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Questions technologists ask each other · last 14 days
Ask HN turns the community into a help desk: “how did you get your first sysadmin job?”, “what are you reading this month?”, “has anyone actually run this at scale?”. The answers below come from practitioners, and the good questions rise by vote — we list the ones with traction from the past two weeks.
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Ask HN: What are you working on? (November 2026)
What are you working on? What have you been curious about lately?
Ask HN: What are forgotten topics in computing that deserve a new revisit?
I mean both things that are enabled by AI coding agents but also things we couldn't do because computers weren't fast enough in the past.
Ask HN: How do AI agents help you in your daily life?
I spend all day working with AI, but I don't know if I'm really missing out on something that everyone else is doing with their AI agents.
Wix stolen my .com domain
I transferred .com domain to wix from another domain registrar, paid for transfer and additional year of domain from my bank card, they blocked account, requested passport and bank card photo via email, and after I provided them document an…
Ask HN: Are you building an AI company brain?
Hey guys, the CTO requested me to start working towards building a "AI company brain", some sort of entity that keeps the context of what's going on in the company so different roles can use AI agents/interfaces in order…
Ask HN: Are you writing your own programming language?
LLMs make this more tractable as a one person hobby and I have seen a lot of interesting LLM-driven languages posted here with new ideas, but not all of them in one place? Are you writing one? Are you actually using it? What are the new ide…
Ask HN: What are the fundamentals of agentic coding?
This thought popped in my head today. Most of us probably know the fundamentals of programming by now - data structures, complexity (big O), type systems, functions, architecture etc. But what are the fundamentals of this new era of coding?…
Tell HN: Google Play will public-share your address and phone if you sell in EU
tl;dr (quoted from the email, full below): * If you are an individual developer declared as a trader, provide and verify a public phone number. Please be aware that your phone number and address will be displayed publicly on Google Play. * …
Ask HN: Where should I start to do marketing?
so basically i want to do marketing my website , i am running google ads right now and there conversion in okay okay , i am not satisfied with that at all. now i am creating content also (not much but 2 reel published with 3000+ view on eac…
Ask HN: Credit card and loyalty analytics, where to start?
I inherited responsibilities for creating credit card and loyalty analytics reporting/dashboarding for a firm that processes roughly $750M in monthly transactions. There hasn't been any large scale analytical or statistical review…
Canva lays off 22% of its workforce; 1,270 people
This was probably already coming. Sad day for many folks but frankly AI put in a strong pivot in the world of design.
Ask HN: What your experience with the monthly "who wants to be hired" thread?
I recently commented on the "who wants to be hired" this month and so far have only received spam. Has anyone had any success with this, or is it just a way to subscribe to junk mail and automated marketing?
Ask HN: Which agent harness do you use for working with multiple Models?
There is a lot of stuff out there at the moment, from Multiplexer tools such as herdr and Rex, classic Tmux/CLI setups, OpenCode and pi, Codex talking to Claude and vice versa. Some people have minimal setups like Claude and ChatGPT mo…
What is your biggest concern when building an MCP server?
what is your biggest concern when building an mcp server?
US election results are being suppressed on HN
Politics is a gray area on HN but we should be able to see and discuss events of this significance. The stories being submitted are all being flagged into oblivion. Sad. We can do better. I've emailed hn@ on the hope that this will be …
Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup?
I'm curious how people on HN are using AI day to day, and came up with a list of questions I thought could be interesting to know. No need to answer every question of course, just wanted to get a gut feel how people are using AI. 1) Wh…
Tell HN: First day in quite some time I feel optimistic about the future
There is so much more work to be done, but waking up seeing elections still work and people still fighting for a future not letting billionaires and fascists eroding our minds.. It gives me the hope that we still have the ability as humanit…
Tell HN: Gemini trains on chat history, even for subscribers (personal accounts)
If you have a personal Google AI subscription, all your saved chat history in Gemini can be used for training and there is no way to opt out unless you turn off chat history or use temporary chat sessions. These chat transcripts may even be…
Tell HN: GitHub Is Down
Cannot push to or pull from any repo with SSH keys. $ git pull [email protected]: Permission denied (publickey). fatal: Could not read from remote repository. Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists. edit:…
Ask HN: Is it worth reading The Art of Computer Programming now?
Just interested in peoples thoughts. It's been a long term ambition of mine, but now I'm now wondering if it will just be a waste of time. I will probably never really need an in depth understanding of algorithms given I can just …
Ask HN: Impact of US Elections on AI?
First off, apologies for brining up politics. Unfortunately, it is relevant to the conversation. The US midterm elections just concluded, and with the “blue tsunami” I would like to know opinions of people in AI. What will the impact be? I’…
Ask HN: How to Keep the Edge as an Engineer?
Hi, for the past few months I've been thinking a lot about my work as a software engineer and how I'll be able to provide benefits to companies I work for in the coming years, given the fast pace of progress of LLMs Every time I t…
Tell HN: Don't use Postman, they proxy your info without your permission
When you send a POST request to your server, you think you're sending the information to YOUR server, right? That was the default behaviour - as it should be. After updating the Postman client, I noticed Postman also sends the request …
Ask HN: What is the best non mainstream programming language or stack in 2026?
Out of curiosity I started developing in lisp, mindblown. Basically big language like Java, Javascript, C#, Python have a lot of momentum compared to more niche, academic languages like LISP, SmallTalk, Erlang, Haskell. What is your experie…
Ask HN: What is Google Flights' business model and has it changed recently?
I'm wondering if anyone has any more info than I do regarding why Google offers Google Flights? As far as I know there's no paid version of the software and Google doesn't take a cut of any sales they refer. It seems like it …
Tell HN: You now need a government id in order to create an Anthropic account
I don't know if this is totally new, but I just can't believe it. I remember that they requested a telephone number 2 years ago, which was already way too much. But now they forward you to a scetchy website called withpersona.com …
Getting hit with "Prove you are a human" at every other website
I click on websites posted here to read the articles and every other one of them requires me to solve some fking puzzle or click on a checkbox or some other bullshit. With cloudflare acting like a bouncer at almost 50-60% of the pages and t…
Can the Cloudflare employee that just blocked Route53 Health Checks undo it
Thanks Edit: Anddd fixed by Dane at CF. Shibboleet does exist! Thanks :)
Gitbook Breached
We opened a ticket with support about Gitbook availability issues and got this in reply. We have yet to see any official customer communication or breach notification. Apologies for the formatting, did the best I could as it's a mobile…
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