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Top of Year 2025

1. Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?
   (28 Aug 2025 | 1338 points | Comments)

2. Ask HN: Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines?
   (9 Dec 2025 | 979 points | Comments)

3. Ask HN: Is anyone doing anything cool with tiny language models?
   (21 Jan 2025 | 684 points | Comments)

4. Ask HN: How can ChatGPT serve 700M users when I can't run one GPT-4 locally?
   (8 Aug 2025 | 574 points | Comments)

5. Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?
   (13 May 2025 | 573 points | Comments)

6. Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?"
   (15 Jul 2025 | 553 points | Comments)

7. Ask HN: Why does the US Visa application website do a port-scan of my network?
   (20 Aug 2025 | 537 points | Comments)

8. Ask HN: What is interviewing like now with everyone using AI?
   (2 Feb 2025 | 535 points | Comments)

9. Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?
   (8 May 2025 | 530 points | Comments)

10. Ask HN: Books about people who did hard things
    (6 Jan 2025 | 495 points | Comments)

11. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2025)
    (3 Feb 2025 | 490 points | Comments)

12. Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell
    (18 Dec 2025 | 482 points | Comments)

13. Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?
    (13 Dec 2025 | 470 points | Comments)

14. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)
    (9 Nov 2025 | 463 points | Comments)

15. Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?
    (23 Dec 2025 | 463 points | Comments)

16. Ask HN: Has anyone else been unemployed for over two years?
    (19 Sep 2025 | 456 points | Comments)

17. Ask HN: Why hasn't x86 caught up with Apple M series?
    (25 Aug 2025 | 452 points | Comments)

18. Ask HN: Share your AI prompt that stumps every model
    (24 Apr 2025 | 440 points | Comments)

19. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
    (29 Jun 2025 | 439 points | Comments)

20. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
    (14 Dec 2025 | 438 points | Comments)

21. Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
    (27 Apr 2025 | 410 points | Comments)

22. Ask HN: How do I learn robotics in 2025?
    (2 Jun 2025 | 408 points | Comments)

23. Ask HN: Organize local communities without Facebook?
    (21 Jan 2025 | 407 points | Comments)

24. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025)
    (3 Nov 2025 | 400 points | Comments)

25. Ask HN: How do I give back to people helped me when I was young and had nothing?
    (13 Jun 2025 | 396 points | Comments)

26. Ask HN: Our AWS account got compromised after their outage
    (21 Oct 2025 | 394 points | Comments)

27. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2025)
    (3 Mar 2025 | 391 points | Comments)

28. Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)
    (30 Mar 2025 | 390 points | Comments)

29. Ask HN: What trick of the trade took you too long to learn?
    (4 Aug 2025 | 387 points | Comments)

30. Ask HN: Any insider takes on Yann LeCun's push against current architectures?
    (10 Mar 2025 | 385 points | Comments)

31. Ask HN: Why buy domains and 301 redirect them to me?
    (24 Jan 2025 | 382 points | Comments)

32. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2025)
    (2 Jun 2025 | 370 points | Comments)

33. Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?
    (11 Oct 2025 | 359 points | Comments)

34. Ask HN: Hearing aid wearers, what's hot?
    (24 Nov 2025 | 356 points | Comments)

35. Ask HN: Do you still use search engines?
    (8 Apr 2025 | 350 points | Comments)

36. Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
    (25 May 2025 | 349 points | Comments)

37. Ask HN: Who uses open LLMs and coding assistants locally? Share setup and laptop
    (31 Oct 2025 | 348 points | Comments)

38. Ask HN: Anyone struggling to get value out of coding LLMs?
    (26 May 2025 | 345 points | Comments)

39. Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)
    (12 Oct 2025 | 345 points | Comments)

40. Ask HN: How do I escape homelessness after rebuilding my mental health?
    (18 Mar 2025 | 343 points | Comments)

41. Ask HN: Do your eyes bug you even though your prescription is "correct"?
    (7 Mar 2025 | 340 points | Comments)

42. Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?
    (26 Dec 2025 | 337 points | Comments)

43. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2025)
    (2 Jan 2025 | 335 points | Comments)

44. Ask HN: How do you prevent the impact of social media on your children?
    (13 Jan 2025 | 334 points | Comments)

45. Ask HN: How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs?
    (2 Jul 2025 | 319 points | Comments)

46. Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?
    (12 May 2025 | 316 points | Comments)

47. Ask HN: My family business runs on a 1993-era text-based-UI (TUI). Anybody else?
    (5 Nov 2025 | 315 points | Comments)

48. Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)
    (29 Sep 2025 | 312 points | Comments)

49. Ask HN: Where to Work After 40?
    (2 Jan 2025 | 311 points | Comments)

50. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)
    (1 Dec 2025 | 311 points | Comments)

51. Ask HN: Former devs who can't get a job, what did you end up doing for work?
    (24 Feb 2025 | 306 points | Comments)

