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  1. Anthropic, can you please make up your mind with your models?
    ×1.90 67 | 4 points by xlayn 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What AI agent infrastructure are you using in 2026?
    ×1.11 | 2 points by aurumagent 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Vercel should fork and maintain Deno
    ×0.26 65 | 15 points by gfalcao 14 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Best books you read in 2026?
    ×1.31 19 | 8 points by 013 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: Google Search to start locking down search behind a login wall
    ×0.68 71 | 43 points by exploraz 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What is the state of self-hosting email in 2026?
    ×0.62 77 | 41 points by 0o777 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What are you working on? (November 2026)
    ×1.28 102 | 303 points by david927 6 days ago | 1084 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Tell HN: Cloudflare's abuse report form is a blank page
    ×0.63 91 | 16 points by basilikum 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What are the most useful, concrete AI skills to independently learn?
    ×2.57 25 | 81 points by shnock 22 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. ChatGPT Desktop forwards your SSH agent to remote machines
    ×1.28 108 | 221 points by DenGorbachev 5 days ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Do you still enjoy coding in C++?
    ×1.05 140 | 66 points by hasley 5 days ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What use are the non-major cryptocurrencies?
    ×0.43 127 | 4 points by otohp 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: OpenAI Astra post-launch slump?
    ×0.34 136 | 3 points by iJohnDoe 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Tell HN: Major Microsoft Outlook/Exchange Online/Teams Outage in the Americas
    ×0.28 132 | 14 points by wmchen 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How did you convince family and friends to join your XMPP/Matrix server?
    ×0.84 143 | 102 points by mtlynch 1 week ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Do you see a human written book more valuable than an AI written one?
    ×0.25 130 | 9 points by znano 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Using LLMs outside of reflection is an anti-pattern
    ×0.42 | 2 points by jcarmackdaddy 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. U.S. October PPI Rises 6.5% YoY, Highest in Nearly Four Years
    ×2.11 47 | 172 points by moonypto 1 day ago | 226 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Google search hides Nvidia stock graph
    ×0.50 121 | 14 points by nedx 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Advice for those who want to build stuff but don't know where to start
    ×0.67 128 | 7 points by mjs06 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Why use Jev/decision models at all?
    ×0.62 142 | 10 points by niceguy1827 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: What % of HN is now AI-generated?
    ×0.41 147 | 8 points by simonebrunozzi 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. What are your favorite tools?
    ×0.51 149 | 16 points by d675 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Found: A protein that drives ageing without unleashing inflammation (nature.com)
    ×1.44 11 #83 | 253 points by gumby 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. AI is destroying the trust between writers and readers (theatlantic.com)
    ×3.40 9 | 365 points by FinnLobsien 1 day ago | 228 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. FAA lifted National Ground Stop at 0119Z (faa.gov)
    ×2.99 9 | 209 points by d3nit 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. TSMC Hacked (sec.gov)
    ×3.50 69 | 115 points by gmays 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Get your coding agent off ~2019 JavaScript, onto modern web primitives (github.com/GoogleChrome)
    ×2.52 79 | 444 points by paulirish 4 days ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Write your own kernel optimiser (csongor.co.uk)
    ×0.99 5 #47 | 28 points by speckx 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Claude Is Down (claude.com)
    ×2.94 51 | 199 points by cornfieldlabs 1 day ago | 179 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Brazil's Caixa insurer breach exposes names and tax IDs of all 7.6M customers (mziq.com)
    ×1.39 45 | 167 points by dvaplima 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: MeowDisplay Is iPhone Mirroring, but in Reverse (meowdisplay.app)
    ×0.78 119 | 121 points by raiseCatError 5 days ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Medicare's AI Experiment (eff.org)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by gumby 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Service Crew Discovers Rare Yellow Burbot in Oswego Harbor (fws.gov)
    ×0.52 73 #80 | 30 points by tart-lemonade 20 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Heading over Humanity (writingruxandrabio.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by hwacth 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Taxpayer Alliance Against Genocide Calls on ICC to Arrest Trump, Rubio over Gaza (truthout.org)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by hkhn 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Quest 15: The Explavigation – Lord of the Wings [ 2026 ] (everybody.codes)
    ×1.01 | 2 points by vismit2000 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Blogsearch.io – Search the Independent Web (blogsearch.io)
    ×3.10 7 | 6 points by Curiositry 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Why is Google cutting off Search from AI-free schools? Here are some theories (npr.org)
    ×2.42 35 | 192 points by kamaraju 1 day ago | 193 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Open-source AI without Jensen (interconnects.ai)
    ×1.09 79 #70 | 21 points by pr337h4m 16 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Fable52.games – Play and inspect Fable 5.2 single-file HTML games (fable52.games)
    ×1.40 89 | 72 points by felixne 2 days ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Smuggling of 1.5M AI GPUs could be the cause of Huang's departure (tomshardware.com)
    ×2.03 12 #88 | 52 points by marginalia_nu 13 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Live from the Hague: US Taxpayers Seek ICC Warrants for Trump, Rubio over Genoci [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.56 21 | 3 points by hkhn 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Zonvy – your offline time zone helper (github.com/oguzsh)
    ×0.39 | 1 points by oguzsh 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. After 600 experiments, here's what I discovered about JEPA world models (haddyalchaer.com)
    ×1.38 2 | 289 points by halcdev 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: String#to_proc` to Help Traversing JSON (github.com/samleb)
