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  1. Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
    ×1.45 25 #22 | 276 points by david927 20 hours ago | 952 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. SETI@Home was the coolest thing
    ×2.23 65 | 6 points by b112 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Recommended Merchant of Record and Affliate Setup
    ×0.32 89 | 4 points by tisdadd 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: How do you set comp at an early stage startup?
    ×0.20 | 2 points by jeffreyfate 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What Project are you the most proud of?
    ×0.39 86 | 3 points by emn4tor 13 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: My dev blog has 11k followers. I stopped writing it. What would you do?
    ×0.73 85 | 8 points by zlatkov 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How do you go from writing code to deploying with agents?
    ×0.45 96 | 14 points by sakuraiben 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Should a coding client import another client's rules by default?
    ×0.27 | 2 points by ryanmerket 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. The State of Google
    ×1.18 92 | 14 points by 3dedb728-3f77 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Is Ask HN Shrinking?
    ×0.54 101 | 18 points by keiferski 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What is your database size
    ×0.37 106 | 8 points by kureikain 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. The Systemic Collapse of the AI Industry: Ideology, Hardware, and CapEx Crisis
    ×0.52 90 | 6 points by impartial2602 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Is this normal HN ranking?
    ×1.00 73 | 4 points by unclebucknasty 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Why is Open POWER Foundation a wasteland?
    ×0.67 110 | 8 points by climate_denier_ 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Anyone that has built a marketplace, what has been your experience?
    ×0.94 121 | 6 points by mfisc_019 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Should AI's tell you they're AI?
    ×0.62 87 | 9 points by logicallee 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Agentcn – Installable AI Agents
    ×0.28 128 | 4 points by anayat 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Mossad accicentally injected data to a French lawyer phone instead of extracting
    ×1.98 81 | 22 points by 0x54MUR41 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. DeepSeek announced to raise its API price tremendously
    ×0.48 135 | 32 points by alexwwang 4 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: In your experience, what are sound conventions for e-ink UI development?
    ×1.13 155 | 6 points by BoxOfRain 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: What can I do with a single R9700?
    ×0.18 149 | 4 points by scott01 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Is there a mobile operating system with (wasi) container support?
    ×0.40 112 | 3 points by wseqyrku 21 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Laguna S 2.1:118B-a9B better than Qwen3.5:122B-a10B? So far, yes
    ×0.15 165 | 4 points by spottedmarley 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Did GitHub remove the stargazers list?
    ×0.67 145 | 29 points by reconnecting 5 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Read HN twice a day for the last decade. Here's my list of S-Tier HN links
    ×2.46 103 | 114 points by vivzkestrel 4 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Should you stop cracking your knuckles? (bbc.com)
    ×1.31 85 #62 | 122 points by tchalla 1 day ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. The Grid That Doubles the Strength of the Ground (practical.engineering)
    ×1.24 61 #63 | 131 points by michaefe 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. The Philippines' big offshoring industry is growing despite AI (economist.com)
    ×1.74 23 #65 | 62 points by nlpnerd 9 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Using Claude Code to reclaim mobile app privacy (thatprivacyguy.com)
    ×1.59 | 2 points by AlexanderHanff 47 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Memcode AI goes open source with Claude Code inspired coding agent (github.com/memcode-ai)
    ×0.81 78 | 3 points by timerwin 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Pacific Slate: a self-hosted, model-agnostic multi-agent AI assistant (pacslate.com)
    ×1.34 84 | 5 points by badwx 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Parametron: 50s Japanese computer that uses neither transistors nor vacuum tubes (ethw.org)
    ×2.04 5 #7 | 38 points by xeonmc 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Repro, disposable Docker env for GitHub issues(pip install repro-cli) (github.com/SukhdevThukral)
    ×1.02 115 | 3 points by sukhdevth_ 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Form cohorts in your city for study and business (chimera.university)
    ×0.63 | 2 points by celestiallylvd1 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Archer to Acquire Wisk, Insitu, and SkyGrid from Boeing (archer.com)
    ×0.78 | 1 points by kejaed 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Apple Briefly Posts China Guide for Connecting Siri to Qwen AI (macrumors.com)
    ×2.08 33 | 3 points by tosh 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Apple M1 Series SoCs to See ~1 Watt Power Savings with Linux 7.3 (phoronix.com)
    ×1.92 14 | 3 points by DemiGuru 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. _for-sale DNS records (specification.website)
    ×2.05 25 | 435 points by shaunpud 2 days ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Incentives are for losers (experimental-history.com)
    ×2.82 39 | 166 points by bkudria 1 day ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Voyager 1 FDS Computer Emulator (zaneham.github.io)
    ×0.76 70 | 92 points by rahen 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. LLM Rewrite of the TerminalTextEffects Python (github.com/omacom-io)
    ×1.39 | 2 points by m-novikov 24 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Why MySpace fans want it back as relaunch hinted (bbc.com)
    ×1.43 78 #80 | 54 points by 1659447091 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Would you trust your boss with data about your brain? (calmatters.org)
    ×2.22 47 | 3 points by cdrnsf 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Bitbead – Photo to printable bead pattern, in the browser (bitbead.app)
    ×3.21 164 | 8 points by shouqing_qiao 5 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. The main way I've seen people turn ideologically crazy (2025) (andymasley.com)
    ×2.89 20 #43 | 143 points by mef 17 hours ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video] (mynoise.net)
