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  1. Ask HN: Anyone have a good solution for modern Mac to legacy SCSI converters?
    ×1.29 9 #14 | 5 points by stmw 7 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Share your personal website
    ×3.11 12 #20 | 777 points by susam 1 day ago | 2093 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: How are you doing RAG locally?
    ×1.96 10 #24 | 316 points by tmaly 16 hours ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?
    ×1.64 13 #35 | 179 points by blahaj 15 hours ago | 314 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. GitHub Is Down
    ×2.80 38 #57 | 17 points by dfajgljsldkjag 1 hour ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What is the best way to provide continuous context to models?
    ×0.83 41 #61 | 60 points by nemath 16 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How do you safely give LLMs SSH/DB access?
    ×0.85 40 #86 | 77 points by nico 23 hours ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What to teach my kid if AI does math and CS?
    ×2.02 | 5 points by devShark 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Distributed SQL engine for ultra-wide tables
    ×0.62 60 | 20 points by synsqlbythesea 20 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Turning weeks of medical device documentation into minutes
    ×0.78 | 2 points by feargalosull 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Iran's 120h internet shutdown, phones back. How to stay resilient?
    ×1.67 81 | 112 points by us321 2 days ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Continuous agents and what happens after Ralph Wiggum?
    ×0.93 64 | 3 points by waynenilsen 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Why does Google still provide an open redirect for phishers?
    ×1.57 59 | 20 points by throwaway89201 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What is your favourite GitHub Repo?
    ×0.90 | 2 points by amanverasia 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Forza Horizon 6 Just Slipped Through the Cracks and Everyone Noticed
    ×0.71 | 2 points by 01-_- 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. The $LANG Programming Language
    ×1.51 37 | 261 points by dang 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Trying to find a website featured on HN that listed restaurants in NYC
    ×1.59 75 | 13 points by laffOr 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
    ×1.14 94 | 256 points by david927 4 days ago | 865 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: ADHD – How do you manage the constant stream of thoughts and ideas?
    ×2.63 70 | 114 points by chriswright1664 1 day ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Quantum Computation, Computers and Programming
    ×0.52 110 | 31 points by rramadass 2 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Vxlan over WireGuard or WireGuard over Vxlan?
    ×0.84 101 | 44 points by mlhpdx 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Tell HN: Properly using dishwasher reduced friction with my wife
    ×2.39 88 | 14 points by xylo 21 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Tell HN: DigitalOcean's managed services broke each other after update
    ×1.15 106 | 76 points by neilfrndes 2 days ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Are you worried, and care, about AI stealing your code/secrets?
    ×0.73 | 2 points by fnoef 10 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Thoughts on maintaining anonymity against state-level actors?
    ×1.91 82 | 9 points by adamanteye 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Tell HN: A Proposal to Modernize Xorg as a Protocol-Only Graphics Layer
    ×0.72 102 | 5 points by powerwordtree 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Weird archive.today behavior?
    ×2.90 26 | 130 points by rabinovich 19 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Discrepancy between Lichess and Stockfish
    ×0.53 125 | 21 points by HNLurker2 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Looking for Windows contributors for meeting-detection engine
    ×0.41 164 | 7 points by Ayobamiu 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Best setup for Golang HTTP API development in 2026?
    ×1.21 118 | 5 points by labarilem 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Are diffs still useful for AI-assisted code changes?
    ×0.67 124 | 6 points by nuky 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Trouble Redeeming YC Student Event Deal?
    ×0.31 | 2 points by NirekShetty 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Tell HN: Cloudflare's broken abuse report system, lack of staff to review issues
    ×0.76 137 | 3 points by rtsam 18 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Form History Control is great. Why doesn't Firefox integrate it?
    ×0.91 138 | 3 points by Openai2 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. How do small property management teams handle data entry from tenant documents?
    ×0.36 | 2 points by scannyai 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Tell HN: Intel could blow up the Console Wars if it had the guts
    ×1.14 155 | 8 points by noumenon1111 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: How are teams sourcing long-term GPU capacity outside hyperscalers?
    ×1.24 123 | 5 points by dloku 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: Make cemeteries in cities less offensive by using virtual headstones?
    ×0.37 | 2 points by amichail 21 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Tell HN: I Downgraded from macOS Tahoe to Sequoia
    ×1.85 128 | 9 points by inatreecrown2 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Anything Down?
    ×0.47 152 | 3 points by Artur-Defences 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: CRM vs. HubSpot
    ×0.35 | 2 points by isura 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ask HN: What makes someone hate their job?
    ×0.94 134 | 5 points by agcat 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: Critical review of a spec-first economic protocol
    ×0.44 | 2 points by AGsist 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Tell HN: Setting boundaries with people
    ×1.42 144 | 4 points by zwilderrr 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Ask HN: Amazon Robotics SDE – new grad expectations?
    ×0.92 159 | 3 points by aroy21 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Ask HN: Who remembers AWS Spot's auction era before the 2017 pricing change?
    ×0.26 179 | 3 points by aleroawani 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Ask HN: 500 citation MSc CS, stuck in a low-trust region. How to move forward?
    ×0.64 132 | 19 points by throwawaysafely 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Ask HN: Could AI prevent the decline of social media by highlighting usernames?