    ×0.57 | 2 points by samleb34 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: A custom font based on the Jamaican flag alphabet (bobbiec.github.io)
    ×0.98 16 #23 | 17 points by bobbiechen 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Microsoft Outlook/365 still down after 12 hours (twitter.com/MSFT365Status)
    ×5.21 13 | 467 points by player85 1 day ago | 309 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: DBDelve – Open-Source DB Client Made with Rust and GPUI
    ×0.91 120 | 124 points by shayan_abbas 5 days ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Anthropic CVP (Mythos) Defense Access Requirements Reduced to KYC (anthropic.com)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by jcomp 16 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Bilingualism and Denaskuleco (pgadey.ca)
    ×0.42 74 #71 | 21 points by surprisetalk 14 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Amtrak booking system experiencing major issues amid nationwide FAA ground stop (fox5dc.com)
    ×1.71 3 | 195 points by snow_mac 1 day ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Weight Space Misfolding (alphaxiv.org)
    ×1.13 46 | 142 points by mkglees 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Yet another agent manager (but we needed it) (varinomics.com)
    ×1.23 106 | 3 points by imakris 15 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. PyPI's redesigned project pages with clearer security signals are now live (pypi.org)
    ×1.19 5 #14 | 222 points by rbanffy 13 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. US IRS free online tax filing open source repo (2025) (github.com/IRS-Public)
    ×2.61 35 #55 | 158 points by accountinhn 11 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Macula For? (claude.ai)
    ×0.96 | 2 points by beamologist 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. IceWM (ice-wm.org)
    ×1.74 28 | 374 points by inatreecrown2 2 days ago | 232 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. A family tree of software job titles (zwischenzugs.com)
    ×1.58 #10 | 252 points by umerf 11 hours ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Oxford Molecular Motors (ox.ac.uk)
    ×0.79 17 #20 | 30 points by handfuloflight 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. 'Grey Rocking': The Life-Improving Power of Being Really, Really Boring (2021) (esquire.com)
    ×1.49 4 #25 | 123 points by NaOH 10 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Creating a self booting ZIP archive (goliath32.com)
    ×1.10 22 #43 | 60 points by gdgghhhhh 12 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. SP4N – Helping construction teams understand data and make better decisions (sp4n.ai)
    ×2.31 35 | 5 points by omarnwaked 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Baron – A Biplane in Every Browser (dai.studio)
    ×0.92 | 2 points by diverted247 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Hardware-Agnostic Models in vLLM (pytorch.org)
    ×1.00 | 2 points by gmays 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Ryph – Event-driven, self-hosted agents for incident response (github.com/ryph-hq)
    ×1.05 104 | 3 points by lftherios 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. The Evolving Story of How Chemistry Became Biology (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.99 16 #9 | 14 points by pseudolus 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Webpage of Hands (lasmanos.app)
    ×0.88 148 | 3 points by willmeyers 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. All US airports are currently ground stopped (twitter.com/flightradar24)
    ×2.16 6 | 211 points by defly 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Minnesota guitarist's "palmfrets" invention strikes a new chord (echopress.com)
    ×1.17 34 | 196 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. How Not to Build a Music Player (alichraghi.github.io)
    ×1.58 12 | 174 points by vinhnx 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Sauron – Error tracking and product analytics in one self-hosted stack (splimter.com)
    ×0.47 81 | 7 points by splimter 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Build a PC in 3D in the Browser (buildcores.com)
    ×0.60 96 | 61 points by ozaiworld 6 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Ghanaian street games you can play in the browser (ghanastreetgames.com)
    ×1.03 113 | 116 points by samuelaidoo45 6 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. AI in the Search for Extraterrestrial Life (datarootlabs.com)
    ×0.84 | 2 points by frolovmx 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Free Dictionary API – Wiktionary data, no API key required (suvankar.cc)
    ×1.86 101 | 6 points by suvankar_m 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Saccade (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by firefax 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Global Microsoft Outage (cnn.com)
    ×3.19 37 | 292 points by TechTechTech 1 day ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Zigzag, a native Mac browser for people leaving Arc (github.com/ZigaoWang)
    ×0.94 109 | 3 points by ZigaoWang 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. The curious case of the north-east arrow (arsh.zip)
    ×0.86 61 #74 | 44 points by arshxyz 19 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Osint Case Studies (osintsearch.org)
    ×1.29 21 #6 | 7 points by maiama 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Court denies motion to dismiss DRAM price fixing case (litnews.ai)
    ×2.04 60 #36 | 5 points by ybathaee 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. ChatMate: Remote Prompt Execution on AI Assistants Through Sandbox Escaping [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.46 3 #72 | 4 points by vbCrLf 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: SrcWranglr v0.13 – A C/C++ Graphical Code Explorer for Vuln. Research (github.com/jdefrancesco)
    ×0.51 99 | 3 points by jdefr89 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Anvil builds premium websites at lower cost (tryanvil.dev)
    ×0.77 141 | 3 points by Alumu 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Kiri – The Modern Container Runtime (runkiri.com)
    ×2.10 10 #3 | 6 points by nikolay 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. FAA Outage: Why Duffy Is Spelled with Two Ms (flyingpenguin.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by zzzeek 44 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Anthropic bought a one-person, AI-powered biotech (nature.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by nate 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Monster Cursor – Cartoon Beast Mouse (google.com)
    ×0.39 | 2 points by cflsdf 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: I created a library for correctly using SQLite in Go programs (github.com/cattlecloud)
    ×1.21 138 | 26 points by sethops1 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???