HN Wrapped 2025
Year-in-review generator in AI tools
People recommend it for funny roasts, xkcd-style comics and a self-reflective summary of your Hacker News year. Critics say the predictions feel generic and some details are wrong.
People recommend it for funny roasts, xkcd-style comics and a self-reflective summary of your Hacker News year. Critics say the predictions feel generic and some details are wrong.
59 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 49
- criticize it
- 10
- approval share
- 83%
Recommended in 3 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 49 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 4.9 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 3 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Funny, well-written roasts
“Pretty fun overall. The roasts were really good, the stats were pretty neat, the predictions made me smile.”
Comment from 21 Dec 2025 in “Show HN: HN Wrapped 2025 - an LLM reviews your year on HN” “Actually on the nail. Mine actually made me laugh out loud.”
Comment from 20 Dec 2025 in “Show HN: HN Wrapped 2025 - an LLM reviews your year on HN” “Ok, this is hilarious and kinda embarrassing, but so cool!”
Comment from 21 Dec 2025 in “Show HN: HN Wrapped 2025 - an LLM reviews your year on HN” - Comment from 22 Dec 2025 in “Show HN: HN Wrapped 2025 - an LLM reviews your year on HN”
- Comment from 21 Dec 2025 in “Show HN: HN Wrapped 2025 - an LLM reviews your year on HN”
- Comment from 17 Dec 2025 in “Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed”
- Comment from 21 Dec 2025 in “Show HN: HN Wrapped 2025 - an LLM reviews your year on HN”
Xkcd-style comic summary
“I got a good giggle from the comic book summary -- thanks for making this.”
Comment from 20 Dec 2025 in “Show HN: HN Wrapped 2025 - an LLM reviews your year on HN” “I really laughed out loud at my xkcd comic”
Comment from 21 Dec 2025 in “Show HN: HN Wrapped 2025 - an LLM reviews your year on HN” “The XKCD comic generation was impressive.”
Comment from 21 Dec 2025 in “Show HN: HN Wrapped 2025 - an LLM reviews your year on HN” - Comment from 19 May 2026 in “Gemini 3.5: frontier intelligence with action”
- Comment from 21 Dec 2025 in “Show HN: HN Wrapped 2025 - an LLM reviews your year on HN”
Accurate reflection of your year
“this self reflection really does highlight what my year has been like”
Comment from 20 Dec 2025 in “Show HN: HN Wrapped 2025 - an LLM reviews your year on HN” “Actually on the nail. Mine actually made me laugh out loud.”
Comment from 20 Dec 2025 in “Show HN: HN Wrapped 2025 - an LLM reviews your year on HN” “Mine was pretty hilarious and totally on point”
Comment from 20 Dec 2025 in “Show HN: HN Wrapped 2025 - an LLM reviews your year on HN” - Comment from 20 Dec 2025 in “Show HN: HN Wrapped 2025 - an LLM reviews your year on HN”
Fun to read
“Very fun, 10/10 no notes, surprisingly good for a small sample set this year.”
Comment from 21 Dec 2025 in “Show HN: HN Wrapped 2025 - an LLM reviews your year on HN” “This project gave me so much joy! I loved it!”
Comment from 21 Dec 2025 in “Show HN: HN Wrapped 2025 - an LLM reviews your year on HN” “Well that was fun. Thank you for this!”
Comment from 20 Dec 2025 in “Show HN: HN Wrapped 2025 - an LLM reviews your year on HN” - Comment from 21 Dec 2025 in “Show HN: HN Wrapped 2025 - an LLM reviews your year on HN”
- Comment from 20 Dec 2025 in “Show HN: HN Wrapped 2025 - an LLM reviews your year on HN”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Gets details wrong
“which is a complete misunderstanding of the ideas I presented”
Comment from 21 Dec 2025 in “Show HN: HN Wrapped 2025 - an LLM reviews your year on HN” “Got it a bit wrong, but some bits were excellent.”
Comment from 21 Dec 2025 in “Show HN: HN Wrapped 2025 - an LLM reviews your year on HN” “seems the data is not accurate of my account”
Comment from 21 Dec 2025 in “Show HN: HN Wrapped 2025 - an LLM reviews your year on HN”
What people said
40 of the 60 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“I just added it to HN Wrapped”
“see this simple and fun site”
“I enjoyed seeing my wrapped, thanks!”
“I liked the xkcd-style comic the most!”
“really loved the roasts, predictions, and all the rest”
“I really laughed out loud at my xkcd comic”
“Very fun, 10/10 no notes, surprisingly good for a small sample set this year.”
“amused and mildly annoyed at mine”
“So fun, really liked the idea.”
“This is hilarious, thank you!”
“Your xkcd comic is hilariously epic!”
“This is not any issue in the author's engineering but an inherent issue in LLMs.”
“Got it a bit wrong, but some bits were excellent.”
“It's too accurate for my tastes. Needs more snark.”
“Dude this thing is savage, I love it”
“This project gave me so much joy! I loved it!”
“the predictions section seems kinda generic where the roast section felt better-personalized”
“It's good and gave me some queasy chuckles. But it's not as fun as the "HN Front Page" from a few days back.”
“The XKCD comic generation was impressive.”
“Pretty fun overall. The roasts were really good, the stats were pretty neat, the predictions made me smile.”
“seems the data is not accurate of my account”
“which is a complete misunderstanding of the ideas I presented”
“Ok, this is hilarious and kinda embarrassing, but so cool!”
“Wow, that was embarrassingly good.”
“I got a good giggle from the comic book summary -- thanks for making this.”
“Mine was pretty hilarious and totally on point”
“I really enjoyed my roast review.”
“This is absolutely wild haha, love it”
“mine was very cool and accurate”
“Well that was fun. Thank you for this!”
“prompting and/or model-selection could use some work”
“Hilarious. It seemed to focus on something about Boolean logic that I don’t remember taking about, but otherwise awesome.”
“The vibe check and the time spent were really cool though. Super interesting.”
“Okay, mine was just awesome.”
“Awesome project - I'd love to see the code behind this.”
“this self reflection really does highlight what my year has been like”
“Actually on the nail. Mine actually made me laugh out loud.”
“This is so well-done - kinda surprised it's not getting more traction!”
“This is great. I literally "LOL'd"”
“the roast-style humor is perfect”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.