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  1. Ask HN: Do you know how much head hunters cost?
    ×1.08 | 2 points by mojomark 29 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Does AI watermarking present a new attack vector?
    ×0.42 8 | 4 points by nathanfig 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. New DeepSeek Pricing Published (Peak and Off-Peak)
    ×0.30 27 | 4 points by mittermayr 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Move AI news from Hacker News to somewhere else?
    ×2.02 7 | 7 points by thomasfl 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: In your experience, what are sound conventions for e-ink UI development?
    ×0.98 80 | 213 points by BoxOfRain 6 days ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Tell HN: In 2021, there were 4.5 jobs per job seeker vs. 2.5 job seekers/job now
    ×0.69 72 | 10 points by ed_balls 19 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How are you preventing brainrot?
    ×0.48 46 | 8 points by flyingcoder 10 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How much money do you spend monthly on subscriptions for AI models?
    ×0.33 66 | 12 points by marko-djuric 18 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
    ×1.43 81 | 318 points by david927 4 days ago | 1175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Is HTTPS://status.claude.com loading for you all?
    ×1.32 37 | 7 points by soorajsanker 8 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How can you tell a site/app is vibe coded?
    ×0.53 75 | 8 points by gkolli 19 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: How are you finding the job market in 2026?
    ×0.80 94 | 16 points by dzonga 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Is AI code verification becoming your main bottleneck?
    ×0.27 122 | 7 points by ochidaniel4 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What browser do you use?
    ×0.41 85 | 10 points by Pieczasz 23 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Small team devs – how do you collab with UI/UX designers in the AI era?
    ×0.23 109 | 4 points by cameronnimmo 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Weekly VSCode Grumbling
    ×0.21 124 | 3 points by azatom 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Cmux SSH Lagging
    ×0.31 126 | 3 points by 217 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How's Everyone Feeling Today?
    ×1.49 104 | 16 points by arm32 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Are there any production LLM pipeline setups to learn from?
    ×0.54 131 | 6 points by atif089 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Show HN: Smarter Shell History for Zsh (github.com/overflowy)
    ×0.84 107 | 15 points by overflowy 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Better Gaussian Splatting in Julia (pxl-th.github.io)
    ×1.06 34 #62 | 121 points by pxl-th 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. AI is removing the middle class of software engineering? (florianherrengt.com)
    ×6.16 33 | 979 points by florianherrengt 2 days ago | 904 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Hugging Face CEO says China is winning the AI race and dominating on open models (cnbc.com)
    ×3.72 65 | 5 points by igravious 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. If the markets reject OpenAI and Anthropic, the US should nationalize them (theguardian.com)
    ×3.84 64 | 5 points by cdrnsf 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: Programmable timer web app (for gym workouts or stretching sessions) (jotaen.net)
    ×1.01 84 | 29 points by jotaen 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: A Free Cloud Container (usebench.dev)
    ×0.96 116 | 3 points by saucepoint 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: HypeBESTIE, sincere RLHF-free, em-dash-free image compliment generator (hypebestie.onrender.com)
    ×1.84 129 | 3 points by mcramblett 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. DeepSeek peak/off-peak pricing update (deepseek.com)
    ×1.76 3 #2 | 130 points by fagnerbrack 4 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Deutsche Bank becomes first foreign yuan clearing bank in Europe (tradersunion.com)
    ×2.71 35 #76 | 404 points by Markoff 1 day ago | 454 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. The Tax Code Wasn't Built for the Age of AI, Says Yale Budget Expert (bloomberg.com)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by wslh 47 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Pixel 11 Pro Fold (blog.google)
    ×1.70 49 | 130 points by thm 1 day ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Artifex - Graph Based GPU Harness for AI Agents (gatewai.studio)
    ×1.42 11 | 3 points by oknaslnkn 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: OJCP – an open protocol for agent-consumable job data (ojcp.dev)
    ×0.75 45 | 32 points by fraywing 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Manager Blueprint (manager-blueprint.vercel.app)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by edimaudo 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Free of GitHub (carette.xyz)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by speckx 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. The fastest full-precision Nemotron 3.5 Lightning endpoint (540 tok/s) (runinfra.ai)
    ×2.40 57 | 4 points by OsamaJaber 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. TrustContent – a creator directory where you can only endorse 3 people (trustcontent.co)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by Natsiiirt 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Why tiny JPEGs look different in Chrome (guillaumetech.github.io)
    ×1.76 15 | 333 points by gutechh 2 days ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Bike Bureau: Report Bike Lane Obstructions (loudbicycle.com)
    ×1.17 67 | 70 points by kdmccormick 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Cave of the Crystals (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.34 6 #49 | 53 points by ColinWright 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Will factory farming fix itself? (worksinprogress.news)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by devitoria 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: YazSes – offline hold-to-talk voice dictation for Linux/macOS/Windows (github.com/MSKazemi)
    ×0.95 96 | 3 points by mskazemi 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Gpui-component: Rust GUI components for building cross-platform apps (longbridge.github.io)
    ×2.24 45 | 3 points by klaussilveira 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: GridProof – spacing/grid QA for AI-generated UIs, in the agent loop (github.com/gridproof)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by seomarlboro 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: OpenAI network checker using 31 browser and IP signals (getplus.ai)
    ×0.47 | 2 points by lixiaofei 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Prompts Suno follows, not longer prompts (sunomarket.com)
