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  1. Tell HN: Happy New Year
    ×3.10 73 #85 | 245 points by schappim 11 hours ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Happy New Year HN!
    ×1.38 11 | 7 points by thunderbong 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?
    ×1.51 87 | 270 points by meridion 6 days ago | 413 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?
    ×1.74 81 | 331 points by kwar13 5 days ago | 437 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. The Gemini AI Studio "Context Tax": How a 10-word prompt cost me £121
    ×1.51 70 | 18 points by daitandojo 23 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Any example of successful vibe-coded product?
    ×1.48 51 | 75 points by sirnicolaz 1 day ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Loneliness at 19, how to cope?
    ×0.93 89 | 56 points by yresting 2 days ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Does reading HN make you happy?
    ×1.18 61 | 42 points by yakattak 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Tell HN: Merry Christmas
    ×7.81 56 | 1955 points by basilikum 1 week ago | 428 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: How did you make yourself more marketable?
    ×2.99 82 | 9 points by ronbenton 23 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How to do a Personal Cybersecurity audit
    ×0.51 95 | 23 points by preciousoo 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Anyone still using RSS feeds?
    ×2.53 60 | 5 points by lalithaar 9 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. A curated directory of open-source AI projects
    ×0.38 97 | 12 points by doanbactam 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. TP-Link only works with a permanent internet connection
    ×0.55 116 | 8 points by roscas 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What do you use to manage your coding projects?
    ×0.35 106 | 5 points by SunshineTheCat 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: How to go back to listening to MP3s?
    ×1.20 149 | 8 points by muratsu 4 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: How do you manage kids' accounts?
    ×1.44 104 | 12 points by xfax 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: What percentage of code do you still write by hand?
    ×0.45 | 2 points by aurareturn 16 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Users decide which online platforms to trust in 2025
    ×0.39 117 | 5 points by taka-dev 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What are you building as a side-project or side-hustle in 2026?
    ×1.05 111 | 20 points by bayeslaw 3 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: How are you sandboxing coding agents?
    ×1.32 113 | 44 points by m-hodges 4 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Tell HN: Merry Christmas
    ×1.70 121 | 92 points by franze 1 week ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: How do you get visibility if you're suuuuper bad at marketing?
    ×0.74 127 | 12 points by ClipNoteBook 3 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Tell HN: I am afraid AI will take my job at some point
    ×1.35 131 | 24 points by funnyfoobar 4 days ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Tell HN: No Scrollbar on Google Gemini UI
    ×0.40 130 | 4 points by albert_e 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: How many HN'ers Celebrate Christmas vs. ?
    ×0.92 156 | 19 points by gist 6 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: What Comic-books did you read in 2025?
    ×0.42 133 | 5 points by linesofcode 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: What was the hardest bug you tracked down in 2025?
    ×0.69 150 | 11 points by varshith17 4 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Book recommendations based on reading history
    ×0.38 139 | 8 points by easywood 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: If you only needed 200 customers at$49, how would you approach it?
    ×0.88 128 | 12 points by OmKadam 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: What is the international distribution/statistics of HN visitors?
    ×0.98 120 | 63 points by KellyCriterion 6 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Looking for Decent Conversation?
    ×1.52 118 | 103 points by kmstout 1 week ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: Good uses cases for Fabrice's microquickjs
    ×0.46 158 | 14 points by fud101 6 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Google Cloud Run cost me $4,676 in 6 weeks with zero traff
    ×1.97 134 | 51 points by creativesage 1 week ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Postgres for everything, does it work?
    ×1.02 153 | 11 points by saisrirampur 4 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. SaaS – Cost Accounting
    ×0.47 | 1 points by johannkrugell 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. A Survey of Dynamic Array Structures (azmr.uk)
    ×1.84 7 | 3 points by ingve 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Project ideas to appreciate the art of programming (codecrafters.io)
    ×2.52 15 | 218 points by vitaelabitur 1 day ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Singapore study links heavy infant screen time to teen anxiety (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.40 53 | 84 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Golazo – Live soccer updates in your terminal (github.com/0xjuanma)
    ×0.87 132 | 9 points by rocajuanma 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Interesting Categories Are Big (johndcook.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by ibobev 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. What Happened to Abit Motherboards (dfarq.homeip.net)
    ×1.37 45 #80 | 131 points by zdw 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. HSBC blocks its app due to F-Droid-installed Bitwarden (neilzone.co.uk)
    ×4.07 23 | 247 points by _____k 1 day ago | 227 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Dollar on track for steepest annual drop for almost a decade (ft.com)
    ×3.86 66 | 40 points by mraniki 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Z80-μLM, a 'Conversational AI' That Fits in 40KB (github.com/HarryR)
    ×2.64 41 | 504 points by quesomaster9000 2 days ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: attainable – The fastest and easiest way to design and deploy APIs (attainable.dev)
    ×1.84 147 | 8 points by clintjhill 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. The rise of industrial software (chrisloy.dev)
    ×1.79 8 #25 | 204 points by chrisloy 14 hours ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Abandoned IBM Complex Left Untouched Since Covid Lockdown [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by DamnInteresting 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Outside, Dungeon, Town: Integrating the Three Places in Videogames (2024) (keithburgun.net)
