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  1. Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?
    ×1.09 41 #27 | 134 points by sukit 16 hours ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
    ×2.08 5 #48 | 385 points by halcdev 1 day ago | 547 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Do all of you use Cloudflare for preventing DDoS, Bot and more attacks?
    ×0.48 | 2 points by skwasimin 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tell HN: Both recent GCP outages caused by fiber optic maintenance
    ×0.68 73 | 14 points by fastest963 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Are others seeing Google's reCAPTCHA rejecting Firefox users?
    ×1.60 16 | 62 points by Animats 20 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026)
    ×1.14 71 | 244 points by whoishiring 3 days ago | 328 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: 30, burnt out, with 6-10 months of runway. What would you do?
    ×2.08 44 | 26 points by throwaway_30yo 2 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Who is using FPGA for ML inference?
    ×0.81 86 | 10 points by softwarewright 18 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2026)
    ×0.66 97 | 109 points by whoishiring 3 days ago | 442 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What is the ideal email domain setup?
    ×1.09 93 | 6 points by bix6 16 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Tell HN: NVIDIA's Acquisition of HuggingFace was for $HuggingFace
    ×2.45 39 | 34 points by MontagFTB 18 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Founders that raised funding and shutdown, did you raise again?
    ×0.45 91 | 17 points by asim 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Laptop or Desktop?
    ×1.05 110 | 6 points by Gecko4072 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How do you guys keep up with the most cost-effective AI models?
    ×0.24 131 | 4 points by solomonmwalker 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Why is HN native dark mode not implemented yet?
    ×0.92 94 | 3 points by SriniK 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Are technical blogs dead?
    ×0.74 104 | 12 points by quaintdev 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Why do many websites use a sign-in code instead of a password?
    ×1.76 74 | 7 points by bariumbitmap 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Is there a test for measuring cognitive affects from LLM usage?
    ×2.40 95 | 7 points by niwrad 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How do we build a team? (bootstrapped B2B startup)
    ×0.83 125 | 3 points by theonlinx 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: How do you market Open Source Software?
    ×0.77 92 | 5 points by Daniel-Pan 14 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Accountants working with ecommerce
    ×0.26 135 | 3 points by vasyl_kyryliuk 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Tell HN: The Thoughts and Woes of a Full-Time Founder Part 1
    ×0.80 113 | 3 points by lcampbellsoup 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: iPhone Camera on indicator
    ×0.58 | 2 points by zahirbmirza 18 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Resources to Get Good at Soldering?
    ×0.94 145 | 10 points by tosmatos 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Could AI eventually build god?
    ×1.32 103 | 5 points by olirex99 19 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. One-person startup: a Cornell postdoc wants to put AI in everyone's hands
    ×0.51 | 2 points by modelslive 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: How do you gate an autonomous coding agent's shell access?
    ×0.44 | 2 points by alanfuNZ 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Why does free time become another thing you have to use correctly?
    ×0.73 129 | 3 points by nullifypreset 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Are guardrails being baked into models, or enforced outside them?
    ×0.51 | 2 points by arkj 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Tell HN: Dropbox Data Breach
    ×1.48 128 | 51 points by hmate9 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Beware: Malicious Profiles on YC Co-Founder Matching
    ×0.48 115 | 5 points by pain_perdu 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Can we classify AI as: subhuman, quasihuman, human, superhumam?
    ×0.72 137 | 3 points by aunekiaru 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Where do you get your AI (technology) news?
    ×0.48 146 | 8 points by BtM909 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Returning from the AI brain-rot state, re-take the thinking ownership
    ×3.39 111 | 8 points by tuleiff 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: What would happen if your company stopped using all AI tomorrow?
    ×0.63 138 | 40 points by jc_811 4 days ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Where do I go?
    ×0.63 | 2 points by dannydark1 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. ChatGPT Linux GUI version updates redownload all files, require 1.4GB download
    ×0.42 140 | 10 points by juujian 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: How much does licensing approach influence purchase decisions?
    ×0.43 | 2 points by terranivium 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Tell HN: Xbox Game Pass now limits the amount of hours each month
    ×3.14 88 | 7 points by nodesocket 15 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: A tool to share my data?
