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  1. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026)
    ×1.13 39 #56 | 229 points by whoishiring 23 hours ago | 250 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Knowledge Graph Engine for Codebases
    ×1.13 | 2 points by Shourya_55 15 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. ChatGPT Linux GUI version updates redownload all files, require 1.4GB download
    ×1.13 1 #70 | 5 points by juujian 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2026)
    ×0.84 56 #75 | 95 points by whoishiring 23 hours ago | 317 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Where do you get your AI (technology) news?
    ×1.67 17 | 3 points by BtM909 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Noviz AI Agent for ERPNext – A Reasoning Layer for ERPNext
    ×0.43 | 2 points by tajdink 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Whose interview process has caught up to the new way of working?
    ×0.58 | 2 points by verygoodenginee 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. My local model setup on an M4 Pro Mac Mini
    ×1.53 27 | 3 points by RanjithKumarRag 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Anyone homeschooling their kids?
    ×1.16 69 | 10 points by wbnns 14 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Were Claude's Weekly Limits Cut in Half? (and obscured by another 50% "deal"?)
    ×0.24 | 2 points by benwills 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What would happen if your company stopped using all AI tomorrow?
    ×0.63 97 | 37 points by jc_811 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: How do you survive a job you hate which is slowly making you sick?
    ×2.99 37 | 38 points by _override 6 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Does HN block mobile browsers?
    ×0.50 102 | 4 points by pbohun 16 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Dropbox Data Breach
    ×1.50 89 | 45 points by hmate9 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Is it just me, or has Claude Opus gotten worse recently?
    ×0.48 98 | 12 points by de6u99er 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Alternative to Proton Mail?
    ×2.87 99 | 7 points by OhMeadhbh 22 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Claude Code now appends a link to a Claude session in every commit
    ×0.48 112 | 10 points by codexon 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Old.reddit.com no longer works for logged out users
    ×2.35 93 | 31 points by kradeelav 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What do your job interviews look like?
    ×0.70 108 | 28 points by Hixon10 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Asked Reddit support to give me API key so I can delete my data. They refused
    ×0.72 91 | 15 points by leoriq 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Tell HN: Remember to Change Your Filters
    ×0.29 127 | 5 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Native Apps Why?
    ×0.35 133 | 7 points by dmvjs 2 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Why is Founder Mode not working for Airbnb?
    ×0.38 139 | 6 points by jorisboris 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: What are your biggest problems and fixes with multisession engineering?
    ×0.22 153 | 5 points by top_rooster 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Claude 20x usage is only for the 5 hour window, not for the weekly limit
    ×0.50 110 | 15 points by vmg12 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Which self-hosted Docker UIs support rootless mode?
    ×0.20 154 | 3 points by vsilent 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Skywarden – Smart astrophotography planning companion (skywarden.app)
    ×1.44 | 2 points by adfr 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Optilise is a new style BI consultant and softwaredeveloper (optilise.com)
    ×1.48 | 2 points by welsenesbros 15 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. What Is Your LLM Judge Measuring? (searchplex.net)
    ×1.49 | 2 points by splxai 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Cash or Comfort? How LLMs Value Your Inconvenience (acm.org)
    ×2.17 29 | 3 points by yarapavan 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: I built a live stream site where every spot is instantly AI-generated (videoai.me)
    ×1.78 103 | 9 points by Paul_Grsl 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Free, Fast Screenshot App for macOS with One-Click Screenshot Sharing (seenshot.app)
    ×3.29 131 | 8 points by bigmuzzy 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. WebLLM: high-performance in-browser LLM inference engine (github.com/mlc-ai)
    ×1.83 | 2 points by saikatsg 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS (mozilla.org)
    ×3.12 13 #59 | 548 points by HieronymusBosch 1 day ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Authorizer – open-source auth for enterprise apps and agents (github.com/authorizerdev)
    ×1.35 | 2 points by lakhansamani93 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. My Agentic Engineering Workflow after 6,775 sessions [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.20 | 2 points by apitman 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. EFF to Governor Newsom: Veto California's AB 1709 (eff.org)
    ×2.95 43 | 94 points by mdp2021 23 hours ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. C++26: Standard Library Hardening Experiments (cppstories.com)
    ×0.89 78 | 90 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: AI studio with 500 models for headshots, video and images (magicshot.ai)
    ×1.50 147 | 4 points by not_wowinter14 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Banca Etica Suspends A/I's Account While Condemning the Sanctions Behind It (sabot.media)
    ×1.45 15 #27 | 25 points by rendx 4 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ambient CSS v3 – Blender meets CSS (ambientcss.vercel.app)
    ×1.71 31 #48 | 296 points by kikkupico 22 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI (pcgamer.com)
    ×3.21 1 | 229 points by Limb 22 hours ago | 238 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Rakuten Kobo returns to U.S. retail as sales double (publishersweekly.com)
    ×2.84 71 | 105 points by seam_carver 1 day ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Bassfinity for iOS – AI guide built on solunar data, weather, and bathymetry (bassfinity.com)
    ×0.66 72 #44 | 3 points by jequals5 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. It turns out that Orion's much-maligned heat shield performed well (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.12 20 #55 | 6 points by RattlesnakeJake 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Urban Congestion Pricing and the Response Times of Emergency Medical Services (nber.org)
    ×1.73 55 | 58 points by ceejayoz 23 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Floe – an open-source plugin for sample libraries – CLAP/VST3/AU (floe.audio)
