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  1. Ask HN: Resources to get good at soldering?
    ×1.40 43 #28 | 212 points by tosmatos 1 day ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?
    ×1.06 52 #76 | 179 points by sukit 1 day ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: How have interviews changed over the last year?
    ×1.98 45 | 9 points by mikodin 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
    ×2.02 15 | 397 points by halcdev 2 days ago | 699 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Is AI a Powerdrill?
    ×0.48 34 | 3 points by dfps 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Fable hacked my piano, can I release the results?
    ×0.73 47 | 3 points by jmpman 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026)
    ×1.14 73 | 247 points by whoishiring 4 days ago | 343 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Any Alternatives to Archive.ph & co?
    ×0.68 67 | 4 points by hebelehubele 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2026)
    ×0.67 93 | 111 points by whoishiring 4 days ago | 468 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Tell HN: Both recent GCP outages caused by fiber optic maintenance
    ×0.61 98 | 17 points by fastest963 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Are others seeing Google's reCAPTCHA rejecting Firefox users?
    ×1.54 66 | 70 points by Animats 2 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Books Recommendations?
    ×1.32 80 | 6 points by washelterskelte 17 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. OpenAI's rogue agents used ntfy.sh as a pub/sub channel
    ×0.31 | 2 points by coderinsan 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: 30, burnt out, with 6-10 months of runway. What would you do?
    ×1.88 83 | 30 points by throwaway_30yo 3 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Initial Thoughts on GPT-6 Astra?
    ×0.98 76 | 8 points by zof3 19 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Xfinity silently blocks lots of new domains
    ×1.91 72 | 14 points by dschwartz18 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Word42 1.0.0 Released
    ×0.76 77 | 5 points by andreasrosdal 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Who is using FPGA for ML inference?
    ×0.67 111 | 10 points by softwarewright 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Tell HN: I want to see the same moon as you
    ×2.37 61 | 10 points by UnderABlueMoon 15 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Founders that raised funding and shutdown, did you raise again?
    ×0.45 104 | 18 points by asim 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: What is the ideal email domain setup?
    ×0.77 127 | 6 points by bix6 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Tell HN: NVIDIA's Acquisition of HuggingFace was for $HuggingFace
    ×2.59 78 | 41 points by MontagFTB 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Why isn't there a cursor for video games development
    ×0.38 | 2 points by JimsonYang 21 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Laptop or Desktop?
    ×0.90 137 | 7 points by Gecko4072 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: How do you guys keep up with the most cost-effective AI models?
    ×0.16 160 | 4 points by solomonmwalker 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: How do you know if you have a product problem or a distribution one?
    ×1.67 91 | 6 points by mustafak99 23 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Are technical blogs dead?
    ×0.74 116 | 13 points by quaintdev 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Is there any way to contribute to nitter and xcancel's legal fights?
    ×1.10 90 | 8 points by orange999 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Why don't we talk about context window size anymore?
    ×0.53 123 | 3 points by rce123 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Tell HN: Check your Claude settings, it may have silently enabled remote access
    ×0.86 101 | 6 points by cromka 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Do all of you use Cloudflare for preventing DDoS, Bot and more attacks?
    ×0.25 | 2 points by skwasimin 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Why do many websites use a sign-in code instead of a password?
    ×1.47 110 | 8 points by bariumbitmap 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: What is your biggest career regret?
    ×2.04 84 | 6 points by eudamoniac 19 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Is there a test for measuring cognitive affects from LLM usage?
    ×1.93 115 | 8 points by niwrad 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: What's Going on with Web.archive.org
    ×1.06 97 | 4 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Could AI eventually build god?
    ×1.26 135 | 6 points by olirex99 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: How do we build a team? (bootstrapped B2B startup)
    ×0.89 151 | 4 points by theonlinx 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: Does anyone have access to GPT-6 Astra yet?
    ×1.90 92 | 7 points by zof3 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: Accountants working with ecommerce
    ×0.24 169 | 3 points by vasyl_kyryliuk 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: Why is HN native dark mode not implemented yet?
    ×0.67 149 | 3 points by SriniK 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: How do you market Open Source Software?
    ×0.62 133 | 5 points by Daniel-Pan 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ask HN: Where do you get your AI (technology) news?
    ×0.47 162 | 8 points by BtM909 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Tell HN: The Thoughts and Woes of a Full-Time Founder Part 1
    ×0.65 159 | 3 points by lcampbellsoup 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Two random Anthropic allocation resets this week
    ×1.31 100 | 4 points by novlrdotcom 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Ask HN: iPhone Camera on indicator
    ×0.47 | 2 points by zahirbmirza 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. One-person startup: a Cornell postdoc wants to put AI in everyone's hands
    ×0.34 | 2 points by modelslive 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Ask HN: How do you gate an autonomous coding agent's shell access?
    ×0.31 | 2 points by alanfuNZ 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Ask HN: Where do I go?
    ×0.48 | 2 points by dannydark1 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. ChatGPT Linux GUI version updates redownload all files, require 1.4GB download
    ×0.42 153 | 10 points by juujian 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Ask HN: Why does free time become another thing you have to use correctly?
