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  1. Read HN twice a day for the last decade. Here's my list of S-Tier HN links
    ×1.56 46 #71 | 20 points by vivzkestrel 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Empower the people not the AI – self containing OS
    ×0.81 7 | 4 points by OnemanBSD 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)
    ×0.87 64 | 146 points by whoishiring 2 days ago | 419 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Did GitHub remove the stargazers list?
    ×0.81 20 | 16 points by reconnecting 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)
    ×1.02 50 | 220 points by whoishiring 2 days ago | 246 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Anyone interested in building a harness-only benchmark?
    ×0.28 | 2 points by GodelNumbering 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Dear Anthropic, can we please have thought traces back?
    ×0.60 90 | 7 points by exabrial 18 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. ArXiv
    ×0.38 112 | 5 points by fred123123 23 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What is a good format for a tool to report data to a LLM?
    ×0.45 97 | 5 points by michaelmure 17 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Why remote roles are region specific and not 100% remote?
    ×0.50 124 | 4 points by moizrocky1 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What was your big failure? How did you get around it?
    ×0.51 99 | 6 points by jspann 20 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. How to Pivot?
    ×0.43 102 | 6 points by noreplydev 21 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Can we direct AI on our personal projects during work hours?
    ×0.37 131 | 3 points by rpnx 23 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. An agent built for Mobile
    ×0.15 | 2 points by technicalbot 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Tell HN: Seedance 2.5 API Pricing
    ×0.41 126 | 4 points by JimsonYang 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. The LLMs Problems
    ×0.20 | 2 points by noreplydev 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. How Blackwing Pencils are Made [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by NaOH 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Apple is getting this wrong (openai.com)
    ×6.95 16 | 279 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 290 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. KTX Images Converter for WebGL/GPU and Threejs (robertborghesi.is)
    ×0.20 66 #31 | 5 points by dghez 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. The Story to Save a Couple of Lost Keitai Games (medium.com)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by shscs911 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Building an Advanced Agentic Harness (data4sci.com)
    ×0.97 7 #7 | 40 points by Anon84 2 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Show HN: Text adventure to learn skills and agents (dogeared.dev)
    ×1.33 3 | 3 points by afitnerd 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Launch HN: Hoplite (YC S26) – Effortlessly deploy cloud coding agents (hoplite.sh)
    ×0.51 80 | 79 points by BenceRed 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Show HN: Arabic–Hebrew artifact in GPT-5.4, 12,160 frozen trials (zenodo.org)
    ×1.13 96 | 3 points by rayanpal_ 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: Sign language translation with smart glasses (github.com/aadisang)
    ×1.22 117 | 3 points by aadisang 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: We Fixed UniFi's Slow PPPoE Performance with PPPoE Half-Bridge (arcbox.dev)
    ×0.78 87 | 71 points by uneven9434 2 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Shitty – fast terminal. Memory-unsafe and faster than yours (github.com/pg83)
    ×2.12 78 | 172 points by pshirshov 2 days ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Give your agents a personal internet based on what you've surfed (github.com/Fergana-Labs)
    ×0.44 | 2 points by samzliu 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. The Entropy of a Markov Chain (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)
    ×0.84 11 #5 | 34 points by surprisetalk 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Google Blogger locks blogs in malware false positive (bleepingcomputer.com)
    ×1.31 | 2 points by datakan 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. We gave a village personal AI agents (cosmos-institute.org)
    ×4.28 48 | 6 points by carterac 57 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. I am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch Guardian Angel (twitter.com/gwern)
    ×2.56 40 | 295 points by mattsterett 19 hours ago | 219 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Web Security is Too Hard (textslashplain.com)
    ×2.85 9 | 218 points by kevincox 21 hours ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Paranoia – Get a cold, adversarial review of your code (github.com/subvertnormality)
    ×2.35 123 | 6 points by Grahf 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Negative-Interest Tech Debt (jesseduffield.com)
    ×2.18 | 2 points by lwhsiao 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Piece of SpaceX rocket believed to have crashed into the moon (reuters.com)
    ×2.29 25 #63 | 20 points by thm 2 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Rio-vt and librio: Rio's terminal engine, now embeddable (rioterm.com)
    ×0.64 35 #65 | 47 points by vinhnx 12 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. 33554432px is the max value ff a CSS length layout unit (nerdy.dev)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by speckx 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. The next 50 years: humanity, AI, power (youtube.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by irln 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Hubmesh – Multi-hop RAG retrieval with zero LLM calls in the query path (github.com/DemigodDSK)
    ×0.98 105 | 3 points by dsk_7699 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Zero-Mem: Zero-Token Memory Operations for LLM Agents (arxiv.org)
    ×0.94 36 #36 | 80 points by theanonymousone 11 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Spam on GitHub (gitguardian.com)
    ×0.75 | 2 points by guisch 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Mvn-lite – I taught Maven to be an introvert for coding agents (pvrlabs.xyz)
    ×1.19 | 2 points by ejboy 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. The sale of Electronic Arts has been finalized (bbc.com)
    ×4.34 16 | 71 points by 1659447091 11 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: I built an economy designed to crash (glaxom.netlify.app)
    ×0.84 | 2 points by alias_12 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Fontstash: Light-weight online font texture atlas builder (github.com/memononen)
    ×0.83 | 1 points by klaussilveira 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Godox Transparent Viewfinder Camera C100 (godox.com)
