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  1. OpenAI seems to be silently re-enabling model training on Codex chats
    ×2.58 3 #9 | 160 points by user052919 3 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Gitbook Breached
    ×1.96 3 #15 | 46 points by punchmesan 1 hour ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. How did we end up with Frontier Lab oligopoly rather than a monopoly?
    ×1.25 15 | 3 points by bdhe 35 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Design My YouTube Feed
    ×0.25 54 #78 | 3 points by mrkn1 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Will cheap high-quality AI end this December?
    ×1.24 7 | 4 points by amichail 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2026)
    ×1.04 11 | 236 points by whoishiring 1 day ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?
    ×3.17 17 | 718 points by LecroJS 1 day ago | 858 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Does anyone have a contact with Cleveland-area Ham club?
    ×2.33 5 | 159 points by stockresearcher 17 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. WorkOS reports security breach
    ×1.18 33 | 76 points by werrett 18 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Tell HN: Scribd Breached
    ×1.59 79 | 358 points by x______________ 3 days ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Does anyone enjoy work anymore?
    ×2.16 77 | 20 points by jackmalpo 20 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What to do about incorrectly suspended GitHub account, no notice?
    ×0.47 101 | 5 points by sshah03 21 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Are Tenstorrent cards better than Nvidia?
    ×0.25 | 2 points by thesnarkitecht 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What hardware are you using to run local LLMs?
    ×1.39 74 | 50 points by leafletsigh 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Heretic 2.0 Released: Training-free language model modification
    ×0.77 99 | 22 points by razster 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not
    ×0.65 117 | 40 points by stillatit 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Isn't anyone worried about this flood of HackerTube-but-for apps?
    ×0.69 93 | 10 points by jslakro 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: What's it like working at Google nowadays? Core teams like Search, Ads?
    ×0.71 119 | 47 points by karakoram 4 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Swedish grocery chain refrigerators and freezers hacked overnight
    ×0.72 106 | 9 points by u1hcw9nx 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. In LLM era, can software startup survive?
    ×1.13 87 | 36 points by sjia 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Opus 5.5 suddenly dumb as rocks?
    ×0.48 141 | 36 points by jahala 4 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Pepperwind, a fictional company dataset with 223 tables and 79M rows
    ×0.62 96 | 15 points by rasinmuhammed 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Is applying to Y Combinator worth it if you aren't an insider?
    ×0.67 144 | 22 points by all2 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Which hobby do you think is most diverting and pleasurable?
    ×1.20 121 | 23 points by ikelos 2 days ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Anyone here still writing code for reasons other than fun or learning?
    ×0.45 132 | 12 points by czhu12 2 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. I indexed 37h of my YouTube library using an RTX 4090 and local ML models in 24h
    ×0.46 135 | 6 points by iliashad 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Do you have side-projects that generate >$500 revenue/month?
    ×0.83 140 | 41 points by learner_yearner 4 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: I'd like to request Microsoft open source Windows XP
    ×0.45 148 | 9 points by fosco 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: What is your backup plan when AI companies rug pull their prices?
    ×0.61 111 | 5 points by an0malous 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Tell HN: Claude Code adds your email to the prompt, the LLM sends it to websites
    ×0.74 146 | 35 points by TekMol 5 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Are Knuth's Stanford Pages Down?
    ×0.20 154 | 10 points by weinzierl 4 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Are you using a custom harness?
    ×0.42 151 | 12 points by japhyr 4 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Old experimental website that made photos sing?
    ×0.18 155 | 3 points by jesuisdieu 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Are most of you using HN Replies? Or what else do you use?
    ×0.49 153 | 8 points by Gooblebrai 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. The Nordic Token Tax (klang.ai)
    ×1.11 63 #86 | 18 points by silfverstrom 12 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. AI delivers 'zero financial payoff' to most companies, Apollo economist says (techcrunch.com)
    ×5.28 55 | 245 points by throwoutway 1 day ago | 254 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: A fast, lightweight U.S. midterm election tracker (whoswinningthis.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by willmeyers 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: SIE Serverless – managed inference powered by self-hostable stack (superlinked.com)
    ×2.74 25 | 4 points by supo 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Patrick Stewart taught us what good men do with power (vox.com)
    ×3.99 42 | 462 points by rhaynes 2 days ago | 356 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Intel stock collapse worsens as $3.5T chip rout spreads (yahoo.com)
    ×3.08 21 | 222 points by entryleveljobsc 17 hours ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Bear turns 10, and it still feels like day one (bear.app)
    ×1.81 2 #14 | 43 points by psxuaw 2 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Antimony: CAD Software Evolved from Lisp Machines and Not Drafting Tables (mattkeeter.com)
    ×1.00 12 #17 | 47 points by pmkary 3 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Handles are the better pointers (2018) (floooh.github.io)
    ×0.67 27 #20 | 21 points by vinhnx 3 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN (bearblog.dev)
    ×9.94 22 #65 | 2845 points by karpathy 2 days ago | 632 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. The U.S. Census Bureau and "Super Intelligence" (simonwillison.net)
    ×1.33 49 | 124 points by torutofu 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. AI fan wikis riddled with errors are muddying the waters of games culture (eurogamer.net)
    ×2.15 75 | 101 points by rdmuser 1 day ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: A proof-of-concept formalization of the IRS federal tax forms (github.com/emmilco)
    ×0.82 114 | 84 points by RGS1811 5 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Ballot Rejections Have Soared in Rural Counties as USPS Reduces Mail Service (propublica.org)
