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2026 5

  1. The AI Contradiction
  2. Local Inference with LLMs
  3. BEWARE GPU Scammers
  4. Classes of Originality
  5. The Hive Mind

2025 1

  1. The Unite Real Time Operating System

2024 2

  1. The Sweet Spot - Maximizing Llama Energy Efficiency
  2. CNC Lasers (cutters, engravers)

2023 1

  1. 48x32, A 1536 LED Game Computer

2022 3

  1. Drastically Reducing Our Powerbill
  2. The Golden Egg Circus
  3. Kernenergie vs Zon en Wind

2021 3

  1. Long Range E-Bike
  2. COVID19 Predictions for 2021
  3. Piano Practice Software Progress

2020 11

  1. My Friends the Complot Theory Believers
  2. Pianojacq, an easy way to learn to play the piano
  3. COVID-19 Round 2 is Here
  4. Letsencrypt, the Good, The bad and the Ugly
  5. Why Johnny Won't Upgrade
  6. The Social Media Problem
  7. Dealing With Insomnia
  8. Restoring and MIDI-fying a Baby Grand Piano
  9. Covid-19, a Retrospective
  10. Please don't lie
  11. Anatomy of a Scam

2019 4

  1. MP3 to MIDI Conversion
  2. A Company You Have Never Heard Of
  3. ET (Don't) Phone Home
  4. The Briefcase

2018 7

  1. What is wrong with Microsoft buying GitHub
  2. So Your Startup Received the Nightmare GDPR Letter
  3. GDPR Hysteria Part II, Nuts and Bolts, actionable advice
  4. GDPR Hysteria
  5. Trainification
  6. Dark Patterns, The Ratchet
  7. E-Stop and Fuel, software that keeps you awake at night

2017 8

  1. The Web in 2050
  2. Sorting 2 Tons of Lego, Many Questions, Results
  3. I Blame The Babel Fish
  4. No politics please, we're hackers, too busy to improve the world
  5. How to Improve a Legacy Codebase
  6. Sorting 2 Tons of Lego, The software Side
  7. Sorting 2 Metric Tons of Lego
  8. Just Say No

2016 10

  1. To Stay Or Not To Stay
  2. Pinched Nerve Due To Desk
  3. YCs Basic Income Experiment
  4. The Problem With Electric Vehicles
  5. The Myth Of The Evil VC
  6. My Passion Was My Weak Spot
  7. Another Way Of Looking At Lee Sedol vs AlphaGo
  8. Trackers
  9. New Employee Questions for Start-ups
  10. Ceo

2015 28

  1. The World That Could Have Been
  2. Cloudy With a Chance of Lock-In
  3. Volkwagen and the Blame The Engineer Game
  4. A Critique of Makani, the Google X Kite Based Power Project
  5. Highschool Reunion, Bulllies And Being A Nerdy Kid In The 70's And Early 80's
  6. Defending The Right To Be Forgotten
  7. Retention Is The Key
  8. We're heading Straight for AOL 2.0
  9. The Fastest Blog In The World
  10. Divide And Conquer the most powerful concept in programming
  11. The 'No True Programmer' Fallacy
  12. Your Head As A Battleground, Dueling Memes
  13. Evercookies in the wild, Kia, Mazda, German & Polish Newspapers, Piracy Honeypots and more
  14. What do you want, a cookie?
  15. 1,000,000 Websites
  16. Sell it or run it, there is no middle ground
  17. What You See Is What You Get
  18. If you've got nothing to hide...
  19. Ham or Spam? Gmail not to be trusted for important mail
  20. German BND Aided NSA in spying on Dutch, French and Austrians
  21. Do Not Disclose Your Salary To Recruiters
  22. Fifty
  23. Computers Are Brain Amplifiers
  24. Let's talk about your backups
  25. The Army Of the New Independents
  26. All the Technology but None of the Love
  27. All Programming is Bookkeeping
  28. Please do not be a One Trick Pony

2014 20

  1. Saving a Project and a Company
  2. Good Consultants vs Bad Consultants
  3. If Growth By Itself Was Good Then Getting Cancer Would be Good News
  4. Whose Phone Is It Anyway?
  5. It is not about the money, Silly! It is all about the time.
  6. My New Vehicle
  7. Choosing a Web Framework/Language Combo - Ruby On Rails
  8. Moniker.com is being murdered
  9. The Several Million Dollar Bug
  10. Charities, Direct Marketing and Your Privacy
  11. Google Web/Search History Disable does Absolutely Nothing
  12. Choosing a Web Framework/Language Combo - the SRS Test Application
  13. A Western Kid Living in Communist Poland
  14. Choosing a Web Framework/Language Combo for the Next Decade
  15. Ripe For Disruption
  16. Learning Romanian
  17. When Sued Don't Tweet
  18. The Raspberry Pi as a poor mans Transputer
  19. Journeyman Project Trip 1 United Kingdom
  20. Will Work For Food And Lodging

