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  1. Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?
    ×1.56 5 #45 | 7 points by terabytest 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What non-fiction do you read?
    ×0.61 3 | 4 points by yanis_t 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: COBOL devs, how are AI coding affecting your work?
    ×1.02 4 | 159 points by zkid18 1 day ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Share your personal website
    ×3.12 65 | 941 points by susam 5 days ago | 2375 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Is it still worth pursuing a software startup?
    ×1.42 72 | 190 points by newbebee 3 days ago | 225 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?
    ×3.19 57 | 795 points by publicdebates 4 days ago | 1232 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?
    ×1.46 84 | 220 points by blahaj 5 days ago | 431 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: When has humanities/history knowledge helped you in tech?
    ×0.57 78 | 6 points by amadeuswoo 18 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. YC Events
    ×0.67 74 | 7 points by obedvega 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Claude Opus performance affected by time of day?
    ×0.55 108 | 38 points by scaredreally 3 days ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Tell HN: YouTube gave my username switzerland to a half government organization
    ×2.37 114 | 38 points by faebi 4 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: One IP, multiple unrealistic locations worldwide hitting my website
    ×0.49 117 | 43 points by nacho-daddy 4 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Tell HN: The way I do simple data management for new prototypes
    ×0.47 135 | 15 points by AndreyK1984 4 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How to bullet proof yourself from AI?
    ×1.28 85 | 20 points by max_ 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How many local logins do you have on your computer?
    ×0.37 102 | 8 points by bahmboo 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How do you safely give LLMs SSH/DB access?
    ×0.84 112 | 84 points by nico 5 days ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Where to find VC fund or investor for project in Europe?
    ×0.59 80 | 8 points by nicksbg 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: What non-LLM tools have meaningfully improved your dev productivity?
    ×0.39 100 | 4 points by primaprashant 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask your Slack bot what the dev team shipped
    ×0.21 | 2 points by inferno22 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: How have you or your firm made money with LLMs?
    ×0.83 144 | 12 points by bwestergard 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Browser extension vs. native app for structured form filling?
    ×0.42 160 | 6 points by livrasand 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: How to get a job after a career break?
    ×0.84 107 | 11 points by shivajikobardan 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: How to make spamming us uncomfortable for LinkedIn and friends?
    ×0.88 155 | 14 points by zx8080 5 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: What are your best purchases under $100?
    ×4.73 99 | 90 points by krishadi 4 days ago | 243 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Are cross-platform UI frameworks suitable for camera apps?
    ×0.25 134 | 4 points by Austin_Conlon 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Tell HN: Poshmark instantly leaked my email to scammers
    ×0.55 115 | 8 points by hardenedmetapod 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Distributed SQL engine for ultra-wide tables
    ×0.58 145 | 23 points by synsqlbythesea 5 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Is replacing an enterprise product with LLMs a realistic strategy?
    ×0.72 121 | 8 points by chandmk 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: 1 year from today what will have been the worst behavior from AI corps?
    ×0.26 131 | 3 points by keepamovin 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Tell HN: Deskflow is getting spammed with AI-slop PRs
    ×1.17 90 | 3 points by acheong08 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Why is opening a new window in OS26 Safari so slow this week?
    ×1.37 76 | 6 points by zahirbmirza 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Tell HN: Execution is cheap, ideas matter again
    ×1.08 140 | 18 points by keepamovin 4 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Who's using DuckDB in production?
    ×0.63 154 | 7 points by yakkomajuri 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Why are websites trying to talk at me?
    ×0.47 159 | 3 points by LeratoAustini 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: What is the best way to provide continuous context to models?
    ×0.90 113 | 73 points by nemath 5 days ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Fundraising compensation
    ×0.66 174 | 4 points by ebitda_ai 4 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Anyone else finding it impossible to land a job?
    ×4.64 129 | 30 points by Arch485 4 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: Do you think college is/was worth it?
    ×1.08 142 | 9 points by hallole 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: AI music covers in 2026?
    ×0.80 139 | 17 points by sexy_seedbox 4 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: What to teach my kid if AI does math and CS?
    ×1.73 157 | 12 points by devShark 4 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: Those who quit tech, moved back home, what do you do?
    ×1.66 137 | 14 points by akudha 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ask HN: Why is Google tolerating impersonation of Gmail from it's own domain?
    ×0.78 132 | 6 points by dvh 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: Have you ever tried low-code tools for your work?
    ×0.51 172 | 4 points by andre_fernandes 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Tell HN: Google Trust and Safety is a joke
    ×0.38 150 | 4 points by tokyobreakfast 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Ask HN: Can companies claim copyright over their LLM-generated codebases?
    ×1.15 162 | 5 points by mks_shuffle 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Tell HN: YouTube disabled advanced subtitling, and is stripping it from old vids
    ×1.70 127 | 8 points by mister_mort 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Ask HN: Has Claude Code changed its usage limits for you?
    ×0.75 173 | 3 points by laurex 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Ask HN: What's something you wished you started doing earlier?
    ×0.79 169 | 4 points by karakoram 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Ask HN: Why do AI code editors suck at closing tags?
    ×1.04 163 | 9 points by cryptography 5 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. I built visual search for tattoo artists
    ×0.73 166 | 3 points by rbaten 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Ask HN: Strangest or most unexpected behavior you've seen from GitHub Copilot?
