Updated November 12, 2026 at 8:34 AM UTC

Hacker News top stories today

The top story on Hacker News right now is "Tim Peters has died" with 1143 points. Every front page story, sorted by points instead of rank, refreshed every 10 minutes.

  1. 1143
    Tim Peters has died
    discuss.python.org127 comments1d
  2. 978
    My AI agents found an unmapped Maya site?
    pietromiotti.com357 comments20h
  3. 941
    Nvidia is preparing to oust Jensen Huang
    wsj.com1286 comments10h
  4. 819
    AWS emulator
    github.com232 comments14h
  5. 532
    United Airlines bans AI agents from booking flights on behalf of travelers
    cbsnews.com519 comments11h
  6. 477
    A false smoke alarm almost drowned Jane Street's only NYC datacenter
    michael.bacarella.com236 comments16h
  7. 414
    Gemini Decisions API
    blog.google124 comments14h
  8. 399
    93% of paint splatters are valid Perl programs (2019)
    mcmillen.dev53 comments10h
  9. 364
    Hyper-Realistic Sand with WebGL2
    av.github.io67 comments19h
  10. 293
    Using voltage glitching to unleash the A100 in my mining card
    blog.kate.land115 comments22h
  11. 271
    Can a Linear Program Do Weight-Space Programming?
    nathan.rs38 comments20h
  12. 234
    Lock Your GitHub Actions
    hugovk.dev47 comments10h
  13. 232
    Show HN: Yogurt – Free, private, open-source alternative to Granola
    github.com94 comments17h
  14. 216
    Emacs in the Age of Magic
    commandlinesystems.com91 comments12h
  15. 203
    Faster Retrieval for Better, More Efficient RAG
    machinelearning.apple.com37 comments16h
  16. 164
    Critical RCE Vulnerability in Apache HTTP Server
    wiz.io72 comments6h
  17. 156
    Humble Bundle just killed most of their security through vibecoding
    forums.spacebattles.com49 comments2h
  18. 127
    The Utah Teapot
    graphics.cs.utah.edu32 comments13h
  19. 99
    A general purpose Apple Silicon layer for x86-64 PCs
    github.com40 comments10h
  20. 97
    Huawei releases MACaQ, its internal quantizer for local inference
    github.com24 comments12h
  21. 75
    Jane Street: Socratic Tutor
    github.com16 comments2d
  22. 57
    Did Life Begin in an RNA World?
    quantamagazine.org21 comments3d
  23. 47
    I gave an agent a lakehouse and control of my garden
    jatorre.github.io16 comments4d
  24. 39
    Bad ideas that aren't bad anymore
    devonestes.com18 comments5h
  25. 31
    Lean Grimoire
    terrytao.wordpress.com5 comments6h
  26. 28
    Stingray Fish Laser
    stingray.no24 comments2d
  27. 26
    I'm Working on a FOSS Linux Pinbal Simulation Engine
    getlazarus.org5 comments3h
  28. 23
    Slavdom Unearthed: Marian Wawrzeniecki's Neopagan Paintings (1891–1923)
    publicdomainreview.org7 comments3d
  29. 20
    Darling Development Update – Q4 2026
    blog.darlinghq.org4 comments4h
  30. 7
    The Lost World of Aquaterra
    theatlantic.com0 comments15h

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