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  1. What are your favorite tools?
    ×0.59 | 2 points by d675 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. How do you keep up quality when you vibe-code?
    ×0.67 29 | 26 points by nkcodes 11 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What are you working on? (November 2026)
    ×1.33 69 | 290 points by david927 2 days ago | 1038 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. ChatGPT Desktop forwards your SSH agent to remote machines
    ×1.39 63 | 216 points by DenGorbachev 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How do you manage your AI agents' context across clients and projects?
    ×1.46 87 | 97 points by Michel_Aventin 3 days ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Superwall (iOS Paywall Provider) Hacked – customers asked to rotate keys
    ×0.22 | 2 points by epsteingpt 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Do you still enjoy coding in C++?
    ×1.25 90 | 58 points by hasley 1 day ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How do you evaluate the skills your AI agents use?
    ×0.67 106 | 20 points by enesalatas 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How did you convince family and friends to join your XMPP/Matrix server?
    ×0.86 109 | 100 points by mtlynch 3 days ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Is misaligned AI less dangerous than AI controlled by a bad actor
    ×0.10 | 2 points by InfiniteRand 14 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Tell HN: Another GitHub Major Outage
    ×0.42 105 | 16 points by sergiotapia 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What in the world is taking Ubuntu so long?
    ×1.64 103 | 219 points by linsomniac 4 days ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Tell HN: Notion AI chat sessions have been exposed via Fireworks AI hack
    ×0.89 91 | 16 points by RamblingCTO 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. CoderPad Reports a Security Breach
    ×0.43 120 | 6 points by werrett 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Anyone else notice Fable 5.2 making grammar errors?
    ×0.33 108 | 5 points by linearza 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Tell HN: A flood of reports of Opus 5.5 being nerfed
    ×2.28 117 | 29 points by b--l 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. uBlock Origin Can't Block Facebook Ads
    ×1.49 122 | 12 points by anidsiam 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Are companies making money by using AI?
    ×0.64 135 | 4 points by vanh4lt 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What should a stranger know first about your unfinished project?
    ×0.79 137 | 5 points by toddy_flogsit 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Is Google Site Search Broken?
    ×0.32 | 2 points by CM30 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Tell HN: Some of My Recent Ideas
    ×0.15 | 2 points by onaclov2000 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Remote island can only have 1 PC, 1 book, 1 programming language
    ×0.40 149 | 3 points by kbrannigan 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Fable 5.2 Available in Claude Desktop
    ×0.37 153 | 3 points by calgaryeng 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Share your best blog/videos on learning about LLMs in depth
    ×0.43 155 | 3 points by mrburton 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Do you have daily voice conversations with AI?
    ×0.48 156 | 3 points by rtp4me 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. P2P inference using WebGPU libp2p and IPFS
    ×0.61 157 | 3 points by gnarbarian 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: How do you keep secrets out of your AI agents' context?
    ×0.39 | 2 points by timbowhite 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Claude usage credits purchased after Dec 7 will expire 12 months after purchase
    ×0.66 159 | 18 points by bbg2401 4 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: How your SEO traffic doing? Up or down?
    ×0.41 158 | 4 points by bigmuzzy 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Will Humans Become Useless?
    ×0.57 150 | 5 points by misano 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Those who have lost their job to AI what was your job?
    ×0.24 | 2 points by dev_grex 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: What are your advice for a CS/IT student for the future?
    ×0.25 161 | 6 points by L0in 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Is it normal to not write code for a years as software engineer?
    ×0.55 160 | 4 points by khalidahmad 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. AI usage generates a fragile codebase (evanxmerz.com)
    ×4.38 1 #27 | 462 points by plun9 19 hours ago | 454 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Aircad – Professional drafting and 3D modeling in the browser (aircad.com)
    ×1.48 4 #47 | 36 points by peetle 6 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. NetBSD 11 desktop on a Raspberry Pi 4 (neongd.com)
    ×0.95 25 #48 | 130 points by jaypatelani 17 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering another, better universe
    ×4.90 15 | 346 points by EmX_3000 1 day ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Chatty – Open-source AI support engine with WooCommerce sync (github.com/PersonaliAI)
    ×1.87 113 | 4 points by TharinduDama 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Fable 5.2 made a fun Claude castaway clone (zachy.dev)
    ×1.58 142 | 4 points by nzach 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Getting the (In)Formal Statement Right (robertj1.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by matt_d 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Anthropic Software Engineer Salaries (levels.fyi)
    ×0.91 | 2 points by zuhayeer 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Totpvault - a universal desktop app for your TOTPs (github.com/spapas)
    ×1.51 101 | 3 points by spapas82 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Eigin. Local-first and no-shell personal AI for iOS (github.com/Eigin-AI)
    ×0.82 | 2 points by danielrothmann 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Foldable Flight: The Best Paper Airplanes (foldableflight.com)
    ×4.50 12 #43 | 1214 points by vismit2000 1 day ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Why are AI.Engineer talks/transcripts/presentations not available for attendes?
    ×0.48 | 1 points by ghm2180 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Umless, open-source on-device dictation that writes what you meant (github.com/jatinbishla)
    ×1.56 93 | 4 points by jatinbishla 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Dating app based on your LinkedIn profile (synergy.dating)
    ×1.80 130 | 5 points by Startup4Life 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. The Unbearable Mediocrity of Microdramas (theatlantic.com)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by petethomas 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Leica Cyclone REGISTER 360 2026.1.1 download
    ×0.42 | 1 points by asksoft 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Open-source app that lets LLMs control your iPhone (no Mac required) (github.com/EliotAndres)
    ×0.65 | 2 points by ea016 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Get your coding agent off ~2019 JavaScript, onto modern web primitives (github.com/GoogleChrome)
    ×2.41 3 #19 | 324 points by paulirish 12 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. AMD's Zen 6 Family: Feeding the Beast (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×1.61 2 #21 | 213 points by pixelpoet 13 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Further Reading from the Field Guide for Senior Software Engineers (themissingcipher.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by mooreds 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Ask HN: Why doesn't Ramp AI Index include OpenRouter or other aggregators?
