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  1. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
    ×1.54 12 #1 | 178 points by david927 9 hours ago | 608 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Best back end to run models on Google TPU?
    ×0.66 32 | 3 points by vood 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Computer animator and Amiga fanatic Dick van Dyke turns 100
    ×2.07 18 | 267 points by ggm 1 day ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?
    ×2.86 25 | 435 points by lemonlime227 1 day ago | 426 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: Please suggest a smart watch that can be customized
    ×2.51 37 | 6 points by VladVladikoff 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: How do I navigate horror of requirement gathering in product management?
    ×0.36 98 | 3 points by souravpradhan 17 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Is starting a personal blog still worth it in the age of AI?
    ×1.92 58 | 27 points by nazarh 5 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines?
    ×6.26 67 | 973 points by embedding-shape 5 days ago | 461 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Thought-Provoking Books
    ×1.16 101 | 11 points by Agraillo 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Any online tech spaces you hang around that don't involve AI?
    ×0.69 108 | 10 points by jc_811 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. AI coding is sexy, but accounting is the real low-hanging automation target
    ×0.81 110 | 35 points by bmadduma 3 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Meta "deletes" years of conversations with friends/family
    ×0.74 104 | 9 points by effectkai 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. How does a "you interview for US company, we do the work" scam work?
    ×0.80 99 | 32 points by marttilaine 2 days ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: Did anyone else notice that the OpenAI Labs website was completely gone?
    ×0.49 105 | 23 points by underlipton 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Our "enterprise" experience with Stripe after $1B+ processed (be careful)
    ×1.57 106 | 26 points by Boulderchaim 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: End of Year Book Recommendations
    ×2.83 124 | 24 points by marai2 4 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Is writing without AI worse than sharing your medical records online?
    ×0.14 157 | 3 points by amichail 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Why are "remote" jobs in late 2025 still limited to hiring in US/CA/UK/DE?
    ×0.69 132 | 22 points by ftonato 5 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. What is the most effective way to learn programming?
    ×1.61 95 | 8 points by luis_journey 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: How can I delete a Substack account in Australia?
    ×0.43 143 | 5 points by freefrog334433 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Searching: Cybersecurity Classes
    ×0.35 144 | 3 points by prospopa 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: Can someone explain why OpenAI credits expire?
    ×0.65 159 | 5 points by jemiluv8 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: How do you handle release notes for multiple audiences?
    ×0.75 76 | 36 points by glidr_dev 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: Go all-in on AI Boom vs. enjoy parenthood?
    ×0.47 116 | 10 points by pratchett 2 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Referral to coach for fundraising for pre-revenue seed capital?
    ×0.22 151 | 3 points by FWKevents 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: What hard problems are still underexplored?
    ×0.70 127 | 17 points by brihati 3 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: Relatively SoTA LLM Agents from Scratch?
    ×0.20 164 | 4 points by solsane 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Has anyone been able to renew their IEEE this month?
    ×0.24 139 | 8 points by chrisaycock 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Storyloom – Deterministic Storytelling Framework (jcpsimmons.github.io)
    ×0.75 137 | 4 points by joshcsimmons 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Price of a bot army revealed across online platforms (cam.ac.uk)
    ×1.85 18 #17 | 104 points by teleforce 11 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Anesthesia Experiments Are Reviving Quantum Consciousness Theories (popularmechanics.com)
    ×1.64 23 | 3 points by bookofjoe 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Habits That Make a Great Programmer (arpitbhayani.me)
    ×0.81 | 1 points by daviddada 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. How Kalshi Was Built (theuncredentialed.substack.com)
    ×1.72 | 2 points by uncred 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. The Copilot Usage Report 2025 (microsoft.ai)
    ×1.86 5 | 3 points by skeptic_ai 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Your Mac has a fast, offline LLM (zdgeier.com)
    ×1.80 2 | 3 points by zdgeier 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. A fictional interview with Frances Allen (voxmeditantis.com)
    ×3.05 74 | 26 points by colinprince 3 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Analysis finds anytime electricity from solar available as battery costs plummet (pv-magazine-usa.com)
    ×2.19 30 | 136 points by Matrixik 1 day ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Shai-Hulud compromised a dev machine and raided GitHub org access: a post-mortem (trigger.dev)
    ×1.77 34 #12 | 197 points by nkko 17 hours ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. The Generative AI Industry Is Fraudulent, Immoral and Dangerous (skoll.ca)
    ×3.20 59 | 3 points by pabs3 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Show HN: A real-time 4D fractal explorer in the browser using WebGPU (bryanjj.github.io)
    ×0.47 111 | 12 points by bryan0 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Tascli, a command line based (human) task and record manager (github.com/Aperocky)
    ×0.61 145 | 43 points by Aperocky 1 week ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. 30 Years of <Br> Tags (artmann.co)
    ×3.02 54 | 88 points by FragrantRiver 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Feedvote – A $149 lifetime alternative to Canny for Linear users (feedvote.app)
    ×0.38 | 2 points by youchen 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. The End of Concept Nativism (arxiv.org)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by usingla 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Linuxiac.com restricts access based on countries and regions (linuxiac.com)
    ×0.50 | 1 points by Kk_vv 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: A 2-row, 16-key keyboard designed for smartphones (k-keyboard.com)
