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  1. Ask HN: UK Rescue Rocket Sheds/Houses Information
    ×0.78 5 #31 | 19 points by burnt-resistor 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Show your micro-SaaS (September 2026)
    ×1.31 33 | 4 points by genekrapivin 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?
    ×0.59 21 | 3 points by imadtaieber 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?
    ×1.02 75 | 188 points by sukit 3 days ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Resources to get good at soldering?
    ×1.35 52 | 267 points by tosmatos 4 days ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What's the best place to learn about skills and AI for coding in general
    ×1.22 8 | 4 points by rrmdp 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
    ×1.99 64 | 400 points by halcdev 3 days ago | 702 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026)
    ×1.14 93 | 248 points by whoishiring 5 days ago | 345 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Are we normalizing surveillance in the name of safety?
    ×0.15 | 2 points by dennysora-main 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Astra still fails at creating acceptable Rotational Ambigram
    ×0.23 80 | 3 points by das_vicky 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Tell HN: I want to see the same moon as you
    ×0.99 106 | 13 points by UnderABlueMoon 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2026)
    ×0.66 112 | 111 points by whoishiring 5 days ago | 481 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Tell HN: Both recent GCP outages caused by fiber optic maintenance
    ×0.59 127 | 19 points by fastest963 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Cutting (Claude Code) token spend on dynamic workflows 80%
    ×0.35 | 2 points by gojkoa 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Are others seeing Google's reCAPTCHA rejecting Firefox users?
    ×1.46 92 | 71 points by Animats 3 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Are people who only seem happy when they're angry increasing? Seems like it
    ×0.78 69 | 4 points by Webstir 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: 30, burnt out, with 6-10 months of runway. What would you do?
    ×1.66 113 | 31 points by throwaway_30yo 4 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Any Alternatives to Archive.ph & co?
    ×0.76 115 | 7 points by hebelehubele 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. MITx is ending access to its courses for learners in Iran on September 8
    ×1.05 116 | 5 points by mahdihabibi 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Who is using FPGA for ML inference?
    ×0.59 141 | 10 points by softwarewright 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: How do you build organic traction as an indie dev?
    ×0.72 101 | 7 points by charm137 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Founders that raised funding and shutdown, did you raise again?
    ×0.43 130 | 18 points by asim 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: How have interviews changed over the last year?
    ×1.35 91 | 12 points by mikodin 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: What is the ideal email domain setup?
    ×0.75 155 | 7 points by bix6 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Is AI a Powerdrill?
    ×0.43 121 | 4 points by dfps 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Tell HN: NVIDIA's Acquisition of HuggingFace was for $HuggingFace
    ×2.50 104 | 43 points by MontagFTB 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Xfinity silently blocks lots of new domains
    ×1.68 114 | 15 points by dschwartz18 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Fable hacked my piano, can I release the results?
    ×0.74 118 | 5 points by jmpman 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Books Recommendations?
    ×1.09 125 | 7 points by washelterskelte 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Initial Thoughts on GPT-6 Astra?
    ×0.83 124 | 8 points by zof3 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Laptop or Desktop?
    ×0.73 162 | 7 points by Gecko4072 3 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: How do you guys keep up with the most cost-effective AI models?
    ×0.13 187 | 4 points by solomonmwalker 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Astra One Shotted Cains's Jawbone
    ×0.62 126 | 5 points by marcushyett 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Are technical blogs dead?
    ×0.70 144 | 13 points by quaintdev 3 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. OpenAI's rogue agents used ntfy.sh as a pub/sub channel
    ×0.39 147 | 3 points by coderinsan 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Why don't we talk about context window size anymore?
    ×0.86 149 | 5 points by rce123 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Word42 1.0.0 Released
    ×0.57 129 | 5 points by andreasrosdal 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: Why isn't there a cursor for video games development
    ×0.31 | 2 points by JimsonYang 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: Why do many websites use a sign-in code instead of a password?
    ×1.25 143 | 8 points by bariumbitmap 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: How do you know if you have a product problem or a distribution one?
    ×1.20 133 | 6 points by mustafak99 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: Is there a test for measuring cognitive affects from LLM usage?
    ×1.91 146 | 9 points by niwrad 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Is there any way to contribute to nitter and xcancel's legal fights?
    ×0.98 128 | 8 points by orange999 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: Could AI eventually build god?
    ×1.11 163 | 6 points by olirex99 3 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Ask HN: How do we build a team? (bootstrapped B2B startup)
    ×0.78 181 | 4 points by theonlinx 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Tell HN: Check your Claude settings, it may have silently enabled remote access
    ×0.75 140 | 6 points by cromka 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Ask HN: Do all of you use Cloudflare for preventing DDoS, Bot and more attacks?
    ×0.23 | 2 points by skwasimin 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Ask HN: Accountants working with ecommerce
    ×0.23 190 | 3 points by vasyl_kyryliuk 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Ask HN: Where do you get your AI (technology) news?
