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  1. Why do I lose my passion and want to do nothing?
    ×3.86 3 #5 | 27 points by hanstyle 35 minutes ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What do your job interviews look like? (August 2026)
    ×2.34 59 | 4 points by Hixon10 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Which AI Do You Think Will Have the Greatest Impact on the World?
    ×1.15 | 2 points by SudilaDasun 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. You Are the Harness
    ×1.23 | 2 points by learningstud 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What are your biggest problems and fixes with multisession engineering?
    ×0.21 55 | 3 points by top_rooster 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Is a One Person Company (OPC) just another type of Uber driver?
    ×0.35 56 | 5 points by Bobby_Liu 8 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: AI for Home Lab Infra?
    ×0.17 | 2 points by voakbasda 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Tell HN: PayPal blocks GrapheneOS
    ×2.87 61 | 512 points by leumon 3 days ago | 325 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Do you run A/B Tests?
    ×0.12 92 | 4 points by hackeryogi 14 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. AgentObs – a hook that blocks Claude Code before you hit your limit
    ×0.12 | 2 points by klars-ai 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What do you use to host side projects?
    ×0.29 | 2 points by ilmak1704 6 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Is .org now Trump-controlled?
    ×1.20 60 | 22 points by selfhoster1312 20 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: How to break Claude Code addiction?
    ×0.47 93 | 17 points by isomorph 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What's a Good Physical Printer?
    ×0.36 140 | 10 points by xrd 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Hugging Face is out. Who is hosting open models?
    ×0.68 129 | 23 points by FireUpTheTorren 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Alternatives to Fail2ban?
    ×0.29 151 | 6 points by jech 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Best way to archive 25 years of emails
    ×0.35 131 | 5 points by astatine 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Is "An agent with tools" the only valid LLM application?
    ×0.22 149 | 5 points by gmarkwa 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2026 – Show and tell
    ×1.74 134 | 79 points by kaladan 6 days ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Why do we need MCP?
    ×0.32 109 | 10 points by jwally 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Why are onionv3 services not more popular?
    ×0.15 150 | 6 points by smalltorch 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Any true alternatives to electron JavaScript?
    ×0.62 130 | 12 points by dhruv3006 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Any blogs/personal notes from game devs who self-published a game?
    ×0.41 152 | 6 points by ssenssei 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: What BOYK AI client are you using?
    ×0.13 158 | 3 points by yeeyang 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Anyone Got a Fenty.dev Invite?
    ×0.42 | 1 points by penguinsnetwork 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: Delete yourself from data brokers without a subscription (github.com/k7cfo)
    ×5.54 79 | 22 points by k7peak 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Stay logged out of Reddit and keep the old.reddit.com layout. Beta testers plz (github.com/kookaburrabarrel)
    ×1.37 | 2 points by kookaburrabarre 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Yen weakens past ¥160 per dollar, eroding intervention gains (japantimes.co.jp)
    ×4.83 73 #78 | 53 points by rguiscard 2 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. The Part of Me That Doesn't Believe AI Is Fine (danunparsed.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by sambellll 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law (tomshardware.com)
    ×6.16 22 #41 | 716 points by shscs911 1 day ago | 345 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Implicit Function Theorem (IFT) (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by peter_d_sherman 22 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: RecQL – A portable query language for search and recommendation (github.com/recql)
    ×1.38 | 2 points by jonahharris 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: CardGo – Reusable, end-to-end encrypted context cards for AI chats (cardgo.ai)
    ×0.44 86 | 3 points by trinhngocdieu 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: 500,000+ AOL Instant Messenger Buddy Icons All at Once (buddyiconarchive.com)
    ×2.47 133 | 8 points by shedletsky 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Functional State Machines in Rust: Typestate and Newtype Patterns (acm.org)
    ×1.07 64 #64 | 119 points by matt_d 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Startup Anti-Patterns (itamarnovick.com)
    ×2.12 20 #19 | 95 points by rzk 11 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Domain-Driven Agents (coldtake.dev)
    ×1.00 41 | 93 points by AlarQ 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Boop – tiny, self-hosted push notifications for your apps built in Go (github.com/chrisgreg)
    ×1.11 146 | 6 points by bustylasercanon 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. I'm the Guy Who Destroys Antique Books After We Scan Them into Our Company's AI (mcsweeneys.net)
    ×6.04 90 | 39 points by 9woc 2 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: 1endpoint – Cheaper access to AI models (1endpoint.dev)
    ×1.57 94 | 4 points by DustinPham12 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Get your free AI search visibility scan (visiscan.app)
    ×2.17 89 | 5 points by not_wowinter14 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Bug Blindness (danluu.com)
    ×2.04 3 #57 | 385 points by davidmckenna 1 day ago | 257 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Creating Teensy ELF Executables for Linux (Or, "Size Is Everything") (1999) (muppetlabs.com)
    ×0.84 57 #65 | 81 points by Bluestein 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Cursor launches Origin code hosting platform as GitHub outage exposes opening (venturebeat.com)
    ×1.01 | 2 points by gmays 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Clownbid.lol – pay to be the biggest clown on the internet (clownbid.lol)
    ×1.03 | 2 points by nadermx 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Self-hosted mobile-friendly web UI for Herdr agents (github.com/luiscleto)
    ×1.76 80 | 6 points by lfcc 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Train 300M/32-Layer Model in 1.5GB RAM on Base M1 Mac
    ×0.47 | 2 points by vlad_kalinkin 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: A lightweight, stateless database for agent memory (polign.com)
