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  1. Ask HN: What's the current best local/open speech-to-speech setup?
    ×1.38 18 #18 | 58 points by dsrtslnd23 7 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Seeeking help to reverse engineer a PCB
    ×0.52 34 #66 | 10 points by Dlg001 6 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Where is society heading, is there a plan for a jobless future?
    ×1.28 74 | 5 points by evo_9 9 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Do you "micro-manage" your agents?
    ×0.92 37 | 6 points by xinbenlv 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How to Follow the Bosses' Wants
    ×0.93 | 2 points by drekipus 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: LLMs for new job categories?
    ×1.08 64 | 6 points by aavci 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Dismantling dark patterns using TDD via discovery and injunctions
    ×0.60 56 | 4 points by marc_litchfield 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Why don't winter gloves have mechanical fingers?
    ×0.50 | 2 points by amichail 4 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?
    ×3.18 65 | 448 points by terabytest 3 days ago | 449 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Tell HN: 2 years building a kids audio app as a solo dev – lessons learned
    ×1.10 73 | 135 points by oliverjanssen 2 days ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Do B2B deals stall more from "org blindness" than product fit?
    ×1.68 41 | 6 points by Tanjim 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. AI hallucinate. Do you ever double check the output?
    ×0.36 53 | 8 points by jackota 10 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Locked out of my GCP account for 3 days, still charged, can't redirect domain
    ×1.49 69 | 10 points by lifeoflee 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What's a good format to submit CSV data for LLMs?
    ×0.77 | 2 points by JimsonYang 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Will agentic AI grow to handle technology leadership responsibilities?
    ×1.26 63 | 4 points by gengstrand 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Why are so many rolling out their own AI/LLM agent sandboxing solution?
    ×1.27 103 | 32 points by ATechGuy 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Does DDG no longer honor "site:" prefix?
    ×0.70 82 | 19 points by everybodyknows 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Working on reducing wasted distribution effort before publishing posts
    ×0.36 | 2 points by ryujii 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: COBOL devs, how are AI coding affecting your work?
    ×1.00 105 | 168 points by zkid18 4 days ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Tell HN: Cloudflare's D1 service degraded since 2 days
    ×1.02 89 | 3 points by iowahansen 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Best practice securing secrets on local machines working with agents?
    ×0.33 115 | 9 points by xinbenlv 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Room left for the "industrial" systems engineer in a post-cloud world?
    ×0.44 | 2 points by infraphysics 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. The Cognitive Cockpit: Why I moved my data to a 1-bit e-ink display
    ×1.81 24 | 4 points by jerr12939 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How are you handling non-probabilistic security for LLM agents?
    ×0.43 | 2 points by amjadfatmi1 11 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Is Claude Down for You?
    ×0.87 80 | 26 points by philip1209 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: How do you authorize AI agent actions in production?
    ×0.72 148 | 5 points by naolbeyene 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Tell HN: Cursor agent force-pushed despite explicit "ask for permission" rules
    ×0.43 102 | 6 points by xinbenlv 20 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: How realistically far are we from AGI?
    ×0.22 | 2 points by HipstaJules 12 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Have you seen your Palantir file?
    ×8.36 21 | 16 points by roschdal 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. What software businesses worked in the early Internet? Can they work again?
    ×0.45 | 2 points by tsingy 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Revive a mostly dead Discord server
    ×0.31 155 | 20 points by movedx 3 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: What is your opinion on non-mainstream mobile OS options (e.g. /e/OS)?
    ×0.49 139 | 5 points by sendes 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: What's the best virtual Linux desktop experience on macOS for devs?
    ×0.87 112 | 8 points by darkteflon 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Why is software still built like billions don't exist in 2026?
    ×2.06 81 | 8 points by yerushalayim 15 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Tell HN: Drowning in information but still missing everything
    ×2.16 109 | 11 points by akhil08agrawal 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Have you managed to switch to Bluesky for tech people?
    ×2.46 107 | 9 points by fuegoio 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Does "Zapier for payment automation" exist?
    ×0.26 162 | 8 points by PL_Venard 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: Has the macOS design become too iOS-like?
    ×2.38 42 | 5 points by Austin_Conlon 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Tell HN: Claude session limits getting small
    ×1.50 120 | 24 points by pragmaticalien8 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: Do You Prefer Cursor over Codex or Claude Code? Why?
    ×1.65 108 | 4 points by halamadrid 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: What AI feature looked in demos and failed in real usage? Why?
    ×0.51 78 | 8 points by kajolshah_bt 14 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Tell HN: We have not yet discovered the rules of vibe coding
    ×0.88 130 | 4 points by 0xbadcafebee 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: Which common map projections make Greenland look smaller?
    ×0.49 164 | 18 points by jimnotgym 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Ask HN: Modern test automation software (Python/Go/TS)?
    ×0.44 123 | 7 points by rajkumar14 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Ask HN: How do you verify cron jobs did what they were supposed to?
    ×0.64 128 | 6 points by BlackPearl02 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Ask HN: Industrial smart glasses with online / offline capabilities?
