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  1. Ask HN: What are you working on? (November 2026)
    ×1.33 52 | 293 points by david927 2 days ago | 1039 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. What are your favorite tools?
    ×0.43 30 | 8 points by d675 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. ChatGPT Desktop forwards your SSH agent to remote machines
    ×1.38 51 | 216 points by DenGorbachev 2 days ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. How do you keep up quality when you vibe-code?
    ×0.74 42 | 31 points by nkcodes 17 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How do you manage your AI agents' context across clients and projects?
    ×1.44 72 | 98 points by Michel_Aventin 4 days ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Do you still enjoy coding in C++?
    ×1.22 76 | 58 points by hasley 2 days ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Superwall (iOS Paywall Provider) Hacked – customers asked to rotate keys
    ×0.19 | 2 points by epsteingpt 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How did you convince family and friends to join your XMPP/Matrix server?
    ×0.86 89 | 100 points by mtlynch 3 days ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How do you evaluate the skills your AI agents use?
    ×0.73 91 | 22 points by enesalatas 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What in the world is taking Ubuntu so long?
    ×1.63 84 | 219 points by linsomniac 4 days ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Tell HN: Another GitHub Major Outage
    ×0.41 92 | 16 points by sergiotapia 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Is misaligned AI less dangerous than AI controlled by a bad actor
    ×0.10 | 2 points by InfiniteRand 20 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Tell HN: Notion AI chat sessions have been exposed via Fireworks AI hack
    ×0.86 78 | 16 points by RamblingCTO 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. CoderPad Reports a Security Breach
    ×0.41 113 | 6 points by werrett 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Tell HN: A flood of reports of Opus 5.5 being nerfed
    ×2.29 98 | 30 points by b--l 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Anyone else notice Fable 5.2 making grammar errors?
    ×0.32 102 | 5 points by linearza 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. uBlock Origin Can't Block Facebook Ads
    ×1.42 108 | 12 points by anidsiam 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Are companies making money by using AI?
    ×0.92 114 | 6 points by vanh4lt 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What should a stranger know first about your unfinished project?
    ×0.75 126 | 5 points by toddy_flogsit 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Is Google Site Search Broken?
    ×0.30 | 2 points by CM30 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Tell HN: Some of My Recent Ideas
    ×0.15 | 2 points by onaclov2000 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Remote island can only have 1 PC, 1 book, 1 programming language
    ×0.38 140 | 3 points by kbrannigan 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Fable 5.2 Available in Claude Desktop
    ×0.36 143 | 3 points by calgaryeng 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Share your best blog/videos on learning about LLMs in depth
    ×0.41 145 | 3 points by mrburton 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Do you have daily voice conversations with AI?
    ×0.46 146 | 3 points by rtp4me 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. P2P inference using WebGPU libp2p and IPFS
    ×0.58 147 | 3 points by gnarbarian 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Claude usage credits purchased after Dec 7 will expire 12 months after purchase
    ×0.65 142 | 18 points by bbg2401 4 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: How your SEO traffic doing? Up or down?
    ×0.41 144 | 4 points by bigmuzzy 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Will Humans Become Useless?
    ×0.56 139 | 5 points by misano 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: What are your advice for a CS/IT student for the future?
    ×0.25 148 | 6 points by L0in 3 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: How do you keep secrets out of your AI agents' context?
    ×0.35 | 2 points by timbowhite 23 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Those who have lost their job to AI what was your job?
    ×0.23 | 2 points by dev_grex 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Businesses in ChatGPT – OpenAI (openai.com)
    ×1.48 32 #90 | 37 points by smokeeaasd 18 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Would your home survive World War Three? (inspectorwalls.com)
    ×2.41 27 | 3 points by pelagicAustral 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: We wanted to build an AI application, not maintain RAG pipelines (akropolys.cloud)
    ×1.15 111 | 3 points by kareu 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. A ZIP-style Prolog VM for trilog (github.com/no382001)
    ×0.56 27 #28 | 18 points by triska 6 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Zellij 0.46: built-in terminal, attention inbox, session previews (zellij.dev)
    ×0.71 | 1 points by worble 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Agent Buddies – Swappable animated characters for AI agents (izr8809.github.io)
    ×0.79 | 1 points by izr8809 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Model Desk – A local-first multi-provider AI workspaceShared via URL-sharer (mrthp.github.io)
    ×0.77 | 1 points by misterthp 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Muse Ember: Our smallest, most efficient model (meta.ai)
    ×1.73 17 | 330 points by dvaplima 1 day ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Coldframe, a honeypot that poses as a supermarket fridge controller (github.com/hedgerow-dev)
    ×1.48 69 | 288 points by hedgerow-dev 3 days ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Agent-email-guard – agent tried to send 400 receipts, stopped at 5 (github.com/agentisend)
    ×1.67 129 | 5 points by Iammnhamza 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. A Compendium of Abandoned Greenhouses (messynessychic.com)
    ×1.04 5 #21 | 51 points by ohjeez 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Ghanaian street games you can play in the browser (ghanastreetgames.com)
    ×1.00 38 #72 | 111 points by samuelaidoo45 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Cloud Projects sessions run at low reasoning effort while effort_level is "high" (github.com/anthropics)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by mocko 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Research taste in history: the importance of learning Babylonian math (resobscura.substack.com)
    ×0.72 43 #52 | 32 points by benbreen 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: PDFMeasure – Measure PDF files in the browser (pdfmeasure.com)
