Hacker News with Generative AI: Hacker News

Hacker News now runs on top of Common Lisp (gitlab.io)
Hacker News was written in the Arc lisp dialect, a dialect created by Paul Graham. Arc was implemented on top of Racket, but that has now changed. HN runs on top of SBCL since a few months.
Programming Languages, Hacker News, Lisp
663 points by Tomte 32 days ago | 435 comments
Show HN: HNRelevant – Add a "related" section to Hacker News (github.com/imdj)
A browser extension that adds a "Related" section to Hacker News. Don't miss out on relevant interesting discussions.
Browser Extensions, Hacker News, Productivity Tools
122 points by imadj 35 days ago | 32 comments
Show HN: hcker.news – an ergonomic, timeline-based Hacker News front page (hcker.news)
hcker.news | Hacker News Timeline
Hacker News, User Interface, Web Development, Productivity
180 points by postalcoder 35 days ago | 82 comments
Ask HN: What HN posts inspired or changed your perspective the most? (ycombinator.com)
Hacker News, Community, Inspiration, Perspective
52 points by hungle9 36 days ago | 24 comments
Show HN: A native Hacker News reader with integrated todo/done tracking (github.com/haojiang99)
A native desktop application for browsing Hacker News with a clean, modern interface. Built with Rust and egui.
Hacker News, Desktop Applications, Rust, User Interfaces
54 points by coolwulf 39 days ago | 18 comments
Show HN: Chat with 19 years of HN (camelai.com)
Log in to camelAI to continue to camelAI.
Hacker News, Artificial Intelligence, Chatbots, Community
156 points by vercantez 41 days ago | 124 comments
Harmonic: Modern Android client for Hacker News (github.com/SimonHalvdansson)
Harmonic for Hacker News is an Android Hacker News client which is meant to be modern, fast and well thought out. You can find it on Google Play for download.
Android, Hacker News, Mobile Apps, Open Source
49 points by flashblaze 42 days ago | 20 comments
Optimizing My Hacker News Experience (reorientinglife.substack.com)
Like many, I try to stay updated on tech news via Hacker News (HN) posts.
Hacker News, User Experience, Productivity
78 points by fiveleavesleft 50 days ago | 37 comments
Ask HN: What's the best advice you ignored and later wished you hadn't? (ycombinator.com)
Ask HN: What's the best advice you ignored and later wished you hadn't?
Advice, Regret, Personal Experience, Life Lessons, Hacker News
13 points by sylm 50 days ago | 15 comments
You Wouldn't Download a Hacker News (jasonthorsness.com)
And now I can analyze it with DuckDB. Behold the fraction of total comments and stories referencing key topics over time!
Hacker News, Data Analysis, DuckDB, Trends
458 points by jasonthorsness 59 days ago | 227 comments
What If Hacker News Was a Spreadsheet? (ycombinator.com)
What if Hacker News was a spreadsheet?
Hacker News, Spreadsheets, Social Media, User Interfaces
14 points by annamonaco 63 days ago | 1 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 65 days ago | 19 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 68 days ago | 1 comments
Tell HN: /active and showdead might lead to a more informative HN experience (ycombinator.com)
If you go on https://news.ycombinator.com/active instead of the default https://news.ycombinator.com page, the results are very different. In my experience, much more interesting content.
Hacker News, User Experience, Website Features
21 points by hahaxdxd123 71 days ago | 2 comments
Ask HN: Software Engineers to follow who have a healthy skepticism of AI (ycombinator.com)
Curious who you all follow for thoughtful, well-balanced takes on AI, particularly in the context of software engineering.
Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Skepticism, Hacker News, Community Recommendations
14 points by wronginternet4 71 days ago | 15 comments
Show HN: HN Watercooler – listen to HN threads as an audio conversation (onetake-ai.github.io)
This app processes Hacker News threads into audio conversations using ElevenLabs.
Hacker News, Audio, AI, Conversation, Tools
51 points by sebastiennight 71 days ago | 56 comments
Classifying aviation-related posts on Hacker News with SLMs (skysight.inc)
As an engineer and private pilot, I often find myself enjoying the surprisingly high volume of aviation-related content on Hacker News. About a year and a half ago, I started wondering if language models could be used to answer the question of just how much of Hacker News pertains to aviation.
