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  1. Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?
    ×1.48 23 #57 | 58 points by simonebrunozzi 9 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: When you sell your company, do you receive the money with a normal wire?
    ×0.79 14 | 3 points by supergilbert 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Alternative to Internet Archive
    ×1.00 21 #76 | 11 points by earworms 5 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Great music selection without overthinking
    ×0.58 12 | 3 points by cr34t1ve 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. OpenAI updates its Privacy Policy to include ads
    ×0.38 80 | 3 points by 1equalsequals1 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What physical publication do you still buy?
    ×0.26 99 | 5 points by sergiotapia 14 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: In your experience, what are sound conventions for e-ink UI development?
    ×0.98 110 | 214 points by BoxOfRain 1 week ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Should hard-tech founders join a problem or technology-first PhD lab?
    ×0.22 100 | 11 points by misterballer 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. How does an ARP Spoofing Attack work?
    ×0.22 106 | 6 points by emn4tor 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Does a human still review your code?
    ×0.49 107 | 9 points by stikit 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Live Experiment of the Veblen Effect
    ×0.50 128 | 5 points by henryfudgeoffic 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
    ×1.44 109 | 320 points by david927 5 days ago | 1183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Do you know how much head hunters cost?
    ×0.60 134 | 5 points by mojomark 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What are you building with Mojo lang?
    ×0.25 | 2 points by maxchisto 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Tell HN: In 2021, there were 4.5 jobs per job seeker vs. 2.5 job seekers/job now
    ×0.64 144 | 11 points by ed_balls 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Need Help Learning Assembly
    ×0.60 131 | 4 points by kilyo 21 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What should I know before hosting eprints?
    ×0.42 145 | 3 points by logicallee 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. New DeepSeek Pricing Published (Peak and Off-Peak)
    ×0.29 146 | 5 points by mittermayr 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What are your unfinished projects?
    ×0.26 152 | 3 points by adam_gyroscope 23 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Kakehashi Update: Running Apple Clang build and lowering overhead to 1.24x
    ×0.34 155 | 3 points by vlad_kalinkin 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Why not expand accessibility laws to include the right to use AI?
    ×0.24 | 2 points by amichail 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: What's the AI Revolution "Model T Ford"?
    ×0.47 160 | 3 points by ComputerPerson 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: How much money do you spend monthly on subscriptions for AI models?
    ×0.34 136 | 13 points by marko-djuric 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Does AI watermarking present a new attack vector?
    ×0.30 148 | 4 points by nathanfig 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Paper on Architecture for AI-Assisted Software Development (arxiv.org)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by puuush 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. S.A.T.U.R.D.A.Y: serf-hosted speech to text AI assistant (github.com/GRVYDEV)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by soupspaces 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. I want extern "fil-C" (domenkozar.com)
    ×1.64 76 | 72 points by domenkozar 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Geometric Reasoning (sophontic.ai)
    ×0.63 19 #53 | 10 points by 6510 4 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. RISC-V: They should have known better (dmitry.gr)
    ×2.78 55 | 169 points by kaycebasques 16 hours ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. JDK 27 G1/Parallel/Serial GC Changes (tschatzl.github.io)
    ×1.04 88 | 67 points by 0x54MUR41 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Bloxwap – The Easiest Way to Trade (bloxwap.com)
    ×0.93 118 | 3 points by joeblau 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. GenRec: Towards LLM-Native Recommendation at Netflix (netflixtechblog.com)
    ×0.85 84 | 29 points by Anon84 2 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Using GCC's Nested Functions with Wide Pointers and No Trampolines II (uecker.codeberg.page)
    ×0.86 16 #12 | 49 points by uecker 7 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. GLM-5.3 – The Official Desktop Auditor for Z.AI's Cyber-Engine (github.com/ZAI-GLM-5-3)
    ×1.99 2 | 3 points by nioj 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Getting review comments out of Overleaf, and into the PDF (github.com/Mangluu)
    ×1.66 129 | 4 points by manglu 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Choose Boring Technology (2015) (mcfunley.com)
    ×2.38 22 | 423 points by tosh 1 day ago | 241 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Agentic Task Management (github.com/myaa2913)
    ×1.67 127 | 4 points by mcorrito 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Kubernetes on Oxide: How customer needs shaped our integrations (oxide.computer)
    ×1.23 65 | 197 points by stevehipwell 2 days ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Solid 2.0 RC: The Big <Reveal> (solidjs.com)
    ×3.19 82 | 79 points by GavinAnderegg 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Coin-sized device can hack a Boeing 737 (wired.com)
    ×1.45 8 #32 | 118 points by _tk_ 10 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. As speed cameras spread to more states, so does the backlash from drivers (npr.org)
    ×1.26 | 2 points by thehoff 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Debian has begun voting on the future of AI/LLM contributions (debian.org)
    ×3.04 71 #86 | 60 points by matheusmoreira 6 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. 'Not acceptable': Judge orders Google to make rival app store installs easier (theverge.com)
    ×4.53 66 | 109 points by Jimmc414 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Study links coffee consumption to metabolic health and sex hormones (oulu.fi)
    ×1.91 20 | 68 points by _____k 18 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Agent-shell – vendor-neutral chat with AI agents in Emacs (xenodium.com)
    ×1.44 49 | 3 points by xenodium 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Writergate: Zig I/O Interface Overhaul (alexrios.me)
    ×1.38 4 #2 | 20 points by signa11 1 hour ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: A website for exploring historical photographs of my city (maprva.org)
