Everyday Life
- Show HN: Bodily Oddities
- Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables
- De-Brainrot Vacations
- Site Is Closed on Sundays
- The Real Luxuries In Life
- I wanna live an NPC life
- I don't have a smartphone or at least I wish I didn't
- Building a backyard office, the build and cost breakdown
- Why aren't smart people happier? (2022)
- I turned my RSS feeds into an e-ink newspaper to stop reading on my phone
- Dear people who work at the airport
- Hello, me. It's been a while
- Ordinary Abundance
- Saying No
- Don't use your phone while you poop
- Four simple rules behind Japan's most liveable cities
- A Sick People
- Three Six Mafia – Data about "6/6/6 dating" (2024)
- RamenHaus
- How to Exist
- The lost civic life of movie rental stores
- It's getting harder to focus every day
- My midlife crisis Corolla is fast, furious, and modded
- Interrail: 6,379Km and 13 Countries over 7 weeks
- How to read more books
- Female US rower completes historic solo journey from California to Hawaii
- Modern decor may be straining people's brains
- Parental device use and the adolescent-caregiver attachment bond
- It seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history
- A better way to tie gym shorts (or any drawstring) [video]
- Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep
- Japanese symbols that speak without words
- The AirPods Effect
- Making peace with your unlived dreams (2023)
- Sagrada Família Lego set
- Retro-Tech Parenting
- Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot
- What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard
- Time to talk about my writerdeck
- A scoping review of bicycling interventions’ impacts on well-being
- Why modern parents feel more sleep deprived than our ancestors did
- Remind HN: Today is Mother's Day, call your moms
- The locals don't know
- I want to live like Costco people
- Talking to strangers at the gym
- American Dads Became the Parents Their Fathers Never Were
- I quit drinking for a year
- Men who stare at walls
- The Classic American Diner
- How to be anti-social – a guide to incoherent and isolating social experiences
- If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?
- Dad brains: How fatherhood rewires the male mind
- The quiet disappearance of the free-range childhood
- The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew
- I went to America's worst national parks so you don't have to
- DIY Soft Drinks
- Music for Programming
- Phone-free bars and restaurants on the rise across the U.S.
- A dot a day keeps the clutter away
- Desk for people who work at home with a cat
- Passengers who refuse to use headphones can now be kicked off United flights
- A Japanese glossary of chopsticks faux pas (2022)
- Having Kids (2019)
- World Happiness Report 2026
- Grandparents are glued to their phones [video]
- How Big Diaper absorbs billions of extra dollars from American parents
- Ask HN: How to be alone?
- Ask HN: How are you all staying sane?
- How to talk to anyone and why you should
- Ask HN: Do you also "hoard" notes/links but struggle to turn them into actions?
- STFU
- Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?
- Where do the children play?
- Smartphones manipulate our emotions and trigger our reflexes
- Is a movie prop the ultimate laptop bag?
- iPhone dumbphone
- Shallow water is dangerous too
- How I lost my backpack with passports and laptop
- Let Kids Be Loud
- I deleted my second brain
- My experiment living in a tent in Hong Kong's jungle
- Coffee for people who don't like coffee
- More people are getting tattoos removed
- When flat rate movers won't answer your calls
- Should We Decouple Technology from Everyday Life?
- Lessons in creating family photos that people want to keep (2018)
- Emotional support across adulthood: A 60-year study of men’s social networks
- Where is London's most central sheep?
- How to improve your WFH lighting to reduce eye strain
- TabBoo – add random jumpscares to websites you're trying to avoid
- My Struggle with Doom Scrolling
- Why do small children in Japan ride the subway alone?
- Ask HN: How do you prevent the impact of social media on your children?
- Best Pens for 2025
- The Anti-Social Century
- I've acquired a new superpower
- 28h Days: year 1 update
- Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2024
- Why is the American diet so deadly?
- Engineer eats efficiently for $2.50 a day (2016)
- Yemeni Coffee Shops in Texas
- I am rich and have no idea what to do
- Ask HN: What's Your Morning Routine?
