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  1. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
    ×1.66 17 #4 | 271 points by david927 15 hours ago | 858 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. I realized bad lighting is quietly hurting productivity (and no one measures it)
    ×1.30 28 | 4 points by emmasuntech 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Computer animator and Amiga fanatic Dick van Dyke turns 100
    ×2.05 23 | 270 points by ggm 2 days ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Best back end to run models on Google TPU?
    ×0.66 54 | 5 points by vood 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?
    ×2.87 18 | 442 points by lemonlime227 1 day ago | 434 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Please suggest a smart watch that can be customized
    ×1.96 53 | 8 points by VladVladikoff 12 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How do I navigate horror of requirement gathering in product management?
    ×0.31 101 | 3 points by souravpradhan 22 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines?
    ×6.25 58 | 975 points by embedding-shape 5 days ago | 461 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Thought-Provoking Books
    ×1.17 94 | 12 points by Agraillo 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. AI coding is sexy, but accounting is the real low-hanging automation target
    ×0.80 100 | 35 points by bmadduma 3 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Any online tech spaces you hang around that don't involve AI?
    ×0.66 99 | 10 points by jc_811 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Is starting a personal blog still worth it in the age of AI?
    ×1.81 17 | 27 points by nazarh 10 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Meta "deletes" years of conversations with friends/family
    ×0.71 97 | 9 points by effectkai 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. How does a "you interview for US company, we do the work" scam work?
    ×0.79 91 | 32 points by marttilaine 2 days ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Did anyone else notice that the OpenAI Labs website was completely gone?
    ×0.50 96 | 24 points by underlipton 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Our "enterprise" experience with Stripe after $1B+ processed (be careful)
    ×1.59 95 | 27 points by Boulderchaim 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: End of Year Book Recommendations
    ×2.83 113 | 25 points by marai2 4 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Why are "remote" jobs in late 2025 still limited to hiring in US/CA/UK/DE?
    ×0.72 121 | 23 points by ftonato 5 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Is writing without AI worse than sharing your medical records online?
    ×0.14 147 | 3 points by amichail 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: How do you handle release notes for multiple audiences?
    ×0.76 68 | 37 points by glidr_dev 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: How can I delete a Substack account in Australia?
    ×0.42 135 | 5 points by freefrog334433 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Searching: Cybersecurity Classes
    ×0.33 137 | 3 points by prospopa 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. What is the most effective way to learn programming?
    ×1.53 88 | 8 points by luis_journey 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Can someone explain why OpenAI credits expire?
    ×0.63 150 | 5 points by jemiluv8 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: Go all-in on AI Boom vs. enjoy parenthood?
    ×0.47 109 | 10 points by pratchett 2 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: What hard problems are still underexplored?
    ×0.70 118 | 17 points by brihati 4 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Referral to coach for fundraising for pre-revenue seed capital?
    ×0.21 142 | 3 points by FWKevents 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Relatively SoTA LLM Agents from Scratch?
    ×0.20 153 | 4 points by solsane 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Has anyone been able to renew their IEEE this month?
    ×0.24 130 | 8 points by chrisaycock 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. SoundCloud just banned VPN access (reddit.com)
    ×3.10 23 #34 | 102 points by empressplay 6 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Australia's social media ban in chaos as youths flock to Chinese alternatives (gbnews.com)
    ×2.68 6 #67 | 11 points by delichon 5 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: FuseCells – a handcrafted logic puzzle game with 2,500 levels (apple.com)
    ×0.48 136 | 37 points by keini 1 week ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges (bloomberglaw.com)
    ×4.58 8 #6 | 141 points by nreece 9 hours ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: KpopAPI – RESTful Kpop API:) (kpopapi.com)
    ×0.82 | 2 points by satinfive 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Z8086: Rebuilding the 8086 from Original Microcode (nand2mario.github.io)
    ×1.04 66 | 49 points by nand2mario 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Diesel-guard – Lint Diesel migrations for unsafe PostgreSQL patterns (github.com/ayarotsky)
    ×0.87 143 | 18 points by ayarotsky 6 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: I got tired of switching AI tools, so I built an IDE with 11 of them (hivetechs.io)
    ×0.93 129 | 20 points by hivetechs 5 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Naiman.ai – AI Powered Feed (naiman.ai)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by usernameis42 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. How well do you know C++ auto type deduction? (volatileint.dev)
    ×1.16 7 #8 | 55 points by volatileint 5 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. GraphQL: The enterprise honeymoon is over (johnjames.blog)
    ×2.72 10 #39 | 228 points by johnjames4214 16 hours ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Linux GPIB Drivers Declared Stable – 53 Years After HP Introduced the Bus (phoronix.com)
    ×1.96 4 #49 | 12 points by looofooo0 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Traits of a Good Tech Lead (hey.com)
    ×1.05 | 2 points by kiyanwang 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Speed matters: Why working quickly is more important than it seems (jsomers.net)
    ×0.88 | 2 points by bschne 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits (ipinfo.io)
    ×3.16 29 | 466 points by mmaia 1 day ago | 304 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Claude CLI deleted my home directory and wiped my Mac (reddit.com)
    ×5.97 81 | 221 points by tamnd 10 hours ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. $5 whale listening hydrophone making workshop (exclav.es)
    ×1.29 12 #5 | 21 points by gsf_emergency_6 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Sim – Apache-2.0 n8n alternative (github.com/simstudioai)
