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  1. Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?
    ×2.86 #5 | 195 points by publicdebates 4 hours ago | 366 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: One IP, multiple unrealistic locations worldwide hitting my website
    ×0.63 40 #18 | 10 points by nacho-daddy 1 hour ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Share your personal website
    ×3.15 17 #30 | 814 points by susam 1 day ago | 2180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: How are you doing RAG locally?
    ×1.95 12 #38 | 335 points by tmaly 19 hours ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Anyone have a good solution for modern Mac to legacy SCSI converters?
    ×0.53 3 #39 | 19 points by stmw 3 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?
    ×1.65 10 #53 | 190 points by blahaj 18 hours ago | 349 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: A pattern we noticed in how website leads are handled
    ×0.67 | 2 points by lucascorrei4 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Why do AI code editors suck at closing tags?
    ×1.39 22 #75 | 5 points by cryptography 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How to make spamming us uncomfortable for LinkedIn and friends?
    ×2.41 80 #81 | 7 points by zx8080 9 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What is the best way to provide continuous context to models?
    ×0.83 32 #90 | 63 points by nemath 18 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Anyone else finding it impossible to land a job?
    ×1.66 37 | 7 points by Arch485 5 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What to teach my kid if AI does math and CS?
    ×1.57 47 | 6 points by devShark 5 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: For those of you building AI agents, how have you made them faster?
    ×0.53 | 2 points by arkmm 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How do you safely give LLMs SSH/DB access?
    ×0.84 55 | 77 points by nico 1 day ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Any real prompt injections in the wild?
    ×0.60 96 | 5 points by singularity2001 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Where does data help in real estate – and where does it fail?
    ×0.55 | 2 points by D___R___ 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: How to overcome the limit of roles in LLM's
    ×0.62 | 2 points by weli 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Audio analysis models, how to train to learn sound patters?
    ×0.63 83 | 3 points by thedangler 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Distributed SQL engine for ultra-wide tables
    ×0.61 75 | 20 points by synsqlbythesea 23 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. GitHub Is Down
    ×2.06 34 | 18 points by dfajgljsldkjag 4 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Iran's 120h internet shutdown, phones back. How to stay resilient?
    ×1.67 87 | 112 points by us321 2 days ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Architecture+cost drivers for a deterministic rule/metric engine 1,200metrics
    ×0.62 | 2 points by Trackdiver 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Tell HN: 1B Jobs on GitHub Actions
    ×0.57 | 2 points by dorianmariecom 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Why does Google still provide an open redirect for phishers?
    ×1.62 71 | 21 points by throwaway89201 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Turning weeks of medical device documentation into minutes
    ×0.67 | 2 points by feargalosull 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. The $LANG Programming Language
    ×1.51 53 | 261 points by dang 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
    ×1.14 100 | 256 points by david927 4 days ago | 865 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Continuous agents and what happens after Ralph Wiggum?
    ×0.82 91 | 3 points by waynenilsen 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. SEO Question: How to Improve Click-Through-Rate(CTR)?
    ×0.62 | 2 points by dabojula 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Trying to find a website featured on HN that listed restaurants in NYC
    ×1.67 85 | 14 points by laffOr 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: What is your favourite GitHub Repo?
    ×0.80 | 2 points by amanverasia 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: ADHD – How do you manage the constant stream of thoughts and ideas?
    ×2.60 78 | 114 points by chriswright1664 1 day ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Text-to-3D → Step/STL
    ×0.98 116 | 3 points by alexyakovlev919 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Quantum Computation, Computers and Programming
    ×0.51 114 | 31 points by rramadass 2 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Vxlan over WireGuard or WireGuard over Vxlan?
    ×0.84 108 | 44 points by mlhpdx 2 days ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Tell HN: DigitalOcean's managed services broke each other after update
    ×1.15 111 | 76 points by neilfrndes 2 days ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Why does it still make sense to review stupid bugs at PR time?
    ×0.58 107 | 3 points by moshetanzer 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Tell HN: Properly using dishwasher reduced friction with my wife
    ×2.52 98 | 15 points by xylo 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. MultiLang‑ASM:A Universal Assembly Platform for Kids,Students,Kernel Developers
    ×0.61 | 2 points by neuroosgenesis 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: Have paid ads worked for your MVP? What budget, channels, and strategy?
    ×0.58 | 2 points by julienreszka 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: Thoughts on maintaining anonymity against state-level actors?
    ×2.09 93 | 10 points by adamanteye 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Tell HN: A Proposal to Modernize Xorg as a Protocol-Only Graphics Layer
    ×0.89 109 | 6 points by powerwordtree 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: Discrepancy between Lichess and Stockfish
    ×0.53 132 | 21 points by HNLurker2 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Ask HN: Are you worried, and care, about AI stealing your code/secrets?
    ×0.69 | 2 points by fnoef 13 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Cyber+ – A versatile programming language for cybersecurity and automation
    ×0.48 | 2 points by Czax225 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Ask HN: Weird archive.today behavior?
    ×2.89 6 | 131 points by rabinovich 22 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Ask HN: Looking for Windows contributors for meeting-detection engine
    ×0.41 170 | 7 points by Ayobamiu 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Ask HN: How to predict nums of output tokens?
