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  1. Tell HN: Gemini trains on chat history, even for subscribers (personal accounts)
    ×3.32 4 #10 | 363 points by jameslk 6 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup?
    ×3.37 7 #17 | 39 points by eggbrain 1 hour ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What's on Your Learning List?
    ×0.44 | 2 points by carlos-menezes 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tell HN: Don't use Postman, they proxy your info without your permission
    ×1.87 13 #67 | 78 points by neya 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Is AI good enough for math exercises?
    ×0.77 | 3 points by Qision 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. OpenAI seems to be silently re-enabling model training on Codex chats
    ×3.03 21 #77 | 508 points by user052919 1 day ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Gitbook Breached
    ×1.21 6 #89 | 162 points by punchmesan 23 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?
    ×3.18 46 | 727 points by LecroJS 2 days ago | 876 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2026)
    ×1.07 55 | 245 points by whoishiring 2 days ago | 239 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Tell HN: GitHub Is Down
    ×3.83 28 | 29 points by yuvadam 6 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Is it worth reading The Art of Computer Programming now?
    ×0.96 70 | 5 points by weavie 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Does anyone have a contact with Cleveland-area Ham club?
    ×2.19 56 | 164 points by stockresearcher 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Impact of US Elections on AI?
    ×1.53 63 | 6 points by talmr 7 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How to Keep the Edge as an Engineer?
    ×2.31 53 | 8 points by spacebuffer 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. WorkOS reports security breach
    ×1.13 83 | 77 points by werrett 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Tell HN: You now need a government id in order to create an Anthropic account
    ×1.88 85 | 18 points by I_am_tiberius 21 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What is the best non mainstream programming language or stack in 2026?
    ×0.68 103 | 4 points by kbrannigan 15 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Tell HN: Scribd Breached
    ×1.59 90 | 359 points by x______________ 4 days ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Will cheap high-quality AI end this December?
    ×0.87 114 | 6 points by amichail 23 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Design My YouTube Feed
    ×0.22 126 | 4 points by mrkn1 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: What is Google Flights' business model and has it changed recently?
    ×1.52 93 | 7 points by lastofthemojito 18 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Google reCAPTCHA on archive.is asking to scan a QR with a mobile device
    ×0.69 113 | 4 points by linuxhdr 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Does anyone enjoy work anymore?
    ×2.16 106 | 25 points by jackmalpo 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Getting hit with "Prove you are a human" at every other website
    ×3.01 29 | 82 points by shmde 21 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. How did we end up with Frontier Lab oligopoly rather than a monopoly?
    ×0.41 130 | 3 points by bdhe 22 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Can the Cloudflare employee that just blocked Route53 Health Checks undo it
    ×1.89 108 | 7 points by ferngodfather 22 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Anthropic's HackerOne bot lawyered me out of a bounty
    ×1.01 133 | 3 points by francesco_m 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: What to do about incorrectly suspended GitHub account, no notice?
    ×0.55 137 | 7 points by sshah03 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not
    ×0.63 141 | 40 points by stillatit 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Heretic 2.0 Released: Training-free language model modification
    ×0.73 132 | 22 points by razster 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: What's it like working at Google nowadays? Core teams like Search, Ads?
    ×0.71 139 | 48 points by karakoram 4 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Are Tenstorrent cards better than Nvidia?
    ×0.19 | 2 points by thesnarkitecht 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: What hardware are you using to run local LLMs?
    ×1.33 94 | 50 points by leafletsigh 2 days ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Opus 5.5 suddenly dumb as rocks?
    ×0.48 149 | 37 points by jahala 5 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Is applying to Y Combinator worth it if you aren't an insider?
    ×0.64 151 | 22 points by all2 4 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Do you have side-projects that generate >$500 revenue/month?
    ×0.82 147 | 41 points by learner_yearner 5 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Swedish grocery chain refrigerators and freezers hacked overnight
    ×0.73 140 | 10 points by u1hcw9nx 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. In LLM era, can software startup survive?