    ×0.32 144 | 4 points by aureliusm 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Ask HN: Is there any good open source model with reliable agentic capabilities?
    ×0.58 133 | 5 points by baalimago 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Ask HN: How are you hiring for remote roles in the era of AI?
    ×0.40 126 | 3 points by keyraycheck 18 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Tell HN: Avoid Cerebras if you are a founder
    ×2.54 113 | 34 points by remusomega 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. From Sketch to Masterpiece: Understanding Stable Diffusion Img2Img
    ×0.32 | 2 points by bozhou 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Ask HN: Anyone doing production image editing with image models? How?
    ×0.34 145 | 4 points by geooff_ 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Ask HN: Unusual Network Filter
    ×0.56 147 | 4 points by gman21 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Ask HN: How locked down are your work machines?
    ×2.96 124 | 21 points by donatj 2 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Ask HN: Why does Google Maps still use mercator projection?
    ×2.06 160 | 6 points by hbarka 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Ask HN: How do you keep system context from rotting over time?
    ×0.51 167 | 15 points by kennethops 3 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Tell HN: Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday
    ×3.86 32 | 460 points by Daemon404 2 days ago | 499 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Ask HN: What have you built/shipped with Claude Code?
    ×1.56 137 | 10 points by blhack 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. How do you keep AI-generated applications consistent as they evolve over time?
    ×1.05 149 | 10 points by RobertSerber 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Ask HN: What are good resources to get familiar with AI code editors?
    ×1.74 156 | 9 points by northfield27 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Ask HN: What 'AI feature' created negative ROI in production?
    ×0.74 93 | 5 points by kajolshah_bt 15 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Tell HN: Amazon has deactivated my seller account
    ×2.08 87 | 77 points by hacky_engineer 2 days ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Ask HN: Vibe-coded prototypes: what happens when they go into production?
    ×1.26 173 | 6 points by stosssik 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Do people at Google use Gmail?
    ×1.45 172 | 5 points by mr-pink 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Ask HN: How did Gemini go from being awful to incredible back to awful?
    ×1.41 163 | 6 points by wewewedxfgdf 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Ask HN: How to introduce Claude Code to a team?
    ×0.68 184 | 11 points by 9dev 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Tell HN: Claude helped me maintain my old open source project
    ×2.51 135 | 13 points by nergal 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Ask HN: Claude Down?
    ×0.97 134 | 4 points by emschwartz 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Ask HN: How do you run parallel agent sessions?
    ×0.62 157 | 7 points by Olshansky 4 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Ask HN: Why does SOC 2 feel so hard for early-stage startups?
    ×3.76 146 | 11 points by asdxrfx 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Ask HN: Any good resources facility location planning using GIS?
    ×0.84 159 | 3 points by skalilopa 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Ask HN: Which wireless router in 2026?
    ×0.39 | 2 points by helij 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. We got an AI agent to read a config file and email it to an external address
    ×0.39 | 2 points by exordex 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Users don't care about your app's complexity
    ×1.43 154 | 6 points by Fh_ 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Ask HN: Do you protect your client-side JavaScript? Why or why not?
    ×1.29 190 | 5 points by nikitaeverywher 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Ask HN: How do you find the "why" behind old code decisions?
    ×0.52 55 | 30 points by siddhibansal9 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Ask HN: Thoughts on monitoring multi-chain staking and alerts with KoinyxBot
    ×0.41 | 2 points by eeezl0dey 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Ask HN: What's your biggest challenge with context engineering for AI agents?
    ×0.98 185 | 5 points by karpathunter 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Ask HN: What single AI tool/technique 10x'd your productivity last year?
    ×1.82 171 | 7 points by laxmena 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Ask HN: Are you going to meetups/conferences?
    ×2.41 151 | 10 points by carimura 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Ask HN: What should I write about next? (CS student learning by writing)
    ×1.14 186 | 5 points by Aditya_kachhawa 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Experimenting with a Compiled Language
    ×1.18 183 | 4 points by JhonPork 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Ask HN: How are you automating your coding work?
    ×2.07 86 | 81 points by manthangupta109 2 days ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Ask HN: GitHub "files changed" tab change?
    ×0.34 | 2 points by nonethewiser 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Ask HN: How do you audit autonomous AI agent decisions?
    ×0.59 187 | 4 points by credentum 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Ask HN: What's an API that you wish existed?
    ×1.18 182 | 11 points by tornikeo 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Ask HN: I'm sure more than just Microsoft is down rn
    ×4.81 98 | 14 points by koconder 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Ask HN: Is GitHub Down?
    ×1.25 119 | 11 points by AznHisoka 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Ask HN: What are the recommender systems papers from 2024-2025?
    ×1.50 166 | 15 points by haensi 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Ask HN: What non-fiction do you read?
    ×1.17 176 | 16 points by yanis_t 3 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Ask HN: Is OBD-II telematics data more private than mobile app tracking?
    ×0.48 188 | 4 points by insuranceguru 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???