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  1. Ask HN: Founders that raised funding and shutdown, did you raise again?
    ×0.94 | 2 points by asim 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?
    ×0.65 30 | 5 points by sukit 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2026)
    ×0.66 58 | 104 points by whoishiring 1 day ago | 395 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026)
    ×1.12 33 | 237 points by whoishiring 1 day ago | 296 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Are Technical Blogs Dead?
    ×0.75 3 | 8 points by quaintdev 5 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Where do you get your AI (technology) news?
    ×0.69 75 | 8 points by BtM909 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. ChatGPT Linux GUI version updates redownload all files, require 1.4GB download
    ×0.44 73 | 9 points by juujian 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Resources to Get Good at Soldering?
    ×0.91 94 | 6 points by tosmatos 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Kimi K3 and GLM-5.3 are better than Gemini 3.8 Flash
    ×0.67 67 | 10 points by theHocineSaad 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What would happen if your company stopped using all AI tomorrow?
    ×0.64 92 | 39 points by jc_811 2 days ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How to ask questions in Ask HN
    ×0.22 108 | 3 points by samikama 22 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Would you be interested in using a VoIP system that has an operator?
    ×0.14 | 2 points by left-struck 22 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Knowledge Graph Engine for Codebases
    ×0.41 98 | 4 points by Shourya_55 23 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Noviz AI Agent for ERPNext – A Reasoning Layer for ERPNext
    ×0.12 | 2 points by tajdink 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Whose interview process has caught up to the new way of working?
    ×0.55 109 | 4 points by verygoodenginee 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Anyone homeschooling their kids?
    ×1.02 87 | 12 points by wbnns 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Dropbox Data Breach
    ×1.50 79 | 48 points by hmate9 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Claude Code now appends a link to a Claude session in every commit
    ×0.58 122 | 13 points by codexon 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Were Claude's Weekly Limits Cut in Half? (and obscured by another 50% "deal"?)
    ×0.18 | 2 points by benwills 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Is it just me, or has Claude Opus gotten worse recently?
    ×0.45 113 | 12 points by de6u99er 2 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: What do your job interviews look like?
    ×0.73 116 | 30 points by Hixon10 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Old.reddit.com no longer works for logged out users
    ×2.24 86 | 35 points by kradeelav 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Does HN block mobile browsers?
    ×0.50 125 | 5 points by pbohun 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Why did Microsoft acquire LinkedIn?
    ×2.00 120 | 7 points by ninju 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Alternative to Proton Mail?
    ×2.13 115 | 9 points by OhMeadhbh 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Nginx 1.31.5 introduces a built-in JSON parser, Control API, and predicate locat (linuxcompatible.org)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by qwertox 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Just Bury Your Trash (worksinprogress.news)
    ×3.44 13 | 97 points by eamag 1 day ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Edgy – Ambient edge lighting for macOS (getedgy.app)
    ×1.58 81 | 6 points by renatoworks 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. The future of affordable EVs: Breakthroughs in battery pack costs (mckinsey.com)
    ×2.87 63 | 4 points by leonidasrup 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC (ersc.io)
    ×1.74 22 | 263 points by steveklabnik 1 day ago | 263 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. It's OK to hardcode feature flags (2025) (mendhak.com)
    ×1.13 30 | 75 points by biscuits1 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: OwnTime – a chess clock for your day's priorities (owntime.app)
    ×1.37 26 #60 | 88 points by fmos 10 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. A docs page is a search query to find AI agents and route them to your company (val.town)
    ×0.78 60 #75 | 22 points by stevekrouse 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. ICE Has a $2M Contract for Spyware That Can Hack Phones Without a Click (military.com)
    ×0.95 | 1 points by miohtama 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Life Is Bigger Than GPUs (twitter.com/pejmannozad)
    ×0.90 | 1 points by tosh 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Cmdxray – explain any shell command, offline, with a shareable card (aurelio-nakamura.github.io)
    ×1.07 103 | 3 points by aurelionakamura 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Retirement Is Dead (macleans.ca)
    ×3.91 16 | 73 points by speckx 21 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: G3M – MCP server for physical outbound (g3m.co)
    ×1.39 88 | 4 points by davismartens 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Flawd is mutation testing for the AI era (fixture.dev)
    ×1.04 96 | 4 points by fohara 23 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training? (mistral.ai)
    ×2.25 19 #18 | 470 points by teekert 1 day ago | 219 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Mamdani Bans AI in NYC Schools (nytimes.com)
    ×6.50 44 #82 | 188 points by handfuloflight 16 hours ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Tangle – Visual ML Pipeline Editor (tangleml.com)
    ×0.60 59 #85 | 24 points by duck 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice (simonwillison.net)
    ×3.16 8 | 483 points by timpera 1 day ago | 249 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Ask HN: Advice on Migrating from 1Password?
