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  1. DeepSeek announced to raise its API price tremendously
    ×0.42 26 | 7 points by alexwwang 5 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)
    ×0.85 85 | 152 points by whoishiring 2 days ago | 455 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)
    ×1.02 71 | 224 points by whoishiring 2 days ago | 270 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Did GitHub remove the stargazers list?
    ×0.79 87 | 22 points by reconnecting 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Read HN twice a day for the last decade. Here's my list of S-Tier HN links
    ×2.19 25 | 68 points by vivzkestrel 20 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Empower the people not the AI – self containing OS
    ×0.61 100 | 7 points by OnemanBSD 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Why mobile software infrastructure never belongs to its owner?
    ×0.10 | 2 points by rezvovmobile 15 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Dear Anthropic, can we please have thought traces back?
    ×0.80 134 | 10 points by exabrial 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Developers–How Did You Get Your First Paying Customers?
    ×0.41 97 | 5 points by HSK11 15 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Show your micro-SaaS / MRR updates (August 2026)
    ×1.28 104 | 7 points by genekrapivin 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Who Has This Pain?
    ×0.21 118 | 3 points by swk-phil 16 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Why Fireworks doesn't support Voice AI
    ×0.55 107 | 4 points by kushalpatil07 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Anyone interested in building a harness-only benchmark?
    ×0.33 139 | 4 points by GodelNumbering 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What would make you list your AI product on a new marketplace?
    ×0.39 128 | 3 points by Achrima 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What paid tools have you now replaced with personalized AI-coded tools?
    ×0.19 135 | 3 points by gtbcb 19 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What Happened to Spec-Driven Development?
    ×0.46 144 | 3 points by vivekyyy 21 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Blitz Agent Your specialized agent -> https://blitzagent.studio
    ×0.26 | 2 points by rvey 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How do you correct spatial reasoning of LLMs?
    ×1.38 121 | 5 points by mstaoru 23 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: I built bribes.fyi, now I am stuck what to with it
    ×0.64 145 | 3 points by neverenderr 23 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. AI Agents for Logistics, Pitfall?
    ×0.31 | 2 points by srguarapo 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. ArXiv
    ×0.33 148 | 5 points by fred123123 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. FAA Probes Loss of Separation Abetween Marine One and Envoy Air Jet (duckduckgo.com)
    ×0.81 | 1 points by Rygian 24 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Show HN: Maple-Preview – Ternary 20B MoE running at 120 tok/s on a iPhone (deepgrove.ai)
    ×1.36 39 | 167 points by edwardbzhang 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. The Cipher Behind Qsyrupwd: Reconstructing IBM i Password Hashes (silentsignal.eu)
    ×0.42 27 #26 | 8 points by jandeboevrie 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Goodhart's Law Comes for Every Benchmark You Trust (acm.org)
    ×0.91 33 #33 | 87 points by pseudolus 16 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Painting with Gaussians (yogthos.net)
    ×0.85 53 #44 | 101 points by yogthos 21 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf] (wpi.edu)
    ×2.14 78 #54 | 435 points by pmg101 2 days ago | 434 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. I got tired of cutting reels out of long videos by hand, so I automated it (momentcut.app)
    ×0.93 | 1 points by lucaserla 4 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Building a local-first family tree app (purplehoisin.com)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by fersarr 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. AI music generator Suno loses copyright infringement legal case (nme.com)
    ×1.69 | 2 points by passwordoops 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol (africanews.com)
    ×2.02 13 | 292 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 241 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Most tech revolutions made work worse for employees (thisandthat.chat)
    ×2.01 64 | 121 points by jreynar 1 day ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Why Large Language Models Fail at Tabular Prediction (arxiv.org)
    ×1.10 78 | 115 points by sbulaev 2 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Learning Nix with LabCraft (labcraft.dev)
    ×1.37 99 | 5 points by anandsuresh 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Pushing the limits of RISC-V emulation (shuklaayu.sh)
    ×0.95 39 #38 | 45 points by shuklaayush 12 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. What went wrong with data lakes? A 15-year reality check (arxiv.org)
    ×1.78 53 #75 | 45 points by alvis 19 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Addiii
    ×0.79 | 1 points by hsims 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Mastodon client for macOS with deprecated API (ricobeck.de)
    ×1.86 59 | 3 points by ricobecks 31 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Stillsane: Detect silent quality drift in deployed LLM apps (pypi.org)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by MSanket9 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. TUI for Tabaholics (github.com/doctorcolossus)
    ×1.60 | 2 points by ankitg12 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Linux Processes: Threads and Concurrency (iximiuz.com)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by signa11 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: LiminalML – Study ML or SWE at interview depth, grounded in your resume (liminalml.com)
    ×0.98 125 | 3 points by OliverPerrin 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Language learning using speech-analyzed native speaker video (reelang.com)
    ×0.54 | 2 points by stuess 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Launch HN: HyperProbe (YC S26) – Agents that do read-only debugging in prod (hyperprobe.co)
    ×0.36 58 #22 | 59 points by shailendraht 14 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. LLMs won't break symmetric crypto (bfswa.blog)
    ×1.46 48 #76 | 69 points by rowbin 9 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects (github.com/denoland)
    ×1.73 12 #18 | 224 points by calvinfo 18 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. TIL: HTTP/3 Is Not Always Faster Than HTTP/2 (iankduncan.com)
