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Autonomous drones locate Flock cams, cover lenses with black paint

×1.48 | 2 points by spottedmarley 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Be honest: When was the last time you cleaned up obsolete code from your repos?

×0.28 | 2 points by PangeaRocks 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How does an ARP Spoofing Attack work?

×0.62 7 | 3 points by emn4tor 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What are you building with Mojo lang?

×0.68 | 2 points by maxchisto 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Should hard-tech founders join a problem or technology-first PhD lab?

×0.25 30 | 10 points by misterballer 6 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Does a human still review your code?

×0.44 57 | 6 points by stikit 6 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Live Experiment of the Veblen Effect

×0.62 53 | 4 points by henryfudgeoffic 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What are your unfinished projects?

×0.20 | 2 points by adam_gyroscope 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Kakehashi Update: Running Apple Clang build and lowering overhead to 1.24x

×0.42 84 | 3 points by vlad_kalinkin 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Why not expand accessibility laws to include the right to use AI?

×0.30 | 2 points by amichail 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What's the AI Revolution "Model T Ford"?

×0.39 | 2 points by ComputerPerson 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Do you know how much head hunters cost?

×0.51 97 | 3 points by mojomark 7 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
New DeepSeek Pricing Published (Peak and Off-Peak)

×0.32 100 | 5 points by mittermayr 11 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: In your experience, what are sound conventions for e-ink UI development?

×0.98 111 | 213 points by BoxOfRain 1 week ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Does AI watermarking present a new attack vector?

×0.33 99 | 4 points by nathanfig 9 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Move AI news from Hacker News to somewhere else?

×1.66 83 | 9 points by thomasfl 12 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: In 2021, there were 4.5 jobs per job seeker vs. 2.5 job seekers/job now

×0.63 120 | 10 points by ed_balls 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

×1.43 113 | 318 points by david927 5 days ago | 1178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How much money do you spend monthly on subscriptions for AI models?

×0.35 110 | 13 points by marko-djuric 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How are you preventing brainrot?

×0.44 108 | 8 points by flyingcoder 17 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How are you finding the job market in 2026?

×0.82 128 | 17 points by dzonga 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Is HTTPS://status.claude.com loading for you all?

×1.11 106 | 7 points by soorajsanker 15 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How can you tell a site/app is vibe coded?

×0.49 126 | 8 points by gkolli 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Is AI code verification becoming your main bottleneck?

×0.27 138 | 7 points by ochidaniel4 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Reason You Can't Stop Buying Stuff You Don't Need (comuniq.xyz)

×1.63 | 2 points by 01-_- 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Pestle-27B-Ternary (huggingface.co)

×1.33 | 2 points by MalikHAA2 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Probabilistic Model for Detecting and Preventing Agent Drift (zenodo.org)

×0.52 | 1 points by aming557 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: At 16K features, flat autoencoders break. Curved space doesn't (github.com/vishal-dehurdle)

×0.70 125 | 10 points by visha1v 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
RayforceDB – a pure C analytics database with a Lisp-like syntax (rayforcedb.com)

×0.55 30 #80 | 29 points by sourdecor 4 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI by Hand (byhand.ai)

×1.60 12 #8 | 104 points by sans_souse 4 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Trump administration cancels Biden-era power line construction efforts (thehill.com)

×1.83 18 | 3 points by gok 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How Organizations Use AI: Evidence from ChatGPT [pdf] (openai.com)

×1.01 32 | 123 points by malshe 1 day ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
JDK 27 G1/Parallel/Serial GC Changes (tschatzl.github.io)

×1.03 61 | 65 points by 0x54MUR41 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
RustDesk now supports true unattended remote access on Wayland (rustdesk.com)

×1.48 7 #3 | 152 points by rustdesk 4 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Maybe the "Webmaster" Isn't Dead After All (meiert.com)

×0.52 | 1 points by speckx 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DeepSeek API Pricing Update (twitter.com/deepseek_ai)

×2.72 49 | 126 points by mfiguiere 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I want extern "fil-C" (domenkozar.com)

×1.61 38 | 69 points by domenkozar 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: DST this DST that, test your containers (github.com/bxrne)

×1.00 70 | 3 points by bxrne 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Mininote: Instant, plain-text note taking without tracking or lock-in (mininote.ink)

×2.05 37 #66 | 12 points by helba-ai 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Flock (Again) Activates a Camera System a Town Had Voted to Shut Down (techdirt.com)

×3.81 62 | 63 points by hn_acker 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Indo-European Family Tree (djbinder.com)

×1.83 56 | 89 points by benbreen 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Taxpayers Funded a $533M Artillery Plant That Made Nothing (propublica.org)

×2.91 16 #50 | 45 points by Jimmc414 4 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Mysterious Syndrome Destroying Endurance Athletes (outsideonline.com)

×1.73 17 | 3 points by cwwc 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
US conducted mass spying campaign against leftwing and anti-ICE protesters (theguardian.com)

×13.73 30 | 240 points by magic_interface 18 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Process as a Proxy for Motivation (bengodfrey.dev)

×1.28 103 | 67 points by sudo-bendg 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
High-Performance Array-Backed LRU Hash Table (github.com/adanil-code)

×0.61 45 #38 | 4 points by adanil_ 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: C# Game Engine with its own scripting language and IDE (github.com/ArcadeMakerSources)

