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  1. Ask HN: Software engineer with broken arm, any tips?
    ×0.94 3 | 3 points by spapas82 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Do 9/10 new AI SaaS websites seem like they should be an editor command to you?
    ×0.24 | 2 points by Kevin_Flynn 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Any good ways on how to get into kernel dev?
    ×0.56 23 | 4 points by ihms 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. The absolute travesty that is Google
    ×2.33 43 | 10 points by brb_bro 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Is lack of human imagination now the bottleneck instead of intelligence?
    ×0.30 54 | 5 points by amichail 5 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What are you working on? (November 2026)
    ×1.33 91 | 295 points by david927 2 days ago | 1045 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Anybody using their own AI harness as well?
    ×1.77 53 | 5 points by madprops 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: "No AI" apps/companies/resources?
    ×0.50 52 | 6 points by BrunoBernardino 5 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Does codex, Claude $20 subscription just seem unworkable now?
    ×1.12 18 | 3 points by sharemywin 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. ChatGPT Desktop forwards your SSH agent to remote machines
    ×1.36 88 | 216 points by DenGorbachev 2 days ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. What are your favorite tools?
    ×0.43 92 | 10 points by d675 13 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: How do you manage your AI agents' context across clients and projects?
    ×1.40 113 | 98 points by Michel_Aventin 4 days ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. How do you keep up quality when you vibe-code?
    ×0.80 86 | 35 points by nkcodes 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Do you still enjoy coding in C++?
    ×1.18 115 | 58 points by hasley 2 days ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Why does Reddit want me to use the iOS app on my desktop?
    ×2.00 68 | 8 points by corroclaro 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Anthropic Derangement Syndrome on HN
    ×1.16 59 | 4 points by jmeister 4 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: How did you convince family and friends to join your XMPP/Matrix server?
    ×0.85 132 | 100 points by mtlynch 4 days ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How do you evaluate the skills your AI agents use?
    ×0.74 133 | 23 points by enesalatas 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Superwall (iOS Paywall Provider) Hacked – customers asked to rotate keys
    ×0.27 139 | 3 points by epsteingpt 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What in the world is taking Ubuntu so long?
    ×1.63 124 | 219 points by linsomniac 5 days ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Tell HN: Another GitHub Major Outage
    ×0.43 138 | 17 points by sergiotapia 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. CoderPad Reports a Security Breach
    ×0.46 151 | 7 points by werrett 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Tell HN: Notion AI chat sessions have been exposed via Fireworks AI hack
    ×0.83 126 | 16 points by RamblingCTO 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. uBlock Origin Can't Block Facebook Ads
    ×1.44 148 | 13 points by anidsiam 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Tell HN: A flood of reports of Opus 5.5 being nerfed
    ×2.19 141 | 30 points by b--l 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Is misaligned AI less dangerous than AI controlled by a bad actor
    ×0.09 | 2 points by InfiniteRand 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Anyone else notice Fable 5.2 making grammar errors?
    ×0.30 150 | 5 points by linearza 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Are companies making money by using AI?
    ×0.85 155 | 6 points by vanh4lt 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: What should a stranger know first about your unfinished project?
    ×0.70 156 | 5 points by toddy_flogsit 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Is Google Site Search Broken?
    ×0.28 | 2 points by CM30 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Airgap-check – find what your AI app silently downloads offline (github.com/humanethq)
    ×0.95 147 | 11 points by humanethq 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: Where Were We (wherewerewe.app)
    ×0.84 143 | 58 points by zkiihne 3 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. CVE-2026-119618 (critical): mod_HTTP2: heap corruption and RCE in assign_headers (apache.org)
    ×2.16 30 #55 | 14 points by klaas- 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Now Get cited your SaaS or website (uplumo.com)
    ×1.84 13 | 3 points by toufiqqureshi 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Faraway – Physically accurate solar system, time travel 1900–2100 (faraway.space)
    ×2.72 69 | 5 points by qianyiyu 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. AWS Finally Built Its Own AWS Emulator (github.com/aws)
    ×4.17 1 #1 | 76 points by super_linear 27 minutes ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Make this forward pass as fast as possible (ianbarber.blog)
    ×0.70 21 #51 | 30 points by matt_d 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Anthropogenic Provisioning and the Evolution of Primatological Ethics (crvscience.com)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by Tomte 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: Angents and Clsoed Platform
    ×0.61 | 1 points by itstomo 21 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Railway's $740K AI Key Incident: How Two Trust Failures Exposed Customer Secrets (medium.com)
    ×2.31 23 | 3 points by inclinq 34 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Cosh – An open-source AI agent orchestrator (github.com/DiegoZaluski)
    ×1.33 130 | 10 points by Zaluski 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. AMD's Zen 6 Family: Feeding the Beast (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×1.63 27 #65 | 257 points by pixelpoet 1 day ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Valencia, Spain in Sim City/Isometric View (tinyvalencia.com)
    ×1.72 31 #72 | 243 points by leugim 1 day ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. AlphaProof Code (deepmind.google)
    ×2.73 26 #86 | 666 points by ilreb 1 day ago | 187 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: I Rebuilt iCloud's Apps in Rust for Linux, Windows and Android (github.com/YashwanthKamireddi)
    ×1.15 89 | 3 points by YashOnYC 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Meta's Head of Infrastructure, Engineering to Depart in 2027 (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.01 | 2 points by akashshah87 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Whispers P2P fileshare using WebRTC (whispersp2p.com)
