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  1. Ask HN: What are you working on? (November 2026)
    ×1.40 16 #68 | 280 points by david927 1 day ago | 976 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. ChatGPT Desktop forwards your SSH agent to remote machines
    ×1.52 15 #69 | 206 points by DenGorbachev 19 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Do you still enjoy coding in C++?
    ×1.53 26 | 53 points by hasley 18 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: How do you manage your AI agents' context across clients and projects?
    ×1.64 35 | 91 points by Michel_Aventin 2 days ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: Another GitHub Major Outage
    ×0.39 34 | 13 points by sergiotapia 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: How do you evaluate the skills your AI agents use?
    ×0.78 46 | 18 points by enesalatas 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What should a stranger know first about your unfinished project?
    ×1.25 44 | 4 points by toddy_flogsit 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Is Google Site Search Broken?
    ×0.64 | 2 points by CM30 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Tell HN: Some of My Recent Ideas
    ×0.31 | 2 points by onaclov2000 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Remote island can only have 1 PC, 1 book, 1 programming language
    ×0.35 | 2 points by kbrannigan 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. uBlock Origin Can't Block Facebook Ads
    ×1.84 65 | 9 points by anidsiam 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Fable 5.2 Available in Claude Desktop
    ×0.51 78 | 3 points by calgaryeng 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: How did you convince family and friends to join your XMPP/Matrix server?
    ×0.87 79 | 99 points by mtlynch 2 days ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Share your best blog/videos on learning about LLMs in depth
    ×0.38 | 2 points by mrburton 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Do you have daily voice conversations with AI?
    ×0.69 81 | 3 points by rtp4me 9 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. P2P inference using WebGPU libp2p and IPFS
    ×0.95 85 | 3 points by gnarbarian 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Tell HN: A flood of reports of Opus 5.5 being nerfed
    ×2.65 71 | 27 points by b--l 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: What in the world is taking Ubuntu so long?
    ×1.65 77 | 218 points by linsomniac 3 days ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How your SEO traffic doing? Up or down?
    ×0.50 97 | 4 points by bigmuzzy 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Will Humans Become Useless?
    ×0.54 98 | 4 points by misano 20 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Those who have lost their job to AI what was your job?
    ×0.29 | 2 points by dev_grex 22 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Is it normal to not write code for a years as software engineer?
    ×0.70 105 | 4 points by khalidahmad 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. I am building Threadz. Human first AI writing app
    ×0.45 113 | 3 points by shoebilyas_hanz 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Claude usage credits purchased after Dec 7 will expire 12 months after purchase
    ×0.70 115 | 18 points by bbg2401 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Why Agile Often Fails
    ×0.27 127 | 3 points by ghassenfaidi 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. I turned an ESP32-S3 into a Tailscale gateway with recovery functions
    ×0.53 122 | 9 points by Mattboxx 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: What are your advice for a CS/IT student for the future?
    ×0.21 118 | 5 points by L0in 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. We're bringing back the HN meeting in Mexico City
    ×0.69 114 | 10 points by ysangkok 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Seeking advice: Wix stolen my .com domain
    ×0.64 132 | 13 points by wixcom 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: What tech companies do you think have a good moral compass?
    ×0.65 136 | 6 points by gehwartzen 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: What fun things to do with an iPhone 11?
    ×0.56 135 | 9 points by wanderingpixel 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: If LLM reverse engineering is deemed illegal, is that precedent for OSS?
    ×0.34 134 | 4 points by apatheticonion 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Is YouTube starting to protect channel RSS feeds?
    ×0.61 124 | 6 points by kradeelav 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Logo Deal – Logos anyone can edit with text (logo.deal)
    ×0.92 121 | 10 points by vednig 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: DBDelve – Open-Source DB Client Made with Rust and GPUI
    ×0.82 10 #35 | 97 points by shayan_abbas 11 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Testing Claude on real-world electronics design (anthropic.com)
    ×1.12 42 #55 | 21 points by rbinv 8 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Charleston AI (ai-chs.com)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by bhartzer 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Formalizing CPython (broyojo.com)
    ×0.62 | 2 points by carnevalem 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Iran was behind cyber-attack on French supermarket freezers, Paris says (theguardian.com)
    ×2.70 50 | 60 points by disenchanted 8 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Implant Zaps Excess Sugar Directly from Blood (ieee.org)
    ×0.97 | 1 points by pseudolus 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Notes on Fable 5.2 (llmleaderboard.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by anitakirkovska 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Serc: CPython bytecode compiler written in Rust (2-4x speedup, Codex built) (github.com/astral-experiments)
    ×1.27 | 2 points by agustaf 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. RAM Altman: Linux Script Emails Sam Altman Daily How Much Unused RAM in Your PC (respawnfirst.com)
    ×4.43 16 | 250 points by randycupertino 1 day ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. The first 300-millimeter power silicon carbide (SiC) wafer (infineon.com)
    ×0.84 19 #12 | 112 points by sshah03 9 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. CUI – Native UI components for C (yappologistic.github.io)
    ×1.50 8 #29 | 162 points by hilti 8 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Deuterium's Impact on OLED Displays (2024) (oled-info.com)
    ×0.53 37 #30 | 36 points by zeristor 8 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. USB: A trust layer for AI skills and MCP servers (github.com/PeepSick)
    ×0.79 69 #54 | 7 points by peepsick 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Vanderbilt University responding to an active cybersecurity incident (vanderbilt.edu)