- The average American spent 2.5 months on their phone in 2024
- Should more of us be moving to live near friends?
- Merry Christmas Everyone
- Why making friends as an adult is harder
- One way to fight loneliness: Germans call it a Stammtisch
- Polyamory doesn't liberate; monogamy doesn't protect
- Always go to the funeral (2005)
- The Year of McDonald's
- School smartphone ban results in better sleep and improved mood: study
- I replaced my son's school timetable app with an e-paper
- Conversations are better with four people
- The Surreal Magnificence of Fatherhood
- Why did clothing become boring?
- Honeycrisp apples went from marvel to mediocre
- Restaurant Menu Tricks (2020)
- Show HN: App that asks ‘why?’ every time you unlock your phone
- The Rise of Malört, an Unexpected Midwest princess
- Why don't you move abroad?
- Ask HN: How to deal with a serious mental health breakdown?
- Procrastination and the fear of not being good enough
- Ask HN: Life-changing purchases since 2020? (Under $100 and under $1000)
- Programmer in Berlin: Culture
- How to Train Yourself to Go to Sleep Earlier
- Wait Until 8th
- The almost-lost art of rosin potatoes
- 'Visual clutter' alters information flow in the brain
- Is it better to fail spectacularly?
- Woman, 82, still rides same bike she was given at 13
- SOFA - Start Often Finish rArely
- The Rise and Fall of Matchbox's Toy-Car Empire
- The quiet art of attention
- The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
- Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer
- What excessive screen time does to the adult brain
- Why strength training? A programmer's perspective
- Farewell to the car CD player, source of weirdly deep musical fandoms
- Vanishing Culture: Preserving Cookbooks
- Map with public fruit trees
- The best $4 ever spent
- I've tracked every piece of clothing I've worn for three years (2021)
- I have 2000 old VHS tapes in my garage and don't know what to do with them
- Coffee Stats – Maximize Caffeine Intake and Get to Bed at Night
- A flight search engine that combines flights from different airlines? (2014)
- Tortured by regrets? A new study details how best to overcome them
- Ask HN: My son might be blind – how to best support
- A lonely man in his 30s found welcome and community at spin class
- Nothing: Simply Do Nothing
- Ask HN: Former gifted children with hard lives, how did you turn out?
- An NFC movie library for my kids
- Boxed – Things I learned after lying in an MRI machine for 30 hours
- Shaving is too expensive
- The Art of Finishing
- Japan police: Nearly 4k who died alone at home not found for over a month
- Things my girlfriend and I have argued about
- Just use fucking paper, man
- If Your World Is Not Enchanted, You're Not Paying Attention
- Designing my own watch (2020)
- On finishing projects
- Homebound: The Long-Term Rise in Time Spent at Home Among U.S. Adults
- Slow is smooth, smooth is fast: Navy SEALs' efficiency secret
- It's Not Just You. No One Wants Kids Anymore [video]
- Repair and Remain (2022)
- How to avoid losing items? Holding pens
- Ask HN: 19yr old child suffering from internet gaming disorder? Any suggestions?
- Do quests, not goals
- Gear Acquisition Syndrome
- No Salt
- Making your own hot sauce
- Tomato nostalgia as I relive my Croatian island childhood
- The upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis is the loss of community
- The sinister, shocking rise of dog attacks on postal workers
- Common side effects of not drinking
- Why doesn't advice work?
- What adults lost when kids stopped playing in the street
- Children should be allowed to get bored (2013)
- A chemist explains the chemistry behind decaf coffee
- The rich history of ham radio culture
- Why Americans aren't having babies
- It's Time for Americans to Get over It and Embrace the Bidet (2015)
- Relationships are coevolutionary loops (2023)
- Public toilets are vanishing and that's a civic catastrophe
- Ask HN: Every day feels like prison
- Modern Luddites: On Being a Digital Minimalist Family in a Tech-Saturated World
- Money and Happiness: Extended Evidence Against Satiation
- Ask HN: Struggling with poor memory and executive function. What to do?
