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  1. Apparently CodePen 2.0 sends data to their servers as you type
    ×1.06 4 #61 | 109 points by maxim-fin 15 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Fable hacked my piano, can I release the results?
    ×1.69 6 #64 | 286 points by jmpman 1 day ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?
    ×1.72 2 #78 | 295 points by imadtaieber 1 day ago | 264 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Would you read a statistics textbook?
    ×1.31 29 | 101 points by usernametaken29 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: OpenAI brings back 5 hour limit for plus and business standard users
    ×2.02 59 | 122 points by spwa4 10 hours ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Show your micro-SaaS
    ×1.04 80 | 17 points by genekrapivin 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?
    ×1.04 81 | 195 points by sukit 4 days ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: 3.5 inch diskette read errors, would a period correct drive do better?
    ×2.23 79 | 5 points by rietta 14 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
    ×2.00 72 | 404 points by halcdev 4 days ago | 705 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Do you ever struggle to find another programmer to work on a project/pair with?
    ×0.71 | 2 points by rizsyed1 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Bun rewrite and FLT formalization had nearly identical resource usage
    ×0.88 70 | 4 points by Zsfe510asG 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Connecting Kubernetes dependencies to application telemetry
    ×0.82 97 | 6 points by chipfixer 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: UK Rescue Rocket Sheds/Houses Information
    ×0.52 77 | 24 points by burnt-resistor 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Any Software Engineers here who enjoy their AI-native dev workflow?
    ×1.62 95 | 8 points by pkos98 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Is OpenAI silently routing GPT‑6 requests to GPT‑4o?
    ×0.33 | 2 points by skaiuijing 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: (Why) Was the LLM breakthrough useful for images, audio, etc.?
    ×0.41 112 | 4 points by rogerrogerr 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Do People Care About Image Optimisation Anymore?
    ×0.48 89 | 3 points by CM30 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How do you keep AI coding agents in sync with a changing Figma file?
    ×0.35 | 2 points by rjvidentia 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. tuhat: Home for all your reading
    ×0.81 83 | 4 points by 8by3 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Why can I use macOS passkeys without biometrics
    ×0.89 84 | 4 points by 0xnico 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Tell HN: I want to see the same moon as you
    ×1.05 109 | 16 points by UnderABlueMoon 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: How safe are our password managers in face of LLM cyber attacks?
    ×0.46 125 | 3 points by muddi900 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Tell HN: Both recent GCP outages caused by fiber optic maintenance
    ×0.56 130 | 19 points by fastest963 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Tell HN: Anthropic should make Claude the Author and me the Co-Author
    ×0.91 86 | 5 points by xeonax 23 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Looking for an old submission about sneering culture
    ×1.16 85 | 6 points by annex-winged-cr 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: What are other "uncrackable benchmarks"?
    ×0.63 102 | 3 points by Nail2680 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Are others seeing Google's reCAPTCHA rejecting Firefox users?
    ×1.44 92 | 72 points by Animats 4 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Perplexity Pro vs. Claude – what are you paying for?
    ×0.46 | 2 points by daytonflyers 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: What is your biggest struggle while learning?
    ×0.87 110 | 3 points by Cursed666 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: What are you working on?
    ×0.96 96 | 6 points by meerita 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Model sycophancy benchmarks?
    ×0.80 111 | 4 points by gradus_ad 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Why don't we bring back old school OkCupid?
    ×2.97 50 | 43 points by firefax 2 days ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Who is using FPGA for ML inference?
    ×0.55 150 | 10 points by softwarewright 4 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Founders that raised funding and shutdown, did you raise again?
    ×0.43 137 | 18 points by asim 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Are we normalizing surveillance in the name of safety?
    ×0.41 118 | 4 points by dennysora-main 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Astra still fails at creating acceptable Rotational Ambigram
    ×0.20 134 | 3 points by das_vicky 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Any Alternatives to Archive.ph & co?
    ×0.78 129 | 8 points by hebelehubele 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: What is the ideal email domain setup?
    ×0.70 159 | 7 points by bix6 4 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. MITx is ending access to its courses for learners in Iran on September 8
    ×1.02 132 | 6 points by mahdihabibi 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Tell HN: NVIDIA's Acquisition of HuggingFace was for $HuggingFace
    ×2.42 104 | 43 points by MontagFTB 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: Do you route only certain websites through a VPN?
    ×0.27 | 2 points by dennysora-main 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ask HN: Laptop or Desktop?
    ×0.67 164 | 7 points by Gecko4072 4 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. APAC Alpha – Zero-lag Intel terminal for Asian markets
    ×0.55 | 2 points by apacalpha 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Ask HN: How do you guys keep up with the most cost-effective AI models?
    ×0.12 184 | 4 points by solomonmwalker 4 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Xfinity silently blocks lots of new domains
    ×1.58 122 | 15 points by dschwartz18 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Ask HN: Are technical blogs dead?
    ×0.73 147 | 14 points by quaintdev 4 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Ask HN: Books Recommendations?
    ×1.01 142 | 7 points by washelterskelte 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Ask HN: How do you build organic traction as an indie dev?
