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  1. Ask HN: How do you keep system context from rotting over time?
    ×0.52 12 #23 | 17 points by kennethops 2 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. I'm posting this from a memory safe web browser
    ×2.94 70 | 30 points by pizlonator 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Gmail spam filtering suddenly marking everything as spam?
    ×1.17 6 | 206 points by goopthink 1 day ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What are the most significant man-made creations to date?
    ×0.81 28 | 12 points by George97 10 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What's the current best local/open speech-to-speech setup?
    ×1.66 43 | 250 points by dsrtslnd23 2 days ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?
    ×3.05 82 | 455 points by terabytest 5 days ago | 451 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How to reach out to a commenter under an old submission (nick_m)?
    ×0.34 74 | 4 points by jsumn 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Tell HN: 2 years building a kids audio app as a solo dev – lessons learned
    ×1.05 91 | 136 points by oliverjanssen 4 days ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Have we confused efficiency with "100% utilization"?
    ×1.63 73 | 27 points by nickevante 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What usually happens after a VC asks for a demo?
    ×0.74 87 | 12 points by stijo 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: May an agent accept a license to produce a build?
    ×0.73 81 | 26 points by athrowaway3z 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Why are so many rolling out their own AI/LLM agent sandboxing solution?
    ×1.08 134 | 32 points by ATechGuy 4 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Career transition question – assistance, MLOps guidance
    ×0.34 114 | 4 points by Pierre_Esteves 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Why does the number of datasets on data.gov vary so much?
    ×0.76 95 | 8 points by akudha 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Thinking about memory for AI coding agents
    ×0.67 98 | 7 points by hoangnnguyen 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What are some good unintuitive statistics problems?
    ×0.69 103 | 6 points by ronbenton 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Rust and AI builders interested in local-first, multi-agent systems?
    ×0.43 135 | 3 points by cajazzer 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How to redeem a gift card without risking lock-out?
    ×1.08 107 | 6 points by magnetic 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Weekend Social: Top two programming languages and what they can borrow?
    ×0.59 139 | 3 points by susam 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Revive a mostly dead Discord server
    ×0.30 168 | 20 points by movedx 5 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Coding assistants are slow. So we multitask
    ×0.59 108 | 4 points by brunaxLorax 23 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Do you "micro-manage" your agents?
    ×0.57 145 | 7 points by xinbenlv 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Locked out of my GCP account for 3 days, still charged, can't redirect domain
    ×1.34 130 | 14 points by lifeoflee 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Does DDG no longer honor "site:" prefix?
    ×0.64 131 | 19 points by everybodyknows 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Best practice securing secrets on local machines working with agents?
    ×0.30 162 | 9 points by xinbenlv 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Which common map projections make Greenland look smaller?
    ×0.50 173 | 19 points by jimnotgym 5 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: How do you AI code from your phone?
    ×1.88 122 | 7 points by splitbrain 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: How do you authorize AI agent actions in production?
    ×0.67 181 | 6 points by naolbeyene 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: LLMs for new job categories?
    ×0.71 149 | 7 points by aavci 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: General purpose search engine that will respect special characters?
    ×0.85 129 | 4 points by what-if 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Seeeking help to reverse engineer a PCB
    ×0.52 104 | 20 points by Dlg001 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Does "Zapier for payment automation" exist?
    ×0.25 183 | 8 points by PL_Venard 4 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Where do you look for semiconductor jobs?
    ×0.39 152 | 4 points by johncole 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Is Claude Down for You?
    ×0.83 123 | 26 points by philip1209 3 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Tell HN: Claude session limits getting small
    ×1.40 146 | 24 points by pragmaticalien8 4 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. AI hallucinate. Do you ever double check the output?
    ×0.33 142 | 8 points by jackota 2 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: What is your opinion on non-mainstream mobile OS options (e.g. /e/OS)?
    ×0.53 179 | 6 points by sendes 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Tell HN: Avoid Cerebras if you are a founder
    ×2.47 136 | 35 points by remusomega 4 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Tell HN: AI is all about the tools (for now)
    ×0.71 156 | 3 points by keepamovin 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. ChatGPT has no real-time clock – time awareness is essential
    ×0.98 157 | 3 points by Stehpwtimace 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Dismantling dark patterns using TDD via discovery and injunctions
    ×0.45 166 | 4 points by marc_litchfield 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ask HN: Do B2B deals stall more from "org blindness" than product fit?
    ×1.02 151 | 6 points by Tanjim 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: What's the best virtual Linux desktop experience on macOS for devs?
    ×0.78 164 | 8 points by darkteflon 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. A possible future architecture for decoupled GUIs
    ×0.73 159 | 3 points by powerwordtree 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Tell HN: Cursor agent force-pushed despite explicit "ask for permission" rules
    ×0.47 161 | 7 points by xinbenlv 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Ask HN: How do you verify cron jobs did what they were supposed to?
    ×0.91 165 | 8 points by BlackPearl02 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Tell HN: Drowning in information but still missing everything
    ×1.83 155 | 11 points by akhil08agrawal 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Ask HN: Have you managed to switch to Bluesky for tech people?
