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  1. Ask HN: 3.5 inch diskette read errors, would a period correct drive do better?
    ×0.41 36 #40 | 26 points by rietta 7 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Are others seeing Google's reCAPTCHA rejecting Firefox users?
    ×1.55 4 #65 | 246 points by Animats 22 hours ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Fable hacked my piano, can I release the results?
    ×1.59 53 | 295 points by jmpman 3 days ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Is ageism in tech still a problem in 2026?
    ×0.46 73 | 3 points by leonagano 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?
    ×1.70 54 | 307 points by imadtaieber 2 days ago | 285 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Would you hire a new engineer, or get 300k worth of tokens for the team?
    ×0.62 66 | 4 points by websap 6 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Apparently CodePen 2.0 sends data to their servers as you type
    ×0.93 71 | 112 points by maxim-fin 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Are you leveraging Spec-Driven / Spec-Anchored development?
    ×0.66 87 | 3 points by locusofself 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. The universal programming language of LLMs
    ×0.49 83 | 4 points by senorqa 9 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?
    ×1.04 114 | 198 points by sukit 5 days ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Would you read a statistics textbook?
    ×1.25 85 | 106 points by usernametaken29 3 days ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
    ×1.98 97 | 404 points by halcdev 5 days ago | 705 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Show your micro-SaaS
    ×1.00 131 | 22 points by genekrapivin 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Tell HN: OpenAI keeps stealing my money
    ×0.58 76 | 10 points by dingdong2026 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Anyone using dictation with coding agents?
    ×0.21 121 | 3 points by TomEleff 16 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Tell HN: OpenAI brings back 5 hour limit for plus and business standard users
    ×1.86 58 | 127 points by spwa4 1 day ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Any Software Engineers here who enjoy their AI-native dev workflow?
    ×1.37 143 | 12 points by pkos98 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Connecting Kubernetes dependencies to application telemetry
    ×0.51 158 | 6 points by chipfixer 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. DeepSeek v4.1 Flash is now available for internal beta testing
    ×1.60 81 | 19 points by dares2573 23 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: UK Rescue Rocket Sheds/Houses Information
    ×0.49 130 | 24 points by burnt-resistor 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Best Platforms to Orchestrate Agents
    ×0.30 | 2 points by venkat971 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Tell HN: Both recent GCP outages caused by fiber optic maintenance
    ×0.56 162 | 20 points by fastest963 5 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: (Why) Was the LLM breakthrough useful for images, audio, etc.?
    ×0.25 165 | 4 points by rogerrogerr 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Tell HN: I want to see the same moon as you
    ×0.91 156 | 16 points by UnderABlueMoon 4 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: How safe are our password managers in face of LLM cyber attacks?
    ×0.30 172 | 3 points by muddi900 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Bun rewrite and FLT formalization had nearly identical resource usage
    ×0.69 142 | 5 points by Zsfe510asG 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. A Harvard PhD Is Designing Schizophrenia Drugs in His Garage with ChatGPT
    ×0.85 | 2 points by wslh 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Is OpenAI silently routing GPT‑6 requests to GPT‑4o?
    ×0.24 | 2 points by skaiuijing 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: What are you working on?
    ×1.04 151 | 8 points by meerita 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Do People Care About Image Optimisation Anymore?
    ×0.49 155 | 4 points by CM30 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: How do you keep AI coding agents in sync with a changing Figma file?
    ×0.25 | 2 points by rjvidentia 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Founders that raised funding and shutdown, did you raise again?
    ×0.42 166 | 18 points by asim 5 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Who is using FPGA for ML inference?
    ×0.56 171 | 11 points by softwarewright 5 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Why can I use macOS passkeys without biometrics
    ×0.81 149 | 5 points by 0xnico 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Laptop or Desktop?
    ×0.74 173 | 8 points by Gecko4072 5 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Tell HN: Anthropic should make Claude the Author and me the Co-Author
    ×0.72 153 | 5 points by xeonax 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Looking for an old submission about sneering culture
    ×0.87 150 | 6 points by annex-winged-cr 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: What are other "uncrackable benchmarks"?
    ×0.47 167 | 3 points by Nail2680 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: Perplexity Pro vs. Claude – what are you paying for?
    ×0.74 159 | 4 points by daytonflyers 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: What is the ideal email domain setup?
    ×0.66 174 | 7 points by bix6 5 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Tell HN: NVIDIA's Acquisition of HuggingFace was for $HuggingFace
    ×2.34 148 | 43 points by MontagFTB 5 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ask HN: What is your biggest struggle while learning?
    ×0.65 169 | 3 points by Cursed666 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: Any Alternatives to Archive.ph & co?
    ×0.72 168 | 8 points by hebelehubele 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Ask HN: How do you guys keep up with the most cost-effective AI models?
    ×0.11 175 | 4 points by solomonmwalker 5 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Ask HN: Are technical blogs dead?
    ×0.72 170 | 14 points by quaintdev 5 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Ask HN: Model sycophancy benchmarks?
