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1. Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174)
   (9 Jun 2025 | 2439 points | Comments)

2. Tell HN: New features and a moderator
   (11 Jul 2016 | 2381 points | Comments)

3. Tell HN: Thank You Dang
   (27 Nov 2020 | 2363 points | Comments)

4. Tell HN: Merry Christmas
   (24 Dec 2025 | 1957 points | Comments)

5. Tell HN: Thank you for not redesigning Hacker News
   (1 Sep 2019 | 1831 points | Comments)

6. Tell HN: Announcing tomhow as a public moderator
   (2 Apr 2025 | 1825 points | Comments)

7. Tell HN: Salary data is for sale
   (7 Jan 2022 | 1690 points | Comments)

8. Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com
   (17 Sep 2020 | 1656 points | Comments)

9. Tell HN: I'm Afraid We're Shutting Down
   (2 Jun 2022 | 1633 points | Comments)

10. Tell HN: Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week
    (5 Dec 2016 | 1630 points | Comments)

11. Tell HN: Interviewed with Triplebyte? Your profile is about to become public
    (23 May 2020 | 1543 points | Comments)

12. Tell HN: Cloudflare is blocking Pale Moon and other non-mainstream browsers
    (5 Feb 2025 | 1343 points | Comments)

13. Tell HN: Thanks to thehodge and littlewarden.com, this site is up today
    (9 Sep 2021 | 1314 points | Comments)

14. Tell HN: Google Cloud suspended our production projects at 1am on Saturday
    (22 Aug 2022 | 1313 points | Comments)

15. Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now
    (3 Feb 2023 | 1310 points | Comments)

16. Tell HN: You are not alone this Christmas
    (25 Dec 2021 | 1193 points | Comments)

17. Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block
    (12 Apr 2026 | 1156 points | Comments)

18. Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways
    (7 Mar 2018 | 1148 points | Comments)

19. Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving Everyone
    (25 Nov 2021 | 1098 points | Comments)

20. Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw
    (3 Apr 2026 | 1098 points | Comments)

21. Tell HN: YouTube is banning accounts that support Ukraine
    (25 Feb 2022 | 1095 points | Comments)

22. Tell HN: John Friel my father, internet pioneer and creator of QModem, has died
    (30 Dec 2024 | 1092 points | Comments)

23. Tell HN: DEI initiatives undermine the self esteem of PoC within a company
    (6 Feb 2023 | 1091 points | Comments)

24. Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion
    (7 Mar 2026 | 1077 points | Comments)

25. Tell HN: YouTube and how my wife lost 7 years of work
    (19 Feb 2022 | 1061 points | Comments)

26. Tell HN: The Internet situation inside Iran
    (29 Sep 2022 | 1045 points | Comments)

27. Tell HN: Thank you for being fast, almost ad-free and text-only
    (24 Jan 2023 | 1042 points | Comments)

28. Tell HN: Triplebyte reverses, emails apology
    (25 May 2020 | 1030 points | Comments)

29. Tell HN: iOS lets carriers add WiFi networks that you can’t stop from joining
    (5 Apr 2023 | 1025 points | Comments)

30. Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off
    (6 Jul 2023 | 1025 points | Comments)

31. Tell HN: You can't hire because you don't post salary ranges
    (21 Jul 2022 | 1010 points | Comments)

32. Tell HN: Google should drop Quora from search results
    (24 Nov 2019 | 1007 points | Comments)

33. Tell HN: AngelList told my employer that I'd updated my profile
    (21 Mar 2016 | 958 points | Comments)

34. Tell HN: A hacker's life is in danger, your awareness may be life saving
    (5 Nov 2022 | 957 points | Comments)

35. Tell HN: Aaron Swartz died today, 8 years ago
    (11 Jan 2021 | 945 points | Comments)

36. Tell HN: Litellm 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI are compromised
    (24 Mar 2026 | 937 points | Comments)

37. Tell HN: My kid's school installed spyware and I can't remove it
    (4 Apr 2022 | 936 points | Comments)

38. Tell HN: I let my 6-year-old daughter design my website
    (15 Feb 2022 | 923 points | Comments)

39. Tell HN: I salute everyone on call/working support through the holidays
    (21 Dec 2023 | 916 points | Comments)

40. Tell HN: Azure outage
    (29 Oct 2025 | 885 points | Comments)

41. Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again
    (15 Dec 2021 | 879 points | Comments)

42. Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again
    (22 Dec 2021 | 863 points | Comments)

43. Tell HN: Somebody implemented something I wrote a blog about
    (20 Sep 2022 | 852 points | Comments)

44. Tell HN: Hello
    (19 Jul 2015 | 847 points | Comments)

45. Tell HN: Fiverr left customer files public and searchable
    (14 Apr 2026 | 831 points | Comments)

46. Tell HN: C Experts Panel – Ask us anything about C
    (14 Apr 2020 | 829 points | Comments)

47. Tell HN: Eid Mubarak
    (21 Apr 2023 | 815 points | Comments)

48. Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving
    (27 Nov 2025 | 805 points | Comments)

