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  1. Tell HN: Google Search to start locking down search behind a login wall
    ×1.06 8 #50 | 21 points by exploraz 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: Cloudflare's abuse report form is a blank page
    ×0.98 37 #74 | 10 points by basilikum 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What is the state of self-hosting email in 2026?
    ×0.53 32 #80 | 27 points by 0o777 8 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What are you working on? (November 2026)
    ×1.28 112 | 301 points by david927 5 days ago | 1080 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. U.S. October PPI Rises 6.5% YoY, Highest in Nearly Four Years
    ×2.14 34 | 163 points by moonypto 12 hours ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Advice for those who want to build stuff but don't know where to start
    ×0.34 109 | 3 points by mjs06 9 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Do you see a human written book more valuable than an AI written one?
    ×0.25 105 | 8 points by znano 16 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. ChatGPT Desktop forwards your SSH agent to remote machines
    ×1.29 115 | 220 points by DenGorbachev 4 days ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Google search hides Nvidia stock graph
    ×0.55 100 | 14 points by nedx 21 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Tell HN: Major Microsoft Outlook/Exchange Online/Teams Outage in the Americas
    ×0.27 117 | 13 points by wmchen 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Claude – OAuth request failed Temporarily unable to authenticate
    ×0.22 118 | 4 points by franze 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Claude OAuth Failures
    ×2.66 75 | 27 points by tankenmate 17 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Do you still enjoy coding in C++?
    ×1.03 147 | 62 points by hasley 4 days ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Why use Jev/decision models at all?
    ×0.71 131 | 10 points by niceguy1827 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Claude AI Is Down
    ×2.43 74 | 27 points by cheptsov 17 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What % of HN is now AI-generated?
    ×0.47 132 | 8 points by simonebrunozzi 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Outlook still down for anyone else?
    ×0.34 121 | 6 points by rsoto2 22 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Tell HN: Cast('abc' AS INTEGER) returns 0 in SQLite
    ×0.11 170 | 3 points by prmph 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How did you convince family and friends to join your XMPP/Matrix server?
    ×0.84 153 | 102 points by mtlynch 6 days ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What is holding back robots from being deployed everywhere?
    ×0.38 144 | 7 points by mjs06 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Tell HN: Claude Code Is Down
    ×3.21 66 | 37 points by Andugal 17 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Why Is Nvidia Valuable?
    ×0.21 159 | 3 points by fraserphysics 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. What are your favorite tools?
    ×0.47 162 | 14 points by d675 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. I'm genuinely disappointed in our most visible tech leadership
    ×1.18 135 | 8 points by AnneTrotter 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: How do you market your consumer product
    ×0.48 134 | 9 points by mv4 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Inception's Diffusion LLM API Is Shutting Down
    ×1.12 119 | 14 points by _matthew_ 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: What are you doing now that Claude is down?
    ×1.29 108 | 7 points by orbis-tertius 16 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Any good ways on how to get into kernel dev?
    ×0.29 166 | 8 points by ihms 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: How do you evaluate the skills your AI agents use?
    ×0.70 169 | 25 points by enesalatas 4 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Tell HN: I'm working on original approaches to tag-based file organization
    ×0.09 | 2 points by prmph 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Is lack of human imagination now the bottleneck instead of intelligence?
    ×0.31 168 | 8 points by amichail 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Claude Code's API billing depends on how often the cache expires
    ×0.32 164 | 4 points by MaxBozhenko 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Personal "Tears in the Rain" Moments
    ×0.32 142 | 14 points by HoldOnAMinute 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Is there hope against slop?
    ×0.84 127 | 4 points by yuchi 19 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Every Way to Get 192GB for Local AI (Without a $9,500 Mac) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.01 18 #82 | 5 points by peter_d_sherman 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Writing correct software is hard and math alone won’t help us (2016) (pron.github.io)
    ×1.66 48 | 368 points by AriFordsham 1 day ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Claude Meetings (claude.com)
    ×2.30 43 #65 | 76 points by hmokiguess 4 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Building Always-On Agents (claude.com)
    ×0.81 | 2 points by mfiguiere 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigns after reports of second affair deepened scandal (bbc.co.uk)
    ×2.97 69 | 168 points by cognoboffin 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Kapso – Iterative learning from enterprise data
    ×0.35 90 | 58 points by alireza_msh 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: SPF Macro Debugger (dmarcguard.io)
    ×0.89 114 | 3 points by meysamazad 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Gemini 4 Hydrogen and Orchestrator (antigravity.google)
    ×2.05 8 #89 | 496 points by jonbaer 1 day ago | 161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Nintendo Takes Down Emulators and Firmware in Massive GitHub DMCA Sweep (ign.com)
    ×2.80 39 | 317 points by CharlesW 1 day ago | 260 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Rust 1.100 (github.com/rust-lang)
    ×3.15 33 | 314 points by thesuperbigfrog 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Recalc – Spreadsheet where cells can be Claude Code or Codex terminals (github.com/sshah03)
    ×0.48 156 | 37 points by sshah03 5 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: I created a library for correctly using SQLite in Go programs (github.com/cattlecloud)
    ×1.16 138 | 25 points by sethops1 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Grow any hobby (skills for humans not AI) (grow-bonsai.app)
    ×1.07 149 | 3 points by ag_rin 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Lonewolf 0.3 – A standalone XMPP server written in Rust (github.com/lonewolf-im)
    ×0.96 34 #34 | 132 points by ortuman 12 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Of Course Americans Blamed the Ground Stop on AI (theatlantic.com)
    ×1.57 34 #70 | 3 points by paulpauper 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Ask HN: Microsoft/Azure Outage?
