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  1. Ask HN: Is it worth reading The Art of Computer Programming now?
    ×1.20 | 2 points by weavie 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: Don't use Postman, they proxy your info without your permission
    ×1.82 15 #37 | 30 points by neya 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Impact of US Elections on AI?
    ×2.55 45 | 4 points by talmr 44 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: How to Keep the Edge as an Engineer?
    ×1.97 27 | 3 points by spacebuffer 45 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. OpenAI seems to be silently re-enabling model training on Codex chats
    ×3.02 17 #45 | 475 points by user052919 18 hours ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Gitbook Breached
    ×1.23 7 #55 | 154 points by punchmesan 16 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?
    ×3.18 39 | 727 points by LecroJS 2 days ago | 873 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2026)
    ×1.07 43 | 244 points by whoishiring 1 day ago | 230 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Does anyone have a contact with Cleveland-area Ham club?
    ×2.23 42 | 163 points by stockresearcher 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. WorkOS reports security breach
    ×1.14 78 | 77 points by werrett 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Tell HN: You now need a government id in order to create an Anthropic account
    ×1.97 68 | 17 points by I_am_tiberius 14 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What is the best non mainstream programming language or stack in 2026?
    ×0.61 95 | 3 points by kbrannigan 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Design My YouTube Feed
    ×0.23 120 | 4 points by mrkn1 17 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Tell HN: Scribd Breached
    ×1.59 98 | 359 points by x______________ 4 days ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What is Google Flights' business model and has it changed recently?
    ×1.53 91 | 6 points by lastofthemojito 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Google reCAPTCHA on archive.is asking to scan a QR with a mobile device
    ×0.78 101 | 4 points by linuxhdr 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Will cheap high-quality AI end this December?
    ×0.80 113 | 5 points by amichail 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Getting hit with "Prove you are a human" at every other website
    ×3.03 9 | 81 points by shmde 14 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. How did we end up with Frontier Lab oligopoly rather than a monopoly?
    ×0.44 122 | 3 points by bdhe 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Can the Cloudflare employee that just blocked Route53 Health Checks undo it
    ×2.25 100 | 7 points by ferngodfather 15 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Does anyone enjoy work anymore?
    ×2.26 109 | 25 points by jackmalpo 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: What to do about incorrectly suspended GitHub account, no notice?
    ×0.57 135 | 7 points by sshah03 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not
    ×0.64 141 | 40 points by stillatit 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Are Tenstorrent cards better than Nvidia?
    ×0.20 | 2 points by thesnarkitecht 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Heretic 2.0 Released: Training-free language model modification
    ×0.73 134 | 22 points by razster 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: What hardware are you using to run local LLMs?
    ×1.34 99 | 50 points by leafletsigh 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: What's it like working at Google nowadays? Core teams like Search, Ads?
    ×0.71 140 | 48 points by karakoram 4 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Opus 5.5 suddenly dumb as rocks?
    ×0.47 159 | 36 points by jahala 5 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Is applying to Y Combinator worth it if you aren't an insider?
    ×0.65 161 | 22 points by all2 4 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Swedish grocery chain refrigerators and freezers hacked overnight
    ×0.74 138 | 10 points by u1hcw9nx 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. In LLM era, can software startup survive?
    ×1.13 121 | 37 points by sjia 2 days ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Do you have side-projects that generate >$500 revenue/month?
    ×0.82 154 | 41 points by learner_yearner 5 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Which hobby do you think is most diverting and pleasurable?
    ×1.15 144 | 23 points by ikelos 3 days ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Pepperwind, a fictional company dataset with 223 tables and 79M rows
    ×0.64 133 | 16 points by rasinmuhammed 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Anyone here still writing code for reasons other than fun or learning?
    ×0.43 157 | 12 points by czhu12 3 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: To Honor Sir Patrick Stewart, Enjoy the TNG Episode Guessing Game (episodle.com)
    ×1.29 110 | 244 points by francisofascii 4 days ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Rustable is an open source database client built in Rust (rustable.app)
    ×1.19 96 | 27 points by JaTochNietDan 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: HackerZon – HackerTube but for Amazon products mentioned on HN (hackerzon.pages.dev)
    ×1.16 164 | 3 points by kiliancgn 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. The lost malloc() (nekoweb.org)
    ×1.25 1 #6 | 20 points by matt_d 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. European RISC-V Industrial Computing Initiative (erici.eu)
    ×1.37 63 #51 | 199 points by ymz5 1 day ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. We halved DNS build delay and cut memory use by 85% (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.20 64 #83 | 195 points by wondersky 1 day ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ultra-processed food and multiple sclerosis: Evidence, pitfalls and perspectives (sagepub.com)
    ×1.34 | 2 points by nkjoep 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: A privacy-first career toolkit (PDF manipulation runs in Browser/WASM) (onestoplinkedin.com)
    ×1.92 26 | 3 points by saurav7__ 47 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Fossilised red blood cells found in 115M-year-old dinosaur's bone (theguardian.com)
    ×3.08 49 | 5 points by fortran77 58 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. You'll need nerves of steel to work with AI agents (orchidfiles.com)
    ×3.56 54 | 6 points by theorchid 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Jobox CTO is in the news for fraud again (twitter.com/MissionTG)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by workiz 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. What Stable Rust Stands On (kivooeo.github.io)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by vinhnx 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. The SEC Should Block Anthropic's IPO to Protect the Public (techpolicy.press)
