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  1. Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?
    ×0.71 16 #23 | 24 points by sukit 3 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
    ×2.08 14 #30 | 343 points by halcdev 12 hours ago | 528 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Are others seeing Google's reCAPTCHA rejecting Firefox users?
    ×1.81 23 #47 | 43 points by Animats 4 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tell HN: NVIDIA's Acquisition of HuggingFace was for $HuggingFace
    ×2.10 24 #49 | 17 points by MontagFTB 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: Both recent GCP outages caused by fiber optic maintenance
    ×0.55 67 #67 | 6 points by fastest963 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: 30, burnt out, with 6-10 months of runway. What would you do?
    ×2.50 15 #70 | 10 points by throwaway_30yo 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How do you market Open Source Software?
    ×1.50 38 | 5 points by Daniel-Pan 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Who is using FPGA for ML inference?
    ×0.89 48 #75 | 6 points by softwarewright 5 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What is the ideal email domain setup?
    ×0.65 | 2 points by bix6 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026)
    ×1.13 77 | 241 points by whoishiring 2 days ago | 316 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Founders that raised funding and shutdown, did you raise again?
    ×0.47 64 | 17 points by asim 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Tell HN: The Thoughts and Woes of a Full-Time Founder Part 1
    ×1.11 54 | 3 points by lcampbellsoup 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Laptop or Desktop?
    ×1.79 95 | 6 points by Gecko4072 11 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2026)
    ×0.66 103 | 107 points by whoishiring 2 days ago | 422 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How do we build a team? (bootstrapped B2B startup)
    ×1.62 94 | 3 points by theonlinx 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How do you guys keep up with the most cost-effective AI models?
    ×0.40 113 | 4 points by solomonmwalker 12 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: iPhone Camera on indicator
    ×0.81 | 2 points by zahirbmirza 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Is there a test for measuring cognitive affects from LLM usage?
    ×2.06 61 | 4 points by niwrad 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Could AI eventually build god?
    ×1.78 56 | 5 points by olirex99 6 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. One-person startup: a Cornell postdoc wants to put AI in everyone's hands
    ×0.97 | 2 points by modelslive 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: How do you gate an autonomous coding agent's shell access?
    ×0.73 | 2 points by alanfuNZ 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Accountants working with ecommerce
    ×0.28 107 | 3 points by vasyl_kyryliuk 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Are technical blogs dead?
    ×0.65 104 | 10 points by quaintdev 18 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Tell HN: Xbox Game Pass now limits the amount of hours each month
    ×4.19 22 | 7 points by nodesocket 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Why does free time become another thing you have to use correctly?
    ×0.42 | 2 points by nullifypreset 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Are guardrails being baked into models, or enforced outside them?
    ×0.83 | 2 points by arkj 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Beware: Malicious Profiles on YC Co-Founder Matching
    ×0.51 99 | 5 points by pain_perdu 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Can we classify AI as: subhuman, quasihuman, human, superhumam?
    ×0.93 117 | 3 points by aunekiaru 11 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Returning from the AI brain-rot state, re-take the thinking ownership
    ×4.74 102 | 8 points by tuleiff 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Resources to Get Good at Soldering?
    ×0.79 140 | 8 points by tosmatos 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: How much does licensing approach influence purchase decisions?
    ×0.54 | 2 points by terranivium 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Tell HN: Dropbox Data Breach
    ×1.44 128 | 49 points by hmate9 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Where do you get your AI (technology) news?
    ×0.50 135 | 8 points by BtM909 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Where do I go?
    ×0.87 | 2 points by dannydark1 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. ChatGPT Linux GUI version updates redownload all files, require 1.4GB download
    ×0.38 132 | 9 points by juujian 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: A tool to share my data?
    ×0.42 | 2 points by roromainmain 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: What would happen if your company stopped using all AI tomorrow?
    ×0.63 134 | 40 points by jc_811 3 days ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Kimi K3 and GLM-5.3 are better than Gemini 3.8 Flash
    ×0.64 126 | 11 points by theHocineSaad 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: How to ask questions in Ask HN
    ×0.27 155 | 4 points by samikama 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: Would you be interested in using a VoIP system that has an operator?
    ×0.12 | 2 points by left-struck 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: Anyone homeschooling their kids?
