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  1. Ask HN: What are you working on? (November 2026)
    ×0.98 58 | 4 points by jesse__ 41 minutes ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: Scribd Breached
    ×1.62 3 #81 | 346 points by x______________ 1 day ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Anyone here still writing code for reasons other than fun or learning?
    ×0.52 54 | 10 points by czhu12 15 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not
    ×0.80 65 | 40 points by stillatit 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What's it like working at Google nowadays? Core teams like Search, Ads?
    ×0.74 67 | 44 points by karakoram 2 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Old experimental website that made photos sing?
    ×0.16 | 2 points by jesuisdieu 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: I'd like to request Microsoft open source Windows XP
    ×0.39 78 | 6 points by fosco 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Is applying to Y Combinator worth it if you aren't an insider?
    ×0.83 75 | 22 points by all2 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Opus 5.5 suddenly dumb as rocks?
    ×0.46 84 | 33 points by jahala 2 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Which hobby do you think is most diverting and pleasurable?
    ×1.18 60 | 17 points by ikelos 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Do you have side-projects that generate >$500 revenue/month?
    ×0.86 83 | 39 points by learner_yearner 3 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Are most of you using HN Replies? Or what else do you use?
    ×0.63 95 | 8 points by Gooblebrai 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. "Wrong" Email
    ×0.95 73 | 26 points by rbmm 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Is the Microsoft buyout just a long overdue correction?
    ×0.53 93 | 6 points by sky2224 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Hack
    ×0.28 99 | 10 points by throwaway3309 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Tell HN: Claude Code adds your email to the prompt, the LLM sends it to websites
    ×0.76 88 | 34 points by TekMol 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Are you using a custom harness?
    ×0.43 100 | 11 points by japhyr 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Are Knuth's Stanford Pages Down?
    ×0.17 121 | 8 points by weinzierl 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What's the future like? For normies, will it still be apps and websites?
    ×0.62 113 | 4 points by talmr 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Are you using AI to do election choices like Mayor, Special Measures
    ×0.75 81 | 6 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Will apps be going away in favor of personal assistants?
    ×0.68 86 | 5 points by talmr 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. GEMM Tutorial and UlmBLAS
    ×0.46 117 | 4 points by michael-lehn 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Are you putting off hardware upgrades because of AI coding tools?
    ×0.39 114 | 5 points by winrid 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: What back end and database are you choosing for new projects in 2026?
    ×1.17 123 | 4 points by ibbie 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Is your leadership pushing you to skip dev review?
    ×0.50 116 | 10 points by arm32 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Antrophic tightened usage limits?
    ×0.50 129 | 6 points by lukan 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: How are you using AI in your personal life?
    ×0.13 139 | 3 points by whall6 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Sitting on unused OpenAI / Anthropic / AWS credits that will expire?
    ×0.10 140 | 3 points by xiaomaijj 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Should I be polite to my agent or should I treat it like shit?
    ×0.33 136 | 5 points by d--b 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: How do you verify a reported domain sale is real?
    ×0.32 | 2 points by mousabelhag 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Why are there not more terminal apps?
    ×0.20 133 | 6 points by lucasov 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: What's your iPhone Duo experience so far?
    ×0.34 137 | 4 points by dgellow 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. The AI bubble could expose your deepest secrets (bbc.com)
    ×1.26 47 | 3 points by devonnull 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Anthropic to receive high 'junk' rating from credit agencies following IPO (techcrunch.com)
    ×6.07 51 | 101 points by jnord 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Smear Campaign Towards GrapheneOS (grapheneos.social)
    ×4.47 2 | 61 points by monneyboi 19 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Bunny CDN Security Incident (bunny.net)
    ×1.94 27 | 224 points by SondreDag 2 days ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Running a bootstrapped SaaS for 20 years with my brother (zamzar.com)
    ×1.84 1 #27 | 205 points by whyleyc 14 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Applebee's exposed customers' personal data with database password in app (techcrunch.com)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by gnabgib 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Binance resumes customer withdrawals after record $6.3B hack (theguardian.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by entryleveljobsc 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. On Miles Davis: the best website on the internet (notnottalmud.substack.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by jger15 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Witnessory – a signed record of the web's move to post-quantum crypto (witnessory.org)
    ×0.61 132 | 6 points by parthod0x 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Jepsen: ParticleDB 1.1.4 (jepsen.io)
    ×2.03 21 #36 | 318 points by aphyr 1 day ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. A 1580 Map Shows Why Data Visualization Is Never Neutral (mit.edu)
    ×0.86 39 #38 | 74 points by the-mitr 17 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Russia has imposed limits on gasoline sales following attacks on oil refineries (ua.news)
    ×2.25 52 #86 | 11 points by paaloeye 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Flock camera searches fell 95% after a dispatcher's misconduct was caught (wkyc.com)
    ×3.59 50 | 89 points by MilnerRoute 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Mullvad as a rotating connect proxy (github.com/nicorobinreal)
    ×0.73 | 2 points by albinstman 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Analog Video Feedback Fractals (youtube.com)
    ×1.27 82 | 3 points by i2pi 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Pollsight – a simple tool to aid ballot research (napsty.com)
