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  1. Ask HN: Why isn't Google indexing information about the AT Protocol?

    I've been observing this for a while, where very basic queries about atproto stuff doesn't show up. But yesterday I found a query that makes it VERY obvious: "list of public atproto relays". Here's DuckDuckGo: 1.…

    4 points by iameli 26
  2. Ask HN: Is GitHub preparing to go behind a paywall?

    From time to time, I check that our open-source project is still available to all users, and I've occasionally noticed that the stargazers (1) information returns a 404 for non-logged-in users. I assume they're…

    4 points by reconnecting 35
  3. Ask HN: What was the last task where only a frontier model could do it?

    ive been seeing a recurring claim that open (weight) models 6 months behind the frontier are good enough for the majority of ‘work’. if you've had a concrete task in the last month where GLM/DeepSeek/Kimi/Qwen failed…

    3 points by thedebuglife 29
  4. Ask HN: Why is not using AI considered a form of arrogance?

    You would expect only people who have a very high opinion of themselves to not feel the need to use AI.

    3 points by amichail 14
  5. 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
  6. Ask HN: Do you still trace new codebases manually?

    How do you navigate an unknown codebase before making a change? When you drop into a large, unfamiliar repository, what is your process for understanding what components play a role and how? Do you rely on specific…

    2 points by culopatin 2
  7. Ask HN: What are alternative to Upwork for side gig?

    Since AI adoption and connect requirement Upwork stands not a good way to find clients for software development. What are the better platform out there for side gig?

    2 points by user7878 4
  8. Ask HN: Would filesystem bookmarks be useful in your shell workflow?

    I’m experimenting with a small shell utility for filesystem bookmarks, and I’d like to understand whether this is a problem other people have. The idea is to define persistent or temporary bookmarks for directories: ```…

    2 points by manux81 4
  9. Ask HN: Another "Hacker News" with less AI and more human-focused hacking?

    The title is explicit I think. I am done with articles stating "I used this LLM to do that", or "Look, this agent did that in 2 minutes!". I want content more user-centric, less openai / anthropic, and more…

    2 points by weird_trousers 41
  10. Ask HN: Is Google NERFing AI Mode?

    Sorry to ask a question about AI, but... Lately I've noticed that Google seems to be hiding the AI mode and trying to push people into the less capable AI Overviews. Often when I go explicitly to the AI Mode form it…

    2 points by PaulHoule 4
  11. Ask HN: HN frontpage feels boring now?

    Browsing the front page feels homogeneous these days. It seems like what gets voted to the top these days are no longer "things people find interesting" but are all either boring "big industry news", or…

    2 points by xeonmc 39
  12. Ask HN: How do you review AI code?

    This is important, but I haven't seen enough discussion about it.

    2 points by wonderfuly 4
  13. Ask HN: What are your favorite games?

    What are the games the most interesting hackers love? What are your favorite games? Which ones do you replay? Have you returned to any particular games repeatedly over years?

    2 points by freedomben 1
  14. Ask HN: Fable Thread (July 12th Edition)

    So, we just got an extra week of Fable. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48821102 Thought this would be a good chance to ask everyone how it's going, what the experience has been like so far. Tips and tricks, etc.…

    2 points by andai 11
  15. 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
  16. Ask HN: Would you play AI developed games?

    I had children relatively recently so have gone into mobile games, and unfortunately every game I've tried is pretty much filled with ads and microtransactions - even ones that you can play entirely offline. With the…

    2 points by Monotoko 12
  17. 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
  18. Ask HN: How to recover from thin content or de-indexing penalty on Google

    I launched anitroves.com a few months ago and had added many wiki pages for Anime series and movies. At first we got around 20kexpression in under 2 weeks and most of our pages were indexed which was very likely google…

    2 points by anitroves 7
  19. Ask HN: Are You Hopeful for the Future?

    How hopeful are you for the future? For me, everything seems bleak. The AI owners and their parasitic nature show no sign of stopping — they're grinding working people to dust, relegating us to a state of penury. AI spy…

    2 points by piratesAndSons 6
  20. Ask HN: I am not able to find a job. Should I switch stacks?

    I have 4 years of experience working with React, Next.js, and Node.js. Other than that, I have also done some work with React Native and Three.js. My last contract ended about 3 months ago, and I have been trying to…

    2 points by need_a_work23 21
  21. Ask HN: Is looking at the code slowing us down?

    I know this scares many people, but you can control things with QA, evals, ship quality gates and so on... I know we might have more bugs in the short term, but is not looking at the code the right direction we should…

    2 points by rstagi 18
  22. Ask HN: What do you ask AI to do with your files?

    I'm researching how people who don't code use AI tools for multi-step work on their actual files – renaming/organizing documents, filling forms on PDFs, cleaning up spreadsheets, turning notes into a report, and so on…

    2 points by simquat 1
  23. Ask HN: What are agent sandboxes missing?

    I'm building an agent sandbox platform with opinionated customizable templates for general purpose agents using the OpenCode SDK. The idea is to provide a great CLI experience so it's easy to use an AI client like…

    2 points by oryx1729 6
  24. Ask HN: Fable 5 promo ends today – is anyone keeping it once it's usage-billed?
    2 points by franze 17
  25. Ask HN: How to find businesses running their operations on spreadsheets?
    2 points by jainvivek 6