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  1. Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?
    ×2.79 1 #6 | 404 points by LecroJS 14 hours ago | 537 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. In LLM era, can software startup survive?
    ×0.99 34 #48 | 23 points by sjia 11 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Pepperwind, a fictional company dataset with 223 tables and 79M rows
    ×1.21 27 #54 | 9 points by rasinmuhammed 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Swedish grocery chain refrigerators and freezers hacked overnight
    ×1.43 48 | 6 points by u1hcw9nx 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Do you have a Plan B?
    ×2.52 67 | 4 points by aucls1 43 minutes ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Tell HN: Scribd Breached
    ×1.62 20 | 355 points by x______________ 2 days ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Heretic 2.0 Released: Training-free language model modification
    ×0.83 27 | 18 points by razster 15 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. I indexed 37h of my YouTube library using an RTX 4090 and local ML models in 24h
    ×0.75 69 | 5 points by iliashad 14 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not
    ×0.72 80 | 40 points by stillatit 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What's it like working at Google nowadays? Core teams like Search, Ads?
    ×0.75 81 | 47 points by karakoram 2 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Anyone here still writing code for reasons other than fun or learning?
    ×0.51 76 | 12 points by czhu12 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Is applying to Y Combinator worth it if you aren't an insider?
    ×0.75 95 | 22 points by all2 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Opus 5.5 suddenly dumb as rocks?
    ×0.47 97 | 34 points by jahala 3 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: I'd like to request Microsoft open source Windows XP
    ×0.40 98 | 7 points by fosco 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Old experimental website that made photos sing?
    ×0.21 108 | 3 points by jesuisdieu 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Do you have side-projects that generate >$500 revenue/month?
    ×0.88 96 | 41 points by learner_yearner 3 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Which hobby do you think is most diverting and pleasurable?
    ×1.19 79 | 19 points by ikelos 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Are most of you using HN Replies? Or what else do you use?
    ×0.56 107 | 8 points by Gooblebrai 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Tell HN: Claude Code adds your email to the prompt, the LLM sends it to websites
    ×0.77 101 | 35 points by TekMol 4 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. "Wrong" Email
    ×0.90 88 | 26 points by rbmm 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Hack
    ×0.27 112 | 10 points by throwaway3309 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Is the Microsoft buyout just a long overdue correction?
    ×0.48 109 | 6 points by sky2224 2 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Are Knuth's Stanford Pages Down?
    ×0.19 130 | 9 points by weinzierl 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Are you using a custom harness?
    ×0.42 113 | 11 points by japhyr 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: What's the future like? For normies, will it still be apps and websites?
    ×0.48 133 | 4 points by talmr 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. GEMM Tutorial and UlmBLAS
    ×0.56 128 | 5 points by michael-lehn 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Are you putting off hardware upgrades because of AI coding tools?
    ×0.37 132 | 5 points by winrid 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Is your leadership pushing you to skip dev review?
    ×0.48 129 | 10 points by arm32 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: What back end and database are you choosing for new projects in 2026?
    ×1.28 135 | 5 points by ibbie 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Are you using AI to do election choices like Mayor, Special Measures
    ×0.81 100 | 7 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Will apps be going away in favor of personal assistants?
    ×0.63 105 | 5 points by talmr 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Antrophic tightened usage limits?
    ×0.47 141 | 6 points by lukan 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: How are you using AI in your personal life?
    ×0.12 149 | 3 points by whall6 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Sitting on unused OpenAI / Anthropic / AWS credits that will expire?
    ×0.10 150 | 3 points by xiaomaijj 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. We read 200k UK job ads from visa-sponsor employers: 1 in 6 rule out sponsorship (sponsorjobs.co)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by barisasa 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Malware uses LLMs to rank victims by how much they're worth (talosintelligence.com)
    ×2.13 12 | 259 points by khalidkhair 1 day ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Why Did Meta Suspend a US Senate Candidate's Instagram in the Middle of a Rally? (newrepublic.com)
    ×5.22 52 | 86 points by ck2 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported (2025) (acm.org)
    ×1.79 45 | 80 points by the-mitr 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: A USB-C LTE modem that gives my computer a phone line (github.com/Koppar-AI)
    ×1.26 62 | 60 points by abijahkaj 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. China's First Frontier AI Export Controls: Mofcom Announcement No. 48 (cloudsecurityalliance.org)
    ×1.80 10 #14 | 41 points by jonnybgood 3 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Patrick Stewart taught us what good men do with power (vox.com)
    ×4.11 37 #49 | 424 points by rhaynes 17 hours ago | 304 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: BBRouter – Ben Eater's 8-bit computer, simulated on 3D breadboards (bbrouter.com)
    ×0.68 65 #75 | 52 points by creack 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Typebook.lol read books by typing the letters only (typebook.lol)
    ×0.49 124 | 11 points by vegnus 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Maclet – A native macOS container runtime written from scratch in Rust (github.com/sumant1122)
    ×1.29 114 | 4 points by paperplaneflyr 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Org-Mode November 2026: Fabulously Fancy [LaTeX] Fragments (tecosaur.net)
    ×1.31 | 2 points by internet_points 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. BioWare co-founder: game execs "have never made a game" and don't get it (pcgamer.com)
    ×2.37 33 | 4 points by entryleveljobsc 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. How to Block YouTube Shorts (getcroton.com)
