Hacker News with Generative AI: Community

A Love Letter to People Who Believe in People (swiss-miss.com)
When I was eight, I made a big, hand-drawn poster that said, “Do you want to join my fan club?” and put it up in the small Swiss town where I grew up.

Personal Essays, Community, Social Issues

346 points by NaOH 1 day ago | 100 comments

2025 FreeBSD Community Survey (surveymonkey.com)
The FreeBSD Core Team and the FreeBSD Foundation invite you to complete the 2025 FreeBSD Community Survey.

FreeBSD, Community, Survey, Operating Systems

5 points by annied115 2 days ago | 0 comments

Ask HN: Share your AI prompt that stumps every model (ycombinator.com)
I had an idea for creating a crowdsourced database of AI prompts that no AI model could yet crack.

Generative AI, Community, Crowdsourcing

406 points by owendarko 2 days ago | 610 comments

Ask HN: Has anyone else noticed a recent sentiment shift on HN? (ycombinator.com)
I've frequented HN off-and-on for over a decade now, with some fairly long stretches of inactivity interspersed.

Hacker News, Community, Sentiment Analysis, User Experience

11 points by unclebucknasty 2 days ago | 19 comments

Nginx 1.28.0 has been released (nginx.org)
Join us on the new NGINX Community Forum to connect with users, discover the latest community activity, and troubleshoot issues together.

New Releases, Software, Community, Nginx

4 points by neustradamus 3 days ago | 0 comments

Why users cannot create Issues directly (github.com/ghostty-org)
Users are not allowed to create Issues directly in this repository - we ask that you create a Discussion first.

GitHub, Open Source, Software Development, User Experience, Community

6 points by freetonik 4 days ago | 1 comments

Ask HN: What Tools Did You Build for Yourself? (ycombinator.com)
Ask HN: What Tools Did You Build for Yourself?

Software Development, Tools, Programming, Community, Productivity

11 points by schappim 4 days ago | 5 comments

Where to Find First Users? (ycombinator.com)
Hi folks, I have built a pixel art game asset generation tool for game developers. However currently struggling to find early users. Can you suggest ways to attract users? Thanks.

Game Development, User Acquisition, Community, Product Marketing

6 points by fkhasiyev 4 days ago | 15 comments

Ask HN: What is bad about Homebrew? (ycombinator.com)
I've seen a number of comments characterizing homebrew, the package manager, as bad but it was usually in an offhand way.

Software, Package Management, Community, Software Development

10 points by croemer 5 days ago | 9 comments

Ask HN: What is the most interesting thing you've learned lately? (ycombinator.com)
Ask HN: What is the most interesting thing you've learned lately?

Learning, Hacker News, Community, Discussion

13 points by aabiji 6 days ago | 1 comments

Ask HN: Happy Easter HN - What's your favorite Easter egg story? (ycombinator.com)
Curious to hear your most memorable Easter egg stories, whether in code, games, or real life.

Holidays, Stories, Community, Programming, Games

10 points by hubraumhugo 6 days ago | 3 comments

I built a Q&A platform for tax discussion in Indonesia – would love feedback (ycombinator.com)
Hi HN,<p>I recently built a platform called DiskusiPajak (https://diskusipajak.com), which is a Q&A community focused on tax-related questions in Indonesia.

Indonesia, Taxation, Q&A Platforms, Community

8 points by diskusipajak 7 days ago | 5 comments

Im launching a community of dis-regulation hackers (unblend.me)

Cybersecurity, Hacking, Community, Regulation

5 points by igershteyn 7 days ago | 5 comments

Why a Michigan community formed a human chain to move 9,100 books, one at a time (cbc.ca)
Moving is easy when you get 300 of your closest friends to help out.

Community, Books, Events, Human Interest

6 points by petethomas 8 days ago | 1 comments

Open Letter to Organic Maps Shareholders (openletter.earth)
This letter's intent is to express our concerns regarding the current Organic Maps project crisis, and to find a path forward that aligns with the project's stated values and the interests of the community.

Open Source, Software, Community, Crisis

22 points by RicoElectrico 10 days ago | 2 comments

A Farewell to the ArcoLinux University (arcolinux.info)
After eight years of dedication to the ArcoLinux project and the broader Linux community, the time has come for me to step away.

