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  1. Ask HN: Resources to get good at soldering?
    ×1.38 53 #54 | 264 points by tosmatos 1 day ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Cutting (Claude Code) token spend on dynamic workflows 80%
    ×1.28 | 2 points by gojkoa 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Astra still fails at creating acceptable Rotational Ambigram
    ×0.31 21 | 3 points by das_vicky 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?
    ×1.03 51 | 186 points by sukit 3 days ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
    ×2.00 39 | 400 points by halcdev 3 days ago | 701 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026)
    ×1.14 76 | 248 points by whoishiring 5 days ago | 346 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Tell HN: I want to see the same moon as you
    ×1.12 84 | 13 points by UnderABlueMoon 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2026)
    ×0.66 93 | 111 points by whoishiring 5 days ago | 474 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Tell HN: Both recent GCP outages caused by fiber optic maintenance
    ×0.61 104 | 19 points by fastest963 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Are others seeing Google's reCAPTCHA rejecting Firefox users?
    ×1.49 73 | 71 points by Animats 2 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. MITx is ending access to its courses for learners in Iran on September 8
    ×1.01 96 | 4 points by mahdihabibi 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Any Alternatives to Archive.ph & co?
    ×0.84 90 | 7 points by hebelehubele 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: How do you build organic traction as an indie dev?
    ×0.66 75 | 6 points by charm137 19 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: 30, burnt out, with 6-10 months of runway. What would you do?
    ×1.73 92 | 31 points by throwaway_30yo 4 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How have interviews changed over the last year?
    ×1.45 66 | 12 points by mikodin 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Who is using FPGA for ML inference?
    ×0.61 120 | 10 points by softwarewright 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Is AI a Powerdrill?
    ×0.45 95 | 4 points by dfps 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Founders that raised funding and shutdown, did you raise again?
    ×0.44 109 | 18 points by asim 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Fable hacked my piano, can I release the results?
    ×0.63 98 | 4 points by jmpman 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Books Recommendations?
    ×1.17 102 | 7 points by washelterskelte 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Xfinity silently blocks lots of new domains
    ×1.76 91 | 15 points by dschwartz18 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: What is the ideal email domain setup?
    ×0.79 132 | 7 points by bix6 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Tell HN: NVIDIA's Acquisition of HuggingFace was for $HuggingFace
    ×2.56 86 | 43 points by MontagFTB 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Initial Thoughts on GPT-6 Astra?
    ×0.86 101 | 8 points by zof3 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Astra One Shotted Cains's Jawbone
    ×0.70 100 | 5 points by marcushyett 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Laptop or Desktop?
    ×0.78 141 | 7 points by Gecko4072 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: How do you guys keep up with the most cost-effective AI models?
    ×0.14 167 | 4 points by solomonmwalker 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. OpenAI's rogue agents used ntfy.sh as a pub/sub channel
    ×0.41 119 | 3 points by coderinsan 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Are technical blogs dead?
    ×0.71 125 | 13 points by quaintdev 3 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Why don't we talk about context window size anymore?
    ×0.93 126 | 5 points by rce123 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Word42 1.0.0 Released
    ×0.61 106 | 5 points by andreasrosdal 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Why isn't there a cursor for video games development
    ×0.32 | 2 points by JimsonYang 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: How do you know if you have a product problem or a distribution one?
    ×1.26 110 | 6 points by mustafak99 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Why do many websites use a sign-in code instead of a password?
    ×1.29 122 | 8 points by bariumbitmap 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Is there any way to contribute to nitter and xcancel's legal fights?
    ×1.00 107 | 8 points by orange999 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Is there a test for measuring cognitive affects from LLM usage?
    ×1.97 124 | 9 points by niwrad 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Could AI eventually build god?
    ×1.15 142 | 6 points by olirex99 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Tell HN: Check your Claude settings, it may have silently enabled remote access
    ×0.77 116 | 6 points by cromka 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: How do we build a team? (bootstrapped B2B startup)
    ×0.80 158 | 4 points by theonlinx 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: Do all of you use Cloudflare for preventing DDoS, Bot and more attacks?
    ×0.23 | 2 points by skwasimin 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: Accountants working with ecommerce
    ×0.23 172 | 3 points by vasyl_kyryliuk 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ask HN: Where do you get your AI (technology) news?
    ×0.46 159 | 8 points by BtM909 4 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: Why is HN native dark mode not implemented yet?
    ×0.63 161 | 3 points by SriniK 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Ask HN: Where do I go?
