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Hacker News (Jan 2026)
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IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service (1999)
73 points • comment • jan 20, 2026
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Heating homes with the largest particle accelerator
73 points • comment • jan 29, 2026
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Eight European countries face 10% tariff for opposing US control of Greenland
73 points • comment • jan 17, 2026
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Distributed Denial of Secrets
73 points • comment • jan 08, 2026
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Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge
73 points • comment • jan 20, 2026
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Show HN: A geofence-based social network app 6 years in development
73 points • comment • jan 08, 2026
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Gemini Protocol Deployment Statistics
73 points • comment • jan 06, 2026
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Old Insurance Maps – Georeferencing Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps on Modern Maps
73 points • comment • jan 27, 2026
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Cloudflare zero-day: Accessing any host globally
73 points • comment • jan 20, 2026
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Experts Warn of Growing Parrot Crisis in Canada
72 points • comment • jan 12, 2026
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Bringing the Predators to Life in MAME
72 points • comment • jan 14, 2026
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Show HN: Vibe Coding a static site on a $25 Walmart Phone
72 points • comment • jan 03, 2026
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Satellites encased in wood are in the works
72 points • comment • jan 26, 2026
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EFF to Close Friday in Solidarity with National Shutdown
72 points • comment • jan 29, 2026
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Happy 50th Birthday KIM-1
72 points • comment • jan 11, 2026
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Bluesky 2025 Transparency Report
72 points • comment • jan 29, 2026
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Imagine 130M Washing Machines
72 points • comment • jan 05, 2026
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IKEA for Software
72 points • comment • jan 12, 2026
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How the Lobsters front page works
72 points • comment • jan 18, 2026
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How dependabot works
72 points • comment • jan 02, 2026
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The Five Levels: From spicy autocomplete to the dark factory
72 points • comment • jan 23, 2026
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The mineral riches hiding under Greenland's ice
72 points • comment • jan 07, 2026
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Ideas are cheap, execution is cheaper
72 points • comment • jan 12, 2026
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Chatbot Psychosis
71 points • comment • jan 20, 2026
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Ask HN: Any Microsoft employees/devs here? What's happening to Microsoft?
71 points • comment • jan 06, 2026
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Hands-On with Two Apple Network Server Prototype ROMs
71 points • comment • jan 25, 2026
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OpenFlexure Microscope
71 points • comment • jan 21, 2026
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Observability's past, present, and future
71 points • comment • jan 05, 2026
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AI Destroys Institutions
71 points • comment • jan 16, 2026
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I reverse-engineered Netflix's 4K restrictions
71 points • comment • jan 28, 2026
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Folding NASA Experience into an Origamist's Toolkit (2024)
71 points • comment • jan 17, 2026
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Tell HN: I'm having the worst career winter of my life
71 points • comment • jan 02, 2026
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Sorted string tables (SST) from first principles
70 points • comment • jan 05, 2026
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"They Saw a Protest": Cognitive Illiberalism and the Speech-Conduct Distinction [pdf] (2012)
70 points • comment • jan 09, 2026
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DOGE employees may have improperly accessed social security data, DOJ says
70 points • comment • jan 20, 2026
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As deep-sea mining race ramps up, mission will assess whether ecosystems recover
70 points • comment • jan 03, 2026
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New York Times games are hard: A computational perspective
70 points • comment • jan 23, 2026
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Show HN: EuConform – Offline-first EU AI Act compliance tool (open source)
70 points • comment • jan 09, 2026
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Show HN: An interactive physics simulator with 1000’s of balls, in your terminal
70 points • comment • jan 19, 2026
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Test your square brackets
70 points • comment • jan 09, 2026
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Deno has made its PyPI distribution official
70 points • comment • jan 09, 2026
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How to Be Less Awkward
70 points • comment • jan 06, 2026
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Writing First, Tooling Second
70 points • comment • jan 19, 2026
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Datadog, thank you for blocking us
70 points • comment • jan 09, 2026
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Replace the Retiring Windows XP with Linux (2014)
69 points • comment • jan 11, 2026
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Show HN: AutoShorts – Local, GPU-accelerated AI video pipeline for creators
69 points • comment • jan 25, 2026
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Task-free intelligence testing of LLMs
69 points • comment • jan 08, 2026
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SSDs, power loss protection and fsync latency
69 points • comment • jan 07, 2026
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Cyberattack in Venezuela demonstrated precision of U.S. capabilities
69 points • comment • jan 16, 2026
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CD Projekt issue DMCA takedown notice against popular Cyberpunk VR mod
69 points • comment • jan 19, 2026
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Dark Mode vs. Light Mode: Which Is Better?
