Tools like ripgrep, fzf, and htop have saved me countless hours over the years. What small utilities do you rely on daily?

Ask HN: What is your favorite lightweight tool or CLI utility in 2026?

Maybe more of a big deal should be made about the flood of internal private company information that can pass through to third-party Slack app developers?I suspect most that install Slack apps aren&#x27;t aware (or don&#x27;t care?) that their entire list of employees and Slack profiles can get shipped out pretty easily. Anyway here&#x27;s a little blog-spam on it, enjoy.https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dibsonstuff.com&#x2F;privacy-concerns-queue-bot-vs-dibs-on-stuff.html(written by me, not ai)

Privacy is an underrated advantage in Slack apps

In the last 2-3 years, mostly because of AI, keeping up with interesting articles on HN has become harder and harder.How do you deal with it? Besides the simple solution of simply ignoring interesting stuff more and more.

Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?

Now; i use the archive to archive my prolithic output of music. (i have over 300 albums.) The music is of my own creation.Since the DDoS attack of 2024; Archive has been a hit or miss on the uploading factors. And many of my releases have specific dates for release. With the uncertainty of the uploads happening it causes me to break focus on working with music and watch the upload to make sure there isn&#x27;t a 503 happening each file. (which sometimes happens frequently.)I am in search of a similar uploading process with an unlimited amount of uploads. I don&#x27;t want to make money off of my music. I don&#x27;t want to individually input over 2000 songs; including their metadata and other factors.Many sites that we both have heard of; have various limitations or are not privacy friendly platforms ran by a company that seeks to be Big Brother from 1984 and watch us in a Brave New World.I would simply P2P my music on nicotine+ or even have a server for my music.The only thing stoping me on P2P my music on nicotine is the requirement of have a big enough stickdrive to have it available all the time (along with other music and films i share already.) I could buy a 1TB one for that.The server setup is quite complicated and searching online the past couple of days keeps leading me to... (o yeah i forgot to add how reddit has that popup now after a few seconds of looking at their site on the other post... and the google thing on devs. if you read both then the open source closing is that purpose.)Though i keep getting results on this site.Anyways; what i am seeking as an alternative would also include sharing my books, short films, and music. (all in one place.) The service would need to be free; and an easy uploading process. (similar to how the archive&#x27;s works.)or if someone could point me to an easy means of setting up a server... like what all i would need and how to make it possible, along with a fairly easy step by step explaining the process.

Alternative to Internet Archive

TL;DR I&#x27;m looking for advice regarding browser-based frontend development from people with practical e-ink UI experience. My specific device is a Bigme Hibreak Pro BW but I&#x27;m aiming for relatively broad compatibility.I&#x27;ve recently switched to a black-and-white e-ink smartphone with the motivation of withdrawing from the attention economy somewhat and it&#x27;s a genuinely cool piece of hardware. While the majority of my needs are met by this device there are a few things I&#x27;d like to have which don&#x27;t work terribly well with the e-ink screen. I&#x27;m planning to implement a couple of projects to fill these gaps, at the moment I&#x27;m planning a Lemmy frontend and an OpenRouter frontend specifically for e-ink. Both are to be browser-based rather than native, to maximise compatibility and because I&#x27;m much more familiar with the web than Android development.I would like to study the principles of sound e-ink UI design before approaching these projects to avoid creating unusable slop, in particular I am not entirely sure how to approach treating the refreshes as a first-class aspect of the design when I can&#x27;t control them from the browser, and how to apply comprehensible UI conventions when a greyscale, high-contrast display is the target.Some specific problems I have out of the gate are:* Streaming LLM output to the screen is basically the worst-case scenario for e-ink, I need to buffer it and paint it in chunks without this becoming horrible to use.* Ghosting is a serious problem, browsing HN on the device is a particularly obvious example. Ideally I want to avoid scrolling as far as possible and rely on pagination instead, which I feel has the potential to become annoying if not done well.* Given I must rely exclusively on layout and type to carry the UI, what design languages emphasise these qualities best? My gut says the early Mac OS versions wouldn&#x27;t be a bad place to start, this seems relevant given the display constraints of the early macs.I would greatly appreciate any advice on the design and implementation of e-ink UIs from people with practical experience in this area. This is purely to scratch a personal itch, once they&#x27;re nailed down I&#x27;ll put them out in the wild under the GPL.

