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  1. XCancel and Nitter are receiving C&D letters from XCorp
    ×2.12 68 | 3 points by mobilio 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Open source in-browser log sanitizer, feedback required
    ×1.26 | 2 points by andriimb 58 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Is what Open Commonplace legal?
    ×1.25 | 2 points by VishnuShayeq01 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What are you using to access x.com at the moment?
    ×0.49 | 2 points by throwaw12 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Looking for people to follow designing systems to ship code with AI agents
    ×0.54 5 | 4 points by mutahn 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Why are Claude models so verbose?
    ×0.29 | 2 points by JacobWolf 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Good large format (>20 inches) touchscreen E-Paper display options?
    ×0.44 71 | 28 points by foota 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2026 – Show and tell
    ×1.96 72 | 71 points by kaladan 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Anyone in Legal Tech Here?
    ×0.23 80 | 4 points by bgajjela 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What Did Anthropic Bill Me For?
    ×0.28 100 | 4 points by OhMeadhbh 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Android OS with Linux level customisation
    ×0.12 92 | 3 points by KinetiNode 14 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Is AI slowing you down?
    ×1.27 51 | 16 points by charbz 15 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What business would you build if you couldn't use the internet?
    ×0.56 78 | 5 points by spking 15 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. I'm a CTO. We took PE money 6 months ago. AMA
    ×0.30 77 | 8 points by scottndecker 19 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. How I Read Books
    ×0.33 97 | 12 points by nomilk 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Talk Like Claude Day
    ×0.40 114 | 20 points by KenPainter 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. A technology that counts reps and scores muscle failure from the Apple Watch
    ×0.09 133 | 3 points by baraa_bilal 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Should GitHub downtimes impact considering Golang for a new project?
    ×0.24 | 2 points by gchamonlive 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What AI companies provide human support?
    ×0.16 137 | 3 points by kbrannigan 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Tell HN: HN Algolia Search not showing new results from the past 24 hours
    ×0.29 127 | 4 points by infinitifall 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. I write my own Markdown
    ×0.17 | 2 points by KenPainter 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Do teams still use scrum and sprints?
    ×0.30 118 | 6 points by peter_retief 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Trust Between Agent's Companies
    ×0.10 | 2 points by mathieu_aithos 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Is there any way to use workflow to control Harness?
    ×0.15 | 2 points by juntz 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Why is my innovative IDEA is always behind the others?
    ×0.29 140 | 3 points by juntz 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. You Don't Need AI to Generate Code
    ×0.68 120 | 6 points by Lozybug 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Harpoon for Sublime Text 4
    ×0.28 141 | 3 points by tomoekn 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. I've tested some local LLMs on prosumer hardware, here are some findings
    ×0.33 132 | 7 points by felineflock 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Buslens – where can I get to by bus? (UK) (rupertlinacre.com)
    ×1.52 10 #3 | 16 points by RobinL 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Firefox 157 will include JPEG XL by default on all platforms (google.com)
    ×3.64 19 #35 | 378 points by yboris 15 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Memory Ordering in CPUs (wordpress.com)
    ×0.79 80 #58 | 14 points by matt_d 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Solving the 1+N Query Problem (acadia.engineering)
    ×0.83 26 #84 | 57 points by wheatBread 19 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. MIDI-hook – Your MIDI controller, now a command center (github.com/skorotkiewicz)
    ×1.18 | 2 points by modinfo 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Clara (YC P26) is hiring a growth engineer to bring AI doctors to market (ycombinator.com)
    16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. A brief history of federal lift ticket regulation (zakpodmore.substack.com)
    ×0.95 29 #36 | 63 points by CGMthrowaway 12 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. The End of Programming (pauldix.com)
    ×4.92 64 #65 | 50 points by kosyooo 1 hour ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Visualizing Combos in Judo in R (r-bloggers.com)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by asaiacai 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Effect v4 core package now has no external dependencies (twitter.com/tim_smart)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by tosh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21) (openai.com)
    ×2.19 13 | 335 points by tosh 1 day ago | 335 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Vanilla OS 3 Reunion – Immutable and Reproducible Operating System (vanillaos.org)
    ×0.54 82 | 31 points by NN708 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Offer discounts and get more visitors (outdiscount.lol)
    ×0.66 | 2 points by devarifhossain 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Interactive 10M particles in WebGL forming a planets, in the browser (gaploid.github.io)
    ×1.53 129 | 4 points by gaploid 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels (fda.gov)
    ×1.81 5 #5 | 397 points by sunnynagra 14 hours ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices (github.com/zedeus)
    ×6.15 13 #18 | 937 points by Banditoz 16 hours ago | 778 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. The treasury bond mess: is this the demise of the US as a safe haven? (theguardian.com)
    ×3.64 54 | 135 points by fittingopposite 1 day ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Dev // Cyber Toolkit – a free floating dev/cybersecurity widget (dev-cyber-toolkit.netlify.app)
    ×0.48 134 | 7 points by axoupicsou 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: RepoRoulette: Randomly Sample Repositories from GitHub (github.com/gojiplus)
    ×0.75 | 2 points by neehao 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Fake Zoom, hang out with AI coworkers and feel the synergy (fake-zoom.pages.dev)
