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  1. We handed our lives to closed software. AI is about to show us the cost
    ×0.33 8 | 3 points by earlythesis 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What does building hardware with AI look like?
    ×0.15 | 2 points by mjs06 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Which open source LLM works best locally, and on what hardware?
    ×0.27 29 | 3 points by donkan168 3 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Vercel should fork and maintain Deno
    ×0.23 87 | 15 points by gfalcao 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What are you working on? (November 2026)
    ×1.28 103 | 303 points by david927 6 days ago | 1088 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Tell HN: Google Search to start locking down search behind a login wall
    ×0.65 80 | 44 points by exploraz 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Dropbox privacy policy, cause for concern?
    ×0.39 66 | 10 points by herodoturtle 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What is the state of self-hosting email in 2026?
    ×0.63 84 | 44 points by 0o777 2 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Anthropic, can you please make up your mind with your models?
    ×0.29 82 | 5 points by xlayn 15 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Tell HN: Cloudflare's abuse report form is a blank page
    ×0.62 105 | 17 points by basilikum 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What AI agent infrastructure are you using in 2026?
    ×0.39 111 | 3 points by aurumagent 18 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. ChatGPT Desktop forwards your SSH agent to remote machines
    ×1.27 107 | 221 points by DenGorbachev 6 days ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What are the most useful, concrete AI skills to independently learn?
    ×2.54 60 | 87 points by shnock 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Do you still enjoy coding in C++?
    ×1.03 135 | 66 points by hasley 6 days ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Best books you read in 2026?
    ×1.41 74 | 12 points by 013 21 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How did you convince family and friends to join your XMPP/Matrix server?
    ×0.83 136 | 102 points by mtlynch 1 week ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Using LLMs outside of reflection is an anti-pattern
    ×0.95 139 | 4 points by jcarmackdaddy 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Tell HN: Major Microsoft Outlook/Exchange Online/Teams Outage in the Americas
    ×0.27 131 | 14 points by wmchen 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What use are the non-major cryptocurrencies?
    ×0.38 137 | 4 points by otohp 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: OpenAI Astra post-launch slump?
    ×0.44 138 | 4 points by iJohnDoe 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Do you see a human written book more valuable than an AI written one?
    ×0.27 126 | 10 points by znano 2 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Show HN: Godbolt-in-a-floating-window for Neovim (C, C++, Rust) (github.com/0xdeadf1sh)
    ×0.86 102 | 106 points by 0xdeadf1sh 4 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Show HN: Log every LLM call with tokens, cost, latency, and time to first token (github.com/garritfra)
    ×0.37 123 | 10 points by 4 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Keeping players consistent inside a multiplayer world model (vor.tech)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by chickenhun 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Jensen Huang and the Storied Lineage of the Honey Trap (newyorker.com)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by ViktorRay 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. How Not to Build a Music Player (alichraghi.github.io)
    ×1.60 48 | 178 points by vinhnx 1 day ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Hello Triangle, a puzzle game where you build a GPU (icedlatte.ca)
    ×0.67 | 2 points by icedlatte 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Flide: Make Jev-like decision models up to 9.5x faster (github.com/OmniJev)
    ×1.00 120 | 126 points by unikcc 6 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Disk encryption on NetBSD – achieving secrecy (netbsd.org)
    ×1.05 25 #36 | 88 points by jaypatelani 14 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Thinking about ATC Modernization (twitter.com/bscholl)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by tosh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: What are you reading? (November 2026)
    ×2.36 31 | 4 points by marai2 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Tech companies are trying to shift the concept of privacy again (eff.org)
    ×4.41 44 | 590 points by gslin 1 day ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Epistemic News – re-ranking HN comments (ianchanning.com)
    ×0.64 | 2 points by icc97 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Aris – an open-source agent that lives in the MacBook notch (github.com/LumenJSN)
    ×1.54 122 | 4 points by lumenjs 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. ULA suffers first total mission failure with loss of Vulcan rocket carrying 40 A (spaceflightnow.com)
    ×1.49 | 2 points by bookmtn 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Do you believe that we are alone in this universe?