    ×0.37 | 2 points by roromainmain 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. IBM Bob (ibm.com)
    ×2.07 21 #32 | 106 points by artpar 3 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Big-b-router – Edit OSM maps to avoid ALPRs in Osmand or Comaps (github.com/pickpj)
    ×0.87 162 | 4 points by gentile 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Hackers Had a Live Feed of Every ID Verification Company Scanned for over a Year (techdirt.com)
    ×4.96 1 #12 | 452 points by beardyw 9 hours ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Go grandmaster Shin defeats AI KataGo with a two-stone handicap (kedglobal.com)
    ×2.75 32 #20 | 425 points by gmays 1 day ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. A PCB business card with a batteryless LED, powered by the phone that taps it (kevin.md)
    ×1.27 41 #55 | 93 points by thekevintang 18 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Parque Arqueológico do Solstício (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.55 61 #82 | 58 points by nycdatasci 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. How concerned should we be about Astra's recurrent architecture? (lesswrong.com)
    ×1.30 7 | 139 points by yurivish 23 hours ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Sentrint, Ship AI features without losing sleep (sentrint.com)
    ×0.78 12 | 3 points by xEcho 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: What Happens When You Give Your AI Agents a Voice and an Attitude (fellowgeek.github.io)
    ×1.38 168 | 10 points by pcbmaker20 4 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Muse Spark 1.3 (meta.com)
    ×2.42 7 #80 | 682 points by bvaldivielso 1 day ago | 445 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Mom gets 6-month suspended sentence for letting 5-year-old walk to the pond (reason.com)
    ×6.05 14 | 275 points by softwaredoug 1 day ago | 277 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Floe – an open-source plugin for sample libraries – CLAP/VST3/AU (floe.audio)
    ×0.59 153 | 22 points by windell 4 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: I built a version of Omarchy that runs on Apple Silicon (github.com/themartiano)
    ×8.98 106 | 24 points by martiano 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Gloria Steinem has died (theguardian.com)
    ×2.32 2 | 150 points by mellosouls 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: StockFly, a portfolio tracker in any currency at historical FX rates (stockfly.app)
    ×1.14 166 | 3 points by khorsus 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Have We Destroyed Childhood? (newyorker.com)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by Brajeshwar 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Flawd is mutation testing for the AI era (fixture.dev)
    ×1.02 163 | 4 points by fohara 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. My practical approach to surfing the web safely (molily.de)
    ×0.60 65 #89 | 27 points by ethanhawksley 22 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Budget Silicon Manufacturing (wafer.space)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by kristianpaul 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Ask HN: Framework to Manage Firecracker?
    ×1.11 | 2 points by ilbert 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Pause OpenAI Now (garymarcus.substack.com)
    ×8.92 85 | 32 points by ForHackernews 1 hour ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. VC isn't VC anymore (anildash.com)
    ×4.55 1 | 182 points by tlhunter 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. The Silo · interactive 3D cutaway (qualityf2p.workers.dev)
    ×1.94 78 | 73 points by duck 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. A thousand years older than Stonehenge: Archaeologists explore a Czech sanctuary (zcu.cz)
    ×0.50 65 #85 | 34 points by nairboon 23 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Understanding China's Frontier AI Landscape (emergingtrajectories.com)
    ×2.20 47 | 3 points by cl42 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Vectra – Offline CVE and GTFOBins intelligence engine for your terminal (github.com/addisabrham36-boop)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by Portzer0 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. ChatGPT outage – Resolved (chatgpt.com)
    ×4.21 30 | 362 points by stacktrace 1 day ago | 318 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Radia – agent coordination with leases, permissions and provenance (radia.sh)
    ×0.61 | 2 points by ymodulo 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Developers want to write code by hand (orchidfiles.com)
    ×1.80 43 | 3 points by theorchid 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Triplox, a distributed Datalog engine with incremental queries (github.com/fiV0)
    ×1.03 143 | 3 points by fiv0 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. CERN Transitioning Computers To Debian After Being A Longtime RHEL Institution (phoronix.com)
    ×2.42 17 #66 | 37 points by thunderbong 7 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Rare Half-Male, Half-Female Bird Took Up Residence Outside of Chicago (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×0.78 | 1 points by gmays 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Micron 6600 Ion 245TB: Swap the Hard Drives, Power an NVL72 for Free (storagereview.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by rbanffy 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-6 Astra (cnbc.com)
    ×4.73 33 | 274 points by maskil 22 hours ago | 251 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. SubImage (YC W25) Is Hiring a Founding Engineer in SF (ycombinator.com)
    4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Audacity 4.0 (github.com/audacity)
    ×4.70 38 #67 | 1124 points by ClydeN 1 day ago | 260 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. blinks - AI knowledge graph that saves, connects, and chat with your links (github.com/RishabhKodes)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by e33or-assasin 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Principles for building agentic cloud from scratch (cantelop.dev)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by arsentjev 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Dutch central bank moves 86 tonnes of gold from US citing 'geopolitical unrest' (theguardian.com)
    ×4.19 62 | 76 points by Jimmc414 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Authorization terminology is a mess: Let's fix it (idpro.org)
    ×1.16 #33 | 100 points by andychiare 9 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Three schoolgirls in Kinsale pulled up a pea plant covered in warts (2014) (yahoo.com)
    ×1.22 66 #54 | 161 points by DamonHD 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on ARC-AGI-3 (arcprize.org)
    ×2.26 7 #57 | 226 points by vignesh_warar 20 hours ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. USPS Plays a 'Puzzle Game' with the Right to Vote (lawfaremedia.org)
    ×2.48 55 | 3 points by hn_acker 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Top ghost job complaints today – Ghost Job Index (ghostjobs.net)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by ghostjobsdotnet 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. AI Waste (kgadams.net)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by AgingGamer 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Fast weights and sparse attention in GLM-5.3-Flash (idlemachines.co.uk)
    ×1.84 24 | 3 points by smaddrellmander 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Cmdxray – explain any shell command, offline, with a shareable card (aurelio-nakamura.github.io)
    ×1.03 165 | 3 points by aurelionakamura 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: AI-powered cross stitch pattern maker (crossstitchpatternmaker.app)
    ×1.14 | 2 points by ooklwq 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Saving money on Google Photos with Immich: Your own personal photo storage (markpitblado.me)
    ×2.31 69 | 111 points by speckx 2 days ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: FrontierHarness Eval – 9 harness, same model, cost per pass varies 17x (frontierharness.org)
    ×1.14 81 | 81 points by shiqimei 2 days ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???