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  1. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2026)
    ×0.97 16 #16 | 189 points by whoishiring 13 hours ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Does anyone have a contact with Cleveland-area Ham club?
    ×3.14 19 #30 | 117 points by stockresearcher 5 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. WorkOS reports security breach
    ×1.44 11 #31 | 61 points by werrett 5 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?
    ×3.13 #57 | 694 points by LecroJS 1 day ago | 837 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What hardware are you using to run local LLMs?
    ×1.20 30 #90 | 40 points by leafletsigh 14 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Does anyone enjoy work anymore?
    ×2.82 23 | 14 points by jackmalpo 7 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Are Tenstorrent cards better than Nvidia?
    ×0.46 | 2 points by thesnarkitecht 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Tell HN: Scribd Breached
    ×1.60 63 | 357 points by x______________ 3 days ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What to do about incorrectly suspended GitHub account, no notice?
    ×0.50 70 | 4 points by sshah03 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Pepperwind, a fictional company dataset with 223 tables and 79M rows
    ×0.68 83 | 15 points by rasinmuhammed 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Isn't anyone worried about this flood of HackerTube-but-for apps?
    ×0.63 79 | 8 points by jslakro 15 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Heretic 2.0 Released: Training-free language model modification
    ×0.78 89 | 21 points by razster 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Swedish grocery chain refrigerators and freezers hacked overnight
    ×0.82 86 | 9 points by u1hcw9nx 21 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not
    ×0.67 109 | 40 points by stillatit 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. In LLM era, can software startup survive?
    ×1.11 69 | 34 points by sjia 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What's it like working at Google nowadays? Core teams like Search, Ads?
    ×0.72 110 | 47 points by karakoram 3 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Opus 5.5 suddenly dumb as rocks?
    ×0.47 128 | 35 points by jahala 4 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. I indexed 37h of my YouTube library using an RTX 4090 and local ML models in 24h
    ×0.53 113 | 6 points by iliashad 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Is applying to Y Combinator worth it if you aren't an insider?
    ×0.69 127 | 22 points by all2 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What is your backup plan when AI companies rug pull their prices?
    ×0.69 92 | 5 points by an0malous 16 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Which hobby do you think is most diverting and pleasurable?
    ×1.15 111 | 21 points by ikelos 2 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Anyone here still writing code for reasons other than fun or learning?
    ×0.46 116 | 12 points by czhu12 2 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Do you have side-projects that generate >$500 revenue/month?
    ×0.85 126 | 41 points by learner_yearner 4 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: I'd like to request Microsoft open source Windows XP
    ×0.41 132 | 8 points by fosco 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Old experimental website that made photos sing?
    ×0.18 146 | 3 points by jesuisdieu 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Are you using a custom harness?
    ×0.43 140 | 12 points by japhyr 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Tell HN: Claude Code adds your email to the prompt, the LLM sends it to websites
    ×0.75 131 | 35 points by TekMol 4 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Are Knuth's Stanford Pages Down?
    ×0.21 148 | 10 points by weinzierl 4 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Are most of you using HN Replies? Or what else do you use?
    ×0.51 142 | 8 points by Gooblebrai 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. "Wrong" Email
    ×0.86 124 | 26 points by rbmm 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Hack
    ×0.25 143 | 10 points by throwaway3309 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Is the Microsoft buyout just a long overdue correction?
    ×0.44 144 | 6 points by sky2224 2 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Deedglass – An agent said it updated 1 row; Postgres changed 301 (github.com/deedglass)
    ×1.19 91 | 4 points by ajuxarjun 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Multi-Layer ASCII Art (mitpit.com)
    ×2.01 129 | 7 points by MitPitt 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: I built a multiplayer game where you're an aerial fighter cat (catcopter.com)
    ×1.11 103 | 85 points by pawelwentpawel 3 days ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Pando - OpenAI's alternative to Git for source control (twitter.com/OpenAIDevs)
    ×1.31 55 | 3 points by treyhuffine 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Intel stock collapse worsens as $3.5T chip rout spreads (yahoo.com)
    ×3.34 8 #15 | 153 points by entryleveljobsc 5 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Skill to Create Product Videos (github.com/aaitor)
    ×0.79 27 #28 | 80 points by aaitor 10 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: AirFlick Drop – AirDrop for Windows with zero mobile app installs (github.com/k39139215-gif)
    ×0.58 | 2 points by Snapmotion3421 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Fix 1.0 – Ruby tests written as RFC 2119 specifications (fixrb.dev)
    ×0.58 | 2 points by cyrilllllll 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Agentic backdoors via pretraining poisoning (arxiv.org)
    ×1.00 5 #51 | 94 points by gmays 10 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: PyWolf3D, a wolfenstein3D clone written from scratch in Python (github.com/atifcodesalot)
    ×0.68 85 #56 | 18 points by BSPtree 13 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Six Companies Adopt the Accessible Games Initiative Tags (accessiblegames.com)
    ×0.88 | 1 points by rbits 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Share agents and context across devices (smatt989.github.io)
    ×0.90 | 2 points by matthewslotkin 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. U.S. workers took home their smallest share of capital since at least 1947 (fortune.com)
    ×8.37 15 | 345 points by qlte 1 day ago | 212 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. AI delivers 'zero financial payoff' to most companies, Apollo economist says (techcrunch.com)
    ×5.45 16 | 242 points by throwoutway 1 day ago | 252 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Quarter – A TUI launcher to browse, search and launch your games (github.com/stronxyo)
    ×1.44 118 | 5 points by stronxyo 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Aruma – clean-room self-hosted backend for the official Firebase SDKs (github.com/arumadev)
