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  1. Ask HN: What are you working on? (November 2026)
    ×0.79 15 #45 | 12 points by tha_infra_guy 2 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: Gemini trains on chat history, even for subscribers (personal accounts)
    ×3.25 9 #71 | 717 points by jameslk 2 days ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What are forgotten topics in computing that deserve a new revisit?
    ×0.98 11 #73 | 30 points by draxen 8 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup?
    ×3.19 10 #79 | 525 points by eggbrain 1 day ago | 649 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Codet JSON
    ×0.66 22 | 3 points by fifflesticks 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What cryptography book do you recommend for reading with 10 year olds?
    ×0.91 49 | 86 points by mike_richards 3 days ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. OpenAI seems to be silently re-enabling model training on Codex chats
    ×2.93 29 | 526 points by user052919 2 days ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?
    ×3.15 52 | 728 points by LecroJS 4 days ago | 884 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Gitbook Breached
    ×1.15 60 | 164 points by punchmesan 2 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Tell HN: Don't use Postman, they proxy your info without your permission
    ×1.61 62 | 108 points by neya 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: If you had unlimited Claude credits, what would you build and why?
    ×0.69 | 2 points by anragyadev 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What workspace/productivity tools do you use and why?
    ×1.18 23 | 3 points by anragyadev 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2026)
    ×1.08 67 | 250 points by whoishiring 3 days ago | 280 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How do AI agents help you in your daily life?
    ×0.30 66 | 5 points by gonzar79 12 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Who Uses Grok? and for What?
    ×0.96 50 | 3 points by aashu_bel 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How to verify response generated by AI in API response quickly
    ×0.14 | 2 points by mehtahet619 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Does anyone have a contact with Cleveland-area Ham club?
    ×2.08 72 | 166 points by stockresearcher 3 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. WorkOS reports security breach
    ×1.11 88 | 80 points by werrett 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Where should I start to do marketing?
    ×0.87 111 | 6 points by dhruonweb 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Local AI Models for Coding and General Tasks?
    ×0.35 89 | 4 points by giantg2 18 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: What is going on with SMS 2FA?
    ×0.24 | 2 points by tkdb 18 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: What are some good resources on encoded/encrypted search?
    ×0.30 | 2 points by lyfeninja 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: In a world with AI agents how has software task estimation changed?
    ×0.54 110 | 3 points by yalogin 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Is it possible for a residential proxy provider to exist ethically?
    ×1.25 114 | 5 points by walrus01 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Canva lays off 22% of its workforce; 1,270 people
    ×3.54 70 | 33 points by princevegeta89 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Credit card and loyalty analytics, where to start?
    ×1.15 117 | 5 points by scipio1551 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: How do small teams pragmatically manage Dependabot fatigue?
    ×0.55 112 | 4 points by maxk85 23 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Courier: A macOS Postman Alternative
    ×0.25 | 2 points by _booty 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Impact of US Elections on AI?
    ×1.15 126 | 9 points by talmr 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Any good AI design tools for pitch decks and visuals?
    ×0.88 90 | 4 points by AlanAAG 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. What's the worst bug an AI coding agent silently introduced into your code?
    ×0.92 123 | 4 points by riyashikanedunc 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. GitLab patched the CVE. Your leaked token is still valid
    ×0.66 109 | 3 points by conduit-dev 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: AI Coding Preference
    ×0.92 128 | 4 points by treebeard901 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Tell HN: You now need a government id in order to create an Anthropic account
    ×1.71 116 | 21 points by I_am_tiberius 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: What is the best non mainstream programming language or stack in 2026?
    ×0.69 134 | 6 points by kbrannigan 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Will cheap high-quality AI end this December?
    ×0.97 131 | 9 points by amichail 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Is it worth reading The Art of Computer Programming now?
    ×1.00 125 | 9 points by weavie 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: How to Keep the Edge as an Engineer?
    ×1.63 118 | 11 points by spacebuffer 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: Design My YouTube Feed
    ×0.20 135 | 4 points by mrkn1 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: Does anyone enjoy work anymore?
    ×2.11 122 | 28 points by jackmalpo 3 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: Which agent harness do you use for working with multiple Models?
    ×0.67 127 | 6 points by avucenovic 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Hungary: Communist-era files released, up to 60k former agents revealed (euronews.com)
    ×2.64 18 #49 | 210 points by rdmuser 15 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Nvidia RTX Spark encrypted firmware slows inference speed to 35% on Linux (mindstudio.ai)
    ×2.63 18 #74 | 614 points by novaRom 2 days ago | 287 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. A new Go API for JSON (go.dev)
    ×1.93 13 #81 | 390 points by olexsmir 1 day ago | 211 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. AMD expects to outsell Intel in Q4 for the first time in history (tomshardware.com)
    ×3.72 7 #82 | 583 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 221 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Ask HN: Has anyone used LLMs to audit TrueCrypt for backdoors?
