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  1. Ask HN: What are you working on? (November 2026)
    ×1.31 65 | 296 points by david927 3 days ago | 1055 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What do your technical interviews look like today? (Nov 2026)
    ×0.31 41 | 6 points by Heap4112 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Personal "Tears in the Rain" Moments
    ×0.30 50 | 10 points by HoldOnAMinute 11 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. ChatGPT Desktop forwards your SSH agent to remote machines
    ×1.35 64 | 218 points by DenGorbachev 3 days ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Any good ways on how to get into kernel dev?
    ×0.32 74 | 7 points by ihms 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Do you still enjoy coding in C++?
    ×1.15 94 | 59 points by hasley 2 days ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Do 9/10 new AI SaaS websites seem like they should be an editor command to you?
    ×0.27 90 | 4 points by Kevin_Flynn 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Is lack of human imagination now the bottleneck instead of intelligence?
    ×0.33 79 | 7 points by amichail 19 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. What are your favorite tools?
    ×0.47 85 | 12 points by d675 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. How do you keep up quality when you vibe-code?
    ×0.79 72 | 36 points by nkcodes 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: "No AI" apps/companies/resources?
    ×0.49 80 | 7 points by BrunoBernardino 19 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Did anybody used F# in a production?
    ×0.37 86 | 4 points by vad_n__ 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Software engineer with broken arm, any tips?
    ×0.22 87 | 4 points by spapas82 15 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How did you convince family and friends to join your XMPP/Matrix server?
    ×0.85 105 | 101 points by mtlynch 4 days ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Anybody using their own AI harness as well?
    ×0.68 93 | 5 points by madprops 19 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How do you evaluate the skills your AI agents use?
    ×0.71 122 | 23 points by enesalatas 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Tell HN: Another GitHub Major Outage
    ×0.42 130 | 17 points by sergiotapia 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Why does Reddit want me to use the iOS app on my desktop?
    ×1.62 81 | 9 points by corroclaro 23 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Tell HN: A flood of reports of Opus 5.5 being nerfed
    ×2.12 127 | 31 points by b--l 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. CoderPad Reports a Security Breach
    ×0.56 136 | 9 points by werrett 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Superwall (iOS Paywall Provider) Hacked – customers asked to rotate keys
    ×0.33 134 | 4 points by epsteingpt 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. uBlock Origin Can't Block Facebook Ads
    ×1.30 137 | 13 points by anidsiam 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Tell HN: Notion AI chat sessions have been exposed via Fireworks AI hack
    ×0.90 106 | 18 points by RamblingCTO 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Does codex, Claude $20 subscription just seem unworkable now?
    ×0.92 91 | 4 points by sharemywin 16 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Is misaligned AI less dangerous than AI controlled by a bad actor
    ×0.09 | 2 points by InfiniteRand 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Anyone else notice Fable 5.2 making grammar errors?
    ×0.29 140 | 5 points by linearza 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Are companies making money by using AI?
    ×0.80 141 | 6 points by vanh4lt 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Gohawk – A Resource Leak and Concurrency Static Analyzer for Go (gohawk.dev)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by its-malbolge-ti 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. AI usage generates a fragile codebase (evanxmerz.com)
    ×4.70 9 | 635 points by plun9 1 day ago | 614 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: ThingStudio, Node-RED style programming for microcontrollers (thingstudio.net)
    ×0.89 67 | 14 points by mkarliner 21 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Next-Level Benchmarking Overfitting – Thomas Neumann (databasearchitects.blogspot.com)
    ×0.67 38 #76 | 63 points by artrax 20 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Nvidia Multimedia Accelerator (1995) (archive.org)
    ×1.61 | 2 points by armcat 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Orpheus.el: Emacs Transient Music Player (SSH, MPD, Local, YouTube, etc.) (github.com/jjba23)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by jjba23 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Spared – self-hosted Workers and Durable Objects for Rust apps (github.com/michaelmagan)
    ×2.02 75 | 5 points by grouchy 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: An offline desktop companion to help maintain a healthy blink rhythm (eyesrhythm.com)
    ×0.67 135 | 40 points by prnysoni 4 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Faster Retrieval for Better, More Efficient RAG (apple.com)
    ×1.35 4 #26 | 205 points by zerop 16 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. History of Password Cracking (netmux.com)
    ×0.77 37 #86 | 11 points by netmux 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Tmv – File sorting utility written in Bash (github.com/SamerKolasevic29)
    ×1.21 | 2 points by znj29 41 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Where Were We (wherewerewe.app)
    ×0.84 126 | 58 points by zkiihne 4 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Cosh – An open-source AI agent orchestrator (github.com/DiegoZaluski)
    ×1.33 124 | 10 points by Zaluski 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. The Apple Support Community will permanently close on November 20, 2026 (apple.com)
    ×2.05 13 #46 | 153 points by tech234a 14 hours ago | 225 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. World heading for 'irrevocable overshoot' of global temperature thresholds (theguardian.com)
    ×1.07 | 2 points by vrganj 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: ZeGrapher v4: modern open-source math plotter – Desmos-inspired (zegrapher.com)
    ×0.56 | 2 points by adelks 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Let over Lambda–50 Years of Lisp (2008) (letoverlambda.com)
    ×1.07 61 | 84 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: blqsort – A C++ Quicksort Faster Than std:sort (tiki.li)
    ×0.96 | 2 points by chrka 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: My daily word puzzle Jointter revisited
    ×0.19 139 | 9 points by proy87 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Sift: LSP, Lint, Format Lisp, Scheme and Emacs Lisp (github.com/jjba23)
