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  1. Tell HN: Happy New Year
    ×4.28 11 #12 | 36 points by schappim 1 hour ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Git analytics that works across GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket
    ×0.37 40 #52 | 18 points by akhnid 10 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Any example of successful vibe-coded product?
    ×1.67 6 | 70 points by sirnicolaz 21 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. The Gemini AI Studio "Context Tax": How a 10-word prompt cost me £121
    ×3.21 44 | 12 points by daitandojo 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?
    ×1.52 83 | 267 points by meridion 5 days ago | 411 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Does reading HN make you happy?
    ×1.24 20 | 41 points by yakattak 20 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?
    ×1.74 70 | 330 points by kwar13 5 days ago | 435 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Loneliness at 19, how to cope?
    ×0.95 78 | 55 points by yresting 2 days ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Tell HN: Merry Christmas
    ×7.81 46 | 1954 points by basilikum 6 days ago | 428 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. A curated directory of open-source AI projects
    ×0.40 76 | 12 points by doanbactam 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How to do a Personal Cybersecurity audit
    ×0.52 84 | 23 points by preciousoo 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What do you use to manage your coding projects?
    ×0.39 85 | 5 points by SunshineTheCat 21 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. TP-Link only works with a permanent internet connection
    ×0.60 99 | 8 points by roscas 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How do you manage kids' accounts?
    ×1.68 89 | 12 points by xfax 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Users decide which online platforms to trust in 2025
    ×0.33 103 | 4 points by taka-dev 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How to go back to listening to MP3s?
    ×1.51 143 | 8 points by muratsu 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What are you building as a side-project or side-hustle in 2026?
    ×1.04 101 | 19 points by bayeslaw 2 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Tell HN: No Scrollbar on Google Gemini UI
    ×0.45 110 | 4 points by albert_e 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How do you get visibility if you're suuuuper bad at marketing?
    ×0.78 117 | 12 points by ClipNoteBook 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: How are you sandboxing coding agents?
    ×1.35 104 | 44 points by m-hodges 4 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Tell HN: Merry Christmas
    ×1.72 112 | 92 points by franze 1 week ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Tell HN: I am afraid AI will take my job at some point
    ×1.40 123 | 24 points by funnyfoobar 4 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: What Comic-books did you read in 2025?
    ×0.45 115 | 5 points by linesofcode 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Book recommendations based on reading history
    ×0.39 127 | 8 points by easywood 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: How many HN'ers Celebrate Christmas vs. ?
    ×0.94 151 | 19 points by gist 6 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: What was the hardest bug you tracked down in 2025?
    ×0.71 146 | 11 points by varshith17 4 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: If you only needed 200 customers at$49, how would you approach it?
    ×0.82 121 | 11 points by OmKadam 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: What is the international distribution/statistics of HN visitors?
    ×0.99 111 | 63 points by KellyCriterion 5 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Looking for Decent Conversation?
    ×1.52 106 | 102 points by kmstout 6 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Good uses cases for Fabrice's microquickjs
    ×0.47 153 | 14 points by fud101 6 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Google Cloud Run cost me $4,676 in 6 weeks with zero traff
    ×1.99 128 | 51 points by creativesage 6 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Postgres for everything, does it work?
    ×1.07 147 | 11 points by saisrirampur 4 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. The Epstein files downloaded today is different compared to before
    ×3.02 94 | 50 points by IDKhowTo 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: At 34, can I aspire to being more than a JavaScript widget engineer?
    ×1.86 133 | 31 points by yesitcan 6 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: What are you building during the holiday break?
    ×0.52 138 | 6 points by linsomniac 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: A dynamic key-value IP allowlist for Nginx (github.com/dayt0n)
    ×0.74 | 2 points by dayt0n 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: I built a universal clipboard that syncs realtime on multiple devices (quickclip.space)
    ×1.37 6 #17 | 27 points by imgopaal 3 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. How the AI 'bubble' compares to history (ft.com)
    ×0.79 | 1 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 15 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. What Is a Memristor? (electricalvolt.com)
    ×0.81 | 1 points by slicktux 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: DevBox – An execution contract to end AI agent instruction fatigue (github.com/danieljhkim)
    ×1.19 116 | 3 points by danieljhkim 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. MongoDB Server Security Update, December 2025 (mongodb.com)
    ×0.79 61 #67 | 106 points by plorkyeran 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Best Free Online Escape Room Games in 2026 (onlineescaperoom.org)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by weihz5138 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Google is dead. Where do we go now? (circusscientist.com)
    ×4.10 47 | 1021 points by tomjuggler 1 day ago | 814 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Nvidia takes $5B stake in Intel under September agreement (reuters.com)
    ×2.20 19 | 219 points by taubek 1 day ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Now That He Has No Power, Mitt Romney Says "Tax the Rich" (jacobin.com)
    ×6.51 25 | 116 points by robtherobber 19 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Geology of the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary (usgs.gov)
    ×0.58 61 | 50 points by greesil 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: UpDown – Simple website uptime monitoring (updown.fly.dev)
    ×1.84 109 | 6 points by ejncman 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: I built a real-time IoT monitor bridging ESP8266, Go, and Next.js (synx-alpha.vercel.app)
    ×0.71 | 2 points by dapoadedire 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Mitsubishi Diatone D-160 (1985) (audio-database.com)
