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  1. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)
    ×1.13 26 #5 | 164 points by whoishiring 12 hours ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026)
    ×1.01 20 #28 | 98 points by whoishiring 12 hours ago | 289 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Commadore64 vs. Nvidia GB10
    ×0.81 39 | 3 points by spottedmarley 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Email leaked while traveling abroad?
    ×1.28 6 | 17 points by thatonehack 9 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What are you reading?
    ×2.38 29 | 452 points by dan-bailey 2 days ago | 865 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Rpi – a Rust rewrite of the Pi agent, 10× faster startup
    ×0.38 72 | 8 points by bigfishhk 15 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What are you reading to your kids?
    ×0.59 102 | 14 points by jopizio 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. 40 years of writing code. I didn't see the end coming
    ×2.69 37 | 17 points by temilson 13 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Muse.ai gets me kicked off fb marketplace
    ×0.90 83 | 30 points by zcalvin 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What landmarks/lighthouses in the era of LLM/AI?
    ×0.27 99 | 3 points by throw_away_ai 15 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. OpenAI halved the allowance of the $200 plan to 10x
    ×2.40 59 | 18 points by k9294 19 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What's a good title for a software engineer now?
    ×0.57 104 | 5 points by type4 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2026)
    ×0.85 81 | 4 points by jon_north 12 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Tell HN: Thanks for All the Fish
    ×1.39 88 | 15 points by neilv 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Factory AI vs. Cognition (Devin) board tussle
    ×0.35 121 | 3 points by pranshuchittora 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How do you get your first users for an MVP?
    ×0.34 122 | 16 points by amina124 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: How will the AI endgame play out?
    ×1.07 103 | 14 points by jackgavigan 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: What are people doing with their OpenClaw set ups now?
    ×0.47 130 | 19 points by will10pa 4 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Stanislaw Lem quote related to LLMs
    ×1.82 95 | 8 points by daly 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: OpenSEO inspiration for other tools, asking for opinion
    ×0.17 134 | 4 points by yash_salesup 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Google now ships "ads" with their Android system update?
    ×0.32 120 | 10 points by y42 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Management is forcing us to use AI
    ×0.66 125 | 20 points by aksjfveoq 3 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Ex-swe what part time did you pickup?
    ×0.20 | 2 points by conqrr 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Quest: Open-source, safety-focused harness (github.com/electric-capital)
    ×1.15 | 2 points by puntium 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: Mingbird – an agent harness that makes a 2B model finish real tasks (github.com/Mingbird)
    ×1.94 114 | 5 points by Gustor 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Butterflies use optical illusions to dodge predators (essex.ac.uk)
    ×1.13 19 #20 | 19 points by gmays 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Counter Intelligence Invitation (meetup.com)
    ×0.62 | 2 points by shoman3003 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Pg_redact: Content-aware PII redaction with Jev, enforced in Postgres (neon.com)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by thruflo22 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Tesla takes on $30B in credit as it approaches unprofitability (electrek.co)
    ×5.64 46 | 158 points by ciconia 1 day ago | 219 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: TrueScribe – Linux local AI transcription studio (truescribe.app)
    ×1.20 69 | 5 points by tinykerneldev 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Fast, Lightroom-compatible RAW photo editor for Linux and macOS (github.com/pch)
    ×2.74 110 | 8 points by pchm 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Adding Floating-Point Decimals for Fun and Profit (vero.site)
    ×0.63 40 #62 | 58 points by ibobev 2 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. 'President of the Unites States': White House's AI accord includes spellingerror (theguardian.com)
    ×0.94 | 1 points by hkhn 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Parsing compressed JSON at 40 GB/s (lemire.me)
    ×0.74 | 1 points by yarapavan 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Breadcrumb, record everything on your mac + context manager for AI (innerloop.works)
    ×2.84 1 | 17 points by jv22222 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Frog and Toad and the Increasingly Capable Machines (frogandtoad.ai)
    ×4.40 1 #18 | 40 points by supermdguy 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Intercommunalism (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.31 | 2 points by mooreds 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. The AI Race Just Got Awkward (insufferable.dev)
    ×7.92 20 | 409 points by allisdust 1 day ago | 455 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Various Projects Find Hidden SDR Capabilities in ESP32 Microcontrollers (rtl-sdr.com)
    ×2.00 8 #17 | 179 points by nkw 12 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Better Call GPT – Plugin for Talking to Claude Code in Live (github.com/insta-fusion)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by instafusion 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Gemini 4 Argon (High): Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai)
    ×3.10 24 | 111 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Riffle – Switch between windows of the current Mac app with Option-Tab (github.com/voising)
    ×2.69 111 | 6 points by voising 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. A fifth of Swiss Alpine ice has vanished in five years (swissinfo.ch)
    ×3.16 21 #59 | 18 points by Teever 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Senate holds a hearing on AI [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by smalltorch 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes (nytimes.com)
    ×4.41 68 | 249 points by gmays 14 hours ago | 235 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Reddit is putting more limits on old.reddit.com (arstechnica.com)
    ×5.73 49 | 60 points by throw0101a 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Pac-Bench – How well can models one-shot a Pac-Man game? (jonclegg.github.io)
