Quality News
new | top | ask | show | best | algorithms | about
This is the current Hacker News "Ask HN". Page, with some additional performance stats. Click on the colorful stats below each story to see detailed historical charts. Click here for additional ranking algorithms
key: ×UpvoteRate (?)   #rank on front page   rankDelta (?)
  1. Ralph Giles Passed Away (Xiph.org| Rust@Mozilla | Ghostscript)
    ×1.13 21 #50 | 15 points by ffworld 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: If your OpenClaw could do 1 thing it currently can't, what would it be?
    ×0.97 13 | 4 points by stosssik 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Did YouTube change how it handles uBlock?
    ×0.67 20 | 8 points by tefloon69 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
    ×1.23 84 | 325 points by david927 4 days ago | 1114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Why are electronics still so unrecyclable?
    ×0.73 65 | 69 points by alexandrehtrb 1 day ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Dumping GitHub for Forgejo for a free and open source project
    ×0.16 83 | 4 points by th0th 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Has anyone achieved recursive self-improvement with agentic tools?
    ×0.32 98 | 8 points by nycdatasci 21 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Tell HN: GPT-5.3-codex is now available in the API
    ×0.22 | 2 points by bigwheels 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Why is everyone here so AI-hyped?
    ×1.12 115 | 25 points by fandorin 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Does OpenClaw need a re-architecture to be usable?
    ×0.18 122 | 4 points by xinbenlv 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. HN needs a context reminder in the URL window
    ×0.92 133 | 4 points by newsoftheday 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Do provisional patents matter for early-stage startups?
    ×0.32 136 | 20 points by gdad 3 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: How do you deal with long Covid?
    ×0.42 114 | 4 points by manx 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Mass Resignation from xAI
    ×0.74 108 | 17 points by hargup 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What do you want people to build?
    ×0.43 144 | 7 points by billsunshine 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. OrthoRay – A native, lightweight DICOM viewer written in Rust/wgpu by a surgeon
    ×0.26 146 | 8 points by DrMeric 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Cursor switches pay-per-token when your plan limit end. Calls "On-Demand usage"
    ×0.56 131 | 11 points by hardwellvibe 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. AI Isn't Dangerous. Evaluation Structures Are.
    ×0.15 147 | 4 points by clover-s 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Am I holding it wrong?
    ×0.26 145 | 6 points by notpachet 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Are past LLM models getting dumber?
    ×0.21 148 | 4 points by hmate9 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Alarm bells just rang at San Francisco's 2 buzziest tech companies (sfgate.com)
    ×2.76 19 #67 | 24 points by jessiefisher 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Amazon's Ring cancels Flock partnership amid Super Bowl ad backlash (cnbc.com)
    ×0.85 | 1 points by zzzeek 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. First Clojure Core Team Dev Call, Feb 2026 [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by simonpure 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Russia Blocks WhatsApp (thehill.com)
    ×3.86 49 | 6 points by cdrnsf 55 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: Send Claude Code tasks to the Batch API at 50% off (github.com/s2-streamstore)
    ×1.20 86 | 20 points by misker1 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: Light Lynx – polished light app and automation based on Zigbee2MQTT (lightlynx.eu)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by vanviegen 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Major European payment processor can't send email to Google Workspace users (atha.io)
    ×2.03 2 #11 | 445 points by thatha7777 10 hours ago | 298 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Why vampires live forever (machielreyneke.com)
    ×3.24 9 | 388 points by machielrey 1 day ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Got VACE working in real-time – 30fps on a 5090 (daydream.live)
