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  1. Ask HN: Claude Opus performance affected by time of day?
    ×0.68 23 #44 | 25 points by scaredreally 6 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Share your personal website
    ×3.18 39 #57 | 895 points by susam 2 days ago | 2319 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Tell HN: The way I do simple data management for new prototypes
    ×0.32 76 #66 | 7 points by AndreyK1984 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?
    ×3.10 37 #90 | 748 points by publicdebates 1 day ago | 1184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How are you doing RAG locally?
    ×1.99 25 | 391 points by tmaly 2 days ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: How have you or your firm made money with LLMs?
    ×0.95 70 | 7 points by bwestergard 9 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Tell HN: YouTube gave my username switzerland to a half government organization
    ×3.90 66 | 18 points by faebi 15 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?
    ×1.53 58 | 212 points by blahaj 2 days ago | 396 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. At the phase 'build a startup cause I can't get hired, and maybe I'll get hired'
    ×2.26 10 | 7 points by danver0 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Those who quit tech, moved back home, what do you do?
    ×2.02 | 12 points by akudha 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Browser extension vs. native app for structured form filling?
    ×0.69 | 2 points by livrasand 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: One IP, multiple unrealistic locations worldwide hitting my website
    ×0.52 83 | 41 points by nacho-daddy 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Who's Using DuckDB in Production?
    ×1.04 75 | 3 points by yakkomajuri 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Local media server, receive and send audio?
    ×0.30 | 2 points by thedangler 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: When "Two-Factor Authentication" (2FA) Aren't Two
    ×0.53 | 2 points by s3131212 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Have you ever tried low-code tools for your work?
    ×0.50 124 | 3 points by andre_fernandes 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: LLM Poisoning Resources
    ×1.21 77 | 4 points by totallygeeky 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Tips for better image generation? I need help
    ×0.38 | 2 points by gweets 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Why is nobody using this? Full-duplex voice streaming with Gemini Live in React
    ×0.95 93 | 3 points by loffloff 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What are your best purchases under $100?
    ×5.97 63 | 76 points by krishadi 1 day ago | 217 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Iran's 120h internet shutdown, phones back. How to stay resilient?
    ×1.63 115 | 113 points by us321 3 days ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Tell HN: HP Ultra G1a Bios Freezing Issue
    ×0.39 | 2 points by BizarroLand 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: How do you safely give LLMs SSH/DB access?
    ×0.83 100 | 80 points by nico 2 days ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Is sending a lot of requests but respecting rate limits DOSing?
    ×0.40 | 2 points by SpyCoder77 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Analogy of AI IDEs for code vs. "AI IDEs" for personal health data
    ×0.41 | 2 points by nemath 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: AI music covers in 2026?
    ×0.86 90 | 16 points by sexy_seedbox 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
    ×1.14 123 | 256 points by david927 5 days ago | 874 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Tell HN: Execution is cheap, ideas matter again
    ×0.89 105 | 14 points by keepamovin 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: How to make spamming us uncomfortable for LinkedIn and friends?
    ×1.15 146 | 12 points by zx8080 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Is token-based pricing making AI harder to use in production?
    ×0.50 | 2 points by Barathkanna 10 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Distributed SQL engine for ultra-wide tables
    ×0.64 133 | 23 points by synsqlbythesea 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: What happens when you remove lock-in from enterprise software economics?
    ×1.73 102 | 4 points by hydrioxstate 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. The $LANG Programming Language
    ×1.51 82 | 263 points by dang 3 days ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: How can we handle solo founder loneliness?
    ×0.56 128 | 3 points by dabojula 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Anyone else finding it impossible to land a job?
    ×5.52 106 | 26 points by Arch485 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: What is the best way to provide continuous context to models?
    ×0.92 95 | 73 points by nemath 2 days ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: ADHD – How do you manage the constant stream of thoughts and ideas?
    ×2.56 107 | 117 points by chriswright1664 3 days ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Tell HN: DigitalOcean's managed services broke each other after update
    ×1.14 152 | 76 points by neilfrndes 4 days ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: What to teach my kid if AI does math and CS?
    ×1.70 145 | 10 points by devShark 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: Is Codex login down for all workspace (non-personal) users?
    ×1.05 159 | 5 points by amluto 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: Why does Google still provide an open redirect for phishers?
    ×1.65 131 | 23 points by throwaway89201 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ask HN: Why do AI code editors suck at closing tags?
    ×1.23 141 | 9 points by cryptography 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: Quantum Computation, Computers and Programming
    ×0.53 162 | 32 points by rramadass 3 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Ask HN: Strangest or most unexpected behavior you've seen from GitHub Copilot?
    ×1.94 132 | 6 points by stikit 23 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Ask HN: Vxlan over WireGuard or WireGuard over Vxlan?
    ×0.87 154 | 46 points by mlhpdx 3 days ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Ask HN: Resources for learning visual design as a developer?
    ×1.69 86 | 5 points by chaosharmonic 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Ask HN: Any local secret manager?
