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  1. Ask HN: Fable hacked my piano, can I release the results?
    ×1.76 20 #20 | 265 points by jmpman 18 hours ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: OpenAI brings back 5 hour limit for plus and business standard users
    ×2.06 18 #23 | 103 points by spwa4 2 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?
    ×1.69 25 #26 | 270 points by imadtaieber 19 hours ago | 250 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Apparently CodePen 2.0 sends data to their servers as you type
    ×1.20 6 #30 | 104 points by maxim-fin 7 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Bun rewrite and FLT formalization had nearly identical resource usage
    ×1.77 12 | 4 points by Zsfe510asG 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Would you read a statistics textbook?
    ×1.33 14 #77 | 97 points by usernametaken29 19 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Show your micro-SaaS
    ×0.99 67 | 14 points by genekrapivin 22 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Is OpenAI silently routing GPT‑6 requests to GPT‑4o?
    ×0.44 | 2 points by skaiuijing 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?
    ×1.03 71 | 193 points by sukit 4 days ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Resources to get good at soldering?
    ×1.38 57 | 273 points by tosmatos 5 days ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Connecting Kubernetes dependencies to application telemetry
    ×1.01 82 | 6 points by chipfixer 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
    ×2.00 62 | 403 points by halcdev 4 days ago | 703 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: UK Rescue Rocket Sheds/Houses Information
    ×0.53 58 | 24 points by burnt-resistor 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Any Software Engineers here who enjoy their AI-native dev workflow?
    ×2.05 80 | 8 points by pkos98 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Do People Care About Image Optimisation Anymore?
    ×0.55 70 | 3 points by CM30 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How do you keep AI coding agents in sync with a changing Figma file?
    ×0.40 | 2 points by rjvidentia 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. tuhat: Home for all your reading
    ×0.93 64 | 4 points by 8by3 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Why can I use macOS passkeys without biometrics
    ×0.76 73 | 3 points by 0xnico 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: (Why) Was the LLM breakthrough useful for images, audio, etc.?
    ×0.50 94 | 4 points by rogerrogerr 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: How safe are our password managers in face of LLM cyber attacks?
    ×0.54 108 | 3 points by muddi900 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Tell HN: Anthropic should make Claude the Author and me the Co-Author
    ×1.00 74 | 5 points by xeonax 15 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Looking for an old submission about sneering culture
    ×1.05 75 | 5 points by annex-winged-cr 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: What are other "uncrackable benchmarks"?
    ×0.69 81 | 3 points by Nail2680 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Tell HN: I want to see the same moon as you
    ×1.01 104 | 15 points by UnderABlueMoon 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Perplexity Pro vs. Claude – what are you paying for?
    ×0.52 | 2 points by daytonflyers 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Tell HN: Both recent GCP outages caused by fiber optic maintenance
    ×0.57 122 | 19 points by fastest963 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: What is your biggest struggle while learning?
    ×0.98 88 | 3 points by Cursed666 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Are others seeing Google's reCAPTCHA rejecting Firefox users?
    ×1.45 83 | 72 points by Animats 3 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Why don't we bring back old school OkCupid?
    ×2.97 24 | 42 points by firefax 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: What are you working on?
    ×1.05 79 | 6 points by meerita 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Model sycophancy benchmarks?
    ×0.94 92 | 4 points by gradus_ad 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: 30, burnt out, with 6-10 months of runway. What would you do?
    ×1.55 109 | 31 points by throwaway_30yo 5 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Are we normalizing surveillance in the name of safety?
    ×0.42 103 | 4 points by dennysora-main 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Astra still fails at creating acceptable Rotational Ambigram
    ×0.21 116 | 3 points by das_vicky 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Who is using FPGA for ML inference?
    ×0.56 142 | 10 points by softwarewright 3 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Founders that raised funding and shutdown, did you raise again?
    ×0.43 128 | 18 points by asim 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Any Alternatives to Archive.ph & co?
    ×0.79 117 | 8 points by hebelehubele 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: Do you route only certain websites through a VPN?
    ×0.28 | 2 points by dennysora-main 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. MITx is ending access to its courses for learners in Iran on September 8
    ×1.06 121 | 6 points by mahdihabibi 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. APAC Alpha – Zero-lag Intel terminal for Asian markets
    ×0.61 | 2 points by apacalpha 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: What is the ideal email domain setup?
    ×0.71 151 | 7 points by bix6 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Tell HN: NVIDIA's Acquisition of HuggingFace was for $HuggingFace
    ×2.43 98 | 43 points by MontagFTB 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: Laptop or Desktop?
    ×0.68 156 | 7 points by Gecko4072 4 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Ask HN: How do you guys keep up with the most cost-effective AI models?
    ×0.12 182 | 4 points by solomonmwalker 4 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Xfinity silently blocks lots of new domains
    ×1.60 113 | 15 points by dschwartz18 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Ask HN: Are technical blogs dead?
    ×0.74 138 | 14 points by quaintdev 4 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Ask HN: How do you build organic traction as an indie dev?
