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  1. Ask HN: What are the most useful, concrete AI skills to independently learn?
    ×1.52 5 #27 | 21 points by shnock 3 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: Google Search to start locking down search behind a login wall
    ×0.85 3 #85 | 34 points by exploraz 10 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What is the state of self-hosting email in 2026?
    ×0.61 28 | 34 points by 0o777 15 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tell HN: Cloudflare's abuse report form is a blank page
    ×0.88 35 | 16 points by basilikum 11 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What use are the non-major cryptocurrencies?
    ×0.61 70 | 3 points by otohp 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What are you working on? (November 2026)
    ×1.28 96 | 301 points by david927 5 days ago | 1081 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. ChatGPT Desktop forwards your SSH agent to remote machines
    ×1.29 99 | 220 points by DenGorbachev 5 days ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. U.S. October PPI Rises 6.5% YoY, Highest in Nearly Four Years
    ×2.14 27 | 167 points by moonypto 19 hours ago | 215 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Advice for those who want to build stuff but don't know where to start
    ×0.56 93 | 5 points by mjs06 16 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Do you see a human written book more valuable than an AI written one?
    ×0.24 97 | 8 points by znano 23 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Do you still enjoy coding in C++?
    ×1.04 128 | 63 points by hasley 5 days ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Tell HN: Major Microsoft Outlook/Exchange Online/Teams Outage in the Americas
    ×0.27 109 | 13 points by wmchen 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Google search hides Nvidia stock graph
    ×0.53 91 | 14 points by nedx 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Claude – OAuth request failed Temporarily unable to authenticate
    ×0.21 118 | 4 points by franze 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Claude OAuth Failures
    ×2.60 69 | 28 points by tankenmate 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Why use Jev/decision models at all?
    ×0.68 119 | 10 points by niceguy1827 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What % of HN is now AI-generated?
    ×0.45 121 | 8 points by simonebrunozzi 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How did you convince family and friends to join your XMPP/Matrix server?
    ×0.84 133 | 102 points by mtlynch 6 days ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Claude AI Is Down
    ×2.42 68 | 28 points by cheptsov 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Outlook still down for anyone else?
    ×0.39 114 | 7 points by rsoto2 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Tell HN: Cast('abc' AS INTEGER) returns 0 in SQLite
    ×0.11 153 | 3 points by prmph 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: What is holding back robots from being deployed everywhere?
    ×0.37 134 | 7 points by mjs06 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. What are your favorite tools?
    ×0.49 143 | 15 points by d675 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Why Is Nvidia Valuable?
    ×0.20 147 | 3 points by fraserphysics 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: How do you evaluate the skills your AI agents use?
    ×0.70 150 | 25 points by enesalatas 4 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Tell HN: Claude Code Is Down
    ×3.11 58 | 37 points by Andugal 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Any good ways on how to get into kernel dev?
    ×0.29 151 | 8 points by ihms 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. I'm genuinely disappointed in our most visible tech leadership
    ×1.11 126 | 8 points by AnneTrotter 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: How do you market your consumer product
    ×0.47 124 | 9 points by mv4 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Is lack of human imagination now the bottleneck instead of intelligence?
    ×0.31 152 | 8 points by amichail 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Inception's Diffusion LLM API Is Shutting Down
    ×1.10 111 | 14 points by _matthew_ 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Neon and Mubit: an agent that cuts its own frontier-model tokens by 73% (neon.com)
    ×0.78 148 | 3 points by aperi 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. How Not to Build a Music Player (alichraghi.github.io)
    ×1.56 21 #15 | 112 points by vinhnx 11 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Lonewolf 0.3 – A standalone XMPP server written in Rust (github.com/lonewolf-im)
    ×0.96 38 #30 | 142 points by ortuman 19 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. The Tyranny of Format over Content (medium.com)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by Aldus551 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Australia's First Computer Conference (pearcey.org.au)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by Skyfall106 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Anthropic IPO (anthropic.com)
    ×4.36 26 | 996 points by josephljohnston 1 day ago | 908 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Ghanaian street games you can play in the browser (ghanastreetgames.com)
    ×1.03 101 | 116 points by samuelaidoo45 5 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Litek8s – Kubernetes API in one Rust binary, 23 MiB idle (litek8s.dev)
    ×3.66 136 | 10 points by jairofdez 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Reverse engineering my Coway air purifier to ditch the cloud (scottjg.com)
    ×3.03 11 #26 | 751 points by scottjg 20 hours ago | 213 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Sift: LSP, Lint, Format Lisp, Scheme and Emacs Lisp (github.com/jjba23)
    ×0.69 56 #89 | 83 points by jjba23 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Shine Bright for Voyager's Light‑Day (nasa.gov)
    ×0.77 | 1 points by thunderbong 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Stop Hardcoding Your Timeouts (alfy.blog)
    ×1.62 | 2 points by birdculture 20 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: College Basketball Stats and Predictions (fijimf.com)
    ×1.27 86 | 5 points by JackFr 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Harness Tuner – eval-driven tuning loop for agent tools, prompts, model (github.com/Kiln-AI)
    ×1.66 100 | 5 points by scosman 19 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Webpage of Hands (lasmanos.app)
    ×0.90 106 | 3 points by willmeyers 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Jensen Huang Ouster at Nvidia:Bigger Governance and Coming Financial Train Wreck (nakedcapitalism.com)
    ×1.58 2 | 3 points by hackandthink 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Tidy Tabs – A new take on managing tabs (tidytabs.dev)
