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Hacker News (Jan 2026)
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Recent discoveries on the acquisition of the highest levels of human performance
145 points • comment • jan 22, 2026
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The largest zip tie is nearly 4 feet long and $75
145 points • comment • jan 29, 2026
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Show HN: Lume 0.2 – Build and Run macOS VMs with unattended setup
145 points • comment • jan 18, 2026
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In 6 violent encounters, evidence contradicts immigration officials' narratives
145 points • comment • jan 28, 2026
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Dealing with abandonware (2024)
145 points • comment • jan 05, 2026
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North Dakota law lists fake critical minerals based on coal lawyers' names
145 points • comment • jan 04, 2026
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Disaster planning for regular folks (2015)
144 points • comment • jan 21, 2026
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vLLM large scale serving: DeepSeek 2.2k tok/s/h200 with wide-ep
144 points • comment • jan 13, 2026
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Reading across books with Claude Code
144 points • comment • jan 16, 2026
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CSS sucks because we don't bother learning it (2022)
144 points • comment • jan 05, 2026
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iPhone 5s Gets New Software Update 13 Years After Launch
143 points • comment • jan 27, 2026
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Show HN: Amla Sandbox – WASM bash shell sandbox for AI agents
143 points • comment • jan 30, 2026
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GOG Patrons- Join gamers keeping classics alive
143 points • comment • jan 05, 2026
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A university got itself banned from the Linux kernel (2021)
142 points • comment • jan 13, 2026
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Pipe Dreams – The life and times of Yahoo Pipes (2023)
142 points • comment • jan 05, 2026
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4k tons of potatoes to be given away for free in Berlin
142 points • comment • jan 14, 2026
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Self Driving Car Insurance
142 points • comment • jan 30, 2026
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Vibecoding #2
142 points • comment • jan 21, 2026
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Benchmarking OpenTelemetry: Can AI trace your failed login?
141 points • comment • jan 29, 2026
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China applies to put 200K satellites in space after calling Starlink crash risk
141 points • comment • jan 11, 2026
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Data Processing Benchmark Featuring Rust, Go, Swift, Zig, Julia etc.
141 points • comment • jan 31, 2026
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Iran Protest Map
140 points • comment • jan 08, 2026
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Puget Systems Most Reliable Hardware of 2025
140 points • comment • jan 31, 2026
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America could have $4 lunch bowls like Japan but for zoning laws
140 points • comment • jan 16, 2026
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Google Cloud suspended my account for 2 years, only automated replies
140 points • comment • jan 31, 2026
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Canada's deal with China signals it is serious about shift from US
139 points • comment • jan 17, 2026
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Show HN: I built a small browser engine from scratch in C++
139 points • comment • jan 28, 2026
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Parliament tells Dutch government to keep DigiD data out of American hands
139 points • comment • jan 21, 2026
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Iran is likely jamming Starlink
139 points • comment • jan 11, 2026
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Lix – universal version control system for binary files
139 points • comment • jan 21, 2026
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The Universal Pattern Popping Up in Math, Physics and Biology (2013)
139 points • comment • jan 23, 2026
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Fil-Qt: A Qt Base build with Fil-C experience
139 points • comment • jan 16, 2026
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UK offshore wind prices come in 40% cheaper than gas in record auction
139 points • comment • jan 15, 2026
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Novo Nordisk launches Wegovy weight-loss pill in US, triggering price war
139 points • comment • jan 05, 2026
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The state of Linux music players in 2026
139 points • comment • jan 27, 2026
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TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB
139 points • comment • jan 21, 2026
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Scientists discover oldest poison, on 60k-year-old arrows
139 points • comment • jan 08, 2026
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Turso is an in-process SQL database, compatible with SQLite
139 points • comment • jan 19, 2026
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Going immutable on macOS, using Nix-Darwin
138 points • comment • jan 02, 2026
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See how many words you have written in Hacker News comments
138 points • comment • jan 30, 2026
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Self hosting my media library with Jellyfin and Wireguard on Hetzner
138 points • comment • jan 06, 2026
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150 MB Minimal FreeBSD Installation
138 points • comment • jan 31, 2026
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Starting from scratch: Training a 30M Topological Transformer
138 points • comment • jan 18, 2026
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Anthropic Economic Index report: economic primitives
138 points • comment • jan 22, 2026
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Alex Honnold completes Taipei 101 skyscraper climb without ropes or safety net
138 points • comment • jan 25, 2026
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Show HN: Kolibri, a DIY music club in Sweden
138 points • comment • jan 29, 2026
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Bypassing Gemma and Qwen safety with raw strings
137 points • comment • jan 19, 2026
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Show HN: TinyCity – A tiny city SIM for MicroPython (Thumby micro console)
137 points • comment • jan 15, 2026
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"Anyone else out there vibe circuit-building?"
