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. Ask HN: Do you see a human written book more valuable than an AI written one?
    ×0.52 12 | 3 points by znano 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Claude – OAuth request failed Temporarily unable to authenticate
    ×1.23 26 | 4 points by franze 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Claude AI Is Down
    ×6.01 76 | 23 points by cheptsov 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What are you doing now that Claude is down?
    ×2.87 55 | 7 points by orbis-tertius 1 hour ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: Claude Code Is Down
    ×4.85 80 | 35 points by Andugal 2 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Google search hides Nvidia stock graph
    ×0.57 3 | 12 points by nedx 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Outlook still down for anyone else?
    ×0.42 41 | 6 points by rsoto2 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What are you working on? (November 2026)
    ×1.29 77 | 300 points by david927 4 days ago | 1071 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Tell HN: Major Microsoft Outlook/Exchange Online/Teams Outage in the Americas
    ×0.30 63 | 13 points by wmchen 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. ChatGPT Desktop forwards your SSH agent to remote machines
    ×1.31 83 | 220 points by DenGorbachev 4 days ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Why Is Nvidia Valuable?
    ×0.12 | 2 points by fraserphysics 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Tell HN: Cast('abc' AS INTEGER) returns 0 in SQLite
    ×0.12 114 | 3 points by prmph 20 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Do you still enjoy coding in C++?
    ×1.08 111 | 62 points by hasley 4 days ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What % of HN is now AI-generated?
    ×0.18 87 | 4 points by simonebrunozzi 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. I'm genuinely disappointed in our most visible tech leadership
    ×1.39 81 | 7 points by AnneTrotter 18 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How do you market your consumer product
    ×0.46 76 | 8 points by mv4 18 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Why use Jev/decision models at all?
    ×0.52 85 | 6 points by niceguy1827 18 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Inception's Diffusion LLM API Is Shutting Down
    ×1.15 67 | 13 points by _matthew_ 19 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Tell HN: I'm working on original approaches to tag-based file organization
    ×0.10 | 2 points by prmph 21 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Claude Code's API billing depends on how often the cache expires
    ×0.35 108 | 4 points by MaxBozhenko 21 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: What is holding back robots from being deployed everywhere?
    ×0.35 95 | 6 points by mjs06 22 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: How did you convince family and friends to join your XMPP/Matrix server?
    ×0.85 122 | 102 points by mtlynch 5 days ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. What are your favorite tools?
    ×0.45 125 | 13 points by d675 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Any good ways on how to get into kernel dev?
    ×0.26 130 | 7 points by ihms 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Is lack of human imagination now the bottleneck instead of intelligence?
    ×0.32 128 | 8 points by amichail 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Personal "Tears in the Rain" Moments
    ×0.33 100 | 14 points by HoldOnAMinute 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Do 9/10 new AI SaaS websites seem like they should be an editor command to you?
    ×0.28 139 | 5 points by Kevin_Flynn 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: How do you evaluate the skills your AI agents use?
    ×0.69 137 | 24 points by enesalatas 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: "No AI" apps/companies/resources?
    ×0.47 129 | 8 points by BrunoBernardino 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: What do your technical interviews look like today? (Nov 2026)
    ×0.28 113 | 7 points by Heap4112 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Tell HN: Another GitHub Major Outage
    ×0.42 141 | 18 points by sergiotapia 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Tell HN: A flood of reports of Opus 5.5 being nerfed
    ×1.94 138 | 32 points by b--l 4 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Did anybody used F# in a production?
    ×0.38 136 | 5 points by vad_n__ 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Software engineer with broken arm, any tips?
    ×0.30 132 | 6 points by spapas82 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: What is your current AI stack looking like?
    ×0.41 | 2 points by salleisha 18 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Anybody using their own AI harness as well?
