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  1. Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
    ×1.38 5 #13 | 235 points by david927 15 hours ago | 816 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: TS Compiler
    ×0.47 32 | 4 points by apple_george 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: How do you set comp at an early stage startup?
    ×0.27 | 2 points by jeffreyfate 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Recommended Merchant of Record and Affliate Setup
    ×0.30 80 | 3 points by tisdadd 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What Project are you the most proud of?
    ×0.50 73 | 3 points by emn4tor 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Are functional programmers more upset about how good AI is at coding?
    ×0.98 63 | 8 points by amichail 13 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Is this normal HN ranking?
    ×0.89 49 | 3 points by unclebucknasty 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Should a coding client import another client's rules by default?
    ×0.31 | 2 points by ryanmerket 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: My dev blog has 11k followers. I stopped writing it. What would you do?
    ×0.70 78 | 7 points by zlatkov 18 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: How do you go from writing code to deploying with agents?
    ×0.47 87 | 14 points by sakuraiben 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. The State of Google
    ×1.25 82 | 14 points by 3dedb728-3f77 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. The Systemic Collapse of the AI Industry: Ideology, Hardware, and CapEx Crisis
    ×0.44 81 | 5 points by impartial2602 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What is your database size
    ×0.33 109 | 7 points by kureikain 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Is Ask HN Shrinking?
    ×0.55 94 | 18 points by keiferski 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Why is Open POWER Foundation a wasteland?
    ×0.69 110 | 8 points by climate_denier_ 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Anyone that has built a marketplace, what has been your experience?
    ×1.02 113 | 6 points by mfisc_019 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Should AI's tell you they're AI?
    ×0.56 79 | 8 points by logicallee 21 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Agentcn – Installable AI Agents
    ×0.29 119 | 4 points by anayat 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Mossad accicentally injected data to a French lawyer phone instead of extracting
    ×1.94 76 | 21 points by 0x54MUR41 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. DeepSeek announced to raise its API price tremendously
    ×0.46 128 | 31 points by alexwwang 4 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: In your experience, what are sound conventions for e-ink UI development?
    ×1.21 147 | 6 points by BoxOfRain 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Is there a mobile operating system with (wasi) container support?
    ×0.41 98 | 3 points by wseqyrku 16 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: What can I do with a single R9700?
    ×0.18 137 | 4 points by scott01 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Laguna S 2.1:118B-a9B better than Qwen3.5:122B-a10B? So far, yes
    ×0.15 157 | 4 points by spottedmarley 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Did GitHub remove the stargazers list?
    ×0.68 139 | 29 points by reconnecting 5 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Read HN twice a day for the last decade. Here's my list of S-Tier HN links
    ×2.44 106 | 113 points by vivzkestrel 4 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Hetzner Experiments Platform: Inference API (hetzner.com)
    ×4.70 77 | 5 points by sparkling 26 minutes ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Whetstone – 20 Claude Code skills, each distilled from one real failure (akbarsha.dev)
    ×1.17 83 | 3 points by iamakbarsha1 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. The main way I've seen people turn ideologically crazy (2025) (andymasley.com)
    ×2.79 12 #38 | 116 points by mef 12 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386 (os8088.com)
    ×1.52 26 #60 | 251 points by jggonz 1 day ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. The Renaissance Was Edited Before Anyone Asked for It Back (thetraces.substack.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by feldrim 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: FAIth – a syntax-free JVM language, compiled by an LLM front-end (github.com/krossovochkin)
    ×1.67 95 | 4 points by krossovochkin 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. What Happened to HackerOne? (teknogeek.io)
    ×1.96 1 #2 | 197 points by hipparchus 6 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Analyzing data from Silicon Valley ventures and founders prosecuted for fraud (informs.org)
    ×2.16 28 #61 | 192 points by iamnothere 17 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Melatonin impairs morning cognition in healthy young adults (2023) (oup.com)
    ×2.01 19 #87 | 178 points by bohaska 1 day ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Bloom's Taxonomy (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by num42 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Decart Exploring Sale, Possibly SpaceX (calcalistech.com)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by Taikhoom2010 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Pacific Slate: a self-hosted, model-agnostic multi-agent AI assistant (pacslate.com)
    ×1.40 68 | 5 points by badwx 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: An enjoyable and efficient way for product teams to communicate (fosbury.ai)
    ×1.24 102 | 3 points by YarivAshk 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: VD – TUI Password Manager and OTP Authenticator for Unix (github.com/ahmedhosssam)
    ×2.00 116 | 7 points by ahmedhosssam 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: An app to dump notes during the day and plan todos without distraction (spqrk.net)
    ×1.64 158 | 5 points by SPQRK 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Port the Enlightenment desktop environment to NetBSD (netbsd.org)
    ×2.48 5 #33 | 4 points by birdculture 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. What Biology Can (and Cannot) Tell Us About Conscious Machines [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.90 66 | 3 points by yllberisha 20 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Towers of Silence (99percentinvisible.org)
    ×1.32 | 2 points by NoRagrets 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. OpenHaystack: Reverse-engineered Apple's Find My network (github.com/seemoo-lab)
    ×1.32 | 2 points by BrandiATMuhkuh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Exhibit 8A and 8B from "The Good Old USA" Project (2024) (justice.gov)
