Quality News
new | top | ask | show | best | algorithms | about
This is the current Hacker News "Ask HN". Page, with some additional performance stats. Click on the colorful stats below each story to see detailed historical charts. Click here for additional ranking algorithms
key: ×UpvoteRate (?)   #rank on front page   rankDelta (?)
  1. Ask HN: Anyone still do work on Intel Macs?
    ×0.60 20 #72 | 12 points by senor_digimon 7 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: I still don't understand why AI agents need "skills"
    ×1.95 5 | 10 points by skeptic_ai 6 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Do Something about Bots
    ×0.41 42 | 3 points by gregdaniels421 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tell HN: Amazonbot aggressively scraping my website and ignoring robots.txt
    ×1.04 41 | 16 points by pera 11 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How are you using AI to learn?
    ×0.52 74 | 6 points by mfalcon 9 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. AI will always find a difference
    ×0.36 | 2 points by ghassenfaidi 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Best Blogging Platform?
    ×1.04 95 | 4 points by asxndu 10 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Which web browser has no AI?
    ×0.73 67 | 9 points by lilerjee 11 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Should organizations be allowed to have all types of personl data(X.com)
    ×0.52 115 | 3 points by dfps 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: When did we go from agentic loops to graphs?
    ×0.40 122 | 3 points by grandimam 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Tell HN: HackerOne Announces Mandatory identity verification
    ×0.43 121 | 17 points by 0xmattf 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What did you learn last month? (July 2026)
    ×0.38 120 | 12 points by bhu1st 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: How did your boss's behavior change with the rise of AI?
    ×0.46 113 | 8 points by aredirect 22 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Wyro – Draw a backend on a canvas, export TypeScript with no lock-in
    ×0.17 133 | 3 points by Paaul01 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Everything that happens in a US airport is under duress
    ×0.54 127 | 16 points by dfps 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Strategic Oil Reserves Down to a Record Low Two-Week Supply
    ×0.57 139 | 19 points by megamike 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: When a post of yours does well, do you know why?
    ×0.34 154 | 5 points by john_builds 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. OpenAI Usage Reset 4th time in 7d
    ×0.26 | 2 points by bavovna 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What's the Point of Your Startup?
    ×0.41 146 | 8 points by sawyers 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. What's Happening with IT Hiring?
    ×0.41 156 | 3 points by hannibalevit 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Tell HN: System76 has critical firmware issues unresolved for over 3 years
    ×0.82 137 | 6 points by jaime-ez 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Random Thoughts of Lineage and Death
    ×0.59 157 | 3 points by kooi 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: What's your monthly personal AI budget?
    ×0.88 155 | 4 points by thatgloomyguy 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. MiniMax H3: Open weights Omni-modal model
    ×1.03 142 | 5 points by ignoramous 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: Check technical fit for B2B prospects without questionnaires (tryscoped.com)
    ×0.36 | 2 points by ininew 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Explorative modeling: Train on the best of K guesses (alexiglad.github.io)
    ×0.82 29 #28 | 94 points by DSemba 15 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Run multiple Claude desktop accounts in isolated windows (Mac/Windows) (deckspace.dev)
    ×0.85 | 1 points by sami_builds 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Why are all the amounts values negative? (bankstatementconverter.com)
    ×2.04 43 | 3 points by 4pkjai 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science (openai.com)
    ×4.60 57 | 427 points by milkshakes 23 hours ago | 299 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Severance (lcamtuf.substack.com)
    ×2.98 8 | 261 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. New Defcon Badges Pack a Unique Open-Source Chip That Doubles as a Security Key (wired.com)
    ×1.41 82 | 70 points by hn_acker 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: PhaseProbe – Find simulation transitions and turn them into tests (github.com/aliengineering-byte)
    ×0.85 | 2 points by ali110v 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: OpenLongevity – Longevity × AI – open, verifiable, for everyone (github.com/edison7009)
    ×0.90 | 2 points by edison7009 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Sanitizer – Strip sensitive data from documents locally before an LLM (provexar.ai)
    ×0.72 | 2 points by MVKozyrev 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Art Invented Humanity (aeon.co)
    ×1.25 47 #50 | 13 points by prismatic 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI (blog.google)
    ×3.13 3 #85 | 559 points by Garbage 1 day ago | 606 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. DeepMind Disbands AlphaFold Team, Pivots to Gemini (unusualwhales.com)
    ×1.16 19 | 5 points by gmays 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Dario Amodei's stance on open weights is self-serving and short-sighted (janilowski.pl)
    ×3.11 75 | 81 points by janilowski 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Scope of Hacks on U.S. Water Supply Widens as Evidence Points to Iran (nytimes.com)
    ×4.47 16 | 66 points by jbegley 14 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Posecode inspectable human movement as text (posecode.org)
    ×1.31 102 | 4 points by brnbrn 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. The Cipher Behind QSYRUPWD: Reconstructing IBM i Password Hashes (silentsignal.eu)
    ×0.26 64 #27 | 5 points by kencausey 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Let's make the worst Htmx (zserge.com)
    ×1.17 51 #84 | 134 points by RebelPotato 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: How do I run Android 15 on a system with Andr 12 vendors?
