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  1. Ask HN: Resources to get good at soldering?
    ×1.47 26 #15 | 159 points by tosmatos 19 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?
    ×1.06 40 #60 | 174 points by sukit 1 day ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
    ×2.03 10 | 396 points by halcdev 1 day ago | 692 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Any Alternatives to Archive.ph & co?
    ×0.55 | 2 points by hebelehubele 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026)
    ×1.15 67 | 247 points by whoishiring 3 days ago | 342 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. OpenAI's rogue agents used ntfy.sh as a pub/sub channel
    ×0.41 | 2 points by coderinsan 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Tell HN: Both recent GCP outages caused by fiber optic maintenance
    ×0.65 87 | 17 points by fastest963 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2026)
    ×0.67 85 | 110 points by whoishiring 3 days ago | 465 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Are others seeing Google's reCAPTCHA rejecting Firefox users?
    ×1.55 43 | 68 points by Animats 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Word42 1.0.0 Released
    ×1.02 37 | 5 points by andreasrosdal 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Tell HN: I want to see the same moon as you
    ×2.33 21 | 8 points by UnderABlueMoon 8 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Initial Thoughts on GPT-6 Astra?
    ×0.97 51 | 7 points by zof3 13 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Books Recommendations?
    ×1.35 50 | 5 points by washelterskelte 10 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: 30, burnt out, with 6-10 months of runway. What would you do?
    ×1.84 74 | 28 points by throwaway_30yo 3 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Who is using FPGA for ML inference?
    ×0.70 97 | 10 points by softwarewright 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Xfinity silently blocks lots of new domains
    ×1.94 52 | 13 points by dschwartz18 18 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Why isn't there a cursor for video games development
    ×0.43 | 2 points by JimsonYang 14 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Founders that raised funding and shutdown, did you raise again?
    ×0.46 94 | 18 points by asim 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What is the ideal email domain setup?
    ×0.82 114 | 6 points by bix6 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Tell HN: NVIDIA's Acquisition of HuggingFace was for $HuggingFace
    ×2.60 65 | 40 points by MontagFTB 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: How do you know if you have a product problem or a distribution one?
    ×1.56 76 | 5 points by mustafak99 16 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Laptop or Desktop?
    ×0.98 122 | 7 points by Gecko4072 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: How do you guys keep up with the most cost-effective AI models?
    ×0.17 145 | 4 points by solomonmwalker 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Is there any way to contribute to nitter and xcancel's legal fights?
    ×1.16 72 | 8 points by orange999 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Why don't we talk about context window size anymore?
    ×0.59 102 | 3 points by rce123 21 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: What is your biggest career regret?
    ×2.31 57 | 6 points by eudamoniac 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Tell HN: Check your Claude settings, it may have silently enabled remote access
    ×0.93 84 | 6 points by cromka 22 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Are technical blogs dead?
    ×0.69 113 | 12 points by quaintdev 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Do all of you use Cloudflare for preventing DDoS, Bot and more attacks?
    ×0.26 | 2 points by skwasimin 22 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: What's Going on with Web.archive.org
    ×1.16 75 | 4 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Why do many websites use a sign-in code instead of a password?
    ×1.60 95 | 8 points by bariumbitmap 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Does anyone have access to GPT-6 Astra yet?
    ×2.05 73 | 7 points by zof3 18 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Is there a test for measuring cognitive affects from LLM usage?
    ×2.04 104 | 8 points by niwrad 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Could AI eventually build god?
    ×1.32 120 | 6 points by olirex99 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: How do we build a team? (bootstrapped B2B startup)
    ×0.94 135 | 4 points by theonlinx 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Why is HN native dark mode not implemented yet?
    ×0.70 131 | 3 points by SriniK 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Accountants working with ecommerce
    ×0.24 153 | 3 points by vasyl_kyryliuk 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Two random Anthropic allocation resets this week
    ×1.39 81 | 4 points by novlrdotcom 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: How do you market Open Source Software?
    ×0.64 117 | 5 points by Daniel-Pan 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Tell HN: Anthropic just reset usage, including Fable
    ×1.24 80 | 4 points by consumer451 15 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Tell HN: The Thoughts and Woes of a Full-Time Founder Part 1
    ×0.67 143 | 3 points by lcampbellsoup 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ask HN: Where do you get your AI (technology) news?
    ×0.47 149 | 8 points by BtM909 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: iPhone Camera on indicator
    ×0.48 | 2 points by zahirbmirza 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. One-person startup: a Cornell postdoc wants to put AI in everyone's hands
    ×0.36 | 2 points by modelslive 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Ask HN: How do you gate an autonomous coding agent's shell access?
    ×0.32 | 2 points by alanfuNZ 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Ask HN: Why does free time become another thing you have to use correctly?
    ×0.61 151 | 3 points by nullifypreset 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Ask HN: Are guardrails being baked into models, or enforced outside them?
    ×0.38 | 2 points by arkj 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Ask HN: Where do I go?
    ×0.51 | 2 points by dannydark1 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. ChatGPT Linux GUI version updates redownload all files, require 1.4GB download
    ×0.42 140 | 10 points by juujian 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Beware: Malicious Profiles on YC Co-Founder Matching
    ×0.46 134 | 5 points by pain_perdu 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Ask HN: Can we classify AI as: subhuman, quasihuman, human, superhumam?