2013 21

  1. The Five Year Itch
  2. The Freedom - Responsibility trade-off for Entrepreneurs
  3. Happy Anniversary WWW
  4. Make a bigger Haystack
  5. Love To Learn (2) Highschool Horrors
  6. The Destruction Of The Web
  7. Sound Sensor Failure
  8. Why Stuff From China Is So Cheap
  9. How to go bankrupt
  10. Love To Learn
  11. The API Paradox
  12. AppGratis Apple AppStore Appeal
  13. Come and help save posterous from oblivion!
  14. Suffering from depression? Don't do that start-up!
  15. Domain Knowledge or a lack thereof
  16. how to make a quick buck
  17. Computers I have known
  18. Disqus bait and switch, now with ads
  19. Introducing The Paper Bay
  20. When Haskell Is Not faster than C
  21. A World Without Power

2012 33

  1. Elon Musk and the Hyperloop
  2. Thank HN: Our friend is safe and sound
  3. Stick to what you know, a tale of an investment gone wrong
  4. This white powder will kill me one day
  5. How to build a windmill part 2, parts, nuts, bolts and blades
  6. How to build a windmill
  7. Life as a Service
  8. The Pendulum Swings, Again
  9. My brush with a patent troll
  10. Things you'll never see, hear or use
  11. All targets are moving targets
  12. Be nice to those that serve you
  13. The scale of programming complexity
  14. Acqui-hire is just another way to spell failure
  15. Those that can do, those that can't blog
  16. Deadbook, the long-term Facebook
  17. Tim Cook memo line by line
  18. You are not the customer you are the product
  19. Startup Game
  20. First employee or co-founder?
  21. fix the bugs and do not forget to fix the class of bug and the process too
  22. Evergreen Investor Scams, Kooks & Crooks
  23. Prior art for Apple's 'interactive search' patent
  24. So you're making good money. STFU
  25. 301 redirects a dangerous one way street!
  26. The rise of the destructive programmer
  27. The death throes of an industry
  28. Getting to 'No'
  29. today I wrote some code
  30. The Starter, the Architect, the Debugger and the Finisher
  31. Your Genetic information is not just yours but it is family property
  32. What you could do if you were google and had their databases
  33. C Preprocessor Hell

2011 78

  1. Due Diligence survival guide part II, nuts and bolts
  2. There is no shame in failure
  3. So you're considering a liberal arts degree
  4. Electronics for programmers
  5. I am a programmer
  6. Dropping out is probably not for you
  7. I hate cut-and-paste
  8. Does it scale? Who cares!
  9. My Heroes
  10. How much of your privacy are you willing to give up in return for a lollipop?
  11. It takes three years to build a business
  12. Are you a programmer with chronic headaches? If so please read
  13. CS Paper writers, please show your code!
  14. hey google, I want my cache links back
  15. Your first customer as a co-founder
  16. The Google Wallet, a lifetime log of your purchases
  17. TechCrunch sets new standard for editorial behavior
  18. A good memory, a programmers most important tool
  19. The Unofficial Hacker News FAQ
  20. Ways to increase the runway for your start-up
  21. Have yourself some Raspberry Pi
  22. The hidden cost of funding
  23. Due Diligence survival guide
  24. The ghost in the room Rachmaninoff plays Rachmaninoff, an early attempt at Hi-Fi recording
  25. How to Improve the quality of your software find an old computer
  26. The Clock Frequency of our Universe
  27. Double your price! (and no, I'm not kidding)
  28. warning do not do business with SEDO
  29. How not to handle open source feedback
  30. The start-up code of conduct and ethics v 0.1
  31. a C Heisenbug in the wild
  32. No User Serviceable Parts Inside
  33. augmented reality with mass appeal
  34. productivity tips for the easily distracted
  35. it is good to have friends
  36. a really good talk and animation about education
  37. I remember IANA
  38. Living in the zone
  39. attitude does not scale
  40. Hacker News is for hackers not startup founders
  41. A tale of two programmers
  42. Free, Public Data Sets
  43. Brian Chesky
  44. How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy
  45. the mobile phone superpower you have never heard of
  46. 41,000,006 reasons why I think we're in a bubble
  47. Advertising as a revenue stream
  48. when crisis hits
  49. How to be a Consultant, a Freelancer, or an Independent Contractor
  50. my newest computer
  51. venture capitalists are not record labels
  52. taking stock after 13 years
  53. make something people need
  54. You can't do that
  55. How to Sell Your Company
  56. The worst program I ever worked on
  57. Idea Dump, March 2011 Edition
  58. Three Roads To The Top Of The Mountain
  59. We do get out of bed for less than 10000 dollars per day
  60. What a programmer does for a living
  61. Salary negotiations for techies
  62. Those Gray Beard Hackers And Their Tall Stories
  63. About This Website
  64. Dealing with burn-out
  65. Giants through misfortune and what we can learn from them
  66. Microsoft just bought Nokia for $0
  67. Review What You Fork on GitHub
  68. The Need to Code
  69. The belt sander and the battle for privacy. A body hack.
  70. Your own company?, You can do it!
  71. Bing search results showing up in Google
  72. Idea dump, February 2011 edition
  73. Microsoft's Bing versus Google, some observations
  74. Startup School 2010
  75. Andrew Mason
  76. Mark Zuckerberg
  77. Programmers think differently than non-programmers
  78. Idea dump, January 2011 edition

