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Top of Year 2026

1. Ask HN: Share your personal website
   (14 Jan 2026 | 947 points | Comments)

2. Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?
   (15 Jan 2026 | 798 points | Comments)

3. Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting
   (8 Mar 2026 | 717 points | Comments)

4. Ask HN: How to be alone?
   (8 Mar 2026 | 690 points | Comments)

5. Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?
   (5 Apr 2026 | 479 points | Comments)

6. Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...
   (8 May 2026 | 477 points | Comments)

7. Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?
   (20 Jan 2026 | 460 points | Comments)

8. Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?
   (15 Mar 2026 | 432 points | Comments)

9. Ask HN: How are you doing RAG locally?
   (14 Jan 2026 | 413 points | Comments)

10. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026)
    (2 Jan 2026 | 355 points | Comments)

11. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)
    (12 Apr 2026 | 347 points | Comments)

12. Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?
    (15 Apr 2026 | 339 points | Comments)

13. Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
    (8 Feb 2026 | 332 points | Comments)

14. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)
    (2 Feb 2026 | 316 points | Comments)

15. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)
    (1 May 2026 | 307 points | Comments)

16. Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?
    (19 Apr 2026 | 300 points | Comments)

17. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)
    (9 Mar 2026 | 289 points | Comments)

18. Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
    (10 May 2026 | 288 points | Comments)

19. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2026)
    (1 Apr 2026 | 278 points | Comments)

20. Ask HN: What's the current best local/open speech-to-speech setup?
    (23 Jan 2026 | 259 points | Comments)

21. Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
    (11 Jan 2026 | 256 points | Comments)

22. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026)
    (2 Mar 2026 | 248 points | Comments)

23. Ask HN: Do you also "hoard" notes/links but struggle to turn them into actions?
    (30 Jan 2026 | 235 points | Comments)

24. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2026)
    (1 Jun 2026 | 235 points | Comments)

25. Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?
    (14 Jan 2026 | 222 points | Comments)

26. Ask HN: What is it like being in a CS major program these days?
    (16 Mar 2026 | 214 points | Comments)

27. Ask HN: Gmail spam filtering suddenly marking everything as spam?
    (24 Jan 2026 | 212 points | Comments)

28. Ask HN: How to get started with robotics as a hobbyist?
    (8 Feb 2026 | 193 points | Comments)

29. Ask HN: Is it still worth pursuing a software startup?
    (17 Jan 2026 | 192 points | Comments)

30. Ask HN: Shouldn't Google need to give a public statement about Railway incident?
    (20 May 2026 | 180 points | Comments)

31. Ask HN: How to be SOC2 Type 2 compliant as a solo-entreprenuer?
    (15 May 2026 | 172 points | Comments)

32. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2026)
    (2 Jan 2026 | 171 points | Comments)

33. Ask HN: COBOL devs, how are AI coding affecting your work?
    (19 Jan 2026 | 169 points | Comments)

34. Ask HN: Founders of estonian e-businesses – is it worth it?
    (24 Mar 2026 | 168 points | Comments)

35. Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?
    (9 Apr 2026 | 156 points | Comments)

36. Ask HN: How do you deal with people who trust LLMs?
    (19 Mar 2026 | 155 points | Comments)

37. Ask HN: Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro?
    (26 May 2026 | 153 points | Comments)

38. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)
    (1 May 2026 | 152 points | Comments)

39. Ask HN: Most beautiful personal blog UI you have ever seen?
    (8 Mar 2026 | 151 points | Comments)

40. Ask HN: How are you all staying sane?
    (2 Mar 2026 | 150 points | Comments)

41. Ask HN: How to solve the cold start problem for a two-sided marketplace?
    (20 Apr 2026 | 150 points | Comments)

42. Ask HN: How do you handle marketing as a solo technical founder?
    (6 Apr 2026 | 147 points | Comments)

43. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)
    (1 Jun 2026 | 144 points | Comments)

44. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)
    (2 Feb 2026 | 141 points | Comments)

45. Ask HN: Weird archive.today behavior?
    (14 Jan 2026 | 138 points | Comments)

46. Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad?
    (2 May 2026 | 134 points | Comments)

47. Ask HN: Apple terminated our dev account over a rogue employee
    (22 Mar 2026 | 133 points | Comments)

48. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2026)
    (2 Mar 2026 | 126 points | Comments)

49. Ask HN: Is there anyone here who still uses slide rules?
    (3 Feb 2026 | 123 points | Comments)

50. Ask HN: ADHD – How do you manage the constant stream of thoughts and ideas?
    (13 Jan 2026 | 122 points | Comments)

51. Ask HN: Remember Fidonet?
    (10 Mar 2026 | 121 points | Comments)

52. Ask HN: Any real OpenClaw (Clawd Bot/Molt Bot) users? What's your experience?
    (31 Jan 2026 | 120 points | Comments)

