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  1. Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?
    ×1.74 17 #5 | 68 points by imadtaieber 6 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Fable hacked my piano, can I release the results?
    ×2.02 4 #6 | 81 points by jmpman 5 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Would you read a statistics textbook?
    ×1.78 26 #8 | 44 points by usernametaken29 6 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tell HN: Anthropic should make Claude the Author and me the Co-Author
    ×1.48 11 | 4 points by xeonax 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Looking for an old submission about sneering culture
    ×0.94 42 | 3 points by annex-winged-cr 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Show your micro-SaaS
    ×1.12 59 | 9 points by genekrapivin 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What are other "uncrackable benchmarks"?
    ×1.06 44 | 3 points by Nail2680 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: UK Rescue Rocket Sheds/Houses Information
    ×0.51 33 | 22 points by burnt-resistor 11 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Perplexity Pro vs. Claude – what are you paying for?
    ×0.75 | 2 points by daytonflyers 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Connecting Kubernetes dependencies to application telemetry
    ×0.83 97 | 3 points by chipfixer 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: (Why) Was the LLM breakthrough useful for images, audio, etc.?
    ×0.36 99 | 3 points by rogerrogerr 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Any Software Engineers here who enjoy their AI-native dev workflow?
    ×2.22 92 | 5 points by pkos98 16 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?
    ×1.03 88 | 190 points by sukit 3 days ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Resources to get good at soldering?
    ×1.36 69 | 270 points by tosmatos 4 days ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What is your biggest struggle while learning?
    ×0.91 | 2 points by Cursed666 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How safe are our password managers in face of LLM cyber attacks?
    ×0.78 94 | 3 points by muddi900 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
    ×1.99 79 | 401 points by halcdev 3 days ago | 703 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Why don't we bring back old school OkCupid?
    ×2.46 59 | 33 points by firefax 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What are you working on?
    ×0.97 87 | 5 points by meerita 12 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Model sycophancy benchmarks?
    ×0.79 95 | 3 points by gradus_ad 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Tell HN: I want to see the same moon as you
    ×1.07 117 | 15 points by UnderABlueMoon 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Tell HN: Both recent GCP outages caused by fiber optic maintenance
    ×0.58 133 | 19 points by fastest963 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Are we normalizing surveillance in the name of safety?
    ×0.30 108 | 3 points by dennysora-main 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Astra still fails at creating acceptable Rotational Ambigram
    ×0.22 110 | 3 points by das_vicky 18 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Are others seeing Google's reCAPTCHA rejecting Firefox users?
    ×1.45 103 | 71 points by Animats 3 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: 30, burnt out, with 6-10 months of runway. What would you do?
    ×1.62 121 | 31 points by throwaway_30yo 4 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Do you route only certain websites through a VPN?
    ×0.35 | 2 points by dennysora-main 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: What's the best place to learn about skills and AI for coding in general
    ×0.95 86 | 4 points by rrmdp 10 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. APAC Alpha – Zero-lag Intel terminal for Asian markets
    ×0.88 | 2 points by apacalpha 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Any Alternatives to Archive.ph & co?
    ×0.72 127 | 7 points by hebelehubele 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. MITx is ending access to its courses for learners in Iran on September 8
    ×0.92 131 | 5 points by mahdihabibi 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Who is using FPGA for ML inference?
    ×0.58 152 | 10 points by softwarewright 3 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Founders that raised funding and shutdown, did you raise again?
    ×0.43 139 | 18 points by asim 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Cutting (Claude Code) token spend on dynamic workflows 80%
    ×0.32 | 2 points by gojkoa 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: What is the ideal email domain setup?
    ×0.73 164 | 7 points by bix6 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: How do you build organic traction as an indie dev?
    ×0.70 118 | 7 points by charm137 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Tell HN: NVIDIA's Acquisition of HuggingFace was for $HuggingFace
    ×2.47 113 | 43 points by MontagFTB 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Xfinity silently blocks lots of new domains
    ×1.64 123 | 15 points by dschwartz18 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: Laptop or Desktop?
    ×0.70 172 | 7 points by Gecko4072 3 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: Outside of work, what are your social groups?
    ×2.15 126 | 5 points by Gecko4072 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: How have interviews changed over the last year?
    ×1.32 106 | 12 points by mikodin 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ask HN: Books Recommendations?
    ×1.06 136 | 7 points by washelterskelte 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: How do you guys keep up with the most cost-effective AI models?
    ×0.12 198 | 4 points by solomonmwalker 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Are people who only seem happy when they're angry increasing? Seems like it
    ×0.67 98 | 4 points by Webstir 16 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Ask HN: Is AI a Powerdrill?
    ×0.41 137 | 4 points by dfps 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Ask HN: Initial Thoughts on GPT-6 Astra?
    ×0.81 134 | 8 points by zof3 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Ask HN: Are technical blogs dead?
    ×0.74 150 | 14 points by quaintdev 3 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Astra One Shotted Cains's Jawbone
    ×0.59 138 | 5 points by marcushyett 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Ask HN: Why don't we talk about context window size anymore?
