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  1. Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?
    ×1.53 48 #45 | 234 points by mdni007 1 day ago | 214 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
    ×2.28 13 #74 | 400 points by aryamaan 1 day ago | 672 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: How are you preserving your skills while using AI?
    ×0.51 16 | 3 points by rdrmc 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?
    ×2.87 62 | 730 points by andrehacker 4 days ago | 1106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How to escalate a rejected Google extension?
    ×0.71 77 | 21 points by modzu 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. LeetCode is the best way to learn a new language
    ×0.08 | 2 points by JasonHEIN 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How do you cope when your startup contracts?
    ×0.65 78 | 14 points by jasonephraim 20 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: So what happened to Facebook "localhost" tracking?
    ×0.72 111 | 106 points by juliusceasar 5 days ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What's your favorite HN Recap like podcast?
    ×0.19 104 | 5 points by randomor 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Which companies gained a competitive edge purely via engineering?
    ×0.63 112 | 5 points by j1000 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Where do you like to consume content anymore?
    ×0.79 84 | 5 points by selectedambient 15 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Why won't you be replaced by AI?
    ×1.12 85 | 9 points by atleastoptimal 23 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Options for critical thinking and learning outside work?
    ×0.71 105 | 5 points by hnthrow10282910 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow?
    ×1.88 89 | 165 points by dv35z 4 days ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?
    ×3.20 67 | 456 points by Ekami 3 days ago | 755 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How do you find deep technical content?
    ×0.94 137 | 39 points by f311a 5 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Thoughts on Siri AI?
    ×0.44 | 2 points by akashwadhwani35 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How are thinking efforts implemented?
    ×0.86 99 | 26 points by simianwords 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Is there any data on whether users prefer voice/chatbot experiences?
    ×0.25 | 2 points by fnimick 23 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: How do PaaS hosting providers enforce user policy compliance?
    ×0.35 | 2 points by iishanto 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: What works for cutting AI token costs?
    ×1.20 79 | 5 points by leoncos 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: What is happening with the Meta Ads dashboard?
    ×0.54 146 | 4 points by ramon156 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Gin rummy strategies
    ×0.49 145 | 24 points by bix6 5 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Open-Source Software in Aerospace Imaging?
    ×0.29 107 | 6 points by lightedman 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: What is the AI setup for an experienced dev starting on a new project?
    ×0.46 116 | 5 points by postexitus 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Were CS profs right to look down on programming in light of modern AI?
    ×0.56 163 | 6 points by amichail 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Bad MCP design costs your agent 5x more tokens
    ×0.69 147 | 15 points by JohnnyZhang483 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Tell HN: Stripe ToS update demands biometrics, freezes payments until given
    ×1.03 114 | 13 points by cuz-reasons 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: How do I whitelist commands in Antigravity?
    ×1.21 125 | 5 points by madprops 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Is the web for machines (/llm.txt) the one we wished we had as humans?
    ×0.81 127 | 36 points by sunshine-o 4 days ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Does consciousness itself require memory?
    ×0.86 108 | 4 points by modinfo 23 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Do you also feel like KYC is turning you off to the concept of money
    ×1.39 91 | 5 points by JumpinJack_Cash 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: How to get my contact info off US political party's list
    ×0.85 140 | 10 points by kaycebasques 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. I'm tired of LLM skill slop, so I built mine with regression tests
    ×0.58 168 | 9 points by iliaov 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: My competitors have flawed products but I can't get traction
    ×0.48 155 | 11 points by saveitincork 4 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. HN seems dead compared to say 10-15 years ago
    ×2.24 60 | 42 points by morpheos137 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Job market for SDMs/Engineering Managers. Any reliable data?
    ×0.35 139 | 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?
    ×0.25 157 | 3 points by minimaxir 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Miz Framework Story
    ×1.47 169 | 4 points by sajjadws 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: Where do you get the latest updates about AI?
    ×0.53 158 | 5 points by d0able 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Tell HN: Helium is the best browser I ever used
    ×0.77 133 | 6 points by prmph 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ask HN: Does robotics capabilities research accelerate AGI timelines?
    ×0.52 160 | 8 points by themasterchief 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Does anyone know since when we are close to building in space?
