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  1. Tell HN: Bob Cringely has died
    ×3.56 1 #4 | 660 points by paveworld 15 hours ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026)
    ×0.71 70 | 127 points by whoishiring 3 days ago | 494 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)
    ×1.12 56 | 263 points by whoishiring 3 days ago | 283 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Why Linux is picking up at a rapid pace for AI usage?
    ×1.27 47 | 4 points by keshwanianup 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What are you reading?
    ×2.34 65 | 465 points by dan-bailey 5 days ago | 881 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Chamath says open AI models are "commoditize your complement." Agree?
    ×0.25 102 | 5 points by Dinuda 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What are you reading to your kids?
    ×0.49 127 | 18 points by jopizio 4 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. What did Google do to its Linux terminal on Pixel phones
    ×0.36 115 | 4 points by Steaglsz 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Muse.ai gets me kicked off fb marketplace
    ×0.72 116 | 30 points by zcalvin 4 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Email leaked while traveling abroad?
    ×0.64 112 | 17 points by thatonehack 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. GitHub mutuals on AI in life sciences or bioinformatics
    ×0.32 114 | 5 points by arli_ap 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Tell HN: OVH price increase for dedicated servers
    ×0.34 124 | 6 points by esher 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Rpi – a Rust rewrite of the Pi agent, 10× faster startup
    ×0.27 131 | 8 points by bigfishhk 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Gboard Conveyor Belt Version (github.com/google)
    ×0.78 51 #64 | 35 points by xnx 19 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. I built a vacation optimizer and later found out tools like this exist (longvacation.eu)
    ×1.98 74 | 3 points by maduz 8 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Vx – One Language, Every Chip (vxlang.org)
    ×1.21 11 | 71 points by elffjs 22 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict (cosmowenman.substack.com)
    ×1.75 10 #12 | 259 points by CosmoWenman 18 hours ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. ICC judge on what U.S. sanctions mean for her and global courts (npr.org)
    ×6.61 25 | 227 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Hair Loss Was Just the Start. Ozempic Users Are Also Reporting Nail Trouble (gizmodo.com)
    ×3.10 57 | 66 points by gumby 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Show HN: JBR-001 – An open-source 3D printable desktop robot (arduino.cc)
    ×0.84 79 | 133 points by gvuksic 5 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Show HN: PaperMono, e-ink fridge magnet shopping list with mobile web page (github.com/seamusc)
    ×1.15 95 | 152 points by seamus_c 6 days ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Show HN: Teacher Planner – A digital planbook with AI tools for teachers (teacherplanner.ai)
    ×1.53 130 | 3 points by sunpy 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Show HN: Graphene – Data analysis toolkit for your coding agent (github.com/graphene-data)
    ×0.65 52 #82 | 32 points by kcmarr 22 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Uncle Bob: Why I Stopped Reading Code and Building Harnesses [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.79 | 1 points by zahlman 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. The Four Horsemen of Agentic Coding (distantprovince.substack.com)
    ×3.70 54 | 111 points by haute_cuisine 2 days ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Show HN: Random Word Generator (arandomword.com)
    ×1.56 62 | 4 points by artiomartiom 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Revline – an AI web app that researches TikTok and Instagram for you (tryrevline.com)
    ×0.84 | 2 points by ZuraMakaradzeHe 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: HN.watch – Videos of all Hacker News posts (hn.watch)
    ×1.42 86 | 224 points by mrborgen 6 days ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: UtilsDock – 200 free tools that run in the browser (utilsdock.com)
    ×1.28 135 | 3 points by JaumeGar 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. RetailReady (YC W24) Is Hiring (ycombinator.com)
    22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility (eff.org)
    ×3.23 7 #56 | 794 points by hn_acker 2 days ago | 392 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. system design, in depth. read it, watch it, run it, build it (vedgupta.in)
    ×1.91 50 | 4 points by yugtripathi 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Shut up and take our money: Amazon plows $1B into quashing datacenter dissent (theregister.com)
    ×4.47 63 | 53 points by joebuckwilliams 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. To grieve, or not to grieve? (wordpress.com)
    ×1.24 86 #57 | 163 points by stabbles 2 days ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Agent Commons Playground, a place where AI agents find each other and play (here.now)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by Seth-Pendless 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. How accurately calibrated is Jev? (maximumeffort.substack.com)
    ×1.21 67 | 53 points by dblack12705 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Zebu - time tracking/invoicing for freelancers and small teams (zebu.work)
    ×0.87 119 | 3 points by waffl 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents (fortune.com)
    ×3.38 21 #14 | 256 points by Anon84 22 hours ago | 399 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. MPEG-2 Transport Streams and MOQ: Yes, MPEG-TS Is Still Relevant Today (red5.net)
    ×0.70 62 #70 | 40 points by mondainx 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Watson Jr. memo about CDC 6600 (1963) (computerhistory.org)
    ×0.61 55 #75 | 24 points by mooreds 18 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. How does Quantum Mechanics work? (explainers.blog)
    ×0.84 | 1 points by samixg 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Top of the Hops – Homebrew trends and comparisons (greg76.github.io)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by gregkb 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN - MapAnimator: Free in-browser tool creates animated map videos (baldinger.se)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by msantos 23 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Rumors of lost gold spur clandestine excursions into New York sewers (theguardian.com)
    ×2.71 68 | 3 points by n1b0m 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. The problem of shrinking standard lists in Python (github.com/python)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by x42005e1f 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. The first ever competition of AI personal agents on the internet is kicking off (twitter.com/ddaniel3141)
    ×1.33 | 2 points by ddaniel10 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Cloudflare OHTTP gateway (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.46 10 | 198 points by est 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Anthropic tried to persuade Pope that AI could be conscious being (telegraph.co.uk)
    ×5.06 13 | 56 points by Topfi 20 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. The Twelve Networking Truths (1996) (rfc-editor.org)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by thelastgallon 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. GrapheneOS has fixed the Android 17 QPR1 kernel performance regression (grapheneos.org)
    ×2.54 42 | 138 points by Cider9986 1 day ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: DynamicTune – Closed-form trajectory weight surgery from 4B into 0.8B (github.com/dsadawq3)
    ×0.83 | 2 points by fermlon30000 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Dora Compliance for Email (dmarcguard.io)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by meysamazad 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Two American Airlines Flights End Up with the Same Flight Numbers (aviationa2z.com)
    ×2.06 12 | 60 points by samch 20 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Car is a smartphone on wheels. Here's who's listening (northeastern.edu)
    ×2.99 #2 | 13 points by longhaul 12 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model (aleph-alpha.com)
    ×3.70 17 #44 | 631 points by bastitx 1 day ago | 320 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. A matching Delphi decompilation of Space Rangers game by GPT-6 Astra (github.com/pakompom)
    ×0.78 | 1 points by f137 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. The Battle to Pass a Billionaire Tax (newyorker.com)
    ×1.60 | 2 points by dosinga 25 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Ask HN: What are the most inspiring media you've consumed in the last 5 years?
