    ×0.99 92 | 19 points by pera 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. What is the downside of coaching that I may not be seeing yet?
    ×0.43 93 | 4 points by ikut3hva 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: I still don't understand why AI agents need "skills"
    ×1.33 89 | 14 points by skeptic_ai 22 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: When will ChatGPT Voice be able to control my phone?
    ×0.23 | 2 points by spapas82 13 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. What if we learned languages like we acquired our first?
    ×1.32 87 | 7 points by Salim_wariz 14 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: How are you using AI to learn?
    ×0.57 112 | 8 points by mfalcon 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Created a network that combines Hacker News and geniuses at one place
    ×0.44 | 2 points by silisleek 15 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. ask HN: How do I run Android 15 on a system with Andr 12 vendors?
    ×0.53 116 | 3 points by KinetiNode 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Tell HN: HackerOne Announces Mandatory identity verification
    ×0.42 130 | 17 points by 0xmattf 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. AI will always find a difference
    ×0.40 139 | 3 points by ghassenfaidi 21 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What did you learn last month? (July 2026)
    ×0.43 127 | 14 points by bhu1st 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Strategic Oil Reserves Down to a Record Low Two-Week Supply
    ×0.55 148 | 19 points by megamike 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Best Blogging Platform?
    ×0.89 124 | 5 points by asxndu 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Everything that happens in a US airport is under duress
    ×0.52 137 | 16 points by dfps 2 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Which web browser has no AI?
    ×0.74 108 | 10 points by lilerjee 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: How did your boss's behavior change with the rise of AI?
    ×0.44 136 | 8 points by aredirect 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Should organizations be allowed to have all types of personl data(X.com)
    ×0.59 143 | 4 points by dfps 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: When did we go from agentic loops to graphs?
    ×0.51 145 | 4 points by grandimam 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Am I the only one getting so many cursor ads?
    ×0.98 109 | 3 points by alexander2002 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. A daily estimation game where the crowd's answer fights an AI
    ×0.66 | 2 points by holdthelineworl 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Wyro – Draw a backend on a canvas, export TypeScript with no lock-in
    ×0.28 144 | 5 points by Paaul01 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: When a post of yours does well, do you know why?
    ×0.31 153 | 5 points by john_builds 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: How do you make people notice the cameras watching them?
    ×1.14 115 | 3 points by bogomil 15 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Bor – Open-source policy management for Linux desktops (getbor.dev)
    ×1.26 15 #29 | 161 points by eniac111 13 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Tlbic: Expanded appendix on AI dialogue, plus a note on shared human wisdom (google.com)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by michikawa59 25 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. A week in Matrix (piegames.de)
    ×1.78 81 | 88 points by Kesseki 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Coldcard wallet RNG flaw likely linked to $88M Bitcoin theft (bleepingcomputer.com)
    ×0.84 | 1 points by sbulaev 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Plug-in solar is coming. Plug-in batteries should follow (regen.co.uk)
    ×2.17 10 | 96 points by thelastgallon 19 hours ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. BMW Is Showing Commercials on Their Car's Dash Screens as a Treat (theautopian.com)
    ×5.90 55 | 92 points by CharlesW 1 day ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Google cancels AI Studio app after 800k preorders (twitter.com/GoogleAIStudio)
    ×4.64 71 | 49 points by BlueBerry2001 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Kedge – Full-stack cloud with forkable VM snapshots and global SQLite (kedge.dev)
    ×1.10 100 | 137 points by wgjordan 4 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. TinyNES Review – A Super Niche NES Console (lon.tv)
    ×0.78 54 #25 | 5 points by throwoutway 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. RosaicLabs, Atom RTL, and 32-Tile AMX: Trying to Piece Together a x86 Puzzle (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×0.88 86 #38 | 4 points by rbanffy 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Baltram/seednaut: Inspect, verify and extract files from Seedvault backups (github.com/Baltram)
    ×0.87 | 2 points by theandrewbailey 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Anime User Interfaces (tumblr.com)
    ×4.69 6 | 193 points by akyuu 23 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Explorative modeling: Train on the best of K guesses (alexiglad.github.io)
    ×0.86 51 | 108 points by DSemba 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. When random.bytes() runs but doesn't work (btcpp.dev)
    ×1.15 19 | 91 points by Funes- 20 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Oil companies report sky-high profits thanks to wartime crude prices (npr.org)
    ×3.83 64 | 60 points by speckx 1 day ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: TamedTable, AI ETL in Natural Language (tamedtable.com)
    ×1.60 85 | 8 points by ZeljkoS 14 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Diátaxis (diataxis.fr)
    ×2.76 5 #59 | 514 points by ryanseys 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Doxy – a browser Markdown and HTML editor (like Overleaf but no LaTeX) (trydoxy.com)
    ×1.04 | 2 points by iliesw 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Having fun with oh my pi, DeepSeek-V4-Flash, GPT-5.6 Luna and Antigravity CLI (flashblaze.xyz)
    ×1.23 78 #48 | 10 points by flashblaze 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Elena, a library for building Progressive Web Components (elenajs.com)
    ×0.99 59 #57 | 71 points by brianzelip 18 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. German carmakers flood jobs market with managers after wielding axe (ft.com)
    ×2.37 64 #81 | 34 points by JumpCrisscross 2 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. RipGrep musl binaries occasionally segfault during very-large searches (github.com/BurntSushi)