    ×1.87 4 | 3 points by sans_souse 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: A Discord bot running in a 4MiB microVM (github.com/IanSeyler)
    ×0.65 144 | 3 points by ianseyler 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Open-source pixel art editor with animation and auto-tiling tilesets (simplepixelart.com)
    ×2.53 148 | 8 points by lam_hg94 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents (docker.com)
    ×2.57 #1 | 136 points by etoxin 2 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: I made alchemical-cosmological PCB badges (github.com/KaiPereira)
    ×0.77 22 #12 | 8 points by kaipereira 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Tom Stanton's supersonic trebuchet breaks sound barrier with gravity alone (techeblog.com)
    ×3.55 19 #42 | 247 points by Thorondor 17 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Human vs. AI – Diff-based line-level provenance for text under agentic editing (github.com/eighttrigrams)
    ×0.65 59 #46 | 51 points by eighttrigrams 17 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. CleverSocks – multithreaded, small, efficient SOCKS5 server (github.com/clevotec)
    ×1.38 | 2 points by kcrk 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. What is WAL backpressure, and why does ClickHouse Managed Postgres need it? (clickhouse.com)
    ×1.04 | 2 points by saisrirampur 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Gateway 2000's hilariously bad ads in the 90s (Part II) (buttondown.com)
    ×0.88 57 | 118 points by rfarley04 1 day ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Nearest Pint (knowwhereconsulting.co.uk)
    ×0.74 27 #15 | 23 points by bookofjoe 5 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2 (oskrim.github.io)
    ×1.22 36 #31 | 142 points by tremguy 20 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Noctua finds more than half of PC cases misstate CPU cooler clearances (tomshardware.com)
    ×1.86 30 #83 | 29 points by sbulaev 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. The Trundholm Sun Chariot (google.com)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by zeristor 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: OpsCart – Read-only Kubernetes triage with incident history (github.com/opscart)
    ×0.42 130 | 3 points by opscart 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Presse – a Rust CLI tool to compress and merge PDFs (github.com/SimonBure)
    ×0.88 142 | 4 points by saientifik 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Airy – Free, fast, and simple voice content creation (airy.so)
    ×0.62 78 #66 | 39 points by login588 22 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Message your other Claude Code sessions (claude.com)
    ×1.74 62 #75 | 157 points by mfiguiere 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late (annas-archive.gl)
    ×3.86 52 | 6 points by rzk 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country (newrepublic.com)
    ×4.25 23 | 256 points by geox 1 day ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Illinois just told every operating system to start reporting your kid's age (itsfoss.com)
    ×2.98 26 | 120 points by WaitWaitWha 1 day ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: File-based HTTP endpoints for Python with its own isolated dependencies (github.com/tanrax)
    ×0.38 154 | 5 points by andros 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Today's cities on a globe of Earth's tectonic past and future (douwe.com)
    ×0.63 72 #63 | 31 points by dosinga 17 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Endlessdoors Is Phoning Home. Pick Up (vulncheck.com)
    ×1.78 6 | 3 points by D4Ha 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. LinkedIn Feed Blocker (github.com/andrewpollack)
    ×1.59 38 | 181 points by andrewpollack 1 day ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Voyager 1 FDS Computer Emulator (zaneham.github.io)
    ×0.76 61 | 92 points by rahen 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: See how long it takes ChatGPT Sol 5.6 to send a byte across the LAN (robss2020.github.io)
    ×1.16 85 | 3 points by logicallee 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Modern C++ Build Tools for Module Feature (github.com/mcpp-community)
    ×0.52 134 | 7 points by sunrisepeak 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. ATProto for Distributed Systems Engineers (atproto.com)
    ×1.69 3 #14 | 69 points by LelouBil 7 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Wyzer Programming Language (github.com/Wyzer-Lang)
    ×1.26 62 | 220 points by v0id_isgood 2 days ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: XSAF – Extra Small Agent Framework (ilha.build)
    ×2.51 150 | 7 points by ryuzyy 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Dithered QR Codes (andrewt.net)
    ×2.77 3 #71 | 362 points by jmusall 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Flyn, a link shortener that counts bots separately from humans (flyn.to)
    ×0.94 | 1 points by bhakunikaran 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Maple-Preview – Ternary 20B MoE running at 120 tok/s on a iPhone (deepgrove.ai)
    ×1.38 97 | 172 points by edwardbzhang 5 days ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: iPhone app takes simultaneous images from 2 lenses, fuses into 1 photo (photosynthesis.camera)
    ×3.03 111 | 8 points by sajomes 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. EGA and Me: A Complicated Relationship (reanthsoft.com)
    ×1.02 94 #64 | 3 points by doener 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Israeli settlers are sneaking into Syria to claim land for a Jewish outpost (apnews.com)
    ×3.47 45 | 5 points by hebelehubele 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Reservation Apps Have Made Getting into a Restaurant a Nightmare (wsj.com)
    ×0.76 | 1 points by thm 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Diffusion LLMs as Targets and Adversaries: Mechanistic Safety Exploits (arxiv.org)
    ×1.31 | 2 points by sbulaev 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. AI Is Rewiring South Korea's Careers, Dating and Culture (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.16 | 2 points by theanonymousone 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Wallfacer – A terminal session manager for Claude Code, and more (github.com/pradipta)
    ×0.81 126 | 36 points by pradiptasarma 4 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. How We Pushed CDC into Postgres (snowflake.com)
    ×1.19 3 #10 | 86 points by craigkerstiens 7 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Are AI agents our industry's industrial robots? (marcusoft.net)
    ×1.26 | 2 points by nialse 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Zooza (zooza.online)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by majklesko 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. We are still early (quiz for the graph we all know) (stevenmoody.com)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by tillcarlos 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???