Quality News
new | top | ask | show | best | algorithms | about
This is the current Hacker News "Ask HN". Page, with some additional performance stats. Click on the colorful stats below each story to see detailed historical charts. Click here for additional ranking algorithms
key: ×UpvoteRate (?)   #rank on front page   rankDelta (?)
  1. Ask HN: How are thinking efforts implemented?
    ×0.55 139 | 94 points by simianwords 1 week ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Is there a name for the type of comments agents add where they leak the prompt?
    ×0.45 36 | 14 points by xdennis 13 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA
    ×3.11 34 | 796 points by eries 3 days ago | 572 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Favorite text heavy blogs that are a joy to read?
    ×0.88 89 | 112 points by joshmarinacci 4 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Story of How Im Running an Unlimited $6/Month AI Provider on 4x RTX 3090s
    ×1.20 52 | 5 points by yolo-auto 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?
    ×1.38 100 | 262 points by mdni007 5 days ago | 239 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models
    ×2.42 67 | 423 points by TomAnthony 4 days ago | 253 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Want to build something open source on nights and weekends together?
    ×0.59 109 | 38 points by vira28 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Notes on DeepSeek
    ×1.95 84 | 206 points by vinhnx 3 days ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Would it be useful to have a slop button in addition to flag?
    ×1.06 116 | 35 points by BugsJustFindMe 3 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Are most corporate SWE jobs performative?
    ×2.44 82 | 247 points by hnthrow10282910 4 days ago | 282 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: How do you get into a flow state when using AI to code?
    ×1.39 91 | 90 points by kilroy123 2 days ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
    ×2.34 90 | 440 points by aryamaan 5 days ago | 768 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. I procrastinate by building tools to stop me from procrastinating: A sad story
    ×0.95 127 | 20 points by thisislorenzov 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Which cheap Chinese LLM are you using?
    ×2.87 27 | 13 points by linzhangrun 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Are you still using a Vision Pro?
    ×1.29 99 | 171 points by y1n0 4 days ago | 214 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Did we witness the "Trinity moment" for AI?
    ×0.56 61 | 18 points by vld_chk 19 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Tell HN: iOS devs, get back lots of disk space: xcrun simctl delete unavailable
    ×0.41 106 | 4 points by amichail 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. What if we legally required politicians to work regular jobs 2 months a year?
    ×1.12 97 | 11 points by ekoeko 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What is the AI adoption approach at your org?
    ×0.37 104 | 5 points by iExploder 22 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Is anyone shorting the overspend in AI yet?
    ×1.61 142 | 17 points by ggm 3 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Did anyone went to YC directly from Sri Lanka?
    ×0.66 118 | 3 points by geethikaisuru 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?
    ×3.13 8 | 7 points by chistev 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Is there a metric for AI code quality?
    ×0.40 169 | 6 points by fractalf 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: I Need Help for a Product
    ×0.57 123 | 8 points by memoryleakgame 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: How to deal with App Store rejections?
    ×0.45 119 | 4 points by high_byte 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: What internal tool did you build that became a product?
    ×0.89 168 | 7 points by nehpets 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Phishing from 646-257-4500
    ×0.54 125 | 6 points by latchkey 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Agents get dumber before release of new model version?
    ×0.82 148 | 9 points by sporkland 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: What would you do with a trillion dollars
    ×2.84 70 | 12 points by brudgers 19 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Influence of Legend of Zelda in Backrooms Movie?
    ×0.32 136 | 6 points by dieselgate 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: What features do you miss in Google Docs for desktop?
    ×0.46 128 | 4 points by mci 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: How to avoid stressing yourself because of a micromanager?
    ×0.98 96 | 4 points by ciwolex 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Are you using Spec Driven Development?
    ×0.70 126 | 6 points by xpn 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. DigitalOcean Ending Student Credit Promotion
    ×0.52 138 | 5 points by thepotatodude 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Show your AI coded games [June 2026]
    ×1.37 111 | 12 points by franze 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: If you had a trillion dollars, what would you do?
    ×1.33 103 | 4 points by brudgers 19 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ad on the HN front page? Gauntlet AI?
    ×0.66 137 | 6 points by tizio13 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: Just me feeling that Mythos/Fabel just 1% there?
    ×0.14 174 | 4 points by punnerud 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: How to escalate a rejected Google extension?
    ×0.61 163 | 24 points by modzu 5 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. What is the most valuable skill you've learned outside of your job?