    ×0.59 105 | 22 points by windell 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: HN Match Maker – Matching "Who Wants to Be Hired?" With "Who's Hiring?" (hnmatchmaker.com)
    ×0.97 49 #53 | 102 points by all2 17 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Fine, I'll build my own text editor (dbushell.com)
    ×1.96 6 #31 | 192 points by Alephinitesimal 11 hours ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Magic eye tube (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.95 45 #74 | 94 points by peter_d_sherman 20 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. 'Stunning' percolation proof solves decades-old puzzle about phase transitions (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.12 82 | 72 points by tzury 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Mcptunnels – ngrok for MCP with basic OAuth (terragohan.github.io)
    ×3.75 76 | 13 points by helpprotactiniu 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Texttile, a multiplayer blog engine for people who write together (texttile.blog)
    ×0.64 157 | 13 points by klausbreyer 5 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Aging Brains Blend Memories Together Instead of Just Forgetting Them (studyfinds.com)
    ×1.40 6 #7 | 15 points by mdp2021 1 hour ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Claude and ChatGPT need a datacenter. This runs on my phone (llmobi.pages.dev)
    ×1.43 77 | 14 points by 12ziyad 18 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: NFC Energy-Harvesting PCB Business Card with an MCU (wilsonharper.net)
    ×1.50 73 | 217 points by WilsonHarper 5 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Xyzzy – AI teamwork in one Python process, with a tamper-evident log (github.com/Project-Nexus-YR)
    ×1.08 149 | 3 points by Yashiru 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Bolnee-Chat – Self Hosted Chatbot Integration in Your Business Website (github.com/AniketWathore)
    ×0.79 116 | 32 points by AniketWathore 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. HomeOS – A self-hosted family dashboard for a kitchen touchscreen (github.com/danialkhilji)
    ×1.33 86 | 25 points by danialkhilji 1 hour ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. You Rename My Lake – I Move My Hosting (olafalders.com)
    ×6.95 70 | 95 points by oalders 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Bugs happen: The easy way to compare solo PQ to ECC+PQ (yp.to)
    ×0.62 15 #42 | 11 points by zdw 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. How bicycle coaster brakes work (2018) (dougbarnesauthor.com)
    ×0.96 69 #54 | 77 points by Vedor 19 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. The Message from Deep Space (steampowered.com)
    ×1.50 | 2 points by empath75 15 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. That Fake on Facebook? No, Ofcom Won't Help You Get Them to Take It Down (replyresearch.com)
    ×1.21 | 2 points by replyresearch 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Launch HN: Almanac (YC S26) – AI that knows your company (usealmanac.com)
    ×0.44 88 | 57 points by kushagrchitkar 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: MC/DC coverage so coding agents could work overnight (supercov.com)
    ×0.64 | 2 points by Nedomas 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Astral – Astro.js, but in Elixir (github.com/elixir-volt)
    ×3.10 124 | 10 points by dannote 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Dutch central bank moves share of gold from U.S., Canada to London (nltimes.nl)
    ×3.48 11 #13 | 46 points by TechTechTech 1 hour ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. US, China arm for space warfare: hunter satellites and orbital weapons (reuters.com)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by bushwart 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Apache Iggy, a message streaming platform in Rust, graduates to an Apache TLP (apache.org)
    ×1.37 75 | 97 points by spetz 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: OSS, K8s-native AI platform for distributed multi-model inference (github.com/axem-solutions)
    ×1.19 113 | 4 points by EmbeddedMagicX 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Let's Build Intuition for Watermarking (willett.io)
    ×2.09 26 | 3 points by pickledish 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Crossing Boundaries with Integration Events (deniskyashif.com)
    ×0.33 66 #25 | 5 points by alembic_fumes 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. BoolCodec: Variable-Length Space-Efficient Sequence of Booleans (github.com/ronfriedhaber)
    ×1.16 | 2 points by ronfriedhaber 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Lake Ontario ("Lake America") (openstreetmap.org)
    ×5.52 58 | 67 points by rdmuser 1 day ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Move in C++ without a std:move (andreasfertig.com)
    ×0.95 4 #15 | 25 points by dalvrosa 2 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Lessons from shipping a watch-only Apple Watch app, built with Claude (silentbell.app)
    ×1.93 7 | 3 points by jakublipinski 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. My experience has nuance, yours is a data point (jim-nielsen.com)
    ×2.23 86 | 62 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Solving the Flat Cube (wordpress.com)
    ×0.90 36 #76 | 41 points by surprisetalk 12 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Quasar 438B: Europe's Leading AI Model (multiversecomputing.com)
    ×2.64 16 #24 | 82 points by amunozo 4 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Why are there no flow batteries with symmetric ferrocyanide electrolytes? (chemisting.com)
    ×0.86 1 #43 | 18 points by DamonHD 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Mayor says 'large chunks' of Wellington council Deloitte report written by AI (rnz.co.nz)
    ×3.12 35 #88 | 37 points by billybuckwheat 6 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Is There I/O After Death? What Happens to Io_uring When a Process Dies (medium.com)
    ×1.47 | 2 points by eivanov89 19 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. The Vanishing Apprentice (acm.org)
    ×1.21 | 2 points by yarapavan 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. MST3K-Anything (github.com/jgbrwn)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by indigodaddy 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. gRPC-Web Failed the Web (buf.build)
    ×1.94 19 | 3 points by 0xedb 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Biggest dark matter detector spots a single weird particle (science.org)
    ×1.00 43 #23 | 3 points by randycupertino 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Student teacher arrested for private Snapchat message (gadgetreview.com)
    ×4.43 74 | 88 points by saulpw 1 day ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. The Snow/Leavis ‘two cultures’ clash (aeon.co)
    ×0.82 83 | 73 points by Hooke 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Claude Code Arcade (github.com/jystervinou)
    ×0.79 145 | 3 points by jystervinou 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???