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  1. Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?
    ×1.99 4 #26 | 227 points by kwar13 17 hours ago | 316 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?
    ×1.77 36 #44 | 213 points by meridion 1 day ago | 349 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: How are you sandboxing coding agents?
    ×2.43 60 | 4 points by m-hodges 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What was the hardest bug you tracked down in 2025?
    ×0.35 | 2 points by varshith17 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: Merry Christmas
    ×7.92 49 | 1941 points by basilikum 2 days ago | 424 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Tell HN: I am afraid AI will take my job at some point
    ×1.10 12 | 5 points by funnyfoobar 5 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Postgres for everything, does it work?
    ×1.44 42 | 5 points by saisrirampur 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?
    ×2.87 50 | 454 points by nishilpatel 3 days ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Pivot from SWE to What?
    ×1.53 57 | 46 points by aupra 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Is Dart a particularly optimised language for front-end development?
    ×0.55 76 | 4 points by theanonymousone 14 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Tell HN: Merry Christmas
    ×1.97 75 | 91 points by franze 2 days ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Are you verifying that products are readable by AI shopping
    ×0.17 | 2 points by David_0101 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What is the international distribution/statistics of HN visitors?
    ×1.01 53 | 59 points by KellyCriterion 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How many HN'ers Celebrate Christmas vs. ?
    ×1.29 105 | 18 points by gist 2 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Looking for Decent Conversation?
    ×1.62 66 | 101 points by kmstout 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Why isn't there competition to LinkedIn yet?
    ×2.03 108 | 57 points by antfie 4 days ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Useful (Non-Coding) Agents?
    ×0.47 | 2 points by qaboutthat 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Good uses cases for Fabrice's microquickjs
    ×0.56 110 | 14 points by fud101 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Stronk.app – open-source gym lifts journal
    ×0.97 92 | 63 points by apatheticonion 3 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: At 34, can I aspire to being more than a JavaScript widget engineer?
    ×2.06 90 | 26 points by yesitcan 2 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Google Cloud Run cost me $4,676 in 6 weeks with zero traff
    ×2.26 83 | 49 points by creativesage 2 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: My mother was scammed out of all her savings. What should I do?
    ×2.10 94 | 133 points by scapbi 4 days ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: People who tried both, how does Waymo compare to Tesla Robotaxi?
    ×1.83 51 | 6 points by Austin_Conlon 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: What developer tool do you wish existed in 2026?
    ×0.77 153 | 22 points by allenleee 5 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Oberon et al., vs. Rust
    ×0.42 142 | 17 points by mikethe 4 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: What do you consider fun?
    ×2.22 79 | 22 points by IndySun 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Why Do You Blog?
    ×2.46 69 | 20 points by onesandofgrain 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Are students replacing laptops with iPads in 2026?
    ×0.96 124 | 4 points by xthe 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: What's the best lecture or talk you've seen in 2025?
    ×4.54 77 | 23 points by hopefully_can 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Tell HN: Merry Christmas
    ×2.56 123 | 19 points by teruakohatu 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Tell HN: Math academy and iPad and sleep issues solved = me learning math
    ×0.88 122 | 5 points by mettamage 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Is ChatGPT getting buggier over time or is it me?
    ×1.18 117 | 6 points by softwaredoug 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. What are you building in AI?
    ×0.23 | 2 points by udit_50 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Is Alexa Overloaded
    ×0.28 | 2 points by dzdt 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: What did you lose forever because you had no backup?
    ×0.98 132 | 15 points by postit 3 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Can you patent prompts?
    ×0.49 140 | 13 points by rcarmo 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. I built two dozen single-file HTML tools that run offline and need no back end
    ×0.62 150 | 17 points by ajtracysk 4 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: Payload in Amazon "Shipped" Emails
    ×0.39 152 | 3 points by krautburglar 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: Did any projects succeed with crowdfunding?
    ×0.58 139 | 4 points by asim 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. As HN: How do I route around Substack's age verification?
    ×1.19 107 | 7 points by longitudinal93 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: Resources to get better at outbound sales?
    ×0.54 163 | 9 points by sieep 5 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ask HN: HarmonyOS Open Source Development
    ×0.82 131 | 6 points by rumpelstiel 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: MIT grad, junior dev layoffs – watching my daughter lose faith in merit
    ×3.74 67 | 44 points by MITfather 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Ask HN: What's the most open/hacker friendly Android phone for 2026?
    ×0.74 147 | 16 points by recvonline 4 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Ask HN: What would you do if you didn't work in tech?
    ×1.53 113 | 61 points by johnathandos 4 days ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Ask HN: Why isn't everyone talking about (and using) Cerebras?
    ×1.20 129 | 9 points by ray__ 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Could the optimal vibe coder be fundamentally different from the optimal SWE?
    ×0.52 161 | 3 points by inshard 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. GitHub is returning Gateway Time-outs
    ×0.79 135 | 9 points by pera 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Ask HN: Why is Hacker News red? Christmas?
    ×2.33 116 | 13 points by onesandofgrain 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Ask HN: Which is the best sync engine?