    ×2.70 36 | 111 points by ck2 23 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Orca Style Workspaces for Herdr (github.com/choam2426)
    ×1.00 124 | 4 points by choam 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: GhostBase – 25MB terminal database studio for SQLite, Postgres, MySQL (github.com/4yk5)
    ×1.27 143 | 4 points by 4yk5 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Mac at Any Scale (namespace.so)
    ×1.98 4 #3 | 141 points by anner_ 3 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Practice speaking Japanese with real YouTube videos, graded line by line (jivx.com)
    ×1.02 23 #25 | 23 points by momentmaker 3 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Who can publish to your NPM dependencies? (whosthere.dev)
    ×0.78 | 1 points by babdelhadi 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Bruno (usebruno.com)
    ×0.71 | 1 points by tomrod 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Moving our warehouse off DuckDB (posthog.com)
    ×1.20 24 #90 | 182 points by emschwartz 1 day ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: NES Contra (1987) port (ASM –> C and then C –> WebAssembly) (epoyraz.github.io)
    ×0.81 90 | 91 points by tevlon 2 days ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Does your application need local data or faster Postgres? (clickhouse.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by lio_db 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Multi-Layer ASCII Art (mitpit.com)
    ×2.01 147 | 7 points by MitPitt 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Writing seen in PHerc. 306B, for the first time in 2000 years (scrollprize.substack.com)
    ×0.95 14 #13 | 69 points by benbreen 4 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Octomind – open-source AI harness that saves your tokens, static rust (github.com/Muvon)
    ×0.82 12 #34 | 42 points by donk8r 2 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Can the Cloudflare employee that just blocked Route53 Health Checks undo it
    ×2.82 28 | 4 points by ferngodfather 47 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: HackerChurn – which SaaS tools HN wants to cancel (hissingkitty.com)
    ×0.81 4 #22 | 34 points by drewlem 2 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Scaling Git at OpenAI (openai.com)
    ×2.49 1 #66 | 257 points by makeramen 18 hours ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Anthropic's growth just flattened (regenerator1.com)
    ×3.20 13 | 226 points by cdrnsf 19 hours ago | 254 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Universal Tokens – like Universal Paperclips, but tokens (mani.wtf)
    ×1.46 122 | 4 points by msingh_5 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. So I guess everyone uses LLMs to think now (eva.ac)
    ×4.60 80 | 79 points by xyzeva 1 day ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Lights out: the island that goes dark to save young seabirds (theguardian.com)
    ×0.80 | 1 points by giuliomagnifico 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Polyend releases the Tracker firmware source code (polyend.com)
    ×1.17 28 | 150 points by austinallegro 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: How Enigma worked and was cracked, explained with moving figures (readfp.com)
    ×1.62 120 | 5 points by shaikhmubin 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. 433MHz TUI scanner: using a FT232H connected to a CC1101 (jacq.cc)
    ×0.58 47 #50 | 29 points by xx__yy 8 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. The SEC Should Block Anthropic's IPO to Protect the Public (techpolicy.press)
    ×3.29 33 #88 | 387 points by cdrnsf 19 hours ago | 305 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Auditioning Engineering: Software Engineering Interviews in the Age of AI (wmg.com)
    ×0.77 | 1 points by wmg 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Ramen Profitable, a browser game about bootstrapping a SaaS (ramenprofitable.dev)
    ×0.89 | 2 points by pierquinto 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Open a 300k-row XLSX in the browser in ~300ms, no server (github.com/p10node)
    ×5.87 65 | 17 points by pierreneter 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. V100 SXM2 pinout and NVLink reference (github.com/pigeon-labs-stack)
    ×0.72 71 #74 | 46 points by airhangerf15 19 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Mathematics has changed. Let's act like it (wordpress.com)
    ×2.30 48 | 388 points by smilelamp 1 day ago | 500 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Lasm – Write formally verified webapps in Lean for Node/serverless/edge (github.com/Millillion)
    ×0.69 134 | 38 points by lastmjs 4 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Optical Circuit Switch Technology Built on Low-Loss Silicon Photonics Platform (psiquantum.com)
    ×0.52 65 #45 | 35 points by gmays 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Tmux-restore saves tmux windows and agent sessions across reboots (github.com/andrewboldi)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by boldi 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. China's First Frontier AI Export Controls: Mofcom Announcement No. 48 (cloudsecurityalliance.org)
    ×1.48 52 | 158 points by jonnybgood 1 day ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: My Mac wouldn't switch to my USB-C earbuds, so I made an app that does (github.com/ishanray)
    ×0.86 126 | 3 points by ishanr 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Killing what can't be handled – putting a spaghetti demon to eternal rest (themaister.net)
    ×0.53 27 #30 | 27 points by ibobev 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Faro, an unofficial Signal client for the terminal (getfaro.dev)
    ×1.00 136 | 3 points by harababurel 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: A landing page that shows every psychological trick it uses on you (kickstartsidehustle.com)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by Limehit 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: AgentTrafficCop – Stop AI agents from looping and burning money (agenttrafficcop.com)
    ×1.68 118 | 4 points by bshafiq 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Hacker Times, a New York Times-inspired version of Hacker News (hackertimes.ca)
    ×2.31 12 #51 | 438 points by polpenn 16 hours ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Itch.io adding Generative AI disclosure filtering to few more places on the site (bsky.app)
    ×1.51 14 #87 | 18 points by HelloUsername 6 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Bones may release proteins that slow aging and extend life span (science.org)
    ×1.88 39 | 332 points by EA-3167 1 day ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen (rikiyat.github.io)
    ×10.38 42 #57 | 2903 points by dbreunig 23 hours ago | 875 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Auto Dismiss Mac OS "Allow <app> to find devices on local networks?" (github.com/johncassil)
    ×0.89 100 | 154 points by johncassil 4 days ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???