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Hacker News (Jan 2026)

  1. AI is a horse (2024)

    465 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  2. Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)

    464 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  3. Web development is fun again

    464 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  4. Pebble Round 2

    463 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  5. Kagi releases alpha version of Orion for Linux

    461 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  6. Show HN: I trained a 9M speech model to fix my Mandarin tones

    460 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  7. Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy

    459 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  8. Eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece (2023)

    459 points • comment • jan 10, 2026

  9. Porsche sold more electrified cars in Europe in 2025 than pure gas-powered cars

    458 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  10. What came first: the CNAME or the A record?

    457 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  11. Date is out, Temporal is in

    456 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  12. Open Infrastructure Map

    455 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  13. How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills

    455 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  14. The suck is why we're here

    455 points • comment • jan 03, 2026

  15. Oneplus phone update introduces hardware anti-rollback

    453 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  16. Project Patchouli: Open-source electromagnetic drawing tablet hardware

    452 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  17. Waiting for dawn in search: Search index, Google rulings and impact on Kagi

    452 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  18. I wanted a camera that doesn't exist, so I built it

    451 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  19. California is free of drought for the first time in 25 years

    451 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  20. We can't have nice things because of AI scrapers

    449 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  21. Tesla’s autonomous vehicles are crashing at a rate much higher tha human drivers

    446 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  22. Flux 2 Klein pure C inference

    446 points • comment • jan 18, 2026

  23. ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages and download files

    445 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  24. RevisionDojo, a YC startup, is running astroturfing campaigns targeting kids

    444 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  25. I'm a developer for a major food delivery app

    444 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  26. AI coding assistants are getting worse?

    443 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  27. Inside The Internet Archive's Infrastructure

    443 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  28. Unrolling the Codex agent loop

    441 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  29. I'm making a game engine based on dynamic signed distance fields (SDFs) [video]

    441 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  30. Tell HN: Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday

    439 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  31. Nvidia Stock Crash Prediction

    438 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  32. I switched from VSCode to Zed

    438 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  33. Chromium Has Merged JpegXL

    435 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  34. Parental controls aren't for parents

    435 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  35. ChatGPT Health

    433 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  36. Doom has been ported to an earbud

    431 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  37. iOS allows alternative browser engines in Japan

    430 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  38. Windows 11's Patch Tuesday nightmare gets worse

    429 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  39. MapLibre Tile: a modern and efficient vector tile format

    428 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  40. Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?

    428 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  41. County pays $600k to pentesters it arrested for assessing courthouse security

    427 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  42. Happy Public Domain Day 2026

    427 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  43. Wine 11.0

    427 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  44. Why is the Gmail app 700 MB?

    425 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  45. Street Fighter II, the World Warrier (2021)

    424 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  46. European Commission issues call for evidence on open source

    424 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  47. Unauthenticated remote code execution in OpenCode

    422 points • comment • jan 11, 2026

  48. I charged $18k for a Static HTML Page (2019)

    422 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  49. 39th Chaos Communication Congress Videos

    422 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  50. Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public elections

    421 points • comment • jan 22, 2026

  51. cURL removes bug bounties

    421 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  52. US cybersecurity chief leaked sensitive government files to ChatGPT: Report

    419 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  53. How Markdown took over the world

    416 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  54. Clicks Communicator

    416 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  55. Unconventional PostgreSQL Optimizations

    413 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  56. Open Chaos: A self-evolving open-source project

    411 points • comment • jan 10, 2026

  57. The hidden engineering of runways

    409 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  58. Python numbers every programmer should know

    406 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  59. Iran's internet blackout may become permanent, with access for elites only

    405 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  60. Mermaid ASCII: Render Mermaid diagrams in your terminal

    403 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  61. Google AI Overviews cite YouTube more than any medical site for health queries

    403 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  62. OpenBSD-current now runs as guest under Apple Hypervisor

    402 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  63. Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster (2014)

    401 points • comment • jan 18, 2026

  64. Mathematics for Computer Science (2018) [pdf]

    400 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  65. Influencers and OnlyFans models are dominating U.S. O-1 visa requests

    400 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  66. ‘ELITE’: The Palantir app ICE uses to find neighborhoods to raid

    399 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  67. Nova Launcher added Facebook and Google Ads tracking

    399 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  68. Scott Adams has died

    398 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  69. Ask HN: How are you doing RAG locally?

    398 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  70. JuiceSSH – Give me my pro features back

    396 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  71. Grid: Free, local-first, browser-based 3D printing/CNC/laser slicer

    391 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  72. Gas Town's agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale

    391 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  73. A closer look at a BGP anomaly in Venezuela

    389 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  74. 2025 Letter

    389 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  75. Canada slashes 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs to 6%

    388 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  76. Report: Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet

    387 points • comment • jan 03, 2026

  77. UK Government’s ‘AI Skills Hub’ was delivered by PwC for £4.1M

    387 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  78. When hardware goes end-of-life, companies need to open-source the software

    386 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  79. LaTeX Coffee Stains (2021) [pdf]

    386 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  80. Anti-aging injection regrows knee cartilage and prevents arthritis

    385 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  81. A lot of population numbers are fake

    385 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  82. Show HN: Terminal UI for AWS

    382 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  83. Linux from Scratch

    381 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  84. C Is Best (2025)

    380 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  85. Capital One to acquire Brex for $5.15B

    380 points • comment • jan 22, 2026

  86. Standard Ebooks: Public Domain Day 2026 in Literature

    378 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  87. A4 Paper Stories

    377 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  88. Exercise can be nearly as effective as therapy for depression

    377 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  89. Thief of $90M in seized U.S.-controlled crypto is gov't contractor's son

    377 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  90. Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

    376 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  91. The engineer who invented the Mars rover suspension in his garage [video]

    375 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  92. 4x faster network file sync with rclone (vs rsync) (2025)

    373 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  93. LLVM: The bad parts

    373 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  94. Volkswagen Brings Back Physical Buttons

    373 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  95. Kimi K2.5 Technical Report [pdf]

    373 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  96. Local Journalism Is How Democracy Shows Up Close to Home

    373 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  97. Texas police invested in phone-tracking software and won’t say how it’s used

    373 points • comment • jan 18, 2026

  98. Anthropic invests $1.5M in the Python Software Foundation

    372 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  99. Raising money fucked me up

    372 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  100. Sergey Brin's Unretirement

    369 points • comment • jan 01, 2026