    ×0.80 | 2 points by SERSI-S 44 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: MeowDisplay Is iPhone Mirroring, but in Reverse (meowdisplay.app)
    ×0.78 116 | 121 points by raiseCatError 6 days ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: NETWAR – hacker MMO with 15-second card duels on a shared hex map (play-netwar.com)
    ×0.45 125 | 7 points by Fivekoto 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Advancing science and engineering with Antigravity's /teamwork (research.google)
    ×1.21 12 #75 | 209 points by acossta 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Black Ops II statically recompiled to native ARM64 macOS (github.com/adrbn)
    ×1.51 95 | 151 points by adrbn 4 days ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Jonathan Blow – If AI solved coding, why is my software still the same? [video] (youtube.com)
    ×3.51 20 #85 | 479 points by helloplanets 2 days ago | 723 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. The Risk Factors Nvidia Forgot to Mention (youtube.com)
    ×1.18 | 2 points by lenerdenator 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: ArchLog – a memory for your team's engineering decisions (archlog.dev)
    ×1.04 | 2 points by ArchLog 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Lovable apps expose passport details and more than 200K private messages (crissyfield.de)
    ×3.78 7 #31 | 964 points by armcat 1 day ago | 368 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Animating Bad Apple with No JavaScript, No CSS, & Minimal HTML (rose.systems)
    ×0.88 | 1 points by airstrike 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Ukraine knocks out 36% of Russia's oil refining capacity in under two weeks (nv.ua)
    ×8.90 7 | 326 points by kaycebasques 1 day ago | 245 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: AgentRun – open-source, Self-improving Managed Agents (github.com/Parcha-ai)
    ×0.82 78 | 138 points by miguelrios 3 days ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Micron – Oberon with the Power of C (github.com/rochus-keller)
    ×1.03 112 | 69 points by Rochus 1 week ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Handwriting, as a Font (sorenblank.com)
    ×1.48 | 2 points by coinfused 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Design Principles Behind Smalltalk (2001) (virginia.edu)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by Tomte 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. The Unwritten History of Special Relativity (youtube.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by pjbk 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. FAA issues nationwide ground stop due to "extraordinary circumstances" (axios.com)
    ×1.88 64 | 126 points by owenshen24 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: NotificationNanny (github.com/chessper53)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by chessper53 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Unsloth Qwen3.8-27B Quantizations – Dynamic v3.1 Update (unsloth.ai)
    ×1.78 22 | 256 points by Retro_Dev 1 day ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Aegis – A Layer-4 Postgres proxy in Go to block destructive AI SQL (github.com/raymondhani)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by raymondartin 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: A Markdown and Mermaid pane for Herdr, the terminal for coding agents (github.com/daneb)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by danebalia 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Elephants found to be increasingly isolated leading to fractured social networks (ucsd.edu)
    ×1.77 30 | 194 points by gmays 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: RealtimeVAD – trading false positives for 110ms earlier end-of-speech (github.com/KoljaB)
    ×0.43 108 | 33 points by koljab 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: What bootstrapped startups get from credit programs (github.com/aidenixai)
    ×0.43 | 2 points by fantomkoenig 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. How did Woz write the Apple 1 BASIC before building the computer? (stackexchange.com)
    ×1.74 15 #27 | 297 points by Skyfall106 21 hours ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Paradigm Puzzles (paradigm.xyz)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by aberatiu 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. ULA Vulcan suffers anomaly after return-to-flight launch from Cape Canaveral (floridatoday.com)
    ×1.49 | 2 points by bookmtn 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. FM-1 Workbench (m-vave.com)
    ×1.29 28 | 272 points by simonebrunozzi 2 days ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Turbo Pascal Compiler Written in Turbo Pascal (turbo51.com)
    ×1.16 | 2 points by andsoitis 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. No AI Slop: A Manifesto (slopmanifesto.com)
    ×3.96 47 | 221 points by bankombinator 2 days ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Nostalgia Rider (nostalgiarider.com)
    ×1.38 46 | 3 points by qvq 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Ghanaian street games you can play in the browser (ghanastreetgames.com)
    ×1.04 114 | 117 points by samuelaidoo45 1 week ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. 'Birdbrain' Is a Misnomer. Crows Make Decisions Faster Than We Can (nytimes.com)
    ×1.55 2 #4 | 46 points by gumby 2 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Ggml v1.0.0 (github.com/ggml-org)
    ×1.93 15 #70 | 414 points by cobychapple 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. On The Brutality Of Amdahl's Law (bosoncutter.substack.com)
    ×1.62 5 #84 | 18 points by optimalsolver 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Ten years, thousands of staff, and a billion dollars: inside Grand Theft Auto VI (theguardian.com)
    ×1.43 | 2 points by JSR_FDED 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: SrcWranglr v0.13 – A C/C++ Graphical Code Explorer for Vuln. Research (github.com/jdefrancesco)
    ×0.47 127 | 3 points by jdefr89 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Quilt – a bright, modern take on identicons (quilt.id)
    ×1.82 85 | 4 points by carlsverre 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Big tech is here to let us down (jsweeting.me)
    ×2.39 45 | 220 points by speckx 1 day ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Live map of U.S. flights during tonight's FAA nationwide ground stop (grounds.top)
    ×1.47 33 | 215 points by gvsi 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. What happened to 3Com? (dfarq.homeip.net)
    ×1.25 39 | 200 points by gvieri 1 day ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Valencia, Spain in Sim City/Isometric View (tinyvalencia.com)
    ×1.73 89 | 261 points by leugim 5 days ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Zip Code Atlas (rickwills.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by NaOH 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. E-Reader – a private in-browser reader for ePub, Kindle, FB2, PDF and comics (google.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by zenull 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Nvidia director sold nearly $1B in stock weeks before the Jensen Huang scandal (yahoo.com)
    ×4.73 23 | 217 points by LopRabbit 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Live-migration support in FreeBSD and bhyve coming (gyptazy.com)
    ×1.07 63 | 139 points by JohnDohnBohn 2 days ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: 1MB Tenstorrent driver with ptx like kernels (github.com/zk4x)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by zk4x 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Online Protractor (aprotractor.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by artiomartiom 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Mysterious object in space: Could it be a Soviet probe missing for 40 years? (euronews.com)
    ×1.15 36 | 4 points by devonnull 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Will we put data centers in space? (forethought.org)
    ×1.20 38 | 69 points by simonebrunozzi 1 day ago | 207 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: db-branch – database branches in seconds for AI agents and CI, via ZFS (github.com/db-branch)
    ×1.05 23 #29 | 24 points by nu_nu11 6 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. The Evolving Story of How Chemistry Became Biology (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.03 32 #38 | 98 points by pseudolus 17 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Umbrella – macOS app to capture audio from any app (pixelegg.me)
    ×1.19 68 #78 | 24 points by threcius 18 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Lightweight Apple Glasses rumored for WWDC 2027 (appleinsider.com)
    ×1.40 | 2 points by geox 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Looking-glass upon the wall, who is the fastest C++ String Class of us all? (giodicanio.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by movd128 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???