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  1. Tell HN: Merry Christmas
    ×6.58 1 #2 | 369 points by basilikum 2 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Looking for Decent Conversation?
    ×1.77 39 #57 | 81 points by kmstout 5 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Google Cloud Run cost me $4,676 in 6 weeks with zero traff
    ×2.01 14 #79 | 23 points by creativesage 6 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tell HN: Merry Christmas
    ×2.36 15 #86 | 79 points by franze 14 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Why is Hacker News red? Christmas?
    ×3.25 62 | 6 points by onesandofgrain 48 minutes ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: Why isn't everyone talking about (and using) Cerebras?
    ×0.87 9 | 4 points by ray__ 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?
    ×2.80 2 | 423 points by nishilpatel 1 day ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Could the optimal vibe coder be fundamentally different from the optimal SWE?
    ×1.01 47 | 3 points by inshard 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Stronk.app – open-source gym lifts journal
    ×0.94 52 | 56 points by apatheticonion 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Why isn't there competition to LinkedIn yet?
    ×2.36 89 | 55 points by antfie 2 days ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Tell HN: Merry Christmas
    ×4.06 71 | 17 points by teruakohatu 19 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Is formal verification of practical use in real world projects?
    ×1.58 24 | 4 points by akkad33 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. GitHub is returning Gateway Time-outs
    ×0.96 57 | 9 points by pera 10 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. SSH Tiny.christmas
    ×1.69 26 | 8 points by cyanbane 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: My mother was scammed out of all her savings. What should I do?
    ×2.13 78 | 129 points by scapbi 2 days ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: Which is the best sync engine?
    ×0.64 82 | 5 points by olivieropinotti 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Oberon et al., vs. Rust
    ×0.43 106 | 16 points by mikethe 2 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Do you have an exit plan for Slack?
    ×2.32 43 | 6 points by gtirloni 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How do you use the "waiting time" while Claude (other LLMs) is working?
    ×1.37 72 | 4 points by pedrodelfino 8 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What did you lose forever because you had no backup?
    ×1.08 90 | 14 points by postit 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Anybody here ever write apps for Windows Phone?
    ×0.44 102 | 3 points by ge96 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: What developer tool do you wish existed in 2026?
    ×0.69 125 | 18 points by allenleee 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Can you patent prompts?
    ×0.49 101 | 12 points by rcarmo 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: What is your primary operating system?
    ×0.85 | 2 points by chistev 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. I built two dozen single-file HTML tools that run offline and need no back end
    ×0.62 113 | 16 points by ajtracysk 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: What's the most open/hacker friendly Android phone for 2026?
    ×0.74 107 | 15 points by recvonline 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Resources to get better at outbound sales?
    ×0.46 139 | 7 points by sieep 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: What would you do if you didn't work in tech?
    ×1.57 92 | 61 points by johnathandos 2 days ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Why are we accepting silent data corruption in Vector Search? (x86 vs. ARM)
    ×0.61 110 | 5 points by varshith17 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. MongoDB warns admins to patch RCE flaw immediately
    ×0.84 | 2 points by saghm 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Broadcom Changing Licensing to BSL
    ×0.28 135 | 10 points by CubsFan1060 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Who here is not working on web apps/server code?
    ×1.36 111 | 84 points by ex-aws-dude 6 days ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: How many email accounts do you have?
    ×0.57 137 | 9 points by asim 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Migrating old Substack posts to my own blog, have a question
    ×0.10 | 2 points by Praddy 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Is GitHub becoming more and more unstable?
    ×0.46 146 | 9 points by pavish 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: How do I bridge the gap between PhD and SWE experiences?
    ×0.50 151 | 4 points by ecophyseis 6 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: How do you deal with large, hard-to-read Excel formulas?
    ×0.83 147 | 13 points by jack_ruru 5 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Investors Warn of 'Rot in Private Equity' as Funds Strike Circular Deals (nytimes.com)
    ×2.91 49 | 5 points by jimnotgym 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Open-source Planning Poker web app with no voting limits (github.com/rie03p)
    ×0.38 | 2 points by rie03p 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: Make your own Danish Julehjerter (Braided hearts) (juleflet.dk)
    ×0.91 148 | 3 points by thomasahle 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: TrafficVision.live – Watch public cameras with a cyberpunk HUD (trafficvision.live)
    ×0.93 | 2 points by ieatglue 53 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. 10 years bootstrapped: €6.5M revenue with a team of 13 (datocms.com)
    ×2.46 16 | 314 points by steffoz 1 day ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Lamp Carousel – DIY Kinetic Sculpture Powered by Lamp Heat (widloski.com)
    ×0.77 | 2 points by Evidlo 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: RenderCV – Open-source CV/resume generator, YAML to PDF (github.com/rendercv)
    ×1.08 97 | 97 points by sinaatalay 3 days ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: "What Should I Build?" A directory of what people want (whatshouldibuild.online)
    ×1.02 118 | 4 points by emil154 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Scaling Go Testing with Contract and Scenario Mocks (funnelstory.ai)
    ×0.53 48 #61 | 38 points by preetamjinka 14 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Open source USB to GPIB converter (for Test and Measurement instruments) (github.com/xyphro)
    ×0.96 55 #64 | 83 points by v15w 23 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. France Is Bacon (stevestewartwilliams.com)
