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  1. Ask HN: In your experience, what are sound conventions for e-ink UI development?
    ×1.08 40 #71 | 199 points by BoxOfRain 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
    ×1.45 46 | 311 points by david927 2 days ago | 1133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: How did you teach analog electronics to your kids?
    ×0.32 72 | 5 points by felooboolooomba 8 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. SETI@Home was the coolest thing
    ×0.96 85 | 23 points by b112 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Anyone have solution to Opus verbosity in Claude Code?
    ×0.16 | 2 points by firemelt 13 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Tell HN: Old.reddit.com Requires Login
    ×2.24 71 | 28 points by comprev 23 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What Project are you the most proud of?
    ×0.62 111 | 9 points by emn4tor 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How do you learn with LLMs?
    ×0.24 110 | 4 points by py4 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How do you go from writing code to deploying with agents?
    ×0.45 124 | 16 points by sakuraiben 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: How do you set comp at an early stage startup?
    ×0.25 142 | 4 points by jeffreyfate 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Is Ask HN Shrinking?
    ×0.52 127 | 20 points by keiferski 3 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: My dev blog has 11k followers. I stopped writing it. What would you do?
    ×0.56 130 | 9 points by zlatkov 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Why is Open POWER Foundation a wasteland?
    ×0.88 133 | 13 points by climate_denier_ 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Is Traditional SaaS Dying?
    ×0.38 125 | 4 points by vibe_that_works 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Recommended Merchant of Record and Affliate Setup
    ×0.28 138 | 5 points by tisdadd 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Did Apple Search engine bot enter the security LLM fuzzing gauntlet
    ×0.29 139 | 3 points by duttonw 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. The State of Google
    ×0.92 126 | 14 points by 3dedb728-3f77 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Anyone that has built a marketplace, what has been your experience?
    ×0.75 144 | 7 points by mfisc_019 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What is your database size
    ×0.33 143 | 8 points by kureikain 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Humanising LLM Outputs Is Dumb (kuber.studio)
    ×1.79 25 #83 | 226 points by kuberwastaken 1 day ago | 165 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Show HN: PicPocket – Dedicated 'chats' for photo-sharing (share to organize) (picpocket.io)
    ×0.61 105 | 7 points by amr_shawky 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Show HN: Sign language translation with smart glasses (github.com/aadisang)
    ×0.66 121 | 26 points by aadisang 6 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models (ft.com)
    ×2.87 2 #59 | 621 points by root-parent 1 day ago | 583 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. uBlock Origin no longer supporting Facebook (reddit.com)
    ×2.36 37 | 3 points by Cider9986 22 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. OpenRouter is a example of the Application layer of AI (s-1.vercel.app)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by Altaba 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. The Day We Almost Let a Bot Lose Us a Loyal Customer (acm.org)
    ×1.86 2 | 3 points by visha1v 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. The Philippines' big offshoring industry is growing despite AI (economist.com)
    ×1.86 75 | 75 points by nlpnerd 1 day ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Algebruh - Cross-check arithmetic claims with Z3, cvc5, and Lean (github.com/skorotkiewicz)
    ×0.63 135 | 14 points by modinfo 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas (openai.com)
    ×0.94 58 #70 | 120 points by hackerBanana 1 day ago | 226 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. We Got Better at Keeping You Alive. Not at Keeping You Healthy (julienreszka.com)
    ×1.78 66 #81 | 67 points by julienreszka 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Meter Offers Networking Grants (meter.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by NathaP 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. To save C, we must save ABI (2022) (thephd.dev)
    ×1.21 39 #35 | 108 points by gurjeet 15 hours ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. DFlash changes what tokens per second means (piszczek.pl)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by pich 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Compression Is Prediction (ngrok.com)
    ×2.64 2 #4 | 36 points by nikolay 48 minutes ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Closing Canario Terminal source code (rapha.land)
    ×0.75 57 #46 | 41 points by atan2 12 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Poland now 6th-largest EU economy, ahead of Switzerland and Belgium (euronews.com)
    ×5.45 70 | 131 points by andrewstetsenko 2 days ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: A replayable A2A jury for tracing how agents influence decisions (github.com/nMaroulis)
    ×0.44 107 | 19 points by nmaroulis21 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Nvidia's Risky Business (stratechery.com)
    ×2.02 6 #19 | 244 points by jonbaer 10 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. WhichTok? Comparing Three TikTok Data Acquisition Tools (arxiv.org)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by m-hodges 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Tura – Build agent that uses 80% less token and delivers better results (github.com/Tura-AI)
    ×1.00 129 | 14 points by turaainet 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Halcyon Video – a 3D video store for your media server (github.com/halcyon-video)
    ×1.00 9 #32 | 67 points by Gander5739 7 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: The Complexity Behind Products (s-1.vercel.app)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by Altaba 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Online Speedometer (kmspeedometer.com)
    ×1.11 123 | 4 points by artiomyak 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. 50k Boat Names (beautifulpublicdata.com)
    ×1.08 51 #67 | 188 points by jonathanmkeegan 1 day ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Working on gym weight progress calculator (gymcalc.no)
    ×1.01 136 | 3 points by xtremi 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: HyperSAE – Hyperbolic Sparse Autoencoders for LLM Interpretability (github.com/vishal-dehurdle)
    ×0.86 | 2 points by visha1v 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Mangudai – Agentless attack surface manager for small tech teams (github.com/oktaybilge1)