- The only tourist in Moldova
- For the Colonel, It Was Finger-Lickin’ Bad (1976)
- An abundance of Katherines: The game theory of baby naming
- The Right Kind of Stubborn
- Do Skis Get Blunt?
- Anxious Generation – How Safetyism and Social Media Are Damaging the Kids
- The case against morning yoga, daily routines, and endless meetings
- How I overcame my addiction to sugar
- I'm terrified of old people
- I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Page I Visit (2020)
- How to do the jhanas
- Ask HN: How do you structure your shared finances with your spouse/partner
- What happens to our breath when we type, tap, scroll
- Sleep deprivation disrupts memory
- Taking away iPhone made daughter a better person
- London–Calcutta Bus Service
- Deterioration of local community a major driver of loss of play-based childhood
- Sending emails to my three-year-old
- On being brought up by libertarian economists
- Woman set up a table to share her collection of washers. Nothing was for sale
- Psychological tricks rich people use to look generous without spending more
- Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment?
- Global tourism is booming. These people would rather it wasn't
- I love my wife. My wife is dead (1946)
- Donating forks to the dining hall
- Ask HN: What would you spend your time working on if you didn't need money?
- Turn Your iPhone into a Dumb Phone
- Chickens in Trees
- The hikikomori in Asia: A life within four walls
- Japan's clothes-drying bathrooms
- Anger Does a Lot More Damage to Your Body Than You Realize
- Are commercial "third places" a dying breed?
- The Denmark secret: how it became the most trusting country
- The Effects of Early Relational Trauma (2001) [pdf]
- Steve Wozniak: When I die these are the moments I want to remember
- Show HN: Peanut Butter Spinner
- I organized a 20-acre game of Capture the Flag
- Falling in love again with disposable cameras
- Swiss vs. American parenting: Differences according to a US mom
- How to get 7th graders to smoke
- When children become caregivers, who cares for them?
- Cold brew coffee in 3 minutes using acoustic cavitation
- Ask HN: What nonfiction books do you keep rereading?
- Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read?
- A love letter to bicycle maintenance and repair
- The Myth of the Second Chance
- You are what you read, even if you don't always remember it
- Other People’s Problems
- Ask HN: How to manage phones and PCs for elderly parents?
- Ask HN: What rabbit hole(s) did you dive into recently?
- Stop Acting Like You're Famous
- I nearly died drowning
- Obituary for a quiet life (2023)
- Research into why some people have a better sense of direction
- Yes, social media is a cause of the epidemic of teenage mental illness
- Adventures Making Vegemite
- A Japanese hikikomori released a game after 6 years of development [video]
- Saffron: The Most Expensive Spice
- Letting go of the idea of keeping up
- The illusion of being stuck
- Why Are Older Americans Drinking So Much?
- Roll-Invert-Unroll: An easier way to replace a duvet cover
- Can We Get Kids Off Smartphones?
- The window for great-grandmothers is closing
- Dealerships Rip You Off With The “Four-Square,” Here’s How To Beat It (2007)
- The closure of a Methodist chapel on Tyneside
- Why are bidets just now getting popular in America?
- Loneliness in Midlife: A Growing Gap Between US and Europe
- Waffle House's Magic Marker System
- Why are most sofas so bad?
- Vegetable stock: my secret lover (2011)
- E-Bikes Overtake Buggies for Some Amish (2021)
- The Existential Relief of Having Children
- I spend £8,500 a year to live on a train
- Screen time robs average toddler of hearing 1,000 words spoken by adult a day
- How to be a good listener
- An observational study of programming and cannabis intoxication
- Children need risk, fear, and excitement in play
- Why time seems to pass faster as we age
- Why jalapeño peppers are less spicy (2023)
- New car buying guide: the algorithm (2021)
- You almost never see a clock at the mall
- Why the world stopped having sex
- Ten years of remembering every day that passes (2022)
- YouTube addiction, one month sober
- Stop postponing things by embracing the mess
- Eclipse viewing at 30k feet: Delta to offer path-of-totality flight
- Stonelifting Etiquette
- My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2020)
- Why are shopping carts always broken?
