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  1. Ask HN: How do you go from writing code to deploying with agents?
    ×0.54 42 | 11 points by sakuraiben 11 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What is your database size
    ×0.39 52 | 6 points by kureikain 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Agentcn – Installable AI Agents
    ×0.17 | 2 points by anayat 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Mossad accicentally injected data to a French lawyer phone instead of extracting
    ×0.89 46 | 5 points by 0x54MUR41 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Why is Open POWER Foundation a wasteland?
    ×0.55 77 | 5 points by climate_denier_ 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. The State of Google
    ×0.76 58 | 5 points by 3dedb728-3f77 10 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Is Ask HN Shrinking?
    ×0.56 69 | 17 points by keiferski 22 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)
    ×0.72 106 | 159 points by whoishiring 5 days ago | 522 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)
    ×0.99 96 | 233 points by whoishiring 5 days ago | 309 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What can I do with a single R9700?
    ×0.20 107 | 4 points by scott01 21 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: In your experience, what are sound conventions for e-ink UI development?
    ×1.15 146 | 4 points by BoxOfRain 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. DeepSeek announced to raise its API price tremendously
    ×0.45 119 | 30 points by alexwwang 3 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. How AI is breaking the British State
    ×1.36 76 | 5 points by andsoitis 13 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Laguna S 2.1:118B-a9B better than Qwen3.5:122B-a10B? So far, yes
    ×0.17 159 | 4 points by spottedmarley 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Did GitHub remove the stargazers list?
    ×0.64 135 | 27 points by reconnecting 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Read HN twice a day for the last decade. Here's my list of S-Tier HN links
    ×2.43 95 | 111 points by vivzkestrel 3 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Sensitive Info Goes into 'No Reply' Emails Constantly. This Guy Sees It All (wired.com)
    ×1.65 31 | 42 points by sbulaev 21 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. I asked 4 AI companions what they were. They lied, then texted me the next day (ssrn.com)
    ×1.37 66 #61 | 7 points by Ai_Sycophancy 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded (nixos.org)
    ×2.74 24 #89 | 393 points by Meleagris 1 day ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Myspace eyes comeback as an an 'antidote' to social media fatigue (cnbc.com)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by pseudolus 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Zohran Mamdani's NYC Tech Team Is What DOGE Should Have Been (wired.com)
    ×7.18 65 | 71 points by gorbachev 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S. (nytimes.com)
    ×4.85 29 | 223 points by sbulaev 1 day ago | 296 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone (github.com/leonickson1)
    ×1.69 89 | 311 points by leonickson 5 days ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Show HN: Kedge – Full-stack cloud with forkable VM snapshots and global SQLite (kedge.dev)
    ×1.13 144 | 141 points by wgjordan 1 week ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: File-based HTTP endpoints for Python with its own isolated dependencies (github.com/tanrax)
    ×0.38 149 | 5 points by andros 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. BYOC Anywhere: The Spectrum of Bring Your Own Cloud Deployments (omnistrate.com)
    ×0.77 59 #48 | 71 points by kkgupta 22 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Launch HN: ProvenMetal (YC S26) delivers circuit boards in days instead of weeks (provenmetal.com)
    ×0.78 60 #87 | 232 points by willcarkner 2 days ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Systemd Dynamic Users (2020) (ethulhu.co.uk)
    ×1.02 | 2 points by birdculture 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. How to create electronic Japanese hanko seals for Excel (sealkit.app)
    ×1.09 19 | 3 points by sealkit 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences [pdf] (1960) (njit.edu)
    ×1.09 32 #62 | 40 points by pseudolus 15 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Algebruh - Cross-check arithmetic claims with Z3, cvc5, and Lean (github.com/skorotkiewicz)
    ×0.58 69 #85 | 12 points by modinfo 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Software is about people, not code (2020) (letterstoanewdeveloper.com)
    ×1.12 80 | 49 points by venamresm__ 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Clef – spaced repetition for piano over MIDI (playclef.com)
    ×1.80 128 | 7 points by danieldratschuk 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Möbius-Strip Crosswords (quuxplusone.github.io)
    ×0.65 62 | 77 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Making difficulty curves in games (davetech.co.uk)
    ×1.43 13 #20 | 129 points by hakkikonu 14 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Argonix – One AI-powered platform for SRE and cloud operations (argonix.io)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by pydavid 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Different meanings of p-value (and how my thinking has changed) (2023) (columbia.edu)
    ×0.98 | 2 points by Tomte 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Toxic Media (bstgrp.notion.site)
    ×1.01 | 2 points by mohgalastpaidei 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Bor – Open-source policy management for Linux desktops (getbor.dev)
    ×1.26 113 | 196 points by eniac111 1 week ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS (textlog.cc)
    ×1.29 40 | 195 points by stagas 2 days ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Building a local positioning system to track runners using Ultra-Wideband (ugent.be)
    ×1.04 34 #29 | 91 points by robinpdev 16 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative (anl.gov)
    ×1.96 8 #70 | 348 points by moelf 1 day ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. The attacker can prove what they took. You can only prove what you logged (stillig.net)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by johtidebreak 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, a sudden reversal (nbcnews.com)
    ×4.30 14 | 351 points by ceejayoz 1 day ago | 350 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Tamron Lens Utility Alternative on Linux (github.com/yikerman)
    ×2.56 134 | 6 points by xiaoyu2006 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Data Warehouse Isn't Integrated Just Because the Tables Are in One Place (seattledataguy.substack.com)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by eigenBasis 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Multiplayer Game Networking with Python (github.com/feberts)
