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  1. Ask HN: Resources to get good at soldering?
    ×1.44 46 #36 | 246 points by tosmatos 1 day ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?
    ×1.06 53 #80 | 184 points by sukit 2 days ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
    ×2.01 28 | 397 points by halcdev 2 days ago | 699 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tell HN: I want to see the same moon as you
    ×1.77 77 | 12 points by UnderABlueMoon 22 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How do you build organic traction as an indie dev?
    ×0.74 29 | 5 points by charm137 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026)
    ×1.14 81 | 247 points by whoishiring 4 days ago | 343 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2026)
    ×0.67 99 | 111 points by whoishiring 4 days ago | 469 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How have interviews changed over the last year?
    ×1.61 27 | 11 points by mikodin 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Any Alternatives to Archive.ph & co?
    ×0.75 86 | 5 points by hebelehubele 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Tell HN: Both recent GCP outages caused by fiber optic maintenance
    ×0.63 106 | 18 points by fastest963 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Is AI a Powerdrill?
    ×0.53 73 | 4 points by dfps 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Fable hacked my piano, can I release the results?
    ×0.76 78 | 4 points by jmpman 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Are others seeing Google's reCAPTCHA rejecting Firefox users?
    ×1.54 74 | 71 points by Animats 2 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: 30, burnt out, with 6-10 months of runway. What would you do?
    ×1.81 91 | 30 points by throwaway_30yo 3 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Astra One Shotted Cains's Jawbone
    ×0.98 85 | 5 points by marcushyett 16 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Books Recommendations?
    ×1.37 90 | 7 points by washelterskelte 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Who is using FPGA for ML inference?
    ×0.65 118 | 10 points by softwarewright 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Xfinity silently blocks lots of new domains
    ×1.80 88 | 14 points by dschwartz18 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Initial Thoughts on GPT-6 Astra?
    ×0.93 94 | 8 points by zof3 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. OpenAI's rogue agents used ntfy.sh as a pub/sub channel
    ×0.28 | 2 points by coderinsan 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Founders that raised funding and shutdown, did you raise again?
    ×0.45 110 | 18 points by asim 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: What is the ideal email domain setup?
    ×0.73 136 | 6 points by bix6 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Word42 1.0.0 Released
    ×0.69 97 | 5 points by andreasrosdal 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Tell HN: NVIDIA's Acquisition of HuggingFace was for $HuggingFace
    ×2.53 87 | 41 points by MontagFTB 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Laptop or Desktop?
    ×0.85 141 | 7 points by Gecko4072 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Why don't we talk about context window size anymore?
    ×1.05 116 | 5 points by rce123 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: How do you guys keep up with the most cost-effective AI models?
    ×0.15 168 | 4 points by solomonmwalker 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Why isn't there a cursor for video games development
    ×0.36 | 2 points by JimsonYang 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Are technical blogs dead?
    ×0.73 124 | 13 points by quaintdev 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: How do you know if you have a product problem or a distribution one?
    ×1.54 107 | 6 points by mustafak99 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Is there any way to contribute to nitter and xcancel's legal fights?
    ×1.05 102 | 8 points by orange999 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Why do many websites use a sign-in code instead of a password?
    ×1.39 123 | 8 points by bariumbitmap 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Tell HN: Check your Claude settings, it may have silently enabled remote access
    ×0.81 112 | 6 points by cromka 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Do all of you use Cloudflare for preventing DDoS, Bot and more attacks?
    ×0.24 | 2 points by skwasimin 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Is there a test for measuring cognitive affects from LLM usage?
    ×1.85 125 | 8 points by niwrad 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Could AI eventually build god?
    ×1.21 139 | 6 points by olirex99 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: How do we build a team? (bootstrapped B2B startup)
    ×0.85 160 | 4 points by theonlinx 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: Accountants working with ecommerce
    ×0.24 176 | 3 points by vasyl_kyryliuk 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: What is your biggest career regret?
    ×1.95 100 | 6 points by eudamoniac 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: Does anyone have access to GPT-6 Astra yet?
    ×1.84 105 | 7 points by zof3 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: What's Going on with Web.archive.org
    ×1.03 109 | 4 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ask HN: Why is HN native dark mode not implemented yet?
    ×0.66 161 | 3 points by SriniK 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: Where do you get your AI (technology) news?
    ×0.47 166 | 8 points by BtM909 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Ask HN: How do you market Open Source Software?
    ×0.61 140 | 5 points by Daniel-Pan 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Tell HN: The Thoughts and Woes of a Full-Time Founder Part 1
    ×0.64 172 | 3 points by lcampbellsoup 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Ask HN: Where do I go?
    ×0.46 | 2 points by dannydark1 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. ChatGPT Linux GUI version updates redownload all files, require 1.4GB download
    ×0.42 156 | 10 points by juujian 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Ask HN: iPhone Camera on indicator
    ×0.46 | 2 points by zahirbmirza 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. One-person startup: a Cornell postdoc wants to put AI in everyone's hands
    ×0.33 | 2 points by modelslive 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Ask HN: How do you gate an autonomous coding agent's shell access?
    ×0.30 | 2 points by alanfuNZ 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Ask HN: Why does free time become another thing you have to use correctly?
    ×0.58 174 | 3 points by nullifypreset 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Ask HN: Are guardrails being baked into models, or enforced outside them?