    ×2.06 63 #57 | 9 points by nateb2022 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. U.S. Government Networks Will Need to Be Torched and Rebuilt (karlbode.com)
    ×2.46 26 | 4 points by cdrnsf 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Toptal AI – Full-Stack AI Services Company in the World for Agent Creation (toptal.ai)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by artur_makly 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Ads in Popular Apps Give Police a Powerful Tool to Spy on Users (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.04 41 | 123 points by mgh2 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: clap.cpp – Audio embedding inference in C++ (GGML) (github.com/gorse-io)
    ×0.50 | 2 points by lutun 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Lipwise (getlipwise.com)
    ×1.24 130 | 3 points by lnenad 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Fable 5.2 one-shotted my nephew's dream game (notesbylex.com)
    ×4.35 12 #14 | 238 points by lexandstuff 4 hours ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Claude Fable 5.2 scores 65 on Artificial Analysis, highest so far (artificialanalysis.ai)
    ×2.42 13 #21 | 305 points by theanonymousone 7 hours ago | 229 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Courses built from Hacker News posts (hackertutorials.com)
    ×0.99 52 #60 | 9 points by nedsma 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Totle, daily math puzzle game; Saturday puzzles have the fewest answers (playtotle.com)
    ×0.93 | 2 points by zemelett 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Micron – The Oberon with the Power of C (github.com/rochus-keller)
    ×1.56 112 | 5 points by Rochus 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. How a mathematical discovery changed the rules of chess (infinitelymore.xyz)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by FillMaths 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Playing with the STM32MP2 (serd.es)
    ×0.79 58 | 77 points by dverlaeckt80 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. More than 400k Russians killed fighting in Ukraine war, leaked data suggests (theguardian.com)
    ×5.93 17 | 52 points by ljf 11 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Agent-email-guard – agent tried to send 400 receipts, stopped at 5 (github.com/agentisend)
    ×0.87 69 | 3 points by Iammnhamza 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Attentry – a local checker that reviews each edit Claude Code makes (github.com/Aarv-1o)
    ×0.63 | 2 points by aarvsinghchauha 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Nino – Fastest C# serializer, safe on untrusted input, also TS/Go/Rust (github.com/JasonXuDeveloper)
    ×1.18 129 | 3 points by jnx11 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Quasi-Logarithmic Kitchen Timer (coredump.cx)
    ×1.01 41 #64 | 103 points by surprisetalk 22 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Database Architects: Next-Level Benchmarking Overfitting (databasearchitects.blogspot.com)
    ×1.33 | 2 points by muehlbau 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 (anthropic.com)
    ×6.39 90 | 967 points by meetpateltech 9 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. How to prove equations using diagrams, part 1 (epatters.org)
    ×0.80 67 | 78 points by frostbyte7 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Camwall – all your camera feeds on one screen, no black bars (github.com/vinodhalaharvi)
    ×0.92 | 2 points by vinodhalaharvi 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Emma, a real-time AI video persona from Nuance Labs (nuancelabs.ai)
    ×3.04 33 | 7 points by cvanea 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: WebGL2 GPU Liquidity Heatmap for Hyperliquid L2 Orderbooks (velqiris-acquisition.netlify.app)
    ×0.77 | 2 points by velqiris 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Statement from Nvidia board of directors (nvidia.com)
    ×6.29 28 | 490 points by vincentchau 1 day ago | 406 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Cross-device passkey auth on Android 9, synced with Bitwarden (rsnel.github.io)
    ×0.84 | 2 points by riksnel 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. I'm not convinced the AI bubble exists (matteoraso.github.io)
    ×3.45 40 #87 | 543 points by matteoraso 1 day ago | 941 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Replay your Claude Code logs to count parallel session collisions (github.com/dooly6276)
    ×0.61 110 | 3 points by dooly6276 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. A renowned scientist, a deadly snakebite, and a diary that documented it (2025) (cbsnews.com)
    ×0.54 30 #23 | 18 points by areoform 4 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. $16k and a Solar Panel (greg.technology)
    ×1.26 | 2 points by gregsadetsky 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Maple – Run Gemma 4 26B on a 6GB Laptop GPU at 45 TPS (Sub-2-BPW) (amsach.github.io)
    ×1.22 117 | 4 points by AmSach 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Firenook – Firebase emulators in Rust: 40× faster writes, 10× less RAM (firenook.dev)
    ×1.23 89 | 173 points by sanjevirau 4 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Try Gleam (nchagnet.eu)
    ×1.37 27 #37 | 120 points by nchagnet 16 hours ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. French blood banks hacked in latest cyber-attack on Europe (theguardian.com)
    ×1.56 17 #77 | 13 points by doodlesdev 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: My daily word puzzle Jointter revisited
    ×0.16 57 #83 | 8 points by proy87 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Brigade (github.com/rajvardhan19)
    ×0.65 | 1 points by rajvardhan19 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Should learning to code be like learning to read? (olu.online)
    ×1.76 12 | 3 points by meetpateltech 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Dating app based on your LinkedIn profile (synergy.dating)
    ×1.53 10 | 3 points by Startup4Life 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Goodbye Claude, hello Pi (caleb.software)
    ×3.64 11 | 805 points by karagenit 2 days ago | 485 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. USPS now offers official ZIP Code boundary polygons (usps.com)
    ×2.64 1 #2 | 526 points by munro 7 hours ago | 271 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Perhaps Connecting Fridges to the Internet Was a Bad Idea (theatlantic.com)
    ×2.79 13 #62 | 14 points by paulpauper 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Bloomberg Software Support (blpprofessional.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by enjoyyourlife 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell on Elon Musk (twitter.com/elonmusk)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by andsoitis 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???