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  1. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026)
    ×0.80 47 | 124 points by whoishiring 1 day ago | 451 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)
    ×1.14 17 | 261 points by whoishiring 1 day ago | 268 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Chamath says open AI models are "commoditize your complement." Agree?
    ×0.26 | 2 points by Dinuda 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. What did Google do to its Linux terminal on Pixel phones
    ×0.97 62 | 3 points by Steaglsz 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What are you reading?
    ×2.38 53 | 463 points by dan-bailey 3 days ago | 879 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Is anybody producing good code with coding agents?
    ×1.67 51 | 25 points by ruffrey 21 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. GitHub mutuals on AI in life sciences or bioinformatics
    ×0.47 66 | 5 points by arli_ap 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What are you reading to your kids?
    ×0.51 112 | 16 points by jopizio 3 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Tell HN: OVH price increase for dedicated servers
    ×0.37 100 | 5 points by esher 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Email leaked while traveling abroad?
    ×0.74 89 | 17 points by thatonehack 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Muse.ai gets me kicked off fb marketplace
    ×0.78 101 | 30 points by zcalvin 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Rpi – a Rust rewrite of the Pi agent, 10× faster startup
    ×0.30 110 | 8 points by bigfishhk 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. 40 years of writing code. I didn't see the end coming
    ×1.72 90 | 20 points by temilson 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What landmarks/lighthouses in the era of LLM/AI?
    ×0.19 128 | 3 points by throw_away_ai 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. OpenAI halved the allowance of the $200 plan to 10x
    ×1.82 95 | 20 points by k9294 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What's a good title for a software engineer now?
    ×0.49 123 | 6 points by type4 2 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: How do you get your first users for an MVP?
    ×0.35 125 | 17 points by amina124 4 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Show HN: Pi pod – run your pi coding agent in sandboxes on your own server (pipod.dev)
    ×2.46 73 | 6 points by edverma2 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Show HN: NSL – WSL for Linux (frostyard.github.io)
    ×1.22 76 | 165 points by bketelsen 3 days ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Apple Pass Designer (apple.com)
    ×2.26 4 #4 | 453 points by soheilpro 17 hours ago | 278 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Show HN: Our space game has a built-in RISC-V emulator that runs Linux (againstallodds.games)
    ×0.81 48 | 19 points by nor-and-or-not 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Bez: Generating a browser engine from specs and tests (tangled.org)
    ×1.11 42 | 122 points by nerdypepper 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Show HN: PhreshOS – OS for Web Apps (github.com/PhreshOS)
    ×0.87 70 | 9 points by zouhirdx 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Show HN: Kodama – a multi-agent pack for Kiro (github.com/amergrgic)
    ×0.72 | 2 points by livebytes 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Using Opus 5.5 to discover a new eyewitness record of the dodo (resobscura.substack.com)
    ×1.75 40 #61 | 222 points by benbreen 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Describe it. Humans build it (brandforge.gg)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by mxstermind 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Pi Durable (earendil.com)
    ×2.96 20 | 492 points by paulsmith 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Nazi Germany had no hope of making an atomic bomb, uranium cubes reveal (science.org)
    ×3.25 25 | 128 points by xqcgrek2 1 day ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: S3-Accelerator (github.com/danthegoodman1)
    ×0.79 | 2 points by dangoodmanUT 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Our Project Suncatcher prototype satellite is in orbit (blog.google)
    ×0.90 39 #46 | 67 points by pantalaimon 18 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Some thoughts on security after ten years of qmail 1.0 (2007) [pdf] (yp.to)
    ×0.76 | 1 points by ptx 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Oxygen-deprived underwater zones may not be “dead zones” but clue to early life (wiley.com)
    ×0.89 39 | 123 points by gumby 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. The Four Horsemen of Agentic Coding (distantprovince.substack.com)
    ×3.93 14 | 108 points by haute_cuisine 21 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: We built a real-time desktop companion for patient's telehealth visits (openhand.health)
    ×0.81 69 | 11 points by nikilr 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. OpenAI says hacking at scale is expensive to investigate (theguardian.com)
    ×3.23 16 | 5 points by cc62cf4a4f20 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Giving friends custom text buzzes based on Morse code (liquidbrain.net)
    ×0.62 36 #75 | 53 points by evakhoury 22 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. I built pi(10^11) prime counter in 2m16s on my phone browser (JS, no back end) (github.com/ferreirafinottijoaopaulo-cell)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by finotti 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Chris van Eijk: Job queues per tenant in PostgreSQL: the noisy neighbour (now-next.nl)
    ×1.57 | 2 points by hnd9q09qk4 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. The Olive Tree (worldsensorium.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by dnetesn 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake (gitbutler.com)
    ×3.78 18 | 552 points by chmaynard 1 day ago | 527 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. RacketCon Is Saturday (racket-lang.org)
    ×0.95 38 | 156 points by spdegabrielle 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Enki – Write GPU compute kernels in pure stable Rust (github.com/enkiruntime)
    ×1.13 67 | 9 points by enki_runtime 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites (bl2.net)
    ×2.28 55 | 403 points by wanick 3 days ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. The Nintendo 64 Partner-N64 Development Kit (behindthecode.ca)
    ×1.31 6 #27 | 51 points by paulgerhardt 8 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Venice’s failed war against Constantinople led to the first bond market (bigthink.com)
    ×1.35 24 #28 | 132 points by RickJWagner 18 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: What's Agent Doing – a Claude Code UI mod that explains each step (github.com/tzafrir)