    ×0.98 57 | 112 points by vector_spaces 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: FuseCells – 2,500 handcrafted levels logic puzzle game with leaderboard (igodia.dev)
    ×2.16 92 | 6 points by keini 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Toward a Grand Unified Theory of Snowflakes (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.48 77 #20 | 3 points by tzury 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Mitsubishi Diatone D-160 (1985) (audio-database.com)
    ×0.81 65 #59 | 75 points by anigbrowl 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Open Schematics – Largest Hardware Schematic Dataset (huggingface.co)
    ×1.81 17 | 3 points by hn_way 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Resistance training load does not determine hypertrophy (wiley.com)
    ×3.07 10 #3 | 15 points by Luc 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Karpathy's Nanogpt but for Audio (github.com/deepanwadhwa)
    ×2.40 25 | 4 points by dwa3592 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: A solar system simulation in the browser (watermelonson.com)
    ×1.91 108 | 12 points by watermelonson 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: An immutable ostree-based Arch Linux image (github.com/myyc)
    ×0.69 146 | 11 points by mxxc 4 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: LoongArch Userspace Emulator (github.com/libriscv)
    ×0.47 49 #41 | 38 points by fwsgonzo 12 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Happy New Year
    ×1.21 | 2 points by DenisDolya 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Stop Claude Code from forgetting everything (github.com/mutable-state-inc)
    ×1.22 52 | 190 points by austinbaggio 2 days ago | 222 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Flipper Zero MCP – Control Your Flipper Using AI via USB or WiFi (github.com/busse)
    ×0.40 | 2 points by busseio 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. The compiler is your best friend (daniel-beskin.com)
    ×1.09 7 #22 | 127 points by based2 8 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. The HSBC app refuses to work if "Bitwarden" is installed on user's Android phone (twitter.com/nixcraft)
    ×3.79 19 #87 | 30 points by fortran77 8 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. How to become a VP at a billion-dollar company (markgreville.ie)
    ×0.80 | 1 points by gHeadphone 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Most Americans didn't read many books in 2025 (yougovamerica.substack.com)
    ×3.22 33 | 5 points by bobbiechen 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL (github.com/antonmedv)
    ×2.02 83 | 467 points by medv 1 week ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Igniting the GPU: From Kernel Plumbing to 3D Rendering on RISC-V (mwilczynski.dev)
    ×0.85 57 #74 | 103 points by michalwilczynsk 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Circuit Artist –Circuit simulator with propagation animation and rewind (github.com/lets-all-be-stupid-forever)
    ×0.55 | 2 points by rafinha 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Tech billionaires threaten to exit California over proposed wealth tax (ktvu.com)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by xqcgrek2 32 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Moozix – AI for Musicians (moozix.com)
    ×0.55 | 1 points by jbswift85 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Concurrency's Shysters (2008) (dtrace.org)
    ×1.93 22 | 3 points by abelanger 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Generate your personal HN recap for 2025 (userjam.com)
    ×5.27 39 | 16 points by giladvdn 12 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: I built an "ilovepdf" for CSV files (and I called it ILoveCSV) (ilovecsv.net)
    ×1.23 141 | 4 points by vinserello 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Five Years of Tinygrad (geohot.github.io)
    ×2.13 26 #90 | 269 points by iyaja 1 day ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Pornhub Bypasses Ad Blockers with WebSockets (2016) (medium.com)
    ×1.82 20 | 3 points by bundie 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Drugmakers raise US prices on 350 medicines despite pressure (reuters.com)
    ×3.04 68 | 95 points by JumpCrisscross 9 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Vibium – Browser automation for AI and humans, by Selenium's creator (github.com/VibiumDev)
    ×2.25 86 | 439 points by hugs 1 week ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Paper Tray – dramatically better file organization for Google Drive (papertray.ai)
    ×0.39 | 2 points by affine_variety 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Vibe coding lead to my project's downfall (in 4 months) (reddit.com)
    ×3.26 24 | 5 points by YesBox 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. The British empire's resilient subsea telegraph network (subseacables.blogspot.com)
    ×1.30 49 #60 | 216 points by giuliomagnifico 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Court report detailing ChatGPT's involvement with a recent murder suicide [pdf] (courtlistener.com)
    ×4.32 41 #48 | 118 points by Mgtyalx 5 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. The Organists Improvising Soundtracks to Silent Films (newyorker.com)
    ×0.66 55 #78 | 23 points by fortran77 15 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Elastic style faceted search from PostgreSQL (paradedb.com)
    ×0.88 | 1 points by jamesgresql 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Roadmap to React (nemorize.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by reverseblade2 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. The 70% AI productivity myth: why most companies aren't seeing the gains (sderosiaux.substack.com)
    ×3.47 49 | 88 points by chtefi 1 day ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Lazy-image – Node.js image library with static binaries (Rust/NAPI) (github.com/albert-einshutoin)
    ×1.27 115 | 5 points by einshutoin 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Meter – Scrape sites and keep content in sync automatically (no LLM) (meter.sh)
    ×1.45 144 | 4 points by mckinnonr 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. 'Three norths' alignment about to end (spatialsource.com.au)
    ×0.93 53 #42 | 72 points by altilunium 17 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. FediMeteo: A €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service (dragas.net)
    ×1.74 26 #34 | 376 points by birdculture 1 day ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. A modern tale of blinkenlights (reverse engineering a smartwatch) (quarkslab.com)
    ×0.52 | 1 points by gavide 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???