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1. jQuery 4

   779 points • 267 comments • jan 18, 2026

2. Gaussian Splatting – A$AP Rocky "Helicopter" music video

   728 points • 242 comments • jan 18, 2026

3. Dead Internet Theory

   569 points • 621 comments • jan 18, 2026

4. Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy

   562 points • 515 comments • jan 18, 2026

5. Iconify: Library of Open Source Icons

   550 points • 59 comments • jan 18, 2026

6. A Social Filesystem

   472 points • 219 comments • jan 18, 2026

7. Flux 2 Klein pure C inference

   399 points • 130 comments • jan 18, 2026

8. Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster (2014)

   388 points • 270 comments • jan 18, 2026

9. Texas police invested in phone-tracking software and won’t say how it’s used

   356 points • 102 comments • jan 18, 2026

10. Erdos 281 solved with ChatGPT 5.2 Pro

    303 points • 283 comments • jan 18, 2026