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  1. Tell HN: 2 years building a kids audio app as a solo dev – lessons learned
    ×1.25 1 #37 | 123 points by oliverjanssen 15 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday
    ×4.48 27 #46 | 391 points by Daemon404 19 hours ago | 445 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Why are so many rolling out their own AI/LLM agent sandboxing solution?
    ×1.43 49 #68 | 19 points by ATechGuy 11 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?
    ×3.22 22 #79 | 422 points by terabytest 1 day ago | 423 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Does Apple not have *any* QA for their older macOS releases?
    ×1.10 15 | 3 points by richrichardsson 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Users don't care about your app's complexity
    ×2.01 19 | 5 points by Fh_ 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Does "Zapier for payment automation" exist?
    ×0.33 75 | 8 points by PL_Venard 21 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How are you automating your coding work?
    ×1.99 11 | 69 points by manthangupta109 16 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Tell HN: Claude session limits getting small
    ×1.54 45 | 19 points by pragmaticalien8 18 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: How do you run parallel agent sessions?
    ×0.68 53 | 6 points by Olshansky 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What have you built/shipped with Claude Code?
    ×1.85 44 | 8 points by blhack 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Revive a mostly dead Discord server
    ×0.31 105 | 19 points by movedx 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: COBOL devs, how are AI coding affecting your work?
    ×1.01 76 | 167 points by zkid18 2 days ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. How do you keep AI-generated applications consistent as they evolve over time?
    ×1.22 69 | 9 points by RobertSerber 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What are good resources to get familiar with AI code editors?
    ×2.30 73 | 8 points by northfield27 21 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Do people at Google use Gmail?
    ×1.15 64 | 3 points by mr-pink 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Tell HN: Avoid Cerebras if you are a founder
    ×2.61 50 | 29 points by remusomega 19 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Do you protect your client-side JavaScript? Why or why not?
    ×1.96 146 | 5 points by nikitaeverywher 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Tell HN: Claude helped me maintain my old open source project
    ×2.95 62 | 12 points by nergal 15 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: How locked down are your work machines?
    ×2.84 54 | 15 points by donatj 16 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Tell HN: Amazon has deactivated my seller account
    ×2.17 6 | 74 points by hacky_engineer 17 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: How did Gemini go from being awful to incredible back to awful?
    ×0.97 74 | 3 points by wewewedxfgdf 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Vibe-coded prototypes: what happens when they go into production?
    ×0.96 82 | 4 points by stosssik 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How do you audit autonomous AI agent decisions?
    ×0.32 86 | 3 points by credentum 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Are you going to meetups/conferences?
    ×2.76 70 | 9 points by carimura 20 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Which common map projections make Greenland look smaller?
    ×0.51 116 | 18 points by jimnotgym 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Why does SOC 2 feel so hard for early-stage startups?
    ×3.13 79 | 7 points by asdxrfx 21 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Tell HN: ChatGPT needs a persistent workspace layer
    ×1.84 72 | 8 points by LostBeacon 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: What's your biggest challenge with context engineering for AI agents?
    ×0.86 100 | 4 points by karpathunter 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Is OBD-II telematics data more private than mobile app tracking?
    ×0.58 100 | 4 points by insuranceguru 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Anyone seeing copy/paste reliability issues in ChatGPT Web on macOS?
    ×0.38 | 2 points by sallyrideauto 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: What single AI tool/technique 10x'd your productivity last year?
    ×1.44 88 | 5 points by laxmena 19 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Can someone make a CAS just checking last bit on x86/ARM please?
    ×0.79 102 | 4 points by goofy_lemur 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: What should I write about next? (CS student learning by writing)
    ×0.38 118 | 3 points by Aditya_kachhawa 21 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: How do you keep system context from rotting over time?
    ×0.53 117 | 15 points by kennethops 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Have your views about AI / LLMs changed? What triggered it?
    ×2.32 85 | 4 points by ATechGuy 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ark and GENESIS A protocol for sovereign know nodes and consent-based federation
    ×0.50 | 2 points by PiSounds 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: How to introduce Claude Code to a team?
    ×0.71 128 | 11 points by 9dev 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: What's an API that you wish existed?
    ×1.10 132 | 10 points by tornikeo 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: Is retreq / retspec a thing?
    ×0.33 143 | 3 points by foobarbecue 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: What are the recommender systems papers from 2024-2025?
    ×1.56 115 | 15 points by haensi 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ask HN: Did past "bubbles" have so many people claiming we were in a bubble?
    ×2.30 103 | 19 points by bmau5 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: How worried should I be about running LLM code on my machine?
    ×1.06 129 | 10 points by scoofy 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Code review your plans and your implementation
    ×0.44 141 | 3 points by mayassin 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Ask HN: How does YC / HN think about founder voting splits vs. equity splits?
    ×0.40 153 | 3 points by cofounder1999 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Ask HN: Breaking into tech project management from different field?
    ×0.47 157 | 4 points by conner_h5 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Ask HN: Local models to support home network infrastructure?