    ×0.66 | 2 points by tzafrir 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Gutsy, a 0.8B Jev-compatible decision model that runs on your CPU (github.com/kouhxp)
    ×3.05 105 | 9 points by mrkn1 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: GPT-6 Astra and Claude 5.5 Opus race to create the best StarCraft bot (starskirmish.com)
    ×0.43 | 2 points by __cayenne__ 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Where the Problem Is Gone, but the Process Is Thriving (medium.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by gps372 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Arda – Marketing agents to help brands win Google and AI Search (ardainc.com)
    ×1.88 86 | 4 points by daneshbadlani 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Sham scientific societies are misleading researchers into signing up for scams (nature.com)
    ×2.03 37 | 3 points by OgsyedIE 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Factory Planner (factoryplanner.net)
    ×1.27 | 2 points by mcpcpc 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Open-source model routing for coding agents at Astra-level performance
    ×1.02 46 | 116 points by adchurch 2 days ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Programming the ENIAC (2011) (columbia.edu)
    ×0.72 34 #36 | 10 points by nill0 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Blogging with Gleam, Org-Mode and Pandoc (byzantine-systems.github.io)
    ×0.95 35 #41 | 81 points by schonfinkel 18 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Open-Source M&A Tools (mainstreetwealth.ai)
    ×1.48 93 | 3 points by novateg 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Sharedclipboard.com – Peer-to-peer encrypted clipboard in the browser (sharedclipboard.com)
    ×0.56 | 2 points by oleksii88 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: The Kio Programming Language (jdevuyst.github.io)
    ×1.26 118 | 5 points by jdevuyst 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Draw from your friends' Claude quota (github.com/jaynlabs)
    ×2.11 77 | 5 points by hugopuybareau 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Strata – an expressive semantic layer that can say no to your LLM (strata.do)
    ×0.71 103 | 23 points by ajoski9 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Tiny model for fast typed decisions on CPU (Gutsy) (github.com/kouhxp)
    ×2.06 31 | 3 points by mrkn1 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Defensibility in AI Data: Lessons from Ads (twitter.com/gokulr)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by porridgeraisin 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos into a Palantir Database (wired.com)
    ×7.34 47 #88 | 125 points by CircuitSeuss 15 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Brain-inspired imaging system that can 'see' through fog (brown.edu)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by giuliomagnifico 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Tiny Brutalism (itch.io)
    ×2.15 23 #34 | 163 points by abetusk 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Magic Switch: Share Apple Magic keyboard/track-pad/mouse between two Macs (joshua.hu)
    ×0.87 59 #77 | 20 points by chanux 18 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Flatpak from the CLI Sucks (kowalski7cc.xyz)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by kowalski7cc 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. "8-pinski" – sierpinski animation and bytebeat in EIGHT bytes x86 code (pouet.net)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by HellMood 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: D-Engine – deterministic LLM code edits, 42× fewer tokens than an agent (github.com/corruchaga)
    ×0.43 | 2 points by sergiocorruchag 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Loss of cell identity drives human aging: Two new papers (erictopol.substack.com)
    ×1.95 18 #11 | 274 points by bookofjoe 20 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Developers Delete Unit Test Lines with AI Shift (x.com)
    ×1.34 | 2 points by brunaxLorax 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Pi 1.0 (earendil.com)
    ×6.35 74 | 1662 points by sergiotapia 1 day ago | 582 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes (nytimes.com)
    ×4.25 21 | 255 points by gmays 1 day ago | 246 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Effect 4.0 (effect.website)
    ×1.75 52 | 87 points by stevefan1999 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: MCP server for editing Excel with real-time calc and diffs (github.com/pixelsmasher13)
    ×1.38 119 | 4 points by escapingsingula 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Billions of triangles redux (zeux.io)
    ×0.93 34 #30 | 49 points by ibobev 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: I got Meta's Muse on my rabbit R1 (twitter.com/cameronpak)
    ×1.84 | 2 points by campak 23 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Job Board for Hypermedia Jobs (hypermediajobs.com)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by alexandermorgan 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Some topics are off limits inside popular Chinese-made free AI, researchers find (cbsnews.com)
    ×1.13 | 2 points by maxloh 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Vynody – Cross-platform music player written in Flutter and Rust (github.com/axel10)
    ×1.85 124 | 4 points by axel10 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. FLUX 3 Image (bfl.ai)
    ×2.47 17 #14 | 363 points by minimaxir 23 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Decommissioning Humanoids in a Furnace [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.77 | 1 points by roboy 27 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Reddit will stop supporting RSS feeds on November 13th (theverge.com)
    ×1.77 | 2 points by mosiuerbarso 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Parsing Latin poetry using constraint satisfaction (logical.ai)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by jruohonen 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. A document layer for AI agents (claix.dev)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by gael_dev 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: DragomanD – local language translator for Linux (l10n-bg.dev)
    ×2.20 116 | 9 points by eniac111 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. More like SC-Forth-thousand, am I right? (leadedsolder.com)
    ×0.47 43 #29 | 12 points by stevekemp 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Nobody Is Listening on Port 8125 (yeet.cx)
    ×0.79 28 #55 | 12 points by zasc 6 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Using 2D DFT, dithering, etc. to maximize eInk manga image quality (github.com/ciromattia)
    ×1.00 84 | 83 points by seam_carver 4 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. One month coding with GLM 5.3 Flash (wagtail.org)
    ×1.64 18 #24 | 171 points by ThibWeb 18 hours ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???