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Hacker News (Jan 2026)

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

    50 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  2. Yearly analytics on my spaced repetition results

    50 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  3. macOS 26's Cut Corners

    50 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  4. Learning to Play Tic-Tac-Toe with Jax

    50 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

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

    50 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  6. Mapping Protests in Iran

    50 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  7. Declassifying JUMPSEAT: an American pioneer in space

    50 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

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

    50 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  9. ollama launch

    49 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  10. Break Me If You Can: Exploiting PKO and Relay Attacks in 3DES/AES NFC

    49 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  11. Show HN: Open-source Figma design to code

    49 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  12. Why Microsoft Store Discontinued Support for Office Apps

    49 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  13. Show HN: Dealta – A game-theoretic decentralized trading protocol

    49 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  14. Circumcision classed as possible child abuse in draft CPS document

    49 points • comment • jan 10, 2026

  15. Why BM25 queries with more terms can be faster (and other scaling surprises)

    49 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  16. 2025 marked a record-breaking year for Apple services

    49 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  17. The space and motion of communicating agents (2008) [pdf]

    49 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  18. MakuluLinux (6.4M Downloads) Ships Persistent Backdoor from Developer's Own C2

    49 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  19. Detecting Dementia Using Lexical Analysis: Terry Pratchett's Discworld

    49 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  20. Refusing to Use Twitter

    49 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  21. Tesla profit tanked 46% in 2025

    49 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  22. Litestream Writable VFS

    49 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  23. The housing market isn't for single people

    49 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  24. Joseph Campbell Meets George Lucas – Part I (2015)

    49 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  25. Plunging US Birth Rate Leaves Too Many Colleges with Too Few Kids

    49 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  26. Street-Fighting Mathematics (2008)

    49 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  27. pf: Make af-to less magical

    49 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  28. Show HN: AWS-doctor – A terminal-based AWS health check and cost optimizer in Go

    49 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  29. Sisyphus Now Lives in Oh My Claude

    49 points • comment • jan 11, 2026

  30. Show HN: Differentiable Quantum Chemistry

    49 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  31. The Responsibility of Intellectuals (1967)

    49 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  32. Landline phones cut in parts of Iran, eyewitnesses say

    48 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  33. IRISC: An ARMv7 assembly interpreter and computer architecture simulator

    48 points • comment • jan 18, 2026

  34. US administration to require app, social media, possibly DNA for travelers

    48 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  35. Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live onstage during conference

    48 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  36. He Leaked the Secrets of an Asian Scam Compound. Then He Had to Get Out Alive

    48 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  37. Kahan on the 8087 and designing Intel's floating point (2016) [video]

    48 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  38. Iran's internet shutdown is chillingly precise and may last some time

    48 points • comment • jan 10, 2026

  39. Einstein Probe detects an X-ray flare from nearby star

    48 points • comment • jan 03, 2026

  40. Ubisoft Shuts Assassin's Creed Developer Studio Just Weeks After It Unionized

    48 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  41. KaraDAV – Lightweight Nextcloud compatible WebDAV server

    48 points • comment • jan 11, 2026

  42. US trade deficit widens by the most in nearly 34 years in November

    48 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  43. Roots is a game server daemon that manages Docker containers for game servers

    48 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  44. Why is it legal and ok when big corp. straight tries to scam a user?

    48 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  45. Martin Luther King was talking about a universal basic income before it was cool

    48 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  46. A year of clean energy milestones

    48 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  47. The Spacecraft That Wouldn't Die

    48 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  48. Dockerhub for Skill.md

    48 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  49. Apples, Trees, and Quasimodes

    48 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  50. Gnome dev gives fans of Linux's middle-click paste the middle finger

    48 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  51. Programming, Evolved: Lessons and Observations

    48 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  52. Not for human consumption

    48 points • comment • jan 03, 2026

  53. mRNA cancer vaccine shows protection at 5-year follow-up, Moderna and Merck say

    47 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  54. Phind.com Is Shutting Down

    47 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  55. Ask HN: Who do you follow via RSS feed?

    47 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  56. Board Games in Ancient Fiction: Egypt, Iran, Greece

    47 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  57. XPER on the Commodore 64

    47 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  58. SQLite Is a Self Contained System

    47 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  59. Dole Kemp 96 Web Site

    47 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  60. Go Home, Windows EXE, You're Drunk

    47 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  61. Rev up the viral factories

    47 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  62. Ask HN: DDD was a great debugger – what would a modern equivalent look like?

    47 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  63. US prosecutors launch criminal investigation into Federal Reserve chair

    47 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  64. Stochastic Terrorism

    47 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  65. Show HN: Epstein IM – Talk to Epstein clone in iMessage

    47 points • comment • jan 11, 2026

  66. Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike wants to do for AI what he did for messaging

    47 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  67. Cue Does It All, but Can It Literate?

    47 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  68. Ask HN: What's a standard way for apps to request text completion as a service?

    47 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  69. OpenAI is reportedly asking contractors to upload real work from past jobs

    47 points • comment • jan 11, 2026

  70. Launch HN: Constellation Space (YC W26) – AI for satellite mission assurance

    47 points • comment • jan 22, 2026

  71. Going for Gold: The Story of the Golden Lego RCX and NXT

    47 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  72. LocalFirst: You Keep Using That Word

    47 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  73. Why agents matter more than other AI

    47 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  74. Remails: A European Mail Transfer Agent

    46 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  75. Tesla moving Full Self-Driving to a monthly subscription

    46 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  76. How problematic is resampling audio from 44.1 to 48 kHz?

    46 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  77. 11% of vibe-coded apps are leaking Supabase keys

    46 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  78. The bachelor tax – what it costs in taxes to be single

    46 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  79. OpenAI API Logs: Unpatched data exfiltration

    46 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  80. Starlink updates Privacy Policy to allow AI model training with personal data

    46 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  81. Vcad: Free BRep CAD in the Browser

    46 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  82. When will CSS Grid Lanes arrive?

    46 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  83. Is beef tallow making a comeback?

    46 points • comment • jan 10, 2026

  84. Stevey's Birthday Blog

    46 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  85. Training a trillion parameter model to be funny

    46 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  86. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt accused of rape, surveillance by ex-mistress

    46 points • comment • jan 10, 2026

  87. Show HN: Bible translated using LLMs from source Greek and Hebrew

    46 points • comment • jan 22, 2026

  88. Kubernetes Remote Code Execution via Nodes/Proxy Get Permission

    46 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  89. Modetc: Move your dotfiles from kernel space

    45 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  90. Provably unmasking malicious behavior through execution traces

    45 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  91. Memory Subsystem Optimizations

    45 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  92. Joe Armstrong and Jeremy Ruston – Intertwingling the Tiddlywiki with Erlang [video]

    45 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  93. Microservices Killed Our Startup. Monoliths Would've Saved Us

    45 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  94. Purdue blocks admission of many Chinese grad students in unwritten policy

    45 points • comment • jan 18, 2026

  95. Simulating the Ladybug Clock Puzzle

    45 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  96. Skill.md: An open standard for agent skills

    45 points • comment • jan 22, 2026

  97. Italy's privacy watchdog, scourge of US big tech, hit by corruption probe

    45 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  98. Prime chains

    45 points • comment • jan 11, 2026

  99. The Human in the Loop

    45 points • comment • jan 18, 2026

  100. Former CNN journalist Don Lemon arrested in connection with Minnesota protest

    45 points • comment • jan 30, 2026