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Hacker News (Jan 2026)

  1. Recent discoveries on the acquisition of the highest levels of human performance

    145 points • comment • jan 22, 2026

  2. The largest zip tie is nearly 4 feet long and $75

    145 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  3. Show HN: Lume 0.2 – Build and Run macOS VMs with unattended setup

    145 points • comment • jan 18, 2026

  4. In 6 violent encounters, evidence contradicts immigration officials' narratives

    145 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  5. Dealing with abandonware (2024)

    145 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  6. North Dakota law lists fake critical minerals based on coal lawyers' names

    145 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  7. Disaster planning for regular folks (2015)

    144 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  8. vLLM large scale serving: DeepSeek 2.2k tok/s/h200 with wide-ep

    144 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  9. Reading across books with Claude Code

    144 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  10. CSS sucks because we don't bother learning it (2022)

    144 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  11. iPhone 5s Gets New Software Update 13 Years After Launch

    143 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  12. Show HN: Amla Sandbox – WASM bash shell sandbox for AI agents

    143 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  13. GOG Patrons- Join gamers keeping classics alive

    143 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  14. A university got itself banned from the Linux kernel (2021)

    142 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  15. Pipe Dreams – The life and times of Yahoo Pipes (2023)

    142 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  16. 4k tons of potatoes to be given away for free in Berlin

    142 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  17. Self Driving Car Insurance

    142 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  18. Vibecoding #2

    142 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  19. Benchmarking OpenTelemetry: Can AI trace your failed login?

    141 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  20. China applies to put 200K satellites in space after calling Starlink crash risk

    141 points • comment • jan 11, 2026

  21. Data Processing Benchmark Featuring Rust, Go, Swift, Zig, Julia etc.

    141 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  22. Iran Protest Map

    140 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  23. Puget Systems Most Reliable Hardware of 2025

    140 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  24. America could have $4 lunch bowls like Japan but for zoning laws

    140 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  25. Google Cloud suspended my account for 2 years, only automated replies

    140 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  26. Canada's deal with China signals it is serious about shift from US

    139 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  27. Show HN: I built a small browser engine from scratch in C++

    139 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  28. Parliament tells Dutch government to keep DigiD data out of American hands

    139 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  29. Iran is likely jamming Starlink

    139 points • comment • jan 11, 2026

  30. Lix – universal version control system for binary files

    139 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  31. The Universal Pattern Popping Up in Math, Physics and Biology (2013)

    139 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  32. Fil-Qt: A Qt Base build with Fil-C experience

    139 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  33. UK offshore wind prices come in 40% cheaper than gas in record auction

    139 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  34. Novo Nordisk launches Wegovy weight-loss pill in US, triggering price war

    139 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  35. The state of Linux music players in 2026

    139 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  36. TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB

    139 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  37. Scientists discover oldest poison, on 60k-year-old arrows

    139 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  38. Turso is an in-process SQL database, compatible with SQLite

    139 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  39. Going immutable on macOS, using Nix-Darwin

    138 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  40. See how many words you have written in Hacker News comments

    138 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  41. Self hosting my media library with Jellyfin and Wireguard on Hetzner

    138 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  42. 150 MB Minimal FreeBSD Installation

    138 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  43. Starting from scratch: Training a 30M Topological Transformer

    138 points • comment • jan 18, 2026

  44. Anthropic Economic Index report: economic primitives

    138 points • comment • jan 22, 2026

  45. Alex Honnold completes Taipei 101 skyscraper climb without ropes or safety net

    138 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  46. Show HN: Kolibri, a DIY music club in Sweden

    138 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  47. Bypassing Gemma and Qwen safety with raw strings

    137 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  48. Show HN: TinyCity – A tiny city SIM for MicroPython (Thumby micro console)

    137 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  49. "Anyone else out there vibe circuit-building?"

