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  1. Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell
    ×3.38 9 #24 | 301 points by cvbox 11 hours ago | 289 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Tell HN: HN was down
    ×3.10 10 #33 | 577 points by uyzstvqs 20 hours ago | 311 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Does anyone understand how Hacker News works?
    ×2.23 12 #36 | 121 points by jannesblobel 9 hours ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
    ×1.68 48 | 436 points by david927 3 days ago | 1428 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Decentralized Auth for Information Exchange?
    ×0.68 | 2 points by vxsz 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Tell HN: AI coding is sexy, but accounting is the real low-hanging target
    ×0.64 54 | 61 points by bmadduma 6 days ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Is RSS Still Alive?
    ×1.57 14 | 5 points by militanz 5 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. FWS – pip-installable embedded process supervisor with PTY/pipe/dtach back ends
    ×0.71 | 2 points by mrsurge 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Etiquette giving feedback on mostly AI-generated PRs from co-workers
    ×0.45 | 2 points by chfritz 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Is starting a personal blog still worth it in the age of AI?
    ×1.17 86 | 61 points by nazarh 3 days ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Is building a calm, non-gamified learning app a mistake?
    ×0.88 71 | 86 points by hussein-khalil 2 days ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Should I start a software foundation (goal: help emergency services)?
    ×1.61 59 | 6 points by strgcmc 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Computer animator and Amiga fanatic Dick van Dyke turns 100
    ×1.93 76 | 280 points by ggm 5 days ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2026?
    ×1.93 68 | 22 points by mfrw 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?
    ×2.87 61 | 466 points by lemonlime227 4 days ago | 465 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Memory Safety in C# vs. Rust
    ×0.56 94 | 13 points by northlondoner 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: How are you vibe coding in an established code base?
    ×0.50 95 | 10 points by adam_gyroscope 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Was HN just down for anyone else?
    ×2.21 4 | 84 points by rozenmd 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Claude Opus 4.5 vs. GPT 5.1 Codex Max for coding. Worth the upgrade?
    ×0.72 115 | 4 points by terabytest 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Who has enjoyed using PR code reviewers? What worked and what didn’t?
    ×0.33 113 | 3 points by yashwantphogat 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Bloggers, how do you manage your content?
    ×0.72 107 | 10 points by freemanjiang 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Did anyone else notice that the OpenAI Labs website was completely gone?
    ×0.49 120 | 26 points by underlipton 5 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Best back end to run models on Google TPU?
    ×0.41 126 | 8 points by vood 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Thought-Provoking Books
    ×1.11 121 | 19 points by Agraillo 5 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Tell HN: HP Smart Printers
    ×0.44 | 2 points by _RPM 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Our "enterprise" experience with Stripe after $1B+ processed (be careful)
    ×1.34 118 | 29 points by Boulderchaim 5 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: How do you learn marketing as a developer? It's so different from coding
    ×1.14 88 | 6 points by Gooblebrai 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Coming soon: Simpler pricing and a better experience for GitHub Actions (github.blog)
    ×4.61 9 | 454 points by nklow 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Minimal DL library in C – 24 NAIVE CUDA/CPU ops, autodiff, Python API (github.com/IaroslavElistratov)
    ×0.71 51 | 11 points by iaroo 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Prompt-refiner – Lightweight optimization for LLM inputs and RAG (github.com/JacobHuang91)
    ×0.71 83 | 3 points by xinghaohuang 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Nvidia Nemotron 3 Family of Models (nvidia.com)
    ×1.71 28 #70 | 252 points by ewt-nv 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Will Amazon Block Siri's AI Agent? (wreflection.com)
    ×0.91 | 1 points by nowflux 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Lovable, a Startup That Makes Anyone a Coder, Raises $330M (nytimes.com)
    ×0.86 | 1 points by juokaz 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. MenuPhotoAI (menuphotoai.com)
    ×0.49 | 1 points by bellamoon544 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. A Safer Container Ecosystem with Docker: Free Docker Hardened Images (docker.com)
    ×2.03 4 #29 | 333 points by anttiharju 20 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Security vulnerability found in Rust Linux kernel code (kernel.org)
    ×1.78 21 #64 | 29 points by lelanthran 6 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Semantic Field Execution: Decoupling Transformers from Runtime Inference (zenodo.org)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by anima-core 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: Generate Passwords from Regex Constraints (gruhn.github.io)
    ×0.88 119 | 8 points by ngruhn 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Gemini 3 Flash – Everything you need to know (artificialanalysis.ai)
    ×0.53 | 1 points by Topfi 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Here is the 15 sec coding test I used to instantly filter out most applicants (josezarazua.com)
    ×9.42 25 | 82 points by kevin061 15 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Letta Code (letta.com)
    ×1.31 41 | 82 points by ascorbic 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Building a High-Performance OpenAPI Parser in Go (speakeasy.com)
    ×0.57 35 #23 | 20 points by subomi 6 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. AI's real superpower: consuming, not creating (msanroman.io)
    ×2.11 7 #61 | 235 points by firefoxd 1 day ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Apple announces more ads are coming to App Store search results (9to5mac.com)
    ×2.83 33 #72 | 10 points by akyuu 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Reconstructed MS-DOS Commander Keen 1-3 Source Code (pckf.com)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by retro_guy 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Zenflow – orchestrate coding agents without "you're right" loops (zencoder.ai)
    ×0.80 77 | 30 points by andrewsthoughts 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: HN++ (hnplusplus.vercel.app)
