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  1. Ask HN: 3.5 inch diskette read errors, would a period correct drive do better?
    ×0.64 44 #17 | 7 points by rietta 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Are others seeing Google's reCAPTCHA rejecting Firefox users?
    ×1.58 3 #52 | 240 points by Animats 16 hours ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Would you hire a new engineer, or get 300k worth of tokens for the team?
    ×0.72 | 2 points by websap 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Are you leveraging Spec-Driven / Spec-Anchored development?
    ×1.40 5 | 3 points by locusofself 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. The universal programming language of LLMs
    ×0.61 24 | 4 points by senorqa 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Fable hacked my piano, can I release the results?
    ×1.59 35 | 295 points by jmpman 3 days ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?
    ×1.71 37 | 307 points by imadtaieber 2 days ago | 280 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Apparently CodePen 2.0 sends data to their servers as you type
    ×0.94 52 | 112 points by maxim-fin 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Tell HN: OpenAI keeps stealing my money
    ×0.53 32 | 9 points by dingdong2026 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?
    ×1.04 99 | 198 points by sukit 5 days ago | 199 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Would you read a statistics textbook?
    ×1.26 67 | 106 points by usernametaken29 2 days ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Anyone using dictation with coding agents?
    ×0.23 88 | 3 points by TomEleff 10 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Show your micro-SaaS
    ×1.03 106 | 22 points by genekrapivin 2 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
    ×1.99 86 | 404 points by halcdev 5 days ago | 705 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Tell HN: OpenAI brings back 5 hour limit for plus and business standard users
    ×1.89 34 | 127 points by spwa4 1 day ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. DeepSeek v4.1 Flash is now available for internal beta testing
    ×1.66 56 | 19 points by dares2573 17 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Any Software Engineers here who enjoy their AI-native dev workflow?
    ×1.32 119 | 11 points by pkos98 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Connecting Kubernetes dependencies to application telemetry
    ×0.54 132 | 6 points by chipfixer 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Best Platforms to Orchestrate Agents
    ×0.35 | 2 points by venkat971 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: UK Rescue Rocket Sheds/Houses Information
    ×0.50 105 | 24 points by burnt-resistor 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: (Why) Was the LLM breakthrough useful for images, audio, etc.?
    ×0.26 145 | 4 points by rogerrogerr 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Tell HN: Both recent GCP outages caused by fiber optic maintenance
    ×0.56 141 | 20 points by fastest963 5 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Tell HN: I want to see the same moon as you
    ×0.93 131 | 16 points by UnderABlueMoon 3 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Bun rewrite and FLT formalization had nearly identical resource usage
    ×0.72 114 | 5 points by Zsfe510asG 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: How safe are our password managers in face of LLM cyber attacks?
    ×0.32 153 | 3 points by muddi900 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Is OpenAI silently routing GPT‑6 requests to GPT‑4o?
    ×0.24 | 2 points by skaiuijing 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Do People Care About Image Optimisation Anymore?
    ×0.51 129 | 4 points by CM30 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: How do you keep AI coding agents in sync with a changing Figma file?
    ×0.27 | 2 points by rjvidentia 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: What are you working on?
    ×1.09 125 | 8 points by meerita 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Why can I use macOS passkeys without biometrics
    ×0.85 120 | 5 points by 0xnico 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Who is using FPGA for ML inference?
    ×0.57 155 | 11 points by softwarewright 5 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Founders that raised funding and shutdown, did you raise again?
    ×0.42 147 | 18 points by asim 5 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Tell HN: Anthropic should make Claude the Author and me the Co-Author
    ×0.73 127 | 5 points by xeonax 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Looking for an old submission about sneering culture
    ×0.89 123 | 6 points by annex-winged-cr 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: What are other "uncrackable benchmarks"?
    ×0.47 144 | 3 points by Nail2680 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Laptop or Desktop?
    ×0.75 157 | 8 points by Gecko4072 5 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Perplexity Pro vs. Claude – what are you paying for?
    ×0.76 135 | 4 points by daytonflyers 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: What is your biggest struggle while learning?
    ×0.67 148 | 3 points by Cursed666 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: What is the ideal email domain setup?
    ×0.66 158 | 7 points by bix6 5 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: Any Alternatives to Archive.ph & co?
    ×0.73 146 | 8 points by hebelehubele 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Tell HN: NVIDIA's Acquisition of HuggingFace was for $HuggingFace
    ×2.36 124 | 43 points by MontagFTB 5 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ask HN: Model sycophancy benchmarks?
    ×0.91 138 | 5 points by gradus_ad 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: Is JavaScript as insecure as ActiveX was at the peak?
    ×0.69 | 2 points by roschdal 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Ask HN: How do you guys keep up with the most cost-effective AI models?
    ×0.11 159 | 4 points by solomonmwalker 5 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Do you ever struggle to find another programmer to work on a project/pair with?
    ×0.47 | 2 points by rizsyed1 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Ask HN: Are technical blogs dead?
    ×0.72 154 | 14 points by quaintdev 5 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. MITx is ending access to its courses for learners in Iran on September 8
    ×0.94 152 | 6 points by mahdihabibi 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Ask HN: Are we normalizing surveillance in the name of safety?
