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Hacker News (Jan 2026)

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

    102 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  2. Latest SteamOS Beta Now Includes Ntsync Kernel Driver

    101 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  3. Emoji Use in the Electronic Health Record is Increasing

    101 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  4. Sending Data over Offline Finding Networks

    101 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  5. I found the perfect yearly calendar (for me)

    101 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  6. House vote keeps federal "kill switch" vehicle mandate

    101 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  7. Greenland Crisis

    101 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  8. Install.md: A standard for LLM-executable installation

    101 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  9. The 600-year-old origins of the word 'hello'

    101 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  10. Handling secrets (somewhat) securely in shells

    101 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  11. A novelist who took on the Italian mafia and lived

    100 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  12. HTML-only conditional lazy loading (via preload and media)

    100 points • comment • jan 11, 2026

  13. Show HN: We Built the 1. EU-Sovereignty Audit for Websites

    100 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  14. psc: The ps utility, with an eBPF twist and container context

    100 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  15. Think of Pavlov

    100 points • comment • jan 11, 2026

  16. Sony Data Discman

    100 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  17. Nobody likes lag: How to make low-latency dev sandboxes

    100 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  18. Management as AI superpower: Thriving in a world of agentic AI

    99 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  19. My first year in sales as technical founder

    99 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  20. What a Programmer Does (1967) [pdf]

    99 points • comment • jan 11, 2026

  21. Any application that can be written in a system language, eventually will be

    99 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  22. Below the Surface: Archeological Finds from the Amsterdam Noord/Zuid Metro Line

    99 points • comment • jan 11, 2026

  23. The state of modern AI text to speech systems for screen reader users

    99 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  24. "IG is a drug": Internal messages may doom Meta at social media addiction trial

    99 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  25. FreeBSD

    99 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  26. illumos

    99 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  27. Putting the "You" in CPU (2023)

    98 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  28. Impeccable Style

    98 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  29. Show HN: Dwm.tmux – a dwm-inspired window manager for tmux

    98 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  30. What “The Best” Looks Like

    98 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  31. Are we all plagiarists now?

    98 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  32. Why Big Companies Keep Failing: The Stack Fallacy (2016)

    98 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  33. MyTorch – Minimalist autograd in 450 lines of Python

    98 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  34. Show HN: An interactive map of US lighthouses and navigational aids

    98 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  35. EmulatorJS

    98 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  36. Traintrackr – Live LED Maps

    97 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  37. Federal Agents Kill Another Person in Minneapolis Immigration Crackdown

    97 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  38. Google co-founder reveals that "many" of the new hires do not have a degree

    97 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  39. x86 prefixes and escape opcodes flowchart

    96 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  40. WebAssembly as a Python Extension Platform

    96 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  41. Show HN: Offline tiles and routing and geocoding in one Docker Compose stack

    96 points • comment • jan 03, 2026

  42. Gathering Linux Syscall Numbers in a C Table

    96 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  43. Data Leak Exposes 149M Logins, Including Gmail, Facebook

    96 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  44. Kraków, Poland in top 5 worst air quality worldwide

    96 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  45. Video Games as Art

    96 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  46. Joedb, the Journal-Only Embedded Database

    96 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  47. A Year of Work on the Arch Linux Package Management (ALPM) Project

    96 points • comment • jan 11, 2026

  48. Pixar's True Story

    95 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  49. Show HN: ÆTHRA – Writing Music as Code

    95 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  50. The Zen of Reticulum

    95 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  51. GenAI, the snake eating its own tail

    95 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  52. Losing 1½ Million Lines of Go

    95 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  53. Show HN: uvx ptn, scan a QR, get a terminal in your phone

    95 points • comment • jan 03, 2026

  54. Virtual Boy on TV with Intelligent Systems Video Boy

    95 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  55. 150k lines of vibe coded Elixir: The good, the bad and the ugly

    95 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  56. Ubisoft cancels six games including Prince of Persia and closes studios

    95 points • comment • jan 22, 2026

  57. In Praise of APL (1977)

    95 points • comment • jan 22, 2026

  58. Show HN: Artificial Ivy in the Browser

    94 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  59. Common misunderstandings about large software companies

    94 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  60. There's no single best way to store information

    94 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  61. Making niche solutions is the point

    94 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  62. A Brief Introduction to the Basics of Game Theory

    94 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  63. SETI Home Flags 100 Signals After Sorting 12B Others

    94 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  64. Show HN: Ocrbase – pdf → .md/.json document OCR and structured extraction API

    94 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  65. Pickle 1 AR Glasses (YC W25) May Be Fraudulent

    94 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  66. Iterative image reconstruction using random cubic bézier strokes

    94 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  67. Can You Disable Spotlight and Siri in macOS Tahoe?

    94 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  68. Epic fined €1.1M over manipulating children through in app purchases

    94 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  69. Ask HN: Books to learn 6502 ASM and the Apple II

    94 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  70. Alien: Braun Aromaster KF 20 Coffee Makers (2012)

    93 points • comment • jan 03, 2026

  71. You have three minutes to escape the perpetual underclass – geohot

    93 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  72. The spectrum of isolation: From bare metal to WebAssembly

    93 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  73. United States Completes WHO Withdrawal

    93 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  74. Instagram AI Influencers Are Defaming Celebrities with Sex Scandals

    93 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  75. Brazilian Micro-SaaS Map

    93 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  76. guys why does armenian completely break Claude

    93 points • comment • jan 11, 2026

  77. Show HN: I built a "Do not disturb" Device for my home office

    93 points • comment • jan 03, 2026

  78. Stop Forwarding Errors, Start Designing Them

    93 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  79. Noctia: A sleek and minimal desktop shell thoughtfully crafted for Wayland

    93 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  80. Hierarchical Navigable Small World (HNSW) in PHP

    93 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  81. Reverse Engineering the Epson FilmScan 200 for Classic Mac

    93 points • comment • jan 03, 2026

  82. Killing the ISP Appliance: An eBPF/XDP Approach to Distributed BNG

    93 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  83. Native Linux VST plugin directory

    93 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  84. Will AIs take all our jobs and end human history, or not? (2023)

    92 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  85. SQL Studio

    92 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  86. One Guy Crowdsourced More Than 500 Dashcams for Minneapolis to Film ICE

    92 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  87. OpenSSL: Stack buffer overflow in CMS AuthEnvelopedData parsing

    92 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  88. Building a Rust-style static analyzer for C++ with AI

    92 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  89. Ansible battle tested hardening for Linux, SSH, Nginx, MySQL

    92 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  90. Boston Dynamics and DeepMind form new AI partnership

    92 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  91. Wikipedia: Sandbox

    91 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  92. Batmobile: 10-20x Faster CUDA Kernels for Equivariant Graph Neural Networks

    91 points • comment • jan 18, 2026

  93. Profiling with Ctrl-C (2024)

    91 points • comment • jan 03, 2026

  94. American Dialect Society 2025 Word of the Year Is "Slop"

    91 points • comment • jan 11, 2026

  95. The Enchiridion by Epictetus

    91 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  96. Fossil versus Git

    91 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  97. Amazon braces for another major round of layoffs, 14,000 jobs at risk

    91 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  98. More sustainable epoxy thanks to phosphorus

    90 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  99. Building a 25 Gbit/s workstation for the SCION Association

    90 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  100. Nike's Crisis and the Economics of Brand Decay

    90 points • comment • jan 04, 2026