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  1. Tell HN: Bob Cringely has died
    ×3.66 11 #77 | 934 points by paveworld 2 days ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026)
    ×0.69 88 | 133 points by whoishiring 4 days ago | 561 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)
    ×1.12 74 | 269 points by whoishiring 4 days ago | 324 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Orcah Studio: A local-first video agent that can search your videos
    ×0.26 72 | 5 points by iliashad 15 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: Uceprotect is extorting website owners
    ×1.75 6 | 100 points by goldenmember 22 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Our digital privacy is being aggressively disbanded this week
    ×1.05 62 | 9 points by Steaglsz 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What are you reading to your kids?
    ×0.42 135 | 19 points by jopizio 6 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. DOS Game Stunts Port to Linux,Windows,Browser,etc.
    ×0.16 121 | 3 points by LowLevelMahn 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Tell HN: OVH price increase for dedicated servers
    ×0.52 129 | 11 points by esher 4 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Muse.ai gets me kicked off fb marketplace
    ×0.68 118 | 32 points by zcalvin 5 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Pico CSS is no longer maintained (final release v2.1.1)
    ×0.47 110 | 6 points by anydigital 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Chamath says open AI models are "commoditize your complement." Agree?
    ×0.22 131 | 6 points by Dinuda 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. What did Google do to its Linux terminal on Pixel phones
    ×0.30 138 | 5 points by Steaglsz 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Rpi – a Rust rewrite of the Pi agent, 10× faster startup
    ×0.27 141 | 9 points by bigfishhk 4 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Demystifying Tufte's data-ink ratio (scienceux.org)
    ×0.83 52 #86 | 75 points by s4074433 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Scientists Might Have Found a New Cause of High Blood Pressure (sciencealert.com)
    ×0.90 | 1 points by PaulHoule 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. The first fully implanted cochlear implant reaches patients (ieee.org)
    ×1.08 74 #31 | 95 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2026 (nobelprize.org)
    ×1.64 1 | 135 points by Anon84 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Borland Turbo Basic (dosdays.co.uk)
    ×1.44 8 | 105 points by sssilver 20 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Incentives in Academic Research (msoos.org)
    ×0.87 63 | 61 points by zero_k 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend (dbushell.com)
    ×2.04 10 #5 | 190 points by ibobev 12 hours ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. A 40ms Go garbage collector pause caused by swap (frn.sh)
    ×1.64 66 #57 | 113 points by shellpipe 1 day ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Show HN: Making an MIT hacker replicant for a PDP-1 (github.com/obsolescence)
    ×0.96 | 1 points by ozymandiax 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Mitch Hedberg would be confused with the current state of the internet (yorba.co)
    ×0.76 | 1 points by cbystrom 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Patch-diffing VMware vCenter to auth bypass and RCE (mobeta.fr)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by n_plus_1_acc 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Open Source as We Know It Is Dead (jross.me)
    ×5.39 78 | 87 points by vinhnx 7 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: EtherPK – an Obsidian and Logseq alternative with prose and blocks (github.com/appsoftwareltd)
    ×1.91 85 | 5 points by gb2d_hn 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Open Grind – An unofficial open-source Grindr client (opengrind.org)
    ×0.96 119 | 3 points by hloth 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Octop, a self-hosted AI assistant by Tencent (github.com/TencentCloud)
    ×0.89 | 1 points by tomislavpet 9 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. FIA to investigate software bug after Bahrain GP in Malaysia (reuters.com)
    ×0.83 | 1 points by jonnybgood 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. India Cut 130M from Voter Roll, Fueling Protests Against Modi (nytimes.com)
    ×1.53 | 2 points by hckrme 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Plain text is still one of the best technologies we have (deadparrotbbs.com)
    ×2.97 62 | 194 points by speckx 16 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: DevBoard – a simpler ClickUp for small dev teams, native apps and MCP (getdevboard.app)
    ×1.02 84 | 5 points by darkobacic 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Find the flattest route between any two points in SF (flattensf.com)
    ×1.44 11 #3 | 218 points by ishan0102 13 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: jpm – a JavaScript package manager in Rust, every line by Claude Code (getjpm.sh)
    ×1.67 115 | 6 points by jtwebman 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. The Future of Mathematics (wordpress.com)
    ×1.78 5 #55 | 114 points by smilelamp 16 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Decision models like Jev don't beat LLM-as-a-judge or traditional classifiers (redhat.com)
    ×1.91 25 #81 | 158 points by tomncooper 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Pixel 11 doesn't yet meet the GrapheneOS security standards and may be skipped (grapheneos.org)
    ×2.69 57 #82 | 419 points by finnlab 22 hours ago | 296 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Tolkien Book Covers Gallery (bookloaf.net)
    ×1.46 | 2 points by Eridanus2 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Timeline of the Far Future (dmitrybrant.com)
    ×1.56 106 | 18 points by dmitrybrant 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Offrun – manage every coding agent from one workspace (offrun.dev)
    ×1.09 79 | 78 points by arunbhatia 3 days ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Qualcomm licenses patents on Huawei’s LogicFolding chip tech (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.05 55 #30 | 195 points by 0xedb 1 day ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. In the wake of Tippett Studios’ closure, a digital archive appears online (filmstories.co.uk)
    ×1.37 28 #71 | 246 points by rdmuser 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Iroh Global Content Discovery (iroh.computer)
    ×2.04 15 #83 | 31 points by birdculture 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Build with Python – a beginner course where your code draws (scimigo.com)
    ×0.69 65 | 47 points by davidwshao 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Use all Codex Plugins inside Pi (github.com/wileai)
    ×1.30 105 | 22 points by alexandroskyr 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Photoc – Command-line tools for photographers (github.com/ahmetomerv)
