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  1. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)
    ×0.80 73 | 156 points by whoishiring 3 days ago | 482 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. DeepSeek announced to raise its API price tremendously
    ×0.66 65 | 25 points by alexwwang 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)
    ×1.01 67 | 225 points by whoishiring 3 days ago | 288 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Laguna S 2.1:118B-a9B better than Qwen3.5:122B-a10B? So far, yes
    ×0.24 | 2 points by spottedmarley 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Anybody tried Laguna S 2.1 (by Poolside)?
    ×0.24 66 | 6 points by spottedmarley 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Poker and Liar's Dice over Bluetooth Low Energy
    ×0.24 91 | 3 points by yincrash 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask GitHub SRE: How serious is the situation there?
    ×1.25 10 | 20 points by laxk 13 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. US and China race to be first to build Skynet. Either way we're F'ed
    ×0.72 59 | 16 points by spottedmarley 19 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Did GitHub remove the stargazers list?
    ×0.69 93 | 23 points by reconnecting 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Read HN twice a day for the last decade. Here's my list of S-Tier HN links
    ×2.31 54 | 88 points by vivzkestrel 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Dear Anthropic, can we please have thought traces back?
    ×0.64 126 | 10 points by exabrial 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Empower the people not the AI – self containing OS
    ×0.55 116 | 8 points by OnemanBSD 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Show your micro-SaaS / MRR updates (August 2026)
    ×1.06 112 | 10 points by genekrapivin 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What would make you list your AI product on a new marketplace?
    ×0.41 133 | 4 points by Achrima 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Anyone interested in building a harness-only benchmark?
    ×0.27 134 | 5 points by GodelNumbering 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. US to vet social media of foreign journalists applying for visas, report says (reuters.com)
    ×2.68 55 | 3 points by thm 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Why Normal People Aren't Using AI Agents (wired.com)
    ×1.52 | 2 points by joozio 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. OpenBGPD 9.2 Released (undeadly.org)
    ×1.37 | 2 points by defrost 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Specjudge, tells you which model you should use for each task (github.com/JoaquinRuiz)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by jokiruiz 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Spin audit of SQD/QSCI quantum-chemistry benchmarks on iron–sulfur clusters (zenodo.org)
    ×0.31 13 #14 | 13 points by purestatelabs 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Launch HN: HyperProbe (YC S26) – Agents that do read-only debugging in prod (hyperprobe.co)
    ×0.36 80 #60 | 68 points by shailendraht 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. The Triangle Game, from Zero (muchmirul.github.io)
    ×0.25 65 #62 | 14 points by jdkee 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 (meta.ai)
    ×1.65 8 #89 | 326 points by paulkrush 1 day ago | 257 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. DeepSeek planning to significantly raise prices (deepseek.com)
    ×6.09 13 | 83 points by miroljub 18 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: I worked on a new browser for 2 years, today it passed Acid 3 (intellios.ai)
    ×2.72 104 | 158 points by coolwulf 6 days ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: An app to dump notes during the day and plan todos without distraction (spqrk.net)
    ×1.68 132 | 5 points by SPQRK 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. First free TTS, STT and LLM three in one (neuronai.uz)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by yutabek 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Painting with Gaussians (yogthos.net)
    ×0.85 41 | 110 points by yogthos 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Fuse – statically typed functional programming language (fuselang.org)
    ×1.08 97 | 119 points by the_unproven 4 days ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Discovery Loop (discoveryloop.com)
    ×2.85 5 #49 | 922 points by xtreak29 1 day ago | 583 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux (runarcn.no)
    ×2.95 8 #59 | 448 points by speckx 1 day ago | 498 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: AgisHub – pay-per-call tools for AI agents over x402 (USDC on Base) (agishub.com)
    ×1.82 | 2 points by jmavid 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. You 're right to push back (anedelkos.eu)
    ×1.46 | 2 points by andned 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Wallfacer – A terminal session manager for Claude Code, and more (github.com/pradipta)
    ×0.80 63 | 35 points by pradiptasarma 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Isopolis – Isometric pixel map of SF (isopolis.city)
    ×1.95 68 | 346 points by nuwandavek 4 days ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: S3mini v1 – Tiny and fast S3 client, no-deps, for Node, Bun, Cloudflare (codeberg.org)
    ×1.42 105 | 4 points by Peter_J 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Kedge – Full-stack cloud with forkable VM snapshots and global SQLite (kedge.dev)
    ×1.12 122 | 140 points by wgjordan 1 week ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Demis Hassabis is moving from CEO to Chairman at Google DeepMind (axios.com)
    ×4.47 7 | 371 points by ot 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Nvidia’s Vera Whitepaper Has a Thread Loose (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×1.24 4 | 201 points by pella 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Helsinki Hacker News Meetup (calpaterson.com)
    ×2.29 32 | 182 points by calpaterson 1 day ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Stripekit – Terraform-style declarative config for your Stripe account (rafael.ltd)
    ×0.64 | 2 points by rafgg 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: CityEdit – Open-source map for voting on NYC street changes (cityedit.org)
    ×1.46 123 | 4 points by edbltn 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Syncular – offline-first SQL sync with TypeScript and Rust cores (github.com/syncular)
    ×0.81 111 | 79 points by quambo 4 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Greenlight – Preflight Scanner for App Store and Google Play (github.com/RevylAI)
    ×0.59 | 2 points by ethanzhoucool 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Pareto Front (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.43 17 #32 | 247 points by binyu 1 day ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Wilhelm Voigt (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.00 | 1 points by thunderbong 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Free online calculators – no signup, no fees (calcboxer.com)
