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Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)

×0.91 47 | 141 points by whoishiring 1 day ago | 386 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)

×1.05 20 | 220 points by whoishiring 1 day ago | 229 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What is a good format for a tool to report data to a LLM?

×0.68 36 | 4 points by michaelmure 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Dear Anthropic, can we please have thought traces back?

×0.27 | 2 points by exabrial 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What was your big failure? How did you get around it?

×0.33 102 | 3 points by jspann 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How to Pivot?

×0.43 100 | 4 points by noreplydev 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What if there was an 8th day of the week?

×0.87 34 | 7 points by cyanregiment 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Can we direct AI on our personal projects during work hours?

×0.53 120 | 3 points by rpnx 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ArXiv

×0.41 123 | 3 points by fred123123 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why remote roles are region specific and not 100% remote?

×0.48 124 | 3 points by moizrocky1 10 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
An agent built for Mobile

×0.23 | 2 points by technicalbot 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Seedance 2.5 API Pricing

×0.26 129 | 3 points by JimsonYang 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The LLMs Problems

×0.29 | 2 points by noreplydev 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How did Wikipedia layout become so bloated?

×1.02 66 | 21 points by countWSS 13 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Does AI research need "world models" more than bigger LLMs?

×0.25 144 | 3 points by unjuno 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Are you working 996 hours?

×0.32 133 | 3 points by derwiki 11 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Local, Open source AI meeting recorder that sees and hears everything

×0.21 143 | 9 points by puremetrics 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Have LLMs Plateaued?

×0.37 142 | 11 points by leandrobon 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Advanced Lawnmower Simulator (1988) (wikipedia.org)

×1.10 42 | 3 points by yzydserd 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Elevators (john.fun)

×5.79 64 | 1658 points by Jrh0203 4 days ago | 412 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Capshelf – Share agent skills across repos with per-project lockfiles (github.com/genged)

×1.17 118 | 4 points by mstr32 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Godox Transparent Viewfinder Camera C100 (godox.com)

×0.55 35 #21 | 8 points by routeroff 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bending Spoons makes first post-IPO acquisition with $1.3B Airtable deal (euronext.com)

×2.17 29 #68 | 94 points by riffraff 16 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Mint MCP – Generate 3D assets from coding agents (mint.gg)

×0.84 | 2 points by carrabre 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Most tech revolutions made work worse for employees (thisandthat.chat)

×1.82 4 #56 | 100 points by jreynar 10 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
NPM Registry Protocol (github.com/npm)

×0.86 | 1 points by jcbhmr 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Amazon Germany to Accept Wero (mobiflip.de)

×1.59 47 #58 | 8 points by doener 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
No Meat Proxy (nomeatproxy.com)

×1.58 55 #77 | 33 points by kamilap 13 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mosh in a Lift (2012) (mosh.org)

×0.81 40 #80 | 48 points by gavide 14 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
It looks like 'Big Short' investor Michael Burry nailed bet against chip stocks (businessinsider.com)

×3.33 43 | 7 points by mapping365 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
You don't need React: creating a minimal UI library in Vanilla JavaScript (pedroth.github.io)

×1.97 4 | 129 points by pedro_movai 17 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Xkcd: Earth Temperature Timeline (2016) (xkcd.com)

×6.43 92 | 100 points by thunderbong 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Paranoia – Get a cold, adversarial review of your code (github.com/subvertnormality)

×1.99 132 | 5 points by Grahf 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: cctap – see and reach the Claude Code session that needs you (github.com/chipmates)

×0.98 141 | 3 points by micstradev 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
RCade: The Arcade Cabinet with CI/CD Deployment, Custom Graphics Card for CRT [video] (youtube.com)

×0.42 56 #73 | 37 points by evakhoury 13 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Standalone Touch ID Sensor for Mac (github.com/zimengxiong)

×0.96 | 2 points by ls-a 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the first time (intellinews.com)

×3.89 23 | 370 points by just_some_user 1 day ago | 319 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Clai – AI for the command line (stdin → LLM → stdout) (github.com/maxrodrigo)

×0.49 126 | 3 points by maxrodrigo 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Make your Framework 12 sound like a creaky door (github.com/ArcaEge)

×0.94 114 | 95 points by arcaege 2 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
SF $192 fine for teaching tennis to his own children (twitter.com/Polymarket)

×0.89 | 1 points by bilsbie 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Bourdon – one shared memory file for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor (bourdon.ai)

×0.95 140 | 3 points by RADLAB 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Spotted: Mac Studio with M3 Ultra 256GB RAM and M4 Max with 128GB RAM (gpuquicklist.com)

×0.91 | 2 points by kristianp 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Real-time bus tracker for every stop in Great Britain, built on BODS (stopboard.uk)

×0.70 | 2 points by josephmjustin 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
It's not a fear of "AI communism"; it's a fear of competitive market capitalism (observationalepidemiology.blogspot.com)

×2.20 12 #81 | 78 points by speckx 11 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Young South Korean investors are finding company in collective misery (businessinsider.com)

×0.47 | 1 points by mapping365 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
TikTok Withheld a Safety Feature from Millions. One Died by Suicide (bloomberg.com)

×1.47 45 | 3 points by petethomas 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Octane – React’s programming model, compiled (octanejs.dev)

×1.02 88 | 125 points by nnx 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Share context between friends via MCP (crosswalk.to)

×0.65 136 | 3 points by jase_jase 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Lenia - a system of continuous cellular automata (chakazul.github.io)