    ×3.30 5 | 398 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 317 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Dryplate – Image tools that run in the browser, no upload (dryplate.dev)
    ×1.18 48 | 3 points by tsvillain 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Graftfork: rebase fork patches onto each upstream release, test-gated (graftfork.com)
    ×0.89 117 | 3 points by craigm26 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Japan's Jimi 'Mundane' Halloween Costumes of 2026 (spoon-tamago.com)
    ×1.57 24 #14 | 186 points by zdw 13 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Toit v2.0.0 (toit.io)
    ×1.41 65 #36 | 226 points by floitsch 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: BBRouter – Ben Eater's 8-bit computer, simulated on 3D breadboards (bbrouter.com)
    ×0.71 125 | 58 points by creack 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: NES Contra (1987) port (ASM –> C and then C –> WebAssembly) (epoyraz.github.io)
    ×0.81 118 | 91 points by tevlon 3 days ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. $20M in Fines and Vizio Smart TVs Opt Out of Spying Option Does Nothing (pcper.com)
    ×2.45 16 #77 | 57 points by speckx 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Over 500k words in a single DeepSeek thread (openaire.eu)
    ×1.13 | 2 points by pinuslongaeva 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Better Together – AI agents team up against spam calls and texts (better-together.fun)
    ×0.68 160 | 6 points by adamontherun 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Arvre – A TUI for Claude Code sessions' forks (github.com/victorcarrico)
    ×0.94 149 | 4 points by vcarrico 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: The DNA of DOOM – How code structure survives across 44 ports (squid-protocol.github.io)
    ×1.01 152 | 4 points by joe-esquibel 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Katamari Damacy but it's The Met collection (vaguespac.es)
    ×1.01 67 #43 | 148 points by thebigship 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Re.press (re-press.org)
    ×1.63 38 | 3 points by gone35 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: 3D pixel-art basketball game – no deps, no build step (vladsez.github.io)
    ×1.25 153 | 4 points by vldszn 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Europe's Power Prices Surge as Dunkelflaute Cuts Wind and Solar Output (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.60 | 2 points by mpweiher 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Saving the Social Web (oliverbenns.substack.com)
    ×2.77 12 | 5 points by oliverbenns 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: I built a little browser game to practice Vim commands (duy.run)
    ×0.96 71 | 68 points by dh1011 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Recto: A desktop app where you can design with AI, edit with your mouse (recto.design)
    ×1.93 93 | 7 points by maroofkhan2007 13 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Wrapped – your neighborhood's year in complaints (311wrapped.com)
    ×0.54 | 2 points by eltokh7 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Are Biological Networks Poised at Criticality? (cornell.edu)
    ×1.74 3 | 3 points by Eridanus2 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. It is pathetic that there is no news about the midterms on the front page
    ×7.56 69 | 12 points by wafawfawfwaf 1 hour ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Supermarket freezers in Belgium and Sweden hit by suspected cyber-attack (bbc.com)
    ×2.61 87 | 108 points by xqcgrek2 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Rigorix, Execution governance for AI agents, open-source engine (rigorix.eu)
    ×1.50 124 | 4 points by arman-w-jalili 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Postgres 19 is late because so many more bugs are being found now (rhaas.blogspot.com)
    ×3.64 31 #85 | 845 points by soheilpro 2 days ago | 512 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Jobless tech workers are being left out of San Francisco's AI boom (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.65 58 | 188 points by mancerayder 1 day ago | 256 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Postman silently auto-installs AI plugins and attempts to share all API data (github.com/postmanlabs)
    ×5.96 14 #17 | 1251 points by sidgarimella 15 hours ago | 414 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Practice speaking Japanese with real YouTube videos, graded line by line (jivx.com)
    ×1.02 70 #35 | 96 points by momentmaker 18 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books mentioned on HN (hackerbooks.org)
    ×6.49 5 #75 | 1843 points by roansh 2 days ago | 304 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. In-browser code screenshot beautifier with zero server uploads (rashid-salimov96.workers.dev)
    ×1.72 | 2 points by badrasr 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. SpecPilot: Autonomous Algorithm Discovery and Systems Optimization for SpecDec (arxiv.org)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by matt_d 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Speedwidget – macOS widget how fast and how stable internet is (github.com/franzenzenhofer)
    ×0.72 | 2 points by franze 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: A landing page that shows every psychological trick it uses on you (kickstartsidehustle.com)
    ×0.88 | 2 points by Limehit 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: HN Atlas – Discover tools to better engage with Hacker News (bensontech.dev)
    ×0.71 158 | 3 points by informal007 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Could a modern chess engine on a Pentium have defeated Kasparov in 1996? (carlini.com)
    ×2.88 6 #54 | 467 points by markusw 1 day ago | 230 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN (bearblog.dev)
    ×9.99 33 #62 | 2863 points by karpathy 3 days ago | 634 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Valve Steam: Updates to the Pre-Release Review Process (steampowered.com)
    ×1.98 2 #64 | 7 points by HelloUsername 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Compilers for Machine Learning (Spring 2027) (10-411.com)
    ×1.64 6 | 3 points by HiPHInch 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Steam tables (IAPWS-IF97) in zero-dependency JavaScript (github.com/davidmashiah)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by davidmashiah 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Handball Logos – Collection of logos of handball clubs (handball-logos.com)
    ×1.08 77 | 3 points by yaman071 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Deedglass – An agent said it updated 1 row; Postgres changed 301 (github.com/deedglass)
    ×1.15 156 | 4 points by ajuxarjun 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. DiscImageStudio: burn visible artwork onto CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs (github.com/JiaFeiMiao-K-Cat)
    ×1.85 20 #69 | 349 points by bpierre 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Setforge – free lifting tracker; Apple Watch counts your reps (apple.com)
    ×1.72 | 2 points by yashsinghal0316 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???