    ×2.45 55 | 10 points by cmuir 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. TikTok is tracking you, even if you don't use the app (bbc.com)
    ×2.44 46 #82 | 143 points by belter 10 hours ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. U.S. had almost no job growth in 2025 (nbcnews.com)
    ×6.93 31 | 203 points by ceejayoz 1 day ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Ngn – a new back end programming language (ngnlang.com)
    ×0.52 | 2 points by j4w8n 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: FrankenTUI in the Browser (frankentui.com)
    ×2.51 87 | 7 points by eigenvalue 15 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Minimal NIST/OWASP-compliant auth implementation for Cloudflare Workers (github.com/vhscom)
    ×0.45 129 | 33 points by vhsdev 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Trump revokes landmark ruling that greenhouse gases endanger public health (bbc.com)
    ×5.48 64 #87 | 76 points by saikatsg 5 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. OPP – An open protocol for AI image provenance that survives screenshots (github.com/HumanLemming996)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by BhuvanChalla 52 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. It Took a Billion-Dollar AI Deal to Get YouTube on Vision Pro (kevin.md)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by thekevintang 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Starcraft-Inspired OpenClaw Command Center – 100 AI Agent Tasks (jontsai.com)
    ×1.13 | 2 points by jontsai 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Rowboat – AI coworker that turns your work into a knowledge graph (OSS) (github.com/rowboatlabs)
    ×1.13 67 | 199 points by segmenta 2 days ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: I generated a "stress test" of 200 rare defects from 7 real photos
    ×0.80 | 2 points by jmalevez 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Goxe 19k Logs/S on an I5 (github.com/DumbNoxx)
    ×0.22 135 | 9 points by nxus_dev 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verification (matrix.org)
    ×2.70 18 #22 | 206 points by foresto 3 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. So many trees planted in Taklamakan Desert that it's turned into a carbon sink (livescience.com)
    ×1.98 13 #39 | 150 points by Brajeshwar 8 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Ask HN: Is offshoring a bigger issue than AI and H1B for US workers? (reddit.com)
    ×2.99 23 #51 | 7 points by burnerToBetOut 37 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Rovo Dev is now generally available in VS Code (atlassian.com)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by cebert 11 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Chrome extensions spying on users' browsing data (qcontinuum.substack.com)
    ×3.05 19 | 461 points by qcontinuum1 1 day ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash (theverge.com)
    ×5.03 5 #7 | 69 points by c420 1 hour ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. The Missing GitHub Status Page (mrshu.github.io)
    ×0.99 60 #71 | 24 points by taubek 12 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Claude Code is being dumbed down? (symmetrybreak.ing)
    ×5.41 31 #76 | 1043 points by WXLCKNO 1 day ago | 676 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Robots that can see around corners using radio signals and AI (upenn.edu)
    ×2.56 13 | 4 points by hhs 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Insider Trading Alerts – Open-Market Buys&Sells from SEC Form 4 Filings (stockalert.pro)
    ×0.96 72 | 4 points by Adanos 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. How Did the FBI Get Nancy Guthrie's Nest Doorbell Footage? (lifehacker.com)
    ×3.15 42 | 122 points by daft_pink 1 day ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: CodeRLM – Tree-sitter-backed code indexing for LLM agents (github.com/JaredStewart)
    ×0.82 47 | 77 points by jared_stewart 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Discord Just Killed Anonymity (michael-dev-tech.github.io)
    ×2.68 14 #21 | 94 points by f0r3st 2 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass (kibty.town)
    ×3.56 11 #44 | 926 points by JustSkyfall 1 day ago | 438 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Ask HN: Would you use context-based "modes" in Instagram(work,study,sport,news)?
