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: Who is hiring? (April 2026)
    ×1.22 14 #12 | 203 points by whoishiring 11 hours ago | 165 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2026)
    ×1.04 48 #33 | 58 points by whoishiring 11 hours ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Distributed data centers in our basements
    ×0.54 62 | 70 points by cmos 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What dev tools do you rely on that nobody talks about?
    ×1.79 29 | 24 points by crcsmnky 11 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What happens when you block/mark as spam a call or text?
    ×1.03 28 | 11 points by dsalzman 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Client took over development by vibe coding. What to do?
    ×1.36 22 | 48 points by piscator 15 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Notably absent from X during Artemis launch: Elon
    ×0.95 | 2 points by boringg 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. BetterDB – open-source Redis/Valkey migration across clouds and self-hosted
    ×1.12 52 | 12 points by kaliades 11 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Tell HN: Chrome says "suspicious download" when trying to download yt-dlp
    ×2.45 17 | 300 points by joering2 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Are tech companies even hiring?
    ×1.76 48 | 14 points by KernelPryanic 12 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Why did Harvey choose a top-down enterprise GTM while Cursor went bottom-up?
    ×0.80 61 | 4 points by iiTsEddy 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Academic study on AI's impact on software development – want to join?
    ×0.59 84 | 30 points by research2026 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs
    ×3.92 50 | 789 points by hrncode 3 days ago | 451 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Books on Unit Testing and TDD?
    ×0.75 65 | 6 points by Desafinado 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How do you know if a tweak to your AI skill made it better?
    ×0.94 92 | 4 points by yo103jg 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. LinkedIn uses 65GB of RAM with 7 tabs opened
    ×1.56 96 | 14 points by daniele_dll 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Non-US founders residential address problem with Brex, Mercury?
    ×0.90 98 | 8 points by Barazutti629 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. EPropelled Electric Propulsion Motors and Controllers for Uncrewed Vehicles
    ×0.30 120 | 3 points by ePropelled 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Does anyone else notice that gas runs out faster than usual
    ×0.66 119 | 20 points by cat-turner 2 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What was it like in the era of BBS before the internet?
    ×1.00 116 | 27 points by ex-aws-dude 2 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Who needs contributors? (March 2026)
    ×0.85 125 | 26 points by Kathan2651 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Tell HN: Zed is sunsetting text threads
    ×0.68 117 | 5 points by koito17 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Are you team MCP or team CLI?
    ×0.67 127 | 15 points by sharath39 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Nexus – Agent-native ops platform for ecommerce MCP, self-registration, no demos
    ×0.34 150 | 3 points by karimsherif 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Is there any founder building non AI startup in 2026?
    ×1.83 106 | 12 points by daudmalik06 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Proof-engine A mathematical rendering engine for Rust
    ×0.51 133 | 5 points by Shmungus 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Best stack for building a tiny game with an 11-year-old?
    ×0.56 147 | 17 points by richardstahl 3 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Tell HN: DeepL Moving Data to AWS
    ×0.19 146 | 5 points by bilekas 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. With Mythos will we reach coding singularity?
    ×0.39 158 | 4 points by kamalsrini17 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. The risk of AI isn't making us lazy, but making "lazy" look productive
    ×1.45 124 | 75 points by acmerfight 4 days ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Sandflare – I built a sandbox that launches AI agent VMs in ~300ms
    ×0.45 153 | 5 points by ajaysheoran2323 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Is it actually possible to run multiple coding sessions in parallel?
    ×0.49 143 | 11 points by sukit 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Gemini CLI vs. Claude Code
    ×0.55 148 | 6 points by elC0mpa 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: M5 MacBook Pro buyers, worth spending the $$$ to maybe run LLMs local?
    ×0.76 160 | 11 points by tpurves 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Curious. anyone here allow agents to make purchase decisions of >$100?
    ×0.29 164 | 3 points by adityasriram 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: What's the latest concensus on OpenAI vs. Anthropic $20/month tier?
