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  1. Ask HN: What are you working on? (November 2026)
    ×1.39 12 #21 | 238 points by david927 16 hours ago | 828 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. ChatGPT Desktop forwards your SSH agent to remote machines
    ×1.87 11 #25 | 83 points by DenGorbachev 5 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: How your SEO traffic doing? Up or down?
    ×0.45 | 2 points by bigmuzzy 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: How do you manage your AI agents' context across clients and projects?
    ×1.53 38 | 69 points by Michel_Aventin 2 days ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Will Humans Become Useless?
    ×0.40 | 2 points by misano 6 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: How did you convince family and friends to join your XMPP/Matrix server?
    ×0.89 49 | 99 points by mtlynch 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Those who have lost their job to AI what was your job?
    ×0.42 | 2 points by dev_grex 8 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Tell HN: Gemini trains on chat history, even for subscribers (personal accounts)
    ×3.15 54 | 734 points by jameslk 5 days ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup?
    ×3.18 57 | 566 points by eggbrain 4 days ago | 696 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Tell HN: A flood of reports of Opus 5.5 being nerfed
    ×2.27 27 | 18 points by b--l 14 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What in the world is taking Ubuntu so long?
    ×1.67 53 | 218 points by linsomniac 2 days ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Is it normal to not write code for a years as software engineer?
    ×0.74 69 | 3 points by khalidahmad 11 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. I am building Threadz. Human first AI writing app
    ×0.59 75 | 3 points by shoebilyas_hanz 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Do you still enjoy coding in C++?
    ×2.65 72 | 38 points by hasley 4 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Claude usage credits purchased after Dec 7 will expire 12 months after purchase
    ×0.69 98 | 17 points by bbg2401 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What are your advice for a CS/IT student for the future?
    ×0.23 91 | 5 points by L0in 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. I turned an ESP32-S3 into a Tailscale gateway with recovery functions
    ×0.50 104 | 8 points by Mattboxx 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. We're bringing back the HN meeting in Mexico City
    ×0.74 94 | 10 points by ysangkok 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: If LLM reverse engineering is deemed illegal, is that precedent for OSS?
    ×0.37 108 | 4 points by apatheticonion 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Is YouTube starting to protect channel RSS feeds?
    ×0.67 102 | 6 points by kradeelav 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Seeking advice: Wix stolen my .com domain
    ×0.67 110 | 13 points by wixcom 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: What tech companies do you think have a good moral compass?
    ×0.76 116 | 6 points by gehwartzen 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: What fun things to do with an iPhone 11?
    ×0.58 117 | 9 points by wanderingpixel 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. HN's HTML has changed slightly
    ×0.53 90 | 3 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 19 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Tell HN: Be Careful with Stripe Connect
    ×1.15 100 | 18 points by breue 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Slickdeals.net Is Compromised
    ×2.02 95 | 22 points by intenex 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. JIT bitmap text rendering for microcontrollers (linebender.org)
    ×0.74 62 #39 | 106 points by dmit 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. IRA Velinsky – Commodore's Industrial Designer (commodore.ca)
    ×0.66 63 | 39 points by erickhill 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: SafeScript, a safe version of JavaScript for executing untrusted code (github.com/SafeScript)
    ×0.62 50 | 12 points by EGreg 16 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Datacenters, Elon Musk, and AI are all on chopping block once Congress changes (theregister.com)
    ×3.61 53 | 6 points by Bender 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair (nvidia.com)
    ×6.53 15 #23 | 785 points by karimf 15 hours ago | 890 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Playing with the STM32MP2 (serd.es)
    ×0.83 51 #40 | 72 points by dverlaeckt80 18 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Nyquist Limit:The frequency of changes in tech is invalidating our understanding (ryanprior.com)
    ×1.12 27 #79 | 76 points by evakhoury 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. New typeface using intricate designs from Shakespeare's First Folio (2023) (itsnicethat.com)
    ×0.59 51 #82 | 50 points by bryanrasmussen 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Walt (Tap-to-Pay for the Rebels) Gets Sued (Gotta Rename) (walt.is)
    ×1.13 26 | 3 points by teekert 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Bulk-harden all your GitHub repos' settings without an API token (github.com/1ch4k)
    ×0.39 | 2 points by 1ch4k 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. 6 Hours of YouTube and 85 handtyped pages of notes on LLM Inference – Start here (github.com/samir-sarwar)
    ×1.88 6 #12 | 45 points by samirswr 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Writing as a thinking tool (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)
    ×2.42 20 #30 | 411 points by jruohonen 1 day ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. The Web Is More Than Enough, by Paul Ford (ftrain.com)
    ×1.32 13 #45 | 141 points by edward 18 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Air holes turn silicon wafers into flat UV focusing mirrors for compact optics (phys.org)
    ×0.82 39 #49 | 54 points by bookofjoe 15 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Content Maxxing (donotresearch.substack.com)
    ×0.81 | 1 points by iamnothere 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Edward Hopper's Iconic Painting, "Nighthawks (lithub.com)
    ×0.99 31 #53 | 94 points by prismatic 19 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. We know 15k websites are infected. how do we tell them? (scotthelme.co.uk)
    ×1.68 63 #69 | 227 points by speckx 2 days ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. What do the next 4000 emoji look like? (jenniferdaniel.substack.com)
    ×1.11 59 #90 | 98 points by lacieargyle 2 days ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Fun things to do with your VM/370 CE machine – Fun with big computers (rbanffy.github.io)
    ×0.80 5 #4 | 62 points by rbanffy 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Declarative Dragging (declarative-dragging.github.io)
