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  1. Vercel should fork and maintain Deno
    ×0.82 #30 | 9 points by gfalcao 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: Google Search to start locking down search behind a login wall
    ×0.72 31 | 35 points by exploraz 16 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What is the state of self-hosting email in 2026?
    ×0.61 46 | 36 points by 0o777 21 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What are the most useful, concrete AI skills to independently learn?
    ×2.51 49 | 64 points by shnock 9 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: Cloudflare's abuse report form is a blank page
    ×0.77 58 | 16 points by basilikum 17 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What are you working on? (November 2026)
    ×1.28 95 | 301 points by david927 5 days ago | 1081 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What use are the non-major cryptocurrencies?
    ×0.45 88 | 3 points by otohp 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: OpenAI Astra post-launch slump?
    ×0.61 91 | 3 points by iJohnDoe 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. ChatGPT Desktop forwards your SSH agent to remote machines
    ×1.28 98 | 220 points by DenGorbachev 5 days ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Do you still enjoy coding in C++?
    ×1.06 128 | 65 points by hasley 5 days ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. U.S. October PPI Rises 6.5% YoY, Highest in Nearly Four Years
    ×2.14 4 | 169 points by moonypto 1 day ago | 218 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Do you see a human written book more valuable than an AI written one?
    ×0.23 103 | 8 points by znano 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Advice for those who want to build stuff but don't know where to start
    ×0.78 94 | 7 points by mjs06 22 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Tell HN: Major Microsoft Outlook/Exchange Online/Teams Outage in the Americas
    ×0.26 116 | 13 points by wmchen 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Google search hides Nvidia stock graph
    ×0.52 97 | 14 points by nedx 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Why use Jev/decision models at all?
    ×0.66 125 | 10 points by niceguy1827 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: How did you convince family and friends to join your XMPP/Matrix server?
    ×0.84 130 | 102 points by mtlynch 1 week ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Claude – OAuth request failed Temporarily unable to authenticate
    ×0.21 127 | 4 points by franze 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Claude OAuth Failures
    ×2.50 70 | 28 points by tankenmate 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What % of HN is now AI-generated?
    ×0.44 126 | 8 points by simonebrunozzi 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Tell HN: Cast('abc' AS INTEGER) returns 0 in SQLite
    ×0.11 136 | 3 points by prmph 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Outlook still down for anyone else?
    ×0.39 120 | 7 points by rsoto2 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. What are your favorite tools?
    ×0.49 133 | 15 points by d675 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Claude AI Is Down
    ×2.35 69 | 28 points by cheptsov 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: What is holding back robots from being deployed everywhere?
    ×0.37 132 | 7 points by mjs06 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: How do you evaluate the skills your AI agents use?
    ×0.69 134 | 25 points by enesalatas 5 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Why Is Nvidia Valuable?
    ×0.20 135 | 3 points by fraserphysics 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Reverse engineering my Coway air purifier to ditch the cloud (scottjg.com)
    ×3.07 16 #42 | 773 points by scottjg 1 day ago | 215 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: A simple Solar system orbital sim that permits change of POV (claude.ai)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by joebig 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. FAA lifted National Ground Stop at 0119Z (faa.gov)
    ×3.05 63 | 209 points by d3nit 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. TSMC Hacked (sec.gov)
    ×3.62 34 | 115 points by gmays 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Free Dictionary API – Wiktionary data, no API key required (suvankar.cc)
    ×1.91 57 | 6 points by suvankar_m 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Black Ops II statically recompiled to native ARM64 macOS (github.com/adrbn)
    ×1.50 83 | 150 points by adrbn 3 days ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: I built a calendar app that gives each event its own to-do list (apple.com)
    ×0.60 118 | 15 points by whereinside 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Former Nvidia CEO Huang had a relationship with a second employee, sources say (reuters.com)
    ×2.66 15 #83 | 455 points by jbredeche 1 day ago | 493 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. AI is turning Apple's app review process into a nightmare for synth developers (synthanatomy.com)
    ×1.71 38 | 197 points by anigbrowl 1 day ago | 232 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Klad, a paint app your coding agent can drive (source-available) (github.com/klad-app)
    ×1.01 87 | 83 points by ambewas 3 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Log every LLM call with tokens, cost, latency, and time to first token (github.com/garritfra)
    ×0.37 84 | 10 points by 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Face Value Press – turn a photo into a proper playing-card court card (facevaluepress.com)
    ×0.45 | 2 points by mitenko 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Vyrma – Herhlaup (100% AI music/visuals/audio showing what's possible) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.12 34 #75 | 3 points by somenameforme 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Let Me Let You Own Your Data (willett.io)
    ×1.89 | 2 points by pickledish 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Scatter – better way to learn new things with AI (scatter.study)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by iyonn 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: Microsoft/Azure Outage?