×0.98 | 2 points by frozenseven 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
IP and DNS Leaks in WebKit Affecting Proxy Browsers and iCloud Private Relay (mysk.blog)

×1.38 10 #6 | 37 points by lapcat 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why some people mow a lawn better than others (pudding.cool)

×1.48 17 #38 | 168 points by carlos-menezes 7 hours ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How Cops Are Trying to Hide Their Use of Flock (404media.co)

×4.36 29 #64 | 111 points by cdrnsf 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Launch HN: Hoplite (YC S26) – Effortlessly deploy cloud coding agents (hoplite.sh)

×0.50 83 #88 | 77 points by BenceRed 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Lightweight Open-Source LLM Benchmark Tool – Compare Any Model on OpenRouter (medium.com)

×1.76 1 | 4 points by cheikhdev 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: React-mediadrop – hooks-first headless uploader, pluggable transport (github.com/autorender)

×1.51 115 | 5 points by vasanthrb 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones (toneyalexander.github.io)

×1.98 #11 | 467 points by automatoney 10 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
New Bios Update Reportedly Bricking Lenovo Legion Go Devices (steamdeckhq.com)

×1.02 | 2 points by speckx 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone (github.com/leonickson1)

×1.64 18 | 298 points by leonickson 1 day ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Nightcrawler – A local AI pentesting agent running on a smartphone (github.com/garagehq)

×0.84 81 | 116 points by NickySlicks 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The AI Demand Bubble (wheresyoured.at)

×5.02 46 | 104 points by 7777777phil 10 hours ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Salary Ticker – a macOS menu bar app that ticks up your pay (steveharrison.dev)

×1.99 125 | 5 points by steveharrison 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Dates That Don't Exist (2015) (yossarian.net)

×0.94 23 #37 | 113 points by EndXA 13 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A heat spike in March ruined pistachio pollination, decimating crops (fresnobee.com)

×1.40 12 #71 | 5 points by littlexsparkee 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Find what users want by analyzing app reviews (obverselabs.com)

×1.00 | 2 points by OtmaneBenazzou 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Reverse-Engineering the B200's Tensor Core, One Bit at a Time (sf-tensor.com)

×1.61 57 | 3 points by benkoska 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Rent the Intelligence, Own the Relationship (sierra.ai)

×1.56 60 | 3 points by hahahacorn 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A new type of search engine (galefox.com)

×1.70 135 | 4 points by wesammikhail 14 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bending Spoons Is Buying Airtable for $1.3B. It Was Valued at $11B in 2021 (inc.com)

×1.28 62 | 3 points by pseudolus 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Flowise Is Shutting Down (flowiseai.com)

×1.00 18 #20 | 13 points by llmgraph 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cloudflare Wallets: the programmable wallet for the agentic Internet (cloudflare.com)

×1.81 34 #31 | 16 points by hahahaa 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI-generated stories rated better quality than human-written ones, study finds (theguardian.com)

×1.15 | 2 points by uxhacker 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code (ankursethi.com)

×2.75 12 | 526 points by mpweiher 1 day ago | 435 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Taylor Farms has rewritten its cyclospora statement four times in sixteen days (marlerblog.com)

×3.55 26 | 303 points by speckx 1 day ago | 260 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A little physical breakout clone (brontosaurusrex.github.io)

×0.83 18 #35 | 11 points by brontosaurusrex 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Pure front end only image tools – Trustedimagetools (trustedimagetools.com)

×1.04 113 | 3 points by subhash_k 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Truemetrics (YC S23) Is Hiring in Berlin – GTM Lead (ycombinator.com)

8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Settlement with OpenAI for Discriminating Against U.S. Workers (justice.gov)

×3.09 23 #57 | 20 points by ethanwillis 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ICE Collected Nearly 1M People's DNA Last Year–Including Young Children (wired.com)

×4.99 49 | 251 points by BlueBerry2001 1 day ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: TormentNexus – Local-first Go control plane with persistent memory (tormentnexus.site)

×0.74 | 2 points by TormentNexusAI 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol (africanews.com)

×1.73 8 #13 | 143 points by bookofjoe 3 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I'm (mostly) picking models on speed now, not intelligence (martinalderson.com)

×0.92 | 2 points by birdculture 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Charity cyclist Bob Montgomery,82, dies one day after last heroic ride 3300 mile (abc.net.au)

×2.10 32 | 4 points by asdefghyk 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Denorm – Declarative derived columns (Postgres) (gitlab.com)

×0.68 | 2 points by KenPainter 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Sound of Inevitability (panoptica.com)

×0.43 55 #43 | 10 points by WaitWaitWha 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenAI pays $3.2M in US probe over hiring foreign workers (reuters.com)

×2.53 27 #78 | 11 points by alephnerd 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Guide AI coding agents on how to use libraries securely (github.com/Reware-Labs)

×0.64 | 2 points by hajipour 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
"Clean" Code, Horrible Performance (2023) (computerenhance.com)

×1.63 38 #42 | 120 points by FrojoS 16 hours ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI used new levels of 'autonomy and deception' (bbc.co.uk)

×1.55 | 2 points by smarri 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: VerusCite, a tool to check for hallucinations in academic articles (veruscite-data.com)

×0.92 | 2 points by apwheele 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch Guardian Angel (twitter.com/gwern)

×2.36 1 #4 | 174 points by mattsterett 3 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???