    ×0.51 | 2 points by amichail 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Ask HN: What's your opinion on a VR/XR business?
    ×0.54 | 2 points by izwasm 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Tell HN: The Google Tenor GIF API has been shut down
    ×2.23 122 | 25 points by dfajgljsldkjag 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Ask HN: Learning Discoverability
    ×0.19 | 2 points by learnwithmattc 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Ask HN: Did Glassdoor figure out your identity?
    ×0.48 | 2 points by penguin_booze 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Ask HN: When has a "dumb" solution beaten a sophisticated one for you?
    ×0.36 182 | 12 points by amadeuswoo 4 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Ask HN: Are you underutilizing your insurance too?
    ×1.48 163 | 7 points by nemath 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Ask HN: How to find gaps and oppurtunities in the AI era?
    ×0.91 149 | 6 points by SRMohitkr 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Is "AI vibe coding" making prototyping worse inside real companies?
    ×1.65 140 | 16 points by arapkuliev 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Ask HN: Job seekers, what's working / not working?
    ×0.90 160 | 20 points by Jabbs 3 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Ask HN: What made you move back to HTML-to-PDF in production?
    ×1.33 168 | 6 points by gokulsiva 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Ask HN: Recommendations for self hostable OCR to extract code from images
    ×1.59 184 | 3 points by vivzkestrel 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Ask HN: Any evidence AI coding assistants are helping open source projects?
    ×1.63 120 | 6 points by UncleOxidant 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Ask HN: Senior engineering mngrs: how has AI changed your day-to-day work?
    ×0.97 170 | 35 points by kitetm 5 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Ask HN: How are you preventing LLM hallucinations in production systems?
    ×0.21 | 2 points by kundan_s__r 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Unpopular Opinion: Bootstrap is a better front-end framework than Tailwind
    ×1.35 139 | 24 points by pyeri 2 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Ask HN: Does anyone else think that humanoid robots is a bubble?
    ×1.14 169 | 5 points by NewUser76312 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Ask HN: Is it time for HN to implement a form of captcha?
    ×0.95 165 | 89 points by Rooster61 6 days ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Ask HN: Best way to find chill job where I can learn and grow as a swe
    ×0.46 174 | 35 points by digitdiglet 6 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Eleva.js – A 2.3KB JavaScript framework with signals and no virtual DOM
    ×0.87 176 | 4 points by TarekRaafat 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Experiment: Using NotebookLM as a cynical code reviewer (via custom prompts)
    ×0.24 | 2 points by practicalaifg 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Gh Account Permabanned – Help?
    ×1.11 153 | 10 points by nicomeemes 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Ask HN: Story about a CEO going off on a user who left feedback?
    ×0.60 181 | 3 points by VladVladikoff 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Ask HN: How do you prevent AI agents from going rogue in production?
    ×0.67 183 | 3 points by techbuilder4242 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Ask HN: Salesforce, SAP, or ServiceNow: Which Is Most Ripe for Disruption?
    ×0.65 167 | 7 points by Saurabh_Kumar_ 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. My casual chat with AI about cancer led to an internal prototype named"Onco-Bus"
    ×0.39 | 2 points by sony707 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Ask HN: Erratic HN front page algorithm
    ×0.46 178 | 7 points by 7777777phil 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Ask HN: How do you automate your release notes?
    ×0.44 173 | 10 points by dustfinger 3 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Ask HN: Where is all the protest music?
    ×1.38 158 | 11 points by swiper_lux 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. The <Geolocation> HTML Element (chrome.com)
    ×1.69 37 | 86 points by enz 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: AI in SolidWorks (trylad.com)
    ×1.01 87 | 190 points by WillNickols 3 days ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Sparrow-1 – Audio-native model for human-level turn-taking without ASR (tavus.io)
    ×1.02 49 #21 | 107 points by code_brian 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Make More Cheap Garbage (ninjasandrobots.com)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by nate 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Project SkyWatch (a.k.a. Wescam at Home) (ianservin.com)
    ×1.11 42 #43 | 79 points by jjwiseman 13 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. A Brief Introduction to the Basics of Game Theory (ssrn.com)
    ×0.99 56 #79 | 93 points by 7777777phil 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Solving TaxCalcBench: LLMs solve taxes by navigating IRS taxcode like a codebase [pdf] (amazonaws.com)
    ×0.80 | 1 points by rishabhjain1198 12 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Test your square brackets (fluca1978.github.io)
    ×1.16 8 #47 | 67 points by speckx 7 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. French Court Orders Popular VPNs to Block More Pirate Sites, Despite Opposition (torrentfreak.com)
    ×2.60 38 #51 | 103 points by iamnothere 4 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Sounds on the Web (userinterface.wiki)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by ulrischa 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. LLMs are a 400-year-long confidence trick (tomrenner.com)
    ×3.69 53 | 110 points by Growtika 1 day ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Skillshare – Sync skills across AI CLI tools (github.com/runkids)
    ×0.76 114 | 10 points by runkids 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. You need a kitchen slide rule (entropicthoughts.com)
    ×1.48 67 #46 | 50 points by aebtebeten 16 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Software ate the world; what's AI going to do to software? (jdauriemma.com)
    ×0.73 | 2 points by jdauriemma 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???