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: If there has been no prompt injection, is it safe?
    ×0.11 | 2 points by sayYayToLife 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: AI productivity gains – do you fire devs or build better products?
    ×0.96 37 | 96 points by Bleiglanz 1 day ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Are you using OpenClaw or similar agents? How?
    ×0.17 66 | 3 points by nclin_ 9 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Skills are quietly becoming the unit of agent knowledge
    ×0.36 81 | 8 points by latand6 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How many of you are profiting with LLM wrapper apps?
    ×1.15 4 | 6 points by general_reveal 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Tell HN: YouTube - the "Jewel of the Internet" has faded
    ×0.77 55 | 6 points by wewewedxfgdf 12 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Growth for me,is realizing how much I didn't know 6 months ago. Yours?
    ×0.65 54 | 4 points by kathir05 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Tell HN: MS365 upgrade silently to 25 licenses, tried to charge me $1,035
    ×0.92 76 | 20 points by davidstarkjava 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. What would you do if you have AI software that may be transformers alternative?
    ×0.13 | 2 points by adinhitlore 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: How much are you spending on AI coding at work?
    ×0.67 71 | 6 points by habosa 17 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Tell HN: H&R Block tax software installs a TLS backdoor
    ×1.65 65 | 142 points by yifanlu 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: How to get free/cheap Claude and AWS credits
    ×0.33 94 | 4 points by jacAtSea 19 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: How do you handle peer-to-peer discovery on iOS without a server?
    ×0.73 83 | 6 points by redgridtactical 22 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Anyone know how long it will take to re-start Qatar's helium plants?
    ×0.30 100 | 8 points by megamike 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. SparkVSR: Video Super-Resolution You Can Control with Keyframes
    ×0.26 | 2 points by steveharing1 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers
    ×1.49 93 | 148 points by IncandescentGas 5 days ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: what’s your favorite line in your Claude/agents.md files?
    ×0.60 105 | 14 points by khasan222 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Anchor: Hardware-based authentication using SanDisk USB devices
    ×0.24 152 | 4 points by rewant 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Structural Friction: A metric for human coordination cost
    ×0.10 146 | 5 points by davidvartanian 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What do you look for in your first 10 hires?
    ×0.54 119 | 28 points by neilk17 4 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Is vibe coding a new mandatory job requirement?
    ×0.96 123 | 38 points by newswangerd 5 days ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Why isn't the NSA categorized as an APT?
    ×0.22 129 | 5 points by TheOpenSourcer 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: How do you deal with people who trust LLMs?
    ×2.77 88 | 153 points by basilikum 4 days ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. I got laid off and realized how broken tech hiring is
    ×1.00 78 | 10 points by nirvanist 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. European municipalities leak citizen data to US companies
    ×0.80 137 | 11 points by sam_lowry_ 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. I built a game where you argue consumer rights against AI bots
    ×0.41 147 | 8 points by dragonmann 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Have you cancelled any software subscriptions because AI replaced them?
    ×0.72 143 | 10 points by maxim_bg 4 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Brute-forcing my algorithmic ignorance (dominikrudnik.pl)
    ×0.99 39 #75 | 108 points by qikcik 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: I fixed FFmpeg's subtitle conversion (the bug from 2014) (connollydavid.github.io)
    ×1.25 82 | 38 points by slartibardfast0 6 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. The world just lived through the 11 hottest years on record (nature.com)
    ×4.14 44 #61 | 33 points by Brajeshwar 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Revise – An AI Editor for Documents (revise.io)
    ×0.92 49 #77 | 76 points by artursapek 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Make OpenClaw your company's training program for agentic AI (robert-glaser.de)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by youngbrioche 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. A Copy-Paste Bug That Broke PSpice AES-256 Encryption (jtsylve.blog)
    ×1.07 31 #50 | 71 points by jtsylve 15 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Lockpaw One hotkey to cover your Mac screen without putting it to sleep (github.com/sorkila)
    ×0.65 55 #58 | 5 points by eriknielsen 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Rethinking Superdeterminism (2019) (arxiv.org)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by johnbarron 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Open-source "GTM Engineer" skills for programmatic SEO and GEO (AI search) (github.com/onvoyage-ai)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by perseusyang 14 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: JulIDE – Lightweight Julia IDE Built with Tauri (github.com/sinisterMage)
    ×2.14 42 | 3 points by SinisterMage2 30 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Growing a Language (1998) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.90 | 1 points by tosh 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Apple's John Ternus Profile: The Likely Successor to Tim Cook as CEO (bloomberg.com)
    ×0.86 | 2 points by ksec 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Agents create work. Daemons clean up the mess that agents leave behind (ai-daemons.com)
    ×5.06 70 | 5 points by neom 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. I built a leaderboard for Claude Code's unhinged loading verbs (claude-spinner-verbs.vercel.app)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by heycutiee 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: FPGA soft-core of the Saab Viggen's 1963 airborne computer (github.com/FormerLab)
    ×0.73 110 | 21 points by FormerLabFred 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Unlocking 25 Gigabit/S on 10 GbE Direct Attach Copper (kohlschuetter.github.io)
    ×1.59 49 #66 | 40 points by kohlschuetter 18 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Teaching Claude to QA a mobile app (christophermeiklejohn.com)
    ×1.23 31 #67 | 111 points by azhenley 23 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer resolves via 1.1.1.2 (cloudflare.com)
    ×3.08 10 #80 | 400 points by winkelmann 1 day ago | 292 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Hide macOS Tahoe's Menu Icons (512pixels.net)