- The game theory of seduction and marriage with Jane Austen
- Why Americans Suddenly Stopped Hanging Out
- The happiest kids in the world have social safety nets
- Ask HN: Alternatives to the Pomodoro technique?
- When every ketchup but one went extinct (2022)
- Cousins are disappearing. Is this reshaping the experience of childhood?
- Why software engineers like woodworking (2021)
- The surreal life of a professional bridesmaid
- 46% of Americans didn't read a book in 2023
- A French village that voted to ban scrolling in public
- Getting rid of bed bugs: trickier than ever
- Ask HN: Advice for a new father?
- Doorway effect
- The wealthy are cutting the line at the airport, Disney World and ski resorts
- Lessons from a fountain pen addict
- Show HN: Improve cognitive focus in 1 minute
- My experiment in phonelessness was a failure, and it also changed my life
- Write a Letter to Your Future Self
- Ask HN: How did yall meet your SO?
- The New Work-Life Balance: Don't Have Kids
- A practical guide to quitting your smartphone
- How Inuit Parents Teach Kids To Control Their Anger (2019)
- The underground world of hobby tunneling
- Apple Vision Pro and ADHD
- Why Don't We Teach People How to Parent?
- Safetyism killed playtime
- The invention of a new pasta shape (2021)
- Balancing Outdoor Risky Play and Injury Prevention in Childhood Development
- Heat exchanger masks for cold weather cycling (2019)
- A Single Small Map Is Enough for a Lifetime
- All arabica coffee is genetically similar: how can beans taste so different?
- Responses to unicycling
- The humble brilliance of Italy's moka coffee pot (2018)
- Please don't make me use another QR code restaurant menu
- French cheese under threat from lack of microbial diversity
- Losing my son
- What do premarital experiences have to do with marital quality? (2014)
- The Mating Psychology of Incels – The Journal of Sex Research
- Ask HN: What would you do if you could start over?
- The failure of self-checkout technology
- Americans are fake and the Dutch are rude (2022)
- Japan's Comfort Food: The Onigiri
- Enthusiasts struggle to keep model railway industry on track
- Incels need more mental health help, have "fundamental thinking errors"
- He spent his life building a $1M stereo
- How to Be More Agentic
- You Don't Need More Resilience. You Need Friends. and Money
- Ask HN: How many of you are consciously downsizing your devices/going retro?
- The immediate victims of a con would rather act as if the con never happened
- Studies suggest that relying on will power to break habits is hopeless (2019)
- How Gyms Make Money (2015)
- Best Pens for 2024: Gel, Ballpoint, Rollerball, and Fountain Pens
- My 3-year experiment as a digital nomad
- Why don't grocery stores stock pawpaw fruit?
- $450 for a School Bag?
- Procrastination is connected to perfectionism
- America doesn't know tofu
- How we turned the tide in the roach wars
- How Did Polyamory Become So Popular?
- In the long run, we're all Dad
- The great cousin decline
- The teenager who lives like it's the 1940s
- You Don't Batch Cook When You're Suicidal (2020)
- OpenCola
- Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2023
- Average distance to a supermarket in Amsterdam is 400 meter or 1300 feet
- Why a spritz of water before grinding coffee yields better results
- Writing documentation for your house
- The key to mother and child well-being may be many caregivers
- Things you're allowed to do (2020)
- Children, left behind by suburbia, need better community design
- Aerobic exercise is good for the brain; easy wins for behaviour change
- Berlin's indoor pools
- Parental controls? What parental controls?
- Last Post, Please Read
- Ask HN: What work/office purchase transformed your life?
- Iowa teen grew 7k pounds of veggies, then gave them all away
- Hello, stranger – Talking to random people
- America Is Getting Lonelier and More Indoorsy. That's Not a Coincidence
- 20% of Millennials and 68% of Gen Z-ers still live with other family members
- Diamonds Suck
- Find bilingual baby names
- Wisconsin couple has old phones and nobody to buy them
- A door at a Swedish library was accidentally left open
- Sad clown paradox
- Stop making every conversation about yourself
- 'It's quite soul-destroying': how we fell out of love with dating apps