    ×1.22 | 2 points by MatiasLaudonio 45 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. D Programming Language (dlang.org)
    ×1.99 44 #38 | 179 points by arcadia_leak 19 hours ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Officials Claim Drone Incursion Led to Shutdown of El Paso Airport (nytimes.com)
    ×2.32 28 | 363 points by edward 1 day ago | 578 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: HN stories cited most in comments (browserbox.io)
    ×0.55 | 2 points by keepamovin 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Carapace – A security-hardened Rust alternative to OpenClaw (github.com/puremachinery)
    ×0.74 | 2 points by puremachinery 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Visualizing How Books Reference Each Other Across 3k Years (thiagolira.github.io)
    ×1.28 132 | 4 points by farcaster 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. The "Crown of Nobles" Noble Gas Tube Display (2024) (theshamblog.com)
    ×0.66 40 #24 | 121 points by Ivoah 12 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you (skipthe.tips)
    ×0.98 | 1 points by randycupertino 16 seconds ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Covering electricity price increases from our data centers (anthropic.com)
    ×1.65 35 | 122 points by ryanhn 1 day ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: It's 2026 and setting up a Mac for development is still mass googling (github.com/openbootdotdev)
    ×1.20 96 | 3 points by openbootdotenv 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Illness Is Rampant Among Children Trapped in ICE's Jail in Texas (truthout.org)
    ×6.35 53 | 89 points by wahnfrieden 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: I vibecoded 177 tools for my own use (CalcBin) (calcbin.com)
    ×4.20 119 | 14 points by diNgUrAndI 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Building My Own Google Analytics for $0 (adwait.me)
    ×1.29 121 | 10 points by adwait12345 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Rari – Rust-powered React framework (rari.build)
    ×0.90 9 #12 | 91 points by bvanvugt 5 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Mango Lollipop – AI-powered lifecycle messaging generator (github.com/sr-kai)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by Nlupus 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Apple has a transparency issue [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by todsacerdoti 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it (github.com/matplotlib)
    ×7.97 80 | 856 points by wrxd 13 hours ago | 679 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. The risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory (cell.com)
    ×2.84 2 | 337 points by Archelaos 1 day ago | 400 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Open-Source SDK for AI Knowledge Work (github.com/ClioAI)
    ×0.61 118 | 21 points by ankit219 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. US labels SpaceX a common carrier by air, will regulate firm under railway law (arstechnica.com)
    ×4.30 32 | 144 points by Bender 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: I created a Mars colony RPG based on Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars books (underhillgame.com)
    ×1.71 89 | 305 points by ariaalam 4 days ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. My Grandma Was a Fed – Lessons from Digitizing Hours of Childhood (sampatt.com)
    ×1.15 33 #10 | 11 points by SamPatt 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. A party balloon shut down El Paso International Airport; estimated cost –$573k (jasongodfrey.info)
    ×2.31 32 #49 | 126 points by heifer 5 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. RISC-V Vector Primer (github.com/simplex-micro)
    ×0.85 43 #78 | 66 points by oxxoxoxooo 18 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Crank – The SSH Terminal Manager for Engineers Who Refuse to Close Tabs (github.com/nexivibe)
    ×2.20 104 | 6 points by mathgladiator 19 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Don't Wire Workflows, Build Skills Instead (github.com/MooseGoose0701)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by ChocoluvH 51 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Realworld benchmark between Codex 5.3 and Opus 4.6 (swe-agi.com)
    ×1.93 | 3 points by hongbo_zhang 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Apple, fix the iOS keyboard before the timer ends or I'm switching to Android (ios-countdown.win)
    ×1.64 22 | 3 points by ozzyphantom 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Realfood.gov includes a Grok search box (realfood.gov)
    ×2.50 34 #53 | 66 points by burkaman 4 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Hologram v0.7.0: Milestone release for Elixir-to-JavaScript porting initiative (hologram.page)
    ×0.86 64 #56 | 101 points by bartblast 22 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. HeyWhatsThat (heywhatsthat.com)
    ×1.18 47 #48 | 132 points by 1970-01-01 18 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. IRS online only allows ID.me biometric registration now (irs.gov)
    ×1.83 10 #54 | 7 points by salemh 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Moats: Durable Competitive Advantage (asmartbear.com)
    ×1.24 | 2 points by jayveeone 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: CodeMic (codemic.io)
    ×0.58 82 | 52 points by seansh 4 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: BetterDB – Valkey/Redis monitoring that persists what servers forget
    ×0.68 93 | 3 points by kaliades 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???