    ×0.92 152 | 3 points by osama200 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. WiCi: Connecting GPUs over WiFi (wici.ai)
    ×0.19 78 #34 | 4 points by shubham0204 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Provenance – A Spec That Evolves with Your Code (github.com/quality-sh)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by xScrubghetti 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Apple's Growth Machine Is Slowing. High Prices Might Not Save It (wsj.com)
    ×1.83 14 | 4 points by fortran77 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Nurses Sound Alarm as 'Uber for Nursing' Apps Push to Deregulate Healthcare (nurse.org)
    ×3.84 37 | 185 points by ravetcofx 1 day ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Sam Altman says DRAM capacity should go to data centers, not personal computers (tomshardware.com)
    ×5.11 76 | 64 points by 0x4e 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. GUI64 – GUI for the Commodore 64 running on top of the built-in ROM (c64-wiki.com)
    ×0.55 58 #36 | 12 points by ethanpil 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Ballot Rejections Have Soared in Rural Counties as USPS Reduces Mail Service (propublica.org)
    ×2.66 16 #58 | 96 points by ck2 10 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Claude Opus 5.5 Can Draw Permit-Level Architectural Drawings (stephenjgallagher.substack.com)
    ×2.42 4 #66 | 89 points by SteveGallag 12 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. New Fast Reactor Runs on Nuclear Waste (engineerine.com)
    ×1.50 4 | 3 points by elcritch 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Claude's new rules against game cloning won't stop the AI copying boom (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.87 6 | 4 points by martincmartin 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Pray for Chaos (geohot.github.io)
    ×6.36 5 | 67 points by smilelamp 15 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: I Turned DOOM into a Transformer (github.com/mottopanikeiku)
    ×0.84 101 | 132 points by falperc 4 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. AI advisors debate your business decision in Claude Code (github.com/nateherkai)
    ×1.05 | 2 points by dotmanish 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. 5th tranche of UAP files released by the Department of War (war.gov)
    ×0.88 | 2 points by mark336 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Anatomy of Automation (eblog.fly.dev)
    ×0.75 | 2 points by Mateo781201 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Overtone – Transcribe, correct and cut captions for any screen shape (github.com/lonthq)
    ×0.55 121 | 45 points by rvanderlinden 4 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Winch – App Store optimization run by your own coding agent (getwinch.app)
    ×1.40 139 | 5 points by ziyasal 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Launch HN: Momentic (YC W24) – Agents that catch bugs by using your app (momentic.ai)
    ×0.66 29 #10 | 135 points by wuweiweiwu 12 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. V100 SXM2 pinout and NVLink reference (github.com/pigeon-labs-stack)
    ×1.01 47 #22 | 25 points by airhangerf15 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Wikihack – HackerTube, but for Wikipedia articles mentioned on HN (wikihack.netlify.app)
    ×2.08 32 | 334 points by aizk 1 day ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: HackerHack – HackerBooks but for Posts Posted on HN
    ×3.55 13 | 181 points by mw888 22 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. So I guess everyone uses LLMs to think now (eva.ac)
    ×4.85 58 | 77 points by xyzeva 1 day ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Modern CSS Quiz (modern-css.com)
    ×1.14 78 | 5 points by symbolhunter 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Oracle files to sell $20B in new stock, bonds to finance AI buildout (cnbc.com)
    ×1.99 35 #54 | 175 points by smartmic 9 hours ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. One of Google's Android partners turned 1.3M set-top boxes into a botnet (theverge.com)
    ×2.06 5 #63 | 18 points by donohoe 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. An Italian farmer found some unknown seeds in his attic and planted them (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×3.57 28 #75 | 863 points by ecares 2 days ago | 232 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Jenesis, Java builds 18% faster, rebuilds up to 88% faster (jenesis.build)
    ×1.48 77 | 5 points by raphw 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Egoless Mathematics in the AI Era (wordpress.com)
    ×1.04 8 #17 | 135 points by smilelamp 10 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. LongCat-2.5: Native Multimodality for Agentic Tasks (longcat.ai)
    ×0.63 29 #46 | 80 points by pretext 14 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. F/OSS Comics #13: BSD Unix, Part 3 – The Beginning of BSD Unix (fosscomics.com)
    ×1.15 27 #74 | 211 points by joonehur 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Cloudflare experiencing multiple active incidents (cloudflarestatus.com)
    ×1.72 | 2 points by jp1016 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. What can an LLM build with only 32 CPU instructions? (github.com/AlwaysFocus)
    ×0.36 | 1 points by alwaysfocus 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Viewpoint: Part-legalisation may eradicate bribery (2012) (bbc.com)
    ×0.82 | 2 points by thunderbong 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. 2010 Pose Idea (2026) (mollysoda.exposed)
    ×0.38 | 1 points by justin-reeves 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Auto Dismiss Mac OS "Allow <app> to find devices on local networks?" (github.com/johncassil)
    ×0.89 99 | 154 points by johncassil 4 days ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Diwali in threejs – find crackers and send wishes into a shared sky (virtualdiwali.com)
    ×2.04 104 | 6 points by abhas9 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Polyend releases the Tracker firmware source code (polyend.com)
    ×1.17 33 #19 | 101 points by austinallegro 11 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. New 3D thermal invisibility cloak makes objects disappear from infrared cameras (sciencedaily.com)
    ×0.74 76 #68 | 111 points by stevenalowe 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Detroit techno pioneer Juan Atkins dead at 64 (synthtopia.com)
    ×0.88 | 2 points by anigbrowl 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Fractran (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.27 18 | 5 points by lisper 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Apple Maps puts all buildings back in Gaza (twitter.com/RabbiJeffx)
    ×9.33 44 | 59 points by newspaper1 8 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. DiscImageStudio: burn visible artwork onto CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs (github.com/JiaFeiMiao-K-Cat)
    ×1.55 3 #3 | 98 points by bpierre 3 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???