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  1. Poker and Liar's Dice over Bluetooth Low Energy
    ×0.76 | 2 points by yincrash 58 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)
    ×0.84 80 | 156 points by whoishiring 3 days ago | 468 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. US and China race to be first to build Skynet. Either way we're F'ed
    ×0.66 11 | 10 points by spottedmarley 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. DeepSeek announced to raise its API price tremendously
    ×0.49 53 | 16 points by alexwwang 13 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)
    ×1.02 71 | 225 points by whoishiring 3 days ago | 278 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Did GitHub remove the stargazers list?
    ×0.71 93 | 22 points by reconnecting 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Read HN twice a day for the last decade. Here's my list of S-Tier HN links
    ×2.23 47 | 75 points by vivzkestrel 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Empower the people not the AI – self containing OS
    ×0.62 108 | 8 points by OnemanBSD 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Show your micro-SaaS / MRR updates (August 2026)
    ×0.95 111 | 8 points by genekrapivin 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What would make you list your AI product on a new marketplace?
    ×0.47 122 | 4 points by Achrima 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Dear Anthropic, can we please have thought traces back?
    ×0.72 125 | 10 points by exabrial 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Anyone interested in building a harness-only benchmark?
    ×0.30 129 | 5 points by GodelNumbering 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Why mobile software infrastructure never belongs to its owner?
    ×0.09 | 2 points by rezvovmobile 22 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Developers–How Did You Get Your First Paying Customers?
    ×0.47 101 | 6 points by HSK11 23 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Who Has This Pain?
    ×0.19 130 | 3 points by swk-phil 23 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Why Fireworks doesn't support Voice AI
    ×0.49 114 | 5 points by kushalpatil07 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What paid tools have you now replaced with personalized AI-coded tools?
    ×0.17 143 | 3 points by gtbcb 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Show HN: Twocal – Calendar sync that verifies both sides actually agree (twocal.app)
    ×0.64 119 | 5 points by gsudarkoff 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Truemetrics (YC S23) Is Hiring in Berlin – GTM Lead (ycombinator.com)
    2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. From Hamburg, with Love: The History of VST [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by tnolet 24 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. The next 50 years: humanity, AI, power – Yuval Noah Harari (youtube.com)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by nyc111 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Flood warning: How citizens' AI agents will swamp public services (computerweekly.com)
    ×0.85 | 1 points by edward 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Awake: Minimal single function app for keeping macOS awake while closing the lid (github.com/hetspookjee)
    ×0.77 | 1 points by hetspookjee 14 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Why Open-Source Models Haven't Killed the Big Dogs (cuecloud.substack.com)
    ×2.23 13 | 3 points by krav-sales 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Microsoft's AI Sales Mostly Come from OpenAI, Disclosures Show (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.59 36 | 70 points by mapping365 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones (toneyalexander.github.io)
    ×2.23 5 | 615 points by automatoney 2 days ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Almost no skill required to cook a steak (sydorets.com)
    ×1.88 3 #3 | 111 points by yusyd 2 hours ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Windows died inside Microsoft, a 25-year veteran on how Azure took over (windowslatest.com)
    ×2.71 9 #57 | 21 points by ninko 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Proxmox VE now available for ARM64 (proxmox.com)
    ×1.82 64 #71 | 80 points by geerlingguy 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Diffing Binary Files (withkord.com)
    ×1.19 84 | 17 points by wennyyustalim 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Voca – Most AI tutors wander. I built one that follows a curriculum (vocalessons.com)
    ×1.04 | 2 points by amreldessoukiad 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. France is banning unsolicited telemarketing calls starting next week (apnews.com)
    ×4.41 11 #64 | 100 points by geox 13 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf] (wpi.edu)
    ×2.12 77 #68 | 439 points by pmg101 2 days ago | 437 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Three Six Mafia – Data about "6/6/6 dating" (2024) (divingintheshallowend.com)
    ×2.98 24 #81 | 158 points by embedding-shape 1 day ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Modern Browsers Don't Need the Cookie Anymore (kuber.studio)
    ×2.80 87 | 19 points by kuberwastaken 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Mcpscore – validate any MCP server compliance with a new MCP version (github.com/mcp-box)
    ×2.27 128 | 10 points by alex_akimov 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Launch HN: ProvenMetal (YC S26) delivers circuit boards in days instead of weeks (provenmetal.com)
    ×1.07 3 #2 | 89 points by willcarkner 2 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux (runarcn.no)
    ×3.05 9 #43 | 421 points by speckx 22 hours ago | 435 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Shopify says AI search is driving more traffic and sales, not replacing Google (techcrunch.com)
    ×1.41 7 #46 | 15 points by benwerd 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: PON-BEAM re-architecture of the Erlang VM (github.com/matheuscamarques)
    ×1.11 138 | 3 points by matheusosan 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Agents keep running with the lid closed (agentsneversleep.app)
    ×1.22 139 | 3 points by alekseyrozh 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Webklip – ephemeral online clipboard with live sync and E2E encryption (webklip.com)
    ×0.54 140 | 3 points by vsergione 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Prime Agent: A self-improving RLM agent (primeintellect.ai)
    ×1.62 23 #40 | 229 points by Xeophon 21 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Agent Plugins 1.0: Portable Package Format for AI Skills (aaif.io)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by thm 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: HUD, an open-source minimal terminal UI for ClaudeCode, Codex, OpenCode (github.com/adrida)
