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  1. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2026)
    ×1.03 20 #23 | 221 points by whoishiring 19 hours ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Does anyone have a contact with Cleveland-area Ham club?
    ×2.55 25 #51 | 142 points by stockresearcher 11 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. WorkOS reports security breach
    ×1.26 2 #53 | 70 points by werrett 11 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?
    ×3.16 1 #61 | 708 points by LecroJS 1 day ago | 847 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: Scribd Breached
    ×1.60 49 | 358 points by x______________ 3 days ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Does anyone enjoy work anymore?
    ×2.32 39 | 16 points by jackmalpo 13 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Are Tenstorrent cards better than Nvidia?
    ×0.34 | 2 points by thesnarkitecht 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Pepperwind, a fictional company dataset with 223 tables and 79M rows
    ×0.65 66 | 15 points by rasinmuhammed 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What hardware are you using to run local LLMs?
    ×1.33 28 | 46 points by leafletsigh 20 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What to do about incorrectly suspended GitHub account, no notice?
    ×0.45 68 | 4 points by sshah03 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Heretic 2.0 Released: Training-free language model modification
    ×0.76 74 | 21 points by razster 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Isn't anyone worried about this flood of HackerTube-but-for apps?
    ×0.67 64 | 9 points by jslakro 21 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not
    ×0.66 96 | 40 points by stillatit 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Swedish grocery chain refrigerators and freezers hacked overnight
    ×0.78 77 | 9 points by u1hcw9nx 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What's it like working at Google nowadays? Core teams like Search, Ads?
    ×0.71 97 | 47 points by karakoram 3 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. In LLM era, can software startup survive?
    ×1.16 58 | 36 points by sjia 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Opus 5.5 suddenly dumb as rocks?
    ×0.48 114 | 36 points by jahala 4 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Is applying to Y Combinator worth it if you aren't an insider?
    ×0.68 115 | 22 points by all2 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. I indexed 37h of my YouTube library using an RTX 4090 and local ML models in 24h
    ×0.50 103 | 6 points by iliashad 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Which hobby do you think is most diverting and pleasurable?
    ×1.12 98 | 21 points by ikelos 2 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Anyone here still writing code for reasons other than fun or learning?
    ×0.46 102 | 12 points by czhu12 2 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Do you have side-projects that generate >$500 revenue/month?
    ×0.84 113 | 41 points by learner_yearner 4 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: What is your backup plan when AI companies rug pull their prices?
    ×0.66 82 | 5 points by an0malous 22 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: I'd like to request Microsoft open source Windows XP
    ×0.40 121 | 8 points by fosco 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Old experimental website that made photos sing?
    ×0.18 134 | 3 points by jesuisdieu 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Tell HN: Claude Code adds your email to the prompt, the LLM sends it to websites
    ×0.75 118 | 35 points by TekMol 5 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Are you using a custom harness?
    ×0.43 124 | 12 points by japhyr 4 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Are Knuth's Stanford Pages Down?
    ×0.21 133 | 10 points by weinzierl 4 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Are most of you using HN Replies? Or what else do you use?
    ×0.50 130 | 8 points by Gooblebrai 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. "Wrong" Email
    ×0.86 111 | 26 points by rbmm 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Hack
    ×0.25 129 | 10 points by throwaway3309 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Deedglass – An agent said it updated 1 row; Postgres changed 301 (github.com/deedglass)
    ×1.17 84 | 4 points by ajuxarjun 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Cometary impacts an unlikely pathway towards the origins of life on Earth (nature.com)
    ×1.67 | 2 points by jnord 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Typebook.lol read books by typing the letters only (typebook.lol)
    ×0.49 131 | 11 points by vegnus 4 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Agentic AI's real risk: losing the plot (wordpress.com)
    ×0.91 | 1 points by alokashtikar 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Finding Fishes: Hand-picked blogs on LLMs (findingfishes.vercel.app)
    ×1.81 17 | 3 points by sert_121 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. It wasn't AI that flipped Proton's charge (raed.dev)
    ×4.86 33 | 168 points by Raed667 1 day ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. AI fan wikis riddled with errors are muddying the waters of games culture (eurogamer.net)
    ×2.16 36 | 100 points by rdmuser 1 day ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Mass attempted replication of old findings of LLMs with new models (zou-group.github.io)
    ×1.09 68 #42 | 10 points by zirkonit 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Bones may release proteins that slow aging and extend life span (science.org)
    ×1.91 25 #58 | 330 points by EA-3167 1 day ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Running a bootstrapped SaaS for 20 years with my brother (zamzar.com)
    ×1.66 45 #87 | 258 points by whyleyc 2 days ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: I rebuilt Kubernetes for ESP32 microcontrollers (github.com/arterialist)
    ×1.22 87 | 53 points by Arterialist 4 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Jointter – A daily word puzzle using dots and lines (jointter.com)
    ×0.38 108 | 15 points by proy87 2 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Yopologame.com – A free, bot-proof human proximity ledger (yopologame.com)
    ×1.49 | 2 points by ypyk 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Site/app blocker and usage tracker specifically for Linux (github.com/glocker-app)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by noufalibrahim 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Price rises for some 16GB Raspberry Pi products (raspberrypi.com)
    ×1.80 25 | 3 points by kotaKat 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Try an AI agent wallet in the browser – buy a stamp from a bot (zketernity.app)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by ztextzksnarks 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: A USB-C LTE modem that gives my computer a phone line (github.com/Koppar-AI)