    ×2.06 128 | 4 points by stets 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Ox-Alpha Is GLM? (dejan.ai)
    ×1.91 48 #88 | 86 points by jitbit 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Why some US restaurants are banning tips (bbc.com)
    ×3.96 21 | 192 points by rock_artist 23 hours ago | 392 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: LunarBasic, a BASIC that compiles 2D games to native executables (lunarbasic.com)
    ×1.27 121 | 6 points by essial 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Headless Tools – No UI SaaS tools for agents (hdls.tools)
    ×1.50 136 | 3 points by fayazara 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.46 4 #2 | 97 points by zoenolan 5 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Bomb fishing is wreaking havoc on Indonesia's coral reefs (yale.edu)
    ×1.79 7 #22 | 319 points by speckx 19 hours ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Don't Wordle (dontwordle.com)
    ×1.91 13 #24 | 351 points by Hbruz0 21 hours ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: TeXbrain, a LaTeX editor that runs pdfTeX in the browser via WASM (github.com/swimmingbrain)
    ×1.05 7 #31 | 94 points by swimmingbrain 11 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Leibler – Post-train models from your production traces (leibler.dev)
    ×0.84 | 1 points by kkkamur 2 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. What Is a Syslog Server? (greencloudvps.com)
    ×0.85 60 | 76 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Try Omarchy as a native, hardware-accelerated app on an Apple Silicon Mac (github.com/themartiano)
    ×2.70 70 #73 | 13 points by jbverschoor 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. A Blackstone real estate company exposed SSN digits, DOBs, addresses and more (alexschapiro.com)
    ×1.37 50 | 123 points by bearsyankees 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: JeopardyGithub: GitHub Repo to Jeopardy Game (jeopardygithub.com)
    ×1.18 104 | 3 points by init0 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Oldinsurancemaps.net is now a Charter Project (openstreetmap.us)
    ×1.46 26 #4 | 4 points by altilunium 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Bill Gates says we've passed AI's danger thresholds. Now what? (technologyreview.com)
    ×1.38 | 2 points by mdp2021 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Ask HN: Why do you use Ubuntu?
    ×0.52 | 1 points by flanked-evergl 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. More than half of adults in U.S. say they lack basic statistical understanding (psu.edu)
    ×1.84 17 #21 | 92 points by giuliomagnifico 3 hours ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Run OpenBSD on DigitalOcean for $4/month (wallyjones.com)
    ×1.19 18 #26 | 164 points by speckx 16 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: I made a Raspberry with Qwen my local car AI (github.com/ThinkOffApp)
    ×1.10 16 #27 | 141 points by petruspennanen 15 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence (gultsch.de)
    ×1.51 25 #87 | 265 points by inputmice 1 day ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Social media use on the rise among Australian under-16s after ban: data (france24.com)
    ×0.81 | 1 points by giuliomagnifico 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. MCP to Talk to Blockchain Data (bitquery.io)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by YratherNot 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. France's tax agency got hacked (in French) (cybernetica.fr)
    ×1.34 10 | 116 points by zakxxi 20 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: BidSonar – MCP server for UK/EU government contracts and grants (bidsonar.com)
    ×1.00 116 | 8 points by flibbertigibber 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs (lectronz.com)
    ×6.57 46 #79 | 1616 points by l-one-lone 1 day ago | 1011 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Category Theory for Kids (kiddle.co)
    ×0.85 51 #80 | 14 points by marysminefnuf 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. The Market for Lemons (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.79 15 | 3 points by tosh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Kern – container and resource runtime in a 1.5 MB binary, no daemon (github.com/getkern)
    ×1.00 63 | 68 points by realexweb 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Auriflow – open infrastructure layer for hearing loss research (auriflow.io)
    ×0.42 | 2 points by surya_waters 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. My Anti-AI Manifesto (alessandrorosa.altervista.org)
    ×1.90 8 #28 | 4 points by alesrosa 51 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: PicoMQ – Durable Streams over HTTP, on object storage (picomq.com)
    ×1.07 43 | 153 points by adesh_nalpet 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. OpenAI restores 5-hour Codex and Work limits for ChatGPT Plus users (9to5mac.com)
    ×2.18 9 | 114 points by MC995 21 hours ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded (twitter.com/lemire)
    ×3.59 11 #64 | 990 points by tosh 1 day ago | 718 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Braam – An operating system that runs in a browser tab (github.com/braamix)
    ×1.81 | 2 points by begoon 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. One sentence owns this page until you pay $1 more (takethethrone.fun)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by letapnahsor 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Thomson Reuters Launches Its Own Frontier Model (thomsonreuters.com)
    ×2.66 27 | 133 points by giuliomagnifico 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Headlong: A microharness for persistent agents (laude.org)
    ×1.13 26 | 120 points by lbw1215 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Warnock: Harnessing GPU geometry amplification for vector graphics (acm.org)
    ×0.51 67 #53 | 42 points by coffeeaddict1 18 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Crafting QR Codes: A deep dive into QR code art (2024) (kylezhe.ng)
    ×1.20 49 #76 | 130 points by subset 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Chinese robot Tiangong clocks sub-9 second 100 metres (reuters.com)
    ×2.56 31 | 4 points by hakkikonu 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. World humanoid robot games show runners breaking records, bursting into flames (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.57 4 | 3 points by robin_reala 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Browser automation with no chromedriver and no Node driver (github.com/angeldevmobile)
    ×1.02 65 | 3 points by usxr1515 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???