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Hacker News (Jan 2026)

  1. Show HN: Agent Skills Leaderboard

    127 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  2. I Built a 1 Petabyte Server from Scratch [video]

    127 points • comment • jan 11, 2026

  3. Canada

    127 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  4. The Everdeck: A Universal Card System (2019)

    127 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  5. Read_once(), Write_once(), but Not for Rust

    127 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  6. Berlin: Record harvest sparks mass giveaway of free potatoes

    127 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  7. 'Active' sitting is better for brain health: review of studies

    127 points • comment • jan 22, 2026

  8. Extracting verified C++ from the Rocq theorem prover at Bloomberg

    127 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  9. Statement by Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, UK

    127 points • comment • jan 18, 2026

  10. Yawning has an unexpected influence on the fluid inside your brain

    126 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  11. Iran rounds up thousands in mass arrest campaign after crushing unrest

    126 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  12. Gershwin-desktop: OS X-like Desktop Environment based on GNUStep

    126 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  13. DHS: Critical ICE surveillance footage from abuse case was never recorded

    126 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  14. Keeping 20k GPUs healthy

    126 points • comment • jan 18, 2026

  15. Show HN: Nogic – VS Code extension that visualizes your codebase as a graph

    126 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  16. The super-slow conversion of the U.S. to metric (2025)

    126 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  17. Chase to become new issuer of Apple Card

    125 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  18. Apple, What Have You Done?

    125 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  19. Vojtux – Unofficial Linux Distribution Aimed at Visually Impaired Users

    125 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  20. Goblins: Distributed, Transactional Programming with Racket and Guile

    125 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  21. Is It Time for a Nordic Nuke?

    125 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  22. Our approach to age prediction

    125 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  23. Never-before-seen Linux malware is "more advanced than typical"

    124 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  24. System Programming in Linux: A Hands-On Introduction "Demo" Programs

    124 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  25. Digital Red Queen: Adversarial Program Evolution in Core War with LLMs

    124 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  26. The Saddest Moment (2013) [pdf]

    124 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  27. Comparing AI agents to cybersecurity professionals in real-world pen testing

    124 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  28. US Government demands access to European police databases and biometrics [video]

    124 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  29. Film students who can no longer sit through films

    124 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  30. Carnegie Mellon Unversity Computer Club FTP Server

    124 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  31. All 23-Bit Still Lifes Are Glider Constructible

    124 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  32. The assistant axis: situating and stabilizing the character of LLMs

    124 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  33. Agent orchestration for the timid

    124 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  34. Stop using natural language interfaces

    124 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  35. Apple buys Israeli startup Q.ai

    123 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  36. Mozilla is building an AI 'rebel alliance' to take on OpenAI, Anthropic

    123 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  37. 'The old order is not coming back,' Carney says in speech at Davos

    123 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  38. Man shot and killed by federal agents in south Minneapolis this morning

    122 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  39. Musashi: Motorola 680x0 emulator written in C

    122 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  40. Building voice agents with Nvidia open models

    122 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  41. The <Geolocation> HTML Element

    121 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  42. Show HN: Tabstack – Browser infrastructure for AI agents (by Mozilla)

    121 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  43. Naples' 1790s civil war was intensified by moral panic over Real Analysis (2023)

    121 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  44. No knives, only cook knives

    121 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  45. Iran has now been offline for 96 hours

    121 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  46. Show HN: Phage Explorer

    121 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  47. The likely cheapest home-made Michelson interferometer

    121 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  48. UK Orders Ofcom to Explore Encryption Backdoors

    120 points • comment • jan 10, 2026

  49. Mental Models (2018)

    120 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  50. Insights into Claude Opus 4.5 from Pokémon

    120 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  51. Hyundai Introduces Its Next-Gen Atlas Robot at CES 2026 [video]

    120 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  52. Show HN: Sparrow-1 – Audio-native model for human-level turn-taking without ASR

    120 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  53. Show HN: LemonSlice – Upgrade your voice agents to real-time video

    120 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  54. UK House of Lords Votes to Extend Age Verification to VPNs

    120 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  55. Show HN: Executable Markdown files with Unix pipes

    120 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  56. X-Clacks-Overhead

    120 points • comment • jan 03, 2026

  57. Case study: Creative math – How AI fakes proofs

    120 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  58. A prediction market user made $436k betting on Maduro's downfall

    119 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  59. Genode OS is a tool kit for building highly secure special-purpose OS

    119 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  60. AVX-512: First Impressions on Performance and Programmability

    119 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  61. How scientists are using Claude to accelerate research and discovery

    119 points • comment • jan 18, 2026

  62. Ask HN: Weird archive.today behavior?

    119 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  63. X For You Feed Algorithm

    119 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  64. U.S. Court Order Against Anna's Archive Spells More Trouble for the Site

    119 points • comment • jan 18, 2026

  65. Decompiling Xbox games using PDB debug info

    119 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  66. New Safari developer tools provide insight into CSS Grid Lanes

    118 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  67. US Government wants DNA and social media from visitors

    118 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  68. Floating-Point Printing and Parsing Can Be Simple and Fast

    118 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  69. SCiZE's Classic Warez Collection

    118 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  70. Why we built our own background agent

    118 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  71. Stunnel

    118 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  72. A Year of 3D Printing

    118 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  73. M8SBC-486 (Homebrew 486 computer)

    118 points • comment • jan 11, 2026

  74. Starlink updates privacy policy to allow consumer data to train

    118 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  75. Computer Systems Security 6.566 / Spring 2024

    118 points • comment • jan 18, 2026

  76. The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Finding Sparse, Trainable Neural Networks (2018)

    118 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  77. State of the Windows: What is going on with Windows 11?

    118 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  78. The virtual AmigaOS runtime (a.k.a. Wine for Amiga:)

    118 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  79. AI’s impact on engineering jobs may be different than expected

    117 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  80. The mushroom making people hallucinate tiny humans

    117 points • comment • jan 22, 2026

  81. Notice of collective action lawsuit against Workday, Inc.

    117 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  82. VW is bringing physical buttons back to the dashboard with the ID. Polo EV

    117 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  83. Edge of Emulation: Game Boy Sewing Machines (2020)

    117 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  84. Implementing a tiny CPU rasterizer (2024)

    117 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  85. Show HN: Yolobox – Run AI coding agents with full sudo without nuking home dir

    117 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  86. Challenges and Research Directions for Large Language Model Inference Hardware

    117 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  87. GitHub Incident

    116 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  88. Native ZFS VDEV for Object Storage (OpenZFS Summit)

    115 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  89. US to suspend immigrant visa processing for 75 nations, State Department says

    115 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  90. Show HN: Agent-of-empires: OpenCode and Claude Code session manager

    115 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  91. Conditions in the Intel 8087 floating-point chip's microcode

    115 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  92. I Cannot SSH into My Server Anymore (and That's Fine)

    115 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  93. UN Declares That the World Has Entered an Era of 'Global Water Bankruptcy'

    115 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  94. The National Herbarium of Ireland digital collection of Irish plants

    115 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  95. Try text scaling support in Chrome Canary

    115 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  96. On the slow death of scaling

    115 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  97. Patching the Wii News Channel to serve local news (2025)

    114 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  98. Show HN: Minimal – Open-Source Community driven Hardened Container Images

    114 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  99. How much of my observability data is waste?

    114 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  100. Italy investigates Activision Blizzard for pushing in-game purchases

    114 points • comment • jan 17, 2026