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  1. Ask HN: Resources to get good at soldering?
    ×1.43 24 #17 | 97 points by tosmatos 12 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?
    ×1.05 49 #60 | 165 points by sukit 1 day ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Are you good at spotting fake news?
    ×1.63 46 | 5 points by azermite 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tell HN: I want to see the same moon as you
    ×3.21 57 | 6 points by UnderABlueMoon 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
    ×2.03 4 | 393 points by halcdev 1 day ago | 683 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Books Recommendations?
    ×1.06 45 | 3 points by washelterskelte 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Initial Thoughts on GPT-6 Astra?
    ×1.11 31 | 7 points by zof3 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026)
    ×1.14 93 | 246 points by whoishiring 3 days ago | 336 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Tell HN: Both recent GCP outages caused by fiber optic maintenance
    ×0.67 106 | 17 points by fastest963 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Are others seeing Google's reCAPTCHA rejecting Firefox users?
    ×1.59 68 | 68 points by Animats 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2026)
    ×0.66 109 | 109 points by whoishiring 3 days ago | 454 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Why isn't there a cursor for video games development
    ×0.48 | 2 points by JimsonYang 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Xfinity silently blocks lots of new domains
    ×1.94 61 | 12 points by dschwartz18 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: 30, burnt out, with 6-10 months of runway. What would you do?
    ×1.91 92 | 28 points by throwaway_30yo 2 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How do you know if you have a product problem or a distribution one?
    ×1.36 88 | 4 points by mustafak99 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What is your biggest career regret?
    ×2.64 36 | 6 points by eudamoniac 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Who is using FPGA for ML inference?
    ×0.72 115 | 10 points by softwarewright 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: What's Going on with Web.archive.org
    ×1.27 69 | 4 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What is the ideal email domain setup?
    ×0.86 128 | 6 points by bix6 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Founders that raised funding and shutdown, did you raise again?
    ×0.46 112 | 18 points by asim 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Is there any way to contribute to nitter and xcancel's legal fights?
    ×1.21 79 | 8 points by orange999 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Tell HN: NVIDIA's Acquisition of HuggingFace was for $HuggingFace
    ×2.59 86 | 39 points by MontagFTB 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Why don't we talk about context window size anymore?
    ×0.65 110 | 3 points by rce123 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Tell HN: Check your Claude settings, it may have silently enabled remote access
    ×0.98 97 | 6 points by cromka 14 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Do all of you use Cloudflare for preventing DDoS, Bot and more attacks?
    ×0.27 | 2 points by skwasimin 15 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Laptop or Desktop?
    ×1.03 134 | 7 points by Gecko4072 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Does anyone have access to GPT-6 Astra yet?
    ×2.22 78 | 7 points by zof3 11 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: How do you guys keep up with the most cost-effective AI models?
    ×0.18 160 | 4 points by solomonmwalker 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Two random Anthropic allocation resets this week
    ×1.52 83 | 4 points by novlrdotcom 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Are technical blogs dead?
    ×0.70 131 | 12 points by quaintdev 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Why do many websites use a sign-in code instead of a password?
    ×1.70 111 | 8 points by bariumbitmap 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Tell HN: Anthropic just reset usage, including Fable
    ×1.31 81 | 4 points by consumer451 8 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Is there a test for measuring cognitive affects from LLM usage?
    ×2.14 122 | 8 points by niwrad 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Could AI eventually build god?
    ×1.38 133 | 6 points by olirex99 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: How do we build a team? (bootstrapped B2B startup)
    ×0.98 149 | 4 points by theonlinx 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Why is HN native dark mode not implemented yet?
    ×0.71 142 | 3 points by SriniK 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Accountants working with ecommerce
    ×0.24 166 | 3 points by vasyl_kyryliuk 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Tell HN: Dropbox Data Breach
    ×1.46 139 | 51 points by hmate9 4 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: How do you market Open Source Software?
    ×0.65 129 | 5 points by Daniel-Pan 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Tell HN: The Thoughts and Woes of a Full-Time Founder Part 1
    ×0.68 156 | 3 points by lcampbellsoup 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: iPhone Camera on indicator
    ×0.49 | 2 points by zahirbmirza 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. One-person startup: a Cornell postdoc wants to put AI in everyone's hands
    ×0.37 | 2 points by modelslive 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: How do you gate an autonomous coding agent's shell access?
    ×0.33 | 2 points by alanfuNZ 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Ask HN: Where do you get your AI (technology) news?
    ×0.47 167 | 8 points by BtM909 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Ask HN: Why does free time become another thing you have to use correctly?
    ×0.62 165 | 3 points by nullifypreset 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Ask HN: Are guardrails being baked into models, or enforced outside them?
    ×0.39 | 2 points by arkj 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Beware: Malicious Profiles on YC Co-Founder Matching
    ×0.46 148 | 5 points by pain_perdu 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Ask HN: Can we classify AI as: subhuman, quasihuman, human, superhumam?
    ×0.64 170 | 3 points by aunekiaru 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Ask HN: Where do I go?
