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  1. Ask HN: What is the best way to provide continuous context to models?
    ×1.17 10 #4 | 28 points by nemath 2 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Share your personal website
    ×2.56 1 #7 | 492 points by susam 12 hours ago | 1460 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?
    ×2.02 3 #10 | 28 points by blahaj 2 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Weird archive.today behavior?
    ×2.70 6 #13 | 43 points by rabinovich 2 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How are you doing RAG locally?
    ×1.51 5 #16 | 47 points by tmaly 3 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Distributed SQL engine for ultra-wide tables
    ×0.68 20 #29 | 10 points by synsqlbythesea 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Why does Google still provide an open redirect for phishers?
    ×1.89 3 #39 | 9 points by throwaway89201 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How do you safely give LLMs SSH/DB access?
    ×0.92 18 #43 | 72 points by nico 10 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Trying to find a website featured on HN that listed restaurants in NYC
    ×1.64 2 #61 | 8 points by laffOr 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Thoughts on maintaining anonymity against state-level actors?
    ×1.62 22 #71 | 4 points by adamanteye 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Tell HN: A Proposal to Modernize Xorg as a Protocol-Only Graphics Layer
    ×0.99 9 #74 | 5 points by powerwordtree 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Iran's 120h internet shutdown, phones back. How to stay resilient?
    ×1.65 83 | 107 points by us321 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. The $LANG Programming Language
    ×1.51 14 | 259 points by dang 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Tell HN: Properly using dishwasher reduced friction with my wife
    ×1.95 70 | 10 points by xylo 9 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: ADHD – How do you manage the constant stream of thoughts and ideas?
    ×2.65 63 | 111 points by chriswright1664 1 day ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
    ×1.14 112 | 256 points by david927 3 days ago | 857 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Trouble Redeeming YC Student Event Deal?
    ×0.40 | 2 points by NirekShetty 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Quantum Computation, Computers and Programming
    ×0.52 111 | 31 points by rramadass 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Tell HN: Cloudflare's broken abuse report system, lack of staff to review issues
    ×0.98 91 | 3 points by rtsam 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Best setup for Golang HTTP API development in 2026?
    ×0.45 97 | 3 points by labarilem 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Form History Control is great. Why doesn't Firefox integrate it?
    ×0.54 | 2 points by Openai2 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Vxlan over WireGuard or WireGuard over Vxlan?
    ×0.85 101 | 44 points by mlhpdx 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Are diffs still useful for AI-assisted code changes?
    ×0.57 108 | 5 points by nuky 11 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Tell HN: DigitalOcean's managed services broke each other after update
    ×1.16 116 | 76 points by neilfrndes 2 days ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. How do small property management teams handle data entry from tenant documents?
    ×0.46 | 2 points by scannyai 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Discrepancy between Lichess and Stockfish
    ×0.54 127 | 21 points by HNLurker2 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: How are teams sourcing long-term GPU capacity outside hyperscalers?
    ×0.97 100 | 4 points by dloku 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Make cemeteries in cities less offensive by using virtual headstones?
    ×0.46 | 2 points by amichail 9 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Looking for Windows contributors for meeting-detection engine
    ×0.42 151 | 7 points by Ayobamiu 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Anything Down?
    ×0.51 130 | 3 points by Artur-Defences 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: CRM vs. HubSpot
    ×0.43 | 2 points by isura 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: What makes someone hate their job?
    ×1.05 113 | 5 points by agcat 11 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Critical review of a spec-first economic protocol
    ×0.51 | 2 points by AGsist 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Tell HN: Setting boundaries with people
    ×1.59 122 | 4 points by zwilderrr 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Tell HN: I Downgraded from macOS Tahoe to Sequoia
    ×2.00 119 | 9 points by inatreecrown2 18 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Amazon Robotics SDE – new grad expectations?
    ×1.02 140 | 3 points by aroy21 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Tell HN: Intel could blow up the Console Wars if it had the guts
    ×1.20 146 | 8 points by noumenon1111 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: Could AI prevent the decline of social media by highlighting usernames?
    ×0.58 | 2 points by amichail 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: What's your opinion on a VR/XR business?
    ×0.60 | 2 points by izwasm 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: Did Glassdoor figure out your identity?
    ×0.53 | 2 points by penguin_booze 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: Any evidence AI coding assistants are helping open source projects?
    ×1.69 95 | 6 points by UncleOxidant 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ask HN: Who remembers AWS Spot's auction era before the 2017 pricing change?
    ×0.27 174 | 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?
    ×0.64 133 | 19 points by throwawaysafely 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Tell HN: The Google Tenor GIF API has been shut down
    ×2.25 126 | 25 points by dfajgljsldkjag 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Ask HN: Learning Discoverability
    ×0.20 | 2 points by learnwithmattc 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Ask HN: How to find gaps and oppurtunities in the AI era?
    ×0.93 141 | 6 points by SRMohitkr 23 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Ask HN: Are you underutilizing your insurance too?
    ×1.52 149 | 7 points by nemath 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Is "AI vibe coding" making prototyping worse inside real companies?
    ×1.67 139 | 16 points by arapkuliev 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Ask HN: What made you move back to HTML-to-PDF in production?
