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  1. Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?
    ×2.37 4 #8 | 15 points by kwar13 35 minutes ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?
    ×2.23 10 #27 | 159 points by meridion 11 hours ago | 233 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. What I learned building "comfortable" LED strip lighting
    ×2.12 17 #42 | 13 points by emmasuntech 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tell HN: Merry Christmas
    ×7.99 38 #54 | 1922 points by basilikum 1 day ago | 420 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Pivot from SWE to What?
    ×1.82 10 | 41 points by aupra 17 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: What is the international distribution/statistics of HN visitors?
    ×1.11 9 | 59 points by KellyCriterion 20 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?
    ×2.86 14 | 445 points by nishilpatel 3 days ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Tell HN: Merry Christmas
    ×2.09 47 | 90 points by franze 2 days ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Looking for Decent Conversation?
    ×1.69 25 | 100 points by kmstout 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Why Do You Blog?
    ×2.81 15 | 18 points by onesandofgrain 10 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Good uses cases for Fabrice's microquickjs
    ×0.62 86 | 14 points by fud101 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: How many HN'ers Celebrate Christmas vs. ?
    ×1.25 89 | 14 points by gist 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: At 34, can I aspire to being more than a JavaScript widget engineer?
    ×2.41 63 | 24 points by yesitcan 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Why isn't there competition to LinkedIn yet?
    ×2.18 99 | 57 points by antfie 3 days ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What do you consider fun?
    ×2.35 16 | 20 points by IndySun 17 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Google Cloud Run cost me $4,676 in 6 weeks with zero traff
    ×2.41 55 | 47 points by creativesage 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Stronk.app – open-source gym lifts journal
    ×0.98 74 | 62 points by apatheticonion 2 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Tell HN: Math academy and iPad and sleep issues solved = me learning math
    ×1.11 76 | 5 points by mettamage 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: What's the best lecture or talk you've seen in 2025?
    ×4.90 24 | 19 points by hopefully_can 18 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Is ChatGPT getting buggier over time or is it me?
    ×1.51 73 | 6 points by softwaredoug 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. What are you building in AI?
    ×0.34 | 2 points by udit_50 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: My mother was scammed out of all her savings. What should I do?
    ×2.10 81 | 131 points by scapbi 4 days ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. As HN: How do I route around Substack's age verification?
    ×1.38 54 | 7 points by longitudinal93 16 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Oberon et al., vs. Rust
    ×0.43 129 | 17 points by mikethe 3 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: What developer tool do you wish existed in 2026?
    ×0.68 141 | 19 points by allenleee 4 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Tell HN: Merry Christmas
    ×2.94 105 | 19 points by teruakohatu 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Payload in Amazon "Shipped" Emails
    ×0.28 | 2 points by krautburglar 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: MIT grad, junior dev layoffs – watching my daughter lose faith in merit
    ×4.83 2 | 42 points by MITfather 22 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Did any projects succeed with crowdfunding?
    ×0.48 116 | 3 points by asim 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: HarmonyOS Open Source Development
    ×0.89 103 | 6 points by rumpelstiel 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: What did you lose forever because you had no backup?
    ×1.04 113 | 15 points by postit 2 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Can you patent prompts?
    ×0.50 123 | 13 points by rcarmo 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. I built two dozen single-file HTML tools that run offline and need no back end
    ×0.63 136 | 17 points by ajtracysk 4 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: Why isn't everyone talking about (and using) Cerebras?
    ×1.26 106 | 9 points by ray__ 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Could the optimal vibe coder be fundamentally different from the optimal SWE?
    ×0.56 139 | 3 points by inshard 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Resources to get better at outbound sales?
    ×0.55 158 | 9 points by sieep 4 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: What's the most open/hacker friendly Android phone for 2026?
    ×0.75 131 | 16 points by recvonline 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: Why is Hacker News red? Christmas?
    ×2.46 92 | 13 points by onesandofgrain 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. GitHub is returning Gateway Time-outs
    ×0.81 112 | 9 points by pera 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: What would you do if you didn't work in tech?
    ×1.54 101 | 61 points by johnathandos 3 days ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: Which is the best sync engine?
    ×0.55 130 | 5 points by olivieropinotti 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Cloudflare Stream + Backblaze vs. GCP for Short Form Video?
    ×0.32 150 | 3 points by slroger 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: Anybody here ever write apps for Windows Phone?
    ×0.55 142 | 4 points by ge96 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Shooter game but real money is on the line. Would you play?
    ×0.47 | 2 points by MikeyLi 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. SSH Tiny.christmas
    ×1.75 107 | 10 points by cyanbane 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Ask HN: How do you use the "waiting time" while Claude (other LLMs) is working?
    ×1.28 115 | 7 points by pedrodelfino 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Ask HN: Do you have an exit plan for Slack?
    ×2.21 110 | 8 points by gtirloni 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Broadcom Changing Licensing to BSL
    ×0.28 154 | 10 points by CubsFan1060 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Why are we accepting silent data corruption in Vector Search? (x86 vs. ARM)
    ×0.55 151 | 5 points by varshith17 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Ask HN: How many email accounts do you have?
    ×0.55 157 | 9 points by asim 4 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Ask HN: Is GitHub becoming more and more unstable?
