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Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)

×1.62 27 #12 | 143 points by david927 14 hours ago | 433 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Would a startup for young creatives who reject AI be feasible?

×0.54 18 | 9 points by mondobe 8 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
System 3 Thinking

×0.29 | 2 points by rexossbear 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What are some privacy/security tools you wish exist, but don't yet?

×1.03 25 | 5 points by ToriTech 6 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI Boom / Bust – Boom Boom Pow

×0.93 56 | 4 points by wwolfson97 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How is AI actively a threat to humanity if it's only online?

×1.44 44 | 5 points by CM30 8 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Multi-agent workflows in production; Where people using 1000s of agents?

×0.28 | 2 points by ramstar3000 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Is there an emerging pattern for NEGATIVESKILLS.md files?

×0.58 81 | 3 points by mehmetoguzderin 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Should we start airgapping our personal devices?

×0.35 96 | 7 points by emerongi 23 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What default model do you use and why?

×0.92 70 | 60 points by stikit 1 day ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DietPi released a new version v10.7

×0.67 105 | 3 points by stephanstsdietp 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What would it look like if AI agents "took over the internet"?

×0.17 88 | 4 points by scripper1 13 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Career paths to consider if I am better at supporting than creating?

×0.91 35 | 28 points by _override 19 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Why haven't people vibe coded popular 80s word processors as TUI apps?

×0.30 89 | 5 points by amichail 16 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Did Google kill its enterprise workhorse model?

×0.56 100 | 26 points by waldrews 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting

×3.51 57 | 482 points by jacquesm 3 days ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?

×8.24 6 | 850 points by cromka 2 days ago | 392 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Reddit Now Blocking Firefox for Android with uBlock Origin?

×1.11 91 | 25 points by chucksmash 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What's a good "semi-dumb" phone/watch for kids?

×0.45 126 | 8 points by funkaster 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenAI changed Navier-Stokes press release and Lean4 code on GH

×0.47 133 | 9 points by rawland 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What is Y Combinator's position on Flock's standing today?

×1.12 50 | 16 points by chirau 16 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Claude Code appends new commit signature even if older settings is off

×0.67 111 | 7 points by ctxc 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: For Enterprise coding agents, what's your company doing to control cost?

×0.45 121 | 6 points by m0rde 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Novgraph: Persistent Knowledge Graph for Codebases

×0.18 139 | 3 points by Shourya_55 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How are much smarter AI models made?

×0.67 128 | 11 points by superasn 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GoatCode – open-source terminal AI agent with provider failover

×0.23 142 | 3 points by Arhan-w 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
TimIQ – Smart Tech, AI and Software Insights (timiq.blogspot.com)

×0.61 | 1 points by Timmphil 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
World of Warcraft running in a web browser (keldurn.com)

×0.45 | 1 points by wasm__ 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Deeplearning from Scratch in 1400 Lines In my own Programming Language (github.com/NoSavedDATA)

×0.80 92 | 5 points by nosaveddata 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Give Claude Code / Cursor a real eng team (tiers, roles, escalation) (github.com/khuynh22)

×1.67 116 | 5 points by timhuyn 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Open-sourced solution to AI manage Playwright automations (github.com/rakutentech)

×0.38 | 2 points by kevincobain2000 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Dry Diving Club – A darkly comic browser game (drydiving.club)

×1.10 136 | 3 points by crapthings 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Dep-radius, know which dependency updates touch your code (npmjs.com)

×0.53 85 #61 | 5 points by imadjourney 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Closure Compiler: A JavaScript checker and optimizer (github.com/google)

×2.19 43 | 3 points by csmantle 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
PWA-install component got a long-awaited major release (github.com/khmyznikov)

×1.25 | 2 points by khmyznikov 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Kepil – passport, mandate and tamper-evident journal for AI agents (github.com/oleg-vdv)

×0.99 | 2 points by ipgleg 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Expired Compromise: Why Higher Education Standardized (colindreis.com)

×0.44 | 1 points by CDreis201 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Open-Weight Diplomacy: How China's AI Models Are Rerunning the Digital Silk Road (lawfaremedia.org)

×1.56 9 | 3 points by usmlatif 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Switcheroo – manage logins for 10 CLIs like Vercel, Codex etc.

×0.40 | 2 points by ftchd 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
'Fingerprints' inside the Sun could reveal if it once swallowed a planet (ras.ac.uk)

×0.82 28 #42 | 121 points by blincoln 19 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Eliza: The AI That Fooled the World (liacademy.co.uk)

×0.62 | 1 points by andsoitis 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Filament – Fast data movement engine in Go (github.com/galaxy-io)

×0.53 120 | 31 points by ikswolzok 5 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI Robots – When will they be in our homes (ieee.org)

×1.27 26 #35 | 21 points by andsoitis 6 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We've followed their lives for six decades; now the stars of 7 Up are bowing out (bbc.co.uk)

×2.44 45 | 129 points by mellosouls 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: SF Title Alert (sftitlealert.com)

×0.64 85 | 3 points by arkadiyt 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Durable subagents for Codex and Claude users (github.com/ringlochid)

×0.43 149 | 3 points by ringlochid 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
After Math (wordpress.com)

×2.00 42 #54 | 138 points by throwaway81523 1 day ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Chrome Extension to Save, Organize and Switch Bookmarks (google.com)

×0.63 | 1 points by ringlochid 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Three AI Pills (wordpress.com)

×1.91 43 #63 | 11 points by maxutility 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Why AI is giving biased Racist/Misandrist answers?