    ×0.86 | 2 points by delichon 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. US drops plan to deport Chinese national who exposed Xinjiang abuses (apnews.com)
    ×2.71 28 | 6 points by perihelions 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Towards a secure peer-to-peer app platform for Clan (clan.lol)
    ×0.71 54 | 89 points by throawayonthe 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. YouTube Has a Firm Grip on Daytime TV (nytimes.com)
    ×0.86 | 2 points by bookofjoe 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. I'm returning my Framework 16 (yorickpeterse.com)
    ×2.73 15 #23 | 149 points by YorickPeterse 12 hours ago | 256 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. How did DOGE disrupt so much while saving so little? (nytimes.com)
    ×7.21 2 #88 | 281 points by JumpCrisscross 1 day ago | 179 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Visualizing File Formats for Fun (telkins.com)
    ×0.36 | 1 points by trevor-e 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Mushak – Zero config zero downtime Docker/Compose to server deployment (mushak.sh)
    ×1.08 116 | 27 points by hmontazeri 3 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Researchers achieved 1,270 Wh/L in an anode-free lithium metal battery (postech.ac.kr)
    ×1.70 21 #42 | 97 points by giuliomagnifico 6 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: WebPtoPNG – I built a WebP to PNG tool, everything runs in the browser (webptopng.cc)
    ×0.52 66 #46 | 5 points by akseli_ukkonen 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. X-ray: a Python library for finding bad redactions in PDF documents (github.com/freelawproject)
    ×3.10 11 #54 | 667 points by rendx 1 day ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Former EU commissioner and activists barred from US (theguardian.com)
    ×4.84 4 | 63 points by robin_reala 14 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Steam Store is offline (steamstat.us)
    ×3.32 34 #44 | 58 points by DetectDefect 3 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. We replaced H.264 streaming with JPEG screenshots (and it worked better) (helix.ml)
    ×3.15 19 #81 | 503 points by quesobob 1 day ago | 310 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: BBC2Podcast – Geo-unblocking proxy for BBC radio as podcasts (github.com/hauxir)
    ×1.08 121 | 4 points by hauxir 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Ayder – Nginx for event streaming (50K msg/s, P99 3ms, 40s recovery) (github.com/A1darbek)
    ×1.86 122 | 4 points by Aydarbek 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: A vibe-coded database GUI (seaquel.app)
    ×1.64 127 | 5 points by mootoday 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Epstein Files and images (4000 .png files) (epstein-files-browser.vercel.app)
    ×3.94 50 | 7 points by Gerome24 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Chart Preview – Preview environments for Helm charts on every PR
    ×0.54 132 | 21 points by chartpreview 4 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Envision – Interactive explainers for scientific papers (envision.page)
    ×1.11 144 | 3 points by eigen-vector 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: TinyDOCX – Word/ODT library (14x smaller than docx) (github.com/Lulzx)
    ×1.88 134 | 6 points by lulzx 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Toad is a unified experience for AI in the terminal (willmcgugan.github.io)
    ×2.16 35 #75 | 219 points by nikolatt 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Microsoft: "30% of Our Code Is AI." Also Microsoft: "Windows Is Broken." (michael-dev-tech.github.io)
    ×3.14 22 | 6 points by f0r3st 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Zelda: Twilight Princess Has Been Decompiled (timeextension.com)
    ×0.94 | 2 points by birdculture 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Regex Man - short 3D regex game (desktop web) (bcjordan.com)
    ×0.72 | 2 points by bcjordan 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: Luxury Yacht, a Kubernetes management app (github.com/luxury-yacht)
    ×0.63 | 2 points by johnj-hn 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Fabrication Techniques Using Myco-Materials (encyclopedia.pub)
    ×0.49 59 #39 | 16 points by andsoitis 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Ambicular: Bring your Christmas melody to life (ambicular.com)
    ×0.37 | 1 points by lovegrenoble 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. US sanctions EU government officials behind the DSA (mastodon.social)
    ×10.10 25 | 113 points by pojntfx 15 hours ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Books mentioned on Hacker News in 2025 (us-west1.run.app)
    ×2.60 55 | 605 points by seinvak 3 days ago | 212 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: HN Wrapped 2025 - an LLM reviews your year on HN (kadoa.com)
    ×1.96 85 | 308 points by hubraumhugo 4 days ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Lume.js – 1.5KB React alternative using zero custom syntax (sathvikc.github.io)
    ×1.64 103 | 7 points by sathvikchinnu 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. The dawn of a world simulator (odyssey.ml)
    ×0.88 21 #18 | 30 points by olivercameron 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. How GNU Guile is 10x better (2021) (draketo.de)
    ×2.29 9 #25 | 79 points by Tomte 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Making a game on a custom bytecode VM in 7 days and 3kB (le-brun.eu)
    ×1.07 28 #33 | 76 points by laurentlb 12 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Instant database clones with PostgreSQL 18 (boringsql.com)
    ×2.27 6 | 417 points by radimm 1 day ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Semantic Coverage – A tool to visualize RAG blind spots using UMAP (github.com/aashirpersonal)
    ×1.52 94 | 4 points by aashirpersonal 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Who Watches the Waymos? I do [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.15 2 #4 | 21 points by notgloating 58 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL (github.com/antonmedv)
    ×1.64 #5 | 224 points by medv 5 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. A movie-like Music Video built using AI (youtube.com)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by fagnerbrack 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Mathematically extra-complicated Secretest Santa 2025 [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by Mindless2112 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Re: Question about LuaJIT v3.0 status (freelists.org)
    ×0.40 | 1 points by radiator 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Meta is using the Linux scheduler designed for Valve's Steam Deck on its servers (phoronix.com)
    ×4.56 38 | 677 points by yellow_lead 1 day ago | 377 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???