    ×0.45 161 | 9 points by pavish 6 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. ChatGPT conversations still lack timestamps after years of requests (openai.com)
    ×3.11 9 #11 | 33 points by Valid3840 50 minutes ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Ruby 4.0.0 (ruby-lang.org)
    ×4.87 19 #52 | 728 points by FBISurveillance 1 day ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Self-referencing Page Tables for the x86-Architecture (0l.de)
    ×0.52 37 #64 | 60 points by stv0g 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Tesla's European Sales Plunge (247wallst.com)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by 01-_- 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. It Happened One Christmas (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.57 | 1 points by thunderbong 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Why We Abandoned Matrix (2024) (hackliberty.org)
    ×1.91 1 | 194 points by Flere-Imsaho 1 day ago | 182 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Maybe the default settings are too high (raptitude.com)
    ×3.50 1 #5 | 696 points by htk 14 hours ago | 227 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Line Scan Camera Image Processing (lawrence.lu)
    ×1.10 42 #49 | 16 points by tlyleung 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Jingle Bells (Batman Smells): An incomplete festive folk-rhyme taxonomy (loreandordure.com)
    ×1.02 34 #74 | 118 points by helsinkiandrew 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Local AI apps worldwide 26 Dec 2025 (reddit.com)
    ×0.71 | 2 points by trilogic 18 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. LearnixOS (learnix-os.com)
    ×2.38 60 | 3 points by gtirloni 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: ssh tiny.christmas
    ×2.20 18 | 11 points by eieio 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Ragctl – document ingestion CLI for RAG (OCR, chunking, Qdrant) (github.com/datallmhub)
    ×1.20 149 | 4 points by ahsekka 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: WebPtoPNG – I built a WebP to PNG tool, everything runs in the browser (webptopng.cc)
    ×0.64 83 | 20 points by akseli_ukkonen 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: OmniWM a macOS tiling window manager Niri inspired (github.com/BarutSRB)
    ×1.82 70 | 5 points by Barut1 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: I built an open-source Linux-capable single-board computer with DDR3 (github.com/cheyao)
    ×3.98 97 | 16 points by Cyao 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: GenresFox v0.4 – Hand-Written, Zero-Dependency Rust WASM (github.com/zayokami)
    ×1.57 68 | 5 points by zayoka 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: AI Accel,Tension-based pruning framework(40% sparsity, 1.5-2x speedups) (github.com/wwes4)
    ×0.62 | 2 points by wwes369 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: nunchux – A handy tmux launcher buddy thing (github.com/datamadsen)
    ×0.52 | 2 points by tmadsen_ 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Ask HN: Why are you Christian?
    ×1.65 | 2 points by zcase 17 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Transform sources into structured Data Tables in NotebookLM (googleblog.com)
    ×0.62 | 1 points by gmays 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: I built a tool that creates videos out of React code (github.com/outscal)
    ×2.16 128 | 6 points by mayankkgrover 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: I Made Loom for Mobile (demoscope.app)
    ×0.68 126 | 69 points by admtal 6 days ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Bazel Central Registry SSL certificate expired, breaking Bzlmod builds (github.com/bazelbuild)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by asceticat 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Why is ML inference still so ad-hoc in practice?
    ×2.33 18 | 4 points by krish678 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Pivor, Open source self-hosted CRM (github.com/Lexaro-Software)
    ×2.16 71 | 6 points by acaronlex 18 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Yann LeCun: New Vision Language JEPA with Better Performance Than LLMs (arxiv.org)
    ×1.51 | 2 points by bluedevilzn 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Context Graphs: My Thoughts on the Trillion Dollar Evolution of Agentic Infra (subramanya.ai)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by subramanya1997 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Mt. Gox CEO Karpelès Reveals Details of 2014 Collapse and Japanese Detention (bitcoinmagazine.com)
    ×2.18 42 | 85 points by giuliomagnifico 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. AI Withholds Life-or-Death Information Unless You Know the Magic Words (substack.substack.com)
    ×2.52 44 | 42 points by llamataboot 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. The Phone-Based Retirement Is Here (theatlantic.com)
    ×2.97 58 | 36 points by JumpCrisscross 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Undefinable yet Indispensable (aeon.co)
    ×0.21 12 #2 | 4 points by Thevet 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Geometric Algorithms for Translucency Sorting in Minecraft [pdf] (douira.dev)
    ×0.76 3 #9 | 33 points by HeliumHydride 3 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. We log everything except the reason (sanju.sh)
    ×0.71 | 1 points by spikey_sanju 19 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Fixing HN comments with breadth-first navigation (pratik.is)
    ×1.30 82 | 23 points by news_hacker 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Browser Based IDE for Love2D (github.com/Charmunks)
    ×2.70 88 | 8 points by Charmunk 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: CodinIT, local open-source Lovable alternative (Electron desktop app) (github.com/codinit-dev)
    ×1.04 96 | 23 points by Gerome24 6 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. TurboDiffusion: 100–200× Acceleration for Video Diffusion Models (github.com/thu-ml)
    ×1.75 4 #14 | 123 points by meander_water 10 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Humanoid robots are still novelty acts, but investment is surging make them real (theregister.com)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by Bender 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???