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Ask HN: What are you working on? (November 2026)

×1.35 3 #5 | 115 points by david927 4 hours ago | 436 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: A flood of reports of Opus 5.5 being nerfed

×2.81 61 | 7 points by b--l 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How did you convince family and friends to join your XMPP/Matrix server?

×0.90 35 | 97 points by mtlynch 1 day ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Gemini trains on chat history, even for subscribers (personal accounts)

×3.16 48 | 734 points by jameslk 4 days ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What in the world is taking Ubuntu so long?

×1.68 39 | 217 points by linsomniac 2 days ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup?

×3.17 55 | 562 points by eggbrain 4 days ago | 695 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What are your advice for a CS/IT student for the future?

×0.25 69 | 5 points by L0in 14 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenAI seems to be silently re-enabling model training on Codex chats

×2.90 66 | 533 points by user052919 5 days ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
HN's HTML has changed slightly

×0.43 | 2 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Gitbook Breached

×1.12 84 | 165 points by punchmesan 5 days ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude usage credits purchased after Dec 7 will expire 12 months after purchase

×0.73 90 | 17 points by bbg2401 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Don't use Postman, they proxy your info without your permission

×1.53 87 | 111 points by neya 4 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We're bringing back the HN meeting in Mexico City

×0.80 79 | 10 points by ysangkok 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I turned an ESP32-S3 into a Tailscale gateway with recovery functions

×0.54 94 | 8 points by Mattboxx 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: If LLM reverse engineering is deemed illegal, is that precedent for OSS?

×0.41 93 | 4 points by apatheticonion 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Is YouTube starting to protect channel RSS feeds?

×0.74 83 | 6 points by kradeelav 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What tech companies do you think have a good moral compass?

×0.86 106 | 6 points by gehwartzen 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Seeking advice: Wix stolen my .com domain

×0.70 104 | 13 points by wixcom 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What fun things to do with an iPhone 11?

×0.54 109 | 8 points by wanderingpixel 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Be Careful with Stripe Connect

×1.13 91 | 17 points by breue 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Slickdeals.net Is Compromised

×2.13 86 | 22 points by intenex 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude Code sends your email address to websites (github.com/anthropics)

×6.07 3 #87 | 1601 points by motoroco 3 days ago | 532 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Veda: The Agentic Native Hobby OS (github.com/vahmoh)

×0.38 | 1 points by vahmoh25y 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cooperative Vectors and Neural Rendering [pdf] (shawnhargreaves.com)

×0.47 | 1 points by andsoitis 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Game Engine Black Book: Quake (twitter.com/fabynou)

×0.90 | 2 points by myth_drannon 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Gauge – Open-Source CLI to recursively improve your docs (github.com/gauge-sh)

×0.78 99 | 43 points by 0x63_Problems 4 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Reconstruction of Torn Documents (bundesarchiv.de)

×0.80 9 #29 | 91 points by jacquesm 11 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Replacing corporations with openly operated ERP (gradienterp.cloud)

×0.75 | 1 points by mxfactorial 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Industrial History: MWRD – Sanitary District of Chicago Railroad (2016) (industrialscenery.blogspot.com)

×0.99 | 2 points by Lammy 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Notekpr – An open-source, E2EE alternative to Notion and Obsidian (notekpr.md)

×0.46 | 2 points by coolapso 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ads in Popular Apps Give Police a Powerful Tool to Spy on Users (bloomberg.com)

×2.22 18 #36 | 108 points by mgh2 7 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Uranium cubes reveal why the German nuclear project failed (arstechnica.com)

×1.52 46 #37 | 205 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ISponsorBlockTV: SponsorBlock client for all YouTube TV clients (github.com/dmunozv04)

×1.63 39 #41 | 126 points by xnx 21 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Reverse engineering a vintage diode-transistor logic chip (righto.com)

×1.49 7 #67 | 14 points by dverlaeckt80 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What do the next 4000 emoji look like? (jenniferdaniel.substack.com)

×1.15 64 #71 | 97 points by lacieargyle 1 day ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GeoWorks, Microsoft Windows' Upstart '90s Competitor (2016) (atlasobscura.com)

×0.76 55 #73 | 64 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Parse_number() as a SQLite extension: C vs. Rust (simonwillison.net)

×0.60 | 1 points by sshah03 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Superscore Remix – highly accurate character replacements and lip sync (superscore.ai)

×0.55 | 1 points by chicken_little_ 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Velorki - open-source bike navigation that works with just your phone (velorki.com)

×1.43 19 | 3 points by morrk0r 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Stroq – a local audit of what your coding agent did and why (github.com/AGGIB)

×0.73 78 | 93 points by agybay_07 3 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Live songbook for guitarists (kantamigo.com)

×1.26 102 | 4 points by gosen 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I built ivyNote, a local-first Markdown notes app (ivynote.app)

×1.51 111 | 5 points by songtianlun1 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: An online shop where your friends can hurry the courier (dopaminechic.com)

×1.59 97 | 6 points by AmsterErdo 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Search Danish supermarket offers in English (nyneon.net)

×0.76 128 | 3 points by nynsam 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Every Mac comes with an (undocumented) family member classifier (8rank.ai)

×4.45 25 #74 | 844 points by infwhispers 1 day ago | 448 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
UpCodes (YC S17) is hiring SDR's to sell AI compliance software (up.codes)

2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What should we learn now? (blot.im)

×2.10 52 | 37 points by totalperspectiv 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: We made a new theme to increase engagement on our website (zenmemes.com)

×1.54 96 | 5 points by forgotmypw17 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Goldman Sachs is pulling Claude Code from its bankers and traders (thestateofai.com)