Linux, Open Source, Community, Personal Announcements

79 points by 0x54MUR41 13 days ago | 12 comments

Nim at FOSDEM – frequently asked questions (2018) (peterme.net)
Nim recently had a stand at FOSDEM 2018. It was lot's of fun meeting up with all the people whom I've only gotten to know by their IRC nicknames. And very interesting to help out at the stand telling people about Nim.

Programming Languages, Conferences, Community

5 points by archargelod 13 days ago | 0 comments

Ask HN: What's the Best Open Source Tool You've Discovered Recently? (ycombinator.com)
For me it was the open source e-ink display TRMNL[2] which I learned about via ATP and Snazzy labs[1].

Open Source, Software, Tools, Community

13 points by schappim 15 days ago | 16 comments

Rebooted Digg launches early-access community with $5 fee (techcrunch.com)
The reboot of early-internet social news site Digg is underway. Original founder Kevin Rose and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian have launched an early-access community for some of the first people who signed up after last month’s announcement that the pair had bought Digg and planned to relaunch it as something new.

Social Media, Relaunches, Community, Business, Technology

12 points by zeech 15 days ago | 2 comments

Mean People Suck, Folks (reddit.com)
I've been using Emacs since 1983; it's been my go-to editor the entire time. I've given talks on it, recorded videos, and generally have promoted it forever. I'm not quite ready to abandon it, but I am feeling pretty unhappy about r/emacs. For whatever reason, this subreddit seems to be inhabited by people who delight, when someone asks a reasonable question, in downvoting them and being as unpleasant as they can manage to be. This happened to me just today.

Emacs, Reddit, Community, Software

10 points by nonrecursive 16 days ago | 2 comments

Hacker News Hug of Deaf (susam.net)
About three years ago, I set up a tiny netcat loop on one of my Debian servers to accept arbitrary connections from the Hacker News (HN) community.

Hacker News, Community, Networking, Servers

457 points by susam 16 days ago | 110 comments

Ask HN: What Are Your Favourite Self-Hosted Tools in 2025? (ycombinator.com)
Ask HN: What Are Your Favourite Self-Hosted Tools in 2025?

Self-Hosted, Tools, Software, Technology, Community

4 points by schappim 18 days ago | 3 comments

Middle-aged man trading cards go viral in rural Japan town (tokyoweekender.com)
In the small town of Kawara in Fukuoka Prefecture, something unexpected is happening at the Saidosho Community Center. While kids in most parts of Japan are obsessed with Pokémon cards — or perhaps the franchise’s latest smartphone game, Pokémon TCG Pocket — the children of Kawara are clutching to something a little closer to home.

Community, Japan, Culture, Trending

1817 points by PaulHoule 18 days ago | 404 comments

Open-Source Is Just That (vale.rocks)
As someone who has been known to write open-source software and contribute to open-source projects, I have some thoughts on the matter. Particularly, the growing sense of entitlement among users.

Open-Source, Software Development, Community, Ethics

78 points by OuterVale 19 days ago | 119 comments

Longtime Writing Community NaNoWriMo Shuts Down After AI Drama (gizmodo.com)
National Novel Writing Month is no more (at least formally).

Writing, AI, Community, Controversies, Shutdown

19 points by gnabgib 19 days ago | 3 comments

Hacker News Hug of Deaf (susam.net)
"It's essentially the Hacker News Hug of Deaf."

Hacker News, Community, Social Media

5 points by susam 21 days ago | 0 comments

Rust Is Looking for Your Feedback to Help Guide Its Future (phoronix.com)
With Rust turning ten years old this year, they are reflecting and working to draft plans for the next decade.

Rust, Programming Languages, Future Planning, Open Source, Community

7 points by LinuxBender 21 days ago | 1 comments

Help us create a vision for Rust's future (rust-lang.org)
Rust turns 10 this year. It's a good time to step back and assess where we are at and to get aligned around where we should be going. Where is Rust succeeding at empowering everyone to build reliable, efficient software (as it says on our webpage)? Where are there opportunities to do better?

Programming Languages, Rust, Community, Software Development

4 points by HieronymusBosch 22 days ago | 0 comments

Anduril banned from recruiting on NixOS forums (nixos.org)

Security, Open Source, Operating Systems, Community

132 points by OuterVale 22 days ago | 75 comments

Ask HN: What's the Most Effective Habit You've Adopted? (ycombinator.com)
Ask HN: What's the Most Effective Habit You've Adopted?

Productivity, Habits, Self-Improvement, Community, Personal Development

12 points by schappim 22 days ago | 5 comments