    ×0.78 163 | 13 points by whatarethembits 4 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Grab web elements for CLI users (github.com/Jingquank)
    ×0.99 | 2 points by cozyss 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Hire Gnome – a lightweight ATS for small recruiting agencies (hiregnome.com)
    ×1.07 82 | 3 points by harrywynn 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ada and Spark on ARM Cortex-M – A Tutorial with Arduino and Nucleo Examples (inspirel.com)
    ×0.62 63 #35 | 58 points by swq115 13 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Wi-Fi Graffiti (spencer.place)
    ×2.24 20 | 4 points by wonger_ 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Artemis II is not safe to fly (idlewords.com)
    ×3.92 1 | 883 points by idlewords 2 days ago | 608 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. RubyGems Fracture Incident Report (rubycentral.org)
    ×1.13 57 | 93 points by schneems 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: A 3D Body Scan for Nine Cents – Without SMPL (clad.you)
    ×0.80 128 | 17 points by arkadiuss 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. A new C++ back end for ocamlc (github.com/ocaml)
    ×1.31 2 #2 | 97 points by glittershark 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Claude wrote a full FreeBSD remote kernel RCE with root shell (github.com/califio)
    ×1.79 14 #54 | 255 points by ishqdehlvi 21 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Neanderthals survived on a knife's edge for 350k years (science.org)
    ×1.52 11 #79 | 229 points by Hooke 1 day ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. The reputation of troubled YC startup Delve has gotten worse (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.15 | 2 points by SanjayMehta 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. A history of how high humanity has reached (abc.net.au)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by phocks 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Why LLM-Generated Passwords Are Dangerously Insecure (irregular.com)
    ×1.07 | 2 points by zdw 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode (alex000kim.com)
    ×5.44 56 | 1343 points by alex000kim 1 day ago | 551 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Trama – Stop writing agent orchestration (github.com/NaNhkNaN)
    ×0.93 129 | 6 points by NaNhkNaN 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Swappa.com for GrapheneOS compatible devices – Stay Away (grapheneos.org)
    ×1.31 16 #24 | 91 points by OsrsNeedsf2P 4 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Signboard – Kanban app lists are folders and cards are Markdown files (cdevroe.com)
    ×0.80 152 | 4 points by cdevroe 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. From 300KB to 69KB per Token: How LLM Architectures Solve the KV Cache Problem (future-shock.ai)
    ×1.05 62 #72 | 155 points by future-shock-ai 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Solar Balconies Take Europe by Storm (hackaday.com)
    ×0.78 | 2 points by lxm 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. The Startup That Used AI and OpenClaw to Automate Its Own Developers (wsj.com)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by petethomas 40 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. The future of work is world models (strangeloopcanon.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by walterbell 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Peer-Preservation in Frontier Models (berkeley.edu)
    ×1.00 | 2 points by simonpure 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Slop is not necessarily the future (greptile.com)
    ×1.56 15 | 296 points by dakshgupta 1 day ago | 473 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Default GraphQL response is now HTTP 500 (graphql.org)
    ×2.32 59 #58 | 22 points by markl42 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: I made a "programming language" looking for feedback (github.com/alonsovm44)
    ×0.54 126 | 37 points by alonsovm 3 days ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Rustobol – Compile Rust to COBOL (github.com/romanagenda)
    ×2.46 67 | 5 points by mikece 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Sony halts memory card shipments due to NAND shortage (techzine.eu)
    ×1.52 72 | 82 points by methuselah_in 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Made a small multiplayer game with AI (hyperkube.org)
    ×1.93 88 | 4 points by SamInTheShell 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Multi-agent autoresearch for ANE inference beats Apple's CoreML by 6× (ensue-network.ai)
    ×2.02 123 | 6 points by christinetyip 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Randomness on Apple Platforms (2024) (xoria.org)
    ×0.83 43 #48 | 52 points by surprisetalk 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Es-toolkit: A lodash replacement that's 97% smaller and 2x faster (toss.tech)
    ×1.10 | 2 points by bboydart 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Clone any web app in minutes (twill.ai)
    ×1.71 19 | 3 points by danoandco 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: CLI to order groceries via reverse-engineered REWE API (Haskell) (github.com/yannick-cw)
    ×1.19 43 #37 | 187 points by wazHFsRy 20 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Real-time dashboard for Claude Code agent teams (github.com/simple10)
    ×0.79 #59 | 69 points by simple10 10 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Hybro – unify local and remote AI agents in a single agent network (hybro.ai)
    ×0.89 | 1 points by kevinlu 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. This Month in Ladybird – March 2026 (ladybird.org)
    ×1.91 6 | 3 points by exploraz 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Paul McCartney to celebrate 50 years of Apple with concert for staff (nypost.com)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by rmason 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. The Camps Promising to Turn You–Or Your Son–Into an Alpha Male (newyorker.com)
    ×1.52 24 | 3 points by petethomas 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: QuickBEAM – run JavaScript as supervised Erlang/OTP processes (github.com/elixir-volt)
    ×0.90 99 | 110 points by dannote 4 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. BurgerDisk News (colino.net)
    ×0.96 39 #15 | 7 points by ibobev 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Bring Back MiniDV with This Raspberry Pi FireWire Hat (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×0.94 53 #56 | 122 points by ingve 23 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. From Viral Sensation to Feature Film: Kane Parsons' 'The Backrooms' (nofilmschool.com)
    ×1.14 | 2 points by firasd 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Hyprmoncfg – Terminal-based monitor config manager for Hyprland (paolino.me)
    ×0.41 115 | 11 points by earcar 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Scientists crack a 20-year nuclear mystery behind the creation of gold (sciencedaily.com)
    ×0.95 25 #19 | 54 points by prabal97 7 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: 65k AI voters predict UK local elections with 75% accuracy (kronaxis.co.uk)
    ×1.27 88 #41 | 3 points by JasonDuke 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Ukrainian drone holds position for 6 weeks (defenceleaders.com)
    ×3.82 29 #52 | 128 points by AftHurrahWinch 8 hours ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. My GitHub Suspension, a Thread (bsky.app)
    ×1.56 25 | 3 points by OuterVale 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Asciimap – Interactive ASCII world map with live data (github.com/Lionel-Lim)
    ×1.91 107 | 9 points by limsight 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Free AI API gateway that auto-fails over Gemini, Groq, Mistral, etc. (github.com/msmarkgu)
    ×1.33 136 | 7 points by markfront 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Quantum computing bombshells that are not April Fools (scottaaronson.blog)
    ×2.98 4 #3 | 34 points by Strilanc 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. The Anti-Intellectualism of Silicon Valley Elites (elizabethspiers.com)
    ×5.58 47 #69 | 76 points by speckx 6 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. pg_plan_alternatives: Tracing PostgreSQL Query Plan Alternatives Using eBPF (jnidzwetzki.github.io)
    ×0.46 62 #78 | 6 points by tanelpoder 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Trinity Large Thinking (openrouter.ai)
    ×1.85 | 2 points by kristianp 20 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Marc Andreessen's dangerously unexamined life (thenation.com)
    ×8.06 25 | 74 points by cassidius 11 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???