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  1. Ask HN: How to generate product docs E2E?
    ×0.25 | 2 points by sarabande 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs?
    ×1.66 94 #61 | 271 points by jshchnz 4 days ago | 380 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Advice for Starting a Hacker Space?
    ×0.73 24 | 26 points by pkdpic 20 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Worth leaving position over push to adopt vibe coding?
    ×1.80 56 | 69 points by NotAnOtter 1 day ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Go-msquic: v0.11 is out
    ×0.40 | 2 points by noboruma 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
    ×1.83 94 | 437 points by david927 1 week ago | 1375 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How many communities HN it devs in C language?
    ×0.48 115 | 6 points by FerkiHN 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2025)
    ×0.82 128 | 84 points by whoishiring 5 days ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Proposal: GUI-first, text-based mechanical CAD inspired by software engineering
    ×0.84 | 2 points by thinkmachyx 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2025)
    ×1.27 90 | 268 points by whoishiring 5 days ago | 379 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Tell HN: A fake, highly obfuscated Solidity VSCode plugin found on marketplace
    ×1.28 73 | 14 points by navad 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Why did not numpy copy the J rank concept?
    ×0.72 96 | 14 points by jrank 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2025)
    ×0.91 116 | 128 points by whoishiring 5 days ago | 361 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What's the 2025 stack for a self-hosted photo library with local AI?
    ×1.89 108 | 224 points by jamesxv7 6 days ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Looking for Early Testers for a AI Assistant Inside Zotero
    ×0.67 133 | 10 points by jie6 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How do you sell to B2B in current state of AI?
    ×0.37 123 | 4 points by salesdo 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Is there a business for extracting US tech talent?
    ×0.69 125 | 27 points by Arubis 2 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: What clever tools/scripts do you use to manage development environments?
    ×1.04 117 | 9 points by sebst 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Super Simple "Hallucination Traps" to detect interview cheaters
    ×0.55 140 | 29 points by EliotHerbst 3 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Requests for Software – have something you want built?
    ×1.06 106 | 8 points by NewUser76312 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. If Emacs is not a text editor, then what is it really?
    ×2.35 166 | 4 points by hushangazar 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. 1KB JavaScript Demoscene Challenge Just Launched
    ×2.01 118 | 114 points by babakode 5 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Are there any good WASM-based sites for learning Bash, Linux and CLI?
    ×0.81 144 | 8 points by brightbeige 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Can't Figure Out Where to Go Next Career Wise
    ×0.52 141 | 4 points by OulaX 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: What are the best resources to help with health insurance denials?
    ×0.59 154 | 10 points by cigna 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. OT Devices Exposed Online Without Authentication – Research Disclosure
    ×0.46 157 | 3 points by hacker_might 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Why there is no demand for my SaaS when competition is killing it?
    ×1.12 145 | 33 points by drvroom 4 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: What are non-social media ways to share photography/art
    ×0.77 138 | 6 points by rPlayer6554 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: How do companies like OpenAI, Perplexity fine tune rich output?
    ×0.61 163 | 6 points by agaase19 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: If AGI were invented tomorrow which countries would fare better?
    ×1.93 16 | 28 points by mattigames 11 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: What are good questions to ask in a remote round in post GPT era?
    ×0.46 161 | 7 points by ashu1461 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. A client wants to buy old SaaS app – smart move or risk?
    ×1.32 149 | 6 points by AbbeyRoadRunner 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Ideas to acquire "good taste" in programming?
    ×0.71 164 | 10 points by danielciocirlan 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: What codebase would you like to see rewritten, updated, or modernized?
    ×0.65 152 | 6 points by globnomulous 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: I give in, what are the resources for picking up AI-assisted coding?
    ×0.49 189 | 4 points by dhosek 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Why privacy consent is NOT part of Browser setting?
    ×0.42 196 | 4 points by the_arun 4 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Are AI Copilots Eroding Our Programming Skills?
    ×0.72 185 | 8 points by buscoideais 4 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: How to Block Spam Mails?
    ×0.78 193 | 7 points by mpaepper 4 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: How did low contrast text become so pervasive?
    ×1.05 183 | 22 points by mr-pink 6 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: How to make money with SaaS without network or VC funding?
    ×0.72 167 | 6 points by squareloop 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: How are startups dealing with key talent poaching?
    ×1.02 194 | 3 points by dbreunig 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ask HN: How have you shared computers with your young child (~3 to 5)
    ×1.02 182 | 18 points by msencenb 6 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: How to create a more human-centric web?
    ×0.47 180 | 5 points by saubeidl 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Ask HN: What are some tips to be a successful data science manager in a FANG
    ×0.72 158 | 4 points by pkote 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Ask HN: How do I open up my side project to the world?
