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  1. Gemini API removes postpay billing
    ×0.53 9 | 5 points by alex14fr 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: In your experience, what are sound conventions for e-ink UI development?
    ×1.00 69 | 212 points by BoxOfRain 5 days ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: How are you finding the job market in 2026?
    ×0.51 72 | 7 points by dzonga 13 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Is AI code verification becoming your main bottleneck?
    ×0.28 77 | 6 points by ochidaniel4 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
    ×1.44 74 | 317 points by david927 3 days ago | 1160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Are there any production LLM pipeline setups to learn from?
    ×0.49 106 | 4 points by atif089 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN:Why do websites today refuse to work on EDGE/2G?
    ×0.36 86 | 7 points by DenisDolya 18 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Why Connected Home Appliances?
    ×0.48 87 | 5 points by ripe 14 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Responsible/trustable background check companies?
    ×0.32 90 | 6 points by levinb 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What do you think of this novel slider puzzle? [video, full rules, beta]
    ×0.25 122 | 3 points by amichail 20 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How's Everyone Feeling Today?
    ×1.67 79 | 12 points by arm32 20 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: How do you envision the AI Software Factory?
    ×0.53 123 | 3 points by DavidHaerer 21 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Human task board for my agents
    ×0.24 | 2 points by jbdamask 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. We built a job board where the employers aren't human. Here's what broke
    ×0.98 109 | 4 points by Taskpoolai 21 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Remind HN: Perseid meteor shower peaks tonight
    ×1.31 82 | 10 points by cjbarber 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. SETI@Home was the coolest thing
    ×0.81 124 | 28 points by b112 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: GitHub project that showed all edits (somewhat proving human authorship)
    ×0.24 137 | 3 points by 4d66ba06 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Bitbucket CLI
    ×0.47 121 | 4 points by scr2em 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What are GitHub's push-farm botnets for?
    ×0.68 113 | 5 points by ghspamwatch 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ed Zitron on CNBC Squawk Box Talking Nvidia, Unprofitable AI Labs
    ×0.92 89 | 8 points by johnbarron 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813
    ×0.70 96 | 5 points by uneven9434 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Grok 4.6 (x.ai)
    ×4.64 4 #18 | 580 points by iLuddite 20 hours ago | 526 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Guidepup: Screen reader automation library for testing (guidepup.dev)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by robin_reala 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Mojo 1.0 (modular.com)
    ×2.23 4 | 425 points by dayanruben 1 day ago | 236 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Making holograms with a pen plotter (matelsky.com)
    ×1.27 32 | 182 points by DemiGuru 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: Lucky Dangle – a lucky charm for your Mac (luckydangle.app)
    ×1.03 128 | 3 points by kar-ma 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Dynobox – A test runner for AI agent skills and workflows (github.com/dynobox)
    ×0.93 | 2 points by bhkdotdev 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Talkform.org, Turn voice inputs into structured data using front end AI (talkform.org)
    ×2.68 102 | 5 points by pankajunk 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Glaciers on the Climate Dashboard (metoffice.cloud)
    ×1.15 12 #60 | 108 points by mooreds 19 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Say Less (agents are keeping score) (theterminalbet.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by drupeek 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Harbofly, reclaim the 20–100GB of dev caches on your Mac (harbofly.app)
    ×1.00 117 | 3 points by buildcomcarlos 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: TermDOM – HTML, CSS and JavaScript (With a Real DOM) for TUIs and CLIs (github.com/bikeshaving)
    ×1.78 100 | 17 points by bikeshaving 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: A Project Oberon System version running on RISC-V instead of RISC-5 (github.com/rochus-keller)
    ×0.74 94 | 121 points by Rochus 3 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Tanchi – Open-source AI prospecting agent that only automates email (github.com/tanchihq)
    ×0.72 | 2 points by saysb 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ya Diktu: The Pre-Print from the AI Engineer Who Cracked Linear A (zenodo.org)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by tamarru 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Word-finder/anagram solver web app for mobile browsers (wanderinghorse.net)
    ×0.87 | 2 points by sgbeal 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript (andros.dev)
    ×1.55 20 #20 | 218 points by redbell 19 hours ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Shade Map (shademap.app)
    ×1.58 23 #29 | 219 points by fredley 23 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Apple and AI: Siri the Early Years (thechipletter.substack.com)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by hasheddan 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. WorldClaw Agentic 3D open-world generation at scale (tencent-hunyuan.github.io)
    ×1.45 7 | 271 points by EwanG 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. People who grew up with high economic connectedness earn more (julienreszka.com)
    ×2.12 31 | 119 points by julienreszka 18 hours ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: AI 3D pop-out videos for Reels, Shorts and ads (videopopy.com)
    ×0.37 116 | 4 points by wowinter15 23 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. The median open-source repo pays no "AI review tax" (data from 5,388 repos) (ambera.app)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by makivlach 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. DosTips, Windows scripting knowledge trove, scraped to death (dostips.com)
    ×1.42 62 #59 | 43 points by iqml2568 20 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Some Code (cephalochromoscope.net)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by ankitg12 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. $580M undersea cable rerouted to avoid the grave of Dobby the House Elf (tomshardware.com)
    ×1.77 65 | 103 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Aakit – find every assumption your coding agent made, and which broke (github.com/abhixhek)
