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  1. A curated directory of open-source AI projects
    ×1.31 | 2 points by doanbactam 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Users decide which online platforms to trust in 2025
    ×1.36 | 2 points by taka-dev 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Loneliness at 19, how to cope?
    ×1.07 68 | 44 points by yresting 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: How to do a Personal Cybersecurity audit
    ×0.47 42 | 18 points by preciousoo 14 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?
    ×1.55 81 | 264 points by meridion 4 days ago | 409 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?
    ×1.75 70 | 326 points by kwar13 3 days ago | 432 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Tell HN: No Scrollbar on Google Gemini UI
    ×0.61 67 | 3 points by albert_e 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How do you manage kids' accounts?
    ×2.75 50 | 8 points by xfax 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. TP-Link only works with a permanent internet connection
    ×0.64 71 | 6 points by roscas 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Tell HN: Merry Christmas
    ×7.82 38 | 1950 points by basilikum 5 days ago | 427 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What Comic-books did you read in 2025?
    ×0.45 87 | 4 points by linesofcode 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?
    ×2.81 89 | 462 points by nishilpatel 1 week ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What are you building as a side-project or side-hustle in 2026?
    ×0.92 94 | 15 points by bayeslaw 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How are you sandboxing coding agents?
    ×1.43 100 | 44 points by m-hodges 3 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Book recommendations based on reading history
    ×0.31 117 | 6 points by easywood 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Tell HN: I am afraid AI will take my job at some point
    ×1.48 118 | 23 points by funnyfoobar 3 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Why isn't there competition to LinkedIn yet?
    ×1.74 137 | 60 points by antfie 1 week ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: How do you get visibility if you're suuuuper bad at marketing?
    ×0.63 110 | 9 points by ClipNoteBook 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: If you only needed 200 customers at$49, how would you approach it?
    ×0.94 104 | 11 points by OmKadam 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Tell HN: Merry Christmas
    ×1.76 116 | 92 points by franze 5 days ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: What was the hardest bug you tracked down in 2025?
    ×0.70 138 | 10 points by varshith17 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: How many HN'ers Celebrate Christmas vs. ?
    ×1.00 145 | 19 points by gist 5 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Stronk.app – open-source gym lifts journal
    ×0.94 123 | 64 points by apatheticonion 6 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: What are you building during the holiday break?
    ×0.57 120 | 6 points by linsomniac 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: What is the international distribution/statistics of HN visitors?
    ×1.00 114 | 63 points by KellyCriterion 4 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: Good uses cases for Fabrice's microquickjs
    ×0.49 149 | 14 points by fud101 5 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Looking for Decent Conversation?
    ×1.52 111 | 101 points by kmstout 5 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. The Epstein files downloaded today is different compared to before
    ×3.11 92 | 49 points by IDKhowTo 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Postgres for everything, does it work?
    ×0.98 140 | 9 points by saisrirampur 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Google Cloud Run cost me $4,676 in 6 weeks with zero traff
    ×2.02 122 | 50 points by creativesage 5 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: At 34, can I aspire to being more than a JavaScript widget engineer?
    ×1.88 135 | 30 points by yesitcan 5 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Ruby 4 and unicorn segfault (kgio) how to get a gem release?
    ×0.55 113 | 4 points by catatsuy 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Do you know what your dev team shipped last week?
    ×0.20 | 2 points by akhnid 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Bloat in software is getting WAAAY out of hand
    ×0.89 132 | 8 points by sdrawkcabsti 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Tell HN: Google ignores English searches and forces localized results
    ×3.70 58 | 80 points by jeanlucas 1 day ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Would anyone pay for a social network with no ads or data harvesting?
    ×0.57 147 | 5 points by neilfd 2 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Tell HN: Merry Christmas
    ×1.78 150 | 19 points by teruakohatu 6 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: Can you patent prompts?
    ×0.46 154 | 13 points by rcarmo 6 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: What did you lose forever because you had no backup?
