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  1. Tell HN: Major Microsoft Outlook/Exchange Online/Teams Outage in the Americas
    ×0.50 10 | 7 points by wmchen 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: Cast('abc' AS INTEGER) returns 0 in SQLite
    ×0.17 90 | 3 points by prmph 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: How do you market your consumer product
    ×0.39 53 | 5 points by mv4 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Why use Jev/decision models at all?
    ×0.65 59 | 5 points by niceguy1827 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Inception's Diffusion LLM API Is Shutting Down
    ×1.46 19 | 12 points by _matthew_ 5 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What are you working on? (November 2026)
    ×1.30 96 | 299 points by david927 4 days ago | 1068 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Tell HN: I'm working on original approaches to tag-based file organization
    ×0.11 | 2 points by prmph 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Claude Code's API billing depends on how often the cache expires
    ×0.20 | 2 points by MaxBozhenko 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What is holding back robots from being deployed everywhere?
    ×0.40 81 | 6 points by mjs06 9 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. ChatGPT Desktop forwards your SSH agent to remote machines
    ×1.32 99 | 219 points by DenGorbachev 3 days ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What is your current AI stack looking like?
    ×0.56 | 2 points by salleisha 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Do you still enjoy coding in C++?
    ×1.09 120 | 61 points by hasley 3 days ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Personal "Tears in the Rain" Moments
    ×0.34 101 | 14 points by HoldOnAMinute 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Any good ways on how to get into kernel dev?
    ×0.27 126 | 7 points by ihms 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. How do you keep up quality when you vibe-code?
    ×0.77 115 | 37 points by nkcodes 2 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. What are your favorite tools?
    ×0.47 122 | 13 points by d675 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Is lack of human imagination now the bottleneck instead of intelligence?
    ×0.34 125 | 8 points by amichail 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Do 9/10 new AI SaaS websites seem like they should be an editor command to you?
    ×0.29 133 | 5 points by Kevin_Flynn 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What do your technical interviews look like today? (Nov 2026)
    ×0.29 112 | 7 points by Heap4112 20 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: How did you convince family and friends to join your XMPP/Matrix server?
    ×0.86 134 | 102 points by mtlynch 5 days ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: "No AI" apps/companies/resources?
    ×0.49 127 | 8 points by BrunoBernardino 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: How do you evaluate the skills your AI agents use?
    ×0.68 146 | 23 points by enesalatas 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Did anybody used F# in a production?
    ×0.41 132 | 5 points by vad_n__ 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Software engineer with broken arm, any tips?
    ×0.31 128 | 6 points by spapas82 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Tell HN: Another GitHub Major Outage
    ×0.40 149 | 17 points by sergiotapia 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Anybody using their own AI harness as well?
    ×0.51 141 | 5 points by madprops 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Tell HN: A flood of reports of Opus 5.5 being nerfed
    ×2.03 147 | 32 points by b--l 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. CoderPad Reports a Security Breach
    ×0.53 151 | 9 points by werrett 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. uBlock Origin Can't Block Facebook Ads
    ×1.18 150 | 13 points by anidsiam 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Why does Reddit want me to use the iOS app on my desktop?
    ×1.46 124 | 10 points by corroclaro 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Play GTA5 on Browser (playgta5.com)
    ×3.40 55 | 90 points by ndkap 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Micron – Oberon with the Power of C (github.com/rochus-keller)
    ×0.97 77 | 65 points by Rochus 4 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Silos, An open source (MIT) CLI sandbox orchestrator for local agents (github.com/SilosLabs)
    ×1.83 88 | 4 points by AsDivyansh 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Talking Zen 6 with Mike Clark at AMD In-Depth (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×1.00 14 #15 | 160 points by dverlaeckt80 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Electric ship batteries promise compact, cooler power (ieee.org)
    ×0.59 35 #35 | 56 points by rbanffy 8 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. 20 Years of Pyrolog (pypy.org)
    ×0.72 49 #86 | 13 points by lumpa 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. ChurnLeak – Find failed payments and expiring cards in Stripe (churnleak.com)
    ×0.38 | 1 points by noox 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Rust 1.100 (github.com/rust-lang)
    ×3.22 87 | 307 points by thesuperbigfrog 3 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Rebuilding Amazon SES in Rust (github.com/nitrosend)
    ×1.51 137 | 4 points by auscaster 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Creating Worlds: Runes and Spells Prototype (fractalkitty.com)
    ×0.44 49 #39 | 21 points by evakhoury 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Paths in Pieces (stoppels.ch)
    ×0.45 31 #41 | 23 points by acossta 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Apple has new Mac app coming to make running local AI models easy (9to5mac.com)
    ×3.30 60 #69 | 550 points by linolevan 2 days ago | 551 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Thread Police eliminates stray replies in Slack channels with Jev (github.com/seanparkross)
    ×2.61 129 | 5 points by wateralien 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Our software engineering interviews are changing a little (janestreet.com)
    ×1.36 10 #25 | 140 points by maitland 8 hours ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Atuin Threads: All your agent sessions on every machine (atuin.sh)
    ×1.28 52 #74 | 232 points by linsomniac 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Buildout, Harmonies-based game to build AI Lab (eamag.me)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by eamag 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Flight Itinerary – plan multi-stop flight trips on a map (flightitinerary.app)