    ×3.22 24 | 402 points by nazgulsenpai 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: DRS-VPT. Localize a photo in a 3D point cloud without an initial pose (github.com/ori-drs)
    ×0.51 130 | 9 points by seasponge 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Found: A protein that drives ageing without unleashing inflammation (nature.com)
    ×1.32 16 #12 | 140 points by gumby 7 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Former Nvidia CEO Huang had a relationship with a second employee, sources say (reuters.com)
    ×2.68 10 #88 | 449 points by jbredeche 1 day ago | 480 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Genie Agents now analyze more data sources to transform your work (databricks.com)
    ×1.44 | 2 points by gmays 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. We Dislike LLM Output, Not Because of Comprehension (ycao.net)
    ×0.81 | 2 points by xiaoyu2006 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Trovemarks – Turn your bookmarks into followable collections (trovemarks.com)
    ×0.85 129 | 3 points by kehers 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Tesla Opens Cybercab Orders to 'Select Customers' at $29,990 Plus $299 per Month (insideevs.com)
    ×2.62 20 #61 | 18 points by iBelieve 2 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Plague, gruel and bad teeth: why do people idealise the olden days? (economist.com)
    ×1.33 41 | 3 points by Anon84 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Hotaisle-Console (hotaisle.xyz)
    ×1.33 91 | 4 points by latchkey 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. A technical vision for the Haskell ecosystem (haskell.org)
    ×1.05 28 #24 | 182 points by cosmic_quanta 12 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Tiny London quant fund emerges as one of the UK's biggest corporate taxpayers (ft.com)
    ×2.20 8 #90 | 5 points by throwaway2037 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Philip Roth and David Remnick Getting Personal (skidmore.edu)
    ×0.77 | 2 points by Caiero 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Neon and Mubit: an agent that cuts its own frontier-model tokens by 73% (neon.com)
    ×0.78 160 | 3 points by aperi 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Howard Lutnick Has Got to Go (nytimes.com)
    ×2.62 4 | 6 points by tedd4u 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. DOGE will make "rapid safety upgrades" to ATC system (2025) (thehill.com)
    ×3.32 19 | 8 points by 12_throw_away 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Service degradation on Microsoft 365 (cloud.microsoft)
    ×5.57 32 | 1162 points by dkpk 1 day ago | 979 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Global Microsoft Outage (cnn.com)
    ×3.22 14 | 285 points by TechTechTech 20 hours ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: RealtimeVAD – trading false positives for 110ms earlier end-of-speech (github.com/KoljaB)
    ×0.41 89 | 31 points by koljab 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Brazil's Caixa insurer breach exposes names and tax IDs of all 7.6M customers (mziq.com)
    ×1.43 13 #58 | 163 points by dvaplima 11 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Microsoft is too big to live (pluralistic.net)
    ×2.12 10 #85 | 36 points by only_in_america 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startups to Buy Its GPUs (techpowerup.com)
    ×2.94 2 #46 | 4 points by speckx 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Big tech is here to let us down (jsweeting.me)
    ×2.31 80 | 204 points by speckx 6 hours ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Vibes Don't Maintain (bybacon.com)
    ×2.02 72 | 111 points by dxs 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Webpage of Hands (lasmanos.app)
    ×0.95 107 | 3 points by willmeyers 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: College Basketball Stats and Predictions (fijimf.com)
    ×1.30 82 | 5 points by JackFr 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Cerulion – ROS 2-compatible robotics runtime with multi-process replay (github.com/cerulion-inc)
    ×0.44 113 | 12 points by lakshays 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: As IrfanView isn't on Linux, I've vibe-coded my own image viewer (github.com/micha42-dot)
    ×1.52 141 | 4 points by manif00ld 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. IceWM (ice-wm.org)
    ×1.67 5 #78 | 356 points by inatreecrown2 22 hours ago | 217 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. The Iron Pentacle (faerywolf.com)
    ×0.97 | 2 points by PaulHoule 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. AI is turning Apple's app review process into a nightmare for synth developers (synthanatomy.com)
    ×1.71 46 | 196 points by anigbrowl 1 day ago | 232 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. GLP-1 Drugs May Work Differently in Women (medpagetoday.com)
    ×2.23 3 #42 | 6 points by paulpauper 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. FAA lifts ground stop at U.S. airports (washingtonpost.com)
    ×1.73 5 #59 | 6 points by lisper 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. PostgreSQL 18.7, 17.12, 16.16, 15.20, 14.25, and 19 RC 2 Released (postgresql.org)
    ×1.83 80 | 108 points by plaur782 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Scientists claim the universe is twice as old as believed (geekspin.co)
    ×1.83 47 | 102 points by mattm 21 hours ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: I recreated Papers Please but you're deciding which YC startups to fund (termsheetplease.com)
    ×1.47 83 | 242 points by bolau 2 days ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Talgent Workbench – Open-source managed agent platform you run yourself (github.com/talgent-work)
    ×1.14 139 | 3 points by jacexh 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Ukraine knocks out 36% of Russia's oil refining capacity in under two weeks (nv.ua)
    ×7.74 7 #10 | 170 points by kaycebasques 1 hour ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Anthropic Launches 'Claude for Manufacturing' (manufacturingdive.com)
    ×0.74 | 2 points by olalonde 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: TreasuryFlow, an overnight bank-vs-books check for small businesses (treasuryflow.ai)
    ×1.63 143 | 4 points by michaelgdwn 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Live map of U.S. flights during tonight's FAA nationwide ground stop (grounds.top)
    ×1.92 16 #11 | 50 points by gvsi 3 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???