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Hacker News (Jan 2026)

  1. Reading is a vice: US student reading abilities and habits are declining

    41 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  2. US science after a year of Trump: what has been lost and what remains

    41 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  3. Show HN: Open-source certificate from GitHub activity

    41 points • comment • jan 18, 2026

  4. Refactoring – Not on the backlog (2014)

    41 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  5. Show HN: GlyphLang – An AI-first programming language

    41 points • comment • jan 10, 2026

  6. Carney says old world order 'is not coming back'

    41 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  7. Arpanet standardized TCP/IP on this day in 1983

    41 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  8. Pentagon readies 1,500 troops to possibly deploy to Minnesota, US media say

    41 points • comment • jan 18, 2026

  9. Does running wear out the bodies of professionals and amateurs alike?

    41 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  10. Show HN: SHDL – A minimal hardware description language built from logic gates

    41 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  11. US immigration officer fatally shoots woman, 37, in Minneapolis, officials say

    41 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  12. We didn't ask for 'smart' cars – so why are we getting them?

    41 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  13. How Warhammer became one of Britain’s biggest companies

    41 points • comment • jan 18, 2026

  14. Playing Board Games with Deep Convolutional Neural Network on 8bit Motorola 6809

    41 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  15. General Graboids: Worms and Remote Code Execution in Command and Conquer

    40 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  16. Neurodivergent Brains Build Better Systems (2025)

    40 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  17. Netflix tells directors to repeat plot for people using phones, says Matt Damon

    40 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  18. Europe could 'weaponize' $10T of US assets over Greenland

    40 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  19. All your OpenCodes belong to us

    40 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  20. EU-US relationship is 'disintegrating,' says Germany's vice chancellor

    40 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  21. I don't write code anymore – I sculpt it

    40 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  22. Show HN: Sandbox Agent SDK – unified API for automating coding agents

    40 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  23. The Waymo Ojai Will Soon Offer Autonomous Rides Around the U.S.

    40 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  24. OpenAI to begin testing ads on ChatGPT in the U.S.

    40 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  25. How to wrangle non-deterministic AI outputs into conventional software? (2025)

    40 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  26. Full Transcript of Carney's Speech to World Economic Forum

    40 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  27. Squishy Go

    40 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  28. Belarus begins a death penalty purge of radio amateurs

    40 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  29. Grok is enabling mass sexual harassment on Twitter

    40 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  30. Straussian Memes

    40 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  31. Anti-cheat evolution in Windows 11

    40 points • comment • jan 03, 2026

  32. Millennium Challenge: A corrupted military exercise and its legacy (2015)

    40 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  33. State Department confirms federal censorship shield law incoming

    40 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

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

    40 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  35. Americans Overwhelmingly Support Science, but Some Think the U.S. Is Lagging

    40 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  36. Ask HN: One IP, multiple unrealistic locations worldwide hitting my website

    40 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  37. Tumblr removed from Apple App Store over abuse images (2018)

    40 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  38. Arkansas inmates restricted from receiving physical books, other media directly

    40 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  39. Show HN: Hc: an agentless, multi-tenant shell history sink

    39 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  40. Within months, UK smartphones could be subjected to client scanning surveillance

    39 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  41. NATO members face tariffs increasing to 25% until Greenland purchase deal struck

    39 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  42. Show HN: WOLS – Open standard for mushroom cultivation tracking

    39 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  43. How Terminals Work

    39 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  44. Use "\A \z", not "^ $" with Python regular expressions

    39 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  45. IBM Mainframe Business Jumps 67%

    39 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  46. Anyone Can Clone Your Voice Now

    39 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  47. You can't pay me to prompt

    39 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  48. DOGE improperly accessed and shared Social Security data

    39 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  49. Weight Transfer for RL Post-Training in under 2 seconds

    39 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  50. Ask HN: Notification Overload

    39 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  51. Moltbook is a bad takeoff scenario where human psychology itself is the exploit

    39 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  52. DuckDuckGo is asking for a Yes or No vote on AI

    39 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  53. Tesla unsupervised Robotaxis are nowhere to be found

    39 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  54. DHS Deportation Reels Are Getting Copyright Strikes for Unlicensed Music Use

    39 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  55. Apt-bundle: brew bundle for apt

    39 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  56. Show HN: VAM Seek – 2D video navigation grid, 15KB, zero server load

    39 points • comment • jan 11, 2026

  57. What's wrong with bunny hands on dinosaurs? (2018)

    39 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  58. Director Gore Verbinski: Unreal Engine is the greatest slip backwards for movie

    38 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  59. Arrows to Arrows, Categories to Queries

    38 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  60. The Kept and the Killed (2022)

    38 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  61. How Iran Switched Off the Internet

    38 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  62. HumanConsumption.Live – Real-Time Global Animal Consumption Stats

    38 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  63. Publishing on the ATmosphere

    38 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  64. Taco writer detained–briefly–by feds

    38 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  65. OpenTTD 15.0

    38 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  66. System: Control your Mac from anywhere using natural language

    38 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  67. Netflix Wants Movies to Restate the Plot Three or Four Times in the Dialogue

    38 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  68. Nuudel: Non-Tracking Appointment Tool

    38 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  69. What if AI is both good and not that disruptive?

    38 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  70. Hacker News: Savage Edition

    38 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  71. Benchmarking a Baseline Fully-in-Place Functional Language Compiler [pdf]

    38 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  72. Judge in Minnesota Says ICE Has Violated Nearly 100 Court Orders

    38 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  73. An Experimental Approach to Printf in HLSL

    38 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  74. JVIC: New web-based Commodore VIC 20 emulator

    38 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  75. Show HN: Foundertrace – chain of YC startups founded by its employees

    38 points • comment • jan 03, 2026

  76. Fire Shuts GTA 6 Developer Rockstar North, Following Report of Explosion

    38 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  77. Ice Drives Unmarked Cars. This Public Database Tracks Their License Plates

    38 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  78. Proving Liveness with TLA

    38 points • comment • jan 03, 2026

  79. Gmail is entering the Gemini Era

    38 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  80. This Year in LLVM (2025)

    38 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  81. A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 9 Part 1: Decoding Dolby

    38 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  82. Grok turns off image generator for most after outcry over sexualised AI imagery

    38 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  83. 'Amelia': the AI-generated British schoolgirl, a far-right social media star

    38 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  84. ICE takes back into custody man released for violation of rights

    38 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  85. Visual regression tests for personal blogs

    38 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  86. New maps reveal post-flood migration patterns across the US

    37 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  87. Show HN: Digital Carrot – Block social media with programmable rules and goals

    37 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  88. Iran vows regime will "not back down" as web blackout continues

    37 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  89. Google AI Overviews put people at risk of harm with misleading health advice

    37 points • comment • jan 03, 2026

  90. Non-Essential French Embassy Staff Have Left Iran

    37 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  91. I wrote a batch script to keep my 2011 ThinkPad alive for 24/7 streaming

    37 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  92. FFmpeg 8.0

    37 points • comment • jan 10, 2026

  93. Anker goes big with new whole home backup system

    37 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  94. Amazon Prime AI overviews can't even get the basics right

    37 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  95. Advanced Rail Energy Storage of North America

    37 points • comment • jan 03, 2026

  96. The future of work when work is meaningless

    37 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  97. A ssh server that knows who you are. $ ssh whoami.filippo.io

    37 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  98. YouTube is silently deleting uploaded SRV3 (styled) subtitles

    37 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  99. Microsoft keeps reinstalling Copilot, so I found a way to rip it out for good

    37 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  100. Sorry, Eh

    37 points • comment • jan 14, 2026