    ×0.99 178 | 3 points by dannydark1 4 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. AI Slop (ssrn.com)
    ×1.60 9 #45 | 8 points by andy99 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. A Computer History Time Capsule (archive.org)
    ×0.58 38 #47 | 21 points by mooreds 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Sirenfall, a civil defense siren synthesized in Web Audio (sirenfall.live)
    ×0.39 146 | 5 points by beeswaxpat 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Coder Eval – A Framework for Evals (github.com/uipath)
    ×1.11 131 | 4 points by mihaich 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Pointing at the error: compiler-style diagnostics in uutils coreutils (uutils.org)
    ×0.80 47 #82 | 77 points by ingve 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Nebula's Policy on AI (nebula.tv)
    ×1.20 | 2 points by Siecje 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Hardening Container Images (grepular.com)
    ×1.27 | 2 points by Brajeshwar 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Falsehoods Programmers Believe About LANs (dreamstation.systems)
    ×2.06 2 | 56 points by robinpie 17 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Amaze Kings – a browser logic puzzle with 1,400 hand-graded levels (amaze-apps.com)
    ×1.10 61 | 16 points by amaze-apps-com 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Industrial-Strength Natural Language Processing (spacy.io)
    ×1.12 | 2 points by Bluestein 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Connecting every app to every other app (val.town)
    ×0.97 58 | 52 points by Chidiebere229 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: OpenStint – lap timing using RTL-SDR and near-field transponders (openstint.org)
    ×0.85 149 | 3 points by zsellera 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Wordmate – local speech-to-text for macOS (github.com/vdszds)
    ×1.38 152 | 5 points by vdszds 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. The revolt of the reader (dtrace.org)
    ×2.95 7 #14 | 492 points by chmaynard 18 hours ago | 231 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Reasoning Matters (resolve.works)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by monneyboi 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: I built an aesthetically pleasing puzzle (jigsawhaiku.com)
    ×0.46 | 2 points by windowshopping 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Clustta – Open-source version control for creative work (clustta.com)
    ×0.89 147 | 3 points by taiwofolu 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Triplox, a distributed Datalog engine with incremental queries (github.com/fiV0)
    ×1.01 176 | 3 points by fiv0 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Singapore subway (mrt) information display types (sgtrains.com)
    ×0.58 58 #62 | 58 points by gregorvand 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. The Rust React Compiler is now native in Vite (master.dev)
    ×1.17 40 #83 | 171 points by acusti 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Personal Context MCP (lanes.sh)
    ×4.71 74 | 24 points by s-xyz 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: NationalDex • minimal open-source Pokédex (nationaldex.app)
    ×1.77 113 | 6 points by linesofcode 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Fileregister: Tagging and reference layer for your files, in plain text (github.com/rhsev)
    ×0.50 30 #27 | 12 points by ingve 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Elevator of the Year: Modernization of the Metropolis Trust Building (starelevator.com)
    ×1.01 51 #88 | 159 points by palashawas 2 days ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Aura – a Rust agent that investigates and fixes production incidents (github.com/mezmo)
    ×1.31 114 | 25 points by jvogt 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Open source ML programming language playground (sw-ml-study.github.io)
    ×1.36 140 | 11 points by softwarewrighte 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. From Shahed to Geran: How Russia Continues to Reinvent the One-Way Attack Drone (csis.org)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by atlasunshrugged 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Terence Tao on "Solving Maths Problems Prematurely with AI Methods (mathstodon.xyz)
    ×1.15 | 2 points by birdculture 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Dsnitch – Real-time, zero-config Docker egress inspector via eBPF (github.com/infomaniac777)
    ×0.75 8 | 3 points by infomaniac777 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: OpenMonitor – vendor neutral web monitoring cloud agent (openmonitor.website)
    ×1.34 72 | 5 points by iacguy 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. I Changed My License (bergie.iki.fi)
    ×1.96 19 #28 | 123 points by jllyhill 5 hours ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Matching Puzzle Pieces and Disappointing Benchmarks (llogiq.github.io)
    ×0.15 79 #61 | 6 points by speckx 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. .gitignore Everything by Default (packagemain.tech)
    ×1.61 8 #73 | 173 points by der_gopher 1 day ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Design Patterns (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by tosh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. WeatherNext 3: Increasing resolution and performance of global weather models (arxiv.org)
    ×1.12 | 2 points by droidjj 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Why are European countries moving their gold out of North America? (bbc.com)
    ×4.06 6 | 194 points by ranit 1 day ago | 303 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: TenantLayer – Multi-Tenancy for Spring Boot and Postgres (tenantlayer.io)
    ×1.35 97 | 6 points by suchait6655 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. RecurseCenter.return() (mm-dev.rocks)
    ×0.83 34 #42 | 59 points by evakhoury 14 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Pentagon rescinds new testosterone screening policy without explanation (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.62 9 | 113 points by ndsipa_pomu 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Million Bricks – a 3D tower of one million bricks you can buy for $10 (millionbrickshomepage.com)
    ×0.70 139 | 4 points by keslert 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: A benchmark for flight search intent (fjmatrix.github.io)
    ×1.19 156 | 5 points by rabbit_1 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Intellectual Fly Is Open (2025) (dtrace.org)
    ×2.33 2 #1 | 244 points by cyb0rg0 3 hours ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Schemy Lisp En DOS (neocities.org)
    ×0.78 5 #41 | 11 points by AlexeyBrin 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Global warming will exceed 1.5-degree limit, UN says (pbs.org)
    ×6.43 36 | 328 points by ijidak 1 day ago | 377 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Extracting Steering Vectors from J space (darshanmakwana412.github.io)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by martianvoid 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Isar Aerospace launch into orbit [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.59 16 | 104 points by stefan_ 19 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???