    ×0.53 | 2 points by ssslvky1 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Ask HN: Best setup for Golang HTTP API development in 2026?
    ×1.57 122 | 6 points by labarilem 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Ask HN: Are diffs still useful for AI-assisted code changes?
    ×0.80 129 | 7 points by nuky 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Trouble Redeeming YC Student Event Deal?
    ×0.30 | 2 points by NirekShetty 21 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Tell HN: Cloudflare's broken abuse report system, lack of staff to review issues
    ×0.73 149 | 3 points by rtsam 21 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Ask HN: Form History Control is great. Why doesn't Firefox integrate it?
    ×0.88 150 | 3 points by Openai2 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Tell HN: Intel could blow up the Console Wars if it had the guts
    ×1.13 161 | 8 points by noumenon1111 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. How do small property management teams handle data entry from tenant documents?
    ×0.35 | 2 points by scannyai 23 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Ask HN: How are teams sourcing long-term GPU capacity outside hyperscalers?
    ×1.21 134 | 5 points by dloku 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Tell HN: I Downgraded from macOS Tahoe to Sequoia
    ×1.83 135 | 9 points by inatreecrown2 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Ask HN: Make cemeteries in cities less offensive by using virtual headstones?
    ×0.36 | 2 points by amichail 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Anything Down?
    ×0.47 162 | 3 points by Artur-Defences 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Ask HN: CRM vs. HubSpot
    ×0.34 | 2 points by isura 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Ask HN: What makes someone hate their job?
    ×0.93 142 | 5 points by agcat 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Ask HN: Critical review of a spec-first economic protocol
    ×0.43 | 2 points by AGsist 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Tell HN: Setting boundaries with people
    ×1.39 152 | 4 points by zwilderrr 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Ask HN: Who remembers AWS Spot's auction era before the 2017 pricing change?
    ×0.26 178 | 3 points by aleroawani 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Ask HN: Amazon Robotics SDE – new grad expectations?
    ×0.91 167 | 3 points by aroy21 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Ask HN: 500 citation MSc CS, stuck in a low-trust region. How to move forward?
    ×0.63 137 | 19 points by throwawaysafely 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Tell HN: The Google Tenor GIF API has been shut down
    ×2.22 130 | 25 points by dfajgljsldkjag 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Ask HN: Learning Discoverability
    ×0.19 | 2 points by learnwithmattc 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Ask HN: Could AI prevent the decline of social media by highlighting usernames?
    ×0.50 | 2 points by amichail 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Ask HN: When has a "dumb" solution beaten a sophisticated one for you?
    ×0.36 179 | 12 points by amadeuswoo 4 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Ask HN: What's your opinion on a VR/XR business?
    ×0.53 | 2 points by izwasm 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Ask HN: Did Glassdoor figure out your identity?
    ×0.47 | 2 points by penguin_booze 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Ask HN: Are you underutilizing your insurance too?
    ×1.47 166 | 7 points by nemath 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Ask HN: Job seekers, what's working / not working?
    ×0.90 164 | 20 points by Jabbs 3 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Is "AI vibe coding" making prototyping worse inside real companies?
    ×1.65 146 | 16 points by arapkuliev 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Ask HN: What made you move back to HTML-to-PDF in production?
    ×1.32 172 | 6 points by gokulsiva 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Ask HN: How to find gaps and oppurtunities in the AI era?
    ×0.91 157 | 6 points by SRMohitkr 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Ask HN: Recommendations for self hostable OCR to extract code from images
    ×1.57 182 | 3 points by vivzkestrel 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Ask HN: Senior engineering mngrs: how has AI changed your day-to-day work?
    ×0.97 171 | 35 points by kitetm 5 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Ask HN: Any evidence AI coding assistants are helping open source projects?
    ×1.62 126 | 7 points by UncleOxidant 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Ask HN: How are you preventing LLM hallucinations in production systems?
    ×0.21 | 2 points by kundan_s__r 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Unpopular Opinion: Bootstrap is a better front-end framework than Tailwind
    ×1.34 143 | 24 points by pyeri 2 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Ask HN: Is it time for HN to implement a form of captcha?
    ×0.95 168 | 89 points by Rooster61 1 week ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Ask HN: Best way to find chill job where I can learn and grow as a swe
    ×0.46 174 | 35 points by digitdiglet 1 week ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Ask HN: Does anyone else think that humanoid robots is a bubble?
    ×1.13 173 | 5 points by NewUser76312 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Eleva.js – A 2.3KB JavaScript framework with signals and no virtual DOM
    ×0.87 177 | 4 points by TarekRaafat 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Experiment: Using NotebookLM as a cynical code reviewer (via custom prompts)
    ×0.24 | 2 points by practicalaifg 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Gh Account Permabanned – Help?
    ×1.11 158 | 10 points by nicomeemes 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Ask HN: Story about a CEO going off on a user who left feedback?
    ×0.60 180 | 3 points by VladVladikoff 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Ask HN: How do you prevent AI agents from going rogue in production?
    ×0.67 181 | 3 points by techbuilder4242 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???