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Ask HN: Is AI code verification becoming your main bottleneck?

×0.65 | 2 points by ochidaniel4 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Why Connected Home Appliances?

×0.29 | 2 points by ripe 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN:Why do websites today refuse to work on EDGE/2G?

×0.25 49 | 4 points by DenisDolya 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: In your experience, what are sound conventions for e-ink UI development?

×1.02 72 | 212 points by BoxOfRain 5 days ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Are there any production LLM pipeline setups to learn from?

×0.70 95 | 3 points by atif089 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Responsible/trustable background check companies?

×0.29 57 | 5 points by levinb 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What do you think of this novel slider puzzle? [video, full rules, beta]

×0.32 90 | 3 points by amichail 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How's Everyone Feeling Today?

×1.99 29 | 11 points by arm32 7 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How do you envision the AI Software Factory?

×0.37 | 2 points by DavidHaerer 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Human task board for my agents

×0.39 | 2 points by jbdamask 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We built a job board where the employers aren't human. Here's what broke

×1.54 82 | 4 points by Taskpoolai 8 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

×1.43 80 | 315 points by david927 3 days ago | 1154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Remind HN: Perseid meteor shower peaks tonight

×1.50 30 | 10 points by cjbarber 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: GitHub project that showed all edits (somewhat proving human authorship)

×0.27 113 | 3 points by 4d66ba06 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bitbucket CLI

×0.54 99 | 4 points by scr2em 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813

×0.77 62 | 5 points by uneven9434 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What are GitHub's push-farm botnets for?

×0.83 105 | 4 points by ghspamwatch 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ed Zitron on CNBC Squawk Box Talking Nvidia, Unprofitable AI Labs

×0.87 68 | 7 points by johnbarron 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
SETI@Home was the coolest thing

×0.79 119 | 27 points by b112 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Could DNA be represented as "an embedding" in an AI model?

×0.16 121 | 3 points by greenmoonx 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How do you keep PM tools in sync with what happens in WhatsApp/Slack?

×0.20 | 2 points by Harish_0089 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 Publish (deepseek.com)

×2.52 3 #47 | 56 points by dares2573 7 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
UA Drone Forces Commander's Message to Baltic States: Clear the Russian Border (balticsentinel.eu)

×3.14 33 | 5 points by Teever 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
U of Michigan drops first-semester grades to ‘curb mental health crisis’ (wsj.com)

×1.95 49 #49 | 153 points by cwwc 22 hours ago | 456 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ArenaAllocators don't play nicely with ArrayLists (openmymind.net)

×0.46 51 #50 | 28 points by ibobev 9 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Controversial creators are benefiting from monetization programs run by Meta (abc.net.au)

×4.42 39 #53 | 463 points by robtherobber 13 hours ago | 318 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Xpt – minimalist C package manager (sr.ht)

×0.49 | 1 points by juanvel400 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Qwen3.8-2.4T (huggingface.co)

×3.54 66 | 81 points by mmastrac 6 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Ante, a coding agent in a single binary that runs offline (github.com/AntigmaLabs)

×1.11 78 | 163 points by ubermon 2 days ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: OpenMicroKbd: $40 open source alternative to Codex Micro Keyboard (openmicrokbd.org)

×0.70 | 2 points by greatony 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: TermDOM – HTML, CSS and JavaScript (With a Real DOM) for TUIs and CLIs (github.com/bikeshaving)

×1.79 106 | 17 points by bikeshaving 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Receipt Parser API – Stop double-counting transactions when parsing receipts (ilovesreceipt.com)

×0.57 | 1 points by api_dude_365 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Intriguing Stories in Computer Science (inventwithpython.com)

×0.54 | 1 points by gregsadetsky 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: VolumeM8 – Volume Control for Chrome (google.com)

×0.47 | 1 points by louisblythe 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces (btp.police.uk)

×3.35 15 | 376 points by BlueBerry2001 1 day ago | 503 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bun v1.4 with an additional 1,493 passed tests from the Node test suite (twitter.com/bunjavascript)

×0.51 | 1 points by CrimsonRain 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls (lemonde.fr)

×5.44 31 | 1050 points by aziaziazi 1 day ago | 506 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Apple Silicon and macOS VMs: Faster LLM Inference with llama.cpp (github.com/trycua)

×1.78 9 | 301 points by frabonacci 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: /show-me: agent skill for compact visual representations (humanlayer.com)

×0.64 65 | 5 points by dhorthy 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
2026 Eclipse Webcams (jonty.github.io)

×2.04 5 #5 | 450 points by zoenolan 11 hours ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering (googleblog.com)

×3.20 2 #75 | 423 points by 0xedb 1 day ago | 500 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I Built a SaaS Business from Hostels and Coffee Shops (pierrehenry.be)

×0.55 | 1 points by pierres7 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Live stream from my solar-powered bird/weather station [video] (youtube.com)

×0.57 | 1 points by arm32 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Voice driven murder mystery, Interview AI suspects with your voice (whodunnitai.com)

×1.34 86 | 210 points by MrRowTheBoat 2 days ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining (ft.com)

×3.16 14 #73 | 505 points by ilamont 1 day ago | 472 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Snipsy – turn photos into a dated stamp keepsake, sent the same day (hosting-pages.netlify.app)

×0.57 | 2 points by ashwinn11 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Worms: The Future of Yesterday's Worms Today (worm.net)

×1.47 17 #46 | 157 points by doener 16 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Ultimate Horse (worksinprogress.co)