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

For those who sold their company for a substantial amount, did the money just arrive on your &quot;regular&quot; bank account?Did you arrive in several times?Don&#x27;t laugh, I&#x27;m trying to visualize the moment my startup is sold, and I want simple details like this one.Thank you for sharing your experience

Ask HN: When you sell your company, do you receive the money with a normal wire?

There are times (now more than ever) where picking music seems to be a proper task. Having to figure out I&#x27;m in the mood for can be so tiring that I just hit shuffle and settle with the next best thing. Does anyone else get this? What&#x27;s your recent experience?

Great music selection without overthinking

I&#x27;m an engineering undergrad considering pursuing a PhD with the long-term goal of founding a hard-tech startup. I’m undecided about the specific area and only have a vague sense of what interests me -- industrial decarbonization, mining &#x2F; mineral processing, and advanced materials are a few areas that currently seem exciting.However, I&#x27;m unsure which type of PhD lab would provide better preparation: either a problem-first lab (e.g., like Yet-Ming Chiang at MIT) or a technology-first lab (e.g., your typical academic lab that focuses on novel science without a predetermined application, and where commercialization happens largely by chance — when a technology happens to have a valuable market application).I&#x27;ve looked at advice online from successful hard-tech entrepreneurs, but the answers are conflicting. Some say to work backwards from a problem, but others argue that problem-first approaches often don&#x27;t work since deep tech is inherently different: you often can&#x27;t force a scientific breakthrough for a predetermined problem. Instead, they argue that most hard-tech companies are only founded because somebody made a scientific breakthrough and realized afterwards that there might be a commercial application. Indeed, the VC firm Pillar VC says that most deep-tech companies they know were &quot;technology-first.&quot;With that in mind, does anybody have any advice on which type of PhD lab to join?

Ask HN: Should hard-tech founders join a problem or technology-first PhD lab?

Hey HN, Id like to learn more about cybersecurity and wanna test around a bit, ive used tool like net cut a lot a few years ago to troll my brother when he was using all the bandwidth, but id like to actually learn how it works and how those tools do stuff.
Does anyone have links to good guides or wanna share their own knowledge?

How does an ARP Spoofing Attack work?

I got this email:Hi _____,We’re rolling out ads in ChatGPT and we’re updating our Privacy Policy to include information about how ads work and how you can control your experience.What’s changingAds may appear on Free and Go plans beginning later this month. Plus, Pro, Enterprise, Business and Education plans do not have ads. Ad-free options remain available.To begin, ads will not be personalised. We select them using the current topic of your ChatGPT conversation and limited contextual information, such as your general location and device type. We do not use your past chats or memories to select these ads.Before we begin to personalise ads, we will first ask you to choose whether you would like to see more relevant and personalised ads. If you choose to participate, you’ll get relevant and personalised ads using information that stays only on ChatGPT, such as ads you&#x27;ve interacted with, or context from your chats. You will be able to manage ad personalisation in settings.For ads shown in ChatGPT, we use information about ads you view or interact with to measure and improve their effectiveness. Advertisers only receive overall information about how their ads perform, such as total views or clicks.What’s not changingAds do not influence the answers ChatGPT gives you. Ads are always clearly labeled and are visually separated from ChatGPT responses.Your personal details and conversations with ChatGPT remain private and are not shared with advertisers. Advertisers do not have access to your chats, chat history, memories, or personal details.Learn more about ads in ChatGPT, your options for an ads free experience, and our privacy controls, including how we protect your data.Thanks,The OpenAI Team

OpenAI updates its Privacy Policy to include ads

I remember as a kid loving to read National Geographic and Club Nintendo in Bolivia.I want to subscribe to a PHYSICAL publication, to get news or entertainment it&#x27;s fine. But something physical.I want to slow it down and have it be my little morning ritual. Like my dad used to read the newspaper.

Ask HN: What physical publication do you still buy?