    ×0.91 139 | 12 points by wbnns 2 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Knowledge Graph Engine for Codebases
    ×0.34 158 | 4 points by Shourya_55 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Noviz AI Agent for ERPNext – A Reasoning Layer for ERPNext
    ×0.10 | 2 points by tajdink 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Claude Code now appends a link to a Claude session in every commit
    ×0.55 162 | 13 points by codexon 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Slop University (slop.university)
    ×1.25 133 | 5 points by benswift 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. GPT-6 Astra (openai.com)
    ×6.78 #1 | 1418 points by kibae 8 hours ago | 1176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly (babyloniantwins.com)
    ×1.51 10 #10 | 214 points by rabahs 10 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Claude for Commerce Agents (claude.com)
    ×1.30 47 #68 | 60 points by ashazal 17 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. SimpleUI for KOReader (github.com/doctorhetfield-cmd)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by juiceland 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Scoring Tech Talent 2026 [pdf] (sprinklr.com)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by gmays 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. MemWeaver – a vector DB with predictable memory usage (github.com/daib)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by legosys 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Retirement Is Dead (macleans.ca)
    ×3.64 83 | 73 points by speckx 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: The cheapest GPU cloud – H100s at $2.04/HR, H200s at $3/HR (compute.cheap)
    ×1.48 65 | 50 points by EmiCorleone 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: NGPDFs – 50 PDF tools that never upload your files (ngpdfs.com)
    ×0.39 | 2 points by amulyakashyap09 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: VT Code – My attempt at building a coding-agent harness (github.com/vinhnx)
    ×0.89 120 | 3 points by vinhnx 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Aura – a Rust agent that investigates and fixes production incidents (github.com/mezmo)
    ×1.28 114 | 24 points by jvogt 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. GPS glitched across the US by as much as 33 feet (sciencealert.com)
    ×1.37 22 #13 | 135 points by thread_id 10 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. A PCB business card with a batteryless LED, powered by the phone that taps it (kevin.md)
    ×1.36 16 #25 | 48 points by thekevintang 5 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. METR Report on OpenAI / Hugging Face Hacking Incident (metr.org)
    ×2.86 37 | 122 points by stikit 1 day ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Serverless reverse geocoding for WebMCP, ESP32, and RP2040 (nyatla.github.io)
    ×2.98 152 | 5 points by nyatla 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. A third of Perplexity's citations don't contain the number they're cited for (hausresearch.com)
    ×1.81 63 | 124 points by jakobgreenfeld 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Japan halves speed limit to 30km/h on all narrow city streets (theguardian.com)
    ×5.49 7 | 83 points by haunter 18 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Ardent, a code-first agent for non-engineering work (ardent.ai)
    ×1.43 84 | 9 points by nkohari 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Codex outage (github.com/openai)
    ×2.63 28 | 102 points by armcat 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Banca Etica Suspends A/I's Account While Condemning the Sanctions Behind It (sabot.media)
    ×1.32 85 | 95 points by rendx 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Redactle LLM Leaderboard (redactle.net)
    ×1.17 131 | 5 points by pampas 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. I don't have a smartphone or at least I wish I didn't (ploum.net)
    ×3.41 38 #71 | 241 points by speckx 1 day ago | 248 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Tesla opens search for Cybercab fleet sales, but FSD owners are still left out (electrek.co)
    ×1.97 | 2 points by jijojv 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. WireGuard Protocol Implementation in D (github.com/Geod24)
    ×1.45 | 2 points by mhh__ 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Stream Ciphers and ChaCha20-Poly1305 (ekunazanu.foo)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by vismit2000 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Open protocol for AI agents to discover, negotiate, and pay each other (github.com/bizswarm44-coder)
    ×0.58 | 2 points by intentswarm 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Intrusive linked lists (2019) (data-structures-in-practice.com)
    ×0.69 39 #54 | 81 points by tripdout 16 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Your website analytics deserves Love (anacraft.dev)
    ×0.96 | 2 points by mehfuzh 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: WordPress search and replace that doesn't corrupt serialized data (github.com/ibrahimhajjaj)
    ×0.38 | 2 points by ibrahimwithi 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Triplox, a distributed Datalog engine with incremental queries (github.com/fiV0)
    ×0.67 | 2 points by fiv0 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Models Don't Go Rogue (cyberneticforests.com)
    ×1.19 26 #46 | 16 points by cdrnsf 4 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Six curl CVEs after OpenAI and Anthropic came back with zero (aisle.com)
    ×1.60 50 | 178 points by goobreee 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. LLMs and self-referentiality (scottaaronson.blog)
    ×1.19 80 #52 | 72 points by mavdol04 22 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. LogPoints in Intelleji (jetbrains.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by irannam31 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Kafma – a desktop Kafka GUI client for debugging (kafma.app)
    ×1.99 144 | 6 points by KafmaKarma 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Corporate Mind Games – logic puzzles with a sarcastic corporate theme (corporatemindgames.com)
    ×1.02 129 | 50 points by dontwordle 3 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on ARC-AGI-3 (arcprize.org)
    ×2.30 14 #26 | 175 points by vignesh_warar 7 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Never Forget How Eagerly Apple and Google Coddled Fascism (karlbode.com)
    ×6.55 22 #27 | 11 points by ExMachina73 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. A Mysterious Kidney Disease Has Arrived in Texas (texasmonthly.com)
    ×2.31 32 | 3 points by johntfella 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Duck Hunt: Moving Bauplan from DuckDB to DataFusion (bauplanlabs.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by ihnorton 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Ensemble Prover - Open-Source Python Autonomous Theorem Prover (github.com/graviterra)
    ×0.79 | 2 points by stereochemical3 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Ask HN: Advice on Migrating from 1Password?
    ×6.04 14 | 101 points by 0xbadcafebee 21 hours ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Instantly get the transcript from the agent that wrote any line of code (github.com/ctxrs)
    ×0.95 105 | 5 points by luca-ctx 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Overview of Code Virtualization (tmpout.sh)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by vismit2000 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Simple Is Not Small (jyn.dev)
    ×1.93 31 | 4 points by zdw 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???