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  1. Ask HN: Is it still worth pursuing a software startup?
    ×1.49 42 #74 | 168 points by newbebee 1 day ago | 207 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Share your personal website
    ×3.16 52 #76 | 924 points by susam 3 days ago | 2356 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: How are you doing RAG locally?
    ×1.98 59 | 404 points by tmaly 3 days ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Is replacing an enterprise product with LLMs a realistic strategy?
    ×0.80 58 | 5 points by chandmk 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?
    ×3.16 20 | 776 points by publicdebates 2 days ago | 1212 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?
    ×1.50 81 | 215 points by blahaj 3 days ago | 408 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Why is Google tolerating impersonation of Gmail from it's own domain?
    ×0.99 41 | 5 points by dvh 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Claude Opus performance affected by time of day?
    ×0.61 92 | 38 points by scaredreally 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Why are websites trying to talk at me?
    ×0.61 | 2 points by LeratoAustini 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Tell HN: Google Trust and Safety is a joke
    ×0.46 74 | 4 points by tokyobreakfast 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Tell HN: YouTube gave my username switzerland to a half government organization
    ×3.45 104 | 33 points by faebi 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: One IP, multiple unrealistic locations worldwide hitting my website
    ×0.51 109 | 42 points by nacho-daddy 2 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Tell HN: The way I do simple data management for new prototypes
    ×0.41 125 | 12 points by AndreyK1984 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How have you or your firm made money with LLMs?
    ×0.90 139 | 10 points by bwestergard 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
    ×1.14 119 | 256 points by david927 6 days ago | 877 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Iran's 120h internet shutdown, phones back. How to stay resilient?
    ×1.60 120 | 114 points by us321 4 days ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: When has a "dumb" solution beaten a sophisticated one for you?
    ×0.71 26 | 37 points by amadeuswoo 1 week ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Browser extension vs. native app for structured form filling?
    ×0.44 158 | 5 points by livrasand 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Will vibe coded spaghetti code lead to unmaintainable software?
    ×3.25 40 | 6 points by roschdal 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: How do you safely give LLMs SSH/DB access?
    ×0.84 110 | 82 points by nico 3 days ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Who's using DuckDB in production?
    ×0.83 131 | 7 points by yakkomajuri 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: What are your best purchases under $100?
    ×4.96 94 | 82 points by krishadi 2 days ago | 231 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. The $LANG Programming Language
    ×1.52 93 | 264 points by dang 4 days ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How to make spamming us uncomfortable for LinkedIn and friends?
    ×0.88 166 | 12 points by zx8080 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Distributed SQL engine for ultra-wide tables
    ×0.61 155 | 23 points by synsqlbythesea 3 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Do you think college is/was worth it?
    ×0.74 136 | 5 points by hallole 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Tell HN: DigitalOcean's managed services broke each other after update
    ×1.12 146 | 76 points by neilfrndes 5 days ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: ADHD – How do you manage the constant stream of thoughts and ideas?
    ×2.57 114 | 120 points by chriswright1664 4 days ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Fundraising compensation
    ×0.74 187 | 3 points by ebitda_ai 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Quantum Computation, Computers and Programming
    ×0.52 164 | 32 points by rramadass 5 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Tell HN: Execution is cheap, ideas matter again
    ×1.01 141 | 16 points by keepamovin 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Vxlan over WireGuard or WireGuard over Vxlan?
    ×0.86 154 | 46 points by mlhpdx 4 days ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Do people still need websites, or just a public page?
    ×0.92 134 | 4 points by paravaib 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: AI music covers in 2026?
    ×0.86 133 | 17 points by sexy_seedbox 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: What's something you wished you started doing earlier?
    ×0.93 163 | 4 points by karakoram 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: What is the best way to provide continuous context to models?
    ×0.91 107 | 73 points by nemath 3 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Have you ever tried low-code tools for your work?
    ×0.64 177 | 4 points by andre_fernandes 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: Those who quit tech, moved back home, what do you do?
    ×1.69 118 | 13 points by akudha 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: Why does Google still provide an open redirect for phishers?
    ×1.58 153 | 23 points by throwaway89201 4 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: Anyone else finding it impossible to land a job?
    ×5.07 132 | 27 points by Arch485 2 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: What to teach my kid if AI does math and CS?
    ×1.97 165 | 12 points by devShark 2 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ask HN: Discrepancy between Lichess and Stockfish
    ×0.52 176 | 21 points by HNLurker2 4 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: Looking for Windows contributors for meeting-detection engine
    ×0.39 191 | 7 points by Ayobamiu 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Ask HN: Can companies claim copyright over their LLM-generated codebases?
    ×1.05 159 | 4 points by mks_shuffle 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Ask HN: Why do AI code editors suck at closing tags?
    ×1.15 170 | 9 points by cryptography 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Ask HN: Has Claude Code changed its usage limits for you?
    ×0.55 | 2 points by laurex 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Ask HN: Is Codex login down for all workspace (non-personal) users?
    ×1.19 179 | 6 points by amluto 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Ask HN: Trying to find a website featured on HN that listed restaurants in NYC
    ×1.47 168 | 14 points by laffOr 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Ask HN: Which system would you trust to run a business you can't afford to lose?