    ×0.90 160 | 5 points by gradus_ad 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Making a GBA game with GPT-6 Astra (spritefusion.com)
    ×1.64 86 | 7 points by HugoDz 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: I found a weird old startup's LaserDisc (youtube.com)
    ×0.41 | 2 points by markchristian 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Trying (gwern.net)
    ×1.49 15 #4 | 6 points by whoami_nr 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Connecting the machines (herdr.dev)
    ×0.68 31 #48 | 80 points by collinmanderson 14 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem (techcrunch.com)
    ×6.66 57 | 161 points by jonbaer 11 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Live map of public transport in Belgium (openbaarvervoerbelgie.be)
    ×1.04 55 | 195 points by coinfused 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. DHS 'Predictive Policing' Unit Is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits (404media.co)
    ×3.39 53 #85 | 335 points by abraham 16 hours ago | 247 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. [Terence Tao] Finite time blowup with smooth forcing term for porous medium (wordpress.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by user_7832 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Efficient Exploration Is Enough (arxiv.org)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by E-Reverance 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Linubot – like Grok bot and Hermes had a kid (github.com/agent-sh)
    ×0.83 104 | 3 points by anotherCodder 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: CodeKnow – Turn any codebase into a knowledge graph (codeknow.onrender.com)
    ×0.93 125 | 3 points by alexjsalsali 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Ask HN: [Old-School] Un-Canny Semantic Structures
    ×1.22 | 2 points by cjhanks 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Aish – Warp-style AI command suggestions in 300 lines of Zsh (github.com/oguzbilgic)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by obilgic 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Full feature ECS game engine for TypeScript (github.com/oasys-works)
    ×0.65 | 2 points by 2khan 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Researchers Spot Fake Ancient Pottery Using the Earth's Magnetic Field (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×0.72 14 #7 | 29 points by cisc 3 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Anthropic withheld latest AI model from UK testing agency (ft.com)
    ×1.92 10 | 4 points by JumpCrisscross 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Why We're Bullish on Loops (posthog.com)
    ×1.59 | 1 points by fagnerbrack 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Dragon Microkernel in Spark Ada (github.com/tigerlang)
    ×1.15 103 | 4 points by tigerlang 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Auto-Rig Web – Zero-click 3D humanoid rigging in a Web Worker (github.com/nff747)
    ×0.58 | 2 points by nff747 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Browser viz of OpenAI's "spaghetti" Navier–Stokes vortex (illustration) (3d-retro.com)
    ×0.77 96 | 3 points by SouthWestAtlas 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: CUDA/graphics in QEMU-KVM VMs without passing the Nvidia card to them (github.com/reindertpelsma)
    ×2.91 109 | 5 points by reindertpelsma 18 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. New Yorkers were misled about air quality after 9/11 (nytimes.com)
    ×2.67 18 #83 | 8 points by JMiao 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Silent Revision: Measuring Undisclosed Change in AI Safety Frameworks (arxiv.org)
    ×0.71 | 1 points by sbulaev 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. VMware migration reduces Tottenham Hotspur's licensing fees by 85 percent (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.47 74 | 102 points by joozio 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: VODForge – a free local desktop UI for YouTube video/playlist downloads (getvodforge.com)
    ×1.20 113 | 38 points by coopernusbaum 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Interactive Tree of Life (ptree.org)
    ×1.06 56 | 107 points by Lucent 5 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Tension wood: A 'muscle' that can both bend and straighten plants (phys.org)
    ×1.03 3 #5 | 99 points by mdp2021 5 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. What LLM coding agents have taken from me (awanderingmind.blog)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by awanderingmind 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Tiny $70 Xteink X3 e-reader (theatlantic.com)
    ×2.41 49 | 212 points by samizdis 1 day ago | 211 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. AI Cold Showers (reyes.sh)
    ×3.47 70 | 77 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. A Biography of Lee Holloway, the Architect of Cloudflare's Technology (Part 1) (note.com)
    ×1.06 #10 | 31 points by porridgeraisin 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Function Arguments Are Not Function Colors (jerf.org)
    ×0.70 36 #56 | 42 points by ingve 12 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. GOG brings back "big box" PC games, one printable template at a time (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.56 13 | 3 points by Tomte 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: A browser IDE for m68000, Z80 assembly (and more), with graphics (specy.app)
    ×2.58 106 | 6 points by specy 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Manhattan Safety Atlas (pplx.app)
    ×0.36 | 2 points by tesseractinf 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. AI agent spends too much time waiting (github.com/quazardous)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by quazarzero 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Pyramid.chat (pyramid.chat)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by sans_souse 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Maisi – Mathematical AI Safety Institute (maisi.org)
    ×1.40 19 | 3 points by o4c 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. The Downfall of WeWork: AI Microdrama [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.40 21 | 3 points by ollieforsyth 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Y Combinator Early Access Network (ycombinator.com)
    ×0.84 8 #72 | 78 points by tosh 14 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. This Month in Ladybird – August 2026 (ladybird.org)
    ×2.35 37 #78 | 280 points by exploraz 1 day ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. The Internet's Unholy Marriage to Capitalism (2011) (monthlyreview.org)
    ×2.37 45 | 3 points by the-mitr 22 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Plumbingjobs.org (plumbingjobs.org)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by themarinator 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Getting phpBB 1.4.4 working in Docker (thran.uk)
    ×0.78 27 #34 | 43 points by HeckFeck 8 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???