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  1. Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?
    ×1.07 42 #53 | 159 points by sukit 23 hours ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Resources to Get Good at Soldering?
    ×1.44 44 #66 | 69 points by tosmatos 5 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
    ×2.05 1 #84 | 392 points by halcdev 1 day ago | 671 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tell HN: Both recent GCP outages caused by fiber optic maintenance
    ×0.72 84 | 17 points by fastest963 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Xfinity silently blocks lots of new domains
    ×2.02 5 | 10 points by dschwartz18 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026)
    ×1.14 73 | 246 points by whoishiring 3 days ago | 333 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Are others seeing Google's reCAPTCHA rejecting Firefox users?
    ×1.59 43 | 66 points by Animats 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Is there any way to contribute to nitter and xcancel's legal fights?
    ×1.34 25 | 8 points by orange999 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2026)
    ×0.66 93 | 109 points by whoishiring 3 days ago | 451 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: 30, burnt out, with 6-10 months of runway. What would you do?
    ×1.93 67 | 27 points by throwaway_30yo 2 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Why don't we talk about context window size anymore?
    ×0.79 72 | 3 points by rce123 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Tell HN: Check your Claude settings, it may have silently enabled remote access
    ×1.11 53 | 6 points by cromka 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Who is using FPGA for ML inference?
    ×0.75 91 | 10 points by softwarewright 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Does anyone have access to GPT-6 Astra yet?
    ×1.76 32 | 5 points by zof3 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Do all of you use Cloudflare for preventing DDoS, Bot and more attacks?
    ×0.29 | 2 points by skwasimin 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What is the ideal email domain setup?
    ×0.92 99 | 6 points by bix6 22 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Tell HN: NVIDIA's Acquisition of HuggingFace was for $HuggingFace
    ×2.65 58 | 39 points by MontagFTB 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Founders that raised funding and shutdown, did you raise again?
    ×0.46 92 | 18 points by asim 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Laptop or Desktop?
    ×1.11 109 | 7 points by Gecko4072 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: How do you guys keep up with the most cost-effective AI models?
    ×0.20 134 | 4 points by solomonmwalker 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Are technical blogs dead?
    ×0.71 107 | 12 points by quaintdev 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Why is HN native dark mode not implemented yet?
    ×0.76 108 | 3 points by SriniK 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Is there a test for measuring cognitive affects from LLM usage?
    ×2.31 97 | 8 points by niwrad 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How do we build a team? (bootstrapped B2B startup)
    ×1.06 119 | 4 points by theonlinx 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Why do many websites use a sign-in code instead of a password?
    ×1.56 90 | 7 points by bariumbitmap 19 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: How do you market Open Source Software?
    ×0.68 100 | 5 points by Daniel-Pan 20 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Accountants working with ecommerce
    ×0.25 140 | 3 points by vasyl_kyryliuk 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Tell HN: The Thoughts and Woes of a Full-Time Founder Part 1
    ×0.72 125 | 3 points by lcampbellsoup 23 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: iPhone Camera on indicator
    ×0.52 | 2 points by zahirbmirza 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Tell HN: Dropbox Data Breach
    ×1.46 121 | 51 points by hmate9 4 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Could AI eventually build god?
    ×1.16 110 | 5 points by olirex99 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. One-person startup: a Cornell postdoc wants to put AI in everyone's hands
    ×0.39 | 2 points by modelslive 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: How do you gate an autonomous coding agent's shell access?
    ×0.35 | 2 points by alanfuNZ 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Why does free time become another thing you have to use correctly?
    ×0.64 137 | 3 points by nullifypreset 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Are guardrails being baked into models, or enforced outside them?
    ×0.41 | 2 points by arkj 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Where do you get your AI (technology) news?
    ×0.48 144 | 8 points by BtM909 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Beware: Malicious Profiles on YC Co-Founder Matching
    ×0.46 122 | 5 points by pain_perdu 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: Can we classify AI as: subhuman, quasihuman, human, superhumam?
    ×0.66 142 | 3 points by aunekiaru 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: Where do I go?
    ×0.56 | 2 points by dannydark1 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. ChatGPT Linux GUI version updates redownload all files, require 1.4GB download
    ×0.42 139 | 10 points by juujian 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Returning from the AI brain-rot state, re-take the thinking ownership
    ×3.13 114 | 8 points by tuleiff 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ask HN: How much does licensing approach influence purchase decisions?
    ×0.40 | 2 points by terranivium 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: A tool to share my data?
    ×0.35 | 2 points by roromainmain 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Tell HN: Xbox Game Pass now limits the amount of hours each month
    ×2.99 94 | 7 points by nodesocket 22 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Claude Code now appends a link to a Claude session in every commit
    ×0.54 157 | 13 points by codexon 4 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Ask HN: Anyone homeschooling their kids?
