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  1. Ask HN: What do your technical interviews look like today? (Nov 2026)
    ×0.76 39 | 4 points by Heap4112 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Personal "Tears in the Rain" Moments
    ×0.32 12 | 9 points by HoldOnAMinute 5 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What are you working on? (November 2026)
    ×1.32 76 | 296 points by david927 3 days ago | 1052 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Any good ways on how to get into kernel dev?
    ×0.36 70 | 7 points by ihms 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. ChatGPT Desktop forwards your SSH agent to remote machines
    ×1.36 75 | 217 points by DenGorbachev 2 days ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Did anybody used F# in a production?
    ×0.12 | 2 points by vad_n__ 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How do you manage your AI agents' context across clients and projects?
    ×1.37 99 | 98 points by Michel_Aventin 4 days ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Software engineer with broken arm, any tips?
    ×0.23 78 | 4 points by spapas82 8 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Is lack of human imagination now the bottleneck instead of intelligence?
    ×0.31 86 | 6 points by amichail 12 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Do 9/10 new AI SaaS websites seem like they should be an editor command to you?
    ×0.21 92 | 3 points by Kevin_Flynn 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: "No AI" apps/companies/resources?
    ×0.52 80 | 7 points by BrunoBernardino 13 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. What are your favorite tools?
    ×0.44 93 | 11 points by d675 21 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Do you still enjoy coding in C++?
    ×1.17 107 | 59 points by hasley 2 days ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. How do you keep up quality when you vibe-code?
    ×0.78 82 | 35 points by nkcodes 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Anybody using their own AI harness as well?
    ×0.79 90 | 5 points by madprops 12 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How did you convince family and friends to join your XMPP/Matrix server?
    ×0.85 130 | 100 points by mtlynch 4 days ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What in the world is taking Ubuntu so long?
    ×1.62 119 | 219 points by linsomniac 5 days ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Why does Reddit want me to use the iOS app on my desktop?
    ×1.54 88 | 8 points by corroclaro 16 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How do you evaluate the skills your AI agents use?
    ×0.72 136 | 23 points by enesalatas 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Tell HN: Another GitHub Major Outage
    ×0.42 140 | 17 points by sergiotapia 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Does codex, Claude $20 subscription just seem unworkable now?
    ×1.03 83 | 4 points by sharemywin 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Superwall (iOS Paywall Provider) Hacked – customers asked to rotate keys
    ×0.34 144 | 4 points by epsteingpt 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. CoderPad Reports a Security Breach
    ×0.58 149 | 9 points by werrett 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Tell HN: A flood of reports of Opus 5.5 being nerfed
    ×2.17 141 | 31 points by b--l 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. uBlock Origin Can't Block Facebook Ads
    ×1.35 151 | 13 points by anidsiam 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Tell HN: Notion AI chat sessions have been exposed via Fireworks AI hack
    ×0.91 124 | 18 points by RamblingCTO 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. 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 | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Anyone else notice Fable 5.2 making grammar errors?
    ×0.29 153 | 5 points by linearza 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. The Computer Graphics Book of Knowledge (cmu.edu)
    ×0.98 18 #40 | 68 points by num42 10 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Peer-to-peer WebRTC connections with built-in signaling and discovery (github.com/lukks)
    ×1.05 29 #50 | 76 points by LuKks 13 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: 3D to 2D, point clouds flattening (geometry images) (github.com/Neighborhood-Grid)
    ×0.45 41 #81 | 18 points by adec314 10 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Wiki.js 3.0 Release (js.wiki)
    ×0.34 | 1 points by ethanbezz 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: SilentStars – Lesser-known open-source projects still being built (silentstars.dev)
    ×1.12 44 | 3 points by fcapuz2 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Where Were We (wherewerewe.app)
    ×0.84 143 | 58 points by zkiihne 4 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Smart home devices should work without the internet (docodethatmatters.com)
    ×4.65 12 #57 | 1143 points by skittleson 1 day ago | 432 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Open research, stronger privacy: Making Firefox users harder to fingerprint (mozilla.org)
    ×2.81 33 #79 | 166 points by Vinnl 13 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Coding is dead, long live Coding (twitter.com/i)
    ×0.36 | 1 points by iloveyoutwo 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. MaldocTrace: Emulate VBA and Excel 4.0 macros in a simulated Windows environment (github.com/debugactiveprocess)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by ironbits 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. The $637B Ledger (beehiiv.com)
    ×0.34 | 1 points by bossness00 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Your TV can see through walls (2025) (maurycyz.com)
    ×1.79 41 | 277 points by Curiositry 1 day ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890) (archives.gov)
    ×1.05 52 | 91 points by hashmap 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: DBDelve – Open-Source DB Client Made with Rust and GPUI
    ×0.89 84 | 122 points by shayan_abbas 2 days ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: We compressed a 31B video+audio diffusion model to 14B, 6 steps, INT8 (github.com/Video-Rebirth)
    ×1.10 133 | 83 points by jiant 4 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Tim Peters has died (python.org)
    ×4.36 3 #3 | 893 points by ayhanfuat 10 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Ask HN: Skills expected for junior to mid-level DevOps/infra roles in the US?