    ×0.52 159 | 6 points by kingleopold 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Supply chain attack alert: .github/setup.js
    ×3.70 136 | 27 points by antihero 4 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Google killed my $1M ARR startup overnight
    ×3.53 154 | 25 points by vadumo 5 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Biff.core: system composition for Clojure web apps (biffweb.com)
    ×0.58 7 #9 | 35 points by jacobobryant 2 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Browser Extensions Silently Monetize ~758,000 Users' Searches (malext.io)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by supermatou 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Richard Scolyer Has Died (bbc.com)
    ×1.00 56 | 126 points by nicwilson 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Local-first fast CPU image to text for screenshots, PDFs, webpages (github.com/kouhxp)
    ×1.01 143 | 19 points by mrkn1 4 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Cohere North Mini Code 30B Moe Apache 2.0 (cohere.com)
    ×0.98 | 2 points by jeromechoo 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Markdown Editor and Reader for Mac (kitemarkdown.com)
    ×1.79 153 | 6 points by antonynjoro 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Deep Memory – Vocabulary-driven graph memory for AI agents (github.com/TjWheeler)
    ×1.32 92 | 4 points by tjwheeler 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Mercek – A Desktop IDE for AWS ECS (mercek.dev)
    ×0.79 123 | 64 points by utibeumanah 4 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Bio Glyph – Turn Your Face into a One-Line Drawing (bairui.dev)
    ×1.11 161 | 21 points by subairui 5 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Get your website roasted within a week (shitfa.st)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by R4FKEN 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. 1worldflag: A blue dot on a transparent background (1worldflag.com)
    ×1.52 37 | 197 points by davidbarker 1 day ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Config Files That Run Code: Supply Chain Security Blindspot (safedep.io)
    ×0.73 61 | 71 points by signa11 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: About Lightweight, S3-compatible object storage (kodiqa-solutions.github.io)
    ×0.40 | 2 points by open_source_new 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Gravity – interactive solar-system simulator, from Newton to Einstein (qunabu.github.io)
    ×1.10 11 #16 | 98 points by qunabu 6 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Thunderbird Littering My Home (thefoggiest.dev)
    ×0.84 55 #77 | 85 points by speckx 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. GPT-2: Too Dangerous To Release (2019) (naokishibuya.github.io)
    ×1.29 | 2 points by AbuAssar 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Ask HN: Is Capafy.ai Legit?
    ×0.44 | 1 points by ar27111994 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Open-Source Version of Anthropic's Internal Analytics Engine (kaelio.com)
    ×1.53 10 | 4 points by lucamrtl 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: A Minecraft builder skill for coding agents (github.com/mattzh72)
    ×1.16 119 | 4 points by mattzh1314 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Help SourceLibrary.org Translate the Renaissance (sourcelibrary.org)
    ×2.69 128 | 8 points by dr_dshiv 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. How much do amd64 microarchitecture levels help in Go? (lemire.me)
    ×0.97 46 #58 | 69 points by zdw 16 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Don't Fuck with My .bashrc (fev.al)
    ×1.45 | 2 points by charles_f 18 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. WWDC 2026: Apple is Folding (cupertinolens.com)
    ×2.71 57 #67 | 153 points by brandonb 4 hours ago | 187 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. GitHub disables Microsoft repos pushing password-stealing malware (bleepingcomputer.com)
    ×1.18 | 2 points by rndsignals 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Same PRD → bootable FastAPI app, zero LLM calls (600-line Python) (github.com/Anioko)
    ×1.40 106 | 5 points by anioko1 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Sam Bankman-Fried seeks Trump pardon (semafor.com)
    ×1.53 | 2 points by thm 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs (404media.co)
    ×4.54 6 #11 | 217 points by berlianta 3 hours ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Apple made a request to the EC to be exempted from interop obligations under DMA (europa.eu)
    ×1.77 18 #59 | 28 points by latexr 4 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Apple Wins Consumer AI by Default (spyglass.org)
    ×0.86 | 1 points by thm 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Apeel tried to fix food waste – and got hit by a disinformation campaign (fastcompany.com)
    ×1.46 | 2 points by littlexsparkee 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. How far behind are open models? (lesswrong.com)
    ×0.71 | 1 points by gmays 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. San Mateo, CA had largest YoY increase in average weekly wages (11.1%) in Q4 ‘25 (bls.gov)
    ×1.10 | 2 points by JumpCrisscross 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: UK sold house prices, uncapped, by postcode/county (Land Registry) (github.com/vladignatyev)
    ×2.29 47 | 5 points by v_ignatyev 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Is Grep All You Need? How Agent Harnesses Reshape Agentic Search (arxiv.org)
    ×1.12 12 #10 | 76 points by Anon84 5 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. The better the autopilot the worse the pilot (julienreszka.com)
    ×1.59 43 #66 | 70 points by julienreszka 5 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. macOS 27 Beta Breaks the Ability to Boot Asahi Linux (phoronix.com)
    ×2.18 16 #69 | 17 points by josephcsible 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Asterisk Mag (asteriskmag.com)
    ×0.79 | 1 points by handfuloflight 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Mach – A compiled systems language looking for contributions (github.com/octalide)
    ×0.67 57 | 29 points by octalide 19 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. The Effective Sample Size (smola.org)
    ×0.30 43 #24 | 17 points by jxmorris12 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Are you expected to run five Python type-checkers now? (pyrefly.org)
    ×1.34 51 #68 | 158 points by ocamoss 1 day ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. 92-year-old receives UK-first robotic cancer treatment (leedsth.nhs.uk)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by thunderbong 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. We Think the SpaceX IPO Is Overvalued (morningstar.com)
    ×7.37 43 | 251 points by 0xedb 16 hours ago | 252 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer? (natesilver.net)
    ×1.94 72 | 91 points by 7777777phil 1 day ago | 267 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Keybench – Scriptable, extensible performance tool for key value stores (github.com/guycipher)
    ×0.33 129 | 13 points by alexpadula 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Web Speed – A shared web-map registry for AI agents (MCP, open source) (getwebspeed.io)
    ×1.74 118 | 7 points by Dominic_P 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???