    ×0.50 107 | 5 points by Abhixhek 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Monkey see, monkey do – reproduce text via native OCR on macOS (github.com/faheel)
    ×0.52 | 2 points by faheel 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining (ft.com)
    ×3.15 8 #81 | 514 points by ilamont 1 day ago | 478 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. How we used to get jobs: A newspaper classifieds story (ironicsans.ghost.io)
    ×1.18 38 | 163 points by speckx 1 day ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Lean Eval for Alignment on Faithfulness (millenniumresearch.ai)
    ×18.10 58 | 103 points by asdajksbda 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Hackers steal over $130M by exploiting bug in offline hardware wallets (techcrunch.com)
    ×1.92 | 2 points by RickJWagner 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Homelab Ingress with Deterministic IPv6 (petekeen.net)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by zrail 56 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Git-knife – Edit commit messages, authors, and dates like a spreadsheet (github.com/TheRealYT)
    ×1.03 42 | 163 points by YonathanTesfaye 1 day ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Mooneva Cycle – Offline period tracker with no servers and no accounts (github.com/aradar46)
    ×0.77 105 | 3 points by aradar46 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Cc-probeline – Claude Code status line with Fable limits and turn costs (github.com/labzink)
    ×0.48 | 2 points by labzink 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Principia Mathematica is modern and insightful (okmij.org)
    ×1.84 7 #10 | 190 points by matt_d 12 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. pg_clickhouse v0.10: Subquery pushdown and 1000x faster TPC-H queries (clickhouse.com)
    ×1.00 67 | 65 points by saisrirampur 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Dayan Agent Skills, open control layers for agent workflows (github.com/Kosmoray)
    ×0.49 | 2 points by Kosmoray 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. The Bit Player: My Father with Steve Zissou (theparisreview.org)
    ×0.74 58 #58 | 50 points by Thevet 19 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. California Uber, Lyft drivers win union recognition (cbsnews.com)
    ×3.35 17 #79 | 48 points by lxm 11 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. llama.cpp (llama.app)
    ×2.90 18 #82 | 355 points by kristianpaul 1 day ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment (economist.com)
    ×2.69 47 | 116 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Survivorship bias in retention metrics, reproducible in 12 seconds (github.com/Indexxero)
    ×0.46 | 2 points by shossain94 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: DejaVu – instant replay for Windows that survives crashes (160 KB exe) (github.com/blancodagoat)
    ×0.51 | 2 points by signalsift 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Bigos (Polish Hunter's Stew) Recipe Builder (chefsbinge.com)
    ×1.03 41 #55 | 102 points by doublepg23 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Python's pre-declared constants are kinda weird (sebsite.pw)
    ×0.74 | 2 points by birdculture 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Programmable timer web app (for gym workouts or stretching sessions) (jotaen.net)
    ×0.98 27 | 27 points by jotaen 17 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Trunchbull, run real models against any benchmark in your browser (trunchbull.dev)
    ×1.09 93 | 6 points by pepperpoppins 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Felix and I (jacobfilipp.com)
    ×1.05 33 #47 | 102 points by surprisetalk 21 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs (stolen-thoughts.com)
    ×3.11 17 #85 | 686 points by quantumgarbage 1 day ago | 301 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Capto – alerts when a background job goes quiet, with breadcrumbs (capto.run)
    ×1.65 110 | 4 points by johndory80 21 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: AI Pulse a fake LED strip beside the macOS Dock that shows agent status (github.com/leog)
    ×0.65 129 | 18 points by leog_me 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. A Tale of Dynamic Programming (2022) (iagoleal.com)
    ×1.13 #75 | 86 points by Brajeshwar 18 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Amur Tiger Center (amur-tiger.ru)
    ×0.86 | 1 points by thunderbong 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Wooden wind turbine blade fatigue less than fiberglass and can be recycled (ecoportal.net)
    ×2.24 22 | 3 points by martyvis 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Qwen3.8-2.4T (huggingface.co)
    ×3.51 3 | 83 points by mmastrac 19 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Agent Memory Leaderboard – first public results for AI memory systems (agentmemoryleaderboard.ai)
    ×0.98 81 | 3 points by IreneAI 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Day to day windows reminder CLI (NPM) (npmjs.com)
    ×1.58 130 | 3 points by jay__proto 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Someone is running mass vulnerability scans, spoofing AI bots like ClaudeBot (knownagents.com)
    ×1.58 11 #30 | 285 points by gavinhking 22 hours ago | 216 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: I asked Claude to write DDIA as a live comic (systemscomic.com)
    ×2.19 46 | 6 points by samuelxing 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Make your bio link worth clicking, even for agents
    ×2.54 101 | 5 points by czeizel 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: What US households pay for electricity and gas, by state, since 2001 (energy-maps.com)
    ×1.57 92 | 8 points by ebaumer 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. ATG (YC F25) Is Hiring Member of Technical Staff (Data Platform) (atg.science)
    19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Woxi - Open-source Mathematica / Wolfram Language reimplementation (ad-si.com)
    ×1.60 16 #34 | 302 points by adius 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Worms: The Future of Yesterday's Worms Today (worm.net)
    ×1.48 41 #50 | 173 points by doener 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Compression is prediction (ngrok.com)
    ×2.99 11 #68 | 651 points by nikolay 1 day ago | 283 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Solving the Shortest Vector Problem in $2^{0.6039n}$ Time via Mid-Point Hessian (arxiv.org)
    ×0.41 66 #69 | 34 points by sbulaev 21 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Uniform Invoice (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.85 | 1 points by AureliusMA 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. AI is removing the middle class of software engineering? (florianherrengt.com)
    ×6.09 24 #36 | 913 points by florianherrengt 23 hours ago | 817 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???