    ×0.83 | 1 points by KinetiNode 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Fuck the Algorithm. Own Your Data (github.com/adnqcr7-code)
    ×1.34 62 | 3 points by kairos_agent 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Nano Banana 2 removed from Google Earth (digitaldigging.org)
    ×1.77 79 | 58 points by taubek 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: BugDetect AI – AI-powered code debugging assistant (bugdetectai.com)
    ×0.78 | 2 points by laxmansubedi 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: CostPerPrompt – Live AI API pricing and real-workload cost calculators (costperprompt.com)
    ×0.52 29 #24 | 13 points by ahmed_hassan7 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. A Uiua Type System (2025) (uiua.org)
    ×0.87 52 #51 | 10 points by xyzsparetimexyz 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. A directory of people who love RSS (andrewshell.org)
    ×2.21 59 #90 | 169 points by speckx 13 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. GitHub has alternatives, but no replacement (lalitm.com)
    ×2.50 30 | 86 points by lalitmaganti 15 hours ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Moochacha (codeberg.org)
    ×0.92 | 2 points by sillysaurusx 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Algorithms on billion-scale graph using 10GB RAM: I love DataFusion (semyonsinchenko.github.io)
    ×1.06 56 | 132 points by speckx 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. On the non-use of AI in my writing process (antipope.org)
    ×2.86 37 | 130 points by jwx48 17 hours ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Understanding the ReMarkable Coordinate System (scrybble.ink)
    ×2.15 81 | 4 points by azeirah 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. If technology got better, why did everything get worse? (sammystraus.com)
    ×1.73 58 #87 | 9 points by sammy0910 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Claude-for-Hardware (github.com/Midstall)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by ai_critic 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Ask HN: Collection of Best Pitch Decks?
    ×1.47 9 | 3 points by carbonclaw 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: I worked on a new browser for 2 years, today it passed Acid 3 (intellios.ai)
    ×2.81 36 | 137 points by coolwulf 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Register deprivation: spills and runtime under forced register scarcity (rjp.io)
    ×0.39 68 #62 | 28 points by surprisetalk 15 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Moore's Law for Everything (2021) (samaltman.com)
    ×0.86 42 #82 | 8 points by eatitraw 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Btfy – a blockchain that uses weather observations (github.com/kotagit75)
    ×1.99 | 2 points by yuzu_mikan 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. The world first agentic AI radio (twitch.tv)
    ×1.10 29 | 4 points by myimaginationai 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. A GTK4 SSH-askpass in Zig (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)
    ×0.70 85 | 67 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: A Google Reader like discovery engine for long-form blogs (boredreading.com)
    ×0.39 | 2 points by khet 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: SteerPlane – Deterministic runtime guardrails for AI agents (github.com/vijaym2k6)
    ×0.94 | 2 points by vijaym2k6 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. California to destroy 420000 peach trees. Del Monte closes canning facilities (ubirataonline.com.br)
    ×0.85 | 1 points by NoRagrets 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Situational Awareness down 67% in July in AI stock rout (wsj.com)
    ×2.57 53 | 155 points by pondsider 1 day ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. A week in Matrix (piegames.de)
    ×1.81 45 | 87 points by Kesseki 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Qwen Scribe – local transcription and dictation for Apple Silicon (github.com/VladUZH)
    ×1.02 124 | 94 points by sidclaw 3 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript (github.com/twalichiewicz)
    ×2.42 93 | 430 points by twalichiewicz 4 days ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Busy Beaver Holdouts Lists (bbchallenge.org)
    ×1.43 59 #57 | 13 points by frozenseven 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Portal: Current Events (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.49 1 #60 | 12 points by adm4 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Google kills Earth AI generator after one day (twitter.com/newsfromgoogle)
    ×4.50 3 | 61 points by BlueBerry2001 17 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Crew, a local collaborative (people and agents) IDE (github.com/JamelHammoud)
    ×1.02 89 | 5 points by jamelhammoud 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: A Handwritten Blogging Platform (handwritten.blog)
    ×3.61 153 | 9 points by emilesilvis 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. DeepSeek V4 Pro GA on GPT 5.6 Sol (xhigh) level for fraction of cost (twitter.com/MaxForAI)
    ×2.08 | 2 points by thewavelength 5 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Getting 25 Gbps Thunderbolt Ethernet on My Mac Studio (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×1.38 22 | 228 points by speckx 1 day ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Progressive Web Components (arielsalminen.com)
    ×1.31 17 | 189 points by hosteur 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Pronto – real‑time wire for AI agents (70k+ feeds connected) (pronto.stream)
    ×1.53 99 | 3 points by MomohNobert 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Wienerdog – memory and self-improving skills for Claude Code/Codex (github.com/wienerdog-ai)
    ×2.38 106 | 7 points by thegyula 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. ASRock BC-250: Building the Budget Steam Machine (plug-world.com)
    ×0.94 14 #6 | 46 points by plug_world 5 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Guix shell now inside Emacs (tusharhero.codeberg.page)
    ×2.02 14 #78 | 15 points by birdculture 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Premier league bans gambling sponsors (footyheadlines.com)
    ×3.26 58 #81 | 310 points by paoliniluis 2 days ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Slope remade in HTML5 to load instantly on any browser, any device (hurtle.site)
    ×1.91 97 | 42 points by novlrdotcom 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. CISA Guide Helps Fed Agencies Securely and Effectively Use Open Source Software (cisa.gov)
    ×1.76 28 | 3 points by billybuckwheat 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. P[drive failure]: how reliable is your NAS? (khz.ac)
    ×0.52 32 #18 | 7 points by nosolace 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Kenji/Serious Eats – 30-Min Pressure Cooker Pho Ga (seriouseats.com)
    ×1.88 17 #23 | 134 points by stasomatic 15 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (simonwillison.net)
    ×1.78 45 #74 | 11 points by swyx 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Google has abandoned Google News? (elgan.com)
    ×4.49 77 | 264 points by mikelgan 11 hours ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Gander, an Android file viewer that asks for no permissions (github.com/mokshablr)
    ×1.53 59 | 204 points by mokshablr 2 days ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???