Hackernews posts about Stack Overflow

Stack Overflow is a popular question-and-answer website and community for programmers and developers to share knowledge and solve problems.

1. What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph (data.stackexchange.com)
   483 points by secretslol 18 days ago | 585 comments
2. No Stack Overflow, No Autocomplete: What Coding Felt Like in the 80s (comuniq.xyz)
   62 points by 01-_- 10 days ago | 61 comments
3. Ask HN: How long has it been since you last opened Stack Overflow?
   6 points by novoreorx 27 days ago | 12 comments
4. Stack Overflow for Agents (stackoverflow.blog)
   4 points by taubek 11 days ago | discuss
5. Show HN: The Museum of Stack Overflow (closedasduplicate.com)
   3 points by hafiz_ about 8 hours ago | discuss
6. Stackoverflow 2026 Developer Survey (take.survey.stackoverflow.co)
   2 points by throw_await 20 days ago | 2 comments
7. Keeping an Offline Copy of StackOverflow with Kiwix (2020) (rickcarlino.com)
   1 points by turtleyacht 26 days ago | discuss
8. Show HN: An MCP server that knows what that error message means (errors.standardbeagle.com)
   1 points by andybrummer 4 days ago | discuss
9. Developers are attached to tools because tools encode trust (stackoverflow.blog)
   246 points by HieronymusBosch 7 days ago | 133 comments
10. The 2026 Developer Survey is Live (meta.stackoverflow.com)
    7 points by joshdavham 18 days ago | 2 comments
11. Are We AI Yet? (data.stackexchange.com)
    2 points by pelagicAustral 29 days ago | discuss
12. Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time (data.stackexchange.com)
    1550 points by maartin0 7 months ago | 999 comments
13. Luigi Mangione's account has been renamed on Stack Overflow (substack.evancarroll.com)
    990 points by OsrsNeedsf2P over 1 year ago | 810 comments
14. Interview with Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow (www.cnbc.com)
    277 points by thm over 1 year ago | 471 comments
15. Show HN: Cq – Stack Overflow for AI coding agents (blog.mozilla.ai)
    225 points by peteski22 5 months ago | 103 comments
16. Stack Overflow’s forum is dead but the company’s still kicking (sherwood.news)
    188 points by geerlingguy 2 months ago | 258 comments
17. Stack Overflow is almost dead (blog.pragmaticengineer.com)
    144 points by Jerry2 about 1 year ago | 276 comments
18. My stackoverflow question was closed so here's a blog post about CoreWCF (richardcocks.github.io)
    123 points by eterm about 1 year ago | 186 comments
19. OpenSSL: Stack buffer overflow in CMS AuthEnvelopedData parsing (openssl-library.org)
    102 points by MagerValp 6 months ago | 47 comments
20. We might have been slower to abandon StackOverflow if it wasn't a toxic hellhole (www.pcloadletter.dev)
    100 points by ronbenton 7 months ago | 212 comments
21. The Fall of StackOverflow: A Data-Driven Analysis (pdftranslate.ai)
    92 points by sh_tomer almost 2 years ago | 125 comments
22. Ask HN: Why Is Stack Overflow Fading Away?
    88 points by cryptography almost 2 years ago | 145 comments
23. New questions on Stack Overflow are down 77% compared to 2022 (gist.github.com)
    79 points by 8s2ngy over 1 year ago | 71 comments
24. 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results (survey.stackoverflow.co)
    72 points by colingw about 1 year ago | 72 comments
25. Let go of StackOverflow; communities must take ownership (ahelwer.ca)
    69 points by tensegrist 8 months ago | 86 comments
26. Sad times StackOverflow takes down all its physical servers (stackoverflow.blog)
    62 points by slroger 7 months ago | 11 comments
27. After 16 years, we're renewing the StackOverflow Brand (meta.stackexchange.com)
    61 points by walterbell about 1 year ago | 79 comments
28. My most downvoted StackOverflow answer (ohadravid.github.io)
    61 points by signa11 almost 2 years ago | 71 comments
29. StackOverflow: Retiring the Beta Site (meta.stackoverflow.com)
    44 points by stefankuehnel 4 months ago | 40 comments
30. Stack Overflow Does Not Want to Help You (stackoverflow-makes-me-sad.bearblog.dev)
    41 points by closed-offtopic over 1 year ago | 37 comments
31. StackOverflow's questions per day have fallen 99% (meta.stackoverflow.com)
    37 points by stevage 4 months ago | 21 comments
32. Stack Overflow data reveals the hidden productivity tax of almost right AI code (venturebeat.com)
    30 points by isaacfrond about 1 year ago | 30 comments
33. Native ads coming soon to Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange (meta.stackexchange.com)
    29 points by exploraz 8 months ago | 55 comments
34. Stackoverflow Outage (www.stackstatus.net)
    27 points by ga_to 8 months ago | 52 comments
35. From Code to Cash: Stack Overflow Co-Founder's Unorthodox Path to Philanthropy (www.forbes.com)
    27 points by axiologist over 1 year ago | 2 comments
36. Copy button added to Stack Overflow (meta.stackexchange.com)
    25 points by exploraz 9 months ago | 25 comments
37. Changing Forecasts for Python Questions on Stack Overflow (win-vector.com)
    25 points by jmount over 1 year ago | 5 comments
38. Stack Overflow for AI Coding Agents (shareful.ai)
    20 points by schappim 6 months ago | 12 comments
39. Stack Overflow is almost dead (newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com)
    20 points by spenvo about 1 year ago | 8 comments
40. Stack Overflow Beta (beta.stackoverflow.com)
    19 points by fabian2k 5 months ago | 5 comments
41. StackSafe: Taming recursion in Rust without stack overflow (fast.github.io)
    18 points by andylokandy about 1 year ago | 7 comments