    ×1.13 | 2 points by sye_ 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Blender 5.3 released with Gaussian Splat support (blender.org)
    ×2.92 29 | 483 points by amlib 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Report shines light on what drives Australians to post hateful content (abc.net.au)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by evolve2k 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. rVPN – stealth VPN with end-to-end encryption (rvpn.org)
    ×1.60 38 | 80 points by michaelsbradley 21 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. The apostrophe's in the wrong place show I'm human (sidsite.com)
    ×1.20 | 2 points by montebicyclelo 58 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Aircad – Professional drafting and 3D modeling in the browser (aircad.com)
    ×1.40 62 | 43 points by peetle 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Hacking the Meta Ray-Ban smartglasses (p0pcycle.com)
    ×1.36 41 #58 | 141 points by moooooky 20 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. $30M Raised to Redo the CPU (tendrils.co)
    ×1.78 39 #63 | 133 points by shioyama 20 hours ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. The Challenge of Probabilistic Programming (columbia.edu)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by magoghm 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Umless, open-source on-device dictation that writes what you meant (github.com/jatinbishla)
    ×1.88 134 | 5 points by jatinbishla 23 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Why Amstrad chose the 3" drives (cpcwiki.eu)
    ×1.21 36 #48 | 82 points by Skyfall106 13 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Horible public key tricks (maurycyz.com)
    ×1.77 56 | 252 points by Curiositry 1 day ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: PDFMeasure – Measure PDF files in the browser (pdfmeasure.com)
    ×1.03 140 | 3 points by fra 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Every satellite that passed over any place this week, and its photos (watched.earth)
    ×2.68 35 | 479 points by a585gupt 2 days ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: NoDOM high performance WASM UI kit for DuckDB-WASM (osullivj.github.io)
    ×0.70 84 | 4 points by osullivj 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. AVILOO's study of 500k used EV battery tests [pdf] (aviloo.com)
    ×0.61 | 2 points by titusblair 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. InfiShark CTF: Learn IoT security with virtual and physical devices (infishark.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by george_max 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. In defense of giving a shit (possibilityspace.org)
    ×3.13 65 | 96 points by mrkn1 6 hours ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Komrad – an AI agent that does not work for you (komr.ad)
    ×1.54 71 | 4 points by harelj6 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Using voltage glitching to unleash the A100 in my mining card (kate.land)
    ×1.75 2 #14 | 198 points by lae 8 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Next-Level Benchmarking Overfitting – Thomas Neumann (databasearchitects.blogspot.com)
    ×0.72 8 #34 | 55 points by artrax 6 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. .name Grandfathered (fraser.name)
    ×3.53 21 #56 | 913 points by p4bl0 1 day ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Daily GPU Rental Prices Across AWS, Azure, RunPod and Vast.ai (taipeiledger.com)
    ×1.12 104 | 11 points by khoonie 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Obeya, a spatial canvas for directing coding agents (github.com/sadilek)
    ×1.71 109 | 4 points by sadilek 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Aisync, advisory file claims so two AI agents don't edit one repo (github.com/MaxonT)
    ×1.59 137 | 4 points by MaxTigerYoung 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: TheoremSmith: Mass-Producing Hard Proof Problems to Train LLMs (charleshuang.me)
    ×0.70 116 | 10 points by charles6huang 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. What objective is reasoning solving? (alexwang.ai)
    ×1.40 18 #88 | 153 points by gmays 23 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Bridge not tested for years 'due to love locks' (bbc.com)
    ×1.47 | 2 points by PLenz 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Exact – a new cross platform UI framework (github.com/expo)
    ×1.58 78 | 134 points by vmg12 1 day ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Correctness Firewalls for Synthesized Database Components (arxiv.org)
    ×1.79 | 2 points by yrayhan 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Prompt Injection, Esq.: pwning AI agent guardrails with lawyerspeak (mrnice.dev)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by mooreds 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. A shortcut used since the 1970s hides a magneto-optic effect in glass fiber (phys.org)
    ×1.38 | 2 points by titusblair 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: A Git friendly open API client (github.com/awake-client)
    ×1.50 128 | 5 points by clementherve 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Totpvault - a universal desktop app for your TOTPs (github.com/spapas)
    ×1.48 153 | 3 points by spapas82 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Synaptics patent claims stop work on DisplayLink drivers (lwn.net)
    ×2.42 27 #85 | 472 points by speckx 1 day ago | 259 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Spacewar (masswerk.at)
    ×2.54 32 | 4 points by tosh 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Process Explorer for macOS (github.com/microsoft)
    ×1.70 7 | 229 points by ingve 1 day ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: A 15 MB self-hosted Netflix and Spotify for your media server (github.com/HolyArrs)
    ×2.20 42 | 167 points by CoderLuii 1 day ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Agent Buddies – Swappable animated characters for AI agents (izr8809.github.io)
    ×1.79 103 | 3 points by izr8809 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Fireworks AI security breach impacts Notion and their customers (notion.com)
    ×1.43 58 | 164 points by werrett 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Don't buy AR glasses (yaros.ae)
    ×3.18 47 | 131 points by Bluestein 1 day ago | 179 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: I have trained 15 blood glucose forecasting models on my own data (github.com/0xdeadf1sh)
    ×1.11 106 | 20 points by 0xdeadf1sh 23 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Scion is back and is going to sell a kei truck in America (theautopian.com)
    ×2.57 13 #59 | 547 points by NaOH 22 hours ago | 382 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. End of an era: Apple Support Community forums to permanently close (9to5mac.com)
    ×1.40 | 2 points by sizzle 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???