    ×1.41 78 | 23 points by adam_rida 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. “Gravity is worth asking about” (aresluna.org)
    ×1.33 56 #61 | 214 points by nozzlegear 1 day ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. The Genesis of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP): A Historical Overview (2023) (brightmarbles.io)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by theanonymousone 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Hop.earth – OpenStreetMap based car racing game (hop.earth)
    ×0.68 76 | 90 points by faebi 2 days ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Kedge – Full-stack cloud with forkable VM snapshots and global SQLite (kedge.dev)
    ×1.12 132 | 140 points by wgjordan 1 week ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Why Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.15 53 #60 | 145 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Faster Than Ninja (build2.org)
    ×0.78 47 #86 | 92 points by elasticdog 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI (acm.org)
    ×1.86 25 | 287 points by tchalla 1 day ago | 247 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac (github.com/drumih)
    ×3.59 94 | 916 points by gitpusher42 1 week ago | 344 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. The Valley of Webhooks (weli.dev)
    ×1.49 39 #48 | 212 points by weli 1 day ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Smoke 'em if you got 'em (armyhistory.org)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by Bluestein 19 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Humor Arena – Which frontier model is funniest? (laugh.so)
    ×1.69 88 | 8 points by killiandunne1 18 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. We finally learned to center a div, then browsers added sidebars (seg6.space)
    ×1.54 51 | 185 points by seg6 1 day ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Bor – Open-source policy management for Linux desktops (getbor.dev)
    ×1.26 98 | 195 points by eniac111 4 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: BoundaryBench – benchmarking coding agents under real sandbox policy (github.com/boundary-bench)
    ×0.93 | 2 points by _orcaman_ 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing (randsinrepose.com)
    ×1.96 15 #16 | 390 points by ExMachina73 20 hours ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Everyone Who Will Ever Be Born (garyrobinson.net)
    ×0.78 | 1 points by garyrob 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Why Do Programming Languages Rise and Fall? (lpi.org)
    ×0.58 | 2 points by theanonymousone 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: I built an economy designed to crash (glaxom.netlify.app)
    ×0.81 144 | 3 points by alias_12 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Shadow Blocker Blocklist – DNS blocklist from per-platform research (github.com/CorleoneSalute)
    ×0.48 | 2 points by Corleone612 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Why some people mow a lawn better than others (pudding.cool)
    ×1.57 58 | 199 points by carlos-menezes 2 days ago | 189 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: QR codes where your photo is the code, not pasted on top (sqr.art)
    ×0.91 | 2 points by mikaelcarlavan 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: My receipt printer prints an original artwork every morning (github.com/matt-w-horn)
    ×0.89 74 | 22 points by spectraldrift 23 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Kifly – Expose your ecommerce store to AI agents via MCP [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by roberttk1 11 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Axioms for a new operating system for AI agents (fixpoint.co)
    ×2.45 30 | 3 points by dbmikus 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months (hartwork.org)
    ×1.80 19 | 317 points by spyc 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Fine-tune an 8B model on a 4 GB laptop GPU (github.com/MakazhanAlpamys)
    ×1.09 73 | 135 points by MakazhanAlpamys 2 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects (github.com/denoland)
    ×1.72 41 #36 | 265 points by calvinfo 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. What I love about Django (buttondown.com)
    ×1.83 46 #73 | 122 points by j4mie 10 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Sula: A Gemini protocol server written in Scryer Prolog (sagredo.dev)
    ×0.65 56 #78 | 58 points by triska 23 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Arxid – keyed, non-enumerable ID obfuscation (github.com/lucasolopes)
    ×1.85 104 | 8 points by byolopes 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't (crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com)
    ×2.66 8 #4 | 546 points by DarkContinent 13 hours ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Cloudflare Launches AEO Visibility Dashboard (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.67 | 2 points by thm 40 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Pushing the limits of RISC-V emulation (shuklaayu.sh)
    ×0.91 51 #70 | 53 points by shuklaayush 20 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Guided by the Beauty of Our Weapons (2017) (lesswrong.com)
    ×0.76 | 1 points by bryan0 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability (githubstatus.com)
    ×6.84 26 #29 | 112 points by Footkerchief 2 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Google AI search leaks unreleased game information (reddit.com)
    ×3.01 34 | 4 points by cdrnsf 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Maple-Preview – Ternary 20B MoE running at 120 tok/s on a iPhone (deepgrove.ai)
    ×1.36 57 | 168 points by edwardbzhang 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. On non-rooted Android 17, ADB uninstall of system apps fails (github.com/Universal-Debloater-Alliance)
    ×2.99 18 #41 | 194 points by microtonal 12 hours ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Akinator can read your mind and tell you what character you are thinking of (akinator.com)
    ×2.58 53 | 4 points by xkcd1963 52 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: I worked on a new browser for 2 years, today it passed Acid 3 (intellios.ai)
    ×2.72 118 | 158 points by coolwulf 5 days ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Jeff Dean Leaving Google (twitter.com/JeffDean)
    ×2.71 38 | 79 points by bifftastic 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Morioka Shoten (takram.com)
    ×0.78 43 #31 | 59 points by skogstokig 11 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. The Entropy of a Markov Chain (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)
    ×0.84 57 #50 | 137 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Western Sahara (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.27 17 | 124 points by brudgers 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Downloadable Past Catalog Archive (pastcatalogs.com)
    ×0.79 | 1 points by bookofjoe 9 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???