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  1. Ask HN: Why mobile software infrastructure never belongs to its owner?
    ×0.15 | 2 points by rezvovmobile 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Developers–How Did You Get Your First Paying Customers?
    ×0.44 50 | 4 points by HSK11 3 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)
    ×0.88 101 | 149 points by whoishiring 2 days ago | 440 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Who Has This Pain?
    ×0.28 73 | 3 points by swk-phil 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Why Fireworks doesn't support Voice AI
    ×0.83 63 | 4 points by kushalpatil07 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Read HN twice a day for the last decade. Here's my list of S-Tier HN links
    ×1.60 16 | 45 points by vivzkestrel 8 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What would make you list your AI product on a new marketplace?
    ×0.46 98 | 3 points by Achrima 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Empower the people not the AI – self containing OS
    ×0.72 90 | 7 points by OnemanBSD 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)
    ×1.03 87 | 222 points by whoishiring 2 days ago | 258 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Did GitHub remove the stargazers list?
    ×0.93 81 | 21 points by reconnecting 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What paid tools have you now replaced with personalized AI-coded tools?
    ×0.25 111 | 3 points by gtbcb 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Show your micro-SaaS / MRR updates (August 2026)
    ×1.43 107 | 6 points by genekrapivin 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Anyone interested in building a harness-only benchmark?
    ×0.37 131 | 4 points by GodelNumbering 11 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What Happened to Spec-Driven Development?
    ×0.57 130 | 3 points by vivekyyy 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Blitz Agent Your specialized agent -> https://blitzagent.studio
    ×0.33 | 2 points by rvey 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How do you correct spatial reasoning of LLMs?
    ×1.79 116 | 5 points by mstaoru 10 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: I built bribes.fyi, now I am stuck what to with it
    ×0.35 | 2 points by neverenderr 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Dear Anthropic, can we please have thought traces back?
    ×0.77 136 | 9 points by exabrial 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. AI Agents for Logistics, Pitfall?
    ×0.40 | 2 points by srguarapo 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. RNet lets users use one AI credit balance across multiple apps [demo]
    ×0.43 | 2 points by rNetAi 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: How can I improve my products? Which one to keep working on?
    ×0.44 | 2 points by bchhabra2490 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Robotic Evals
    ×0.40 137 | 3 points by andrewlyu 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. ArXiv
    ×0.35 139 | 5 points by fred123123 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Tell HN: "Update to iOS 18.7.8" is updating users to iOS 26; Apple PSA
    ×0.91 138 | 3 points by lynndotpy 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Has anyone recently tried fish.audio
    ×0.44 | 2 points by artur_makly 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Worth Accepting: Evaluating Mellum at JetBrains (evalovernite.substack.com)
    ×0.85 | 1 points by scoresmoke 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Anyone who installed ecto 5.0.1 should consider that environment compromised (github.com/jaredwray)
    ×1.60 9 | 3 points by trelane 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. When AI Benchmarks Plateau: A Systematic Study of Benchmark Saturation (arxiv.org)
    ×0.79 72 | 103 points by doppp 1 day ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Discovery Loop (discoveryloop.com)
    ×2.25 1 #2 | 479 points by xtreak29 6 hours ago | 296 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Building an Advanced Agentic Harness (data4sci.com)
    ×0.81 21 #26 | 93 points by Anon84 8 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. IP and DNS Leaks in WebKit Affecting Proxy Browsers and iCloud Private Relay (mysk.blog)
    ×1.12 58 #55 | 168 points by lapcat 22 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. AI-Focused Altimeter Sinks 11%, Joins Funds Hit by Brutal July (bloomberg.com)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by mapping365 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Web Security is Too Hard (textslashplain.com)
    ×2.86 32 | 222 points by kevincox 1 day ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Maple-Preview – Ternary 20B MoE running at 120 tok/s on a iPhone (deepgrove.ai)
    ×1.33 35 | 161 points by edwardbzhang 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. How Cops Are Trying to Hide Their Use of Flock (404media.co)
    ×4.25 53 | 141 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Sula: A Gemini protocol server written in Scryer Prolog (sagredo.dev)
    ×0.62 26 #17 | 28 points by triska 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. The Law of Jante (2015) (theparisreview.org)
    ×0.45 62 #43 | 22 points by NaOH 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Balanced polymorphism underlies the rhythm of daily sex alternation in avocado (pnas.org)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by impish9208 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Earde – an indexed Discord alternative just for open-source projects (earde.com)
    ×1.88 110 | 4 points by tolarianwiz 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: AuditBadger – SOC 2 and ISO 27001 – AI drafts, you approve (auditbadger.com)
    ×5.94 88 | 9 points by mlitwiniuk 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Creator of Lua: What People Get Wrong About Scripting Languages [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by skibz 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a Pretextual Weed Search (404media.co)
    ×4.79 77 | 298 points by cdrnsf 7 hours ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. STMicroelectronics profit misses estimates, shares fall 14% (reuters.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by measurablefunc 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Water to Go – Rewrite Any Project to Go with Any AI Coder (github.com/JohnVictorCrown)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by john_victor 55 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Pam Bondi Implicated in as Much as $5.5M in Insider Trading (cmarmitage.substack.com)
    ×7.92 72 | 23 points by JumpCrisscross 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Anthropic Is Building Its Own Chip (businessinsider.com)
    ×1.74 4 #69 | 20 points by closetheloopdev 4 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Birds and Frogs in Physics (3quarksdaily.com)
