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  1. Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?
    ×1.84 37 | 314 points by kwar13 2 days ago | 417 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?
    ×1.71 65 | 258 points by meridion 3 days ago | 396 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What are you building as a side-project or side-hustle in 2026?
    ×0.36 | 2 points by bayeslaw 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Book recommendations based on reading history
    ×0.18 | 2 points by easywood 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: Merry Christmas
    ×7.87 17 | 1946 points by basilikum 4 days ago | 427 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: How do you get visibility if you're suuuuper bad at marketing?
    ×0.58 63 | 5 points by ClipNoteBook 9 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: If you only needed 200 customers at$49, how would you approach it?
    ×1.45 45 | 7 points by OmKadam 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What are you building during the holiday break?
    ×0.75 68 | 5 points by linsomniac 9 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Tell HN: Google ignores English searches and forces localized results
    ×4.14 67 | 68 points by jeanlucas 6 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: How are you sandboxing coding agents?
    ×1.69 77 | 44 points by m-hodges 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?
    ×2.85 80 | 460 points by nishilpatel 5 days ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Tell HN: I am afraid AI will take my job at some point
    ×1.54 90 | 18 points by funnyfoobar 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2025?
    ×1.88 19 | 41 points by adriancooney 10 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. The Epstein files downloaded today is different compared to before
    ×3.63 58 | 47 points by IDKhowTo 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What was the hardest bug you tracked down in 2025?
    ×0.69 104 | 8 points by varshith17 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Why isn't there competition to LinkedIn yet?
    ×1.90 119 | 60 points by antfie 6 days ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Tell HN: Merry Christmas
    ×1.85 95 | 92 points by franze 4 days ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Postgres for everything, does it work?
    ×1.08 110 | 8 points by saisrirampur 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Do you know what your dev team shipped last week?
    ×0.25 | 2 points by akhnid 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Looking for Decent Conversation?
    ×1.56 89 | 101 points by kmstout 4 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: How many HN'ers Celebrate Christmas vs. ?
    ×1.13 127 | 19 points by gist 4 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Bloat in software is getting WAAAY out of hand
    ×1.08 91 | 8 points by sdrawkcabsti 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: What is the international distribution/statistics of HN visitors?
    ×1.03 87 | 63 points by KellyCriterion 3 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Stronk.app – open-source gym lifts journal
    ×0.94 106 | 63 points by apatheticonion 5 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Good uses cases for Fabrice's microquickjs
    ×0.52 132 | 14 points by fud101 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: My mother was scammed out of all her savings. What should I do?
    ×2.08 100 | 135 points by scapbi 6 days ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Would anyone pay for a social network with no ads or data harvesting?
    ×0.68 108 | 5 points by neilfd 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Oberon et al., vs. Rust
    ×0.41 150 | 17 points by mikethe 6 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Google Cloud Run cost me $4,676 in 6 weeks with zero traff
    ×2.13 101 | 50 points by creativesage 4 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: At 34, can I aspire to being more than a JavaScript widget engineer?
    ×2.00 112 | 29 points by yesitcan 3 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Anti-AI Open Source License?
    ×2.83 15 | 42 points by W-Stool 11 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Best practices for long-run LED strip installs (20–50M) to avoid flicker?
    ×0.61 158 | 3 points by emmasuntech 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Is Dart a particularly optimised language for front-end development?
    ×0.53 131 | 5 points by theanonymousone 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Tell HN: Merry Christmas
    ×2.06 135 | 19 points by teruakohatu 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Are you verifying that products are readable by AI shopping
    ×0.14 | 2 points by David_0101 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. I built two dozen single-file HTML tools that run offline and need no back end
    ×0.67 147 | 19 points by ajtracysk 6 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Useful (Non-Coding) Agents?
    ×0.23 | 2 points by qaboutthat 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: What do you consider fun?
    ×2.20 103 | 25 points by IndySun 3 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: Can you patent prompts?
    ×0.47 149 | 13 points by rcarmo 5 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: What did you lose forever because you had no backup?
    ×0.93 139 | 15 points by postit 5 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: What's the best lecture or talk you've seen in 2025?
    ×3.92 107 | 24 points by hopefully_can 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ask HN: What's the most open/hacker friendly Android phone for 2026?
    ×0.72 153 | 16 points by recvonline 6 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Are students replacing laptops with iPads in 2026?
    ×0.71 154 | 4 points by xthe 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Ask HN: Why Do You Blog?
    ×2.27 102 | 21 points by onesandofgrain 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Tell HN: Math academy and iPad and sleep issues solved = me learning math
    ×0.76 145 | 5 points by mettamage 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Ask HN: What would you do if you didn't work in tech?
    ×1.51 122 | 61 points by johnathandos 6 days ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Ask HN: Is ChatGPT getting buggier over time or is it me?
    ×1.01 141 | 6 points by softwaredoug 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. What are you building in AI?