53. Ask HN: I quit my job over weaponized robots to start my own venture
    (14 Apr 2026 | 119 points | Comments)

54. Ask HN: Iran's 120h internet shutdown, phones back. How to stay resilient?
    (13 Jan 2026 | 116 points | Comments)

55. Ask HN: AI productivity gains – do you fire devs or build better products?
    (22 Mar 2026 | 114 points | Comments)

56. Ask HN: Any Microsoft employees/devs here? What's happening to Microsoft?
    (6 Jan 2026 | 111 points | Comments)

57. Ask HN: Share your productive usage of OpenClaw
    (25 Feb 2026 | 106 points | Comments)

58. Ask HN: European Tech Alternatives?
    (2 Apr 2026 | 106 points | Comments)

59. Ask HN: Books to learn 6502 ASM and the Apple II
    (27 Jan 2026 | 102 points | Comments)

60. Ask HN: What breaks first when your team grows from 10 to 50 people?
    (15 Mar 2026 | 102 points | Comments)

61. Ask HN: What Is the State of App Development in 2026?
    (30 May 2026 | 100 points | Comments)

62. Ask HN: Burned out from tech, what else is there?
    (20 Jan 2026 | 92 points | Comments)

63. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2026)
    (1 Apr 2026 | 90 points | Comments)

64. Ask HN: Is it time for HN to implement a form of captcha?
    (8 Jan 2026 | 89 points | Comments)

65. Ask HN: What are your best purchases under $100?
    (15 Jan 2026 | 89 points | Comments)

66. Ask HN: Is Claude down again?
    (11 Mar 2026 | 86 points | Comments)

67. Ask HN: How do you safely give LLMs SSH/DB access?
    (14 Jan 2026 | 85 points | Comments)

68. Ask HN: How are you automating your coding work?
    (21 Jan 2026 | 79 points | Comments)

69. Ask HN: Have top AI research institutions just given up on the idea of safety?
    (25 Feb 2026 | 79 points | Comments)

70. Ask HN: How many of you hold an amateur radio license in your country?
    (3 Mar 2026 | 79 points | Comments)

71. Ask HN: Why is my Claude experience so bad? What am I doing wrong?
    (13 Feb 2026 | 78 points | Comments)

72. Ask HN: Distributed data centers in our basements
    (31 Mar 2026 | 74 points | Comments)

73. Ask HN: What is the best way to provide continuous context to models?
    (15 Jan 2026 | 73 points | Comments)

74. Ask HN: Why are electronics still so unrecyclable?
    (11 Feb 2026 | 73 points | Comments)

75. Ask HN: Building a solo business is impossible?
    (17 Apr 2026 | 73 points | Comments)

76. Ask HN: Who do you follow via RSS feed?
    (26 Jan 2026 | 71 points | Comments)

77. Ask HN: When did computers stop being fun?
    (16 May 2026 | 70 points | Comments)

78. Ask HN: Unemployed almost a year after graduating MIT – a rant
    (14 Jan 2026 | 66 points | Comments)

79. Ask HN: What's the Point Anymore?
    (27 Jan 2026 | 63 points | Comments)

80. Ask HN: Who wants to be fired? (May 2026)
    (1 May 2026 | 62 points | Comments)

81. Ask HN: Client took over development by vibe coding. What to do?
    (1 Apr 2026 | 59 points | Comments)

82. Ask HN: Do you still use physical calculators?
    (31 Jan 2026 | 58 points | Comments)

83. Ask HN: Anyone else feel this community has changed recently?
    (6 Mar 2026 | 57 points | Comments)

84. Ask HN: Have you successfully treated forward head posture ("nerd neck")?
    (14 Mar 2026 | 57 points | Comments)

85. Ask HN: Easiest UX for Seniors
    (11 Apr 2026 | 57 points | Comments)

86. Ask HN: DDD was a great debugger – what would a modern equivalent look like?
    (25 Jan 2026 | 56 points | Comments)

87. Ask HN: Anyone Using a Mac Studio for Local AI/LLM?
    (5 Feb 2026 | 55 points | Comments)

88. Ask HN: 10 months since the Llama-4 release: what happened to Meta AI?
    (6 Feb 2026 | 55 points | Comments)

89. Ask HN: Would you use a job board where every listing is verified?
    (7 Mar 2026 | 55 points | Comments)

90. Ask HN: Where do all the web devs talk?
    (3 Feb 2026 | 54 points | Comments)

91. Ask HN: What sources like HN do you consume?
    (2 Mar 2026 | 54 points | Comments)

92. Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible?
    (2 Jan 2026 | 53 points | Comments)

93. Ask HN: When has a "dumb" solution beaten a sophisticated one for you?
    (11 Jan 2026 | 51 points | Comments)

94. Ask HN: What's a standard way for apps to request text completion as a service?
    (5 Jan 2026 | 50 points | Comments)

95. Ask HN: AI Depression
    (13 Feb 2026 | 50 points | Comments)

96. Ask HN: Junior getting lost
    (29 Jan 2026 | 49 points | Comments)

97. Ask HN: Can we talk about AI Astroturfing?
    (7 Mar 2026 | 48 points | Comments)

98. Ask HN: When do we expose "Humans as Tools" so LLM agents can call us on demand?
    (1 Jan 2026 | 47 points | Comments)

99. Ask HN: Vxlan over WireGuard or WireGuard over Vxlan?
    (13 Jan 2026 | 46 points | Comments)

100. Ask HN: Anyone else struggle with how to learn coding in the AI era?
     (3 Feb 2026 | 46 points | Comments)