    ×0.51 120 | 3 points by Soumya_Max 23 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing (12gramsofcarbon.com)
    ×3.08 21 #72 | 476 points by theahura 1 day ago | 471 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Why my book can be downloaded for free (2014) (plover.com)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by downbad_ 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. A text-first social network – No Images, No Videos (trendter.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by badz 55 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Formal Methods and the Future of Programming (janestreet.com)
    ×1.20 | 2 points by eatonphil 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Point Cloud Sound for irregular shaped audio sources (runevision.com)
    ×1.21 | 2 points by haeseong 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Meta-Harness by Databricks and Neon (github.com/omnigent-ai)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by hmokiguess 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. On CPU Physics and CPU Cycles (6it.dev)
    ×0.63 47 | 66 points by signa11 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Startup sci-fi novel that took me 5 years to write (blockchainednovel.com)
    ×1.53 161 | 25 points by mck- 5 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Manob: A social media plaform without algorithm, ads, or data-tracking
    ×0.49 | 2 points by Iamahmedsalman 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. New pancreatic cancer drug might open the door to much longer survival times (economist.com)
    ×1.94 16 #12 | 401 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Don't trust large context windows (garrit.xyz)
    ×2.42 9 #13 | 167 points by computersuck 7 hours ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Pyodide 314.0: Python packages can now publish WebAssembly wheels to PyPI (pyodide.org)
    ×1.16 22 #20 | 149 points by agriyakhetarpal 17 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Cranelift (cranelift.dev)
    ×2.05 5 | 3 points by tosh 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Adaptive PDFs (sgaud.com)
    ×1.02 31 | 164 points by SarthakGaud 1 day ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. I think they are lying to you [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.75 51 | 85 points by salutis 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: IssunDB – a new embedded graph database with vector and text search (github.com/IssunDB)
    ×1.49 117 | 4 points by habedi0 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Resonate – Low-latency, high-resolution spectral analysis (alexandrefrancois.org)
    ×0.49 130 | 45 points by arjf 1 week ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. How did Atari apply side art to Arcade Cabinets? (arcadeblogger.com)
    ×1.01 2 #10 | 9 points by msephton 52 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. The AI Delegation Lifecycle: Your Team Has AI Outputs. Where Are the Decisions? (age-of-product.com)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by swolpers 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Everyone Was Wrong About Maximum Siphon Height [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.18 | 2 points by thunderbong 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. A Peter Thiel-Backed Tribunal Is Putting Journalists on Trial (hollywoodreporter.com)
    ×5.77 55 | 99 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. You can power on a Mac remotely (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×1.42 74 | 62 points by speckx 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Weave: Merging based on language structure and not lines (ataraxy-labs.github.io)
    ×1.17 17 #57 | 60 points by rohanat 11 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. 4 things to know about the new sunscreen ingredient the FDA approved (npr.org)
    ×2.43 27 #62 | 88 points by mikhael 12 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0 (brew.sh)
    ×5.28 15 #89 | 1446 points by mikemcquaid 2 days ago | 354 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Every Frame Perfect (tonsky.me)
    ×3.71 9 #11 | 785 points by ravenical 1 day ago | 257 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Half-Life able to run on ReactOS (xcancel.com)
    ×1.22 62 #51 | 13 points by zdw 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. The redistribution of housing wealth caused by rent control (2023) [pdf] (rhawa.org)
    ×1.37 46 #77 | 72 points by luu 10 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. An Attempt at Explaining Why You Want to Use Forth (im-just-lee.ing)
    ×1.68 | 2 points by fallat 11 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Swiss voters rejected 10M population cap proposal (reuters.com)
    ×1.25 | 2 points by vld_chk 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Twenty One Zero-Days in FFmpeg (depthfirst.com)
    ×1.58 3 | 284 points by redbell 1 day ago | 193 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: HelixDB – A graph database built on object storage (github.com/HelixDB)
    ×1.05 93 | 156 points by GeorgeCurtis 3 days ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Nucleus – A security-hardened, Nix-native container runtime (github.com/sig-id)
    ×0.76 133 | 40 points by 0kenx 4 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Passport rankings weighted by where people travel (aiandtractors.com)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by Icons8 11 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: NBSDgames – 21 new, improved, original text games for Unix, DOS, Plan9 (github.com/abakh)
    ×2.11 155 | 13 points by abakh 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: I run a vision model on every screenshot, locally, on a 4GB GPU (github.com/ayushh0110)
    ×3.66 33 #75 | 26 points by skye0110 14 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Tectonic: A modernized, complete, self-contained TeX/LaTeX engine (tectonic-typesetting.github.io)
    ×0.74 54 #81 | 88 points by maxloh 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Putt.day a daily mini golf game (putt.day)
    ×1.60 1 #88 | 304 points by ellg 1 day ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Accessing Our Digital Past in the Manuscript Division Reading Room, 2022 (loc.gov)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by pcrh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Project Brain2.0–curated project memory for ClaudeCode(+ any file-reading agent) (github.com/login)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by Slav_fixflex 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. The American World Cup Introduced Ad Breaks–and Everyone Hates It (wsj.com)
    ×4.23 16 | 78 points by impish9208 17 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Wmux – a native Windows terminal multiplexer for AI agents (github.com/openwong2kim)
    ×1.04 121 | 3 points by wong2kim 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Maillune – Embeddable drag-and-drop email editor as a single component (maillune.com)
    ×0.54 175 | 7 points by gustavssondev 4 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. The Birth and Death of JavaScript (2014) (destroyallsoftware.com)
    ×1.60 #1 | 53 points by subset 1 hour ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf] (mit.edu)
    ×3.17 9 #82 | 771 points by sam_bristow 2 days ago | 259 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Elon Musk's role was 'instrumental' in the Belfast riots, researchers say (lemonde.fr)
    ×5.36 75 | 8 points by tastyface 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Time Doesn't Exist Everywhere–and It Might Not Exist Forever (popularmechanics.com)
    ×1.84 7 | 3 points by bookofjoe 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. The Leading Deepfake Expert No Longer Trusts His Own Eyes (nytimes.com)
    ×1.21 | 2 points by xnx 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Oproxy – inspect and modify network traffic from the browser (github.com/sauravrao637)
    ×0.93 147 | 70 points by sauravrao637 1 week ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???