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  1. Ask HN: What Cryptography book do you recommend for reading with 10 year olds?
    ×0.87 12 #15 | 35 points by mike_richards 3 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What your experience with the monthly "who wants to be hired" thread?
    ×2.52 15 #20 | 40 points by newswangerd 1 hour ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Tell HN: Gemini trains on chat history, even for subscribers (personal accounts)
    ×3.48 13 #28 | 617 points by jameslk 13 hours ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Canva lays off 22% of its workforce; 1,270 people
    ×2.69 35 #69 | 9 points by princevegeta89 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: Don't use Postman, they proxy your info without your permission
    ×1.69 30 | 96 points by neya 20 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. OpenAI seems to be silently re-enabling model training on Codex chats
    ×2.99 4 | 518 points by user052919 1 day ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Gitbook Breached
    ×1.19 39 | 163 points by punchmesan 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?
    ×3.17 54 | 728 points by LecroJS 3 days ago | 878 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Which agent harness do you use for working with multiple Models?
    ×0.60 70 | 4 points by avucenovic 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2026)
    ×1.08 74 | 248 points by whoishiring 2 days ago | 251 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What's on Your Learning List?
    ×0.49 85 | 4 points by carlos-menezes 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Impact of US Elections on AI?
    ×1.57 93 | 8 points by talmr 15 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Is AI good enough for math exercises?
    ×0.44 98 | 3 points by Qision 8 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Does anyone have a contact with Cleveland-area Ham club?
    ×2.16 75 | 166 points by stockresearcher 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. WorkOS reports security breach
    ×1.13 92 | 79 points by werrett 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Is it worth reading The Art of Computer Programming now?
    ×1.03 97 | 7 points by weavie 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: How to Keep the Edge as an Engineer?
    ×2.00 90 | 9 points by spacebuffer 15 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Is it still worth building and documenting projects the "old way"?
    ×1.09 105 | 3 points by dhruv_ahuja 11 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Tell HN: Scribd Breached
    ×1.59 101 | 359 points by x______________ 4 days ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Tell HN: GitHub Is Down
    ×3.26 43 | 29 points by yuvadam 13 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup?
    ×4.16 28 | 66 points by eggbrain 9 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Tell HN: You now need a government id in order to create an Anthropic account
    ×1.82 99 | 19 points by I_am_tiberius 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Will cheap high-quality AI end this December?
    ×0.92 125 | 7 points by amichail 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: What is the best non mainstream programming language or stack in 2026?
    ×0.76 120 | 5 points by kbrannigan 22 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Design My YouTube Feed
    ×0.21 142 | 4 points by mrkn1 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Are you building your own personal webapps?
    ×0.84 129 | 3 points by viejaquerida 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Does anyone enjoy work anymore?
    ×2.22 112 | 27 points by jackmalpo 2 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: What is Google Flights' business model and has it changed recently?
    ×1.33 114 | 7 points by lastofthemojito 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Google reCAPTCHA on archive.is asking to scan a QR with a mobile device
    ×0.62 136 | 4 points by linuxhdr 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. How did we end up with Frontier Lab oligopoly rather than a monopoly?
    ×0.38 147 | 3 points by bdhe 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Getting hit with "Prove you are a human" at every other website
    ×2.95 60 | 84 points by shmde 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Can the Cloudflare employee that just blocked Route53 Health Checks undo it
    ×1.61 123 | 7 points by ferngodfather 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Anthropic's HackerOne bot lawyered me out of a bounty
    ×1.23 141 | 4 points by francesco_m 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not
    ×0.63 148 | 40 points by stillatit 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: What to do about incorrectly suspended GitHub account, no notice?
    ×0.53 149 | 7 points by sshah03 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Heretic 2.0 Released: Training-free language model modification
    ×0.71 140 | 22 points by razster 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: What's it like working at Google nowadays? Core teams like Search, Ads?
    ×0.70 146 | 48 points by karakoram 5 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: Opus 5.5 suddenly dumb as rocks?
    ×0.48 153 | 37 points by jahala 6 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: Are Tenstorrent cards better than Nvidia?
