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  1. Automating Microsoft Edge Rewards
    ×0.28 | 2 points by anonomity 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What is your favorite lightweight tool or CLI utility in 2026?
    ×0.56 | 2 points by pranav_tech26 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?
    ×1.20 8 | 76 points by simonebrunozzi 18 hours ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Alternative to Internet Archive
    ×0.80 59 | 17 points by earworms 14 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: When you sell your company, do you receive the money with a normal wire?
    ×0.48 84 | 5 points by supergilbert 10 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Great music selection without overthinking
    ×0.31 95 | 3 points by cr34t1ve 10 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: In your experience, what are sound conventions for e-ink UI development?
    ×0.98 108 | 214 points by BoxOfRain 1 week ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Should hard-tech founders join a problem or technology-first PhD lab?
    ×0.25 105 | 13 points by misterballer 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. OpenAI updates its Privacy Policy to include ads
    ×0.29 110 | 3 points by 1equalsequals1 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. How does an ARP Spoofing Attack work?
    ×0.21 120 | 6 points by emn4tor 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What physical publication do you still buy?
    ×0.39 100 | 8 points by sergiotapia 23 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Why don't we see ARM laptops from China?
    ×1.14 58 | 5 points by znpy 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Does a human still review your code?
    ×0.46 118 | 9 points by stikit 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
    ×1.43 107 | 320 points by david927 6 days ago | 1185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Live Experiment of the Veblen Effect
    ×0.45 131 | 5 points by henryfudgeoffic 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Do you know how much head hunters cost?
    ×0.54 142 | 5 points by mojomark 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Tell HN: In 2021, there were 4.5 jobs per job seeker vs. 2.5 job seekers/job now
    ×0.61 145 | 11 points by ed_balls 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. New DeepSeek Pricing Published (Peak and Off-Peak)
    ×0.28 152 | 5 points by mittermayr 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What are you building with Mojo lang?
    ×0.23 | 2 points by maxchisto 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Need Help Learning Assembly
    ×0.71 128 | 5 points by kilyo 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: What should I know before hosting eprints?
    ×0.36 154 | 3 points by logicallee 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: How much money do you spend monthly on subscriptions for AI models?
    ×0.34 130 | 13 points by marko-djuric 2 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: What are your unfinished projects?
    ×0.25 160 | 3 points by adam_gyroscope 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. The TEMU-Fication of Software, Digital Goods and Services (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)
    ×1.46 35 | 173 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Jane Street suffers $15B hit after meltdown at Situational Awareness (ft.com)
    ×4.27 10 | 134 points by bobstax 1 day ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Working with AI feels more like leadership than coding (bargi.org)
    ×2.44 2 #20 | 253 points by allenb 13 hours ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with? (mun-logadan.github.io)
    ×4.54 5 #58 | 935 points by numeri 1 day ago | 830 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Deltix – AI Driven Testing (deltix.ai)
    ×0.78 54 #78 | 49 points by oneounceman 21 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. The Manual for ICE's Electric Shock Gloves (404media.co)
    ×5.13 66 | 8 points by Jimmc414 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: TokenLab MCP, model discovery, pricing, and native AI endpoint tools (tokenlab.sh)
    ×1.05 | 2 points by tokenlabai 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Voice driven murder mystery, Interview AI suspects with your voice (whodunnitai.com)
    ×1.36 111 | 213 points by MrRowTheBoat 5 days ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. A spectre is haunting Unicode (dampfkraft.com)
    ×1.95 6 #15 | 155 points by sensanaty 9 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Tesla drivers are letting their cars take over (sfchronicle.com)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by GMoromisato 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Why AI agents need verified identity (chrisbergeron.com)
    ×1.63 14 | 3 points by speckx 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. The Enshittification of Everything (Part 3) (robertreich.substack.com)
    ×8.98 57 | 14 points by rbanffy 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Woxi - Open-source Mathematica / Wolfram Language reimplementation (ad-si.com)
    ×1.62 85 | 313 points by adius 3 days ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Seven books I keep close because I love them (plover.com)
    ×1.86 2 #79 | 368 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. I Accidentally Derived a λ-Calculus Pipeline Combinator (livecodes.io)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by prxshckr 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Introducing Toast 1 (mixedbread.com)
    ×1.17 17 | 216 points by mplappert 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: A tiny LLM running at 21,000 tok/s on a $250 FPGA (Live Demo) (mikeayles.com)
    ×2.29 140 | 79 points by mikeayles 5 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: A simple list for concerts in NYC (singledigit.nyc)
    ×1.02 153 | 3 points by ChrisbyMe 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. The Ploopy A+ Trackball Is Here (ploopy.co)
    ×1.29 31 #66 | 134 points by big_toast 23 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Stratum – Rate books, films, and music to find users with similar taste (joinstratum.app)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by jeffreyjinyang 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. DersCountsort: General-purpose sort with amortized O(N) complexity
    ×1.05 | 2 points by dersoverflow 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. AI Model Atlas – visualizing populations of ML models as interconnected 3D graph (cosmograph.app)
    ×0.69 76 | 64 points by bj-rn 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Agentic Task Management (github.com/myaa2913)
    ×1.66 137 | 4 points by mcorrito 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Qwen3.8 27B (huggingface.co)
