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  1. Tell HN: Merry Christmas
    ×7.43 2 #5 | 1477 points by basilikum 15 hours ago | 341 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: How do I bridge the gap between PhD and SWE experiences?
    ×0.90 1 #18 | 14 points by ecophyseis 3 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Payload in Amazon "Shipped" Emails
    ×0.42 | 2 points by krautburglar 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Good uses cases for Fabrice's microquickjs
    ×0.68 25 | 12 points by fud101 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: At 34, can I aspire to being more than a JavaScript widget engineer?
    ×2.06 1 | 15 points by yesitcan 10 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Did any projects succeed with crowdfunding?
    ×0.66 27 | 3 points by asim 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?
    ×2.82 6 | 432 points by nishilpatel 2 days ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How many HN'ers Celebrate Christmas vs. ?
    ×1.61 34 | 12 points by gist 14 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Tell HN: Merry Christmas
    ×2.28 5 | 87 points by franze 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Looking for Decent Conversation?
    ×1.70 32 | 92 points by kmstout 19 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Google Cloud Run cost me $4,676 in 6 weeks with zero traff
    ×2.46 13 | 39 points by creativesage 19 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: HarmonyOS Open Source Development
    ×0.53 56 | 3 points by rumpelstiel 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Stronk.app – open-source gym lifts journal
    ×0.96 55 | 59 points by apatheticonion 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Why isn't there competition to LinkedIn yet?
    ×2.28 88 | 56 points by antfie 2 days ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: My mother was scammed out of all her savings. What should I do?
    ×2.10 69 | 129 points by scapbi 3 days ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Why isn't everyone talking about (and using) Cerebras?
    ×0.98 70 | 6 points by ray__ 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Tell HN: Merry Christmas
    ×3.16 81 | 17 points by teruakohatu 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Why is Hacker News red? Christmas?
    ×2.70 36 | 12 points by onesandofgrain 14 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Oberon et al., vs. Rust
    ×0.42 115 | 16 points by mikethe 2 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Could the optimal vibe coder be fundamentally different from the optimal SWE?
    ×0.68 99 | 3 points by inshard 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: What developer tool do you wish existed in 2026?
    ×0.71 129 | 19 points by allenleee 3 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: What did you lose forever because you had no backup?
    ×1.10 94 | 15 points by postit 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. GitHub is returning Gateway Time-outs
    ×0.87 83 | 9 points by pera 23 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Can you patent prompts?
    ×0.48 108 | 12 points by rcarmo 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Which is the best sync engine?
    ×0.59 104 | 5 points by olivieropinotti 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Cloudflare Stream + Backblaze vs. GCP for Short Form Video?
    ×0.41 116 | 3 points by slroger 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. I built two dozen single-file HTML tools that run offline and need no back end
    ×0.65 120 | 17 points by ajtracysk 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Do you have an exit plan for Slack?
    ×2.21 77 | 7 points by gtirloni 19 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Anybody here ever write apps for Windows Phone?
    ×0.39 121 | 3 points by ge96 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: How do you use the "waiting time" while Claude (other LLMs) is working?
    ×1.47 87 | 7 points by pedrodelfino 21 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: What's the most open/hacker friendly Android phone for 2026?
    ×0.72 117 | 15 points by recvonline 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. SSH Tiny.christmas
    ×1.68 67 | 9 points by cyanbane 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Resources to get better at outbound sales?
    ×0.51 148 | 8 points by sieep 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: What would you do if you didn't work in tech?
    ×1.55 90 | 61 points by johnathandos 2 days ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Is formal verification of practical use in real world projects?
    ×1.62 84 | 5 points by akkad33 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Why are we accepting silent data corruption in Vector Search? (x86 vs. ARM)
    ×0.57 127 | 5 points by varshith17 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Who here is not working on web apps/server code?
    ×1.35 114 | 84 points by ex-aws-dude 6 days ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Broadcom Changing Licensing to BSL
    ×0.28 140 | 10 points by CubsFan1060 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: How many email accounts do you have?
    ×0.56 146 | 9 points by asim 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: What is your primary operating system?
    ×1.12 96 | 3 points by chistev 16 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: Migrating old Substack posts to my own blog, have a question
    ×0.10 | 2 points by Praddy 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ask HN: Is GitHub becoming more and more unstable?
