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  1. Ask HN: How are you doing RAG locally?
    ×1.97 2 #8 | 130 points by tmaly 7 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Share your personal website
    ×2.84 2 #11 | 597 points by susam 15 hours ago | 1672 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?
    ×2.11 2 #17 | 79 points by blahaj 6 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Weird archive.today behavior?
    ×2.67 20 #27 | 113 points by rabinovich 6 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What is the best way to provide continuous context to models?
    ×0.96 2 #31 | 45 points by nemath 6 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: How do you safely give LLMs SSH/DB access?
    ×0.91 12 #52 | 75 points by nico 14 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Distributed SQL engine for ultra-wide tables
    ×0.54 29 #58 | 12 points by synsqlbythesea 5 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Are you worried, and care, about AI stealing your code/secrets?
    ×1.32 | 2 points by fnoef 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Why does Google still provide an open redirect for phishers?
    ×1.47 1 #69 | 14 points by throwaway89201 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Trying to find a website featured on HN that listed restaurants in NYC
    ×1.57 6 #89 | 11 points by laffOr 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Iran's 120h internet shutdown, phones back. How to stay resilient?
    ×1.63 65 | 107 points by us321 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Thoughts on maintaining anonymity against state-level actors?
    ×2.29 18 | 8 points by adamanteye 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Tell HN: A Proposal to Modernize Xorg as a Protocol-Only Graphics Layer
    ×0.82 46 | 5 points by powerwordtree 15 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. The $LANG Programming Language
    ×1.51 7 | 260 points by dang 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Tell HN: Properly using dishwasher reduced friction with my wife
    ×1.84 68 | 10 points by xylo 12 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
    ×1.14 92 | 256 points by david927 3 days ago | 858 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: ADHD – How do you manage the constant stream of thoughts and ideas?
    ×2.65 50 | 112 points by chriswright1664 1 day ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Quantum Computation, Computers and Programming
    ×0.52 96 | 31 points by rramadass 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Vxlan over WireGuard or WireGuard over Vxlan?
    ×0.85 86 | 44 points by mlhpdx 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Best setup for Golang HTTP API development in 2026?
    ×0.94 88 | 4 points by labarilem 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Tell HN: DigitalOcean's managed services broke each other after update
    ×1.16 100 | 76 points by neilfrndes 2 days ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Trouble Redeeming YC Student Event Deal?
    ×0.36 | 2 points by NirekShetty 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Discrepancy between Lichess and Stockfish
    ×0.54 113 | 21 points by HNLurker2 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Tell HN: Cloudflare's broken abuse report system, lack of staff to review issues
    ×0.90 101 | 3 points by rtsam 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Form History Control is great. Why doesn't Firefox integrate it?
    ×1.14 102 | 3 points by Openai2 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Are diffs still useful for AI-assisted code changes?
    ×0.56 104 | 5 points by nuky 14 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Looking for Windows contributors for meeting-detection engine
    ×0.42 142 | 7 points by Ayobamiu 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. How do small property management teams handle data entry from tenant documents?
    ×0.43 | 2 points by scannyai 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: How are teams sourcing long-term GPU capacity outside hyperscalers?
    ×1.43 91 | 5 points by dloku 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Make cemeteries in cities less offensive by using virtual headstones?
    ×0.43 | 2 points by amichail 12 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Anything Down?
    ×0.50 125 | 3 points by Artur-Defences 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: CRM vs. HubSpot
    ×0.39 | 2 points by isura 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: What makes someone hate their job?
    ×1.01 107 | 5 points by agcat 15 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Critical review of a spec-first economic protocol
    ×0.48 | 2 points by AGsist 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Tell HN: I Downgraded from macOS Tahoe to Sequoia
    ×1.97 109 | 9 points by inatreecrown2 22 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Tell HN: Setting boundaries with people
    ×1.52 116 | 4 points by zwilderrr 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Tell HN: Intel could blow up the Console Wars if it had the guts
    ×1.19 135 | 8 points by noumenon1111 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: Amazon Robotics SDE – new grad expectations?
    ×0.99 132 | 3 points by aroy21 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: Could AI prevent the decline of social media by highlighting usernames?
    ×0.56 | 2 points by amichail 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: What's your opinion on a VR/XR business?
    ×0.58 | 2 points by izwasm 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: Did Glassdoor figure out your identity?
    ×0.51 | 2 points by penguin_booze 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ask HN: Who remembers AWS Spot's auction era before the 2017 pricing change?
    ×0.27 164 | 3 points by aleroawani 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: 500 citation MSc CS, stuck in a low-trust region. How to move forward?
    ×0.64 119 | 19 points by throwawaysafely 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Ask HN: Any evidence AI coding assistants are helping open source projects?
    ×1.67 94 | 6 points by UncleOxidant 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Tell HN: The Google Tenor GIF API has been shut down
    ×2.25 112 | 25 points by dfajgljsldkjag 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Ask HN: Learning Discoverability
    ×0.19 | 2 points by learnwithmattc 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Ask HN: How to find gaps and oppurtunities in the AI era?
    ×0.93 129 | 6 points by SRMohitkr 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Ask HN: Are you underutilizing your insurance too?
