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Ask HN: In your experience, what are sound conventions for e-ink UI development?

×1.06 45 #81 | 205 points by BoxOfRain 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Could DNA be represented as "an embedding" in an AI model?

×0.38 21 | 3 points by greenmoonx 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

×1.44 54 | 312 points by david927 2 days ago | 1142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
SETI@Home was the coolest thing

×0.85 92 | 24 points by b112 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How did you teach analog electronics to your kids?

×0.30 89 | 6 points by felooboolooomba 17 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Anyone have solution to Opus verbosity in Claude Code?

×0.27 108 | 4 points by firemelt 22 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How do you learn with LLMs?

×0.29 121 | 5 points by py4 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Old.reddit.com Requires Login

×2.05 81 | 30 points by comprev 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What Project are you the most proud of?

×0.61 123 | 10 points by emn4tor 2 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How do you go from writing code to deploying with agents?

×0.46 126 | 17 points by sakuraiben 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Is Ask HN Shrinking?

×0.50 134 | 20 points by keiferski 3 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Why is Open POWER Foundation a wasteland?

×0.83 144 | 13 points by climate_denier_ 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How do you set comp at an early stage startup?

×0.41 135 | 7 points by jeffreyfate 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: My dev blog has 11k followers. I stopped writing it. What would you do?

×0.53 143 | 9 points by zlatkov 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The State of Google

×0.95 130 | 15 points by 3dedb728-3f77 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Recommended Merchant of Record and Affliate Setup

×0.27 148 | 5 points by tisdadd 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Is Traditional SaaS Dying?

×0.47 129 | 5 points by vibe_that_works 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Statin use vs. death rate from cardiovascular diseases (2019) (ourworldindata.org)

×1.96 6 #44 | 9 points by js2 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Faster floating point math with Rust's new API (pythonspeed.com)

×0.95 70 #50 | 105 points by subset 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Male redback spider's dramatic death somersault during sex coded in its DNA (abc.net.au)

×2.24 13 | 4 points by Gaishan 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Federal vendor with $50M in contracts leaves portal broken for a month (propublica.org)

×2.21 29 | 98 points by ams1 14 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Self-hosted universal context layer for Mac (github.com/Rafaelpta)

×0.73 | 2 points by rafaepta 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Working on gym weight progress calculator (gymcalc.no)

×1.01 149 | 3 points by xtremi 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Weaponized: Washington Farmer Targeted After Criticizing Government Regulations? (agweb.com)

×1.47 | 2 points by silexia 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Winemaking Home Page (2018) (archive.org)

×1.52 | 2 points by Ariarule 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Scroll through all 43252003274489856000 Rubik's Cube states (alen.is)

×1.53 2 | 287 points by Alen123 1 day ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: PrivateRedact – Offline PII redaction with a local LLM, no cloud (github.com/monjurulkarim)

×1.45 131 | 4 points by rajubuet24 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nvidia's Risky Business (stratechery.com)

×2.07 7 #24 | 316 points by jonbaer 19 hours ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I built a PII pdf parser for your agent (pdfagent.net)

×1.00 | 2 points by mattmerrick 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Proxima serves 4x more requests with no hardware change on vLLM (github.com/Tenosra)

×0.93 95 | 3 points by pythongiant 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Opencodex, a free open-source coding agent for VSCode (github.com/matonhp5108)

×2.11 109 | 6 points by thephantomhider 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Survey: Norwegian skepticism toward the US reaches record high (aftenposten.no)

×3.03 64 | 3 points by roschdal 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Numbat by Perplexity: Endpoint visibility into AI agent activity (github.com/perplexityai)

×0.98 | 2 points by handfuloflight 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Skills from a Smart Bear (asmartbear.com)

×1.51 42 | 3 points by mooreds 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Airy – Free, fast, and simple voice content creation (airy.so)

×0.68 100 | 46 points by login588 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: ConfigLedger -Find configuration drift across code, CI, Docker and docs (github.com/DevFoundry-labs)

×1.03 119 | 3 points by DevFoundry-labs 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Needle2: 14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, smart home and robots (cactuscompute.com)

×2.36 4 #60 | 510 points by HenryNdubuaku 1 day ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Open Science Framework Shutting down, Use ResearchBox Instead (datacolada.org)

×0.76 | 1 points by anitil 21 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GPT 5.6 Cyber (openai.com)

×2.98 49 | 128 points by gizmodo59 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ocean heat records broken as hottest July temperature recorded (bbc.com)

×3.37 75 | 76 points by blondie9x 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: DocSift convert a PDF once, give the model only the passages it needs (github.com/anishmoncivarghese)

×1.32 138 | 4 points by anishvarghese 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: In-browser 4x photo upscaling (crisp.photos)

×0.54 | 2 points by g58892881 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Slashscore, an open developer graph built from public GitHub activity (slashscore.com)

×0.61 | 2 points by wingravity 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
50k Boat Names (beautifulpublicdata.com)

×1.08 55 #79 | 189 points by jonathanmkeegan 1 day ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Openleetcode – local LeetCode runner where tests live in the repo (github.com/therepanic)

×1.54 78 | 4 points by therepanic 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Issue Apple and Google wallet passes from Node.js (github.com/getpassmint)

×2.13 136 | 5 points by alexpate 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Typegres 0.3 – SQL-as-your-API, safely (using Cap'n Web RPC) (typegres.com)