    ×0.41 | 1 points by GR_08 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Physically Controllable Relighting of Photographs (yaksoy.github.io)
    ×0.99 28 #71 | 62 points by summarity 14 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Compromised GitHub accounts push CI secret stealer to 61k repositories (aikido.dev)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by acossta 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. ExxonMobil launches legal challenge to EU carbon capture rules (ft.com)
    ×2.16 18 | 4 points by JumpCrisscross 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. rVPN – stealth VPN with end-to-end encryption (rvpn.org)
    ×1.58 54 | 80 points by michaelsbradley 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Faster Retrieval for Better, More Efficient RAG (apple.com)
    ×1.25 10 #14 | 162 points by zerop 9 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Despite human sacrifice after El Niño, ancient societies generally peaceful (frontiersin.org)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by gumby 43 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: mib – A 300KiB Vim-Style Markdown Scratchpad for Linux / Wayland (github.com/osigurdson)
    ×1.13 87 | 3 points by osigurdson 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Zaelar, self-hostable life agent with voice, UI and network A2A (zaelar.com)
    ×1.49 108 | 3 points by zaelar 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: WallHang – Plan a gallery wall and get exact nail positions (iOS) (wallhang.app)
    ×2.79 131 | 7 points by morrowfield 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. LLMs Play Zachtronics' TIS-100 (wincon.dev)
    ×1.17 41 #89 | 91 points by fairestvalue 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: A Git friendly open API client (github.com/awake-client)
    ×1.50 138 | 5 points by clementherve 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. The Power and Legacy of Virginia Tech's Mac-Based Supercomputers (512pixels.net)
    ×1.12 20 #54 | 39 points by CharlesW 9 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Securing Rust's supply chain with an extended standard library (kerkour.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by crabmusket 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Komrad – an AI agent that does not work for you (komr.ad)
    ×1.48 98 | 4 points by harelj6 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Reinwatch – a Claude Code mod that stops runaway subagents (github.com/sofumel)
    ×1.90 122 | 3 points by sofumel 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Reddit Migration's Impact on Lemmy (2023) (jmis.org)
    ×1.13 14 #74 | 38 points by Rochus 10 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Godbolt-in-a-floating-window for Neovim (C, C++, Rust) (github.com/0xdeadf1sh)
    ×0.91 18 #42 | 96 points by 0xdeadf1sh 13 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Starlink Mini 2 (starlink.com)
    ×3.16 22 | 504 points by robertjfclarke 1 day ago | 590 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. ClickHouse Acquires Xata (xata.io)
    ×1.24 72 | 99 points by mebcitto 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: I Rebuilt iCloud's Apps in Rust for Linux, Windows and Android (github.com/YashwanthKamireddi)
    ×1.07 111 | 3 points by YashOnYC 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Browser-based PDF and image tools that never upload your files (bytepriva.com)
    ×2.24 100 | 4 points by bytepriva 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: TrueDate – Filter searches to pre-2023 and detect fake article dates (github.com/zdying)
    ×2.66 103 | 4 points by zdying 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. The hardest notes to find on the guitar (gitori.com)
    ×0.67 23 #30 | 54 points by udit99 9 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Multiple remote code execution vulnerabilities in danfoss sm-800A (midnightblue.nl)
    ×0.48 57 #69 | 18 points by rros 10 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. M John Harrison becomes first science fiction author to win the Booker (theguardian.com)
    ×1.55 52 #90 | 167 points by sorokod 1 day ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Can commercial stage-gates keep enterprise AI pilots out of procurement stalls? (bizmasterynow.com)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by lrmorley 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Tyler Cowen: Jensen Huang's Is Out. Who's Next? (thefp.com)
    ×0.35 | 1 points by paulpauper 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Nvidia prepares to fire CEO Jensen Huang, WSJ reports (twitter.com/watcherguru)
    ×7.64 88 | 225 points by alexmolas 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Thousand Suns, a nuclear war sandbox (itch.io)
    ×1.15 | 2 points by gxd 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Love and Capitalism (1987) [pdf] (alanmacfarlane.com)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by pash 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Let over Lambda–50 Years of Lisp (2008) (letoverlambda.com)
    ×1.08 68 | 84 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: I created a library for correctly using SQLite in Go programs (github.com/cattlecloud)
    ×0.91 49 | 19 points by sethops1 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. The Utah Teapot (utah.edu)
    ×1.32 14 #11 | 87 points by cobbal 6 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. A living 3D aquarium in the browser: fish, plants, caustics and light shafts (google.com)
    ×0.64 | 1 points by lucakk 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Tailscale's DNS IPv6 spells out "Tailscale" (reddit.com)
    ×2.55 47 | 137 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Formalizing CPython (broyojo.com)
    ×1.45 71 | 134 points by carnevalem 2 days ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: small WireGuard mesh VPN with no coordination server (github.com/CLoaKY233)
    ×1.31 104 | 4 points by laysheth 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Apple has new Mac app coming to make running local AI models easy (9to5mac.com)
    ×3.59 19 #37 | 517 points by linolevan 1 day ago | 526 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Micron – Oberon with the Power of C (github.com/rochus-keller)
    ×0.94 15 #47 | 54 points by Rochus 9 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Greg Kurtzer's Ginux is now a userspace kernel (github.com/gmkurtzer)
    ×0.86 39 #62 | 115 points by d3Xt3r 21 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Gemini 4 Carbon is now available (blog.google)
    ×4.54 14 | 291 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: STE80 Humanizer – de-AI text by writing 80% of the way to ASD-STE100 (github.com/Dodaios)
    ×1.35 85 | 111 points by Dodaios 2 days ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Rystic – Stateful Local Simulators of Slack, GitHub and Linear (rystic.ai)
    ×1.63 142 | 4 points by evan_whitehouse 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. The Apple Support Community will permanently close on November 20, 2026 (apple.com)
    ×2.16 8 #29 | 132 points by tech234a 7 hours ago | 213 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. IBM Quantum Nighthawk Demonstrates New Levels of Speed and Quality (ibm.com)
    ×0.76 9 #31 | 52 points by gok 6 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???