    ×0.68 111 | 7 points by charm137 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Ask HN: Books Recommendations?
    ×1.03 130 | 7 points by washelterskelte 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Ask HN: Initial Thoughts on GPT-6 Astra?
    ×0.79 126 | 8 points by zof3 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Ask HN: Outside of work, what are your social groups?
    ×1.95 125 | 5 points by Gecko4072 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Ask HN: How have interviews changed over the last year?
    ×1.29 96 | 12 points by mikodin 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Ask HN: Is AI a Powerdrill?
    ×0.41 133 | 4 points by dfps 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Ask HN: What's the best place to learn about skills and AI for coding in general
    ×0.89 85 | 4 points by rrmdp 23 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Ask HN: Why don't we talk about context window size anymore?
    ×0.81 150 | 5 points by rce123 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Cutting (Claude Code) token spend on dynamic workflows 80%
    ×0.31 | 2 points by gojkoa 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Astra One Shotted Cains's Jawbone
    ×0.56 131 | 5 points by marcushyett 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. OpenAI's rogue agents used ntfy.sh as a pub/sub channel
    ×0.38 157 | 3 points by coderinsan 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Word42 1.0.0 Released
    ×0.55 139 | 5 points by andreasrosdal 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Ask HN: Why do many websites use a sign-in code instead of a password?
    ×1.21 145 | 8 points by bariumbitmap 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Are people who only seem happy when they're angry increasing? Seems like it
    ×0.64 101 | 4 points by Webstir 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Ask HN: Where do you get your AI (technology) news?
    ×0.45 170 | 8 points by BtM909 5 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Ask HN: Is there a test for measuring cognitive affects from LLM usage?
    ×1.83 144 | 9 points by niwrad 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Ask HN: Why isn't there a cursor for video games development
    ×0.30 | 2 points by JimsonYang 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Ask HN: Could AI eventually build god?
    ×1.51 148 | 8 points by olirex99 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Ask HN: How do we build a team? (bootstrapped B2B startup)
    ×1.01 165 | 5 points by theonlinx 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Ask HN: How do you know if you have a product problem or a distribution one?
    ×1.15 140 | 6 points by mustafak99 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Ask HN: Accountants working with ecommerce
    ×0.23 183 | 3 points by vasyl_kyryliuk 4 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Sageling - a local AI agent for Mac, Qwen 3.5 9B in-process via MLX (sageling.ai)
    ×1.76 134 | 7 points by kirillklimuk 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Your intellectual fly is open when you use an LLM to author a post (2025) (dtrace.org)
    ×3.00 9 #43 | 694 points by cyb0rg0 1 day ago | 426 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Apecs – A fast TypeScript ECS without the low-level footguns (github.com/diffusionstudio)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by K9-P5 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Parent and Child Screen Use and the Effects of Phubbing (jpeds.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by theanonymousone 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: HomeCat – Design your backyard office (myhomecat.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by dearilos 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. America's two largest school districts impose AI moratoriums (techpolicy.press)
    ×2.84 65 | 61 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: I wrote a guide to rendering video from plain HTML/CSS/GSAP (gumroad.com)
    ×0.75 | 2 points by SifatAhmed 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: I built my first MCP to manage Google Ads (adchestra.com)
    ×1.35 132 | 15 points by MichalKrk 4 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. No constitutional right to clean water, federal court finds (usatoday.com)
    ×4.85 4 #6 | 73 points by measurablefunc 1 hour ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Why Labor's Share of Wealth Is Shrinking (nytimes.com)
    ×3.10 54 #87 | 6 points by marojejian 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. I'm teaching an introductory 12 week course on Quantum Oracle Engineering (shukla.io)
    ×0.80 43 | 67 points by BinRoo 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Titles – Can you write a better Hacker News title? (orangecrumbs.com)
    ×0.64 | 2 points by oyster143 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Pod – A review site for dev tools where the reviewers are AI agents (askpod.ai)
    ×2.67 15 | 10 points by marvy101 6 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Whistle Synth (jefftk.com)
    ×0.77 25 #13 | 35 points by luu 5 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Do We Still Need Burp Suite for Web Security Testing? (medium.com)
    ×1.61 1 #90 | 5 points by syumei 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: MobileCode – OpenCode with Built-In iOS and Android Previews (github.com/hsandhu)
    ×1.66 114 | 7 points by rsandhu 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Kafma – a desktop Kafka GUI client for debugging (kafma.app)
    ×1.94 181 | 6 points by KafmaKarma 5 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight (isaraerospace.com)
    ×2.77 7 #55 | 602 points by mpweiher 1 day ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Play GTA Vice City in the Browser (quenq.com)
    ×2.33 54 | 76 points by rzk 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Golden hour API and a 3D globe of the best light (sendafun.com)
    ×0.56 | 2 points by gpszys 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Simple Is Not Small (jyn.dev)
    ×1.23 13 #5 | 107 points by zdw 6 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Senate Considers Letting Contractors Hack Computers for Military (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.26 | 2 points by _____k 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Alzheimer's treatment is advancing rapidly (vox.com)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by dabinat 20 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???