    ×1.56 10 | 3 points by michael-sumner 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Test the **** Out of Your Containers (github.com/bxrne)
    ×1.21 142 | 3 points by bxrne 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Aident Loadout – connect Codex and Claude Code to real apps (github.com/Aident-AI)
    ×0.96 | 1 points by luciana1u 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Vista: A Visual Harness for Reasoning in an Interactive World (vista-research.github.io)
    ×0.73 | 2 points by haxfenx 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Grounded document extraction with bounding-box citations (pspdfkit.github.io)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by marakiii 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Fine-tune an 8B model on a 4 GB laptop GPU (github.com/MakazhanAlpamys)
    ×1.09 70 | 133 points by MakazhanAlpamys 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Let's all meet up in the Y2K (gingerbeardman.com)
    ×1.34 1 #4 | 55 points by msephton 4 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Stop sending me your errors (kramkow.ski)
    ×1.55 43 #57 | 72 points by speckx 18 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: I deleted DMs from our work chat (fosbury.ai)
    ×1.52 | 2 points by YarivAshk 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Modding a Kmart Digicam to take C mount lenses Part 1 (bearblog.dev)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by masoniamme 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Rust-lang/rust is adopting an LLM policy (rust-lang.org)
    ×6.88 34 | 111 points by afdbcreid 1 day ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: ClickBench Playground – a playground for 110 database systems (clickhouse.com)
    ×0.83 56 | 21 points by zX41ZdbW 16 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: An app to dump notes during the day and plan todos without distraction (spqrk.net)
    ×1.91 136 | 4 points by SPQRK 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Discovery of a multicomponent alloy forged by the Hiroshima atomic blast (science.org)
    ×0.92 41 #29 | 138 points by _____k 21 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Ryg_rans Is Not a Library (wordpress.com)
    ×0.43 71 #56 | 5 points by ibobev 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation (mistral.ai)
    ×1.99 #86 | 478 points by riadsila 1 day ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Congo bans exports of copper, cobalt concentrates (reuters.com)
    ×1.82 | 2 points by TechTechTech 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Bannerlord Coop (steamcommunity.com)
    ×0.79 | 1 points by alansaber 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. I wonder if you could make a useful DOS executable with just emoji (oldbytes.space)
    ×1.51 | 2 points by usdogu 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog (nelson.cloud)
    ×6.39 24 | 788 points by meysamazad 1 day ago | 464 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X (github.com/ryanzhou)
    ×1.59 29 | 379 points by zhoutong 2 days ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Bitbead – Photo to printable bead pattern, in the browser (bitbead.app)
    ×3.48 110 | 8 points by shouqing_qiao 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Branchless Rust: Making a Filter 4x Faster by Removing an If (greyblake.com)
    ×2.58 3 #11 | 193 points by greyblake 10 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones (toneyalexander.github.io)
    ×2.22 15 #87 | 610 points by automatoney 1 day ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Oxide Computer raises $445M (SEC Form D) (sec.gov)
    ×2.79 23 | 256 points by depr 1 day ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: HUD, an open-source minimal terminal UI for ClaudeCode, Codex, OpenCode (github.com/adrida)
    ×1.39 66 | 22 points by adam_rida 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Elevators (john.fun)
    ×5.82 58 | 1666 points by Jrh0203 5 days ago | 413 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Twocal – Calendar sync that verifies both sides actually agree (twocal.app)
    ×0.65 115 | 5 points by gsudarkoff 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Isopolis – Isometric pixel map of SF (isopolis.city)
    ×1.94 80 | 345 points by nuwandavek 3 days ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. New Keyboard: Alicja v2 (juszkiewicz.com.pl)
    ×1.14 50 #60 | 17 points by jandeboevrie 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Hacker News with reduced priority for AI driven content (hn-without-ai.vercel.app)
    ×1.59 67 | 6 points by otherayden 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Quantego: A Family of Lego Models of IBM Quantum Computers (quantego.org)
    ×0.69 22 #15 | 34 points by rbanffy 7 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Month on Vegan Diet Shifts Epigenetic Patterns Assoc with Aging and Inflammation (ucsd.edu)
    ×2.78 64 #84 | 17 points by littlexsparkee 15 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Google is expanding its AI empire – and losing the people who built it (cnbc.com)
    ×4.20 78 | 4 points by pseudolus 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Soon We'll Share Blueprints, Not Code (medium.com)
    ×1.87 | 2 points by blinkybill 24 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. D-Wave shows off its new entry in quantum computing race (arstechnica.com)
    ×0.80 | 1 points by rbanffy 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. After Losses, Retail Investors Flock to 3x Leverage as 2x Product Are Restricted (asiae.co.kr)
    ×1.82 55 | 87 points by mapping365 1 day ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: CityEdit – Open-source map for voting on NYC street changes (cityedit.org)
    ×1.54 89 | 4 points by edbltn 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Bean Network Tester – open-source bad network simulator (github.com/donislawdev)
    ×0.76 147 | 3 points by donislawdev 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Exact, parallel 2D Delaunay triangulation for int32 coordinates (github.com/morishuz)
    ×0.82 32 #31 | 61 points by oryx1729 5 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. You Should Almost Never Use AI to Write Anything Substantive (erichgrunewald.com)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by erwald 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Jujutsu 0.44.0 (github.com/jj-vcs)
    ×1.63 | 2 points by olexsmir 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc (birchtree.me)
    ×3.64 18 | 703 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 757 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: A little physical breakout clone (brontosaurusrex.github.io)
    ×0.54 105 | 16 points by brontosaurusrex 5 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???