    ×0.72 107 | 83 points by QWERTYmini 4 days ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Ten Principles of Good Design (tonygaeta.com)
    ×1.02 131 | 4 points by LightMorpheus 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. SPhotonix – 360TB into 5-inch glass disc with femtosecond laser (tomshardware.com)
    ×1.67 8 #26 | 22 points by peter_d_sherman 3 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Lean theorem prover mathlib (github.com/leanprover-community)
    ×0.80 70 #50 | 78 points by downboots 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: SigmaLifting – A protocol for powerlifting training data (sigmalifting.app)
    ×0.57 120 | 3 points by jklioewr 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight (bearblog.dev)
    ×2.57 96 #59 | 673 points by __rito__ 4 days ago | 270 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Photographer built a medium-format rangefinder (petapixel.com)
    ×1.18 56 #76 | 182 points by shinryuu 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help (hey.paris)
    ×14.59 52 | 1645 points by parisidau 1 day ago | 1011 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Germany's train service is one of Europe's worst. How did it get so bad? (npr.org)
    ×5.31 68 | 71 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. YouTube's CEO limits his kids' social media use – other tech bosses do the same (cnbc.com)
    ×4.75 25 | 202 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. llamafile: Distribute and Run LLMs with a Single File (github.com/mozilla-ai)
    ×1.62 70 | 42 points by stefankuehnel 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now (dosaygo-studio.github.io)
    ×11.46 14 | 3330 points by keepamovin 5 days ago | 963 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: GPULlama3.java Llama Compilied to PTX/OpenCL Now Integrated in Quarkus
    ×0.39 118 | 24 points by mikepapadim 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: WineBar: A yet another Wine prefix manager, with Asahi Linux support (github.com/Tulon)
    ×0.48 | 2 points by JosifA 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. The Typeframe PX-88 Portable Computing System (typeframe.net)
    ×0.89 20 #11 | 97 points by birdculture 10 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. I fed 24 years of my blog posts to a Markov model (susam.net)
    ×1.70 12 #61 | 292 points by zdw 1 day ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. The Synchronization Tax (symmetrybroken.com)
    ×0.84 | 1 points by riemannzeta 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Framework-agnostic Select and Toast components built with Web Components
    ×0.53 | 1 points by dgseo 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Purdue University approves new AI requirement for all undergrads (forbes.com)
    ×1.97 53 | 64 points by rmason 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: EdgeVec – Sub-millisecond vector search in the browser (Rust/WASM) (github.com/matte1782)
    ×2.11 125 | 7 points by matteo1782 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. DARPA GO: Generative Optogenetics (darpa.mil)
    ×0.92 23 #14 | 21 points by birriel 4 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI (simonwillison.net)
    ×2.51 17 #79 | 565 points by simonw 2 days ago | 313 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. No-Tifier (2017) (subject.space)
    ×0.51 63 #86 | 36 points by aebtebeten 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Hell is other people's markup (htmhell.dev)
    ×1.13 | 1 points by emschwartz 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Chinese billionaires having dozens of US.-born babies via surrogate (msn.com)
    ×2.06 6 | 4 points by xqcgrek2 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Europeans' health data sold to US firm run by ex-Israeli spies (ftm.eu)
    ×6.35 81 | 631 points by Fnoord 15 hours ago | 381 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: I built time to read all the things I want to (replit.app)
    ×0.90 89 | 4 points by thomoliverz 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Elevated errors across many models (claude.com)
    ×2.38 2 #4 | 276 points by pablo24602 6 hours ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. AI and the ironies of automation – Part 2 (ufried.com)
    ×1.32 10 #16 | 219 points by BinaryIgor 14 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Dark mode is essential, not a design preference (seemeplease.com)
    ×4.03 71 | 4 points by SeeMePlease 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: A model that estimates when AI can do your job (dontloseyourjob.com)
    ×1.19 | 2 points by claywren 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Robot Vacuum Roomba Maker Files for Bankruptcy After 35 Years (bloomberglaw.com)
    ×4.31 84 | 52 points by nreece 3 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Depup – a dependency upgrade advisor for Python projects (github.com/saran-damm)
    ×0.77 88 | 3 points by saran-damm 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Octopii, a runtime for writing distributed applications in Rust (github.com/octopii-rs)
    ×1.92 153 | 17 points by puterbonga 6 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Microsoft Copilot AI Comes to LG TVs, and Can't Be Deleted (techpowerup.com)
    ×4.43 21 #24 | 80 points by akyuu 3 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Checkpointing the Message Processing (event-driven.io)
    ×0.51 39 #28 | 9 points by ingve 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Forecaster Arena – Testing LLMs on real events with prediction markets (forecasterarena.com)
    ×1.07 168 | 3 points by setrf 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: I built this after leaking my AWS keys on StackOverflow (codeanswr.com)
    ×0.17 | 2 points by saradev2025 21 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: FuseCells – a handcrafted logic puzzle game with 2,500 levels (apple.com)
    ×0.48 147 | 37 points by keini 1 week ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Definitive Oral History of a TV Masterpiece (wired.com)
    ×1.23 66 #46 | 107 points by indigodaddy 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Role reversal: Meta adopts Qwen as Chinese AI becomes industry foundation (scmp.com)
    ×1.11 | 2 points by djhu9 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Rural students: more likely to get diplomas but are less likely to go to college (theconversation.com)
    ×1.90 8 | 3 points by PaulHoule 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Windows 3.1 in the Browser (pcjs.org)
    ×1.68 82 | 52 points by memalign 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Autofix Bot – Hybrid static analysis and AI code review agent
    ×0.51 96 | 35 points by sanketsaurav 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: S3 compatible store with 1M IOPS(4K-R,p99~5ms), BYOC in 5min with rust (github.com/fractalbits-labs)
    ×2.13 161 | 23 points by fractalbits 1 week ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???