    ×1.27 75 | 61 points by abijahkaj 2 days ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: GhostLaunch – stealth wallet distribution for Pump.fun launches (framer.website)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by ghostlaunchapi 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. noyb win: French electronics retailer Fnac Darty fined €7M (noyb.eu)
    ×1.74 59 | 65 points by latexr 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Mystery of 60-Second Fluctuations in Power Grids Solved (fz-juelich.de)
    ×1.59 23 #78 | 258 points by _Microft 1 day ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Kandinsky S2V 1.0 – an open family of speech-to-video models (kandinskyavatar.github.io)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by konart 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. The smallest neural text-to-speech family (ampixa.com)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by maelito 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: AirFlick Drop – AirDrop for Windows with zero mobile app installs (github.com/k39139215-gif)
    ×0.58 | 2 points by Snapmotion3421 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. AI Red Team Academy: Free, open-source course on breaking AI systems (0x4d31.github.io)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by joshcsimmons 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: OmniDiff – Opensource, super fast, content aware Git difftool, in Rust (github.com/ivankovic)
    ×1.77 22 | 314 points by FabCH 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: A proof-of-concept formalization of the IRS federal tax forms (github.com/emmilco)
    ×0.82 93 | 84 points by RGS1811 5 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Efficient algorithms, the Exponential Time Hypothesis, and losing the plot (argmin.net)
    ×1.32 11 #9 | 61 points by sebg 6 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Ubuntu still has not released patch for Linux 0day RCE in almost 3 weeks (freenode.net)
    ×4.21 13 #28 | 530 points by majorchord 16 hours ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. How to export Grok to pdf [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.31 | 2 points by quysala12 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Anthropic reveals $900B AI spending commitments ahead of IPO (ft.com)
    ×2.43 10 | 72 points by zomtorg 15 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Jenesis, Java builds 18% faster, rebuilds up to 88% faster (jenesis.build)
    ×1.42 69 | 5 points by raphw 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Orca Style Workspaces for Herdr (github.com/choam2426)
    ×1.01 91 | 4 points by choam 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Offline project memory for coding agents – no API key, no vector DB (github.com/krapcys1-maker)
    ×1.14 119 | 4 points by krapcys 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: No moat – Software is dead. Nobody told these companies (nomoat.app)
    ×1.72 136 | 4 points by olijboyd 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Intel stock collapse worsens as $3.5T chip rout spreads (yahoo.com)
    ×3.14 30 #48 | 210 points by entryleveljobsc 11 hours ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Claude Opus 5.5 Can Draw Permit-Level Architectural Drawings (stephenjgallagher.substack.com)
    ×2.44 3 #82 | 98 points by SteveGallag 18 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. The Megadonors Who Have Poured $1.2B into the Midterms (nytimes.com)
    ×4.00 30 | 140 points by doener 1 day ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: ClickBench inspired leaderboard for multiple database benchmarks (pivotlake.io)
    ×0.62 83 | 4 points by thinkredstone 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Deckdrill – Pimsleur-style audio drills from Anki decks, in your voice (deckdrill.app)
    ×1.46 135 | 6 points by pjacowski 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Egoless Mathematics in the AI Era (wordpress.com)
    ×1.09 15 #25 | 165 points by smilelamp 16 hours ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Agentic backdoors via pretraining poisoning (arxiv.org)
    ×1.01 13 #60 | 100 points by gmays 16 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Last night an AI agent performed brain surgery on a mouse (twitter.com/OcanaSantero)
    ×1.73 10 #77 | 134 points by FacZap 22 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Lasm – Write formally verified webapps in Lean for Node/serverless/edge (github.com/Millillion)
    ×0.69 109 | 38 points by lastmjs 4 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Quarter – A TUI launcher to browse, search and launch your games (github.com/stronxyo)
    ×1.44 110 | 5 points by stronxyo 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Keyward – a TUI to manage SSH keys and audit your –/.ssh security (github.com/gateway-of-last-resort)
    ×1.18 137 | 4 points by weiqur 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Proving and improving the Platonic Representation Hypothesis with JEPAs (arxiv.org)
    ×0.79 59 #74 | 164 points by Anon84 1 day ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. F/OSS Comics #13: BSD Unix, Part 3 – The Beginning of BSD Unix (fosscomics.com)
    ×1.15 23 #81 | 212 points by joonehur 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Man caught in car with £14k of drugs as a lamb ate chips in the back seat (independent.co.uk)
    ×1.17 | 2 points by austinallegro 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Quill – a readable language where money is exact and failures can't hide (github.com/Ngwangshalom)
    ×0.51 | 1 points by NgwangShalom 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Faro, an unofficial Signal client for the terminal (getfaro.dev)
    ×0.43 | 2 points by harababurel 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Hacker News – HackerBooks, but for all the posts on HN
    ×1.74 106 | 6 points by techscruggs 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. An Italian farmer found some unknown seeds in his attic and planted them (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×3.57 22 #75 | 865 points by ecares 2 days ago | 232 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Splitting text to manage context for agents and humans (youtube.com)
    ×0.97 | 1 points by brainless 32 seconds ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Muxscape A graphical SSH client built on tmux (muxscape.com)
    ×0.82 | 2 points by CubezCS 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: NES Contra (1987) port (ASM –> C and then C –> WebAssembly) (epoyraz.github.io)
    ×0.81 63 | 91 points by tevlon 2 days ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Subvocal – Talk to your computer without making noise
    ×2.84 5 #8 | 708 points by aarushyadav 17 hours ago | 344 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Modern TypeScript Mithril.js with SSR, Signals and State Proxy (github.com/bitstillery)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by networked 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Landline phones will switch off across Britland in 100 days, no extensions (theregister.com)
    ×1.98 37 | 176 points by edward 1 day ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Arvre – A TUI for Claude Code sessions' forks (github.com/victorcarrico)
    ×0.99 71 | 4 points by vcarrico 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???