    ×1.04 82 | 3 points by fra 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Movement breaks that only show up while Claude Code is working (github.com/mamrezme)
    ×1.43 79 | 4 points by imohammadreza 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Gauge, a 900 KB macOS menu bar app for what's using your RAM and disk (github.com/thisisvaze)
    ×0.80 | 2 points by thisisvaze 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Crayon, the web's first personalized newspaper (1995), relaunched (crayon.net)
    ×1.52 63 | 4 points by mayyah42 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Queens Public Library under ransomware attack (queenslibrary.org)
    ×1.20 32 #46 | 201 points by rustyhancock 1 day ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. User Mode Linux by Jeff Dike [pdf] (pearsoncmg.com)
    ×1.52 | 2 points by gurjeet 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Three Thousand Years of Life (blue-continuum.com)
    ×1.51 | 2 points by dnetesn 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: A 15 MB self-hosted Netflix and Spotify for your media server (github.com/HolyArrs)
    ×2.21 16 | 166 points by CoderLuii 1 day ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Tinfoil (YC P25) is hiring an applied AI security engineer in San Francisco
    19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Try Gleam (nchagnet.eu)
    ×1.33 58 | 142 points by nchagnet 2 days ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Maple – Sub-2-BPW Moe Pruning to Run Gemma 4 26B at 45 TPS on a 6GB GPU (github.com/AmSach)
    ×0.83 127 | 21 points by AmSach 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. PNG Files can be animated (vidbuchanan.co.uk)
    ×2.04 3 | 3 points by theanonymousone 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Real-time prompt-based stream editing for AR at 1080p, 46 FPS and 87 ms latency (drsandor.net)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by chris_sandor 23 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: LLM weight editing tool made by a 15-year-old (github.com/Miyamoto-Renya)
    ×1.06 135 | 14 points by 032renya 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. A Writing Skill for Agents (github.com/JangHyun-bin)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by narnia0981 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: I checked 66 AI tools' privacy policies for AI training (getpolicypeek.com)
    ×1.03 107 | 3 points by inkllm 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Foldable Flight: The Best Paper Airplanes (foldableflight.com)
    ×4.51 11 #40 | 1224 points by vismit2000 2 days ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. State of the tech job market: late 2026 (lennysnewsletter.com)
    ×0.91 | 1 points by davedx 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Semi-transparent, colored cadmium telluride photovoltaic panels in agrivoltaics (anthropocenemagazine.org)
    ×1.68 22 | 351 points by speckx 1 day ago | 261 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: WolveKafka – Consume Kafka with a plain HTTP endpoint (github.com/wolveflake)
    ×0.57 66 | 11 points by piscesdk 18 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: We compressed a 31B video+audio diffusion model to 14B, 6 steps, INT8 (github.com/Video-Rebirth)
    ×1.10 93 | 83 points by jiant 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: BasalFit – Recipes/meal planning/Tracking. Works Claude-ChatGPT via MCP (basalfit.com)
    ×1.80 95 | 4 points by veeragoni 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. AI Users have workdays up to 90 min longer than non-users (activtrak.com)
    ×2.47 54 #75 | 57 points by gosen 23 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Fable 5.2 made a fun Claude castaway clone (zachy.dev)
    ×1.58 132 | 4 points by nzach 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Ways You Can Help Linux Grow (Even If You Don't Know Coding) (itsfoss.com)
    ×1.87 | 2 points by mrkn1 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. TPU 8tx and TPU 8i Max (blog.google)
    ×2.02 21 | 257 points by _benx_ 1 day ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Aq – an attention queue TUI for Claude Code (github.com/nodo-labs-uk)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by orbis-tertius 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Neurons in a dish are the newest computing machines (science.org)
    ×1.40 | 2 points by pseudolus 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Zeus – Claude Code for AI voice agents (thunderphone.com)
    ×0.44 | 2 points by kolchinski 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: CeeSafe – Rust-style ownership for kernels, compiled to C11 (ceesafe.github.io)
    ×1.25 99 | 3 points by vkuttyp 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Totpvault - a universal desktop app for your TOTPs (github.com/spapas)
    ×1.49 100 | 3 points by spapas82 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Every Job in the Observability Space (o11y.jobs)
    ×3.05 112 | 8 points by ScarZy 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Pinot Noir: inside the criminal gangs making fake wine (economist.com)
    ×1.16 20 #42 | 65 points by axiomdata316 13 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Ms. Bashkansky, Please Do Not Build the Torment Nexus (jyn.dev)
    ×0.79 | 1 points by Klaster_1 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: DBDelve – Open-Source DB Client Made with Rust and GPUI
    ×0.90 56 | 122 points by shayan_abbas 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Caramel: a speech-to-speech conversation model trained only on audio (naklecha.com)
    ×1.58 64 | 4 points by naklecha 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: QueenMQ – slow LLM calls blocked our Kafka partitions, so we built it (github.com/queen-mq)
    ×1.01 116 | 3 points by aliceviola 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Camwall – all your camera feeds on one screen, no black bars (github.com/vinodhalaharvi)
    ×0.77 | 2 points by vinodhalaharvi 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Starlink Mini 2 (starlink.com)
    ×3.32 2 #14 | 438 points by robertjfclarke 17 hours ago | 466 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. 11.11 11/11, don't make a wish (fuckeleveneleven.com)
    ×1.51 | 2 points by tonimolins 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. LDSBot, an AI LDS Chatbot (exponentii.org)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by nephihaha 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. RAM-Altman reports unused RAM on your machine, one email a day (github.com/IainKay)
    ×1.72 65 | 84 points by bobsoap 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Cosh – An open-source AI agent orchestrator (github.com/DiegoZaluski)
    ×1.06 86 | 8 points by Zaluski 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: A linear model is an embedding table: using VW as transformer memory (liminalplanes.com)
    ×0.53 | 2 points by maxpagels 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???