    ×0.82 42 #68 | 55 points by routeroff 16 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: HUD, an open-source minimal terminal UI for ClaudeCode, Codex, OpenCode (github.com/adrida)
    ×0.94 | 2 points by adam_rida 25 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Windows XP 2002 for the Itanium: Unbridled rage (virtuallyfun.com)
    ×1.13 66 | 127 points by jandeboevrie 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. It's not a fear of "AI communism"; it's a fear of competitive market capitalism (observationalepidemiology.blogspot.com)
    ×2.38 42 | 92 points by speckx 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: A Handwritten Blogging Platform (handwritten.blog)
    ×1.70 72 | 188 points by emilesilvis 5 days ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Hinode – Cloud Linux desktop with a dedicated GPU that auto-pauses (hinode.run)
    ×1.96 88 | 7 points by iamursky 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Mint MCP – Generate 3D assets from coding agents (mint.gg)
    ×1.13 114 | 3 points by carrabre 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Got a hot date? A secondhand SK Hynix jacket is perfect as bonuses raise cachet (koreajoongangdaily.com)
    ×2.14 10 #52 | 12 points by Bluestein 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. DuckDB – Data power tools for your laptop, now in Clojure (2023) (techascent.com)
    ×1.01 47 #40 | 141 points by sourdecor 17 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. ADSL's Copper Miracle [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.31 10 #55 | 8 points by askl 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation (mistral.ai)
    ×1.99 1 #57 | 464 points by riadsila 23 hours ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Colorimeter 3nh CR4501 RAL Hack (github.com/hallko1234)
    ×0.58 49 #72 | 19 points by Jimmc414 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Don't stop early: Case-folding source code at memory speed (github.blog)
    ×0.68 49 #73 | 74 points by sbulaev 20 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Tiny Black Holes May Be Exploding Stars Across the Milky Way (sciencedaily.com)
    ×0.92 | 1 points by jandrewrogers 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Cuteadmoa-5.4 (Personal Voice Assistant Agent)
    ×0.33 | 2 points by dotprogrammers 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Oracle Just Halved Its Always Free ARM Limits (cnelecar.com)
    ×1.79 29 #20 | 6 points by iplaypc 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: New Parts for Old Computers (newold.computer)
    ×1.48 132 | 16 points by joshu 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol (africanews.com)
    ×2.02 #54 | 281 points by bookofjoe 17 hours ago | 223 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Hcsec-2026-23: Multiple vulnerabilities impacting HashiCorp Terraform MCP Server (hashicorp.com)
    ×1.32 | 2 points by toomuchtodo 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Use Task Runners for Common Coding Tasks (hamvocke.com)
    ×1.10 81 | 76 points by speckx 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Foundation Model to Predict Airspace (archer.com)
    ×3.49 46 | 6 points by polzounov 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a Pretextual Weed Search (404media.co)
    ×5.93 3 #6 | 57 points by cdrnsf 38 minutes ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones (toneyalexander.github.io)
    ×2.18 11 #59 | 586 points by automatoney 1 day ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Sixteen sign-in pages for one app, switchable with one env var (wordhoard-design-lab.vercel.app)
    ×0.99 | 2 points by sidclaw 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Bending Spoons makes first post-IPO acquisition with $1.3B Airtable deal (euronext.com)
    ×2.14 53 | 108 points by riffraff 1 day ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Rust-lang/rust is adopting an LLM policy (rust-lang.org)
    ×6.20 36 | 91 points by afdbcreid 10 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: NixOS-DGX-Spark – Nix and NixOS on the DGX Spark (github.com/graham33)
    ×0.91 86 | 131 points by graham33 2 days ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: SIEMatic, a fair-sourced observability and security platform (github.com/mcindi)
    ×0.66 95 | 9 points by ilovetux 23 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: All-in-one gamedev toolkit for indie creators (reactorcoregames.github.io)
    ×0.90 108 | 4 points by not_wowinter14 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Google Assistant is going away on Mobile Devices (seroundtable.com)
    ×1.72 13 #30 | 16 points by franze 50 minutes ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: What should the GUI for AI agents look like? (marbleos.com)
    ×1.23 119 | 136 points by akbabu 5 days ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI (techcrunch.com)
    ×3.15 8 #78 | 381 points by thewebguyd 1 day ago | 275 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Amiga clarifies Commodore rights and the future of AmigaOS (amiga.com)
    ×1.60 68 #79 | 34 points by odomus 17 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. The Friendship That Made Google (2018) (newyorker.com)
    ×0.73 | 2 points by tosh 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Irken: A tiny hackable full-featured IRC client (codeberg.org)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by birdculture 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. The Dunning-Kruger effect may just be a data artefact (2020) (mcgill.ca)
    ×1.89 60 | 165 points by audreyfei 1 day ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: OpenEdit – Your coding agent can now edit videos (github.com/veedstudio)
    ×1.57 93 | 11 points by sabbakeynejad 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Collab Word in Web – Collaborative Near MS Word Parity Docx Editor (word-in-web.com)
    ×0.91 | 2 points by theRealestAEP 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc (birchtree.me)
    ×3.65 9 #66 | 681 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 734 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Would You Like to Come to a Barbecue? (nothingbutawordbag.substack.com)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by herbertl 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. What if software shipped with a software engineer? (2025) (kiessling.net)
    ×1.34 | 2 points by hk__2 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: SlickFast Deterministic Chart/Dash Renderer, No Browser(JSON → SVG/PNG) (slickfast.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by AlexRenders 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. TSON – A JSON superset with immutable, hash-pinned schemas (tson.io)
    ×0.97 9 #10 | 31 points by andrewjneumann 1 hour ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. LLMs reward expertise (seangoedecke.com)
    ×5.18 3 #69 | 1371 points by MaxMussio 1 day ago | 564 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???