    ×0.32 | 2 points by cutterlayers 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Ask HN: Local media server, receive and send audio?
    ×0.23 | 2 points by thedangler 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Ask HN: When "Two-Factor Authentication" (2FA) Aren't Two
    ×0.36 | 2 points by s3131212 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Ask HN: Any real prompt injections in the wild?
    ×0.66 185 | 6 points by singularity2001 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Ask HN: LLM Poisoning Resources
    ×0.96 169 | 4 points by totallygeeky 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Ask HN: Strangest or most unexpected behavior you've seen from GitHub Copilot?
    ×1.79 173 | 6 points by stikit 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Ask HN: Tips for better image generation? I need help
    ×0.30 | 2 points by gweets 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Tell HN: Properly using dishwasher reduced friction with my wife
    ×2.43 171 | 16 points by xylo 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Why is nobody using this? Full-duplex voice streaming with Gemini Live in React
    ×0.74 180 | 3 points by loffloff 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Tell HN: HP Ultra G1a Bios Freezing Issue
    ×0.32 | 2 points by BizarroLand 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Ask HN: Is sending a lot of requests but respecting rate limits DOSing?
    ×0.33 | 2 points by SpyCoder77 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Ask HN: Analogy of AI IDEs for code vs. "AI IDEs" for personal health data
    ×0.34 | 2 points by nemath 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Ask HN: Is token-based pricing making AI harder to use in production?
    ×0.96 182 | 3 points by Barathkanna 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Ask HN: What happens when you remove lock-in from enterprise software economics?
    ×1.46 174 | 4 points by hydrioxstate 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Ask HN: Estimating % of dev using coding assistants
    ×1.24 175 | 7 points by japoneris 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Ask HN: How can we handle solo founder loneliness?
    ×0.47 183 | 3 points by dabojula 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Ask HN: Audio analysis models, how to train to learn sound patters?
    ×0.79 189 | 4 points by thedangler 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Ask HN: Any local secret manager?
    ×1.03 186 | 3 points by spacemnstr42069 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Users access official platform apps in regions with frequent mirror links
    ×0.54 | 2 points by taka-dev 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Tell HN: Intel could blow up the Console Wars if it had the guts
    ×1.08 190 | 8 points by noumenon1111 4 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Text-to-3D → Step/STL
    ×2.25 188 | 5 points by alexyakovlev919 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Ask HN: Thoughts on maintaining anonymity against state-level actors?
    ×1.94 178 | 10 points by adamanteye 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Tell HN: A Proposal to Modernize Xorg as a Protocol-Only Graphics Layer
    ×1.02 184 | 7 points by powerwordtree 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Lance – Open lakehouse format for multimodal AI datasets (github.com/lance-format)
    ×1.11 47 | 3 points by criexe 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Beszel: Lightweight server monitoring hub with historical data, Docker stats (github.com/henrygd)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by thunderbong 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. 'Read this and you will be happier': experts pick the self-help books that work (theguardian.com)
    ×1.44 | 2 points by guhsnamih 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Hc: an agentless, multi-tenant shell history sink (github.com/alessandrocarminati)
    ×0.71 100 | 42 points by acarminati 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: GlyphLang – An AI-first programming language
    ×0.57 181 | 44 points by goose0004 1 week ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. We put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon (ramp.com)
    ×2.47 4 #20 | 479 points by iamwil 23 hours ago | 269 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Streaming gigabyte medical images from S3 without downloading them (github.com/PABannier)
    ×1.02 43 #56 | 150 points by el_pa_b 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Most renters shut out of energy-saving upgrades – study (binghamton.edu)
    ×1.91 61 | 72 points by hhs 1 day ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. The Risks of AI in Schools Outweigh the Benefits, Report Says (npr.org)
    ×2.51 16 | 90 points by backpackerBMW 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: pgwire-replication - pure rust client for Postgres CDC (github.com/vnvo)
    ×0.51 99 | 45 points by sacs0ni 1 week ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Speed Miners – A tiny RTS resource mini-game (speedminers.fun)
    ×0.87 43 #37 | 42 points by nickponline 12 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Podcasting Could Use a Good Asteroid (joanwestenberg.com)
    ×1.00 13 #42 | 45 points by zdw 10 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. To Build a Fire – Classics Read Aloud (classicsreadaloud.substack.com)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by janandonly 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Figma-use – CLI to control Figma for AI agents (github.com/dannote)
    ×0.77 13 #5 | 10 points by dannote 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Computer Systems Security 6.566 / Spring 2024 (mit.edu)
    ×1.21 9 #31 | 98 points by barishnamazov 13 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. What is Plan 9? (9front.org)
    ×3.06 2 #7 | 11 points by AlexeyBrin 16 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Engineering Schizophrenia: Trusting yourself through Byzantine faults
    ×0.99 149 | 111 points by rescrv 6 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Local Newspapers Are Closing. Local News Is Surviving (nytimes.com)
    ×1.07 | 2 points by ripe 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. LWN is currently under the heaviest scraper attack seen yet (kernel.org)
    ×4.27 28 | 197 points by luu 1 day ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???