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  1. Ask HN: In your experience, what are sound conventions for e-ink UI development?
    ×1.13 27 #43 | 187 points by BoxOfRain 22 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: How did you teach analog electronics to your kids?
    ×0.55 6 | 3 points by felooboolooomba 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
    ×1.45 11 | 307 points by david927 1 day ago | 1122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Anyone have solution to Opus verbosity in Claude Code?
    ×0.27 | 2 points by firemelt 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. SETI@Home was the coolest thing
    ×1.15 69 | 22 points by b112 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Tell HN: Old.reddit.com Requires Login
    ×2.92 32 | 27 points by comprev 16 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How do you learn with LLMs?
    ×0.31 93 | 4 points by py4 20 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What Project are you the most proud of?
    ×0.74 99 | 9 points by emn4tor 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Is there a marketable "skill" to using AI?
    ×0.33 110 | 3 points by purplemoonx 22 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Is Traditional SaaS Dying?
    ×0.46 108 | 4 points by vibe_that_works 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How do you go from writing code to deploying with agents?
    ×0.47 113 | 16 points by sakuraiben 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: How do you set comp at an early stage startup?
    ×0.27 133 | 4 points by jeffreyfate 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Did Apple Search engine bot enter the security LLM fuzzing gauntlet
    ×0.35 126 | 3 points by duttonw 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: My dev blog has 11k followers. I stopped writing it. What would you do?
    ×0.61 117 | 9 points by zlatkov 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Is Ask HN Shrinking?
    ×0.53 119 | 20 points by keiferski 3 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Recommended Merchant of Record and Affliate Setup
    ×0.30 132 | 5 points by tisdadd 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. The State of Google
    ×0.98 116 | 14 points by 3dedb728-3f77 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Why is Open POWER Foundation a wasteland?
    ×0.72 135 | 10 points by climate_denier_ 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. The Systemic Collapse of the AI Industry: Ideology, Hardware, and CapEx Crisis
    ×0.51 125 | 7 points by impartial2602 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Anyone that has built a marketplace, what has been your experience?
    ×0.82 139 | 7 points by mfisc_019 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: What is your database size
    ×0.34 138 | 8 points by kureikain 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Should a coding client import another client's rules by default?
    ×0.20 | 2 points by ryanmerket 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. DeepSeek announced to raise its API price tremendously
    ×0.47 140 | 32 points by alexwwang 5 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents (docker.com)
    ×3.20 7 #52 | 663 points by etoxin 1 day ago | 369 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. AMD Reengineers Its Ryzen 7 5800X3D Gaming Processor (electronicdesign.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by vednig 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: Vocal Slice – cut audio by selecting text, fully on-device (vocalslice.com)
    ×1.28 96 | 4 points by terranivium 22 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Publishing Schematics Before “Open Source” Was a Word (medium.com)
    ×0.77 39 #34 | 102 points by extralongdivisi 18 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. What's the best programming language for coding agents? (danluu.com)
    ×2.34 22 #35 | 216 points by chaychoong 21 hours ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Ante, a coding agent in a single binary that runs offline (github.com/AntigmaLabs)
    ×1.17 36 #36 | 149 points by ubermon 21 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas (openai.com)
    ×0.93 48 #44 | 109 points by hackerBanana 23 hours ago | 207 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Calldiff – a CLI to see callstack diffs in all major languages (github.com/tanishqkancharla)
    ×0.68 | 2 points by tanishqkanc 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Claude will apply invisible watermarks to AI text and images (theverge.com)
    ×3.07 43 | 4 points by el_duderino 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. On-the-fly snapshot compression for elastic inference at scale (doubleword.ai)
    ×3.04 47 | 4 points by somnial 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Tuxedo No. 2 – Cocktail recipes (tuxedono2.com)
    ×1.15 48 | 129 points by smartmic 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: My math notes for anything that touches ML (github.com/publications-and-more)
    ×0.95 107 | 3 points by Amlal 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Cool URIs Don't Change (1998) (w3.org)
    ×1.70 19 | 288 points by Klaster_1 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Stop Killing Games: It's time to sue Sony, join us (massaschadeconsument.nl)
    ×3.41 63 | 231 points by EDM115 16 hours ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Today's cities on a globe of Earth's tectonic past and future (douwe.com)
    ×0.67 89 | 35 points by dosinga 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Graph2agent; Mermaid diagrams, explained for agents (graph2agent.github.io)
    ×2.49 81 | 6 points by alexandroskyr 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Gotcha- First on-device AI copilot for Android (samosa-ai.com)
    ×1.12 130 | 4 points by rishabhbajpai24 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Meta glasses are turning public spaces into surveillance (theguardian.com)
    ×1.35 | 2 points by BlueBerry2001 28 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Amber – An open-source C99 Q/K array engine for quant finance (github.com/BonucciAndrea)
    ×1.37 | 2 points by KonaEnthusiast 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video] (mynoise.net)
    ×2.23 24 | 222 points by gregsadetsky 1 day ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Coordinate coding agents and Git worktrees around features (github.com/jan-bogaerts)
    ×1.81 | 2 points by jbo76 9 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: NiceShot AI – The analytics layer competitive games forgot to add (github.com/karimm-ai)
    ×1.22 72 | 3 points by niceshot-ai 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Sign language translation with smart glasses (github.com/aadisang)
    ×0.66 111 | 26 points by aadisang 6 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Tail-call optimization in C is relatively recent (2025) (lwn.net)