    ×0.96 | 2 points by ydna404 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. After 26 years, the US has lost its measles elimination status (cnn.com)
    ×2.82 1 | 6 points by madihaa 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Data centers need power – lower income, rural residents pay the price (cornell.edu)
    ×2.94 33 | 200 points by PaulHoule 1 day ago | 231 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. No AI Slop: A Manifesto (slopmanifesto.com)
    ×3.78 61 | 197 points by bankombinator 14 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Valencia, Spain in Sim City/Isometric View (tinyvalencia.com)
    ×1.70 83 | 257 points by leugim 3 days ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: RemoteKu – Desktop Roku remote and live ECP keyboard deck for Mac/PC (github.com/KevinOBytes)
    ×0.28 98 #67 | 4 points by KevinBytes 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Audio Transcription in Browser with WebGPU (tanpreet.xyz)
    ×0.78 | 1 points by tanpreetjolly 13 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Inquestra – Local-first lab notebook with native Web Serial DAQ (inquestra.org)
    ×2.35 29 | 5 points by ImKaleb 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Jensen Huang resigns as Nvidia CEO immediately (reuters.com)
    ×4.68 16 | 375 points by ksec 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Why the Airbus A321XLR Often Gets Stuck Climbing for First Few Hours of Flight (simpleflying.com)
    ×3.53 59 | 5 points by edward 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. A Magical Universe (frappe.io)
    ×0.83 | 2 points by rushabh 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Why Zig over C for Systems Programming (mtsoukalos.eu)
    ×1.67 34 | 217 points by torutofu 20 hours ago | 221 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. EU Digital Identity Wallet rollout: every EU state on one board (myid.ie)
    ×2.02 18 | 122 points by mooreds 19 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Perplexity Decider v1.3: Training, eval, and use cases (perplexity.ai)
    ×0.94 33 #18 | 131 points by gmays 14 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (huggingface.co)
    ×2.09 8 #80 | 24 points by nthypes 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Language for API calls, load tests and MCP server (stampdrill.com)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by sia_xi 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. AI is destroying the trust between writers and readers (theatlantic.com)
    ×3.36 8 #57 | 341 points by FinnLobsien 22 hours ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Turning a 22-year-old Postgres type-confusion primitive into RCE (mehmetince.net)
    ×1.23 30 | 230 points by ozirus 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. ShieldFont – Protect human muffins by poisoning unauthorized AI starfish (shieldfont.org)
    ×0.82 | 2 points by negura 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Build a PC in 3D in the Browser (buildcores.com)
    ×0.60 82 | 61 points by ozaiworld 5 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Open-Source Version of Cyclon: Phone where AI is the interface? (opencyclone.vercel.app)
    ×0.92 56 #75 | 7 points by Exorust 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Every Flight Is Grounded on Day Trump Admin Installed AI Controls (thedailybeast.com)
    ×1.86 24 | 4 points by madihaa 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Godbolt-in-a-floating-window for Neovim (C, C++, Rust) (github.com/0xdeadf1sh)
    ×0.85 87 | 104 points by 0xdeadf1sh 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Skill Recorder: Desktop app that records your on-screen work session (github.com/microsoft)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by taubek 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. WhatsTask – An AI project manager for teams of people and agents (whatstask.com)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by hajara_sabnam 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Running web sites makes me not want to (lowkey.party)
    ×1.58 64 | 108 points by speckx 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Autonomous (YC F25) is hiring MTS to build AI agents that manage your wealth (atg.science)
    13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Former Nvidia CEO Huang had a relationship with a second employee, sources say (reuters.com)
    ×2.68 9 #71 | 454 points by jbredeche 1 day ago | 483 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Switcher (2004) (folklore.org)
    ×0.88 37 #79 | 148 points by sammatilda 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Businesses suffering a loss from Microsoft outage could make insurance claim (rnz.co.nz)
    ×0.38 47 | 3 points by billybuckwheat 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. British salmon loses its organic status (theguardian.com)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by rdmuser 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Borland C++ 2.0 Compiler Source Reconstructed (hackaday.com)
    ×1.73 12 | 5 points by fork-bomber 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Coldframe, a honeypot that poses as a supermarket fridge controller (github.com/hedgerow-dev)
    ×1.48 105 | 289 points by hedgerow-dev 6 days ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. AI is turning Apple's app review process into a nightmare for synth developers (synthanatomy.com)
    ×1.72 31 | 197 points by anigbrowl 1 day ago | 232 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: NETWAR – hacker MMO with 15-second card duels on a shared hex map (play-netwar.com)
    ×0.46 71 | 7 points by Fivekoto 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: I created a library for correctly using SQLite in Go programs (github.com/cattlecloud)
    ×1.21 123 | 26 points by sethops1 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Telltale Bot, detecting agentic web traffic (telltale.bot)
    ×0.71 149 | 3 points by jhpacker 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Elephants found to be increasingly isolated leading to fractured social networks (ucsd.edu)
    ×1.72 9 #20 | 135 points by gmays 8 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. I Built a $300 Robot Hand With 18 Motors [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.52 #83 | 9 points by olalonde 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Voice-first app onboarding experiment (UI, Pros, Cost) (coffeeandtoken.com)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by briodf 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Free Dictionary API – Wiktionary data, no API key required (suvankar.cc)
    ×1.47 20 | 4 points by suvankar_m 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: AI-drop project – drop traffic fast from misbehaving crawlers (AGPL) (rocketgit.com)
    ×0.55 | 2 points by catab 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Apify Security Incident (apify.com)
    ×0.94 24 #52 | 95 points by cynicalpeace 17 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???