    ×0.19 | 2 points by thesnarkitecht 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Progress on provable inference for large language models (anthropic.com)
    ×1.21 3 #10 | 162 points by ltononro 6 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Unclickbait – Replace clickbait YouTube thumbnails (unclickbait.app)
    ×1.07 55 #63 | 9 points by namuorg 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. The SBND collaboration releases first neutrino results (fnal.gov)
    ×1.08 | 2 points by titusblair 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. US voters roundly reject data centers in ballot measures (semafor.com)
    ×6.37 75 | 297 points by justonepost2 9 hours ago | 556 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Democrats win control of the House of Representatives (nbcnews.com)
    ×40.86 20 | 256 points by geox 20 hours ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Intel stock collapse worsens as $3.5T chip rout spreads (yahoo.com)
    ×3.06 61 | 234 points by entryleveljobsc 1 day ago | 225 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Zero-axiom Lean 4 proof that Yang-Mills on R^4 is a "round square" (zenodo.org)
    ×0.67 | 2 points by DRLogvinovich 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Mocktastic: A Meshtastic Node on Arduino (github.com/Vapmuz)
    ×0.44 54 #56 | 28 points by kimi 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Education shouldn't be held for ransom (kagi.com)
    ×3.51 76 #90 | 111 points by notfried 5 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Postman silently auto-installs AI plugins and attempts to share all API data (github.com/postmanlabs)
    ×6.46 56 | 1484 points by sidgarimella 1 day ago | 479 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Election.run – election night in one window (election.run)
    ×3.19 122 | 9 points by vegcel 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. The Hyper-Optimized AI Engineer (youtube.com)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by AIorNot 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Google will turn off search for schools that reject AI (nytimes.com)
    ×4.74 19 | 659 points by ceejayoz 1 day ago | 460 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Just a little AI resistance, as a treat (shkspr.mobi)
    ×2.11 42 | 177 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: PodBookCase – Discover books mentioned on popular podcast episodes (podbookcase.com)
    ×0.42 | 2 points by raistlin_majere 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: A Lean 4 port of libexpat's XML 1.0 parsing semantics (github.com/scidonia)
    ×0.86 | 2 points by ambass01 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Kernel.sh Hacked (kernel.sh)
    ×1.08 73 #42 | 4 points by pranshuchittora 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. In Praise of Japan's Failure to Keep Up (noemamag.com)
    ×2.54 12 #44 | 21 points by littlexsparkee 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Giant canyon on Mars is still tectonically active (columbia.edu)
    ×0.95 59 #46 | 141 points by gmays 21 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Bear turns 10, and it still feels like day one (bear.app)
    ×1.37 52 | 121 points by psxuaw 1 day ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. US midterm elections 2026 live updates: Democrats win Senate control and edge (theguardian.com)
    ×18.61 1 | 132 points by hkhn 17 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: I wanted OpenSCAD with fillets and a C-like language. So I made one (hackerscad.com)
    ×3.14 78 | 7 points by trikko 9 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. OpenAI to acquire Pierre Computer Company (openai.com)
    ×1.79 10 #16 | 152 points by itunpredictable 8 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. LHCb finds evidence of one-in-ten-billion particle decay (home.cern)
    ×1.83 | 3 points by jwpapi 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Could a modern chess engine on a Pentium have defeated Kasparov in 1996? (carlini.com)
    ×2.84 16 | 486 points by markusw 1 day ago | 236 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Kvittas, an Expense Splitting App (kvittas.app)
    ×0.43 115 | 12 points by primalscreamer 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: A working Nintendo in ~1GB of Qwen weights (github.com/dbreunig)
    ×1.49 106 | 297 points by dbreunig 5 days ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Russian Army Losses in Ukraine (minfin.com.ua)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by scapecast 41 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Gaining Consciousness 2009 (youtube.com)
    ×1.59 12 | 3 points by uno6180338 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Kairos – Open-source risk and fraud decisioning platform (github.com/finic-ai)
    ×0.83 45 | 104 points by ayanb9440 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Iriszip – Audited post-quantum E2EE file transfer (SPAKE2M-KEM-768) (github.com/iris-zip)
    ×1.43 86 | 4 points by Dev-Scar 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Md2docx – Compile Markdown directly into native Word documents (md2docx.js.org)
    ×1.65 102 | 5 points by mayank1513 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. People say they want small smartphones–Enough Phone will put that to the test (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.07 31 #84 | 23 points by Jtsummers 4 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Open-source reference implementation of the Agent Name Service (ANS) (github.com/agentnameservice)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by mooreds 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. US tech giants' hidden AI debt swells 90% to $3.2T in 6 months (nikkei.com)
    ×6.91 17 | 408 points by angry_impala 1 day ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books mentioned on HN (hackerbooks.org)
    ×6.51 26 | 1851 points by roansh 3 days ago | 305 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: 13M opinions on 48k products extracted from Reddit and HN (trustmebro.reviews)
    ×2.11 73 | 11 points by davidzweig 11 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 Ultra – 150W AI Accelerator Card with 128GB at 548GB/s (qualcomm.com)
    ×1.26 5 #7 | 76 points by peter_d_sherman 3 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Raye Mihretab project ice cream (google.com)
    ×1.28 | 2 points by bahgihayle 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Study estimates 75% of NFL players who died over 15-year span had CTE (nbcnews.com)
    ×3.15 23 | 266 points by gmays 1 day ago | 240 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Subvocal – Talk to your computer without making noise
    ×3.16 22 | 829 points by aarushyadav 2 days ago | 390 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: ClickBench inspired leaderboard for multiple database benchmarks (pivotlake.io)
    ×0.75 154 | 5 points by thinkredstone 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Don't Call It a Decision Model (typesafe.ai)
    ×1.43 53 #36 | 5 points by emschwartz 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Why Data Centres Will Change the World and Bankrupt Their Builders [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by dcl 25 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Phonon TTS on WebGPU, 44MB, 115x real time, with live word timings (github.com/blixt)
    ×0.78 | 2 points by blixt 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Ads-Boy: Track Planes on Your Game Boy (bjmalicoat.com)
    ×0.66 | 2 points by bmalicoat 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Safari introduces Adaptive Dark Mode in 27.3 (webkit.org)
    ×2.67 5 #72 | 495 points by paddingtone 1 day ago | 259 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: An Open Source Superhuman Email Client Clone (github.com/michaelmagan)
    ×1.42 84 | 4 points by grouchy 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: I built a hosting for small AI-generated software (host0.ai)
    ×1.03 | 2 points by dvolkhonskiy 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Canopy, a cross-platform DAG engine for agents CLI (univerlab.org)
    ×1.60 25 | 3 points by JheisonMB 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Plugin to Create Product Videos (github.com/Flux-AI-Agent)
    ×1.22 117 | 3 points by loveTech 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???