    137 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  50. A confession from a mainstream food delivery app engineer

    137 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  51. Go-legacy-winxp: Compile Golang 1.24 code for Windows XP

    137 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  52. One Number I Trust: Plain-Text Accounting for a Multi-Currency Household

    137 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  53. A set of Idiomatic prod-grade katas for experienced devs transitioning to Go

    137 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  54. Nonviolence

    136 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  55. Guix for Development

    135 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  56. Show HN: SMTP Tunnel – A SOCKS5 proxy disguised as email traffic to bypass DPI

    135 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  57. Bye Bye Gmail

    135 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  58. TeraWave Satellite Communications Network

    134 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  59. Bob Weir has died

    134 points • comment • jan 11, 2026

  60. Nepal's Mountainside Teahouses Elevate the Experience for Trekkers

    134 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  61. CES 2026: Taking the Lids Off AMD's Venice and MI400 SoCs

    134 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  62. Hypergrowth isn’t always easy

    134 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  63. Doin' It with a 555: One Chip to Rule Them All

    134 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  64. Bf-Tree: modern read-write-optimized concurrent larger-than-memory range index

    134 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  65. LLM Problems Observed in Humans

    134 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  66. Binary fuse filters: Fast and smaller than xor filters (2022)

    134 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  67. I was a top 0.01% Cursor user, then switched to Claude Code 2.0

    133 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  68. NASA announces unprecedented return of sick ISS astronaut and crew

    133 points • comment • jan 10, 2026

  69. Show HN: TUI for managing XDG default applications

    133 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  70. When Kitty Litter Caused a Nuclear Catastrophe

    133 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  71. How to store a chess position in 26 bytes (2022)

    133 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  72. U.S. Emissions Jumped in 2025 as Coal Power Rebounded

    132 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  73. Tell HN: 2 years building a kids audio app as a solo dev – lessons learned

    132 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  74. Show HN: BusterMQ, Thread-per-core NATS server in Zig with io_uring

    132 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  75. What *is* code? (2015)

    132 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  76. 1,400-year-old tomb featuring giant owl sculpture discovered in Mexico

    132 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  77. They lied to you. Building software is hard

    132 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  78. MCP is a fad

    132 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  79. Show HN: Webctl – Browser automation for agents based on CLI instead of MCP

    131 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  80. Show HN: Librario, a book metadata API that aggregates G Books, ISBNDB, and more

    131 points • comment • jan 10, 2026

  81. Memory layout in Zig with formulas

    131 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  82. CSS Web Components for marketing sites (2024)

    131 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  83. Build a Deep Learning Library

    131 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  84. OSS ChatGPT WebUI – 530 Models, MCP, Tools, Gemini RAG, Image/Audio Gen

    130 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  85. Erich von Däniken has died

    130 points • comment • jan 11, 2026

  86. British redcoat's lost memoir reveals realities of life as a disabled veteran

    130 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  87. Conbini Wars – Map of Japanese convenience store ratios

    130 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  88. Pg_tracing: Distributed Tracing for PostgreSQL

    130 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  89. Show HN: Tiny FOSS Compass and Navigation App (<2MB)

    130 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  90. TinyTinyTPU: 2×2 systolic-array TPU-style matrix-multiply unit deployed on FPGA

    129 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  91. Why NUKEMAP isn't on Google Maps anymore (2019)

    129 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  92. Wine-Staging 11.1 Adds Patches for Enabling Recent Photoshop Versions on Linux

    129 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  93. Dude, where's my supersonic jet?

    129 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  94. I used Lego to design a farm for people who are blind – like me

    129 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  95. Rust--: Rust without the borrow checker

    129 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  96. Using proxies to hide secrets from Claude Code

    128 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  97. The world of Japanese snack bars

    128 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  98. Ushikuvirus: Newly discovered virus may offer clues to the origin of eukaryotes

    128 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  99. Targeted Bets: An alternative approach to the job hunt

    128 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  100. Milk-V Titan: A $329 8-Core 64-bit RISC-V mini-ITX board with PCIe Gen4x16

    128 points • comment • jan 12, 2026