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  1. Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
    ×1.80 7 #15 | 165 points by aryamaan 8 hours ago | 304 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?
    ×1.15 18 #18 | 90 points by mdni007 9 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: How do you cope when your startup contracts?
    ×0.68 #85 | 10 points by jasonephraim 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. HN seems dead compared to say 10-15 years ago
    ×2.10 2 | 27 points by morpheos137 9 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What's your favorite HN Recap like podcast?
    ×0.26 63 | 5 points by randomor 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: How to escalate a rejected Google extension?
    ×0.75 16 | 17 points by modzu 9 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Why won't you be replaced by AI?
    ×1.32 48 | 7 points by atleastoptimal 7 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?
    ×2.87 53 | 727 points by andrehacker 4 days ago | 1101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Which companies gained a competitive edge purely via engineering?
    ×1.27 78 | 5 points by j1000 12 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Do you also feel like KYC is turning you off to the concept of money
    ×0.82 | 2 points by JumpinJack_Cash 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Is there any data on whether users prefer voice/chatbot experiences?
    ×0.34 | 2 points by fnimick 8 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Options for critical thinking and learning outside work?
    ×0.62 76 | 3 points by hnthrow10282910 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: How do PaaS hosting providers enforce user policy compliance?
    ×0.49 | 2 points by iishanto 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. If HN policy disallows AI comments, why is linking to AI generated content ok?
    ×3.36 13 | 7 points by ekelsen 3 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: So what happened to Facebook "localhost" tracking?
    ×0.72 102 | 106 points by juliusceasar 4 days ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Does consciousness itself require memory?
    ×1.09 67 | 4 points by modinfo 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Open-Source Software in Aerospace Imaging?
    ×0.25 80 | 5 points by lightedman 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: What is the AI setup for an experienced dev starting on a new project?
    ×0.41 86 | 4 points by postexitus 13 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow?
    ×1.87 81 | 162 points by dv35z 3 days ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?
    ×3.20 61 | 454 points by Ekami 3 days ago | 755 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: How are thinking efforts implemented?
    ×0.90 87 | 26 points by simianwords 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: What is the AI setup for an experienced dev starting on a new project?
    ×0.39 91 | 5 points by postexitus 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: What is happening with the Meta Ads dashboard?
    ×0.80 119 | 4 points by ramon156 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How do you find deep technical content?
    ×0.96 126 | 39 points by f311a 4 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: How do I whitelist commands in Antigravity?
    ×1.64 96 | 5 points by madprops 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Tell HN: Stripe ToS update demands biometrics, freezes payments until given
    ×1.11 94 | 13 points by cuz-reasons 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Gin rummy strategies
    ×0.50 136 | 24 points by bix6 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Bad MCP design costs your agent 5x more tokens
    ×0.72 134 | 15 points by JohnnyZhang483 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Job market for SDMs/Engineering Managers. Any reliable data?
    ×0.36 112 | 5 points by ed_balls 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: I made an image watermarking tool. What are the issues open-sourcing it?
    ×0.27 131 | 3 points by minimaxir 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: How to get my contact info off US political party's list
    ×0.91 120 | 10 points by kaycebasques 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Is the web for machines (/llm.txt) the one we wished we had as humans?
    ×0.83 116 | 36 points by sunshine-o 3 days ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Tell HN: Helium is the best browser I ever used
    ×0.81 111 | 6 points by prmph 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: My competitors have flawed products but I can't get traction
    ×0.50 146 | 11 points by saveitincork 4 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Where do you get the latest updates about AI?
    ×0.55 141 | 5 points by d0able 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. I'm tired of LLM skill slop, so I built mine with regression tests
    ×0.60 170 | 9 points by iliaov 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Miz Framework Story
    ×1.79 166 | 4 points by sajjadws 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: How do you stay focused while working from home?
    ×1.12 83 | 6 points by infoinlet 16 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Does anyone know since when we are close to building in space?
    ×0.53 145 | 6 points by kingleopold 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: Does robotics capabilities research accelerate AGI timelines?
    ×0.53 149 | 8 points by themasterchief 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: How to use Reddit after getting permanent ban?
    ×0.73 | 2 points by Alcazar007 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Supply chain attack alert: .github/setup.js
    ×3.85 123 | 27 points by antihero 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. New Biochemistry-Based Metabolic Protocol Seeking Alpha Concierge Members
    ×0.31 163 | 3 points by joshwprinceton 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Google killed my $1M ARR startup overnight
    ×3.65 142 | 25 points by vadumo 4 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Ask HN: What are the best examples of good technical writing you know of?
    ×1.29 100 | 6 points by CSMastermind 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Ask HN: How did you discover Hacker News?
    ×0.80 143 | 10 points by chistev 3 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Ask HN: Is Everyone an Engineer Now?
    ×1.17 173 | 7 points by piratesAndSons 4 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Ask HN: Were CS profs right to look down on programming in light of modern AI?
    ×0.50 154 | 5 points by amichail 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Ask HN: Is Azure capacity this constraind or am I doing it wrong?
