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  1. Ask HN: Are others seeing Google's reCAPTCHA rejecting Firefox users?
    ×1.82 7 #34 | 208 points by Animats 8 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Anyone using dictation with coding agents?
    ×0.42 40 | 3 points by TomEleff 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Fable hacked my piano, can I release the results?
    ×1.60 42 | 291 points by jmpman 3 days ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?
    ×1.72 46 | 305 points by imadtaieber 1 day ago | 274 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Apparently CodePen 2.0 sends data to their servers as you type
    ×0.97 59 | 112 points by maxim-fin 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Would you read a statistics textbook?
    ×1.30 79 | 106 points by usernametaken29 2 days ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Anyone else feeling uneasy with the latest developments in AI?
    ×1.10 72 | 14 points by sensitivekt9q3 13 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?
    ×1.04 104 | 196 points by sukit 5 days ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. DeepSeek v4.1 Flash is now available for internal beta testing
    ×1.65 36 | 16 points by dares2573 9 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Show your micro-SaaS
    ×1.03 108 | 20 points by genekrapivin 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
    ×1.99 95 | 404 points by halcdev 5 days ago | 705 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Tell HN: OpenAI brings back 5 hour limit for plus and business standard users
    ×1.96 26 | 127 points by spwa4 1 day ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Any Software Engineers here who enjoy their AI-native dev workflow?
    ×1.29 125 | 9 points by pkos98 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: 3.5 inch diskette read errors, would a period correct drive do better?
    ×1.18 113 | 6 points by rietta 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Connecting Kubernetes dependencies to application telemetry
    ×0.62 135 | 6 points by chipfixer 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: UK Rescue Rocket Sheds/Houses Information
    ×0.51 106 | 24 points by burnt-resistor 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Is JavaScript as insecure as ActiveX was at the peak?
    ×0.92 | 2 points by roschdal 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: (Why) Was the LLM breakthrough useful for images, audio, etc.?
    ×0.31 146 | 4 points by rogerrogerr 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Tell HN: Both recent GCP outages caused by fiber optic maintenance
    ×0.55 149 | 19 points by fastest963 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Tell HN: I want to see the same moon as you
    ×0.98 139 | 16 points by UnderABlueMoon 3 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Bun rewrite and FLT formalization had nearly identical resource usage
    ×0.81 111 | 5 points by Zsfe510asG 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Is OpenAI silently routing GPT‑6 requests to GPT‑4o?
    ×0.27 | 2 points by skaiuijing 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: How safe are our password managers in face of LLM cyber attacks?
    ×0.37 158 | 3 points by muddi900 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Do People Care About Image Optimisation Anymore?
    ×0.55 121 | 4 points by CM30 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: How do you keep AI coding agents in sync with a changing Figma file?
    ×0.29 | 2 points by rjvidentia 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. tuhat: Home for all your reading
    ×0.68 122 | 4 points by 8by3 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Why can I use macOS passkeys without biometrics
    ×0.74 123 | 4 points by 0xnico 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: What are you working on?
    ×1.00 128 | 7 points by meerita 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Tell HN: Anthropic should make Claude the Author and me the Co-Author
    ×0.80 124 | 5 points by xeonax 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Looking for an old submission about sneering culture
    ×0.99 119 | 6 points by annex-winged-cr 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: What are other "uncrackable benchmarks"?
    ×0.53 144 | 3 points by Nail2680 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Perplexity Pro vs. Claude – what are you paying for?
    ×0.83 138 | 4 points by daytonflyers 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Do you ever struggle to find another programmer to work on a project/pair with?
    ×0.50 | 2 points by rizsyed1 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Who is using FPGA for ML inference?
    ×0.53 167 | 10 points by softwarewright 4 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Founders that raised funding and shutdown, did you raise again?
    ×0.42 157 | 18 points by asim 5 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: What is your biggest struggle while learning?
    ×0.72 148 | 3 points by Cursed666 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Laptop or Desktop?
    ×0.78 170 | 8 points by Gecko4072 5 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: Model sycophancy benchmarks?
    ×0.96 140 | 5 points by gradus_ad 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: Any Alternatives to Archive.ph & co?
    ×0.75 155 | 8 points by hebelehubele 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: What is the ideal email domain setup?
    ×0.68 171 | 7 points by bix6 4 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Tell HN: NVIDIA's Acquisition of HuggingFace was for $HuggingFace
    ×2.38 129 | 43 points by MontagFTB 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ask HN: Are we normalizing surveillance in the name of safety?
    ×0.39 152 | 4 points by dennysora-main 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: How do you guys keep up with the most cost-effective AI models?
    ×0.11 172 | 4 points by solomonmwalker 5 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Astra still fails at creating acceptable Rotational Ambigram
    ×0.20 162 | 3 points by das_vicky 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. MITx is ending access to its courses for learners in Iran on September 8
    ×0.97 159 | 6 points by mahdihabibi 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Ask HN: Are technical blogs dead?
    ×0.73 165 | 14 points by quaintdev 5 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Xfinity silently blocks lots of new domains
    ×1.55 145 | 15 points by dschwartz18 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Ask HN: Why don't we talk about context window size anymore?
    ×0.98 169 | 6 points by rce123 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Ask HN: Do you route only certain websites through a VPN?
