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  1. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)
    ×1.14 23 #10 | 205 points by whoishiring 19 hours ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026)
    ×0.93 27 #31 | 110 points by whoishiring 19 hours ago | 362 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What are you reading?
    ×2.38 14 | 454 points by dan-bailey 2 days ago | 869 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Email leaked while traveling abroad?
    ×1.04 35 | 17 points by thatonehack 16 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What are you reading to your kids?
    ×0.55 99 | 14 points by jopizio 2 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Rpi – a Rust rewrite of the Pi agent, 10× faster startup
    ×0.36 72 | 8 points by bigfishhk 22 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Muse.ai gets me kicked off fb marketplace
    ×0.87 76 | 30 points by zcalvin 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. 40 years of writing code. I didn't see the end coming
    ×2.40 47 | 18 points by temilson 20 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What landmarks/lighthouses in the era of LLM/AI?
    ×0.25 106 | 3 points by throw_away_ai 22 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. OpenAI halved the allowance of the $200 plan to 10x
    ×2.17 64 | 18 points by k9294 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What's a good title for a software engineer now?
    ×0.52 107 | 5 points by type4 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Tell HN: Thanks for All the Fish
    ×1.32 88 | 15 points by neilv 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Factory AI vs. Cognition (Devin) board tussle
    ×0.33 122 | 3 points by pranshuchittora 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2026)
    ×1.26 74 | 6 points by jon_north 19 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How do you get your first users for an MVP?
    ×0.34 118 | 16 points by amina124 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How will the AI endgame play out?
    ×1.04 102 | 14 points by jackgavigan 2 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What are people doing with their OpenClaw set ups now?
    ×0.47 124 | 19 points by will10pa 4 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: OpenSEO inspiration for other tools, asking for opinion
    ×0.17 132 | 4 points by yash_salesup 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Google now ships "ads" with their Android system update?
    ×0.32 119 | 10 points by y42 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Stanislaw Lem quote related to LLMs
    ×1.68 95 | 8 points by daly 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Griffin: The First Human Interaction Model (tavus.io)
    ×1.17 28 #87 | 12 points by smusamashah 12 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Your folder structure has two jobs, but only does one (sterlingfreeman.net)
    ×1.58 32 #89 | 14 points by alwaysDrafting 14 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Show HN: Gatekeeper – Persuade a 34MB Jev-like model to let you into the castle (dopp.sh)
    ×1.28 125 | 3 points by mazlix 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Turbo Haskell (comonad.com)
    ×2.00 2 #16 | 101 points by pjmlp 9 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. 2026 International Utility Locate Rodeo (locaterodeo.net)
    ×0.64 34 #48 | 24 points by K7PJP 11 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Doing a Machine Learning PhD While Working in Japan (tokyodev.com)
    ×1.23 15 #85 | 142 points by pwim 2 days ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Gutsy, a 0.8B Jev-compatible decision model that runs on your CPU (github.com/kouhxp)
    ×2.70 66 | 8 points by mrkn1 18 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Court Agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN Law Demands a Technical Impossibility (eff.org)
    ×1.26 2 #80 | 3 points by mdp2021 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. I built a 3D planet for agents (terrabots.ai)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by mrjuchara 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Denying Insulin and Meds: Disturbing Pictures of Neglect in ICE Mortality Report (prospect.org)
    ×5.18 34 | 91 points by paimapi 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Jevstiller – Distill Jev into a local model, with a disagreement bound (jevstiller.pages.dev)
    ×0.70 82 | 66 points by tgluck 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: The Kio Programming Language (jdevuyst.github.io)
    ×1.27 92 | 5 points by jdevuyst 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Mingbird – an agent harness that makes a 2B model finish real tasks (github.com/Mingbird)
    ×1.94 113 | 5 points by Gustor 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Kronumos-Neurosymbolic code repair with a 5µs Rust Sub-Cortex (zenodo.org)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by automaticallyfl 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. 56k.rip – the 1996 dial-up internet experience (56k.rip)
    ×2.30 16 | 265 points by adunk 1 day ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Webdesk – a Linux desktop in the browser over SSH (github.com/rmegi)
    ×1.05 | 2 points by rmegi 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Neocognitron (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.90 | 1 points by password54321 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. French Secondary Schools Burn (irishtimes.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by flanked-evergl 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Happy 30th Birthday to Squeak! (squeak.org)
    ×1.92 19 | 3 points by pjmlp 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. The last time my family was replaced by technology (darcemont.fr)
    ×2.10 4 | 328 points by megalomanu 1 day ago | 629 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. SlutCon (thenewcritic.com)
    ×7.92 48 | 119 points by ekluger 17 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Identity Management for Agentic AI [pdf] (2025) (openid.net)
    ×0.65 25 #51 | 70 points by cgeier 19 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Suits Are Better Tech Than Modern Clothes (devz.cl)
    ×2.09 17 #79 | 84 points by orphereus 1 day ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Agent-Chrome – Claude Code browses in Chrome without stealing focus (github.com/rav4nn)
    ×1.62 | 2 points by rav4nn 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Vectorless, Reasoning-Based RAG (github.com/VectifyAI)
    ×3.83 91 | 7 points by nvmdbljstm 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. DeepSeek Harness Desktop for macOS and Windows (deepseek.com)
    ×2.72 5 #7 | 240 points by Kuyawa 7 hours ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Effect 4.0 (effect.website)
    ×1.96 17 #40 | 70 points by stevefan1999 15 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. OpenAI has a LOT of work to do if they think Luna can compete with Jev (anth.us)
