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  1. Ask HN: In your experience, what are sound conventions for e-ink UI development?
    ×1.18 9 #17 | 131 points by BoxOfRain 8 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
    ×1.45 | 300 points by david927 1 day ago | 1084 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Tell HN: Old.reddit.com Requires Login
    ×4.10 55 | 13 points by comprev 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. SETI@Home was the coolest thing
    ×1.43 40 | 17 points by b112 11 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How do you learn with LLMs?
    ×0.17 | 2 points by py4 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Manager Blueprint
    ×0.35 93 | 3 points by edimaudo 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Is there a marketable "skill" to using AI?
    ×0.52 97 | 3 points by purplemoonx 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Anger over Data Centers Is Fueling a New Political Movementtca
    ×1.06 65 | 8 points by doener 9 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Is Traditional SaaS Dying?
    ×0.74 103 | 4 points by vibe_that_works 12 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Did Apple Search engine bot enter the security LLM fuzzing gauntlet
    ×0.57 115 | 3 points by duttonw 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How do you set comp at an early stage startup?
    ×0.31 128 | 4 points by jeffreyfate 23 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What Project are you the most proud of?
    ×0.71 112 | 7 points by emn4tor 23 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Recommended Merchant of Record and Affliate Setup
    ×0.26 138 | 4 points by tisdadd 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: My dev blog has 11k followers. I stopped writing it. What would you do?
    ×0.60 124 | 8 points by zlatkov 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How do you go from writing code to deploying with agents?
    ×0.46 127 | 15 points by sakuraiben 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. The Systemic Collapse of the AI Industry: Ideology, Hardware, and CapEx Crisis
    ×0.56 130 | 7 points by impartial2602 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Is Ask HN Shrinking?
    ×0.55 136 | 19 points by keiferski 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. The State of Google
    ×1.05 125 | 14 points by 3dedb728-3f77 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Why is Open POWER Foundation a wasteland?
    ×0.69 143 | 9 points by climate_denier_ 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Anyone that has built a marketplace, what has been your experience?
    ×0.94 145 | 7 points by mfisc_019 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: What is your database size
    ×0.36 142 | 8 points by kureikain 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Should a coding client import another client's rules by default?
    ×0.22 | 2 points by ryanmerket 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Should AI's tell you they're AI?
    ×0.59 126 | 9 points by logicallee 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. DeepSeek announced to raise its API price tremendously
    ×0.47 153 | 32 points by alexwwang 4 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Agentcn – Installable AI Agents
    ×0.34 146 | 5 points by anayat 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Mossad accicentally injected data to a French lawyer phone instead of extracting
    ×1.94 114 | 23 points by 0x54MUR41 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Is this normal HN ranking?
    ×1.03 113 | 5 points by unclebucknasty 19 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Security Vulnerability in Pioneer Rekordbox (alphatheta.com)
    ×0.52 39 #39 | 15 points by butterknife 5 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ocean heat records broken as hottest July temperature recorded (bbc.com)
    ×3.55 1 #80 | 66 points by blondie9x 12 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. VectorGrid Core – Bare-metal C++ grid orchestration for AI data centers (github.com/MaximiH-86)
    ×0.82 | 1 points by Masama3 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Cool URIs Don't Change (1998) (w3.org)
    ×1.68 12 | 282 points by Klaster_1 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. There Are Magic Hexagons of Every Order (gukov.dev)
    ×1.16 46 | 193 points by gukoff 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Georgia police officers fired after Flock camera misuse (wtoc.com)
    ×4.50 25 | 136 points by chirau 1 day ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Sonic Pi v5 (patreon.com)
    ×2.11 4 #4 | 282 points by samaaron 7 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. What's the best programming language for coding agents? (danluu.com)
    ×1.73 61 #19 | 23 points by chaychoong 7 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Gotcha- First on-device AI copilot for Android (samosa-ai.com)
    ×1.13 121 | 4 points by rishabhbajpai24 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: The Channels SDK – Bring Any Agent to Any Channel (Slack, MS Teams) (github.com/CopilotKit)
    ×0.69 118 | 121 points by davidmckayv 4 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: OptiQra – Open-source AI website optimization and intelligence platform (github.com/armin5872)
    ×1.31 117 | 3 points by ArminNX 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Human Approval Is a Privilege Escalation Path (corebasehq.com)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by y11t0 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. The Philippines' big offshoring industry is growing despite AI (economist.com)
    ×1.83 24 | 71 points by nlpnerd 19 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Instant Ruby Deployment – Heroku's 2009 launch blog (adam.herokuapp.com)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by iacguy 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. The tragedy of the commons, AI edition (economist.com)
    ×1.28 30 | 143 points by simonpure 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Why Wall Street is ignoring big tech's debt [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.54 67 | 100 points by johnbarron 1 day ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Edgi – Letterboxd or Strava for your brain (edgi.tv)
    ×1.06 95 | 4 points by jshapiro 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Open-source playground to red-team AI agents against public prompts (fabraix.com)
    ×4.29 110 | 13 points by zachdotai 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Make a Fake MySpace Profile (allthedamn.tools)
    ×0.87 | 2 points by kilroy123 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Tail-call optimization in C is relatively recent (2025) (lwn.net)
    ×0.93 28 #26 | 113 points by prakashqwerty 12 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. The main way I've seen people turn ideologically crazy (2025) (andymasley.com)
