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  1. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2026)
    ×1.65 11 #3 | 11 points by whoishiring 33 minutes ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026)
    ×1.43 16 #8 | 7 points by whoishiring 33 minutes ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?
    ×3.07 18 #13 | 605 points by LecroJS 20 hours ago | 715 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What hardware are you using to run local LLMs?
    ×1.14 40 | 6 points by leafletsigh 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Isn't anyone worried about this flood of HackerTube-but-for apps?
    ×0.86 17 | 6 points by jslakro 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Pepperwind, a fictional company dataset with 223 tables and 79M rows
    ×0.64 41 | 11 points by rasinmuhammed 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Tell HN: Scribd Breached
    ×1.62 35 | 357 points by x______________ 2 days ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Swedish grocery chain refrigerators and freezers hacked overnight
    ×1.10 32 | 8 points by u1hcw9nx 8 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What is your backup plan when AI companies rug pull their prices?
    ×1.11 3 | 5 points by an0malous 3 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Heretic 2.0 Released: Training-free language model modification
    ×0.85 56 | 20 points by razster 21 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. In LLM era, can software startup survive?
    ×1.21 20 | 34 points by sjia 17 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not
    ×0.70 85 | 40 points by stillatit 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. I indexed 37h of my YouTube library using an RTX 4090 and local ML models in 24h
    ×0.54 83 | 5 points by iliashad 20 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What's it like working at Google nowadays? Core teams like Search, Ads?
    ×0.74 86 | 47 points by karakoram 2 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Anyone here still writing code for reasons other than fun or learning?
    ×0.49 87 | 12 points by czhu12 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Which hobby do you think is most diverting and pleasurable?
    ×1.27 84 | 21 points by ikelos 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Is applying to Y Combinator worth it if you aren't an insider?
    ×0.73 102 | 22 points by all2 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Opus 5.5 suddenly dumb as rocks?
    ×0.46 104 | 34 points by jahala 3 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: I'd like to request Microsoft open source Windows XP
    ×0.44 105 | 8 points by fosco 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Do you have side-projects that generate >$500 revenue/month?
    ×0.87 103 | 41 points by learner_yearner 3 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Old experimental website that made photos sing?
    ×0.20 118 | 3 points by jesuisdieu 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Are most of you using HN Replies? Or what else do you use?
    ×0.54 113 | 8 points by Gooblebrai 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Are Knuth's Stanford Pages Down?
    ×0.21 127 | 10 points by weinzierl 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Tell HN: Claude Code adds your email to the prompt, the LLM sends it to websites
    ×0.76 108 | 35 points by TekMol 4 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. "Wrong" Email
    ×0.89 97 | 26 points by rbmm 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Hack
    ×0.26 116 | 10 points by throwaway3309 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Are you using a custom harness?
    ×0.41 115 | 11 points by japhyr 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Is the Microsoft buyout just a long overdue correction?
    ×0.47 117 | 6 points by sky2224 2 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: What's the future like? For normies, will it still be apps and websites?
    ×0.43 135 | 4 points by talmr 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. GEMM Tutorial and UlmBLAS
    ×0.53 132 | 5 points by michael-lehn 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Is your leadership pushing you to skip dev review?
    ×0.47 130 | 10 points by arm32 4 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Are you putting off hardware upgrades because of AI coding tools?
    ×0.36 133 | 5 points by winrid 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: What back end and database are you choosing for new projects in 2026?
    ×1.08 134 | 5 points by ibbie 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. A 32M Model That Knows When to Say 'Oh No', 'Really?' Or Just Shut Up (huggingface.co)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by mrkn1 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Orca Style Workspaces for Herdr (github.com/choam2426)
    ×0.58 34 | 3 points by choam 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Ghostman – A fast, keyboard-driven TUI API client and webhook inspector (github.com/4yk5)
    ×0.78 70 | 67 points by 4yk5 3 days ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4 (mistral.ai)
    ×6.03 26 #77 | 1722 points by kuberwastaken 4 days ago | 440 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. No AI, 52 min. Build all Linux Files utils in C by Hand [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.75 20 #82 | 156 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. AI, Lean, and the Future of Formal Verification, with Lean Creator Leo de Moura (thedataexchange.media)
    ×1.39 67 #70 | 217 points by datascientist 2 days ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Police chief unplugs cameras after Flock ignores contract cancellation (thedrive.com)
    ×4.30 42 | 461 points by entryleveljobsc 1 day ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported (2025) (acm.org)
    ×1.78 62 | 81 points by the-mitr 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: When a CEO buys their stock, does it beat the S&P 500? Check any trade (insiderprint.com)
    ×0.95 107 | 3 points by insiderprint 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Please Let the Internet Die. It's Time to Start Over (wired.com)
    ×1.97 5 #12 | 14 points by CharlesW 59 minutes ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. A 1580 Map Shows Why Data Visualization Is Never Neutral (mit.edu)
    ×0.70 70 #69 | 78 points by the-mitr 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Surviving "The Graduate" (newyorker.com)
    ×1.24 60 #67 | 172 points by samizdis 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Deedglass – An agent said it updated 1 row; Postgres changed 301 (github.com/deedglass)
    ×0.75 | 2 points by ajuxarjun 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Sketch Stadium – watch your agent play Pictionary (wakeshift.ai)
    ×0.42 91 | 37 points by ericlevine 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. LongCat-2.5: Native Multimodality for Agentic Tasks (longcat.ai)