    ×0.60 | 1 points by dlphii 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Zenith, a developer platform for shipping and selling your app (zenith.hosting)
    ×3.07 77 | 6 points by l-mdev 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Hardcoded credentials and other issues in Tata Motors App (cert-in.org.in)
    ×0.85 8 #11 | 27 points by qtqtqt 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. The MoE Training Handbook (huggingface.co)
    ×1.17 7 #83 | 9 points by matt_d 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Cessna Paints GTA6 Promo on FlightRadars (flightradar24.com)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by subbz 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Treeverse/Dvc: Data Versioning and ML Experiments (github.com/treeverse)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by RebelPotato 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Synaptics Appears to Use Legal Threats to Block Open-Source DisplayLink Driver (phoronix.com)
    ×2.43 32 | 228 points by snvzz 1 day ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Trademark Screen – free plain-English trademark check with email watch (trademarkscreen.com)
    ×0.89 | 2 points by notaptolawyer 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Pwn.college (pwn.college)
    ×1.90 1 #10 | 161 points by tripdout 7 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. First known cyberattack on Swiss food refrigeration system (swissinfo.ch)
    ×1.98 | 2 points by amenghra 6 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Incident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues (githubstatus.com)
    ×1.41 27 | 263 points by kevcampb 2 days ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: I've updated my Linux System Call website and API (syscall.sh)
    ×1.21 73 | 237 points by guitmz 4 days ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Securing GrokBot
    ×1.61 93 | 4 points by maximelb 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Northmeadow – encrypted shared memory for local AI agents and people (github.com/bavarian-studio)
    ×0.79 | 2 points by Judi2108 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Hyperbutler – Docker on Windows 11 Without WSL or Docker Desktop (github.com/Higangssh)
    ×1.68 104 | 4 points by swq115 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Firenook – Firebase emulators in Rust: 40× faster writes, 10× less RAM (firenook.dev)
    ×1.18 15 #18 | 118 points by sanjevirau 11 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. ING Said to Be Seller of $500M Data Center Loan Portfolio (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.28 16 #55 | 18 points by toomuchtodo 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Computer game Worms went from classroom to classic (bbc.co.uk)
    ×1.88 13 | 3 points by JonoW 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Stenvakt, a server hardening and patching tool (stenvakt.com)
    ×0.33 | 2 points by ranwhatcom 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: A Modern Agentic LaTeX Editor (papilot.ai)
    ×1.20 105 | 3 points by cuichen 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Mdview Desktop – light, fast and feature-rich Markdown viewer (Windows) (mdview.io)
    ×1.49 130 | 4 points by Igor_Wiwi 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. The Reconstruction of Torn Documents (bundesarchiv.de)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by jacquesm 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Kids Shelf, your kids' own little internet (kidsshelf.org)
    ×2.53 81 | 5 points by ericd 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Codemap – one-page interactive map of any Go repository (github.com/peterretief)
    ×0.66 71 | 44 points by peter_retief 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. ING puts $500 million of data-center loans up for sale (reuters.com)
    ×1.84 63 | 3 points by bantunes 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Sshole-audit – Find, prove and fix *sshole: the OpenSSH password bypass (github.com/schappim)
    ×0.54 | 2 points by schappim 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. The Poison and the Cure the Life and Afterlife of French Theory (theideasletter.org)
    ×0.57 53 #44 | 6 points by pepys 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Google Donates Agent Substrate and GVisor to the CNCF (googleblog.com)
    ×2.33 47 | 3 points by joshcsimmons 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Kairos – Open-source risk and fraud decisioning platform (github.com/finic-ai)
    ×0.82 69 | 104 points by ayanb9440 2 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Lmux – A Lightweight macOS Terminal for Claude Code and Codex (github.com/sooftware)
    ×2.57 92 | 5 points by sooftware14 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt (ieee.org)
    ×4.65 #48 | 1276 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 743 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Flashcards are "dead fish": rethinking spaced repetition around highlights (andymatuschak.org)
    ×1.17 | 2 points by musabilhan 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. What to Check Before Installing an Android APK (rummy91apk.app)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by rollingcarollin 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Everything is an AI scam now (davidralphlewis.co.uk)
    ×4.03 28 | 151 points by speckx 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Pixel Buddy, a pixel pet for Claude Code that grows from your work (github.com/SimakovIgor)
    ×0.61 | 2 points by igorsimakov 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Curious HN – Hacker News without the snark (curioushn.com)
    ×0.90 68 | 10 points by cochne 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Vegetable Gardening for Engineers (jrcpl.us)
    ×4.59 107 | 16 points by jrcplus 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. MS Paint Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (cve.org)
    ×2.91 2 #8 | 556 points by kuberwastaken 14 hours ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. September in Servo: <progress>, rounded rectangles, and more (servo.org)
    ×1.28 21 #25 | 243 points by iamnothere 20 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Ask HN: Which social media platform is useful?
    ×1.03 | 2 points by dhruonweb 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Instrument Landing System (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by tosh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Mall Bats, a nostalgic tycoon game with a twitst (mall-bats.vercel.app)
    ×0.70 | 2 points by jacobjr23 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Motorola Signature 27 with GrapheneOS support (motorolanews.com)
    ×2.56 2 #19 | 489 points by monneyboi 18 hours ago | 345 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Goodbye from Salon (salon.com)
    ×4.46 17 #30 | 587 points by mkeeter 14 hours ago | 234 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. So my ISP was hijacking my DNS (karthihegde.dev)
    ×1.77 60 #35 | 208 points by frostbyte7 1 day ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???