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  1. Ask HN: What's it like working at Google nowadays? Core teams like Search, Ads?
    ×1.50 2 #35 | 15 points by karakoram 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. "Wrong" Email
    ×1.61 7 #43 | 8 points by rbmm 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Are you putting off hardware upgrades because of AI coding tools?
    ×0.60 11 | 3 points by winrid 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Hack
    ×0.22 28 | 6 points by throwaway3309 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Opus 5.5 suddenly dumb as rocks?
    ×0.46 58 | 29 points by jahala 20 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Are you using a custom harness?
    ×0.24 60 | 5 points by japhyr 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Do you have side-projects that generate >$500 revenue/month?
    ×0.78 63 | 30 points by learner_yearner 23 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Are Knuth's Stanford Pages Down?
    ×0.16 83 | 7 points by weinzierl 22 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Tell HN: Claude Code adds your email to the prompt, the LLM sends it to websites
    ×0.76 72 | 31 points by TekMol 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Is your leadership pushing you to skip dev review?
    ×0.60 81 | 10 points by arm32 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Are you tired too in this AI era?
    ×5.87 54 | 132 points by mellosty 8 hours ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Antrophic tightened usage limits?
    ×0.17 | 2 points by lukan 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: How are you using AI in your personal life?
    ×0.22 113 | 3 points by whall6 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Sitting on unused OpenAI / Anthropic / AWS credits that will expire?
    ×0.11 116 | 3 points by xiaomaijj 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: I Need Advice
    ×0.61 86 | 16 points by TuxedoBuddy 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Should I be polite to my agent or should I treat it like shit?
    ×0.30 105 | 4 points by d--b 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Why are there not more terminal apps?
    ×0.17 101 | 5 points by lucasov 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: What's your iPhone Duo experience so far?
    ×0.45 112 | 4 points by dgellow 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Alternative to Tldraw Draw Fast?
    ×1.11 131 | 4 points by outlore 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Expericencing an issue in Gmail where emails do not delete in Firefox
    ×0.17 134 | 9 points by rc_kas 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Tell HN: I know Firefox has update when it starts to glitch
    ×0.29 130 | 5 points by majkinetor 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Is it not possible to enroll for Apple Developer anymore?
    ×0.47 125 | 32 points by olalonde 4 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Do you still read clean code and software architecture books?
    ×0.36 127 | 20 points by pelcg 4 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. DietPi v10.8 has been released
    ×0.20 118 | 19 points by stephanstsdietp 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Why big LLMs use "it's not A, it is B" pattern? Shared dataset supplier?
    ×0.85 95 | 11 points by jumasheff 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Old.reddit.com Gone
    ×1.12 84 | 34 points by Balgair 2 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Why a program doesn't work when run from a batch file, but works when clicked (microsoft.com)
    ×1.02 24 #23 | 103 points by ibobev 9 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Patrick Stewart has died (nytimes.com)
    ×15.34 43 #57 | 3194 points by j4mie 22 hours ago | 710 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. An illustrated online book on Hewlett-Packard equipment (adafruit.com)
    ×0.56 45 #62 | 42 points by sohkamyung 13 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. The case of the 9 bit AES key (v12.sh)
    ×0.96 67 #74 | 144 points by ledoge 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Marelleo, an open-source story box I built for my kids using ESP32 (zebra.rodeo)
    ×0.42 145 | 3 points by foOg 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Robert Caro – The master biographer reflects at 91 (dwarkesh.com)
    ×1.75 26 | 3 points by swolpers 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Backdoors in official Claude Code extensions (cyberplace.social)
    ×6.37 85 | 646 points by dsr_ 7 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: KernelCash – Privacy First Budgeting
    ×1.18 93 | 4 points by LoftyHobbitMan 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. US tech stocks see sharp falls over AI cost fears (bbc.co.uk)
    ×4.76 8 #10 | 145 points by mindracer 1 hour ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Voyager 1 gives controllers the silent treatment (theregister.com)
    ×1.72 11 #52 | 9 points by ohjeez 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Robert Caro: The master biographer reflects at 91 [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.76 | 1 points by brandonb 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Prompt – A New, Beautiful Terminal (github.com/paul-oms)
    ×2.53 47 | 4 points by albertgoeswoof 22 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. The US added a record 20.2 GWh of battery storage in just 3 months (electrek.co)
    ×2.31 9 | 279 points by ljf 1 day ago | 205 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Bugatti CEO chases down car thief – then offers him a lift home (sky.com)
    ×1.06 | 2 points by austinallegro 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Sketch Stadium – watch your agent play Pictionary (wakeshift.ai)
    ×0.46 37 | 3 points by ericlevine 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Lasm – Write formally verified webapps in Lean for Node/serverless/edge (github.com/Millillion)
    ×0.63 47 | 33 points by lastmjs 16 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Blockchain intelligence firms link North Korea to $6.3B hack on Binance (npr.org)
    ×2.36 4 #14 | 94 points by paulpauper 2 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Cost of living protests to spread to Germany and reignite in France on Halloween (theguardian.com)
    ×1.66 7 #45 | 12 points by robtherobber 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. EU to impose €2 fee on all packages entering the bloc as of 1 November (euronews.com)
    ×1.60 8 | 3 points by Markoff 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. The Great American Rascal: Tom Sawyer at 150 (claremontreviewofbooks.com)
    ×0.64 80 #38 | 78 points by beatstop 19 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. DoorDash to acquire Instacart (doordash.com)