    ×0.59 167 | 3 points by nullifypreset 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Ask HN: Are guardrails being baked into models, or enforced outside them?
    ×0.37 | 2 points by arkj 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Tell HN: Anthropic just reset usage, including Fable
    ×1.19 99 | 4 points by consumer451 22 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Beware: Malicious Profiles on YC Co-Founder Matching
    ×0.45 148 | 5 points by pain_perdu 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Ask HN: Can we classify AI as: subhuman, quasihuman, human, superhumam?
    ×0.61 172 | 3 points by aunekiaru 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Returning from the AI brain-rot state, re-take the thinking ownership
    ×2.88 138 | 8 points by tuleiff 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions (nist.gov)
    ×2.90 12 #6 | 709 points by negura 22 hours ago | 408 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Claude Code skills for advanced context engineering techniques and patterns (github.com/NeoLabHQ)
    ×1.54 59 #75 | 34 points by leovs09 21 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Biologist Andrew Newhouse on the genetic revival of the American chestnut (npr.org)
    ×0.75 11 #82 | 5 points by Brajeshwar 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. DartNative: Beyond the Limits of React Native and Flutter
    ×0.57 | 1 points by iosephmagno 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Controlling when CSS custom property values are computed (jakearchibald.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by ingve 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: FrontierHarness Eval – 9 harness, same model, cost per pass varies 17x (frontierharness.org)
    ×1.14 87 | 81 points by shiqimei 3 days ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Generating scenarios for extreme events, without extreme data (mit.edu)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by taubek 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Over 5,400 hacked sites serve ClickFix payloads stored on the blockchain (bleepingcomputer.com)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by sbulaev 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. KingFy – an AI super app orchestrating 1,200 specialized agents (kingfy.app)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by kingfyapp 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. The Inter Typeface Family (rsms.me)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by azhenley 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. The Kalshi Citizen Debt Forecast (CDF) (marginalrevolution.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by paulpauper 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Marketplace for finding craft fairs and vendor events (boothscout.com)
    ×1.27 96 | 5 points by wowinter15 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Ensemble Prover - Open-Source Python Autonomous Theorem Prover (github.com/graviterra)
    ×0.71 | 2 points by stereochemical3 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Stopping the Unstoppable: When an unstoppable force meets a dashpot snubber (practical.engineering)
    ×0.72 19 #14 | 22 points by crescit_eundo 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Bootstrapping Mechanical Correctness (artagnon.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by artagnon 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. There's No Limit to How Bad Code Can Get (zachkehs.com)
    ×2.38 79 | 95 points by zkehs 5 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: The cheapest GPU cloud – H100s at $2.04/HR, H200s at $3/HR (compute.cheap)
    ×1.66 85 | 60 points by EmiCorleone 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Ok, but does it scale? (spacetimedb.com)
    ×0.99 45 #63 | 124 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. A mysterious kidney disease has arrived in Texas (texasmonthly.com)
    ×1.70 54 | 95 points by johntfella 1 day ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Model – A Minimal Python ORM for MySQL and SQLite (github.com/el1s7)
    ×0.95 156 | 4 points by el1s7 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Royalty free UI avatars for Figma/React (radianui.com)
    ×1.09 164 | 4 points by Ashmit72 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Clustta – Open-source version control for creative work (clustta.com)
    ×0.95 129 | 3 points by taiwofolu 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. The Rust React Compiler is now native in Vite (master.dev)
    ×1.22 47 #41 | 162 points by acusti 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Who Killed the American Demoscene? (2019) (vice.com)
    ×2.47 59 | 3 points by wy35 17 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. O&O ShutUp10 – The antispy tool for Windows 10 and 11 (oo-software.com)
    ×1.60 36 | 98 points by embedding-shape 1 day ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90% (atspotify.com)
    ×1.98 16 #33 | 233 points by cebert 20 hours ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Google restricted Gmail after press outreach; five appeals stayed system-only (reasoner.pl)
    ×1.24 | 2 points by marekfocus 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. 1Password Replied to My Disappointment (nicolalosito.it)
    ×6.15 63 | 71 points by backlit4034 1 day ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. UN to vote on adopting new world map that shows Africa's true scale (theguardian.com)
    ×2.77 65 | 48 points by plaguna 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: A gravity simulator where forces propagate at the speed of light (github.com/alessandro-pioli)
    ×1.78 143 | 6 points by alessandropioli 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Moadim.io – A scheduler for agents (moadim.io)
    ×0.63 46 #90 | 29 points by tupe12334 20 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Myjs An accidental pure-Python JavaScript interpreter (pypi.org)
    ×4.13 66 | 6 points by byteface 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Norway could become the first country to ban AI smart glasses (neow.in)
    ×1.32 | 2 points by bundie 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Effective Bureaucracy (sackfield.substack.com)
    ×1.07 | 2 points by sackfield 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Tetris issues legal warning after White House releases arcade of parody games (dexerto.com)
    ×3.58 12 | 50 points by thunderbong 17 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???