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  1. Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?
    ×0.96 15 #19 | 72 points by sukit 10 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
    ×2.13 18 #36 | 373 points by halcdev 18 hours ago | 535 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Are others seeing Google's reCAPTCHA rejecting Firefox users?
    ×1.75 18 #74 | 58 points by Animats 11 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tell HN: Both recent GCP outages caused by fiber optic maintenance
    ×0.72 58 #85 | 11 points by fastest963 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: 30, burnt out, with 6-10 months of runway. What would you do?
    ×2.60 9 #88 | 24 points by throwaway_30yo 11 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Who is using FPGA for ML inference?
    ×0.77 63 | 8 points by softwarewright 11 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026)
    ×1.13 68 | 242 points by whoishiring 2 days ago | 324 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Why is HN native dark mode not implemented yet?
    ×1.42 36 | 3 points by SriniK 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2026)
    ×0.66 92 | 108 points by whoishiring 2 days ago | 434 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What is the ideal email domain setup?
    ×0.74 93 | 3 points by bix6 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Founders that raised funding and shutdown, did you raise again?
    ×0.46 75 | 17 points by asim 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Tell HN: NVIDIA's Acquisition of HuggingFace was for $HuggingFace
    ×2.35 3 | 30 points by MontagFTB 11 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Why do many websites use a sign-in code instead of a password?
    ×2.19 20 | 7 points by bariumbitmap 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Laptop or Desktop?
    ×1.42 96 | 6 points by Gecko4072 17 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How do you guys keep up with the most cost-effective AI models?
    ×0.32 110 | 4 points by solomonmwalker 19 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How do you market Open Source Software?
    ×0.93 56 | 5 points by Daniel-Pan 7 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: How do we build a team? (bootstrapped B2B startup)
    ×1.15 103 | 3 points by theonlinx 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Are technical blogs dead?
    ×0.70 98 | 11 points by quaintdev 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Tell HN: The Thoughts and Woes of a Full-Time Founder Part 1
    ×0.94 94 | 3 points by lcampbellsoup 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Accountants working with ecommerce
    ×0.27 114 | 3 points by vasyl_kyryliuk 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: iPhone Camera on indicator
    ×0.69 | 2 points by zahirbmirza 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Is there a test for measuring cognitive affects from LLM usage?
    ×2.20 82 | 5 points by niwrad 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Could AI eventually build god?
    ×1.55 87 | 5 points by olirex99 12 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. One-person startup: a Cornell postdoc wants to put AI in everyone's hands
    ×0.70 | 2 points by modelslive 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: How do you gate an autonomous coding agent's shell access?
    ×0.57 | 2 points by alanfuNZ 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Why does free time become another thing you have to use correctly?
    ×0.37 | 2 points by nullifypreset 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Are guardrails being baked into models, or enforced outside them?
    ×0.66 | 2 points by arkj 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Resources to Get Good at Soldering?
    ×0.87 138 | 9 points by tosmatos 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Beware: Malicious Profiles on YC Co-Founder Matching
    ×0.49 102 | 5 points by pain_perdu 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Can we classify AI as: subhuman, quasihuman, human, superhumam?
    ×0.84 124 | 3 points by aunekiaru 17 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Tell HN: Xbox Game Pass now limits the amount of hours each month
    ×3.44 50 | 7 points by nodesocket 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Tell HN: Dropbox Data Breach
    ×1.44 126 | 49 points by hmate9 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Returning from the AI brain-rot state, re-take the thinking ownership
    ×3.93 99 | 8 points by tuleiff 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Where do you get your AI (technology) news?
    ×0.50 136 | 8 points by BtM909 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: How much does licensing approach influence purchase decisions?
    ×0.47 | 2 points by terranivium 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Where do I go?
    ×0.76 | 2 points by dannydark1 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. ChatGPT Linux GUI version updates redownload all files, require 1.4GB download
    ×0.38 132 | 9 points by juujian 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: What would happen if your company stopped using all AI tomorrow?
    ×0.63 131 | 40 points by jc_811 3 days ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: A tool to share my data?
    ×0.40 | 2 points by roromainmain 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Kimi K3 and GLM-5.3 are better than Gemini 3.8 Flash
    ×0.64 125 | 11 points by theHocineSaad 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: Anyone homeschooling their kids?
    ×0.90 141 | 12 points by wbnns 2 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ask HN: How to ask questions in Ask HN
    ×0.27 153 | 4 points by samikama 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: Would you be interested in using a VoIP system that has an operator?