    ×0.97 | 1 points by wowinter15 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. MacGregor the Bridge Builder (astralcodexten.com)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by Michelangelo11 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. The AI slowdown is coming (transformernews.ai)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by reasonableklout 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Restaurants and theatres ban Meta's smart glasses (theguardian.com)
    ×3.83 49 | 5 points by BlueBerry2001 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Scientists discover Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability on the surface of the Sun (nso.edu)
    ×1.13 8 #6 | 221 points by neversaydie 13 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. STV: A full-motion video codec for the Atari ST (medium.com)
    ×0.76 27 #24 | 52 points by indyjo 11 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. State-oriented consistency: Why we stopped looking for one right answer (keel-iot.eu)
    ×0.36 55 #79 | 10 points by fcravio 13 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Certo – An open source platform to deliver Open Badges (github.com/schroedinger-Hat)
    ×1.00 | 1 points by thejoin95 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: ARF – a record format for AI evaluation runs, with reproducible digests (korvo.xyz)
    ×1.56 71 | 3 points by akshay_bhardwaj 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability (githubstatus.com)
    ×3.43 3 #10 | 397 points by Footkerchief 17 hours ago | 324 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't (crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com)
    ×2.67 16 #42 | 667 points by DarkContinent 1 day ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Bitbead – Photo to printable bead pattern, in the browser (bitbead.app)
    ×3.25 121 | 8 points by shouqing_qiao 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Sift – MCP aggregator that exposes 2 tools instead of hundreds (github.com/Narasimha1997)
    ×1.45 106 | 5 points by Narasimha1997 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Dark mode toggles: two states are enough (verou.me)
    ×1.41 | 2 points by aratahikaru5 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Dont Wordle – a reverse word puzzle about preserving options (dontwordle.app)
    ×0.62 117 | 3 points by lby910722 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Inside vLLM: Anatomy of a High-Throughput LLM Inference System (2025) (aleksagordic.com)
    ×1.25 1 #29 | 103 points by sebg 11 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Why Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.11 38 #87 | 148 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Musk's new chip factory will cover 100M square feet (twitter.com/elonmusk)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by BlueBerry2001 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Jido Assembly; Slack Clone in Pure Elixir with Integrated Agents (jido.run)
    ×1.32 108 | 23 points by mikehostetler 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: I gave my video editor an MCP server so Claude can edit videos for me (shorz.ai)
    ×2.55 137 | 6 points by DonRando 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: HUD, an open-source minimal terminal UI for ClaudeCode, Codex, OpenCode (github.com/adrida)
    ×1.50 82 | 25 points by adam_rida 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Photo to Video AI – Animate a photo with a motion prompt (phototovideo-ai.net)
    ×0.65 | 2 points by zduoduo 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: GetPageSpeed Amplify, a compatible replacement for Nginx Amplify (getpagespeed.com)
    ×0.91 136 | 3 points by dvershinin 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Why Estonians invite strangers into their back gardens each summer (bbc.com)
    ×1.54 13 #19 | 72 points by koolhead17 9 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. "Build In Public" but how do you do it without making it a full-time job?
    ×0.69 | 1 points by Amrani 40 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: QWERTY MIDI – Isomorphic Layout MIDI Controller (beijaflor.io)
    ×1.62 47 | 4 points by yamadapc 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Learn System Design, one campaign at a time (scalequest.io)
    ×0.85 69 | 4 points by raaa1 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones (toneyalexander.github.io)
    ×2.23 6 | 617 points by automatoney 2 days ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: My receipt printer prints an original artwork every morning (github.com/matt-w-horn)
    ×0.87 79 | 22 points by spectraldrift 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, expanding GPT‑5.6 Luna access for free users (openai.com)
    ×1.93 12 #12 | 234 points by tedsanders 16 hours ago | 179 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Terminal apps that can make your life easier (panos.digital)
    ×0.81 | 1 points by panosdigital 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. AI model achieves breakthrough in forecasting cyclones – Google DeepMind (deepmind.google)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by rbanffy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking (wired.com)
    ×2.84 9 | 491 points by dzdt 1 day ago | 273 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Product analytics (and evals) for agent sessions on your MCP (armature.tech)
    ×0.49 110 | 42 points by screm 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Katharos Functional programming and CSP-style concurrency for Python (github.com/kamalfarahani)
    ×0.70 129 | 37 points by kamalf 4 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. New Orleans is testing Carbyne’s AI-powered Emergency Call Triage software (shreveporttimes.com)
    ×2.59 5 #26 | 57 points by champagnepapi 8 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Llmem – Local persistent memory for AI coding, no embeddings (github.com/netrixone)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by stuchl4n3k 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. High-Quality Free Transparent PNG Collections (pngdex.com)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by kanlabs 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Terafab (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.80 | 1 points by tosh 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Faster Than Ninja (build2.org)
    ×0.78 52 | 94 points by elasticdog 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: A free mini game that makes you a smarter fly fisherperson (read-the-water.netlify.app)
    ×0.46 18 #21 | 11 points by mpc75 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs (scalex.dev)
    ×1.58 15 #22 | 299 points by Wirbelwind 21 hours ago | 211 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. “Gravity is worth asking about” (aresluna.org)
    ×1.36 39 #81 | 223 points by nozzlegear 2 days ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Pikabo – A browser extension automation testing tool (github.com/sonic0002)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by misonic 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???