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  1. Ask HN: Gmail spam filtering suddenly marking everything as spam?
    ×1.57 11 #13 | 109 points by goopthink 7 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What usually happens after a VC asks for a demo?
    ×1.38 21 #69 | 8 points by stijo 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Have we confused efficiency with "100% utilization"?
    ×2.01 34 #79 | 14 points by nickevante 3 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Why does the number of datasets on data.gov vary so much?
    ×1.10 7 #84 | 7 points by akudha 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Thinking about memory for AI coding agents
    ×0.76 22 | 5 points by hoangnnguyen 11 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What are some good unintuitive statistics problems?
    ×0.72 39 | 4 points by ronbenton 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Rust and AI builders interested in local-first, multi-agent systems?
    ×0.76 51 | 3 points by cajazzer 3 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What's the current best local/open speech-to-speech setup?
    ×1.68 7 | 234 points by dsrtslnd23 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How to redeem a gift card without risking lock-out?
    ×1.62 42 | 5 points by magnetic 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Weekend Social: Top two programming languages and what they can borrow?
    ×1.09 70 | 3 points by susam 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: May an agent accept a license to produce a build?
    ×0.79 6 | 25 points by athrowaway3z 9 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: General purpose search engine that will respect special characters?
    ×1.03 83 | 3 points by what-if 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Seeeking help to reverse engineer a PCB
    ×0.58 98 | 20 points by Dlg001 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?
    ×3.13 89 | 452 points by terabytest 4 days ago | 450 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Tell HN: 2 years building a kids audio app as a solo dev – lessons learned
    ×1.08 100 | 136 points by oliverjanssen 3 days ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Are you using Clawdbot? What are your use cases?
    ×1.32 38 | 3 points by amrrs 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: How do you AI code from your phone?
    ×1.76 105 | 4 points by splitbrain 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: COBOL devs, how are AI coding affecting your work?
    ×1.00 127 | 169 points by zkid18 5 days ago | 182 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Tell HN: AI is all about the tools (for now)
    ×0.48 | 2 points by keepamovin 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Similar to Brex what are some crazy company pivots no one talks about
    ×1.32 82 | 4 points by nemath 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Why are so many rolling out their own AI/LLM agent sandboxing solution?
    ×1.16 141 | 32 points by ATechGuy 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Do you "micro-manage" your agents?
    ×0.64 129 | 7 points by xinbenlv 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Where is society heading, is there a plan for a jobless future?
    ×1.64 110 | 15 points by evo_9 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. ChatGPT has no real-time clock – time awareness is essential
    ×1.98 111 | 3 points by Stehpwtimace 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Where do you look for semiconductor jobs?
    ×0.45 122 | 4 points by johncole 19 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. A possible future architecture for decoupled GUIs
    ×1.03 118 | 3 points by powerwordtree 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Locked out of my GCP account for 3 days, still charged, can't redirect domain
    ×1.55 116 | 14 points by lifeoflee 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: LLMs for new job categories?
    ×0.68 143 | 6 points by aavci 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: I am a surgeon/doctor. what AI literature/courses would you recommend?
    ×1.55 88 | 3 points by emmabruns 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Revive a mostly dead Discord server
    ×0.30 183 | 20 points by movedx 4 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: To chase "The Flow" or to avoid it as progress doesn't come easy?
    ×1.05 74 | 4 points by gajnadsgjoas 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Does DDG no longer honor "site:" prefix?
    ×0.66 123 | 19 points by everybodyknows 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Best practice securing secrets on local machines working with agents?
    ×0.32 165 | 9 points by xinbenlv 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. AI hallucinate. Do you ever double check the output?
    ×0.34 132 | 8 points by jackota 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: What are best ways to contribute to science in free time?
    ×1.95 90 | 5 points by gajnadsgjoas 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: How do you authorize AI agent actions in production?
    ×0.61 200 | 5 points by naolbeyene 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Dismantling dark patterns using TDD via discovery and injunctions
    ×0.47 154 | 4 points by marc_litchfield 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: Do B2B deals stall more from "org blindness" than product fit?
    ×1.11 136 | 6 points by Tanjim 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: Is Claude Down for You?
    ×0.85 117 | 26 points by philip1209 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: Why is the Lua web / related ecosystem so stagnant?
    ×0.22 | 2 points by jmspring 21 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: Which common map projections make Greenland look smaller?
    ×0.48 192 | 18 points by jimnotgym 4 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ask HN: What is your opinion on non-mainstream mobile OS options (e.g. /e/OS)?
    ×0.56 184 | 6 points by sendes 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: Does "Zapier for payment automation" exist?
    ×0.25 201 | 8 points by PL_Venard 3 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Tell HN: Claude session limits getting small
    ×1.44 157 | 24 points by pragmaticalien8 3 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Ask HN: How to Follow the Bosses' Wants
    ×0.74 161 | 3 points by drekipus 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Tell HN: Cursor agent force-pushed despite explicit "ask for permission" rules
    ×0.48 162 | 7 points by xinbenlv 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Ask HN: What's the best virtual Linux desktop experience on macOS for devs?