137 points • comment • jan 19, 2026
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A confession from a mainstream food delivery app engineer
137 points • comment • jan 02, 2026
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Go-legacy-winxp: Compile Golang 1.24 code for Windows XP
137 points • comment • jan 12, 2026
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One Number I Trust: Plain-Text Accounting for a Multi-Currency Household
137 points • comment • jan 02, 2026
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A set of Idiomatic prod-grade katas for experienced devs transitioning to Go
137 points • comment • jan 07, 2026
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Nonviolence
136 points • comment • jan 19, 2026
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Guix for Development
135 points • comment • jan 20, 2026
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Show HN: SMTP Tunnel – A SOCKS5 proxy disguised as email traffic to bypass DPI
135 points • comment • jan 07, 2026
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Bye Bye Gmail
135 points • comment • jan 24, 2026
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TeraWave Satellite Communications Network
134 points • comment • jan 21, 2026
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Bob Weir has died
134 points • comment • jan 11, 2026
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Nepal's Mountainside Teahouses Elevate the Experience for Trekkers
134 points • comment • jan 15, 2026
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CES 2026: Taking the Lids Off AMD's Venice and MI400 SoCs
134 points • comment • jan 06, 2026
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Hypergrowth isn’t always easy
134 points • comment • jan 30, 2026
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Doin' It with a 555: One Chip to Rule Them All
134 points • comment • jan 27, 2026
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Bf-Tree: modern read-write-optimized concurrent larger-than-memory range index
134 points • comment • jan 28, 2026
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LLM Problems Observed in Humans
134 points • comment • jan 07, 2026
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Binary fuse filters: Fast and smaller than xor filters (2022)
134 points • comment • jan 17, 2026
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I was a top 0.01% Cursor user, then switched to Claude Code 2.0
133 points • comment • jan 19, 2026
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NASA announces unprecedented return of sick ISS astronaut and crew
133 points • comment • jan 10, 2026
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Show HN: TUI for managing XDG default applications
133 points • comment • jan 25, 2026
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When Kitty Litter Caused a Nuclear Catastrophe
133 points • comment • jan 04, 2026
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How to store a chess position in 26 bytes (2022)
133 points • comment • jan 09, 2026
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U.S. Emissions Jumped in 2025 as Coal Power Rebounded
132 points • comment • jan 13, 2026
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Tell HN: 2 years building a kids audio app as a solo dev – lessons learned
132 points • comment • jan 21, 2026
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Show HN: BusterMQ, Thread-per-core NATS server in Zig with io_uring
132 points • comment • jan 01, 2026
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What *is* code? (2015)
132 points • comment • jan 01, 2026
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1,400-year-old tomb featuring giant owl sculpture discovered in Mexico
132 points • comment • jan 30, 2026
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They lied to you. Building software is hard
132 points • comment • jan 30, 2026
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MCP is a fad
132 points • comment • jan 09, 2026
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Show HN: Webctl – Browser automation for agents based on CLI instead of MCP
131 points • comment • jan 14, 2026
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Show HN: Librario, a book metadata API that aggregates G Books, ISBNDB, and more
131 points • comment • jan 10, 2026
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Memory layout in Zig with formulas
131 points • comment • jan 24, 2026
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CSS Web Components for marketing sites (2024)
131 points • comment • jan 19, 2026
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Build a Deep Learning Library
131 points • comment • jan 01, 2026
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OSS ChatGPT WebUI – 530 Models, MCP, Tools, Gemini RAG, Image/Audio Gen
130 points • comment • jan 26, 2026
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Erich von Däniken has died
130 points • comment • jan 11, 2026
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British redcoat's lost memoir reveals realities of life as a disabled veteran
130 points • comment • jan 16, 2026
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Conbini Wars – Map of Japanese convenience store ratios
130 points • comment • jan 06, 2026
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Pg_tracing: Distributed Tracing for PostgreSQL
130 points • comment • jan 29, 2026
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Show HN: Tiny FOSS Compass and Navigation App (<2MB)
130 points • comment • jan 14, 2026
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TinyTinyTPU: 2×2 systolic-array TPU-style matrix-multiply unit deployed on FPGA
129 points • comment • jan 02, 2026
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Why NUKEMAP isn't on Google Maps anymore (2019)
129 points • comment • jan 14, 2026
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Wine-Staging 11.1 Adds Patches for Enabling Recent Photoshop Versions on Linux
129 points • comment • jan 25, 2026
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Dude, where's my supersonic jet?
129 points • comment • jan 06, 2026
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I used Lego to design a farm for people who are blind – like me
129 points • comment • jan 05, 2026
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Rust--: Rust without the borrow checker
129 points • comment • jan 01, 2026
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Using proxies to hide secrets from Claude Code
128 points • comment • jan 13, 2026
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The world of Japanese snack bars
128 points • comment • jan 20, 2026
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Ushikuvirus: Newly discovered virus may offer clues to the origin of eukaryotes
128 points • comment • jan 08, 2026
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Targeted Bets: An alternative approach to the job hunt
128 points • comment • jan 19, 2026
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Milk-V Titan: A $329 8-Core 64-bit RISC-V mini-ITX board with PCIe Gen4x16
128 points • comment • jan 12, 2026