    ×1.12 117 | 37 points by sjia 2 days ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. You don't need long context (arxiv.org)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by craigmart 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. I dumped Apple’s word list (helgesver.re)
    ×3.21 9 | 160 points by speckx 19 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Agentic backdoors via pretraining poisoning (arxiv.org)
    ×1.04 80 | 108 points by gmays 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. AI data centers comprehensively defeated at US midterm elections (tomshardware.com)
    ×1.78 18 #47 | 3 points by rndsignals 37 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Acoustic Orbit – a Mac app that plays your speakers together, in sync (acousticorbit.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by snehasis_gouda 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Reviewing AI-Generated Code (naildrivin5.com)
    ×1.75 22 | 3 points by jrochkind1 38 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. The Work: A year on the indie pro wrestling circuit in PNW (thebeliever.net)
    ×1.26 | 2 points by gmays 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. US midterm elections 2026 live updates: Democrats win Senate control and edge (theguardian.com)
    ×19.53 47 | 115 points by hkhn 10 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: HackerEverything – Everything recommended by HN (hackereverything.pages.dev)
    ×1.70 82 | 4 points by mk93074 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Mintype – Free, zero-knowledge notes app with whiteboards (AGPL) (mintype.app)
    ×2.02 122 | 8 points by project59 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Kemi Badenoch says Africans should apologise for slavery (theguardian.com)
    ×1.54 10 #38 | 6 points by prmph 31 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. NetBSD 11.1 (netbsd.org)
    ×1.36 69 #50 | 31 points by jaypatelani 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Graftfork: rebase fork patches onto each upstream release, test-gated (graftfork.com)
    ×0.88 127 | 3 points by craigm26 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Rigorix, Execution governance for AI agents, open-source engine (rigorix.eu)
    ×1.48 129 | 4 points by arman-w-jalili 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Microsoft fixes a Windows 11 annoyance as PC revenue declines (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.53 20 #63 | 97 points by rbanffy 15 hours ago | 227 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Union Types and Option Types (2025) (tibleiz.net)
    ×0.63 58 #68 | 53 points by g0xA52A2A 18 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Charles Tandy, the mastermind behind Radio Shack (dfarq.homeip.net)
    ×1.03 32 | 124 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Hyperbutler – Docker on Windows without WSL, 320 MB at idle (hyperbutler.dev)
    ×1.77 6 | 3 points by swq115 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Codemap – one-page interactive map of any Go repository (github.com/peterretief)
    ×0.73 17 #9 | 10 points by peter_retief 52 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Kimi K3.1 Pro model weights are out (huggingface.co)
    ×2.84 10 #33 | 10 points by abrarthought 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. So, How Much RAM Do You Need? (jasoneckert.github.io)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by speckx 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Scaling Git at OpenAI (openai.com)
    ×2.48 36 | 270 points by makeramen 1 day ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Kitty 0.50 (kovidgoyal.net)
    ×1.97 3 #15 | 279 points by porridgeraisin 7 hours ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Kalshi and its co-founders face felony charges for violating Utah gambling laws (arstechnica.com)
    ×4.00 36 | 491 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 478 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Egoless Mathematics in the AI Era (wordpress.com)
    ×1.10 60 | 184 points by smilelamp 1 day ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Md2docx – Compile Markdown directly into native Word documents (md2docx.js.org)
    ×1.39 73 | 4 points by mayank1513 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. We're training a Figma-fluent editing model (figma.com)
    ×1.00 45 #45 | 140 points by gmays 21 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Microsoft is fine-tuning Windows 11. Here's what's coming in November (pcworld.com)
    ×1.10 | 2 points by MINTYSTAR12 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Google researchers demand freedom to tell the world what they know about AI (washingtonpost.com)
    ×3.17 27 | 91 points by nsagent 22 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Distinct cellular and genetic differences in colorectal cancer in young patients (dana-farber.org)
    ×0.84 33 #28 | 110 points by gmays 12 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Killing what can't be handled – putting a spaghetti demon to eternal rest (themaister.net)
    ×0.41 53 #90 | 40 points by ibobev 18 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Bema: Work messaging built for humans (getbema.app)
    ×0.40 88 | 26 points by ben_d 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Diogenes – Account-less MCP Gateway to 45 Gemini models and guardrails (diogenesgateway.com)
    ×1.17 138 | 3 points by diogenes_l402 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: HackerProducts – HackerTube, but for products mentioned on HN (hackerproducts.pages.dev)
    ×0.75 153 | 3 points by bin01 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Tiny Basic for Arduino (dilshan.github.io)
    ×0.56 63 #79 | 72 points by AlexeyBrin 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Uber only fulfilled 4 rides from AI agents last quarter (theverge.com)
    ×0.70 | 1 points by mattas 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Subvocal – Talk to your computer without making noise
    ×3.15 5 | 825 points by aarushyadav 1 day ago | 388 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Setforge – free lifting tracker; Apple Watch counts your reps (apple.com)
    ×0.73 | 2 points by yashsinghal0316 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: ClickBench inspired leaderboard for multiple database benchmarks (pivotlake.io)
    ×0.75 146 | 5 points by thinkredstone 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. ×1.00 | 1 points by pragyaangaur 13 seconds ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: GPUWorks – A 40 MB GPU cluster manager for vLLM/SGLang, no K8s needed (github.com/flitai-io)
    ×0.86 | 1 points by wangweinoo1 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Survey: What are the pains of creating product demo videos?
    ×0.59 | 1 points by loveTech 25 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Algorithms, Explained, Proved and Run (tamnd.com)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by tamnd 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. OpenAI targets Microsoft's GitHub with deal to acquire dev tools startup (yahoo.com)
    ×0.82 | 1 points by theanonymousone 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Trainlint, static checks for ML bugs that don't crash (github.com/Satvik-jain)
    ×0.59 | 2 points by admiral-mini-8b 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Postman silently auto-installs AI plugins and attempts to share all API data (github.com/postmanlabs)
    ×6.38 22 #42 | 1436 points by sidgarimella 22 hours ago | 467 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. We need to talk about boundaries – Claude and I try out the therapist's couch (glasseye.ink)
    ×1.08 | 2 points by glasseye 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: BBRouter – Ben Eater's 8-bit computer, simulated on 3D breadboards (bbrouter.com)
    ×0.71 121 | 58 points by creack 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Guerrilla Bike Lanes: San Francisco Makes Illicit Infrastructure Permanent (2016) (99percentinvisible.org)
    ×1.69 2 #2 | 62 points by zenincognito 1 hour ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. The lost malloc() (nekoweb.org)
    ×1.12 11 #20 | 111 points by matt_d 8 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: HackerTV – HN's most-recommended Youtube videos as 24/7 TV channels (hackertv.org)
    ×2.25 23 #25 | 410 points by dsalzman 20 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Uncracked City, detective game where you question LLM suspects that lie (uncracked.city)
    ×0.90 33 #27 | 106 points by passkey1510 12 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???