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  1. Ask HN: Resources to get better at outbound sales?
    ×1.26 39 #36 | 221 points by sieep 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2025?
    ×2.25 15 #37 | 9 points by adriancooney 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What are you building during the holiday break?
    ×1.14 52 | 4 points by linsomniac 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?
    ×1.88 51 #68 | 307 points by kwar13 2 days ago | 411 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?
    ×1.72 70 #76 | 252 points by meridion 2 days ago | 391 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Tell HN: Merry Christmas
    ×7.89 2 | 1946 points by basilikum 3 days ago | 426 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: How are you sandboxing coding agents?
    ×1.80 71 | 43 points by m-hodges 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?
    ×2.87 80 | 460 points by nishilpatel 5 days ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Anti-AI Open Source License?
    ×2.80 87 | 38 points by W-Stool 2 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Tell HN: I am afraid AI will take my job at some point
    ×1.62 92 | 17 points by funnyfoobar 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. The Epstein files downloaded today is different compared to before
    ×4.04 32 | 45 points by IDKhowTo 20 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Do you know what your dev team shipped last week?
    ×0.28 | 2 points by akhnid 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: What was the hardest bug you tracked down in 2025?
    ×0.65 108 | 7 points by varshith17 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Tell HN: Merry Christmas
    ×1.87 102 | 92 points by franze 4 days ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Why isn't there competition to LinkedIn yet?
    ×1.92 130 | 59 points by antfie 5 days ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Bloat in software is getting WAAAY out of hand
    ×1.18 89 | 8 points by sdrawkcabsti 22 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Looking for Decent Conversation?
    ×1.57 99 | 101 points by kmstout 3 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Would anyone pay for a social network with no ads or data harvesting?
    ×0.73 104 | 5 points by neilfd 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How many HN'ers Celebrate Christmas vs. ?
    ×1.17 134 | 19 points by gist 3 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Postgres for everything, does it work?
    ×1.02 115 | 7 points by saisrirampur 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: What is the international distribution/statistics of HN visitors?
    ×1.02 95 | 62 points by KellyCriterion 3 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Stronk.app – open-source gym lifts journal
    ×0.95 114 | 63 points by apatheticonion 4 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Good uses cases for Fabrice's microquickjs
    ×0.52 140 | 14 points by fud101 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: My mother was scammed out of all her savings. What should I do?
    ×2.09 109 | 135 points by scapbi 6 days ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: What developer tool do you wish existed in 2026?
    ×0.73 167 | 22 points by allenleee 1 week ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Google Cloud Run cost me $4,676 in 6 weeks with zero traff
    ×2.16 110 | 50 points by creativesage 3 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: At 34, can I aspire to being more than a JavaScript widget engineer?
    ×2.05 118 | 29 points by yesitcan 3 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Oberon et al., vs. Rust
    ×0.41 164 | 17 points by mikethe 5 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Is Dart a particularly optimised language for front-end development?
    ×0.55 137 | 5 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Best practices for long-run LED strip installs (20–50M) to avoid flicker?
    ×0.73 175 | 3 points by emmasuntech 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Are you verifying that products are readable by AI shopping
    ×0.14 | 2 points by David_0101 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Useful (Non-Coding) Agents?
    ×0.25 | 2 points by qaboutthat 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Tell HN: Merry Christmas
    ×2.12 143 | 19 points by teruakohatu 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: By what percentage has AI changed your output as a software engineer?
    ×3.23 33 | 30 points by nomilk 8 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. I built two dozen single-file HTML tools that run offline and need no back end
    ×0.67 163 | 19 points by ajtracysk 6 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: What do you consider fun?
    ×2.24 111 | 25 points by IndySun 2 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Can you patent prompts?
    ×0.48 162 | 13 points by rcarmo 5 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: What did you lose forever because you had no backup?
    ×0.94 152 | 15 points by postit 4 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: What's the best lecture or talk you've seen in 2025?
    ×4.01 113 | 24 points by hopefully_can 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: Why Do You Blog?
    ×2.30 106 | 21 points by onesandofgrain 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Are students replacing laptops with iPads in 2026?
    ×0.74 161 | 4 points by xthe 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ask HN: What's the most open/hacker friendly Android phone for 2026?
    ×0.73 166 | 16 points by recvonline 5 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Tell HN: Math academy and iPad and sleep issues solved = me learning math
    ×0.77 157 | 5 points by mettamage 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Ask HN: Is ChatGPT getting buggier over time or is it me?
    ×1.02 149 | 6 points by softwaredoug 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. What are you building in AI?
    ×0.20 | 2 points by udit_50 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Ask HN: What would you do if you didn't work in tech?
    ×1.52 133 | 61 points by johnathandos 6 days ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Is Alexa Overloaded
    ×0.23 | 2 points by dzdt 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Ask HN: Payload in Amazon "Shipped" Emails
    ×0.37 174 | 3 points by krautburglar 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Ask HN: Did any projects succeed with crowdfunding?
