Best of 2026

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2026. 520 posts.

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Personal Encyclopedias

Last year, I visited my grandmother's house for the first time after the pandemic and came across a cupboard full of loose old photos. I counted 1,351 of them spanning all the way from my grandparents in their early 20s, my mom as a baby, to me in middle school, just around the time when we got our first smartphone…