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Hacker News (Jan 2026)

  1. Ukraine fakes commander's death to trick Russia into paying $500k bounty

    54 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  2. Microsoft's Azure Linux

    54 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  3. Ask HN: When has a "dumb" solution beaten a sophisticated one for you?

    54 points • comment • jan 11, 2026

  4. Neko: History of a Software Pet (2022)

    54 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  5. All my new code will be closed-source from now on

    54 points • comment • jan 10, 2026

  6. Fix macOS 26 (Tahoe) exaggerated rounded corners

    54 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  7. Venezuela's interim government says it is united behind Maduro

    54 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  8. Show HN: Hover – IDE style hover documentation on any webpage

    54 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  9. How not to securely erase a NVME drive (2022)

    54 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  10. ICE watchers in Maine say they were threatened by federal agents

    54 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  11. World’s most powerful literary critic is on TikTok

    54 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  12. Ask HN: Burned out from tech, what else is there?

    54 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  13. Astrophotography visibility plotting and planning tool

    54 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  14. Monads in C# (Part 2): Result

    53 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  15. Show HN: mdto.page – Turn Markdown into a shareable webpage instantly

    53 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  16. Target director's Global Entry was revoked after ICE used app to scan her face

    53 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  17. BillG the Manager (2021)

    53 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  18. Bitcoin Looks Set for Longest Monthly Losing Streak Since 2018

    53 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  19. Show HN: VaultSandbox – Test your real MailGun/SES/etc. integration

    53 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  20. Windows 11 January Update Breaks Notepad

    53 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  21. Show HN: Xoscript

    53 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  22. Emoji Design Convergence Review: 2018-2026

    53 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  23. Show HN: An LLM-Powered PCB Schematic Checker (Major Update)

    53 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  24. Claude keeps nagging about "Help improve Claude" inspite of previous decline

    53 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  25. Lunar Radio Telescope to Unlock Cosmic Mysteries

    53 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  26. Danish Armed Forces expand their presence and continue exercises in Greenland

    53 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  27. Ashcan Comic

    53 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  28. Microsoft stock plummets as investors fret on AI spend

    53 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  29. 9front OS

    53 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  30. The world is one bad decision away from a silicon Ice Age

    53 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  31. Provenance Is the New Version Control

    53 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  32. Flint Confirms Biodegradable Paper Batteries Are Now in Production

    53 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  33. Co-founder Joe Lonsdale: Palantir was founded to kill communists

    53 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  34. Chinese AI models have lagged the US frontier by 7 months on average since 2023

    53 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  35. UK Expands Online Safety Act to Mandate Preemptive Scanning

    53 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  36. I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows

    53 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  37. Tux Paint

    53 points • comment • jan 10, 2026

  38. Nvidia Kicks Off the Next Generation of AI with Rubin

    52 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  39. Architecture for Disposable Systems

    52 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  40. "We're aware of the DMCA takedown notice of julialang logo by an OF creator"

    52 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  41. Show HN: DDL to Data – Generate realistic test data from SQL schemas

    52 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  42. See it with your lying ears

    52 points • comment • jan 10, 2026

  43. Cloudspecs: Cloud Hardware Evolution Through the Looking Glass

    52 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  44. RCS for Business

    52 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  45. 40M Americans Live Alone, 29% of households

    52 points • comment • jan 22, 2026

  46. AWS European Sovereign Cloud

    52 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  47. Show HN: I built a space travel calculator using Vanilla JavaScript

    52 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  48. Gemini 3.0 Deciphered the Mystery of a Nuremberg Chronicle Leaf's

    52 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  49. Transfering Files with gRPC

    52 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  50. Bindless Oriented Graphics Programming

    52 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  51. Show HN: Free and local browser tool for designing gear models for 3D printing

    52 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  52. The First Eighteen Lines of the Waste Land (1989)

    52 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  53. Ask HN: Do you still use physical calculators?

    52 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  54. Show HN: Open-Source 8-Ch BCI Board (ESP32 and ADS1299 and OpenBCI GUI)

    52 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  55. When "likers'' go private: Engagement with reputationally risky content on X

    51 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  56. The Physics of Ideas: Reality as a Coordination Problem

    51 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  57. Software is mostly all you need

    51 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  58. Iran report says 16,500 dead in 'genocide under digital darkness'

    51 points • comment • jan 18, 2026

  59. Drawings of the elements of CMS detector, in the style of Leonardo da Vinci

    51 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  60. Show HN: I built a tool to create AI agents that live in iMessage

    51 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  61. EV-1 for Lease (1996)

    51 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  62. YouTube Playlist Downloader

    51 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  63. Creating a 48GB Nvidia RTX 4090 GPU – Brother Zhang's Repair Shop (Ft. 张哥) [video]

    51 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  64. String theory can now describe a universe that has dark energy?

    51 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  65. AI sycophancy panic

    51 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  66. What old tennis players teach us (2017)

    51 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  67. The Dilbert Afterlife

    51 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  68. Office app has changed to copilot and now I can't open files

    51 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  69. Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible?

    51 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  70. AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage

    51 points • comment • jan 18, 2026

  71. Transmission 4.1.0

    51 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  72. Two ways to crack a walnut, per Grothendieck (2025)

    51 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  73. Students using “humanizer” programs to beat accusations of cheating with AI

    51 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  74. Coffee as a staining agent substitute in electron microscopy

    51 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  75. Linus is vibe coding

    51 points • comment • jan 11, 2026

  76. What life is like in Minneapolis now

    51 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  77. The guide to real-world EV battery health

    51 points • comment • jan 18, 2026

  78. Nerd: A language for LLMs, not humans

    51 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  79. Show HN: SF Microclimates

    51 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  80. NSFW Acronyms for Programmers (Free eBook)

    51 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  81. Show HN: Ourguide – OS wide task guidance system that shows you where to click

    51 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  82. U.S. threat of 100% tariff on Korean memory chips at odds with reality

    51 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  83. NASA topples towers used to test Saturn rockets, space shuttle

    51 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  84. Understanding C++ Ownership System

    51 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  85. Logos Language Guide: Compile English to Rust

    51 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  86. 60% of Legal Searches Now End Without a Click

    51 points • comment • jan 18, 2026

  87. Pixoo Sign Client for Ruby

    51 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  88. Everything You Need to Know About Email Encryption in 2026

    50 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  89. US freezes visas for 75 nations

    50 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  90. Management Time: Who's Got the Monkey? [pdf]

    50 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  91. Banning Things for Other People Is Easy

    50 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  92. Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda with 1.4M followers reports TikTok ban

    50 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  93. Palantir Crashes Out in Response to GN [video]

    50 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  94. Fast Concordance: Instant concordance on a corpus of >1,200 books

    50 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  95. Michel Siffre’s self-experiments in a cave with no light (2018)

    50 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  96. European Space Agency hit again as cybercriminals claim 200 GB data up for sale

    50 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  97. Show HN: mcpc – Universal command-line client for Model Context Protocol (MCP)

    50 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  98. Putting Gemini to Work in Chrome

    50 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  99. Podcasting Could Use a Good Asteroid

    50 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  100. Georgia leads push to ban datacenters used to power America's AI boom

    50 points • comment • jan 26, 2026