    ×1.37 163 | 6 points by gokulsiva 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Ask HN: When has a "dumb" solution beaten a sophisticated one for you?
    ×0.36 182 | 12 points by amadeuswoo 4 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Ask HN: Recommendations for self hostable OCR to extract code from images
    ×1.68 184 | 3 points by vivzkestrel 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Ask HN: How are you preventing LLM hallucinations in production systems?
    ×0.21 | 2 points by kundan_s__r 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Ask HN: Job seekers, what's working / not working?
    ×0.86 155 | 19 points by Jabbs 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Ask HN: Does anyone else think that humanoid robots is a bubble?
    ×1.16 158 | 5 points by NewUser76312 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Unpopular Opinion: Bootstrap is a better front-end framework than Tailwind
    ×1.35 142 | 24 points by pyeri 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Ask HN: Senior engineering mngrs: how has AI changed your day-to-day work?
    ×0.97 170 | 35 points by kitetm 4 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Eleva.js – A 2.3KB JavaScript framework with signals and no virtual DOM
    ×0.89 168 | 4 points by TarekRaafat 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Experiment: Using NotebookLM as a cynical code reviewer (via custom prompts)
    ×0.25 | 2 points by practicalaifg 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Gh Account Permabanned – Help?
    ×1.12 147 | 10 points by nicomeemes 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Ask HN: Story about a CEO going off on a user who left feedback?
    ×0.61 179 | 3 points by VladVladikoff 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Ask HN: How do you prevent AI agents from going rogue in production?
    ×0.68 180 | 3 points by techbuilder4242 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Ask HN: Salesforce, SAP, or ServiceNow: Which Is Most Ripe for Disruption?
    ×0.66 156 | 7 points by Saurabh_Kumar_ 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. 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 | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Ask HN: Best way to find chill job where I can learn and grow as a swe
    ×0.46 175 | 35 points by digitdiglet 6 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Ask HN: Is it time for HN to implement a form of captcha?
    ×0.95 165 | 89 points by Rooster61 6 days ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Ask HN: Where is all the protest music?
    ×1.38 148 | 11 points by swiper_lux 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Ask HN: Erratic HN front page algorithm
    ×0.46 177 | 7 points by 7777777phil 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Ask HN: How do you automate your release notes?
    ×0.44 169 | 10 points by dustfinger 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Ask HN: Has anyone built payment flows inside AI voice calls?
    ×0.39 183 | 6 points by wasiyc 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Ask HN: Is Programming as a Profession Cooked?
    ×0.76 171 | 20 points by fnoef 3 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Ask HN: Speculate About a Hypothetical Cyber Exploit That Would Leverage AI
    ×0.28 185 | 3 points by burnerToBetOut 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Tell HN: Get a dying iPhone 12 mini in 2026
    ×0.54 181 | 28 points by remywang 6 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Ask HN: Should I shutdown my 20 year old SaaS sideline?
    ×0.34 186 | 3 points by pohwp 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Every country should set 16 as the minimum age for social media accounts (afterbabel.com)
    ×2.84 24 #42 | 183 points by paulpauper 9 hours ago | 232 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. There's a ridiculous amount of tech in a disposable vape (jgc.org)
    ×2.97 17 #58 | 724 points by abnercoimbre 1 day ago | 630 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Supernatural VR will no longer get new content or features (uploadvr.com)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by guiambros 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Instagram AI Influencers Are Defaming Celebrities with Sex Scandals (404media.co)
    ×2.66 79 | 107 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Smart Tab Suspender – Reduce Chrome memory usage by autosuspending tabs (google.com)
    ×1.25 103 | 3 points by yavuzyildirim 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. The unbearable frustration of figuring out APIs (ar-ms.me)
    ×0.68 22 #60 | 70 points by ezekg 13 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Raising Kids After Knowledge Became a Commodity (liorz.github.io)
    ×1.38 | 2 points by freediver 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. A 40-line fix eliminated a 400x performance gap (questdb.com)
    ×1.70 6 | 358 points by bluestreak 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Are two heads better than one? (eieio.games)
    ×1.18 47 | 201 points by evakhoury 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: SnackBase – Open-source, GxP-compliant back end for Python teams (snackbase.dev)
    ×0.48 102 | 66 points by lalitgehani 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Crafting Interpreters (craftinginterpreters.com)
    ×2.21 16 #27 | 52 points by tosh 7 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Lore – A reasoning engine that stores the "why" behind code changes
    ×0.53 | 2 points by almonerthis 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Play poker with LLMs, or watch them play against each other (llmholdem.com)
    ×1.22 136 | 161 points by projectyang 4 days ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Tech Writers Are About to Become Obsolete (kibbler.dev)
    ×0.97 | 1 points by kewun 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Local Journalism Is How Democracy Shows Up Close to Home (buckscountybeacon.com)
    ×2.38 30 | 386 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 259 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Xoscript (xoscript.com)
    ×0.58 51 #59 | 52 points by gabordemooij 13 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Claude Code Scheduler (github.com/jshchnz)
    ×3.00 77 | 7 points by jshchnz 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???