    ×0.84 160 | 5 points by rce123 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. OpenAI's rogue agents used ntfy.sh as a pub/sub channel
    ×0.38 163 | 3 points by coderinsan 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Word42 1.0.0 Released
    ×0.56 143 | 5 points by andreasrosdal 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Ask HN: Why do many websites use a sign-in code instead of a password?
    ×1.23 155 | 8 points by bariumbitmap 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Ask HN: Why isn't there a cursor for video games development
    ×0.30 | 2 points by JimsonYang 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Ask HN: How do you know if you have a product problem or a distribution one?
    ×1.17 145 | 6 points by mustafak99 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Ask HN: Is there a test for measuring cognitive affects from LLM usage?
    ×1.87 156 | 9 points by niwrad 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Ask HN: Could AI eventually build god?
    ×1.32 168 | 7 points by olirex99 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Ask HN: How do we build a team? (bootstrapped B2B startup)
    ×1.03 179 | 5 points by theonlinx 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Ask HN: Where do you get your AI (technology) news?
    ×0.46 189 | 8 points by BtM909 4 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Is there any way to contribute to nitter and xcancel's legal fights?
    ×0.97 140 | 8 points by orange999 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Ask HN: Accountants working with ecommerce
    ×0.23 201 | 3 points by vasyl_kyryliuk 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Tell HN: Check your Claude settings, it may have silently enabled remote access
    ×0.93 147 | 7 points by cromka 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Ask HN: Do all of you use Cloudflare for preventing DDoS, Bot and more attacks?
    ×0.23 | 2 points by skwasimin 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. A Mathematical Theory of Communication [pdf] (harvard.edu)
    ×0.94 | 2 points by andsoitis 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Dsnitch – Real-time, zero-config Docker egress inspector via eBPF (github.com/infomaniac777)
    ×0.68 93 | 5 points by infomaniac777 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Audioreality.ai – email to private daily podcast summary show (audioreality.ai)
    ×0.38 186 | 3 points by BSOhealth 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Million Bricks – a 3D tower of one million bricks you can buy for $10 (millionbrickshomepage.com)
    ×0.69 175 | 4 points by keslert 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board (collusion.wiki)
    ×8.02 #65 | 2272 points by moultano 2 days ago | 1581 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. I made a fake news spotting minigame
    ×2.39 53 | 3 points by azermite 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Mother convicted of: her 5 yo walks short way to pond alone in Virginia (washingtonpost.com)
    ×4.14 71 | 23 points by doctorpangloss 3 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Claude formalized Fermat's Last Theorem in 11 days (anthropic.com)
    ×0.96 | 2 points by fourfire 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Pentagon rescinds new testosterone screening policy without explanation (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.47 70 | 114 points by ndsipa_pomu 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Signing TLS handshakes inside a TPM (bschaatsbergen.com)
    ×0.71 42 #15 | 16 points by bschaatsbergen 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Gotham Silicon: 1μ CMOS process that will ship custom chips for –$100 in <24hrs (gothamsilicon.com)
    ×0.95 95 #54 | 6 points by gregsadetsky 7 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Escaping Containment
    ×0.56 | 1 points by silexia 43 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Cowbull – Wordle-like game where you only get match counts (cowbull.co)
    ×0.77 125 | 4 points by ajayvk 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Clustta – Open-source version control for creative work (clustta.com)
    ×0.86 185 | 3 points by taiwofolu 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Cartoon Photography (mkornreich.me)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by enjoyyourlife 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. OpenLedger – Local-first double-entry accounting, MCP-native (Apache 2.0) (github.com/Attri-Inc)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by gtmattri 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Boeing 767 overran Miami runway (avherald.com)
    ×4.46 19 | 8 points by r2sk5t 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Archify (github.com/tt-a1i)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by saikatsg 23 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. The Instinct Thesis: Why Memory Is Becoming the Moat (twitter.com/ashwingop)
    ×1.08 | 2 points by yarapavan 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Fast Cut Video tool for cutting video for Agents (github.com/modecir)
    ×1.32 109 | 8 points by Modecir 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Please don't rearrange our shoes when we turn up, paramedics in Japan urge (theguardian.com)
    ×2.52 11 #26 | 58 points by high_na_euv 5 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. AI, Tools and Transformation (ben-evans.com)
    ×1.30 64 #53 | 151 points by firexcy 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions (nist.gov)
    ×3.01 23 #83 | 795 points by negura 2 days ago | 491 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: MobileCode – OpenCode with Built-In iOS and Android Previews (github.com/hsandhu)
    ×1.70 122 | 7 points by rsandhu 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: WinZST > 7-Zip fork with first-class compressed tar support on Windows (github.com/firebadnofire)
    ×0.86 154 | 4 points by firebadnofire 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Blunderbase: A Personal Chess Database (github.com/philphilphil)
    ×0.77 112 | 4 points by philphilphil 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Less-sheet – A minimal but fast CSV viewer (te-x.github.io)
    ×1.74 162 | 5 points by te-x 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. What did she see? The intelligence scramble to retrace an accused spys footsteps (cbc.ca)
    ×2.07 | 2 points by pir8life4me 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???