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  1. How do you keep up quality when you vibe-code?
    ×0.79 13 #73 | 21 points by nkcodes 5 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What are you working on? (November 2026)
    ×1.34 42 | 290 points by david927 2 days ago | 1032 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. ChatGPT Desktop forwards your SSH agent to remote machines
    ×1.40 36 | 214 points by DenGorbachev 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: How do you manage your AI agents' context across clients and projects?
    ×1.50 62 | 97 points by Michel_Aventin 3 days ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Do you still enjoy coding in C++?
    ×1.27 66 | 57 points by hasley 1 day ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Is misaligned AI less dangerous than AI controlled by a bad actor
    ×0.11 | 2 points by InfiniteRand 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How do you evaluate the skills your AI agents use?
    ×0.70 76 | 20 points by enesalatas 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Tell HN: Another GitHub Major Outage
    ×0.42 75 | 16 points by sergiotapia 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How did you convince family and friends to join your XMPP/Matrix server?
    ×0.87 83 | 100 points by mtlynch 3 days ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Tell HN: Notion AI chat sessions have been exposed via Fireworks AI hack
    ×0.86 61 | 15 points by RamblingCTO 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Anyone else notice Fable 5.2 making grammar errors?
    ×0.35 74 | 4 points by linearza 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. CoderPad Reports a Security Breach
    ×0.45 82 | 6 points by werrett 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What in the world is taking Ubuntu so long?
    ×1.64 79 | 219 points by linsomniac 4 days ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. uBlock Origin Can't Block Facebook Ads
    ×1.59 87 | 12 points by anidsiam 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Tell HN: A flood of reports of Opus 5.5 being nerfed
    ×2.29 85 | 28 points by b--l 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Are companies making money by using AI?
    ×0.68 96 | 4 points by vanh4lt 20 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What should a stranger know first about your unfinished project?
    ×0.85 100 | 5 points by toddy_flogsit 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Is Google Site Search Broken?
    ×0.34 | 2 points by CM30 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Tell HN: Some of My Recent Ideas
    ×0.17 | 2 points by onaclov2000 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Remote island can only have 1 PC, 1 book, 1 programming language
    ×0.43 116 | 3 points by kbrannigan 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: How do you keep secrets out of your AI agents' context?
    ×0.45 | 2 points by timbowhite 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Fable 5.2 Available in Claude Desktop
    ×0.39 122 | 3 points by calgaryeng 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Share your best blog/videos on learning about LLMs in depth
    ×0.45 125 | 3 points by mrburton 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Do you have daily voice conversations with AI?
    ×0.51 126 | 3 points by rtp4me 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. P2P inference using WebGPU libp2p and IPFS
    ×0.64 129 | 3 points by gnarbarian 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: How your SEO traffic doing? Up or down?
    ×0.42 132 | 4 points by bigmuzzy 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Claude usage credits purchased after Dec 7 will expire 12 months after purchase
    ×0.67 134 | 18 points by bbg2401 4 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Will Humans Become Useless?
    ×0.58 121 | 5 points by misano 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Those who have lost their job to AI what was your job?
    ×0.24 | 2 points by dev_grex 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: What are your advice for a CS/IT student for the future?
    ×0.26 137 | 6 points by L0in 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Is it normal to not write code for a years as software engineer?
    ×0.57 135 | 4 points by khalidahmad 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. I am building Threadz. Human first AI writing app
    ×0.52 136 | 4 points by shoebilyas_hanz 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. I turned an ESP32-S3 into a Tailscale gateway with recovery functions
    ×0.50 138 | 9 points by Mattboxx 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Pigshell: Unix the Web (pigshell.com)
    ×0.71 51 | 77 points by pbohun 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Live counts of AI assistants reading a diaspora business directory (nibiashara.com)
    ×1.05 114 | 3 points by NiBiashara 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: MergeAtlas – A better way to review PRs (mergeatlas.dev)
    ×1.47 113 | 4 points by ismayilkarimli 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Starlink Mini 2 (starlink.com)
    ×3.39 36 #47 | 201 points by robertjfclarke 5 hours ago | 220 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Fireworks AI security breach impacts Notion and their customers (notion.com)
    ×1.49 11 #51 | 159 points by werrett 16 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Maple – Sub-2-BPW Moe Pruning to Run Gemma 4 26B at 45 TPS on a 6GB GPU (github.com/AmSach)
    ×0.79 111 | 20 points by AmSach 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Agents infer Lego mechanisms from sources, then animate them (github.com/anteloc)
    ×0.64 120 | 31 points by antelocnova 4 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 (anthropic.com)
    ×3.31 14 #50 | 870 points by lairv 1 day ago | 993 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ukraine's fiber-optic drones get squeezed by AI data center demand (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.33 | 2 points by tatersolid 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Do you get made fun of by your friends for staring at Google Maps for hours? (exploreprometheus.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by schemingboi 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. A Journey Through Gödel, Escher, Bach: Can You Think Without Understanding? (spotify.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by hek2sch 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: NodusDB – Zanzibar-style authorization, embedded like SQLite (github.com/Pragadeesh-19)
    ×1.76 63 | 4 points by pragadeesh_21 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. .name Grandfathered (fraser.name)
    ×3.02 #3 | 638 points by p4bl0 7 hours ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. The Web Is More Than Enough (ftrain.com)
    ×1.23 52 #86 | 203 points by edward 1 day ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: BetterMan – man pages for all of Debian, with explain and portability (betterman.sh)