    ×0.87 42 #29 | 65 points by anigbrowl 15 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Gestational diabetes rose every year in the US since 2016 (northwestern.edu)
    ×1.10 55 #71 | 22 points by gmays 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. When square pixels aren't square (alexwlchan.net)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by PaulHoule 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Detect Go's silent arithmetic bugs with go-panikint (trailofbits.com)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by conslit 53 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Win32 is the stable Linux ABI (loss32.org)
    ×3.81 15 | 165 points by krautburglar 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Financial calculators with no tracking, no signup, no email gates (financialaha.com)
    ×0.85 96 | 3 points by stefanneculai 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. The future of software development is software developers (wordpress.com)
    ×2.89 11 #76 | 398 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 534 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Russian Ghost Ship Sank Smuggling Nuclear Reactor Parts Likely Bound for N Korea (united24media.com)
    ×5.68 63 | 44 points by ck45 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: True Persistent F*****G Memory for Robotics (Bypassing Linux Kernel) (ryjoxdemo.com)
    ×1.79 144 | 3 points by JosephjackJR 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: TimeProofs – Prove when data existed without uploading it
    ×1.46 | 2 points by timeproofs 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Foreign tech workers are avoiding travel to the US (computerworld.com)
    ×8.35 17 | 93 points by CrankyBear 18 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Graph Algorithms in Rayon (davidlattimore.github.io)
    ×0.84 52 #78 | 58 points by PaulHoule 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Coase's Penguin, Or, Linux and the Nature of the Firm [pdf] (benkler.org)
    ×0.45 67 #80 | 11 points by loughnane 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Customize Your Windows Within Sophia Script for Windows (github.com/farag2)
    ×0.86 | 1 points by farag2 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Fixing My System76 Laptop in 20 Minutes or Less (danielmangum.com)
    ×0.80 | 1 points by hasheddan 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Tom Thumb's Marriage: An Unexpectedly Modern "Fairy Wedding" (worldhistory.substack.com)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by crescit_eundo 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Binance's Trust Wallet extension hacked; users lose $7M (web3isgoinggreat.com)
    ×2.26 48 | 104 points by ilamont 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Zpdf: PDF text extraction in Zig (github.com/Lulzx)
    ×1.65 7 #32 | 192 points by lulzx 18 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Postgres extension complements pgvector for performance and scale (github.com/timescale)
    ×1.11 38 #46 | 131 points by flyaway123 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Z80-μLM, a 'Conversational AI' That Fits in 40KB (github.com/HarryR)
    ×2.60 7 | 495 points by quesomaster9000 2 days ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Golazo – Live soccer updates in your terminal (github.com/0xjuanma)
    ×0.87 120 | 9 points by rocajuanma 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: An AI social networking app that treats hallucinations as a feature (friendtest.fun)
    ×0.58 | 1 points by funldsaw 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. NYC Mayoral Inauguration bans Raspberry Pi and Flipper Zero alongside explosives (adafruit.com)
    ×3.83 67 | 225 points by ptorrone 15 hours ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US and “debanked” (lemonde.fr)
    ×5.52 25 #68 | 407 points by lifeisstillgood 1 day ago | 416 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: attainable – The fastest and easiest way to design and deploy APIs (attainable.dev)
    ×1.84 141 | 8 points by clintjhill 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Back to the future: the story of Squeak, a practical Smalltalk written in itself [pdf] (vpri.org)
    ×1.15 48 #14 | 6 points by fanf2 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. I migrated to an almost all-EU stack and saved 500€ per year (zeitgeistofbytes.com)
    ×3.73 20 #62 | 351 points by alexcos 1 day ago | 248 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: WebPtoPNG – I built a WebP to PNG tool, everything runs in the browser (webptopng.cc)
    ×0.66 149 | 21 points by akseli_ukkonen 6 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. The 70% AI productivity myth: why most companies aren't seeing the gains (sderosiaux.substack.com)
    ×3.39 5 | 83 points by chtefi 23 hours ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Isit2026yet.com – A single-serving site for the New Year (isit2026yet.com)
    ×2.71 29 | 6 points by eamongordon 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Virtual Try-On Chrome extension to see how products look on you (tryaing.com)
    ×0.71 | 1 points by rokontech 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. The Shifting World of OSINT with Craig Silverman [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by gessha 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. How supermarkets turned loyalty cards into a data treasure trove (rte.ie)
    ×2.13 14 | 3 points by austinallegro 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: The bedtime, another little bedside clock (stavros.io)
    ×2.33 152 | 7 points by stavros 4 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026 (economist.com)
    ×3.96 16 #25 | 415 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 16 hours ago | 580 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Turning an old Amazon Kindle into a eInk development platform (2021) (lidskialf.net)
    ×0.91 64 #63 | 75 points by fanf2 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. The Pheix project published postmortem review following the latest release (pheix.org)
    ×1.42 | 2 points by pheix 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Immutable Infrastructure, Immutable Code (leaflet.pub)
    ×1.45 | 2 points by gpi 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Nvidia GB10's Memory Subsystem, from the CPU Side (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×2.17 26 | 3 points by ingve 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. FediMeteo: A €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service (dragas.net)
    ×1.69 7 #16 | 339 points by birdculture 18 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Claude Is Growing Tomatoes (autoncorp.com)
    ×0.99 | 1 points by bpavuk 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Exploiting Silent Delivery Receipts to Monitor Users on Instant Messengers (github.com/gommzystudio)
    ×2.28 34 | 3 points by tcsenpai 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???