    ×0.45 142 | 5 points by madprops 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. CoderPad Reports a Security Breach
    ×0.51 144 | 9 points by werrett 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Black Ops II statically recompiled to native ARM64 macOS (github.com/adrbn)
    ×1.50 62 | 149 points by adrbn 2 days ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. We need more goat sacrifices (experimental-history.com)
    ×1.54 43 #87 | 221 points by iamnothere 1 day ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Detour #001: Squirrel Cage Jail (cleberg.net)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by meysamazad 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Talgent Workbench – Open-source managed agent platform you run yourself (github.com/talgent-work)
    ×0.88 | 2 points by jacexh 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: ThingStudio, Node-RED style programming for microcontrollers (thingstudio.net)
    ×0.94 110 | 15 points by mkarliner 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Treating web animations as editable clips in a video timeline
    ×0.63 | 1 points by Ubiquition 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Waves that clear waste from the brain during sleep are impaired in older adults (mit.edu)
    ×1.01 | 2 points by geox 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Strictly monotonic timestamps and gapless sequences in Rust (tsoracle.rs)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by znano 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Tinfoil (YC P25) is hiring an applied AI security engineer in San Francisco
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Rain Mail Multi Domain Temporary Email (rainmail.xyz)
    ×0.71 | 2 points by BadBoyBubby 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: MacRun, dedicated Mac Minis you can rent by the day (macrun.dev)
    ×0.67 | 2 points by xoail 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Elevated errors on claude.ai, Claude Code, and platform.claude.com (claude.com)
    ×3.56 #1 | 224 points by __vivek 1 hour ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigns after reports of second affair deepened scandal (bbc.co.uk)
    ×3.09 18 | 168 points by cognoboffin 22 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: 3D to 2D, point clouds flattening (geometry images) (github.com/Neighborhood-Grid)
    ×0.60 91 | 24 points by adec314 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Y Recombinator – The HN threads HN keeps recommending (yrecombinator.org)
    ×2.84 133 | 14 points by nightjar 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Service degradation on Microsoft 365 (cloud.microsoft)
    ×5.50 2 #15 | 959 points by dkpk 17 hours ago | 822 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. TSMC Hacked (sec.gov)
    ×3.94 13 #21 | 101 points by gmays 4 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Vibes Don't Maintain (bybacon.com)
    ×2.39 34 #42 | 86 points by dxs 16 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Microsoft struggling to restore service as global outage affects services (bbc.com)
    ×2.50 25 #85 | 28 points by aussieguy1234 7 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. The list of 95 European messaging apps (balsio.com)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by rmesters 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. MCP Tax (mcp-tax.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by rwilinski 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. I wrote an app OS for a 4" e-paper fridge board (ESP32-S3) (space.fast)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by ovidiuliuta 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Micron – Oberon with the Power of C (github.com/rochus-keller)
    ×0.99 68 | 66 points by Rochus 4 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Is there a 'right amount' of AI? (coyotetracks.org)
    ×0.83 75 #25 | 3 points by milali 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Chinese frontier AI models carry the fingerprint of export-controlled GPUs (unemploymentlabs.com)
    ×3.68 12 #37 | 307 points by firloop 14 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. NYC Council passes ban on 'surveillance pricing' (gothamist.com)
    ×2.25 14 #64 | 60 points by jonbaer 9 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: TreasuryFlow, an overnight bank-vs-books check for small businesses (treasuryflow.ai)
    ×1.69 75 | 4 points by michaelgdwn 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Coldframe, a honeypot that poses as a supermarket fridge controller (github.com/hedgerow-dev)
    ×1.48 93 | 289 points by hedgerow-dev 5 days ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: DRS-VPT. Localize a photo in a 3D point cloud without an initial pose (github.com/ori-drs)
    ×0.52 70 | 9 points by seasponge 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: As IrfanView isn't on Linux, I've vibe-coded my own image viewer (github.com/micha42-dot)
    ×1.58 74 | 4 points by manif00ld 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Huawei releases MACaQ, its internal quantizer for local inference (github.com/huawei-csl)
    ×0.93 54 #80 | 134 points by thefox96 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. 64-Bit Bank Balances 'Ought to Be Enough for Anybody'? (2023) (tigerbeetle.com)
    ×1.65 | 2 points by ksec 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Gemini 4 Hydrogen (High) Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by dkpk 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. How Anthropic stacks up against some of the biggest US IPOs (reuters.com)
    ×1.05 | 2 points by giuliomagnifico 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Adapting CPython for Yk (tratt.net)
    ×0.64 36 #34 | 74 points by frostbyte7 14 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Fitting Four 32 GB Resizable Bars Behind a PCIe Switch on Linux (doug.sh)
    ×0.89 47 #48 | 88 points by dougcalobrisi 20 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Smart home devices should work without the internet (docodethatmatters.com)
    ×4.71 2 #90 | 1189 points by skittleson 2 days ago | 442 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Running web sites makes me not want to (lowkey.party)
    ×1.57 1 | 104 points by speckx 21 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Pure-sift – 100% pure-Rust implementation of expired SIFT patent (github.com/dannkkie)
    ×0.45 | 2 points by dannkkie 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Foldable Flight: The Best Paper Airplanes (foldableflight.com)
    ×4.58 44 #79 | 1267 points by vismit2000 3 days ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Women with more friends are less tolerant (fire.org)
    ×0.90 | 1 points by Michelangelo11 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Will the Eurovision Song Contest Succeed in Asia? (bbc.co.uk)
    ×1.04 | 2 points by zeristor 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Valencia, Spain in Sim City/Isometric View (tinyvalencia.com)
    ×1.67 60 | 252 points by leugim 2 days ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Neon and Mubit: an agent that cuts its own frontier-model tokens by 73% (neon.com)
    ×0.80 94 | 3 points by aperi 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: I created a library for correctly using SQLite in Go programs (github.com/cattlecloud)
    ×1.07 96 | 23 points by sethops1 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Jensen Huang resigns (apnews.com)
    ×12.59 1 #2 | 3638 points by lldb 22 hours ago | 3186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. A new page, in a new book (0xff.nu)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by meysamazad 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Ernie 5.5 Flash Preview by Baidu (baidu.com)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by ggcr 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. How to Make Claude Code Validate Its Work (flowdeck.studio)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by afterxleep 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Gemini 4 Hydrogen and Orchestrator (antigravity.google)
    ×1.99 18 #9 | 426 points by jonbaer 17 hours ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Socratic Tutor (github.com/janestreet)
    ×3.24 10 #55 | 678 points by tosh 1 day ago | 161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Creating Worlds: Runes and Spells Prototype (fractalkitty.com)
    ×0.40 53 #86 | 25 points by evakhoury 19 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: MeowDisplay Is iPhone Mirroring, but in Reverse (meowdisplay.app)
    ×0.77 88 | 120 points by raiseCatError 3 days ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???