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Hacker News (Jan 2026)

  1. Cold-blooded software (2023)

    81 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

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

    81 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  3. Breaking the Zimmermann Telegram (2018)

    81 points • comment • jan 18, 2026

  4. Launch HN: Tamarind Bio (YC W24) – AI Inference Provider for Drug Discovery

    81 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  5. Find 'Abbey Road when type 'Beatles abbey rd': Fuzzy/Semantic search in Postgres

    81 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  6. Turn a single image into a navigable 3D Gaussian Splat with depth

    81 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  7. How many chess games are possible?

    80 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  8. Favorite Tech Museums

    80 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  9. LG UltraFine Evo 6K 32-inch Monitor Review

    80 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  10. Show HN: Subth.ink – write something and see how many others wrote the same

    80 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  11. Norway EV Push Nears 100 Percent: What's Next?

    80 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  12. Presence in Death

    80 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  13. Quack-Cluster: A Serverless Distributed SQL Query Engine with DuckDB and Ray

    80 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  14. Luxury Yacht is a desktop app for managing Kubernetes clusters

    80 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  15. Show HN: A small programming language where everything is pass-by-value

    80 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  16. Heap Overflow in FFmpeg EXIF

    80 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  17. Stonebraker on CAP theorem and Databases (2010)

    80 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  18. Jack Kerouac's 37 metre-long, first draft scroll of On the Road to be auctioned

    80 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  19. Track Your Routine – Open-source app for task management

    80 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  20. Slopaganda: AI images posted by the White House and what they teach us

    80 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  21. The Risks of AI in Schools Outweigh the Benefits, Report Says

    80 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  22. Crypto grifters are recruiting open-source AI developers

    80 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  23. Coding is when we're least productive

    80 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  24. You Can Just Buy Far-UVC

    80 points • comment • jan 10, 2026

  25. On Getting Hacked

    80 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  26. Show HN: Jax-JS, array library in JavaScript targeting WebGPU

    79 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  27. I'll pass on your zoom call

    79 points • comment • jan 22, 2026

  28. Implementing a web server in a single printf() call (2014)

    79 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  29. Devuan – Debian Without Systemd

    79 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  30. The Riven Diffs – Seeing Riven (1997) Differently

    79 points • comment • jan 03, 2026

  31. Making Magic Leap past Nvidia's secure bootchain and breaking Tesla Autopilots

    79 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  32. An anecdote about backward compatibility

    79 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  33. Minor says ICE took his iPhone, later found in used-electronics vending machine

    79 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  34. DHS restricts congressional visits to ICE facilities in Minneapolis

    79 points • comment • jan 11, 2026

  35. Winapp, the Windows App Development CLI

    78 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  36. SpaceX in Merger Talks with xAI

    78 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  37. Show HN: Fall asleep by watching JavaScript load

    78 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  38. Open sourcing Dicer: Databricks's auto-sharder

    78 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  39. What twenty years of DevOps has failed to do

    78 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  40. Show HN: Zsweep – Play Minesweeper using only Vim motions

    77 points • comment • jan 18, 2026

  41. OpenAI could reportedly run out of cash by mid-2027

    77 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  42. TI-99/4A: Leaning more on the firmware

    77 points • comment • jan 18, 2026

  43. Show HN: I replaced Beads with a faster, simpler Markdown-based task tracker

    77 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  44. Ask HN: How do you safely give LLMs SSH/DB access?

    77 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  45. Show HN: ShapedQL – A SQL engine for multi-stage ranking and RAG

    77 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  46. What Is a PC Compatible?

    77 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  47. Typechecking is undecidable when 'type' is a type (1989) [pdf]

    77 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  48. Show HN: Server-rendered multiplayer games with Lua (no client code)

    77 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  49. The grab list: how museums decide what to save in a disaster

    77 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  50. Golfing APL/K in 90 Lines of Python

    77 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  51. U.S. is withdrawing from 66 international bodies

    77 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  52. Tired of AI, people are committing to the analog lifestyle in 2026

    76 points • comment • jan 18, 2026

  53. Show HN: Reversing YouTube’s “Most Replayed” Graph

    76 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  54. Show HN: S2-lite, an open source Stream Store

    76 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  55. Gladys West's vital contributions to GPS technology

    76 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  56. April 9, 1940 a Dish Best Served Cold (2021)

    76 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  57. Chase to become new issuer of Apple Card

    76 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  58. Model Market Fit

    76 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  59. Systematically Improving Espresso: Mathematical Modeling and Experiment (2020)

    76 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  60. C++ Modules Are Here to Stay

    76 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  61. The Target forensics lab (2024)

    76 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  62. Google: Don't make "bite-sized" content for LLMs

    76 points • comment • jan 11, 2026

  63. Running the Stupid Cricut Software on Linux

    76 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  64. US attack on Venezuela raises fears of future Greenland takeover

    76 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  65. Global software engineering job postings outlook – 2026

    76 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  66. RISC-V is coming along quite speedily: Milk-V Titan Mini-ITX 8-core board

    76 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  67. A static site generator written in POSIX shell

    76 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  68. Former NYC Mayor Eric Adams rugs his own memecoin just 30 minutes after launch

    75 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  69. Dutch experts warn US takeover of DigiD platform poses security risks

    75 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  70. Real Biological Clock Is You're Going to Die (2018)

    75 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  71. Quake 1 Single-Player Map Design Theories (2001)

    75 points • comment • jan 11, 2026

  72. Tell HN: DigitalOcean's managed services broke each other after update

    75 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  73. How to explain Generative AI in the classroom

    75 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  74. You have to know how to drive the car

    75 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  75. An Illustrated Guide to Hippo Castration (2014)

    75 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  76. There is no comfortable reading position

    75 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  77. The unbearable frustration of figuring out APIs

    75 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  78. Astrological CPU Scheduler

    75 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  79. Like digging 'your own grave': The translators grappling with losing work to AI

    75 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  80. Systematically generating tests that would have caught Anthropic's top‑K bug

    75 points • comment • jan 11, 2026

  81. Claude Code is your customer

    75 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  82. Extensibility: The "100% Lisp" Fallacy

    75 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  83. GOG's new owner can't stand Windows either: 'It's such poor-quality software '

    75 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  84. High-performance header-only container library for C++23 on x86-64

    74 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  85. Formal methods only solve half my problems

    74 points • comment • jan 03, 2026

  86. 3D-Printed Mathematical Lampshades

    74 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  87. Three types of LLM workloads and how to serve them

    74 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  88. Gadget Exposed a Spy Camera [video]

    74 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  89. Show HN: Various shape regularization algorithms

    74 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  90. Show HN: Mantic.sh – A structural code search engine for AI agents

    74 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  91. Minnesota activist releases arrest video after manipulated White House version

    74 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  92. The Case for Blogging in the Ruins

    74 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  93. XMPP and Metadata

    74 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  94. Show HN: Claude Reflect – Auto-turn Claude corrections into project config

    74 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  95. European troops arrive in Greenland to boost the Arctic island's security

    73 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  96. Windows 11 Outperforming Linux on an Intel Arrow Lake H Laptop

    73 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  97. JSON-render: LLM-based JSON-to-UI tool

    73 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  98. Cloudflare zero-day: Accessing any host globally

    73 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  99. Show HN: Fence – Sandbox CLI commands with network/filesystem restrictions

    73 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  100. Old Insurance Maps – Georeferencing Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps on Modern Maps

    73 points • comment • jan 27, 2026