    ×0.53 157 | 5 points by olivieropinotti 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Cloudflare Stream + Backblaze vs. GCP for Short Form Video?
    ×0.29 162 | 3 points by slroger 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Ask HN: Anybody here ever write apps for Windows Phone?
    ×0.53 160 | 4 points by ge96 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Drawing with zero-width characters (swerdlow.dev)
    ×1.14 5 #27 | 102 points by benswerd 12 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Grok and the Naked King: The Ultimate Argument Against AI Alignment (ibrahimcesar.cloud)
    ×2.57 16 #63 | 87 points by ibrahimcesar 13 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Buoy – A persistent, status-bar web server for local utilities (github.com/codazoda)
    ×0.34 | 2 points by codazoda 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. T-Ruby is Ruby with syntax for types (type-ruby.github.io)
    ×1.45 2 #17 | 120 points by thunderbong 9 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. The iPad's Software Problem Is Permanent [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by tosh 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Spreadsheet Simulators Are Unstoppable (youtube.com)
    ×0.36 | 1 points by exBarrelSpoiler 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Fahrplan – 39C3 (ccc.de)
    ×2.57 20 | 379 points by rurban 1 day ago | 205 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Why is ML inference still so ad-hoc in practice?
    ×1.95 99 | 4 points by krish678 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Open Tech Calendar, listing virtual tech events with community participation (opentechcalendar.co.uk)
    ×0.73 | 2 points by jarofgreen 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: RustX – Help me test/architect this new Rust-based scripting language (github.com/GrandpaEJx)
    ×0.36 | 1 points by ZOROX 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Self-referencing Page Tables for the x86-Architecture (0l.de)
    ×0.52 65 | 62 points by stv0g 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. The Proton, the 'Most Complicated Thing You Could Possibly Imagine' (quantamagazine.org)
    ×2.11 14 #22 | 27 points by tzury 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Quadratrix of Hippias (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.85 | 2 points by MaysonL 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. The AI bubble is all over now, baby blue (garymarcus.substack.com)
    ×3.59 22 | 31 points by ArmageddonIt 17 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Jmail – Google Suite for Epstein files (jmail.world)
    ×6.42 48 | 1550 points by dvrp 6 days ago | 360 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Typed-Prompts – Type-Safe Prompt Engineering (github.com/f)
    ×0.55 | 2 points by fka 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Claude Code Plugin to play music when waiting on user input (github.com/Sevii)
    ×0.95 136 | 56 points by Sevii 6 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. An 11-qubit atom processor in silicon with all fidelities from 99.10% to 99.99% (nature.com)
    ×0.86 48 #49 | 82 points by giuliomagnifico 23 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. XMPlay 4.1 (xmplay.com)
    ×0.36 | 1 points by XzetaU8 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Officials discover a million more documents potentially related to Epstein case (bbc.com)
    ×4.41 32 | 33 points by simonebrunozzi 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Ultra-Low-Latency Trading System (krishnabajpai.me)
    ×2.53 78 | 30 points by krish678 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Twine – A tool to dynamically trace calls in production Elixir systems (github.com/ollien)
    ×0.87 85 | 3 points by todsacerdoti 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Yapi – FOSS terminal API client for power users (yapi.run)
    ×0.73 104 | 50 points by jamiepond 5 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Perfect Aircrete, Kitchen Ingredients [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.07 12 #42 | 91 points by surprisetalk 15 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Not Everything Should Be Easy (rastrian.dev)
    ×0.83 | 2 points by rastrian 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: CodinIT, local open-source Lovable alternative (Electron desktop app) (github.com/codinit-dev)
    ×1.09 114 | 24 points by Gerome24 1 week ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Mythbusting: Is a cold night at Stoke tough for players? (bbc.co.uk)
    ×0.29 | 1 points by austinallegro 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. 2026 resolution: if Mozilla tampers with "uBlock Origin", I'm giving it up
    ×3.29 74 | 20 points by fl4tul4 2 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. The Compiler Is Your Best Friend, Stop Lying to It (daniel-beskin.com)
    ×0.84 | 2 points by sothatsit 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. UBlockOrigin and UBlacklist AI Blocklist (github.com/laylavish)
    ×3.29 29 | 133 points by _____k 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Web CLI – Browser-based terminal with multi-tab support (github.com/pozgo)
    ×1.21 95 | 3 points by polinux 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. I built a quiet site for finding ambient albums while working (ambientmusic.com)
    ×3.64 17 #89 | 32 points by developvr 16 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. How Meta tries to win back teens for Instagram (washingtonpost.com)
    ×1.35 2 | 3 points by mmarvin 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: I Updated My 2D Ant Game for the Holidays (github.com/aanthonymax)
    ×1.14 137 | 3 points by aanthonymax 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Jobswithgpt.com Semantic Job Search
    ×0.82 | 2 points by jobswithgptcom 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your gmail.com address (9to5google.com)
    ×2.96 5 | 240 points by geox 1 day ago | 220 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Kill List–A local-first PWA where tasks deletes if not done by midnight (railway.app)
    ×0.83 134 | 3 points by msldiarra 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop (qnx.com)
    ×1.46 4 #6 | 133 points by transpute 7 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???