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  1. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)
    ×1.27 4 #6 | 149 points by whoishiring 8 hours ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)
    ×1.28 10 #10 | 98 points by whoishiring 9 hours ago | 224 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Show CVBoosta:Resume Optimizer that tailors your resume to every job
    ×0.48 | 2 points by cvboosta 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Does AI research need "world models" more than bigger LLMs?
    ×0.41 | 2 points by unjuno 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Base Power raises another $1B
    ×0.47 | 2 points by daveorzach 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Who is firing? (August 2026)
    ×1.96 1 | 16 points by ethanwillis 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Who is quitting? (August 2026)
    ×3.60 16 | 20 points by ethanwillis 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: ReAct vs. Planning Pattern
    ×0.29 82 | 7 points by hairymouse 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Local, Open source AI meeting recorder that sees and hears everything
    ×0.20 116 | 7 points by puremetrics 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Have LLMs Plateaued?
    ×0.33 111 | 9 points by leandrobon 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Anyone still do work on Intel Macs?
    ×0.43 121 | 21 points by senor_digimon 2 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Tips for Landing a YC Internship?
    ×0.21 125 | 6 points by cnnadozi 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. New open sourced eval tool for building agents
    ×0.08 | 2 points by Thomeras 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Tell HN: Amazonbot aggressively scraping my website and ignoring robots.txt
    ×0.80 124 | 20 points by pera 2 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Tell HN: Pretending not to use AI has made me a better developer
    ×1.07 67 | 13 points by throwaway260803 13 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What's Next for LLMs?
    ×0.45 129 | 5 points by apatheticonion 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Best way to avoid bloat and AI – selfcontaining OS
    ×0.25 123 | 11 points by bialamusic 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. What is the downside of coaching that I may not be seeing yet?
    ×0.43 136 | 6 points by ikut3hva 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Early Feedback on Dez?
    ×0.43 108 | 3 points by alexander2002 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: I still don't understand why AI agents need "skills"
    ×1.08 126 | 16 points by skeptic_ai 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Strategic Oil Reserves Down to a Record Low Two-Week Supply
    ×0.63 139 | 23 points by megamike 4 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Tell HN: HackerOne Announces Mandatory identity verification
    ×0.39 138 | 17 points by 0xmattf 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: How are you using AI to learn?
    ×0.51 137 | 9 points by mfalcon 2 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Great Question (YC W21) Is Hiring Senior Demand Gen Manager (ycombinator.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Niche expert AI fine-tuning data set in clean JSON format (gumroad.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by PunkiePal 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Bitcoin cold-wallet attack spreads to 4,500 addresses as losses near $89M (coindesk.com)
    ×3.38 63 | 67 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. ESP32-C3 SuperMini antenna modification (wordpress.com)
    ×1.27 79 | 88 points by ta988 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Lunar, a "fast", memory-efficient Lua 5.1 VM written in Go (github.com/mmcdole)
    ×2.75 87 | 7 points by drakenot 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. What DMARC Protects You From, and What It Does Not (senderledger.com)
    ×1.02 23 #42 | 131 points by adulion 20 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Octane – React’s programming model, compiled (octanejs.dev)
    ×1.06 18 #59 | 121 points by nnx 22 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: A Handwritten Blogging Platform (handwritten.blog)
    ×1.65 21 #73 | 176 points by emilesilvis 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Cull – Interactive TUI disk space analyzer (github.com/legostin)
    ×1.40 | 2 points by legostin 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. SPF Record Syntax: Mechanisms, Qualifiers, Modifiers, and Macros (dmarcguard.io)
    ×0.50 37 #60 | 51 points by meysamazad 16 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: I worked on a new browser for 2 years, today it passed Acid 3 (intellios.ai)
    ×2.73 91 | 158 points by coolwulf 3 days ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Hacker News CLI (github.com/ViktorRingnes)
    ×0.66 127 | 3 points by viktorringnes 21 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. German Driving Licenses for Expats (horstmann.com)
    ×0.81 | 1 points by slow_typist 11 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. As a Windows user, it's a surreal way to install a program (aresluna.org)
    ×2.39 20 | 4 points by allenc 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. AI Agent Ecosystem Trends 2026 H1: Analysis of 15K+ Agents Submission (deepnlp.org)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by aiagenta2z 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Battle of the Beams (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.41 5 #32 | 46 points by petethomas 8 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Spherical Codes Application in Fiber Optics (2024) (arxiv.org)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by silver92bullet 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Startup Marketing 101 (skeptrune.substack.com)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by iacguy 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: What should the GUI for AI agents look like? (marbleos.com)
    ×1.24 104 | 136 points by akbabu 4 days ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: ApeiroCraft – Proposals that track views, e-sign and invoice
    ×0.81 | 2 points by lolllll 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Distilling DeepSeek into GPT-OSS doesn't transfer censorship. Try it (ctgt.ai)
    ×1.22 106 | 167 points by cgorlla 4 days ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: TermBoard – A TUI dashboard for Python projects (github.com/HeyShinde)
    ×0.77 | 2 points by heyshinde 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Korean stock market crash threatening to upset tech boom (abc.net.au)
    ×3.15 61 | 4 points by robin_reala 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Eval-driven development: Lessons from evaluating GenAI at scale (medium.com)