    ×1.00 94 | 79 points by thefourthchime 3 days ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Effect 4.0 (effect.website)
    ×1.91 10 #33 | 53 points by stevefan1999 8 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Book of Shapes – Collection of minimal, generative and customizable SVG-patterns (bookofshapes.com)
    ×2.02 23 #36 | 258 points by eustoria 2 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Suits Are Better Tech Than Modern Clothes (devz.cl)
    ×2.20 15 #78 | 82 points by orphereus 21 hours ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Layout – Order food anywhere with AI (layout.link)
    ×2.03 115 | 6 points by colemorell 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. The GPU Black Market That Washington Can't Shut Down (amcompute.com)
    ×1.45 22 #58 | 24 points by ilreb 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. SDF vs. MSDF vs. Slug: GPU Text Rendering (alphapixeldev.com)
    ×1.12 22 | 176 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Parrot – Open-Source Smart Meeting Recorder with Co-Pilot on Mac (openparrot.app)
    ×1.46 76 | 36 points by turantekin 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Secret Santa Name Generator – draw names in the browser, no sign-up (secretsantanamegenerator.com)
    ×0.50 | 2 points by xmasdong 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: The Kio Programming Language (jdevuyst.github.io)
    ×1.28 82 | 5 points by jdevuyst 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: DragomanD – local language translator for Linux (l10n-bg.dev)
    ×1.97 100 | 8 points by eniac111 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Pi v1.0.0 (github.com/earendil-works)
    ×1.18 34 #54 | 7 points by bjornroberg 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Maylang – A self-hosted systems language compiled with LLMs (github.com/mirged)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by mirged 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Canada fast-tracks Pacific oil pipeline to reduce US dependence (apnews.com)
    ×4.92 41 | 78 points by geox 11 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Exhaling may speed up reaction times (sciencenews.org)
    ×1.18 | 2 points by wawayanda 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Great Dirhombicosidodecahedron ("Miller's Monster") (software3d.com)
    ×0.91 41 | 82 points by cobbzilla 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Vectorless, Reasoning-Based RAG (github.com/VectifyAI)
    ×3.84 86 | 7 points by nvmdbljstm 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. TurboNotes: Local-first Markdown notes, Turbo Pascal like looks, saves to GitHub (turbonotes.net)
    ×1.07 45 #51 | 9 points by vadepaysa 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. FTC is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI companies over product risks (cnbc.com)
    ×2.30 35 #72 | 200 points by dgellow 14 hours ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Trump's AI rebrand causes 'unprecedented' demand for Slovenian website names (bbc.com)
    ×0.86 | 1 points by bundie 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. SDF Public Access Unix System ... est. 1987 (sdf.org)
    ×0.96 45 | 101 points by kmstout 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman (spritefusion.com)
    ×1.52 77 | 192 points by HugoDz 3 days ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. StreetComplete on iOS is now in public beta (github.com/streetcomplete)
    ×2.37 2 #8 | 531 points by Snowly 16 hours ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Red Hat being phased out of existence? (techrights.org)
    ×2.53 27 #48 | 180 points by amcclure 11 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Domainpuff.com – Find memorable domain names within your budget (domainpuff.com)
    ×1.24 123 | 3 points by brunoelylemon 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Fusor – Like Vue, but the logic is Rust (fusor.build)
    ×1.95 135 | 10 points by andreespirela 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Made a digital wall for AI Agents to "tag" (tomasmed.dev)
    ×0.40 | 2 points by tomasmed 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Vote on which of Hacker News' challenges for AI have been met (stoppels.ch)
    ×1.80 20 #15 | 102 points by stabbles 9 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. The last time my family was replaced by technology (darcemont.fr)
    ×2.09 19 #67 | 322 points by megalomanu 1 day ago | 625 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. OVOS and Mycroft: A Fork That Wasn't Meant to Be (openvoiceos.org)
    ×1.34 | 2 points by giancarlostoro 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Codex stopped working after latest update on macOS (twitter.com/theadriannoel)
    ×1.30 | 2 points by absqueued 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: What 482 hospitals charge vs. what insurers pay, from their own files (billmender.com)
    ×2.72 40 | 6 points by curatedmcp 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Perspica – A semantic diff for reviewing code (github.com/sshah03)
    ×0.99 93 | 14 points by sshah03 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Call4me, an AI agent that handles phone calls for you (call4.me)
    ×0.51 | 2 points by skeptrune 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Canadian-German AI lab eyes building sovereign AI for Europe (rapporteur.com)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by doener 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Fast Blur with Animated Radius (aras-p.info)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by luu 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Merchants, Slaves, Peculium: The History of LLCs (kjmlaw.com)
    ×1.29 | 2 points by gradus_ad 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. RSS Feeds for Last.fm (xiffy.nl)
    ×1.13 56 | 129 points by Baljhin 2 days ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. 56k.rip – the 1996 dial-up internet experience (56k.rip)
    ×2.28 18 #90 | 260 points by adunk 1 day ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. CHM Live – Anthropic's Boris Cherny, Creator of Claude Code [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by elkguy 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Most data centers refusing to say how much water, electricity they use (nltimes.nl)
    ×3.73 18 | 216 points by Thom2503 1 day ago | 197 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Gutsy, a 0.8B Jev-compatible decision model that runs on your CPU (github.com/kouhxp)
    ×2.74 53 | 8 points by mrkn1 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Kanmaps – Product roadmaps like videogame skill trees (kanmaps.com)
    ×2.40 101 | 6 points by pasharayan 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Pi 1.0 (earendil.com)
    ×4.72 #1 | 834 points by sergiotapia 7 hours ago | 287 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???