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  1. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)
    ×1.38 14 #8 | 112 points by whoishiring 5 hours ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026)
    ×1.21 17 #15 | 69 points by whoishiring 5 hours ago | 218 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Email leaked while traveling abroad?
    ×1.39 31 #82 | 11 points by thatonehack 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Rpi – a Rust rewrite of the Pi agent, 10× faster startup
    ×0.37 53 | 7 points by bigfishhk 9 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What are you reading?
    ×2.38 29 | 450 points by dan-bailey 2 days ago | 859 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Is vibe coding bad for SaaS projects?
    ×0.57 58 | 4 points by gsngsn 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. 40 years of writing code. I didn't see the end coming
    ×2.29 5 | 12 points by temilson 7 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What are you reading to your kids?
    ×0.63 102 | 14 points by jopizio 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the business depends on it?
    ×1.30 100 | 295 points by mlaux 6 days ago | 302 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What landmarks/lighthouses in the era of LLM/AI?
    ×0.30 85 | 3 points by throw_away_ai 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Muse.ai gets me kicked off fb marketplace
    ×0.92 80 | 30 points by zcalvin 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2026)
    ×1.08 49 | 4 points by jon_north 5 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. OpenAI halved the allowance of the $200 plan to 10x
    ×2.67 35 | 18 points by k9294 12 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What's a good title for a software engineer now?
    ×0.62 99 | 5 points by type4 18 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Tell HN: Thanks for All the Fish
    ×1.47 82 | 15 points by neilv 23 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Factory AI vs. Cognition (Devin) board tussle
    ×0.37 120 | 3 points by pranshuchittora 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: How will the AI endgame play out?
    ×1.03 105 | 13 points by jackgavigan 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How do you get your first users for an MVP?
    ×0.33 129 | 15 points by amina124 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Stanislaw Lem quote related to LLMs
    ×2.02 84 | 8 points by daly 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Any nerds out there who've read a lot of research papers?
    ×0.42 140 | 34 points by shriy-singh 1 week ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Show HN: Walk the Endless Dungeon (the-endless.pages.dev)
    ×1.13 81 | 4 points by olup 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Show HN: Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things (github.com/reladraw)
    ×2.14 90 | 408 points by jpwalsh234 5 days ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Show HN: Museum of Numbers (numbermuseum.com)
    ×0.79 108 | 32 points by rhl314 5 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Show HN: Training a model to identify AI web content from structure alone (arxiv.org)
    ×0.64 141 | 74 points by jochenmadler 1 week ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. DeepSeek outage and degraded: API and status page:) (deepseek.com)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by jmathai 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. ArXiv Is Tapping the Brakes (valency.io)
    ×1.86 13 | 3 points by joshbloom 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. You said no MCP (earendil.com)
    ×2.92 17 #74 | 662 points by yarapavan 1 day ago | 359 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. E2E: Next generation E2E testing framework for web and mobile apps (github.com/tester-army)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by handfuloflight 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Why doesn't giant AI always overfit? (echohive.ai)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by echohive42 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. GPT-Synopsys: Frontier Intelligence to Revolutionize Chip Design (synopsys.com)
    ×1.08 16 #21 | 151 points by giuliomagnifico 10 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Cops Can Bypass iPhone's Automatic Reboot to Get into Locked Phones (404media.co)
    ×3.44 24 #31 | 207 points by speckx 6 hours ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Classican, listen + watch Classical music in a fun way (classican.vercel.app)
    ×2.18 75 | 7 points by jaequery 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: PaperMono, e-ink fridge magnet shopping list with mobile web page (github.com/seamusc)
    ×1.13 91 | 149 points by seamus_c 3 days ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Pac-Bench – How well can models one-shot a Pac-Man game? (jonclegg.github.io)
    ×1.00 94 | 79 points by thefourthchime 2 days ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Clx 0.4.0 – native compiler for Lua (samyeyo.github.io)
    ×1.08 143 | 3 points by _samt_ 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Most data centers refusing to say how much water, electricity they use (nltimes.nl)
    ×3.76 16 | 215 points by Thom2503 1 day ago | 197 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Canada fast-tracks Pacific oil pipeline to reduce US dependence (apnews.com)
    ×4.26 65 | 66 points by geox 4 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Getting started with Claude Code mods (claude.dev)
    ×1.57 28 | 3 points by mfiguiere 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Yantra – an LALR(1) parser generator for C++ (github.com/TantrixAuto)
    ×0.48 43 | 31 points by renjipanicker 18 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Polyedergarten: Garden of Paper Polyhedron Models (polyedergarten.de)
    ×0.49 19 #23 | 40 points by isaacimagine 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display (jagi.studio)
    ×1.41 79 #66 | 348 points by evakhoury 3 days ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. TCP is failing AI, but Stanford's Homa is here to help (theregister.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by joebuckwilliams 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Free hosted API for Laya, the open-weight decision model (vercel.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by boundlesshq 48 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Gitea 28.0 (gitea.com)
    ×1.76 23 | 95 points by porridgeraisin 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: ASM Bots – Core War in real 8086 machine code (asmbots.io)
    ×1.13 111 | 3 points by pedramamini 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Adding Floating-Point Decimals for Fun and Profit (vero.site)
    ×0.63 38 #42 | 54 points by ibobev 2 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Suits Are Better Tech Than Modern Clothes (devz.cl)