    ×0.68 121 | 7 points by charm137 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Ask HN: Initial Thoughts on GPT-6 Astra?
    ×0.79 140 | 8 points by zof3 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Ask HN: Outside of work, what are your social groups?
    ×1.87 139 | 5 points by Gecko4072 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Ask HN: How have interviews changed over the last year?
    ×1.28 106 | 12 points by mikodin 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Ask HN: Is AI a Powerdrill?
    ×0.40 149 | 4 points by dfps 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Ask HN: Why don't we talk about context window size anymore?
    ×0.80 161 | 5 points by rce123 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Astra One Shotted Cains's Jawbone
    ×0.55 144 | 5 points by marcushyett 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. OpenAI's rogue agents used ntfy.sh as a pub/sub channel
    ×0.37 167 | 3 points by coderinsan 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Ask HN: Why do many websites use a sign-in code instead of a password?
    ×1.20 156 | 8 points by bariumbitmap 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Ask HN: What's the best place to learn about skills and AI for coding in general
    ×0.87 105 | 4 points by rrmdp 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Word42 1.0.0 Released
    ×0.54 151 | 5 points by andreasrosdal 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Cutting (Claude Code) token spend on dynamic workflows 80%
    ×0.48 128 | 3 points by gojkoa 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Ask HN: Is there a test for measuring cognitive affects from LLM usage?
    ×1.81 154 | 9 points by niwrad 4 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Ask HN: Could AI eventually build god?
    ×1.50 157 | 8 points by olirex99 4 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Ask HN: How do we build a team? (bootstrapped B2B startup)
    ×1.00 173 | 5 points by theonlinx 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Ask HN: Why isn't there a cursor for video games development
    ×0.30 | 2 points by JimsonYang 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Ask HN: Accountants working with ecommerce
    ×0.23 185 | 3 points by vasyl_kyryliuk 4 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Ask HN: How do you know if you have a product problem or a distribution one?
    ×1.14 153 | 6 points by mustafak99 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Where Understanding Arrives After Decisions (medium.com)
    ×1.93 25 | 3 points by gps372 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Tesla killing Solar Roof is leaving installers with six-figure losses (electrek.co)
    ×5.40 73 | 115 points by voxadam 8 hours ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. It's time for Mark Zuckerberg to resign from Meta (theguardian.com)
    ×5.20 1 | 104 points by domhudson 19 hours ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Time Pin – a history themed GeoGuessr-style game (playtimepin.com)
    ×1.02 107 | 4 points by AndreiCx 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Aurict – An open-source Terminal AI (github.com/aurict)
    ×1.23 165 | 5 points by hamzakhrmn2 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: I made a word building game supporting anagrams and one handed use
    ×0.31 50 #88 | 27 points by busymom0 19 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Browse 27 years of movie ticket stubs in ThreeJS
    ×1.40 39 | 3 points by zebomon 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Reactor Atlas (reactoratlas.com)
    ×0.79 87 | 77 points by fedecaccia 4 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: OpenStint – lap timing using RTL-SDR and near-field transponders (openstint.org)
    ×0.83 182 | 3 points by zsellera 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Replaceable but Employed: Automation and the Meaning of Work (nber.org)
    ×1.35 9 #47 | 61 points by mooreds 8 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Meetings (nber.org)
    ×0.92 | 2 points by tfirst 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Site Is Closed on Sundays (robweychert.com)
    ×2.53 60 | 101 points by edent 1 day ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Pod – A review site for dev tools where the reviewers are AI agents (askpod.ai)
    ×2.50 65 | 10 points by marvy101 14 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Amaze Kings – a browser logic puzzle with 1,400 hand-graded levels (amaze-apps.com)
    ×1.04 99 | 16 points by amaze-apps-com 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. September 2026 Emacs meetup recap [video] (youtube.com)
    ×9.52 69 | 18 points by iLemming 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Real-time AI news aggregator with daily digest (aibriefs.news)
    ×0.63 145 | 13 points by michelmi 4 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. John Margolies' photographs of roadside America (publicdomainreview.org)
    ×1.06 14 #6 | 31 points by duck 3 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Caltech Mathathon – first hackathon ever devoted to research level mathematics (mathathonchallenge.com)
    ×1.29 28 #17 | 238 points by astroanax 17 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Whistle Synth Mac App (jefftk.com)
    ×0.79 48 #30 | 71 points by luu 13 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Bill Gates tries to install MovieMaker (2003) (techemails.com)
    ×5.92 31 #40 | 358 points by highfrequency 11 hours ago | 241 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. VMware migration reduces Tottenham Hotspur's licensing fees by 85 percent (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.51 7 #68 | 99 points by joozio 16 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. A Modest Proposal (systemsapproach.org)
    ×0.59 74 #86 | 8 points by teleforce 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Wayfinder – A reference implementation for evaluating AI applications (github.com/DivakarUngatla)
    ×0.52 136 | 3 points by divakarungatla 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: I have created a browser FPS game with kamikaze drones (sectorlock.com)
    ×0.57 82 | 3 points by canerg 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Decoding the NEC V20 Microcode (martypc.blogspot.com)
    ×1.17 21 #21 | 127 points by mariuz 12 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???