    ×0.78 9 #6 | 21 points by pretext 1 hour ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN (bearblog.dev)
    ×9.71 11 #22 | 2764 points by karpathy 1 day ago | 612 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament (science.org)
    ×4.76 5 #83 | 915 points by input_sh 2 days ago | 508 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Copyright Office is restoring copyright to something you have to work to get (pluralistic.net)
    ×1.98 65 | 67 points by beardyw 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Deckdrill – Pimsleur-style audio drills from Anki decks, in your voice (deckdrill.app)
    ×1.47 129 | 6 points by pjacowski 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Mullvad as a rotating connect proxy (github.com/nicorobinreal)
    ×0.71 | 2 points by albinstman 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. GPT-Rosalind-6 System Card Addendum (openai.com)
    ×1.43 25 #5 | 13 points by gmays 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Leaking Secrets from Air-Gap Computers by Spelling Radio Signals from RAM (2024) (arxiv.org)
    ×1.38 55 #49 | 211 points by hapax_legomena 1 day ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Understanding Email Encryption (2025) (fastmail.com)
    ×1.11 49 #59 | 139 points by nmjenkins 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. The Megadonors Who Have Poured $1.2B into the Midterms (nytimes.com)
    ×3.80 12 #78 | 120 points by doener 16 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. AI agent swarms in Minecraft fail to build civilization, drown in bureaucracy (tomshardware.com)
    ×2.36 5 #89 | 175 points by entryleveljobsc 1 day ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Remembering a Trolley Titan (streetcar.org)
    ×0.79 | 1 points by tobiasdorge 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. SuperVote: 15 year retrospective on an app for sharing political endorsements (callejas.com)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by augustocallejas 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Juan Atkins, techno pioneer and Belleville Three member, dies aged 64 (ra.co)
    ×1.95 45 | 3 points by speckx 27 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Election-vibe – US midterm results in your terminal and Claude Code (npmjs.com)
    ×1.29 | 2 points by arturogarrido 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Auto Dismiss Mac OS "Allow <app> to find devices on local networks?" (github.com/johncassil)
    ×0.89 77 | 154 points by johncassil 3 days ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Meta's Muse Could Upend All Kinds of Businesses. It Hasn't Yet (wired.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by zomtorg 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. AI agents raised their own spending caps (theainewsreport.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by titusblair 57 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: 2D world SIM where each creature runs a text classifier in the browser (id-le.com)
    ×0.95 101 | 3 points by nico 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Aruma – clean-room self-hosted backend for the official Firebase SDKs (github.com/arumadev)
    ×0.93 125 | 3 points by osama200 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: AgentTrafficCop – Stop AI agents from looping and burning money (agenttrafficcop.com)
    ×1.12 | 2 points by bshafiq 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Jailbreaking my car's navigation system just so I can change the time (nns.ee)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by xx_ns 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Over 90% of 10k public comments oppose data centers; water tops concerns (tomshardware.com)
    ×2.01 29 | 3 points by entryleveljobsc 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. By Killing the "Linux News Section" in Softpedia It Killed Itself (techrights.org)
    ×1.28 | 2 points by amcclure 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Apple captures 50% of consumer revenue of the top half of the S&P 500 (asymco.com)
    ×3.52 4 | 70 points by zdw 19 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks (nolanlawson.com)
    ×2.37 41 #30 | 448 points by luu 1 day ago | 334 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Wasmer (YC S19) Is Hiring OS/Hypervisor Experts in Europe (workatastartup.com)
    ×-0.04 140 #90 | 1 points by syrusakbary 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Grokipedia offers lessons in how AI can help Wikipedia (niemanlab.org)
    ×1.36 | 2 points by ibn_khaldun 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Hacker News Comments (hackernews-comments.pages.dev)
    ×1.25 | 2 points by cs02rm0 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: The Public Eye – Agentic search for congressional bill legibility (the-public-eye.com)
    ×3.91 39 | 6 points by mmargenot 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: UPC Label Maker – 1:1 PostScript point barcode imposition for Avery/FBA (upclabelmaker.com)
    ×0.61 | 2 points by dirtyfancy 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Trigger.dev customer environment variables exposed (trigger.dev)
    ×1.22 30 #20 | 150 points by anurag 15 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Wikihack – HackerTube, but for Wikipedia articles mentioned on HN (wikihack.netlify.app)
    ×2.04 68 #88 | 324 points by aizk 11 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Claude: Pricier per token but Half the cost per answer (revos.ai)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by zubairov 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Jobless tech workers are being left out of San Francisco's AI boom (bloomberg.com)
    ×3.62 83 | 46 points by mancerayder 1 hour ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Introducing Kwi, a new KDE terminal emulator (kde.org)
    ×2.48 54 | 42 points by signa11 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: I rebuilt Kubernetes for ESP32 microcontrollers (github.com/arterialist)
    ×1.22 81 | 53 points by Arterialist 4 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Bones may release proteins that slow aging and extend life span (science.org)
    ×2.00 24 #10 | 247 points by EA-3167 15 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: HackerTube for Apple TV. Videos HN Recommends, on Your TV
    ×2.12 16 | 5 points by jnaina 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: I built a multiplayer game where you're an aerial fighter cat (catcopter.com)
    ×1.11 79 | 85 points by pawelwentpawel 3 days ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: I built a crawler that finds personal websites by a /.well-known/josh (joshternet.org)
    ×1.80 123 | 4 points by TheWoollyBully 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. PS3 static recomp God of War Ascension (github.com/snuri00)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by ps3recomp 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. TCP Use-After-Free: CVE-2026-98432 / CVSS 9.8 (atlasum.net)
    ×3.26 16 #57 | 729 points by oger 1 day ago | 330 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???