    ×0.53 | 2 points by dannydark1 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. ChatGPT Linux GUI version updates redownload all files, require 1.4GB download
    ×0.42 159 | 10 points by juujian 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Returning from the AI brain-rot state, re-take the thinking ownership
    ×3.04 138 | 8 points by tuleiff 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Ask HN: How much does licensing approach influence purchase decisions?
    ×0.38 | 2 points by terranivium 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Ask HN: A tool to share my data?
    ×0.34 | 2 points by roromainmain 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. 'People are going to get screwed' Pennsylvania voters unite against data centres (ft.com)
    ×3.79 15 | 102 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 16 hours ago | 189 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: The cheapest GPU cloud – H100s at $2.04/HR, H200s at $3/HR (compute.cheap)
    ×1.54 100 | 55 points by EmiCorleone 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Go Is Not Just for CLIs. It Runs the Cloud Native Control Plane (devops-daily.com)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by ejboy 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Rails Baseline – a Rails SaaS starter with agent-readable architecture (railsbaseline.com)
    ×1.48 183 | 5 points by polysaturate 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Local Mitsubishi AC Control with ESPHome and an AtomS3 Lite (didac.dev)
    ×0.56 | 2 points by sabatesduran 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread (gallup.com)
    ×6.66 24 #27 | 318 points by karakoram 7 hours ago | 246 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Moadim.io – A scheduler for agents (moadim.io)
    ×0.71 26 #36 | 21 points by tupe12334 6 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. The Two Abstractions of System Design: Hide or Reduce (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)
    ×0.92 35 #45 | 106 points by ubolonton_ 17 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Claude Fable 5.1 vs. GPT-6 Astra, who wins on the 3D modeling? (github.com/PhiloLabs)
    ×0.90 | 2 points by ameddserM 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: LibPolyCall – a C runtime broker for cross-language function calls (github.com/obinexus)
    ×1.14 158 | 4 points by obinexus 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. IBM Bob (ibm.com)
    ×1.73 8 #21 | 248 points by artpar 17 hours ago | 279 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. VID 20160804 (youtube.com)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by ycuser2 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. To Ruby from Python (ruby-lang.org)
    ×1.32 64 | 3 points by thunderbong 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Webmcp-react v1.0.0 (React hooks for agents to use WebMCP) (github.com/agentcathq)
    ×0.92 119 | 3 points by naseemalnaji 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Gimlet's Series B (gimletlabs.ai)
    ×0.47 74 #64 | 7 points by bigcat12345678 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. One trie, three jobs, zero benchmarks won (akesson.io)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by vinhnx 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. USN-8717-1: Apache Tika vulnerability – Ubuntu security notices (ubuntu.com)
    ×0.94 | 2 points by kyisaiah47 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Dyson CameraJet ($500 Toothbrush) (dyson.com)
    ×0.38 | 1 points by nycdatasci 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. 1Password Replied to My Disappointment (nicolalosito.it)
    ×7.12 62 | 71 points by backlit4034 1 day ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: MCP Tool Definition Quality Score (TDQS) Spec (tdqs.dev)
    ×2.19 130 | 8 points by punkpeye 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. LG and Samsung TVs are logging everything you say [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.75 | 2 points by someonebaggy 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Word42, a wordprocessor inspired by MS Word and Abiword (word42.org)
    ×1.29 124 | 5 points by roschdal 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. US Military disables ad trackers on troops' phones (theguardian.com)
    ×2.85 34 #69 | 183 points by tencentshill 16 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Reactor Atlas (reactoratlas.com)
    ×0.75 67 #82 | 68 points by fedecaccia 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Plane spotter or Chinese spy? Ontario university student suspected of espionage (cbc.ca)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by pir8life4me 40 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Claude for Commerce Agents (claude.com)
    ×1.16 91 | 61 points by ashazal 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Fomu An FPGA board that fits inside your USB port (crowdsupply.com)
    ×1.09 25 #42 | 39 points by Bluestein 9 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: I built my first MCP to manage Google Ads (adchestra.com)
    ×1.38 120 | 15 points by MichalKrk 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Convert Anything to Markdown (anyto.md)
    ×1.43 171 | 7 points by vlucas 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. SubImage (YC W25) Is Hiring a Founding Engineer in SF (ycombinator.com)
    17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. More Targets of the OpenAI Agent Swarm (fi-le.net)
    ×1.52 58 #85 | 13 points by fi-le 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Opinion: Religion Lowers Individual Morality
    ×2.56 54 | 3 points by ReligionKills 29 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Once again, overcompliance affects Venezuelan users, this time Cursor (twitter.com/LuisAlejandro)
    ×2.10 26 | 3 points by firekvz 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Quirky but compliant QOTDs; or, a slow QOTD server (dreamstation.systems)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by robinpie 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. A documentary about a scientist who thinks time loops are real
    ×2.01 26 | 4 points by undefbehavior 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Declick – Turn an OpenAPI Spec, MCP Server or SQLite DB into a CLI (github.com/ucsandman)
    ×0.73 99 | 6 points by practicalsystem 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: OpenStint – lap timing using RTL-SDR and near-field transponders (openstint.org)
    ×0.93 118 | 3 points by zsellera 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???