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  1. Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?
    ×1.80 40 | 319 points by kwar13 2 days ago | 421 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?
    ×1.68 58 | 260 points by meridion 3 days ago | 399 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What are you building as a side-project or side-hustle in 2026?
    ×1.04 47 | 8 points by bayeslaw 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tell HN: Merry Christmas
    ×7.86 5 | 1946 points by basilikum 4 days ago | 427 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Book recommendations based on reading history
    ×0.31 75 | 4 points by easywood 13 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: If you only needed 200 customers at$49, how would you approach it?
    ×1.34 69 | 9 points by OmKadam 17 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?
    ×2.85 72 | 461 points by nishilpatel 5 days ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How are you sandboxing coding agents?
    ×1.61 73 | 44 points by m-hodges 2 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: How do you get visibility if you're suuuuper bad at marketing?
    ×0.43 77 | 5 points by ClipNoteBook 17 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What are you building during the holiday break?
    ×0.62 78 | 5 points by linsomniac 17 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Tell HN: I am afraid AI will take my job at some point
    ×1.68 89 | 21 points by funnyfoobar 2 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Why isn't there competition to LinkedIn yet?
    ×1.87 118 | 60 points by antfie 6 days ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Tell HN: Google ignores English searches and forces localized results
    ×4.05 33 | 73 points by jeanlucas 14 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Tell HN: Merry Christmas
    ×1.83 92 | 92 points by franze 4 days ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What was the hardest bug you tracked down in 2025?
    ×0.74 105 | 9 points by varshith17 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. The Epstein files downloaded today is different compared to before
    ×3.36 61 | 47 points by IDKhowTo 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Looking for Decent Conversation?
    ×1.55 87 | 101 points by kmstout 4 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How many HN'ers Celebrate Christmas vs. ?
    ×1.11 128 | 19 points by gist 4 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Postgres for everything, does it work?
    ×1.02 113 | 8 points by saisrirampur 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What is the international distribution/statistics of HN visitors?
    ×1.02 88 | 63 points by KellyCriterion 3 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Stronk.app – open-source gym lifts journal
    ×0.95 100 | 64 points by apatheticonion 5 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Do you know what your dev team shipped last week?
    ×0.24 | 2 points by akhnid 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: My mother was scammed out of all her savings. What should I do?
    ×2.09 98 | 136 points by scapbi 6 days ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Good uses cases for Fabrice's microquickjs
    ×0.51 132 | 14 points by fud101 4 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Bloat in software is getting WAAAY out of hand
    ×1.03 95 | 8 points by sdrawkcabsti 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Oberon et al., vs. Rust
    ×0.40 143 | 17 points by mikethe 6 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Google Cloud Run cost me $4,676 in 6 weeks with zero traff
    ×2.10 99 | 50 points by creativesage 4 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Would anyone pay for a social network with no ads or data harvesting?
    ×0.65 114 | 5 points by neilfd 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2025?
    ×1.98 8 | 44 points by adriancooney 18 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: At 34, can I aspire to being more than a JavaScript widget engineer?
    ×1.94 112 | 29 points by yesitcan 4 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Best practices for long-run LED strip installs (20–50M) to avoid flicker?
    ×0.55 151 | 3 points by emmasuntech 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Tell HN: Merry Christmas
    ×2.00 134 | 19 points by teruakohatu 5 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. I built two dozen single-file HTML tools that run offline and need no back end
    ×0.67 142 | 19 points by ajtracysk 6 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Is Dart a particularly optimised language for front-end development?
    ×0.52 135 | 5 points by theanonymousone 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Are you verifying that products are readable by AI shopping
    ×0.14 | 2 points by David_0101 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Useful (Non-Coding) Agents?
    ×0.22 | 2 points by qaboutthat 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Can you patent prompts?
    ×0.47 144 | 13 points by rcarmo 5 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: What did you lose forever because you had no backup?
    ×0.93 140 | 15 points by postit 5 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: What do you consider fun?
    ×2.18 103 | 25 points by IndySun 3 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: What's the most open/hacker friendly Android phone for 2026?
    ×0.72 148 | 16 points by recvonline 6 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: What's the best lecture or talk you've seen in 2025?
    ×3.86 106 | 24 points by hopefully_can 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Are students replacing laptops with iPads in 2026?
    ×0.70 149 | 4 points by xthe 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: What would you do if you didn't work in tech?
    ×1.51 119 | 61 points by johnathandos 6 days ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Ask HN: Why Do You Blog?
    ×2.25 102 | 21 points by onesandofgrain 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Ask HN: Anti-AI Open Source License?
