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Hacker News (Jan 2026)

  1. Pole of Inaccessibility

    66 points • comment • jan 03, 2026

  2. A deep dive on agent sandboxes

    66 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  3. The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Observatory System

    66 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  4. Ask HN: Any real OpenClaw (Clawd Bot/Molt Bot) users? What's your experience?

    66 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

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

    66 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  6. Challenges in join optimization

    66 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  7. Running Lean at Scale

    66 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

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

    66 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  9. Overlapping Markup

    66 points • comment • jan 18, 2026

  10. Germany's shut down of nuclear plants a 'huge mistake', says Merz

    65 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  11. Opening the AWS European Sovereign Cloud

    65 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  12. Show HN: 48-digit prime numbers every git commit

    65 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  13. Email experiments: filtering out external images

    65 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  14. Why Real Life is better than IRC (2000)

    65 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  15. Sandboxing Untrusted Python

    65 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  16. Show HN: See the carbon impact of your cloud as you code

    65 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  17. AI can 10x developers in creating tech debt

    65 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  18. Extracting books from production language models (2026)

    65 points • comment • jan 10, 2026

  19. Use of Bayesian methodology in clinical trials of drug and biological products [pdf]

    65 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  20. Show HN: Make audio loops online

    64 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  21. Reading Without Limits or Expectations

    64 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  22. EU Parliament freezes US trade deal ratification

    64 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  23. Zuck#: A programming language for connecting the world. And harvesting it

    64 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  24. How GitHub monopoly is destroying the open source ecosystem

    64 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  25. Why I Always End Up Going Back to C

    64 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  26. I have written gemma3 inference in pure C

    64 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  27. DHS Says DHS-Certified Real IDs Too Unreliable to Confirm U.S. Citizenship

    64 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  28. Show HN: I built an AI conversation partner to practice speaking languages

    64 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  29. How can I build a simple pulse generator to demonstrate transmission lines

    64 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  30. What it's like to be banned from the US for fighting online hate

    64 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  31. Ask HN: What is the best way to provide continuous context to models?

    64 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  32. King – man + woman is queen; but why? (2017)

    64 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  33. Scientists Uncover the Universal Geometry of Geology (2020)

    64 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  34. Mote: An Interactive Ecosystem Simulation [video]

    64 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  35. Keeping Syria connected during war: Surviving ISIS and Intelligence

    64 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  36. Hellenistic War-Elephants and the Use of Alcohol Before Battle

    64 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  37. Show HN: Wario Synth – Turn any song into Game Boy version

    64 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  38. Direct Current Data Centers

    63 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  39. Why have death rates from accidental falls tripled?

    63 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  40. U.S. mandates more foreign travelers to pay $15,000 visa bond deposits

    63 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  41. Self Sanitizing Door Handle

    63 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  42. AI Lazyslop and Personal Responsibility

    63 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  43. 'This is sell America' – US dollar tumbles as globe flees US assets

    63 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  44. Amiga Pointer Archive

    63 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  45. The cleaner: One woman’s mission to help Britain’s hoarders

    63 points • comment • jan 18, 2026

  46. Stop using low DNS TTLs

    63 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  47. Show HN: C From Scratch – Learn safety-critical C with prove-first methodology

    63 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  48. Htmx: High Power Tools for HTML

    63 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  49. Stop using MySQL in 2026, it is not true open source

    63 points • comment • jan 18, 2026

  50. iPhone 16 Best-Selling Smartphone in 2025; Apple Takes 7 Spots in Top Models

    63 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  51. AV1 Image File Format Specification Gets an Upgrade with AVIF v1.2.0

    62 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  52. Designing a Passively Safe API

    62 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  53. You need a kitchen slide rule

    62 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  54. Cardiovascular disease is a solved problem

    62 points • comment • jan 03, 2026

  55. Intellectual Junkyards

    62 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  56. The Case for Nushell (2023)

    62 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  57. America Is Slow-Walking into a Polymarket Disaster

    62 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  58. Escaping the trap of US tech dependence

    62 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  59. Hate is a strong word, but I don't like Windows 11

    62 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  60. Washington National Opera Is Leaving the Kennedy Center

    62 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  61. Inlining – The Ultimate Optimisation

    62 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  62. /R/selfhosted limits vibecoded apps

    62 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  63. Supernova Remnant Video from NASA's Chandra Is Decades in Making

    62 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  64. Our Changing Planet, as Seen from Space

    62 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  65. Docker.how – Docker command cheat sheet

    62 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  66. Judge to Texas: You Can't Age-Gate the Internet Without Evidence

    62 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  67. Finance Industry Eyes Investment Opportunities in Venezuela

    62 points • comment • jan 03, 2026

  68. Loongarch Improvements with Box64

    62 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  69. Designing an IPv6-native P2P transport – lessons from building I6P

    61 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  70. The Resonant Computing Manifesto

    61 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  71. 'Doomsday fish': Once-in-a-lifetime sea creature encountered in Monterey Bay

    61 points • comment • jan 03, 2026

  72. Solo ASIC tapeout on a budget: detailed write up

    61 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  73. Why German Strings Are Everywhere?

    61 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  74. Computers that used to be human

    61 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  75. Logistics Is Dying; Or – Dude, Where's My Mail?

    61 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  76. Steam "Offline" status leaks exact login timestamps (Valve: Won't Fix)

    61 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  77. A web developer posted a payment shaming message on their client's site

    61 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  78. Show HN: Miditui – A terminal app/UI for MIDI composing, mixing, and playback

    61 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  79. Japan's Skyscraper Factories (2021)

    61 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  80. The Startup Graveyard

    61 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  81. 2026 Predictions Scorecard

    61 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  82. ChatGPT wrote "Goodnight Moon" suicide lullaby for man who later killed himself

    61 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  83. The first new compass since 1936

    60 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  84. How I learned everything I know about programming

    60 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  85. Ask HN: How are you automating your coding work?

    60 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  86. New Lego smart-play system

    60 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  87. Show HN: GibRAM an in-memory ephemeral GraphRAG runtime for retrieval

    60 points • comment • jan 18, 2026

  88. Setting Up a Cluster of Tiny PCs for Parallel Computing

    60 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  89. Building a Real-Time HN Display for $15

    60 points • comment • jan 22, 2026

  90. The great shift of English prose

    60 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  91. White House defends sharing AI image showing arrested woman crying

    60 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  92. OpenAI's In-House Data Agent

    60 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  93. A glimpse into V8 development for RISC-V

    60 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  94. Show HN: B-IR – An LLM-optimized programming language

    60 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  95. The skill of the future is not 'AI', but 'Focus' (2025)

    60 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  96. Beebo, a wave simulator written in C

    60 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  97. Reducing Dependabot Noise

    60 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  98. The C-Shaped Hole in Package Management

    59 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  99. Show HN: wxpath – Declarative web crawling in XPath

    59 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  100. Ruby Array Pack Bleed

    59 points • comment • jan 06, 2026