    ×0.98 101 | 3 points by 7moritz7 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. From profiling to kernel patch: the journey to an eBPF performance fix (rovarma.com)
    ×0.49 64 #20 | 4 points by todsacerdoti 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. A16z-backed Doublespeed hacked, revealing what its AI-generated accounts promote (404media.co)
    ×3.51 27 #63 | 269 points by grahamlee 19 hours ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Rust GCC backend: Why and how (guillaume-gomez.fr)
    ×1.05 36 #84 | 192 points by ahlCVA 1 day ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: I made a script to export Emacs org-agenda to Apple Reminders (github.com/olekenneth)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by olekenneth 37 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. GitHub postponing the announced billing change for self-hosted GitHub Actions (twitter.com/jaredpalmer)
    ×3.93 10 | 73 points by coloneltcb 17 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. CEOs to Keep Spending on AI, Despite Spotty Returns (wsj.com)
    ×2.73 55 | 73 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: 999 Penguins (999penguins.com)
    ×6.06 110 | 18 points by learntocode222 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Vaadin 25.0: Modernizing the Java Web Stack (Java 21, Spring Boot 4, 100% Lit) (vaadin.com)
    ×1.99 39 | 3 points by spicyroman 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. OctoNote: GitHub-powered Markdown notes – revived (ajkueterman.com)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by robotsquidward 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Help Ukraine by attacking Russian web sites. Good load testing training (github.com/sergeyzenchenko)
    ×1.12 | 2 points by doener 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. FVWM-95 (2001) (sourceforge.net)
    ×0.98 34 | 124 points by mghackerlady 1 day ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Judge hints Vizio TV buyers may have rights to source code licensed under GPL (theregister.com)
    ×2.22 6 #28 | 122 points by pabs3 8 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. 30 years of <br> tags (artmann.co)
    ×2.04 19 #83 | 212 points by FragrantRiver 1 day ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Ask HN: How do you define "done" for long-running AI agents?
    ×0.57 | 1 points by IntelliAvatar 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Tesla reports another Robotaxi crash (electrek.co)
    ×9.00 6 | 153 points by hjouneau 1 day ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. The Roomba Was a Disappointment (theatlantic.com)
    ×0.54 | 1 points by voxleone 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. AI Isn't Just Spying on You. It's Tricking You into Spending More (newrepublic.com)
    ×2.48 28 | 96 points by c420 16 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. 'It's surreal': How US sanctions lock ICC judges out of daily life (irishtimes.com)
    ×5.09 50 | 66 points by rendx 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Solving the ~95% legislative coverage gap using LLM's (lustra.news)
    ×0.96 66 | 40 points by fokdelafons 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Developers can now submit apps to ChatGPT (openai.com)
    ×1.79 10 #47 | 155 points by tananaev 15 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Thin desires are eating life (joanwestenberg.com)
    ×4.40 32 #82 | 806 points by mitchbob 1 day ago | 257 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Life K-Line – Visualize Your Life Fortune Using Chinese Metaphysics and AI (suanmingzhun.com)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by Ethancurly5246 21 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Olo is an Imaginary Color (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.38 | 2 points by keepamovin 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: WeekInPapers – A Modern ArXiv Reader (weekinpapers.com)
    ×0.52 125 | 3 points by mox111 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. America's Dirtiest Carbon Polluters, Mapped to Ridiculous Precision (gizmodo.com)
    ×2.72 11 #18 | 42 points by ourmandave 2 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Oasis: Pooling PCIe Devices over CXL to Boost Utilization (acm.org)
    ×0.44 54 #41 | 14 points by blakepelton 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Ruby 4.0.0 Preview3 Released (ruby-lang.org)
    ×0.60 | 1 points by chmaynard 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. This is not the future (mathieui.net)
    ×5.79 17 | 706 points by ericdanielski 1 day ago | 402 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: High-Performance Wavelet Matrix for Python, Implemented in Rust (pypi.org)
    ×0.65 33 #42 | 88 points by math-hiyoko 17 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Yep, Passkeys Still Have Problems (blackhats.net.au)
    ×3.88 19 | 171 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. After Ruining a Treasured Water Resource, Iran Is Drying Up (yale.edu)
    ×2.15 #1 | 154 points by YaleE360 2 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Launch HN: Kenobi (YC W22) – Personalize your website for every visitor
    ×0.34 67 #40 | 44 points by sarreph 20 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Tiny VM sandbox in C with apps in Rust, C and Zig (github.com/ringtailsoftware)
    ×1.15 85 | 194 points by trj 5 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Kafkatop 2.0 – top for Kafka – rewritten in Go with partition analytics (github.com/sivann)
    ×0.97 122 | 3 points by sivann 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. It's all about momentum (combo.cc)
    ×0.90 6 #5 | 46 points by sph 3 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles for you (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.82 22 #32 | 119 points by furcyd 5 hours ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Map of median rent per m² in Berlin (allaboutberlin.com)
    ×1.24 12 | 3 points by nicbou 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Python packages for FastAPI apps – auth, logging, config, LLM, more (github.com/Netrun-Systems)
    ×1.22 106 | 4 points by DanielGarza 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Jordle – Japanese Furigana Practice (jordle.io)
    ×1.23 123 | 3 points by qmarchi 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Writing a blatant Telegram clone using Qt, QML and Rust. And C++ (kemble.net)
    ×1.02 27 | 132 points by tempodox 1 day ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Linux Kernel Rust Code Sees Its First CVE Vulnerability (phoronix.com)
    ×3.75 18 | 114 points by weinzierl 19 hours ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: A Full-Control Cloud That Puts You in Charge of Your Deployments (hubfly.space)
    ×0.68 89 | 3 points by octave12 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Mephisto – A RAM-only, ad-free disposable email PWA built with React (mephistomail.site)
    ×1.30 53 | 21 points by benmxrt 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???