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  1. Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
    ×1.40 2 #3 | 36 points by david927 1 hour ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: My dev blog has 11k followers. I stopped writing it. What would you do?
    ×0.57 62 #89 | 3 points by zlatkov 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. The Systemic Collapse of the AI Industry: Ideology, Hardware, and CapEx Crisis
    ×0.15 | 2 points by impartial2602 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Mossad accicentally injected data to a French lawyer phone instead of extracting
    ×1.47 70 | 13 points by 0x54MUR41 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Should AI's tell you they're AI?
    ×0.48 56 | 6 points by logicallee 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Is there a mobile operating system with (wasi) container support?
    ×0.32 | 2 points by wseqyrku 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How do you go from writing code to deploying with agents?
    ×0.43 80 | 12 points by sakuraiben 18 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. The State of Google
    ×1.11 79 | 10 points by 3dedb728-3f77 16 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What is your database size
    ×0.31 87 | 6 points by kureikain 16 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Anyone that has built a marketplace, what has been your experience?
    ×1.12 90 | 5 points by mfisc_019 16 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Agentcn – Installable AI Agents
    ×0.23 94 | 3 points by anayat 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Becoming Bridge Builders
    ×0.47 | 2 points by Revdrbkeithhane 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Is Ask HN Shrinking?
    ×0.54 88 | 17 points by keiferski 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Why is Open POWER Foundation a wasteland?
    ×0.58 96 | 6 points by climate_denier_ 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What can I do with a single R9700?
    ×0.19 115 | 4 points by scott01 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: In your experience, what are sound conventions for e-ink UI development?
    ×1.54 128 | 6 points by BoxOfRain 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. DeepSeek announced to raise its API price tremendously
    ×0.44 117 | 30 points by alexwwang 3 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Laguna S 2.1:118B-a9B better than Qwen3.5:122B-a10B? So far, yes
    ×0.16 150 | 4 points by spottedmarley 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. How AI is breaking the British State
    ×1.17 100 | 5 points by andsoitis 19 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Did GitHub remove the stargazers list?
    ×0.63 129 | 27 points by reconnecting 4 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Read HN twice a day for the last decade. Here's my list of S-Tier HN links
    ×2.43 104 | 111 points by vivzkestrel 4 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: What is a good advice for someone looking to fractional hire a team?
    ×0.10 140 | 5 points by vanessa1211 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Show HN: VD – TUI Password Manager and OTP Authenticator for Unix (github.com/ahmedhosssam)
    ×1.45 99 | 5 points by ahmedhosssam 19 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. UnYOLO: Agent credential broker and policy engine for your GitHub account (unyolo.io)
    ×0.72 74 #27 | 4 points by hosolmaz 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Building Groovie, an Advanced Web-Based Drum Machine / Beat Sequencer (pointersgonewild.com)
    ×1.30 75 #41 | 6 points by ibobev 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Gateway 2000's hilariously bad ads in the 90s (Part II) (buttondown.com)
    ×0.88 75 #60 | 116 points by rfarley04 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative (anl.gov)
    ×1.94 31 #88 | 349 points by moelf 1 day ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Jorge – minimal site generator with Markdown and org-mode support (github.com/facundoolano)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by facundo_olano 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: A time zone converter where the URL encodes the whole comparison (acrosszones.com)
    ×1.03 | 2 points by nomadrat 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Super-readable and debuggable shell pipeline command tool, styled like YAML (github.com/puutaro)
    ×0.39 | 1 points by puutaro 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Spritework on the ZX Spectrum: Rendering (wordpress.com)
    ×0.50 107 #42 | 3 points by ibobev 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. A Philosophy for AI Agents (iroha1203.dev)
    ×1.20 | 2 points by iroha1203 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. The Claudyssey: A line-for-line translation of Homer's Odyssey by Claude Fable 5 (theclaudyssey.com)
    ×2.38 89 | 42 points by spinchange 2 days ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: A tool to auto-generate .vscode/settings.json and extensions.json (github.com/RKasai127)
    ×1.78 54 | 3 points by rkasai 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: FAIth – a syntax-free JVM language, compiled by an LLM front-end (github.com/krossovochkin)
    ×1.34 71 | 3 points by krossovochkin 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Bitbead – Photo to printable bead pattern, in the browser (bitbead.app)
    ×3.22 152 | 8 points by shouqing_qiao 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Modern C++ Build Tools for Module Feature (github.com/mcpp-community)
    ×0.52 119 | 7 points by sunrisepeak 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. An OpenAI Strategist Says AI Labs Should Rival Government Power (ai-updates.net)
    ×1.95 11 #20 | 12 points by ashurandi 2 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy (techcrunch.com)
    ×4.07 22 #24 | 159 points by evo_9 3 hours ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731: 82.7% on Terminal-Bench 2.1 with a public harness (antigma.ai)
    ×1.39 85 #35 | 17 points by ubermon 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments (mezha.net)
    ×3.47 29 #64 | 605 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 273 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon (theregister.com)
    ×2.90 34 #87 | 933 points by itvision 2 days ago | 702 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Do the scoring rules decide the winner? 211,080 predictions re-scored five ways (beteamapp.com)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by beteam555 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: A Discord bot running in a 4MiB microVM (github.com/IanSeyler)
    ×0.66 118 | 3 points by ianseyler 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Open-source pixel art editor with animation and auto-tiling tilesets (simplepixelart.com)
    ×2.54 137 | 8 points by lam_hg94 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Mermaid flowcharts you don't have to redraw in a diagram editor (line9.ai)
