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  1. Ask HN: What is a good advice for someone looking to fractional hire a team?
    ×0.16 42 | 4 points by vanessa1211 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)
    ×0.79 87 | 158 points by whoishiring 4 days ago | 492 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. DeepSeek announced to raise its API price tremendously
    ×0.52 85 | 26 points by alexwwang 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)
    ×1.02 80 | 230 points by whoishiring 4 days ago | 293 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Laguna S 2.1:118B-a9B better than Qwen3.5:122B-a10B? So far, yes
    ×0.11 | 2 points by spottedmarley 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Anybody tried Laguna S 2.1 (by Poolside)?
    ×0.21 94 | 6 points by spottedmarley 21 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Poker and Liar's Dice over Bluetooth Low Energy
    ×0.28 110 | 4 points by yincrash 23 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Did GitHub remove the stargazers list?
    ×0.69 107 | 24 points by reconnecting 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Read HN twice a day for the last decade. Here's my list of S-Tier HN links
    ×2.54 66 | 101 points by vivzkestrel 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. US and China race to be first to build Skynet. Either way we're F'ed
    ×0.66 83 | 16 points by spottedmarley 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask GitHub SRE: How serious is the situation there?
    ×1.25 58 | 22 points by laxk 21 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Empower the people not the AI – self containing OS
    ×0.51 131 | 8 points by OnemanBSD 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Show your micro-SaaS / MRR updates (August 2026)
    ×1.05 122 | 11 points by genekrapivin 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. The Oceanos Rescue Remembered (defenceweb.co.za)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by _djo_ 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What are your favorite free daily web-based games?
    ×0.58 | 1 points by DamnInteresting 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. The Suicide Crisis in Wyoming (nytimes.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by mooreds 53 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Zed DeltaDB (zed.dev)
    ×2.07 4 | 522 points by ahamez 1 day ago | 308 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. I won't read LLM authored fiction (mccormick.cx)
    ×3.42 45 | 63 points by chr15m 9 hours ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Software is about people, not code (2020) (letterstoanewdeveloper.com)
    ×1.40 11 #23 | 35 points by venamresm__ 2 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. U.S. Intel Finds Putin Could Test NATO's Resolve with Limited Incursion (wsj.com)
    ×3.58 49 #69 | 8 points by cwwc 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Show HN: Open-source pixel art editor with animation and auto-tiling tilesets (simplepixelart.com)
    ×1.99 77 | 6 points by lam_hg94 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Show HN: demake – one source project compiles to any retro game console ROM (geosona.com)
    ×1.09 62 | 39 points by gste 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Show HN: QWERTY MIDI – Isomorphic Layout MIDI Controller (beijaflor.io)
    ×2.40 82 | 6 points by yamadapc 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Show HN: GreatArrow.ai – Shared memory for Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and Cursor (greatarrow.ai)
    ×0.53 | 2 points by clapptastic 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.27 14 #8 | 74 points by m3h 6 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Degrees of Wealth (jaapgrolleman.com)
    ×2.89 47 | 59 points by jxub 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Scientists Designed a Virtual Alien Lifeform to Hunt for Extraterrestrials (404media.co)
    ×1.33 | 2 points by Brajeshwar 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: I rewrote Decap CMS with < $1K in Claude tokens (github.com/laikacms)
    ×0.58 | 2 points by afirus 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Wyzer Programming Language (github.com/Wyzer-Lang)
    ×1.14 6 #5 | 100 points by v0id_isgood 4 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Who Supervises the Supervisor? A Riff on Machine Learning (johnhorgan.org)
    ×1.32 | 2 points by lschueller 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. "It's unclear how Sopwith escaped to the general public." (aresluna.org)
    ×1.95 40 #56 | 36 points by colinprince 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Neutrinos from Deep Inside Earth Provide a New Picture of the Mantle (quantamagazine.org)
    ×2.01 19 | 3 points by lschueller 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. After mitigation measures, residents say Aurora data center still creating noise (chicagotribune.com)
    ×2.59 49 | 3 points by starkparker 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Carr's FCC Rewrites Media Ownership Law Only Congress Can Change (techdirt.com)
    ×1.44 | 2 points by hn_acker 27 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. U.S. Lost 23,000 Jobs in July, While Unemployment Ticked Lower (wsj.com)
    ×2.20 82 | 70 points by JumpCrisscross 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Clef – spaced repetition for piano over MIDI (playclef.com)
    ×1.21 14 | 3 points by danieldratschuk 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Welcoming the Nepalese Government to Have I Been Pwned (troyhunt.com)
    ×1.18 32 #27 | 196 points by gnabgib 19 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Launch HN: ProvenMetal (YC S26) delivers circuit boards in days instead of weeks (provenmetal.com)
    ×0.81 48 #28 | 217 points by willcarkner 1 day ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Play PICO-8 on your Apple Watch (apple.com)
    ×1.00 | 1 points by 3Samourai 34 seconds ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Infinite scrolling comes to Hazumi for Hacker News (apple.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by jrhey 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models (neon.com)
    ×1.94 8 | 428 points by moonikakiss 1 day ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Japanese Govt Asks US Govt to Stop Using Mario, Pokemono, Naruto Meme Postings (mainichi.jp)
    ×3.80 16 | 76 points by m463 21 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: A little physical breakout clone (brontosaurusrex.github.io)
    ×0.54 121 | 18 points by brontosaurusrex 1 week ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Tiny black holes may be exploding stars across the Milky Way (sciencedaily.com)
    ×0.93 61 #63 | 91 points by jandrewrogers 1 day ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Quantum entanglement generated by sunlight for the first time (uottawa.ca)
    ×0.64 75 #88 | 5 points by giuliomagnifico 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Modern Browsers Don't Need the Cookie Anymore (kuber.studio)
    ×3.11 103 | 23 points by kuberwastaken 2 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: A model router should also provide a MCP gateway (github.com/maximhq)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by Swapnoneel 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Likeface, make typefaces you like (0i0.app)
    ×0.89 | 2 points by 0gs 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: SIMD Viterbi Decoder in Rust (github.com/brian-armstrong)
    ×0.79 91 | 64 points by brian-armstrong 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Ask HN: Why aren't there more Operating System startups?