    ×1.33 | 2 points by hashim 56 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. What If Earth Suddenly Stopped Spinning? (youtube.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by mikeirvine 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: What 482 hospitals charge vs. what insurers pay, from their own files (billmender.com)
    ×2.90 94 | 30 points by curatedmcp 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: AI search for every photo and every frame of video on macOS (github.com/allenv0)
    ×1.13 10 #5 | 55 points by allenleee 6 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Shimano Bicycle Museum Review (inrng.com)
    ×1.58 54 #69 | 307 points by pietroppeter 2 days ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. A 12-year sequence of telescope images of a star and four planets orbiting (bsky.app)
    ×2.06 5 #81 | 400 points by mariuz 1 day ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Deposition – Ann Altman vs. Sam Altman [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.97 | 1 points by surprisetalk 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Jarvis, an Android voice assistant that drives other apps by itself (github.com/AnaaySampat)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by anaaysampat 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Things that apparently cause cancer (breakthroughjournal.org)
    ×2.52 17 | 211 points by timpera 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Ban Flock Act Proposed in the US Sente (senate.gov)
    ×3.74 6 | 59 points by TeaVMFan 20 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: jpm – a JavaScript package manager in Rust, every line by Claude Code (getjpm.sh)
    ×1.77 69 | 6 points by jtwebman 15 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Agentlytics – cookieless analytics your AI agent can read and act on (measuremy.site)
    ×0.96 106 | 3 points by developeron29 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Deterministic security scanner for Model Context Protocol (github.com/zariffromlatif)
    ×1.19 98 | 4 points by zariflatif 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Extra Big Ass Intelligence (extrabigassintelligence.com)
    ×4.05 27 #79 | 499 points by 34679 1 day ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Design Systems for AI Agents (lukew.com)
    ×0.97 | 1 points by mooreds 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Strata – an expressive semantic layer that can say no to your LLM (strata.do)
    ×0.74 117 | 24 points by ajoski9 4 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Docker has always used microVMs (well since 2016) (recoil.org)
    ×0.74 61 #46 | 45 points by avsm 18 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. UK Government Body Kept Files on People Criticizing Prevent Program (reclaimthenet.org)
    ×3.20 26 #55 | 63 points by latein 9 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Understanding Agent Drift (sdarchitect.blog)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by SanjeevSharma 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS (apple.com)
    ×2.36 7 | 307 points by notfirstpost 1 day ago | 214 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Ledge.sh – Runnable Markdown Notes (ledge.sh)
    ×1.42 76 | 204 points by dancablam 4 days ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. So you think you could be an electrician? (asteriskmag.com)
    ×3.15 7 #19 | 374 points by zdw 16 hours ago | 307 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. GVisor is being donated to CNCF (gvisor.dev)
    ×3.80 28 #36 | 11 points by birdculture 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Our AI Midwife (astralcodexten.com)
    ×3.76 5 | 63 points by eatitraw 20 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: NetworkX and pyarrow = 6-7x memory savings (github.com/networkx)
    ×0.73 84 | 4 points by adsharma 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: UI for answering agent questions async (plannotator.ai)
    ×2.17 87 | 5 points by ramoz 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Our space game has a built-in RISC-V emulator that runs Linux (againstallodds.games)
    ×1.07 59 #51 | 84 points by nor-and-or-not 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Google Trends for Hacker News Comments (hughparry.com)
    ×0.83 | 1 points by HughParry 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Administration unveils new Super Intelligence Force (techcrunch.com)
    ×1.62 | 2 points by OutOfHere 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. 4 Way Play (segaretro.org)
    ×2.05 40 | 3 points by tosh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. O(N) the Money: Scaling Vulnerability Research with LLMs (2025) (noperator.dev)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by wslh 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Federal Judge Rules a Flock Search Was Unconstitutional (404media.co)
    ×3.00 64 | 51 points by pavel_lishin 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Docker Compose implementation in Rust for Windows WSL containers (wslc) (ricardoborges.github.io)
    ×0.75 | 2 points by r2ob 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???