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  1. Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
    ×2.25 4 #25 | 333 points by aryamaan 17 hours ago | 546 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?
    ×1.48 18 #28 | 186 points by mdni007 18 hours ago | 165 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. LeetCode is the best way to learn a new language
    ×0.34 | 2 points by JasonHEIN 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: How to escalate a rejected Google extension?
    ×0.79 38 | 20 points by modzu 19 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. HN seems dead compared to say 10-15 years ago
    ×2.14 19 | 36 points by morpheos137 18 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?
    ×2.87 33 | 729 points by andrehacker 4 days ago | 1104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How do you cope when your startup contracts?
    ×0.63 39 | 12 points by jasonephraim 13 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Thoughts on Siri AI?
    ×0.63 | 2 points by akashwadhwani35 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Where do you like to consume content anymore?
    ×1.13 48 | 5 points by selectedambient 9 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What's your favorite HN Recap like podcast?
    ×0.22 67 | 5 points by randomor 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Which companies gained a competitive edge purely via engineering?
    ×0.88 80 | 5 points by j1000 21 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: So what happened to Facebook "localhost" tracking?
    ×0.72 91 | 106 points by juliusceasar 4 days ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What works for cutting AI token costs?
    ×1.57 11 | 5 points by leoncos 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Why won't you be replaced by AI?
    ×1.21 58 | 8 points by atleastoptimal 16 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Options for critical thinking and learning outside work?
    ×0.88 68 | 5 points by hnthrow10282910 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Is there any data on whether users prefer voice/chatbot experiences?
    ×0.29 | 2 points by fnimick 17 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow?
    ×1.89 65 | 165 points by dv35z 3 days ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?
    ×3.20 40 | 455 points by Ekami 3 days ago | 755 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How do PaaS hosting providers enforce user policy compliance?
    ×0.41 | 2 points by iishanto 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: How are thinking efforts implemented?
    ×0.88 77 | 26 points by simianwords 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. If HN policy disallows AI comments, why is linking to AI generated content ok?
    ×4.44 28 | 13 points by ekelsen 12 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: How do you find deep technical content?
    ×0.95 113 | 39 points by f311a 4 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Open-Source Software in Aerospace Imaging?
    ×0.30 78 | 6 points by lightedman 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: What is the AI setup for an experienced dev starting on a new project?
    ×0.49 84 | 5 points by postexitus 22 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: What is happening with the Meta Ads dashboard?
    ×0.67 116 | 4 points by ramon156 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Gin rummy strategies
    ×0.50 123 | 24 points by bix6 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Do you also feel like KYC is turning you off to the concept of money
    ×1.29 59 | 4 points by JumpinJack_Cash 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Does consciousness itself require memory?
    ×0.96 75 | 4 points by modinfo 16 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: How do I whitelist commands in Antigravity?
    ×1.42 96 | 5 points by madprops 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Were CS profs right to look down on programming in light of modern AI?
    ×0.59 142 | 6 points by amichail 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Tell HN: Stripe ToS update demands biometrics, freezes payments until given
    ×1.07 87 | 13 points by cuz-reasons 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Bad MCP design costs your agent 5x more tokens
    ×0.70 124 | 15 points by JohnnyZhang483 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Is the web for machines (/llm.txt) the one we wished we had as humans?
    ×0.82 101 | 36 points by sunshine-o 4 days ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: How to get my contact info off US political party's list
    ×0.88 114 | 10 points by kaycebasques 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: My competitors have flawed products but I can't get traction
    ×0.49 135 | 11 points by saveitincork 4 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. I'm tired of LLM skill slop, so I built mine with regression tests
    ×0.59 152 | 9 points by iliaov 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Job market for SDMs/Engineering Managers. Any reliable data?
    ×0.35 108 | 5 points by ed_balls 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: I made an image watermarking tool. What are the issues open-sourcing it?
    ×0.26 130 | 3 points by minimaxir 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: Where do you get the latest updates about AI?
    ×0.54 134 | 5 points by d0able 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Tell HN: Helium is the best browser I ever used
    ×0.79 106 | 6 points by prmph 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Miz Framework Story
    ×1.64 153 | 4 points by sajjadws 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ask HN: Does robotics capabilities research accelerate AGI timelines?
    ×0.52 139 | 8 points by themasterchief 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Does anyone know since when we are close to building in space?
    ×0.52 137 | 6 points by kingleopold 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Supply chain attack alert: .github/setup.js
    ×3.79 110 | 27 points by antihero 4 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. New Biochemistry-Based Metabolic Protocol Seeking Alpha Concierge Members
    ×0.31 151 | 3 points by joshwprinceton 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Ask HN: How do you stay focused while working from home?
    ×1.29 79 | 7 points by infoinlet 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Google killed my $1M ARR startup overnight
    ×3.60 128 | 25 points by vadumo 5 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Ask HN: How to use Reddit after getting permanent ban?
    ×0.66 | 2 points by Alcazar007 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Ask HN: How did you discover Hacker News?
    ×0.79 132 | 10 points by chistev 3 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Ask HN: Is Everyone an Engineer Now?