×3.73 5 #9 | 588 points by TheWiggles 7 hours ago | 355 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The efficiency trap: why optimising everything can backfire, badly (theguardian.com)

×1.91 13 #65 | 30 points by billybuckwheat 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Multi-Column Different-Speed Scrolling (master.dev)

×0.27 52 #88 | 8 points by ibobev 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nvidia Board to Probe Spying Case After CEO Admits Affair (bloomberg.com)

×3.38 37 | 7 points by kamranjon 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Agents infer Lego mechanisms from sources, then animate them (github.com/anteloc)

×0.64 81 | 31 points by antelocnova 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: AegisKernel – Zero-trust POSIX runtime for AI agents in <0.016ms (adikshatriyag-crypto.github.io)

×0.39 100 | 13 points by adityawebde 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Coldframe, a honeypot that poses as a supermarket fridge controller (github.com/hedgerow-dev)

×1.51 35 #47 | 278 points by hedgerow-dev 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I'm Not Convinced the AI Bubble Exists (matteoraso.github.io)

×1.65 15 | 3 points by matteoraso 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Exody – Native macOS AI Workbench (5-stage loop, 100% BYOK, $0 markup) (exody.ai)

×0.91 | 2 points by timamar 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Apple’s grey list: Words and phrases your iPhone won’t help you spell (theguardian.com)

×3.45 2 #53 | 529 points by user_7832 1 day ago | 354 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A speaker on my desk that plays any MP3 you upload (maclolkev123.workers.dev)

×0.41 | 1 points by bounoune 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude Code's "Don't Ask Again" exposes passwords in 1,122 public GitHub files (apiiro.com)

×3.13 12 #27 | 584 points by shmulc 1 day ago | 396 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Artificial Analysis Decision Index v2 (artificialanalysis.ai)

×0.61 | 1 points by hjun1052 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cruise ship pianist rescued after nine hours treading water miles from shore (theguardian.com)

×2.11 31 | 4 points by mellosouls 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Benchma(r)king: Carpentry with LLMs (emergencemagazine.org)

×0.45 | 1 points by dnw 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: HackerRepos – HackerTube for repos mentioned on HN (hackerrepos.fyi)

×1.08 114 | 10 points by mmvvaa 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
KetchUp – Open-source SketchUp alternative built with Rust and WebGPU (ketchup3d.github.io)

×2.59 1 #1 | 175 points by dcoulmbe 2 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The End of AI Frontiers (hunch.net)

×2.27 34 | 81 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Maple – Run Gemma 4 26B on a 6GB Laptop GPU at 45 TPS (Sub-2-BPW) (amsach.github.io)

×1.37 50 | 4 points by AmSach 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: psi, a 6.4 MB cross-platform portable coding agent in ANSI C & Lua (psicode.ai)

×1.84 45 | 4 points by siraben 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Dux: Free, open-source Wayland desktop shell with file manager and theming (duxlabs.dev)

×1.52 4 #6 | 194 points by indigodaddy 6 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The History of Djgpp (1998) (delorie.com)

×1.20 14 #12 | 43 points by atan2 5 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Clj.rs – a Clojure dialect implemented in Rust (clj.rs)

×1.32 24 #33 | 167 points by simonpure 19 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Silicon Valley Promises AI Will Cure Disease. Drugmaker CEOs Aren't Buying It (wsj.com)

×2.04 47 #64 | 89 points by zzzeek 6 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord just showed why (windowslatest.com)

×3.35 2 #75 | 450 points by thunderbong 1 day ago | 471 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Reges Town – a 3D city run by AI citizens, in the browser (regestown.com)

×1.08 95 | 3 points by nonerthy 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Agentic Identity Broker, OAuth Delegation for AI Agents (github.com/zalando-incubator)

×0.59 88 | 24 points by jbspeakr 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Overhead – the planes overhead, painted on an e-ink frame (github.com/dmellok)

×3.40 105 | 13 points by xDaftTurtle 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: TubeHaus – an open-source YouTube client with no Google account (github.com/biolend83)

×0.89 107 | 21 points by invidiouslove12 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
sshole (sshhole.com)

×10.41 10 #78 | 2977 points by josemrb 3 days ago | 747 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN:Free Web Tools (nyneon.net)

×0.95 13 | 3 points by Munayem 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
RAM-Altman: a bash script that emails Sam Altman about your unused RAM (ram-altman.lol)

×12.45 14 | 45 points by frozenhd 12 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ex-PlayStation boss says "true innovation" would be making a $300 console again (gamesradar.com)

×4.21 40 | 44 points by haunter 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Elo Ratings for Tests, ODIs, and T20Is (outside-edge.github.io)

×0.89 57 | 3 points by neehao 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Email Encryption (computer.rip)

×1.60 1 | 3 points by pierreneter 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I declared war on every country, one at a time. 77 of 133 survived (playgod.earth)

×0.82 103 | 3 points by kyleclouthier 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Tell the Sky – message lanterns drift on winds from live weather data (tellthesky.com)

×1.46 112 | 6 points by andycodeman 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The end of Microsoft Research's AI Frontiers group (hunch.net)

×2.39 1 #52 | 495 points by srean 1 day ago | 305 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I toured Unitree's factory. I'm more bullish on the West (josef.cn)

×1.78 41 | 142 points by josefchen 2 days ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I built a tool that prices a pre-built PC part by part (pcdealcheck.com)

×0.95 82 | 120 points by adlep 4 days ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: UUMit – turn idle machines into model endpoints (uumit.ai)

×0.92 123 | 4 points by rory18439909614 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Should I Grade It? Estimates a Pokémon card's PSA grade from a photo (shouldigradeit.app)

×0.77 129 | 3 points by mjprintz 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???