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  1. Outlook still down for anyone else?
    ×1.15 36 | 3 points by rsoto2 29 minutes ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: Major Microsoft Outlook/Exchange Online/Teams Outage in the Americas
    ×0.29 53 | 11 points by wmchen 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Why Is Nvidia Valuable?
    ×0.21 | 2 points by fraserphysics 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What are you working on? (November 2026)
    ×1.30 89 | 300 points by david927 4 days ago | 1069 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What % of HN is now AI-generated?
    ×0.22 81 | 4 points by simonebrunozzi 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Tell HN: Cast('abc' AS INTEGER) returns 0 in SQLite
    ×0.13 109 | 3 points by prmph 13 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. ChatGPT Desktop forwards your SSH agent to remote machines
    ×1.31 91 | 219 points by DenGorbachev 3 days ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. I'm genuinely disappointed in our most visible tech leadership
    ×1.78 82 | 6 points by AnneTrotter 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How do you market your consumer product
    ×0.49 76 | 8 points by mv4 11 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Why use Jev/decision models at all?
    ×0.47 87 | 5 points by niceguy1827 11 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Inception's Diffusion LLM API Is Shutting Down
    ×1.25 60 | 13 points by _matthew_ 12 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Do you still enjoy coding in C++?
    ×1.09 121 | 62 points by hasley 3 days ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Tell HN: I'm working on original approaches to tag-based file organization
    ×0.10 | 2 points by prmph 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Claude Code's API billing depends on how often the cache expires
    ×0.18 | 2 points by MaxBozhenko 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What is holding back robots from being deployed everywhere?
    ×0.37 93 | 6 points by mjs06 15 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. How do you keep up quality when you vibe-code?
    ×0.76 112 | 37 points by nkcodes 2 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Any good ways on how to get into kernel dev?
    ×0.27 130 | 7 points by ihms 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How did you convince family and friends to join your XMPP/Matrix server?
    ×0.85 128 | 102 points by mtlynch 5 days ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. What are your favorite tools?
    ×0.46 125 | 13 points by d675 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Personal "Tears in the Rain" Moments
    ×0.33 104 | 14 points by HoldOnAMinute 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Is lack of human imagination now the bottleneck instead of intelligence?
    ×0.33 127 | 8 points by amichail 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Do 9/10 new AI SaaS websites seem like they should be an editor command to you?
    ×0.28 137 | 5 points by Kevin_Flynn 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: What do your technical interviews look like today? (Nov 2026)
    ×0.29 116 | 7 points by Heap4112 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: What is your current AI stack looking like?
    ×0.45 | 2 points by salleisha 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: "No AI" apps/companies/resources?
    ×0.48 129 | 8 points by BrunoBernardino 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: How do you evaluate the skills your AI agents use?
    ×0.67 142 | 23 points by enesalatas 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Tell HN: Another GitHub Major Outage
    ×0.40 145 | 17 points by sergiotapia 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Did anybody used F# in a production?
    ×0.39 135 | 5 points by vad_n__ 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Software engineer with broken arm, any tips?
    ×0.30 133 | 6 points by spapas82 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Tell HN: A flood of reports of Opus 5.5 being nerfed
    ×1.99 141 | 32 points by b--l 4 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Anybody using their own AI harness as well?
    ×0.48 139 | 5 points by madprops 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. CoderPad Reports a Security Breach
    ×0.52 148 | 9 points by werrett 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. uBlock Origin Can't Block Facebook Ads
    ×1.14 147 | 13 points by anidsiam 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Words of warning about radiocarbon dating medieval human bones (nature.com)
    ×0.75 32 #33 | 62 points by gumby 10 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. A live tree of systemd jobs on the boot console (codeberg.org)
    ×2.00 12 #59 | 361 points by orhunp_ 21 hours ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Cancer vaccine for Yash, he's diagnosed with stage IV pancreatic cancer (github.com/popvax)
    ×3.22 64 | 86 points by AsDivyansh 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: AI Red Lines – write down what would make you act on AI (yourairedlines.com)
    ×0.80 35 | 35 points by ap11071 14 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: ActiveDNS, a free DNS search service (activedns.net)
    ×0.84 | 2 points by elnerd 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: I built a Rick and Morty explainer video generator (usediorama.com)
    ×1.74 19 #7 | 9 points by dixitbavu 1 hour ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. ExcalidrawZ: Local Native Excalidraw on macOS/iOS (github.com/chocoford)
    ×0.86 28 #31 | 116 points by Qision 13 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: TPS – My highly productive agent manager (github.com/vanviegen)
    ×0.76 | 2 points by vanviegen 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Recalc – Spreadsheet where cells can be Claude Code or Codex terminals (github.com/sshah03)
    ×0.48 126 | 37 points by sshah03 4 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Vending machine uses words, not money (cultivatedcorpora.com)
    ×0.81 | 1 points by avibagla1 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Venture Is Dead (Again) (colossus.com)
    ×1.02 | 2 points by koolhead17 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: I built a calendar app that gives each event its own to-do list (apple.com)
    ×0.41 77 | 10 points by whereinside 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Get your coding agent off ~2019 JavaScript, onto modern web primitives (github.com/GoogleChrome)
    ×2.47 50 | 435 points by paulirish 2 days ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Hijacking Samsung TV SmartHub Ads (dvratil.cz)
    ×1.57 100 | 5 points by dvratil 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. I gave an agent a lakehouse and control of my garden (jatorre.github.io)