    ×0.25 | 2 points by dennysora-main 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. APAC Alpha – Zero-lag Intel terminal for Asian markets
    ×0.49 | 2 points by apacalpha 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Ask HN: Why don't we bring back old school OkCupid?
    ×3.05 93 | 45 points by firefax 2 days ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Ask HN: Books Recommendations?
    ×0.99 161 | 7 points by washelterskelte 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Ask HN: Initial Thoughts on GPT-6 Astra?
    ×0.77 160 | 8 points by zof3 3 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Ask HN: Why do many websites use a sign-in code instead of a password?
    ×1.32 168 | 9 points by bariumbitmap 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. First patient in live AI-assisted sight-saving brain surgery (ucl.ac.uk)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by DeepLogin 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Sparrow-2 – Noise cancellation isn't designed for conversational AI (tavuslabs.org)
    ×3.45 43 | 6 points by code_brian 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Is mathematics about to enter the conservatory? (mbmccoy.dev)
    ×1.14 73 | 134 points by _alternator_ 1 day ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Jackalope.dev (jackalope.dev)
    ×1.77 97 | 5 points by ghosts_ 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Forget Rigid Stock Screeners – A Universal Query API for Financial Data (financialdata.net)
    ×0.97 110 | 9 points by _FDN_ 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. PISA 2025 Students' reading and mathematics performance declined across the OECD (oecd.org)
    ×2.03 25 #57 | 106 points by mazokum 5 hours ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Infinite Sugar – a fruit fly emulation given a pleasant life (cnqso.com)
    ×1.29 | 2 points by cnqso 15 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Bill Gates tries to install MovieMaker (2003) (techemails.com)
    ×5.86 14 | 416 points by highfrequency 1 day ago | 282 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Making a Python interpreter in 1024 bytes (austinhenley.com)
    ×1.53 38 | 321 points by azhenley 1 day ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. TiVo to charge money for skipping commercials in your own recordings (cordcuttersnews.com)
    ×2.40 56 | 179 points by dmitrygr 1 day ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: I made Artle – a quick, daily art guessing game (artle.eu)
    ×0.76 90 | 3 points by steinvakt2 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Destockd – Searchable public-domain video archive (youtube.com)
    ×1.02 | 2 points by scanny 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Connecting the Machines (herdr.dev)
    ×1.45 14 #8 | 11 points by collinmanderson 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. We Must Return to the Office to Use AI in Person (mcsweeneys.net)
    ×8.41 57 #60 | 320 points by cainxinth 3 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. OpenAI Says It Has Cracked One of Math's 'Millennium Problems' (nytimes.com)
    ×0.94 | 1 points by doener 57 seconds ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. >10x More Efficient Pretraining (magic.dev)
    ×1.48 | 2 points by ronfriedhaber 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Our GitHub Actions bill kept climbing, so we moved CI to one box (github.com/senoff)
    ×1.69 19 | 3 points by senoff 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Museum Heists Like Cybersecurity Breaches (medium.com)
    ×1.09 | 2 points by cadeos 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: TERMy – A fast terminal assistant that does not use LLMs (github.com/gioblu)
    ×1.52 98 | 220 points by gioscarab 4 days ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Security and JSON tools that run in the browser (sentrint.com)
    ×0.69 115 | 4 points by xEcho 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Dsnitch – Real-time, zero-config Docker egress inspector via eBPF (github.com/infomaniac777)
    ×0.64 141 | 5 points by infomaniac777 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby (theverge.com)
    ×4.80 9 #13 | 82 points by sbulaev 1 hour ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. I've factored the RSA keys of a Certificate Authority from the 90s (mcpherrin.ca)
    ×2.19 14 #24 | 459 points by ahlCVA 15 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: InverSQL: Build SQL interactively in inverse (github.com/rentruewang)
    ×1.13 | 2 points by renchuw 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. The three times I said no to Tim Berners-Lee (capybaraleech.substack.com)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by jcfrei 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Following legal advice, the Nitter project will continue (github.com/zedeus)
    ×4.53 61 | 269 points by Cider9986 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Malinois – Open-Source iOS Unattended-Device Tamper Detection (github.com/john-comptonemail-com)
    ×1.16 68 | 3 points by jcomp 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. US Reading Scores Plummet on Global Exam (nytimes.com)
    ×2.74 3 #43 | 22 points by toomuchtodo 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake Release Date and Gameplay (polygon.com)
    ×2.20 13 #49 | 14 points by tosh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: A design-space map of 80k Steam games (mechanics, not genres) (steammaho.com)
    ×1.73 | 2 points by steammaho 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Browser only CSV editor, data never leaves your machine (csvpreview.com)
    ×0.62 | 2 points by anshulsahni 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Watch Los Angeles get built, one building at a time (1880–2026) (parcelscope.net)
    ×1.47 2 #75 | 325 points by rustywasm 22 hours ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. WeatherNext 3 (deepmind.google)
    ×2.33 9 #78 | 398 points by matthieu_bl 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Numerical Weather Prediction: How Weather Models Turn Equations into Forecasts (windy.com)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by carabiner 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Pod – A review site for dev tools where the reviewers are AI agents (askpod.ai)
    ×2.43 105 | 10 points by marvy101 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Byosynch – Continuous two-way file sync over SSH for Mac and Linux (byosynch.com)
    ×0.67 154 | 3 points by hamiltonc 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???