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  1. Gitbook Breached
    ×1.27 5 #32 | 144 points by punchmesan 9 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. OpenAI seems to be silently re-enabling model training on Codex chats
    ×3.05 18 #33 | 433 points by user052919 10 hours ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What is the best non mainstream programming language or stack in 2026?
    ×0.87 | 2 points by kbrannigan 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2026)
    ×1.06 27 | 241 points by whoishiring 1 day ago | 223 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: You now need a government id in order to create an Anthropic account
    ×2.01 17 | 14 points by I_am_tiberius 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?
    ×3.16 22 | 721 points by LecroJS 2 days ago | 865 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What is Google Flights' business model and has it changed recently?
    ×1.75 24 | 5 points by lastofthemojito 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Google reCAPTCHA on archive.is asking to scan a QR with a mobile device
    ×0.71 56 | 3 points by linuxhdr 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Does anyone have a contact with Cleveland-area Ham club?
    ×2.29 16 | 163 points by stockresearcher 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. WorkOS reports security breach
    ×1.16 51 | 77 points by werrett 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Design My YouTube Feed
    ×0.24 88 | 4 points by mrkn1 10 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Will cheap high-quality AI end this December?
    ×0.91 81 | 5 points by amichail 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Getting hit with "Prove you are a human" at every other website
    ×2.90 56 | 76 points by shmde 7 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. How did we end up with Frontier Lab oligopoly rather than a monopoly?
    ×0.49 89 | 3 points by bdhe 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Can the Cloudflare employee that just blocked Route53 Health Checks undo it
    ×2.35 73 | 6 points by ferngodfather 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Tell HN: Scribd Breached
    ×1.60 86 | 359 points by x______________ 3 days ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Does anyone enjoy work anymore?
    ×2.36 87 | 25 points by jackmalpo 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: What to do about incorrectly suspended GitHub account, no notice?
    ×0.51 112 | 6 points by sshah03 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Are Tenstorrent cards better than Nvidia?
    ×0.21 | 2 points by thesnarkitecht 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Heretic 2.0 Released: Training-free language model modification
    ×0.74 111 | 22 points by razster 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: What hardware are you using to run local LLMs?
    ×1.35 84 | 50 points by leafletsigh 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not
    ×0.64 123 | 40 points by stillatit 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: What's it like working at Google nowadays? Core teams like Search, Ads?
    ×0.70 124 | 47 points by karakoram 4 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Opus 5.5 suddenly dumb as rocks?
    ×0.47 144 | 36 points by jahala 5 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Swedish grocery chain refrigerators and freezers hacked overnight
    ×0.68 117 | 9 points by u1hcw9nx 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Is applying to Y Combinator worth it if you aren't an insider?
    ×0.66 148 | 22 points by all2 4 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. In LLM era, can software startup survive?
    ×1.14 102 | 37 points by sjia 2 days ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Pepperwind, a fictional company dataset with 223 tables and 79M rows
    ×0.65 110 | 16 points by rasinmuhammed 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Which hobby do you think is most diverting and pleasurable?
    ×1.16 127 | 23 points by ikelos 3 days ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Do you have side-projects that generate >$500 revenue/month?
    ×0.83 140 | 41 points by learner_yearner 5 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Anyone here still writing code for reasons other than fun or learning?
    ×0.44 139 | 12 points by czhu12 2 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. I indexed 37h of my YouTube library using an RTX 4090 and local ML models in 24h
    ×0.44 146 | 6 points by iliashad 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: I'd like to request Microsoft open source Windows XP
    ×0.43 150 | 9 points by fosco 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. DiscImageStudio: burn visible artwork onto CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs (github.com/JiaFeiMiao-K-Cat)
    ×1.84 8 #58 | 343 points by bpierre 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. My Favourite Laptop (jsbarretto.com)
    ×1.69 31 | 200 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. AI fan wikis riddled with errors are muddying the waters of games culture (eurogamer.net)
    ×2.11 82 | 101 points by rdmuser 2 days ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: To Honor Sir Patrick Stewart, Enjoy the TNG Episode Guessing Game (episodle.com)
    ×1.29 95 | 244 points by francisofascii 4 days ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: I Turned DOOM into a Transformer (github.com/mottopanikeiku)
    ×0.84 109 | 132 points by falperc 5 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Local AI app that runs an 80B model on an 8GB Mac (yanahchat.com)
    ×0.80 | 1 points by giovanniwants 17 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Microsoft Gives Apple Something to Think About – Surface Laptop Ultra Teardown [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by Udo_Schmitz 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. The U.S. Census Bureau and "Super Intelligence" (simonwillison.net)
    ×1.33 60 | 125 points by torutofu 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Better Together – AI agents team up against spam calls and texts (better-together.fun)
    ×0.68 141 | 6 points by adamontherun 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: A2Flow – A workflow engine built around "Agent as Workflow" (kaitoy.github.io)
    ×0.80 | 2 points by kaitoy 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. The Internals of PostgreSQL (interdb.jp)
    ×1.28 8 #1 | 102 points by ibobev 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Antimony: CAD Software Evolved from Lisp Machines and Not Drafting Tables (2015) (mattkeeter.com)
    ×0.89 23 #28 | 104 points by pmkary 11 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. French blood storage facilities targeted in cyberattack (twitter.com/etnshow)