    ×0.38 149 | 4 points by dennysora-main 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Astra still fails at creating acceptable Rotational Ambigram
    ×0.20 156 | 3 points by das_vicky 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Xfinity silently blocks lots of new domains
    ×1.53 139 | 15 points by dschwartz18 4 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. ChatGPT Voice has been brutally nerfed (reddit.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by wslh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Bullshit arguments about AI (not) replacing jobs (2023) (imadrahmoune.com)
    ×1.15 | 2 points by imadr 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Embedding a bitmap font in your HyperCard stack (leadedsolder.com)
    ×1.09 | 2 points by zdw 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Codex silently begs agents to make arbitrary web requests (spader.zone)
    ×2.09 28 | 3 points by dboon 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: StackTab, what your stack costs at 1k, 10k and 100k users (kynth.studio)
    ×1.51 77 | 4 points by kyisaiah47 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Michael Dell Passes Jeff Bezos in Billionaire Rankings (forbes.com)
    ×1.79 12 | 3 points by MehrdadKhnzd 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Canvas Browser (canvas-browser.com)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by bookofjoe 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. MCP Client Registration: Dinner Party or Nightclub? (fusionauth.io)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by mooreds 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. C Is Not a Low-Level Language (2018) (acm.org)
    ×1.64 50 | 96 points by tosh 1 day ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Meta Failed to Catch Hundreds of AI Child Abuse Ads (wired.com)
    ×2.42 15 #59 | 36 points by thm 5 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: MacTap, use knocks on your MacBook as shortcuts (mactap.vercel.app)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by jaskirat16 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Agent on your landing page, in one script tag, with generative UI (guuey.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by wanseob 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Decoding the NEC V20 Microcode (martypc.blogspot.com)
    ×1.03 47 #82 | 143 points by mariuz 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Benchmarking LLMs' Swarm Intelligence (github.com/RUC-GSAI)
    ×0.99 | 2 points by novia 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. 'You Can See Everything' Review: Nathan Fielder's Doc About Elizabeth Holmes (variety.com)
    ×3.41 17 | 315 points by cianmm 1 day ago | 290 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Hacking Cable: AI in post-exploitation operations (palisaderesearch.org)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by syumei 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. I refused to train the AI that could replace me (restofworld.org)
    ×3.43 63 | 96 points by colinprince 1 day ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Isle – managed application environments for computer-use agents (tryisle.com)
    ×1.26 100 | 12 points by sxhivs 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Copperhead – Cursor for circuit boards (copperhead.sh)
    ×1.19 6 #24 | 206 points by animeshchouhan 11 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Cognition (Devin) raises $2B at $48B valuation (cognition.com)
    ×0.97 44 #44 | 21 points by meco 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Chess Cheater Detector: Was this game unusually engine-like? (chesscheaterdetector.com)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by domhudson 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Archprint, infer architecture lint rules from your repo's import graph (github.com/Tommkruix)
    ×1.41 109 | 4 points by Tommkruix123 22 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Linux desktop image editor with local AI (github.com/cthackers)
    ×1.11 | 2 points by cthackers 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Auto-Rig Web – Zero-click 3D humanoid rigging in a Web Worker (github.com/nff747)
    ×0.73 | 2 points by nff747 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Otter, a multi-threaded JavaScript runtime capable of 1k+ threads (github.com/gi-dellav)
    ×0.65 | 2 points by gidellav 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Titles – Can you write a better Hacker News title? (orangecrumbs.com)
    ×0.52 | 2 points by oyster143 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Connecting the machines (herdr.dev)
    ×0.71 13 #30 | 76 points by collinmanderson 8 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Keep Our Servers Running (archive.org)
    ×3.95 5 #69 | 1027 points by sonicrocketman 1 day ago | 271 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Multi-Agents LLM Financial Trading Framework (github.com/TauricResearch)
    ×1.04 16 #75 | 113 points by fittingopposite 19 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: NYC MapTap – Learn NYC neighborhoods (albertjoseph0.github.io)
    ×0.55 73 | 17 points by abj908 22 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: TERMy – A fast terminal assistant that does not use LLMs (github.com/gioblu)
    ×1.51 90 | 220 points by gioscarab 4 days ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. AlphaGenome Atlas: a high-resolution map of human DNA (blog.google)
    ×2.02 9 #3 | 487 points by utiiiD 10 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Mercury 2.5 (inceptionlabs.ai)
    ×1.69 2 #16 | 120 points by Topfi 4 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Pisa Scores by Country 2026 (worldpopulationreview.com)
    ×1.10 | 2 points by wslh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. The Psychological Warfare of the Modern Sterile Interior (lussoarchive.substack.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by rbanffy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf] (nyu.edu)
    ×7.47 10 #5 | 1224 points by procedurecall 19 hours ago | 535 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. The Microeconomics of Artificial Intelligence (2025) (mit.edu)
    ×0.85 23 #9 | 25 points by neehao 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. LG TV shown scanning LAN for third-party phones and other devices (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.54 16 #38 | 29 points by Bender 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Wrangling blockchain RPC nodes, for dummies: Introducing Lasso (lasso.sh)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by jaxernst 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Synology BeeStation Plus review: An easy-to-use NAS (zdnet.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by CrankyBear 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???