×1.41 122 | 4 points by ryanrasti 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Publishing Schematics Before “Open Source” Was a Word (medium.com)

×0.76 71 #68 | 112 points by extralongdivisi 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Supply-Wizard; Start Selling Data with an Easy Vendor Checklist (brickroad.network)

×1.33 76 | 3 points by dataranger 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Keen Code – an agentic-engineered coding agent (github.com/mochow13)

×2.37 114 | 6 points by mochow13 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Tura – Build agent that uses 80% less token and delivers better results (github.com/Tura-AI)

×1.00 140 | 14 points by turaainet 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Tamron Lens Utility Alternative on Linux (github.com/yikerman)

×1.04 20 #16 | 44 points by xiaoyu2006 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering (googleblog.com)

×3.24 5 #18 | 311 points by 0xedb 12 hours ago | 368 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Who Pays for the High-Powered Grid That Data Centers Need? (texasobserver.org)

×2.14 1 #67 | 14 points by cdrnsf 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Supreme Computation – Fail-closed governance for AI execution (github.com/KnowledgeeKZA3224)

×0.46 | 1 points by Knowledgee_KZA 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Woman pulled over twice after Flock-linked software connected her to homicide (guessingheadlights.com)

×5.08 75 | 250 points by cdrnsf 12 hours ago | 228 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Midlife Vascular Risk Burden and Dementia-Free Survival Years (neurology.org)

×1.29 67 | 82 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The traits that make engineers stand out, according to Coinbase's CTO (businessinsider.com)

×2.00 5 #72 | 7 points by doctaj 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Toxic underground fires spreading at California landfills (newstribune.com)

×1.69 66 #83 | 72 points by tapper 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Honey Gets Terminated as Lawsuits Proceed [video] (youtube.com)

×1.28 | 2 points by nomilk 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Memftprt, a consistent, process-tree-wide memory footprint on Linux (github.com/menzew)

×0.42 | 1 points by benzewdu 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tl;dv: Over 180k meetings left wide open (bobdahacker.com)

×4.62 10 | 613 points by colesantiago 1 day ago | 205 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Seedle, daily -dle for Minecraft seeds (loch.tools)

×1.24 116 | 4 points by lwansbrough 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Find stale, orphaned, deleted-but-retrievable RAG vectors (github.com/rimironenko)

×0.34 81 #23 | 3 points by rimironenko 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
CSS properties you should know for better text designs (master.dev)

×1.46 21 #26 | 95 points by ibobev 11 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Recycle – Floppydisks (floppydisk.com)

×0.86 65 #56 | 116 points by calvinmorrison 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenAI launches ChatGPT desktop app for Linux (techcrunch.com)

×2.39 14 #66 | 42 points by ashurandi 8 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I built a failover daemon for Vast.ai spot GPUs, found 5 real bugs testing it (github.com/enplabs)

×0.42 | 1 points by choi5844 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I made alchemical-cosmological PCB badges (github.com/KaiPereira)

×0.46 99 | 23 points by kaipereira 6 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Mangudai – Agentless attack surface manager for small tech teams (github.com/oktaybilge1)

×0.43 | 2 points by mangudai 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
World Train Map – 1247 train routes around the world (worldtrainmap.com)

×1.64 32 | 147 points by Flightmussy 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Chicken Scheme 6.0 (call-cc.org)

×1.47 2 #77 | 296 points by eatonphil 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OllaLink: A Simpler Approach to Remote Access

×0.73 | 1 points by rasal 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Study links GLP-1 drugs to bigger jump in women's employment than a degree (yahoo.com)

×3.45 51 | 130 points by metadat 1 day ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing (thewalrus.ca)

×4.49 6 #36 | 879 points by awnird 1 day ago | 894 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
$580M undersea cable rerouted to avoid the grave of Dobby the House Elf (tomshardware.com)

×1.80 14 #80 | 99 points by rbanffy 15 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Replantio (replantio.com)

×0.93 | 2 points by gdss 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Tokyo Trains (greggman.github.io)

×2.16 73 | 10 points by greggman65 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: My math notes for anything that touches ML (github.com/publications-and-more)

×0.94 146 | 3 points by Amlal 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Online Speedometer (kmspeedometer.com)

×1.11 142 | 4 points by artiomyak 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs (stolen-thoughts.com)

×3.01 5 #6 | 557 points by quantumgarbage 15 hours ago | 239 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mojo 1.0 (modular.com)

×2.24 3 #7 | 337 points by dayanruben 12 hours ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Thumbs Down for Clojure (2009) (loper-os.org)

×2.13 38 | 3 points by LAC-Tech 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Watching browser fingerprinting calls via Chromium's Blink layer (kameleo.io)

×3.99 107 | 14 points by brnbs 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining (ft.com)

×3.22 12 #9 | 350 points by ilamont 16 hours ago | 365 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Apple Silicon and macOS VMs: Faster LLM Inference with llama.cpp (github.com/trycua)

×1.77 26 #45 | 289 points by frabonacci 14 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: gbx -- manage a fleet of git repos with a TUI (github.com/deemson)

×0.41 | 2 points by deemson 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Five Programming Books That Changed How I Think (adamtornhill.substack.com)

×2.25 7 #90 | 35 points by birdculture 9 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Shopping Is Impossible (theatlantic.com)

×2.18 10 | 4 points by paulpauper 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Defending my own brain against enshittification (mrmarket.lol)

×2.82 60 | 111 points by mrmarket 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???