    ×2.53 46 | 4 points by quaintdev 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: Fix 1.0 – Ruby tests written as RFC 2119 specifications (fixrb.dev)
    ×0.59 | 2 points by cyrilllllll 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Copper – A minimal low-level programming language with OOP and generics (tibleiz.net)
    ×1.08 34 #15 | 170 points by bogdanoff_2 20 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Papers to End All Papers (condmatjclub.org)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by agarttha 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Let’s Build a Brain (aatishb.com)
    ×1.25 | 2 points by dudeperf3ct7 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Fitness Functions for Dbt Projects (github.com/tjirab)
    ×0.64 148 | 3 points by bartschuijt 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: 2D world SIM where each creature runs a text classifier in the browser (id-le.com)
    ×0.99 86 | 3 points by nico 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Agent-arcade – Terminal games that pause when Claude Code/Codex is done (github.com/Kuldeep-045)
    ×1.92 119 | 5 points by Kuldeep045 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Prospero: A new coding harness for a more civilized age (nullprogram.com)
    ×2.02 23 | 204 points by fovc 1 day ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Anthropic takes steps to block Claude from reverse-engineering video games (mashable.com)
    ×5.82 10 | 188 points by firesteelrain 1 day ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. It wasn't AI that flipped Proton's charge (raed.dev)
    ×5.12 60 | 157 points by Raed667 15 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Understanding Email Encryption (2025) (fastmail.com)
    ×1.16 48 #37 | 135 points by nmjenkins 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. No AI, 52 min. Build all Linux Files utils in C by Hand [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.78 19 #56 | 149 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Hacker Pager: an ESP32 and SX1262 LoRa wireless development platform (hackerpager.net)
    ×0.94 | 1 points by bananascholar 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. What is a light-day? The milestone Voyager 1 is closing in on (nasa.gov)
    ×1.70 40 | 96 points by geox 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Radix - A WebGPU-powered 3D Gaussian Splat renderer built on Three.js (sparkjs.dev)
    ×2.13 126 | 11 points by dmarcos 3 days ago | 3 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 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Fastbrowse, Browser agent that picks clicks with a System One model (fastbrowse.ai)
    ×1.27 136 | 4 points by furqanrydhan 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Experience is the prompt: a robot model that learns new tasks in context (ccmtrx.com)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by yxgao 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Nurses Sound Alarm as 'Uber for Nursing' Apps Push to Deregulate Healthcare (nurse.org)
    ×4.04 63 | 176 points by ravetcofx 15 hours ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. French lawmakers approved a tax of €0.055 for every gigabyte of internet traffic (assemblee-nationale.fr)
    ×4.47 47 | 104 points by helloplanets 1 day ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: OmniDiff – Opensource, super fast, content aware Git difftool, in Rust (github.com/ivankovic)
    ×1.76 20 #16 | 248 points by FabCH 21 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Ask HN: Azure Linux VM's RTC loses 12 hours on reboot if set to 12:xx UTC?
    ×0.52 | 1 points by klaas- 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Create a Dumbphone on Android (getflourish.org)
    ×0.96 99 | 4 points by privacyishuman 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Sam Altman on Local AI (pcmag.com)
    ×0.92 | 1 points by bozdemir 2 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. A 1580 Map Shows Why Data Visualization Is Never Neutral (mit.edu)
    ×0.75 68 #51 | 78 points by the-mitr 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Optimized CUDA forced alignment kernels. 10x – 1000x faster (github.com/brthor)
    ×1.07 144 | 3 points by bthornbury 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Keyward – a TUI to manage SSH keys and audit your –/.ssh security (github.com/gateway-of-last-resort)
    ×0.87 147 | 3 points by weiqur 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. AI Can Write More of the Code. We Still Have to Engineer the System (picon.dev)
    ×2.75 56 | 46 points by devpicon 8 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Squishy 3D helpers powered by Three.js (prathje.github.io)
    ×0.49 131 | 17 points by prathje 4 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Balk – A Baseball Game (balk.club)
    ×0.94 142 | 3 points by mandymoorefan 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. So I guess everyone uses LLMs to think now (eva.ac)
    ×5.30 44 | 71 points by xyzeva 12 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Apple captures 50% of consumer revenue of the top half of the S&P 500 (asymco.com)
    ×3.55 38 | 68 points by zdw 13 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Why Anthropic's filing crushed tech stocks (thebignewsletter.com)
    ×2.77 67 | 53 points by chmaynard 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. CatGPT – The Platform for Your Cat (catgpt-openpaw.github.io)
    ×3.25 53 | 5 points by sga_8000 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. CI-Friendly static linter for GitHub Actions (github.com/sisaku-security)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by ankitg12 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Yavashark: I've Built a JavaScript Engine Every Day for 950 Days (yavashark.dev)
    ×0.85 104 | 39 points by sharktheone 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Tips for more effective fuzz testing with AFL++ (nullprogram.com)
    ×0.88 27 #13 | 122 points by luu 16 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Domain hacks with unusual Unicode characters (2018) (shkspr.mobi)
    ×0.70 64 #27 | 88 points by n_plus_1_acc 23 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. I gave Opus 5.5 a FireTV Stick for a week and it produced a beast IPTV app (github.com/lucasclgibson)
    ×1.68 | 2 points by luc_gibson 21 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. A tiny Pacific country rolls out universal basic income (economist.com)
    ×1.69 3 | 99 points by motionlessveloc 1 day ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Run Claude Code inside OpenCode through the official CLI (github.com/khalilgharbaoui)
    ×0.74 | 2 points by kaygeee 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: HackerFlow – A Responsive HN Reader (vinceroyer.ca)
    ×1.07 138 | 4 points by vinistois 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Edgar Allan Poe, Quintessential American Writer (slate.com)
    ×0.66 64 #73 | 53 points by samclemens 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???