    ×0.63 157 | 3 points by aunekiaru 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Returning from the AI brain-rot state, re-take the thinking ownership
    ×2.98 123 | 8 points by tuleiff 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Ask HN: How much does licensing approach influence purchase decisions?
    ×0.37 | 2 points by terranivium 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Ask HN: A tool to share my data?
    ×0.34 | 2 points by roromainmain 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Windrunner – AI-powered project collaboration workspace (shzlw.github.io)
    ×0.65 150 | 8 points by yuegui 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Pushdown automata in statistical machine translation (2014) (acm.org)
    ×0.47 40 #26 | 4 points by brandonb 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. The Highest Point in the Netherlands (hanazo.no)
    ×1.55 41 #70 | 63 points by haasted 10 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Mapping 14 disclosed AI incidents between April 25 and July 26 (smalldocs.org)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by FailMore 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: HN Match Maker – Matching "Who Wants to Be Hired?" With "Who's Hiring?" (hnmatchmaker.com)
    ×0.95 79 | 121 points by all2 3 days ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: The cheapest GPU cloud – H100s at $2.04/HR, H200s at $3/HR (compute.cheap)
    ×1.56 78 | 56 points by EmiCorleone 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Moadim.io – A scheduler for agents (moadim.io)
    ×0.65 42 #49 | 26 points by tupe12334 13 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Google AI Mode shows same products 21.6% more expensive than traditional search (productrise.app)
    ×2.56 31 #59 | 387 points by DeepLogin 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior (pnas.org)
    ×3.48 14 | 98 points by cassianoleal 23 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Cinderella – value a half-finished GitHub repo (cinderella.fyi)
    ×0.95 164 | 4 points by toddy_flogsit 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Without new landers or rovers, it's helicopters or bust for NASA's Mars program (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.02 51 #58 | 24 points by gumby 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. US Military disables ad trackers on troops' phones (theguardian.com)
    ×2.85 30 #82 | 191 points by tencentshill 23 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Google told drivers to drive a longer way on purpose (sfgate.com)
    ×0.94 | 1 points by cainxinth 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. A bizarre Commodore 64 peripheral, a mime, and some pretty bad ads (buttondown.com)
    ×1.41 | 2 points by rfarley04 51 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Gmail to end support for "Send as" for third-party addresses, such as @yahoo.com (google.com)
    ×4.12 47 | 186 points by sva_ 22 hours ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. US diesel prices hit a record high of $5.85 on average (apnews.com)
    ×6.76 10 | 85 points by geox 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Radia – agent coordination with leases, permissions and provenance (radia.sh)
    ×0.60 | 2 points by ymodulo 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Updates on HEIR, the Homomorphic Encryption Compiler Project (jeremykun.com)
    ×0.81 44 #39 | 42 points by turtleyacht 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. How Fairphone built the Fairphone Gen 6+ (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.05 24 #78 | 194 points by CrypticShift 1 day ago | 189 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. GnuTLS: Adding certificates to a valid chain causes SIGNER_NOT_FOUND (gitlab.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by ashkulz 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-6 Astra (cnbc.com)
    ×4.60 2 | 277 points by maskil 1 day ago | 253 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Restoring 5 GHz Wi-Fi on an LG C5 by changing its webOS region (github.com/hawshemi)
    ×0.75 43 #61 | 67 points by hawshemi 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Tesla's stock drops 6% as Cybercab update 'underwhelms' Wall Street (cnbc.com)
    ×0.63 | 2 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter (openrouter.ai)
    ×2.00 4 #11 | 249 points by Topfi 15 hours ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. New Zealand is determined not to keep China's espionage a secret (lowyinstitute.org)
    ×2.94 24 #72 | 24 points by pir8life4me 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Twenty Years of jQuery: How a Little Library Rewired Web Development (infoq.com)
    ×1.91 | 2 points by theanonymousone 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. AI-Generated Code to Production-Ready Software (geekyants.com)
    ×1.43 | 2 points by jamessmith789 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Homelabbing in Nepal (berojgarengineer.com)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by rbbcap 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: P(doom) – AI safety parody of DOOM 64 (transitivebullsh.it)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by transitivebs 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Coder Eval – A Framework for Evals (github.com/uipath)
    ×1.28 90 | 4 points by mihaich 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. .name Termination (fraser.name)
    ×7.99 16 #35 | 2175 points by pavel_lishin 1 day ago | 534 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. CSS for Printing to Paper (2025) (voussoir.net)
    ×1.63 1 #66 | 3 points by Tomte 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. NOS4: A recreation of iOS 4, running in the browser (github.com/1etu)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by thunderbong 25 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. 1Password Replied to My Disappointment (nicolalosito.it)
    ×6.73 39 | 71 points by backlit4034 1 day ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: WordPress search and replace that doesn't corrupt serialized data (github.com/ibrahimhajjaj)
    ×0.35 | 2 points by ibrahimwithi 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. “Next-token predictor” is the wrong mental model for LLMs (gmcgoldr.github.io)
    ×1.80 21 #37 | 120 points by garrinm 20 hours ago | 257 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???