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  1. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)
    ×1.14 51 #65 | 258 points by whoishiring 1 day ago | 266 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026)
    ×0.85 61 | 122 points by whoishiring 1 day ago | 434 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Is anybody producing good code with coding agents?
    ×1.41 37 | 16 points by ruffrey 9 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What are you reading?
    ×2.38 72 | 461 points by dan-bailey 3 days ago | 878 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: OVH price increase for dedicated servers
    ×0.34 96 | 4 points by esher 15 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What are you reading to your kids?
    ×0.51 119 | 15 points by jopizio 2 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Email leaked while traveling abroad?
    ×0.80 88 | 17 points by thatonehack 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Muse.ai gets me kicked off fb marketplace
    ×0.81 109 | 30 points by zcalvin 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Rpi – a Rust rewrite of the Pi agent, 10× faster startup
    ×0.31 112 | 8 points by bigfishhk 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. 40 years of writing code. I didn't see the end coming
    ×1.83 92 | 19 points by temilson 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What landmarks/lighthouses in the era of LLM/AI?
    ×0.21 135 | 3 points by throw_away_ai 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. OpenAI halved the allowance of the $200 plan to 10x
    ×1.98 98 | 20 points by k9294 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What's a good title for a software engineer now?
    ×0.44 132 | 5 points by type4 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Tell HN: Thanks for All the Fish
    ×1.16 113 | 15 points by neilv 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Factory AI vs. Cognition (Devin) board tussle
    ×0.38 137 | 4 points by pranshuchittora 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How do you get your first users for an MVP?
    ×0.33 136 | 16 points by amina124 4 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Show HN: TurboGPT: train 22KiB transformer in 13s (github.com/lostmsu)
    ×0.77 104 | 56 points by lostmsu 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Suffix Cache Reuse Explained (wai-org.com)
    ×0.89 | 1 points by vinhnx 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Kiro Workflows (kiro.dev)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by t2f2 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Merlean AI (merlean.ai)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by zmaren 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Klassik Revives the KDE 3 Desktop on Modern Plasma 6 (linuxiac.com)
    ×1.91 17 | 3 points by ibobev 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Hiring in this industry is broken (twitter.com/joshmanders)
    ×1.16 | 2 points by bilsbie 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. ArXiv's Updated Rate Limit Policy (arxiv.org)
    ×1.23 36 | 143 points by 50kIters 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Show HN: Fast, Lightroom-compatible RAW photo editor for Linux and macOS (github.com/pch)
    ×2.73 133 | 8 points by pchm 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Crypto Capture of Foreign Aid (nber.org)
    ×2.23 19 #44 | 84 points by bko 5 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. The Heilbronn Problem (tejstead.com)
    ×1.26 | 2 points by tejstead 41 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Users don't hate change. They hate you (medium.com)
    ×1.15 | 2 points by OroPla 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites (bl2.net)
    ×2.27 73 | 401 points by wanick 3 days ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Walk the Endless Dungeon (the-endless.pages.dev)
    ×1.09 129 | 4 points by olup 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. 100 years of student radio history in the DLARC college radio collections (archive.org)
    ×0.59 21 #50 | 21 points by HieronymusBosch 11 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Interview Basecamp – prep from a role or a job description (interviewbasecamp.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by balkrishnajha 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Rapidos (github.com/raphmwanza)
    ×1.20 | 2 points by raphmwanza 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Rochdale College (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.78 29 | 3 points by pcfwik 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Why media fans want to escape algorithms with CDs, DVDs and vinyl (theguardian.com)
    ×3.73 11 | 68 points by beardyw 12 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: ASM Bots – Core War in real 8086 machine code (asmbots.io)
    ×1.10 138 | 3 points by pedramamini 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Why didn't we get GPT-2 in 2005? (dynomight.net)
    ×1.65 42 #88 | 5 points by bilsbie 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Clarify: Reach Decisions 2-4x Faster than Grill-me (github.com/a-laughlin)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by a-laughlin 38 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. ExplainDB: A Database System Built for Understandability (github.com/explaindb)
    ×0.91 46 #55 | 15 points by pykello 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: JBR-001 – An open-source 3D printable desktop robot (arduino.cc)
    ×0.83 81 | 132 points by gvuksic 3 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Cops Can Bypass iPhone's Automatic Reboot to Get into Locked Phones (404media.co)
    ×3.16 22 | 281 points by speckx 1 day ago | 219 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Dental Scope – Interactive 3D dental anatomy (dental-scope.com)
    ×1.45 83 | 130 points by Zeruxe 3 days ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman (spritefusion.com)
    ×1.54 94 | 195 points by HugoDz 4 days ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Secret Santa Name Generator – draw names in the browser, no sign-up (secretsantanamegenerator.com)
    ×1.10 130 | 3 points by xmasdong 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Sezwhere – Ask any document "where does it say that?" (built on Jev) (sezwhere.com)
    ×1.83 126 | 19 points by irs 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Our Project Suncatcher prototype satellite is in orbit (blog.google)
    ×0.82 42 #89 | 37 points by pantalaimon 12 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Fuck Android Developer Verification Program (twitter.com/0xcrypto)
    ×11.31 45 | 327 points by 0xcrypto 1 day ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Open-source model routing for coding agents at Astra-level performance
    ×1.00 59 | 113 points by adchurch 2 days ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Smartly – Plain English to shell commands, with GNU/BSD awareness (smartlycli.com)