    ×0.95 58 #30 | 155 points by prakashqwerty 1 day ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. The Clash of the Egosystems (optoutproject.net)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by speckx 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Building a Generic Context-Aware Scoring Engine (github.com/Kevinci)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by kevincii 45 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: GitSnitch – GitHub Security Org Monitoring (gitsnitch.app)
    ×2.26 28 | 3 points by mtmcfarl 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Compare Wikipedia articles between languages in the Middle East (wikicompare.app)
    ×2.05 | 4 points by idonov 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Slashscore, an open developer graph built from public GitHub activity (slashscore.com)
    ×0.62 | 2 points by wingravity 21 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Run Android ARM64 VR APKs on Apple Vision Pro (github.com/shinyquagsire23)
    ×1.14 49 #55 | 178 points by LorenDB 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. I found a KVM guest-to-host heap corruption bug and someone else got there first (himanshuanand.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by unknownhad 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. DALT: Depreciation-Assisted Land Value Tax (progressandpoverty.substack.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by surprisetalk 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Midlife Vascular Risk Burden and Dementia-Free Survival Years (neurology.org)
    ×1.31 6 | 82 points by bookofjoe 21 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: I procrastinated on a course by building a course tracker. (ckourse.com)
    ×0.55 | 2 points by redaantar 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Scroll through all 43252003274489856000 Rubik's Cube states (alen.is)
    ×1.58 3 #13 | 236 points by Alen123 14 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Recycle – Floppydisks (floppydisk.com)
    ×0.86 27 #20 | 83 points by calvinmorrison 11 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows (meta.ai)
    ×4.28 15 #26 | 1138 points by riordan 1 day ago | 614 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Tech Sucks? Really? (gordonmclean.co.uk)
    ×1.34 | 2 points by snowgoon 56 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Call for probes: building the GLM-5.2 Expert Atlas (github.com/JustVugg)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by Bluestein 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. DeepSeek costs OpenCode Go user $1.14/day; dual DGX breaks even in 24 years (twitter.com/thdxr)
    ×2.72 33 | 64 points by delduca 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: filebouncer - npm package for detecting suspicious uploads. (github.com/Ramzi-Abidi)
    ×0.72 | 2 points by ramzi-abidi 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Mangudai – Agentless attack surface manager for small tech teams (github.com/oktaybilge1)
    ×0.43 | 2 points by mangudai 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Moving integer division to floating-point is trivial (marc-b-reynolds.github.io)
    ×0.80 65 #53 | 8 points by matt_d 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Germany Sets New Six-Month Startup Record (gtai.de)
    ×1.09 76 #76 | 38 points by eigenspace 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Dbward – Approval workflows for production databases (github.com/dbward-dev)
    ×1.49 | 2 points by metapox 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's (bbc.com)
    ×2.87 7 #39 | 369 points by RickJWagner 22 hours ago | 560 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: GlyPho – Generate editable SVG families from prompts (glypho.app)
    ×1.57 98 | 4 points by shenyi 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Chatgpt.com – Degraded Performance (openai.com)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by Topfi 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Tachyon – MCP server framework for Java and Kotlin (github.com/kpavlov)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by lumestro 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Stowaway – Take the window seat on any plane or satellite overhead (stowaway.live)
    ×2.69 6 #19 | 323 points by thunderbong 19 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Learning more about Claude's mathematical capabilities (anthropic.com)
    ×2.90 19 #32 | 230 points by tosh 19 hours ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. What survived rebuilding our SRE investigation agent six times (engineeringexec.tech)
    ×0.91 | 1 points by mbleterman 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. The Philippines' big offshoring industry is growing despite AI (economist.com)
    ×1.87 52 | 74 points by nlpnerd 1 day ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: OpenCorp – paste a URL, AI finds competing products and Reddit threads (opencorp.live)
    ×1.36 | 2 points by pokemongo11 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Analyzing data from Silicon Valley ventures and founders prosecuted for fraud (informs.org)
    ×2.10 40 | 197 points by iamnothere 1 day ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. New Zealand lost its music media, and what we're building to replace it (propelmusic.co.nz)
    ×0.92 47 | 132 points by berghoffer 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. The power (and weakness) of Narrative in Biotech (agapow.substack.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by nnmg 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: DocSift convert a PDF once, give the model only the passages it needs (github.com/anishmoncivarghese)
    ×1.36 100 | 4 points by anishvarghese 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models (ft.com)
    ×2.89 7 #12 | 553 points by root-parent 23 hours ago | 515 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Launch HN: Stoa Markets (YC S26) – A Marketplace for GPUs and AI Servers (stoaexchange.com)
    ×0.52 54 #45 | 75 points by erenberke 21 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Alchemize – Review AI Slop PRs Faster (tryalchemize.com)
    ×2.06 45 | 3 points by robertyhou 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Fairy Ring (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.54 2 #67 | 10 points by tornikeo 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: AI Pulse a fake LED strip beside the macOS Dock that shows agent status (github.com/leog)
    ×0.71 72 #72 | 16 points by leog_me 15 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM (notebookcheck.net)
    ×5.35 12 | 653 points by akyuu 1 day ago | 581 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C (bbc.com)
    ×2.08 2 #1 | 44 points by stevekemp 58 minutes ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Closing Canario Terminal source code (rapha.land)
    ×0.77 28 #15 | 24 points by atan2 5 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Faster floating point math with Rust's new API (pythonspeed.com)
    ×1.09 30 #22 | 63 points by subset 10 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???