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  1. Tell HN: I'm working on practical implementations of tag-based file organization
    ×0.23 | 2 points by prmph 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Claude Code's API billing depends on how often the cache expires
    ×0.50 | 2 points by MaxBozhenko 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What is holding back robots from being deployed everywhere?
    ×0.25 16 | 3 points by mjs06 2 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What are you working on? (November 2026)
    ×1.29 83 | 297 points by david927 3 days ago | 1060 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. ChatGPT Desktop forwards your SSH agent to remote machines
    ×1.33 84 | 219 points by DenGorbachev 3 days ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Do you still enjoy coding in C++?
    ×1.11 105 | 60 points by hasley 3 days ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Personal "Tears in the Rain" Moments
    ×0.33 79 | 12 points by HoldOnAMinute 17 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Any good ways on how to get into kernel dev?
    ×0.29 95 | 7 points by ihms 23 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What do your technical interviews look like today? (Nov 2026)
    ×0.26 85 | 6 points by Heap4112 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Is lack of human imagination now the bottleneck instead of intelligence?
    ×0.36 97 | 8 points by amichail 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Do 9/10 new AI SaaS websites seem like they should be an editor command to you?
    ×0.25 112 | 4 points by Kevin_Flynn 21 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. How do you keep up quality when you vibe-code?
    ×0.79 92 | 37 points by nkcodes 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. What are your favorite tools?
    ×0.49 100 | 13 points by d675 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: "No AI" apps/companies/resources?
    ×0.45 104 | 7 points by BrunoBernardino 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How did you convince family and friends to join your XMPP/Matrix server?
    ×0.86 117 | 102 points by mtlynch 4 days ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Did anybody used F# in a production?
    ×0.33 110 | 4 points by vad_n__ 21 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Software engineer with broken arm, any tips?
    ×0.32 96 | 6 points by spapas82 21 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How do you evaluate the skills your AI agents use?
    ×0.69 131 | 23 points by enesalatas 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Anybody using their own AI harness as well?
    ×0.58 113 | 5 points by madprops 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Tell HN: Another GitHub Major Outage
    ×0.41 138 | 17 points by sergiotapia 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Tell HN: A flood of reports of Opus 5.5 being nerfed
    ×2.05 133 | 31 points by b--l 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Why does Reddit want me to use the iOS app on my desktop?
    ×1.46 102 | 9 points by corroclaro 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. CoderPad Reports a Security Breach
    ×0.55 149 | 9 points by werrett 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. uBlock Origin Can't Block Facebook Ads
    ×1.24 150 | 13 points by anidsiam 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Superwall (iOS Paywall Provider) Hacked – customers asked to rotate keys
    ×0.32 152 | 4 points by epsteingpt 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Tell HN: Notion AI chat sessions have been exposed via Fireworks AI hack
    ×0.88 119 | 18 points by RamblingCTO 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Is misaligned AI less dangerous than AI controlled by a bad actor
    ×0.09 | 2 points by InfiniteRand 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Does codex, Claude $20 subscription just seem unworkable now?
    ×0.81 114 | 4 points by sharemywin 22 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Anyone else notice Fable 5.2 making grammar errors?
    ×0.28 153 | 5 points by linearza 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. To deter bioterrorism, U.S. imposes new rules on ordering synthetic DNA (science.org)
    ×1.46 49 | 156 points by Metacelsus 1 day ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Rusty Valve – Chemical plant valve benchmark where ACT scores 0/36 (github.com/rusty-valve)
    ×0.63 | 2 points by CrystalDai 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. A lawyer used AI to write a report, but billed full time. What should I do?
    ×1.97 49 | 3 points by isolli 15 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. AI Security Issues Are Social Engineering Issues (oblomovka.com)
    ×1.00 | 2 points by dannyobrien 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. New Super Magnets Turbocharge the Large Hadron Collider (ieee.org)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by rbanffy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Tracking Anthropic-discovered vulnerabilities (vulncheck.com)
    ×2.53 9 | 456 points by panic 1 day ago | 218 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. A general purpose Apple Silicon layer for x86-64 PCs (github.com/tylertms)
    ×1.10 30 #36 | 126 points by iceboundrock 16 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Lean Grimoire (wordpress.com)
    ×0.77 47 #44 | 53 points by smilelamp 12 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Advanced AI models could infer the activity of the brain (elpais.com)
    ×1.01 | 2 points by geox 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Labs Suck (buttondown.com)
    ×0.93 | 2 points by speckx 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Coldframe, a honeypot that poses as a supermarket fridge controller (github.com/hedgerow-dev)
    ×1.48 93 | 289 points by hedgerow-dev 4 days ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Rebuilding Amazon SES in Rust (github.com/nitrosend)
    ×1.51 108 | 4 points by auscaster 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Talking Zen 6 with Mike Clark at AMD In-Depth (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×0.93 5 #3 | 26 points by dverlaeckt80 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Hyper-realistic sand with WebGL2 (av.github.io)
    ×2.30 21 #33 | 424 points by everlier 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. I gave an agent a lakehouse and control of my garden (jatorre.github.io)
    ×1.82 24 #56 | 121 points by jatorre 9 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Optimizing Reference Deletions in Git (nayak.im)
    ×0.51 67 #74 | 35 points by nayak 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Play GTA5 on Browser (playgta5.com)
    ×3.43 7 | 87 points by ndkap 18 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Saltline: First-person shooter built by Fable 5.2 (claude.ai)
    ×2.19 80 | 71 points by dr00tb 1 day ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. AI, activity, and outcomes in software engineering (cabird.com)