×0.64 35 #48 | 46 points by Petiver 10 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Texas Locked a Foreign Company's Domain over Missing Digital ID Checks (reclaimthenet.org)

×2.46 21 #62 | 14 points by Cider9986 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bill Gates' daughter's startup accused of 'cookie stuffing' scheme (nypost.com)

×3.83 63 | 6 points by apparent 36 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Introducing Grok 4.6 (cursor.com)

×1.14 30 #82 | 13 points by stevefan1999 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I built a browser-native SysEx librarian for 80s/90s synthesizers (bipluk.com)

×1.57 | 2 points by halfradaition 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
LinkedIn CringeBot 3000 (cringebot3000.com)

×3.58 70 | 459 points by theanonymousone 16 hours ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
World Train Map – 1247 train routes around the world (worldtrainmap.com)

×1.62 73 | 149 points by Flightmussy 2 days ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Grok 4.6 (x.ai)

×5.42 #9 | 347 points by iLuddite 7 hours ago | 357 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Launch HN: Discovered Materials (YC P26) – AI agents to discover new materials (discoveredmaterials.com)

×1.06 58 #10 | 110 points by advaith08 15 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
llama.cpp (llama.app)

×2.94 24 #64 | 348 points by kristianpaul 18 hours ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
SwipeTris: Free Forever, Nothing to Install (swipetris.com)

×1.12 78 #72 | 6 points by creaktive 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Day to day windows reminder CLI (NPM) (npmjs.com)

×1.59 100 | 3 points by jay__proto 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Visual knowledge graphs using Ollama and Embeddings (github.com/punnerud)

×0.46 | 2 points by punnerud 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Manus will return to operating as an independent company (manus.im)

×1.08 33 | 167 points by thm 1 day ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Beef and dairy drive 41% of biodiversity damage linked to global farmland (ox.ac.uk)

×4.69 32 | 125 points by robtherobber 13 hours ago | 195 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: GitHub Actions self-hosted runners on Modal Sandboxes (github.com/modal-projects)

×0.41 | 2 points by botirk 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Slnmap – Roslyn-based code graph MCP server for .NET codebases (github.com/EMahmoudNabil)

×0.49 | 2 points by emahmoudnabil 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Woxi - Open-source Mathematica / Wolfram Language reimplementation (ad-si.com)

×1.46 2 #28 | 247 points by adius 13 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The hardest working font in Manhattan (2025) (aresluna.org)

×1.91 16 #39 | 345 points by dcminter 22 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Solving the Shortest Vector Problem in $2^{0.6039n}$ Time via Mid-Point Hessian (arxiv.org)

×0.43 43 #43 | 32 points by sbulaev 8 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Electricity Pricing in the Age of AI (power2026.ai)

×0.80 47 #80 | 18 points by rzk 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A tiny LLM running at 21,000 tok/s on a $250 FPGA (Live Demo) (mikeayles.com)

×2.23 102 | 77 points by mikeayles 2 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
License plate reader searches should require a warrant (andrewpwheeler.com)

×3.78 21 #25 | 506 points by apwheele 8 hours ago | 315 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Unless nderstanding std:counting_semaphore and std:binary_semaphore from C++20 (cppstories.com)

×0.50 | 1 points by signa11 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Survivorship bias in retention metrics, reproducible in 12 seconds (github.com/Indexxero)

×0.47 | 2 points by shossain94 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Eigshow Interactive Web App (eigshow-app.web.app)

×2.39 111 | 3 points by cecinuga 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Making holograms with a pen plotter (matelsky.com)

×1.25 19 | 179 points by DemiGuru 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Dynobox – A test runner for AI agent skills and workflows (github.com/dynobox)

×0.96 | 2 points by bhkdotdev 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: List stuff to borrow for your people, anonymously (toolpool.garden)

×2.47 77 | 5 points by oliviasculley 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Gribble – Pixelated pixel art editor in the browser (gribble.app)

×1.10 104 | 4 points by napahlm 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (artificialanalysis.ai)

×3.49 11 #16 | 295 points by wertyk 6 hours ago | 284 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bike Bureau: Report Bike Lane Obstructions (loudbicycle.com)

×1.08 16 #52 | 59 points by kdmccormick 6 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The lifesaving secret hidden inside a horseshoe crab's blue blood (whdh.com)

×0.93 39 #70 | 103 points by andsoitis 21 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Digital freedom depends on access rights (boulos.ca)

×1.31 | 2 points by jjleads 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: SHTM – 60 Seconds Random Chat (shtm.vercel.app)

×1.66 101 | 3 points by Emirhan123 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI is removing the middle class of software engineering? (florianherrengt.com)

×5.50 17 #23 | 658 points by florianherrengt 9 hours ago | 577 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Human Is the Loop (brentfitzgerald.com)

×1.70 28 #56 | 182 points by burnto 20 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Docker VMM Public Beta: A Complete Overhaul, Built for Performance (docker.com)

×1.76 5 | 3 points by Slix 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenSSH 10.5/10.5p1 (openssh.org)

×1.14 40 | 115 points by voxadam 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
irc2Frotz – play interactive fiction over an IRC channel (github.com/DavesCodeMusings)

×0.50 | 1 points by emigre 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Aakit – find every assumption your coding agent made, and which broke (github.com/abhixhek)

×0.51 92 | 5 points by Abhixhek 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Building Security Agents That Cannot Escape Their Trust Boundary (cynative.com)

×0.61 74 #37 | 5 points by szin 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
German advocacy group lodges criminal complaint over Meta AI glasses (reuters.com)

×2.08 28 #61 | 103 points by tartoran 9 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???