    ×0.90 143 | 12 points by wbnns 2 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. From Hookswitch to Grave (computer.rip)
    ×0.45 59 #81 | 40 points by Sniffnoy 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Fast rust-based repository launcher for your code projects (santiagodevelopment.com)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by jamessantiago 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. OpenAI escapee-agent incident (2026): index of surfaces with evidence (thecolony.ai)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by gadtfly 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Corporate America is getting hooked on open-source AI (nytimes.com)
    ×3.29 20 #32 | 253 points by aaraujo002 7 hours ago | 240 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s (cerebras.ai)
    ×2.69 6 #51 | 675 points by altertable 1 day ago | 223 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Gemini vs. Claude: Which AI Model created a better perfume? (youtube.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by yipinwong 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. VC isn't VC anymore (anildash.com)
    ×4.42 26 | 182 points by tlhunter 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: I built my first MCP to manage Google Ads (adchestra.com)
    ×1.39 96 | 15 points by MichalKrk 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. The Wormhole Hall of Shame (rznicolet.com)
    ×0.89 22 #20 | 19 points by rznicolet 2 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. U.S. Navy Spent $3.4B on Idled Submarines, Could Spend Another $3.1B More (jalopnik.com)
    ×2.08 7 #82 | 7 points by cf100clunk 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Data from drones in Ukraine is fueling a new Wild West marketplace (technologyreview.com)
    ×1.12 | 2 points by jonbaer 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Open source ML programming language playground (sw-ml-study.github.io)
    ×1.38 123 | 11 points by softwarewrighte 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Model – A Minimal Python ORM for MySQL and SQLite (github.com/el1s7)
    ×0.96 131 | 4 points by el1s7 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Play Hide and Seek vs. a Self-Improving Agent Using WebMCP (lightcone-webmcp.netlify.app)
    ×1.77 124 | 6 points by bearfjellstad 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: FontWizard, Change Windows system font everywhere in UI and apps (github.com/karnyadavdev)
    ×0.63 167 | 3 points by karnyadav 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Go grandmaster Shin defeats AI KataGo with a two-stone handicap (kedglobal.com)
    ×2.70 7 #71 | 455 points by gmays 1 day ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Liesegang Rings Experiment Update: Precipitates formed but no banding (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by crescit_eundo 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Flawd is mutation testing for the AI era (fixture.dev)
    ×1.02 162 | 4 points by fohara 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Wordmate – local speech-to-text for macOS (github.com/vdszds)
    ×1.45 118 | 5 points by vdszds 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Oconee Runtime – Policy enforcement for browser AI and coding agents (oconeeruntime.com)
    ×0.51 | 2 points by hthomas4 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Mongotar – Files to Prompt, and Back (github.com/sebastiancarlos)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by httbs 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok Are Down (macrumors.com)
    ×3.11 56 | 75 points by tosh 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. A mysterious kidney disease has arrived in Texas (texasmonthly.com)
    ×1.71 15 | 93 points by johntfella 20 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Coder Eval – A Framework for Evals (github.com/uipath)
    ×1.18 45 | 3 points by mihaich 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Could Cargo's scheduler be better? (spirali.github.io)
    ×1.11 | 2 points by birdculture 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Audacity 4.0 (github.com/audacity)
    ×4.72 35 | 1134 points by ClydeN 1 day ago | 261 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Can AI design circuit boards yet? (eebench.org)
    ×1.92 2 #5 | 113 points by iopapa 3 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter (openrouter.ai)
    ×2.82 #6 | 43 points by Topfi 1 hour ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. White House Launches Arcade.Gov (ign.com)
    ×5.17 19 #62 | 9 points by nosecreek 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. The largest electric aircraft just flew [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.27 1 #64 | 462 points by feb 1 day ago | 350 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. EPA Moves to Drop Protections for More Wetlands (nytimes.com)
    ×2.22 19 #77 | 4 points by jonrcooper 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. NextDNS: fully configurable DNS, accepts money from customers as business model (nextdns.io)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by Arubis 20 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Statichost.eu – European static site hosting (statichost.eu)
    ×2.53 #3 | 121 points by p4bl0 2 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board (collusion.wiki)
    ×6.09 2 #4 | 1400 points by moultano 11 hours ago | 1122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. A Hundred Steps Back (inventbuild.studio)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by virgil_disgr4ce 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Declick – Turn an OpenAPI Spec, MCP Server or SQLite DB into a CLI (github.com/ucsandman)
    ×0.60 62 | 5 points by practicalsystem 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. OpenAI agents hijacked German website before Hugging Face hack, report claims (bbc.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by theanonymousone 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Edgy – Ambient edge lighting for macOS (getedgy.app)
    ×1.55 152 | 6 points by renatoworks 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. The Rust React Compiler is now native in Vite (master.dev)
    ×1.48 4 #13 | 93 points by acusti 5 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Patterns of Cairo (patternsofcairo.com)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by asimpletune 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Ask HN: Advice on Migrating from 1Password?
    ×5.29 59 | 103 points by 0xbadcafebee 1 day ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Japan halves speed limit to 30km/h on all narrow city streets (theguardian.com)
    ×5.06 60 | 86 points by haunter 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. New type of dice guarantees no tie when deciding who goes first (cbc.ca)
    ×1.45 50 #59 | 119 points by colinprince 23 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. The auto lobby spent millions on media manipulation (impuls.news)
    ×1.07 64 #69 | 20 points by robtherobber 12 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???