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  1. Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?
    ×1.47 20 #12 | 173 points by imadtaieber 13 hours ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Apparently CodePen 2.0 sends data to their servers as you type
    ×1.49 6 #13 | 34 points by maxim-fin 1 hour ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Fable hacked my piano, can I release the results?
    ×1.74 7 #15 | 189 points by jmpman 12 hours ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Would you read a statistics textbook?
    ×1.46 14 #38 | 87 points by usernametaken29 12 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Do People Care About Image Optimisation Anymore?
    ×0.54 | 2 points by CM30 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: How do you keep AI coding agents in sync with a changing Figma file?
    ×0.61 | 2 points by rjvidentia 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. tuhat: Home for all your reading
    ×1.00 41 | 3 points by 8by3 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Show your micro-SaaS
    ×1.10 70 | 13 points by genekrapivin 16 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Why can I use macOS passkeys without biometrics
    ×1.08 51 | 3 points by 0xnico 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?
    ×1.03 84 | 192 points by sukit 4 days ago | 197 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Connecting Kubernetes dependencies to application telemetry
    ×1.06 89 | 5 points by chipfixer 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: UK Rescue Rocket Sheds/Houses Information
    ×0.52 59 | 23 points by burnt-resistor 17 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Resources to get good at soldering?
    ×1.37 66 | 271 points by tosmatos 5 days ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Any Software Engineers here who enjoy their AI-native dev workflow?
    ×2.27 87 | 7 points by pkos98 23 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: (Why) Was the LLM breakthrough useful for images, audio, etc.?
    ×0.26 106 | 3 points by rogerrogerr 20 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
    ×2.00 78 | 403 points by halcdev 3 days ago | 703 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Tell HN: Anthropic should make Claude the Author and me the Co-Author
    ×1.15 67 | 5 points by xeonax 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Looking for an old submission about sneering culture
    ×1.20 74 | 5 points by annex-winged-cr 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What are other "uncrackable benchmarks"?
    ×0.80 85 | 3 points by Nail2680 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: How safe are our password managers in face of LLM cyber attacks?
    ×0.64 104 | 3 points by muddi900 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Perplexity Pro vs. Claude – what are you paying for?
    ×0.60 | 2 points by daytonflyers 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: What is your biggest struggle while learning?
    ×0.74 | 2 points by Cursed666 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Tell HN: I want to see the same moon as you
    ×1.04 114 | 15 points by UnderABlueMoon 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Why don't we bring back old school OkCupid?
    ×2.76 1 | 38 points by firefax 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Tell HN: Both recent GCP outages caused by fiber optic maintenance
    ×0.58 131 | 19 points by fastest963 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: What are you working on?
    ×0.85 86 | 5 points by meerita 18 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Model sycophancy benchmarks?
    ×1.08 94 | 4 points by gradus_ad 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Are others seeing Google's reCAPTCHA rejecting Firefox users?
    ×1.46 92 | 72 points by Animats 3 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Are we normalizing surveillance in the name of safety?
    ×0.45 105 | 4 points by dennysora-main 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Astra still fails at creating acceptable Rotational Ambigram
    ×0.21 119 | 3 points by das_vicky 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: 30, burnt out, with 6-10 months of runway. What would you do?
    ×1.59 118 | 31 points by throwaway_30yo 5 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Who is using FPGA for ML inference?
    ×0.57 151 | 10 points by softwarewright 3 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Any Alternatives to Archive.ph & co?
    ×0.69 128 | 7 points by hebelehubele 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Do you route only certain websites through a VPN?
    ×0.30 | 2 points by dennysora-main 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Founders that raised funding and shutdown, did you raise again?
    ×0.43 136 | 18 points by asim 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. APAC Alpha – Zero-lag Intel terminal for Asian markets
    ×0.70 | 2 points by apacalpha 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. MITx is ending access to its courses for learners in Iran on September 8
    ×0.87 132 | 5 points by mahdihabibi 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: What is the ideal email domain setup?
    ×0.72 159 | 7 points by bix6 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Tell HN: NVIDIA's Acquisition of HuggingFace was for $HuggingFace
    ×2.45 109 | 43 points by MontagFTB 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: What's the best place to learn about skills and AI for coding in general
    ×0.91 88 | 4 points by rrmdp 17 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: Laptop or Desktop?
    ×0.69 168 | 7 points by Gecko4072 3 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Xfinity silently blocks lots of new domains
    ×1.62 122 | 15 points by dschwartz18 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: How do you build organic traction as an indie dev?
    ×0.69 117 | 7 points by charm137 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Ask HN: How do you guys keep up with the most cost-effective AI models?
    ×0.12 195 | 4 points by solomonmwalker 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Ask HN: Books Recommendations?
    ×1.04 135 | 7 points by washelterskelte 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Ask HN: Are technical blogs dead?
    ×0.74 148 | 14 points by quaintdev 4 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Ask HN: Outside of work, what are your social groups?
    ×2.05 130 | 5 points by Gecko4072 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Ask HN: How have interviews changed over the last year?
    ×1.30 103 | 12 points by mikodin 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Cutting (Claude Code) token spend on dynamic workflows 80%
    ×0.31 | 2 points by gojkoa 21 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Ask HN: Initial Thoughts on GPT-6 Astra?