    ×0.90 152 | 15 points by postit 6 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Reveal – A stateless, zero-DB blur curtain for suspicious links (iddqd.kr)
    ×0.89 | 2 points by iddqd_park 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: GeneGuessr – a daily biology web puzzle (brinedew.bio)
    ×0.81 99 | 87 points by brinedew 1 week ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: A 45x45 Connections Puzzle To Commemorate 2025=45*45 (thomaswc.com)
    ×1.46 7 #34 | 61 points by thomaswc 10 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Fastest Auto-Scaling Cuckoo Filter in Rust (v0.5.8) (crates.io)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by i18n 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Robots.txt Tester (alertsleep.com)
    ×1.20 | 2 points by thepatrykooo 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Spacelist, a TUI for Aerospace window manager (github.com/magicmark)
    ×0.59 47 #80 | 38 points by markl42 20 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Americans in 1998 tried to predict 2025 (cnn.com)
    ×2.46 55 | 3 points by mdurana 40 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Smart Meme Search – search for your meme collection using CLIP and OCR (microsoft.com)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by mdimec4 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: StudyBuddy - AI study tool (studyaibuddy.com)
    ×0.56 | 1 points by jasimvk 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. We hate brands. We love marketing (thesocialjuice.substack.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by lazymentors 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. John Simpson: 'I've reported on 40 wars but I've never seen a year like 2025' (bbc.com)
    ×6.71 30 | 86 points by febed 1 day ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Neko.js, a recreation of the first virtual pet (louisabraham.github.io)
    ×1.03 98 | 3 points by Labo333 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: An MCP server to develop Norns/Supercollider audio apps (github.com/rcarmo)
    ×0.38 | 2 points by rcarmo 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL (github.com/antonmedv)
    ×2.02 80 | 467 points by medv 5 days ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. You can't design software you don't work on (seangoedecke.com)
    ×2.16 4 #59 | 267 points by saikatsg 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. HSBC blocks its app due to F-Droid-installed Bitwarden (neilzone.co.uk)
    ×2.06 | 2 points by _____k 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Japanese Black Coffee Woodcut (wildclothing.store)
    ×0.86 | 1 points by keepamovin 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Panoramas of Star Trek Sets (mijofr.github.io)
    ×4.49 5 | 166 points by jfil 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Aroma: Every TCP Proxy Is Detectable with RTT Fingerprinting (github.com/Sakura-sx)
    ×0.87 23 #39 | 76 points by Sakura-sx 15 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. How to complain (2024) (outerproduct.net)
    ×1.03 51 | 74 points by ysangkok 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Hacker News Made of Primes (dosaygo-studio.github.io)
    ×0.84 75 | 50 points by keepamovin 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Meta Superintelligence Labs acquires Manus AI for –$4B, 9 months after launch (smol.ai)
    ×1.05 68 #46 | 6 points by swyx 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Videx – Summarize YouTube without the fluff (videxs.com)
    ×1.67 12 | 3 points by bchaipats 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. My app just won best iOS Japanese learning tool of 2025 award (blog) (skerritt.blog)
    ×1.39 32 | 117 points by wahnfrieden 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. 2 in 3 Americans think AI will cause major harm to humans in the next 20 years [pdf] (2024) (pewresearch.org)
    ×5.47 57 | 89 points by randycupertino 1 day ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. As AI gobbles up chips, prices for devices may rise (npr.org)
    ×2.16 13 #84 | 314 points by geox 1 day ago | 494 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. InfiniBand: An Inexpensive Performance Boost for Your Home Network (2016) (patshead.com)
    ×1.39 | 2 points by panic 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Remembering Lou Gerstner (ibm.com)
    ×0.75 53 | 92 points by thm 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Hacking Washing Machines [video] (ccc.de)
    ×1.15 7 #3 | 118 points by clausecker 8 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. I migrated to an almost all-EU stack and saved 500€ per year (zeitgeistofbytes.com)
    ×3.76 11 #15 | 203 points by alexcos 10 hours ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Libgodc: Write Go Programs for Sega Dreamcast (github.com/drpaneas)
    ×1.39 6 #36 | 214 points by drpaneas 20 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Developing a Beautiful and Performant Block Editor in Qt C++ and QML (rubymamistvalove.com)
    ×1.09 44 #51 | 137 points by michaelsbradley 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: I built an open-source wallpaper gallery for GitHub repos (theblank.club)
    ×1.33 125 | 5 points by nyxuis 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: The bedtime, another little bedside clock (stavros.io)
    ×2.34 139 | 7 points by stavros 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Flame Graphs vs Tree Maps vs Sunburst (2017) (brendangregg.com)
    ×0.87 20 #27 | 122 points by gudzpoz 15 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Real-Time Head-and-Shoulders Pattern Detection for AI Trading Strategies (jiripik.com)
    ×1.06 | 2 points by jiripik 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2025?
    ×2.04 77 | 48 points by adriancooney 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Lamp Carousel – DIY kinetic sculpture powered by lamp heat (2024) (widloski.com)
    ×0.79 102 | 101 points by Evidlo 5 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. What an unprocessed photo looks like (maurycyz.com)
    ×8.89 26 #32 | 2352 points by zdw 1 day ago | 391 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Experiments with Ableton-MCP (jhurliman.org)
    ×1.09 71 #74 | 4 points by jhurliman 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Why Making Software Easier to Write Means We'll Write Exponentially More (addyosmani.com)
    ×0.61 | 1 points by ingve 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. AI employees don't pay taxes (alec.is)
    ×3.45 69 | 104 points by arm32 11 hours ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Loss of moist broadleaf forest in Africa has turned a carbon sink into source (nature.com)
    ×1.83 55 | 76 points by PaulHoule 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: Pixels.style – a tiny watercolor-style pixel art maker (pixels.style)
    ×1.42 109 | 8 points by petersonh 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn (theocharis.dev)
    ×5.52 18 #21 | 1047 points by JeremyTheo 21 hours ago | 912 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Still using Firefox – but not because of its vision (kulman.sk)
    ×2.85 19 #35 | 10 points by ig0r0 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Feynman's Hughes Lectures: 950 pages of notes (thehugheslectures.info)
    ×1.41 19 #40 | 183 points by gnubison 23 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Fast GPU Interconnect over Radio (ieee.org)
    ×0.95 57 #69 | 89 points by montroser 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Be fearful when others are greedy Warren Buffett's sharpest lessons in investing (theguardian.com)
    ×1.64 19 | 4 points by beardyw 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief (eclecticlight.co)
    ×6.53 6 | 498 points by vitosartori 1 day ago | 403 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Fast CVVDP implementation in C (github.com/halidecx)
    ×0.58 63 | 52 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???