    ×0.54 65 #56 | 27 points by uneekname 13 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Back In Time 2.0.0 – Release Candidate 1 (github.com/bit-team)
    ×2.08 4 | 4 points by buhtz 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: HN Without AI Stories (readpipe.org)
    ×2.32 57 | 6 points by zorked 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: I serve my website with a swarm of ESP32 microcontrollers on a shelf (github.com/Novotarskyi)
    ×1.64 93 | 5 points by disco_jack 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. AI Model Atlas – visualizing populations of ML models as interconnected 3D graph (cosmograph.app)
    ×0.70 75 #69 | 63 points by bj-rn 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Generating Quantum Entanglement from Sunlight (optica.org)
    ×1.98 9 | 3 points by bookofjoe 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Architectural Sins: Why We Keep Making Them and How We Can Stop (youtube.com)
    ×1.21 | 2 points by aoma_conference 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Visually Precise AI Tutoring on iOS (useknowable.ai)
    ×2.30 36 | 4 points by samuelzxu 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Realer Mock Draft – a skill file to based the mock on YOUR league (hypeleaguefootball.com)
    ×0.81 | 2 points by AlatAnmoku 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Mole – Deep research agent for your terminal (github.com/lajosdeme)
    ×0.77 60 #52 | 80 points by lajosdeme 20 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Make Claude Say Less (mooch.agency)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by tahigichigi 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Write.md – A free, open-source, themeable Markdown editor for macOS (writemd.app)
    ×1.18 117 | 106 points by danielbilekq 4 days ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Omegle with (full-duplex) Voice Bots (aimegle.xyz)
    ×1.59 159 | 3 points by MichelBartels 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Qwen3.8-27B (twitter.com/alibaba_qwen)
    ×5.35 40 | 297 points by mfiguiere 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. US sells 30-year bonds at highest borrowing costs since 2001 (ft.com)
    ×5.88 83 | 63 points by petethomas 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Every exterior shot in The Taking of Pelham 123 (iafisher.com)
    ×0.67 53 #85 | 41 points by evakhoury 19 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. CyberPanel's hard-coded JWT secret grants an unauthenticated root shell (hellorecon.com)
    ×0.81 | 1 points by slvnx 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Beeb, a daily Blokus-inspired block puzzle game (georgemike.com)
    ×0.87 | 2 points by haberdasher 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. OpenAI rolling out ads for Europe later this month (openai.com)
    ×1.99 19 #59 | 16 points by notenlish 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. We're not done with point clouds (claytonwramsey.com)
    ×0.79 73 #79 | 79 points by claytonwramsey 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Your Estimate Isn't Off Because of Optimism or Inexperience (julienreszka.com)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by julienreszka 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Lumabri – Run Moe Models on a P2P Swarm with Colibri (github.com/JustVugg)
    ×0.50 78 | 44 points by vforno 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Procedural Generated Grafitti Wall (procgrafprot.vercel.app)
    ×2.08 105 | 6 points by whtspc64 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. The mathematical beauty of hyperbezier curves (linebender.org)
    ×1.60 8 #5 | 90 points by raphlinus 6 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Magnitude 7.7 Earthquake – 68 km NNW of Ende, Indonesia (usgs.gov)
    ×1.39 9 #31 | 207 points by Bender 14 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Rdio – an open-source internet radio control suite (rdio-docs.vercel.app)
    ×1.47 91 | 22 points by taqibrahim 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: OpenComplAI – open-source EU AI Act compliance checks in CI/CD (github.com/opencomplai)
    ×1.49 132 | 7 points by ythouma 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Streambench – Native Mac Client for Kafka and NATS (streambench.app)
    ×0.80 | 2 points by valentinprgnd 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Launch HN: Discovered Materials (YC P26) – AI agents to discover new materials (discoveredmaterials.com)
    ×0.87 98 #90 | 160 points by advaith08 3 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. The most dangerous iPhone Game (beta) (apple.com)
    ×1.24 | 2 points by guidouil 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Go from job search to job offer (futurole.com)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by whatdoyoumean02 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Printytron – Type it. 3D Print it (printytron.com)
    ×1.28 | 2 points by statenjason 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. The AI Situation in Software Development (srikanth.ch)
    ×1.28 | 2 points by srikanthdotch 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Model your business once – for humans and AI alike (klr-pattern.github.io)
    ×1.28 | 2 points by tank-34 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. ChainDrop worm crawls into NPM supply chain, evades standard defenses (theregister.com)
    ×1.25 | 2 points by sbulaev 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Seven books I keep close because I love them (plover.com)
    ×1.83 16 #54 | 357 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Parallelism Without Threads [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by flurly 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Why are we having so many (or so few) earthquakes? (usgs.gov)
    ×1.83 11 | 3 points by jahnu 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. The Next Global Economic Crisis Could Be Made in China (foreignaffairs.com)
    ×1.30 | 2 points by ericmay 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Online SNMP MIB database - upload/view your own MIBs (mib-viewer.com)
    ×0.41 96 | 13 points by beefstew123 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Needle2: 14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, smart home and robots (cactuscompute.com)
    ×2.41 85 | 527 points by HenryNdubuaku 4 days ago | 182 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Gemini 3.7 Flash (blog.google)
    ×3.28 2 #64 | 955 points by thisisauserid 1 day ago | 484 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Hibi – a calendar app to remember your days (apple.com)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by surrTurr 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Text AI watermarks will always be trivial to remove (seangoedecke.com)
    ×1.79 70 | 144 points by pseudolus 2 days ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???