96 stories tagged ask-hn, newest first.
3 points by Francis221 | 2 comments
An Ask HN thread asking what bottlenecks keep most AI agents from reaching production, with a few replies citing hype and the need for humans in the loop.
6 points by justforfunhere | 3 comments
An Ask HN thread asking how developers can slow or resist the rapid rise of agentic AI coding that the poster believes threatens the software engineering profession.
3 points by gonzar79 | 0 comments
An Ask HN post venting that great products fail without a community, arguing founders should build an audience before launching.
4 points by shoman3003 | 2 comments
An HN text post arguing LLMs are poorly suited to accounting because they are probabilistic, miss accuracy targets, and cannot be held legally accountable.
579 points by ex-aws-dude | 629 comments
Ask HN thread asking why AI labs like OpenAI sell model tokens instead of building many companies themselves on top of their models.
534 points by rzk | 650 comments
An Ask HN thread asking how engineers cope with shipping AI-generated code they don't fully understand, citing a Meta engineer's LinkedIn post.
25 points by guitarlimeo | 32 comments
Ask HN discussion asking whether senior engineers' architecture and design roles will survive as LLM coding agents improve through reinforcement learning.
101 points by reacharavindh | 96 comments
Ask HN thread where a hobbyist woodworker asks for AI/LLM-assisted CAD tools to speed up designing wood projects, with replies suggesting tools like ShopSpec.
19 points by bjourne | 30 comments
An Ask HN thread asking why Americans who dislike tipping culture don't simply stop tipping, with comments discussing the impact on service workers.
4 points by 59percentmore | 8 comments
Ask HN thread posing a hypothetical where the US government nationalizes Alphabet to restore Google Search quality and remove LLM features.
39 points by Gooblebrai | 35 comments
An Ask HN thread asking why the Ask HN listing shows only 14 posts with no 'more' button, with commenters reporting how many posts they see.
22 points by onemiketwelve | 12 comments
Ask HN post asking whether any AI model can generate new sound effects from a reference audio clip plus a text instruction.
110 points by whoishiring | 345 comments
Monthly Hacker News thread for October 2026 where job seekers post their location, remote preference, technologies, résumé and contact details.
382 points by dan-bailey | 738 comments
An Ask HN discussion thread where users share what books they are currently reading, from sci-fi to nonfiction on bureaucracy and comics.
233 points by mlaux | 240 comments
Ask HN post asking who still runs DOS machines, ISA-card instruments, or dongle-protected software for business, for research on keeping them running on modern hardware.
10 points by shriy-singh | 13 comments
Ask HN thread asking readers which research paper abstracts they found most memorable and why, to inspire writing a better paper intro.
12 points by tkdb | 25 comments
Ask HN post hypothesizing that cellular carriers are degrading voice call quality, citing silent missed calls on Verizon and T-Mobile iPhones.
347 points by david927 | 1064 comments
A monthly Ask HN thread where users share what they are working on, with a top comment about an AI-powered Anki extension.
556 points by cromka | 281 comments
An Ask HN post complaining that Hacker News is dominated by AI news and proposing curation or tagging to surface other hacker-interest stories.
348 points by halcdev | 530 comments
Ask HN discussion thread asking why OpenAI, Claude, and Grok services all went down at the same time, linking status pages and related outage threads.
1248 points by nprateem | 727 comments
Hacker News discussion where a user reports an AWS estimated bill of $1.7 billion despite normal usage under $5, linked to an AWS billing data issue.
912 points by levkk | 391 comments
An Ask HN post proposing a non-penalizing flag on Hacker News to mark submitted articles as AI-generated so readers can skip them.
368 points by aryamaan | 589 comments
An Ask HN thread asking users what personal tools they have built since AI coding assistants became available, with early replies describing their projects.
387 points by Ekami | 645 comments
An Ask HN post asking why Hacker News commenters are skeptical of AI coding tools, arguing that shipping speed matters more than code elegance.
646 points by andrehacker | 1029 comments
Ask HN discussion thread asking users to describe the moment they realized generative AI models were more capable than they had assumed.
411 points by e-topy | 602 comments
An Ask HN thread where the poster seeks suggestions for novel, uncrowded technical hobbies they could meaningfully contribute to.
586 points by sillysaurusx | 462 comments
An Ask HN post in which a 38-year-old, newly alone after a 20-year relationship, asks the community for advice and stories on coping with loneliness.
726 points by publicdebates | 1137 comments
An Ask HN discussion thread asking how to address the loneliness epidemic among people who have no one to talk to and spend their time on social media.
842 points by susam | 2217 comments
An Ask HN thread inviting users to share their personal websites for a community-maintained directory hosted at hnpwd.github.io.