49. Tell HN: I just wanted to say: thank you, Hacker News
    (21 Mar 2018 | 799 points | Comments)

50. Tell HN: A disabled 40-year-old person founded a startup and makes a living
    (3 Oct 2022 | 775 points | Comments)

51. Tell HN: Merry Christmas
    (25 Dec 2023 | 762 points | Comments)

52. Tell HN: Sometimes you don't realise how bad something is until you leave
    (20 Jan 2023 | 756 points | Comments)

53. Tell HN: t.co is adding a five-second delay to some domains
    (15 Aug 2023 | 749 points | Comments)

54. Tell HN: Internet Archive is facing a Big 4 Publishers lawsuit
    (18 Jul 2022 | 746 points | Comments)

55. Tell HN: Burnout is bad to your brain, take care
    (5 Sep 2024 | 742 points | Comments)

56. Tell HN: If You Are in Russia
    (1 Mar 2022 | 727 points | Comments)

57. Tell HN: Do not store any funds in PayPal or use them for anything critical
    (23 Feb 2023 | 703 points | Comments)

58. Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving
    (24 Nov 2022 | 702 points | Comments)

59. Tell HN: IPv6-only still pretty much unusable
    (7 Dec 2022 | 686 points | Comments)

60. Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users
    (26 Feb 2026 | 684 points | Comments)

61. Tell HN: HP printers force you into agreement
    (10 Dec 2022 | 682 points | Comments)

62. Tell HN: Cisco WebEx on OS X uses the same pre-installer tricks as Zoom
    (8 Apr 2020 | 673 points | Comments)

63. Tell HN: Let's Be Civil
    (27 Oct 2012 | 671 points | Comments)

64. Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam
    (16 Jun 2022 | 667 points | Comments)

65. Tell HN: It is impossible to disable Google 2FA using backup codes
    (19 Jan 2023 | 657 points | Comments)

66. Tell HN: Apply HN apology and revision
    (6 May 2016 | 653 points | Comments)

67. Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not
    (4 Nov 2025 | 646 points | Comments)

68. Tell HN: MailChimp blacklists your IP if you open the browser's dev tools
    (20 Mar 2023 | 645 points | Comments)

69. Tell HN: Y Combinator backing AI company to abuse factory workers
    (25 Feb 2025 | 631 points | Comments)

70. Tell HN: SMS-based two-factor authentication is not secure
    (9 Jun 2021 | 628 points | Comments)

71. Tell HN: A $40B company killed my 2yo son. Now they force me to keep silent
    (22 Mar 2022 | 626 points | Comments)

72. Tell HN: We are trying to get tail calls into the WebAssembly standard
    (12 Jul 2022 | 625 points | Comments)

73. Tell HN: Dropbox now requires access to contacts for Google login
    (15 Jan 2021 | 618 points | Comments)

74. Tell HN: Job interview canceled due to looming recession
    (24 May 2022 | 618 points | Comments)

75. Tell HN: Cloudflare verification is breaking the internet
    (28 Apr 2023 | 615 points | Comments)

76. Tell HN: I was permanently banned from eBay in one hour
    (8 May 2022 | 612 points | Comments)

77. Tell HN: Otter.ai bot recording meetings without consent
    (7 Sep 2022 | 612 points | Comments)

78. Tell HN: Triplebyte is, yet again, making user profiles public without consent?
    (16 Jun 2022 | 610 points | Comments)

79. Tell HN: Godaddy canceled my domain, gave me 2h to respond, then charged €150
    (15 Aug 2022 | 603 points | Comments)

80. Tell HN: Whole Yandex Git repository leaked
    (25 Jan 2023 | 602 points | Comments)

81. Tell HN: HN was down
    (17 Dec 2025 | 599 points | Comments)

82. Tell HN: The loneliness of a pretty good developer
    (19 May 2022 | 597 points | Comments)

83. Tell HN: My Reddit account was banned after adding my subs to the protest
    (5 Jun 2023 | 596 points | Comments)

84. Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day
    (26 Apr 2026 | 590 points | Comments)

85. Tell HN: Recruiters are lying about remote positions
    (7 Apr 2022 | 580 points | Comments)

86. Tell HN: The “Y” logo in the top-left corner has been upgraded to SVG
    (10 May 2023 | 579 points | Comments)

87. Tell HN: I made $1000 with my app and now making $500/mo
    (25 May 2022 | 578 points | Comments)

88. Tell HN: Bash.org is no more
    (11 Jan 2024 | 575 points | Comments)

89. Tell HN: Call Mom
    (10 May 2020 | 569 points | Comments)

90. Tell HN: Amazon now owns 3.0.0.0/8
    (8 Nov 2018 | 565 points | Comments)

91. Tell HN: Our experience with Groupon
    (14 Jun 2011 | 562 points | Comments)

92. Tell HN: We should start to add “ai.txt” as we do for “robots.txt”
    (10 May 2023 | 562 points | Comments)

93. Tell HN: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode
    (1 Jul 2023 | 561 points | Comments)

94. Tell HN: Call your mom
    (11 May 2014 | 555 points | Comments)

95. Tell HN: Hacker News now supports IPv6
    (23 Jan 2024 | 555 points | Comments)

96. Tell HN: Thank you whoishiring, a.k.a. Matthew Walsh-Cloonagh
    (31 May 2015 | 553 points | Comments)

97. Tell HN: Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
    (24 Dec 2022 | 548 points | Comments)

98. Tell HN: Vim users, `:x` is like `:wq` but writes only when changes are made
    (7 Jan 2023 | 537 points | Comments)

99. Tell HN: Using Gmail? You will be force logged into Chrome
    (8 Sep 2018 | 532 points | Comments)

100. Tell HN: GitHub will delete your private repo if you lose access to the original
     (31 Jan 2023 | 530 points | Comments)