    ×1.16 155 | 3 points by spacemnstr42069 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Users access official platform apps in regions with frequent mirror links
    ×0.61 | 2 points by taka-dev 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Ask HN: Fundraising compensation
    ×0.55 | 2 points by ebitda_ai 20 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Ask HN: Any real prompt injections in the wild?
    ×0.73 172 | 6 points by singularity2001 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Ask HN: Estimating % of dev using coding assistants
    ×1.31 151 | 7 points by japoneris 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Ask HN: Discrepancy between Lichess and Stockfish
    ×0.52 170 | 21 points by HNLurker2 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Ask HN: Trying to find a website featured on HN that listed restaurants in NYC
    ×1.51 158 | 14 points by laffOr 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Ask HN: Looking for Windows contributors for meeting-detection engine
    ×0.40 198 | 7 points by Ayobamiu 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Ask HN: Audio analysis models, how to train to learn sound patters?
    ×0.84 176 | 4 points by thedangler 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Tell HN: Properly using dishwasher reduced friction with my wife
    ×2.51 161 | 16 points by xylo 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Ask HN: Books to Learn Ruby/Rails?
    ×1.45 164 | 4 points by georgel 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Ask HN: How can you instantly tell something was written by AI?
    ×2.47 81 | 7 points by 7777777phil 12 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Ask HN: A pattern we noticed in how website leads are handled
    ×0.78 179 | 3 points by lucascorrei4 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Text-to-3D → Step/STL
    ×2.45 180 | 5 points by alexyakovlev919 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Ask HN: For those of you building AI agents, how have you made them faster?
    ×0.36 | 2 points by arkmm 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Ask HN: How do you realistically prepare for retirement while working in tech?
    ×2.69 121 | 10 points by danver0 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Where does data help in real estate – and where does it fail?
    ×0.38 | 2 points by D___R___ 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Ask HN: How to overcome the limit of roles in LLM's
    ×0.42 | 2 points by weli 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Ask HN: Thoughts on maintaining anonymity against state-level actors?
    ×1.98 166 | 10 points by adamanteye 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Tell HN: A Proposal to Modernize Xorg as a Protocol-Only Graphics Layer
    ×1.04 173 | 7 points by powerwordtree 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Architecture+cost drivers for a deterministic rule/metric engine 1,200metrics
    ×0.45 | 2 points by Trackdiver 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Tell HN: 1B Jobs on GitHub Actions
    ×0.43 | 2 points by dorianmariecom 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Turning weeks of medical device documentation into minutes
    ×0.59 | 2 points by feargalosull 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Continuous agents and what happens after Ralph Wiggum?
    ×1.12 181 | 4 points by waynenilsen 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Tell HN: Intel could blow up the Console Wars if it had the guts
    ×1.10 196 | 8 points by noumenon1111 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. SEO Question: How to Improve Click-Through-Rate(CTR)?
    ×0.49 | 2 points by dabojula 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Ask HN: When has a "dumb" solution beaten a sophisticated one for you?
    ×0.42 199 | 14 points by amadeuswoo 5 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Ask HN: What is your favourite GitHub Repo?
    ×1.11 190 | 3 points by amanverasia 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Ask HN: What is your opinion on workplace review websites like Glassdoor?
    ×2.90 120 | 8 points by slaye 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Ask HN: Why does it still make sense to review stupid bugs at PR time?
    ×0.50 193 | 3 points by moshetanzer 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Ask HN: Are diffs still useful for AI-assisted code changes?
    ×0.78 186 | 7 points by nuky 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Ask HN: Anyone have a good solution for modern Mac to legacy SCSI converters?
    ×0.54 110 | 20 points by stmw 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. MultiLang‑ASM:A Universal Assembly Platform for Kids,Students,Kernel Developers
    ×0.52 | 2 points by neuroosgenesis 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Ask HN: Best setup for Golang HTTP API development in 2026?
    ×1.84 182 | 7 points by labarilem 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Ask HN: Are you worried, and care, about AI stealing your code/secrets?
    ×0.64 | 2 points by fnoef 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Cyber+ – A versatile programming language for cybersecurity and automation
    ×0.43 | 2 points by Czax225 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Ask HN: How to predict nums of output tokens?
    ×0.48 | 2 points by ssslvky1 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Tell HN: I Downgraded from macOS Tahoe to Sequoia
    ×1.99 183 | 10 points by inatreecrown2 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Ask HN: Who remembers AWS Spot's auction era before the 2017 pricing change?
    ×0.26 200 | 3 points by aleroawani 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Ask HN: 500 citation MSc CS, stuck in a low-trust region. How to move forward?
    ×0.63 174 | 19 points by throwawaysafely 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Ask HN: Weird archive.today behavior?
    ×2.86 73 | 137 points by rabinovich 2 days ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Ask HN: Learning Discoverability
    ×0.19 | 2 points by learnwithmattc 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Tell HN: The Google Tenor GIF API has been shut down
    ×2.21 169 | 25 points by dfajgljsldkjag 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Trouble Redeeming YC Student Event Deal?
    ×0.28 | 2 points by NirekShetty 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???