    ×4.69 74 | 75 points by 0xbadcafebee 7 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Exit the Cave (turtlespace.blog)
    ×1.67 19 #30 | 287 points by akkartik 23 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: The cheapest GPU cloud – H100s at $2.04/HR, H200s at $3/HR (compute.cheap)
    ×1.68 35 #38 | 38 points by EmiCorleone 10 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Denmark versus UK: which country gets more health for their money? (theconversation.com)
    ×1.97 7 #57 | 19 points by zeristor 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Unveiling the Cognitive and Social Toll of ChatGPT Over-Reliance (wiley.com)
    ×1.26 | 2 points by geox 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. 9 Mothers (YC P26) Is Hiring in Austin, TX (9mothers.com)
    1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: LibreDB Studio, a self-hosted MIT browser IDE for 10 database engines (github.com/libredb)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by devgundogdu 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Laser Graffiti (consti.de)
    ×1.39 56 | 252 points by con 5 days ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: I built my first MCP to manage Google Ads (adchestra.com)
    ×3.87 67 | 7 points by MichalKrk 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Logos Not Found (valand.dev)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by valand 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Skills vs. MCP tools for AI agents: when to use which (logrocket.com)
    ×1.38 | 2 points by deepmem 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Banca Etica Suspends A/I's Account While Condemning the Sanctions Behind It (sabot.media)
    ×1.35 24 | 95 points by rendx 1 day ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. EFF to Governor Newsom: Veto California's AB 1709 (eff.org)
    ×2.79 62 | 95 points by mdp2021 1 day ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Muse Spark 1.3 (meta.com)
    ×2.39 7 #7 | 629 points by bvaldivielso 18 hours ago | 413 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Robotaxis Aren't Going Where They Are Needed Most (bloomberg.com)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by toomuchtodo 17 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. A Small Telescope That Surprised Me (adfr.io)
    ×1.48 18 | 93 points by speckx 1 day ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Poisson Disk Sampling (stripeacross.com)
    ×1.15 42 #32 | 181 points by vismit2000 23 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. SteamdDB Joins Nexus Mods (nexusmods.com)
    ×1.40 35 #52 | 119 points by HelloUsername 22 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Fingerprinting and proof of work: how CrowdSec 1.8 tells browsers from bots (crowdsec.net)
    ×2.20 31 | 3 points by mazzma 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Dyson CameraJet electric toothbrush (dyson.com)
    ×2.54 47 | 120 points by noja 1 day ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Kafma – a desktop Kafka GUI client for debugging (kafma.app)
    ×2.13 83 | 6 points by KafmaKarma 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Launch HN: RonanRX (YC S26) – Personalized Peptides and GLP-1s
    ×0.64 48 #23 | 74 points by lloydarmbrust 15 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Quasar 438B: Europe's Leading AI Model (multiversecomputing.com)
    ×1.73 52 #37 | 185 points by amunozo 1 day ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Japan halves speed limit to 30km/h on all narrow city streets (theguardian.com)
    ×5.76 65 #72 | 74 points by haunter 4 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Proxmox Just Removed One of Its Biggest Weaknesses (virtualizationhowto.com)
    ×1.40 | 2 points by bleevht 29 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Serverless reverse geocoding for WebMCP, ESP32, and RP2040 (nyatla.github.io)
    ×2.38 102 | 4 points by nyatla 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Atlas: A World Model for Spatial Intelligence (worldlabs.ai)
    ×2.34 44 #70 | 265 points by johnsutor 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. The Overton Window of Food (think-twice.me)
    ×1.14 53 #88 | 24 points by zug_zug 19 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. UN warns of 'supersized' El Niño as countries prepare for impact (bbc.com)
    ×3.66 70 | 5 points by blondie9x 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Aura – a Rust agent that investigates and fixes production incidents (github.com/mezmo)
    ×1.14 60 | 21 points by jvogt 21 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. The Emergent Symbolic Structure of Artificial Neural Networks (arxiv.org)
    ×1.56 17 #67 | 287 points by schmuhblaster 1 day ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Open Battery Information (github.com/mnh-jansson)
    ×0.82 61 #81 | 53 points by toomuchtodo 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Fedora 46 Proposal Wants to Provide Official Support for Crystal Language (phoronix.com)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by Qem 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Flipdot display with an AI chat that codes sandboxed animations for it (github.com/mdbug)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by mdbug 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. LLMs: Intelligence vs. Cost (openteams.com)
    ×0.93 59 #49 | 89 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Record Keeping Became Writing (apfleming.netlify.app)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by afleming9796 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. I used Fable to rewrite 65kLoC of Go in Rust. It cost $400 (iurii.net)
    ×1.84 63 | 77 points by aka-rider 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Campsend – open-source Alternative to WeTransfer (campsend.app)
    ×1.29 126 | 3 points by bakimosadi 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber (blog.google)
    ×4.02 5 #8 | 1081 points by bratao 22 hours ago | 616 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. The shrinking landscape of linguistic diversity in the age of LLMs (nature.com)
    ×1.95 12 #53 | 147 points by Anon84 15 hours ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Every fix has a radius – blast radius (dpdns.org)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by codebyaditya 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber (blog.google)
    ×2.70 14 | 76 points by simonsarris 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Saab has unveiled its A3 collaborative combat aircraft concept (aviationweek.com)
    ×1.59 61 | 103 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Keel - A conductor, not an agent loop (daneb.github.io)
    ×2.10 138 | 6 points by danebalia 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Gopdfrab – Open-source PDF/A processing for Go (voidrab.com)
    ×0.41 | 2 points by sudostar 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: OSS, K8s-native AI platform for distributed multi-model inference (github.com/axem-solutions)
    ×1.18 136 | 4 points by EmbeddedMagicX 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Higher Multipoles of the Cow (arxiv.org)
    ×1.22 12 #28 | 97 points by MrOrelliOReilly 12 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???