    ×3.45 9 #14 | 620 points by smusamashah 21 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. The French Cake Cooked on a Spit (2018) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.47 34 #22 | 18 points by NaOH 5 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: JavaScript web apps with WASM layout and GPU rendering in 280 KB (github.com/rkaehn)
    ×0.54 43 #36 | 36 points by rkaehn 11 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. I'm not a fan of Deno's security model (2024) (goldstein.lol)
    ×0.78 47 #46 | 99 points by maxloh 23 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Spindle – a full-featured, type-safe web framework for OCaml 5 (github.com/hyphatech)
    ×0.76 65 | 62 points by zaiev 4 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. xAI ignoring Grokbot rootkit vulnerability (profero.io)
    ×2.45 50 | 3 points by funerr 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Overhead – the planes overhead, painted on an e-ink frame (github.com/dmellok)
    ×3.37 112 | 13 points by xDaftTurtle 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Rindraw – drawing and animation app for iPad, iPhone and Mac (rindraw.com)
    ×1.43 129 | 5 points by sawirricardo 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. MaxxBench – "Nice DeepSWE score. But is it true?" (unlap.ai)
    ×2.29 42 #50 | 400 points by antiuniverse 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. The end of Microsoft Research's AI Frontiers group (hunch.net)
    ×2.39 11 #76 | 504 points by srean 1 day ago | 309 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: An open source webbluetooth and NFC browser for iOS (github.com/hito-dev)
    ×2.56 107 | 15 points by hito 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. How I Fight AI Brain Fry (sergeykuhne.com)
    ×2.16 #35 | 278 points by kyunez 18 hours ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. A silent agent loop cost me $3k in API bills (agenttrafficcop.com)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by bshafiq 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Cross-device passkey auth on Android 9, synced with Bitwarden (rsnel.github.io)
    ×0.85 | 2 points by riksnel 23 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Is your product AI slop? (slopcalculator.com)
    ×1.85 80 | 4 points by nshelia 19 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Hacker Living – HN's most recommended places (hacker.living)
    ×2.10 123 | 6 points by grandimam 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. How Product Hunt Almost Died (ryanhoover.me)
    ×0.89 | 1 points by tosh 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Malytics – Explore data, build dashboards (malytics.app)
    ×0.68 | 2 points by Malytics 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. When a language's creator and its owners strongly disagree [pdf] (isocpp.org)
    ×1.34 6 #37 | 138 points by acossta 14 hours ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Why I will not be using LLMs in my coding (polso.info)
    ×9.06 5 | 116 points by Risse 1 day ago | 232 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. SHOW HN: GerGit - A Free Open-Source Git GUI Client for Linux Inspired by Fork (github.com/IcaruzSoftware)
    ×1.35 9 | 4 points by IcaruzSoftware 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Need for Speed Underground 2 online in the browser (nfsu2.xyz)
    ×5.26 10 #74 | 1148 points by fluxusars 2 days ago | 285 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Launching the Vite Ecosystem Fund (cloudflare.com)
    ×0.86 | 1 points by torutofu 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Multiplayer 2.5D Shooter (qake.se)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by nergal 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Sortaballs v2 – logical game with 10 modes and over 1000 puzzles (sortaballs.vercel.app)
    ×2.21 19 | 3 points by self_refactor 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Being a meat proxy for AI should be grounds for getting people fired (swiftrocks.com)
    ×5.14 52 | 42 points by rockbruno 7 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Lipwise (getlipwise.com)
    ×0.80 | 2 points by lnenad 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Unclickbait – Replace clickbait YouTube thumbnails (unclickbait.app)
    ×1.30 125 | 15 points by namuorg 4 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: I built a Bible verse feed to replace doomscrolling (scrollhope.com)
    ×3.87 135 | 8 points by jclardy 4 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Next-Concept Modeling: Fast, Parallel Coarse-to-Fine Text Generation (arxiv.org)
    ×1.07 4 #7 | 134 points by theanonymousone 6 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Pgxio – a tiny PostgreSQL layer inside Nginx (github.com/mishabunte)
    ×2.22 57 | 4 points by hito 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. A field guide to CAPTCHA types and how they break (github.com/vsmutok)
    ×0.75 24 | 44 points by vasylsmutok 20 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Glassbrain – Read your agent's brain, know what your agent knows (github.com/voidixyn)
    ×1.77 20 | 4 points by voidixyn 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Nino – Fastest C# serializer, safe on untrusted input, also TS/Go/Rust (github.com/JasonXuDeveloper)
    ×1.20 99 | 3 points by jnx11 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: TubeHaus – an open-source YouTube client with no Google account (github.com/biolend83)
    ×0.89 113 | 21 points by invidiouslove12 4 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Dux: Free, open-source Wayland desktop shell with file manager and theming (duxlabs.dev)
    ×1.66 13 #19 | 311 points by indigodaddy 18 hours ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Statement from Nvidia board of directors (nvidia.com)
    ×6.38 68 #88 | 476 points by vincentchau 17 hours ago | 361 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Hilarity Ensues (malmesbury.substack.com)
    ×1.83 24 | 3 points by broabprobe 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Five memorable books about programming (2008) (dadgum.com)
    ×1.17 37 | 140 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Reges Town – a 3D city run by AI citizens, in the browser (regestown.com)
    ×1.06 114 | 3 points by nonerthy 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Levithas (levithas.app)
    ×0.61 | 2 points by monidp 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Goodbye Claude, hello Pi (caleb.software)
    ×3.62 13 #32 | 782 points by karagenit 1 day ago | 477 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Agent memory needs its OpenTelemetry moment (lorekit.io)
    ×1.30 39 #51 | 185 points by mthines 1 day ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. An agent skill for $80 (not derogatory, it's a good skill) (sefirot.it)
    ×1.39 | 2 points by 0gs 43 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Starship Flight 15 on 11/13 plans to catch both booster and ship (spacex.com)
    ×2.02 25 | 122 points by spikels 18 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???