    ×2.25 28 #54 | 71 points by orphereus 14 hours ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. cua-speedrun: Standardized Benchmarking of the Speed of Computer-Use Agents (cuaspeedrun.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by matt_d 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: DragomanD – local language translator for Linux (l10n-bg.dev)
    ×1.98 97 | 8 points by eniac111 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. NRC issues first U.S. construction permit for a BWRX-300 small modular reactor (gevernova.com)
    ×1.36 79 #69 | 141 points by papa-whisky 1 day ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Rhun, an open-source code editor written in assembly (rhun.app)
    ×1.23 | 2 points by vladcodes 13 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Truemetrics (YC S23) Is Hiring a GTM Founder's Associate (ycombinator.com)
    10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. CHOMPI portable sampler instrument is now open-source (hardware and software) (chompiclub.com)
    ×0.85 50 #60 | 102 points by lashkari 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. 56k.rip – the 1996 dial-up internet experience (56k.rip)
    ×2.28 2 #62 | 254 points by adunk 22 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: What 482 hospitals charge vs. what insurers pay, from their own files (billmender.com)
    ×1.35 | 2 points by curatedmcp 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Empire State Building Airship Dock: The Mooring Mast Story (funfactz.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by thunderbong 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man? (prospect.org)
    ×8.11 14 | 264 points by ragall 1 day ago | 233 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. StreetComplete on iOS is now in public beta (github.com/streetcomplete)
    ×2.30 2 #6 | 470 points by Snowly 9 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Car Is a Smartphone on Wheels. Here's Who's Listening (northeastern.edu)
    ×1.66 12 #18 | 6 points by rafaelc 21 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. McDonald's push to have AI price your Big Mac (cnbc.com)
    ×2.58 86 | 60 points by Betelbuddy 2 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: ASCII Art generator using depth maps (polyglyph-nu.vercel.app)
    ×0.50 | 2 points by tonerow 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Smartly – Plain English to shell commands, with GNU/BSD awareness (smartlycli.com)
    ×1.43 112 | 3 points by rizwanreza 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Fast, Lightroom-compatible RAW photo editor for Linux and macOS (github.com/pch)
    ×2.75 114 | 8 points by pchm 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Token compression CLI to save Codex/Astra costs
    ×3.70 98 | 10 points by yolandac 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: A small side project for even colour scales (viesual.net)
    ×1.29 133 | 4 points by vie00001 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: AgentRun: DSL to turn agents into workflows (github.com/Parcha-ai)
    ×0.65 139 | 51 points by miguelrios 1 week ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Deterministic architecture checks for coding agents
    ×0.50 | 2 points by quynhng 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Tesla takes on $30B in credit as it approaches unprofitability (electrek.co)
    ×5.75 44 | 157 points by ciconia 1 day ago | 218 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: PBI Guard – Stop people from messing up your Power BI (you included) (patens-dev.github.io)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by randomlyGenerat 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Hacker Atlas - A map of what Hacker News talks about (hackeratlas.com)
    ×1.02 123 | 88 points by andrearitossa 6 days ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. SNL "Old Glory Robot Insurance" (1995) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.73 #64 | 6 points by thomassmith65 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Cold War spy satellite named after Farrah Fawcett just exploded in space (popsci.com)
    ×1.42 | 2 points by CGMthrowaway 27 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Mingbird – an agent harness that makes a 2B model finish real tasks (github.com/Mingbird)
    ×1.94 116 | 5 points by Gustor 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. The $10B AI Assistant Challenging Meta's Muse, Grok's Bots, and OpenAI's Dots [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.09 | 2 points by simonebrunozzi 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Q-DeflateRFC1951 compatible hyper-density compression SaaS (microforce.dev)
    ×0.62 | 2 points by Gen-N 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Hntui – A TUI for Hacker News (github.com/ahmd-sh)
    ×1.06 95 | 111 points by ahmd-sh 3 days ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Great Dirhombicosidodecahedron ("Miller's Monster") (software3d.com)
    ×0.91 47 #75 | 81 points by cobbzilla 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Janus – Go binary that runs GGUF models via Vulkan on AMD/Intel/Nvidia (github.com/Vibra-Ingenn)
    ×0.76 | 1 points by Maverick617 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Let's Ditch Google (Verb) (farkas.pro)
    ×3.45 52 | 59 points by speckx 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Surprisingly complex waves reveal the brain's inner workings (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.24 31 #45 | 246 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Google breaks promise to provide 10 years of updates to Chromebooks (osnews.com)
    ×4.51 86 | 339 points by speckx 7 hours ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. "we are not yet seeing spillovers from tariffs, [and] energy price shocks" (federalreserve.gov)
    ×1.70 | 2 points by Den_VR 5 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Your folder structure has two jobs, but only does one (sterlingfreeman.net)
    ×1.39 | 2 points by alwaysDrafting 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: TurboGPT: train 22KiB transformer in 13s (github.com/lostmsu)
    ×0.77 89 | 56 points by lostmsu 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Kyno – Direction as a first-class primitive for AI agents (cizambra.github.io)
    ×1.60 117 | 4 points by cizambra 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: I built a free Burp/Caido alternative but, zero setup - API Testing (apiaxess.dev)
    ×14.04 69 | 31 points by coding-maniac 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. iPod of 2026 (sudo.music)
    ×2.47 16 #12 | 24 points by kapsteur 2 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. PlayBook: A Programmable Paper Notebook [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.62 47 #81 | 34 points by surprisetalk 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Strange Parodies of Atari 2600 Video Game Box Cover Art (2008) (mightygodking.com)
    ×1.28 77 | 56 points by peter_d_sherman 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Roman Dodecahedron (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.04 | 2 points by softwaredoug 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???