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  1. Ask HN: Any example of successful vibe-coded product?
    ×1.92 35 | 62 points by sirnicolaz 11 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Does reading HN make you happy?
    ×1.32 13 | 37 points by yakattak 10 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?
    ×1.52 91 | 266 points by meridion 5 days ago | 411 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Loneliness at 19, how to cope?
    ×0.98 85 | 54 points by yresting 2 days ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?
    ×1.74 82 | 328 points by kwar13 4 days ago | 435 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. A curated directory of open-source AI projects
    ×0.42 74 | 12 points by doanbactam 18 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What do you use to manage your coding projects?
    ×0.43 73 | 5 points by SunshineTheCat 11 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Tell HN: Merry Christmas
    ×7.82 59 | 1954 points by basilikum 6 days ago | 428 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How to do a Personal Cybersecurity audit
    ×0.51 84 | 22 points by preciousoo 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. TP-Link only works with a permanent internet connection
    ×0.65 103 | 8 points by roscas 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Users decide which online platforms to trust in 2025
    ×0.36 101 | 4 points by taka-dev 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: How do you manage kids' accounts?
    ×1.74 93 | 11 points by xfax 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?
    ×2.80 96 | 462 points by nishilpatel 1 week ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Git analytics that works across GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket
    ×0.21 | 2 points by akhnid 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Tell HN: No Scrollbar on Google Gemini UI
    ×0.50 110 | 4 points by albert_e 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How to go back to listening to MP3s?
    ×1.82 156 | 8 points by muratsu 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What are you building as a side-project or side-hustle in 2026?
    ×0.95 111 | 17 points by bayeslaw 2 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How do you get visibility if you're suuuuper bad at marketing?
    ×0.73 129 | 11 points by ClipNoteBook 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Why isn't there competition to LinkedIn yet?
    ×1.69 152 | 60 points by antfie 1 week ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What Comic-books did you read in 2025?
    ×0.47 119 | 5 points by linesofcode 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: How are you sandboxing coding agents?
    ×1.37 115 | 44 points by m-hodges 3 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Tell HN: I am afraid AI will take my job at some point
    ×1.37 133 | 23 points by funnyfoobar 3 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Tell HN: Merry Christmas
    ×1.73 128 | 92 points by franze 6 days ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Book recommendations based on reading history
    ×0.40 132 | 8 points by easywood 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: If you only needed 200 customers at$49, how would you approach it?
    ×0.85 130 | 11 points by OmKadam 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: How many HN'ers Celebrate Christmas vs. ?
    ×0.96 163 | 19 points by gist 6 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Stronk.app – open-source gym lifts journal
    ×0.93 137 | 64 points by apatheticonion 1 week ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: What was the hardest bug you tracked down in 2025?
    ×0.66 158 | 10 points by varshith17 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: What is the international distribution/statistics of HN visitors?
    ×0.99 125 | 63 points by KellyCriterion 5 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Looking for Decent Conversation?
    ×1.51 123 | 101 points by kmstout 6 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: Good uses cases for Fabrice's microquickjs
    ×0.48 164 | 14 points by fud101 6 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Google Cloud Run cost me $4,676 in 6 weeks with zero traff
    ×1.98 138 | 50 points by creativesage 6 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Postgres for everything, does it work?
    ×0.92 160 | 9 points by saisrirampur 4 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: What are you building during the holiday break?
    ×0.53 146 | 6 points by linsomniac 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. The Epstein files downloaded today is different compared to before
    ×3.00 107 | 49 points by IDKhowTo 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: At 34, can I aspire to being more than a JavaScript widget engineer?
    ×1.82 153 | 30 points by yesitcan 5 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: What are some jobs you know software developers have transitioned to?
    ×2.84 68 | 7 points by roschdal 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Z80-μLM, a 'Conversational AI' That Fits in 40KB (github.com/HarryR)
    ×2.59 3 | 492 points by quesomaster9000 1 day ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Sabotaging Bitcoin (dshr.org)
    ×3.11 37 #47 | 113 points by zdw 6 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: How does an indy website integrate with cookie vendors to make money?