    ×1.83 167 | 7 points by stikit 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Tell HN: Properly using dishwasher reduced friction with my wife
    ×2.26 158 | 16 points by xylo 5 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Ask HN: Is Codex login down for all workspace (non-personal) users?
    ×1.08 170 | 6 points by amluto 4 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Ask HN: Any real prompt injections in the wild?
    ×0.89 171 | 7 points by singularity2001 5 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: I made a pocket IDE for Android Developers (youtu.be)
    ×1.41 116 | 3 points by 0dayman 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. The Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button (paulmakeswebsites.com)
    ×3.58 12 #15 | 400 points by dbushell 7 hours ago | 213 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Gaussian Splatting – A$AP Rocky "Helicopter" music video (radiancefields.com)
    ×2.93 5 #83 | 753 points by ChrisArchitect 1 day ago | 254 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. America isn't exceptional – it's the exception (not-ship.com)
    ×4.01 67 | 5 points by speckx 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Pdfwithlove – PDF tools that run 100% locally (no uploads, no back end) (pdfwithlove.netlify.app)
    ×2.90 28 | 174 points by pratik227 1 day ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Stop using MySQL in 2026, it is not true open source (optimizedbyotto.com)
    ×2.45 67 | 70 points by thunderbong 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: The Hessian of tall-skinny networks is easy to invert (github.com/a-rahimi)
    ×0.60 124 | 31 points by rahimiali 4 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Monitor Claude/Codex usage on Linux via browser cookies (no API keys) (github.com/NihilDigit)
    ×1.86 148 | 4 points by NihilDigit 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Turkish Sieve Engine – GPU-Accelerated Prime Number Generator (github.com/bilgisofttr)
    ×1.55 149 | 4 points by bilgisoft 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Floating-Point Printing and Parsing Can Be Simple and Fast (swtch.com)
    ×2.46 43 #81 | 36 points by chmaynard 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. The Last Algorithm (danielmiessler.com)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by zanjani 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. AI Can't Read This (forhumaneyesonly.com)
    ×3.22 56 | 4 points by halcdev 42 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Why Linear Chat is failing us (obliqueangles.substack.com)
    ×1.40 | 2 points by TomBers 57 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Going to write 1.000.000 lines of code for community projects (onemillionlines.com)
    ×1.35 | 2 points by websku 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. IP Addresses Through 2025 (potaroo.net)
    ×1.62 4 #1 | 27 points by petercooper 51 minutes ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Claude Skill Editor (github.com/mtct)
    ×2.05 | 1 points by mtct88 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. I'm a Happy Engineer Now (denv.it)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by michaelmior 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. XAI engineer assumed fired for leaking lots of company details in podcast (reddit.com)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by mellosouls 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Oauth2-forwarder – web oauth2 for dev containers (github.com/sam-mfb)
    ×1.53 | 2 points by sam256 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Finite – NixOS Flake for Pi-Hole and Unbound on Raspberry Pi (github.com/wh1le)
    ×1.97 136 | 5 points by wh1le 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Prediction markets are ushering in a world in which news becomes about gambling (theatlantic.com)
    ×3.79 94 #22 | 353 points by krustyburger 1 day ago | 351 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Kiss Launcher – fast launcher for Android (kisslauncher.com)
    ×1.96 25 #36 | 13 points by ifh-hn 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. The Temporal Consistency Challenge in Video Restoration (videowatermarkremove.com)
    ×1.52 | 2 points by ilmj8426 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. How Greenland keeps its eye on independence [pdf] (isonomiaquarterly.com)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by brandonlc 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Concurrent Validity of 16 Commercial Photoplethysmographic Heart Rate Monitors (mdpi.com)
    ×1.27 | 2 points by PaulHoule 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. I was a top 0.01% Cursor user, then switched to Claude Code 2.0 (silennai.com)
    ×3.22 29 | 140 points by SilenN 1 day ago | 214 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Running Claude Code dangerously (safely) (emilburzo.com)
    ×1.84 #2 | 109 points by emilburzo 2 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Channel3 (YC S25) Is Hiring (ycombinator.com)
    2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Flux 2 Klein pure C inference (github.com/antirez)
    ×1.87 57 #46 | 438 points by antirez 1 day ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Chatbot Psychosis (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.04 17 #59 | 63 points by tbmtbmtbmtbmtbm 9 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Gate0 – Zero-allocation, deterministic policy engine in Rust (github.com/Qarait)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by mb85 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Xenia – A monospaced font built with a custom Python engine (github.com/Loretta1982)
    ×0.85 66 | 74 points by xeniafont 2 days ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: I built a tool to assist AI agents to know when a PR is good to go (dsifry.github.io)
    ×0.56 92 | 39 points by dsifry 3 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. x86 prefixes and escape opcodes flowchart (soc.me)
    ×0.96 26 #19 | 78 points by gaul 10 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Face as a QR Code (bookofjoe2.blogspot.com)
    ×0.84 32 #37 | 34 points by surprisetalk 9 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. King – man + woman is queen; but why? (2017) (migdal.pl)
    ×1.39 12 #40 | 48 points by CGMthrowaway 6 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???