    ×1.04 188 | 11 points by picolas 5 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: C.O.R.E – Opensource, user owned, shareable memory for Claude, Cursor (github.com/RedPlanetHQ)
    ×7.61 178 | 20 points by Manik_agg 5 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Robots move Shanghai city block [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.46 29 #88 | 147 points by surprisetalk 2 days ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Building a Mac app with Claude code (indragie.com)
    ×3.58 45 #55 | 136 points by gdudeman 6 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Pixel Art Generator Using Genetic Algorithm (github.com/Yutarop)
    ×0.45 37 #34 | 11 points by ponta17 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. The Moat of Low Status (usefulfictions.substack.com)
    ×2.43 12 #74 | 375 points by jger15 1 day ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Spegel, a Terminal Browser That Uses LLMs to Rewrite Webpages (simedw.com)
    ×1.97 75 | 423 points by simedw 5 days ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Dstpierre/tpl a tiny lib making Go's templates more tolerable (github.com/dstpierre)
    ×0.76 151 | 3 points by dstpierre 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Luigi Lineri, the Man Who Collects and Categorizes Stones (2024) (mossandfog.com)
    ×0.66 1 #29 | 10 points by Tomte 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. The Real GenAI Issue (tbray.org)
    ×2.80 21 #30 | 27 points by almost-exactly 1 hour ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. The Most Important Century (cold-takes.com)
    ×1.19 | 2 points by ananddtyagi 47 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Squire – A Game Night discord bot (github.com/RaneWallin)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by Imz4di 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. How large are large language models? (github.com/rain-1)
    ×1.64 76 | 262 points by rain1 4 days ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Piano Trainer – Learn piano scales, chords and more using MIDI (github.com/ZaneH)
    ×2.48 148 | 6 points by FinalDestiny 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Refractive JavaScript Glass (github.com/Explosion-Scratch)
    ×0.84 186 | 3 points by explosion-s 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Peer. – The First Subscription-Based Social Network (peerfreund.com)
    ×1.08 187 | 5 points by AmuXhantini 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Meet Bionode (microship.com)
    ×0.62 37 #37 | 25 points by naves 10 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Is It Cake? How Our Brain Deciphers Materials (nautil.us)
    ×0.42 56 #86 | 26 points by dnetesn 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Rapamycin seems to boost longevity as effectively as eating less (newscientist.com)
    ×1.23 7 #89 | 4 points by Teever 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Hack the Bottle Project (github.com/LKField)
    ×0.77 | 1 points by gnabgib 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Structured combinators for efficient graph reduction [pdf] (fun-arch.org)
    ×1.68 | 2 points by fanf2 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Lucius – An AI assistant for social media marketers (ailucius.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by downoff 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. AI note takers are flooding Zoom calls as workers opt to skip meetings (washingtonpost.com)
    ×2.80 61 | 315 points by tysone 4 days ago | 380 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. I extracted the safety filters from Apple Intelligence models (github.com/BlueFalconHD)
    ×2.89 #2 | 56 points by BlueFalconHD 1 hour ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Cool People [pdf] (apa.org)
    ×1.33 7 #10 | 39 points by ilamont 3 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Game publishers respond to Stop Killing Games claim it curtails developer choice (pcgamer.com)
    ×2.44 15 #75 | 74 points by riffraff 15 hours ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Build Systems à la Carte (2018) [pdf] (microsoft.com)
    ×0.83 38 #78 | 79 points by djoldman 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Don’t use “click here” as link text (2001) (w3.org)
    ×2.40 43 | 512 points by theandrewbailey 4 days ago | 342 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Recivo – Receive Emails Programmatically (recivo.email)
    ×1.35 131 | 29 points by WilcoKruijer 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: I built a mindmap-like, non linear tutor-supported interface for papers (proread.ai)
    ×0.65 170 | 3 points by kanodiaashu 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. 'Shit in, shit out', AI is coming for agriculture, but farmers aren’t convinced (theconversation.com)
    ×2.36 5 #24 | 40 points by lr0 3 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: a community for collaborating on sideprojects (relentlessly.no)
    ×0.59 40 #63 | 32 points by 0dKD 17 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: CSS generator for a high-def glass effect (glass3d.dev)
    ×2.33 48 | 416 points by kris-kay 4 days ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it (engadget.com)
    ×6.09 55 | 378 points by doener 4 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Understand CPU Branch Instructions Better (chrisfeilbach.com)
    ×1.03 53 #47 | 5 points by mfiguiere 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Gecode is an open source C++ toolkit for developing constraint-based systems (2019) (gecode.org)
    ×0.67 58 #67 | 70 points by gjvc 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. The Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? (acm.org)
    ×1.70 | 2 points by troupo 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Apple's F1 movie expected to hit $300M at the box office this weekend (9to5mac.com)
    ×1.85 57 | 4 points by mgh2 46 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. What one town learned by charging residents for every bag of trash (grist.org)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by rntn 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: YouTube Shorts Blocker Chrome Extension (google.com)
    ×1.04 27 | 3 points by krispycreame 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Distapp. Manage and distribute Android, iOS and Desktop app (lhf.my.id)
    ×0.30 | 2 points by yunusefendi52 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: I made the social deduction board game "Avalon" playable online (avalon-web.fly.dev)
    ×0.86 192 | 3 points by FireSquid2006 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Wind Knitting Factory (merelkarhof.nl)
    ×1.41 69 #59 | 274 points by bschne 3 days ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Launch HN: K-Scale Labs (YC W24) – Open-Source Humanoid Robots
    ×1.11 54 #82 | 228 points by codekansas 3 days ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Futhark – Automatic C imports in Nim (github.com/PMunch)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by TheWiggles 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. SingleFile – Effortlessly Save and Preserve Web Pages (getsinglefile.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by thunderbong 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???