    ×0.41 | 2 points by gaieges 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Brian May, Queen guitarist and Astrophysicist (elpais.com)
    ×1.75 5 #54 | 16 points by Betelbuddy 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Itch.io: Daily game release doubled in 2 months, downloads and purchases haven't (bsky.app)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by haunter 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. French lawmakers approved a tax of €0.055 for every gigabyte of internet traffic (assemblee-nationale.fr)
    ×4.61 21 | 100 points by helloplanets 1 day ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Castov – Open-source dev tools and AI secret shield with zero telemetry (castov.com)
    ×0.63 | 2 points by castov 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Haley Stevens: I am endorsing Mike Rogers for the United States Senate today (twitter.com/HaleyforMI)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by donsupreme 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. JJ Coders Group (jjcoders.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by johanjomet 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Mission-control style spacecraft tracker in Rust (github.com/LiamDroog)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by taubek 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Infinite Mac: BeOS (persistent.info)
    ×1.37 35 | 194 points by ecliptik 1 day ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Lenovo's 'encrypted' fingerprint USB is just an unencrypted SD card in a case (reddit.com)
    ×3.46 4 #9 | 240 points by entryleveljobsc 4 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Radiation Map of the World (radiaverse.com)
    ×1.08 2 #22 | 80 points by slater 8 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Redox: Ring Buffers Project Summary (redox-os.org)
    ×0.75 40 #75 | 70 points by g0xA52A2A 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. How Many Times Do They Say "Here We Go" in the Big Bang Theory? (sankalpmukim.dev)
    ×1.74 | 2 points by sankalpmukim 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Nvidia RE-USE speech enhancement model running in the browser on WebGPU (geronimo-labs.com)
    ×0.57 | 2 points by g58892881 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Free Unlimited Virtual Monitors+Watch Claude Work on Them+Community (multispace.dev)
    ×0.33 | 2 points by DanielSystem 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Governor, a firewall for AI agent spend and tool calls (bsvkey-governor-demo.fly.dev)
    ×0.44 | 2 points by PDRGenerator 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. The "Moon Trees" (nasa.gov)
    ×1.02 9 #49 | 29 points by momentmaker 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Slopstructions (bernhardt.io)
    ×2.64 62 | 4 points by logician_insa 37 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: To Honor Sir Patrick Stewart, Enjoy the TNG Episode Guessing Game (episodle.com)
    ×1.27 14 | 240 points by francisofascii 1 day ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. The question we should all be asking about AI (cnn.com)
    ×0.97 9 #74 | 17 points by heresie-dabord 6 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. We ran AI agent swarms in Minecraft and Mindustry (ycombinator.com)
    ×1.88 47 #82 | 416 points by sandslash 2 days ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Create a Dumbphone on Android (getflourish.org)
    ×1.02 69 | 4 points by privacyishuman 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Othismo, a Runtime for Sandboxed Objects (othismo.com)
    ×0.64 | 2 points by mamidon 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Fitness Functions for Dbt Projects (github.com/tjirab)
    ×0.64 138 | 3 points by bartschuijt 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Offense – Security tools for your agents (github.com/offense-research)
    ×0.42 | 2 points by imranye 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Garbagely Incompetent (greg.technology)
    ×1.17 | 2 points by gregsadetsky 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Jointter – A daily word puzzle using dots and lines (jointter.com)
    ×0.35 66 | 14 points by proy87 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. IShowSpeed Became the Most Influential Streamer in the World (nytimes.com)
    ×3.36 54 | 5 points by ibn_khaldun 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. We tested 12 search APIs for AI agents. Even the best one isn't enough (telem.ai)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by yurikoif 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: A language model that lives in a boot sector (github.com/kerlenton)
    ×0.88 35 #60 | 90 points by kerlenton 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. 2026–2027 El Niño event (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by tosh 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Postmortem of Database Outage (2017) (gitlab.com)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by tux3 44 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. 'Painful' years ahead, think tanks warn, as living standards set to fall (bbc.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by Anon84 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Keyward – a TUI to manage SSH keys and audit your –/.ssh security (github.com/gateway-of-last-resort)
    ×0.87 134 | 3 points by weiqur 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Chess960v2 – Over 800 Rounds Played (chess960v2.com)
    ×0.57 | 2 points by lavren1974 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Domain hacks with unusual Unicode characters (2018) (xn--69f31l4t57c0mag4b613h.xn--7uh4898msjaso)
    ×0.56 18 #29 | 44 points by n_plus_1_acc 8 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Switch Lowering in GCC (xoranth.net)
    ×1.23 4 #87 | 210 points by signa11 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: I built a crawler that finds personal websites by a /.well-known/josh (joshternet.org)
    ×1.84 91 | 4 points by TheWoollyBully 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Fix 1.0 – Ruby tests written as RFC 2119 specifications (fixrb.dev)
    ×0.61 | 2 points by cyrilllllll 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Optimized CUDA forced alignment kernels. 10x – 1000x faster (github.com/brthor)
    ×1.07 126 | 3 points by bthornbury 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Cerebellum – small model on the robot, big model for what it can't undo (github.com/cerebellum-labs)
    ×0.90 130 | 3 points by dminglv 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Apple: Connectivity Assist (apple.com)
    ×1.16 | 2 points by tosh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Linode Security Incident (linode.com)
    ×2.49 28 | 196 points by lacoolj 1 day ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???