    ×1.48 33 #71 | 123 points by azhenley 22 hours ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Agent-roast – Catches coding agents that weaken tests to get CI green (github.com/Nari-Ab)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by Nari_Ab 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. One MacBook Pro Beat Apple's Four Mac Studios at WWDC26 LoRA Fine-Tuning (nuketorch.ai)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by klay_moon 17 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Wikipedia: Musical scores are temporarily disabled due to a security issue (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.49 20 | 3 points by isolli 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. GitHub Incident with Webhooks, Actions, etc. (githubstatus.com)
    ×1.52 12 | 81 points by jbredeche 18 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Y Recombinator – The HN threads HN keeps recommending (yrecombinator.org)
    ×2.85 118 | 14 points by nightjar 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. How to make a CNC plasma cutter with high-frequency start (incoherency.co.uk)
    ×0.70 58 #53 | 44 points by edward 14 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. The iOS Crash We Could Not Reproduce – InfoQ (infoq.com)
    ×0.95 | 1 points by rbanffy 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. What a week of Claude Code holds: the usage meter, per token type (atlas-ade.dev)
    ×2.13 41 | 4 points by meekoAMH 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. AWS Emulator and the engineer's job when agents write the code (allthingsdistributed.com)
    ×1.48 8 | 111 points by drbm 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. The Learjet Repo Man (2009) (salon.com)
    ×0.55 56 #63 | 42 points by HR01 15 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Why I wrote the BEAM book (2025) (happihacking.com)
    ×1.74 47 #79 | 198 points by zenincognito 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Inp-Analyser – MIT CLI That Diagnoses Interaction to Next Paint (franzai.com)
    ×0.89 | 2 points by franze 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Next-Level Benchmarking Overfitting – Thomas Neumann (databasearchitects.blogspot.com)
    ×0.66 57 | 64 points by artrax 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Can a Linear Program Do Weight-Space Programming? (nathan.rs)
    ×1.47 39 #42 | 289 points by emschwartz 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: ScarScript – A statically typed language built in Go (github.com/ScarfazeCompany)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by aimabaig 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. LLMs Play Zachtronics' TIS-100 (wincon.dev)
    ×1.16 70 | 91 points by fairestvalue 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Cancer vaccine for Yash, he's diagnosed with stage IV pancreatic cancer (github.com/popvax)
    ×3.35 19 | 84 points by AsDivyansh 20 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. The death knell of digital search (newyorker.com)
    ×1.01 81 | 86 points by bookofjoe 2 days ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Lite Under 5GB: 65 TPS 100% In-VRAM on 6GB GPU (huggingface.co)
    ×2.03 68 | 7 points by AmSach 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Foldable Flight: The Best Paper Airplanes (foldableflight.com)
    ×4.58 45 #69 | 1258 points by vismit2000 3 days ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: NestDaddy, an independent search API with its own crawler and index (nestdaddy.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by nestdaddy 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Proof of the Riemann Hypothesis in Lean (github.com/startigerjln)
    ×2.54 56 | 4 points by chasingbrains 22 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: WolveKafka – Consume Kafka with a plain HTTP endpoint (github.com/wolveflake)
    ×0.57 120 | 11 points by piscesdk 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Airgap-check – find what your AI app silently downloads offline (github.com/humanethq)
    ×0.94 151 | 11 points by humanethq 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Datatomcp – AI agents propose business definitions, a person approves (datatomcp.com)
    ×1.20 19 | 3 points by Killian1603 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: SilentStars – Lesser-known open-source projects still being built (silentstars.dev)
    ×0.99 106 | 3 points by fcapuz2 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Episteme AI – Self-healing roadmaps with paywall and dead-link checks (github.com/SreeNaresh1)
    ×0.41 | 2 points by SreeNaresh1 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigns after reports of second affair deepened scandal (bbc.co.uk)
    ×3.11 5 #8 | 119 points by cognoboffin 1 hour ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. The Computer Graphics Book of Knowledge (cmu.edu)
    ×0.93 58 #73 | 78 points by num42 23 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. The AI Question (kangminsuk.com)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by speckx 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Turri – a coding agent with the power of regenerative software (github.com/turri-oss)
    ×1.64 62 | 5 points by ponoru 31 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Valencia, Spain in Sim City/Isometric View (tinyvalencia.com)
    ×1.65 53 | 248 points by leugim 2 days ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Jane Street: Socratic Tutor (github.com/janestreet)
    ×3.02 #9 | 477 points by tosh 9 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Jensen's (Nvidia) Adventure (wheresyoured.at)
    ×1.68 24 #72 | 16 points by vitorfblima 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Did it use REA? Checking viral AI reverse-engineering demos (github.com/AIshihzong)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by AIshihzong 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. 20 Years of Pyrolog (pypy.org)
    ×1.49 18 | 3 points by lumpa 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Faraway – Physically accurate solar system, time travel 1900–2100 (faraway.space)
    ×2.60 116 | 5 points by qianyiyu 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigns after reports of extramarital relationships (nbcnews.com)
    ×2.19 14 #19 | 46 points by sonabinu 1 hour ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: We compressed a 31B video+audio diffusion model to 14B, 6 steps, INT8 (github.com/Video-Rebirth)
    ×1.12 121 | 84 points by jiant 4 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: I built the MTV my 13yo self wish existed (moodplaylist.com)
    ×0.98 | 2 points by 01jonny01 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Kazakhstan-linked hackers used AI agent to spy on Central Asian governments (therecord.media)
    ×0.86 | 2 points by waximabbax 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Aq – an attention queue TUI for Claude Code (github.com/nodo-labs-uk)
    ×2.94 86 | 19 points by orbis-tertius 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???