52. Ask HN: Startup getting spammed with PayPal disputes, what should we do?
    (4 Jun 2025 | 291 points | Comments)

53. Ask HN: Has anybody built search on top of Anna's Archive?
    (4 Jun 2025 | 291 points | Comments)

54. Ask HN: What's the best hackable smart TV?
    (6 Oct 2025 | 291 points | Comments)

55. Ask HN: What less-popular systems programming language are you using?
    (1 Mar 2025 | 287 points | Comments)

56. Ask HN: How did the internet discover my subdomain?
    (6 Mar 2025 | 287 points | Comments)

57. Ask HN: How to stop an AWS bot sending 2B requests/month?
    (17 Oct 2025 | 286 points | Comments)

58. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2025)
    (1 Apr 2025 | 279 points | Comments)

59. Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?
    (23 May 2025 | 279 points | Comments)

60. Ask HN: Have you ever regretted open-sourcing something?
    (2 Aug 2025 | 274 points | Comments)

61. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2025)
    (1 Jul 2025 | 273 points | Comments)

62. Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?
    (25 Dec 2025 | 271 points | Comments)

63. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2025)
    (1 Sep 2025 | 265 points | Comments)

64. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2025)
    (1 May 2025 | 263 points | Comments)

65. Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
    (23 Feb 2025 | 261 points | Comments)

66. Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)
    (27 Jul 2025 | 260 points | Comments)

67. Ask HN: Anyone making a living from a paid API?
    (31 May 2025 | 252 points | Comments)

68. Ask HN: Do US tech firms realize the backlash growing in Europe?
    (22 Feb 2025 | 251 points | Comments)

69. Ask HN: How to learn CUDA to professional level
    (8 Jun 2025 | 249 points | Comments)

70. Ask HN: Any active COBOL devs here? What are you working on?
    (18 Jul 2025 | 245 points | Comments)

71. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2025)
    (1 Aug 2025 | 242 points | Comments)

72. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2025)
    (1 Oct 2025 | 242 points | Comments)

73. Ask HN: What is the best LLM for consumer grade hardware?
    (30 May 2025 | 240 points | Comments)

74. Ask HN: Why is there no P2P streaming protocol like BitTorrent?
    (14 Apr 2025 | 236 points | Comments)

75. Ask HN: Resources to get better at outbound sales?
    (21 Dec 2025 | 235 points | Comments)

76. Ask HN: What's the 2025 stack for a self-hosted photo library with local AI?
    (30 Jun 2025 | 230 points | Comments)

77. Ask HN: How would you set up a child’s first Linux computer?
    (9 Nov 2025 | 227 points | Comments)

78. Ask HN: Where do seasoned devs look for short-term work?
    (13 Mar 2025 | 224 points | Comments)

79. Ask HN: Where to begin with "modern" Emacs?
    (1 Nov 2025 | 224 points | Comments)

80. Ask HN: Is maintaining a personal blog still worth it?
    (13 Jan 2025 | 217 points | Comments)

81. Ask HN: Favorite blog in 2024?
    (5 Jan 2025 | 215 points | Comments)

82. Ask HN: I'm an MIT senior and still unemployed – and so are most of my friends
    (7 Apr 2025 | 215 points | Comments)

83. Ask HN: Hackathons feel fake now
    (4 May 2025 | 213 points | Comments)

84. Ask HN: Is anyone making money selling traditional downloadable software?
    (20 Jan 2025 | 210 points | Comments)

85. Ask HN: What is the best method for turning a scanned book as a PDF into text?
    (14 Feb 2025 | 206 points | Comments)

86. Ask HN: How are Markov chains so different from tiny LLMs?
    (17 Nov 2025 | 204 points | Comments)

87. Ask HN: Do you know travel blogs that have animated SVG maps of their travels?
    (4 Feb 2025 | 198 points | Comments)

88. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2025)
    (3 Nov 2025 | 197 points | Comments)

89. Ask HN: What are people doing to get off of VMware?
    (19 Oct 2025 | 196 points | Comments)

90. Ask HN: Go deep into AI/LLMs or just use them as tools?
    (24 May 2025 | 195 points | Comments)

91. Ask HN: Why hasn’t AMD made a viable CUDA alternative?
    (1 Apr 2025 | 194 points | Comments)

92. Ask HN: Would you still choose Ruby on Rails for a startup in 2025?
    (26 Jan 2025 | 193 points | Comments)

93. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2025)
    (3 Mar 2025 | 187 points | Comments)

94. Ask HN: How do I learn practical electronic repair?
    (31 May 2025 | 185 points | Comments)

95. Ask HN: How can I realistically change careers?
    (17 Jan 2025 | 184 points | Comments)

96. Ask HN: Who are your favorite photography and generative coding artists?
    (23 Feb 2025 | 184 points | Comments)

97. Ask HN: Former employees' RSUs at risk after startup's IPO
    (12 Feb 2025 | 182 points | Comments)

98. Ask HN: Recommend resources that helped your game dev journey?
    (25 Feb 2025 | 182 points | Comments)

99. Ask HN: How to deal with long vibe-coded PRs?
    (29 Oct 2025 | 182 points | Comments)

100. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2025)
     (3 Feb 2025 | 180 points | Comments)