    ×0.80 | 2 points by amanthanvi 21 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Brick Atlas: Explore 1000+ LEGO sets on one zoomable canvas (zoomhub.net)
    ×1.28 102 | 5 points by gasi 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Emma, a real-time AI video persona from Nuance Labs (nuancelabs.ai)
    ×3.66 84 | 9 points by cvanea 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. The death knell of digital search (newyorker.com)
    ×0.96 15 #36 | 71 points by bookofjoe 9 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: JavaScript web apps with WASM layout and GPU rendering in 280 KB (github.com/rkaehn)
    ×0.56 73 | 46 points by rkaehn 3 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: A Git friendly open API client (github.com/awake-client)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by clementherve 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Socialize/Presence multiplayer interaction on blog posts (namar0x0309.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by namar0x0309 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3 (twitter.com/shanemelaugh)
    ×4.71 16 | 812 points by rzk 1 day ago | 510 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. After 7 Months, Glasswing Overwelms Maintainers with Underwhelming Findings (vulncheck.com)
    ×3.18 1 #2 | 102 points by panic 1 hour ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Samenland Village Simulation – Plant a seed. Watch it grow (samenland.app)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by doener 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Corwin Amendment (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.89 | 1 points by dataflow 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. New spider species discovered in Idaho, named in honor of the UoI's "Vandals" (pensoft.net)
    ×0.89 | 1 points by gmays 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. New Research Compares Long-Term Relief from 21 Antidepressants (nytimes.com)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by gumby 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Exporting 150M SQL Server rows to Parquet: reading the .bak beats the DB (arpe.io)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by rferraton 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Le Salon – IRC Beautiful.Shared via URL-Sharer (mrthp.github.io)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by misterthp 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Prepare for the AI Apocalypse Like You'd Prepare for a Snowstorm (theatlantic.com)
    ×2.12 12 | 3 points by paulpauper 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. The Hardest Tarball? (stoppels.ch)
    ×1.16 4 #34 | 143 points by thatslast 9 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Your TV can see through walls (2025) (maurycyz.com)
    ×1.80 9 #45 | 257 points by Curiositry 18 hours ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Parking-app convenience fees in 312 U.S. cities (median $0.35 per session) (parkgraph.com)
    ×0.92 41 | 92 points by parkgraph 1 day ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Movement breaks that only show up while Claude Code is working (github.com/mamrezme)
    ×1.08 | 2 points by imohammadreza 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Too many men suffering in silence, national health report finds (westcentralonline.com)
    ×3.32 5 | 342 points by nosecreek 1 day ago | 582 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. The Memory Trap: Language Agents Overgeneralize from Benign Interactions (arxiv.org)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by matt_d 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. LLM inference, visually explained: why a 13B model reads 26 GB per token (youtube.com)
    ×1.25 | 2 points by ryansakhala 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Markview – a fast Markdown reader in Rust, Obsidian Vault compatible (github.com/szdytom)
    ×1.11 77 | 3 points by szdytom 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Toyota brand Scion is back and it's going to sell a kei truck in America (theautopian.com)
    ×3.14 1 #1 | 263 points by NaOH 4 hours ago | 182 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Tailscale's DNS IPv6 spells out "Tailscale" (reddit.com)
    ×2.55 36 #61 | 124 points by theanonymousone 7 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Fable 5.2 made a fun Claude castaway clone (zachy.dev)
    ×1.59 106 | 4 points by nzach 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Formalizing CPython (broyojo.com)
    ×1.43 29 #76 | 127 points by carnevalem 22 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Python suite for spectral geometry analysis of 1.5M+ MPCORB orbits (github.com/Dr-Logvinovich)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by DRLogvinovich 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Life on Claude Nine (babuschk.in)
    ×2.13 8 #39 | 75 points by reasonableklout 6 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Aegis Solis: AI Coexistence Research Dataset with 112 Registered Questions (huggingface.co)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by aegissolis 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Someone Was Here – Find out who used your Mac while you were away (someonewashere.app)
    ×1.07 34 | 113 points by 4onthefloor124 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: STE80 Humanizer – de-AI text by writing 80% of the way to ASD-STE100 (github.com/Dodaios)
    ×1.31 40 | 105 points by Dodaios 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Wanim – Run Manim Python in the browser, 20× smaller than Pyodide (github.com/Acfboy)
    ×1.25 78 | 3 points by Acfboy 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Deterministic 15µs In-Material Lob Shock Damping for CCXT Traders (github.com/neoma-pcam)
    ×0.56 | 2 points by neoma001 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Variable-width Bézier curves (2025) (illinois.edu)
    ×0.59 29 #35 | 30 points by leduyquang753 6 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Intent UI (intent-ui.com)
    ×1.54 | 2 points by handfuloflight 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. When will this stop? The Raspberry Pi 5 16GB SBC now sells for $385 (cnx-software.com)
    ×3.05 2 | 325 points by pera 1 day ago | 303 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Y/N (YC S23) is hiring a growth lead to distribute superhuman A.I. storytelling (ycombinator.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. RIP, Harvest (aphyr.com)
    ×3.51 25 | 439 points by zdw 1 day ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Open-source app that lets LLMs control your iPhone (no Mac required) (github.com/EliotAndres)
    ×0.65 | 2 points by ea016 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. I deleted all my SSH keys (infected.systems)
    ×2.51 13 #32 | 223 points by speckx 8 hours ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Exact – a new cross platform UI framework (github.com/expo)
    ×1.58 21 | 132 points by vmg12 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???