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  1. Tell HN: Google Trust and Safety is a joke
    ×0.55 | 2 points by tokyobreakfast 36 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Is it still worth pursuing a software startup?
    ×1.59 27 #58 | 158 points by newbebee 1 day ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Share your personal website
    ×3.17 53 #66 | 923 points by susam 3 days ago | 2345 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: How are you doing RAG locally?
    ×1.99 50 | 402 points by tmaly 3 days ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?
    ×3.14 | 769 points by publicdebates 2 days ago | 1206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Claude Opus performance affected by time of day?
    ×0.58 71 | 36 points by scaredreally 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?
    ×1.50 68 | 214 points by blahaj 3 days ago | 407 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Tell HN: YouTube gave my username switzerland to a half government organization
    ×3.71 89 | 31 points by faebi 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Tell HN: The way I do simple data management for new prototypes
    ×0.38 104 | 11 points by AndreyK1984 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: One IP, multiple unrealistic locations worldwide hitting my website
    ×0.50 94 | 41 points by nacho-daddy 2 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How have you or your firm made money with LLMs?
    ×0.97 114 | 10 points by bwestergard 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Browser extension vs. native app for structured form filling?
    ×0.37 145 | 4 points by livrasand 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Iran's 120h internet shutdown, phones back. How to stay resilient?
    ×1.61 109 | 114 points by us321 4 days ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
    ×1.14 110 | 256 points by david927 6 days ago | 876 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Who's using DuckDB in production?
    ×0.89 105 | 7 points by yakkomajuri 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How do you safely give LLMs SSH/DB access?
    ×0.85 97 | 82 points by nico 3 days ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What are your best purchases under $100?
    ×5.14 79 | 82 points by krishadi 2 days ago | 228 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Do people still need websites, or just a public page?
    ×1.01 95 | 4 points by paravaib 17 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How to make spamming us uncomfortable for LinkedIn and friends?
    ×0.93 158 | 12 points by zx8080 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. The $LANG Programming Language
    ×1.52 84 | 264 points by dang 4 days ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Distributed SQL engine for ultra-wide tables
    ×0.62 142 | 23 points by synsqlbythesea 3 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Fundraising compensation
    ×0.81 187 | 3 points by ebitda_ai 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Tell HN: DigitalOcean's managed services broke each other after update
    ×1.13 135 | 76 points by neilfrndes 5 days ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: What's something you wished you started doing earlier?
    ×1.00 134 | 4 points by karakoram 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Sendnow – Free DocSend/Seismic alternative for file tracking and microsites
    ×0.27 | 2 points by sendnow 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Do you think college is/was worth it?
    ×0.61 113 | 4 points by hallole 21 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: ADHD – How do you manage the constant stream of thoughts and ideas?
    ×2.56 101 | 119 points by chriswright1664 4 days ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Tell HN: Execution is cheap, ideas matter again
    ×0.92 125 | 15 points by keepamovin 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: AI music covers in 2026?
    ×0.88 115 | 17 points by sexy_seedbox 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Have you ever tried low-code tools for your work?
    ×0.70 170 | 4 points by andre_fernandes 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Quantum Computation, Computers and Programming
    ×0.52 155 | 32 points by rramadass 4 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Those who quit tech, moved back home, what do you do?
    ×1.75 92 | 13 points by akudha 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Vxlan over WireGuard or WireGuard over Vxlan?
    ×0.86 144 | 46 points by mlhpdx 4 days ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: What is the best way to provide continuous context to models?
    ×0.92 93 | 73 points by nemath 3 days ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Can companies claim copyright over their LLM-generated codebases?
    ×1.09 127 | 4 points by mks_shuffle 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Why does Google still provide an open redirect for phishers?
    ×1.60 141 | 23 points by throwaway89201 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Anyone else finding it impossible to land a job?
    ×5.23 117 | 27 points by Arch485 2 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: Has Claude Code changed its usage limits for you?
    ×0.57 | 2 points by laurex 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: What to teach my kid if AI does math and CS?
    ×1.81 156 | 11 points by devShark 2 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: Discrepancy between Lichess and Stockfish
    ×0.52 176 | 21 points by HNLurker2 4 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: Looking for Windows contributors for meeting-detection engine
    ×0.39 192 | 7 points by Ayobamiu 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ask HN: Why do AI code editors suck at closing tags?
    ×1.17 162 | 9 points by cryptography 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: Which system would you trust to run a business you can't afford to lose?
    ×0.33 | 2 points by cutterlayers 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Ask HN: Local media server, receive and send audio?
    ×0.23 | 2 points by thedangler 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Ask HN: Is Codex login down for all workspace (non-personal) users?
    ×1.21 174 | 6 points by amluto 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Ask HN: When "Two-Factor Authentication" (2FA) Aren't Two
    ×0.37 | 2 points by s3131212 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Ask HN: LLM Poisoning Resources
    ×0.98 153 | 4 points by totallygeeky 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Ask HN: Tips for better image generation? I need help
    ×0.31 | 2 points by gweets 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Why is nobody using this? Full-duplex voice streaming with Gemini Live in React
    ×0.77 172 | 3 points by loffloff 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Tell HN: HP Ultra G1a Bios Freezing Issue
    ×0.32 | 2 points by BizarroLand 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Ask HN: Is sending a lot of requests but respecting rate limits DOSing?