    ×1.51 138 | 7 points by nemath 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Ask HN: When has a "dumb" solution beaten a sophisticated one for you?
    ×0.36 171 | 12 points by amadeuswoo 4 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Is "AI vibe coding" making prototyping worse inside real companies?
    ×1.67 126 | 16 points by arapkuliev 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Ask HN: What made you move back to HTML-to-PDF in production?
    ×1.36 150 | 6 points by gokulsiva 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Ask HN: Recommendations for self hostable OCR to extract code from images
    ×1.66 173 | 3 points by vivzkestrel 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Ask HN: Job seekers, what's working / not working?
    ×0.86 143 | 19 points by Jabbs 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Ask HN: How are you preventing LLM hallucinations in production systems?
    ×0.21 | 2 points by kundan_s__r 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Ask HN: Does anyone else think that humanoid robots is a bubble?
    ×1.15 149 | 5 points by NewUser76312 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Ask HN: Senior engineering mngrs: how has AI changed your day-to-day work?
    ×0.97 156 | 35 points by kitetm 4 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Unpopular Opinion: Bootstrap is a better front-end framework than Tailwind
    ×1.35 127 | 24 points by pyeri 2 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Eleva.js – A 2.3KB JavaScript framework with signals and no virtual DOM
    ×0.89 161 | 4 points by TarekRaafat 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Experiment: Using NotebookLM as a cynical code reviewer (via custom prompts)
    ×0.25 | 2 points by practicalaifg 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Gh Account Permabanned – Help?
    ×1.11 134 | 10 points by nicomeemes 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Ask HN: Story about a CEO going off on a user who left feedback?
    ×0.61 168 | 3 points by VladVladikoff 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Ask HN: How do you prevent AI agents from going rogue in production?
    ×0.68 169 | 3 points by techbuilder4242 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Ask HN: Salesforce, SAP, or ServiceNow: Which Is Most Ripe for Disruption?
    ×0.66 145 | 7 points by Saurabh_Kumar_ 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. My casual chat with AI about cancer led to an internal prototype named"Onco-Bus"
    ×0.40 | 2 points by sony707 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Ask HN: Is it time for HN to implement a form of captcha?
    ×0.95 153 | 89 points by Rooster61 6 days ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Ask HN: Best way to find chill job where I can learn and grow as a swe
    ×0.46 162 | 35 points by digitdiglet 6 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Ask HN: Where is all the protest music?
    ×1.38 137 | 11 points by swiper_lux 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Ask HN: Erratic HN front page algorithm
    ×0.46 167 | 7 points by 7777777phil 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Ask HN: How do you automate your release notes?
    ×0.44 157 | 10 points by dustfinger 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Ask HN: Is Programming as a Profession Cooked?
    ×0.76 159 | 20 points by fnoef 3 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Ask HN: Has anyone built payment flows inside AI voice calls?
    ×0.39 172 | 6 points by wasiyc 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Tell HN: Get a dying iPhone 12 mini in 2026
    ×0.54 170 | 28 points by remywang 6 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Ask HN: Speculate About a Hypothetical Cyber Exploit That Would Leverage AI
    ×0.28 174 | 3 points by burnerToBetOut 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. China's Z.ai claims it trained a model using only Huawei hardware (theregister.com)
    ×2.46 29 | 4 points by 50kIters 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Video: Fixing North America's Big Elevator Problem (sightline.org)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by NN88 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Tenor API is shutting down
    ×1.26 | 2 points by ankushkun_ 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Geoguess Lite – open-source, subscription free GeoGuessr alternative (geoguesslite.com)
    ×1.95 147 | 16 points by spider-hand 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Free Online Calculators (freeonlinecal.com)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by eashish93 47 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Would you listen to my playlist while you work today? (suno.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by spotlayn 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Richard Linklater's love letter to the New Wave (observer.co.uk)
    ×1.48 | 2 points by tintinnabula 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. US to suspend immigrant visa processing for 75 nations, State Department says (reuters.com)
    ×7.78 52 | 141 points by barishnamazov 13 hours ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Serverless Compute Platform for AWS (github.com/acikelli)
    ×0.65 | 2 points by oacikelli 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Introducing tempo (github.com/galaxy-io)
    ×0.85 75 #76 | 6 points by ikswolzok 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Stop using natural language interfaces (leaflet.pub)
    ×1.63 50 #83 | 121 points by steveklabnik 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Let's be honest, Generative AI isn't going all that well (garymarcus.substack.com)
    ×3.46 34 | 224 points by 7777777phil 1 day ago | 311 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Print Your Anki Decks to Paper (widloski.com)
    ×1.07 163 | 3 points by Evidlo 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. AI tools boost individual scientists but could limit research as a whole (nature.com)
    ×1.17 | 2 points by oliverulerich 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Classic games of pro dota list (classicdota.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by marysminefnuf 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. The Last Intellectual (nplusonemag.com)
    ×0.82 | 1 points by samclemens 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. How much of my observability data is waste? (usetero.com)
    ×1.24 10 #57 | 108 points by binarylogic 16 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???