×0.62 | 1 points by skwasimin 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Don't call yourself an artisanal programmer (purplesyringa.moe)

×1.88 39 | 57 points by emschwartz 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Graphify C# – Compiler-accurate Find Usages for coding agents (github.com/zachsaw)

×0.90 94 | 46 points by zachsaw 2 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: The Kinect is dead, so I rebuilt it in a browser tab for my kids (hoplagames.com)

×1.04 98 | 5 points by Gri22lyBear 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microcode in Intel's 8087 floating-point chip: the scale instruction (righto.com)

×0.88 37 #83 | 127 points by pwg 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tork: A lightweight, distributed workflow engine (github.com/runabol)

×1.36 | 2 points by saikatsg 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Five Words from Vanishing Fleece (wordnik.com)

×0.36 64 #20 | 3 points by dan353hehe 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: TrackLLM: Are the LLM APIs you rely on stable? (trackllm.net)

×0.60 | 1 points by timotheechauvin 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Teaching a fruit fly to play chess (flychess-hq.vercel.app)

×0.78 | 1 points by qsort 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: AlertiGate – Kubernetes alerts in, evidence-backed root cause out (alertigate.com)

×0.37 | 2 points by dafi247 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Nightshift – Your code gets better while you sleep (github.com/openslop)

×0.83 137 | 11 points by tcbrah 3 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Every tool you need, right in the browser (footrue.com)

×0.63 | 2 points by rajeshrajappan 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nvidia is the central bank of AI (economist.com)

×2.40 23 | 567 points by tolugenius 1 day ago | 391 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h? (dmitrybrant.com)

×3.13 58 | 624 points by dmitrybrant 4 days ago | 283 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DeepSeek Peak Hours (sivaram.dev)

×1.09 55 #74 | 7 points by denysvitali 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A misalignment of AI in mathematics (mathandai.org)

×4.66 #76 | 1225 points by meredydd 2 days ago | 1201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Another Slice of Swiss Cheese for Untrusted Monitoring (lesswrong.com)

×1.52 | 2 points by joozio 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Can Geneticists Fight Disease by Targeting 'Nurture' Instead of 'Nature'? (nytimes.com)

×0.65 | 1 points by hodgesrm 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why I Still Read Code (draftist.io)

×0.61 | 1 points by saikatsg 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Aqqai – Every answer, checked before you see it (aqqai.in)

×1.24 107 | 5 points by Vineetyadav2 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Viaduct – Architecture change sets for AI coding agents (quietgridlabs.com)

×1.10 147 | 3 points by igrlgkv 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Getting 50 GB/S Back from the Apple Neural Engine (eiln.github.io)

×1.65 24 #71 | 213 points by eiln 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I made a build visualizer to understand Bun's compile times (lalitm.com)

×1.30 21 #89 | 167 points by lalitmaganti 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Kibble – a reader for AI news, tutorials, code and models (kibblebites.com)

×1.27 68 | 6 points by syedmubarak088 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bad code is kudzu (vickiboykis.com)

×0.84 16 #39 | 58 points by surprisetalk 11 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Dynamics in Mesoscopic Systems (mpg.de)

×0.61 75 #78 | 4 points by andsoitis 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
New AI fake text generator may be too dangerous to release, say creators (2019) (theguardian.com)

×1.28 | 2 points by mrtksn 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I Built a CLI for Proton Mail, Drive, Calendar, Pass and Contacts (github.com/roman-16)

×0.42 104 | 3 points by Wavum 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Extension to filter LLM written articles (nilsherzig.com)

×0.84 117 | 16 points by nilsherzig 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher (vals.ai)

×3.98 #1 | 804 points by u1hcw9nx 10 hours ago | 336 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
My experience of September 11, 2001, from across the Hudson (medium.com)

×0.75 | 1 points by raynchad 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Three Reasons Europe learned to distrust Big Tech before America did (thebulletin.org)

×0.75 | 1 points by vrganj 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mr

×0.58 | 1 points by giddyboy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sunsetting Remove.bg (remove.bg)

×0.57 | 1 points by sh_tomer 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
There Is No AI (It's Just People) with Jaron Lanier (singjupost.com)

×1.21 42 | 72 points by andsoitis 11 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Next Notes – local dictation, meeting notes, and actions app (github.com/spyhack225)

×0.80 145 | 3 points by Sergekad0 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 1: The PC side (aresluna.org)

×1.57 13 #80 | 101 points by leephillips 17 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Is PDF a Problem for AI? (pdf4wcag.com)

×0.93 | 1 points by JilBill 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Everyone should slow down AI development except for me (xeiaso.net)

×5.97 32 #69 | 766 points by xena 1 day ago | 442 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
One UI 9 Beta 2 update is rolling out to the Galaxy S24 (sammobile.com)

×0.60 | 1 points by kuuuzya 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
JPEG-XL as default in AppStream, and better media processing (tenstral.net)

×0.50 | 1 points by F3nd0 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???