    ×0.34 | 2 points by SpyCoder77 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Ask HN: Analogy of AI IDEs for code vs. "AI IDEs" for personal health data
    ×0.35 | 2 points by nemath 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Ask HN: Trying to find a website featured on HN that listed restaurants in NYC
    ×1.48 164 | 14 points by laffOr 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Ask HN: Strangest or most unexpected behavior you've seen from GitHub Copilot?
    ×1.82 168 | 6 points by stikit 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Ask HN: Is token-based pricing making AI harder to use in production?
    ×0.99 177 | 3 points by Barathkanna 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Ask HN: Any real prompt injections in the wild?
    ×0.68 185 | 6 points by singularity2001 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Ask HN: What happens when you remove lock-in from enterprise software economics?
    ×1.50 166 | 4 points by hydrioxstate 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Tell HN: Properly using dishwasher reduced friction with my wife
    ×2.45 167 | 16 points by xylo 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Ask HN: How can we handle solo founder loneliness?
    ×0.48 181 | 3 points by dabojula 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Ask HN: Estimating % of dev using coding assistants
    ×1.25 171 | 7 points by japoneris 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Ask HN: When has a "dumb" solution beaten a sophisticated one for you?
    ×0.42 193 | 14 points by amadeuswoo 1 week ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Ask HN: Audio analysis models, how to train to learn sound patters?
    ×0.80 189 | 4 points by thedangler 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Ask HN: Any local secret manager?
    ×1.05 186 | 3 points by spacemnstr42069 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Users access official platform apps in regions with frequent mirror links
    ×0.55 | 2 points by taka-dev 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Ask HN: Should Developers Shift from Coding to Architecture in the LLM Era?
    ×1.33 130 | 3 points by danver0 22 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Text-to-3D → Step/STL
    ×2.29 188 | 5 points by alexyakovlev919 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Tell HN: Intel could blow up the Console Wars if it had the guts
    ×1.09 191 | 8 points by noumenon1111 4 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Ask HN: Thoughts on maintaining anonymity against state-level actors?
    ×1.95 178 | 10 points by adamanteye 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Ask HN: Books to Learn Ruby/Rails?
    ×1.40 183 | 4 points by georgel 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Tell HN: A Proposal to Modernize Xorg as a Protocol-Only Graphics Layer
    ×1.03 184 | 7 points by powerwordtree 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Ask HN: A pattern we noticed in how website leads are handled
    ×0.76 190 | 3 points by lucascorrei4 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Ask HN: What are good tools for creating a video or interactive demo for a SaaS?
    ×1.37 146 | 3 points by rishabhpoddar 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Ask HN: For those of you building AI agents, how have you made them faster?
    ×0.35 | 2 points by arkmm 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Where does data help in real estate – and where does it fail?
    ×0.37 | 2 points by D___R___ 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Ask HN: How to overcome the limit of roles in LLM's
    ×0.41 | 2 points by weli 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Ask HN: Resources for learning visual design as a developer?
    ×1.63 150 | 5 points by chaosharmonic 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. David Webb, prominent Hong Kong shareholder activist, dies at 60 (seattletimes.com)
    ×1.05 | 2 points by gnabgib 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. The impact of interactive violence on children (2000) [pdf] (govinfo.gov)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by SpicyLemonZest 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Researchers solve mystery of universe's 'little red dots' (phys.org)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by wglb 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Making Claude Code sessions link-shareable
    ×1.19 98 | 8 points by reflectivetrap 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. The 600-year-old origins of the word 'hello' (bbc.com)
    ×0.75 36 #39 | 95 points by 1659447091 17 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Algebra will return to S.F. middle schools after more than a decade (sfchronicle.com)
    ×3.67 9 #73 | 12 points by mikhael 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Nex.Design – AI ads agent for e-commerce (nex.design)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by zxzxy1988 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Eight European countries face 10% tariff for opposing US control of Greenland (apnews.com)
    ×20.13 68 | 175 points by 2OEH8eoCRo0 12 hours ago | 234 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: BGP Scout – BGP Network Browser (bgpscout.io)
    ×0.46 96 | 26 points by hivedc 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Control Claude permissions using a cloud-based decision table UI (github.com/rulebricks)
    ×0.33 139 | 13 points by sidgarimella 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. East Germany balloon escape (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.72 7 #49 | 697 points by robertvc 1 day ago | 290 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Batmobile: 10-20x Faster CUDA Kernels for Equivariant Graph Neural Networks (elliotarledge.com)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by ipnon 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Serpl – a pleasant TUI for regex and fixed-string search and replace (github.com/yassinebridi)
    ×0.98 | 2 points by Curiositry 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Read_once(), Write_once(), but Not for Rust (lwn.net)
    ×1.06 36 | 129 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???