    ×2.88 14 | 44 points by W-Stool 19 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Spacelist, a TUI for Aerospace window manager (github.com/magicmark)
    ×1.33 130 | 5 points by markl42 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Polibench – compare political bias across AI models (polibench.vercel.app)
    ×0.72 145 | 3 points by randomkiwi99 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. A bitwise reproducible deep learning framework (github.com/microsoft)
    ×0.60 30 #23 | 22 points by noosphr 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. How Ed Snowden Taught Me to Smuggle Secrets Past Danger (2014) (theintercept.com)
    ×1.63 11 | 3 points by xeonmc 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. America's richest 10% now hold 60% of the nation's wealth (bsky.app)
    ×7.12 57 | 51 points by doener 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Upload a song and get a finished music video (no editing, no prompts) (musicvideogenerator.app)
    ×0.55 | 2 points by hexadecimal 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. OrangePi 6 Plus Review (boilingsteam.com)
    ×1.31 57 #64 | 198 points by ekianjo 1 day ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Databasus – open-source backup tool for PostgreSQL, MySQL and MongoDB (databasus.com)
    ×3.13 70 | 10 points by rostislav_dugin 20 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Domain Search MCP – AI-powered domain availability checker (github.com/dorukardahan)
    ×0.78 137 | 6 points by dorukardahan 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. World's Smallest Programmable, Autonomous Robots (techxplore.com)
    ×1.44 1 #52 | 10 points by the-mitr 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. How uv got so fast (nesbitt.io)
    ×4.84 1 #72 | 1249 points by zdw 2 days ago | 448 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: I built an AI-based image-to-Excel tool to avoid re-typing tables (jpg2excel.app)
    ×0.59 | 1 points by owoamier 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Snippets – Minimal local scratchpad for code and notes (snippets.dev)
    ×0.37 | 1 points by william_uk 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Verdichtung (alexeygy.github.io)
    ×1.00 71 | 52 points by kenty 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: WebPtoPNG – I built a WebP to PNG tool, everything runs in the browser (webptopng.cc)
    ×0.66 125 | 21 points by akseli_ukkonen 4 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Mruby: Ruby for Embedded Systems (github.com/mruby)
    ×0.84 60 #76 | 141 points by nateb2022 2 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Beads vs. Agent Hive: Who Stole Who's Take on AI Agent Memory (twitter.com/intertwineai)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by intertwiner 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Payment giants preparing for a world where AI agents book flights, shop for you (cnbc.com)
    ×1.29 | 2 points by rustoo 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Game Download Sizes Thoughts
    ×0.97 | 2 points by BatteryMountain 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. How we automated federal retirements (ndstudio.gov)
    ×2.40 46 | 95 points by caseysoftware 1 day ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Witr – Explain why a process is running on your Linux system (github.com/pranshuparmar)
    ×3.18 24 | 500 points by pranshuparmar 2 days ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Tiny acmecli for ACMEv2 account mgmt and for DNS-persist-01 (github.com/pawlakus)
    ×0.45 | 2 points by plagiat0r 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: I was tired of link shorteners, so I built Rediredge (leotrapani.com)
    ×0.77 147 | 3 points by trapani 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Turn raw HTML into production-ready images for free (html2png.dev)
    ×1.31 86 | 152 points by alvinunreal 5 days ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Yapi – FOSS terminal API client for power users (yapi.run)
    ×0.73 117 | 50 points by jamiepond 1 week ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Time in C++: Inter-Clock Conversions, Epochs, and Durations (sandordargo.com)
    ×0.56 34 #41 | 33 points by ibobev 11 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Orbital Compute (twitter.com/princeofprawns0)
    ×1.28 | 2 points by printerlover 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Immune complexes containing immobilized IgG require platelets (jci.org)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by 01-_- 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Ubuntu 26.04 LTS – The Roadmap (ubuntu.com)
    ×2.16 28 | 51 points by ravenical 23 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: I Made a Tiny Stranger Things Game While Waiting for the Finale (strangerclicks.com)
    ×0.61 | 2 points by jeanmayer 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. C++ says “We have try... finally at home” (microsoft.com)
    ×1.33 62 #30 | 116 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Doublespeak: In-Context Representation Hijacking (mentaleap.ai)
    ×0.97 29 #38 | 68 points by surprisetalk 15 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Hacker News Made of Primes (dosaygo-studio.github.io)
    ×0.83 3 | 48 points by keepamovin 16 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Lamp Carousel – DIY kinetic sculpture powered by lamp heat (2024) (widloski.com)
    ×0.78 81 | 100 points by Evidlo 4 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: I built an open-source Linux-capable single-board computer with DDR3 (github.com/cheyao)
    ×3.90 136 | 16 points by Cyao 4 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Ask HN: Ruby 4 and unicorn segfault (kgio) how to get a gem release?
    ×0.33 | 1 points by catatsuy 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Rich Hickey: Thanks AI (github.com/richhickey)
    ×9.20 79 | 137 points by austinbirch 9 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Deathbed Advice/Regret (hazn.com)
    ×1.49 9 | 53 points by paulpauper 16 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Xcc700: Self-hosting mini C compiler for ESP32 (Xtensa) in 700 lines (github.com/valdanylchuk)
    ×0.97 64 | 148 points by isitcontent 2 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. The Late Arrival of 16-bit CP/M (nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by ingve 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Codex Kaioken – OpenAI Codex CLI fork with subagents, memory, and live settings (github.com/jayasuryajsk)
    ×0.84 | 2 points by j34nsh33 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. AI Slop Report: The Global Rise of Low-Quality AI Videos (kapwing.com)
    ×3.98 13 | 157 points by aquir 1 day ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.48 53 | 56 points by taubek 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Geoffrey Hinton warns AI has 'progressed even faster than I thought' [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by davidst 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. The Lure of a Rising Asian Metropolis? No Traffic. (nytimes.com)
    ×0.37 | 1 points by mitchbob 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???