    ×1.40 139 | 3 points by rizwanreza 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Greg Kroah-Hartman – Security in the LLM Age [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.78 #13 | 158 points by usernomdeguerre 6 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Supabase is acquiring Turso (supabase.com)
    ×2.00 22 #40 | 189 points by cvburgess 7 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. ParadeDB Search Performance Improvements (paradedb.com)
    ×1.01 71 | 65 points by craigkerstiens 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Bise – a multi-agent harness, made for humans (bise.dev)
    ×1.33 74 | 6 points by gvergnaud 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Draw from your friends' Claude quota (github.com/jaynlabs)
    ×1.80 60 | 4 points by hugopuybareau 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Rhun, an open-source code editor written in assembly (rhun.app)
    ×1.32 66 | 60 points by vladcodes 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. A 12-year sequence of telescope images of a star and four planets orbiting (bsky.app)
    ×1.81 6 #4 | 162 points by mariuz 5 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Cloudflare K2: serverless event streams (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.77 24 | 281 points by elffjs 1 day ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: NSL – WSL for Linux (frostyard.github.io)
    ×1.22 84 | 164 points by bketelsen 3 days ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: I built a better way to browse and filter the NYT's 100 Best TV Shows (madebyaqua.com)
    ×0.71 | 2 points by felixding 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. When the Models Get Better, Your TAM Should Go Up (twitter.com/ponnappa)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by amoorthy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Monarch butterflies – an interactive 2.5D experience (echohive.ai)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by echohive42 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. SvelteKit 3 (svelte.dev)
    ×2.35 21 | 393 points by sampsn 1 day ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. GPT-6 Astra plays World of Warcraft for the first time with agent-wow (agent-wow.sh)
    ×2.99 35 | 69 points by almostlit 10 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: The Kio Programming Language (jdevuyst.github.io)
    ×1.26 123 | 5 points by jdevuyst 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Use all Codex Plugins inside Pi (github.com/wileai)
    ×0.85 49 #69 | 12 points by alexandroskyr 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Pi Durable and Nostr (coracle.social)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by jonstaab 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Meta stumbled onto a winning AI strategy (computerworld.com)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by mikelgan 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Redditor buys used CPU, turns out it was banned on Valorant and they are SoL (reddit.com)
    ×4.33 31 | 76 points by xbmcuser 11 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. STS-51-F Abort-to-Orbit (1985) (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.62 20 #25 | 32 points by schoen 4 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. SequenceHash: Multihashing for the rest of us (trailofbits.com)
    ×0.98 30 #43 | 21 points by tob_scott_a 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city (nytimes.com)
    ×2.90 1 #7 | 191 points by CoryOndrejka 6 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. On social reality in China (lesswrong.com)
    ×2.76 12 #29 | 124 points by thicTurtlLverXX 6 hours ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Robot Hands for Modern AI and Real Work (bostondynamics.com)
    ×0.90 34 #64 | 12 points by zhoge 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Big Balls 20yo running the ops for USA's new government network infrastructure (medium.com)
    ×4.21 22 #68 | 8 points by sans_souse 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Automatic Transmission – a data-privacy study of connected vehicles (northeastern.edu)
    ×1.60 8 #83 | 245 points by rafaelc 1 day ago | 214 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. LLMs Will Not Replace AI Compilers. They Will Call Them. (aicompilers.github.io)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by matt_d 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Apple Pass Designer (apple.com)
    ×1.94 #2 | 272 points by soheilpro 4 hours ago | 189 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Muse Gadgets (muse.ai)
    ×1.83 6 #6 | 86 points by anant 4 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Snip – Terminal notes app that Claude can read and write via MCP (github.com/jerichosiahaya)
    ×0.97 | 2 points by ikigaineo 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Premortem – AI agents that red-team your startup idea (premortem.site)
    ×1.13 95 | 11 points by ahoskins 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Ferry – Sync your coding agent setup to remote Linux boxes (dlhck.github.io)
    ×0.68 | 2 points by dlhck 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Gutsy – small decision model for CPU (500MB), get probabilities back (huggingface.co)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by mrkn1 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Returning from vacation? The government can search your phone without a warrant (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.88 11 | 400 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 367 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. StreetComplete on iOS is now in public beta (github.com/streetcomplete)
    ×2.49 14 | 618 points by Snowly 1 day ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. How to speed up the Rust compiler in September 2026 (nnethercote.github.io)
    ×1.42 32 | 272 points by trickypr 1 day ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. AI as Normal Technology (2025) (knightcolumbia.org)
    ×1.06 32 #79 | 13 points by api 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. RIP, vector database (turbopuffer.com)
    ×1.89 1 #84 | 374 points by razin 1 day ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Scientists untangle the biology of an 'undruggable' cancer gene (nytimes.com)
    ×0.67 24 #76 | 9 points by gumby 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. FAA Says 737 MAX Software Glitch Doesn't Pose Safety Issue (wsj.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by bookofjoe 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: VeriSigil AI – Cryptographic identity and trust network for AI agents
    ×0.89 | 2 points by VeriSigilAI 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Jevstiller – Distill Jev into a local model, with a disagreement bound (jevstiller.pages.dev)
    ×0.70 105 | 66 points by tgluck 3 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???