    ×1.57 43 #60 | 138 points by jatorre 23 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Aircad – Professional drafting and 3D modeling in the browser (aircad.com)
    ×1.03 23 #89 | 89 points by peetle 20 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: ThingStudio, Node-RED style programming for microcontrollers (thingstudio.net)
    ×0.94 117 | 15 points by mkarliner 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. North Korean hackers used fake video calls in $400M crypto hack, says FBI (bbc.com)
    ×1.09 | 2 points by 1659447091 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Physically Controllable Relighting of Photographs (yaksoy.github.io)
    ×0.99 84 | 67 points by summarity 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Klad, a paint app your coding agent can drive (source-available) (github.com/klad-app)
    ×1.03 73 | 83 points by ambewas 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Microsoft struggling to restore service as global outage affects services (bbc.com)
    ×3.90 19 #46 | 5 points by aussieguy1234 26 minutes ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. The Scandal Is Bigger Than Jensen Huang (theatlantic.com)
    ×3.44 56 | 4 points by paulpauper 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Data centers need power – lower income, rural residents pay the price (cornell.edu)
    ×2.78 66 #87 | 178 points by PaulHoule 9 hours ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Jensen Huang's Downfall Is a Sign of Silicon Valley's Power Drain (wsj.com)
    ×3.06 48 | 4 points by JumpCrisscross 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigns after reports of extramarital relationships (nbcnews.com)
    ×2.23 2 | 72 points by sonabinu 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Flight Itinerary – plan multi-stop flight trips on a map (flightitinerary.app)
    ×1.03 107 | 3 points by WebSpyder 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Cerulion – ROS 2-compatible robotics runtime with multi-process replay (github.com/cerulion-inc)
    ×0.53 57 #54 | 11 points by lakshays 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Tinfoil (YC P25) is hiring an applied AI security engineer in San Francisco
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: ShanHaiGateway – multi-upstream LLM gateway in Go (github.com/ffseika0304)
    ×1.05 122 | 3 points by ffseika0304 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. AWS emulator (github.com/aws)
    ×3.60 11 #61 | 968 points by super_linear 1 day ago | 264 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Gemini Decisions API (blog.google)
    ×2.80 12 #85 | 555 points by iamdelirium 1 day ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Microsoft's Outlook.com Is Down (outlook.com)
    ×1.51 34 | 3 points by williamtrask 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Daily GPU Rental Prices Across AWS, Azure, RunPod and Vast.ai (taipeiledger.com)
    ×1.49 123 | 15 points by khoonie 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Zipzi – Open-source Live2D Editor alternative with AI-assisted editing (github.com/getzipzi)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by pakholeung37 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Doubling LLM token rates in ComfyUI (comfy.org)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by ivewonyoung 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. One Condition Away: Apache's HTTP/2 RCE on the Day It Dropped (fortirix.com)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by SecurityNinjaGu 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Nintendo Takes Down Emulators and Firmware in Massive GitHub DMCA Sweep (ign.com)
    ×2.85 28 #51 | 284 points by CharlesW 12 hours ago | 223 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: SilentStars – Lesser-known open-source projects still being built (silentstars.dev)
    ×0.98 144 | 3 points by fcapuz2 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Jensen Huang resigns (apnews.com)
    ×11.31 1 #1 | 3174 points by lldb 15 hours ago | 2958 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: AgentRun – open-source, Self-improving Managed Agents (github.com/Parcha-ai)
    ×0.84 22 #30 | 88 points by miguelrios 10 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Animate4Me – The first prompt-to-Spine 2D animation tool (animate4me.com)
    ×0.85 | 2 points by AxiDev 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: I have trained 15 blood glucose forecasting models on my own data (github.com/0xdeadf1sh)
    ×1.11 124 | 20 points by 0xdeadf1sh 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. AI, activity, and outcomes in software engineering (cabird.com)
    ×1.47 54 | 127 points by azhenley 1 day ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Y Recombinator – The HN threads HN keeps recommending (yrecombinator.org)
    ×2.84 136 | 14 points by nightjar 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Edge0-145B: Frontier AI Capabilities on Your Own Computer (edge0.ai)
    ×2.48 5 #4 | 143 points by sroussey 5 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Dwarf planet candidate appears which takes roughly 280 years to orbit our sun (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×1.52 9 #8 | 234 points by cybermango 9 hours ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Librem 5 v2: A phone that frees us all (puri.sm)
    ×1.69 42 #52 | 18 points by weightedreply 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Defunct Company Data Partnership (micro1.ai)
    ×1.06 | 2 points by dkggwl1990 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Open Source AI Salons: Shaping the Osaid, Together (opensource.org)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by gslin 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Africa's solar revolution is vast and speedy (economist.com)
    ×2.10 88 | 117 points by andsoitis 2 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Odog.net – Criminal Enterprise [pdf] (fbi.gov)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by sans_souse 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Jensen Huang resigns as Nvidia CEO immediately (reuters.com)
    ×4.95 66 | 374 points by ksec 15 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Nvidia prepares to fire CEO Jensen Huang, WSJ reports (twitter.com/watcherguru)
    ×6.70 14 | 225 points by alexmolas 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigns after reports of second affair deepened scandal (bbc.co.uk)
    ×3.14 38 | 168 points by cognoboffin 15 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang (wired.com)
    ×7.43 12 #13 | 255 points by lavendermon 2 hours ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Distributed Ray Tracer (hatchet.run)
    ×0.60 38 #45 | 39 points by juliusgeo 9 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Leafpress- a static site generator for digital gardens (leafpress.in)
    ×1.25 115 | 3 points by shivamx96 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???