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  1. Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup?
    ×3.58 10 #18 | 275 points by eggbrain 16 hours ago | 268 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: Gemini trains on chat history, even for subscribers (personal accounts)
    ×3.51 17 #33 | 658 points by jameslk 21 hours ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What cryptography book do you recommend for reading with 10 year olds?
    ×1.05 10 #34 | 71 points by mike_richards 11 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Where should I start to do marketing?
    ×0.67 | 2 points by dhruonweb 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. OpenAI seems to be silently re-enabling model training on Codex chats
    ×2.97 6 | 519 points by user052919 1 day ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Tell HN: Don't use Postman, they proxy your info without your permission
    ×1.67 30 | 99 points by neya 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Gitbook Breached
    ×1.18 38 | 163 points by punchmesan 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Canva lays off 22% of its workforce; 1,270 people
    ×3.69 1 | 23 points by princevegeta89 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?
    ×3.17 44 | 728 points by LecroJS 3 days ago | 879 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2026)
    ×1.08 63 | 248 points by whoishiring 2 days ago | 257 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Does anyone have a contact with Cleveland-area Ham club?
    ×2.14 68 | 166 points by stockresearcher 2 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. WorkOS reports security breach
    ×1.12 79 | 79 points by werrett 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Tell HN: Scribd Breached
    ×1.59 85 | 359 points by x______________ 5 days ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Impact of US Elections on AI?
    ×1.36 93 | 8 points by talmr 23 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Which agent harness do you use for working with multiple Models?
    ×0.50 88 | 4 points by avucenovic 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Is it worth reading The Art of Computer Programming now?
    ×1.10 90 | 8 points by weavie 22 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What's on Your Learning List?
    ×0.44 98 | 4 points by carlos-menezes 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How to Keep the Edge as an Engineer?
    ×2.01 87 | 10 points by spacebuffer 23 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Is AI good enough for math exercises?
    ×0.40 107 | 3 points by Qision 16 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What is the best non mainstream programming language or stack in 2026?
    ×0.87 116 | 6 points by kbrannigan 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Tell HN: You now need a government id in order to create an Anthropic account
    ×1.76 94 | 19 points by I_am_tiberius 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Is it still worth building and documenting projects the "old way"?
    ×0.85 115 | 3 points by dhruv_ahuja 19 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Will cheap high-quality AI end this December?
    ×1.01 122 | 8 points by amichail 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Tell HN: GitHub Is Down
    ×3.12 58 | 29 points by yuvadam 21 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: What your experience with the monthly "who wants to be hired" thread?
    ×2.43 48 | 50 points by newswangerd 9 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Design My YouTube Feed
    ×0.21 145 | 4 points by mrkn1 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Does anyone enjoy work anymore?
    ×2.16 108 | 27 points by jackmalpo 2 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Are you building your own personal webapps?
    ×0.73 137 | 3 points by viejaquerida 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: What is Google Flights' business model and has it changed recently?
    ×1.45 111 | 8 points by lastofthemojito 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Google reCAPTCHA on archive.is asking to scan a QR with a mobile device
    ×0.60 138 | 4 points by linuxhdr 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. How did we end up with Frontier Lab oligopoly rather than a monopoly?
    ×0.37 149 | 3 points by bdhe 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Can the Cloudflare employee that just blocked Route53 Health Checks undo it
    ×1.71 119 | 8 points by ferngodfather 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not
    ×0.63 143 | 40 points by stillatit 5 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Anthropic's HackerOne bot lawyered me out of a bounty
    ×1.10 144 | 4 points by francesco_m 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Getting hit with "Prove you are a human" at every other website
    ×2.87 61 | 84 points by shmde 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: What to do about incorrectly suspended GitHub account, no notice?
    ×0.53 147 | 7 points by sshah03 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: What's it like working at Google nowadays? Core teams like Search, Ads?
    ×0.70 142 | 48 points by karakoram 5 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Heretic 2.0 Released: Training-free language model modification
    ×0.71 140 | 22 points by razster 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: Opus 5.5 suddenly dumb as rocks?