    ×1.36 | 2 points by tio-fabi 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. The Gargantuan Lie That Is Collapsing the Climate (currentaffairs.org)
    ×6.24 45 | 156 points by Anon84 2 days ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Rotating torus in terminal (but with kitty graphics protocol) (andreadimatteo.com)
    ×0.47 64 | 23 points by deotman 1 week ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Aidress – LangChain integration for cross-agent discovery and trust (langchain.com)
    ×0.51 | 2 points by mehulv24 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours (daringfireball.net)
    ×5.59 3 | 344 points by _da_ 1 day ago | 225 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. The USSR in 100 Photographs (trinixy.ru)
    ×3.42 20 | 64 points by decimalenough 23 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. The Claudyssey: A line-for-line translation of Homer's Odyssey by Claude Fable 5 (theclaudyssey.com)
    ×2.45 82 | 42 points by spinchange 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was a Correct Rejection (daringfireball.net)
    ×4.87 26 #28 | 218 points by minimaxir 8 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Modern C++ Build Tools for Module Feature (github.com/mcpp-community)
    ×0.52 114 | 7 points by sunrisepeak 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Which devtools win when LLMs plan real web apps (preseason.ai)
    ×1.35 152 | 4 points by thedreammachine 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Arxid – keyed, non-enumerable ID obfuscation (github.com/lucasolopes)
    ×1.74 160 | 8 points by byolopes 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. ACM Europe Summer School on MLIR 2026: Streamed Live, August 10-14 (mlir-school.github.io)
    ×0.71 73 #84 | 10 points by matt_d 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Swarm-forge: A simple tool for coordinating several AI agents (github.com/unclebob)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by tosh 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Gander, an Android file viewer that asks for no permissions (github.com/mokshablr)
    ×1.57 125 | 211 points by mokshablr 1 week ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Jido Assembly; Slack Clone in Pure Elixir with Integrated Agents (jido.run)
    ×1.32 150 | 23 points by mikehostetler 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: A free DOCX editor with MCP server for editing (revise.io)
    ×2.73 79 | 13 points by artursapek 23 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Wallfacer – A terminal session manager for Claude Code, and more (github.com/pradipta)
    ×0.81 115 | 36 points by pradiptasarma 3 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Product analytics (and evals) for agent sessions on your MCP (armature.tech)
    ×0.49 145 | 42 points by screm 5 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Choq: Cherry (ClojureScript) on QuickJS (github.com/squint-cljs)
    ×0.98 | 1 points by Borkdude 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Taco Bell fans won't let cyclospora come between them and food (yahoo.com)
    ×0.61 | 2 points by paulpauper 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: A Discord bot running in a 4MiB microVM (github.com/IanSeyler)
    ×0.69 109 | 3 points by ianseyler 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Ask HN: Do you use LLMs for non-coding related work?
    ×0.61 | 1 points by muddi900 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. South Korea, Taiwan top Japan in exports for first time on AI boom (nikkei.com)
    ×2.84 31 | 4 points by newusertoday 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Compactdiff – see what compaction dropped from an agent session (github.com/mkmkkkkk)
    ×0.97 105 | 5 points by mileskoldin 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac (github.com/drumih)
    ×3.59 97 | 916 points by gitpusher42 1 week ago | 345 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava (runnersworld.com)
    ×2.32 1 #56 | 431 points by aanet 1 day ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities (openai.com)
    ×1.11 44 #72 | 198 points by artninja1988 1 day ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Europe's free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.99 11 #88 | 160 points by 01-_- 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Angel Investor Simulator (steampowered.com)
    ×1.41 | 2 points by babuskov 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Sidebar – a private ESP32 intercom for five kids, no accounts (sundaradnus.ca)
    ×3.58 118 | 15 points by nonstopnonsense 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Software Giant SAP Stops Most Travel and Hiring Because of AI's Soaring Cost (404media.co)
    ×3.42 21 #26 | 43 points by theanonymousone 3 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Real Engineers Dig with Their Bare Hands (minid.net)
    ×3.34 70 | 4 points by meerita 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Before the Breakthrough: Why Research and Engineering Need Different Cultures (chrhenning.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by chrhenning 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Understanding std:counting_semaphore and std:binary_semaphore from C++20 (cppstories.com)
    ×1.06 | 2 points by ygritte 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: NixOS-DGX-Spark – Nix and NixOS on the DGX Spark (github.com/graham33)
    ×0.90 120 | 131 points by graham33 6 days ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: AI Tutoring with Visual Grounding (useknowable.ai)
    ×1.35 143 | 8 points by samuelzxu 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Protopia (kevinkelly.substack.com)
    ×0.81 22 #12 | 21 points by surprisetalk 5 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Hyper-Markdown – Markdown for knowledge graphs (hyper-markdown.org)
    ×1.54 63 #54 | 20 points by divingstar 13 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Ask HN: Should AI's tell you they're AI?
    ×2.19 46 | 3 points by logicallee 59 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. ICE will release body cam video only when seen in the agency's 'best interests' (apnews.com)
    ×10.69 33 | 156 points by geox 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. There Are Magic Hexagons of Every Order (gukov.dev)
    ×1.17 5 #1 | 54 points by gukoff 4 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. If You Get in a Car Crash, the Risk Is Growing Your Insurance Won't Pay (wsj.com)
    ×2.18 53 | 3 points by impish9208 50 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: BitBang – Reach machines behind NAT from a browser, no account (github.com/richlegrand)
    ×1.16 148 | 97 points by narragansett 1 week ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Maple-Preview – Ternary 20B MoE running at 120 tok/s on a iPhone (deepgrove.ai)
    ×1.37 93 | 171 points by edwardbzhang 4 days ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???