    ×0.19 | 2 points by udit_50 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Is Alexa Overloaded
    ×0.23 | 2 points by dzdt 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. The Detection of Wash Trading (rajivsethi.substack.com)
    ×1.04 6 #57 | 8 points by neehao 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Halifax video game workers form first Ubisoft union in North America (cbc.ca)
    ×1.82 9 | 4 points by cf100clunk 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Nvidia just paid $20B for a company that missed its revenue target by 75% (drjoshcsimmons.com)
    ×4.60 8 | 216 points by joshcsimmons 1 day ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Pixels.style – a tiny watercolor-style pixel art maker (pixels.style)
    ×1.13 33 | 6 points by petersonh 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: AI slop has flooded the template market
    ×0.96 96 | 3 points by VBproDev 20 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: LLMSwap – Switch between LLM providers with one line of code (github.com/sreenathmmenon)
    ×0.93 151 | 3 points by sreenathmenon 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Access low level AMD EPYC and Threadripper metrics in Grafana (github.com/turbo)
    ×0.76 152 | 3 points by summarity 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. We "solved" C10K years ago yet we keep reinventing it (2003) (kegel.com)
    ×1.60 11 #73 | 100 points by birdculture 14 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. ThinkTank, an "idea processor" that launched a religion (of outliners) (stonetools.ghost.io)
    ×0.80 | 2 points by ChristopherDrum 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Shields.io Uses the GitHub API (shields.io)
    ×1.79 24 | 4 points by angristan 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. The brain decides what to remember with sequential molecular timers (medicalxpress.com)
    ×0.34 | 1 points by PaulHoule 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: DeepSearch – a high-performance SMB directory scanner in Rust (github.com/dohuyhoang93)
    ×0.67 155 | 16 points by dohuyhoangvn93 6 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Intermission: Battle Pulses (acoup.blog)
    ×0.29 31 #24 | 6 points by Khaine 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. 2D Signed Distance Functions (iquilezles.org)
    ×1.33 35 #33 | 88 points by nickswalker 15 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Why Your AI Characters Turn To Mush (and how I fixed it) (ghostintheweights.substack.com)
    ×0.89 | 2 points by llamataboot 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Building a macOS app to know when my Mac is thermal throttling (stanislas.blog)
    ×1.91 12 #15 | 227 points by angristan 13 hours ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Turn raw HTML into production-ready images for free (html2png.dev)
    ×1.31 86 | 152 points by alvinunreal 4 days ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: My app just won best iOS Japanese learning tool of 2025 blog award (skerritt.blog)
    ×1.55 17 #22 | 36 points by wahnfrieden 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Deep Code Research – AI surveys 10 similar repos to review yours
    ×0.43 | 1 points by WindChimeRan 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Loneliness at 19, How to Cope?
    ×1.43 | 2 points by yresting 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.54 44 | 56 points by taubek 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: I built an open-source wallpaper gallery for GitHub repos (theblank.club)
    ×1.12 78 | 4 points by nyxuis 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Remembering Lou Gerstner (ibm.com)
    ×0.86 11 #14 | 65 points by thm 6 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Going Paperless (julianfalk.dev)
    ×1.56 27 | 3 points by jan0r 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Apple releases open-source model that instantly turns 2D photos into 3D views (github.com/apple)
    ×2.91 10 | 388 points by SG- 1 day ago | 199 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. CloudFlare is ruining the internet (for me) (2016) (slashgeek.net)
    ×5.00 57 | 90 points by nomilk 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Verdichtung (alexeygy.github.io)
    ×1.01 74 | 52 points by kenty 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. NMH BASIC (t3x.org)
    ×0.52 72 | 45 points by AlexeyBrin 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: An immutable ostree-based Arch Linux image (github.com/myyc)
    ×0.57 94 | 9 points by mxxc 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: CineCLI – Browse and torrent movies directly from your terminal (github.com/eyeblech)
    ×1.77 84 | 345 points by samsep10l 5 days ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: I Made a Tiny Stranger Things Game While Waiting for the Finale (strangerclicks.com)
    ×0.62 | 2 points by jeanmayer 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. 62 years in the making: NYC's newest water tunnel nears the finish line (ny1.com)
    ×1.18 4 #4 | 46 points by eatonphil 2 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Rich Hickey: Thanks AI (github.com/richhickey)
    ×8.86 2 #5 | 68 points by austinbirch 1 hour ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Fathers’ choices may be packaged and passed down in sperm RNA (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.72 11 #43 | 289 points by vismit2000 23 hours ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Rethinking Tools in MCP (cra.mr)
    ×0.39 | 1 points by jshchnz 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Mini-vLLM in ~500 lines of Python (github.com/ubermenchh)
    ×0.85 | 2 points by ubermenchh 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Pfizer ended up passing on my GLP-1 work back in the early '90s (2024) (statnews.com)
    ×1.59 20 | 113 points by rajlego 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: QBridge, a clean, modern iOS alternative to Cordova and Capacitor (github.com/Qbix)
    ×0.64 | 2 points by EGreg 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Mergen – A native, local-first SQL client built with Go and Wails (github.com/parevo)
    ×0.62 | 2 points by parevo 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Writing non-English languages with a QWERTY keyboard (altgr-weur.eu)
    ×0.68 27 #16 | 7 points by tokai 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Software engineers should be a little bit cynical (seangoedecke.com)
    ×2.05 19 #25 | 111 points by zdw 3 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???