    ×0.48 150 | 37 points by jahala 6 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. I dumped Apple’s word list (helgesver.re)
    ×3.11 29 | 161 points by speckx 1 day ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. US midterm elections 2026 live updates: Democrats win Senate control and edge (theguardian.com)
    ×17.44 5 | 137 points by hkhn 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Postal Service Surveilled Protest Activities Online with Little Rules, Oversight (eff.org)
    ×3.87 8 #77 | 25 points by hn_acker 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Auto Dismiss Mac OS "Allow <app> to find devices on local networks?" (github.com/johncassil)
    ×0.89 118 | 154 points by johncassil 6 days ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Progress on provable inference for large language models (anthropic.com)
    ×1.26 4 #20 | 207 points by ltononro 14 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. American Voters Overwhelmingly Reject AI Data Centers (404media.co)
    ×3.36 16 #49 | 40 points by latexr 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Everyone sits in the same traffic now (ystrickler.com)
    ×1.55 70 #86 | 6 points by speckx 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: An open source repo to use your personal context with any agent (predsymod.github.io)
    ×1.49 86 | 4 points by symuz 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Lets1UP, birthday/party game kits that run on your TV (lets1up.com)
    ×1.03 129 | 3 points by patrickskim 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. A thousand fewer paths to root (openai.com)
    ×2.85 1 #4 | 281 points by dangelosaurus 7 hours ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. PageScribe: Handwriting and offline dictionary audio for KOReader (kiranadimatyam.com)
    ×0.47 44 #38 | 18 points by seshakiran 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Kernel.sh Hacked (kernel.sh)
    ×1.00 51 #80 | 12 points by pranshuchittora 10 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Kvittas, an Expense Splitting App (kvittas.app)
    ×0.43 113 | 12 points by primalscreamer 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN (bearblog.dev)
    ×10.04 11 #89 | 2881 points by karpathy 4 days ago | 637 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Giant canyon on Mars is still tectonically active (columbia.edu)
    ×0.95 22 | 142 points by gmays 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: HackerChurn – which SaaS tools HN wants to cancel (hissingkitty.com)
    ×0.81 69 | 71 points by drewlem 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Images 2.6 (openai.com)
    ×2.05 1 #3 | 242 points by davidbarker 7 hours ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: My compact, bio inspired distributed edge detection algorithm (github.com/RenderBear)
    ×0.66 | 2 points by RenderBear 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: I rebuilt my old canvas 3D library as a small WebGL 2 library – phoria2 (kevs3d.co.uk)
    ×0.69 101 | 107 points by kevs3d 4 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. BYD doubles its Brazil market share to 9.7% a year after opening its local plant (bloomberg.com)
    ×3.57 53 | 126 points by dvaplima 13 hours ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. So my ISP was hijacking my DNS (karthihegde.dev)
    ×2.48 1 #12 | 39 points by frostbyte7 3 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Death Comes for XSLT (dbushell.com)
    ×2.02 11 #52 | 65 points by colejohnson66 10 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Secure meeting room for humans that AI can't see (qube.so)
    ×1.22 | 2 points by iftyy 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Audio Judgment Models Are Jagged (camden.sh)
    ×1.10 | 2 points by camdenclark 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. EP 37 – Microsoft Stock Analysis: AI Bubble? Explain These Earnings. [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.18 | 2 points by russlan 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. The Orchestration Tax (addyosmani.com)
    ×1.23 | 2 points by rzk 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Unsquatted – fast domain checker and curated list (unsquatted.com)
    ×0.79 | 2 points by vovahimself 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. A new Go API for JSON (go.dev)
    ×1.80 4 #11 | 288 points by olexsmir 13 hours ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Bruno: The Git-native API client (usebruno.com)
    ×0.67 70 #68 | 10 points by blue_green_maps 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Generating 2k Consistent AI Images: The House Method (lockboxx.org)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by aaaok 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: MAVO – Ukrainian air alerts by distance to Poland, with analytics (mavo.org.pl)
    ×0.88 | 2 points by kravmaga999 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Partial Operator Precedence (ziglang.org)
    ×1.42 49 #23 | 4 points by tosh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Smiling can make you happier – unless someone forces you to do it (ufl.edu)
    ×1.59 19 #70 | 9 points by rohanm93 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Ovipositor (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by thunderbong 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Rustable is an open source database client built in Rust (rustable.app)
    ×1.19 103 | 27 points by JaTochNietDan 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Cold-start test: 8 agent sites, 2 cold writes, 97 logged requests (r2.dev)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by leon_fieldtest 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Scan-to-vector – rebuild scanned pages as vector PDFs with an AI agent (github.com/3351666087)
    ×2.02 92 | 5 points by Null3351 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: OmniDiff – Opensource, super fast, content aware Git difftool, in Rust (github.com/ivankovic)
    ×1.80 72 | 319 points by FabCH 3 days ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: HackerEverything – Everything recommended by HN (hackereverything.pages.dev)
    ×1.60 114 | 4 points by mk93074 23 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Have I befriended a murderer? (longreads.com)
    ×1.54 6 #42 | 118 points by gmays 12 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. How software engineering is changing: a tale of two eras (pragmaticengineer.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by duck 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Sunlith, an Android calendar you can control through MCP (github.com/SunSinD)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by SunSinD 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Larger Tokenizers Suffer More Multi-Epoch Regret (wenhaochai.com)
    ×1.14 | 2 points by matt_d 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Conductor is joining Meta (conductor.build)
    ×1.62 15 #14 | 161 points by kenrose 13 hours ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Incident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues (githubstatus.com)
    ×1.44 11 #53 | 262 points by kevcampb 21 hours ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Adversarial Speculative Reasoning Improves Long Horizon Agents (alphaxiv.org)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by matt_d 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Handball Logos – Collection of logos of handball clubs (handball-logos.com)
    ×0.96 136 | 3 points by yaman071 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Hosted MCP server for 16 crypto exchanges and MetaTrader 5 (github.com/AlgoVesta)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by AlgoVesta 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Quili AI (quili.ai)
    ×1.88 59 | 98 points by Shugyousha 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. CVE-2026-93389: LiteSpeed Cache serves WordPress/WooCommerce data to anyone (wordfence.com)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by drimphgol 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Warsaw in voxels – An interactive 3D map of the city centre (migdal.pl)
    ×1.48 51 | 323 points by stared 2 days ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???