Machine Learning, Aviation, Hacker News
10 points by sethkim 72 days ago | 2 comments
Ask HN: What's the Most Effective Way You've Improved Focus? (ycombinator.com)
Ask HN: What's the Most Effective Way You've Improved Focus?
Productivity, Focus, Self Improvement, Hacker News
24 points by schappim 72 days ago | 25 comments
Reproducing Hacker News writing style fingerprinting (antirez.com)
About three years ago I saw a quite curious and interesting post on Hacker News. A student, Christopher Tarry, was able to use cosine similarity against a vector of top words frequencies in comments, in order to detect similar HN accounts — and, sometimes, even accounts actually controlled by the same user, that is, fake accounts used to uncover the identity of the writer.
Machine Learning, Hacker News, Data Analysis, User Behavior
325 points by grep_it 72 days ago | 155 comments
Ask HN: Why do DOGE stories never make it to the frontpage? (ycombinator.com)
This morning I saw a news story that seemed pretty important for tech workers to be aware of [1]. I went to submit, and I was taken to a page where the post was already marked as "flagged" despite having 400+ upvotes in the 4 hours since original submission. However, the post had been flagged, so I was unable to see it on the front page.
Hacker News, Censorship, Cryptocurrency, Dogecoin
16 points by Kapura 73 days ago | 11 comments
Show HN: A Hacker News client that only shows YouTube videos (netlify.app)
Hacker News, YouTube, Software, Web Development
12 points by notsahil 75 days ago | 10 comments
Ask HN: What Problem Would You Solve with Unlimited Time and Money? [Apr 2025] (ycombinator.com)
I love the innovative ideas and unexpected insights from HN citizens. Let’s go deep—what challenge would you tackle if resource was not a problem?
Hacker News, Problem Solving, Hypothetical Scenarios, User Feedback
26 points by hedayet 76 days ago | 41 comments
We quit our Big Tech jobs after hitting #1 on HN and Product Hunt (heyopenspot.com)
Hacker News, Product Hunt, Entrepreneurship, Startups, Technology
46 points by fliellerjulian 78 days ago | 43 comments
Ask HN: Why do some links start out [dead]? (ycombinator.com)
I posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43647126 and the link was [dead] on arrival. I am certain that nobody had time to flag it: the post was dead as soon as I hit Submit and the page refreshed. Why did this happen? Is this some sort of controversial topic detector or source filter?
Hacker News, Website Issues, Links, Content Moderation
12 points by archagon 78 days ago | 8 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 78 days ago | 110 comments
LLM-hacker-news: LLM plugin for pulling content from Hacker News (github.com/simonw)
LLM plugin for pulling content from Hacker News
Hacker News, Software, Plugins
92 points by kwiktrip 80 days ago | 55 comments
Techniques Hacker News Uses to Create Great Shell Scripts (nochlin.com)
After publishing my previous article on how I create a great user experience for shell scripts, the Hacker News community provided valuable feedback and suggestions. I've compiled these insights into six additional techniques to further enhance your shell scripts:
Shell Scripting, Hacker News, User Experience, Programming
4 points by emrah 83 days ago | 1 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 83 days ago | 0 comments
Ask HN: How do you consume HN? (ycombinator.com)
HN account for majority of my open tabs. With a very dynamic top submissions list, I struggle to keep up with all the content and conversations. I was wondering how do you consume content you're interested in on this site? How do you keep up with topics and conversations?
Hacker News, User Experience, Content Consumption, Information Overload
15 points by franczesko 83 days ago | 19 comments
Ask HN: Does Collapsing an HN Thread in a Popular story spike your CPU use? (ycombinator.com)
For popular threads with a lot of comments, collapsing a top comment leads to high CPU usage and can cause browsers (I tried in Chrome and Vivaldi) to freeze up.
Hacker News, Performance, Web Browsers
11 points by cleverpatrick 84 days ago | 22 comments