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  1. Ask HN: Resources to get good at soldering?
    ×1.42 57 #38 | 257 points by tosmatos 1 day ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?
    ×1.05 58 #84 | 186 points by sukit 2 days ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
    ×2.01 38 | 400 points by halcdev 2 days ago | 700 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tell HN: I want to see the same moon as you
    ×1.38 87 | 13 points by UnderABlueMoon 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026)
    ×1.14 85 | 247 points by whoishiring 4 days ago | 346 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2026)
    ×0.66 101 | 111 points by whoishiring 4 days ago | 472 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Tell HN: Both recent GCP outages caused by fiber optic maintenance
    ×0.64 108 | 19 points by fastest963 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How do you build organic traction as an indie dev?
    ×0.74 72 | 6 points by charm137 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Are others seeing Google's reCAPTCHA rejecting Firefox users?
    ×1.52 81 | 71 points by Animats 2 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Any Alternatives to Archive.ph & co?
    ×0.98 90 | 7 points by hebelehubele 23 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How have interviews changed over the last year?
    ×1.58 59 | 12 points by mikodin 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: 30, burnt out, with 6-10 months of runway. What would you do?
    ×1.81 98 | 31 points by throwaway_30yo 3 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Is AI a Powerdrill?
    ×0.49 91 | 4 points by dfps 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. MITx is ending access to its courses for learners in Iran on September 8
    ×0.38 | 2 points by mahdihabibi 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Fable hacked my piano, can I release the results?
    ×0.69 92 | 4 points by jmpman 18 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Who is using FPGA for ML inference?
    ×0.63 126 | 10 points by softwarewright 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Books Recommendations?
    ×1.26 102 | 7 points by washelterskelte 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Founders that raised funding and shutdown, did you raise again?
    ×0.44 115 | 18 points by asim 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Xfinity silently blocks lots of new domains
    ×1.85 93 | 15 points by dschwartz18 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Astra One Shotted Cains's Jawbone
    ×0.81 100 | 5 points by marcushyett 23 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Initial Thoughts on GPT-6 Astra?
    ×0.89 103 | 8 points by zof3 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: What is the ideal email domain setup?
    ×0.83 137 | 7 points by bix6 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Tell HN: NVIDIA's Acquisition of HuggingFace was for $HuggingFace
    ×2.61 89 | 43 points by MontagFTB 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. OpenAI's rogue agents used ntfy.sh as a pub/sub channel
    ×0.43 117 | 3 points by coderinsan 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Laptop or Desktop?
    ×0.82 145 | 7 points by Gecko4072 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: How do you guys keep up with the most cost-effective AI models?
    ×0.14 174 | 4 points by solomonmwalker 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Word42 1.0.0 Released
    ×0.65 106 | 5 points by andreasrosdal 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Why don't we talk about context window size anymore?
    ×0.99 127 | 5 points by rce123 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Are technical blogs dead?
    ×0.72 132 | 13 points by quaintdev 3 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Why isn't there a cursor for video games development
    ×0.34 | 2 points by JimsonYang 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: How do you know if you have a product problem or a distribution one?
    ×1.38 113 | 6 points by mustafak99 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Why do many websites use a sign-in code instead of a password?
    ×1.34 128 | 8 points by bariumbitmap 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Is there any way to contribute to nitter and xcancel's legal fights?
    ×1.02 110 | 8 points by orange999 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Tell HN: Check your Claude settings, it may have silently enabled remote access
    ×0.79 119 | 6 points by cromka 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Do all of you use Cloudflare for preventing DDoS, Bot and more attacks?
    ×0.24 | 2 points by skwasimin 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Is there a test for measuring cognitive affects from LLM usage?
    ×1.81 136 | 8 points by niwrad 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Could AI eventually build god?
    ×1.18 146 | 6 points by olirex99 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: How do we build a team? (bootstrapped B2B startup)
    ×0.83 166 | 4 points by theonlinx 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: Accountants working with ecommerce
    ×0.23 180 | 3 points by vasyl_kyryliuk 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: Where do you get your AI (technology) news?
    ×0.46 168 | 8 points by BtM909 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: Why is HN native dark mode not implemented yet?
    ×0.65 167 | 3 points by SriniK 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ask HN: Does anyone have access to GPT-6 Astra yet?
    ×1.81 112 | 7 points by zof3 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: What is your biggest career regret?
    ×1.90 109 | 6 points by eudamoniac 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Ask HN: What's Going on with Web.archive.org
    ×1.01 120 | 4 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Ask HN: How do you market Open Source Software?
    ×0.60 149 | 5 points by Daniel-Pan 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Ask HN: Where do I go?
    ×0.44 | 2 points by dannydark1 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. ChatGPT Linux GUI version updates redownload all files, require 1.4GB download
    ×0.42 160 | 10 points by juujian 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Tell HN: The Thoughts and Woes of a Full-Time Founder Part 1
    ×0.63 178 | 3 points by lcampbellsoup 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Ask HN: iPhone Camera on indicator
    ×0.46 | 2 points by zahirbmirza 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. One-person startup: a Cornell postdoc wants to put AI in everyone's hands
    ×0.32 | 2 points by modelslive 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Ask HN: How do you gate an autonomous coding agent's shell access?