    ×0.45 153 | 9 points by pavish 5 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Microsoft Is Finally Killing RC4 (schneier.com)
    ×1.42 59 | 3 points by jandeboevrie 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: A global synchronized meditation bell website to connect us (waake.onrender.com)
    ×1.26 | 2 points by dakinitribe 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. An initial analysis of the discovered Unix V4 tape (spinellis.gr)
    ×1.54 51 | 89 points by DSpinellis 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: JadeStage [I built the platform I wish existed ] (jadestage.com)
    ×1.08 85 | 4 points by dialloDojo 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. JEDEC developing reduced pin count HBM4 standard to enable higher capacity (blocksandfiles.com)
    ×0.73 11 #25 | 48 points by rbanffy 10 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. I'm returning my Framework 16 (yorickpeterse.com)
    ×2.43 7 #32 | 260 points by YorickPeterse 1 day ago | 442 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Games’ affordance of childlike wonder and reduced burnout risk in young adults (jmir.org)
    ×1.58 2 #62 | 155 points by azalemeth 1 day ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Determining Current Arm Cortex-M Security State with GDB (danielmangum.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by hasheddan 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Asterisk AI Voice Agent (github.com/hkjarral)
    ×1.11 11 #16 | 139 points by akrulino 15 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Could lockfiles just be SBOMs? (nesbitt.io)
    ×1.06 49 #85 | 69 points by zdw 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. 'I've been allergic to AI for a long time': an interview with Peter Thiel (spectator.com)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by ksec 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Towards a secure peer-to-peer app platform for Clan (clan.lol)
    ×0.72 52 | 90 points by throawayonthe 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Meta is using the Linux scheduler designed for Valve's Steam Deck on its servers (phoronix.com)
    ×4.59 42 | 688 points by yellow_lead 1 day ago | 381 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Research team digitizes more than 100 years of Canadian infectious disease data (mcmaster.ca)
    ×1.18 11 #23 | 130 points by XzetaU8 16 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Two ancient humans, including famed 'Iceman,' had cancer-causing virus (science.org)
    ×1.11 58 #50 | 13 points by rolph 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. The year data centers went from back end to center stage (techcrunch.com)
    ×0.73 | 1 points by saikatsg 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Localhorst – Websites Hosted in the Browser (43z.one)
    ×0.99 | 2 points by h43z 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Confirmation of Breslow's hypothesis: A carbene stable in liquid water (science.org)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by bookofjoe 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. US denies visas to ex-EU commissioner and others over social media rules (bbc.co.uk)
    ×7.34 65 | 33 points by mellosouls 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: HN Wrapped 2025 - an LLM reviews your year on HN (kadoa.com)
    ×1.96 75 | 309 points by hubraumhugo 5 days ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: TinyPDF – 3kb pdf library (70x smaller than jsPDF) (github.com/Lulzx)
    ×1.85 92 | 253 points by lulzx 6 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. A faster path to container images in Bazel (tweag.io)
    ×0.79 32 #36 | 95 points by malt3 21 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Dirlock (steamos.cloud)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by birdculture 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Donald E. Knuth and Peter van Emde Boas on priority deques (1977) [pdf] (uva.nl)
    ×0.67 49 | 61 points by vismit2000 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. I didn't realize my LG TV was spying on me until I turned off Live Plus (pocket-lint.com)
    ×3.70 7 | 250 points by fcpguru 1 day ago | 239 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: CodinIT, local open-source Lovable alternative (Electron desktop app) (github.com/codinit-dev)
    ×0.95 74 | 21 points by Gerome24 5 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Lumina – a minimal AI reflection app (source code) (github.com/Encoremuff)
    ×0.50 | 2 points by EncoreVlaced 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Permission Systems for Enterprise That Scale (eliocapella.com)
    ×1.07 32 #63 | 95 points by eliocs 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: I made you a Christmas present (arielche.net)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by achenet 48 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. The Sweeney Filming Locations – Olympia and W14 [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.05 | 2 points by zeristor 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. What Is Santa's Address at the North Pole? (parade.com)
    ×1.00 | 2 points by thunderbong 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. The EU's fine against X is not about speech or ‘censorship’ (techpolicy.press)
    ×4.49 21 | 51 points by saubeidl 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Fuck You, I Won't Use Tailwind (fuckyouiwontusetailwind.com)
    ×6.68 61 | 48 points by csspurist 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Jingle Bells (Batman Smells): An incomplete festive folk-rhyme taxonomy (loreandordure.com)
    ×1.13 20 #33 | 108 points by helsinkiandrew 19 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. I rebuilt FlashAttention in Triton to understand the performance archaeology (aminediro.com)
    ×1.10 16 #87 | 87 points by amindiro 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Silicon Valley's tone-deaf take on the AI backlash will matter in 2026 (fortune.com)
    ×3.12 37 #89 | 62 points by howToTestFE 14 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. The dollar game (imf.org)
    ×2.00 34 | 4 points by hhs 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Mt. Gox CEO Karpelès Reveals Details of 2014 Collapse and Japanese Detention (bitcoinmagazine.com)
    ×2.19 13 | 81 points by giuliomagnifico 22 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. When irate product support customers demand to speak to Bill Gates (microsoft.com)
    ×2.51 58 | 76 points by magnat 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Books mentioned on Hacker News in 2025 (us-west1.run.app)
    ×2.60 35 | 606 points by seinvak 3 days ago | 212 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Elfpeek – A tiny interactive ELF binary inspector in C (github.com/Oblivionsage)
    ×1.70 100 | 4 points by oblivionsage 20 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Prototaxites (astrobiology.com)
    ×0.82 15 #31 | 55 points by andsoitis 12 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. My 2026 Open Social Web Predictions (timothychambers.net)
    ×0.95 28 #43 | 103 points by todsacerdoti 22 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Ask HN: What happens to world economics when humanity reaches triade?
    ×0.61 | 1 points by IdontKnowRust 38 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. How Claude Code is helping me as an open source maintainer (stanislas.blog)
    ×0.46 | 2 points by angristan 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Linggen – A local-first memory layer for your AI (Cursor, Zed, Claude) (github.com/linggen)
    ×0.88 133 | 36 points by linggen 5 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Ask HN: Why can't I find NDK for Linux ARM64?
    ×0.41 | 1 points by DenisDolya 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Vibium – Browser automation for AI and humans, by Selenium's creator (github.com/VibiumDev)
    ×2.11 3 #22 | 351 points by hugs 20 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???