    ×0.46 179 | 8 points by BtM909 4 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Apple Just Fixed TestFlight (macrumors.com)
    ×2.01 | 2 points by 7777777phil 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Signing TLS handshakes inside a TPM (bschaatsbergen.com)
    ×2.38 57 | 5 points by bschaatsbergen 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. How the Disaster of "Forever Chemicals" Was Kept Secret (propublica.org)
    ×4.25 3 | 318 points by stevenwoo 1 day ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Open source ML programming language playground (sw-ml-study.github.io)
    ×1.36 160 | 11 points by softwarewrighte 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings (lapcatsoftware.com)
    ×4.80 7 #46 | 547 points by ExMachina73 21 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes (beige.party)
    ×8.38 69 #71 | 1172 points by mraniki 8 hours ago | 242 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. XCancel service is resumed following legal progress from Nitter (xcancel.com)
    ×2.68 21 | 6 points by bagelreindeersn 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: HN Match Maker – Matching "Who Wants to Be Hired?" With "Who's Hiring?" (hnmatchmaker.com)
    ×0.97 108 | 125 points by all2 5 days ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: What if AI did the prompting – and humans did the thinking? (antiagent.site)
    ×1.04 165 | 4 points by EnthusiastShiv 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: VODForge – a free local desktop UI for YouTube video/playlist downloads (getvodforge.com)
    ×1.04 14 #8 | 13 points by coopernusbaum 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. M-DISC – DVD/Blu-ray compatible discs that may last up to 1000 years (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.37 23 #19 | 166 points by gurjeet 12 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Watch GPT 6 play NetHack (twitch.tv)
    ×1.08 | 2 points by kenforthewin 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Global warming will exceed 1.5-degree limit, UN says (pbs.org)
    ×6.36 7 | 331 points by ijidak 1 day ago | 380 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Reactor Atlas (reactoratlas.com)
    ×0.80 89 | 77 points by fedecaccia 3 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Running 104GB Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on 48GB Mac with at ~12 tok/s (github.com/carloslfu)
    ×1.49 94 | 239 points by carloslfu 5 days ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Local Mitsubishi AC Control with ESPHome and an AtomS3 Lite (didac.dev)
    ×0.74 168 | 3 points by sabatesduran 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Mador – Make any DOM reactive with a tiny 80-line Proxy state tuple (github.com/marsbos)
    ×0.96 8 #2 | 27 points by bosmarcel 53 minutes ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Vidact – a compiler that turns React into direct DOM operations (vidact.dev)
    ×0.86 19 #16 | 37 points by mohebifar 4 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. "The Heroic Ideal – A Personal Odyssey" by Diana Wynne Jones (livejournal.com)
    ×1.09 | 2 points by barry-cotter 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Claude's new system prompt doesn't want to reproduce song lyrics (simonwillison.net)
    ×2.11 65 | 69 points by Bluestein 1 day ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. This Month in Ladybird – August 2026 (ladybird.org)
    ×8.43 77 | 65 points by exploraz 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: I Have Been Clawed – Index of coding agent incidents (ihavebeenclawed.com)
    ×1.48 145 | 23 points by nezhar 4 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Windrunner – AI-powered project collaboration workspace (shzlw.github.io)
    ×0.65 180 | 8 points by yuegui 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. AI, Tools and Transformation (ben-evans.com)
    ×1.28 47 #40 | 137 points by firexcy 19 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Balrogg: Demonically compacting (up to 15%) lossless Vorbis/Opus recompressor (github.com/iczelia)
    ×0.88 68 #63 | 95 points by palaiologos 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter (openrouter.ai)
    ×1.79 52 #78 | 316 points by Topfi 1 day ago | 230 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems (sylvainkalache.com)
    ×2.61 21 #84 | 399 points by sylvainkalache 1 day ago | 338 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: OwnTime – a chess clock for your day's priorities (owntime.app)
    ×1.38 96 | 115 points by fmos 5 days ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. 2026 Hugo Awards (thehugoawards.org)
    ×1.76 8 #61 | 61 points by signa11 8 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem (anthropic.com)
    ×3.00 28 #76 | 763 points by jlebar 2 days ago | 496 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. GPT-6 Astra on robot arms (robocurve.org)
    ×2.17 6 #70 | 229 points by Anon84 19 hours ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Governing Well in the Algorithmic Age: The Foundations of Digital Statecraft (arxiv.org)
    ×0.36 | 1 points by xtoilette 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Amaze Kings – a browser logic puzzle with 1,400 hand-graded levels (amaze-apps.com)
    ×1.08 83 | 16 points by amaze-apps-com 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Sageling - a local AI agent for Mac, Qwen 3.5 9B in-process via MLX (sageling.ai)
    ×1.79 131 | 7 points by kirillklimuk 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Asahi Linux on M3 (asahilinux.org)
    ×3.33 1 #13 | 255 points by mdp2021 7 hours ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Delidded Intel I9-14900KS CT Scan (lttlabs.com)
    ×1.07 69 #60 | 118 points by willx86 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: A benchmark for flight search intent (fjmatrix.github.io)
    ×1.19 178 | 5 points by rabbit_1 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. How Swiss tables work in Go built-in map (victoriametrics.com)
    ×0.86 65 #59 | 95 points by valyala 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Newton's Orchard – Browser-based space/gravity playground (newtonsorchard.app)
    ×0.58 139 | 32 points by andrewchilds 5 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. GrapheneOS Overhauled Default Apps and Secure Clipboard (grapheneos.social)
    ×1.92 6 #3 | 37 points by Cider9986 1 hour ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Doomscrolling Ourselves to Death (edwest.co.uk)
    ×2.43 1 #17 | 322 points by shubhamjain 9 hours ago | 224 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Salt Men of Iran (2011) (archive.org)
    ×1.78 17 | 3 points by joebig 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???