    ×1.57 123 | 3 points by wowinter15 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. NP-overrated (gruhn.me)
    ×1.71 4 #35 | 232 points by theanonymousone 17 hours ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Picking berries is my meditation (tsoon.com)
    ×1.06 38 #66 | 115 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. France's constitutional authority strikes down social media ban for under-15s (france24.com)
    ×1.82 | 2 points by blaze33 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript (andros.dev)
    ×1.61 23 | 251 points by redbell 1 day ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Track habits, metrics, time and whateven you think worth tracking (habitpocket.io)
    ×0.86 92 | 7 points by bohdanstefaniuk 23 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Donkey.bas is 45 Years Old – 131 line of Glory (donkeybas.com)
    ×1.46 16 #23 | 260 points by jkrauska 20 hours ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. SparrowMap – Cameras that watch government vehicles (sparrowmap.com)
    ×2.16 50 #75 | 159 points by paulnpace 13 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Minerals Companies Are Changing Their Names to Sound More American (wsj.com)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by impish9208 36 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Spaghettifying DRAM (github.com/xoreaxeaxeax)
    ×2.95 1 #15 | 675 points by matt_d 23 hours ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Failure to track a stable AMOC state under rapid climate change (nature.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by leonidasv 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. The New Berlin Wall (planetocracy.org)
    ×1.08 76 #46 | 3 points by pr337h4m 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Rings forged from meteorites may have been fashionable among ancient Greek elite (phys.org)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by pseudolus 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Cadre.rocks A local-first board for orchestrating coding agents (cadre.rocks)
    ×2.20 93 | 5 points by l-crispr 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Zod schema is a binary codec, no IDL, no codegen (github.com/ChiChuRita)
    ×0.94 115 | 3 points by chichurita 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with? (mun-logadan.github.io)
    ×5.77 4 #6 | 271 points by numeri 3 hours ago | 256 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Protect Your Relays (iroh.computer)
    ×0.84 6 #7 | 28 points by surprisetalk 3 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. US conducted mass spying campaign against leftwing and anti-ICE protesters (theguardian.com)
    ×13.72 81 | 217 points by magic_interface 11 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: WikiZipf – Guess the most frequent words of a Wikipedia article (wikizipf.com)
    ×1.00 125 | 3 points by Madki 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. The SvelteKit 3 Release Candidate is here (svelte.dev)
    ×2.04 54 #89 | 22 points by pier25 20 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Phone addiction is keeping you from achieving flow state [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.28 | 2 points by felooboolooomba 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: We Implemented the IPv8 Internet-Draft in Linux, Libc, and BGP (goonhost.rocks)
    ×0.61 | 2 points by turborigby 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: ApplyWise – I built an AI layer for the job application process (applywise.eu)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by peter_nemec 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Lovable raises $400M Series C (lovable.dev)
    ×1.43 42 | 160 points by thoughtpeddler 1 day ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. A Walkable ASCII Cyberpunk City in One HTML File [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.84 | 1 points by ReFruity 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. I'm done coding with AI [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by franzb 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. The three ways people build AI agent systems (jigjoy.ai)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by qikouki 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: RAGless – similar to RAG, but $0 LLM API costs at runtime (github.com/EmilResearch)
    ×0.76 | 2 points by emilianoc 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: ChatGPT SEO for Shopify Merchants (shopify.com)
    ×0.78 | 2 points by rahular1 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: React forms with direct uploads to your own S3/R2 (fillo.so)
    ×0.55 | 2 points by jafu 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Blog about things you don't understand yet (seangoedecke.com)
    ×1.85 4 #31 | 139 points by gfysfm 14 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Choosing an AI model: one prompt, 11 models, different results (netlify.com)
    ×1.43 30 #37 | 208 points by toddmorey 1 day ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Can I use my Outputs to train an AI model? (claude.com)
    ×8.32 26 | 90 points by DarenWatson 1 day ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Differential Heuristics (redblobgames.com)
    ×1.38 3 #5 | 73 points by ibobev 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. If the Markets Reject OpenAI and Anthropic, the US Should Nationalize Them (schneier.com)
    ×1.42 | 2 points by dtjb 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Delphi – Build your own AI trading agent in seconds (tradewithdelphi.com)
    ×1.72 127 | 3 points by ariavikram 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Qwen3.8 27B (huggingface.co)
    ×3.51 14 #80 | 38 points by kristjansson 10 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. German advocacy group lodges criminal complaint over Meta AI glasses (reuters.com)
    ×2.11 56 | 117 points by tartoran 2 days ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. The Keyboard-First Calendar (compasscalendar.com)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by tylerdane 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Line9 – A Mermaid rendering engine with its own layout (line9.ai)
    ×1.06 78 | 87 points by jumpalongjim 1 week ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Ntfy – open-source Push to Mobile (ntfy.sh)
    ×1.77 51 #43 | 4 points by Fake4d 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Finite State Machines in Forth (1994) (forth.org)
    ×0.85 26 #48 | 81 points by ofalkaed 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. OctoMap an Efficient Probabilistic 3D Mapping Framework Based on Octrees (octomap.github.io)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by Bluestein 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Deepmark – Search your bookmarks by what's inside them, not the title (usedeepmark.com)
    ×1.61 118 | 3 points by shafkathullah 21 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: A open-source AI-native coding agent (github.com/missingstudio)
    ×0.50 120 | 3 points by missingstack 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???