    ×0.55 169 | 4 points by asim 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Ask HN: HarmonyOS Open Source Development
    ×0.78 160 | 6 points by rumpelstiel 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: Fun sketch – Bring your sketches to life (kigun.org)
    ×3.95 120 | 15 points by mishu2 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. From mineral resources to oil and nuclear: the twilight of the Industrial Age (thehonestsorcerer.substack.com)
    ×0.86 | 1 points by ambientenv 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. All my Deutschlandtickets gone: Fraud at an industrial scale [video] (ccc.de)
    ×1.27 | 2 points by Kyro38 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Rob Pike got spammed with an AI slop "act of kindness" (simonwillison.net)
    ×6.32 23 | 298 points by nabla9 1 day ago | 236 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Gaussian Splatting 3 Ways (github.com/NullandKale)
    ×0.62 75 | 70 points by nullandkale 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. NYC phone ban reveals some students can't read clocks (gothamist.com)
    ×2.97 82 | 45 points by geox 1 day ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Web CLI – Browser-based terminal with multi-tab support (github.com/pozgo)
    ×1.13 154 | 3 points by polinux 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Asus ROG Laptops Are Broken by Design: A Forensic Deep Dive (google.com)
    ×0.77 | 1 points by signa11 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Drawing Truchet Tiles in SVG (alexwlchan.net)
    ×2.24 35 | 4 points by eustoria 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Jsonic – Python JSON serialization that works (medium.com)
    ×1.95 91 | 10 points by orrbenyamini 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: What if Dr. Mario had more than 3 colors? (pressbin.com)
    ×1.88 126 | 6 points by jawns 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Jmail – Google Suite for Epstein files (jmail.world)
    ×6.43 74 | 1554 points by dvrp 1 week ago | 360 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: A schema-first, multi-agent pipeline for autonomous research (github.com/giatenica)
    ×0.60 | 2 points by 7777777phil 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Rainbow Six Siege hacked as players get billions of credits and random bans (shanethegamer.com)
    ×1.90 15 #20 | 244 points by erhuve 21 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Wooden compass with single red arrow leads people with dementia to their homes (designboom.com)
    ×2.46 #49 | 11 points by geox 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Does the Nvidia "Revenue Sharing Agreement" Tie the US Gov't Hands?
    ×2.80 54 | 5 points by DivingForGold 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. VSCode rebrands as "The open source AI code editor" (visualstudio.com)
    ×7.77 10 | 99 points by michidk 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations (utah.edu)
    ×2.34 29 #65 | 479 points by astronads 1 day ago | 311 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. How Email Works: Behind the Screen (sushantdhiman.substack.com)
    ×0.80 | 1 points by signa11 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Legal sports betting linked to sharp increases in violent crime (rice.edu)
    ×2.86 33 | 41 points by geox 19 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Books mentioned on Hacker News in 2025 (us-west1.run.app)
    ×2.62 86 | 610 points by seinvak 1 week ago | 212 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Feather – a fresh Tcl reimplementation (WASM, Go) (feather-lang.dev)
    ×1.10 122 | 3 points by dhamidi 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. More dynamic cronjobs (mand.is)
    ×0.95 61 #81 | 91 points by 0928374082 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN:Lightweight Planning Poker for agile teams (no signup, self-hosted) (planningpoker.ninja)
    ×0.75 | 1 points by reza-hoque 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Toys with the highest play-time and lowest clean-up-time (joannabregan.substack.com)
    ×7.25 24 | 462 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 269 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Say No to Palantir in the NHS (goodlawproject.org)
    ×6.11 15 #29 | 493 points by _____k 19 hours ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. C++ says “We have try. . . finally at home” (microsoft.com)
    ×1.51 8 #31 | 94 points by ibobev 10 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Agent Conductor – CLI orchestrator for multi-agent tmux sessions (github.com/gaurav-yadav)
    ×0.83 | 1 points by rainmod 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. PNG in Chrome shows a different image than in Safari or any desktop app (lr0.org)
    ×1.52 27 | 69 points by lr0 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Hybrid-Transpiler – A tool to convert C++ to Rust and Go (github.com/cmc-labo)
    ×1.38 123 | 8 points by hpscript 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Create old-timey silent-film style caption cards (joeldare.com)
    ×0.74 | 2 points by codazoda 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. S6 is a process supervision suite, like daemontools (skarnet.org)
    ×0.77 | 1 points by csense 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Grok and the Naked King: The Ultimate Argument Against AI Alignment (ibrahimcesar.cloud)
    ×2.72 61 | 111 points by ibrahimcesar 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: PatchMyGear – a living map for your studio gear (cables and checklist) (patchmygear.com)
    ×2.07 100 | 7 points by sumamedi 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. NMH BASIC (t3x.org)
    ×0.53 78 #67 | 45 points by AlexeyBrin 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. TIL: Restarting systemd services on sustained CPU abuse (taoofmac.com)
    ×1.57 10 #80 | 5 points by rcarmo 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. 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 | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Frame an web synth for desktop or mobile with hand gesture support (oyehoy.net)
    ×0.55 | 2 points by markrai 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: FIDO2 PRF with TPM and Fingerprint Auth for Confer on Linux (vitorpy.com)
    ×0.49 | 2 points by vpb 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. PostgreSQL REST API Benchmark: 15 Frameworks Compared (npgsqlrest.github.io)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by vbilopav 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???