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Hacker News (Jan 2026)

  1. More sustainable epoxy thanks to phosphorus

    90 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  2. Software Survival 3.0

    90 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  3. Shared Claude: A website controlled by the public

    90 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  4. Understanding ZFS Scrubs and Data Integrity

    90 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  5. House of Lords Votes to Ban UK Children from Using Internet VPNs

    90 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  6. Bill to Eliminate H-1B Visa Program Introduced in Congress

    89 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  7. The behavioral cost of personalized pricing

    89 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  8. Denmark's struggle to break up with Silicon Valley

    89 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  9. Google DeepMind Staffers Ask Leaders to Keep Them 'Physically Safe' from ICE

    89 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  10. KISS Launcher – fast launcher for Android

    89 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  11. Everything you never wanted to know about file locking (2010)

    89 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  12. Waypoint-1: Real-Time Interactive Video Diffusion from Overworld

    89 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  13. Graphics In Flatland – 2D ray tracing [video]

    88 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  14. BasiliskII Macintosh 68k Emulator Ported to ESP32-P4 / M5Stack Tab5

    88 points • comment • jan 11, 2026

  15. A simulation where life unfolds in real time

    88 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  16. Interpreter – Offline screen translator for Japanese retro games

    88 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  17. Exactitude in Science – Borges (1946) [pdf]

    88 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  18. Meet the Alaska Student Arrested for Eating an AI Art Exhibit

    88 points • comment • jan 22, 2026

  19. The Mathematics of Tuning Systems

    88 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  20. Cows can use sophisticated tools

    88 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  21. P vs. NP and the Difficulty of Computation: A ruliological approach

    88 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  22. Sinclair C5

    88 points • comment • jan 10, 2026

  23. We might have been slower to abandon StackOverflow if it wasn't a toxic hellhole

    88 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  24. Creating Embroidered Charts with R and ImageMagick

    88 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  25. Code Is Clay

    88 points • comment • jan 10, 2026

  26. Iran Is Hunting Down Starlink Users to Stop Protest Videos from Going Global

    88 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  27. Counterfactual evaluation for recommendation systems

    87 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  28. Best of Moltbook

    87 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  29. Lies, Damned Lies and Proofs: Formal Methods Are Not Slopless

    87 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  30. Use social media mindfully

    87 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  31. MTOTP: Wouldn't it be nice if you were the 2FA device?

    87 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  32. Show HN: Gambit, an open-source agent harness for building reliable AI agents

    87 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  33. The five orders of ignorance (2000)

    87 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  34. Adding insular script like it's 1626

    87 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  35. Rats caught on camera hunting flying bats (2025)

    87 points • comment • jan 10, 2026

  36. Why Greenland's natural resources are nearly impossible to mine

    87 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  37. Verizon starts requiring 365 days of paid service before it will unlock phones

    86 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  38. How your high school affects your chances of UC Admission

    86 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  39. Show HN: BrowserOS – "Claude Cowork" in the browser

    86 points • comment • jan 22, 2026

  40. Vitamin D supplements cut heart attack risk by 52%. Why?

    86 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  41. Tally – A tool to help agents classify your bank transactions

    86 points • comment • jan 03, 2026

  42. Xmake: A cross-platform build utility based on Lua

    86 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  43. HP Reveals Keyboard Computer with Ryzen AI Chip

    86 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  44. Claude Code Emergent Behavior: When Skills Combine

    86 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  45. The PGP problem (2019)

    86 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  46. Why I don't have fun with Claude Code

    86 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  47. How I Became a Quant (2007) [pdf]

    86 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  48. Raspberry Pi and mini PC home lab prices hit parity as DRAM costs skyrocket

    86 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  49. How Thomas Mann Wrote the Magic Mountain

    86 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  50. How we made Python's packaging library 3x faster

    86 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  51. Demystifying ARM SME to Optimize General Matrix Multiplications

    86 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  52. Immigration Agencies Are Openly Defying Federal Courts

    86 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  53. White House Posts Digitally Altered Image of Woman Arrested After ICE Protest

    86 points • comment • jan 22, 2026

  54. San Francisco to offer free childcare to people making up to $230k

    85 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  55. Show HN: I've been using AI to analyze every supplement on the market

    85 points • comment • jan 22, 2026

  56. Show HN: I built a text-based business simulator to replace video courses

    85 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  57. European lawmakers suspend U.S. trade deal

    85 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  58. In a genre where spoilers are devastating, how do we talk about puzzle games?

    85 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  59. Selling SaaS in Japan

    85 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  60. Death Note: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy (2011)

    85 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  61. Mamdani Targets Junk Fees and Hidden Charges in Two Executive Orders

    85 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  62. EU inc: a new European company structure

    85 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  63. Blade Runner Costume Design (2020)

    85 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  64. I got paid minimum wage to solve an impossible problem

    85 points • comment • jan 10, 2026

  65. More than one hundred years of Film Sizes

    85 points • comment • jan 11, 2026

  66. Nuclear elements detected in West Philippine Sea

    85 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  67. HTTP RateLimit Headers

    85 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  68. How HTML changes in ePub

    84 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  69. Lessons from Hash Table Merging

    84 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  70. Water 'Bankruptcy' Era Has Begun for Billions, Scientists Say

    84 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  71. Project SkyWatch (a.k.a. Wescam at Home)

    84 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  72. Heathrow drops the liquids rule

    84 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  73. The Value of Things

    84 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  74. Slouching Towards Bethlehem – Joan Didion (1967)

    84 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  75. Httpz – Zero-Allocation HTTP/1.1 Parser for OxCaml

    84 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  76. Show HN: Interactive physics simulations I built while teaching my daughter

    84 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  77. The secret medieval tunnels that we still don't understand

    84 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  78. Mysterious Victorian-era shoes are washing up on a beach in Wales

    84 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  79. Miami, your Waymo ride is ready

    83 points • comment • jan 22, 2026

  80. We Do Not Support Opt-Out Forms (2025)

    83 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  81. Harvard legal scholars debate the state of the U.S. constitution (2025)

    83 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  82. Why S7 Scheme? (2020)

    83 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  83. The Rebirth of Pennsylvania's Infamous Burning Town

    83 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  84. Quaternion Algebras

    83 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  85. CDC staff 'blindsided' as child vaccine schedule unilaterally overhauled

    83 points • comment • jan 10, 2026

  86. Dell admits it made a mistake when it abandoned XPS

    82 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  87. Compiling Scheme to WebAssembly

    82 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  88. 'Bandersnatch': The Works That Inspired the 'Black Mirror' Interactive Feature (2019)

    82 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  89. Amazon One palm authentication discontinued

    82 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  90. Why is there a tiny hole in the airplane window? (2023)

    82 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  91. Flexible use of a multi-purpose tool by a cow

    82 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  92. Ask HN: Is it time for HN to implement a form of captcha?

    82 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  93. Gold fever, cold, and the true adventures of Jack London in the wild

    82 points • comment • jan 18, 2026

  94. EU and Mercosur countries sign landmark free trade deal

    82 points • comment • jan 18, 2026

  95. Keychron's Nape Pro turns your keyboard into a laptop‑style trackball rig

    82 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  96. The Great Gatsby is the most misunderstood novel (2021)

    82 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  97. Python: Tprof, a Targeting Profiler

    81 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  98. Tea Chemistry (1997)

    81 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  99. Launch HN: Indy (YC S21) – A support app designed for ADHD brains

    81 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  100. Scaling Latent Reasoning via Looped Language Models

    81 points • comment • jan 03, 2026