    ×2.62 30 #83 | 159 points by mef 1 day ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. The Surveillance Network Tracking Cars Across the U.S. (nytimes.com)
    ×2.07 20 #51 | 8 points by bookofjoe 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. SAP stops most travel and hiring because of AI's soaring cost (404media.co)
    ×2.79 77 | 100 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. OpenAI has bought back $7B worth of shares in a secondary employee tender (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.57 30 | 4 points by ahmadyan 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. An alias-based formulation of the borrow checker (2018) (smallcultfollowing.com)
    ×0.39 75 #74 | 27 points by parksb 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. A Watermark for Large Language Models (arxiv.org)
    ×2.32 21 | 3 points by m-chrzan 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Tom Stanton's supersonic trebuchet breaks sound barrier with gravity alone (techeblog.com)
    ×3.42 13 | 270 points by Thorondor 1 day ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Tuxedo No. 2 – Cocktail recipes (tuxedono2.com)
    ×1.15 31 | 127 points by smartmic 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Is it all just vapourware? (kirahowe.com)
    ×3.18 39 | 95 points by Lyngbakr 1 day ago | 189 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Nvidia AI Factory Compute Is Becoming an Investable Asset Class (twitter.com/JensenHuang)
    ×1.43 5 #62 | 4 points by jawiggins 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Whats: A CLI command explainer, pure man pages, –help outputs (github.com/iamkaran)
    ×2.16 15 | 4 points by thunderbong 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Calldiff – a CLI to see callstack diffs in all major languages (github.com/tanishqkancharla)
    ×0.86 | 2 points by tanishqkanc 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Untagged – Find the cloud spend missing required allocation tags (untagged.pages.dev)
    ×0.48 | 2 points by normanbrigg 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. World Train Map – 1247 train routes around the world (worldtrainmap.com)
    ×1.73 40 #16 | 4 points by Flightmussy 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Claude moves bound of the Riemann Hypothesis from 41.6% to 67.2% (twitter.com/jarredsumner)
    ×2.64 14 #54 | 38 points by tevlon 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: PrivateRedact – Offline PII redaction with a local LLM, no cloud (github.com/monjurulkarim)
    ×1.56 82 | 4 points by rajubuet24 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: filebouncer - npm package for detecting suspicious uploads. (github.com/Ramzi-Abidi)
    ×0.75 | 2 points by ramzi-abidi 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Wardline, a Go proxy that auto-blocks compromised AI agents (github.com/kabirnarang39)
    ×0.55 | 2 points by kabirnarang39 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. The Alpha 21264 CPU: NT's Greatest RISC (1998) (halfhill.com)
    ×0.81 71 | 103 points by Lammy 1 day ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Switching to electric stoves can dramatically cut indoor air pollution (2025) (stanford.edu)
    ×3.53 80 | 71 points by Doriell 1 day ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. TheoremDB – A public workspace for machine mathematics (theoremdb.org)
    ×0.97 86 | 100 points by frozenseven 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Baldur's Gate 3: Hotfix #36 Now Live (baldursgate3.game)
    ×1.01 | 2 points by doener 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Illinois just told every operating system to start reporting your kid's age (itsfoss.com)
    ×2.95 76 | 124 points by WaitWaitWha 1 day ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. CSS: The bomb inside your inbox (portswigger.net)
    ×2.14 74 | 99 points by ashurandi 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Force-Fed by ICE (theguardian.com)
    ×8.72 56 | 85 points by HotGarbage 8 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: A tiny LLM running at 21,000 tok/s on a $250 FPGA (Live Demo) (mikeayles.com)
    ×1.97 43 #53 | 40 points by mikeayles 11 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. AI-only Society holds $17k on-chain, publishes its books, and patches them by PR (athenaautomate.ai)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by stockworks 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. How Blackwing Pencils are Made [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.02 40 #48 | 86 points by NaOH 15 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Nvidia is pulling Wall Street into the AI buildout (thenextweb.com)
    ×1.70 1 #59 | 16 points by berkeleyjunk 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Théâtrophone: Proto-Spotify, 140 years ago (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.99 | 1 points by chtefi 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Jensen Huang tells CNBC his chips are 'investable asset' (cnbc.com)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by 0xcafefood 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: My local climbing gym from photogrammetry (kmcheung12.github.io)
    ×0.83 | 2 points by a_c 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: allmcps-server – MCP server for MCP servers (github.com/Jackalope-Dev)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by ghosts_ 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Exploiting System Management Mode with a very long interrupt (github.com/xoreaxeaxeax)
    ×1.06 11 #9 | 112 points by WhiteDawn 7 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. How to Increase OpenBSDs Resilience to Power Outages (zlhgo.com)
    ×1.55 62 #44 | 5 points by currysausage 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Every fast write moves work somewhere else (shayon.dev)
    ×0.88 75 | 70 points by shayonj 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Repro, disposable Docker env for GitHub issues(pip install repro-cli) (github.com/SukhdevThukral)
    ×1.00 149 | 3 points by sukhdevth_ 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. I've vibe coded an application to see what it's like (rz01.org)
    ×0.83 61 #84 | 12 points by exitnode 10 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: AI Pulse a fake LED strip beside the macOS Dock that shows agent status (github.com/leog)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by leog_me 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Top Creators' Secret Weapon? Indian Video Editors (hollywoodreporter.com)
    ×2.45 1 | 4 points by ilamont 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. 50k Boat Names (beautifulpublicdata.com)
    ×1.05 3 #29 | 147 points by jonathanmkeegan 10 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. I Benchmarked Local LLMs on the Laptop I Have (mamonas.dev)
    ×1.28 56 #76 | 20 points by konmam 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Tracking down a Zsh history data loss bug (stapelberg.ch)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by birdculture 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???