    ×3.19 20 | 402 points by nazgulsenpai 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Global Microsoft Outage (cnn.com)
    ×3.22 | 290 points by TechTechTech 1 day ago | 182 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Rust 1.100 (github.com/rust-lang)
    ×3.12 26 | 314 points by thesuperbigfrog 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Eli Lilly CEO pushes back on Dario Amodei's medical claims (garymarcus.substack.com)
    ×5.30 22 | 269 points by Noaidi 1 day ago | 370 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Why get an expensive Pi when I have an old phone? (thanks.fish)
    ×2.28 4 #3 | 326 points by casi 7 hours ago | 195 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. What happened to 3Com? (dfarq.homeip.net)
    ×1.30 23 #21 | 184 points by gvieri 16 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Concurrent Shell Command Queues (emmer.dev)
    ×0.59 62 #71 | 49 points by speckx 23 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Ontology Development 101 (2014) (stanford.edu)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by turtleyacht 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Gemini 4 Hydrogen (blog.google)
    ×2.80 1 | 565 points by dvaplima 1 day ago | 350 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Ggml v1.0.0 (github.com/ggml-org)
    ×1.88 5 #10 | 358 points by cobychapple 13 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. AI model for predicting neurophysiological responses to text and pictures (nature.com)
    ×0.96 | 2 points by geox 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Valencia, Spain in Sim City/Isometric View (tinyvalencia.com)
    ×1.71 77 | 258 points by leugim 4 days ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Memro – Persistent Memory for Claude Code, Cursor and Codex (github.com/memrohq)
    ×0.83 93 | 4 points by subalyo 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Lonewolf 0.3 – A standalone XMPP server written in Rust (github.com/lonewolf-im)
    ×0.97 49 #45 | 150 points by ortuman 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Why Every Startup Needs an Origin Myth (joanwestenberg.com)
    ×1.10 5 #60 | 7 points by mrkn1 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. AI is destroying the trust between writers and readers (theatlantic.com)
    ×3.37 11 #77 | 356 points by FinnLobsien 1 day ago | 223 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Flide: Make Jev-like decision models up to 9.5x faster (github.com/OmniJev)
    ×0.99 117 | 125 points by unikcc 5 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: SPF Macro Debugger (dmarcguard.io)
    ×0.88 129 | 3 points by meysamazad 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Perplexity Decider v1.3: Training, eval, and use cases (perplexity.ai)
    ×0.91 43 #35 | 141 points by gmays 20 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. The Dawn of the Data Intelligence Engineer (motherduck.com)
    ×1.16 47 #67 | 152 points by jonbaer 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. I'm making LLMs work on small and old devices (github.com/hyperionaidev)
    ×2.14 14 | 478 points by mrashad74 2 days ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: FrontierBioML – Can coding agents do ML for computational biology? (frontierbioml.com)
    ×0.64 | 2 points by dominik-space 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Why Zig over C for Systems Programming (mtsoukalos.eu)
    ×1.66 11 | 217 points by torutofu 1 day ago | 228 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Yet another agent manager (but we needed it) (varinomics.com)
    ×1.03 | 2 points by imakris 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: RealtimeVAD – trading false positives for 110ms earlier end-of-speech (github.com/KoljaB)
    ×0.42 79 | 32 points by koljab 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: A terminal-native idle factory game, written in Rust with ratatui (gitlab.com)
    ×1.21 1 #5 | 49 points by snipedbywifi 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Extending LLDB to Debug Applications That Span CPUs and GPUs (fb.com)
    ×0.56 55 #34 | 27 points by JDevlieghere 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. FAA Telecommunications Infrastructure (FTI) (l3harris.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by Betelbuddy 33 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Traits – Teach your agent to code like you (traits.sh)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by eustoria 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: SrcWranglr v0.13 – A C/C++ Graphical Code Explorer for Vuln. Research (github.com/jdefrancesco)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by jdefr89 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Algorithmic MIDI Companion – Viterbi SATB Solver and Euclidean Rhythms (revisitedlabs.com)
    ×0.34 | 2 points by ntropey 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Testing a Trash Can Faraday Cage (jefftk.com)
    ×0.95 13 #11 | 22 points by torutofu 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Doomsday: Friday, 13 November, A.D. 2026 (1960) (science.org)
    ×2.09 1 #49 | 486 points by voxleone 1 day ago | 334 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Scientists Identified a Biological Signature of Tinnitus, and It's in Your Blood (sciencealert.com)
    ×0.79 | 1 points by amichail 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Bufferbloat is the undesirable latency that comes from a router (bufferbloat.net)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by Bluestein 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: I hand-read 248 shops' return policies because no dataset existed (pricemend.com)
    ×0.29 | 2 points by Omarelmenoufy 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Elephants found to be increasingly isolated leading to fractured social networks (ucsd.edu)
    ×1.77 10 #44 | 169 points by gmays 14 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Logvinovich's IR Dichotomy in SU(N) Yang-Mills on R^4: Peano/Gribov (physicsforums.com)
    ×1.84 19 | 3 points by wichein 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. DJI Gives ROMO 2 Its Drone Offline Mode, Eight Months After the Hack (dronexl.co)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by reimertz 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Micron – Oberon with the Power of C (github.com/rochus-keller)
    ×1.02 96 | 68 points by Rochus 6 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Bloomline, a Small Puzzle Game (matthewoldach.com)
    ×0.40 | 2 points by moldach 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. New 'Access to Justice' Benchmark: Leading AI Models Miss Critical Legal Details (epyhia.com)
    ×1.65 11 #66 | 4 points by arbuge 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Apify Security Incident (apify.com)
    ×0.92 36 #76 | 96 points by cynicalpeace 23 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Mouse Party (aboard.com)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by bookofjoe 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. The 42-Year Journey to Bring 'Neuromancer' to the Screen (wired.com)
    ×1.93 24 | 100 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Desky – Auto Safari desktop mode for iPhone Duo when unfolded (apple.com)
    ×0.42 | 2 points by vincentneo 23 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Robot startup cant pay staff after founder takes $4.6M from company to buy home (cnbc.com)
    ×1.72 | 2 points by randycupertino 7 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. When do YC interviews come out?
    ×0.53 | 1 points by Profazia 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???