Welcome to our special year-end retrospective! We're counting down the top 10 most impactful stories from Hacker News in 2025.

Top Stories of 2025

1. Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year - HN Discussion

2. Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now - HN Discussion

3. Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch - HN Discussion

4. Stimulation Clicker - HN Discussion

5. Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android - HN Discussion

6. Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting - HN Discussion

7. Steam Machine - HN Discussion

8. We're bringing Pebble back - HN Discussion

9. Keep Android Open - HN Discussion

10. Size of Life - HN Discussion

This special episode was generated using AI to celebrate the best of 2025!