    ×2.34 154 | 10 points by fuegoio 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Tell HN: Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday
    ×3.88 72 | 464 points by Daemon404 4 days ago | 502 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Ask HN: How to introduce Claude Code to a team?
    ×0.67 187 | 11 points by 9dev 5 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Ask HN: Modern test automation software (Python/Go/TS)?
    ×0.42 172 | 7 points by rajkumar14 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Tell HN: Amazon has deactivated my seller account
    ×2.09 106 | 78 points by hacky_engineer 4 days ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Ask HN: Industrial smart glasses with online / offline capabilities?
    ×0.30 191 | 4 points by aureliusm 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Ask HN: Why is the Lua web / related ecosystem so stagnant?
    ×0.20 | 2 points by jmspring 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Ask HN: Is there any good open source model with reliable agentic capabilities?
    ×0.53 182 | 5 points by baalimago 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. How do you keep AI-generated applications consistent as they evolve over time?
    ×1.01 176 | 10 points by RobertSerber 4 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Ask HN: What are good resources to get familiar with AI code editors?
    ×1.66 180 | 9 points by northfield27 4 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Ask HN: Why does SOC 2 feel so hard for early-stage startups?
    ×3.82 171 | 12 points by asdxrfx 4 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Ask HN: Why does Google Maps still use mercator projection?
    ×1.86 186 | 6 points by hbarka 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Ask HN: What are best ways to contribute to science in free time?
    ×2.74 115 | 7 points by gajnadsgjoas 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Ask HN: How to Follow the Bosses' Wants
    ×0.70 175 | 3 points by drekipus 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Ask HN: What have you built/shipped with Claude Code?
    ×1.49 174 | 10 points by blhack 5 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Ask HN: I am a surgeon/doctor. what AI literature/courses would you recommend?
    ×2.15 119 | 5 points by emmabruns 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Ask HN: Why don't winter gloves have mechanical fingers?
    ×0.36 | 2 points by amichail 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Ask HN: Vibe-coded prototypes: what happens when they go into production?
    ×1.19 190 | 6 points by stosssik 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Ask HN: Similar to Brex what are some crazy company pivots no one talks about
    ×1.49 121 | 5 points by nemath 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Tell HN: We have not yet discovered the rules of vibe coding
    ×0.81 184 | 4 points by 0xbadcafebee 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Tell HN: Claude helped me maintain my old open source project
    ×2.45 167 | 13 points by nergal 4 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Ask HN: What's a good format to submit CSV data for LLMs?
    ×0.53 | 2 points by JimsonYang 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Ask HN: Will agentic AI grow to handle technology leadership responsibilities?
    ×0.88 169 | 4 points by gengstrand 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Ask HN: What's an API that you wish existed?
    ×1.16 185 | 11 points by tornikeo 5 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Ask HN: What non-fiction do you read?
    ×1.24 177 | 18 points by yanis_t 5 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Working on reducing wasted distribution effort before publishing posts
    ×0.26 | 2 points by ryujii 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Do people at Google use Gmail?
    ×1.39 194 | 5 points by mr-pink 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Ask HN: Anyone doing production image editing with image models? How?
    ×0.32 192 | 4 points by geooff_ 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Ask HN: How did Gemini go from being awful to incredible back to awful?
    ×1.37 189 | 6 points by wewewedxfgdf 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Tell HN: Cloudflare's D1 service degraded since 2 days
    ×3.26 138 | 9 points by iowahansen 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Ask HN: Unusual Network Filter
    ×0.52 193 | 4 points by gman21 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Ask HN: Room left for the "industrial" systems engineer in a post-cloud world?
    ×0.32 | 2 points by infraphysics 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Ask HN: How are you handling non-probabilistic security for LLM agents?
    ×0.33 | 2 points by amjadfatmi1 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Ask HN: How would you promote a song digitally?
    ×0.76 | 2 points by radicalethics 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Ask HN: How realistically far are we from AGI?
    ×0.20 | 2 points by HipstaJules 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. What software businesses worked in the early Internet? Can they work again?
    ×0.36 | 2 points by tsingy 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Ask HN: Do you protect your client-side JavaScript? Why or why not?
    ×1.25 197 | 5 points by nikitaeverywher 4 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Ask HN: What are the recommender systems papers from 2024-2025?
    ×1.49 178 | 15 points by haensi 5 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Ask HN: What's your biggest challenge with context engineering for AI agents?
    ×0.96 195 | 5 points by karpathunter 4 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Ask HN: What single AI tool/technique 10x'd your productivity last year?
    ×1.77 188 | 7 points by laxmena 4 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Ask HN: Are you going to meetups/conferences?
    ×2.63 170 | 12 points by carimura 4 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Ask HN: Are you using Clawdbot? What are your use cases?
    ×1.48 120 | 4 points by amrrs 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Ask HN: What should I write about next? (CS student learning by writing)
    ×1.11 196 | 5 points by Aditya_kachhawa 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???