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  1. Ask HN: How long do you use your personal laptop before replacing it?

    0. What's your profession? 1. Which laptop do you use as your personal laptop? 2. How long do you use yours before getting a new laptop?

    2 points by thallavajhula 44
  2. Ask HN: Should I do a masters at Cambridge or start as a new grad at Amazon?

    Basically what the title says. I'm in the very fortunate position to be able to decide between the two trajectories. What do you recommend if my goals are flexibility and money in the long term?

    2 points by sspehr 51
  3. Ask HN: What was the initial reaction to search engines?

    My manager the other day mentioned AI reminds him of when search engines like google were first popularized, whereas before you needed a lot of specialized knowledge that was hard to acquire, whereas after knowing…

    2 points by hopa 5
  4. Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles

    Should HN add the ability to flag articles as AI-generated? This doesn't have to act as a regular flag, i.e., it won't de-rank the article; it could just show up as an indicator, allowing others (like myself) who don't…

    1 points by levkk 333
  5. Ask HN: At what age did you start to feel your learning ability decline?
    1 points by bagol 5
  6. Ask HN: What are the best free ePub books to read?
    1 points by smalltorch 0
  7. Ask HN: If AI existed before CRMs, what would we have?

    People say if computers were invented before cars we would have only had self driving cars. So if AI existed before CRMs, what would we have?

    1 points by nutanc 1
  8. Ask HN: How do you track development time?

    I am a freelancer and used to time-track by app, but half my work is now prompting, reviewing, and waiting for AI agents. Does anyone have a system that captures that honestly, or are you all just eyeballing it?

    1 points by phil3k 3
  9. Ask HN: What are your personal websites?

    I like personal websites. And while there are lots of directories out there, I think more is better. Share yours! Tell a little bit about yourself or just post the link. If you're open to receiving random human emails…

    1 points by basilikum 5
  10. Ask HN: How do you read programming books?

    I was advised early in my career to never read a programming book (or tutorial) without typing up the code examples, and to always try to make the programs actually run. The idea being that this is the best way to truly…

    1 points by 3booda 2
  11. Ask HN: How do you see 3D Gaussian Splats could be used in industry?

    A lot of cool 3d reconstruction in the gaussian splat / point cloud space. How can this be of actual value in the industrial/ construction/ energy world?

    1 points by jesseandringa 1
  12. Ask HN: How do you troubleshoot desktop Linux crashes/freezes?

    I've been using Linux all my life. I’d like to be able to claim that it’s stable, but that’s not my experience :) So I’d like to get better at recovering from freezes and crashes, and finding the root cause. I make…

    1 points by Curiositry 0
  13. Ask HN: Is GPT-5.5 being nerfed?

    Ever since the release of GPT-5.6, I've noticed that GPT-5.5 is sometimes being lazy and isn't as proactively following up with remaining tasks in the session as before. I've always been using it on xhigh. How has your…

    1 points by docheinestages 0
  14. Ask HN: Feedback on my solo, local-LLM-only AI content pipeline (100 posts in) (gladlabs.io)
    1 points by gladlabs 0
  15. Ask HN: Which Chinese open source projects are you using?

    Alibaba, Tencent and others are releasing a lot of software via GitHub/Apache/CNCF but I don't see a lot of usage in the west. Anyone using a Chinese database or other open source products?

    1 points by khurs 1
  16. Ask HN: Active Forums You're a Part Of

    What forums are you still active on in 2026? No matter the topic—the main thing is that there are no AI-generated posts.

    1 points by insanejules 0
  17. Ask HN: Does appearance matter more than we admit as founders?

    I’ve been thinking about something that feels a little taboo to talk about. Founders spend a lot of time trying to improve themselves outside of work—getting in shape, improving how they communicate, dressing better,…

    1 points by jmaha 6
  18. Ask HN: What Did You Work On? (June 2026)
    1 points by adithyaharish 1
  19. Ask HN: AI Agent and harness containerization/security recommendations

    Hello HN crew - I am seeing the tendency for people to allow AI agents to access local project & user folders, and beyond (operating system files). I thought to ask the question: How can we best use AI tools safely -…

    1 points by dv35z 0
  20. Ask HN: Why is this Microsoft Outlook page sending me elsewhere?

    This came up as the second result when i searched google for "outlook logion" (https://www.google.com/search?q=outlook+logion&oq=outlook+logion) https://www.outlook.com/lacledegas.com

    1 points by zwilderrr 0
  21. Ask HN: As a customer, how do you feel about AI-First Customer Support?

    I've seen mixed sentiments out there. What has been your experience from the customer-side?

    1 points by gerardojbaez 3
  22. Ask HN: What makes someone good at using Claude Code?

    I am building Promptster - an AI fluency platform that helps level up engineering organizations. Engineering managers invite their teammates and Promptster analyzes the engineers work with ai coding tools (claude code,…

    1 points by Paarthmj 4