    ×0.60 152 | 5 points by DrAwdeOccarim 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. TruCite–an independent verification layer for AI outputs in regulated workflows
    ×0.66 177 | 4 points by docmani74 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Ask HN: Why don't tech companies provide housing?
    ×1.02 109 | 7 points by alcasa 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Ask HN: Which Matrix and Mastodon servers are you using and why?
    ×2.48 92 | 5 points by fsflover 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Ask HN: Should you combine your personal website and blog or keep them separate?
    ×1.34 150 | 6 points by nanfinitum 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Ask HN: What non-fiction do you read?
    ×1.04 133 | 14 points by yanis_t 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. AI Californication
    ×1.89 156 | 7 points by shoman3003 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Ask HN: Claude Opus performance affected by time of day?
    ×0.56 162 | 40 points by scaredreally 5 days ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Ask HN: What should I do with my old laptop in 2026?
    ×1.24 173 | 6 points by nanfinitum 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Ask HN: Clipboard overflows causing system crashes in macOS Tahoe 26.3 beta 2?
    ×1.10 137 | 8 points by nhubbard 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. I built a tiny daemon that reminds me what matters
    ×1.96 179 | 4 points by amitdawar 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Ask HN: How would you design for this scale today?
    ×0.80 155 | 4 points by phs318u 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Ask HN: how to detect teammate vs. enemy in Krunker.io?
    ×0.76 169 | 3 points by kracked0x 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Ask HN: Would you trust a new browser security extension in 2025?
    ×0.20 170 | 3 points by linklock 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Ask HN: Doing well solo, struggling in team-centric engineering roles
    ×1.84 151 | 6 points by ig0r0 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Treating anxiety as a bug in legacy code (engineering approach)
    ×0.34 154 | 5 points by bitkin_dev 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Is PSA airlines network down anywhere besides DCA?
    ×0.44 | 2 points by DubDouble 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Ask HN: Is it even possible to stop Google Calendar spam?
    ×2.37 97 | 7 points by artur_makly 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Ask HN: How do solo founders handle security?
    ×1.78 160 | 5 points by massi24 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Ask HN: Do we need independence and autonomy in Edge-Cloud?
    ×0.58 | 2 points by Dutchhack 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Ask HN: How have you or your firm made money with LLMs?
    ×0.77 182 | 12 points by bwestergard 5 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Fabric lets me assess online AI from my Unix CLI
    ×0.28 | 2 points by oldguy101 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Ask HN: Browser extension vs. native app for structured form filling?
    ×0.39 185 | 6 points by livrasand 5 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Tell HN: Linode EU-West (London) is having routing problems
    ×0.28 | 2 points by handelaar 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Ask HN: How do you find a GTM cofounder for a developer-first infra startup?
    ×0.73 172 | 3 points by Aydarbek 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Ask HN: How to bullet proof yourself from AI?
    ×1.17 158 | 20 points by max_ 3 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Ask HN: Burned out from tech, what else is there?
    ×4.71 61 | 94 points by bleosh 1 day ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Ask HN: When has humanities/history knowledge helped you in tech?
    ×0.52 167 | 7 points by amadeuswoo 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. YC Events
    ×0.62 165 | 8 points by obedvega 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Ask HN: How many local logins do you have on your computer?
    ×0.35 175 | 8 points by bahmboo 3 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Ask HN: Is there a search engine that blocks SEO / AI content?
    ×1.23 171 | 4 points by cauliflower99 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Tell HN: Poshmark instantly leaked my email to scammers
    ×0.59 176 | 9 points by hardenedmetapod 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Ask HN: How to get a job after a career break?
    ×0.79 174 | 11 points by shivajikobardan 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Ask HN: Who's using DuckDB in production?
    ×0.60 184 | 7 points by yakkomajuri 5 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Ask HN: Is replacing an enterprise product with LLMs a realistic strategy?
    ×0.64 180 | 8 points by chandmk 4 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Ask HN: Why not have cemeteries for lines of descent?
    ×0.90 181 | 3 points by amichail 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Ask HN: Are cross-platform UI frameworks suitable for camera apps?
    ×0.24 183 | 4 points by Austin_Conlon 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: I created my first mobile app, could use some support (apple.com)
    ×1.11 163 | 3 points by gangelo 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Beowulf's opening "What" is no interjection (2013) (poetryfoundation.org)
    ×1.05 60 #28 | 86 points by gsf_emergency_6 19 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. The Zen of Reticulum (github.com/markqvist)
    ×0.69 66 | 97 points by mikece 1 day ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Electricity use of AI coding agents (simonpcouch.com)
    ×1.95 52 | 112 points by linolevan 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Pale Moon v34: Release Notes (palemoon.org)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by thisislife2 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. 'This is sell America' – US dollar tumbles as globe flees US assets (cnbc.com)
    ×16.13 41 | 168 points by MilnerRoute 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Subagents, Commands and Skills Are Converging (vivekhaldar.com)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by todsacerdoti 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???