338 points by whoishiring | 210 comments
The monthly Hacker News 'Who is hiring?' thread for January 2026, where company employees post job openings with location and remote details.
336 points by cvbox | 330 comments
An annual Ask HN thread inviting people earning around $500/month from side projects in 2025 to share them, with links to prior years' threads.
400 points by david927 | 1313 comments
A monthly Ask HN thread for December 2025 where Hacker News users share the projects and ideas they are currently working on.
640 points by embedding-shape | 354 comments
An Ask HN thread proposing a discussion on whether comments pasting LLM answers ("I asked Gemini and it said...") should be disallowed by HN guidelines.
321 points by pugworthy | 187 comments
An Ask HN thread where a long-time hearing aid wearer asks for current recommendations to replace a Phonak Audeo 90, with commenters suggesting options like active ambient IEMs.
415 points by david927 | 1221 comments
Monthly Ask HN thread for November 2025 where Hacker News users share the projects and ideas they are currently working on.
326 points by ncarlson | 329 comments
An Ask HN thread asking people who have been unemployed for over two years how they are coping, with commenters sharing their experiences.
1214 points by rickybule | 657 comments
Ask HN thread where an Indonesian user asks for VPN alternatives after the government blocked Twitter, Discord, and Cloudflare WARP during unrest.
474 points by superasn | 304 comments
Ask HN thread asking how OpenAI serves ChatGPT to 700M weekly users when a GPT-4-class model is hard to run locally, seeking inference scaling insights.
337 points by bookofjoe | 255 comments
Ask HN discussion thread proposing splitting Hacker News into AI/LLM content and everything else due to perceived AI topic dominance.
405 points by david927 | 1270 comments
A monthly Ask HN thread inviting Hacker News users to share the projects and ideas they are currently working on in June 2025.
340 points by jupiterglimpse | 178 comments
Ask HN discussion where a user asks how to meaningfully give back to mentors, professors, and strangers who helped them early in life, with community replies.
331 points by srijansriv | 85 comments
An Ask HN post asking how to start learning robotics in 2025 to build something, noting tech giants dominate the conversation.
463 points by amanchanda | 285 comments
Ask HN thread where a founder of a $50/month B2C AI SaaS asks how others acquired their first 100 and next 500 users.
403 points by troupo | 314 comments
Ask HN thread requesting examples of user interfaces, apps, and sites with high information density, with replies like htop-style terminal tools.
368 points by david927 | 1085 comments
Hacker News monthly Ask HN thread where users share the projects and ideas they are working on in April 2025.
371 points by owendarko | 596 comments
Ask HN thread inviting users to share AI prompts that no current model can solve, aiming to build a crowdsourced collection of hard prompts.
327 points by vessenes | 271 comments
Ask HN thread seeking expert opinions on Yann LeCun's argument that LLMs can't fix hallucinations and his proposed energy-minimization architectures.
372 points by whoishiring | 361 comments
The monthly Hacker News 'Who is hiring?' thread for March 2025, where companies post job openings with location and remote details.
464 points by ramesh31 | 598 comments
Ask HN discussion thread asking how tech interviewing has changed now that candidates can solve coding problems with AI tools like GPT.
345 points by HughParry | 114 comments
Ask HN thread where a SaaS owner asks why someone bought lookalike domains and 301-redirected them to his site, wondering if it's phishing or a resale scheme.
525 points by prettyblocks | 271 comments
Ask HN thread asking what people have built with tiny 0.5B–3B parameter language models, such as those available on Ollama.
344 points by recvonline | 336 comments
Ask HN thread seeking self-hosted or federated alternatives to Facebook for organizing small rural town communities.
406 points by zachlatta | 353 comments
Ask HN thread requesting book recommendations about how hard things like industries and major projects actually got built.
1123 points by martynvandijke | 244 comments
A Hacker News discussion thread where users exchange New Year 2025 greetings and reflect on the community.
427 points by yu3zhou4 | 164 comments
Ask HN thread where a developer who failed to commercialize several products asks for resources on learning marketing and sales as a solo entrepreneur.
1321 points by joshagilend | 338 comments
An Ask HN-style thread wishing users Merry Christmas and inviting them to share favorite Christmas memories, with one reply so far.
397 points by throwaway_43793 | 751 comments
An Ask HN thread in which a veteran software engineer asks how SWEs can future-proof their careers as LLMs increasingly write code.
474 points by cvbox | 517 comments
Annual Ask HN thread inviting people earning around $500/month from side projects in 2024 to share what they built, linking prior years' threads.
443 points by prathameshgh | 272 comments
Ask HN post from a new-graduate data engineer acting as tech lead at a non-tech oil company, asking how to grow without senior engineers to learn from.