Most of the code I work on is for internal company use at a small company and for personal projects. After experiencing painful code review processes where code was rewritten several times for what many times felt like arbitrary reasons to fit someone’s idea of a best practice, I am now on a team where code review is largely automated. I find Claude’s &#x2F;review and &#x2F;code-review are invaluable and do a more thorough code review than any human . For those of you who use AI to write the majority of your code, do you still have a human in the loop to do more than spot checks ?

Ask HN: Does a human still review your code?

What are you working on?  What have you been curious about lately?

Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

Just wondering: how comes we haven&#x27;t seen a flood of ARM laptops on shops like Aliexpress?

Ask HN: Why don't we see ARM laptops from China?

Hi, I’m the Rentier Black Hole guy from TikTok.Currently running a live experiment on the Veblen effect and conspicuous consumption with various Tshirts from the audience.Take a look here at Veblen.chSo far in 3 days we have 1300 votes.I’ll be closing the vote in 16 hours.Then I’ll be making the video on it tomorrow to show everyone all about the real Veblen effect

Live Experiment of the Veblen Effect

based on https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hnhiringtrends.com&#x2F; (11x shift)

Tell HN: In 2021, there were 4.5 jobs per job seeker vs. 2.5 job seekers/job now

I was surprised to learn today that the candidate I interviewed (who came from a head hunter vice someone submitting direct through our job post portal), was 25% of the first year&#x27;s salary.As the person doing the hiring that kind of incentives me to strive for a lower salary, at least for that first year. I&#x27;m not going to do that since we aren&#x27;t in diar straits, the offer will be appropriate for the role and industry comps, I was just surprised to learn that and wondered if anyone on HN was surprised as well.I was a head hunter candidate&#x2F;new hire previously and now I&#x27;m wondering if&#x2F;how that up-front fee may have affected my own offer at that time.Honestly, the candidate is worth the head hunter fee, but I&#x27;m more looking at this through the lens of the job candidate who could have applied on their own. As a direct candidate, you can negotiate for a sign-on bonus that is, say 15% of your target salary, and the hiring company shouldn&#x27;t blink an eye (if you confidently know you&#x27;re a solid candidate that is).

Ask HN: Do you know how much head hunters cost?

Monthly total for all AI model subscriptions for personal use, with a breakdown of which models you use and for what purpose (coding side projects, AI assistants, etc.).You can also mention how much you spend monthly on AI tools for professional work that your company pays for.

Ask HN: How much money do you spend monthly on subscriptions for AI models?

See here: 
https:&#x2F;&#x2F;api-docs.deepseek.com&#x2F;quick_start&#x2F;pricing&#x2F;Peak pricing is twice the price, or, off-peak is half the price.Peak hours are 01:00 - 04:00 and 06:00 - 10:00 UTC (all other hours are off-peak)-- V4 FLASH NOW -----------------Off-peak: $0.007 (cache hit), $0.22 (miss), $0.66 (out)Peak: $0.014 (cache hit), $0.44 (miss), $1.32 (out)-- V4 FLASH OLD vs NEW (OFF-PEAK) -----------------Cache hit: $0.0028 vs $0.007 (+250%)Cache miss: $0.14 vs $0.22 (+157%)Output: $0.28 vs $0.66 (+235%)-- V4 PRO -----------------Off-peak: $0.022 (cache hit), $0.66 (miss), $1.98 (out)Peak: $0.044 (cache hit), $1.32 (miss), $3.96 (out)-----------------Once the page gets updated and lost in time, to compare, the same page from August 1, 2026:
https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20260801170952&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;api-docs.deepseek.com&#x2F;quick_start&#x2F;pricing&#x2F;

New DeepSeek Pricing Published (Peak and Off-Peak)

Looks like there is only one Show HN post in the last year about a project written in Mojo: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=48910825I&#x27;ve been looking into porting OpenCL kernels and curious if anyone else is doing anything with Mojo

Ask HN: What are you building with Mojo lang?

There is not much discussion online about which books to read about assembly, i was looking for a concise roadmap to learn it
Thanks for helping me out

Need Help Learning Assembly

I&#x27;m thinking of putting a lightweight respository online where researchers can publish eprints they have the right to publish (the existing repositories have some gatekeeping or hoops to jump through), and people can download the papers without any registration etc.what should I know before I do this?