    ×2.48 25 | 272 points by soheilpro 2 days ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: AI SDLC Scaffold, repo template for AI-assisted software development (github.com/pangon)
    ×0.85 89 | 26 points by pangon 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Reprompt – Score your AI coding prompts with NLP papers (github.com/reprompt-dev)
    ×0.58 145 | 13 points by LuxBennu 5 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Agent Use Interface (AUI) – let users bring their own AI agent (github.com/FRE-Studios)
    ×2.11 134 | 6 points by FernandoDev 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Bombadil: Property-based testing for web UIs (github.com/antithesishq)
    ×1.37 9 #6 | 177 points by Klaster_1 7 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Side-Effectful Expressions in C (2023) (xoria.org)
    ×0.59 19 #16 | 17 points by surprisetalk 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Study: 'Security Fatigue' May Weaken Digital Defenses (albany.edu)
    ×1.34 23 #35 | 72 points by giuliomagnifico 3 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. First and Lego Education Partnership Update (firstinspires.org)
    ×0.69 42 #68 | 50 points by jchin 20 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. LeBron (Fiction) (neocities.org)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by colinprince 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: AgentMeet – Free, open-source platform for agent-to-agent work (agentmeet.net)
    ×1.52 90 | 6 points by matanrak 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Tmux-IDE, OSS agent-first terminal IDE (thijsverreck.com)
    ×0.82 99 | 88 points by thijsverreck 5 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: A C/C++ IDE written in C from scratch with zero dependencies (itch.io)
    ×3.35 70 | 9 points by giovannicar04 21 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. iPhone 17 Pro Demonstrated Running a 400B LLM (twitter.com/anemll)
    ×2.66 #1 | 254 points by anemll 3 hours ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. The LCA problem revisited [pdf] (stonybrook.edu)
    ×0.72 29 #47 | 36 points by remywang 9 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Codala, a social network built on scanning barcodes (google.com)
    ×0.71 38 #74 | 58 points by hsynkrkye 21 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Node.js worker threads are problematic, but they work great for us (inngest.com)
    ×0.70 43 #88 | 70 points by goodoldneon 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Vatican Rebukes Peter Thiel's Antichrist Lectures in Rome (thenerdreich.com)
    ×4.98 12 | 184 points by vrganj 1 day ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Quillium, Git for Writers (bryanhu.com)
    ×1.65 73 | 6 points by thatxliner 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: I built 48 lightweight SVG backgrounds you can copy/paste (svgbackgrounds.com)
    ×2.57 67 | 398 points by visiwig 5 days ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Is it a pint? (isitapint.com)
    ×1.67 3 #5 | 103 points by cainxinth 2 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Turns out your coffee addiction may be doing your brain a favor (theregister.com)
    ×2.26 27 | 92 points by Bender 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Duplicate 3 layers in a 24B LLM, logical deduction .22→.76. No training (github.com/alainnothere)
    ×1.70 74 | 263 points by xlayn 4 days ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: A personal CRM for events, meetups, IRL (payo.tech)
    ×0.98 148 | 4 points by Raj7k 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. “Collaboration” is bullshit (joanwestenberg.com)
    ×3.11 35 #21 | 165 points by mitchbob 16 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. This car really sucks. That's why it costs $1.3M (cnn.com)
    ×1.63 | 2 points by cf100clunk 23 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Tinybox – A powerful computer for deep learning (tinygrad.org)
    ×2.57 | 585 points by albelfio 1 day ago | 340 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Atomic – Self-hosted, semantically-connected personal knowledge base (github.com/kenforthewin)
    ×1.57 41 | 139 points by kenforthewin 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: EvalsHub: Your AI is failing in production and you don't know it (evalshub.ai)
    ×1.15 150 | 4 points by neilsharma425 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. The future of version control (bramcohen.com)
    ×2.64 16 #26 | 621 points by c17r 1 day ago | 348 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Easy Random Trees (wilsonb.com)
    ×1.59 | 2 points by tosh 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Mapping ICE's expanding footprint, and the communities fighting back (npr.org)
    ×1.62 | 2 points by verdverm 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: We built a terminal-only Bluesky / AT Proto client written in Fortran (github.com/FormerLab)
    ×1.00 58 | 144 points by FormerLabFred 2 days ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. The three pillars of JavaScript bloat (43081j.com)
    ×2.42 1 #87 | 469 points by onlyspaceghost 1 day ago | 272 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading (stuartbreckenridge.net)
    ×3.13 13 #15 | 772 points by JumpCrisscross 23 hours ago | 357 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. DevRel Is Not Measured Like Other Roles (dewanahmed.com)
    ×1.82 | 2 points by mooreds 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. SpaceX Launches 10,000th Satellite, Photo Captures the Impact on the Night Sky (petapixel.com)
    ×2.84 53 | 3 points by SilverElfin 13 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Moral Confusion About the War in Iran (samharris.substack.com)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by mhb 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Large Language Muddle (nplusonemag.com)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by kreyenborgi 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Schema as the Core of Reliability in AI Memory (xmemory.ai)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by ashvardanian 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: I made a tool for converting text snippets to shareable image (snip2img.com)
    ×1.07 61 | 3 points by wesammikhail 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: The King Wen Permutation: [52, 10, 2] (gzw1987-bit.github.io)
    ×0.55 41 #23 | 50 points by gezhengwen 9 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. AI Risks "Hypernormal" Science (asimov.press)
    ×0.87 | 1 points by mailyk 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Tree-style invite systems reduce AI slop (abyss.fish)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by busymom0 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: I built an open-source MCP server that parses game save files (github.com/joshsymonds)
    ×2.16 77 | 11 points by Veraticus 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Helios – 3 Claude agents (Red vs. Blue) hack and patch your codebase (gitlab.com)
    ×0.75 124 | 3 points by nakaiwilliams 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???