361 points by david927 | 981 comments
An Ask HN thread from October 2024 where users share the projects and new ideas they are currently working on.
323 points by whoishiring | 323 comments
The monthly Hacker News 'Who is hiring?' thread for October 2024, where companies post job openings with location and remote details.
331 points by david927 | 940 comments
Monthly Hacker News Ask HN thread for September 2024 where users share projects they are working on and new ideas.
409 points by whoishiring | 382 comments
The monthly Hacker News 'Who is hiring?' thread for September 2024, where companies post job openings with location and remote details.
551 points by david927 | 1190 comments
An Ask HN thread for August 2024 inviting users to share what they are working on and new ideas, with one moderator comment so far.
526 points by 45HCPW | 530 comments
Ask HN post from a logistics company executive asking whether to replace an unresponsive third-party software vendor by building software in-house.
383 points by overclock351 | 234 comments
An Ask HN thread where a computer science student asks what the state of Prolog and logic programming is in 2024 and what people use it for.
465 points by pcatach | 390 comments
Ask HN discussion thread where users describe the best codebases they have worked on and what made them good.
449 points by spcebar | 583 comments
Ask HN thread where a veteran programmer shares learning how to properly operate window blinds and asks others for their own humbling learning moments.
506 points by dinkleberg | 245 comments
An Ask HN thread where users share the custom instruction prompts they use to tailor ChatGPT's responses, starting with the poster's own brevity-focused setup.
335 points by pinakinathc | 312 comments
An Ask HN thread asking how YouTube covers the storage, encoding, and bandwidth costs of free video streaming, and whether ad revenue is enough.
597 points by panqueca | 645 comments
An Ask HN thread where the poster describes automating a deprecated internal tool and asks others about the most useless projects they have worked on.
322 points by parpfish | 240 comments
Ask HN thread where the poster reflects on the hidden complexity of making everyday items like a spool of wire and asks others for similar examples.
445 points by sjr1 | 419 comments
Ask HN thread where users share leap day bugs they encountered, such as billing overcharges and failing date-based unit tests.
347 points by g4zj | 119 comments
An Ask HN thread where the poster describes losing curiosity and drive, focusing on personal issues, and asks if others are working on nothing.
405 points by kanodiaashu | 121 comments
Ask HN thread where a first-time startup CTO requests book and blog recommendations, with comments suggesting titles like An Elegant Puzzle and The Staff Engineer's Path.
601 points by divan | 184 comments
Ask HN thread asking for the best current approach (as of Dec 2023) to make an LLM answer questions over a custom document set, including RAG.
443 points by jessehorne | 422 comments
Ask HN thread where users share side projects that helped them get hired and how the projects factored into interviews.
403 points by thyrox | 350 comments
Ask HN discussion thread asking what the outcome of the 2023 Reddit blackout protests was, with commenters describing a stalemate and declining subreddit activity.
340 points by nicgrev103 | 264 comments
Ask HN thread asking founders for examples of manual, unscalable work done early on, inspired by Paul Graham's essay 'Do Things That Don't Scale'.
353 points by Zelphyr | 427 comments
Ask HN discussion asking why Microsoft abandoned Visual Basic and why no comparable rapid application development tool has replaced it.
398 points by MatthiasPortzel | 649 comments
An Ask HN thread asking why Python grew into a dominant programming language while Ruby, once similarly popular, stalled.
396 points by tsingy | 196 comments
An Ask HN discussion thread asking where to find a database of open-source house plans for building a home.
433 points by whoishiring | 366 comments
Monthly Ask HN thread for August 2023 where companies post job openings, with guidelines on location, remote, intern, and visa details.
448 points by mattip | 137 comments
Ask HN post by PyPy's release manager asking whether anyone uses PyPy in production or research, to guide future development efforts.
459 points by guzik | 604 comments
An Ask HN thread inviting founders of hardware startups (IoT, robotics, consumer electronics) to share what they are building.
856 points by revskill | 1271 comments
An Ask HN thread inviting Hacker News users to share links to their personal blogs, with commenters posting their sites.
358 points by whoishiring | 366 comments
The monthly Hacker News 'Who is hiring?' thread for June 2023, where companies post job openings with location, remote, and visa details.
780 points by behnamoh | 631 comments
Ask HN thread where a user asks whether GPT-4's response quality has deteriorated recently, comparing ChatGPT, Phind, and Poe.
401 points by plemer | 473 comments
An Ask HN discussion thread where users share where they have found community, connection, and purpose outside of their jobs.
545 points by molly0 | 565 comments
Ask HN thread where a developer asks how to avoid taking constructive criticism of their work, such as PR comments, personally.