    ×0.43 | 2 points by mangudai 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: OptiQra – Open-source AI website optimization and intelligence platform (github.com/armin5872)
    ×1.28 141 | 3 points by ArminNX 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: A Project Oberon System version running on RISC-V instead of RISC-5 (github.com/rochus-keller)
    ×0.73 80 | 120 points by Rochus 2 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: OpenClimbing v2.0 – OSM+Wikimedia climbing guide (openstreetmap.org)
    ×1.07 86 | 3 points by jvaclavik 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Vocal Slice – cut audio by selecting text, fully on-device (vocalslice.com)
    ×1.27 114 | 4 points by terranivium 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Self-hosted universal context layer for Mac (github.com/Rafaelpta)
    ×0.73 | 2 points by rafaepta 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Beltrunner: Game Design Postmortem (gingerbeardman.com)
    ×0.41 5 #76 | 18 points by surprisetalk 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Automatic Key Verification (signal.org)
    ×2.42 16 #86 | 10 points by meetpateltech 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Federal vendor with $50M in contracts leaves portal broken for a month (propublica.org)
    ×2.10 67 | 92 points by ams1 6 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Wyzer Programming Language (github.com/Wyzer-Lang)
    ×1.28 87 | 224 points by v0id_isgood 4 days ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs (stolen-thoughts.com)
    ×2.76 4 #6 | 364 points by quantumgarbage 7 hours ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Run Android ARM64 VR APKs on Apple Vision Pro (github.com/shinyquagsire23)
    ×1.13 56 #84 | 182 points by LorenDB 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. If the American Dream Is Dead, No One Told the People Who Are Still Chasing It (robkhenderson.com)
    ×1.18 | 2 points by paulpauper 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Airy – Free, fast, and simple voice content creation (airy.so)
    ×0.69 94 | 46 points by login588 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Seedle, daily -dle for Minecraft seeds (loch.tools)
    ×0.92 106 | 3 points by lwansbrough 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Tuxedo No. 2 – Cocktail recipes (tuxedono2.com)
    ×1.15 68 | 129 points by smartmic 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Flock wanted to tap dashcams in rideshare vechicles to add to surveillance data (flowingdata.com)
    ×3.87 56 | 75 points by skadamat 6 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Pulp – Zero-allocation C11 telemetry engine (28M logs/SEC to disk) (github.com/superwired-labs)
    ×1.01 14 | 3 points by superwired_labs 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. CoreWeave edges past quarterly revenue estimates (reuters.com)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by ashurandi 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Personal AI Policy Directory (howiai.directory)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by emilesilvis 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Negotiating with CSS – Anselm Hannemann (anselm-hannemann.com)
    ×2.17 29 | 4 points by ulrischa 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. The App That Never Asks Your Name (praveenvijayan.substack.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by praveenvijayan 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Speaking for the Dead (longreads.com)
    ×1.09 | 2 points by NaOH 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. How we used to get jobs: A newspaper classifieds story (ironicsans.ghost.io)
    ×1.26 8 #5 | 58 points by speckx 2 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. What I learned by putting GitHub Copilot behind a MitM proxy (lighthousenewsletter.com)
    ×1.44 16 #24 | 127 points by j0selit0 9 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. LFM2.5 2.6B model competitive with 4x larger models (huggingface.co)
    ×1.07 37 #36 | 149 points by nateb2022 17 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: drawtonomy – Draw and run driving scenarios in the browser (github.com/kosuke55)
    ×1.15 81 | 3 points by kosuke55 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: gbx -- manage a fleet of git repos with a TUI (github.com/deemson)
    ×0.41 | 2 points by deemson 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. How We Pushed CDC into Postgres (snowflake.com)
    ×1.07 58 | 149 points by craigkerstiens 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Ohm – Use uBlock Origin cosmetic filters in Chrome again (wbnns.com)
    ×0.34 | 2 points by wbnns 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. The “mechanical miracle” that ruined Mark Twain’s life (resobscura.substack.com)
    ×1.32 36 #41 | 216 points by benbreen 21 hours ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Textdämmerung: On Arday, the EU, and How One Philosophizes with a Chatbot (critiqueanddigest.substack.com)
    ×1.19 | 2 points by crescit_eundo 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Squeak 6.1 (squeak.org)
    ×1.42 13 | 285 points by fniephaus 1 day ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Stowaway – Take the window seat on any plane or satellite overhead (stowaway.live)
    ×2.71 22 #38 | 423 points by thunderbong 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Faster floating point math with Rust's new API (pythonspeed.com)
    ×0.96 49 #45 | 97 points by subset 17 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. AI Found a Zoom Takeover Flaw in Fewer Than 20 Prompts (ai-updates.net)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by ashurandi 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. OpenAI Brings ChatGPT Desktop App to Linux (phoronix.com)
    ×2.48 14 #80 | 5 points by DemiGuru 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. The FastLanes Unified Transport Layout (dave.tf)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by raggi 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. New Zealand lost its music media, and what we're building to replace it (propelmusic.co.nz)
    ×0.92 67 | 133 points by berghoffer 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Langkast – One workspace for every AI model, agents, and your files (langkast.com)
    ×0.69 | 2 points by edwn_mnl 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Neolabs.fyi – 100 new AI labs by research area, valuation, and more (neolabs.fyi)
    ×1.18 104 | 9 points by polyphilz 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C (bbc.com)
    ×2.14 3 #12 | 435 points by stevekemp 7 hours ago | 310 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering (googleblog.com)
    ×3.21 25 #29 | 174 points by 0xedb 3 hours ago | 217 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Tech leaders say AI means less work – staff say they work up to 90 hours a week (bbc.com)
    ×2.71 64 #77 | 123 points by dijksterhuis 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???