    ×3.57 87 | 63 points by kristjansson 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: C# Game Engine with its own scripting language and IDE (github.com/ArcadeMakerSources)
    ×1.08 73 | 116 points by am-gm 4 days ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Lumabri – Run Moe Models on a P2P Swarm with Colibri (github.com/JustVugg)
    ×0.54 90 | 47 points by vforno 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Geek Fighter – 2d fighter game (geek-fighter.vercel.app)
    ×1.57 7 #27 | 46 points by tareqismail 4 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Qwen 3.8 27B (huggingface.co)
    ×4.99 8 #36 | 1350 points by erdaltoprak 1 day ago | 769 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Quasicrystals Animation Playground with WebXR (hypnagogic-quasicrystals.github.io)
    ×0.67 3 #76 | 36 points by r34 10 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Alibaba AI Models Hit 3B Downloads, Passing Meta, Google (yahoo.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by zkmon 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Free personalised attachment style quiz (tally.so)
    ×1.06 | 2 points by ElysiumAbove 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: SVC16 = a specified virtual computer to build compilers for (janneuendorf.github.io)
    ×1.44 147 | 4 points by JanNeuendorf 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Hunger stones: The history behind 'if you see me, weep' (dw.com)
    ×1.76 15 #49 | 3 points by bushwart 50 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. I don't want to work in a factory (jaspercroo.me)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by thoughtpeddler 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Lambdock – Wayland-native GTK4 dock with a live Lisp REPL (codeberg.org)
    ×0.93 86 | 39 points by jjba23 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Needle2: 14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, smart home and robots (cactuscompute.com)
    ×2.41 89 | 527 points by HenryNdubuaku 5 days ago | 182 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Visually Precise AI Tutoring on iOS (useknowable.ai)
    ×3.78 57 | 9 points by samuelzxu 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. The Wow signal was a strong narrowband radio signal detected on August 15, 1977 (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.63 13 #19 | 45 points by firefax 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Every Fucking Website (2020) (lxe.github.io)
    ×4.64 43 #87 | 837 points by doubletwoyou 1 day ago | 474 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Scroll through all 43252003274489856000 Rubik's Cube states (alen.is)
    ×1.55 98 | 292 points by Alen123 5 days ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. The mathematical beauty of hyperbezier curves (linebender.org)
    ×1.56 14 #26 | 184 points by raphlinus 15 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. The AI Slop Backlash Is Having an Impact (wired.com)
    ×3.80 31 | 7 points by herbertl 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. In Australia, a home battery boom has helped cut wholesale power prices (yale.edu)
    ×2.84 3 | 349 points by speckx 1 day ago | 300 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Cloudflare's AI Psychosis (opensauce.it)
    ×8.19 59 | 106 points by gregzeng95 9 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Taxpayers Funded a $533M Artillery Plant That Made Nothing (propublica.org)
    ×3.21 66 | 70 points by Jimmc414 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. AI Can Now Design Functional Viruses. Should We Worry? (ieee.org)
    ×2.03 50 | 59 points by pseudolus 8 hours ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Back In Time 2.0.0 – Release Candidate 1 (github.com/bit-team)
    ×2.62 83 | 6 points by buhtz 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: HN Without AI Stories (readpipe.org)
    ×2.83 88 | 8 points by zorked 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. RustDesk now supports true unattended remote access on Wayland (rustdesk.com)
    ×1.65 3 #80 | 336 points by rustdesk 1 day ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Bribes.fyi – Compare bribes statistics department wise (bribes.fyi)
    ×0.68 | 2 points by neverenderr 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. 'Not acceptable': Judge orders Google to make rival app store installs easier (theverge.com)
    ×4.36 79 | 109 points by Jimmc414 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. WhatCable: Know what your USB-C cable can do (whatcable.uk)
    ×1.32 60 | 105 points by mikecarlton 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Cursor is now a part of SpaceX (cursor.com)
    ×2.92 56 | 100 points by billy_jones_75 1 day ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Online SNMP MIB database - upload/view your own MIBs (mib-viewer.com)
    ×0.40 103 | 13 points by beefstew123 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Living with Depression: The Part I Never Say Out Loud About Depression (medium.com)
    ×1.77 25 | 3 points by raynchad 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. I turned my RSS feeds into an e-ink newspaper to stop reading on my phone (heyjonny.dev)
    ×1.30 19 | 217 points by speckx 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. The price of a Costco hot dog has gone up (sina.bio)
    ×4.75 56 | 67 points by sinab 7 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Debian has begun voting on the future of AI/LLM contributions (debian.org)
    ×3.14 5 | 65 points by matheusmoreira 14 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Oracle – a photorealistic browser for every Magic card ever printed (magic-oracle.com)
    ×1.09 | 2 points by egstad 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Sentinel Scan: an authorized LLM red-team audit, run by an AI agent (fbirds5230.github.io)
    ×1.14 | 2 points by ventrovadev 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Were Touch Bar's problems software rather than hardware? (aresluna.org)
    ×1.08 | 2 points by ingve 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. An image can overflow (master.dev)
    ×0.80 19 #28 | 13 points by ibobev 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption (blog.google)
    ×2.42 3 #64 | 478 points by u1hcw9nx 1 day ago | 280 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Brain turns listening inward during REM sleep, EEG recordings suggest (medicalxpress.com)
    ×1.33 2 #73 | 50 points by gmays 10 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Mole – Deep research agent for your terminal (github.com/lajosdeme)
    ×0.80 60 #74 | 89 points by lajosdeme 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Techflare – Chrome extension to see if a website uses Cloudflare (google.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by wenbin 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: LuaCAD – Parametric CAD Scripted in Lua (ad-si.com)
    ×0.97 44 | 101 points by adius 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???