    ×1.60 18 | 278 points by throwaway2037 1 day ago | 193 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. The Art of 64-bit Assembly (nostarch.com)
    ×1.34 23 | 230 points by 0x54MUR41 1 day ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: An interactive in-browser tutorial for MarkoJS V6 with solvable lessons (markojs-tutorial.netlify.app)
    ×0.52 | 2 points by defunkt-dev 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: SmokeVPN – All-in-One WireGuard VPN Hub – Switch Exits in Realtime (smokevpn.com)
    ×1.46 149 | 8 points by lobito25 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Unified API for wearable and health data at 1/25th of Terra's price (stridee.fit)
    ×0.55 | 2 points by alvaromolina0 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. 'Crush this lady': how eBay harassment campaign led to $56M payout (ft.com)
    ×5.88 14 #15 | 108 points by JumpCrisscross 2 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Fasttracker II clone in C using SDL 2 (16-bits.org)
    ×1.44 21 #19 | 107 points by andsoitis 9 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. I built a prompt injection detector using only Go's standard library (towardsdev.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by cheikhdev 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Mission High leads California in UC Berkeley admissions. But many don't graduate (sfstandard.com)
    ×1.05 | 2 points by donsupreme 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. BMW Spider-Man in-car advertising (consumerrights.wiki)
    ×6.32 44 | 241 points by goplayoutside 1 day ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. CISA Alert: Water Sector PLC Targeting (censys.com)
    ×1.05 46 | 92 points by speckx 1 day ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Microsoft raises Xbox prices by up to 43% (theverge.com)
    ×5.33 83 | 74 points by BlueBerry2001 3 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. SHOW HN: Substantial update to UK train mapping (trainmap.co.uk)
    ×1.97 98 | 4 points by optionalltd 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: NixOS-DGX-Spark – Nix and NixOS on the DGX Spark (github.com/graham33)
    ×1.05 11 #7 | 77 points by graham33 5 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Glyphs 4 – the leading Mac font editor (glyphsapp.com)
    ×1.02 66 #77 | 95 points by microflash 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Bill Watterson: A Cartoonist's Advice (zenpencils.com)
    ×2.99 16 #84 | 7 points by mixmastamyk 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Metropolis 1998 (itch.io)
    ×2.19 5 #85 | 9 points by doener 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Arm's Cortex A55 (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×2.14 | 2 points by pella 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. GestãO de Carteiras E Ativos (Brazilian Project) (zeca.app.br)
    ×0.98 | 2 points by selic 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Wikimedia Foundation refuses union recognition, hires union-busting law firm (wikipedia.org)
    ×6.18 75 | 312 points by akolbe 10 hours ago | 296 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Fuse – statically typed functional programming language (fuselang.org)
    ×1.20 20 #30 | 99 points by the_unproven 10 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Linux on ESP32 (github.com/GrieferPig)
    ×1.09 65 #79 | 125 points by boveyking 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. How to Exist (raptitude.com)
    ×2.57 37 | 390 points by walterbell 1 day ago | 235 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Top amputation surgeon had own legs removed due to fetish. Were patients safe? (theguardian.com)
    ×6.73 61 | 62 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Distilling DeepSeek into GPT-OSS doesn't transfer censorship. Try it (ctgt.ai)
    ×1.21 91 | 166 points by cgorlla 3 days ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Documan – AI Powered Requirement Management Workspace (github.com/bbayer)
    ×1.41 105 | 3 points by bbayer 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. The Rise of Million-Dollar Companies with Just One Employee (wsj.com)
    ×2.41 7 #64 | 28 points by paulpauper 5 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Schmess – chess with no turns; pieces freeze on cooldown after moving (schmess.com)
    ×1.00 | 2 points by navalsaini 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Legionlinuxtui – Control Lenovo legion laptops in the terminal (github.com/nooneknowspeter)
    ×0.50 90 | 16 points by nooneknowspeter 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. My personal AI benchmark: "Generate an SVG of a frog with a Habsburg jaw." (vaguespac.es)
    ×1.87 3 #4 | 57 points by thebigship 2 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023) (openrss.org)
    ×3.79 14 #72 | 595 points by pudgywalsh 1 day ago | 230 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Tell HN: On the Boardwalk
    ×1.73 10 | 3 points by kmstout 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Estimating Fable and Sol model sizes (twitter.com/anpaure)
    ×3.49 46 | 7 points by grahamsfde 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: My public second brain – 660 notes, 15 years, open source (ssp.sh)
    ×0.74 | 2 points by zazuke 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. IBM i (OS/400) the Database Operating System (osadmins.com)
    ×1.45 22 | 49 points by naves 15 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Minimal LLM Post-Training Experiments on an 8GB GPU (SFT, DPO, GRPO) (github.com/pochenai)
    ×0.79 102 | 21 points by popopanda 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Peter Principle (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.68 6 #78 | 12 points by num42 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Games at the press of a button: The Rip-O-Bot (1989) (gingerbeardman.com)
    ×0.98 | 2 points by msephton 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. How to Do Great Work (2023) (paulgraham.com)
    ×1.30 74 | 89 points by tosh 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: I built a free Open Graph image designer (mosaicora.io)
    ×1.76 131 | 4 points by d-atanasov 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. EU Age Verification Project Mandates Hardware-Bound Attestation (linuxiac.com)
    ×5.37 14 #16 | 47 points by RobotToaster 1 hour ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. The Myth of Snow Leopard (rubenerd.au)
    ×1.88 25 #24 | 19 points by speckx 3 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???