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  1. Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?

    Over past couple months I noticed that HN feed is almost exclusively AI or AI-adjacent news. Meanwhile the legitimately, broad-hacker stuff gets left out for the most part. I noticed that because the things I find…

    34 points by cromka 295
  2. Ask HN: Can we do a karma reset?

    The high karma accounts are not always smart people, usually they’re incredibly immature and clearly lacking in experience. Often, an account like this will post a comment demonstrating they have no clue what they’re…

    4 points by HNKarmaReset 4
  3. Ask HN: Software people, where are you taking your careers next?

    Like many on HN, I started programming at a young age. Throughout my teens I taught myself programming through projects, and at 16 got an apprenticeship. From there I worked my way up to where I am now. Programming felt…

    3 points by cedws 8
  4. Ask HN: What are your predictions for the rest of 2026?
    3 points by roschdal 2
  5. Ask HN: iPhone 18, No Foldable? (apple.com)
    3 points by nittanymount 3
  6. Ask HN: What's the best place to learn about skills and AI for coding in general
    3 points by rrmdp 5
  7. Ask HN: Why are the tech companies tracking humans?
    3 points by roschdal 6
  8. Ask HN: When will the war in Ukraine end?

    Please, soon.

    2 points by roschdal 3
  9. Ask HN: Tagging AI-Related Posts

    The front page is full of AI-related topics. I'm sick of it, and I think I'm not the only one. Is there a chance we could introduce a tagging system, so it would be easy to hide AI-related posts and find the "good…

    2 points by IdiotSavage 0
  10. Ask HN: Looking for an old submission about sneering culture

    There was this blog submission from a while back talking about the prevalence of sneering culture within programming communities. The blog post mostly touches on how dismissive people can be about other people's choice…

    2 points by annex-winged-cr 2
  11. Ask HN: What fun and interesting project(s) are you working on?

    With or without AI.

    2 points by ludovicianul 1
  12. Ask HN: What Can We Do?

    I am sharing this out of existential concern for all of our futures, although I know this will undermine my credibility elsewhere. As such, I would appreciate you considering my points and the points of the gentleman…

    2 points by silexia 6
  13. Ask HN: What are you using loop engineering for?

    Since the introduction of "loop engineering" a few months ago several widely used coding agents have been equipped with some sort of /loop primitive, however I haven't found a single good use case for it in my daily…

    2 points by mugul 0
  14. Ask HN: Why haven't people vibe coded popular 80s word processors as TUI apps?

    Is it due to potential IP issues?

    2 points by amichail 1
  15. Ask HN: Do you still use multiple VTs day-to-day?
    2 points by modinfo 0
  16. Ask HN: How do you decide what belongs in application logs?
    2 points by Securelytixdev 2
  17. Ask HN: Show your micro-SaaS (September 2026)

    HN is a fantastic founder community. We, the people, love transparency, numbers, and analyzing bootstrapped business models. What is your current project? Share your wins, losses, and tech stack. Share monthly recurring…

    2 points by genekrapivin 67
  18. Ask HN: Would you hire a new engineer, or get 300k worth of tokens for the team?

    This seems to be question that is being posed to engineering managers

    2 points by websap 11
  19. Ask HN: [Old-School] Un-Canny Semantic Structures

    I hypothesized that AI primed with linguistic prose would embody the practitioners of said lingua. The Biblical Hebrew corpus is but a drop in the bucket compared to the Chinese corpus. However, they have very strong…

    2 points by cjhanks 0
  20. Ask HN: What do AI improvements at these labs look like?

    I'm struggling to understand what improvements at labs look like. Some part of it is more training data, more weights, more post training. That all seems.straightforward to me. But what % of improvements come from that…

    2 points by xyzsparetimexyz 0
  21. Ask HN: Is September 8th AGI Day?

    Today should be celebrated as the day that "AGI" actually means something now. That an AI model gave a solution to the Navier-Stokes problem which was one of the 7 unsolved millennium prize problems. Keep in mind that 1…

    2 points by rvz 19
  22. Ask HN: AI and Math

    Since AI is getting smarter by the day,would it not be more profitable for both man and machine for it to come up with more,harder Millenium problems?

    2 points by ekm2 5
  23. Ask HN: How can DigitalOcean not afford $50, but can afford $3M to Omarchy?

    For the life of me, I don't understand how DigitalOcean can't afford a $50 a month sponsorship to GNOME and Flatpak but can afford $3M to Omarchy. [0] Not only that, DigitalOcean cancelled their $50 a month sponsorship…

    2 points by dpmartinez 17
  24. Ask HN: Do you regret using Social Networking apps?

    I have the impression that even the owners of the apps have lost control of the algo and that it's really being detrimental to people's lives

    2 points by julienreszka 23
  25. Ask HN: I don't want better models, just faster ones

    Anyone else satisfied with the current models on offer but just want them to be faster? I feel like the exhausting context switching work-flow that AI has created could be solved if they were 10x, 100x, 1000x faster.…

    2 points by level87 0