    ×0.12 | 2 points by left-struck 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Knowledge Graph Engine for Codebases
    ×0.34 156 | 4 points by Shourya_55 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Claude Code now appends a link to a Claude session in every commit
    ×0.54 157 | 13 points by codexon 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Noviz AI Agent for ERPNext – A Reasoning Layer for ERPNext
    ×0.10 | 2 points by tajdink 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. The true horror of Edgar Allan Poe’s stories lies in their confessions (yalereview.org)
    ×0.63 48 #32 | 70 points by lermontov 15 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Saving money on Google Photos with Immich: Your own personal photo storage (markpitblado.me)
    ×2.32 59 | 110 points by speckx 1 day ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: VT Code – My attempt at building a coding-agent harness (github.com/vinhnx)
    ×0.88 128 | 3 points by vinhnx 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Working to Make Python Lazy (iscinumpy.dev)
    ×0.92 32 #53 | 43 points by js2 13 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Bank of Canada bank notes: Resources for the blind and partially sighted (bankofcanada.ca)
    ×1.00 5 #59 | 5 points by robin_reala 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: asciiQuake (asciiquake.wtf)
    ×2.82 123 | 14 points by apresmoi 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Oconee Runtime – Policy enforcement for browser AI and coding agents (oconeeruntime.com)
    ×0.52 | 2 points by hthomas4 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Banca Etica Suspends A/I's Account While Condemning the Sanctions Behind It (sabot.media)
    ×1.32 76 | 96 points by rendx 2 days ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. The Silo · interactive 3D cutaway (qualityf2p.workers.dev)
    ×1.97 65 | 73 points by duck 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. My practical approach to surfing the web safely (molily.de)
    ×0.60 54 #69 | 25 points by ethanhawksley 15 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. We could save petabytes of cache storage with Zstandard and Pingora (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.10 50 #89 | 135 points by torutofu 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. A connectomics milestone: Mapping the complete male fruit fly brain (research.google)
    ×1.23 | 2 points by fittingopposite 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Can We Stop with the Uptime Percentages? (jim-nielsen.com)
    ×1.80 8 | 3 points by ingve 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: G3M – MCP server for physical outbound (g3m.co)
    ×1.70 146 | 5 points by davismartens 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. 73% of What We Blocked in a Month Was One Syscall Your Sandbox Cannot See (grith.ai)
    ×1.91 15 | 3 points by edf13 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: MesaOS – An operating system written from scratch in Rust (github.com/crackanimad0r)
    ×0.27 111 | 3 points by crackanimador 16 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Ensemble Prover - Open-Source Python Autonomous Theorem Prover (github.com/graviterra)
    ×0.75 | 2 points by stereochemical3 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: CodeBeasts – Barcode Monsters (google.com)
    ×1.58 118 | 3 points by solidarnosc 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Slop University (slop.university)
    ×1.25 135 | 5 points by benswift 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Whistle Synth (jefftk.com)
    ×0.77 | 1 points by luu 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. LLMs: Intelligence vs. Cost (openteams.com)
    ×0.90 73 | 92 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: NGPDFs – 50 PDF tools that never upload your files (ngpdfs.com)
    ×0.37 | 2 points by amulyakashyap09 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: I built an app that makes your goals inevitable (getinference.app)
    ×0.67 | 2 points by ifeanyi_sa 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. New type of dice guarantees no tie when deciding who goes first (cbc.ca)
    ×1.63 14 #35 | 107 points by colinprince 10 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Colorado Sees First Lawsuit Under 'Right to Repair' Law (techdirt.com)
    ×0.90 | 1 points by SockThief 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: NGPDFs – 50 PDF tools that never upload your files (ngpdfs.com)
    ×1.85 10 | 3 points by amulyakashyap09 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Reverse engineering the storage format for an undocumented database (glazer.ee)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by pintprint 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. How I use GBNF grammars to make small local models stop hallucinating JSON (eris-system.dev)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by teleforce 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Cupertino – MCP servers for the Apple apps on your Mac (mgcrea.io)
    ×0.87 | 2 points by olouv 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: I made a word building game supporting anagrams and one handed use
    ×0.37 54 #60 | 15 points by busymom0 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Pre-Release of Polars 2.0 (pola.rs)
    ×1.83 16 #63 | 394 points by komape 1 day ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. ICE Has a $2M Contract for Spyware That Can Hack Phones Without a Click (military.com)
    ×4.90 4 | 83 points by miohtama 20 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: tagger – a self-hosted webui for audio file tagging (github.com/rnhinson)
    ×0.88 | 2 points by farthest 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Radia – agent coordination with leases, permissions and provenance (radia.sh)
    ×0.64 | 2 points by ymodulo 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Ardent, a code-first agent for non-engineering work (ardent.ai)
    ×1.57 85 | 10 points by nkohari 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Openvurp – A wallet of AI agents that use tools and consult each other (github.com/openvurp)
    ×1.09 129 | 3 points by vforno 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Open source ML programming language playground (sw-ml-study.github.io)
    ×1.40 113 | 11 points by softwarewrighte 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Carbon-aware electricity pricing, measured daily on 38 grids (carbonawarepricing.com)
    ×1.53 1 #3 | 29 points by High-Five 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. By 2029 no computer or "machine intelligence" will have passed the Turing Test (longbets.org)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by tetris11 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Kraaken: A Ship, Power Plant, Reservoir and Data Centre in One (energydigital.com)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by geox 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Altair Basic Interpreter Source Code (1975) [pdf] (gatesnotes.com)
    ×0.65 64 | 75 points by Eridanus2 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: StockFly, a portfolio tracker in any currency at historical FX rates (stockfly.app)
    ×1.15 160 | 3 points by khorsus 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: What Happens When You Give Your AI Agents a Voice and an Attitude (fellowgeek.github.io)
    ×1.38 168 | 10 points by pcbmaker20 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Skywarden – Smart astrophotography planning companion (skywarden.app)
    ×1.22 165 | 3 points by adfr 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???