    ×1.21 45 #47 | 17 points by AnthusAI 11 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. GPT-6 Astra Robot Agents with 14% Higher Success Rate but 65% Fewer Tokens (dagroup-pku.github.io)
    ×1.51 | 2 points by ilreb 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. EDG C++ front-end goes public (edgcpp.org)
    ×1.44 7 | 246 points by iandinwoodie 1 day ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. CSS Bed: Classless CSS themes to use as starting points in web development (cssbed.com)
    ×1.26 8 #18 | 112 points by sea-gold 13 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Oxygen-deprived underwater zones may not be “dead zones” but clue to early life (wiley.com)
    ×0.91 16 #24 | 103 points by gumby 15 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. VCs are funding a concert business as a hedge against AI (businessinsider.com)
    ×2.27 50 | 3 points by ilreb 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Ferry – Sync your coding agent setup to remote Linux boxes (dlhck.github.io)
    ×0.70 | 2 points by dlhck 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Perspica – A semantic diff for reviewing code (github.com/sshah03)
    ×0.99 89 | 14 points by sshah03 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Giving Opus 5.5 a simulated paint canvas (stillwet.art)
    ×1.91 30 #50 | 18 points by alstonite 9 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Graphene – Data analysis toolkit for your coding agent (github.com/graphene-data)
    ×1.13 79 | 3 points by kcmarr 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Datastory, Data storytelling with AI and an open knowledge graph (datastory.tech)
    ×2.96 110 | 6 points by DanielLapidus 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: 9.8M product opinions collected from Reddit / HN, on 48,837 products (trustmebro.reviews)
    ×0.94 | 1 points by davidzweig 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Go++, an Aspiring Go Superset (github.com/telgatech)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by u89012 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Tell HN: OVH price increase for dedicated servers
    ×0.55 | 1 points by esher 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Mac-Homeserver (github.com/Hitachi513)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by suenhitachi 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Made a digital wall for AI Agents to "tag" (tomasmed.dev)
    ×0.40 | 2 points by tomasmed 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Kyno – Direction as a first-class primitive for AI agents (cizambra.github.io)
    ×1.59 117 | 4 points by cizambra 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Launch HN: Magnitude (YC S25) – Self-optimizing inference engine for agents (github.com/magnitudedev)
    ×0.92 41 #53 | 193 points by anerli 1 day ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. ZKapi (twitter.com/ethereumfndn)
    ×0.77 | 1 points by sethx 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: LaunchPact – Get support for your Product Hunt launch (launchpact.io)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by launchpact_io 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. 10-year Treasury yield climbs above 5.3% to a level not seen in 24 years (wsj.com)
    ×7.55 4 | 120 points by kaycebasques 1 day ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Free alternative to graphics design giants (scissor.studio)
    ×1.44 77 | 144 points by sia_xi 4 days ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. To grieve, or not to grieve? (wordpress.com)
    ×1.71 9 #27 | 77 points by stabbles 9 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Zammad zero-days for RCE and root (CVE-2026-102489/102490) (divd.nl)
    ×0.88 | 1 points by joshcsimmons 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Explore Manticore Data with OpenSearch Dashboards (manticoresearch.com)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by GloVin 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Premortem – AI agents that red-team your startup idea (premortem.site)
    ×0.85 50 | 8 points by ahoskins 13 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: TurboGPT: train 22KiB transformer in 13s (github.com/lostmsu)
    ×0.77 78 | 56 points by lostmsu 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. AI training of copyrighted material not fair use: Third Circuit (courthousenews.com)
    ×3.10 23 #78 | 8 points by reasonableklout 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. CHOMPI portable sampler instrument is now open-source (hardware and software) (chompiclub.com)
    ×0.83 37 #83 | 104 points by lashkari 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Before pixels: Modular industrial dashboards (aresluna.org)
    ×2.05 12 | 291 points by leephillips 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. ParadeDB Search Performance Improvements (paradedb.com)
    ×1.03 3 #74 | 63 points by craigkerstiens 17 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Upgrade your desktop: Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS is now available (ubuntu.com)
    ×3.95 51 | 80 points by d99kris 1 day ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: DragomanD – local language translator for Linux (l10n-bg.dev)
    ×1.96 101 | 8 points by eniac111 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. StreetComplete on iOS is now in public beta (github.com/streetcomplete)
    ×2.41 3 #12 | 567 points by Snowly 23 hours ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Burning Man death rates – A short lesson in statistics (ihavenapkinthoughts.substack.com)
    ×1.35 17 #84 | 175 points by viraj_shah 3 days ago | 234 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: D-Engine – deterministic LLM code edits, 42× fewer tokens than an agent (github.com/corruchaga)
    ×0.45 | 2 points by sergiocorruchag 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Claude and the Un-Man (onhumansandagents.com)
    ×1.43 | 2 points by mikemangialardi 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. SpaceX describes surgical intervention before launch of latest crew mission (arstechnica.com)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by rbanffy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Accelerate Frontier Model Inference (fractile.ai)
    ×1.95 | 2 points by ronfriedhaber 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Hops Run: beat Semif (open Jev) and Kumo (Nvidia) in a procedural game (hopsworks.ai)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by LexSiga 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Parrot – Open-Source Smart Meeting Recorder with Co-Pilot on Mac (openparrot.app)
    ×1.45 69 | 36 points by turantekin 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Returning from vacation? The government can search your phone without a warrant (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.94 32 #56 | 372 points by rbanffy 23 hours ago | 345 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. The GPU Black Market That Washington Can't Shut Down (amcompute.com)
    ×1.41 30 #67 | 29 points by ilreb 16 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???