×1.02 27 #57 | 98 points by am-gm 15 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Artifex - Graph Based GPU Harness for AI Agents (gatewai.studio)

×0.67 82 | 5 points by oknaslnkn 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
HashAgent – Share an AI agent as a URL, runs locally via WebGPU (hashagent.pages.dev)

×0.54 29 #39 | 41 points by masonhsu 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How to ship a database every day (turbopuffer.com)

×1.05 33 #52 | 11 points by cbrewster 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Kubernetes on Oxide: How customer needs shaped our integrations (oxide.computer)

×1.24 37 #85 | 194 points by stevehipwell 1 day ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
BAML is Basically A Made-up Language (boundaryml.com)

×0.51 | 1 points by gregsadetsky 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Can I use my Outputs to train an AI model? (claude.com)

×7.46 73 | 92 points by DarenWatson 1 day ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Sloppy Fast Grouped Scroll View for Svelte (prathje.github.io)

×0.82 | 2 points by prathje 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Every Fucking Website (2020) (lxe.github.io)

×4.36 14 #17 | 654 points by doubletwoyou 6 hours ago | 372 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I trained three LLMs from scratch and put them online to try them out (huggingface.co)

×0.92 | 2 points by Johnene 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: We mapped AI patterns before watermark removal became a mainstream (founderstoday.org)

×1.16 | 2 points by RichardOdds 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How to Get Rich in America (kyla.substack.com)

×2.53 10 | 4 points by cwwc 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
US sells 30-year bonds at highest borrowing costs since 2001 (ft.com)

×6.46 47 | 63 points by petethomas 22 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Shoehorn, a library to quantize an LLM to fit your Mac's VRAM (github.com/notactuallytreyanastasio)

×3.43 50 | 6 points by rhgraysonii 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: How Good Is Your Pipe? (howgoodisyourpipe.com)

×0.60 | 2 points by hellojomp 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Voice driven murder mystery, Interview AI suspects with your voice (whodunnitai.com)

×1.36 119 | 213 points by MrRowTheBoat 4 days ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Scroll through all 43252003274489856000 Rubik's Cube states (alen.is)

×1.55 105 | 292 points by Alen123 3 days ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Spectre on RISC-V Silicon (lukasgerlach.me)

×0.74 | 1 points by mici 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What an improv stage can teach you about leading cross-cultural teams in Tokyo (tokyodev.com)

×0.83 51 #63 | 50 points by pwim 14 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mistral OCR 4.1 (mistral.ai)

×1.90 8 #82 | 401 points by spelk 1 day ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What's the Value of an Hour? (newyorker.com)

×0.65 | 1 points by littlexsparkee 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mail (MX) Server Survey (2024) (archive.org)

×0.52 | 1 points by dredmorbius 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Private prisons announce $1.4B in revenue as immigration detentions climb (npr.org)

×3.17 55 | 61 points by speckx 5 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Millennium – Steam Homebrew (steambrew.app)

×1.40 124 | 5 points by therepanic 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Apple proposes to take a 15% cut of purchases made outside the App Store (techcrunch.com)

×3.50 21 #44 | 38 points by sbulaev 2 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Maximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions (claude.com)

×1.51 5 #16 | 88 points by twapi 4 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DeepSeek peak/off-peak pricing update (deepseek.com)

×1.57 9 #20 | 231 points by fagnerbrack 11 hours ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI Model Atlas – visualizing populations of ML models as interconnected 3D graph (cosmograph.app)

×0.68 22 #31 | 45 points by bj-rn 6 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: AletheionAGI – Grounding enforcement for AI agents (aletheionagi.com)

×0.43 65 #36 | 3 points by felipemayamuniz 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Slow Death of VBulletin, and Why It Isn't Over (sudosecurity.org)

×0.92 | 1 points by SudoSH 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Stripe, Advent in Talks to Buy PayPal (wsj.com)

×1.17 | 2 points by aghuang 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Banquish – Take other websites apart and build your own (banquish.space)

×1.45 5 | 3 points by ghboo0927 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Ember – Redshift safe color palettes (github.com/carpdiem)

×1.50 20 #11 | 17 points by carpdiem 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Mcptoon – Token-efficient MCP CLI client (github.com/activeing123)

×0.59 127 | 73 points by mcptokensaver 3 days ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How art invented humanity (aeon.co)

×0.93 51 | 99 points by prismatic 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Study links coffee consumption to metabolic health and sex hormones (oulu.fi)

×0.77 | 1 points by _____k 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What's a Platonic Biosingularity? (opentheory.substack.com)

×1.38 | 2 points by eatitraw 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Jane Street has paid up large to avoid its numbers leaking out (ft.com)

×1.86 19 | 3 points by JumpCrisscross 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Qwen3.8-27B (twitter.com/alibaba_qwen)

×5.54 86 | 296 points by mfiguiere 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tocharian Online (utexas.edu)

×0.57 63 | 65 points by Bluestein 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Jason Arday Found Dead (telegraph.co.uk)

×4.38 50 #72 | 23 points by theanonymousone 1 hour ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Choosing an AI model: one prompt, 11 models, different results (netlify.com)

×1.41 44 #76 | 215 points by toddmorey 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Beeb, a daily Blokus-inspired block puzzle game (georgemike.com)

×0.88 | 2 points by haberdasher 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Woxi - Open-source Mathematica / Wolfram Language reimplementation (ad-si.com)

×1.61 64 | 312 points by adius 2 days ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???