    ×0.90 | 2 points by ricksunny 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: MCP Mesh – one endpoint for all your MCP servers (OSS self-hosted) (github.com/decocms)
    ×3.40 65 | 7 points by gadr90 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Swapping SIM cards used to be easy, and then came eSIM (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.71 9 | 238 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | 273 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. HSBC blocks its app due to F-Droid-installed Bitwarden (neilzone.co.uk)
    ×3.96 46 | 232 points by _____k 17 hours ago | 219 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: ClearTok – a small tool to remove reposted videos from TikTok (cleartok.io)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by auroroa 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Alan Kay – 75 Years of Graphical User Interfaces [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.13 22 | 8 points by spiralganglion 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Public Sans – A strong, neutral typeface (digital.gov)
    ×2.32 66 | 223 points by mhb 13 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Brainrot Translator – Convert corporate speak to Gen Alpha and back (brainrottranslator.com)
    ×1.15 55 #48 | 21 points by todaycompanies 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Skunk Works Rules [pdf] (lockheedmartin.com)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by dvrp 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. U.S. cybersecurity experts plead guilty for ransomware attacks (tomshardware.com)
    ×2.28 20 #40 | 65 points by robotnikman 6 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Ask HN: Looking for an Invite for Lobster.rs
    ×1.52 | 2 points by willmorrison 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. I built a free tool to explore app market data for indie developers and founders (appark.ai)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by xuechen006 53 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Foreign tech workers are avoiding travel to the US (computerworld.com)
    ×7.88 64 | 83 points by CrankyBear 8 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. You Need to Ditch VS Code (jrswab.com)
    ×3.59 30 | 46 points by kugurerdem 18 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: RAMBnB.xyz P2P marketplace for RAM rentals (rambnb.xyz)
    ×0.95 42 #20 | 11 points by olivierroy 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Approachable Swift Concurrency (fuckingapproachableswiftconcurrency.com)
    ×1.32 21 #23 | 162 points by wrxd 14 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Mysti – Claude, Codex, and Gemini debate your code, then synthesize (github.com/DeepMyst)
    ×1.33 80 | 215 points by bahaAbunojaim 1 week ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. What Scientists Found When a Deep Sea Mining Company Invited Them In (nytimes.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by bookofjoe 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. The Gemini AI Studio "Context Tax": How a 10-word prompt cost me £121
    ×2.39 4 | 5 points by daitandojo 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. RC5-72 / Overall Project Stats (distributed.net)
    ×0.67 | 1 points by macote 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. 5th floor at stair 9 in building 2 of CS research group at Bell Labs (spinroot.com)
    ×0.69 | 1 points by fisheuler 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Turning an old Amazon Kindle into a eInk development platform (2021) (lidskialf.net)
    ×0.92 55 #53 | 69 points by fanf2 21 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Ask HN: How did you make yourself more marketable?
    ×2.70 23 | 6 points by ronbenton 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: ARES Dashboard – Open-Source AI Red-Teaming and Governance Platform (github.com/Arnoldlarry15)
    ×0.85 124 | 3 points by LA_Builds 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: WebPtoPNG – I built a WebP to PNG tool, everything runs in the browser (webptopng.cc)
    ×0.66 161 | 21 points by akseli_ukkonen 6 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Five Years of Tinygrad (geohot.github.io)
    ×2.15 33 #27 | 192 points by iyaja 21 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: I remade my website in the Sith Lord Theme and I hope it's fun (cookie.engineer)
    ×0.58 38 #43 | 28 points by cookiengineer 9 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Staying ahead of censors in 2025 (torproject.org)
    ×1.68 40 | 240 points by ggeorgovassilis 1 day ago | 307 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Ez FFmpeg – Video editing in plain English (npmjs.com)
    ×1.80 67 | 413 points by josharsh 3 days ago | 197 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Professional software developers don't vibe, they control (arxiv.org)
    ×1.81 4 #19 | 129 points by dpflan 7 hours ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Radio observations to date find no evidence of technosignature from 3I/ATLAS (phys.org)
    ×0.68 | 1 points by wglb 29 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Taking photos of PCBs and electronics [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by zdw 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Antibrittle Agents (southbridge.ai)
    ×0.66 | 1 points by hrishi 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Make 67 – a tiny maths game (simondarcyonline.com)
    ×1.55 94 | 4 points by sidarcy 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. The future of software development is software developers (wordpress.com)
    ×2.88 3 #68 | 388 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 511 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. The 70% AI productivity myth: why most companies aren't seeing the gains (sderosiaux.substack.com)
    ×2.94 18 #84 | 71 points by chtefi 13 hours ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. The Window for Local-First AI (Before the Defaults Ship) (localghost.ai)
    ×0.90 | 2 points by zerocool86 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Screen Sizes: A Web App That Shows the Display Resolution for Every iPhone Model (screensizes.app)
    ×0.37 | 1 points by alwillis 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Linux DAW: Help Linux musicians to quickly and easily find the tools they need (linuxdaw.org)
    ×1.90 10 | 280 points by prmoustache 1 day ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: ADK-Studio – a visual builder for creating AI agent workflows with Rust
    ×1.26 114 | 3 points by Zavora 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: PatchMyGear – a living map for your studio gear (cables and checklist) (patchmygear.com)
    ×2.92 148 | 11 points by sumamedi 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Readings in Database Systems (5th Edition) (redbook.io)
    ×1.14 23 #8 | 9 points by teleforce 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Operation Mincemeat (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.78 | 2 points by RyanShook 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Vibe coding a bookshelf with Claude Code (balajmarius.com)
    ×1.82 8 | 276 points by balajmarius 1 day ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. CIA Star Gate Project: An Overview (1993) [pdf] (cia.gov)
    ×1.23 61 | 110 points by dvrp 2 days ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Slide notes visible only to you during screen sharing (cuecard.dev)
    ×0.90 | 2 points by thisisnsh 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. If childhood is half of life, how should that change how we live? (wordpress.com)
    ×2.09 33 | 3 points by moultano 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Effective Alruists Should Embrace Sortition (almostinfinite.substack.com)
    ×1.27 | 2 points by maaaaxaxa 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. TidesDB – A Modern RocksDB Replacement [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.38 | 1 points by alexpadula 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: See what readers who loved your favorite book/author also loved to read (shepherd.com)
    ×1.06 55 | 125 points by bwb 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Got tired of searching for AI news daily so I built my own AI news page (dreyx.com)
    ×1.46 135 | 5 points by lilsquid 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???