    ×0.65 152 | 11 points by lanycrost 3 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: I built a Fujifilm X-mount lens database across 10 brands (atlens.app)
    ×0.96 82 | 4 points by sentacraft 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: I ported Xonotic to WASM (xonotic.workers.dev)
    ×1.25 72 | 5 points by astlouis44 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. We Think the SpaceX IPO Is Overvalued (morningstar.com)
    ×7.81 10 #11 | 77 points by 0xedb 1 hour ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Firefox Merges Support for Vulkan Video Decoding (phoronix.com)
    ×2.38 28 | 123 points by Bender 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Iran Severely Damaged US Air Ops Center in Qatar Soon After War Began (airandspaceforces.com)
    ×3.43 69 | 56 points by ilamont 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. If LLMs Have Human-Like Attributes, Then So Does Age of Empires II (arxiv.org)
    ×2.48 43 | 116 points by ketchup32613 1 day ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Markdown Editor and Reader for Mac (kitemarkdown.com)
    ×1.82 130 | 6 points by antonynjoro 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. New AI espionage powers trigger Putin camera scare (ft.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by imichael 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. I Analyzed 163K Lines of Kuzu's Codebase. Here's Why Apple Wanted It (medium.com)
    ×0.91 | 2 points by ksec 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. My automated doubt development process (alexself.dev)
    ×0.81 57 | 88 points by aself101 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Flock license plate reader wrongly linked a San Diego man to a violent crime (timesofsandiego.com)
    ×5.16 52 | 85 points by loteck 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: A parser for the ISO 10303 EXPRESS language for its 40th anniversary (github.com/rochus-keller)
    ×1.88 109 | 7 points by Rochus 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Are you expected to run five Python type-checkers now? (pyrefly.org)
    ×1.48 18 #33 | 139 points by ocamoss 14 hours ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Configuring Agentic AI Coding Tools: An Exploratory Study (arxiv.org)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by wek 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Deep Memory – Vocabulary-driven graph memory for AI agents (github.com/TjWheeler)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by tjwheeler 51 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. How to have Claude Code run 28× longer before auto-compaction (github.com/wiztek-llc)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by newtechwiz 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Track Political Stories Across the Web (plotline.news)
    ×0.84 | 2 points by yshunnar 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Sudo Report – Drudge clone for tech / AI / product (sudoreport.com)
    ×0.84 138 | 3 points by ataturkle 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Tech sell-off widens as South Korea index plunges (ft.com)
    ×2.48 50 | 60 points by JumpCrisscross 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: I Derived a Pancake (absurdlyoptimized.com)
    ×2.10 8 | 332 points by bkazez 3 days ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Startup sci-fi novel that took me 5 years to write (blockchainednovel.com)
    ×1.15 34 #87 | 17 points by mck- 10 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Unpaid telecom bill caused Bay Area transit card outage (sfchronicle.com)
    ×1.20 | 2 points by anigbrowl 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. AI Model Predicts 10-Year Stroke Risk Based on Routine Cardiology Test (massgeneralbrigham.org)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by brandonb 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Loop Engineering (twitter.com/i)
    ×0.38 | 2 points by twapi 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. The gamers taking on the industry to stop it switching off games (bbc.com)
    ×2.34 37 | 150 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: I embedded 685M public texts in 32 minutes (on 8x A100, Rust, TensorRT) (github.com/Artain-AI)
    ×1.00 174 | 7 points by ddayanov 4 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: NullRead – A simple HN Android client (0x96f.dev)
    ×0.89 167 | 4 points by 0x96f 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Using Haskell to play music on 3D printer motors (2020) (lucasoshiro.github.io)
    ×1.27 161 | 12 points by lucasoshiro 4 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Asus GB300 NVL72 Test Lab Tour (lttlabs.com)
    ×1.55 6 #35 | 8 points by LabsLucas 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Man jailed for a month despite Flock showing he was 5 miles from crime scene (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.44 22 #81 | 40 points by Cider9986 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. The Truth About Salt – By a Midwestern Doctor (midwesterndoctor.com)
    ×0.38 | 1 points by bilsbie 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Vitamin D3 During Pregnancy and Cognitive Performance at 10 Years (jamanetwork.com)
    ×2.00 31 | 192 points by supermatou 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. GitHub Is Down (githubstatus.com)
    ×3.39 41 #67 | 78 points by cosuhi 19 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Pentagon restores Alibaba, Baidu and BYD to Chinese military groups blacklist (ft.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by petethomas 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Waymo bought Apple's self-driving car proving ground for $220M (techcrunch.com)
    ×1.38 18 | 3 points by sbulaev 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. 7.8 magnitude earthquake shakes part of southern Philippines. Tsunami possible (yahoo.com)
    ×1.73 27 | 102 points by mikhael 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: About Lightweight, S3-compatible object storage (kodiqa-solutions.github.io)
    ×0.40 | 2 points by open_source_new 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second (xiaomi.com)
    ×2.32 6 #5 | 506 points by gainsurier 11 hours ago | 357 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Looking Forward to Postgres 19: Query Hints (pgedge.com)
    ×1.54 13 #8 | 70 points by jjgreen 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Replies to comments on my "LLMs are eroding my career" post (bearblog.dev)
    ×2.29 25 #40 | 136 points by omblivion 17 hours ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Starfish by Peter Watts (1999) (rifters.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by zetalyrae 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???