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Hacker News (Jan 2026)

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

    37 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  2. 6 Years Building Video Players. 9B Requests. Starting Over

    37 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  3. A History of Haggis (2019)

    37 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

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

    37 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  5. Travel Is Not Education

    37 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  6. Is liberal democracy in terminal decline?

    37 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  7. Stabilized and Slow-Motion Video of the Murder of Alex Pretti

    37 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  8. Pentagon buys device via undercover operation suspected link to Havana Syndrome

    37 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  9. OpenAI's GPT-5.2 model cites Grokipedia

    37 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  10. Spotify increases its US subscription prices for the third time in 3 years

    37 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  11. Show HN: Shellock, a real-time CLI flag explainer for fish shell

    36 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  12. Creating a bespoke data diode for air‑gapped networks

    36 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  13. A scammer's blueprint: How cybercriminals plot to rob a target in a week

    36 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  14. Terry Tao: "LLMs Are Simpler Than You Think – The Real Mystery Is Why They Work" [video]

    36 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  15. My Tamagotchi is an RL agent playing Slither.io

    36 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  16. Vortex Support in DuckDB

    36 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  17. Update on age requirements for apps distributed in Texas

    36 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  18. USDA suspends federal financial awards to Minnesota and Minneapolis

    36 points • comment • jan 10, 2026

  19. Show HN: VM-curator – a TUI alternative to libvirt and virt-manager

    36 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  20. Apps like Grok are banned under Google rules–why is it still in the Play Store?

    36 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  21. Why are there so many CPU bugs nowadays

    36 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  22. Many small queries are efficient in SQLite

    36 points • comment • jan 10, 2026

  23. I Was Kidnapped by Idiots

    36 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  24. How Bright Headlights Escaped Regulation – and Blinded Us All

    36 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  25. Yann LeCun's new venture is a contrarian bet against large language models

    36 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  26. "We write to ask that you enforce your app stores' terms of service against X" [pdf]

    36 points • comment • jan 10, 2026

  27. Show HN: IceRaidsNearMe – Real-time, crowdsourced map of immigration enforcement

    36 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  28. Claude Shannon's randomness-guessing machine

    36 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  29. 1ML for non-specialists: introduction

    36 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  30. iPhone driving macOS 15.6, with native M4 driver partially patched for A18

    36 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  31. Show HN: Cua-Bench – a benchmark for AI agents in GUI environments

    36 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  32. Generative AI for Krita

    36 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  33. GNU C Library 2.43 released

    36 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  34. Autism hasn't increased

    36 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  35. Nexphone-A phone that runs Android, Linux, and Windows?

    36 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  36. Show HN: Repogen – a static site generator for package repositories

    36 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  37. Hackable personal news reader in bash pipes

    36 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  38. Migrating cells and the new science of microchimerism

    36 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  39. I wrote the manual Karpathy said was missing for agentic AI

    36 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  40. CaaS – Cat as a Service

    36 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  41. Rare Iron Age war trumpet and boar standard found

    35 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  42. Ask HN: Claude Opus performance affected by time of day?

    35 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  43. Maggots, an Efficient Source of Protein, May Become Next Superfood for Humans

    35 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  44. White House Posts Altered Photo Showing Arrested Minnesota Protester Crying

    35 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  45. Ask HN: What are your best purchases under $100?

    35 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  46. US to suspend immigrant visa processing for 75 nations, State Department says

    35 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  47. Emissary, a fast open-source Java messaging library

    35 points • comment • jan 22, 2026

  48. Collection and Use of Biometrics by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

    35 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  49. Trump's Letter to Norway Should Be the Last Straw

    35 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  50. Ask HN: Why don't form-fitting Faraday iPhone cases exist?

    35 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  51. China starts UHV power line: The new 700 km UHV line will transmit 8M kW

    35 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  52. Poking holes into bytecode with peephole optimisations

    35 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  53. Ads Are Killing Podcasting

    35 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  54. It's Sundowning in America

    35 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  55. Show HN: HTTP:COLON – A quick HTTP header/directive inspector and reference

    35 points • comment • jan 18, 2026

  56. Show HN: I built a clipboard tool to strip/keep specific formatting like Italics

    35 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  57. Waymo passenger flees after car drives on Phoenix light rail tracks

    35 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  58. The Trump Administration Says It's Illegal to Record Videos of ICE

    35 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  59. Aside from That, Mr. Cook, What Did You Think of the Movie?

    35 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  60. Flying with Photons: Rendering Novel Views of Propagating Light

    35 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  61. G Lang – A lightweight interpreter written in D (2.4MB)

    35 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  62. 1970 Paris, cut into a grid and photographed

    35 points • comment • jan 03, 2026

  63. Show HN: Synesthesia, make noise music with a colorpicker

    35 points • comment • jan 22, 2026

  64. 'F*ck You, Make Me' Without Saying the Words

    35 points • comment • jan 11, 2026

  65. Duolingo Used iPhone's Dynamic Island to Display Ads, Violating Apple Design GUI

    35 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  66. Show HN: Interactive California Budget (by Claude Code)

    35 points • comment • jan 11, 2026

  67. Wall Street Grapples with New Risk: A European Buyers' Strike

    35 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  68. Ask HN: Junior getting lost

    35 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  69. I finally got my sway layout to autostart the way I like it

    35 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  70. The Myth of the ThinkPad

    35 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  71. Gnome and Mozilla Discuss Proposal to Disable Middle Mouse Paste on Linux

    35 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  72. Rent-Only Copyright Culture Makes Us All Worse Off

    35 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  73. Getting off US tech: a guide

    35 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  74. Grok Can't Apologize. So Why Do Headlines Keep Saying It Did?

    35 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  75. Iran Govt Fakes Traffic to Mimic Internet Restoration

    35 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  76. Tube trains could navigate the Underground using the rules of Quantum Physics

    35 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  77. Supplementation with vitamin D3 reduced telomere attrition

    35 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  78. 4chan founder created /pol/ board after meeting with Epstein

    35 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  79. 73% People Detained by ICE Have No Convictions

    35 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  80. Show HN: Nori CLI, a better interface for Claude Code (no flicker)

    35 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  81. Legal Structures for Latin American Startups (2021)

    34 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  82. A love song for Linux gamers with old GPUs

    34 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  83. Google Skills

    34 points • comment • jan 03, 2026

  84. Google to pay $68M over allegations its voice assistant eavesdropped on users

    34 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  85. AI SlopStop by Kagi

    34 points • comment • jan 22, 2026

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

    34 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  87. The creator of Claude Code just revealed his workflow

    34 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  88. TPM on embedded systems: Pitfalls and caveats to watch out for

    34 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  89. Show HN: TopicRadar – Track trending topics across HN, GitHub, ArXiv, and more

    34 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  90. Why Prefer Textfiles? (2010)

    34 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  91. Is OpenAI Dead Yet?

    34 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  92. IDF database suggests that at least 83% of Gaza dead were civilians

    34 points • comment • jan 03, 2026

  93. US-based multinational companies will be exempt from global tax deal

    34 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  94. PgX – Debug Postgres performance in the context of your application code

    34 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  95. Reliable Signals of Honest Intent

    34 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  96. Trump links Greenland dispute to not getting Nobel Peace Prize

    34 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  97. US oil giant ExxonMobil says Venezuela is 'uninvestable'

    34 points • comment • jan 10, 2026

  98. The last supported version of HP-UX is no more

    34 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  99. The big regression

    34 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  100. Covid-19 leaves a lasting mark on the human brain

    34 points • comment • jan 08, 2026