    ×0.80 133 | 8 points by zof3 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Ask HN: Is AI a Powerdrill?
    ×0.41 139 | 4 points by dfps 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Ask HN: Why don't we talk about context window size anymore?
    ×0.83 157 | 5 points by rce123 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Astra One Shotted Cains's Jawbone
    ×0.57 138 | 5 points by marcushyett 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Are people who only seem happy when they're angry increasing? Seems like it
    ×0.66 102 | 4 points by Webstir 23 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. OpenAI's rogue agents used ntfy.sh as a pub/sub channel
    ×0.38 165 | 3 points by coderinsan 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Word42 1.0.0 Released
    ×0.55 143 | 5 points by andreasrosdal 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Ask HN: Why do many websites use a sign-in code instead of a password?
    ×1.22 153 | 8 points by bariumbitmap 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Ask HN: Why isn't there a cursor for video games development
    ×0.30 | 2 points by JimsonYang 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Ask HN: Is there a test for measuring cognitive affects from LLM usage?
    ×1.85 154 | 9 points by niwrad 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Ask HN: Could AI eventually build god?
    ×1.30 163 | 7 points by olirex99 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Ask HN: How do you know if you have a product problem or a distribution one?
    ×1.16 146 | 6 points by mustafak99 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Ask HN: Where do you get your AI (technology) news?
    ×0.45 181 | 8 points by BtM909 5 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Ask HN: How do we build a team? (bootstrapped B2B startup)
    ×1.02 175 | 5 points by theonlinx 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Ask HN: Accountants working with ecommerce
    ×0.23 196 | 3 points by vasyl_kyryliuk 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Is there any way to contribute to nitter and xcancel's legal fights?
    ×0.96 140 | 8 points by orange999 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Tell HN: Check your Claude settings, it may have silently enabled remote access
    ×0.93 147 | 7 points by cromka 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Ask HN: Do all of you use Cloudflare for preventing DDoS, Bot and more attacks?
    ×0.36 185 | 3 points by skwasimin 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice (github.com/zedeus)
    ×4.81 1 #18 | 798 points by zImPatrick 19 hours ago | 346 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. How I make games in Batch Script: Multithreading (github.com/thelowsunoverthemoon)
    ×1.26 73 #83 | 7 points by lowsun 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Motivating Myself for Exercise by Arbitrarily Withholding Things I Desire (klungo.no)
    ×1.07 | 2 points by danielskogly 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Declick – Turn an OpenAPI Spec, MCP Server or SQLite DB into a CLI (github.com/ucsandman)
    ×0.83 149 | 7 points by practicalsystem 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Grindr pays £26M to settle UK lawsuit over allegedly sharing users' HIV status (theguardian.com)
    ×1.47 6 | 3 points by roryirvine 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: The cheapest GPU cloud – H100s at $2.04/HR, H200s at $3/HR (compute.cheap)
    ×1.71 111 | 63 points by EmiCorleone 4 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings (lapcatsoftware.com)
    ×4.75 11 #74 | 591 points by ExMachina73 1 day ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Why singularitarians and the AGI-pilled will lose control of the frontier labs [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.94 | 1 points by MrBuddyCasino 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. US refuses payout for soldiers who died in Iran 'because it isn't a war' (telegraph.co.uk)
    ×9.51 88 | 59 points by embedding-shape 1 hour ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: TERMy – A fast terminal assistant that does not use LLMs (github.com/gioblu)
    ×1.47 77 | 213 points by gioscarab 3 days ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Personal Context MCP (lanes.sh)
    ×4.37 101 | 26 points by s-xyz 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: NationalDex • minimal open-source Pokédex (nationaldex.app)
    ×1.73 152 | 6 points by linesofcode 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. 25 years ago, two strangers met in the twin towers and escaped on 9/11 (theguardian.com)
    ×2.04 20 #47 | 18 points by ljf 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Finder is so frustrating and has been since day one (kepter.app)
    ×2.68 9 #64 | 114 points by maltch 17 hours ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. I Analyzed 4.5 Years of GitHub Incidents. Here Is What Changed (mljar.com)
    ×1.07 | 2 points by pplonski86 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Don't Use a gmail.com Address (crookedtimber.org)
    ×2.96 44 | 66 points by jruohonen 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer (opentrailpaper.com)
    ×1.96 55 | 412 points by stingrae 2 days ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. OpenBSD Stories: Strange Medieval Devices (online.fr)
    ×0.77 62 #86 | 92 points by zdw 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Implementing FMA and finding bugs in C and Rust standard libraries (shnatsel.github.io)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by spider-mario 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Taiwan eyes silicon photonics as next big tech leap (taipeitimes.com)
    ×1.16 | 2 points by giuliomagnifico 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Amaze Kings – a browser logic puzzle with 1,400 hand-graded levels (amaze-apps.com)
    ×1.05 97 | 16 points by amaze-apps-com 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. M-DISC – DVD/Blu-ray compatible discs that may last up to 1000 years (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.39 19 #77 | 203 points by gurjeet 1 day ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. From a Chocolate Wrapper to Concurrent InnoDB Page Splits (mariadb.org)
    ×1.08 | 2 points by birdculture 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???