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Hacker News (Jan 2026)

  1. There's a ridiculous amount of tech in a disposable vape

    26 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  2. Grok Sexual Images Draw Rebuke, France Flags Content as Illegal

    26 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  3. Why Intelligence Is a Terrible Proxy for Wisdom

    26 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  4. Maine's black market for baby eels

    26 points • comment • jan 10, 2026

  5. Home Office Is Sabotaging You

    26 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  6. Trump raises US tariffs on South Korea imports to 25%

    26 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  7. Troublemaker: The fierce, unruly life of Jessica Mitford

    26 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  8. A 2026 look at three bio-ML opinions I had in 2024

    26 points • comment • jan 11, 2026

  9. UK police used Copilot AI "hallucination" when banning football fans

    26 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  10. Becoming a Whorelord: The Overly Analytical Guide to Escorting (2021)

    26 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  11. Show HN: LLMNet – The Offline Internet, Search the web without the web

    26 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  12. HAM Radio Operators in Belarus Arrested, Face the Death Penalty

    26 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  13. Goscript: Transpile Go to human-readable TypeScript

    26 points • comment • jan 11, 2026

  14. Former Google engineer found guilty of espionage and theft of AI tech

    26 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  15. Trump tells Norway's PM he has no obligation to 'think purely of peace'

    26 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  16. Captive Wi-Fi

    26 points • comment • jan 18, 2026

  17. A 'medical situation' is forcing NASA to end mission at ISS a month early

    26 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  18. vLLM-MLX – Run LLMs on Mac at 464 tok/s

    26 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  19. CLI's completion should know what options you've typed

    26 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  20. Show HN: Ever wanted to look at yourself in Braille?

    26 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  21. International Collection of Tongue Twisters (2018)

    26 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  22. GitHub: A case study in link maintenance and 404 pages (2013)

    25 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  23. We are experiencing an issue with Gmail beginning on Saturday, 2026-01-24 13:02

    25 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  24. UK threatens action against X over sexualised AI images of women and children

    25 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  25. Windows 11 surges among PC gamers on Steam as Linux stalls

    25 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  26. GPU memory snapshots: sub-second startup (2025)

    25 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  27. Diving into Qualcomm's Upcoming Adreno X2 GPU with Eric Demers

    25 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  28. Show HN: Comet MCP – Give Claude Code a browser that can click

    25 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  29. How do I make $10k (What are you guys doing?)

    25 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  30. How to Win Friends and Influence People: Unrevised Version

    25 points • comment • jan 03, 2026

  31. Poking holes into bytecode with peephole optimisations

    25 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  32. The Death of Software Development

    25 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  33. TikTok users flock to UpScrolled in response to new U.S. owners

    25 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  34. FIPS dependencies and prebuilt binaries

    25 points • comment • jan 22, 2026

  35. Penn Calls Government's Demand for Lists of Jewish Staff 'Disconcerting'

    25 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  36. America must embrace the Electric Age, or fall behind

    25 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  37. LLMs Are Currently Not Helpful at All for Math Research: Hamkins

    25 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  38. MCP is the New GraphQL

    25 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  39. Ask HN: How do you use 5–10 minute gaps productively?

    25 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  40. Pwn2own: Escaping VMware Workstation

    25 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  41. Developers Are Solving the Wrong Problem

    25 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  42. Ask HN: Is Claude Down for You?

    25 points • comment • jan 22, 2026

  43. Genetic Data from over 20k U.S. Children Misused for 'Race Science'

    25 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  44. The hunt for a stolen Jackson Pollock

    25 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  45. GeForce Now Brings GeForce RTX Gaming to Linux PCs

    25 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  46. Clawd Agent accidentally social engineers its own master, confesses on ClawdBook

    25 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  47. New high of 45% in US identify as political independents

    25 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  48. Ask HN: May an Agent accepts a license to produce a build?