    ×0.60 | 1 points by senor_digimon 59 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Katharos Functional programming and CSP-style concurrency for Python (github.com/kamalfarahani)
    ×0.70 137 | 37 points by kamalf 5 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Quake – 30th Anniversary Update (bethesda.net)
    ×2.97 2 #42 | 374 points by dsubburam 20 hours ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Whiteboards are better than PowerPoint (leadprompt.sh)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by saltysalt 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability (githubstatus.com)
    ×2.61 20 #24 | 465 points by Footkerchief 1 day ago | 390 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Can you reverse engineer an ASIC? (janestreet.com)
    ×1.08 41 #49 | 101 points by bschne 21 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence (2025) (arxiv.org)
    ×1.32 55 #85 | 168 points by robin_reala 1 day ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. How to design good agent tools (bolshchikov.com)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by bolshchikov 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. On non-rooted Android 17, ADB uninstall of system apps fails (github.com/Universal-Debloater-Alliance)
    ×2.87 9 | 221 points by microtonal 1 day ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: posix-regex – POSIX standard regex engine for JavaScript (github.com/dawsonhuang0)
    ×0.51 | 2 points by dawson0 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Thoroughly Understanding C++ ABI (ykiko.me)
    ×0.76 17 #9 | 38 points by rramadass 4 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Taste Is All That's Left (notashelf.dev)
    ×2.96 23 #12 | 595 points by tsak 23 hours ago | 469 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Sift – MCP aggregator that exposes 2 tools instead of hundreds (github.com/Narasimha1997)
    ×1.45 125 | 5 points by Narasimha1997 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: ssh ssh.place (ssh.place)
    ×1.21 93 | 184 points by jeninh 4 days ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: How will the Aug 12 eclipse look like from your address? (eclipse2026times.com)
    ×0.82 114 | 5 points by cpcdoy 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: A Handwritten Blogging Platform (handwritten.blog)
    ×1.71 92 | 192 points by emilesilvis 1 week ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Kakehashi – Experimental userspace to run macOS binaries on Linux ARM (github.com/wie-project)
    ×1.27 89 | 253 points by vlad_kalinkin 5 days ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Humor Arena – Which frontier model is funniest? (laugh.so)
    ×2.18 115 | 10 points by killiandunne1 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. I added a real-time chat to my blog, people used it to attack me (andros.dev)
    ×1.90 43 | 68 points by andros 1 day ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Elevators (john.fun)
    ×5.84 63 | 1673 points by Jrh0203 1 week ago | 413 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. What Are the Margins of Error in the BLS Monthly Jobs Reports? (2024) (mishtalk.com)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by starkparker 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. DOGE overstated savings, government watchdog says (politico.com)
    ×8.67 83 | 117 points by ceejayoz 4 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. US beef prices have soared but farmers aren't making more money (bbc.com)
    ×3.26 44 | 69 points by tartoran 1 day ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: S-Bahn Seat Picker (welidev.github.io)
    ×0.78 | 2 points by weli 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: I worked on a new browser for 2 years, today it passed Acid 3 (intellios.ai)
    ×2.72 117 | 158 points by coolwulf 6 days ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Discovery Loop (discoveryloop.com)
    ×2.87 8 #65 | 933 points by xtreak29 2 days ago | 587 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026 (phoboslab.org)
    ×1.99 3 #66 | 482 points by atan2 1 day ago | 247 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Kedge – Full-stack cloud with forkable VM snapshots and global SQLite (kedge.dev)
    ×1.13 128 | 141 points by wgjordan 1 week ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: I made a game where you build a CPU from logic gates (select.supply)
    ×1.30 136 | 102 points by laurentiurad 1 week ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. EEPROM (not to be confused with EPROM) (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by dieselgate 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. GitHub Is Experiencing Difficulties (githubstatus.com)
    ×3.84 4 | 114 points by Jeaye 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Microfeed – RSS+10GB media files on your own domain, no hosting fees (microfeed.org)
    ×1.15 | 2 points by wenbin 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: What should the GUI for AI agents look like? (marbleos.com)
    ×1.25 124 | 138 points by akbabu 1 week ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: See every Google ad any company is running (free, no signup) (vaytric.com)
    ×1.28 96 | 7 points by tradi3 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Shitty – fast terminal. Memory-unsafe and faster than yours (github.com/pg83)
    ×2.12 95 | 173 points by pshirshov 4 days ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Iceberg Collapses and Flips over in Ilulissat, Greenland (July 25, 2026) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×3.54 16 #19 | 139 points by Bender 2 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs (scalex.dev)
    ×1.52 9 #62 | 327 points by Wirbelwind 1 day ago | 238 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. University celebrates Baby's 65th birthday (2013) (manchester.ac.uk)
    ×1.34 | 2 points by Bluestein 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Apple Captures 65% of Global Premium Smartphone Market (macrumors.com)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by tosh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. A handful of cities have replaced Flock with Axon (404media.co)
    ×4.37 12 | 101 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS (textlog.cc)
    ×1.47 18 #7 | 65 points by stagas 6 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???