    ×1.11 65 #80 | 7 points by jjba23 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Hacking the Meta Ray-Ban smartglasses (p0pcycle.com)
    ×1.34 37 #83 | 150 points by moooooky 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. The U.S. Is Driving Away Young Scientists (nytimes.com)
    ×5.55 58 | 93 points by digital55 1 day ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Obeya, a spatial canvas for directing coding agents (github.com/sadilek)
    ×1.70 116 | 4 points by sadilek 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. EventSourcingDB 1.3.0 Is Available (eventfoundation.io)
    ×0.57 51 #71 | 45 points by goloroden 19 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Why Did Palantir CEO Alex Karp Buy a Swedish Forest? (lemonde.fr)
    ×1.58 14 | 3 points by latein 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Starlink Mini 2 (starlink.com)
    ×3.18 22 | 508 points by robertjfclarke 1 day ago | 595 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890) (archives.gov)
    ×1.05 49 | 91 points by hashmap 1 day ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Darling Development Update – Q4 2026 (darlinghq.org)
    ×0.63 11 #16 | 24 points by tech234a 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Claudia.gallery (claudia.gallery)
    ×0.81 | 1 points by ZeljkoS 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. 'GTA 6' Pre-Loads Are Slowing Down the Internet, Warns ISP (forbes.com)
    ×1.91 42 | 3 points by vismit2000 47 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Lite Under 5GB: 65 TPS 100% In-VRAM on 6GB GPU (huggingface.co)
    ×1.49 10 | 5 points by AmSach 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: I checked 10 AI-written patches to real C++ projects – 6 didn't hold up (unfix.dev)
    ×0.43 | 2 points by u-pump 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: small WireGuard mesh VPN with no coordination server (github.com/CLoaKY233)
    ×1.31 103 | 4 points by laysheth 22 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Atuin Threads: All your agent sessions on every machine (atuin.sh)
    ×1.29 10 #32 | 215 points by linsomniac 18 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. We need more goat sacrifices (experimental-history.com)
    ×1.60 13 #43 | 198 points by iamnothere 20 hours ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. A great old-timey game-programming hack (2013) (moertel.com)
    ×1.74 22 #58 | 270 points by palsecam 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Yogurt – Free, private, open-source alternative to Granola (github.com/FrigadeHQ)
    ×1.65 5 #27 | 233 points by brownrout 16 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: 3D to 2D, point clouds flattening (geometry images) (github.com/Neighborhood-Grid)
    ×0.49 48 | 20 points by adec314 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Browser-based PDF and image tools that never upload your files (bytepriva.com)
    ×2.23 98 | 4 points by bytepriva 21 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Revisiting inferences of trustworthiness from moral judgments (nature.com)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by bryanrasmussen 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Queens Public Library under ransomware attack (queenslibrary.org)
    ×1.20 39 | 209 points by rustyhancock 2 days ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Episteme AI – Self-healing roadmaps with paywall and dead-link checks (github.com/SreeNaresh1)
    ×0.42 | 2 points by SreeNaresh1 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Foldable Flight: The Best Paper Airplanes (foldableflight.com)
    ×4.58 33 #60 | 1254 points by vismit2000 2 days ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: MFlare – Cloudflare usage and deploy status in the macOS menu bar (yuy1n.io)
    ×1.89 57 | 3 points by yuyinws 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Keep all your Claude desktop Code sessions when you swap accounts (github.com/ramonmazinga)
    ×1.47 | 2 points by ramonmazinga 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Ghanaian street games you can play in the browser (ghanastreetgames.com)
    ×1.03 57 | 115 points by samuelaidoo45 3 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Dogfood Bench (solomon-b.github.io)
    ×0.55 | 2 points by solomonb 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Do open source companies pay competitively in India? (shetty.me)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by deveesh_shetty 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. I made a CLI focus music player with lo-fi, Pomodoro timer, and Spotify support (github.com/WittmannF)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by wittmannf 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Why are we still working this hard? (wilsoniumite.com)
    ×6.00 71 | 225 points by Wilsoniumite 13 hours ago | 270 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Write GitHub Actions in any language: Loopt (github.com/preloopdev)
    ×0.80 133 | 15 points by Bnjoroge 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. A Brief History of Sierra Online (2017) (retrofreakreviews.com)
    ×0.85 26 #34 | 51 points by freshtake 10 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Why I wrote the BEAM book (2025) (happihacking.com)
    ×1.78 32 #63 | 196 points by zenincognito 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Apple is shuttering its 28-year-old online community forum (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.34 10 | 4 points by apparent 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. The death knell of digital search (newyorker.com)
    ×1.01 60 | 86 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Every satellite that passed over any place this week, and its photos (watched.earth)
    ×2.68 36 | 480 points by a585gupt 2 days ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. I'm Working on a FOSS Linux Pinbal Simulation Engine (getlazarus.org)
    ×1.36 3 #13 | 33 points by sysrpl 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Banks turn to credit insurance as they hit limits on lending to AI boom (ft.com)
    ×1.97 41 | 3 points by petethomas 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: WolveKafka – Consume Kafka with a plain HTTP endpoint (github.com/wolveflake)
    ×0.57 104 | 11 points by piscesdk 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Finance team's ChatGPT habit is a cross-border data transfer (e27.co)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by powerhouseconsu 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Ask HN: Researchers / PhDs interested in quantitative AutoResearch?
    ×0.49 | 1 points by platopic 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Move more with short random exercise challenges (sporadic.app)
    ×0.40 | 2 points by brendanperry 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Can a Linear Program Do Weight-Space Programming? (nathan.rs)
    ×1.47 9 #30 | 273 points by emschwartz 20 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???