    ×0.81 166 | 8 points by darkteflon 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Tell HN: Avoid Cerebras if you are a founder
    ×2.54 149 | 35 points by remusomega 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Ask HN: Why don't winter gloves have mechanical fingers?
    ×0.38 | 2 points by amichail 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Tell HN: Drowning in information but still missing everything
    ×1.94 160 | 11 points by akhil08agrawal 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Ask HN: What's a good format to submit CSV data for LLMs?
    ×0.55 | 2 points by JimsonYang 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Ask HN: Will agentic AI grow to handle technology leadership responsibilities?
    ×0.92 156 | 4 points by gengstrand 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Ask HN: Have you managed to switch to Bluesky for tech people?
    ×2.50 158 | 10 points by fuegoio 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Working on reducing wasted distribution effort before publishing posts
    ×0.27 | 2 points by ryujii 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Ask HN: How do you keep system context from rotting over time?
    ×0.51 197 | 15 points by kennethops 4 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Ask HN: Modern test automation software (Python/Go/TS)?
    ×0.43 170 | 7 points by rajkumar14 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Ask HN: How do you verify cron jobs did what they were supposed to?
    ×0.78 171 | 7 points by BlackPearl02 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Ask HN: Industrial smart glasses with online / offline capabilities?
    ×0.31 204 | 4 points by aureliusm 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Ask HN: Is there any good open source model with reliable agentic capabilities?
    ×0.55 190 | 5 points by baalimago 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Tell HN: Cloudflare's D1 service degraded since 2 days
    ×2.07 144 | 6 points by iowahansen 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Ask HN: Room left for the "industrial" systems engineer in a post-cloud world?
    ×0.33 | 2 points by infraphysics 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Ask HN: How are you handling non-probabilistic security for LLM agents?
    ×0.34 | 2 points by amjadfatmi1 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Tell HN: We have not yet discovered the rules of vibe coding
    ×0.83 191 | 4 points by 0xbadcafebee 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Tell HN: Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday
    ×3.87 75 | 462 points by Daemon404 3 days ago | 500 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Ask HN: How realistically far are we from AGI?
    ×0.20 | 2 points by HipstaJules 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. What software businesses worked in the early Internet? Can they work again?
    ×0.37 | 2 points by tsingy 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Ask HN: Why does Google Maps still use mercator projection?
    ×1.95 206 | 6 points by hbarka 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Tell HN: Amazon has deactivated my seller account
    ×2.10 114 | 78 points by hacky_engineer 3 days ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Ask HN: How to introduce Claude Code to a team?
    ×0.68 213 | 11 points by 9dev 4 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. How do you keep AI-generated applications consistent as they evolve over time?
    ×1.03 189 | 10 points by RobertSerber 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Ask HN: What are good resources to get familiar with AI code editors?
    ×1.70 193 | 9 points by northfield27 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Ask HN: Why does SOC 2 feel so hard for early-stage startups?
    ×3.98 181 | 12 points by asdxrfx 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Ask HN: What have you built/shipped with Claude Code?
    ×1.52 182 | 10 points by blhack 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Why is software still built like billions don't exist in 2026?
    ×1.95 145 | 8 points by yerushalayim 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Ask HN: Vibe-coded prototypes: what happens when they go into production?
    ×1.22 211 | 6 points by stosssik 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Ask HN: Anyone doing production image editing with image models? How?
    ×0.33 205 | 4 points by geooff_ 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Ask HN: Unusual Network Filter
    ×0.53 207 | 4 points by gman21 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Ask HN: Do You Prefer Cursor over Codex or Claude Code? Why?
    ×1.50 177 | 4 points by halamadrid 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Tell HN: Claude helped me maintain my old open source project
    ×2.48 178 | 13 points by nergal 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Do people at Google use Gmail?
    ×1.42 214 | 5 points by mr-pink 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Ask HN: How are you hiring for remote roles in the era of AI?
    ×0.37 194 | 3 points by keyraycheck 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Ask HN: How did Gemini go from being awful to incredible back to awful?
    ×1.39 208 | 6 points by wewewedxfgdf 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Ask HN: How do you run parallel agent sessions?
    ×0.62 199 | 7 points by Olshansky 5 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. From Sketch to Masterpiece: Understanding Stable Diffusion Img2Img
    ×0.31 | 2 points by bozhou 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Ask HN: What AI feature looked in demos and failed in real usage? Why?
    ×0.50 142 | 8 points by kajolshah_bt 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Ask HN: What's an API that you wish existed?
    ×1.17 212 | 11 points by tornikeo 4 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Ask HN: Do you protect your client-side JavaScript? Why or why not?
    ×1.27 219 | 5 points by nikitaeverywher 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Ask HN: What's your biggest challenge with context engineering for AI agents?
    ×0.97 217 | 5 points by karpathunter 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Ask HN: What single AI tool/technique 10x'd your productivity last year?
    ×1.79 209 | 7 points by laxmena 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Ask HN: Are you going to meetups/conferences?
    ×2.66 185 | 11 points by carimura 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???