    ×0.36 | 2 points by arkj 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Beware: Malicious Profiles on YC Co-Founder Matching
    ×0.45 155 | 5 points by pain_perdu 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Ask HN: Can we classify AI as: subhuman, quasihuman, human, superhumam?
    ×0.60 178 | 3 points by aunekiaru 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Two random Anthropic allocation resets this week
    ×1.27 115 | 4 points by novlrdotcom 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Shutting down our public encrypted DNS (mullvad.net)
    ×2.41 10 #44 | 445 points by mywacaday 1 day ago | 228 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Ask HN: Why don't we bring back old school OkCupid?
    ×1.03 | 2 points by firefax 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Cowbull – Wordle-like game where you only get match counts (cowbull.co)
    ×0.76 | 2 points by ajayvk 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Scientists Find Worms in Almost Every Fish in a Tuna Haul – 96% Were Infected (sciencealert.com)
    ×1.89 71 | 43 points by arto 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: HN Match Maker – Matching "Who Wants to Be Hired?" With "Who's Hiring?" (hnmatchmaker.com)
    ×0.96 95 | 123 points by all2 4 days ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: What if AI did the prompting – and humans did the thinking? (antiagent.site)
    ×0.78 150 | 3 points by EnthusiastShiv 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Visualizing Rust's Vtables: How dyn Trait Works In Memory (sofiabelen.github.io)
    ×1.57 22 #11 | 139 points by torutofu 13 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Gateside by TSA Precheck (tsa.gov)
    ×2.87 8 #27 | 11 points by minhduong243 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. How the Disaster of "Forever Chemicals" Was Kept Secret (propublica.org)
    ×4.07 50 #62 | 287 points by stevenwoo 12 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Not Everything Digital Is Good: Tech Isn't Always an Example of Genius (thewalrus.ca)
    ×1.92 25 | 4 points by pseudolus 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. O&O ShutUp10 – The antispy tool for Windows 10 and 11 (oo-software.com)
    ×1.64 48 | 101 points by embedding-shape 1 day ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: A gravity simulator where forces propagate at the speed of light (github.com/alessandro-pioli)
    ×1.77 149 | 6 points by alessandropioli 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Rubato – Retro-Mac desk device mirrors AI coding state-ESP8266 (github.com/lovaxi)
    ×1.34 96 | 6 points by Beartificial 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: I built an app that makes your goals inevitable (getinference.app)
    ×0.63 | 2 points by ifeanyi_sa 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Rails Baseline – a Rails SaaS starter with agent-readable architecture (railsbaseline.com)
    ×1.47 183 | 5 points by polysaturate 4 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. A Million Falcons Went Missing. Here’s How They Were Found (nationalgeographic.com)
    ×0.77 30 #34 | 67 points by bryanrasmussen 14 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. I Missed Tilix, So I Built the Terminal I Wanted (medium.com)
    ×0.91 | 1 points by zero-ground-445 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. CERN Transitioning Computers To Debian After Being A Longtime RHEL Institution (phoronix.com)
    ×2.29 75 | 43 points by thunderbong 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Sirenfall, a civil defense siren synthesized in Web Audio (sirenfall.live)
    ×0.40 151 | 5 points by beeswaxpat 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Kafma – a desktop Kafka GUI client for debugging (kafma.app)
    ×1.95 175 | 6 points by KafmaKarma 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem (anthropic.com)
    ×2.99 2 #39 | 748 points by jlebar 1 day ago | 480 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Write Software in Latin (2025) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.69 23 #54 | 41 points by akkartik 13 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Kale: A Transformation-Safe Spreadsheet System (arxiv.org)
    ×0.69 36 #65 | 51 points by zdw 19 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. The Netherlands Will Never Be Rid of Louisiana Crawfish (theatlantic.com)
    ×1.43 2 | 3 points by bookofjoe 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: VT Code – My attempt at building a coding-agent harness (github.com/vinhnx)
    ×0.86 179 | 3 points by vinhnx 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Read Binary from Screenshots in the Browser (onlinebinarytranslator.com)
    ×0.94 | 1 points by jackking1 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Clove: Agent Skills for Mac (kshv.me)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by handfuloflight 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Gmail to end support for "Send as" for third-party addresses, such as @yahoo.com (google.com)
    ×4.05 9 | 191 points by sva_ 1 day ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: TimerVana a Local-first scheduler for real world routines (timervana.net)
    ×1.03 113 | 4 points by granto 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Covenant – A governance framework for multi-agent AI systems (github.com/asalsali)
    ×0.76 132 | 3 points by alexjsalsali 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. South African diamond mines are closing due to weak sales and lab-grown stones (wsj.com)
    ×3.98 13 #22 | 111 points by bookofjoe 5 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: ChessNotate – Fix a broken PGN without branching into a new variation (chessnotate.app)
    ×0.89 | 1 points by gantengx 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: MobileCode – OpenCode with Built-In iOS and Android Previews (github.com/hsandhu)
    ×2.10 59 | 7 points by rsandhu 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Solving the Jane Street reverse engineering challenge (jestoph.com)
    ×2.11 7 #81 | 429 points by anitil 1 day ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. AMD Based FreeBSD Desktop Reloaded (wordpress.com)
    ×2.59 56 | 3 points by vermaden 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???