    ×0.66 114 | 36 points by anuptalwalkar 4 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Arbitrary code execution in QubesOS via copy-to-VM error reporting backchannel (qubes-os.org)
    ×1.27 26 #22 | 212 points by vntok 18 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Commercially Available Bike Generators Are Not Sustainable (2011) (lowtechmagazine.com)
    ×0.95 23 #14 | 36 points by baud147258 6 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Google Maps Changes Lake Ontario to 'Lake America' on US Phones (thehill.com)
    ×3.71 18 #70 | 7 points by LopRabbit 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Python Static Site Generator for Small Businesses (codeberg.org)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by marking-time 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. The Ternus Era at Apple Begins, but Cook Isn't Leaving (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.03 | 2 points by sbulaev 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Google: Lake Ontario/Lake America name change in the U.S. will appear in Maps (blog.google)
    ×17.96 15 | 81 points by lr0 21 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. 'They shot all their weapons; they trashed their ships; they ran out of money' (theguardian.com)
    ×6.82 30 | 41 points by cwwc 9 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Drop a SQL schema, get an interactive ER diagram (mcdview.dev)
    ×1.53 68 | 13 points by PatuDev 16 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell (vghaisas.com)
    ×2.33 14 #9 | 19 points by vghaisas 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Rose – reusable foundation embeddings for industrial 1H NMR (github.com/romboai)
    ×1.10 102 | 3 points by zaza3311 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: SSH Ache – open-source desktop SSH client with SFTP, tunnels and MCP (github.com/SSH-Ache)
    ×0.68 139 | 3 points by tanvirmahin24 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Texttile, a multiplayer blog engine for people who write together (texttile.blog)
    ×0.64 128 | 13 points by klausbreyer 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: BentoPDF, Hyper Compress and Kura (bentopdf.com)
    ×0.69 88 | 3 points by __alam__ 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Storm Summoner, a MIDI controller for effects pedals (kabaragoya.com)
    ×0.54 29 #56 | 31 points by peteforde 10 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Is it safe to call print in a Python signal handler? (iafisher.com)
    ×0.75 60 #79 | 61 points by hellerve 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Spark: Sparklines in your shell (zx2c4.com)
    ×0.92 18 | 50 points by hskimse 17 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Open-Source Local Whisper Flow Alternative (cloudless.so)
    ×1.14 127 | 4 points by vednig 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Kith – AI clinical notes for therapists from ambient session audio (kith.space)
    ×1.28 144 | 4 points by kithmedai 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. JupyterGIS 0.16: a grammar of graphics for maps, and collaborative story maps (jupyter.org)
    ×1.19 42 #45 | 100 points by arjxn-py 19 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Shell utility for encrypting and decrypting files using scrypt (github.com/nodesocket)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by nodesocket 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Learn about Meshtastic and Austin Mesh (austinmesh.org)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by simonpure 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. DHS is using obscure law to snoop on journalists, non-profits, unions (theguardian.com)
    ×4.08 27 | 440 points by firefax 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: DeepSeekGUI – A Windows desktop client for DeepSeek's coding agent (github.com/See-Sol-Lab)
    ×1.51 141 | 4 points by Goumang 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Prove your code produced your claims without making reviewers rerun it (github.com/27-GROUP)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by Mkld27 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Highest-ever ocean temperature measured as powerful El Niño forms (latimes.com)
    ×4.17 6 | 170 points by measurablefunc 1 day ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Are We Sixel Yet? (arewesixelyet.com)
    ×2.58 50 #39 | 13 points by smasher164 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: NFC Energy-Harvesting PCB Business Card with an MCU (wilsonharper.net)
    ×1.50 3 #10 | 121 points by WilsonHarper 7 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Static Evaluation of Model Switching in LLM Agents Scores the Wrong World (arxiv.org)
    ×2.22 2 | 4 points by danbitengo 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. CobaltC – The Successor to C? (strawberry9.github.io)
    ×1.07 30 #8 | 4 points by SilentLambda 49 minutes ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. What We Tell AI (whatwetellai.com)
    ×1.67 66 #58 | 36 points by thm 16 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: A SLM Optimized for Tool Calling (neurometric.ai)
    ×0.33 | 2 points by robmay 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. RISC-V is now officially supported by CPython (python.org)
    ×1.75 13 #55 | 295 points by lumpa 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Typebase – A single-folder back end you write in TypeScript (typebase.io)
    ×0.83 50 #88 | 116 points by andrewww-dev 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. AI Accelerator Designed, Verified, and Deployed from Scratch in 2 Weeks by AI (arxiv.org)
    ×1.09 | 2 points by Jimmc414 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Hillock: Local neuro-symbolic memory engine in <1.2GB VRAM (github.com/roandejager)
    ×1.25 46 #83 | 10 points by roandejager5 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Adding a directional cost bias to a TSP heuristic reveals better local optima (uncledroid.app)
    ×0.16 77 #30 | 4 points by Abhijit8086 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations (dwarkesh.com)
    ×3.66 40 #43 | 228 points by consumer451 1 day ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Google Maps now shows "Lake America" (thehindu.com)
    ×0.83 | 1 points by tesnorindian 13 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU (bbc.com)
    ×3.63 10 | 337 points by tosh 1 day ago | 468 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Teamnaire – Discover Your Role in a Team (teamnaire.com)
    ×1.30 136 | 4 points by humphrey_liu 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Dad’s Custom Atari Peripherals (goto10retro.com)
    ×1.16 32 #21 | 108 points by rbanffy 14 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Domestic cats kill 1.3–4.0B birds and 6.3–22.3B mammals annually (nature.com)
    ×2.09 24 | 3 points by agnosticmantis 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???