2010 72

  1. Anonymous attacks the websites of the Dutch police and the public prosecutors office
  2. Everybody please calm down regarding WikiLeaks and Julian Assange
  3. HackerNews, now with downvotes!
  4. Rejected by some incubator ? Prove them wrong!
  5. idea dump, December edition
  6. When your userbase gets away from you, make something people want, indeed
  7. Dalton Caldwell
  8. Paul Graham
  9. Ron Conway
  10. A Larger Bucket
  11. Fewer Holes
  12. More Buckets
  13. Reducing the Size of the Holes
  14. The Funnel
  15. Affiliates
  16. Everybody Pays
  17. Handbook Freemium
  18. Moving to Freemium
  19. Mucho Dinero
  20. Recurring vs One shot sales, ISPS
  21. Taxes
  22. Communication
  23. Grandfathering
  24. Life Cycle
  25. Respect
  26. My list of ideas, if you're looking for inspiration
  27. Pay it forward, HN style
  28. Down with URL shorteners
  29. Why you should or should not get a co-founder
  30. Autonomous driving cars one big step closer to reality
  31. AB Testing make sure you are optimizing for the right variable profit
  32. Welcome to the Pit of Despair...
  33. Beware of being too open about your company on Hacker News
  34. How we improved the SEO performance of WW.com, a mini how-to
  35. Turning around the Titanic, part 1, triple the signup rate
  36. Good System Administrators are Blind
  37. Selling really does start at 'no'
  38. Adventures of an imperative programmer in the land of fp
  39. The Start-up from Hell
  40. So you were thinking of using adsense to generate income? Think again!
  41. Polll vs Epoll (2), measuring the ATR on a very high volume site
  42. Poll vs Epoll, once again.
  43. Who will get us out of this mess?
  44. In defense of wikileaks
  45. Assume Absolutely Nothing
  46. Are you suffering from burn-out?
  47. I'm a tool freak
  48. The pros and cons of 'fuck you' money.
  49. Those niggling last little bits of a project
  50. How David can beat Goliath, smaller companies competing with larger companies
  51. You are NOT the CEO
  52. How to get better at estimating software projects for freelancers and teams
  53. running a start-up is great, growing a business is boring
  54. Burn-out visible in the brains of patients
  55. Hacker, Painter, Bricklayer and Watchmaker
  56. In Memoriam René Sommer
  57. The ideal mobile computer interface
  58. Wholesale Privacy violations in the European Union
  59. Mistakes I've made, and what you might be able to learn from them.
  60. A chair needs at least three legs, so does your business
  61. You will die. Get used to it.
  62. The Page Space Wars, a cyber war for territory in Googles index
  63. readwriteweb.com Canvassing HN'ers for their 'HN Love'
  64. Asynchronous Life
  65. Define 'Correct'. Conways 'life' and the central clock
  66. Is HN Changing - Growth
  67. Decoding Clojure
  68. I'm a terrorist (and so are you!)
  69. Is HN changing ? Part 2
  70. Is HN changing ?
  71. Can we stop the language bashing please ?
  72. baby steps in clojure

2009 27

  1. The Lambda Calculus
  2. Small really is good, the case for micro clouds
  3. The Agony Of Choice
  4. Estimating
  5. Third parties
  6. Contracting
  7. Insurance
  8. Invoices
  9. Pricing
  10. Finding and keeping customers
  11. Intellectual Property (IP)
  12. Politics
  13. Skills
  14. Banks
  15. Bookkeeper
  16. Conflict
  17. Customers
  18. Dependencies
  19. Ethics
  20. Incorporation
  21. Presentation
  22. Self Discipline
  23. Taxes
  24. Tools
  25. CUDA for beginners
  26. The story behind ww.com / camarades.com.
  27. The Value of Typing

2008 4

  1. Junk DNA ? No Way!
  2. manufacturing in Asia
  3. Music
  4. the cost and value of bits, and their content, signals and noise