    ×0.93 | 1 points by geneticdrifts 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Everything I Know (1975) (bfi.org)
    ×0.86 70 | 144 points by simonebrunozzi 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Nobel Disease (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.53 82 | 121 points by num42 1 day ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: ZeroCloudPDF Sign (zerocloudpdf.com)
    ×0.98 97 | 3 points by HozeKan 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Systematic reporting in under an hour, not months (octigen.com)
    ×3.13 105 | 9 points by m_mueller 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Online Friends Are Real Friends (bearblog.dev)
    ×1.27 17 #16 | 42 points by Tomte 3 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. The Pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria (1851) (thehopkinthomasproject.com)
    ×0.56 76 #67 | 49 points by gregsadetsky 16 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Thunderbird addon for displaying message excerpt next to subject line (github.com/michael-markl)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by michael-markl 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: LLM control of deterministic coder – Sif 1.0 – LLMs as vibe coders (github.com/Mac-at-SifSys)
    ×1.29 102 | 4 points by tmbird 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Kotro – local control plane for coding agents (github.com/kotro-labs)
    ×1.43 103 | 4 points by rameshpandian 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. A Fed official is asking whether AI is becoming 'too big to fail' (thenextweb.com)
    ×3.27 2 #42 | 10 points by cdrnsf 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Scaling NumPy on Free-Threaded Python (quansight.org)
    ×0.87 45 #48 | 85 points by ngoldbaum 13 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. At-Communities #1: The Concierge, the Vault, and the Fuck-Ass Astro Website (essentialrandomness.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by erlend_sh 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Helsinki Hacker News Meetup (calpaterson.com)
    ×2.36 34 | 179 points by calpaterson 13 hours ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Zigbee vs. Matter over Thread:Understanding IoT Protocol Performance in Practice (arxiv.org)
    ×1.33 44 | 104 points by teleforce 22 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Bubble Memory (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.99 65 #52 | 71 points by jacquesm 15 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. AI Agents for Healthcare? (youtube.com)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by karissafho 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Qwen Image 3.0 Pro (qwencloud.com)
    ×1.43 70 | 190 points by theanonymousone 7 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog (nelson.cloud)
    ×6.44 15 | 780 points by meysamazad 1 day ago | 460 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. After Losses, Retail Investors Flock to 3x Leverage as 2x Product Are Restricted (asiae.co.kr)
    ×1.82 46 | 86 points by mapping365 20 hours ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: AI agents gives its worst answers when you're overwhelmed (github.com/softcane)
    ×0.88 | 2 points by pradeep1177 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: OpenEdit – fast, open Source video editing agent (github.com/veedstudio)
    ×0.50 | 2 points by sabbakeynejad 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Free URL Shortener – No Account, No Expiry, No Signup (at-use.com)
    ×2.42 112 | 5 points by atuse 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. The Valley of Webhooks (weli.dev)
    ×1.40 14 #15 | 130 points by weli 7 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Oracle cut its Always Free ARM limits to 2 OCPU / 12GB, enforced Aug 18 (cnelecar.com)
    ×1.65 11 #38 | 165 points by iplaypc 7 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late (annas-archive.gl)
    ×1.97 | 2 points by EffrafaxOfWug 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Lucidos, a local AI OS that keeps the apps you describe running (github.com/lucidos-dev)
    ×1.03 94 | 3 points by kennethtiller 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. What went wrong with data lakes? A 15-year reality check (arxiv.org)
    ×1.54 53 #45 | 22 points by alvis 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. OpenAI agents rebuilt a secret message board after the company shut it down (runtimewire.com)
    ×1.18 | 2 points by ryanmerket 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war (cnbc.com)
    ×7.62 29 | 376 points by tcp_handshaker 1 day ago | 696 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Emporia Research (emporiaresearch.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by not_wowinter14 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. When online commenters detect my art as AI (davidrevoy.com)
    ×1.10 18 | 3 points by Jare 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Time travellers are using LinkedIn to teach us about artificial intelligence (ft.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by JumpCrisscross 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Hop.earth – OpenStreetMap based car racing game (hop.earth)
    ×0.67 75 | 88 points by faebi 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: I was wrong about scrollytelling landing pages
    ×1.23 83 | 4 points by vaitko 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Proxmox VE now available for ARM64 (proxmox.com)
    ×2.06 46 #37 | 36 points by geerlingguy 7 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Detach from your work to make it work (productidentity.co)
    ×0.63 85 #51 | 9 points by itaydr 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Voice mode for Claude Code. Claude Code now answers you like a real person (heyski.io)
    ×1.58 21 | 3 points by pattern-ai 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: WeaveMark – a specification language for reusable prompts (github.com/paulosalem)
    ×0.54 | 2 points by paulosalem 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today (2026-08-04) (short-stories.co)
    ×2.85 16 | 500 points by askvictor 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: A Catalog of Website Design.md (github.com/scroobius-pip)
    ×1.59 134 | 3 points by sim04ful 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Labgrid-MCP – let AI agents drive real embedded hardware labs (github.com/onurcelep)
    ×2.56 95 | 8 points by oclp 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf] (wpi.edu)
    ×2.14 86 #56 | 425 points by pmg101 1 day ago | 429 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Your model already knows the answer: how benchmark answers leak into LLMs (elman.ai)
    ×0.96 52 #62 | 12 points by fran-mora 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???