    ×1.16 157 | 7 points by piratesAndSons 4 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Integrate on-device AI models into your app using Core AI [video] (apple.com)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by sgt 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Apple Announces macOS 27 'Golden Gate', Drops Support for Intel Macs (appleinsider.com)
    ×2.35 20 #85 | 22 points by m463 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Apple failed to make its AI tool to comply to EU regulations, EU Commission says (reuters.com)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Hitoku Draft – Context aware local assistant (hitoku.me)
    ×0.54 127 | 21 points by lostathome 4 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. CRDTs merge concurrent edits. Why not concurrent creation? (loro.dev)
    ×0.91 21 #38 | 21 points by czx111331 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Aquifer – an MCP runtime for spiky agent tool traffic (github.com/rjpruitt16)
    ×0.85 154 | 3 points by rjpruitt16 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown (performance.dev)
    ×2.66 21 #90 | 484 points by howToTestFE 1 day ago | 229 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. AV2 video codec released: 30% more efficient than AV1 (flatpanelshd.com)
    ×1.43 | 2 points by ksec 50 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Ford's AI rally recalls the dot com bubble (bloomberg.com)
    ×0.85 | 1 points by xrd 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. APC–2 – A professional record cutter for producing original playback discs (teenage.engineering)
    ×1.37 6 | 265 points by vthommeret 1 day ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Franz: Hacker News sent 10x the traffic (adlk.io)
    ×2.22 44 | 3 points by tosh 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Office-open-xml-viewer: Office XML document viewer that renders to HTML Canvas (github.com/yukiyokotani)
    ×1.28 30 | 143 points by maxloh 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: I recreated AOL Instant Messenger in the browser (webaim.xyz)
    ×1.27 60 | 4 points by RgrTheShrubbr 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: ABC Classic 100 Rankings visualised (gotski.workers.dev)
    ×0.56 97 | 37 points by gotski 3 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Markdown Editor and Reader for Mac (kitemarkdown.com)
    ×1.80 125 | 6 points by antonynjoro 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. The beauty and simplicity of the good old C-style void* in C++ (giodicanio.com)
    ×1.40 7 #22 | 27 points by movd128 2 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Italy's Bending Spoons, owner of AOL and Vimeo, files for Nasdaq IPO (reuters.com)
    ×1.39 3 #75 | 118 points by mmarian 21 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Anbernic RG Rotate handheld game console coming soon for $88 and up (liliputing.com)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by PaulHoule 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: AI Pair Programmer for Emacs (github.com/jaketothepast)
    ×9.54 18 | 33 points by jakewindle47 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: GentleOS – A pair of hobby OSes for vintage 32-bit and 16-bit PCs (github.com/luke8086)
    ×3.05 95 | 11 points by luke8086 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Help SourceLibrary.org Translate the Renaissance (sourcelibrary.org)
    ×2.70 99 | 8 points by dr_dshiv 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Dap-mux – Connect your editor and REPL to the same debug session
    ×2.30 126 | 7 points by YesJustWolf 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. OpenCV 5 Is Here: The Biggest Leap in Years for Computer Vision (opencv.org)
    ×4.00 1 #4 | 298 points by ternaus 9 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. AI is slowing down (wheresyoured.at)
    ×4.47 12 #31 | 582 points by crescit_eundo 20 hours ago | 628 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. New drug 'functionally cures' many hepatitis B virus infections (science.org)
    ×1.87 1 #81 | 279 points by gmays 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: fftext - quick summary, fact check, ELI5 on CPU (github.com/kouhxp)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by mrkn1 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer? (natesilver.net)
    ×1.95 44 | 90 points by 7777777phil 1 day ago | 266 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second (xiaomi.com)
    ×2.43 2 #18 | 584 points by gainsurier 20 hours ago | 431 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Full Reverse Engineering of the TI-84 Plus Operating System (siraben.github.io)
    ×1.19 26 #80 | 139 points by siraben 18 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Zig Structs of Arrays (2024) (andreashohmann.com)
    ×0.94 38 #53 | 123 points by Tomte 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. I design with Claude more than Figma now (janestreet.com)
    ×2.28 29 #86 | 313 points by MrBuddyCasino 2 days ago | 267 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Hurdles to a hobby: climate change and runfluencer culture impact our daily jog (theconversation.com)
    ×1.41 | 2 points by PaulHoule 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Fear of AI bubble ahead of SpaceX IPO (fortune.com)
    ×1.42 | 2 points by amelius 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. China's Unitree Will Dominate Global Robotics (semianalysis.com)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by nanmu42 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. How We Built Automatic Invoice Reconciliation Without AI (usecycle.co)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by aswinmohanme 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Eagle Computer: The rise and fall of an early PC clone (dfarq.homeip.net)
    ×0.51 14 #11 | 16 points by giuliomagnifico 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Games Between Programs: The Ruliology of Competition (stephenwolfram.com)
    ×0.55 42 #48 | 30 points by andromaton 12 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Uruky (EU-based Kagi alternative) now has Image Search and URL Rewrites (uruky.com)
    ×1.60 73 | 235 points by BrunoBernardino 5 days ago | 238 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Flock license plate reader wrongly linked a San Diego man to a violent crime (timesofsandiego.com)
    ×4.96 43 | 85 points by loteck 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Boxes.dev: ditch localhost; run Claude Code and Codex in the cloud (boxes.dev)
    ×2.12 89 | 104 points by nab 4 days ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???