    ×2.37 12 #89 | 477 points by WalterSobchak 1 day ago | 642 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. One Screen at a Time – a swipe feed of small "aha" moments, and how to build it (onescreenatatime.netlify.app)
    ×0.46 | 2 points by stacherski 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. A Health Update (furbo.org)
    ×2.07 34 | 350 points by frizlab 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Yavashark: I've Built a JavaScript Engine Every Day for 950 Days (yavashark.dev)
    ×0.83 82 | 38 points by sharktheone 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Azure's Weakest Link – Five Full Cross-Tenant Compromises (binarysecurity.no)
    ×1.37 18 #12 | 201 points by swq115 8 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Getting debug access on a Brother printer over Telnet (inventor7777.github.io)
    ×1.11 50 #83 | 180 points by inventor7777 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: A Modern Basketball Play Designer (elitehoopsapp.com)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by jordanmorgan10 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Sidekeys – Turn an iPhone into a Mac display and agent control deck (sidekeysapp.com)
    ×0.75 104 | 3 points by cmillstein 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. elect.horse (elect.horse)
    ×2.71 39 #54 | 513 points by solarist 8 hours ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: InputConfig, a free open-source app to run your Mac with any controller (github.com/ryleighnewman)
    ×0.48 | 2 points by ryleighnewman 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Astroterm: A Planetarium for Your Terminal (github.com/da-luce)
    ×1.45 18 #36 | 218 points by nvmdbljstm 16 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Alphabet Sheds Half a Trillion in Market Value in Stock's Worst Day (wsj.com)
    ×1.10 | 2 points by teachrdan 31 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: SortSage – Automatic rules-based file organizer (enlightpixel.com)
    ×2.08 85 | 6 points by enlightpixel 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Full Python 3.15 Implemented in 25k LoC C11
    ×1.31 109 | 9 points by soasme 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Anthropic may not secure investment-grade rating after IPO, Blackstone says (ft.com)
    ×3.16 1 #16 | 21 points by petethomas 42 minutes ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Playmat – Browser client for XMage, the open-source MTG engine (github.com/arcanite24)
    ×0.72 | 2 points by arcanite24 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Alleged Chinese spy had 'close relationship' with Nvidia boss Jensen Huang (nypost.com)
    ×2.37 19 | 347 points by mgh2 1 day ago | 233 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. DoorDash is acquiring Instacart for $17B (doordash.com)
    ×2.44 32 | 124 points by DeepLogin 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Typebook.lol read books by typing the letters only (typebook.lol)
    ×0.41 80 | 9 points by vegnus 22 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Squishy 3D helpers powered by Three.js (prathje.github.io)
    ×0.46 103 | 16 points by prathje 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. The $200M Machine that Prints Microchips [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by tosh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. After 28 years walking across the globe, he's almost home (nytimes.com)
    ×0.99 39 | 93 points by rafaelc 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Scaling Hierarchical Networks (cartesia.ai)
    ×0.93 67 | 92 points by guybedo 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Geist Serif (vercel.com)
    ×1.55 9 #29 | 53 points by Zm44 2 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Python on My Wrist (tildeweb.nl)
    ×0.91 27 #66 | 80 points by roywashere 15 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. First response from Project Suncatcher prototype satellite (blog.google)
    ×1.68 19 #71 | 5 points by meetpateltech 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month (stackexchange.com)
    ×4.61 5 #90 | 811 points by babelfish 1 day ago | 728 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Understanding Open-Ended Work from a Data Perspective (fig.inc)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by joehabeebs 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Alphabet Announces Third Quarter 2026 Results [pdf] (q4cdn.com)
    ×3.82 68 | 80 points by mfiguiere 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Peregrine – Integrated Terminal and File Browser (github.com/David-OConnor)
    ×0.59 144 | 3 points by the__alchemist 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: UEFI pre-driver Nvidia GPU unlocker for Windows (github.com/physicsdolphin)
    ×0.38 | 2 points by 84634E1A607A 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: I worked at an ATS, so I built Recruiter BFF for Claude and ChatGPT (github.com/kevinmmiddleton)
    ×0.51 | 2 points by kevinmiddleton 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. A Working Nintendo in ~1GB of Qwen Weights (github.com/dbreunig)
    ×1.41 3 #5 | 70 points by dbreunig 1 hour ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Lighthouses, War and a Puffling (wordpress.com)
    ×0.22 33 #56 | 12 points by aways 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Muse wins a small claims case (twitter.com/philwinkle)
    ×1.11 | 2 points by CGMthrowaway 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. What happens when cloud coding agents are as fast as your local machine? (opencomputer.dev)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by iacguy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Convoy – Easiest way to get paid for sharing your knowledge (convoy.so)
    ×1.00 142 | 3 points by misteryomi 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Proton goes all in on using AI (convo.casa)
    ×3.80 11 | 108 points by ColinWright 20 hours ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: OpenArcanum – An End-to-End Encrypted Alternative to Discord (github.com/hyperkubeorg)
    ×1.16 89 | 5 points by SamInTheShell 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Compile-Time Dependent Types (thenumb.at)
    ×0.81 20 #20 | 35 points by ibobev 4 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Pell Puzzles Review (dles.gg)
    ×0.35 45 #24 | 12 points by trizoza 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Gilgamesh by Simon Armitage review – an ancient epic is brilliantly translated (theguardian.com)
    ×1.28 19 #26 | 159 points by benbreen 11 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Claude subscription now usable in OpenCode (legit) (twitter.com/opencode)
    ×1.77 30 | 3 points by kandros 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. The 'Pain in the Ass' Math That Could Save Vibe Coding from Itself (wired.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by thm 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???