    ×0.30 | 2 points by alanfuNZ 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Aurict – An open-source Terminal AI (github.com/aurict)
    ×1.25 138 | 5 points by hamzakhrmn2 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Terpstra Keyboard (terpstrakeyboard.com)
    ×0.95 35 #30 | 134 points by cl3misch 22 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Ask HN: Do you route only certain websites through a VPN?
    ×0.38 | 1 points by dennysora-main 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Falsehoods Programmers Believe About LANs (dreamstation.systems)
    ×2.06 43 | 55 points by robinpie 11 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: TimerVana a Local-first scheduler for real world routines (timervana.net)
    ×1.01 124 | 4 points by granto 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Audioreality.ai – email to private daily podcast summary show (audioreality.ai)
    ×0.39 153 | 3 points by BSOhealth 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Webmcp-react v1.0.0 (React hooks for agents to use WebMCP) (github.com/agentcathq)
    ×0.85 155 | 3 points by naseemalnaji 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Rendered Markdown with source revealed at point in Emacs 31 (github.com/Thysrael)
    ×0.49 | 2 points by gg_equal_G 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. A Million Falcons Went Missing. Here’s How They Were Found (nationalgeographic.com)
    ×0.78 46 #47 | 74 points by bryanrasmussen 21 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. The Real Luxuries In Life (feld.com)
    ×3.76 61 #72 | 480 points by tosh 15 hours ago | 226 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. An advanced attacker is targeting Salesforce and ServiceNow instances worldwide (reco.ai)
    ×2.38 28 | 5 points by daretograsp 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. The Structured Vacuum: Thinking about Nothing [pdf] (rafelski.com)
    ×1.75 | 4 points by rramadass 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Oconee Runtime – Policy enforcement for browser AI and coding agents (oconeeruntime.com)
    ×0.51 | 2 points by hthomas4 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Can AI design circuit boards yet? (eebench.org)
    ×2.03 29 #31 | 408 points by iopapa 1 day ago | 222 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Solving the Jane Street reverse engineering challenge (jestoph.com)
    ×2.12 2 #90 | 433 points by anitil 1 day ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. How to record a demo video on a Mac with Capta (capta.cam)
    ×0.71 | 1 points by gorgekara 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Derick Nwasor, Nigeria – Just Add Water – Quantum Regenerative Fuelcell (raeng.org.uk)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by thunderbong 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. The Pelican Collection – Simonw Pelican Bicycle Gallery (2024-2026) (chatgpt.site)
    ×1.68 4 | 3 points by dv35z 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Consciousness, creativity andunderstanding not obstacles to machine intelligence (springer.com)
    ×2.62 12 | 5 points by klaustro 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: What if AI did the prompting – and humans did the thinking? (antiagent.site)
    ×0.77 158 | 3 points by EnthusiastShiv 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. GPT-6 Astra on robot arms (robocurve.org)
    ×2.18 9 #16 | 178 points by Anon84 7 hours ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Finite time blowup for an averaged three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equation (2014) (wordpress.com)
    ×0.58 17 #32 | 68 points by gmays 13 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. GPT-6 Astra (openai.com)
    ×8.03 3 #41 | 2232 points by kibae 2 days ago | 2046 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. A connectomics milestone: Mapping the complete male fruit fly brain (research.google)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by stared 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. How the Tobacco Industry Drove the Rise of Ultra-Processed Foods (2025) (berkeley.edu)
    ×2.64 51 | 136 points by paimapi 17 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. The Raspberry Pi Interactive Timeline · 2006–2026 (raspberry.tips)
    ×1.25 80 | 49 points by mariuz 2 days ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Yan – In-browser glitch art and texture lab without server uploads (yichenlab.com)
    ×0.77 182 | 3 points by xcc3641 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Instantly get the transcript from the agent that wrote any line of code (github.com/ctxrs)
    ×0.93 162 | 5 points by luca-ctx 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Fast Cut Video tool for cutting video for Agents (github.com/modecir)
    ×1.49 53 | 8 points by Modecir 12 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Shutting down our public encrypted DNS (mullvad.net)
    ×2.45 7 #50 | 462 points by mywacaday 1 day ago | 234 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Elevator of the Year: Modernization of the Metropolis Trust Building (starelevator.com)
    ×1.02 67 #66 | 158 points by palashawas 2 days ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. CobaltC Programming Language Specification (strawberry9.github.io)
    ×1.00 | 2 points by VolatileRegiste 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. A Figma clone built by GPT-6 Astra (wieslawsoltes.github.io)
    ×2.34 23 | 5 points by aghuang 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. US diesel prices hit a record high of $5.85 on average (apnews.com)
    ×5.98 68 | 88 points by geox 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: HyperCard to HTML Converter (github.com/stachon)
    ×1.16 62 | 13 points by druidcz 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: I Have Been Clawed – Index of coding agent incidents (ihavebeenclawed.com)
    ×1.49 134 | 23 points by nezhar 4 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. OpenBSD Stories: Strange Medieval Devices (online.fr)
    ×0.86 8 #7 | 60 points by zdw 6 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: asciiQuake (asciiquake.wtf)
    ×2.67 141 | 16 points by apresmoi 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. 'Huge Breakthrough' in the Math of Imbalance (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.50 26 | 3 points by diazc 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???