    ×2.14 29 #30 | 182 points by gregsadetsky 18 hours ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Fedi Thread to Blog Post (shom.dev)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by meysamazad 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: iPhone app takes simultaneous images from 2 lenses, fuses into 1 photo (photosynthesis.camera)
    ×3.02 111 | 8 points by sajomes 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Sidebar – a private ESP32 intercom for five kids, no accounts (sundaradnus.ca)
    ×3.51 138 | 15 points by nonstopnonsense 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. How We Pushed CDC into Postgres (snowflake.com)
    ×1.09 24 #21 | 112 points by craigkerstiens 12 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. As AI grips world, the thrill of collecting vintage computers is growing (apnews.com)
    ×1.65 29 #83 | 17 points by geox 9 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. New Way to Solve Integrals: pure algebra, no limits, no substitution (zenodo.org)
    ×2.32 57 | 3 points by epyre 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Two weeks to build the app, four weeks to get it live (getdeckhand.dev)
    ×2.19 53 | 3 points by hari-trata 23 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Deslopifying (martinsos.com)
    ×1.41 | 2 points by matijash 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. “Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers (senko.net)
    ×6.22 12 | 902 points by senko 1 day ago | 557 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Ransomware gangs skip the CEO, head straight for the 40-something IT manager (theregister.com)
    ×1.97 13 | 71 points by joebuckwilliams 18 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Voice driven murder mystery, Interview AI suspects with your voice (whodunnitai.com)
    ×1.31 5 #14 | 131 points by MrRowTheBoat 10 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Touring the Consensus, Six Months In (theconsensus.dev)
    ×0.41 87 #56 | 23 points by tosh 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Edgi – Letterboxd or Strava for your brain (edgi.tv)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by jshapiro 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Turn tweets into beautiful, shareable photos (tweet.download)
    ×1.04 148 | 3 points by azeemkafridi 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. ATProto for Distributed Systems Engineers (atproto.com)
    ×1.53 26 #23 | 108 points by LelouBil 12 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Modern Browsers Don't Need the Cookie Anymore (kuber.studio)
    ×3.37 147 | 25 points by kuberwastaken 5 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Plug-In Solar Panels Starting to Sprout in U.S. Backyards (nytimes.com)
    ×3.00 5 | 91 points by bookofjoe 18 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment (openchamber.dev)
    ×1.35 38 #34 | 164 points by hexomancer 20 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Every fast write moves work somewhere else (shayon.dev)
    ×0.88 35 #88 | 68 points by shayonj 22 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. We 10×Ed Our AWS Bill by Checking Our AWS Bill (ultrathink.art)
    ×1.40 | 2 points by justinpaulson 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Tuxedo No. 2 – Cocktail recipes (tuxedono2.com)
    ×1.16 44 #27 | 117 points by smartmic 16 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Open-source playground to red-team AI agents against public prompts (fabraix.com)
    ×4.39 76 | 13 points by zachdotai 20 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: My receipt printer prints an original artwork every morning (github.com/matt-w-horn)
    ×0.91 146 | 23 points by spectraldrift 4 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Picophysics: Single file physics for games on platforms like N64, PSX, DC (gitlab.com)
    ×0.87 61 #26 | 71 points by klaussilveira 14 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Everything you do is being recorded (theatlantic.com)
    ×3.07 32 #28 | 349 points by ike_usawa 1 day ago | 306 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. A 'bananas' order for 5000 obscure book titles fuels suspicion (irishtimes.com)
    ×3.50 38 #45 | 56 points by ohaodha 2 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. When Agentic Glue Melts: Exploiting Cloudflare Code Mode and Workers (checkpoint.com)
    ×5.52 76 | 7 points by shahartal 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: File-based HTTP endpoints for Python with its own isolated dependencies (github.com/tanrax)
    ×0.38 162 | 5 points by andros 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: XSAF – Extra Small Agent Framework (ilha.build)
    ×2.51 159 | 7 points by ryuzyy 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Because It's Not Fun Enough: why languages fail (bytecode.news)
    ×1.69 16 #20 | 63 points by jottinger 2 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Zaivern Code – a Rust cockpit for parallel AI coding agents (github.com/tacyan)
    ×0.53 | 2 points by tacyan 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Why Wall Street is ignoring big tech's debt [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.64 58 #64 | 95 points by johnbarron 1 day ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy (techcrunch.com)
    ×4.01 20 #76 | 277 points by evo_9 22 hours ago | 237 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Agents Remind Me of Sculpting (dmytrokrasun.com)
    ×0.57 | 2 points by krasun 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Maple-Preview – Ternary 20B MoE running at 120 tok/s on a iPhone (deepgrove.ai)
    ×1.38 100 | 172 points by edwardbzhang 5 days ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM (notebookcheck.net)
    ×5.56 20 #40 | 586 points by akyuu 22 hours ago | 529 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Venaya – A financial wellness platform that adapts to your life stage (venaya.app)
    ×1.34 | 2 points by victoriaeast 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Maryland Closes More of Cunningham Falls State Park After Second Beaver Attack (maryland.gov)
    ×1.52 63 | 109 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. AI assistant hacks gym website in first known Australian autonomous cyber attack (abc.net.au)
    ×4.16 3 | 68 points by stared 15 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Remembrane – agent memory in one SQLite file, zero dependencies (github.com/satyasairay)
    ×1.41 143 | 11 points by satyasairay 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Foxes, Lions, and LLMs: The Machiavellian Game of Tech Hiring (twitter.com/0xb33bs)
    ×0.90 | 1 points by 0xbeebs 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Airy – Free, fast, and simple voice content creation (airy.so)
    ×0.63 76 #81 | 41 points by login588 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Dithered QR Codes (andrewt.net)
    ×2.78 18 #82 | 369 points by jmusall 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse (eclipsefan.org)
    ×1.48 44 | 195 points by MarcoDewey 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???