    ×1.46 65 | 238 points by waleedlatif1 3 days ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. My Gift to the Rustdoc Team (fasterthanli.me)
    ×2.95 61 #47 | 82 points by joshka 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. I fed 24 years of my blog posts to a Markov model (susam.net)
    ×1.70 8 #72 | 295 points by zdw 1 day ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. 200k Tokens Is Plenty (ampcode.com)
    ×1.59 | 2 points by handfuloflight 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. China to regulate CEO romance micro dramas, warns against promoting materialism (globaltimes.cn)
    ×3.42 41 | 6 points by walterbell 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now (dosaygo-studio.github.io)
    ×11.46 9 | 3331 points by keepamovin 5 days ago | 963 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Tic Tac Flip – A new strategic game based on Tic Tac Toe (tic-tac-flip.web.app)
    ×0.83 107 | 3 points by breezefox 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: I Ching simulator with accurate Yarrow Stalk probabilities (castiching.com)
    ×0.52 49 #41 | 16 points by jackzhuo 9 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Nvidia-backed Starcloud trains first AI model in space, orbital data centers (cnbc.com)
    ×1.65 8 #52 | 11 points by walterbell 4 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI (simonwillison.net)
    ×2.51 11 #84 | 568 points by simonw 2 days ago | 314 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: luainstaller – Package your Lua scripts into binaries (github.com/Water-Run)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by WaterRun 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever? [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.89 20 | 166 points by joelkesler 1 day ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: An endless scrolling word search game (endless-wordsearch.com)
    ×0.71 105 | 25 points by marcusdev 3 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Tascli, a command line based (human) task and record manager (github.com/Aperocky)
    ×0.61 132 | 43 points by Aperocky 1 week ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: A minimum viable Markov gibberish generator in 32 lines of Python (github.com/susam)
    ×0.90 152 | 3 points by susam 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. John Varley has died (floggingbabel.blogspot.com)
    ×1.54 7 #9 | 72 points by decimalenough 6 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: PhotoToVideoAI – AI photo to video generator (phototovideoai.org)
    ×0.72 87 | 3 points by qzcanoe 18 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. I wrote JustHTML using coding agents (friendlybit.com)
    ×0.99 52 #87 | 17 points by simonw 17 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Hashcards: A plain-text spaced repetition system (borretti.me)
    ×1.87 6 #17 | 323 points by thomascountz 16 hours ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Advent of Swift (leahneukirchen.org)
    ×1.26 9 #44 | 72 points by chmaynard 13 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Germany's train service is one of Europe's worst. How did it get so bad? (npr.org)
    ×5.14 60 | 71 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Building an efficient hash table in Java (bluuewhale.github.io)
    ×1.58 59 | 58 points by birdculture 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: I'm building an open-source Amazon (openship.org)
    ×2.12 61 | 49 points by theturtletalks 2 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Rob Reiner has died (hollywoodreporter.com)
    ×4.77 2 #15 | 71 points by RickJWagner 5 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: StreamGate – A lock-free observability proxy in Go (github.com/sashu2310)
    ×1.39 | 2 points by sandeepk235 48 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Risk of acute kidney injury and mortality in patients vaccinated for Covid-19 (medsci.org)
    ×5.40 60 | 11 points by walterbell 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. From trees to graphs: speeding up vector search 10x with Hannoy (kerollmops.com)
    ×1.35 14 | 3 points by uonr 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. If a Meta AI model can read a brain-wide signal, why wouldn't the brain? (1393.xyz)
    ×1.96 12 | 132 points by rdgthree 1 day ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Llmwalk – explore the answer-space of open LLMs (github.com/samwho)
    ×1.22 78 | 4 points by samwho 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: I built a system for active note-taking in regular meetings like 1-1s (withdocket.com)
    ×1.25 89 | 176 points by davnicwil 6 days ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: GPULlama3.java Llama Compilied to PTX/OpenCL Now Integrated in Quarkus
    ×0.39 108 | 24 points by mikepapadim 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Cargo-rail: graph-aware monorepo tooling for Rust; 11 deps (github.com/loadingalias)
    ×0.74 62 #51 | 60 points by LoadingALIAS 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Open-source, offline voice typing and live captions for Android (github.com/notune)
    ×1.41 139 | 4 points by leumon 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: I vibe coded a free typing game for my kids (free-kids-typing-games.com)
    ×0.44 | 2 points by Alan01252 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Epstein's emails reconstructed in a message-style UI (OCR and LLMs) (github.com/Toon-nooT)
    ×2.50 80 | 45 points by toon-noot 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class (nytimes.com)
    ×2.17 66 #59 | 88 points by signa11 1 day ago | 266 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Hacker News Popup – Chrome Web Store (google.com)
    ×0.91 | 2 points by mnunkowme 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. The Gorman Paradox: Where Are All the AI-Generated Apps? (wordpress.com)
    ×4.32 32 | 148 points by ArmageddonIt 21 hours ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: I built this after leaking my AWS keys on StackOverflow (codeanswr.com)
    ×0.17 | 2 points by saradev2025 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. CapROS: Capability-Based Reliable Operating System (capros.org)
    ×0.88 15 #11 | 80 points by gjvc 9 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: I built a simulator to teach PMs why they shouldn't interrupt migration (apmcommunication.com)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by pingananth 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. The Return to Full-Fat Dairy (open.substack.com)
    ×1.13 | 2 points by freespirt 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Purdue University approves new AI requirement for all undergrads (forbes.com)
    ×1.95 55 | 64 points by rmason 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Local Privacy Firewall-blocks PII and secrets before ChatGPT sees them (github.com/privacyshield-ai)
    ×0.69 79 | 111 points by arnabkarsarkar 5 days ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???