    ×1.08 86 | 3 points by WebSpyder 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: 3D to 2D, point clouds flattening (geometry images) (github.com/Neighborhood-Grid)
    ×0.60 97 | 24 points by adec314 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Inches TV – Inspiring Moments, 24/7 (inches.tv)
    ×3.51 66 | 6 points by npguy 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Comparing Jev, Gemini, and OpenAI decision models (slopcop.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by mfiguiere 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Keenable 1.0: Search at the Speed of AI (keenable.ai)
    ×0.84 | 2 points by phoenix120 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Greg Kurtzer's Ginux is now a userspace kernel (github.com/gmkurtzer)
    ×0.86 79 | 120 points by d3Xt3r 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Travel Alerts API – travel disruptions alerts from 80 sources (tripomatic.com)
    ×0.99 | 2 points by baranev 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. The internet won't necessarily go dark. It could simply stop working (washingtonpost.com)
    ×1.37 3 #58 | 8 points by lisper 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Valencia, Spain in Sim City/Isometric View (tinyvalencia.com)
    ×1.66 76 | 250 points by leugim 2 days ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: OGS-TS, an open standard for game telemetry on the local network (github.com/Open-Game-Standards)
    ×0.55 | 2 points by realityloop 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Where Were We (wherewerewe.app)
    ×0.84 144 | 58 points by zkiihne 5 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Lean Grimoire (wordpress.com)
    ×0.77 57 #83 | 60 points by smilelamp 19 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Learning Continually from Inference Compute (akshat57.github.io)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by matt_d 30 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Emacs in the Age of Magic (commandlinesystems.com)
    ×1.77 4 | 303 points by ggcr 1 day ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Sextant, one command to tune Firefox and Chrome with admin policies (github.com/tatsuikeda)
    ×0.49 | 2 points by tatsuikeda 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Flide: Make Jev-like decision models up to 9.5x faster (github.com/OmniJev)
    ×0.98 114 | 124 points by unikcc 3 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Faster Retrieval for Better, More Efficient RAG (apple.com)
    ×1.30 52 #65 | 232 points by zerop 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. OpenAI wants agents to tell websites where you are (joost.blog)
    ×1.82 | 2 points by gmays 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Collins' Word of the Year 2026: mogging (collinsdictionary.com)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by ChrisArchitect 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Tripod – a new podcast app inspired by Castro (benricemccarthy.com)
    ×0.37 | 1 points by haraball 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. How to Do Linux Kernel Development (kernel.org)
    ×1.36 27 | 3 points by brudgers 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Leafpress- a static site generator for digital gardens (leafpress.in)
    ×0.54 | 2 points by shivamx96 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Kapso – Iterative learning from enterprise data
    ×0.34 41 #19 | 25 points by alireza_msh 4 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: System requirements checking website for gamers along with optimization (ownplay.store)
    ×0.38 | 1 points by ak3311g 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. To deter bioterrorism, U.S. imposes new rules on ordering synthetic DNA (science.org)
    ×1.45 75 | 156 points by Metacelsus 1 day ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Former Nvidia CEO Huang had a relationship with a second employee, sources say (reuters.com)
    ×6.18 81 | 84 points by jbredeche 2 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. GitHub Incident with Webhooks, Actions, etc. (githubstatus.com)
    ×1.49 61 | 81 points by jbredeche 1 day ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Prompting Structure (flavor) Apparently still matters (github.com/bob-codedaptive)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by survivor0xb0b 49 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Human-Sheepdog Symbiosis (frmsaul.substack.com)
    ×0.89 | 2 points by remolacha 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Agentic Commits (github.com/grushetsky)
    ×0.36 | 1 points by toxickg 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Fitting Four 32 GB Resizable Bars Behind a PCIe Switch on Linux (doug.sh)
    ×0.95 16 #32 | 70 points by dougcalobrisi 6 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Hands-on fabrication of 2D material field-effect transistors for the classroom (iop.org)
    ×0.39 91 #43 | 6 points by EvgeniyZh 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Huawei releases MACaQ, its internal quantizer for local inference (github.com/huawei-csl)
    ×0.93 60 #73 | 128 points by thefox96 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. SpaceX and Tesla could announce merger deal as soon as December (cnbc.com)
    ×0.78 | 1 points by gok 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Moving 15 years out of Harvest (eddish.net)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by laodevdawg 20 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. In defense of giving a shit (possibilityspace.org)
    ×3.48 67 | 119 points by mrkn1 1 day ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: MFlare – Cloudflare usage and deploy status in the macOS menu bar (yuy1n.io)
    ×1.06 108 | 4 points by yuyinws 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Decoding REXPaint Files in Odin (tylerelton.com)
    ×0.32 69 #40 | 17 points by tylerelton 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Postman but a free 5MB iOS and Mac client with iCloud synch (pokharel.net)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by anurodhp 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Interactive HDR and Wide-Gamut WebGPU Planetary Elevation Visualization (agaura.github.io)
    ×0.85 | 2 points by clubers 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Gohawk – A Resource Leak and Concurrency Static Analyzer for Go (gohawk.dev)
    ×0.45 119 | 3 points by its-malbolge-ti 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Terminal-Bench 4.1 (tbench.ai)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by hn-aarvin 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. A great old-timey game-programming hack (2013) (moertel.com)
    ×1.70 60 | 279 points by palsecam 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigns after reports of second affair deepened scandal (bbc.co.uk)
    ×3.19 61 | 168 points by cognoboffin 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???