    ×0.71 145 | 3 points by jumpalongjim 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Criminal Deception in Silicon Valley (informs.org)
    ×2.20 3 #1 | 115 points by iamnothere 3 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Making difficulty curves in games (davetech.co.uk)
    ×1.37 22 #56 | 159 points by hakkikonu 21 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Can you make ChatGPT follow instructions? (ramblingafter.substack.com)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by paulpauper 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: RunOnMine – local policy and approvals for AI access to your machine (github.com/ademisler)
    ×1.27 | 2 points by ademisler 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Mythos social engineering AISI INC-2026-07-28-01 (archive.org)
    ×2.12 73 | 81 points by dnnehgf 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: I spent 2 years designing a mechanical Magic Keyboard (electronicmaterialsoffice.com)
    ×4.46 74 | 298 points by aemerson_ 3 days ago | 242 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: demake – one source project compiles to any retro game console ROM (geosona.com)
    ×1.12 110 | 40 points by gste 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Mea Culpa – Dark Hours (terrygodier.com)
    ×2.76 1 #2 | 383 points by satvikpendem 5 hours ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Cool URIs Don't Change (1998) (w3.org)
    ×1.68 6 #6 | 69 points by Klaster_1 3 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Cross-Compilation with Wails (chriswheeler.dev)
    ×0.38 83 #22 | 3 points by auraham 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Visor – a QR code that's also a live pay-per-call API (acp-x402-scriptmasterlabs.onrender.com)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by scriptmaster 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. AI Workers Ask U.S. Government for Tools to Slow AI Before a Crisis (ainews.com)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by ashurandi 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. AI Barons Are Ready to Give Away Their Fortunes (wired.com)
    ×1.81 3 | 3 points by joozio 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: File-based HTTP endpoints for Python with its own isolated dependencies (github.com/tanrax)
    ×0.38 141 | 5 points by andros 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Faaah – Filesystem as an AI Handler (github.com/sebastiancarlos)
    ×0.82 108 | 3 points by httbs 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (arcprize.org)
    ×3.13 22 #67 | 779 points by tosh 2 days ago | 466 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Tech sucks: You have to vote with your wallet, or nothing will change (82mhz.net)
    ×3.69 70 #77 | 71 points by reallydontask 2 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. New x86 CPUID Entry For "EVOLUTIONARY" (sandpile.org)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by ruik 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Hypotheses (hypotheses.org)
    ×0.68 | 2 points by jruohonen 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Ember – Redshift safe color palettes (github.com/carpdiem)
    ×1.21 17 | 3 points by carpdiem 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. BMW Rolling Out In-Car Spam (heise.de)
    ×3.13 92 | 35 points by lschueller 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: StoneBuild – a build tool in Go for your projects in any languages (github.com/tigerlang)
    ×1.05 | 2 points by tiger-langer 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Arxid – keyed, non-enumerable ID obfuscation (github.com/lucasolopes)
    ×1.74 149 | 8 points by byolopes 4 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Three in five Americans favor stronger oversight of social media companies (reuters.com)
    ×2.95 6 #44 | 15 points by jack0111 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Software Giant SAP Stops Most Travel and Hiring Because of AI's Soaring Cost (404media.co)
    ×2.82 10 #57 | 83 points by theanonymousone 10 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Make a Fake MySpace Profile (allthedamn.tools)
    ×1.07 | 2 points by kilroy123 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. From your doorbell to your home network (of0x.cc)
    ×1.05 68 #72 | 88 points by mmoogle 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. X Is Changing How Creators Get Paid in 2026 (bestmillionstartups.com)
    ×1.81 12 | 3 points by brevn 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. The Rogue Scholar (rogue-scholar.org)
    ×1.82 11 | 3 points by jruohonen 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Assembly Hall of Shame (github.com/xoreaxeaxeax)
    ×1.99 31 | 419 points by piotrgrabowski 2 days ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Defcon and HN, the only two audiences I might find
    ×1.26 98 | 5 points by ycombiredd 19 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: posix-regex – POSIX standard regex engine for JavaScript (github.com/dawsonhuang0)
    ×0.42 | 2 points by dawson0 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. As AI guzzles water and energy, we are facing a choice: datacentres or homes? (theguardian.com)
    ×0.82 | 2 points by tomwphillips 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. A tiny, private clipboard history app for macOS Native Swift (github.com/xvertile)
    ×1.25 | 2 points by daan-dj 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. St13 Python package for trend analysis of financial markets (github.com/street13capital)
    ×1.20 | 2 points by kensoh 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Maryland Closes More of Cunningham Falls State Park After Second Beaver Attack (maryland.gov)
    ×1.53 16 | 107 points by bookofjoe 21 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Mykhailo Fedorov reveals struggle to secure Patriot missiles and Western support (uawire.org)
    ×2.56 91 | 38 points by greedo 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Job Seeker – AI agent skills for job searching (github.com/galiprandi)
    ×1.86 53 | 4 points by galiprandi 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Algebruh - Cross-check arithmetic claims with Z3, cvc5, and Lean (github.com/skorotkiewicz)
    ×0.59 83 | 13 points by modinfo 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Likeface, make typefaces you like (0i0.app)
    ×0.80 146 | 3 points by 0gs 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. My server is a phone now (seg6.space)
    ×2.26 3 #30 | 460 points by seg6 19 hours ago | 224 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. _for-sale DNS records (specification.website)
    ×2.04 17 #52 | 425 points by shaunpud 1 day ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Why are German heat pumps more expensive? (janrosenow.substack.com)
    ×1.23 | 2 points by DamonHD 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: A free DOCX editor with MCP server for editing (revise.io)
    ×2.91 93 | 14 points by artursapek 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???