    25 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  49. The Antarctic Snow Cruiser

    25 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  50. CIO: Work-from-office mandate? Expect top talent turnover, culture rot

    25 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  51. The Agentic Self: Parallels Between AI and Self-Improvement

    25 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  52. France Just Created Its Own Open Source Alternative to Microsoft Teams and Zoom

    25 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  53. UK Officials could face US entry ban over Twitter policy

    25 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  54. A New Year's letter to a young person

    25 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  55. Show HN: Porting xv6 to HiFive Unmatched board

    25 points • comment • jan 10, 2026

  56. Universal SSL exposes domains to BGP leaks

    25 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  57. Ask HN: What recent UX changes make no sense to you?

    25 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  58. Pink Power Ranger takes down white supremacist dating sites

    25 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  59. Tell HN: Avoid Cerebras if you are a founder

    25 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  60. Show HN : A game to document my electronics learning journey.

    25 points • comment • jan 03, 2026

  61. Goldman Sachs Global Macro Research: Gen AI: too much spend, too little benefit [pdf]

    25 points • comment • jan 22, 2026

  62. America First Risks Becoming America Alone

    25 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  63. VSCodium – open-source Binaries of VSCode

    25 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  64. Wikipedia at 25: A Wake-Up Call

    25 points • comment • jan 10, 2026

  65. Using fewer syllables to express numbers

    25 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  66. Hegseth Announces Grok Access to Classified Pentagon Networks

    25 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  67. You are being misled about renewable energy technology [video]

    25 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  68. Is passive investment inflating a stockmarket bubble?

    25 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  69. Be aware when opening "take home challenges" from untrusted recruiters

    24 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  70. Gourmand Syndrome

    24 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  71. Microservices for the Benefits, Not the Hustle (2023)

    24 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  72. Minneapolis Mayor Blasts Kristi Noem's BS ICE Shoots Kills Woman in Minnesota

    24 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  73. KAOS – The Kubernetes Agent Orchestration System

    24 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  74. FreeBSD Closes the Laptop Gap: Year One Project Update

    24 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  75. A Pro Meticulously Restores a Damaged Oil Painting [video]

    24 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  76. Scott Adams Dead at 68

    24 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  77. ICE Throws Flash Bang at Family Car, Sends Three Children to the Hospital

    24 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  78. Computing Sharding with Einsum

    24 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  79. Show HN: Run LLMs in Docker for any language without prebuilding containers

    24 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  80. Gemini now recommending products unprompted

    24 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  81. How LLM agents solve the table merging problem

    24 points • comment • jan 22, 2026

  82. A silly diffuse shading model

    24 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  83. Ultrathink is deprecated & How to enable 2x thinking tokens in Claude Code

    24 points • comment • jan 18, 2026

  84. Why Walmart still doesn't support Apple Pay

    24 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  85. The SIM-to-real problem isn't about simulators – it's about behavior robustness

    24 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  86. Ozempic Melted Away Weight–and the Idea of 'Body Positivity'

    24 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  87. What are Tithe Maps (2021)

    24 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  88. Isometric NYC

    24 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  89. LLM poetry and the "greatness" question: Experiments by Gwern and Mercor

    24 points • comment • jan 11, 2026

  90. Intel makes sharp reversal, is 'going big time into 14A,' says CEO Lip-Bu Tan

    24 points • comment • jan 11, 2026

  91. EPA to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution

    24 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  92. I Made Adobe CC Installers Work on Linux

    24 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  93. Claude Cowork first impression: Cowork Deleted 11GB of files [video]

    24 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  94. Remote Job

    24 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  95. Judge blocks government from searching data seized from Washington Post reporter

    24 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  96. Show HN: Tasker – An open-source desktop agent for browser and OS automation

    24 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  97. The Department of Justice Ignores Court Orders Because It Knows It Can

    24 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  98. Kafka Inc

    24 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  99. US Threatens UK over Grok Investigation Because Only the US Can Ban Foreign Apps

    24 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  100. London PR firm rewrites Wikipedia for governments and billionaires

    24 points • comment • jan 22, 2026