    ×1.47 45 | 3 points by simonpure 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. US Treasury undertakes historic intervention in yen market (ft.com)
    ×4.46 42 | 201 points by 23pointsNorth 1 day ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: XY – A Fast, composable, GPU-accelerated interactive plotting library (github.com/reflex-dev)
    ×1.01 131 | 136 points by apetuskey 6 days ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Palantir Shares Jump on 'Otherworldly' Sales, Improved Forecast (wsj.com)
    ×2.47 3 | 6 points by andsoitis 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library (github.com/janestreet)
    ×1.84 10 #24 | 328 points by KolmogorovComp 21 hours ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Why we write our own C and C++ inference engines (localai.io)
    ×1.04 43 #64 | 125 points by eatonphil 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Characterizing Warp Divergence from Pascal to Blackwell (arxiv.org)
    ×0.38 67 #90 | 26 points by matt_d 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Kwayk – Reimplementing Quake in Qt Quick3D with Jolt Physics (github.com/glazunov999)
    ×0.32 | 2 points by glazunov999 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: ssh paint.dn.ht
    ×1.11 132 | 3 points by dhotson 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: An AI-Powered Widget for Collecting User Feedback (makethisbetter.dev)
    ×4.08 101 | 10 points by paicha 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. ZX Spectrum System Tour: Text Mode (wordpress.com)
    ×0.86 26 #22 | 38 points by rbanffy 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Cloudflare Workers and Containers now support inbound TCP connections and gRPC (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.56 57 #57 | 41 points by aofeisheng 16 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Microsoft raises Xbox prices by up to 43% (theverge.com)
    ×5.61 58 | 94 points by BlueBerry2001 1 day ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: HostBlock – A menu bar app that blocks ads and malware (for my grandma) (hostblock.app)
    ×0.95 | 2 points by dotspencer 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science (openai.com)
    ×2.55 1 #4 | 509 points by milkshakes 13 hours ago | 778 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: HN-jobs aggregator – updated in real-time
    ×0.63 | 1 points by freakynit 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. I asked Claude Opus to recreate The Matrix opening scene in Lego (marksmayo.github.io)
    ×1.74 11 | 4 points by beatthatflight 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. JsxCore – A TSX/JSX View Engine for Asp.net Core (github.com/davidwhitney)
    ×0.38 | 1 points by vyrotek 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Mu – Tools for Agents (github.com/micro)
    ×1.02 74 | 52 points by asim 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf] (wpi.edu)
    ×2.76 2 #7 | 101 points by pmg101 6 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Why Estonians invite strangers into their back gardens each summer (bbc.com)
    ×1.05 | 2 points by koolhead17 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Velokey – One Task API for Kling, Veo, Seedance, and Sora (velokey.ai)
    ×0.37 | 1 points by PaiDxng 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac (github.com/drumih)
    ×3.58 77 | 913 points by gitpusher42 5 days ago | 343 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Real-time LuaTeX: Recompiling large documents in 1ms [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.28 25 | 3 points by eigenblake 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Syncular – offline-first SQL sync with TypeScript and Rust cores (github.com/syncular)
    ×0.80 78 | 78 points by quambo 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: SaaS payment integration in ~10 lines of code (github.com/paycan-app)
    ×2.70 100 | 7 points by mehraban 21 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Lego deploys Hubble Space Telescope as detailed desktop model (collectspace.com)
    ×0.97 | 2 points by Tomte 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Trawl – a self-hosted engine for scraping sites behind challenge walls (germondai.com)
    ×1.99 95 | 4 points by germondai 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Minimal LLM Post-Training Experiments on an 8GB GPU (SFT, DPO, GRPO) (github.com/pochenai)
    ×0.79 130 | 21 points by popopanda 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: MovePlaybook – A local-first moving checklist with printable plans (moveplaybook.app)
    ×0.36 | 2 points by lionchain 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. What nonfiction books talk about, 1960-2025 (book-prize-index.vercel.app)
    ×0.82 | 1 points by benbreen 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Assert(): A Modern How To (fiberfs.io)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by nyc_pizzadev 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Cyberattack hits Liechtenstein's anti-money laundering data register (euronews.com)
    ×2.89 56 | 4 points by ck45 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. At least we're warming the planet for a good reason (reddit.com)
    ×0.91 | 2 points by johnnyApplePRNG 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript (github.com/twalichiewicz)
    ×2.43 99 | 433 points by twalichiewicz 6 days ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Legionlinuxtui – Control Lenovo legion laptops in the terminal (github.com/nooneknowspeter)
    ×0.50 128 | 16 points by nooneknowspeter 5 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Living in the Math World Means Threading the Needle (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.66 41 #45 | 8 points by gmays 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Cckeep – Claude Code's remote session gives up reconnecting in 31s (github.com/kamihork)
    ×0.77 | 1 points by kamihork 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Virtual Mac on Jailbroken M1/M2 iPad (github.com/nfzerox)
    ×1.66 31 | 3 points by tech234a 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Texpile, an open-source desktop LaTeX editor with a visual mode (github.com/texpile)
    ×0.43 83 | 3 points by asyncfun 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. AirLLM 70B inference with single 4GB GPU (github.com/lyogavin)
    ×1.40 12 #28 | 207 points by Anon84 18 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Night Java (San Francisco) (nightjava.com)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by danielmorozoff 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: I'm a 15 Year Old Wannabe Engineer, This Is a Cycloidal Gearbox I Built (github.com/tom-ilan)
    ×2.14 39 | 332 points by tomilan 2 days ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Popkorn – A CSS based alternative for Lottie animations (github.com/ayarse)
    ×0.94 | 2 points by ayarseus 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???