Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2026?

What are your predictions for this coming year?

YouTube will be so inundated by AI cat and dog videos that people stop watching them altogether. People will automatically assume anything labeled "cute" is fake.

	▲	pestaa 16 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Facebook is already like this. People didn't stop watching. In fact, they mostly stopped caring if it's fake. And no point in debunking the obvious BS: they scroll faster than you can say AI.

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brynet 19 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I finally get adopted by a nice family of sentient pizzas in 2026.

https://brynet.ca/wallofpizza.html

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MSKJ 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Still no high-speed rail in the US

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mfrw 18 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Previous Years:

- 2025: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42490343

- 2024: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38777115

- 2023: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34125628

- 2022: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29746236

- 2021: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25594068

- 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21802596

- 2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18753859

- 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16007988

- 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10809767

- 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8822723

- 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6994370

- 2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3395201

- 2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1970023

- 2010: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1025681

- 2009: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=416530

	▲	yen223 14 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Read the 2025 prediction thread for some perspective. (Hope you didn't stake your retirement on bitcoin hitting $200,000!)

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RaccoonAttack 21 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

No predictions, only wish next year bad things no so much. And f** u 2025.

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Bender 21 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Some people will write 2025 on forms asking for the current year.

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rozenmd 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Last year I predicted: People will continue to run websites, and need to know when they're down (god, I hope).

My 2026 prediction is that people will continue running websites and buiding web apps that need monitoring, more than ever before.

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brihati 18 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

In the software engineering world, in 2026 we saw a wave of code assistant products. In 2026, we will see a wave of designing software architecture products, not just on greenfield projects but also brownfield projects.

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silexia 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The USD will devalue 5-10% further.

Flock and other government tools for watching and controlling you will expand.

Big companies will expand their regulatory capture, especially in medical care. Fingers will continue to be pointed at health insurance as the problem while the real problem of an artificially limited supply of doctors goes unaddressed.

Government agencies will continue their slow bloat as no mechanism exists for government like bankruptcy in the private sector.

Patent trolls will expand their lawsuits and extort more legitimate businesses.

The far left will assassinate more Republican leaders.