69 points • comment • jan 18, 2026
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Show HN: Xenia – A monospaced font built with a custom Python engine
69 points • comment • jan 18, 2026
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Reverse engineering Lyft Bikes for fun (and profit?)
69 points • comment • jan 22, 2026
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Show HN: A simulator for engineers transitioning from IC to management
69 points • comment • jan 05, 2026
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Building Robust Helm Charts
69 points • comment • jan 19, 2026
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ICE Releases RFI for User Tracking Tools
69 points • comment • jan 24, 2026
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LLM-as-a-Courtroom
69 points • comment • jan 27, 2026
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Thirty Years of the Square Kilometre Array
69 points • comment • jan 25, 2026
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A Brief History of Ralph
69 points • comment • jan 19, 2026
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Show HN: DeepDream for Video with Temporal Consistency
68 points • comment • jan 08, 2026
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XHTML Club
68 points • comment • jan 24, 2026
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Utopian Scholastic
68 points • comment • jan 05, 2026
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Wilson Lin on FastRender: a browser built by parallel agents
68 points • comment • jan 23, 2026
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Anthropic disabled my account after payment cancer patient/medical data trapped
68 points • comment • jan 19, 2026
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Building an internal agent: Code-driven vs. LLM-driven workflows
68 points • comment • jan 01, 2026
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Vm0
68 points • comment • jan 15, 2026
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Exploring Different Keyboard Sensing Technologies
68 points • comment • jan 28, 2026
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Ultraprocessed foods make up to 70% of the US food supply (2025)
68 points • comment • jan 27, 2026
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An Honest Review of Go (2025)
68 points • comment • jan 08, 2026
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JavaScript's For-Of Loops Are Fast
68 points • comment • jan 03, 2026
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Tesla fined for repeatedly failing to help UK police over driving offences
68 points • comment • jan 23, 2026
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Show HN: Stash – Sync Markdown Files with Apple Notes via CLI
68 points • comment • jan 06, 2026
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Perlsecret – Perl secret operators and constants
68 points • comment • jan 06, 2026
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Congress Wants to Hand Your Parenting to Big Tech
67 points • comment • jan 17, 2026
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Keifu – A TUI for navigating commit graphs with color and clarity
67 points • comment • jan 17, 2026
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The Science of Fermentation [audio]
67 points • comment • jan 23, 2026
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US judge rules Luigi Mangione won't face death penalty in CEO killing case
67 points • comment • jan 30, 2026
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How Did TVs Get So Cheap?
67 points • comment • jan 08, 2026
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Tell HN: Amazon has deactivated my seller account
67 points • comment • jan 21, 2026
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The GDB JIT Interface
67 points • comment • jan 16, 2026
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Show HN: HyTags – HTML as a Programming Language
67 points • comment • jan 13, 2026
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"Microslop" trends on social media
67 points • comment • jan 04, 2026
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Painless Software Schedules (2000)
67 points • comment • jan 26, 2026
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India's Electric Two-Wheeler Market: Rise, Reset and What Comes Next
67 points • comment • jan 09, 2026
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Every data centre is a U.S. military base
67 points • comment • jan 17, 2026
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U.S. carbon pollution rose in 2025, a reversal from prior years
67 points • comment • jan 15, 2026
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OpenAI to test ads in ChatGPT as it burns through billions
67 points • comment • jan 17, 2026
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Tech CEOs attend Amazon-funded "Melania" screening at White House
67 points • comment • jan 26, 2026
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Show HN: 1D-Pong Game at 39C3
67 points • comment • jan 11, 2026
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Ask HN: Unemployed almost a year after graduating MIT – a rant
67 points • comment • jan 14, 2026
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Understanding Rust Closures
67 points • comment • jan 24, 2026
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Building docs like a product
67 points • comment • jan 29, 2026
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SpaceX lowering orbits of 4,400 Starlink satellites for safety's sake
67 points • comment • jan 22, 2026
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Garbage collection is contrarian
67 points • comment • jan 09, 2026
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US, for first time in 50 years, experienced negative net migration in 2025
67 points • comment • jan 14, 2026
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Most renters shut out of energy-saving upgrades – study
66 points • comment • jan 16, 2026
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Extracting a UART Password via SPI Flash Instruction Tracing
66 points • comment • jan 22, 2026
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Agonist-Antagonist Myoneural Interface
66 points • comment • jan 09, 2026
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Show HN: SnackBase – Open-source, GxP-compliant back end for Python teams
66 points • comment • jan 13, 2026
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Show HN: A 10KiB kernel for cloud apps
66 points • comment • jan 14, 2026