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Hacker News (Jan 2026)

  1. IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service (1999)

    73 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  2. Heating homes with the largest particle accelerator

    73 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  3. Eight European countries face 10% tariff for opposing US control of Greenland

    73 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  4. Distributed Denial of Secrets

    73 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  5. Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge

    73 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  6. Show HN: A geofence-based social network app 6 years in development

    73 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  7. Gemini Protocol Deployment Statistics

    73 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

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

    73 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  9. Cloudflare zero-day: Accessing any host globally

    73 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  10. Experts Warn of Growing Parrot Crisis in Canada

    72 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  11. Bringing the Predators to Life in MAME

    72 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  12. Show HN: Vibe Coding a static site on a $25 Walmart Phone

    72 points • comment • jan 03, 2026

  13. Satellites encased in wood are in the works

    72 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  14. EFF to Close Friday in Solidarity with National Shutdown

    72 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  15. Happy 50th Birthday KIM-1

    72 points • comment • jan 11, 2026

  16. Bluesky 2025 Transparency Report

    72 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  17. Imagine 130M Washing Machines

    72 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  18. IKEA for Software

    72 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  19. How the Lobsters front page works

    72 points • comment • jan 18, 2026

  20. How dependabot works

    72 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  21. The Five Levels: From spicy autocomplete to the dark factory

    72 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  22. The mineral riches hiding under Greenland's ice

    72 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  23. Ideas are cheap, execution is cheaper

    72 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  24. Chatbot Psychosis

    71 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  25. Ask HN: Any Microsoft employees/devs here? What's happening to Microsoft?

    71 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  26. Hands-On with Two Apple Network Server Prototype ROMs

    71 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  27. OpenFlexure Microscope

    71 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  28. Observability's past, present, and future

    71 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  29. AI Destroys Institutions

    71 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  30. I reverse-engineered Netflix's 4K restrictions

    71 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  31. Folding NASA Experience into an Origamist's Toolkit (2024)

    71 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  32. Tell HN: I'm having the worst career winter of my life

    71 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  33. Sorted string tables (SST) from first principles

    70 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  34. "They Saw a Protest": Cognitive Illiberalism and the Speech-Conduct Distinction [pdf] (2012)

    70 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  35. DOGE employees may have improperly accessed social security data, DOJ says

    70 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  36. As deep-sea mining race ramps up, mission will assess whether ecosystems recover

    70 points • comment • jan 03, 2026

  37. New York Times games are hard: A computational perspective

    70 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  38. Show HN: EuConform – Offline-first EU AI Act compliance tool (open source)

    70 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  39. Show HN: An interactive physics simulator with 1000’s of balls, in your terminal

    70 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  40. Test your square brackets

    70 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  41. Deno has made its PyPI distribution official

    70 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  42. How to Be Less Awkward

    70 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  43. Writing First, Tooling Second

    70 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  44. Datadog, thank you for blocking us

    70 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  45. Replace the Retiring Windows XP with Linux (2014)

    69 points • comment • jan 11, 2026

  46. Show HN: AutoShorts – Local, GPU-accelerated AI video pipeline for creators

    69 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  47. Task-free intelligence testing of LLMs

    69 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  48. SSDs, power loss protection and fsync latency

    69 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  49. Cyberattack in Venezuela demonstrated precision of U.S. capabilities

    69 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  50. CD Projekt issue DMCA takedown notice against popular Cyberpunk VR mod

    69 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  51. Dark Mode vs. Light Mode: Which Is Better?

    69 points • comment • jan 18, 2026

  52. Show HN: Xenia – A monospaced font built with a custom Python engine

    69 points • comment • jan 18, 2026

  53. Reverse engineering Lyft Bikes for fun (and profit?)

    69 points • comment • jan 22, 2026

  54. Show HN: A simulator for engineers transitioning from IC to management

    69 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  55. Building Robust Helm Charts

    69 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  56. ICE Releases RFI for User Tracking Tools

    69 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  57. LLM-as-a-Courtroom

    69 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  58. Thirty Years of the Square Kilometre Array

    69 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  59. A Brief History of Ralph

    69 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  60. Show HN: DeepDream for Video with Temporal Consistency

    68 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  61. XHTML Club

    68 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  62. Utopian Scholastic

    68 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  63. Wilson Lin on FastRender: a browser built by parallel agents

    68 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  64. Anthropic disabled my account after payment cancer patient/medical data trapped

    68 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  65. Building an internal agent: Code-driven vs. LLM-driven workflows

    68 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  66. Vm0

    68 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  67. Exploring Different Keyboard Sensing Technologies

    68 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  68. Ultraprocessed foods make up to 70% of the US food supply (2025)

    68 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  69. An Honest Review of Go (2025)

    68 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  70. JavaScript's For-Of Loops Are Fast

    68 points • comment • jan 03, 2026

  71. Tesla fined for repeatedly failing to help UK police over driving offences

    68 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  72. Show HN: Stash – Sync Markdown Files with Apple Notes via CLI

    68 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  73. Perlsecret – Perl secret operators and constants

    68 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  74. Congress Wants to Hand Your Parenting to Big Tech

    67 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  75. Keifu – A TUI for navigating commit graphs with color and clarity

    67 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  76. The Science of Fermentation [audio]

    67 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  77. US judge rules Luigi Mangione won't face death penalty in CEO killing case

    67 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  78. How Did TVs Get So Cheap?

    67 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  79. Tell HN: Amazon has deactivated my seller account

    67 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  80. The GDB JIT Interface

    67 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  81. Show HN: HyTags – HTML as a Programming Language

    67 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  82. "Microslop" trends on social media

    67 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  83. Painless Software Schedules (2000)

    67 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  84. India's Electric Two-Wheeler Market: Rise, Reset and What Comes Next

    67 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  85. Every data centre is a U.S. military base

    67 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  86. U.S. carbon pollution rose in 2025, a reversal from prior years

    67 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  87. OpenAI to test ads in ChatGPT as it burns through billions

    67 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  88. Tech CEOs attend Amazon-funded "Melania" screening at White House

    67 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  89. Show HN: 1D-Pong Game at 39C3

    67 points • comment • jan 11, 2026

  90. Ask HN: Unemployed almost a year after graduating MIT – a rant

    67 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  91. Understanding Rust Closures

    67 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  92. Building docs like a product

    67 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  93. SpaceX lowering orbits of 4,400 Starlink satellites for safety's sake

    67 points • comment • jan 22, 2026

  94. Garbage collection is contrarian

    67 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  95. US, for first time in 50 years, experienced negative net migration in 2025

    67 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  96. Most renters shut out of energy-saving upgrades – study

    66 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  97. Extracting a UART Password via SPI Flash Instruction Tracing

    66 points • comment • jan 22, 2026

  98. Agonist-Antagonist Myoneural Interface

    66 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  99. Show HN: SnackBase – Open-source, GxP-compliant back end for Python teams

    66 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  100. Show HN: A 10KiB kernel for cloud apps

    66 points • comment • jan 14, 2026