    ×2.11 8 #64 | 4 points by pixel_popping 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Google Disrupts 1.3M Device Botnet, Says TV Box Maker Sold Criminal Access (google.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by motionlessveloc 39 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Taco: The Tensor Algebra Compiler (tensor-compiler.org)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by measurablefunc 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. WayPointo – A directory for discovering and comparing AI and creative products (waypointo.com)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by dotcurio 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. AI 'godfather' Hinton: humans might have been better off without AI (theguardian.com)
    ×3.68 28 | 6 points by entryleveljobsc 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: A language model that lives in a boot sector (github.com/kerlenton)
    ×0.93 99 | 107 points by kerlenton 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Sam Altman: All the RAM Should Belong to Me, So I Can Charge People to Use It (gizmodo.com)
    ×11.90 57 | 129 points by RickJWagner 1 day ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Diogenes – Account-less MCP Gateway to 45 Gemini models and guardrails (diogenesgateway.com)
    ×1.20 101 | 3 points by diogenes_l402 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Wrapped – your neighborhood's year in complaints (311wrapped.com)
    ×0.54 | 2 points by eltokh7 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Revisiting Buttons and Cursors (abeautifulsite.net)
    ×0.81 | 1 points by soheilpro 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. French blood storage facilities targeted in cyberattack (aa.com.tr)
    ×1.26 | 2 points by Fe2O3 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. What readers are reading: the 2026 US midterms (parse.ly)
    ×1.60 20 | 3 points by alexose 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Last night an AI agent performed brain surgery on a mouse (twitter.com/OcanaSantero)
    ×1.75 55 | 142 points by FacZap 1 day ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Japan's Jimi 'Mundane' Halloween Costumes of 2026 (spoon-tamago.com)
    ×1.47 14 #5 | 103 points by zdw 5 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Study estimates 75% of NFL players who died over 15-year span had CTE (nbcnews.com)
    ×3.21 38 #59 | 252 points by gmays 10 hours ago | 215 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Mintype – Free, zero-knowledge notes app with whiteboards (AGPL) (mintype.app)
    ×1.56 100 | 6 points by project59 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: I made a portals physics engine to prove my point (portalphysics.xyz)
    ×1.94 97 | 5 points by nick-keller 14 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Google to cutoff Search Engine access to schools banning Gen. AI (forbes.com)
    ×1.54 10 #85 | 17 points by mr_fantastic 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Polyend releases the Tracker firmware source code (polyend.com)
    ×1.18 40 | 152 points by austinallegro 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: NetIntel – Deterministic Operational Intelliegence for Linux (gnsoftlab.com)
    ×0.83 | 2 points by s_gnsoftlab 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Mozilla soliciting feedback on Firefox 160's new mini window feature (mozilla.org)
    ×1.90 | 2 points by davidee 12 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Intel stock collapse worsens as $3.5T chip rout spreads (yahoo.com)
    ×3.11 5 | 229 points by entryleveljobsc 1 day ago | 221 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Why Every AI Model Will Ship as a Torrent (pirateface.co)
    ×2.31 13 #70 | 12 points by ahoyychips 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Rotary Position Encodings for Graphs (idlemachines.co.uk)
    ×1.17 26 #74 | 4 points by smaddrellmander 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Supermarket freezers across Europe hit by second suspected cyber-attack (theguardian.com)
    ×2.87 14 | 410 points by fergie 1 day ago | 461 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. China's First Frontier AI Export Controls: Mofcom Announcement No. 48 (cloudsecurityalliance.org)
    ×1.47 66 | 158 points by jonnybgood 1 day ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: How to Disable Google AI Overview (howtodisableaioverview.com)
    ×0.54 98 | 3 points by fireflywedding 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. The 'Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen' post is misleading (honnibal.dev)
    ×4.35 15 #22 | 907 points by syllogism 13 hours ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN (bearblog.dev)
    ×9.97 19 #67 | 2856 points by karpathy 3 days ago | 633 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books mentioned on HN (hackerbooks.org)
    ×6.49 7 #84 | 1841 points by roansh 2 days ago | 304 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Moving our warehouse off DuckDB (posthog.com)
    ×1.21 34 | 184 points by emschwartz 1 day ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Kairos – Open-source risk and fraud decisioning platform (github.com/finic-ai)
    ×0.95 14 #9 | 59 points by ayanb9440 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Writing seen in PHerc. 306B, for the first time in 2000 years (scrollprize.substack.com)
    ×0.83 31 #25 | 115 points by benbreen 12 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. European RISC-V Industrial Computing Initiative (erici.eu)
    ×1.40 45 #43 | 195 points by ymz5 22 hours ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. SLAC researchers find proof of altermagnetism, a new magnetic phase (stanford.edu)
    ×0.93 58 #76 | 106 points by gmays 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: An interactive map of midterm ads (admap.org)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by Eden09 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot (neufangled.com)
    ×2.60 8 #2 | 382 points by nharada 8 hours ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Preparing for the Flipper One Kickstarter and opening pre-orders (flipper.net)
    ×1.65 12 #26 | 170 points by user_7832 6 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Kalshi and its co-founders face felony charges for violating Utah gambling laws (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.95 26 #38 | 445 points by rbanffy 10 hours ago | 402 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Outer Products: The Dual View of Linear Algebra (freddy.us)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by senderista 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: RotateAd, a web directory and banner exchange (rotate.ad)
    ×1.64 23 | 3 points by irfanhasnani 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Supermarket freezers in Belgium and Sweden hit by suspected cyber-attack (bbc.com)
    ×2.64 70 | 108 points by xqcgrek2 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Apple reports fourth quarter results (apple.com)
    ×1.58 47 | 90 points by mfiguiere 1 day ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: DrawDB – turn any live database into an ER diagram with one query (github.com/drawdb-io)
    ×1.58 74 | 5 points by 1ilit 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: ReBirth 338 in Browser (margeux.com)
    ×0.74 76 | 24 points by vegnus 19 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???