    ×0.92 | 2 points by ddxv 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. E-means: Outperforming k-means in one-tenth the epochs (e-means.github.io)
    ×2.33 11 | 497 points by porridgeraisin 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Fun things to do with your VM/370 CE machine – Fun with big computers (rbanffy.github.io)
    ×0.64 78 | 106 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: I have trained 15 blood glucose forecasting models on my own data (github.com/0xdeadf1sh)
    ×0.85 55 | 15 points by 0xdeadf1sh 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Y Recombinator – The HN threads HN keeps recommending (yrecombinator.org)
    ×1.94 83 | 9 points by nightjar 14 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Totle, daily math puzzle game; Saturday puzzles have the fewest answers (playtotle.com)
    ×2.27 132 | 6 points by zemelett 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Fastsleep.app – Imagine micro-scenarios to get sleepy (fastsleep.app)
    ×2.19 1 | 4 points by greybox555 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. ClickHouse Acquires Xata (xata.io)
    ×1.26 34 | 99 points by mebcitto 23 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: WallHang – Plan a gallery wall and get exact nail positions (iOS) (wallhang.app)
    ×1.67 94 | 4 points by morrowfield 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Greg Kurtzer's Ginux is now a userspace kernel (github.com/gmkurtzer)
    ×1.53 3 #2 | 15 points by d3Xt3r 42 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Scion is back and is going to sell a kei truck in America (theautopian.com)
    ×2.70 3 #3 | 419 points by NaOH 10 hours ago | 286 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. The AI Arms Race Is Not Inevitable. It's Just Profitable (ai-frontiers.org)
    ×2.44 23 #60 | 5 points by reasonableklout 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Variable-width Bézier curves (2025) (illinois.edu)
    ×0.62 45 #71 | 36 points by leduyquang753 12 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Framework Yubikey Expansion Card (moparisthebest.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by whalesalad 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. TPU 8tx and TPU 8i Max (blog.google)
    ×2.03 18 | 257 points by _benx_ 1 day ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: BetterMan – man pages for all of Debian, with explain and portability (betterman.sh)
    ×0.80 | 2 points by amanthanvi 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. A primer on GPUs and kernel optimization (nabo.dev)
    ×1.17 57 #82 | 187 points by nomi_uw 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Stomachion Puzzle – Play Online (puzzlewhere.com)
    ×1.55 52 | 3 points by bkevitt 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. What is malloc doing, anyway? (benmandrew.com)
    ×1.48 50 | 256 points by benmandrew 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Write GitHub Actions in any language: Loopt (github.com/preloopdev)
    ×0.80 111 | 15 points by Bnjoroge 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. To deter bioterrorism, U.S. imposes new rules on ordering synthetic DNA (science.org)
    ×1.61 2 #7 | 49 points by Metacelsus 3 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Blender 5.3 released with Gaussian Splat support (blender.org)
    ×2.90 24 #38 | 454 points by amlib 13 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Yappng ; A much, much much cheaper alternative to Wispr Flow (yappng.com)
    ×1.68 14 | 3 points by tomatob 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: NodusDB – Zanzibar-style authorization, embedded like SQLite (github.com/Pragadeesh-19)
    ×2.19 98 | 5 points by pragadeesh_21 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Markview – a fast Markdown reader in Rust, Obsidian Vault compatible (github.com/szdytom)
    ×1.10 124 | 3 points by szdytom 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Queens Public Library under ransomware attack (queenslibrary.org)
    ×1.19 29 #42 | 195 points by rustyhancock 21 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Brazil's Largest Port Hit by Major IT Outage; Suspected Ransomware Cyberattack (uknip.co.uk)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by dvaplima 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Next-Concept Modeling: Fast, Parallel Coarse-to-Fine Text Generation (arxiv.org)
    ×0.92 72 | 179 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Aisync, advisory file claims so two AI agents don't edit one repo (github.com/MaxonT)
    ×1.64 85 | 4 points by MaxTigerYoung 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Ultorg: The User Interface for Relational Databases (ultorg.com)
    ×1.39 38 #80 | 144 points by Ivoah 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. I saw your HN comment (joshstrange.com)
    ×4.16 7 | 438 points by joshstrange 1 day ago | 328 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. The same H100 costs $2.69 or $12.29 an hour depending where you rent it (github.com/datareceipts)
    ×1.85 58 | 171 points by datareceipts 1 day ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: ElderVault – care records for aging parents, shared by section (iOS) (eldervault.app)
    ×1.40 95 | 4 points by themightyyak 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Wanim – Run Manim Python in the browser, 20× smaller than Pyodide (github.com/Acfboy)
    ×1.23 125 | 3 points by Acfboy 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Daily GPU Rental Prices Across AWS, Azure, RunPod and Vast.ai (taipeiledger.com)
    ×1.11 21 #62 | 7 points by khoonie 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Personality and Life-Cycle Labour Earnings [pdf] (crctr224.de)
    ×1.06 | 2 points by rohanm93 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Here comes the sun[light]:An ambient Daylight Clock with time and space controls (hannahilea.com)
    ×0.65 38 #84 | 50 points by evakhoury 16 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???