    ×0.80 29 #22 | 44 points by ahmetomer 9 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: dailypedia – personalized daily Wikipedia reads (apple.com)
    ×0.86 | 1 points by tekaydev 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: CoIsland – A local Mac app that monitors your dev tools and alerts you (coisland.app)
    ×2.25 60 | 9 points by LeDonT 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Approvegate – Deploy approvals enforced in your pipeline, not in Jira (approvegate.io)
    ×0.87 98 | 3 points by chidog99 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: An eBPF kernel guard for vTPM access (github.com/bschaatsbergen)
    ×1.83 103 | 5 points by bschaatsbergen 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Perspica – A semantic diff for reviewing code (github.com/sshah03)
    ×1.05 136 | 15 points by sshah03 5 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Global Solar Atlas: summary of solar power potential globally (globalsolaratlas.info)
    ×0.92 49 #15 | 62 points by stratts 12 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Better Space-Time Trade-Offs for LSM-Tree Based Key-Value Stores [pdf] (nivdayan.github.io)
    ×0.78 61 #39 | 30 points by ibobev 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. AMD plans to substantially increase supply in 2027 (reuters.com)
    ×5.81 55 #64 | 8 points by ilreb 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Blindsight (Watts Novel) (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.91 63 #67 | 125 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Predicting Peace (entropicthoughts.com)
    ×2.13 24 | 3 points by ilreb 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. YuzuLingo – Browser extension to OCR for lookup burned in subttiles (yuzulingo.com)
    ×1.41 22 | 3 points by jojomasala 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Florida woman arrested for allegedly making threats in an AI chat (theverge.com)
    ×3.62 23 | 50 points by timpera 20 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Why Common Lisp is now the best programming language (vivienhenz.com)
    ×2.64 14 #18 | 208 points by misterchocolat 8 hours ago | 250 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Using Theme park rides and smartphones for demonstrating Newtonian mechanics (iop.org)
    ×0.40 67 #41 | 13 points by bryanrasmussen 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Bill Gates: A.I. ‘Makes Nuclear Weapons Look Like Nothing’ (youtube.com)
    ×0.91 | 1 points by mooreds 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Can open-source chip tools make silicon that survives space? (siliconimist.com)
    ×0.81 | 1 points by johncole 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. All I wanted was a custom domain email (jacobg.co)
    ×2.31 37 | 106 points by jgx0 1 day ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Differences Between `Foldl` and `Foldr` (haskell.org)
    ×1.15 55 #38 | 141 points by signa11 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Germany’s RobCo hits $1B valuation (techfundingnews.com)
    ×2.24 40 #78 | 338 points by dachworker 1 day ago | 359 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Slash Anywhere – custom slash commands that work everywhere you type (slashanywhere.com)
    ×2.42 39 | 3 points by expashaparasha 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model (reflection.ai)
    ×2.06 5 #2 | 472 points by Philpax 16 hours ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Mystery Function (codeset.ai)
    ×0.60 66 #60 | 49 points by andre15silva 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Nobel Prize in Physics Is Awarded to Francis Halzen (nytimes.com)
    ×1.39 | 2 points by JumpCrisscross 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. The evolution of effective altruism (economist.com)
    ×1.54 58 | 80 points by bazzmt 1 day ago | 248 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Valet – Self-Hosted Cloud Agents with Computers (github.com/dropalltables)
    ×1.55 134 | 4 points by imbobbytables 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Fog-Bank: Archiving the oldest webcam feed (fog-bank.org)
    ×0.46 30 #23 | 14 points by rdmuser 4 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Why Pendulum had to write the most cursed "+" operator in all of Python (bovenberg.net)
    ×2.19 26 | 3 points by ariebovenberg 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. The future of independence is interdependence (onlys.ky)
    ×1.15 23 | 140 points by eustoria 19 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Homa: The end of TCP for AI clusters [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.81 53 | 80 points by signa11 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Fundamentals of circadian entrainment by light (2021) (sagepub.com)
    ×0.36 67 #34 | 5 points by NaOH 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Pumpkins.sh – claim, carve, and display a pumpkin to the world (pumpkins.sh)
    ×0.91 73 #68 | 23 points by linesofcode 21 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. ERC-8350: an on-chain standard for verifiable AI memory state (ethereum.org)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by EverestAn 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software glitch (motorsport.com)
    ×2.25 5 | 286 points by llm_nerd 1 day ago | 248 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Engineer says Claude Code has made his job "soul-sucking" (techspot.com)
    ×4.73 18 | 57 points by hefner1456 13 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Flash-Agents – DSH as MCP for Claude (github.com/tomw1808)
    ×1.16 80 | 4 points by tomw1808 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: NetworkX and pyarrow = 6-7x memory savings (github.com/networkx)
    ×1.04 117 | 6 points by adsharma 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. ExplainDB: A Database System Built for Understandability (github.com/explaindb)
    ×0.78 65 #59 | 75 points by pykello 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. ArXiv Is Rate Limiting Submissions Because It Can't Keep Up with AI Slop (404media.co)
    ×1.93 | 2 points by wiley1454 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Headline Arena – public forecasting records for AI agents (headlinearena.com)
    ×0.52 | 2 points by kopei 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Sideloop – Re-sign sideloaded iOS apps over Wi-Fi before they expire (github.com/filippofinke)
    ×0.37 | 2 points by filippofinke 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Enki – Write GPU compute kernels in pure stable Rust (github.com/enkiruntime)
    ×1.19 124 | 10 points by enki_runtime 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Competitive Programmer's Handbook (2018) [pdf] (cses.fi)
    ×1.87 14 #14 | 219 points by vinhnx 17 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Replacement of petroleum based products with plant-based materials (2025) (wiley.com)
    ×1.28 27 | 104 points by thelastgallon 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???