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Hacker News (Jan 2026)

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

    114 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  2. TikTok is now collecting more data about its users

    114 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

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

    114 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  4. Claude Cowork runs Linux VM via Apple virtualization framework

    114 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  5. A judge gave the FBI permission to attempt to bypass biometrics

    113 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  6. Why Is Greenland Part of the Kingdom of Denmark? A Short History

    113 points • comment • jan 10, 2026

  7. Microsoft suspects some PCs might not boot after Windows 11 January 2026 Update

    113 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  8. Intel Core Ultra Series 3 Debut as First Built on Intel 18A

    113 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  9. Ratchets in software development (2021)

    113 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  10. Small Kafka: Tansu and SQLite on a free t3.micro

    113 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  11. The Connection Machine CM-1 "Feynman" T-shirt

    113 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  12. The Sovereign Tech Fund invests in Scala

    113 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  13. Minnesota officials say they can't access evidence after fatal ICE shooting

    113 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  14. Reproducing DeepSeek's MHC: When Residual Connections Explode

    113 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  15. Common Lisp SDK for the Datastar Hypermedia Framework

    112 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  16. The 500k-ton typo: Why data center copper math doesn't add up

    112 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  17. Package management is a wicked problem

    112 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  18. Usenet personality

    112 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  19. We found cryptography bugs in the elliptic library using Wycheproof

    111 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  20. X Didn't Fix Grok's 'Undressing' Problem. It Just Makes People Pay for It

    111 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  21. Show HN: ChunkHound, a local-first tool for understanding large codebases

    111 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  22. Xr0 verifier, guarantee the safety of C programs at compile time

    111 points • comment • jan 03, 2026

  23. Nonograms: a practical guide with interactive examples

    111 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  24. Are we tired of social media? (2025)

    110 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  25. French Court Orders Popular VPNs to Block More Pirate Sites, Despite Opposition

    110 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  26. Show HN: Figma-use – CLI to control Figma for AI agents

    110 points • comment • jan 18, 2026

  27. A web server on a single floppy disk

    110 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  28. Six Harmless Bugs Lead to Remote Code Execution

    110 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  29. Which programming languages are most token-efficient?

    109 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  30. Generate QR Codes with Pure SQL in PostgreSQL

    109 points • comment • jan 10, 2026

  31. Show HN: I visualized the entire history of Citi Bike in the browser

    109 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  32. Electricity use of AI coding agents

    109 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  33. "Inspector Dangerfuck", ANSI art comic from 1994

    109 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  34. LLMs are a 400-year-long confidence trick

    109 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  35. Show HN: Engineering Schizophrenia: Trusting yourself through Byzantine faults

    109 points • comment • jan 11, 2026

  36. Comic-Con Bans AI Art After Artist Pushback

    109 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  37. Tesla sales fell by 9 percent in 2025, its second yearly decline

    109 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  38. Superhuman AI Exfiltrates Emails

    108 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  39. German economists push for gold repatriation from U.S. vaults

    108 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  40. How wolves became dogs

    108 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  41. Founding is a snowball

    108 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  42. Native Instruments enters into insolvency proceedings

    108 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  43. Native Amiga Filesystems on macOS / Linux / Windows with FUSE

    108 points • comment • jan 03, 2026

  44. Show HN: TetrisBench – Gemini Flash reaches 66% win rate on Tetris against Opus

    108 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  45. Photographing the hidden world of slime mould

    108 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  46. IsoCoaster – Theme Park Builder

    108 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  47. GLSL Web CRT Shader

    108 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  48. AI on Australian travel company website sent tourists to nonexistent hot springs

    108 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  49. Using Hinge as a Command and Control Server

    107 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  50. Typography on Pencils (2023)

    107 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  51. After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand [video]

    107 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  52. SIMD programming in pure Rust

    107 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  53. The Emacs Widget Library: A Critique and Case Study

    107 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  54. Open-Meteo is a free and open-source weather API for non-commercial use

    107 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  55. How ICE knows who Minneapolis protesters are

    107 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  56. Show HN: Pipenet – A Modern Alternative to Localtunnel

    107 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  57. Nukeproof: Manifesto for European Data Sovereignty

    106 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  58. ANN v3: 200ms p99 query latency over 100B vectors

    106 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  59. Texas court blocks Samsung from tracking TV viewing, then vacates order

    106 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  60. ICE tells legal observer, 'We have a database, now you're a domestic terrorist'

    106 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  61. Improving the performance of WAT parser

    106 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  62. Hands-On Introduction to Unikernels

    106 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  63. Most websites don't need cookie consent banners

    106 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  64. Ask HN: ADHD – How do you manage the constant stream of thoughts and ideas?

    106 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  65. Message Queues: A Simple Guide with Analogies (2024)

    105 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  66. Worst of breed software

    105 points • comment • jan 10, 2026

  67. SEC obtains final consent judgments against former FTX and Alameda executives

    105 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  68. Side-by-side comparison of how AI models answer moral dilemmas

    105 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  69. If you tax them, will they leave?

    105 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  70. The Z80 Mem­ber­ship Card (2015)

    105 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  71. Notes on the Intel 8086 processor's arithmetic-logic unit

    105 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  72. How I archived 10 years of memories using Spotify

    105 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  73. Robotopia: A 3D, first-person, talking simulator

    104 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  74. Go 1.26 Interactive Tour

    104 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  75. Confer – End to end encrypted AI chat

    104 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  76. Brands upset Buy For Me is featuring their products on Amazon without permission

    104 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  77. We recreated Steve Jobs's 1975 Atari horoscope program

    104 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  78. Why we don’t use AI

    104 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  79. 80386 Multiplication and Division

    104 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  80. The thing that brought me joy

    104 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  81. Ask HN: Iran's 120h internet shutdown, phones back. How to stay resilient?

    103 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  82. Surveillance Watch – A map that shows connections between surveillance companies

    103 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  83. Amazon's Spending on 'Melania' Is a Barely Concealed Bribe

    103 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  84. Libbbf: Bound Book Format, A high-performance container for comics and manga

    103 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  85. The mountain that weighed the Earth

    103 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  86. Singularity Rootkit: SELinux bypass and netlink filter (ss/conntrack hidden)

    103 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  87. OneDrive just deleted all of my files

    103 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  88. Elo – A data expression language which compiles to JavaScript, Ruby, and SQL

    102 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  89. Beowulf's opening "What" is no interjection (2013)

    102 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  90. A Basic Just-In-Time Compiler (2015)

    102 points • comment • jan 03, 2026

  91. I trapped an AI model inside an art installation (2025) [video]

    102 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  92. Show HN: I wrapped the Zorks with an LLM

    102 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  93. The dank case for scrolling window managers

    102 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  94. RTS for Agents

    102 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  95. Agent Psychosis: Are We Going Insane?

    102 points • comment • jan 18, 2026

  96. West Midlands police chief quits over AI hallucination

    102 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  97. France passes bill to ban social media use by under-15s

    102 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  98. A tab hoarder's journey to sanity

    102 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  99. Earth is warming faster. Scientists are closing in on why

    102 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  100. A first look at Aperture by Tailscale (private alpha)

    102 points • comment • jan 27, 2026